The Observer and The Observed Pt.4
MATTHEW 10:29-31 (We read these scriptures last week)
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. (We know that nothing happens in nature or in our lives without God knowing and allowing it)
30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (Notice the language here – it doesn’t say that the hairs on your head are “counted” because that count would change every day depending on how many fell out, but that they are numbered - in other words, you have a predestinated and fixed number of hairs that God has ordained for you to have. And so because of that, not even one of your hairs could ever be lost or forgotten by God.
*Brother Branham told us about how his wife had commented about his hair lost, and that he had told her that he had not lost one of the hairs of his head, because where they were before he first got them is where they still are.
They were all numbered by God before he had even come into the world.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
LUKE 12:6-7
6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? (Again, looking closely at what Jesus is saying here, that every little sparrow that has ever lived upon the earth (regardless of its fate) will never be forgotten by God. This shows us that there is an eternal life for the animal kingdom also of all that has lived and suffered and died upon this earth. Brother Branham’s poisoned dog Fritz was there on the other side.
Fritz was given eternal life and could never see death again. God’s mercy and love is so great)
7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Jesus is clearly telling us not to fear anything that happens to us in life, because God is in full and total control of everything to do with your life here on earth.
We sing the old hymn – “His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me”
*And so the point here is, that God is the great Observer that watches over all things so that not even one sparrow can fall to the ground without Him observing it.
*And then from our perspective, God is not just the greatest observer, but He is also the greatest one of whom we could ever possibly observe.
In other words - The greatest observer of all creation (God) is the one who is also the greatest to be observed.
He wants us to see Him – He wants us to observe and to know Him.
The Observer and The Observed Pt.4
*For each one of us, our personal lives have been designed by God to match the scriptural prophecies that God has ordained for us to fulfil during the time that we live in.
**We know that God Himself is the conductor of the great symphony of life of which we are all playing out our part of the sheet music.
We are not the whole symphony, but each of us are individually playing out our little part according to the great master music sheet.
*William Branham’s life was totally design by God from the very time of his birth for the purpose of matching the scriptures of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7, and the servant of Revelation 1:1 that showed John throughout the book of Revelation, and Luke 17:30, and a servant at supper time, and the Eleazer call, and the head reaper in the book of Ruth, and the revealing of the secrets of the hearts just before the destruction of Sodom, and on and on and on. Because just like Christ, in the volume of the book it was written of Him – and in the volume of the book, our lives are written within also.
*And so for William Branham, God had fully designed the events of his life from before the foundation of the world, so much so that when God formed the world, He even had some mountains shaped into the pattern of his life.
*And so right from his birth, God was carefully observing every detail of his life and using every life circumstance to shape him for the purpose of him becoming the literal fulfilment of all those scriptural types and shadows of what he was the positive of all of those scriptures. He was the one who cast all those shadows back down through the bible.
And so when God wrote the bible, he wrote the story of William Branham’s life all through it – and He also did that for you and I.
JEREMIAH 1:5 (we read this scripture a couple of weeks back)
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
We find here that Jeremiah had been ordained a prophet in the eternal thoughts of God before he had even been born, and so this is proving to us something very deep here, of the certainty of our pre-existence in the mind of God before we came into this life here on earth, and of God’s foreknowledge of our purpose in life.
PSALM 27:4
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Mankind’s desire has always been to behold the wonder and beauty of the LORD, because God placed within man to have that desire and purpose.
**And so it takes both God and man together to satisfy each other, the observer and the observed together – of God beholding man, and man in return beholding God (Face to face), like how Adam’s relationship was with God in Eden. And its redemption that restores this fellowship between God and man again – and this is what the opening of the seven seals produced. It was the mystery of God Himself being unveiled to us.
JOB 42:5
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
I CORINTHIANS 13:12
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Last week we talked about how that the sense of sight is considered by far the most dominant of all the human senses.
Most of us would probably agree that the gift of sight is without a doubt the greatest gift of all of our senses that God has blessed us with, and the reason for this is that our visual sense is the greatest gatherer and receiver of information that outweighs all of our other sensors of taste, feel, smell, and hearing.
*We are told that the human brain dedicates significantly more neural architecture to vision than that of any other sensory system.
It is estimated that about 80% of the information that we process daily comes from what we see and comprehend by that seeing.
*If we were to put it into a language that we could understand, it is calculated that our optic nerve transmits data to the brain at a massive raw rate of around 100 megabits per second. By comparison, our auditory sense of hearing processes information at rates thousands of times lesser than our sight.
**And so what we must acknowledge, is that all of this visual information is only made possible to us because of the existence of electromagnetic light.
And so it is a fact that light is by far the greatest conveyor of information in the entire universe.
Radio waves are also just another form of light but and a much slower frequency. The reason that we can’t see the light of radio waves is because their frequency is far too low and their wavelength too long for human eyes to detect.
Human eyes have specialized cells called rods and cones that are tuned like tiny antennas to pick up a very narrow band of the light spectrum. We see this small band as colours, ranging from red to violet.
But anything outside this narrow window of light spectrum is completely invisible to us, even though it is fundamentally all the same as the light we see.
*We are told that visible light only makes up around 0.0035% of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. That is 3.5 thousandths of 1% - or 3.5 out of 100,000.
To put that scale into perspective, if you had a ruler that was 10 meters long, the only part of visible light that you could see would equal 0.35 of a millimetre siting right around the middle of the 10 meter ruler – the thickness of a few sheets of paper. And then we think we are so smart.
*Last week we also talked about how that stars that are thousands of lightyears away are able to convey to us incredible amounts of information about themselves by the light that we are able to collect from them.
When we analyse the light from a star by the use of a spectrometer, we are then able to learn a lot of details about that star from the information contained in that light – the light carries the information to the observer.
*When light travels from the core of a star and through its outer atmosphere, different chemical elements absorb specific wavelengths (colours) of light from out of the spectrum of that light.
This leaves behind unique dark lines that are like a chemical barcode written on the spectrum.
And because every element on the periodic table (like hydrogen, helium, or iron) has a completely unique pattern of lines, astronomers can match these lines to find out exactly what the star is made of.
This is called astronomical spectroscopy.
***And so each individual star is able to reveal itself by the information of its own light that it emits.
And we know that God refers to His prophets as stars also, because they also give off light - and their light carries and reveals specific information to the one to whom the light from that star is being sent to.
ISAIAH 33:17
17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far.
Our eyes shall see the king…
This word “see” is the Hebrew word “ra'ah” {raw-aw'} = to see, look at, inspect, perceive, to regard, learn about, watch, look upon, to find out, to observe, to consider, to give attention to, to discern, distinguish, to gaze at, to be caused to see, be shown, to be exhibited to - to look at each other, face.
All of these descriptions of this word “see” in the Hebrew means all of the above… And it ends with the ultimate climax of us being face to face with God, because the idea of this terminology "face to face" denotes the idea of unfiltered intimacy of which we are able to observe God in his completely unveiled form - the mighty God unveiled before us.
REVELATION 10:7
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
*We can also connect this scripture with…
ZECHARIAH 14:7b
7b: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
The mysteries of God are to be finished at evening time because of the information that is coming to us by the presence of the light that has been promised by God to shine at the evening time.
**And so there is of necessity required to be observers of that object that the light is shining on, or there would be no use for sending that light if there was no one who was able to receive the information that that light contained and revealed.
**We are called in this hour to be a people that the revelation of God is to be completely unveiled to – to be observers of the greatest unveiling of God to man that has ever taken place in the history of the entire universe.
IS.THIS.THE.SIGN.OF.THE.END.SIR_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-1230E
15-1 And said, "Then you picked up something, like from the air, something like a wrecking bar, or--or a crowbar," wasn't it, brother? Something like that, a wrecking bar, real sharp, and said, "How you done it, I don't know." And said, "You struck the top of that mountain, ripped it around, and lifted the cap of it off. It was in the shape of a pyramid. And you ripped the top of it off." Now, that was months and months and months before the pyramid message was preached. And said, "Beneath that was white stone, granite, and you said, 'The sun, or the light, has never shined on this before. Look in on this. Watch this.'"
And that's right, because in the formation of the world, the world was formed before there was light. We all know that. God moved upon the water, and--and then in the beginning He spoke for light. And naturally, down under there in the age that formation was, that light had never come upon that stone.
15-3 And he said, "Look upon this. Light has never come upon it before." (In other words, the information of this rock revelation (up until the time of this opening up of the pyramid) has never reflected light that could be seen and comprehended and understood before by human beings) And when all of them got up, and I told them to watch that, and all of them come up to look in.
*We have spoken in previous services how that the first thing that is require for a human being to be able to visually observe anything by sight, is light.
*If there is no light, then there could not be the observation of visual things with our eyesight – and so the knowledge and information that that light contains could never be fully conveyed to our comprehension and appreciation.
** In Chicago Illinois on Saturday 9th of August 1952, Brother Branham preached a message called the deep calleth unto the deep, and he explained to us that it is impossible for you to have a desire for something if that something doesn’t first exist, in other words, there cannot be a desire without the thing that can satisfy that desire being first a reality.
He talked about the little boy that ate the rubber off the bicycle pedals because his body lacked sulphur. And so the point is that his body couldn’t crave the sulphur if sulphur did not first exist, because sulphur is essential for human life. From this we learn that before there could be the negative, there had to first be a positive.
ISAIAH 33:17 (we have read this scripture)
17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far.
We all have a deep desire within us to behold that great heavenly land – and so that desire can only be because there is a land beyond the river that we call the sweet forever – that desire proves that that far off land is a real place. And we like Abraham have already met the king of that great kingdom.
**This negative world of death and sin and disease and sorrow and pain - it proves there is a positive land somewhere where there is no death and sin and disease and sorrow and pain, but a land full of life and joy and peace forevermore.
BEGINNING.AND.ENDING.OF.THE.GENTILE.DISPENSATION_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 55-0109E
E-42 …As Sister Murphy and them used to sing, "Just keep holding on, daylight's soon coming." Hold on till day. The morning stars are shining to the world now, lighting up the world just before the great darkness and the great thunderbolt from heaven, the coming of the Lord.
E-43 Listen close now. Now, He said... I've looked at the morning star, and I thought, "Oh, morning star." I looked down one day standing up there, Brother Wood's and I. He'd just got the fire started, and we was going to get breakfast. And I turned and looked at the morning star, walked out there in them cedar bushes, and the winds whispering through the pines, I stood there, felt good breathing that good fresh morning air, it kind of frosty, plenty frosty... Go down to the creek, get a bucket of water, it'd freeze before you get up.
Standing up there, raising up my hands out there in those pines, I looked at the morning star, I thought, "Oh, looky here. What forty five years has done for me." I said, "Oh, looky here, getting wrinkled, my hands getting wrinkled, hair slipping out, teeth going. Oh, what forty five years has done for me." But I said, "Looky yonder, that morning star is just as pretty and bright as it was the day that God blowed it off His hands and said, 'Let it shine.'"
E-44 Then I thought of this Scripture. I said, "But God promised if we'd be wise and turn many to righteousness, we would outshine the stars forever." I thought, "Morning star, you're shining now, but wait till we get there." Hallelujah...?... Outshine the stars forever. And I could hear that wind coming down the hill just about the break of day, whistling through those pines, saying,
There's a land beyond the river,
That we call the sweet forever,
And we only reach that shore by faith decree;
One by one we gain the portal,
There to dwell with the immortal,
When they ring those golden bells for you and me.
What a great thing. "They that be wise shall turn many to righteousness and they shall outshine the stars forever and forever." So what difference does it make anyhow? What is this little old span here for? This little old dust of the earth, spineless worm, little old mortal body that's got to corrupt and go back to the dust and skin worms will eat it up? Oh, my. Let me rise with all that's in me and shine for the glory of God. Lay aside every weight that the Holy Spirit can transmit His powers and glory through the preaching of the Gospel and the healing of the sick to vindicate Jesus Christ raised from the dead. Oh, my, forever and forever...
GENESIS 1:3
3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And so God was the creator of light, and He created light in order to reveal and convey the information of things that were once hidden and obscured by darkness - of things of which we could never have understood, and of what would have remained a mystery to us unless light had been created.
**And so the purpose of light is to convey the information of hidden things so that we can be observers.
**Light was created by God to unveil and reveal things, and especially to reveal God to us.
I JOHN 1:5
5 ¶ This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
REVELATION 21:23-24
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
**And so it takes this light to shine from the observed to the observer in order for the revelation and the expression of God to be unveiled to the observer. It’s the positive and negative connecting together in order to complete the circuit.