Our Pre-Existence, Earthly Journey, and Eternal Destination Pt.2
JOB 40:1-9
1 ¶ Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
(It looked to Job like the things that God had allowed to happen to him were unjust, because Job could not see any purpose for his suffering. But what Job didn’t realize was that his life had been pre-planned by God before he had even come to earth for the purpose that he would come into an understanding of his pre-existence and eternal destination.
But Job was only seeing his life from a temporal viewpoint - he thought that his earthly journey from cradle to the grave was the only thing that there was)
3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further. (Job had now realized that God’s thoughts and wisdom were so much higher than his own – because before this he had almost felt like that he was smarter than God, and that he could even instruct God to do things in a better way. And there are many people on earth that are still like that today)
6 ¶ Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? (Job had been subconsciously blaming God because He had permitted all this suffering to come upon him when Job had known that he was innocent, and so he couldn’t understand how that God could be just by allowing that - and this why it is so common for man to blame God for all the bad things that happen in life that they can’t understand, and then they begin to think that they are more just in their judgements than God.)
9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
Our Pre-Existence, Earthly Journey, and Eternal Destination Pt.2
We have been looking at the subject of unseen worlds and how that quantum mechanics and consciousness are in some way connected together. And how that science is now suggesting that consciousness is the true fundamental of all things – because out of consciousness comes thoughts and information, and out of thoughts come words, and out of words come actions and realities.
In the beginning was the thought of God, and then His thoughts became the word of God, and then the word of God became material things. And so material things are thoughts in another form – but the fundamental is the thought.
ROMANS 8:11
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
It is spirit that quickens you.
**This spirit that quickens us is the spirit of the truth of the word that first reveals to us the truth of the word for the age that we are living in.
This word “quicken” means to germinate with life - to produce alive, begat or bear living young, to give life; by spiritual power to arouse and invigorate;. This is what has been promised for our mortal bodies by the same spirit of the word of truth that is dwelling within us that has quickened us to the word for our age. Only the spirit of God can quicken you to the word for your day – to cause you to recognize it.)
JAMES 1:18a
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, (This word “begat” means to bring forth from the womb, to give birth to – and so when it comes to our new birth, then it requires the word of truth to birthed us into the understanding of the word revealed for our day, because it is this revelation of this hour that places us into the bride category of eternal life.
Weymouth New Testament – JAMES 1:18a
In accordance with His will He made us His children through the Message of the truth
This is why that it is only the truth of the message of this hour that can quicken and bring to life the predestinated seed category of the gentile bride of this end time age. And this is also why it is not worth trying to argue with people who cannot see the revealed truth for this hour, because it takes a special gene of God to be in a person in order for them to respond positively to the message of this hour.
“He that hath and ear, let him hear.” In each church age the message was the same – those who were the elected bride for that age heard their portion of the word for their age.
JOHN 8:43
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
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65 …when you're setting here, and there's something in you telling you This is right, it's the Holy Spirit seeking you out, to bring you to a knowledge of Truth of this hour that we're now living, not some hour that's gone by, the hour now.
88 It's the Holy Spirit coming down, to quicken, make alive those people that's foreordained of God to be in the Rapture. Notice. That is, if he is a true eagle, he will understand the Message of the hour if he's a true eagle.
98 Notice, you--you are now on your way, growing to the full resurrection. No tree just comes up overnight. It's got to grow, as we grow in the grace and knowledge of God.
…They're led by the Spirit, to quicken the Word to you who is believers. The Word keeps quickening, as you come to first limb, second limb, third limb, on up. It just keeps quickening. The Spirit of God keeps quickening to you.
125 … The Spirit of God that moves among the people, quickens the mind of the person to the promise of God. (your mind is your thinking)
132 But the real, true quickening Spirit that comes to a believer, quickens him to God's Word, that's back to eagle Food again, right back to where he lives. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
*** As the elected of God, before you came into this earth through the womb of your mother, there was first something that you were in your pre-existence, so that when you came into this world, that eternal part of what you were back then is what determines your ability in this world to respond to the message of truth that God sent for this day.
**When we are “born again” of what we know as the second birth of what Jesus’ spoke of, it is not that we go back into our mother’s womb like Nicodemus suggested of a physical rebirth, but it is a quickening of a spiritual awakening of something that already resides within you from a pre-existence of what you once were in the mind of God.
**And so the only possible reason that you can hear and understand the truth of God in this day is because of what you were before you came to this earth – of your pre-existence.
The eagle chick can only recognize the mother eagle’s scream because by the eagle spirit that is already abiding within it.
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….there is only one group of people, and that a very special group of people who are able to hear what the Spirit says in each age. It is one special group that receives the revelation for each age. That group is of God, because the group that cannot hear is not of God. (John 8:42-44.) The group that can and does hear what the Spirit is saying and receives the revelation thereof is that group described in I Corinthians 2:6-16. They are the ones who have the Spirit of God. They are the ones that are born of God. They are baptized into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ by His Spirit. They are baptized with the Holy Ghost.
This is why the prophet of God told us that only the bride can truly be reborn in the sense of what James 1:18a tell us that “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,”
And the evidence of the new birth is that you will recognize and walk in fellowship and agreement with the word for your day of the current truth that God is unfolding in the season that you are living.
I CORINTHIANS 2:11-16
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (that is understood – because it takes the spirit of God to make the word clear to your thinking)
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
**It this eternal gene of your pre-existence as a son or daughter of God that has been quicken within you – made alive by the spirit of God through the truth of the light of the word revealed for this hour –it’s the thoughts of God that quickens the gene of God.
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Now then, here we are coming to a conclusion. As the eternal Logos (God) was manifest in the Son, and in Jesus dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and that Eternal One was the Father manifest in flesh, and thereby gained the title of Son, even so we, eternal in His thoughts in our turn became the many membered Spoken Word Seed, manifest in flesh, and those eternal thoughts now manifest in flesh are the sons of God, even as we are so called. WE DID NOT BECOME SEED BY THE REBIRTH, WE WERE SEED AND THEREFORE WERE REBORN FOR ONLY THE ELECT CAN BE REBORN. Because we WERE SEED is the reason we could be quickened. In NON-SEED there is nothing to quicken.
**And so this is why that God had to design your life’s journeys on earth with all the pathways of ups and downs so that He could bring us into the full truth of what He wants to reveal to our understanding, so that by the end of our lives, we will all have a life story to tell of how the truth of the word came to us.
*Brother Branham preached about his life story, of all the struggles and problems and the sufferings that he had had to endure, but yet it was God that had fashioned his life and allowed it all to happen for the purpose of bringing him into the message of the revelation of the truth for this day.
**We see the same thing with Joseph’s life, how that his life transversed from his father’s house, to the prison house of where he had to suffer for a season, and then at last to Pharaoh’s house of where he received glory and honor.
*God was revealing in his life the great story of His redeeming love – the story of a greater redemption that would take place in the future.
*Ruth’s life was pre-planned by God to reveal a greater story of redemption.
*Esther’s life story was pre-planned by God to reveal a greater story of redemption.
**And then there was Job’s life story, and his life’s story was no different.
But as Job was living his life, he didn’t understand that the reason for his affliction and suffering for a season was for the purpose to bring him into a revelation of a truth that he had never known before of the truth of the resurrection, and that he had had a pre-existence with God before he came to this earth.
**But when he was going through his season of his loss and suffering, he was interpreting the things that were happening to him as if everything in his life was going wrong, not knowing that it was going to all work out for his good.
And so it made him developed like a complex against God, because it looked like that God was doing something that made no sense, and that could even be logically argued as being unjust.
JOB 23:3-4
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job had wish that he could go up to God’s house and to sit down and present and even argue his case before Him, because in all his earthly wisdom, he just couldn’t understand the reason why God would allow all this suffering to have entered into his life, because it seemed to be so unjust and unfair.
**But what he didn’t realize, is that it was only by going through this portion of suffering, that it would take this to open up to him the greatest understanding and revelation that was to have been made known to a mortal man up to that time – and that was the revelation of the resurrection and of his pre-existence and eternal destination after this life is over. Where he came from, why he was on earth, and where he was going.
**But until that revelation was revealed to him of how he would one day rise again, Job could only say, “A man born of a woman is of few of days, and full of trouble (Job 14:1)”. Because in the midst of the trial that he was in, the farthest he could go back in his thinking was to his birth that had begun his earthly journey.
*He had spoken about the tree dying and living again and all these things, but he himself could not see further back then his conception and birth – nor could he see past his grave.
*But when Elihu came (the young man of who is the type of the 7th angel’s ministry of these last days), then things began to change for Job, and he began to see things in a way that he had never seen before.
Because this Elihu of chapter 36 began to show Job things that he had not yet understand.
**And then we notice that immediately after Elihu’s ministry, the Lord Himself comes down in chapter 38 and speaks to Job directly, and tells him “Enough - you are talking about when you were born of a woman, of a man born of a woman, and you are saying that everybody that is born only comes to suffer and then to die”. And so this is where the Lord then gives Job a shock by saying, “Where did you exist before the world was formed?”
***And so God begins to reveal to Job that before his birth on earth through mom and dad, that he had already lived and existed before in a pre-existence state in the mind of God, and so there was no way that the death of his human body could destroy that eternal part of who he really was, because even though death would one day strike his earthly human body, yet because he was an eternal attribute of God, he knew that God would raise him up to life again in an everlasting body, and then he would go to dwell in an eternal destination and home, because God was not only the great creator, but He was also the great Redeemer.
**And this is the same revelation that has return back to us in our day by the opening of the seven seals.
*This is the same revelation of what God showed Paul and showed Bro. Branham, of what He is now showing us.
*And this is when Job said, “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.” Like Paul said, “To know ourselves as we were known by God of when we were in His thoughts at the beginning.”
**And so now Job has finally realized the purpose of God – because God had opened Job’s understanding to see how that he had existed in the mind of God before he had come to earth.
****And this is why God was showing Brother Branham of who is this Melchisedec, because the same God that had appeared to Job after his suffering has also appeared to us at this end time age after 6000 years of man’s suffering on the earth.
**At the opening of the 5th seal, Brother Branham tells of his experience the other side of beyond the curtain of time, and then after that experience, he said, “And I was afraid to come to this place?” and so the revelation of that he would go to another physical body directly after the death of his earthly body on earth, this knowledge was what changed his understanding completely.
**And this is the same way of when this revelation of the Easter Seal comes to us, the Resurrection Seal, in that the fear of death leaves us because we understand that eternal life is already dwelling within us by the spirit of truth that has been quicken to us, and so there is nothing that can destroy that word of what we have been united with in this hour.
* Esther, being the last woman in the bible who was a queen (and we also know that we are the last woman in the bible that is a queen because we have been married to the King).
Notice how that it was only after that she understands Her position that the revelation of the resurrection comes to her.
And so because we also know that we are married to the King in this hour, then it can only be by us of whom the revelation of the resurrection can come to for this hour.
And that is why that you will see that it is only after that Esther knows her position, that the full redemption and the resurrection of her people can take place – this is why the prophet told us that we must first know who we are, and then the resurrection will take place.
**You must realize that your heavenly origin was before your earthly origin, and like Esther, our names have been changed, because Esther’s name was changed from Hadassah to Esther, from being linked to a myrtle tree on earth, to now being linked back to the stars of Heaven – “from the earthly, to the heavenly, from this body, to our theophany.”
**And so we can see this pattern of our Pre-Existence, Earthly Journey, and Eternal Destination in the book of Job, and then again in the book of Esther, and even in the book of Brother Branham’s life story.
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44 Like in the Book here, and the spot there we was talking about the--the two Books being One, the Book of Life. The first Book of life coming up, was when you were born, that was your natural birth. See? But then one time, way back down in there, there was a little grain of Life as I was explaining to some of the young sisters at the house this afternoon. See, there's a little grain of Life laying there, that you wonder, "Where did It come from? What--what these strange things?"
45 I was saying this, taking for myself, like you was going to say, "William Branham, well, forty years ago, the William Branham, it isn't the same one tonight." If somebody back there would say, "William Branham, he was a rank rascal," see, because I was born of Charles and Ella Branham. In their nature I was a sinner, I came to the world, a liar, and all the habits of the world laid right in me. But down in there, too, was another Nature present, see, predestinated, was in there by God. In this same body, see, two natures in there.
46 Well, I only catered to one. As it growed, I gooed as a baby, "Dad-da." First thing you know, I become a liar, become everything else that's a sinner, because I raised up that way. But down in there was a little speck of Life all the time.
48…Where'd you come from?"
49 What was it? There was another William Branham. See? A little spot of Eternal Life down there, from the--the--the genes of God, the Word of God that was placed in there. Each one of you can think of similar things. See, It was working.
50 Then look up to the trees, and I think, "Leaf, I seen you fall off last year, and why are you back there again? Where'd you come from? What brought you here?" See, It was that Eternal Life working in the body.
51 Now, then one day as I walked on, that Voice talking, "Don't never smoke, drink, so forth." And the young fellows and all got older. See, there was Something moving.
52 But yet all at once I looked up, and I said, "I'm not the son of Charles and Ella Branham. There's Something calling." Like my little eagle, "I'm not a chicken. There's Something up yonder, somewhere. O Great Jehovah, Whoever You are, open up! I want to come home. There's Something in me, calling."
53 Then I was born again. That little Life was laying there, the life of water was poured upon It, then It begin to grow. Now, that old life was forgiven, put in the sea of God's forgetfulness, to never be remembered against me no more. See? Now we stand justified (as though we never had sinned) in the Presence of God.