The Current Condition of the Husk and the Seed
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30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Introduction
Introduction
Bro. Branham uses the terms husk, shuck, and tares to describe the same group of people.
This group is the third stage of the wheat, it is the Laodicean church, it is those who came all the way to the restoration of the gifts but could not receive the full strength of the Word.
When the full sun comes out, the shuck or husk pulls away, never to be used by God again.
Only the husk (tare, shuck) would be close enough to the wheat to be deceptive.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Watch nature. Nature, exactly, is God. God working in nature, it’s all He can. But from the Pentecostal revival, as they think, was the Seed; it wasn’t. Now watch. But something come forth just like the Seed.
Now watch what Jesus said, in Saint Matthew 24:24, that, “The two spirits at the last days would be so close together it would deceive the Elected if possible.”
Now, that stalk don’t look nothing like a seed; neither does the tassel look like a seed. But notice now, not in Luther’s day, but in the last day.
The first thing. There is wheat farmers setting here. The first thing that comes forth on a wheat seed, you would almost think it was a seed, but (what is it?) it’s the husk. It forms a little outside thing, like, to hold the seed.
It forms a husk. But the husk is not the seed, no more than the tassel or the stalk was. It’s only a carrier of the life, the corn of wheat, then. Saint John 12, you see, Jesus speaking.
The wheat, after the tassel (after Wesley), puts forth the husk, which is the foremost like the grain of anything else. The husk is more like the grain. It’s coming more like the grain all the time, the one that went in the ground.
And when it comes forth, the stalk, it’s got Life in it, but it sure isn’t the grain. Comes forth the tassel, the pollen, it still isn’t the grain. And then it comes forth the husk, and it’s just in the shape of the wheat, just exactly like the grain of wheat, but yet it isn’t the wheat. Just exactly in the same shape, perfectly.
The Pentecostals come out just like the wheat would. Each one comes out from the other, coming out from the other, but they’re only a carrier. They go to denomination.
Now watch. The Gospel is going to come out through Luther, through Wesley, into Pentecost, and at the last days it’ll deceive the very Elected if it’s possible. The Elected! Oh, Pentecostal brethren, can’t you see?
The wheat in its first beginning is just like the seed, when it begins to form like the seed, but it’s the husk. It denominated, exactly done the same thing they did down here in Luther. In Revelation 17, it proves the same thing, of the churches.
Notice here, the Life that was in the stalk, tassel, all now ends up in the Seed. The Life that come out of the original Seed, come up through different processes (three different processes), and then turns back till Its original condition.
Notice, here, the Life that was in the husk. In the stalk, and in the tassel, in the husk, all gathers in the Seed. And the Life that was in the stalk, went, one went to make the other.
Justification, made a way for sanctification; sanctification, made a way for the baptism of the Holy Ghost; the baptism of the Holy Ghost, made a way for the Holy Ghost Itself to come right down in perfection, back to the Word again, to manifest Itself. 64-0705 - "The Masterpiece"
You cannot see a difference until the sun shines in its strength, and then the shuck or husk pulls away from the grain, because it cannot accept the Word in its fulness.
After the husk begins to pull away from the Word of the Hour, what are the differences you see?
What is the current condition of the husk, and the current state of the wheat seed?
1. The husk has denominated, the seed is free.
1. The husk has denominated, the seed is free.
What happened to you Pentecostals? A few years ago you come out of that mess called denomination, to make yourselves Pentecost. Why did you want to go back in it again? The husk had to come. (The Grain wasn’t here, yet.) See? Notice, that’s just the way they did. That was in their heart. They had to do it. 64-1227 - "Who Do You Say This Is?"
Notice, there will be no more carrier, mother churches, denominations, after this carrier shuck.
Because, after the shuck, there is no more, nothing left by then but just the Grain. Is that right? It’s got to be the Grain. It’s got to be the same kind that went into the ground, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, a Spirit come upon the Bride to do the same things that He did. See? It’s the reproducing again of the Grain. 65-0218 - "The Seed Is Not Heir With The Shuck"
The Word makes you free.
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
The Son makes us free!
The more light of truth you have the more freedom you have.
(Example: Free Press)
When there is no truth there is no freedom.
a. Free from bondage
And now the Church is uniting Itself to the Body of Christ. It’s got Itself free, cut away from every little fetter, getting Itself ready; getting together, union among them; oh, a love and joy, and the Holy Spirit moving among them. Oh, my, what a time! 63-0818 - "The Uniting Time And Sign"
b. Free from Tribulation
The church will go through the tribulation, yes, sir, but the Bride is free from it. She’ll go in the Rapture, in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. She’ll be caught up to meet her Lord in the air, for the Wedding Supper. She has nothing to go through any tribulation about; her Lord has paid her price. 64-0126 - "What Shall We Do With This Jesus Called Christ?"
c. Free from judgment
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
We are not standing before Him, we are ministering to Him.
He came, and ten thousands times ten thousands came to Him; and judgment was set, and the books were opened; and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life; and they were judged thus.
Who was this that come? The Bride which did not have to come to judgment, She’s free from judgment. 64-0830M - "Questions And Answers #3"
The full Son has set us completely free.
2. The husk is looking for revival, the seed is in revival.
2. The husk is looking for revival, the seed is in revival.
So, what we hollering about a messiah, what are we hollering? “Revival in our time! Back this, that, and the other.” What are they looking for, to do it? What more do you want? What does the church want, anyhow?
We’ve already got It! God gave It to us. It’s His promise for this hour. We look in the Bible, we see it everywhere through the Bible. Anointed ones come on and made that Word live again, right in the hour for that hour.
And we’ve got the Messiah. This is Him, the Word! “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” And the Word remains God, Hebrews 13:8, “The same yesterday, today, and forever.”
We know what is supposed to take place in this day. We’re wanting a Messiah. And God gave us the Messiah, His promised Word for this day. It’s just waiting for somebody with faith, to anoint It and make It live again.
Yes, sir. It’s a real Messiah, It’s the Word of God’s. Which, Jesus said, “Both heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away.”
But the church sits spiritually dead, gone, the hour has passed them. They’re in a slump, and hardly know what to do, one running this way and one that way. And here every promise that God made in the Bible, every one of them, is laying there just as good as they ever was.
It’s the hour! What makes the church like this? We’re in the age of the Laodicea, when she has to come this way. This is the hour for it. 63-1127 - "The World Is Again Falling Apart"
This is a time of trouble, but we are in revival.
7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: Thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, And thy right hand shall save me.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.
6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.
19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; Which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee Before the sons of men!
20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
We are in revival now. The move is on for the Bride THUS SAITH THE LORD
3. The husk continues to focus on gifts, the seed has the giver.
3. The husk continues to focus on gifts, the seed has the giver.
31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
The light of the Pentecostal age was the restoration of gifts.
This is why it was such a deceptive age.
Now, the trouble with people, today, we find them living in the glare of another age. Just like Jesus found when He come, He found them living in the glare of the law, and ignoring what was to take place in His age. You know what’s the matter today?
What was the matter with the Lutheran? Well, because they were living in the glare of the Lutheran age, when John Wesley found the secret of sanctification, they couldn’t go, because they were living in the glare of Luther’s age. What happened to the Pentecostals?
Why, Wesley was so organized, until he was living in the glare of another age, they was in Wesley’s age, when the baptism of the Holy Ghost fell upon the Pentecostals.
See, they were living in what Wesley said, sanctification. It was hard for them to believe the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the restoration of the gifts. They was living in a glare of another age.
(If you had known Moses you would have known me)
God identifying, interpreting His Scripture for that age, and it’s always Christ. It’s Christ in every age. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It’s always been Christ.
Now we find out, that now we find our Pentecostal brethren are living in the glare of a Pentecostal age, and they still miss It. They’re trying to interpret the Pentecostal age, when we’re plumb past that.
We’re living on up to the rapturing time, for the coming of the end time. But that’s the way man does, it’s just be that way. 64-0401 - "The Identified Christ Of All Ages"
A glare is a false light.
Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, and whatever might be, they had got the world so gaummed up, like they did in all ages, that they could not see the real Light.
It put their eyes out. They was used to walking in the glare, “Next day it’ll be this, and tomorrow it’ll be this. We’ll join this, and it’ll be that. We’ll join that.” We find it’s a false mirage.
Jesus Christ is just as real today, to a human heart, as He ever was. His power and His living Presence is just as real today as it ever was.
“Lo, a little while, and the world won’t see Me no more. Kosmos, ‘the order of the world,’ won’t see Me no more. Yet, ye shall see Me; for I’ll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. The works that I do shall you do also, even greater than this shall you do, ’cause I go to My Father.”
That great promise is today. The world is as blind as they can be, but there is a “ye that shall see Me,” and that’s what we’re trying to get today.
What the full Gospel, mean, is to express Jesus Christ in the power of His resurrection, and all the fulness of His promises; that the Holy Ghost manifest these things and make them right, that God has promised, and He will do it. 64-0125 - "Turn On The Light"
The more excellent way is love.
I would rather have a church that knows nothing about any spiritual gift, and just be so in love with each other and with Christ, I’d rather have that than every spiritual gift operating in the church.
Now, that might sound hard in a Pentecostal group, but I would rather have it. Where there is gifts, they’ll fail. Where there is gifts, they’ll bring confusion. Where there is gifts, they can be questioned. But where there is love, it is perfect.
That’s right. And if you had perfect love you’d have perfect gifts. That’s right. So work first with love. That brings fellowship, and fellowship brings gifts. 55-1009 - "The Way To Have Fellowship"
Elijah waited through the wind and fire, He was listening for a voice.
I just wonder, that if we haven’t listened too much to rushing mighty winds, and fire, and blood, and everything else, and have failed to hear that still small Voice. Wonder if we’ve looked so much to gifts that we can’t see the Giver.
See, we’re so prone to go after the gift instead of the Giver. When you see signs and wonders take place, don’t notice the signs so much, but look what’s behind it. It’s that still small Voice that speaks.
That’s the reason we can’t have revivals in America, is because people go after gifts instead of the Giver. That’s what’s the matter with the world tonight. Oh, we got if you want great crowds and audiences, you have to have a real classical Hollywood outfit with a lot of show.
American people want entertainment. They don’t want the true Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. So therefore, the radio and the television will give them more entertainment than the church can do it, and they stay home.
All that comes out is the elect of God that’s still hungering, and thirsting, and calling, and crying for the real thing of God. 59-0412E - "What Hearest Thou, Elijah?"
MAKE SURE THE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND
Any gift can be impersonated. The husk is an impersonator of the true seed, even down to attempting to impersonate the sign of the Son of Man.
(Moses two gifts)
Any person seen in Moses day turning a rod into a snake other than Moses and Aaron was an impersonator.
Let me be very clear. Any person using the gift of discernment from the platform, no matter how much a man of God or wonderful person they are, is an impersonator of the prophet.
I don’t say your pastor or anybody would be taking the gift of discernment. They don’t have to do that; that’s not their calling. That’s not their calling, to do that. That’s to be one in an age. 64-0621 - "The Trial"
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
They did the same thing Moses did, when that sign was for a purpose, to attract the attention of the people to Moses Message.
We had a little woman here one morning, come back there, you remember, come back there and she said, “The Lord give me the same gift.”
And I said, “Well?” She said, “I wish I had a chance to prove it.” I said, “There’s the platform.”
And you seen what happened; pure mass psychology, see. But when you see, Sister Snyder coming up, and told her she had “arthritis,” that finished it.
Then I said, “That isn’t what’s wrong with the woman.” I said, “She fell and broke her hip.” And I said, “She’s not even standing there…” Course Sister Snyder didn’t hear too well, and she said…
And what she had, I believe, was a growth in her stomach or something another wrong like that. I said, “That’s what it is; sitting here talking to the brethren about it the whole time.”
But it just to show that the church, see, that it’s carnal comparison, you see. And what does that do? It makes the real trumpet…
Now, when I was in Canada they picked up this fellow that went up there. And said (right in among a bunch of Norwegians), and he said, “The Lord tells me that somebody in here…” a crowd about ten times this size, “somebody by the name of ‘John,’ maybe ‘Johannes,’ ‘Johann.’”
Said, “Right along in here, I believe.” He said, “No,” said, “it’s right along in here somewhere”; course they took him out. In a Norwegian country?
And everybody had…Ninety percent of them is Petersons, Carlsons, John, Johannes, and, why, certainly. See, he’s certainly…It’s got to get in there somewhere.
Then, “The Lord tells me somebody has got back trouble, I feel my back hurting.” Anybody that’s been raised through the Scripture knows that that’s psychology. That’s…Certainly, it is.
(The man was actually a homosexual, and was picked up in Canada for fraud)
What is it doing? To give the trumpet an uncertain sound. See? Just exactly. That’s the way it always is, trying to do things like that to give an uncertain sound, that’s Satan’s business to do that.
But, now, don’t never vary from that Word. Remember, I charge you before God: Stay with that Word! Don’t you never vary from It.
And if those things rise up amongst the people and things like that, there’s a genuine every time you got a false. There’s a bogus dollar, that shows there was a good dollar it was made off of. 61-0618 - "Revelation, Chapter Five Part II"
The husk is an impersonator living in a glare, but the wheat has the fulness of the Word.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
“But their folly will be made manifest,” when Jesus takes His Bride and sets Her up here, and said, “This is Her,” and away He goes with Her. That’s right. And their folly will be made known. 63-0728 - "Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed"
4. The husk is preparing for tribulation, the seed is ready for rapture.
4. The husk is preparing for tribulation, the seed is ready for rapture.
40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise With healing in his wings; And ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Conclusion
Conclusion
What condition are you in this morning?
This is not the day of Pentecost. The Pentecostal age is past. Pentecost is gone, this is harvest time. See? And the harvest time, the grain; the water’s done been poured out, the grain’s getting ripe.
Come into the grain, my dear brother. Hear me, believe me, if you believe me to be a servant of God, let’s each one, in our own way, bow our head in humility and offer the prayer that we know that we should offer, “God, take me as I am.” 65-1206 - "Modern Events Are Made Clear By Prophecy"