Scriptures: Proverbs 11, 12
2 Chron 2:26
Two Seeds, Two Influences
- Cain vs Abel
📖 Genesis 4:3–8 - Ishmael vs Isaac
📖 Genesis 21:9–12 - Esau vs Jacob
📖 Genesis 25:29–34
📖 “The elder shall serve the younger” — Romans 9:11–13
👉 Revelation:
There has always been:
- A Word-born seed (Bride)
- A flesh-influenced seed (system)
2. The Seven Church Ages (Influence Progression with Scripture)
(1) Ephesus — Loss of First Love
📖 Revelation 2:2–4
- Strong works, doctrine
- But left first love
👉 Influence: Duty replacing devotion
(2) Smyrna — Persecution Age
📖 Revelation 2:9–10
- Tribulation and suffering
- Faithfulness preserved
👉 Influence resisted: External pressure
(3) Pergamos — Worldly Alignment
📖 Revelation 2:13–15
- “Where Satan’s seat is”
- Doctrine of Balaam introduced
📖 Numbers 31:16
👉 Influence: Church + world mixture begins
(4) Thyatira — Jezebel System
📖 Revelation 2:20–23
- Tolerated Jezebel
- False prophecy and seduction
👉 Influence: False doctrine becomes institutional
(5) Sardis — Dead Religion
📖 Revelation 3:1–2
- Name that lives, but dead
👉 Influence: Tradition without Spirit
(6) Philadelphia — The True Bride Pattern
📖 Revelation 3:7–10
- Kept the Word
- Did not deny His Name
👉 Influence: Word-only alignment
(7) Laodicea — The Final Apostate Church
📖 Revelation 3:15–18
- Lukewarm
- Blind, yet confident
👉 Influence: Self, wealth, culture
3. The Great Separation (Scriptural Proof)
📖 “Come out of her, my people…” — Revelation 18:4
📖 “Be ye separate…” — 2 Corinthians 6:17
👉 The end-time call is separation from influence systems
4. Saul vs David (End-Time Type)
Saul — Influenced Church
- Prophesied
📖 1 Samuel 10:10–11 - Disobeyed
📖 1 Samuel 15:22–23 - Feared people
📖 1 Samuel 15:24
👉 Represents: Gifted but influenced
David — Bride Type
- Sensitive to God
📖 1 Samuel 13:14 - Repented quickly
📖 Psalm 51
👉 Represents: Word-aligned heart
5. End-Time Influence Systems (Scripture)
(1) Babylon — Religious System
📖 Revelation 17:1–5
📖 Revelation 18:2–3
👉 Mixture, corruption, deception
(2) Beast System — World Power
📖 Revelation 13:16–17
👉 Economic and political pressure
(3) False Prophetic Influence
📖 Matthew 24:24
📖 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11
👉 Signs without truth
6. The Bride’s Discernment System (Scripture)
Test the Spirits
📖 1 John 4:1
Word as Standard
📖 Isaiah 8:20
Guard the Heart
📖 Proverbs 4:23
Led by the Spirit
📖 Romans 8:14
7. The Bride vs Laodicea (Scriptural Contrast)
Laodicea
- Lukewarm
📖 Revelation 3:16 - Christ outside
📖 Revelation 3:20
Bride
- Follows the Lamb
📖 Revelation 14:4 - Without spot
📖 Ephesians 5:27 - Prepared
📖 Revelation 19:7–8
8. The Final Call (Scriptural Flow)
📖 “My sheep hear my voice…” — John 10:27
📖 “Come out of her…” — Revelation 18:4
📖 “Watch therefore…” — Matthew 25:13
9. Prophetic Warning (Strong Close)
- Solomon — influenced by love
📖 1 Kings 11:4 - Saul — influenced by people
📖 1 Samuel 15:24 - Judas Iscariot — influenced by Satan
📖 Luke 22:3
👉 Final Revelation:
Influence determines destiny.
10. Closing Prophetic Charge
📖 “Be not conformed to this world…” — Romans 12:2
The Bride is not:
- Conformed
- Influenced
- Mixed
👉 She is:
- Transformed
- Separated
- Word-formed
ALTAR CALL (Scripture-Driven)
📖 Hebrews 12:1 — Lay aside every weight
📖 James 4:7 — Resist the devil
Prayer:
“Lord, strip away every influence that is not of You.
Align me fully with Your Word.
Make me ready as part of the Bride.”
Quotes:
Here, let’s give a little picture here, a little mental picture. Here is a stream right through here, right down through this way, coming down through life. Now watch. It’s a channel. Give me your undivided attention now, so you won’t miss this. Right down like this. Now, in this little channel here dwells mortal beings, you and I. Now, in there, let’s look what it is. It’s a mass of folly and everything else, but once in a while you’ll see a light. You see blackness and streets, that’s gaiety and carrying-on, devils getting the people. Oh, they dress fine, my, and highly cultured as they can be, polished scholars, but still the devil. But there’s born-again sitting in there. 192 Now, these people in this channel is influenced from two different sides. Now, on this side going this a-way, there’s a trinity. And on this side going this a-way, there’s a trinity. 193 Now, when, now the first place, on this side, is souls of the unjust, when a man dies he goes into a place waiting judgment. Jesus went and preached to them souls that were in prison there. The next is demons. The next, is the devil in hell. Going up, the first, now, them in there is ghosts, spirits of dead men that never repented. They’re waiting for the Judgment. The only thing they know is folly and what they did. 194 Now, up here, these Christians are influenced from Above. This is parable. Up here is another Ghost, the Holy Ghost, the Ghost of a Man, Christ Jesus. The Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost influences His Church in this realm of mortal. 195 The devil, by these spirits, influence man. Now, look, the next is Angels. The next is God. Now, every mortal here is influenced by one of these worlds. You see what I mean? 196 Now what that woman done, she broke into that realm. And she is speaking to those demon-possessed men who were, beginning, the spirits of those fallen angels that repented not back yonder in the beginning, and allowed their beings to be possessed of them. And they’re waiting for Judgment. 197 And these over here are influenced and born again by the Spirit of God. And the devil has his prophets, and God has His. See what I mean? It’s influence, and there we go. Stop to separate it. Jesus, when He was here on earth… 198 Now, today, he cannot break into that realm and get a righteous man out of that realm. He couldn’t do it, ’cause righteous men are not in there where they used to be, in Paradise. No, sir. Paradise was done away with, when the Blood of Jesus took it away. Looky here. My! 199 If I could think of how that Jesus, when He died, He went and preached to the souls that were in prison. He died, a sinner, knowing no sin, yet our sin was on Him. And God, for His sins, sent Him to hell. The Bible said, “He went and preached to the souls.”
53-0609A – Demonology, Religious Realm
Rev. William Marrion Branham
http://table.branham.org