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+=A summary of our response to Jason Watkins=
+Jason Watkins starts with a premise that is flawed.
+:''The message of the hour is the restoration of the original teachings as Jesus promised it would be. Did not Jesus promise that Elijah would truly first come and restore all things? Do you now believe that Jesus was wrong?"
+Jesus DID NOT promise Elijah would come and restore all things... in fact, Jesus tells us this:
+Matthew 11:13-15 (HCSB)
+:''For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John; if you’re willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who is to come. Anyone who has ears should listen!
+AND --
+Matthew 17:10-13 (HCSB)
+:''So the disciples questioned Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
+:''“Elijah is coming and will restore everything,” He replied.
+:''“But I tell you: Elijah has already come, and they didn’t recognize him. On the contrary, they did whatever they pleased to him. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.”
+:''Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them about John the Baptist.
+Jesus RESTORED ALL THINGS:
+John 19:28-30 (HCSB)
+:''After this, when Jesus knew that everything was now accomplished that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, “I’m thirsty!”
+:''A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on hyssop and held it up to His mouth.
+:''When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” Then bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
+IT IS FINISHED!!
+Jason Watkins also claims that there is a requirement for a Gentile prophet.  This is a problem across the message and is simply a bad starting point.
+In OLD TESTAMENT times, there were only two ways for God to speak to His people:
+#at the time when the High Priests offered sacrifice for the people in the Holy of Holies, and
+#when God gave specific instructions to His prophets.
+But we are in a NEW COVENANT which was ushered in by Jesus Christ Himself when this happened:
+Matthew 27:50-51 (HCSB)
+:''Jesus shouted again with a loud voice and gave up His spirit. Suddenly, the curtain of the sanctuary was split in two from top to bottom; the earth quaked and the rocks were split.
+Notice here that the curtain in the sactuary, the veil which separated everyone EXCEPT the High Priest from God was torn from top to bottom giving EVERYONE direct access to God Himself.
+And then we know that Jesus told us in advance that a NEW COVENANT would be arriving when Jesus Christ tells us this:
+Luke 16:16 (HCSB)
+  “The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is strongly urged to enter it."
+AND--
+Matthew 11:13-15 (HCSB)
+  For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John;
+  if you’re willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who is to come.
+  Anyone who has ears should listen!
+The Apostle Paul reaffirms this after Christ died on the cross when he writes his letter to the Hebrew church:
+Hebrews 1:1-3 (HCSB)
+  Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in different ways.
+  In these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son. God has appointed Him heir of all things and made the universe through Him.
+  The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
+Both Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul tell us that the Word of God and the Holy Spirit are our direct access to God... NO PROPHETS REQUIRED...
+Now, are there prophets in the NEW COVENANT?  YES, ABSOLUTELY!!!  Paul the Apostle instrcuts us here:
+Ephesians 4:11-13 (HCSB)
+  And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,
+  for the training of the saints in the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,
+  until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into a mature man with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness.
+But they are not the access required or God's People to God, and they behave differently as is discussed here:
+Corinthians 14:29-33a (HCSB)
+  Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should evaluate.
+  But if something has been revealed to another person sitting there, the first prophet should be silent.
+  For you can all prophesy one by one, so that everyone may learn and everyone may be encouraged.
+  And the prophets’ spirits are under the control of the prophets,
+  since God is not a God of disorder but of peace...
+Here we see that the prophets are to be confirmed by other prophets... and they never lie in the Lord's Name (as Branham did several times), they never teach that which directly opposes the Word of God (as Branham did several times), and the visions and prophecies which they speak ALWAY come to pass (we can't find a single instance where what Branham said as a vision or prophecy BEFORE THE EVENT actually came to pass).
+There is no requirement for a Gentile prophet...
 =A response to Jason Watkins' defense of the message=
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 Jason Watkins, is the pastor of [[Bethel Tabernacle]], a message church in Beaufort, South Carolina.  He has no formal theological training, which is a badge of honor in [[The Message|the message]].
-The following is our response to his defense of the message.
+The following is our detailed response to his defense of the message.
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