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He said this because he had seen Moses and Elijah with Jesus.  This is the second appearing of Elijah in the New Testament and the fourth in the Bible.
He said this because he had seen Moses and Elijah with Jesus.  This is the second appearing of Elijah in the New Testament and the fourth in the Bible.


So if William Branham's biblical interpretation is correct and the spirit of Elihjah was to appear five time, then there is no room for a Gentile Elijah.
So if William Branham's biblical interpretation is correct and the spirit of Elijah was to appear five times, then there is no room for a Gentile Elijah.
 
=''The day cometh, that shall burn as an oven''=
 
In Malachi 4:1 we read:
 
:''For, behold, the day cometh, that shall '''burn''' as an oven; And all the proud, yea, a'''nd all that do wickedly, shall be stubble''': And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Mal 4:1.</ref>
 
William Branham interpreted Malachi 4 as applying to himself, as prophesying his ministry.  He stated that Malachi was "speaking over to a day coming. ...To a day of the coming of the Lord."<ref>William Branham, 60-1211E - The Laodicean Church Age, para. 63</ref> . He believed that all of Malachi chapter 4 was applicable to the second coming of Christ and not to Christ's first coming.
 
In Acts 2:15, Peter says that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost as the fulfillment of Joel 2:28–32
 
:''These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
 
::''‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.  I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.  The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.  And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ac 2:15–21.</ref>
 
It is interesting that the first words of Joel chapter 2, which would proceed the prophecy of Joel 2:28-32 contain words strikingly similar to Malachi 4:1
 
:''Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: '''For the day of the LORD cometh''', for it is nigh at hand; A day of darkness and eof gloominess, A day of clouds and of thick darkness, As the morning spread upon the mountains: A great people and a strong; There hath not been ever the like, Neither shall be any more after it, Even to the years of many generations.
 
:''A '''fire''' devoureth before them; And behind them '''a flame burneth''': The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them a desolate wilderness; Yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; And as horsemen, so shall they run.  Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, Like the noise of '''a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble''', As a strong people set in battle array.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Joel 2:1–5.</ref>
 
The verb translated “burn” in Malachi 4:1 is the same one rendered as "burneth" in Joel 2:3.
 
Joel 2 and Malachi 4 describe the same thing.  It is not Christ's second coming, it is the first.  And you don't have to believe us... just believe the Apostle Peter.


=Quotes of William Branham=
=Quotes of William Branham=