The Word Became Flesh, and the Prophecy Became History
(Youth Service)
GENESIS 1:1
1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Moses is writing of the beginning of when God created the heaven and the earth. But when we get to the New Testament in St John 1:1, it speaks of another beginning that came before the beginning of Genesis 1:1.
JOHN 1:1
1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And so is John taking us back to a time (maybe billions of years) before Genesis 1:1 of when there was just the Word that existed – of when the Word was God.
*When a person speaks words, those words reveal things that were previously sealed up in mystery form of the hidden thoughts of that person’s mind, because your thoughts are mysteries until they are spoken as words.
JOHN 1:14a
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
Notice again - In Genesis 1:1, Moses speaks of the beginning of when God created the heaven and the earth, but then in the New Testament John takes us back to a time before Genesis 1:1 of an earlier beginning of when only the word of God existed.
*But in this generation, God has allowed a gentile prophet to take us back to a time before Genesis 1:1 and St John 1:1, of where there were only the thoughts of God that existed in the back part of His great mind.
*Before we ever came into the world and into our bodies of flesh, we first existed as eternal thoughts (information) in the mind of God.
The Word Became Flesh, and the Prophecy Became History
(Youth Service)
We are taking this as a title because we want to try to show how that you are actually the word that has become flesh in this hour, and that you are the prophecy of the word that is becoming history in this day – just like Mary was the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14 (a virgin shall conceive) made flesh after 800 years.
*Because often we just go along with church and everything, but what makes all the difference is when the word that has been prophesied for this hour becomes connected to you personally and become personalized in your own personal life and you can see that word being interpreted in your life.
And this is why that you must learn to watch your life (the pattern of your life) in order to see the word of this hour being interpreted in your life – because that is how Jesus came to know who he was, because He saw the prophecy of the word matching the events of his own personal life.
**And so (this morning) we are pressing pause on our study that we have been engaged with over the last 5 services on the subject of “The Last Will and Testament of God” of how that when the seals opened in 1963, that Brother Branham called the opening of the seven seals the “title deed book of redemption”.
**And we know that a title deed of a person’s last will and testament, when it is opened and the contents is read out and revealed to the living decedents, that the revealing of that title deed makes known all the details of each ones name and of the inheritance that is associated with that name – and this is what the opening of the sevens seals was all about, because when the seals were opened, it clearly placed and positioned every person of who would be in the kingdom of heaven, and what their position and eternal inheritance would be.
REVELATION.CHAPTER.FIVE.2_ JEFF.IN ROJC 747-793 SUNDAY_ 61-0618
161 …It is the title deed of our redemption, this seven-sealed Book. It's the title deed. You wait till we get into those seals.
He breaks the seals, reveals, gives us His inheritance to His people. He gives the inheritance that He inherited by becoming Kinsman Redeemer, and freely gives it out to us.
*But remember that there are varying degrees of what people will inherit – just like a natural will and testament does, and like the stars, each individual star is placed in its own place and with its own glory. And so each person will have their own position and glory in the kingdom of heaven.
THE.BREACH.BETWEEN.THE.SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES.AND.THE.SEVEN.SEALS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317E
92-4 {156} And he saw One setting upon the throne with this Book in His hand, in His right hand. Think of it. Now, and then in this Book was the title deed to redemption. And it was sealed with Seven Seals.
**And so when the seals were preached in March 1963, it was actually the revealing of this secret information of what had been sealed up in the title deed of the last will and testament of God of which would identify and placed every person that has ever been born into their appropriate category and of what their inheritance and position will be in the future eternal kingdom of heaven.
II PETER 1:11-12
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
12 ¶ Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
**As young people - your early 20’s is a very important time for you to be established in truth (especially the present truth), because these are the years that you will naturally come into a greater thirst for the understand of things at a deeper level – and if you are only being exposed to shallow ministry of the word during those years of when you are developing your beliefs, then your anchor in truth often won’t go deep enough to hold you when the big storms of life come along.
JOHN 1:1 Opening scriptures…
1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
JOHN 1:14a
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
*God allowed the prophet to this last generation to take us back even further to a time that was even before Genesis 1:1 and St John 1:1 - to a time of when there was only the thoughts of God, of where the very fundamental of the total sum of all information (of unlimited and infinite information) existed within the eternal mind of God.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728
102 Now, God's secret mystery, He had before the world began. Now, back in the back part of God's mind, there was something that He was trying and was going to achieve, and He had a motive in doing it, in order to let Himself be expressed. Because, first, there wasn't even a moon, star, atom, molecule, or anything. He was God.
**And so these great attributes and eternal thoughts of God – He would begin to expand them out and express them into another form of what we now know as the word of God, and then in due season those words (words of prophecy) would become flesh in people that were to be born into the world at different times, and then their lives would play out certain parts of the thoughts of God that would then form the great drama of humanity.
*This has always been God’s intended pattern of how He brings things into full expression - from thought to word to flesh.
*And so each person that would come into the world would then express and interpret a certain portion of the thought of God so that the prophecy of the word of God would go from being a prophecy to becoming history in the life of each person, and this is the secret and the pattern of the story of the whole bible - and this is also the secret that reveals the mystery of your life also, of where you came from, and who you are, and where you are going.
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***We know that often evangelistic styled preaching will convict you and make you feel bad and guilty about your sins and human struggles, and that’s what gets us all to the altar every time there is a weekend of camp meetings and evangelistic preaching, because we all want to see the end of our human struggles, but it is the teaching of the word that will place you and secure and anchor you and give you a conference in the present truth to know who you are and what your real purpose of life is.
ADOPTION.1_ JEFF.IN AD.1 SUNDAY_ 60-0515E
6 … And sometimes I think that preaching is a wonderful thing, but I believe sometimes, Brother Beeler, that teaching goes beyond that, it kindly... Especially to the church.
Now, preaching usually catches the sinner, brings him under condemnation by the Word. But teaching places a man positionally what he is. And we can never rightly be able to have faith until positionally we know what we are.
**And so the real teaching of the word of this hour is for the purpose of lifting you out of that realm of just focusing on your human circumstantial and chemistry struggles in order to bring you into a greater realm of understanding of where you can leave the earth and fly like an eagle in the realms of the revelation of the word, to know who you are regardless of your human weaknesses, because that is the real victory.
**Living a perfect life is not the victory in this hour (and we should try to live the best life we can) – but the real victory comes by you coming into a knowledge of who you are by the revealing of your name in the title deed book of redemption.
John wept until he saw his name written in the book of the title deed – and we will also keep weeping until we see our names written there also.
***And this is why that the revelation of who you are, and where you came from, and what your purpose in life is, and where you are going to after this life is over – this is the greatest thing in life that could ever be revealed to you, because the inheritance that a person receives at the death of a testator has nothing to do with the merits of their earthly condition, it is solely based on who they are and the will of the testator.
***And so as young people, we need to focus our attention less on our human struggles (like an earth-bound bird that pecks grubs from out of the barnyard dirt), and we need to fly like eagles into the realms of revelation of where God has called us to be, because there is no greater prevailing power then the power of the revelation of truth.
Brother Branham spoke about the caged eagle that was trapped.
BEHOLD.A.GREATER.THAN.ALL.OF.THEM.IS.HERE_ SPOKANE.WA SUNDAY_ 62-0715
E-42 Now, I watched that eagle, that great big fellow. I felt so sorry for him. He--he was laying there on his back, rolled his big velvet eyes, looking around. He got up, get back over this way, and I noticed his head bleeding. I noticed his wings a-bleeding. And he'd look up there in the blue, over the cage. And he'd get back to start off, and here he'd come. And he'd hit his head against that cage and them big wings a-flopping, knock the feathers off, blood fly off his head like that. And he'd fall back on his head and look back up there.
See, he's a heavenly bird. He was built for the heavens. He was built to soar above. But the achievement of man had trapped him. There that fellow was, could look out, and could see where he belonged. But something had him caged in.
The reality is, that there are ministries of men (even among our message ranks) that have unconsciously caged their people in so that they can’t break through the bars of their human doubts to fly into the heavenly realms of where they were made to fly and be free.
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**It is probable, that the three greatest questions that have ever been asked by mankind is: Who am I and why am I here? And, where did I come from? And, where am I going?
**There have been many men down through the history of man’s 6000-year journey upon the earth that have come along at exactly the right time and in exactly the right place of which their lives have changed the entire course of human history.
**Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish philosopher and economist that is now widely regarded as the "father of modern economics".
He is best known for his 1776 work, “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” that was first published in London in March 1776 and had been eagerly anticipated by his contemporaries and became an immediate bestseller.
In this book, he established the foundation for free-market economics, or the "invisible hand" concept as it is also referred to, and also the concept of the division of labor which help greatly to encouraged the idea of the division of labour into smaller portions of repetitive work that eventually led to the mass production of goods and the advancement of the industrial revolution.
The “Wealth of Nations” was also the book that the American founding fathers used to base and structure many of their young nation’s economic philosophies on.
*And so it was Adam Smith’s birth and life and writings that changed the world of what we now live in today.
*And so we see how that God has different men born at different times of history and in different cultures and family environments and of which He has also placed within them a certain nature and interest and motivation that causes them to become great and notable men that change the course of history.
*Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor that among many other things, invented a method for recording sound as well as being the first person to invent the electric light bulb – and so his birth and life changed the world and made a way for a new and modern environment of industry and technology to be established in the world so that certain portions of the word of God could be fulfilled – because the bible tells us that the mystery of God would be finished in the days of the voice (the recorded voice) of the seventh angel. And so every person and every invention of man has contributed in some way for the purpose of allowing for the word of God to be fulfilled.
THE.SIXTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SATURDAY_ 63-0323
393-3 {3} …And now, I know it's warm in here tonight, and--and it's... (No, I guess the heat's altogether shut off.) and--and we're... I noticed last night, or today this is my seventh day in a room without light (just electric light. See?) studying and praying for God to open these Seals.
**And so each person that is born into the world contributes in some way to the great plan of God regardless of how small they may seem.
**And so the great things that God does are not just limited to the great and recognized inventers and politicians of history, because this is not actually about the recognized and great philosophers and inventors of men that changed the course of history, but the main purpose of God is that the promise of His word becomes history in the lives of people – and so this applies to each one of us, because each person that has ever been born into this world, God has allowed them to be here in order to play out a specific part of the great drama of humanity – because everything and everyone is some portion of the prophecy of the word that has become flesh during the season of their earthly existence.
Because “The Word Becomes Flesh, and the Prophecy Becomes History”
***And so this is why that we find ourselves here on this earth. We are here for the purpose of fulfilling a portion of the prophecy of the word of God in order for that word to become history during the story of our lives.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728
102 Now, God's secret mystery, He had before the world began. Now, back in the back part of God's mind, there was something that He was trying and was going to achieve, and He had a motive in doing it, in order to let Himself be expressed. Because, first, there wasn't even a moon, star, atom, molecule, or anything. He was God. But He exactly wasn't God at that time, because God is an object of worship, and there wasn't nothing to worship Him.
103 So, in His great mind, He wanted these attributes to be expressed. And in Him was love; in Him was to be Father; in Him was to be Son; in Him was to be a Saviour; in Him was to be a Healer. And all these great attributes that we see already expressed, they were in God.
**The fundamental of all things is information. And the only original fountain of all knowledge and information came from the tree of life Himself of which is the very thoughts of the person of God.
**And God’s thoughts were so vast and complete and perfect and eternal and unchangeable that you could never add any new knowledge to His thoughts of what He already knew, because His thoughts and knowledge are infinite and have no beginning because they exist in the eternal realm.
**But then there came a time of when those thoughts were to be expressed in another form called the WORD, and so “In the beginning was the WORD.
*And when these thoughts of God were expressed into word from, then those words became words of prophecy, because they had not yet become flesh.
But then in the season that God had ordained for them to become flesh, those words become materialized and interpreted in the form of people – and in the lives and in the stories of their lives.
***And so our faith is not based upon our mistakes or how good we can live our lives, but it is based upon us seeing what part of the prophecy of scripture that the story of our lives is fleshing out in this hour – because the bible is the book of redemption of which every single person’s name that will be in the eternal kingdom of heaven is written in mystery form under different scriptures and then is being interpreted in human flesh in each person’s live.
ISAIAH 7:14
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Mary’s humble little life changed the world.
Because we know that under this scripture of Isaiah 7:14 was the name of one person whose name was Mary.
And so God had had her born at a certain time and in a certain place in the land of Israel and in a town called Nazareth, and she would have grown up in a certain way of which she was influenced by certain things of her experiences in life – but all of her life was designed by God for the purpose of the prophecy of the word to become history in her life.
**And you and I have literally been raised up for the same purpose in this hour in order to be a part of what causes the prophecy of this hour to become history.
Let’s look at another prophecy of scripture.
MATTHEW 17:10
10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
*Jesus is speaking of a person that we can now put a name to that person, because this prophecy of the word has now become history in this hour.
And so we now know that Jesus was speaking of a single person of who we now know that the name of that person was William Marion Branham.
REVELATION 10:7
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Brother Branham’s name was written in mystery form all throughout the bible under many other scriptures.
*He was the servant at supper time in the parable of the great evening time supper.
LUKE 14:16-17
16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
He was also the Eleazar that spoke to the fair Rebekah at the evening time well – and then she also served him and watered the camels that would then carry her to meet her unseen bridegroom.
GENESIS 24:11
11 And he (Eleazar) made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
GENESIS 24:15-18
15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
Notice how that their lives were associated together (Eleazar and Rebekah) – and this is why in this hour that we are also associated with the reality of whose name was written under these prophecies – and so that is where your name is written in mystery form also under these same scriptures.
William Branham was also the head reaper in the book of Ruth.
RUTH 2:5-6
5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
*And there are many more scriptures that speak of this one man.
And so we see how that William Branham’s name was written all through the bible under all these scriptures and stories in mystery form, because in the volume of the book it was written of Him, but then also in the volume of the book it is written of each and every one of us of our lives that have been hidden under the prophecies of these scriptures.
William Branham’s life was also represented in the story of Noah, as a prophet that proceeded the judgement of the entire world – but then there was also the group that believed Noah’s message, and that group that was associated with his message, and that stayed with his message, they were the ones that would go over with Noah into the new world.
**And so none of us are here by any chance, and none of us have been exposed to this end time message by any chance either.
**And so the reason that God has exposed you to the revelation of this hour, is that God has raised us up in order to fulfill certain portions of the prophecy of the word concerning this hour that only we can do, and that only we can flesh out these portions of the word in the story of our lives so that the word can be fully express and go from prophecy to history.
This is why we need to be more sincere about this message that has been sent to us by God in this end time hour.
**And this is why that we are to always be looking for the word to be fulfilled in our lives of what the word has promised for this hour.
**And this is why, that the greatest thing that you can do with your life is to seek God for the will of God to be done in your life, because one of the hardest things that you will struggle with as young people (and older people), is to surrender your will and life to the perfect will of God.