Month: September 2020

2 Peter 1:20-21

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.  For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

The bible is a supernatural written book which contains the words of life. If there is any book of standard by which on the judgement day, God will hold mankind on, then it got to be THE ABSOLUTE WORD OF GOD, THE SACRED SCRIPTURES.

Jesus Christ came to fulfil all that was written about Him in the sacred scriptures. Christ Jesus came to do according to the sacred scriptures and said the scriptures cannot be broken.

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken. (John 10:35)

He did not did contradict the word of God. The Almighty God, manifested Himself through His Son, who is the full Word of God, could only reveal and make known His counsel by making the Word of God to become flesh

 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. (John 1:14)

This was the book the LORD Almighty chose to reveal Himself and magnified His name through, which is the Word of God.

 Jesus Christ has this to say, then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. (Hebrew 10:7)

And Jesus Christ is the expressed image, the perfect expression of Yahweh in whom the Deity of God is expressed to mankind. God magnify this Word above every other name.

 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (Psalm 138:2)

So, its unthinkable for any man to replace this precious Word with any other book or sermon book or words of men.

William Marrion Braham the prophet in his sermon books pointed to CHRIST THE WORD OF GOD. He never acclaimed his books to be the subject of worship instead he said GOD IS HIS OWN INTERPRETER. The religious systems had always driven away from this bible and feeding on their creeds, dogmas and words of men.

Precious men of God in History such like, Apostle Paul, Martin Luther, John Wesley, William Braham stood for the Absolute Word of God, the SACRED SCRIPTURES. What about you?

Are you still idolising certain words of men above this sacred Scriptures? Is your name in this book of life.?

Shalom.

Bro Stephen Awittor, Cape Coast, Ghana.

1 John 2:5

But whoso keepeth his Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

The Divine Truth of God would produce the Divine Love of God in a believer’s life. Thus, a true Scriptural understanding will consistently produce a truly Christ-like life. It is not only believing the Truth but also the need to be living the Truth. Many who have compromising spirit will not dare speaking the truth among mixed multitude of believers because they will be tagged as one causing confusion. Does saying the truth, depicts being confused? It is better for these people not to know the truth than to know it and tend to compromise and foster false unity. Because a unity fostered at the expense of the Truth is a curse.

Let me reiterate: Where is TRUTH found?

If you are a believer of the Word you would not hesitate to say what Jesus said, “Search THE SCRIPTURES…” If you are inclined to say “Search ‘The Spoken Word’ books and tapes”, then listen to what our Lord Jesus said to the Sadducees, “Ye do greatly err because ye know not the Scriptures”. (Mathew 22:29). If you know the Scriptures you would know where and what Truth is.

The Spoken Word books are not a third testament to the bible as many of the Endtime message-preachers are doing, using the Message books of William Braham side by side with the bible, just like the Mormons are doing. 

The New Testament is the last testament of our Lord Jesus Christ when He sealed it with his Blood (Mk.14:24). There is no other testament after this. He had some of His apostles to write down, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, all that His Church would need to know. God had sealed the Sixty-Six books into one whole volume. If any man takes away or adds to this volume of God’s WRITTEN WORD, he is taking away or adding to God’s Word and thus will have to face the judgment of our Lord Jesus Christ as He sealed it with his own Blood (Mk.14:24).

Yes, undoubtedly William Braham is the Messenger to the Laodicea Church Age. We believe this plus what God adds to it in the Word. But the simple truth of the message delivered by The Prophet; William Braham, would have been darkened by your practices, when you fail to understand even the simple truth, he declared:  BACK TO THE BIBLE, BACK TO THE ORIGINAL, BACK TO THE ABSOLUTE!

God bless you and stay in the Divine Truth!

Bro Stephen Awittor, Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa.

The demand for perfection is frequently repeated in the New Testament and has played a significant role in the history of THE FAITH.

In The Gospel According to Matthew, Jesus says to his disciples:

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect (Mathew 5:48)

The meaning of this claim is recognizable only from the understanding of the human as the image of God

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Gen1:27)

And from the comprehending of Christ as the “Last Adam”.

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: (Col 1:15)

The perfection of believers is the perfection with which they reflect the image of God. This image has been disfigured through willful alienation from the original, but in Christ believers can recover the perfection of the image of God.

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world (But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:12-13)

Believers aiming at “partaking” of the divine character, also points in the direction of perfection.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (2 Peter 1:4)

In the early church, partaking in God’s being was a central concept of Christianity. “God became man in order that we become God”. Only the idea of perfection makes understandable a final enhancement of the Christian image of the human, the intensification from Perfection then transforms us as children of God to friends of God.  

This appears as the highest form of communion reached between God and human beings.

May we strive to be perfect!

Shalom.

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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ( John 8:32)

The bible clarifies that, it is the Truth that sets free.

The issue of love and truth has become so important that without divine love yielding out from truth, any claim on perfection is questionable. Divine love as seen in the stature of a PERFECT MAN, plays a very important role in a believer’s quest for perfection before the Rapture. How could a believer send a message of salvation to an unbeliever without speaking truth in love? In a natural sense, “LOVERS LOVE TRUTH” .

There is absolute truth in the statement that when a person believes right, he will live right. The Bible not only teaches doctrines but also shows the pathway to a godly life. What good does it do to a believer if he knows all the true doctrines but is not living a Christ-like life? Would it do him any good if he continues to lie, to cheat and to hate others? What about a believing woman who prefers to cut her hair, wear clothes unbecoming of a Christian lady or wear high-heeled shoes and mince her feet like the women of the world (Isaiah 3:16)?

Such are the ‘believers’ who talk about the Bible when their lives are diametrically opposed to the teachings of Christ. Of what good is the truth to you when you claim to have the truth but do not live the life of the gospel thereof ; 

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates (2 Corinthians 13:5-6)

With a true revelation of the Word, a believer will have a proper understanding of doctrines and live a Christ-like life. On the other hand, there are some who would rather have the right spirit than the right doctrines. Misquoting the prophet messenger William Marrion Branham, wrongly believing that doctrines do not matter and thinking one can have a right spirit without the truth (doctrines) is a wrong exegesis.   These are other people also who simply disregard doctrines whether right or wrong. How can one have the right spirit without the right doctrines since the Holy Spirit always leads His children back to His Word and to the Truth? The holy Spirit is a spirit of TRUTH.

RECEIVE THE OIL AND WALK STEADFASTLY IN THE TRUTH. NEVER QUENCH THE SPIRIT.

Keep the fire burning.

Stephen Awittor, Cape coast, Ghana.

WHAT ARE YOUR PERSPECTIVES OF HIM?

The Old Testament is made up of what is known as; THE LAW- Pentateuch, THE PROPHETS – Nevi’im and THE WRITINGS.

So basically the PROPHETS were God’s mouthpiece to his people. In the Old Testament, children of Israel revered their prophets because they bring messages from God to them. But if these prophets did not speak accordingly, in responds to the Urim Thummim that determines God’s will in a particular situation which is carried on the breastplate of the high priest, perhaps two sticks or stones one white and the other black giving a yes or no answer to a specific question. That fellow is regarded as a false prophet and he is stoned to death as such.

And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually (Exodus 28:30)

So how do we judge a true prophet of God in the 20th century? What is the Urim Thummim in our day?

Do we have Prophets of such caliber in the New Testament era for that matter this 20th century? Well this is a personal discretion.

Now Several prophets are mentioned in the New Testament.  Zechariah, the priest was one such, said to have perished “between the altar and the sanctuary” (Luke account). His death is included in the Gospel because he was the last prophet before Jesus to have been killed by the Jews. Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, when he was born, under the inspiration of the spirit, proclaimed the benediction; “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel”. on John the Baptist. His wife, Elizabeth, also was described as being inspired by the spirit. Others are Simeon, the prophetess Anna, and John the Baptist. Those prophets are conceived by the New Testament as the termination of Old Testament prophecy, a concept also expressed by Jesus with reference to John the Baptist.

EARLY PROPHETS

The New Testament mentions several prophetic figures in the early Church. Among them are Agabus of Jerusalem; Judas Barsabbas and Silas, who also were elders of the Jerusalem church; the four prophesying daughters of Philip the Evangelist; and John, the author of Revelation.

The term prophet is used with reference to an office in the early church along with evangelists and teachers, and the recipient of the letter bearing his name, Timothy, is called both a minister and a prophet. The prophet’s role in the early church was to reveal divine mysteries and God’s plan of salvation. Paul the Apostle instructed his followers in the correct use of prophecy and evaluated it as more beneficial to the life of congregations than ecstatic glossolalia (speaking in tongues). He considered prophecy to be the greatest spiritual gift from God, and in his view a prophet therefore ranks ahead of evangelists and teachers.

WILLIAM BRANHAM A PROPHET OF OLD OR NEW TESTAMENT?

There are a lot of misconceptions and doctrines concerning the specific work God raised this humble servant of his from Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA for and still on-going in End-time message circles.

For me I only have to read a couple of WILLIAM MARRION BRANHAM’s SPOKEN WORD sermon books to be able to recognize the message this Prophet- Messenger brought to us in this 20th/21st century. The message is no other than; BACK TO THE ABSOLUTE, THE BIBLE, THE WORD, THE LOGOS, (John1:1)

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. (Mal 4:5-6)

Elijah was a (or prophet master) and a prophet priest. Much of his prophetic career was directed against the Tyrian Baal cult, which had become popular in the northern kingdom (Israel) during the reign (mid-9th century BCE) of King Ahab and his Tyrian queen, Jezebel. Elijah’s struggle against that cult indicated a religio-political awareness, on his part, of the danger to Yahweh worship in Israel namely, that Baal of Tyre might replace Yahweh as the main god of Israel.

So was William Branham’s message strongly against the religious system of our day especially organized religion and Jezebels of our day. (Mathew 17:10)

In this End-time, a lot keep saying if there is a message there ought to be a messenger. However, Who sent the messenger? And What is his message? This is where it gets so confusing. Some regard William Branham as the LORD BRANHAM CHRIST, others too as the Final Authority of the Word. They consider all his utterances to be inspired and never take the trouble to scrutinize it with the Scriptures; Holy Bible. Yet others as a great prophet who didn’t make mistake whatsoever. What do you think?

Your revelation of the mission of this 20TH century prophet would determine whether you have trimmed your Lamp and getting enough light that would carry you to the end of the race set before you or you are following the crowd blindly and dancing to false doctrines and revelations which would eventually land you in the Great Tribulation?

Consider this carefully.

Shalom!