DEWITT TABERNACLE TEACHING SERIES
THE CREATOR RULES
WHAT HE HAS CREATED
By C.W. Wood
November 2003
This is what could be called a Five Star Sermon. In the military world, a
Five Star General is the highest ranking officer. In the spiritual world in the
End-Time Message brought by our Prophet, William Branham, this writer considers
the Sovereignty of God Teaching to be a Five Star Doctrine. The teaching that
our God is in absolute, full control over all that He has created, is as
necessary to the life of faith as breath is to life in the flesh. When breath
leaves the natural body, physical death is the result. When the revelation of
God’s supreme control over all He has created is lacking in the Christian’s
makeup, there is a void in the soul that can only be filled by doubt, fear and
unbelief, and eventually, death.
Although the scriptures and the End-Time Message are very clear
concerning this doctrine, it is very often not properly understood. There is far
too much preaching and testifying to the power of the enemy. Even Spirit-filled
Christians, who have not been taught concerning God’s supreme ruler ship,
sometimes walk in fear and dread of the evil one. This should not be so! Why
should God’s obedient and repentant people be afraid of an enemy who has been
so completely overcome and stripped of his power, and free moral agency? There
is only one answer to this question, it is because we have lacked the revelation
of God’s total and complete ruler ship over all that He has created, and this
includes His ruler-ship over Satan and all his demons.
Therefore, it is the purpose of this sermon to place before the people
the sound, scriptural doctrine of God’s sovereign control over Heaven, Earth,
and Hell. In 1996, we printed a monthly sermon entitled, “The Sovereignty of
God” and it was later placed in our Volume One of the DeWitt Tabernacle
Teaching Series. However, from conversations with Message Believers around the
nation, the need is clearly evident for much more preaching of the same. There
is nothing so restful to the mind and soul as the revelation that our God,
Himself, sits on the throne as “The
Governor of the Nations.” (Ps. 22:28) “Working
all things after the counsel of His own will.” (Eph. 1:11)
Our hearts rejoice daily as we keep before us Brother Branham’s
teaching on God’s control, and then read it in the scriptures for ourselves.
It has caused us to see the truth of the scripture that says, “The
Lord has made all things for Himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of
evil.” (Pro.16:4) We now understand that things that in the past we have
given Satan credit for, has in reality, been our God controlling the boundaries
of evil, bringing to pass His own will on the earth. This revelation allows us
to face the trials, heartbreak, and suffering that often confront us in daily
life with absolute trust in Jesus Christ, who has promised that, “All
things are working together for good to those who love the Lord, and are the
called according to His purpose.” (Rom.
The great problem is that many Christians are serving a God whom they
suppose is still trying to defeat His arch-enemy, Lucifer. They suppose that God
has good intentions, but somehow lacks the power, knowledge, and wisdom to carry
them all out. Some seem to think that the Lord is still at war with Satan, and
that He wins some battles, but looses others. But you may say, doesn’t it look
as if this world has been taken over by the evil one. That depends upon whether
or not you are looking at God’s Word, or the worldly circumstances! The Word
speaks as follows, “And all the
inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and He doeth according to His
will, in the army of Heaven, and among the inhabitants of the EARTH; And none
can stay His hand, or say unto Him, what doest Thou.” (Dan. 4: 35)
Isaiah, the Prophet, said, “The
Lord of Host has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to
pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.” (Isa. 14:24) David said,
“All the ends of the Earth shall
remember and turn unto the Lord. And all the kindred of the Nations shall
worship before Thee. For the Kingdom is the Lord’s, and He is the Governor
among the Nations.” (Ps. 22:27-28)
Jehoshaphat testified for the Sovereignty of His God and, “Stood in the congregation of
Our modern day prophet, William Branham, declared our God to be, “The
Majesty that controls every circumstance, both in Heaven and on Earth, and who
is so high above all that he has to look down to see Heaven.”
QUOTE: THEN JESUS CAME, PAGE 17, “He sits tonight as the
Majesty, He looks down on Earth. There is not even a ripple can come on the
water without him, it’s by His permission. The sea can’t move, a leaf
can’t move, a bird can’t fly (without His permission). He is above all
principalities and powers……He is so high until He has to look down to see
Heaven.” (End quote)
Dear Friends, this is total control over all His creation! Where did our
Prophet get this teaching? Matt.
Moses said to the
Israelites that God was going to go through the land of Egypt and kill all the
first-born, both of man and beast, then added that this great God was in such
control of what was to happen that, “Against
the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast;
That ye may know how the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and
Israel.” (Ex.11: 7) Israel was a type of the Bride of Jesus, then how much
more does this promise of God’s complete control apply to Her! Not even a dog
can bark at us without His permission.
We do not intend to imply that our God always keeps us from all things
that are meant to crucify the flesh, but we do state with the authority of
God’s word to back it up that nothing touches one of His Elected ones unless
He has ordained it for our own good. This is to make certain that He keeps His
promise wherein He said, “He that hath
begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” (Phil.
1:6) We are to believe His Word where He said, “I
am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside Me. I girded thee,
though thou hast not known Me. That they may know from the rising of the Sun,
and from the west, that there is none beside Me. I am the Lord, and there is
none else.” Verse 7, “I
form the light, and create darkness; I make peace and create evil; I the Lord do
all these things.”
Our God is not only
in charge of the good things that happen, but according to His own testimony He
is also in charge of the evil things that happen. Do we believe His testimony?
This writer came out of Pentecost, where I was taught that all good was from the
Lord and all evil was from the Devil. This teaching was wrong and put a fear of
the Devil in our hearts. Come to find out that God’s Prophet led us back to
the true revelation of the scriptures and restored our faith in Jesus Christ.
Scripture after scripture testifies to God’s absolute control over all
things, human beings, devils, animals, insects, weather and even inanimate
objects such as the nuts that held the Egyptian’s wheels on their chariots.
(Ex. 14:24-25) He caused an iron axe head to swim at the words of His Prophet,
Elisha. (II Kings 6: 5-7) God proved His total control over the weather in
sending plagues upon
At God’s command, fire and brimstone fell from Heaven on
The Disciples with Jesus on the
How can any student of the Bible doubt God’s supreme control over all
that He has created? It seems to this writer that our Lord took special care to
show us in the scriptures that, “All
things are of Him, by Him, and for Him.” One testimony after the other
fills the old black book showing how He sends forth His word upon the earth,
controlling every circumstance with His total power. Ps. 147:15-18, “He sendeth forth His commandment upon earth; His word runneth very
swiftly. He giveth snow like wool. He stretches the hoar frost like ashes. He
casteth forth His ice like morsels; who can stand before His cold? He sendeth
out His word and melteth them; He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters
flow.”
It is God, who gives
the life-giving rain for the crops, and it is the same God that sends floods to
destroy the crops Amos 4:7-10, “And
also I have witholden the rain from you, when there was yet three months to the
harvest. And I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon
another city. One piece was rained upon and, the piece whereupon it rained not
withered.” Verse 8, “So
two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, but they were not
satisfied; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the Lord. I have smitten you
with blasting and mildew when your gardens
and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive trees increased, the
palmerworm devoured them, yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the Lord. I
have sent unto you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt; your young men have
I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; And I made the stink of
your camps come up in your nostrils; Yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the
Lord.”
Do we not understand
then, that our great God governs all these things? They fulfill His sovereign
pleasure, bringing to pass a plan He had in His mind before creation. Brute
beasts obey His voice, as when a dumb ass spoke and rebuked the Prophet Balaam.
He ordered the lions not to touch Daniel, and then ordered them to devour his
enemies. He commanded a great fish to swallow Jonah, and then commanded it to
vomit him out again. A fish, following orders from the Sovereign One, brought a
coin to Peter for tax money. So as to fulfill His own prophesy, he made the cock
to crow twice when Peter denied Him.
Now the question arises, “Does God control the actions of all men both
good and evil?” He is either ruling over all things, including men, or He is
being ruled over! To suppose that our God is being ruled over at times, just
does not agree with the Holy Ghost that lives in us. It is absolutely
unthinkable that any created being, be it man or beast, could ever be out from
under the control of the Creator. No Dear Bride, the actions of good men, as
well as those of evil-doers are under His control. Ps. 37:23, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delighteth in
his way.” Pro. 16:4, “The
Lord hath made all things for Himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of
evil.” Isa. 45:7, “I form
the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all
these things.” Pro. 21:1, “The
king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, and as the rivers of water He turneth
it whither so ever He will.” There is a most powerful scripture in Ps
76:10, in which the Lord testifies concerning His complete control over
evil. “Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee; the remainder of wrath
shalt Thou restrain.”
He says, “Surely the wrath of man shall praise me.” Let’s examine the
first half of this powerful verse first. By “the
wrath of man” the Lord means the evil thoughts and plans a man makes in
his heart to disobey the Word of God and do evil. The Lord will see to it that
it all fits into His overall plan for the good of His people. Then He says, “The
remainder of wrath will He restrain.” In other words, if an evil man
devised a plan for evil that God chooses not to use in His overall plan for
good, He will stop those plans. He will keep that evil from happening.
The Bible is full of such examples, but we will give two of the most
outstanding, proving that the most lawless of people on Earth are entirely under
God’s control.
Unknown to Pilate, he was playing right into God’s hands when he was
willing to please the people rather than God by delivering the Lord Jesus to be
crucified. Mat. 27:26, “Then
released he Barabbas unto them, and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him
to be crucified.” Though unknown to himself, Pilate was carrying out the
secret plans of the most High.
Was it not also the case with Judas, when he betrayed the Lord to the
Jews? It would be hard to find a more extreme case of evil being made to conform
to the overall plan of the Great God. Luke 22:1-5, “Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew nigh, which is called the
Passover. And the Chief Priest and Scribes sought how they might kill Him, for
they feared the people. THEN ENTERED SATAN INTO JUDAS SURNAMED ISCARIOT, BEING
THE NUMBER OF THE TWELVE. And he went his way and communed with the Chief Priest
and Captains, how he might betray Him.”
Was then the evil
man, Judas, beyond the control of His Creator, even after Satan entered into
him? Neither by hook nor crook could the Devil and Judas together, disrupt
God’s great plan of Salvation! Nor any other of His plans for that matter! If
then the Arch Enemy of God (Satan) working through Judas, was only able to bring
to pass the plan of God, can’t we see that God has overruled the plans of all
rebels in order to say to us, “All
things work together for good to those who love the Lord and who are the called
according to His purpose.” (Rom.
Cannot we then fall on our faces and worship this Great God who never at
any time is out of touch with His Creation, and who is constantly controlling
all peoples and all devils for the furtherance of His own glorious plan? Ps.
2:1-3, “The heathen may RAGE and
the people imagine a VAIN THING, the kings of the earth may SET THEMSELVES and
the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His Christ,
saying, let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” But
does this worry our Sovereign King? He watches from above and overrules every
action of men and devils that does not conform to His own plan.
Haman built a gallows for Mordecai, but was hanged upon it himself. Jonah
rejected the plan of God to go to
A crow is a scavenger bird, whose every thought is for his own food, yet
God commanded the ravens to bring Elijah bread and meat twice a day! (Kings
17:4-6) Men and beast, fowls of the air, and worms and insects do His bidding!
How safe we should feel under His watchful care!
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