Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed Part 5 “The Second Eve”
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1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Introduction
Introduction
People who count these things tell us there are 45,000 Christian denominations around the world. Why are we not a part of any denomination?
Denomination is headship outside the Word.
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Not just any man, but her Adam, her husband. Denomination breaks the headship, authority and preeminence of Christ.
162 Not denomination! We’ll get to that in a few minutes, and it’ll take it out of your mind forever, see; show you what causes that, by the help of God, if He’ll just permit it to us.
163 What’s His purpose now? Express Himself as a Son, see, and, now, that in Him might dwell “the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” I’m, I’ve got Colossians laying here, right before me. See? That, all through the Scripture, that’s what God purpose was.
Then, through this Life of this Son, His cross, “the Blood,” it says here, “of His cross,” that He might reconcile to Himself a Body, a Bride; which is Eve, second Eve.
And God give it in a type, like He did Moses and all of them. The same thing He did in Adam and Eve, giving a type, that they were Christ and the Bride. He is the second Adam; the Church is the second Eve.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
If there is a second Adam there must be a second Eve.
164 And as long as the second Eve compromises against the Word, isn’t she doing the same thing the first Eve did? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]
Trying to say, “Well, it was for some other age.” And we’ll get to that in a few minutes, whether He said that it was for another age. How can it be another age, when He is “the same yesterday, today, and forever”?
165 But God has purposed that and “hid it from the eyes of the prudent and wise, and revealed it to the predestinated babes” who were predestinated to receive it.
21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
These “babes” were given to the Son by the Father.
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
166 That’s the reason, watch down through the age, whenever that Light hit some, they’d turn It away, and flashed It away.
And great intellectuals and them great priests standing there, there was rabbis from great teachers and authority, like different ones, like Nicodemus and them, the man polished in scholarship, and he couldn’t even understand It.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
167 And there was those great priests stood out there, and rabbis who were taught in that Word. My, they knowed It, intellectually! And He said, “You are of your father, the devil, and his works you’ll do.”
Think of it, holy men, you couldn’t put your finger nowhere on their life, or their father’s life, or their grandfather’s life, or their great-great-great-great-great-grandfather’s life. If they did, they died in shame, they was stoned to death. But here stands Jesus, calling that group, “a bunch of devils,” religious people.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
168 Now, oh, the great revelation now! Now to restore back His kinship, to bring back…Now, He had to let them get lost. You understand it?
He had to let them sin, put them on free moral…He could not make them sin, and remain God, and then punish them for something He made them do.
We sinned by our choice, we are saved by His choice.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
You cannot make yourself Bride, but you are a free moral agent. You can come and be saved.
The Bride is the Elected of God. The church goes through…That’s the ones It says, “Whosoever will, let him come.” But the Bride is the Elected of God. 64-0823E - "Questions And Answers #2"
6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
God is not lying to Cain, he had a choice, but he could not make the right choice because of who he was.
169 But when He put man on partnership with Him, then let man act as a free moral agent, see, the same thing He’s got you on today.
You act any way you want to; you’re a free moral agent. So, therefore, if He put the first like that, He has to put the second like that, He has to put everyone like that, or He acted wrong in the first place. See? But everybody is on that same basis.
170 Now noticing, in bringing that back; and letting that man do that, and knowing that he would do it, knowed he would do it. But what did it do? It displayed His attribute as Saviour.
And the whole purpose then is left in Jesus Christ, to become…God Himself to take the penalty of His Own law, death, to die, to redeem the wife that was lost by rejecting Him.
171 When Eve went away from the Word, she went away from her mate. And when the church goes away from the Word, to a denomination, she rejects and commits fornications with the world of man’s wisdom, rejecting the authority of God’s Word.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
That sound clear? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] The Bible said, “Committing spiritual fornications.”
1 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
He said he found Israel in a field as a baby, with no mother.
5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
He cleansed her and raised her up.
14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
He’s talking about spiritual fornication, unclean living. Worshipping other gods.
The Book of Hosea tells us more about how Jehovah felt.
1 Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
The church did the same thing to Christ.
22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Any Word in the Bible, that’s rejected, or if any self-interpretation put to It, it’s absolutely rejecting and committing adultery against the God that is your Husband.
To believe a false Word is to create a false God.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
An adulteress never enters the Kingdom of Heaven, we know that. See? Now, see, that’s what Eve done at the first place.
(This doesn’t mean there is no forgiveness for the sin of adultery, or being a part of a denomination, but that you cannot enter heaven in that condition. We must be washed by the water of the Word.)
172 Now notice again, now, what’s His threefold purpose? Manifest Hisself in Jesus Christ; to come into the Body, by Jesus Christ, to have the preeminences; to (what?) restore back Eden, bring back that which lost. That was the only thing out of order. All the rest of His things was in order.
173 But He had to let, put man on free moral agency, to fall, so that He might be a Saviour, to display what’s in Him, see, His attribute of Saviour. Something had to be lost. And the very thing, that man fell and become lost, He become the Saviour of that, taking His Own law.
And He could not do it as that great Jehovah that covered all space, time; see, He couldn’t do it. And He had to become a Man. And He took kinship with the man that was lost, amen, and become a Man: God, made flesh!
(Bro. Branham gets excited)
175 God became, from God, to become me, to take my sin upon Him, that He might make me Him, amen, back to His great purpose of sons and daughters of God, for He is the Eternal Father. That attribute was in Him, see, so that had to be displayed.
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
176 Now see the whole threefold purpose? See, to express Himself, He wants to become…Now, the world is lost, now He has to express Himself in a Man, to become a Saviour, through the reconciliation of the Blood from His cross.
Now, He had to become that, to die, in order to save and to bring Hisself back into the Church, to have the preeminences in His Church.
177 Now remember, it cannot, and will not, and never will be, and never has been, a denomination! He has to have the preeminences, and He is the Word. Amen!
How can any creed be injected in There? It turns the church into a prostitute, to take any man’s words of any creed or any denomination.
It be quickly is marked, in Revelation 17, as a whore and harlots; the Roman Catholic Church being the whore, and the Protestants being the harlots. It’s exactly as clear as any person could read it.
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
(Bro. Branham references the Church Age sermons)
Then, anything that joins itself with a creed outside of the Bible, is a whore in the sight of God. And done the same thing Eve did; got away from the Word, which is Christ. 63-0728 - "Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed"
Creed Definition:
1: a statement of the basic beliefs of a religious faith
2: a set of guiding principles or beliefs
Etymology
Middle English crede "creed," from Old English crēda (same meaning), from Latin credo, literally, "I believe" (used as the first words in many creeds), from credere "to believe, trust, entrust".
The “Apostles” Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended to heaven
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty.
From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen
173 Them denominations try to take the place of the holy Church. “We believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heavens and earth, and Jesus Christ His Son. We believe in the holy Roman Catholic church and all these different things. We believe in communion of saints.”
174 I believe in the communion of Christ. Yes, sir. I believe saints are in Glory. Sure. But I believe we have one Mediator between God and men. Yes, sir. Poke that stuff? Here, the Bible contradicts that. They say, “Well, that’s the Bible.”
That’s God. “The Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” Now the Word is in our flesh, making Itself manifested, anointed by the Holy Ghost. Time to go in action! That’s right. 62-1013 - "The Influence Of Another"
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Conclusion
Conclusion
The Bride doesn’t say “I believe”, but rather “Thus Saith the Lord”.
Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have “thus saith the Lord” or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages (5 - The Pergamean Church Age)
Mary did not say “I believe” she said “be it unto me”.