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Lee Vayle (September 28, 1914 - June 23, 2012) was a close personal friend and acolyte of William Branham. He assisted in the editing (what William Branham referred to as "grammarizing") of the Church Age Book. Lee Vayle was a message preacher and over the years taught a number of heretical doctrines including the ''Parousia doctrine'', the denial of the deity of Jesus Christ and the espousing of bizarre hybrid of [[Nestorianism]], [[Arianism]] and [[Adoptionism]]. Some of these doctrines are remarkably similar to certain of the foundational beliefs of the Jehovah's Witnesses. | Lee Vayle (September 28, 1914 - June 23, 2012) was a close personal friend and acolyte of William Branham. He assisted in the editing (what William Branham referred to as "grammarizing") of the Church Age Book. He was a message preacher who developed a relatively small following which is considered a sub-cult or sub-sect within the "message". | ||
=Lee Vayle's status among his followers= | |||
Lee Vayle told his followers: | |||
:''Bro. Branham told me after I wrote the books; he said, “Lee, I believe as God gave Aaron to Moses to explain his ministry, He gave you to me to explain me and my ministry.”<ref>Lee Vayle, ‘The Ministry of the Word’, December 27, 1992, para. 33</ref> | |||
There is no evidence, other than Lee Vayle's words, that William Branham ever said this. | |||
Lee Vayle's followers attempt to twist William Branham's words to verify this. These two quotes are often repeated on websites that promote Lee Vayle's teachings: | |||
:''"We had a real Moses and a real Aaron." - William Branham | |||
:''"Jannes and Jambres rise up in the last days to withstand Moses and Aaron." - William Branham | |||
The first quote is clearly a misquote since what William Branham did not actually say the words above. What he did say was: | |||
:''But remember, before there can be a bogus dollar, there has to be a real dollar first; first has to be a real dollar, and then they’re made off of that. Just like we had a real Moses and a real Aaron, then we had a Jambres and Jannes after them. You see how it all comes?<ref>William Branham, 65-1127B - Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God's Will, para. 96</ref> | |||
This is clearly not referring to Lee Vayle. | |||
And it is a real stretch to make the second quote (in context) refer to Lee Vayle: | |||
:''Because I believe that we’re living in a day that when there’s mysterious things going on, and will continue to go on, and get complicated, because we know that there’s to be a Jannes and Jambres rise up in the last days to withstand Moses and Aaron, as the Bible said, and some impersonations to act like it’s something that it is isn’t.<ref>William Branham, 60-0729 - What It Takes To Overcome All Unbelief: Our Faith, para. 11</ref> | |||
And it begs the question - who are Jannes and Jambres today if Moses and Aaron were William Branham and Lee Vayle. | |||
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Lee Vayle was a message preacher and over the years taught a number of heretical doctrines including the ''Parousia doctrine'', the denial of the deity of Jesus Christ and the espousing of bizarre hybrid of [[Nestorianism]], [[Arianism]] and [[Adoptionism]]. Some of these doctrines are remarkably similar to certain of the foundational beliefs of the Jehovah's Witnesses. | |||
=Should we consider the followers of Lee Vayle to be Christians?= | |||
As a result, we much conclude that those that follow Lee Vayle can not be considered Christians. | As a result, we much conclude that those that follow Lee Vayle can not be considered Christians. | ||