Search The Scriptures

The fastest way to drift from truth is to stop verifying what you hear. We open with Acts 17 and the “more noble” Bereans, not because they were suspicious, but because they were serious: they received the word with readiness of mind and then searched the Scriptures daily to see whether it was so. That is the posture we want again, especially in an age where confidence is cheap and context is missing. 

We also talk candidly about the fact that message believers should listen to the instructions of Brother Branham. I share multiple quotes where he insists the Bible is our absolute, warns that not everything spoken carries “Thus saith the Lord,” and even says that if an angel said something contrary to Scripture, it would not be of God. The goal is not to diminish prophetic ministry, but to place every revelation where it belongs: under the authority of the written Word, the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. 

From there we get practical. We look at how sincere people turn statements into doctrine by stretching them beyond their setting, including examples like “your pastor is your husband” and “he’s ordained to lead you through.” We also explore why learning can be progressive, why the seven seals brought clearer understanding, and why patience and unity matter if we want real outreach, missions, and Spirit-led growth. 

If you care about biblical discernment, Christian doctrine, and keeping the Bible as the final authority, listen in and bring your Bible with you. Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people are challenged to search the Scriptures for themselves.

Transcript

Support, Prayer, And Zambia Update

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Jason DeMars Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Demars, and today we're beginning a very important series titled Search the Scriptures. Before we dive in, I want to take a moment to sincerely thank every single one of you who supports this podcast. Whether you're sending three, five, ten, or twenty-five dollars a month, your partnership means so much and helps us keep putting out solid Bible-centered teaching. You can support the work through the Buzz Sprout link in the description of this episode. I'm also asking for your prayers right now. I'm seeking the Lord in a fresh vision and direction for missions moving forward. I've shared an update about a week ago at presenttruthmn.com. Additionally, I'll be heading to Zambia for a missions trip from May 26th through June 10th. Please keep that trip in your prayers, and if the Lord leads you to help, you can do so on our website. Now to today's episode in the book of Acts. The Bereans were called more noble than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. Many of them believed as a result. Brother William Branham taught this same principle over and over again. He constantly pointed people back to the Bible as our absolute. He challenged us not to take anyone's word, not even his, without checking it by the scriptures. He made it clear that not everything he said was thus saith the Lord. Some things were his own opinion or observation. The Holy Spirit would sometimes reveal deeper truths between the lines, and at times he even admitted he felt he didn't deliver the message clearly as he wanted to, trusting the Holy Spirit to make it right in our hearts. This is so important. Many in the message movement have made serious mistakes by not following the prophet's own instruction. Take it back to the Bible. That's exactly what we're going to do in this episode and in the ones to come. My heart is not to take anyone away or draw followers to myself. I simply want us to do what the Bible tells us to do. Search the scriptures with an honest heart, just like the Bereans. I respect and honor God's prophet, and because I believe his message, I take his repeated plea seriously. Search the scriptures, for they testify of Christ. So grab your Bible, open your heart, and let's go back to the Word together. This is the Jason DeMars Podcast. Greetings, Bible believers and followers of the end time message. Welcome to another episode of the Jason Demars Podcast, the place where we explore the incredible mysteries hidden within the pages of the Bible. I'm your host, Jason Demars. It's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word. If it's your desire to grow in Revelation and see the message in the light of the Bible, you're in the right place. Today, brothers and sisters, we delve into the scripture, guided by the extraordinary revelations that God chose to unveil through Brother William Marion Branham, a messenger with a unique calling to fulfill Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7, and unlock the secrets of the end time message. Our purpose isn't to have another basic Bible study. We're going to dig deep and peel back the layers of prophecy, decoding the signs and perhaps discovering how the Bible resonates within the very fabric of our present day and time. In this podcast, my purpose is to help you grow in your faith through solid Bible teaching through the lens of the message of Malachi 4. So grab your Bible, a cup of coffee, and let's get started. And remember that your feedback, testimonies, questions, and prayer requests are always welcome. Please send them on social media or at jasondemars.com. With that said, let's get into today's podcast.

The Berean Standard For Truth

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Let's begin. In today's episode and in the upcoming episodes, I want to take the time to show that Brother Branham taught us some important things about the Bible. First, he taught us that we should search what he set out by the Bible to judge it by the Bible, and that he wants us to hold to the Bible as our absolute. We also know he was sent with a vindicated interpretation of the Bible, but that it the interpretation was progressive, that is, that God slowly added to it over time, and that there were specific things that he taught wrong at one time and God corrected him about. This leads us to understand then that not everything is thus saith the Lord, that came out of his mouth during a sermon. We respect and honor God's prophet, and I believe his message with all my heart. However, message believers over the years have made serious mistakes in understanding this glorious ministry, and have even failed to listen to the humble pleas of the prophet. And let's look at some quotes from Brother Branham. He says, These couple requests, I don't know whether they got the recorders going yet for this or not. Might be good. Well, I guess it's all right for the outside, the public to hear this. It's a request. Did you prophesy that there'd be a million negroes killed, or did you just announce that there would be this happening? Now see, I've always asked you to be careful what you're listening to, see? There's so much of it that it's just the human side. But always if there is something that goes forth, it will speak it. It's thus saith the Lord, even to visions or anything. The visions on the platform in the audience, you're doing that yourself. It isn't God, it's you, see. God doesn't produce that vision, you do it yourself by your faith in a divine gift. Like the woman touched his garment. He didn't know who she was or what was wrong with her, but she did that herself, see. Now that wasn't thus saith the Lord, it was it was thus saith the Lord when Jesus spoke back and told her that her faith had saved her. But see, you have to watch. No, I was just talking about Martin Luther King on this great disaster that they're having in the South with the colored people. That's from the sermon He Cares, Do You Care, July 21st, 1963. So I gather these three important points from these things. Not everything he says is thus saith the Lord. Therefore, we must be careful to listen to whether it contains this statement. If it doesn't contain that statement, it doesn't mean we dismiss it, but that we must see its continuity within the message itself. Continuing with a quote from Brother Branham, I pray for each one that you'll grant to them, Father, is my sincere prayer, and excuse me, Father, for being so nervous tonight, jumping up here late and being shaky, and saying words broke up and cut up. Somehow another, great Holy Spirit, splice them together in your own divine way and deliver them to the hearts of the people from my heart, and the motive and the objective that in my heart I have towards you, won't you, Lord? From the Sermon The Rapture, December 4th, 1965. In this, Brother Branham humbly states that he felt that he didn't deliver the message well, but that the Holy Spirit would take what was said and reveal it properly to his people. It isn't every word that counts, but the message behind the words that counts. Read another quote from the message marriage and divorce. But a woman is designed for any time she desires. I've got some stuff crossed out here now. You can imagine the rest. A dog can't, woman can. I hope that the Holy Spirit reveals to you the rest of this I crossed out here. My so that's Brother Branham in the sermon marriage and divorce. So he believed that the Holy Spirit could reveal things to us as believers that were in his notes, but he never said. We can take what he said, go back to the scriptures and see what was in between the lines. Continuing reading from Brother Branham. Now remember, these things that I say must come from the Word of God. It can't be my own opinion, because my opinion is just like anybody else's marriage and divorce. Brother Branham speaking. So one, we take from all these three different quotes that I read, not everything he says is thus saith the Lord. Some things are his opinion and observation. Two, the Holy Spirit can reveal a truth to us that the prophet did not directly utter. Number three, though he didn't communicate the message well, the Holy Spirit can take it and make it even clearer than he delivered it. For he didn't view his own opinion as more valid than anyone else's. Truth had to come directly from the word. Within this, I want to say now, I know I'm not a vindicated prophet. I know that the interpretation of the word comes to a prophet, but that the prophet himself is subject to the Bible, and that the means of our teaching and preaching is the Bible. Many false doctrines have been born because people didn't take Brother Branham's message in light of the Bible. You took it in light of what you think he was saying. As I say these things, I realize that some will be offended. Some will say, I don't believe the message. But let's be clear about this. I believe it and I respect the prophet, and therefore I take what he said seriously, and I seek to take it in light of the Bible, just as he instructed me to. Unfortunately, the political ways and means of the message movement are a sad testament to the fact that people may have received the words of a prophet, but they did not receive the same spirit that was upon that prophet. My desire is not to shake you or make some sort of statement to get to people to follow me. My purpose is to get you to take a plain look at the Bible and the message itself. If I'm wrong, then don't spread rumors. Come to me directly. A simple Google search will get you my email, phone number, and location. Let's speak plainly in love together. Don't be one of the gossipers that spreads slander. Let's go and read Acts seventeen and see how we are to take a message when we hear

Acts 17 And How Believers Listen

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it. So Acts seventeen, verses ten through twelve, and the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea, who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. Verse eleven These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed also of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. So we see here in the scriptures that the Bereans, the Jews of Berea, heard the word, and they didn't just take Paul's word for it. They heard it and they said, Okay, he's referencing the scriptures. Let's go back, let's read those scriptures and search them, search throughout the scriptures to see if any other scriptures would contradict what message they're bringing. Now, granted, this is Paul, the vindicated prophet and messenger of that age. So they're taking his word and saying, Let's search it by the scriptures. Amen. And so they they did that, and as a result they became believers. And so you say, Well, now I am a believer in Paul, so now I don't have to search what he said by the scriptures anymore. Well, that's the problem, is you must search it by the scriptures because if you don't, you may be taking something too far. You may be misunderstanding what was said. Many times we think we know clearly what is said, but when we don't understand the context of what the prophet is saying, we will enlarge upon what he says to the to the extent that we take ourselves totally outside of the Bible. Now let's read what Brother Branham said. That's the best thing to do. Now just don't stay home and say, Well, the Joneses said so and so, or today we can say the Pruits said so and so, or the the the Reagans said so and so, or Cloverdale said so and so, or whoever put it in. Jason DeMars said so and so. Don't do that. Come, bring your Bible and search the scriptures and see if it's right or not. Come see for yourself. Don't come just for an hour, come to stay till you're thoroughly convinced that it's right. That's the way. Check it by the scripture, knowing that whether it is true or whether it is not, when you're convinced to the scriptural teachings of the Bible, whether it's right or not. Now that's what he was referring to. Come see very for yourself whether it is truly the Messiah or not. In the sermon It Is I in 1960, that's Brother Branham speaking. So he's encouraging us to search what he said by the Bible. And let's continue reading. Brother Branham says, so maybe this will stir up your spiritual gastronomics somewhere that'll make people search the scriptures, for they are the truth. They are the word of God, they are the infallible ones, they are the ones that testifies of Messiah. Amen. He stands by his word, amen. I'm not amening myself, but amen means so be it. I believe it with all my heart that heavens and earth will pass away, but that word will never pass. In the sermons, Sirs, we would see Jesus. Continuing to read. Now that's a good idea. Go find out for yourself. Don't take what somebody else says, go find out. Search the scriptures, Jesus said. For in them you think you have eternal life, and they are they that testify of me. Just what he said in the sermon, Greater Than Solomon is here. And so we look at what Brother Branham is speaking about is we search the scriptures. That is the basis. If if we start adding a new Bible to our understanding, we've made a mistake. We are to search the scriptures. This is the basis of our truth. Now the message provides for us interpretation of that, but we must understand it in light of the scriptures. We must have the same heart towards the scriptures that Brother Branham himself had. Continuing to read from Brother Branham. Now notice again, he said, Search the scriptures, for they are they that testify of me. Search the scriptures, search the scriptures, the entire scriptures. What am I trying to do? To show you that this Bible is the thing that's right. Preached in the sermon, Christ is the mystery of God revealed. Now let's keep going.

The Bible As The Absolute

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Let's look at the absolute Brother Branham speaking. Lovely person the other night talked to me. Come put their arms around me and said, Brother Branham said, I want to ask you something, said, if you would just compromise a little this stuff that you're talking about. Said what? Said all this baptism, said the churches of Chicago and all around just want you so bad, but they're afraid you'll mention that. I said, Sure I'll mention it. Certainly I'll mention it. Said, Well, that's the only thing they got against you. I said, then they're not got against me. I wasn't the one that said it. God said it. I challenge any of them to come prove it wrong, see? Said, Well, you see, you you ought to agree and make fellowship. That's the same thing they wanted him to do. God's God don't compromise, no sir. He doesn't compromise. He said, Now, Brother Branham, I want to ask you something. Did the angel of the Lord said, We all believe the angel of the Lord? Did the angel of the Lord tell you this? I said, I don't care what the angel of the Lord would say. If it the angel of the Lord, he will say that, but if he said something contrary, he wasn't the angel of the Lord. I said, regardless of what angel or anything else said, Paul said, Though an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you, let him be cursed. Angels and everybody, some fleshly puffed up something, say about angels, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and all different cults of the Adventists and everything else, they see all kinds of things like that, but it's always contrary to the word. But God backs up his word, it's his word. I said, It's the word of the Lord, sure. All I ever knowed was taught to me by him. I never went to seminary or school, it comes from him. I said, Whether it was contrary, it was contrary to that, I wouldn't believe him, because that's God's word is first. Everything else be a lie. God's word stay with it. That's from a true sign that's overlooked, Brother Branham speaking. So no matter what angel, what supernatural happening, it has to be subject to God's Bible. Continue reading from Brother Branham. This is going to be lengthy. Lots of quotes, about almost nine pages of quotes from this, because I want it, I want you to see this is how Brother Branham looked at it. And I think we should look at it the way Brother Branham looked at it. So then that same groove group of men sent a lady down, said, Brother Branham, if the angel of the Lord told you, the angel of the Lord, you know, his his picture is there, you see. The angel of the Lord told you that, well, we'll believe it. I said, anybody that a ministerial group that would be that weak, if the angel of the Lord said, that angel said something contrary to this word, it wouldn't be the angel of the Lord. The angel of the Lord will vindicate the word. That's exactly what he's always done through every age. He still does the same thing. He stays with the word. And any minister anointed with the Holy Ghost will stay by the same word, because the Bible said that the entire Bible was wrote by the Holy Ghost. And how can you have the Holy Ghost and deny what the Bible says? From the sermon, The Restoration of the Bride Tree. Continuing to read. I said if the angel of the Lord said anything contrary to that, it wouldn't be the angel of the Lord. See if any angel says anything contrary to this word, let it be a lie. That's from the sermon, The Way of a True Prophet of God. Continuing to read. And if I stay right with that word, and if I say it's that way, and God it's in the Bible, if the angel of the Lord told me something that wasn't in the Bible, it wouldn't be the angel of the Lord. That's right. A testimony on the sea. Continuing reading. I would like for you to, if you have your Bibles, and many times people like to attend the services and then listen to what the minister reads, because after all, the word of God is truth. There's no other truth that can take its place. It's all truth. The word is God, it's God in letter and form. God is going to judge the world someday by Jesus Christ. We know that. He cannot judge it by a church. If it would, the Roman Catholic said he said he would judge it by our church. Then what about the Greek Catholic? The Methodists say judge it by our church. Then what about the Baptists? So you see, there's too much difference. There's got to be some standard. And if Jesus Christ is the word, then he'll judge it by the word. So whatever God has said in his word, that's what we live by. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. In the sermon investments, Brother Branham speaking. And that's the way it is in Christian life. There is a stopping place and there is a going place. God's word is that absolute. That's Christ, yes, sir. If you if the traffic signals are not on, then we got a traffic jam. And I think that's what we've got up here in the religious Pentagon today, a traffic jam of make believers, unbelievers, and everything jammed together. You just got a traffic jam. Why? They don't have no absolute. One say, Well, we're the absolute. The other one say, We're the absolute. God is the absolute. He said, Let every absolute otherwise than mine be a lie. Mine is the truth. So there is the absolute to Christianity. That's the end of all arguments. The Bible said so. That makes it right. Yes, sir. There must be an absolute in everything. An absolute the sermon and absolute Brother Branham. Well, every denomination is an ultimate to their believers. But to me and to the ones that I hope that I'm leading to Christ and by Christ, the Bible is our ultimate, no matter, 'cause God said, let every man's word be a lie and mine truth. And I believe that the Bible is God's ultimate. No matter what anyone else says, it's the ultimate. The Bible is not a book of systems, no, sir. It is not a book of systems, nor a code of morals. The Bible is not a book of systems, so many systems and so forth, no, sir. It's not a book of morals, no sir. It's not. Nor is it a book of history altogether, or neither it is a book of theology, for it is the revelation of Jesus Christ. Christ is revealed in his own word. Where the Branham says, Now I believe that God can do things that's not written in the Bible. I believe he can, because he's God. But just long as he does what he promised here, it's good enough for me. I don't believe that anything should be added to this book or taken from it. I believe that it is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. I believe that's what it is, and all doctrine, anyhow, must come from the Bible. That's from the sermon Christ is identified the same in all generations. So we see how how critical it is to understand and realize that all doctrine must come from the Bible. This is a clear principle. We cannot take what Brother Branham said and enlarge upon it and make a doctrine that is outside of the Bible. Now, you say, you believe that Brother Branham's teaching things outside of the Bible. No, I do not believe that Brother Branham is teaching things that are outside. Of the Bible. However, when you take what he said and use it as the basis of doctrine, this is where we come into a problem. All doctrine must come from the Bible. So when we're looking at, when we're looking at what Brother Branham said, then we take it back to the Bible

When Message Quotes Become New Doctrine

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and see whether where it is, to rightly place it. When we begin to look at it that way, we can see the big picture. But if we take just what he said and try to enlarge upon what he said, that's where many, many errors and false doctrines come into the message. Now I realize that you people are going to say, give me examples of this. Good example is when we look at the statement that he makes regarding, he's telling the story, story of Lot bringing his family out of Sodom. And Brother Branham then goes on to make this statement: your pastor is your husband, spiritually speaking. Now, when we take this as a type, it works beautifully. Brother Branham in his ministry was leading a church out of a church, a bride out of a church, people out of Sodom. And so there the at Branham Tabernacle, their pastor was their husband, spiritually speaking. So as Lot brought his family out of Sodom, Brother Branham was bringing a church out of Babylon. All right, now then when we take that and say the pastor of every local church is the husband of the people, as soon as we take it to mean that, now we've arrived in a place where we're outside of the scriptures. Now we've created a doctrine that's not scriptural whatsoever, because the husband of the church is Christ. The head of the church is Christ. A pastor is a minister, part of the five-fold ministry by whom we believe it's a part of the ministry of equipping, bringing to maturity and for the purpose of edification for the body of Christ. But the pastor, any preacher is not the husband of the church. See, so we've taken a statement of Brother Branham, totally separated it from the scriptures, and made a doctrine out of it. And this is this is outside of the scriptures, and it even is outside of what Brother Branham taught us directly. Now, we can go on and speak about many things like that, but I think that is a great example. Another one, another example is where Brother Branham is speaking and he's telling about difficult uh situations in the church, and he says, stick with your pastor, you're he's ordained to lead you through. Now, when I first came to the message, I was being told by people in the area in Minneapolis that your what it means is your pastor is ordained to lead you through is stick with your pastor because he's ordained to lead you into the rapture. And I looked at this and said, This is absolutely absurd and unscriptural. I said, Where does Brother Branham say it? They showed it to me. I said, Dear brother, the plain meaning of what Brother Branham is saying is that there's someone who has been injected by something with the devil, and he's coming to bring division into the local church, and he's telling the people that this is going to happen at Bratham Tabernacle. Now stay with Brother Neville. He's ordained to lead you through. Lead you through what? To the rapture? No, lead you through hard and difficult circumstances where there is division and arguing and so forth coming up in the church. So, yes, stay with your pastor. But there's circumstances in the world and in life, you can't make this into a doctrine that no matter how many mistakes my pastor makes, no matter how many times he spiritually abuses people, no matter how many times he's teaching false doctrine, if I just stay with him, I'm gonna go in the rapture. That's not at all what Brother Branham was saying, not what he was teaching, and neither can we find that in the scripture. But we can find simply saying that's advice that Brother Branham is making to the local church. Stay with Brother Neville, he'll help you through the hard, hard difficulties. You can't take that and apply it to every circumstance and every situation. Sometimes the person that's been injected with something from the enemy is the pastor himself. And he's a false teacher, and he's bringing bringing spiritual abuse upon the people. Now we're not supposed to stay with him. We should run from him as fast as we can. All right, so these are two examples that we must make sure that what we're teaching is biblical. The head of the church is not the pastor, the head of the church is Christ. The leader in the local church is the pastor, absolutely. But as far as headship goes, we have to stick with what the scripture says, and the scripture says Christ is the head of the church. All right. Let's keep going. Reading from Brother Branham says, now someone has been, many have been saying this to me, and theologians said, Brother Branham, if the Lord God said, if with your experience that the Lord has given you for his people, humbly saying this, said, you would be eligible to write a Bible yourself, your word, if God is manifested. I said, That might be true. See, he was trying to catch me, see. I said, but you see, I couldn't do that. He said, Why couldn't you? You have all the qualifications. I said, but you look, one word cannot be added or taken away, see. And he said, Well then them seven thunders, you see, said, wouldn't them seven thunders blasting out? Won't that be a revelation be given to some man? I said, No, sir. It would be adding something to it or taking something from it. It's all revealed in there. And the seven seals open up the revelation of what that was. That's what it was. See, it still is in the word. When he says the word, he means the Bible. You see, you can't get out of that word. It won't leave that word, and God's spirit will never leave that word. It'll stay right with the word, blinding some and open the eyes of others. It'll always do that. And that's from the sermon The Unveiling of God. Continuing to read from Brother Branham, what if it had been said Can you find any fault in Zedekiah, Micah? No. Did you ever catch him in sin? Nope. Did you ever hear him cuss anybody? Nope. Did you ever catch him drunk? Nope. Can you dispute his education? Nope. Do you believe his doctor's degree is false? Nope. You believe his PhD is all right? Sure, by the Sanhedrin Council, I guess it's all council, I guess it's alright. Well then why don't you join with him? Because he's off of the word. Well, we'll have a showdown of it then, like Elijah the prophet before this. And if you're a child of God, you'll stay with the prophet of this Bible. It's the word. Notice the hour, the season. That's from the anointed ones at the end time. So Brother Branham is telling us that if you're a child of God, you'll stay with the prophet of this Bible. And that any what we read in the any any revelation that he's giving must be understood in the light of the Bible because you can't add to or take from the Bible. It's only the message is only revealing what is already in the Bible. It's not creating a new Bible. Continuing to read from Brother Branham, we find that in the sacred scriptures all the way through, that just at the ending of the old age and the new one coming in, that age fades out and a new age comes in. God sends the messenger. And out as always, always every time at a messenger comes, it's always a call back to the word, never fails. Remember, this is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. There cannot be nothing added to it or taken from it. It's the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. And the only way that we can ever be sure if anything rises among us that's contrary to this revelation, then it's wrong. See, it's back to the word and always calling back. And in every case in the scripture, every case, God uses a prophet to call that age back always. Makes no not one time to fail. He always sends a prophet. And now why does he do that? It is because the Bible says it's the prophet that the word of God comes to. See? The revealer of the word. That's from the evening messenger in 1963. Then a prophet means not only to speak the word, but also to forthell and a divine interpreter of the word. Divine word written. The word came to the prophet. And this is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. This is the revelation, the Bible. It's revealing Jesus Christ. See that's 1964 paradox. That was Brother Branham speaking. Now, way I always find my messages is by prayer. I'll be sitting in prayer and something reveals to me. And I wait on it a few minutes and see if it's right. Then I feel it closer, and then sometimes I keep waiting till it breaks into a vision. But when it begins to come and I'm satisfied it comes from God, then I go to the scriptures, see? That is ought to be the confirmation of every spiritual thing that's done. Because the Bible is a complete revelation of Jesus Christ. See, it is his body. And now in that, maybe I find a place in the scripture that doesn't sound just right, and I'll wonder. I go back again to prayer, it comes again. Then I begin to examine my scripture. That's from the future home of the heavenly bridegroom and the earthly bride. Continuing to read. And in the last chapter of Revelation, Jesus himself, the same God, said, Whosoever shall take one word out or add one word to it. Now Brother Branham pats his Bible. This is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. And the seven seals had the mysteries hid, and it what it all was, and is supposed to open it in the last day at the Laodicean age at the end of time. Thanks be to God. That finishes the message to the church. That finishes it. It's from the feast of the trumpets. Brother Branham says, These men, if they pick pick up this and goes out with it, they can make more sense to it, see, to bring it to a place you would. I just want to lay this seed, then hope they make it come to life. Notice. See. Alright. Now, Brother Branham's telling us everything, everything has to be based on the Bible. So we catch a revelation from Brother Branham. He's preaching, say, the rapture message. And we go in there, he says a number of things. He's trying to make different points about what a vindicated prophet is, that the word of the Lord comes to the prophet, and the context is important. He's preaching to Pentecostals. He's trying to emphasize to them the need for a prophetic ministry and that it's not just about miracles and prophesying future events, but it's about the word of the true doctrine is revealed through a prophet. And so Brother Branham's ministry was sent to straighten out

Teaching The Message From Scripture

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and give us the correct interpretation of the Bible so that when we read the Bible, we understand it. Now, we can't take the message and try to make it something beyond the Bible, further past the Bible. I don't need the Bible anymore, I have the message. See, these approaches are completely wrong. The Bible is the basis. And so Brother Branham's coming and he says, There's people that are going to come after me. I believe this is speaking of the five-fold ministry. They're coming after me and they're going to make it make more sense. They're going to make more sense to it and they're going to bring it to life. He's like, I'm just laying the seed, and they're going to be the fruit of that seed, right? And so Brother Branham didn't view it as we just have to look at everything that he said and look at every word that he said, but we have to take the words that he said and bring them back to the Bible. If we don't understand it, if we can't teach the message from the Bible, and we need a whole giant pile of that's I know that's ironic because I just spent, but I'm addressing message believers. I spent nine pages reading quotes from Brother Branham teaching us that we have to go back to the Bible. And I this is important. We have to go back to the Bible. The Bible is the basis. Brother Branham is bringing us the correct teaching of the Bible so we understand it in light of the Bible. So we understand when the seals were opened, Brother Branham says it became a new book to him. So prior to that, Brother Branham says, we were just probing at it. Even himself he includes himself in that. We were probing at it. Now, Brother Branham, even probing at it, he preached serpent seed, he preached baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. He preached on the Logos and the Godhead. So God was revealing things and dealing with things, but it was never going to be fully unveiled to him until the opening of the seven seals. Then the opening of the seven seals came and it became a new book. You could see it clearly from every doctrine that he brought from Genesis to Revelation. And so we should, we as believers should be able to take the Bible and to teach the message from the Bible. I don't have a problem with quoting Brother Branham. I don't think it's wrong. I don't think it's sinful. Obviously, I was quoting Brother Branham. I'm not saying we don't need to. However, I believe we're living in an hour where more outreach needs to take place, and we need to be able to communicate with people that don't believe Brother Branham's words, that don't respect Brother Branham as a prophet. Now we can say the predestinated seed will hear. We could say different things like this. I agree with you. Predestinated seed will hear, and we can preach as the Lord lays things upon our heart, and he'll take care of the rest. However, I believe we be able need to be able to take the message and preach it from the Bible. Make it very, very plain and very, very clear. I think for personally for me in my ministry, as I teach things from the Bible, the message becomes more and more clear to people's hearts. Now, do I think people shouldn't quote Brother Branham? I think you should quote Brother Branham. I think that's just fine. I think, but I think we should do it in the light of the fact that Brother Branham himself said, take it back to the Bible. The Bible is our absolute, it's our final authority to those he's leading to Christ and by Christ. The Bible is our absolute, is our ultimate. The world is going to be judged by Jesus Christ, who is the word. What word? The Bible. Brother Branham says, I'm gonna take, I'm gonna, I'm, I, whatever I preach and whatever I teach, it can't be outside of the Bible because you can't add one word or take one word from it, or add one word to it. It's the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. But the by the message is revealing the mysteries laying hidden in there. And so, whatever doctrine we have, we have to be able to take it back to the Bible. And we have to make show it plainly from the Bible based upon what Brother Branham taught. And also from there, as we've talked about before, I want to, as I mentioned before, I want to continue looking at this subject of search the scriptures in the future. We're gonna look at some specific teachings that Brother Branham brought, and I can just highlight them quickly in order to things that once the seals were opened, he updated his teaching. The Lord corrected him and his revelation about it under changed, and so his understanding of the predestinated seed changed when the seals opened. His understanding of the new birth and the baptism of the Holy Ghost changed when the seals were opened. His understanding of who of the four horse riders, who the white horse rider

Progressive Revelation After The Seals

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was, the identity of that horse rider changed when he when the seals were opened. The evidence of the Holy Ghost. Uh his understanding of the evidence of the Holy Ghost changed when the seals were opened. Even his teaching on adoption was adjusted after the seals were opened. And so many of these things we look at, and we can go on and on. Marriage and divorce was opened up to him more clearly, more plainly. Who is this? Melchizedek was opened up more clearly and plainly. His understanding of Logos and was updated after the opening of the seven seals. You know, we can go on. There's there's more, but those are just some of the major ones off the top of my head that would be important to realize that Brother Branham was corrected by the Lord at the opening of the seven seals. And so we're not here to try to say, don't listen to the message. I think we should all listen to Brother Branham's message more. Daily listen to listen to tapes, listen to Brother Branham, but go back and listen to what he actually said and not what other people's interpretation of what he said was. You know, we have we have many of these things, and I and I I believe that we can be as message believers united together. My purpose isn't to bring any kind of division amongst us or say this one's wrong or that one's wrong. I believe if we take what Brother Branham taught and bring it back into and preach it in the light of the Bible, it will bring so much unity amongst us as believers. We don't need to be in this place where we're fighting one another, battling one another, where we're suspicious of one another. We this one doesn't believe the message, that one doesn't believe the message. I think we should just begin to back away from this sort of attitude and approach that we're the only ones that believe the message because we see it. We're the only ones that see it right. I believe the Lord is dealing with us individually. I think it should encourage us. If Brother Branham was dealt with progressively and God corrected him on doctrine as a prophet, how much more should you and I have patience with one another? I think if we could just have this core thing, is I want to understand what Brother Branham taught in light of the Bible. I want to be able to teach it from the Bible, I want to see it live. I want to see, I want to see it live in my life, the character of Christ, the fruit of the Spirit on display. I want to I want more uh supernatural in my life. I want to see God moving supernaturally by the Holy Spirit as we teach and preach from the Word of God. I want to see more dreams and visions and revelations coming forth from the believers' lives. I want to see greater edification. I'd like to see more outreach done. Let's reach out to our communities and people around us and teach them what the message is from the scripture and to help them understand and truly get saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. We have communities to reach, uh, we have nations to reach, and we can't do it as a divided people. We must do it as a united people. And we need to maybe lay aside a little bit more of our own opinions, and let's just go by the word and let's give people room to grow. I want room to grow, you want room to grow. Let's all give each other room to grow and to connect with one another and cooperate together and spread the message around the world. Many times there's hard feelings when churches split, and a minister raises up and a pastor goes and starts a new fellowship. I say we need this to happen more. Not out of anger and frustration, but we should encourage it more. We should see pastors raising up other ministers, sending them into other neighborhoods and communities. Yeah, we have a church, we have a church here in Arizona. There's one in Surprise, there's one in Glendale. Well, why is there not one in Peoria? Maybe there is, and I don't know about it. But why isn't there one in Peoria? Why isn't there one in in why don't we have an outreach up in Sedona? Why don't we why aren't we doing some kind of outreach in the Grand Canyon area? These are things that I I think about is if we would cooperate together as the Holy Spirit leads us and not Be so uh intent on protecting our own selves and our own territory, we would see greater things happen amongst us. And so my message is not to divide and say we're the people that are just the believers of the Bible being the absolute, and then there's these people over here. No, I don't believe in doing that. I think that's a mistake. Let's love one another, let's go back to the Bible, let's be believers. Amen. So that's my that's my closing salvo. Um in conclusion, dear friends and believers, fellow believers, as we wrap up this episode, let's go back to the example that started it all. The noble Bereans in Acts 17. They received the word with readiness of mind, but they didn't stop there. They searched the scriptures daily to see if those things were so. And because they did, many believed. Brother Branham constantly pointed us to this same standard. He never wanted us to follow a man, not even himself. He wanted us to hold the Bible as our absolute. He openly told us that not everything he said carried a thus saith the Lord.

Final Challenge To Search Daily

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Some things were his own thoughts and opinions. He trusted the Holy Spirit to take even his imperfect delivery and make the truth clear in our hearts. My prayer is that we would return to this humble, Burian spirit in this hour. Let's stop building on doctrines on what we think the prophet said, and instead take every teaching straight back to the written word of God. If I'm wrong about anything, come to me directly. My desire is not to gather followers, but to point everyone back to Christ and his unchanging word. Heaven and earth will pass away, but this word will never pass away. So here's my closing challenge to you. Don't just listen, search the scriptures for yourself. Stay with it until you're thoroughly convinced. That is the safest and most noble path. Thank you so much for listening. If this episode blessed you, please share it with someone who needs to hear it. Remember to keep the Zambia Missions trip in prayer, and I'll see you in the next episode as we continue this series. This has been the Jason Demars Podcast. Stay in the Word, stay close to Jesus, and may the Lord richly bless you, is my prayer. Amen.