KOCOUREK’S HERESIES
RAPTURE, RESURRECTION STARTED - PAROUSIA
Heretical Articles Nos. 780 to 785
CHAPTER TWELVE
II Peter 2:2-19 <But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
… But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
… But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.>
FOUNDATION OF RAPTURE HERESIES –
PAROUSIA-PRESENCE
Many heresies have
their roots in the “Parousia”
doctrine. Parousia simply means “Presence of Christ.” The word is employed to
make a simple doctrine mysterious, super-spiritual and to exalt ambitious men.
It concerns 1 Thessalonians 4: 16: The descending of the Lord with a shout,
voice and trumpet before the first resurrection, the changed body and the
rapture.
It
is simply true and evident
by the written Word and message of the prophet that the Lord Himself descended
from heaven at the event of the seals,
His presence will be with His elected Bride and the ministry of Christ
who has the Word and revelation of the message of Malachi 4: 5-6. Therefore, not all who use the mysterious term of
“Parousia” are identified with His presence nor will Christ Himself identify
Himself by His presence with those who preach heresies.
To be spiritual and experience the presence
of God, it is not necessary to use the word “Parousia.” If message believers
sit under the truth, be honest and
sincere to God, they will experience God’s presence. If they continue to humble
their hearts, God will give them all that is necessary for the next outpouring
of the Spirit and the rapture.
Most message ministers who preach Parousia
have never experienced the presence
of the Lord. It is evident that if a man preaches heresies, he automatically
cuts himself off from the presence of the Lord. Cain rejected the revelation of
the blood, and was arrogant, angry and proud when God corrected him, and he
went out from the presence of the Lord. Likewise, His presence departed from
Pastor Kocourek has spiritualized the events
before the rapture in his parousia teachings. (Pastor Kocourek’s book;
“Parousia - Presence of Christ.”) He preaches a heresy on the actual doctrine
of parousia, saying that it is the
appearing of the Lord. The appearing of the Lord was fulfilled in the
ministry of W.M. Branham. It was accompanied by signs wonders and miracles,
which made the coming of the Lord known, and it was also confirmed by the sign
of discernment, even like when the Lord appeared unto Abraham. Kocourek further
perverted the events before the rapture, namely: the first resurrection, the
changed body and the rapture itself. He is teaching that the appearing of the Lord is in a man, but is secretive and
tightlipped about that man’s identity. This heresy is bigger than any can
imagine. His heresies are as follows:
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 <For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so
shall we ever be with the Lord.>
Heretical Article No. 783: The Rapture is a process that began in
Luther.
Quote Pastor Kocourek: Notice brother Branham said the one makes a
way for the other. Look, he also told us in the Rapture sermon that the Rapture
is a process that began in Luther,
which was represented in the seed coming forth from the ground. Notice under
Rome the seed church the Alpha church was martyred and the seed went into the
ground in martyrdom. (Masterpiece 72
What Denominates Dies July 2nd, 2006 Pastor, Brian Kocourek).
E.O.D.H.
Answer: Nowhere did the
prophet say that the rapture is a process, and much less that it began in Luther
or in any other age, year or time. It is not a process but the aftermath of
such events. Reformation could never be
rapture. Even if you are making a type, it cannot fit. It’s a dumb
doctrine. The rapture follows a
changed body. Luther’s body was never changed. And this “aspect of the rapture”
that you are teaching, is a heresy, super-spiritual, heretical, and a
perversion of simple scriptures. It is spiritually dumb. How is it that you
never spoke of the rapture taking place with the apostles and the early church? Their souls were perfected by the
Word and presence of God. They were a hairline away from the rapture; and yet
for a man to say that the rapture started then, it is a heresy. That shows the
infidelity invested in this heresy.
The rapture cannot take place until 1
Thessalonians 4: 16 is fulfilled. This takes place in the end time, not in
Luther’s day or any of the past ages. Therefore, your parousia doctrine is
erroneous and heretical, and a perversion
of the true revelation of parousia. The Roman Catholic priests spoke in
Latin to deceive the masses but you speak in Greek to deceive message believers
internationally. If the rapture began in Luther, then the shout, voice and
trump began with him. Impossible! It’s isolated to the loosing of the seals.
After such events, then shall the
catching away be.
Heretical
Article No. 784: The resurrection has already started. We
have already been resurrected spiritually.
Quote Pastor Kocourek: …the
apostle Paul said, and brother Branham taught as well, that we have already
been spiritually resurrected from the dead. That is why we all do not have to
die first. There is a group who will be living, and we that are alive and
remain to the Parousia of the Lord
will be changed in the moment, in the Twinkling of an eye, when the Trumpet sounds.
… This evening
we are going to look at this process of
the body change. We know a loud voice is a shout, therefore, I believe that
the resurrection has already began.
It is a process that happens over a period. The living are spiritually
resurrected or awakened from a deep sleep, and then those that sleep in the
grave. But the Living are quickened first, then the dead come froth in Life. (Questions and Answers #19 - What is the new Birth? Part 2 Brian
Kocourek, Pastor September 29, 2007).
E.O.D.H. Answer: This is not far from the doctrine of Hymenaeus and Philetus. They preached that the resurrection is passed, and you preach that it has started. It’s the same spirit of heresy. Their doctrine ate like a canker, and yours will eat like a cancer. They erred, thus you erred. It’s vain babbling and ungodliness.
II Timothy 2: 16-18 <But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.>
The first resurrection has not started. You are not more spiritual than the prophet. If that was so, he would have declared it when the seals were opened. You lied on Paul. If he was here, he will put you into the hands of Satan that you may learn not to speak blasphemies. Brother Branham used no such statements. You lied on the man’s wife, now you are lying on him everywhere in your parousia heresies. Nowhere did the prophet spiritualize the resurrection of 1 Thessalonians 4:16. He knew more about parousia than all the parousia heretics, and he never made such a dumb statement. This is misleading to the followers of the message and is designed of Satan to overthrow their faith, even as Hymenaeus and Philetus overthrew the faith of some of the people in their age.
And I am very familiar with the quotations
of the prophet which states that “we have the potentials to be resurrected,
when Christ rose we rose with Him, when we receive the Holy Spirit potentially we
are resurrected and we are already sitting in heavenly places and are resurrected
in him.” We believe those things and preach them, and Brother Branham was
correct in what he was saying. But that is in a different light and concerns
the redemption of the soul. That adds up to Romans 8: 30 which said that we are
already justified and glorified.
Romans 8: 20 <Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he
also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.>
Quote W.M.B.: 22-1 Let us now notice this quickening Spirit as it come upon other people, like it did on the day of Pentecost… They knowed He'd died; they know He had risen…But here on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit, the Abstract, fell upon the believers that made them part of His resurrection… The Holy Spirit came and confirmed to them that they would be raised up, because they were potentially raised then from cowards to brave men. (Easter Seal 65-0410)
Quote: 19-1 It's the same Spirit that raised Him up that quickened the true believer to Eternal Life. Now, remember, potentially now…Notice, the same Spirit... in Romans 8:11 now... But if the Spirit of him... (God, the Holy Spirit)... that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,...
Now, there you are: if the Bridegroom's Spirit dwells in the Bride. (Rising Of The Sun 65-0418M).
But Brother Branham never connected that to 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 because that is the manifestation of what is predestinated. Who gave you the authority to connect 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 to that? Show me where the prophet ever did such.
That scripture is speaking of the resurrection of the body. You by your parousia have spiritualized the redemption of the soul and heretically applied it to the resurrection of the body. The prophet did not apply 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 that way, neither did Paul. Who are you? Certainly not the appearing of the Lord.
Heretical
Article No. 785: The voice
of the resurrection wakes the sleeping virgins.
Quote
Pastor Kocourek: …the Shout
has already begun. The Lord has already descended with a Shout. And that Shout
is a Message quickly gathering His people. Then the next thing is the Voice
which if you will remember in the Alpha Ministry of Jesus Christ, when He cried
with a Loud Voice, the graves were opened and many of the sleeping saints arose
and came out of there graves after He was resurrected. Therefore the Voice, the
Loud Voice is to waken the sleeping virgins as we also saw in Matthew 25, the
Wise are awakened out of there sleep.
E.O.D.H. Answer: Pastor, nowhere in scriptures and the message can you prove that the voice of the resurrection awoke the sleeping virgins. It’s a cry that awoke all the virgins. The prophet indicated it as the shout, and that was his message.
Quote
W.M.B.: 141 The first thing
come when He starts descending from the heaven, there's a shout. What is it? It's a Message to get the people together. A
Message comes forth first. Now, "Lamp trimming time. Rise and trim your
lamps." What watch was that? The seventh, not the sixth, the seventh.
"Behold the Bridegroom cometh.
Rise and trim your lamps." And they did. Some of them found they didn't
even have any oil in their lamp. See? But it's lamp trimming time. It's Malachi
4 time when you come... It's Luke 17. (The Rapture 65-1204).
If that happens, it means that the foolish virgins are going in the rapture, because according to your doctrine, the first resurrection will begin in them, even as the wise virgins. So now, where is your theory? It’s wrong, it’s senseless, unscriptural and not message based. All that hear the voice of the resurrection are sheep, bride members and will go in the rapture, because it transforms their souls and gets them born again. The foolish virgins were not Bride members, born again nor baptized with the Holy Ghost, therefore they missed the rapture. This is another parousia nonsense that cannot be backed up by the scriptures.
IDENTICAL HERESIES
Heretical
Article No. 786: The Rapture is in
different stages. The three
stages of the Rapture are the shout, voice and trumpet.
Quote Pastor Kocourek: Apparently
you are aware that we receive our change under
the Shout, Voice and
trumpet which are three stages of the rapture. (Christ Revealed in His Own Word #111, Who is This Melchesidec #1 June 18,
1997 .)
…He descends he will let forth a Shout. That
is the first faze of the Rapture or
catching away. (God’s provided place of worship October 15, 1995).
…Now, we know
the Rapture is already in Process because a vindicated prophet told us that the
Lord does three things in His descent, a Shout, A Voice and a trumpet. And he
told us the Shout is the Message... The next thing is the Voice which Brother
Branham said is the Resurrection, the same voice that raised Lazarus from the
Grave. And that was not the voice of the Son of God, but God that was
indwelling His Son. He said Lazarus come forth and he did.
The last is the
trump which is the catching away. And that is what takes us out of here. So
there is a time element to the three phases of the Rapture. (Questions and Answers no. 14 Return Ministry August 19th, 2007
Brian Kocourek, Pastor).
Quote Dr. Lee Vayle: …and the Seventh Seal, that was to be broken
to the public. That was in a three-fold manner. Now you tell me if the Rapture is not in a three fold manner.
"Well, I don't know if I've got the
right to compare it that close, but I'm just interested in knowing." I'm
interested in knowing, if it wasn't
on December 4, 1965 that the Seventh Seal was broken to the public. At least
the tremendous revelation of the Rapture was part of the Seventh Seal. (Lee Vayle Rapture
Rapture #3).
E.O.D.H. Answer: From the above quotations of Pastor Kocourek and Dr. Vayle, their heresies are identical. This heresy of Dr. Vayle was exposed as “Heretical Article No. 758, page 115: The rapture is in a threefold manner.” The coming of the Lord is in a threefold manner, but the rapture is not in a threefold manner. And the fact that we did not receive our change under the shout is evident. Here again you are falsely spiritualizing the changed body to mean the soul. The shout did not change the soul. It was the cry to announce the coming of the Lord. The voice of Christ converts the souls of the sheep by a revelation of Christ, St. John 10. The prophet said that the rapture is a revelation. We positively know that revelation was neither given to Pastor Kocourek nor Dr. Vayle, because it is locked up in the thunders which produce rapturing faith. And the thunders were not revealed to neither of them. Dr. Vayle’s suggestions are wrong. Pastor Kocourek’s heresy is based upon Dr. Vayle’s suggestions and it is fanatical.
RAPTURE IS A REVELATION – BRIDE WAITING
Quote W.M.B.: 65 But to the church, the Bride, the rapture is a revelation to her. It's revealed to her, that the revelation, the true Bride of Christ will be waiting for that revelation of the rapture. (The Rapture 65-1204).
SEVEN
THUNDERS – RAPTURING FAITH
Quote:
128-2 {75} And then there's
coming forth seven mysterious thunders that's not even written at all. That's
right. And I believe that through those seven thunders will be revealed in the
last days in order to get the Bride together for rapturing faith; because what
we got right now, we wouldn't be able to do it. There's something we've got to
step farther; we can't have enough faith for Divine healing hardly. We've got
to have enough faith to be changed in a moment and be swept up out of this
earth. (The First Seal 63-0318).
All can observe the suggestive manner in which Dr. Vayle has presented this gross
error concerning the rapture in three stages. Pastor Kocourek has spoken about
the same heresy in the positive and affirmative. It shows how deluded he is in
his perversion of the parousia doctrine. If Dr. Vayle has stepped down in age
and is not very alert as he used to be, I think that a healthy, strong man like
Pastor Kocourek should try to help Dr. Vayle, instead of turning his suggestions into vital doctrines
and deceiving thousands around the world. Did he have the permission to
publicly advertise Dr. Vayle’s suggestions? I doubt it; unless it’s under
duress at his age.
Quote Dr. Lee Vayle: …and the Seventh Seal, that was to be broken
to the public. That was in a three-fold manner. Now you tell me if the Rapture
is not in a three fold manner.
"Well,
I don't know if I've got the right to compare it that close, but I'm just
interested in knowing." I'm interested in knowing, if it wasn't on December 4, 1965 that the Seventh Seal was
broken to the public. At least the tremendous revelation of the Rapture was
part of the Seventh Seal. (Lee
Vayle Rapture Rapture #3).
E.O.D.H. Answer: No Brother Vayle, the rapture is not in a threefold manner, you don’t have a right to compare it with the 7th seal’s three folds. There is no scripture nor quotation which says that. This is to pervert the message. The coming of the Lord is in three phases, the seventh seal is in a threefold manner, but the rapture is not. We shall be caught up to meet him in the air, period! Other scriptures are to be fulfilled prior to the rapture-the catching away, but cannot be termed folds of the rapture.
If we are interested in knowing about the seventh seal, we should obey the instructions of the prophet. He said not to make any isms on the seventh seal, go on and live a Christian life, be humble; don’t interpret anything, go on with the plain message; and if we would know anything God would send it. Your suggestion is an “ism”. Let us obey the prophet. Humble your heart Brother Kocourek. Make no isms of the seven thunders.
DON’T MAKE ANY “ISM”; IT ISN’T OPENED
Quote W.M.B.: 577-1 {400} And now, if this tape would happen to fall into the hands of some persons somewhere, don't try to make any kind of an "ism" out of it. The only thing you do, you just continue serving God, because this great secret is so great that God wouldn't even let John write it. It thundered out, but He... knowing that... promising us that it would be opened, but to this time, it isn't opened. (The seventh seal 63-0324E).
Quote: 459-5 {16} And so, but if the--the church here not supposed to know these things, so don't put no interpretation to anything. See? You just go ahead and just remember what you're told; live a Christian life. Go to your church, be a real light wherever you are, and just burn for Christ, and tell the people that how you love Him. And just let your testimony be with love all the time with the people (See?), 'cause if you don't you twist yourself out into something there, and then you're--you're off the beaten track.
See, every-time you try to do it, you've done that. See? So just don't--don't--don't try to make no interpretation. And especially tonight, when that Seal becomes up in front of you. See? Just don't try to interpret it. You just go ahead and just be humble and go right on with the same plain message. Now you say, "Brother Branham, is that... we, being the Church of the Living God, shouldn't we..."
Well, as I was trying... Look here, I want to say... Say, "Why can't I? I ought to have..."
No, no. I... Don't... You remember, I'm saying this for your good. See, I'm saying it so that you'll understand. If you believe me now, listen to what I tell you. See, see? (QA. On The Seals 63-0324M).
Heretical
Article No. 787: The rapture has already started.
Quote Pastor Kocourek: He descends he will let forth a Shout. That
is the first faze. (God’s provided place of worship # 86, The Fulness. Brian
Kocourek, October 15, 1995)
Quote
Dr. Lee Vayle: And he put the
Cloud of Angels absolutely with the Pillar of Fire that they caught in
Houston-said, "the same thing"-the seven mighty messengers embodying
the Holy Ghost that came with the seven delineations
of the Seven Seals, and the Seventh Seal, that was to be broken to the public.
That was in a three-fold manner. Now you tell me if the Rapture is not in a
three fold manner.
"Well, I don't know if I've got the
right to compare it that close, but I'm just interested in knowing." I'm interested in knowing, if it wasn't
on December 4, 1965 that the Seventh Seal was broken to the public. At least
the tremendous revelation of the Rapture was part of the Seventh Seal. (Lee
Vayle Rapture Rapture #3).
Lee Vayle Rapture Rapture #4:
P:50 We are not in the Rapture in the sense of the dead out of the
ground. We are into the Rapture in one
place-to the living, to the living.
Lee Vayle Rapture Rapture #11:
P:60 I want to tell you something, brother/sister: either this is true,
or forget it. Either the prophet told us the truth and this is the first phase, the Seals is the Message, and this is the
Capstone, this is it or else, brother/sister, I don't know what he talked
about.
Lee Vayle Rapture Rapture #7
: Brother/sister, I just want to tell you again: as far as I'm concerned, the Rapture is going on. It's already
started. People can do what they want. You say, "They're going to laugh at
you." They're laughing right now. "They're going to fight you."
They're doing it right now. What do I care?
E.O.D.H. Answer: This expresses how faithfully taught is Pastor Kocourek. This is a duplicate of Dr. Vayle’s heresy. The rapture has not yet started. It does not take place over a period of time. The rapture is a catching away which takes place as the aftermath of the coming of the Lord.
The Rapture never even started up to the
time of the death of the prophet. He said in 1965 that the Bride will be
waiting on the Revelation of the rapture. Dr. Vayle said that while she is
waiting the rapture already started while the prophet was alive. Who should we
believe? The prophet never preached that doctrine. You are not more spiritual
than him. You are perverting the scriptures. The Bride has a changed body before she is caught away.
That is God’s order. Now show me, I demand of you, if you have any light in
you, to prove to me how the rapture could start before the changed body, which
is in a moment’s time. I can clearly say that you do not understand that the changed body is different from the
rapture. Away with your parousia nonsense and come to the Word of God. You are
deceiving people. The prophet never even hinted this nonsensical doctrine in
any of his messages. You cannot show anybody that the rapture has started. To
apply that to the changing of the soul
by birth and baptism is wrong. You are misplacing the scriptures by your
misinterpretation of 1 Thessalonians 4: 16.
That revelation of the rapture that the
Bride is waiting for is locked up in the seven thunders, because the thunders are
to produce rapturing faith.
Heretical Article No. 788: The
doors of mercy are still open… when the seals were opened Jesus stepped up onto
His Father’s Throne and is still making intercession for our confession.
Quote Pastor Kocourek: … they believe that Jesus came off the Throne
of God and took the book and then came down with it, but that is not what
happens. The Lamb did not come down with the Book open. God did. What happened
here is that the lamb stood before God, and came forward to open the book, and
then he gives the book to the Father Who is sitting on the Throne of God. Then
when God steps off His throne and comes to earth. This is seen in 1
Thessalonians 4:13-18 and Revelations 10:1-7. At his time when he Father
comes, the lamb has climbed upon the Father’s throne, which is the throne of
God, and stay’s there until God
finishes the work.
…So you see, this one who opened the book then
gave the book to His Father, who then stepped down from His throne and the lamb
then sat down on the Father’s throne while God Himself came down to earth to
place all things under the feet of His son. (The Masterpiece 120 He’s Still on the
Throne of Mercy April 1st, 2007 Brian
Kocourek)
Quote Pastor Kocourek: Notice
that the doors of mercy are still open. Therefore when the seals were opened Jesus
did not step off the mercy seat. He stepped up onto His Father’s Throne of
Mercy and is still making intercession for our confession. (The Parables of
Christ no. 15 The Throne of Mercy and Judgment January 4, 2004 Rev. Brian
Kocourek).
Quote Dr. Lee Vayle: But, let me tell you factually; the Son was
placed upon the Mercy Seat behind the throne. And, when the Book was called to
be opened from the hand of the One that sat upon the throne, which was Almighty
God Himself with a rainbow over His head, it was the Lamb that came and took the Book out of the hand of the One
that was sitting on the throne, (Two people are there.) and he opened the Book,
opened the Seals, and handed it back to the One on the throne. And the prophet
told us by revelation the One on the
throne got off and came down here, and the Son got on the throne. (Lee Vayle, Godhead #8 – Q&A God
Is in His Word, Key #3: Having the Petition You Desire March 5, 200077).
E.O.D.H. Answer: Both
Dr. Vayle and Pastor Kocourek agree on the same heresy. There is no scripture
nor quotation to support this. I challenge them both to prove this heresy. Yes,
it is true that the door of mercy is still open but their interpretation of it
is wrong.
This heresy seeks to justify the fact that the Blood of Christ's atonement is yet effective to sinners, on the basis that since 1963 the bloody Lamb occupied the vacant seat of God to continue His mediatorial work. Another version of the same heresy states that He returned to the mercy seat to continue His mediatorial work after He opened the 7 seals.
This heresy is saying that the Lamb left the mercy seat, came and took the Book, loosed or revealed the Seals, and at the same time, the One who was sitting on the throne descended from heaven and came down to earth according to 1 Thessalonians 4:16, and then the Lamb sat upon the throne of God, making intercession for us.
This heresy expresses gross scriptural ignorance upon the subject of the atonement and its simple plan evidently documented in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. God has only one ordained place within His temple, where the Blood of atonement is accepted for the salvation of sinners, and that is upon the mercy seat behind the second veil in the holiest place. The Old Testament temple was patterned after the one in heaven. Christ Jesus, the lamb entered once into the heavenly temple within the holiest place and offered his own blood upon God's mercy seat for the redemption of sinners. If Christ enters twice to make intercession, He is reduced to the Aaronic High Priest and is not the Melchisedec priest. Thus this heresy is a lie that has belittled the great Melchisedec priesthood of endless life.
Hebrews 9: 12 <Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.>
It's the only place in heaven that intercession by the
Blood of Christ can take place. (Hebrews
Chapters 8 and 9) Thus I emphatically state that this heresy has no
scriptural nor message foundation. It has broken all the types and shadows of
the old Jewish temple set up by the command of God through Moses. It has
totally disregarded the revelation of Paul the apostle in the book of Hebrews where he taught of the heavenly temple
and the holiest place where Christ entered to perform His mediatorial work as a
High Priest after the order of Melchisedec.
There is absolutely no scripture nor quotation of Brother Branham that even suggests, and far less to prove that the Lamb ascended the judgment throne of God after He opened the seven seal book.
In opposition to this heresy Brother Branham taught that when the Lamb takes the Book and opens the seals it's time for Him to claim the purchased possession, “the Elected Bride” because His intercessory days are over.
Quote W.M.B.: “[John] never noticed [the Lamb] before. Why? He had been back there doing His mediatoral work, for He was bleeding - intercessing for the people until the last soul that was put on the Lamb's book of Life before the foundation of the world come in. So then when that last soul comes in, then the time of redemption is finished. Then the Lamb comes forth to claim His rights to what he has redeemed." (Seals pg. 233-234)
Quote W.M.B.: “After [the Lamb] had been slain, It had raised again and was sitting on the Throne, way back in behind the Throne like this interceding for all of those souls that would come. Then when the last one was here and it was completed, God still held the book of redemption." (Seals page 234)
REVELATION CHAPT. 4 – JUDGMENT THRONE
Quote W.M.B.: “Let's speak of this throne now for a few minutes. This was not a throne of mercy's, mercy throne is finished. No more mercy, its without mercy… The white throne judgment is there going to be mercy then? There is not one speck of mercy to be given. At the judgment throne you could scream“mercy” till you couldn't scream no more, cause there's no more mercy”. (Revelation Chapter 4, part 3 - Throne of Mercy and Judgment, 61-0108, par. 91)
Quote W.M.B.: “I want you to notice that this was not a throne of grace no more…There the blood had been gone... The blood was off the mercy seat. And it was now a judgment seat, because thunders and lightening issued off of it. Is that right?” (Page 662 - Revelation chapter 4, part 2, Twenty Four Elders, 61-0101, par. 207)
In essence, this damnable heresy is saying that the lamb continues to do his mediatorial on the throne of God, which is a judgment throne. Scriptures speak of only one place within the temple of God; that is upon the mercy seat within the second veil called the holiest. Thus the throne of God (Revelation 4) is not a place of intercession. It’s a throne of judgment at the event of the seals. God could not turn it into a throne of mercy. The bloody lamb had left the altar of sacrifice. Pastor Kocourek has no knowledge of what the prophet taught about sinners yet being saved and Christ sitting at the right hand of God doing the mediatorial work in 1964. And in contrast says while the seals were being loosed that the lamb took the book after intercession was over. The seals were opened in 1963, thus this heresy was formulated. He will never understand until he humbles in his heart. This is another parousia heresy that proclaims that the Lamb ascended the judgment throne to intercede, while God’s presence is saving the elect.
INTERCESSION TAKES PLACE BEHIND THE THRONE
Quote W.M.B.: “And now, we found out that a slain lamb is a bloody lamb, bleeding all over. It's been slayed. After It'd been slain, It'd raised again and was setting on the throne, way back in behind the throne like this, interceding for all those souls that would come. Then when the last one was here and it was completed, the... God still held the Book of Redemption. See? Now, He's just doing the Kinsman work now… Now, notice, but then after it was all over, after the--His--His interceding was done, He comes forth, takes the Book out of the hand of Him.” (Seals, 63-0320, page 234)
CHRIST DOING MEDIATORIAL WORK IN 1964
Quote: “He's setting at the right hand of God tonight doing His mediatorial work. And when that last soul is saved that was redeemed and seen and knowed by God before the foundation of the world, when that last soul's saved, that closes the Book. Then the Lamb comes out and takes the Book out of the right hand of Him that sets upon the throne.” Christ Is Identified The Same, 64-0415, par.E-5)
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believe that the door of mercy is yet open until the last soul is saved like
the prophet stated above, but do not believe that He is upon God’s judgment
throne interceding for those souls. It’s a heresy and gross perversion of the
plan of salvation.