The Revealing of the Son of Man
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26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Introduction
Introduction
Stuart and Joel next week
Ben Beard’s meetings
Bro. Wendall Martin October 27th
What is the revealing of the Son of Man, and why does it matter to me as an individual?
Illustrate: “everything you said applies to someone I know”.
Bro. Branham tells us “We can never enter the House of the Lord, and go out the same; we go better or worse.”
Look at verse 30:
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Lexham Theological Wordbook ἀποκαλύπτω
ἀποκαλύπτω (apokalyptō). vb. to reveal. To cause something to be fully known, disclosed, or revealed.
This would not be the same as Him coming on the Mount of Olives, where every eye will see Him.
7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, Which is before Jerusalem on the east, And the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, And there shall be a very great valley; And half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, And half of it toward the south.
People are going to know about the physical coming of Christ.
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
The second coming of Christ, the rapture, will not be like that at all, it will be a secret coming.
32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
34 For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
γρηγορέω (uigilo), (a) I am awake (in the night), watch; (b) I am watchful, on the alert.
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In a time when the conditions of the earth are the same as they were in the days of Noah and Lot, the Son of Man would be revealed or made known. (Unveiled).
This revealing must be before the rapture.
In an hour when denominational darkness of dogmas and creeds has obscured Him who is the Word, so much so that we did not even know what to look for, or whether there would be a rapture, the Son of Man is revealed to show us:
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
What is the Son of man, been revealed? Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. 58-0309E - "Will The Church Go Before The Tribulation?"
Who is the Son of Man?
In Ezekiel God calls his prophet a“son of man”.
1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
He also comes as a prophet to Abraham. (we’ll get to that tonight)
Daniel tells of The Son of Man who will reign:
13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Jesus identifies Himself as the Son of Man:
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
The Son of Man is God in flesh.
Just like Abraham saw Him and knew who He was, Peter saw him and knew He was God.
This Son of Man (Christ) would be revealed when the world is in a Sodom condition.
We believe Bro. William Branham’s ministry fulfilled Luke 17:30, therefore the Son of Man was revealed in His ministry.
Bro. Branham was not the Son of Man.
Some say Brother Branham is the Son of man. I thought the Pillar of Fire was the Son of man. Am I mistaken?
Well, that’s a good question, very good. But I am not the Son of man, but a son of man. There’s quite a difference. Jesus Christ was the Son of man, the Son of God, the Son of man, the Son of David.
(Three son’s names)
(Bro. Branham was reluctant to even call himself a prophet.)
So I don’t want to call myself anything but your brother. I am your brother, and you just regard me as Brother Bill, or Brother Branham, or whatever you want to do about that.
(Bro. Branham explains “The Pillar of Fire is the Anointing”)
Now, that Pillar of Fire is the Logos that went out of God. The Logos, which is actually the attribute of the Fullness of God.
(Logos = Word. God’s full Word expressed in a visible form as a pillar of fire)
When man was made in the image of God…And then God came down in the image of man to redeem man; that brought man and God together.
Heavens and earth hugged and kissed each other; God and man embraced each other as Fatherhood and sonship when the Logos became flesh and dwelled among us.
(The Son of Man was Jesus, the anointing was Christ)
Now, this Logos that was in Him, which was the Spirit of God, the Anointing, through the sanctifying grace of the Blood, brought many sons to God, which is anointed with this same Logos.
(Show picture of the Pillar of Fire)
When Jesus died the fulness of God which dwelled in His body divided into each member of the church.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Do you get it? God, the Logos, separating Himself into man! God, not in one person, He’s in His Church universal.
Right now, while God is here speaking with us in our hearts, He’s in Africa, He’s in Asia, He’s in Europe, He’s in England. Wherever believers are gathered together, there He is in the midst of them.
I am not He; I am His servant. And the Pillar of Fire is not He; It’s in Spirit form (see?) which was upon the Son of man and has come now to anoint sons of man, to bring back a ministry just exactly like He said it would be, in order for the Head and the rest of the Body to connect together. 64-0823E - "Questions And Answers #2"
God was not bottled up in one man, but He was revealing Himself in and through the Bride.
In doing that, there had to be “a son of man” prophet, to reveal “the Son of Man” Christ.
“In the very day that the Son of man is revealed.” Revelation 10:1 to 7, read it when you get home, “the seventh angel’s Message, opening up the Seals.”
What is it? Not the angel is the Son of man; but the messenger is revealing the Son of man. Can you get it separated now? That’s where it seems to be so hard for you, you see.
Not the Son of man, Himself; but the seventh angel, the seventh messenger, is revealing to the public the Son of man, because It’s left the shuck. He can’t organize It. It’s the Grain, Itself, again. 65-0725M - "The Anointed Ones At The End Time"
Here is the Logos:
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Here is the Son of Man:
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
The revealing of the Son of Man would be the revealing of the Word.
He was revealed partially in the reformers, but the full Word was reserved for a son of man to reveal the Son of Man.
But at the opening of the Seven Seals, Revelation 10, the full Word is to be born into manifestation again, and vindicated by the Spirit of God, in the full strength as It was when He was here on earth;
manifested in the same way, doing the same things that It did when It was here on earth. Amen! Hebrews 13:8, said, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
In Saint Luke 17:30, Jesus said, “In the last days, as it was in the days of Sodom, when the Son of man will be revealing Himself again, it’ll be the same thing.” 65-0218 - "The Seed Is Not Heir With The Shuck"
He was a son of man “prophet” revealing the Son of Man, the Word, so the rapture will not overtake us as a thief.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Surfeiting is being hung over from so much food or wine. Binging. Gorging on entertainment.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
How will we escape? By the revealing of the Son of Man in His body.
If the revealing of the Son of Man is the Message of the hour, what should our attitude towards that Message be?
It should be our daily bread.
After the miracle of the loaves and fishes, the multitude came looking for Jesus.
Jesus told them “You just want the loaves and fishes”
27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
They immediately went back to Moses.
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Skip to verse 47:
48 I am that bread of life.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
v. 57
57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
In other words, as the life of the Father energizes me, my life energizes you.
What does bread do?
Bread is the most important invention in human history, by Jesus time it was considered to be a great achievement to be a baker. Bread was absolutely essential to life.
The Romans controlled the people by a policy known as “bread and circuses”. Food and entertainment. The first dinner theatres were Roman coliseums.
France fell because Marie Antoinette said “let them eat cake”.
Bill Clinton said “It’s the economy, stupid”.
Whoever gives you food and entertainment has your vote.
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
V 60
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
He said “If that bothers you, what will happen when you see me ascend?”
V 66
66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
They were feeding on His Words.
We live by the Word.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
This is why we use quotes. This is why we proclaim the Message.
I wasn’t the One that appeared down on the river; I was only standing there when He appeared. I’m not the One that performs these things and foretells these things that happens as perfect they are; I’m only one that’s near when He does it.
I was only a voice that He used, to say It. It wasn’t what I knew; it’s what I just surrendered myself to, that He spoke through. It isn’t me, it wasn’t the seventh angel, oh, no; it was the manifestation of the Son of man. It wasn’t the angel, his message; it was the mystery that God unfolded.
It’s not a man; it’s God. The angel was not the Son of man; he was the messenger from the Son of man. The Son of man is Christ; He is the One that you’re feeding on.
You’re not feeding on a man; a man, his words will fail. But you’re feeding on the unfailing Body-Word of the Son of man. 65-0725M - "The Anointed Ones At The End Time"
He’s my bread, He’s my joy, He’s my peace, so He gets my vote.
We are eagles, not hawks, not chickens. Our diet is the Word.
Notice, church is so carnal, feeds itself on worldly a carrion, dead things of the world, just like the vulture does. Church politics, they don’t let the Holy Ghost send a man to a church; they have to have a politics and see if the denomination is going to receive him or not.
That’s right. They’re like the world. They dress like the world. They look like the world. They act like the world. They’re vultures, like the world. They are lazy, soft, compromisers. That’s all there is to it.
Did you ever see an eagle compromise? No, sir. There is no compromising in him. Neither does a genuine Christian. He ain’t soft. He’ll hunt till he finds It. Amen. Yes, sir.
He’ll find his Meat. He wants fresh Manna. He’ll get down there and dig till he finds It. He’ll fly higher and higher. If there’s none in this valley, he’ll raise a little higher.
The higher you go, the more you can see. So it’s time for eagles of this day to get to flying higher, dig into God’s promises, not live on vulture food that’s been killed years ago; get out of it.
Politics, voting in and voting out, saying this, that, or the other, and the Holy Spirit has no more right-of-way in the church than nothing.
No more prayer meetings, no more agonizing with God to fulfill His Word! No more believing that the Word is still the same yesterday, today, and forever!
They just vulturize down, got a denomination, put their name on the book; and got lazy and soft, and sets back there gloating on some kind of a dead a carrion.
And, then, supposed to be at least a hawk that’s a similar brother to the eagle, the prophet that brought the true Word and manifested It.
Relies on half-rotten, man-made theology. Where does he get it at? In some man-made Sunday school program sheet, some educator killed for him back in some seminary, tell him that, “The days of miracles is passed.
There was no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost. All This is nonsense.” You mean to tell me that an eagle would eat that? He couldn’t do it. No, sir.
Why? The Son of Man has been revealed.
Neither will a Christian eat on that dead a carrions from old denominational doctrines and things. They want the Word of God, fresh, the promise of the hour. God promised rabbits in the days of Luther. He promised other things in the days of others.
But now He promised us a full square Meal, the full seven course Menu, for all the Seven Seals are opened, and everything is ready for the Word of God, to those who can receive! 65-0218 - "The Seed Is Not Heir With The Shuck"
8 O taste and see that the Lord is good: Blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
9 O fear the Lord, ye his saints: For there is no want to them that fear him.
10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
Conclusion
Conclusion
What is the revealing of the Son of Man? Pulling the cover off the food.
(Food at the hotel in Lome, when the cover was pulled off it was baked beans)
The food we are eating is Jesus Christ the same Yesterday, Today and Forever.