Our New Bodies of Our Eternal Habitation Pt.2
II CORINTHIANS 5:1-4
1 ¶ For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved (This word tabernacle is the word skenos (skay'-nos) in the Greek, which means a tent, a temporal dwelling place – and so your tent of your earthly body will be taken down at death, it is not a permanent house of glory), we have a building of God (not a tent now, but a building, a permanent house), an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (While we have been on earth for the time that we have lived in our earthly bodies, unbeknown to many of us, our souls have also belonged to another body, an eternal celestial body that is eternal in the heavens – that’s the body we go to live in when our earthly tent is taken down)
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: (Both Paul and Brother Branham had felt what that new body was like to put on, and to wear and to walk around in it – like putting on some real nice clean and comfortable clothing after being in some old wet and smelly and ill-fitting clothing)
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
(A spirit without a body to live in is a naked spirit.)
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Our New Bodies of Our Eternal Habitation Pt.2
MATTHEW 18:10-11
10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels (their theophany bodies) do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. (Jesus is teaching us here that the redeemed (the little ones of his sheep fold) have angels in heaven – Brother Branham tells us in 1961 that the little ones are the elected sheep of His fold, and these angels in heaven are their theophany bodies. In other words, you are right now at this moment in your body on earth, but your theophany body is right now already waiting for you in heaven. Your body on earth is only as old as the earthly age of the time that you have lived on earth for, but your body in heaven is much older because it was already in existence before this earthly body came - this is what Paul is referring to as our house from heaven which is eternal – it is a body that never ages, and it’s a body that is perfect in every way)
11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
This word “Theophany” is a Greek word that can have varying meanings like most words can, but we are speaking of it with the meaning of a heavenly human body of a human earthly form.
*This word “Theophany” from the Greek perspective, was understood to be like the tangible appearance of a god. In other words, if a god was to come down from heaven and appear to you in a human form, then that is what would be called a theophany. That’s what you see with many of the Greek paintings of their gods - they are theophanies.
From last week we tried to show that all the theophany bodies that are in heaven are of the ones of “His” sheep that can never be lost, because all that the father hath give me will come to me on earth – if you have a theophany body in heaven, then you are a part of His sheep that He cannot lose, and that is why you will receive the word for your day on earth. These are the ones whose names are in the Lamb’s section of the book of life.
So when an elected son of God is born into the earth (remember that their earthly body came by sexual desire), then that body on earth will show that it has a theophany body in heaven by receiving the word of God (the light for the age) into that earthly human body. You will recognize the scream of the eagle voice.
*If that somehow failed to happen, then your theophany body in heaven would never be able to come into a glorified condition by uniting with your earthly body on earth if there was no word for that age dwelling in that earthly body, and so it would effectively be lost.
HEAR.HIS.VOICE_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 58-1005M
E-12 There's three stages of everything. There's a stage of the mortal body, the immortal body, and then the glorified body.
… But then when that body, a kind of a celestial body (remember that this is 1958, this is before he had gone beyond the curtain of time), when it returns back to the earth, it picks up the--the substance that it once lived in and then it becomes a glorified body.
*Notice what he is saying here – Both the theophany body and the substance of our earthly body unit together to form our glorified bodies – this will become clearer as we go along in this study – but notice, the souls under the altar in the 5th seal did not have theophany bodies – and they are also not a part of the first resurrection, but they are given bodies at the great white throne judgement – these white robes cannot be the same as glorified bodies, because you need to have a theophany body first to produce the glorified body, this is what we have just read – and this is also what the bible shows us of what happened when Jesus was resurrected from the tomb.
**So only the elected of God of those whose names are on the Lambs section of the book of life have theophany bodies – the others who are on the regular book of life section (whose names remained on the book of life and of whom will receive eternal life at the great white thrown judgement) they will be given white robes of perfect human bodies, but their bodies will not have the same make up characteristics of glory and the capabilities of those of the elect of God with glorified bodies.
**So we want to study this to try to bring this out because the message of the hour unlocks so many things about our glorified bodies – the new bodies of our eternal habitation.
*The curtain of time experience that Brother Branham had took place on the Sunday morning of the 8th of May 1960. So it is important for us to note this of how that after that date his revelation of these things became far more advanced because of that experience, and we showed some quotes last week of how his understanding changed and became much clearer after that experience.
JOHN 14:1-3
1 ¶ Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many mansions (Not tents, but mansions – theophany bodies - "In My Father's Kingdom are many theophany bodies): if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
*Jesus called our new bodies mansions: “In My Father’s house are many mansions”. Paul called it celestial bodies. In the Greek, it is called theophanies. We know that it is the body that we go to when this temporal body of ours on earth dies and is taken down like a tent.
*Your theophany body is a body that already belongs to you right now. It did not come into existence through the womb of a woman, but it came into creation by the spoken word of God – just like how when the squirrels came into existence when the prophet spoke them.
**And because your theophany is a body created directly from the spoken word of God, it is at the pinnacle of perfection in every possible way – it cannot nor could ever be improved on.
But when your earthly body came from the womb of your mother, it came with many flaws of a fallen condition with all sorts of hereditary flaws that have come down from your ancestors.
*Yet your earthly body has been formed in the image of what your theophany body looks like, like a mirror image, but a very poor mirror image – a very poor and downgraded reflection of the real image of what you really are of the way that God intended for you to be.
FROM.THAT.TIME_ KLAMATH.FALLS.OR SATURDAY_ 60-0716
E-94 …And when I looked, coming running to me, it was, looked like to me, a million of young women, about twenty years old. I never seen such pretty women in all my life. Their eyes looked like stars, their teeth as white as pearls, long hair hanging to their waist, with white robes on down to their feet, and was barefooted.
BEYOND.THE.CURTAIN.OF.TIME_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 61-0305
E-20 …Young men in the brilliance of young manhood, with eyes glistening like stars on a darkened night, with teeth as white as pearls, embraced me, saying, "Our precious brother."
***Notice - Beautiful and perfect bodies in every possible way – they can never get sick, they can never age, and they can never die. Their beauty and perfection will never diminish.
ACCEPTING.GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY.AT.THE.END.TIME_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 63-0115
28 I wondered how. I looked back down and could see myself down here, yet, laying down. Well, now, thought, "That's strange." And then I asked.
29 There's a real lovely lady come up, threw her arms around me, said, "Oh, Brother Branham, we're so happy you're here, our precious brother."
30 I looked at her, as she went away. And that Voice that was talking to me, said, "Don't you recognize her?"
I said, "I--I do not."
Said, "She was past ninety when you led her to Christ."
31 And there she was, the most beautiful thing I had looked at, in the way of a woman. And I said, "No wonder she said 'Precious brother.'" See? Now she can never change no more. She's that way for Eternity.
HEBREWS.CHAPTER.FOUR_ JEFF.IN HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0901E
147 Every time I see a tree, I think, "That tree is the negative. There is a positive somewhere." That tree was made off of something. An intelligence made it. And all this earth does is reflect the Heavenly. The Bible said so. And if there is a tree here that has to perish, there is one in Glory that won't perish.
148 If I see a man, I see a lovely little young couple, man and his wife, walking down the street, sweethearts together. What does it reflect? Blessed be the Name of the Lord! There is one in Heaven that'll never perish. "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting, the theophany."
So our earthly body reflects the imaged of our heavenly body – but the one over there is like the “photo shopped” version of the one here. That’s why when brother Branham saw the woman over there, he said that they were the most beautiful woman that he had ever seen.
**Remember that your reflection here is in the negative, in other words, if you think that you look a little comely here, don’t worry, you will be the complete positive of outstanding beauty over there – this is what the message of the hour reveals to us of our new bodies.
**That is what the perversion of this age is trying to produce with all the makeup and photoshop software and beautification software filters, they call them beautifying tools - face beautify, teeth whitening, body tuner, object removal, on and on. There are over 2000 beauty filters. It’s because we were all born negative instead of positive, but there is something in a man and a woman that realizes that there is something wrong, so they try to fix it up by any means that they possibly can.
II CORINTHIANS 4:16-18
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. (Our outward body is constantly getting older and is constantly perishing, but the inward soul is not getting old in the way of deterioration, it is increasing greater and greater in its character by growing into the image of the word, and so your outside body of this temporal tent is not suited in comparison to house the great spirit of what you are on the inside, and this is where much of the conflict comes from within ourselves, our outside body is at odds and cannot keep up with the inside person of what we really are, and so there is a lot of conflict between you and your body of this fallen condition, and so this is why your earthly body requires a major upgrade – it will take your theophany body to unite with this body in order to upgrade it into a glorified body – this corruptible body must put on the incorruptible body)
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
**All the nice things of this life, the nice cars and the nice houses, all those nice places of pleasure and entertainment, all the nice clothing in the shopping mall windows, all these things that the radio and television and the internet beam across the face of the earth - it grips the minds of the people and holds them in that channel of the material world so that they can’t see beyond the realm of the temporal and into the realm of the eternal.
Paul said, “Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man what GOD has prepared for them that love Him.”
TO.WHOM.WOULD.WE.GO_ CHAUTAUQUA.OH MONDAY_ 60-0606
E-75 …When I seen a woman that threw her arms around me, she looked to be about eighteen. I looked back down to where my body was setting. I looked up here and looked at her and she called me her brother. I said, "I don't get that."
Said, "She was past ninety when she--you led her to Christ." Past ninety and there she was back young to be forever.
**That’s the world that is just as real as this world, in fact it is more real because it is eternal, and that is the world that the message of the hour unveils to us of where we are going to live for eternity.
*All whose names are in the Lamb’s section of the Book of Life - they already have a body in heaven right now that is eternal, so while they are on earth, their soul is also connected to an angel in Heaven of a literal theophany body, because these are the ones who were always the attribute of God eternal thoughts that were to be expressed in their designated season, and so they can never be lost.
It is not the will of the Father that one of them in the Lamb’s section of the book of life could be blotted out; it’s impossible for them to be lost because they are as eternal as God is eternal.
*If you have eternal life right now, then you had this eternal life long before you ever received the word for your day – but by you receiving the word for your day, that only identified what you were of the category that you are. By hearing and receiving the word for your day is showing you that you have a theophany body for that word that you have received to go to when this earthly tent is taken down, and this is why the prophet tells us that you have heard from your theophany when you recognize eagle food.
WHO.IS.THIS.MELCHISEDEC_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0221E
88 Then, after you recognized the very Word of God was Eagle Food, then you left the other thing. You have then been formed into the living image of the living God. You heard from your theophany. "If this earthly body be dissolved, we have one waiting."
**But if you haven’t got eternal life in that way, then there is another way that God has made for you to enter into eternal life at the great white throne judgment – that was what our study on the 5th seal was all about.
**We know that Jesus Christ (the second Adam) purchased every human being by the price He paid on the cross of Calvary – By Adam all died, By Christ all can live. So Christ now has rights of ownership over everything in the universe. He purchased it all back by the shedding of His blood so He is now the legal owner and has rights of ownership over everything.
The bible says that He is the Lord of the living and the dead.
ROMANS 14:8-9
8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
I JOHN 2:2
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (That is why at the great white throne judgement, thy are not judged by their sins, but they are judged by their works because Christ has already delt with the sin question of the whole world – that is what the bible teaches us)
II CORINTHIANS 11:15
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
REVELATION 20:12-13
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. (Notice - not according to their sins but according to their works – there is a difference, and this explains Mathew 25 of how those that did kindness to the little ones, all the sins that they may have (and no doubt had committed) in life were not considered at the judgement – it was their works that they were judged by – that is what Mathew 25 tells us. This is why all that he ever loved, and all that ever loved him (Brother Branham) would be granted eternal life because of the power of the blood of Christ that took away all the sins of the world – the blood of Christ is able to save to the uttermost of the depth of every man’s sin)
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
It repeats it again so that there can be no mistake – they are judged on the motive of their hearts of which produced their works in life. These ones who are all raised up at the second resurrection are all raised up in the same human body of the condition and age that they died in.
MATTHEW 5:7-9
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. (Acts and works of mercy shall obtain mercy)
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
**There are millions of people who will receive eternal life at the great white throne judgement of whose names are written under these scriptures.
*But then there is another category of an elected group of people among all the living on earth who would have eternal representation, and who would have theophany bodies in heaven, and who would be able to receive transmission from their bodies in heaven of their theophany bodies calling to their souls on earth?
**When you recognize the word for your day, then you have heard from your theophany body – your body in heaven is calling from that eternal realm to your soul on earth.”
What is that? It is the deep calling to the deep, because there is an eternal body that is calling to the eternal soul that is in you – the two want to be united together because they are both from eternity.
*But this body that you are in now is just a tent and is not interested in eternal things, it just wants to have a good time in the flesh while it is living its temporal life on earth.
To be continued - the Lord willing...