The Reproach of Barrenness
GENESIS 24:64-67
64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. (Notice, a junction of time in her life, a change of dispensations from a camel journey, to meeting Isaac)
65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? (Notice how that she looked to Eliezer for answers) And the servant had said, It is my master (It was the Eliezer ministry that identified Isaac to Rebekah): therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
We know that this story is a prophecy of this end time age.
And so the story begins by Rebekah meeting Eliezer at the well at evening time, but then advances to Rebekah on the camel train journey, then to Rebekah meeting Isaac in the field, then she becomes Isaac’s wife and begins receiving his seed, but the story doesn’t end there, it continues on to another stage, because we find out that Rebekah is a barren.
GENESIS 25:20-21
20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21a And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren:
From chosen Rebekah, to engaged Rebekah, to married Rebekah, to barren Rebekah - and so before she could finally bring forth life, there was a reproach that she had to bear because of that barrenness in her life.
The Reproach of Barrenness
Whenever there is a great promise of God about to be fulfilled, there is always a season of barrenness that is associated with the people of God that are connected to the fulfilment of the word of God. And so because of this, there is a reproach that the people of God have to bear before the promise of God is fully manifested.
*Noah had received from God the prophecy of the flood, but he had to suffered the reproach of it not raining for 120 years.
*Abraham and Sarah had received the promise from God of a child, but then they had grown old until they were well past the time of child bearing – and so they had to suffer the reproach of that barrenness before the fulfilment of the promise of God was made manifest in their lives.
*This is why that sometimes people don’t receive their healing, because they want it to happen straight away – they cannot keep up their faith during the time that the promise of God is delayed.
*Rebekah – the one who had been identified in the evening time by the ministry of Eliezer, was a barren woman that had to suffer the reproach of barrenness.
*The great matriarch Sarah was barren
*Rachel was also a barren woman and suffered the reproach of barrenness.
*Hannah was barren (Samuel’s Mum)
*The mother of Samson was barren
*The Shunammite woman who was under the ministry of Elisha was a barren woman
*Elizibeth was barren
Seven women in total from Sarah to Elizibeth were all barren woman who all suffered the reproach of barrenness – and so God placed all these women in the bible, because all of these women were to each show us a portion of the great mystery of a barren women in this end time hour at harvest time.
**On the 23rd of December 1962 – Brother Branham ministered on the subject of “The Reproach for the Cause of the Word” showing how that there is always such a minority of people that are connected with the promise of when God finally brings His word to pass, and this is because that during the years of barrenness that proceeds the fulfilment of the word – there are so many people that “lose” their faith in the promise of God because of the reproach of barrenness, because they begin to look at what seems to be the impossibility of that promise coming to pass under such extreme barren conditions – just like with Abraham and Sarah. It had become physically impossible for them to have a child together.
**And so as believers, we must realize that there is a season before the promise of God is fulfilled, that there will of necessity be a reproach of barrenness that we will have to bear for the cause of the word.
*We have been speaking over the last two services on the subject of The Full Restoration of the True Seed – the true seed being the true doctrine of the word of God, and that doctrine of the revealed truth of this hour being fully established in this last age in the hearts of an elected (true seed) people.
Because the seed is both the word of God that was sown, and also the people of God that were sown into the earth at their designated season in order to receive the seed word for their age. It takes the both to be united together – the word for the age and the predestinated seed for the age.
**This is why that you cannot truly know God outside of the revelation that He has given of Himself for the age that you live in – because true fellowship with God can only come by your thoughts being aligned with God’s thoughts in full agreement.
***The philosophies of man are endless, because there will always be a million different ways that seem right to a man’s mind of his reasoning – but the word of the Lord comes to you and not from you, and this is why you have to die to your own ideas and receive the mind of Christ.
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… for a people who claim to know God apart from the Word are as barren of life as is a sterile eunuch. (a eunuch has no seed in him – for a new body to be formed, you need both seed and a fertile womb)
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…it is a fact that the prophet for the last age must be bringing forth a message from God that will forerun the second coming of the Lord, for by his message will the hearts of the children be turned back to the Pentecostal fathers, and with the restoration of the Word will come the restoration of the power.
That’s the power of transformation – it is the power to be raptured out of this earth and into a new world. Many people want power for the wrong reason – to show off with and make themselves someone special, but God does not show off with His power.
*Jesus said that upon this rock of the revelation of who I am of the word for your day – that’s what His church is built on, and not some man’s interpretation of the bible.
**When a person receives a true revelation of the source of where the truth for their day proceeds from – then they will say like Peter said, “Lord to whom else could we go to, because you only have the words of eternal life”.
*Notice how that we access eternal life by receiving words of truth from a certain person and not any other person, and that person is the person of eternal life himself, and Peter had a revelation that Jesus was that person.
**And so we must have a revelation of where the source of the words of eternal life proceed from in this hour.
***The Words of God are life when the concept of the truth of those words are received and comprehended by man.
***We notice that down through the 7 church ages, they all went to the grave believing a portion of truth, but in this last day of the bride age after the seven church ages of God dealing with us in partial light has ended, it has been promised by God that we are to come back into having full access to everything of what Adam lost in Eden. The title deed of the ownership of everything that Adam lost has been purchased back by Christ and in this age He has handed the title deed down to his seventh angel to give it to an end time people who will eat the book and become one with that promise.
All throughout the 7 gentile church ages of seven “candle light” ages, they all received a portion of the word through the messenger for their day, and that portion of the word was enough to produce a new birth by the portion of the word for their hour, but they all went to sleep in the grave - none of them received a new body like what God had promised to each of them.
But in this hour, we have received the new birth not by a partial seed, but by the seed of the fullness of the word of the revelation for this day, and this is why we will go on to receive a new body at the end of this age, because of what has been released in this hour of the fullness of truth, and our new bodies will literally be form around that word that we have within us.
*Whatever word is sown in each age, then that is what will be produced at the harvest time of that age – and we have had the full word planted again in this hour by an end time prophetic ministry.
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Let me say right here that we have the very same thing going on right now. The people are all coming together. They are writing a Bible that will suit everyone whether it be a Jew, Catholic or Protestant. They have their own Nicene Council but they call it the Ecumenical Council. And do you know whom all these organizations fight? They fight the true Pentecostals. I don't mean the organization called Pentecostal. I mean the ones who are Pentecostal because they are filled with the Holy Ghost and have the signs and gifts in their midst because they walk in truth.
**Notice – the true evidence of the Holy Ghost is always the same, and that is for a person to be able to walk in truth – they have the ability to continue to agree with the word as the word is maturing in the season of the age that they are living in.
*And so when we talk about restoration, we are talking about a restoration of truth – and truth is a seed, but even though a woman can be receiving seed from her husband (like Rebekah), there was a time of barrenness of where it looked like that seed was having no effect in her life.
**When the Holy Spirit fell at Azuza Street, there was no restore truth for the anointing of the Holy Spirit to fall on, there was a lot of sensation, but there was no seed, and so it was just an anointing on the spirit realm of the people – there had not yet been a planting of the seed word by the ministry of Malichi 4.
*The true evidence of the Holy Ghost was the same in every age, it was those who could walk in the truth for their age, but you had to be an elected bride member or you would never be able to do that – and that was the whole secret to the entire elect of God for seven church ages. Their ability to walk in the portion of the truth for their day was their true identification of what part of the book of life they belonged to (the lambs section of the book of life, of those who could never be lost under any circumstances).
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25 …The manifestation of the Holy Spirit operating through His children is those Seed of the Kingdom at that age.
*If you were ordained to be a part of the gentile bride of which Jesus said that he would lose none, then the evidence of that is that you will hear the word for your day – you will have an inner ear that is able to hear (understand) the truth given by God for your hour.
**And so when we are talking about the maturity of the word in the fulfilment of scripture, then what is associated with that fulfillment of prophecy, is that there will first be a proceeding season of barrenness of which (if you are a part of that prophecy) you will have to (like a barren woman), bear the reproach of a season of barrenness before the promise is fulfilled by God.
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22-5 Watch the scoffness of barrenness, being scoffed, the reproach of barrenness first. They had... She had to stand the reproach of being barren for all those years. She was nearly a hundred years old... She was ninety. But the Word of God that said she would also be princess--a mother of this child. And she and Abraham barren, both of their bodies as well as dead, but yet they never doubted that Word one bit. But they had to stand that first, and then (Hallelujah.) God kept His Word in that dark hour. Isaac was born, and his seed is like the sands of the sea or the stars of heaven. See, God always answers His Word. Yes, barrenness first then Isaac. (Isaac represent the new body in type, He also represents Christ in type – and also the promised son of the coming of the Lord, many things, because the bible is written in seed form)
And so this is why we need to balance our subject of the maturity of the word being fulfilled among us, with this subject of the Reproach of Barrenness.
*Because Abraham and Sarah were promised supernatural things in their day, they were promise the new body of a child of their own, and yet what followed that promise of God was a season of time of when things went on and on and on without the promise of God coming to pass, of what it looked to everyone else like that God had failed to made good on what He had promised them, and so there was a reproach of the scoffers that Abraham and Sarah had to bear, because it seemed like what they had testified of as a promise of God for that hour had failed, and now God was guilty of a breach of promise, and they had been made to look like fools.
II PETER 3:3-4
3 ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
**And this is what many (in their hearts) begin to think in this hour that somehow all these great promises of God concerning the end time bride has somehow failed, and so some of them who had once been believers have now begun to scoff and make fun of those of us who are staying with the promise of God, and this trend is increasing, especially as things seem to only be getting worse and further away from the promise.
**And so this is why that we must be reminded, that that is always God’s way of how the pattern of God will always look like just before the great victory is won, because God loves to prove His own children under these conditions of when it looks like everything has completely and totally failed.
****But for us who have received the revelation of this hour, we are like Abraham, we know the secret of all of this, and this is why we can just laugh at anything that is contrary to the word of God, because we know that barrenness always proceeds the fulfilment of the word of God, and so all we have to do is to just bear the reproach of barrenness for little season.
MATTHEW 24:45-49
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
*And so there must be a season of what will be a time of barrenness that takes place just before the promise of God is brought to pass, and we see this shown in the lives of these seven woman in the bible.
And this is the time that many will show their true colours and drop off in their faith, because actually their faith was based upon their reasoning of the word, rather than the revelation of word of God revealed to them by the Holy Spirit Himself.
**There are many places in the bible that speak of women who were barren and had to bear the reproach for their barrenness.
Sarah was barren
Rebekah was barren
Rachel was barren – and these women were the foundational matriarchs of Israel.
Then there was Hannah (the mother of Samuel)
And the wife of Manoah (mother of Samson)
And the Shunammite woman who was under the ministry of Elisha – she conceived because of the ministry of the prophecy of Elisha.
And then there was Elizabeth in the New Testament – the mother of John the Baptist
Seven women in total from Sarah to Elizabeth, and all of these women were in type showing us a portion of the mystery of an end time chosen people of God.