In the course of human history, many things have happened that seem incomprehensible to us. It began in paradise and continued all the way to the present time. We know about the fact that every seed brings forth of its own kind (Gen. 1:12). After Eve admitted that she had been beguiled by the serpent (Gen. 3:13), God cursed the serpent and from that moment on it had to crawl on its belly (v. 14). Afterward God put enmity between the serpent and Eve, between his seed and her seed (v. 15). The Bible applies the word “seed” 213 times to indicate fleshly descendants. Every reader of the Bible will clearly recognise from the context — even though it is in the form of a parable — that Cain was the result of the beguiling. Then Adam knew his wife, “… and she … bare Cain … and she again bare his brother Abel.” (Gen. 4:1-2). For this reason the Holy Scripture never refers to Cain as Adam’s son and not once identifies Adam as Cain’s father. It is also why Cain is not mentioned a single time in the genealogies, although he had descendants, not in Gen. 5:1-7, not in 1. Chr. 1:1-5, not in Lk. 3:37-38. The Apostle John stated it clearly for all of us, “… Cain who was of that wicked one …” (1. Jn. 3:12).

Everybody who reads the Bible knows that Christ, the Redeemer, was the promised Seed (Gen. 3:15; Gal. 3:16; a. o.) who had to be born into this world by a woman. Satan misused the serpent, beguiled Adam’s wife, and sneaked into the human race through fleshly begetting. God chose Mary — the virgin who said to the Angel Gabriel, “… how shall this be, seeing I know not a man …” (Lk. 1:34) — as His vessel to come into humankind by begetting the Son of God through the Holy Ghost (v. 35) so He could redeem us out of the fall (Rom. 8:3).

On behalf of all of us, David cried out, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” (Ps. 51:5). Since we were all born in the original sin, we have to be born again by the Spirit of God (Jn. 3:1-8; a. o.), otherwise we cannot see the Kingdom of God. We were born into this world through natural procreation; by being born of the Spirit we are placed into the Kingdom of God and receive eternal life.

From the beginning, there are spiritually two different seeds in existence (Mt. 13:24-43). The Lord sows the Word, and the enemy sows the interpretation. The pure Word was sown in our time as well, but the enemy promptly sneaked in and sowed the seed of discrepancy into the end-time Church. Brother Branham saw in a vision that the Church in the USA was being led by a witch and drew the comparison to the deception by the World Council of Churches. He further observed how the Bride in Europe came out of step but that she eventually was brought back into step again (Masterpiece, July 5, 1964). God has to reveal unto us when and how this vision is being fulfilled.

On the subject of the spiritual seed, we shall call upon the Gospels in the Bible to provide the testimony. In Mk. 4:14 the Lord said, “The sower soweth the word.” And in Lk. 8:11 He explained, “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.” According to Mt. 13, the Lord as Son of man has sown the good seed, and that seed has come to life in all those who received it in faith (v. 23). Then we read, “He answered and said unto them, … The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one.” (vv. 37-38).

Only when someone by faith accepts the incorruptible seed of God’s Word into an honest and good heart can that person be born again (1. Pt. 1:23; Jas. 1:18; a. o.) and bring forth fruit with patience (Lk. 8:15). “… first the blade, then the ear, after that the full grain in the ear.” (Mk. 4:28).

However, something very terrible happened, as our Lord stated in the same chapter, “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” (Mt. 13:25).

In Mt. 25:5 we are told what will happen in the last phase, “While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.”

Since the beginning of Brother Branham’s ministry, a mighty wake-up call has gone forth. Foolish and wise virgins took their lamps and set off to meet the Bridegroom. When the Bridegroom delayed His coming, they all fell asleep. We did not heed the admonition: “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.” (Mt. 26:41). The enemy used this time to mislead and to beguile (2. Cor. 11:3) and to sow his own seed. The enemy intended to for ever destroy the very goal of the entire scriptural end-time message by ruining the credibility of its bearer. He did not fully succeed, but many still succumbed to the influence of the evil one, and the seed of discrepancy, as Brother Branham called it, came up.

“And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.” (Jer. 1:19).

Consider what they did to our Lord, Who was the personification of the Word, what slander and hostility He had to endure from His birth to His death on the cross: He was labelled as born out of wedlock, deceiver, Beelzebub, possessed, seducer, etc. The prophets and apostles, the bearers of the Word, were also persecuted, even stoned to death, as our Lord announced it (Mt. 23:34). The Word that they left unto us is truly a living Word to this day, and it continues to accomplish what it was sent for (Isa. 55:11). Sadly, both seeds are on the same field, receive the same rain (Mt. 5:45), and seem to be granted the same blessings (Heb. 6); they grow side by side right until the harvest time (Mt. 13:30).

In the sermon “The anointed ones at the end time,” Brother Bran-ham reinforced his statement, “The anointed ones, the false christs and false prophets have received the same anointing of the Holy Spirit.” with the Thus saith the Lord. He spoke of the three “circles” — body, spirit, and soul — and said, “You can be anointed in the second realm with the genuine Holy Spirit without your soul being saved and born again.” This is shown to us very clearly in Mt. 7:21-24, when the anointed “gift-bearers” appear before the Lord and have to hear the words, “… depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

Here is the distinguishing mark that we need to look for: “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?” (Mt. 7:16). It does not say that we shall know them by their gifts! A child of God can never have a satanic nature, and a child of Satan can never have the divine nature. This Word stays true for ever: “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” (1. Jn. 3:15). Remember the example of Cain and Abel.

In God’s children the nature of Jesus Christ is manifested in the divine love with all of its virtues (2. Pet. 1), as it is also described in 1. Cor. 13. Thus, every individual can examine himself and determine whether a complete renewal and transformation has taken place and he now embodies the very nature of Christ, our Lord and Redeemer. A child of God will always examine himself according to the Word, and whoever carries the divine seed within his heart and life will never judge others and never manifest the nature of the enemy, the accuser of the brethren.

The following Scripture for ever retains its validity: “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth … Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom. 8:33-39). Amen.

In the course of human history, many things have happened that seem incomprehensible to us. It began in paradise and continued all the way to the present time. We know about the fact that every seed brings forth of its own kind (Gen. 1:12). After Eve admitted that she had been beguiled by the serpent (Gen. 3:13), God cursed the serpent and from that moment on it had to crawl on its belly (v. 14). Afterward God put enmity between the serpent and Eve, between his seed and her seed (v. 15). The Bible applies the word “seed” 213 times to indicate fleshly descendants. Every reader of the Bible will clearly recognise from the context — even though it is in the form of a parable — that Cain was the result of the beguiling. Then Adam knew his wife, “… and she … bare Cain … and she again bare his brother Abel.” (Gen. 4:1-2). For this reason the Holy Scripture never refers to Cain as Adam’s son and not once identifies Adam as Cain’s father. It is also why Cain is not mentioned a single time in the genealogies, although he had descendants, not in Gen. 5:1-7, not in 1. Chr. 1:1-5, not in Lk. 3:37-38. The Apostle John stated it clearly for all of us, “… Cain who was of that wicked one …” (1. Jn. 3:12).

Everybody who reads the Bible knows that Christ, the Redeemer, was the promised Seed (Gen. 3:15; Gal. 3:16; a. o.) who had to be born into this world by a woman. Satan misused the serpent, beguiled Adam’s wife, and sneaked into the human race through fleshly begetting. God chose Mary — the virgin who said to the Angel Gabriel, “… how shall this be, seeing I know not a man …” (Lk. 1:34) — as His vessel to come into humankind by begetting the Son of God through the Holy Ghost (v. 35) so He could redeem us out of the fall (Rom. 8:3). 

On behalf of all of us, David cried out, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” (Ps. 51:5). Since we were all born in the original sin, we have to be born again by the Spirit of God (Jn. 3:1-8; a. o.), otherwise we cannot see the Kingdom of God. We were born into this world through natural procreation; by being born of the Spirit we are placed into the Kingdom of God and receive eternal life. 

From the beginning, there are spiritually two different seeds in existence (Mt. 13:24-43). The Lord sows the Word, and the enemy sows the interpretation. The pure Word was sown in our time as well, but the enemy promptly sneaked in and sowed the seed of discrepancy into the end-time Church. Brother Branham saw in a vision that the Church in the USA was being led by a witch and drew the comparison to the deception by the World Council of Churches. He further observed how the Bride in Europe came out of step but that she eventually was brought back into step again (Masterpiece, July 5, 1964). God has to reveal unto us when and how this vision is being fulfilled.

On the subject of the spiritual seed, we shall call upon the Gospels in the Bible to provide the testimony. In Mk. 4:14 the Lord said, “The sower soweth the word.” And in Lk. 8:11 He explained, “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.” According to Mt. 13, the Lord as Son of man has sown the good seed, and that seed has come to life in all those who received it in faith (v. 23). Then we read, “He answered and said unto them, … The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one.” (vv. 37-38).

Only when someone by faith accepts the incorruptible seed of God’s Word into an honest and good heart can that person be born again (1. Pt. 1:23; Jas. 1:18; a. o.) and bring forth fruit with patience (Lk. 8:15). “… first the blade, then the ear, after that the full grain in the ear.” (Mk. 4:28).

However, something very terrible happened, as our Lord stated in the same chapter, “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” (Mt. 13:25).

In Mt. 25:5 we are told what will happen in the last phase, “While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.”  

Since the beginning of Brother Branham’s ministry, a mighty wake-up call has gone forth. Foolish and wise virgins took their lamps and set off to meet the Bridegroom. When the Bridegroom delayed His coming, they all fell asleep. We did not heed the admonition: “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.” (Mt. 26:41). The enemy used this time to mislead and to beguile (2. Cor. 11:3) and to sow his own seed. The enemy intended to for ever destroy the very goal of the entire scriptural end-time message by ruining the credibility of its bearer. He did not fully succeed, but many still succumbed to the influence of the evil one, and the seed of discrepancy, as Brother Branham called it, came up. 

“And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.” (Jer. 1:19).

Consider what they did to our Lord, Who was the personification of the Word, what slander and hostility He had to endure from His birth to His death on the cross: He was labelled as born out of wedlock, deceiver, Beelzebub, possessed, seducer, etc. The prophets and apostles, the bearers of the Word, were also persecuted, even stoned to death, as our Lord announced it (Mt. 23:34). The Word that they left unto us is truly a living Word to this day, and it continues to accomplish what it was sent for (Isa. 55:11). Sadly, both seeds are on the same field, receive the same rain (Mt. 5:45), and seem to be granted the same blessings (Heb. 6); they grow side by side right until the harvest time (Mt. 13:30). 

In the sermon “The anointed ones at the end time,” Brother Bran-ham reinforced his statement, “The anointed ones, the false christs and false prophets have received the same anointing of the Holy Spirit.” with the Thus saith the Lord. He spoke of the three “circles” — body, spirit, and soul — and said, “You can be anointed in the second realm with the genuine Holy Spirit without your soul being saved and born again.” This is shown to us very clearly in Mt. 7:21-24, when the anointed “gift-bearers” appear before the Lord and have to hear the words, “… depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” 

Here is the distinguishing mark that we need to look for: “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?” (Mt. 7:16). It does not say that we shall know them by their gifts! A child of God can never have a satanic nature, and a child of Satan can never have the divine nature. This Word stays true for ever: “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” (1. Jn. 3:15). Remember the example of Cain and Abel. 

In God’s children the nature of Jesus Christ is manifested in the divine love with all of its virtues (2. Pet. 1), as it is also described in 1. Cor. 13. Thus, every individual can examine himself and determine whether a complete renewal and transformation has taken place and he now embodies the very nature of Christ, our Lord and Redeemer. A child of God will always examine himself according to the Word, and whoever carries the divine seed within his heart and life will never judge others and never manifest the nature of the enemy, the accuser of the brethren.

The following Scripture for ever retains its validity: “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth … Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom. 8:33-39). Amen.