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2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
It takes a made-up mind, you know, to serve the Lord. You have to make up your mind that you’re going to serve Him. And then no matter what the enemy throws at you, you’ve got to go on anyway. You believe that? Amen.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
And furthermore, when we carefully study the Book of the Revelation, we find out there’s more mentioned in the Book of the Revelation about the glories that exist before the Throne of God than about the judgment that will be poured out on the earth.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
I believe if God allows the enemy to buffet you, if God allows the enemy to touch you in any way, it’s because He knows something about you that you don’t know about yourself.
He sees something in you . . . And how does He see it? He placed it there. He has placed within us the anointing and the spirit of the overcomer.
And He knows that no matter what we face, somehow we’re going to come out of this life, this pesthouse of the flesh, with a testimony - “I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He is able to keep that which I’ve committed unto Him against that day.”
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
This is what’s going to fool a lot of people. They’re looking for a political anti-Christ system, and they’re going to miss the fact that the Bible also prophesies that it will come how? Religiously - not just politically - religiously.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
I want to walk softly before Him so that I have an ear to hear and I have eyes to see what the Spirit of God reveals.
And do you know how revelation comes? It comes progressively. It comes over a period of time that God just unfolds Himself.
I heard a great man of God say one time . . . Brother Branham was talking about the goodness of God and the power of God and all that God is and all that He will be - everything that’s in God.
And he said, “You know, it will take all of eternity for God to completely unfold and reveal all that He is.”
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
I wanted to share with you a Word that I think is very important for the hour that we’re living in.
And it is something that’s revealed before the Throne of God and that is “the full knowledge of God.”
How many of you would like to experience this full knowledge of God in your life? I believe He wants you to.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
There is a knowledge that ushers forth from the Throne of God, and in order to receive this knowledge we have to somehow be before the Throne.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
You can be a Christian and stand and only view the Lord through the lattice. But I believe He has an idea and a plan for this hour that He wants to reveal Himself to His Bride, to His Remnant.
I’m not going to stand and argue with you about a Gentile Bride, and a Jewish Bride, and a Bride that’s made up from the nations.
I’m going to tell you that the Bible talks about an hour where we’re going to stand together as one new man in Him. That’s my understanding.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
And that’s how God reveals Himself to us. He makes us hungry. God wants you to know him. Amen. He wants you to be intimately acquainted with Him.
Religion separates us from closeness with God. Religion is a substitute for intimacy with the Messiah. Amen. Church life has become a substitute for relationship. And it only satisfies for a season.
But we’re now coming to an hour where the people of God are not going to be satisfied any more with formalism and with religion and with a few traditions. They want to know God. They want to see the Bridegroom who is stepping out from behind the lattice.
And this revelation of the full knowledge of God comes from the Throne.
And this is one of the reasons why God had to keep pulling John up to the Throne. At least twelve times, he’s snatched up, up to the Throne, because God wanted him to be able to see the power, the authority, the revelation, the knowledge, the glory that ushers forth from this heavenly scene where the Messiah is manifested at the Throne of God.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
You see, our Lord Jesus Christ did not operate as the apostle Paul said the church would operate in the Book of First Corinthians where he lists the gifts and he says, “Some will have the gift of the word of wisdom, and some the word of knowledge, and some healing and miracles.”
And a lot people place these gifts in the life of Messiah, and they say He was operating in the gifts of the Spirit. But I want to tell you something. He was operating in a whole lot more than that. In Him was the Spirit of Knowledge.
He wasn’t just carrying the gift of the word of knowledge. In Him was the very Spirit of Knowledge. He was walking in this manifested form of God, the Godhead, bodily. And the Spirit of Knowledge and the Spirit of Wisdom was being manifested in Him.
I believe that God is calling His people closer to Him and that we’re going to begin to focus not on the gifts, but on the Giver. And if we become intimately . . . in intimate relationship with the Giver, then we, too, can have a transformation in our spirit.
And our spirit can be transformed from the spirit that we carry, this human spirit, to this Spirit of Knowledge and this Spirit of Wisdom that operated in the Lord Jesus Christ.
I’ll summarize it by saying all that was in God He poured into this Messiah, His Son. And all that was in this Messiah, the Son, He poured into His body at Shavuot on the day of Pentecost when God took this very same resurrection Spirit that raised His body, the Lord Jesus, from the dead and He placed that very same resurrection Power in the believer.
With that comes the potential to operate in full knowledge and full revelation and full wisdom.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
And we find in the Book of the Revelation that the ability to receive full knowledge takes place before the Throne of God.
In other words, if the enemy can keep us away from heavenly places, he can keep us from experiencing the full knowledge, the full discernment, of God.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
There’s a difference between being acquainted with the Lord Jesus and knowing Him. And the difference is only revealed in heavenly places.
We have to come into heavenly places before we can move into that experience of fully knowing Him. There needs to be a transformation take place.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
The course of our whole life - our decisions, what we do with problems, how we plan our lives, our actions and our reactions - need to be under the authority that comes from the Throne.
There is a consciousness . . . I think this sounds strange for some people. There’s a consciousness that we need to walk in - what we’re conscious of, what we’re aware of.
A consciousness means an awareness. I believe God is calling His people to walk in the awareness of who we are and the awareness of Whose authority we’re under.
Do you believe it’s still important, after you’ve served the Lord for twenty-five years, to reexamine from time to time whether or not you’re walking in full submission to His will?
I believe it’s important to do it. Maybe we should do it even daily now.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
Can I tell you where the devil is tripping up a lot of good people?
It’s not in their actions. It’s not in their actions. It’s in their reactions. This is how the enemy really battles the people of God.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
The way we respond to things - our reaction, how we control our temper, how we control our anger, how we control our jealousies, how we control our resentment - this is how the enemy battles the people of God - not so much in our actions, but in our reaction.
And we want to walk every day with this consciousness that there is an authority that issues forth from the Throne.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
Our everything - our actions and reactions, and our plans, and how we handle our problems - all of this needs to come under this revelation of full knowledge.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
And then he goes on to say not only should we seek the things that come from the Throne - the revelation that comes, the authority that comes, the full knowledge and government and administration that comes - but he says something even stronger than that.
He says that we should set our affection on things above and not on the things of this earth. Now, that’s strong.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
We should consciously exercise our mind, our thoughts, in the direction of where all power, and all authority, and all wisdom, and all knowledge, and all government, and all administration flows from.
And all knowledge - it flows from above. It’s not operating in this parallel. It’s coming down from a higher place.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
I want to tell you quickly why these experiences are so important, why it’s important to have these personal revelations.
It’s because once that knowledge comes from your head down into your heart and it becomes a revelation to you, it’s something that you can stand on.
It’s something that when the devil comes to you and says, “You’re not saved. You’re not this. You’re not that. You’re not the other,” you can say, “You’re too late to tell me. I’ve already met the Presence of God. I’ve already met the Pillar of Fire. I’ve already had a taste of that Manna that was behind the veil. And you’re too late to come and tell me any of that kind of nonsense.”
We at least need an experience where God reveals assurance to us and we can sing the old hymn “Blessed Assurance.”
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
I want to tell you something else. You need to be baptized in the Name of Yeshua, the Lord Jesus Christ.
You absolutely need that understanding, and you need to be obedient in that. It’s obedience, and it’s important.
I believe with all of my heart that it’s a revelation that God has given to a people.
“If you want to come into closeness with Me, if you want to come into Covenant agreement with Me, wear My Name. Take on My Name. Be willing to do that.”
And I believe there’s a lot of people that will not do it. And the reason why they won’t do it is because of religion.
There’s something that’s coming forth from the Throne in this hour and it has nothing to do with religion. It’s the full knowledge of God.
And I want to get there so that I can receive it.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
At the Throne there is an awesome unveiling of the meaning of everything and that’s what we’re really looking for.
We want to know the meaning of everything. We want to know why we’re here. We want to know what our calling is. We want to know what our reaction should be to this knowledge that’s been revealed to us of what our calling really is. We want to know a lot of things. We’d like to have a better understanding, a better grasp.
All of those things are available to us if we’re willing to hear the cry of the Spirit, “Come up higher.”
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
That’s really what the Lord Jesus was. He was representing heaven in the earth, wasn’t He? He was a representation of the Throne.
I know you know that’s what the Ark of the Covenant was, don’t you? It was a representation of the Throne. It was God’s Throne represented in the earth.
And that’s why God was teaching the children of Israel, “Be careful how you handle it. Be careful how you respect it. Be careful how you look at it and touch it and move it and everything that has to do . . .”
God was showing that there’s an authority that ushers forth from His Throne.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
Could we say that He is a Minister of that which lies behind the veil? I believe we could say that, couldn’t we? He is the Revealer of the secrets that are behind the veil.
How many of you remember that manna was placed in the Ark of the Covenant and the Ark of the Covenant was placed behind the veil?
Brother Branham had an unusual thought about that manna. And he said in the same way that that manna was preserved and kept, he said every man of God, every real, true man of God, needs to have a taste of the original manna that fell on the day of Pentecost.
And he said if he doesn’t have a taste of that . . . I guess we could say that original blessing, that original experience . . . he has no right to stand behind the desk and teach the people God’s Word. And that’s very, very true.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
I believe the Lord still has some things that He wants to speak to us from the Throne.
Let he that hath an ear to hear, let him hear. And let us desire to know all that God would have us to know.
Lord, we ask You for full knowledge - not just knowledge, not just science, not just information. But we ask that You would bring us to full knowledge and revelation of who You are.
The reason why I believe it’s so important is because Your people need to know Your will. We need, Lord, to know Your will.
2006-04-23 AM
Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne (Jerusalem)
Lord, we need to be led. We desire to be led. We desire that You would set us, strategically position us, in a place where we can hear the echoes of that full knowledge that ushers forth from the Open Book and from the Throne.
We want to be led by You - guided, directed by You. We want every moment to count. Every day that we have left, we need it to count.
We can’t afford to waste a week. We can hardly afford to waste a day. We can hardly afford to waste an afternoon. There may be somewhere we need to be, some word we need to say, someone we need to meet.
Lead us, guide us and direct us. Hallelujah.
