...a private message to us on our Facebook page]. We will respond as soon as we are able.
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But what did he mean by that and was his teaching Biblical?
=What the Bible teaches=
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=We were in the message!=
==We Believed==
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People in the message believe they are in a higher level of spiritual knowledge and holiness than Christi
...p and understand that this feeling is driven by a message understanding of what true spirituality is. But it is in itself a false teaching.
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*Should we look for another Gentile Elijah prophet?
*If there is no restored truth, what should we believe?
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...t it, still, it’s the tender hand of Jehovah, leading His little children. We thank You, Lord.
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:''But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung arou
...age. As a result, we have a fair amount of frustration now about the lies we were told, and how the teaching of William Branham are used by ministers to
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...Until August 1, 2012 we published pro-Branham material. After this date, we had over 80 Message Churches drop their links to our site.
||'''[[Testimonies of Former Followers|We left to follow Christ, and you can too.]]''' Watch the vide testimonies of
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And, yes, we do realize he is dead, but this is what we want to say to him given his major impact on our lives (more about that bel
We called you 'brother' because you said if we love you we should call you brother. It wasn't just a term of endearment, it was a title of ut
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...o our rented passenger van. When we arrived home and unwrapped the chairs, we found that the leg of one of the chairs was significantly damaged as to ren
I immediately contacted the store and we returned the chair later that week. They offered to refund us the money les
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We received an email which asked the following question: ''Did William Branham
...k out. That's all she needs. That's what the prophet said it would do. And we're ready for it then. (51-0502 - The Angel Of The Lord)
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This helps us understand what Paul means when he talks about those who eat and drink “without discernin
:''“Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.”
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=Are we in the Christian dispensation?=
==No, we are not!==
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...''. Look at the evidence, verify it, and try to answer the questions that we have raised.
...://www.facebook.com/BelieveTheSign a message to us on our Facebook page]. We will correct any factual errors as quickly as possible.
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:''And when I got off at Cairo, Egypt, just before we met that King Farouk...<ref>William Branham, 61-0217 - The Mark Of The Beas
...dia or possibly returning from India on his way back to America. However, we know that this could not possibly be true because '''King Farouk was depose
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...ece of information you can provide is a URL or other reference to what you believe may be the source of the text.
...ome material from various Wikipedia articles and, where we have done this, we have tried to indicate attribution.
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...find out, that, God was the Author of faith, to believe, for the people to believe and to trust His Word. And '''Satan is the author of wisdom''', trying to g
...ust believe This; and put a death, separation, punishment, if they fail to believe It.<ref>William Branham, 62-0401 - Wisdom Versus Faith, para. 85, 92</ref>
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...ing a target and by proposing credible and concrete rationales for action. We specify our integrated account in 13 propositions.
...epresentations get used by social groups to achieve political ends, and so we invoke frame theory to deal with this aspect.
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...'s lies were for the express purpose to deceive as many as he could get to believe him. His lies are affecting millions of honest people. His lies were about
...lies he told that were his foundational vindications. If you remove those, what do you have? Just another man's opinion about Scripture.
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...to believe they are. The only thing that is going to be real in the end is what is.” (pg 106).
...ndication is self-promotion, and the doctrines continually point to a man. What once looked like a prophet coming down from Sunset Mountain with an angelic
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...ses that represented their different religions. And I thought, "Oh, Jesus. What would you do if You walked in here?" See?
...that. We sent missionaries in there for years. That's right. And what have we gotten? Nothing to count for.
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...unteer editors. Most asked that we remove their names from the site after we published our [[Humble Pie]] article. Rod Bergen took over as editor from
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=What William Branham taught=
So what is the Dove (capital D) he is speaking of? Is it the Holy Spirit? If it's n
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=What is confessional orthodoxy?=
In this website, we use the term "confessional orthodoxy" to refer to those doctrines and teach
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...imple word 'ship'. We all know what the word means (and even if we didn’t, we could easily find its definition in a dictionary). But 'ship' means differe
...text right now, as you read these sentences. As you read, you are deciding what these words mean based on the words around them. When you run into an ambig
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What someone is preaching '''MUST''' line up with Scripture. If it does not, the
...l as RULES AND REVELATIONS, it is obvious this teaching is not Scriptural. We are no longer under the law:
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...lliam Branham's message really believe in a practical sense. If you don't believe the way that they do, you are generally classified as a "foolish virgin."
...if I get some doctrine in this, you don't believe it, that's all right. '''We won't fall out about it.''' But just like if you'd ask me to eat cherry pie
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...that William Braham taught that followers of William Branham simply do not believe in any practical sense.
:''If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you
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*What does He want from me? <br>
...hese desires is because there is a purpose for us to fulfill, and a God to believe in. Just like fish were made for the sea, so man is made for God.
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...''. Look at the evidence, verify it, and try to answer the questions that we have raised.
=The response we get when we ask questions=
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...in the message are so nice. Should I really be concerned about what they believe?"
The answer is - you should be very concerned. Why? Because the teachings of William Branham and thos
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In his book, ''The Righteous Mind'', Jonathan Haidt discuss how we think about our beliefs:
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Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, ''We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he
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...his prophecy was given in advance and appears to be the only prophecy that we are aware of that can be proved to have been made before the fact.
...ve it was in January, at the convention, it was the time that that priest (what's his name? I forget his name now) was here. [Someone says, "Stanley."--Ed.
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...ast age is going to go back to manifesting the Pure Word Bride? That means we will have the Word once again as it was perfectly given, and perfectly unde
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Do you know where the New Testament came from? Is the New Testament that we have today the same as the New Testament that the early church had?
Are the English translations that we have today reliable? Which is the best English translation? Is it the Kin
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We do not believe William Branham to be a prophet, at least in the context of those following
...t if he was the messenger to the last church age as those in the believe? What then?
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We cannot be sure where he copied it from but it is clear that this was not a
...ene Fathers and it is clear from their writings that the following did not believe in the immortality of the soul:
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...e at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains everything we need God to tell us for salvation, for trusting him perfectly, and for obey
...iders what he has told us in the Bible to be enough for us''', and that we should rejoice in the great revelation that he has given us and be content with it
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William Branham taught that Jesus Christ died a sinner. But is that what the Bible teaches?
=What the Bible teaches=
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|We reject:
...nal statement” is our belief in the absolute authority of the Word of God. We acknowledge only the headship of the Lord Jesus Christ.<ref>From Branham.or
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...ack, and it was like a cloud had just settled over the whole congregation. We got to see it.
...e the meeting was going to be, had to go there about 3 hours early. And as we were getting out of the car, you know, it was a nice day, wasn't any clouds
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...rform every miracle that Moses could do. Does this contradict scripture? What does the Bible say?
=What the Bible teaches=
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=What the Bible says=
...another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’
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...agonizing process of questioning or even leaving the Message of the Hour, we want to help you. The purpose of this website is not to ridicule the messag
:''“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them—what do you do? You leave the other ninety-nine sheep in the pasture and go look
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=What William Branham taught=
...He wavers between who that "one" is... but essentially, he is referring to what God was doing through himself. (Luke 17:30)
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Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a gre
...d, came, and were healed: Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
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...an idol is anything upon which we base our self-worth or value or to which we devote ourselves without question or restraint.
...urned “truth” into an idol. It says that we are saved because we have and believe the “only truth” that is within the realms of Christianity today and re
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...translated into your language, please [[Contact information|contact us]]. We need translators!
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...in the lives of others. Today, we acknowledge faith in Christ alone, and we ask for your forgiveness.
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What is the status of message preachers from a scriptural perspective?
:''Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.<ref>The Holy Bible: Engli
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...ale", "Belief Continuum" or "Certainty Spectrum". We all have one whether we realize it or not.
*We have incomplete information and imperfect reasoning. And yet we often treat our conclusions as if they are as binary as God's omniscient kn
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We have often heard this excuse for someone maintaining their continued belief
...what did you turn your back on me for? Do you realize it's just fulfilling what the Scripture said? Yes, it does that way. Now I can hardly get in a place.
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The people asked: ''"And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?"''
The people then asked Peter saying: ''Men and brethren, what shall we do?''
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...on the wall and made that same thing.<ref>William Branham, 61-0208 - Sirs, We Would See Jesus, para. 5</ref>
...e, drawed right there on the picture, on the side of the wall. '''And when we got finished, the Holy Spirit come in and made a circle of the same thing o
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==What does the Bible say?==
What man or denomination could invalidate this promise?
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...ter he realized that Joseph was not present when he heard a blast. Joseph should have been there at the time based on [[Prophecy of the Cloud|The Vision of
...ly a request by a father that God would allow his son to be a prophet. It should be noted that by this emphasis, William Branham clearly believes that the p
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...-this missile''', see this atomic affair or--or saucers they call it, ever what it is. Been a lot of criticism, a lot pro and con. But now just watch just
...g daughter, which is sitting back over here, called me in to watch, said, "We're going to turn the television on, some singing quartets," or whatever it
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...that if it wasn't for Abraham, God would have struck her dead. But is this what the Bible teaches?
=What the Bible says=
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=What really happened?=
...the freak stunts of the flood in Jeffersonville and an item for Ripley's 'Believe It Or Not' column, happened at the First Presbyterian Church, it was learne
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You're out of the message... now what?<ref>This page is based on an article by Allison Grovel which appeared in R
=Where we came from=
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=What they really believe=
...subject by [[The Message|clicking here]]). As such, PTM and Jason DeMars believe a number of unusual doctrines, including:
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:''"Friends, if I'll live a hundred years, I'll never forget what happened. Those two big brown eyes looked up at me. She was so weak she cou
:''Oh, friend. There--there's a land somewhere. I believe as she was dying, her eyes just opened up to see paradise beyond. She ralli
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Do you know what you believe and why you believe it?
...apply it to oneself, (declaring your ministry GREATER than that of Jesus) should certainly set off an alarm.
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...anham was referring to. If you are in the message and know the reference, we would appreciate it if you could email it to us.
...nd Communism will destroy the entire thing according to the Scripture, and we're in that day.<ref>THE.BAPTISM.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-2 SUND
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=What we know is true=
...ot made in the image of God, but in the image of man.<ref>58-0927, Why Are We Not A Denomination?</ref>
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We received the following report on Facebook from someone referring to themsel
We asked for the name of the Bishop so we could follow up and determine whether there was actually a healing that occ
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William Branham said that the only thing we have to do is to let go and let God.
=What the Bible teaches=
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That's a reasonable point IF there is a clear rationale. We simply ask - '''"What is Donny Reagan's reasoning for staying in the message when confronted with
But that is complete nonsense and he has nothing to base his claim on. We stand for the whole Word of God.
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William Branham often compared people who did not believe his message with people that rejected the truth in the Bible.
But William Branham also compared people who do not believe his teachings with those who failed to get on Noah's Ark, those who didn't
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...ing problems, “You all need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit.” Nowhere do we hear of the risen Lord Jesus speaking to the troubled and weak churches in
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...ster Schrader was a prophetess who has since gone on to be with the Lord.) We were praying about different projects in our ministry. Right in the middle
|''"Yes, Bible days were here again. Here was a man who practiced what we preached."'' (A Man Sent From God, Pg 104)
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We have been asked the question by message followers many times:
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...l year in high school, I stepped out of the church and stopped attending. We had changed churches and, my friends from high school were more important t
What eventually brought me back?
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=Who We Are=
==[[The History of Believe The Sign]]==
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:''"We will continue to provide these crucial and necessary essential spiritual se
...ll do so by continuing to implement and modify the following measures that we as a church have taken to include but not limited to;
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William Branham often quoted the Bible as saying: ''"We're borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies."''
=What the Bible actually says=
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...lieve thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.</font>
...thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned. Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed
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...’ve got one of it now. I’d like to test it just a little bit and see where we’re standing. Oh, the mark of the beast, remember, is a religious mark. Ce
...And therefore, I try to study It from different Scriptures to make It—see what It would say. All right.
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...a case in a court of law. And the Greek for “reason” is λόγον, from which we get the word “logic”.
...t failed and had prophecies that changed dramatically over time. In fact, we have yet to find one unambiguous prophecy that William Branham made on a ta
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...e most powerful ever measured by seismograph. Followers of William branham believe that this earthquake was the fulfillment of a prophecy made just days befor
...our that we're living. I'm here in godly fear, that, it may be sooner than we think, of His appearing.<ref>The Identified Christ Of All Ages (64-0401)</r
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...ng like that around this country.''' That's right. It's true, friend. Then we talk about the heathen, I just wonder who is the heathen.<ref>54-0902 - "So
...ht life in Africa like that. No, '''they live higher, cleaner morally than we do that calls ourselves Christians.''' Yes, sir. If that girl's found guilt
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...ould treat what he said about the future in the same way that they treated what their neighbour said.
...e that the church will be gone. Oh, my. What can we do, friends? Where are we at?''
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...that you had ever come into contact with. It intimidated me. I don't know what other word to use.
...istry of the prophet Elijah. My wife Tillie and I started to pray. We knew we were in the end time, so where was this prophet?
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In 1965 William Branham said that the world was square, based on Rev. 7:1 and what he read in a newspaper article.
In the past, we would have disregarded this as a "human error". However, [[Voice of God Rec
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...ing a case in a court of law. The Greek for reason is "loggia" from which we get the word "logic."
...t failed, and had prophecies that change dramatically over time. In fact, we have yet to find one single unambiguous prophecy that William Branham made
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...iam Branham stated that the Bible was the absolute and that he only taught what the Bible said. Is that true?
...I—I’m a person just with one Book, and that’s the Bible. '''I just believe what the Bible says''' and—and don’t try to take other’s word.<ref>William
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...ed by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?"
...the world she has to be sitting in the judgment with Him. That is exactly what Daniel saw.
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...marizes, in the form of a list of questions, virtually all of the research we have conducted since 2004 with respect to William Branham.''' Click on any
...tent that the specific question does not link to anything, it simply means we have not had the time to research the issue as yet.
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...f heaven. And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.”- 1 Corinthians 15:42-49
...ion of the world, which I believe. But I don't see anything here that says we had any kind of spirit bodies that were with Him then. In fact, in Job 38 G
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...ist. It was. And the Word is God, see, Christ. All right. Now, after that, we find him then crowned. And when he got crowned, now, he’s very innocent a
...that ever has been or ever will be. We find that in Matthew 4:11. And now we find out, then, that Satan already had politics.
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...And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. And his name through faith in his name hath made this man st
And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, ''By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?''
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Is this correct? Is that what the message of William Branham is? - the word for our day?
=What William Branham taught=
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...as a spirit and then God put that "spirit being" into a body. But is that what the Bible teaches?
...philosophy. While it is unlikely that William Branham read Philo's works, we do know that he was familiar with Mormon teaching. Mormons teach that " Ma
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...e come to understand a couple of things after our discussion was over that we did not understand initially:
...sage of William Branham. Click on the specific link to go to the question we posed to him and his answer to our question.
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...orld of the message make it to the news services in a particular country. We want to share these stories with you:
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When we left the message, we did not know where to turn. We had been taught that anything outside of the message, was false. Was there
...ather, these resources have helped us in coming to grips with the problems we found in the message and have helped us draw closer to Christ:
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=What is a denomination?=
...e all don't join that family, we're born in that family. And so, I, that's what I'm trying to represent, the—the best that I know how.<ref>William Branha
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.... Like Jesus, Brother Branham redemonstrated the very thing which made men believe that the true Messiah had come.''
...Father worketh hitherto, and I work. The Son can do nothing of Himself but what He seeth the Father do.”''
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...America to England’s tea party. That’s right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them. Throwed the whole world into a war, that caused the world w
...ose visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?” Over 80 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of
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''Reminds me of one day, me and my brother was going along, and we seen a--an old turtle. And that was the funniest looking thing I ever seen,
''We went up to him. He went [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] Puts me in the
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...rly at our large frame tabernacle and found the building so congested that we could hardly get in. This had never happened before on the first night of
...of these miracles was all the Indians needed to convince them. Presently, we noticed a bit of confusion as numbers of them began to get up and leave abr
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...taken place. And the question is a Bible question, we are invited here to believe there must be a true answer to '''the whole hidden secret that’s been hid
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Does God want to do something new but we are eating off something that is fifty years old?
...e average span of life of such an event is about five years. Personally, I believe God is doing a new thing in his church today. Yet this great work of the Sp
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...you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
=What the Bible teaches=
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...are simply sincere Christians that hold to the Bible as the Word of God. We do not point to any organization, church or man as having special status or
...So, if you are looking for a statement of the basic truths that we hold to we would refer you to the [http://www.lausanne.org/en/documents/lausanne-coven
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You know Satan works in this flesh. But he can't work what's on the inside. See that's the promise. And if I got to stumble I want to
.... I'll tell you. You might not like what you hear but I'll tell you what I believe.
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...latform, the wind subsided and it became very quiet...The following Friday we had a similar experience with rain. It looked as if the meeting would have
At first the girl could not believe what she had heard. She said ''"Who me?"''
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...'." (James 3:1) . William Branham must be held to a higher standard, but i believe he even fails a much lower standard.
...ed, "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
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==What the Bible says==
===What the Bible means===
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...wn salvation (eternal health) by adding our own works to Jesus’ sacrifice, we are only disrespecting a perfectly good recipe. Every person has the poten
...e to the law, we are only proudly covering ourselves in our own filth when we present ourselves to the Lord and to his people.
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...highlight the problems with William Branham and his message. However, we believe the scripture requires us to highlight any false teachings and to let peopl
Here is what the Bible says:
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=What the Bible teaches=
...like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. '''For now''' we see in a mirror dimly, '''but then''' face to face. '''Now''' I know in par
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...culture, personality, and others presuppositions. Once we recognize this, we are better equipped to interpret the text honesty. Otherwise, our preconcep
...rtant to the overall story, but is not important in isolation to the rest. We must understand the difference between “prescriptive” and “descriptiv
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...ital. The following is the testimony of Fred Barker as related in the Only Believe magazine:
...d never heard anything like that before, and at that time I had no idea of what he was talking about.
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...pour out the plagues upon the earth now. “Come up hither and I’ll show you what’s fixing to take place. Christ-rejecting, godless sinners, I’m going to
...s that reject this message tonight, is going to be asked to give a reason, what then?
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...re the problem was and they told me that if you were called it was because we found your number on her phone. Soon I arrived and I saw the sister lying t
...nt prosecutor and we took the body to the morgue. Arriving at the morgue, we found a big wound on her neck.
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=What the Bible teaches=
In Genesis 1, we read:
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...front lines in Germany. While he had made if back alive, he suffered from what is now known as "shell shock", and had also experienced a nervous breakdown
...as Simon, wasn't it? That's the first man He met. All right. He told Simon what his name was. Now, the Lord help me to know something that's wrong with you
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...brother Dalton. I see this coming out alright. We'll all be okay."'' But what faced Ed Daulton's children was [[William Branham and sexual abuse|signific
...n that area, but he was quite enchanted. And he told us several times when we were kids, that he was just very enchanted about the idea of going out west
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...our best to project a Christian attitude in every aspect of our work, and we try to avoid controversy because it rarely ends in a positive outcome.
...ty, he is an outspoken critic of both my father and all of us who claim to believe his teachings. He makes absolutely no efforts to hide his identity, and you
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...Doug McHughes said that all he heard was just "a screaming noise". After what seemed about five minutes, the wind went straight up into the sky and disap
...leasure to be around...On another trip, Bro. Branham said, "In the morning we will go up this creek and get our pigs." ''
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...re, and the Louisville Colonels, and--and baseball, and so forth. And then we lived near there.<ref>:Sermon: My Life Story, LA, California, April 19, 195
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:''"We had a very long talk, maybe about three hours, and he was telling me all ab
...l's retelling of this story is not that exciting, and does not disclose to what story his mother said, "That's nothing but the truth".
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#We have access into grace (Rom. 5:2) God’s throne is the throne of grace (He
#We have access unto the Father (Eph. 2:18). Though He is sovereign, we can still approach Him as a child does a father (Luke 11:11–13, Rom. 8:15
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...or a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That wa
...tness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
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...ch were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, ''Lord, shall we smite with the sword?''
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...teaching of the Seals from 63 through 65. I have looked into the so called believe the sign and other critic groups and find them to be satanically destructiv
...ome financial or crooked scandal....except for William Branham. That's why we...as a family.... followed William Branham's ministry even more closely....
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...remember one of his sermons he preached when he was in some land, and oh, what taken place. And he's setting on the log, saying, "I'm riding on it; I'm ri
:''And I'm hearing that glorious old song "Only Believe," and of Paul Rader, the writer of that song. And '''I was a little boy set
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:''I guess you all seen the picture out there the other day, '''we stood by that same rock'''. And here is that Light, the Angel of the Lord,
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#What passage states that the Angel to Laodicea in Revelation 3:14 is the one who
These questions must have scriptural answers. What does the Bible say?
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...lural nature of these words refers to the endless or undefined nature. All we can conclude from this is that Elohim is endless, and though he can never b
...let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
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...stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of
...y they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the red
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=What is the motivation for this website?=
...nd a new church started up. It did not differ doctrinally from the church we left, yet the pastor from our former church believed all those who left wer
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:''But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses u
...n the light for their age, there was no forgiveness for sins. But is this what scripture really teaches?
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...ouldn't be able to do it. There's something we've got to step farther; we--we can't have enough faith for Divine healing hardly.<ref>THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEF
|''So we find that '''our Message''' is, today, the Message that we have, of, "'''Come out of Babylon''', and be free...<ref>DOORS.IN.DOOR_ FL
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...ly all of the emails that we have received from message believers, fear is what they try to use to persuade us not to say anything.
...lism]]''' vs Thought. Is the Bible true because you believe it, or do you believe the Bible because its true?
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...ere also given to prove that the prophet was correct and that his teaching should be taken seriously. And they would prove that the Bible and its end-time in
We can imagine the impact of such a sequence of events. By the end of World W
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...rd Jesus for sending us a Prophet and the end time Message. It's one thing we all have in common, that God sent a Messenger to call out the Bride of Jesu
...going to have a little blessing and then we'll have our breakfast and then we'll take a little time of fellowship with one another. Let us bow our heads.
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...e commissioned in the Bible, over about the 20th chapter of Deuteronomy, I believe, It said, yeah, “Watch, and if one speaks in the Name of the Lord, and it
...tell the difference, whether it was GOD who spoke or not?” Here’s how: If what the prophet spoke in GOD’s name doesn’t happen, then obviously GOD wasn
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...their eternal destination on the line. They point their fingers and say, "What if you're wrong?"
...ly all of the emails that we have received from message believers, fear is what they try to use to persuade us not to say anything.
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...ly Spirit in a person's life was believing William Branham's message. But what does the Bible teach?
=What the Bible says=
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...f praying, he came in and told us that the Lord had showed him a vision of what to do for our little Betty. She was mere skin and bones and shook all the t
:''Bro. Bill asked us if we would believe God and would obey what He said to do. After he had prayed and called over her the name of Jesus, o
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...ter is for us to follow Jesus in his suffering, bringing glory to God when we bless those who persecute us. Eventually, the love of God will eliminate s
...it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.''
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We were asked a question recently - '''"What did William Branham teach that takes a person away from Christ?"'''
...uldn't matter because the spirit behind it is true. He went on to ask: '''What's wrong with wearing dresses, not drinking, and all of the other rules that
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...could grieve the Holy Spirit away by various means and might be doomed if we did so! But was he correct?
=What does the Bible teach?=
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=What the Bible says=
:'' For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; A
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We agree with your Brian Tracy quote:
...You reject information that contradicts what you have already decided to believe, whether or not your beliefs, your prejudices, are based on fact or fantasy
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...-faced queen of Israel." Because Joseph Branham is the president of VoGR, we can assume that the statements contained in CTV represent his beliefs.
In 1 Kings we read:
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==What William Branham said about 1977==
...g: Ten years for total annihilation. That won't contradict the Bible, just what the Bible said. The heavens and the earth will be on fire. Just sweep over
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We received a question from a reader who asked:
:::''"...and some of you old-timers remember we were renting the Redmond Hall in 1933 when I gave these prophesies".
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...to Voice of God Recordings, specifically to Billy Paul Branham, regarding what happened to the list of prophecies that William Branham referred to.
We believe that the second alternative, "it never existed", is the most likely. Why?
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...ling and be made well. God bless you. '''"Kiitos Jesus."''' Hallelujah! '''What was I saying?'''<ref>William Branham, 59-0411E</ref>
...ext evening, April 12, 1959 (also in Los Angeles), William Branham relates what happened the previous evening:
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What is surprising is that it is unlikely that '''the story was true as William
And what did William Branham say about his in-laws? He said that Hope's "mother was
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...America to England's tea party. That's right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them, throwed the whole world into a war, to cause a world war.''
...se visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?” Over 80 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of
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...agonizing process of questioning or even leaving the Message of the Hour, we want to help you. The purpose of this website is not to ridicule the messag
==Where we started==
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=Is this what really happened?=
Here is what William Branham said:
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...am Branham stated that the prophecies were written down, so each retelling should have been consistent with prior retellings. However, '''William Branham di
...five of them has already happened. So you can judge yourself how far away we are.'' (November 13, 1960, Jeffersonville, Indiana, para. 40, 42) </ref>
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=What William Branham taught=
==What message churches teach==
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But I am going to take a risk for the sake of my friends who know not what has happened, and for the sake of the broken, fearful soul who sits in conf
...e. For my wife and I, we had every reason to stay. We loved our church and we were proud to be a part of such a wonderful group of people.
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William Branham often quoted the Bible as saying: ''"We're borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies."''
=What the Bible actually says=
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==What the Bible teaches==
...e as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, bu
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...y_Davis_and_the_KKK was heavily involved with the K.K.K.] Perhaps this is what formed William Branham's opinion.
...ly appear to be racist. Read the quotes below and make up your own mind. What would happen if the current president of the United States made similar com
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...the Book: the sounding of the seventh angel's message, the mystery of God should be finished that's been declared by His holy prophets. That's the prophets
...'s a Book of Redemption. (We'll get into that in a little while.) And now, we know that this Book of Redemption will not be thoroughly understood: it's p
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...e pages of your Bible, for it's '''THUS SAITH THE LORD''', "Remember, when we land in India, you're going to hear of tens of thousands times thousands be
...yet, as many of you might know, the Indian trip wasn't the success that it should've been, because I failed to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, and nev
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...mbiguous prophecy made by William Branham that was recorded publicly (i.e. we can verify on a tape) and that was later fulfilled in a clear manner. This
...ieve that God has it just ahead. I believe I'll live to see it. And that's what I pray for.''
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...ferences between the new covenant and the old covenant are not important? What does the Bible say about this?
=What is the "new covenant"?=
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...an to offend these that believe in Me? “These signs shall follow them that believe in Me. Touch not My anointed. Do My prophets no harm.”
...emember? What if It wouldn’t have been there then? I’d have been a corpse. What about over here at Zion, Illinois, down here in Harlingen, Texas and the di
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:''If I perish in hell becouse I believe Willian Branham preached the Word of God I will do that happily!!!!!!!!!!!!
...nd forgive us all of all our sins.what i don't understand in the message I believe it and I know I will understand it by and by.Gracious God.Amen
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Jay Cox: I guess we'll try and make it. I was gonna say about, five minutes each. If that's oka
Rod Bergen: We don't have any follow-ups we just make a statement I think, and just end it. I think that's good. I'm ha
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.... By the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God's Holy Spirit becomes our own, and we are united with the Holy One.
|Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgement; and, O mighty
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:''Nowhere was we ever commanded to baptize, "In the name of the Father, and in the name of t
Actually that challenge is quite easy to meet and we would '''challenge''' message believers to '''find us one scripture where a
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...sinners do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid
=What should we look for?=
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...d the gospel was preached to the poor. It is impossible to tell everything what I have seen in those days with my own eyes. But I want to relate a few of t
...ts and never believed in God, “but tonight we saw that there is a God whom we will serve.” Through this event the father of the translator, teacher Sch
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:''Come down, everyone now while we sing, come right on down.
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=Question 18 - Why do we need the message?=
Further to Question 15, “What doctrines comprise the message?”, I would say, with respect, that you did
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...that they themselves put his sermons above that of the Bible because they believe that he was infallible. These groups would not only include virtually all
...e the Bible! He told us that the Bible is our absolute and that is what I believe.
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...The seventh angel gathers them up, and finishes the entire mystery. That’s what the Bible said, “Finishes the mystery of the written Book.”'' (62-1230E
I understand from your response to Question 5 that you believe William Branham to be the angel of Revelation 10:7.
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...d Jesus’ message of love into one of hate for those Christians that do not believe the message.
...as to whether a person is a Christian or not - Do they love? But what do we see in the message?
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...lly. This is another example of William Branham not knowing his Bible or what I refer to as “lazy theology.”
...suit. When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, and I said, ‘What can I do?’
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William Branham admitted in 1950 that he often guessed at the disease. We would guess that perhaps he got better at guessing after years of practice.
...come familiar with that. And you'll tell people all of their diseases, and what they've got in their body. And then if you'll be..."
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|What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
...or a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That wa
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But what does the Bible teach?
=What does the Bible say?=
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...where the Bible and the message "seemed" to disagree - they should simply believe William Branham. They were encouraged to place their understanding of the
=What putting scripture "on the shelf" really does=
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=What do we think of this publication?=
We were recently asked about this newsletter. One ex-cult member giving their
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...n 1963 and that his followers are now living in the Millennium. They also believe that Jesus returned in his “Third Coming” in 1963 and that He is now re
...no different from an animal as it is composed of the same 16 elements that we have. And as such, Jesus is considered by them to be a mere mortal man wit
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The Bible is clear as to how we were to recognize a prophet. He would gain credibility as God fulfilled th
We see this in 1 Samuel 3:19-20:
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...nistry is that '''we have been unable to find a single occurrence''' where we have a clear prophecy recorded on tape that was later clearly fulfilled.
...y made by William Branham that was recorded publicly before the fact (i.e. we can verify on a tape) and that was later fulfilled in a clear manner?''' S
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...t. There's not a way in the world for you to know it.''' God is the Judge; we are not to judge. See? <ref>William Branham, 54-0103M - Questions And Answe
...'s a Sign. And the Holy Spirit is a Sign. <ref>William Branham, 59-1216 - What Is The Holy Ghost?, para. 31</ref>
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1) Some believe him to be Elijah the Prophet in fulfillment of Malachi 4:5. There are two
*[[Prophet|What is a Prophet]]
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=What William Branham taught=
...e laughed. They said, "Flying saucers?" made a fun out of it. But you know what I'm thinking? Jesus said before He comes there will be signs in the heaven
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...Russia, means "clay." "Eisenhower," in Ameri--in English, means "iron."''' We're at the end.
...time. It was direct prophecy. The East and the West had fulfilled exactly what Daniel said, that ten kingdoms, there would be... wouldn't mix, like iron a
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...al power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”<ref>The New Internatio
...ime in the past and that cause was the particular furniture manufacturer. We all know from experience that things that begin to exist have a cause for t
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...just–just dividing what we could divide. But I know he was hungry, ‘cause we hadn’t eaten since the day before. <ref>51-0415</ref>
:''What do you think about Him? Your daddy died about a–two weeks ago in your arm
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:''And now, tonight, we are studying this Second Seal. And for the first four Seals there is four h
As with the First Seal, we again compare William Branham's teaching above to what Charles Taze Russel said in the 1918 book, The Finished Mystery:
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=What the Bible teaches=
In Numbers 2 we read:
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We received an email which asked this question:
:''What are you offering as an alternative to the message that he has brought?
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...ple who also were of the view that he made errors, but they emphasize that we must avoid examining those mistakes but rather look at when he was under th
...ling and be made well. God bless you. '''"Kiitos Jesus."''' Hallelujah! '''What was I saying?'''
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...ot really knowing what Paul preached and your inability to correctly place what is said.
Let us look at what Paul said..
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...ain the shift in William Branham's doctrines over time, many ministers who believe he was Elijah the Prophet teach that his sermons became more inspired as ti
...rticle we outline how the New Testament was handed down, and transcribed. We explain discrepancies that are not errors, but interpretation - such as the
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Listen to an eyewitness recount exactly what she saw and heard - [http://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-29-sylvia-perk
=What was in the cornerstone??=
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...will outline a clear picture of the BIBLICAL sin of plagiarism. Fianlly, we deal with the specific questions raised in each of the emails.
Message believers have to reconcile what they believe (that William Branham was a biblical prophet) with the fact that William Br
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...ime Message" service. It's been a year now since I left, and I felt that I should speak out about it because I feel more comfortable now. When I left, I was
...ching a bit more that's when I noticed that there are so many things, like what I was questioning, was just the surface. I could brush that off easily to s
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...t without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
...ity that this man have somewhat also to offer. For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according t
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...does the Bible say about how the mysteries of God should be revealed? Do we really have to [[Reading between the lines|read between the lines]] when re
==What the Bible says==
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...rs of William Branham put his sermons above that of the Bible because they believe that he was infallible. These groups would include most of the followers of
...ve the Bible! He told us that the Bible is our absolute and that is what I believe.
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We will be in war with Germany. Watch Russia. (Now, that's...) Communism, Nazi
...I predict that this will take place." Now, remember, the Lord ne... That's what the Lord showed, but "I predict this will take place before 1977.") Upon th
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...is Web Site greatly respect and honor the memory of our Bro. Bosworth. But we felt it necessary to "update" some of the information in light of the fact
:''In the "progressive unfolding" of that ministry we have come to understand, through Bible prophecy, the significance of a Mini
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...who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, '''and what [is] his son's name''', if thou canst tell?'' (Proverbs 30:4)
...hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
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...list everything that we are aware of. If there is anything that you feel should be dealt with on this page or information that will bring greater accuracy
#the perspective of time - we can see the fruits of the Message movement over time.
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=What the Bible teaches=
...testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple''” (Ps. 19:7). Again we read, “''The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understandin
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...to have avoided listing them on their Tape Index and Message Audio page. We have not yet analyzed these audio clips to determine where the [blank spot
...dained and declared you to be a part of. Don’t go out to see the proof of what I just said. Hear me as a voice crying to you from the depths of love & fon
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Here are the facts that we have been able to confirm:
Here are the trips of William Branham that we are aware of:
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...:14–27 Paul shows how various functions cohere with each other ‘that there should be no division in the body.’<ref>R. T. Kendall, Understanding Theology, V
...o us that there was something unique about the office of apostle, and that we would not expect it to continue today, for no one today can add words to th
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=What the Bible teaches=
:''But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Stan
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...as eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.<ref>The Holy Bibl
=What the Bible actually says=
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:''Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. And if anyone th
The Corinthian church thought that their conduct should be based on knowledge, and that knowledge gave them the right to act as the
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...nation? The better question is this - How do I, as a Christian, determine what constitutes false doctrine?
...m that X is a false doctrine, or so and so is "off the Word". But based on what authority do they say that? Theie own? Because that is the standard traditi
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...m took much of the church age sermon series from Clarence Larkin. Here is what Larkin said on the subject of the "Lord's Day":
...“in the Spirit on the LORD’S DAY.” '''There has been much confusion as to what is meant here by the “Lord’s Day.” Some hold that the “First Day of
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...ought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
...ngs, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
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=What Third Exodus believes=
#They believe that [[The Serpent's Seed|the original sin was sexual in nature and involve
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...I was coming home, we went back (the family and I) to rest a little, where we're going again, the Lord willing, next week. And then, back there one night
...ake the family up in the little cow camp (or where the cowboys stay, where we'd go back there to round up the cattle), I--I just let them sleep until mor
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...ave left the church or have done something that warrants excommunication. We have been asked whether this practice has any basis in scripture.
The phrase "under the blood" is found nowhere in the Bible. We believe it is a general reference to the blood of the Passover Lamb in Exodus 12:23
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''Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of
...man might pass by that way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us
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''Now, we've come through a great day. The day's gone by, through '''great teachers,
...ol yard, and the Holy Ghost come to him. But he refused to accept It. Then what did he become? A twofold more child of hell than he was to begin with. He w
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...author's stated goal in writing this book was to answer the question, "To what extent is William Marrion Branham’s ''Legend of the Fall'' and his result
*[http://www.facebook.com/BelieveTheSign '''Believe The Sign Facebook Discussion Page''']
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However, '''we have been unable to find any evidence that anyone was ever raised from the
...ber, before you publish anything, you have to be able to prove that. So '''we’ve got documented statements from doctors, mayors of the city, and so for
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The excuse we hear from message followers regarding William Branham's lack of credibility
...hem by and through the Holy Spirit that He put within them. So why should we be surprised that William Branham also has faults?
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=What William Branham taught=
...nothing until first He revealed it to His prophet. Through the church ages we’ve had reformers; but promised by Malachi 4 that there would be a prophet
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[[Image:What Happens in South Africa STAYS in South Africa.png|250px|right|thumb|William
::1: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not especially: the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or
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=What does this mean?=
As can be seen above, William Branham constantly pointed to himself. That should make one just a bit suspicious.
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...f Cloverdale Bibleway in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and specifically we want to look at some comments he made on the morning of October 21, 2012:
..., but now I am going to tie it together with my message. He said, “I don’t believe in the “Cloud” anymore. He says. “I have learned that it was just a m
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We have included two separate testimonies of Albert Pohl as follows:
...t tried to investigate the healings. Can you tell me something about that? What were they able to confirm as far as healings?
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...cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
...when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
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...that the '''Egyptians were much more intelligent''' and more advanced than we are today. They had '''atomic power''', which they misused, '''causing the
...ng and a reference to fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu, Egyptologists believe that the Great Pyramid of Khufu was built as a tomb over a 10 to 20-year pe
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William Branham taught that "sin is unbelief"? Is that what the Bible teaches?
=What is sin?=
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And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaoni
...gs? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth,
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=What William Branham taught=
=What the Bible teaches=
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...e Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Instead, advocates of this position either believe that the Father is the Son, and the Son is the Spirit, and the Spirit is th
...her is not the Son, nor the Son the Spirit, is rather easily demonstrated. We begin with the fact that the Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Fat
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...rying to put the light out, he meant it as the light being his message but we have since realized he and his following are the little birds!!!
...e old sparrow laying there, I said to the guard that was with me; I said, "What's the matter with them little birds?"
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Benjamin F. Purnell believed that, “What’s wrong with intercourse isn’t bodily union per se but “carnality”
...there and on his way back he stopped in Mishawaka. We all know the story. What I suspected, but didn't know until today, is that they taught Serpent's See
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...that have left off following William Branham: "What do you think we should believe?"
Those inside the message expect that we are looking for followers (we're not) and those who have left are simply looking for guidance.
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...t it, as he had asked people to write down also about the visions. But now we will talk about some inconsistencies in the visions that make history seem
...ived in 1932, a date different from that considered official. So initially we have to ask ourselves when the visions were supposedly received? And that q
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...o bring him in, and to lay him before him. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the ho
...perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, <font color="red">''What reason ye in your hearts? Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven t
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We searched for the quote you mentioned, and I must say it was very unique.
...e's what takes place. See, it's... I want to know if you all noticed this. We're fixing to close, you know, fixing to go into the meetings. Have you noti
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=What do we mean by the "Providence of God"?=
...nship to his creation. When we accept the biblical doctrine of providence, we avoid four common errors in thinking about God’s relationship to creation
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=What is New Testament faith?=
...orld, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith a
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Is this really what the Bible teaches?
=What the Bible actually says=
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=What defines a Christian?=
...sinners do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid
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...ot be here, but you won't be an old man until sharks will swim right where we are standing."''
...verything that was dear to him also to come to the desert, just to support what God is giving to us now.''
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=What William Branham taught=
...' like Paul Crouch, who said on a Trinity Broadcasting Network program, “''We are gods. I am a little god. I have his name. I am one with him''.” ...or
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So how do we help those that are still in the message?
...he message undeniable proof that the message is false, they will generally believe the message more intensely and fanatically then they did previously. This
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The comments we have received from those in the message include:
#"''You are not even fit to be foolish virgins, so what is left? Hell.''"
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=What is the total "wealth of the world"?=
==What is the Roman Catholic church worth?==
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==What William Branham got wrong about the First Council of Nicaea==
==What was the primary problem with the Nicene Council?==
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:'''''“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”''''' - Friedrich Nietzsche
...ty of William Branham appears almost blasphemous. But the Bible says that we are to discern all things and, in particular, those that claim to be prophe
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The following is a sermon on Christian cults by Jacob Prasch which we strongly recommend to both former or current message followers.
...itness gets saved, no problem: Charles Taze Russell was a false prophet so we know the whole Watch Tower Society is finished. But when people are born ag
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=What the Bible says=
...take upon himself “the form of a slave” and be “born in human likeness.” What did Jesus empty himself of?
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...am Branham's credibility and specifically, the veracity of his story about what happened on the Ohio River in 1933.
...ain and it said, "Look up." The sky was like brass on that hot August day. We had not had any rain for about three weeks. I heard the voice again, and th
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:''But I have come to this place that I want to explain what stage of time we're living in according to the ministry that the Lord give me. And I wanted
...which was soon to be my wife the following year was to be with us the day we was to lay the cornerstone.
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...disagree with. While his post does contain something we would agree with, we want to be clear about our main points of disagreement.
...am that originated the initial textual search technology for the message. We believed the message with our whole hearts.
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...God made man spirit-man. Then He made him in the dust of the earth. Now, I believe that man in the beginning, well, led the animals of the earth like the Holy
...d was living, and was lonesome, and then God said, "It's not good that man should live alone." 97 <ref>William Branham, 53-0729 - Questions And Answers On Ge
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To followers of William Branham, "theology" is a bad word. What they fail to realize is that the word "theology" simply means - “The stud
...aith. Knowledge takes a man away from God; faith brings him to God. That's what separated him from God in the garden of Eden. He went to the tree of knowle
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...faith that taken it out, unbelief will bring it back again.''<ref>HEALING.WHAT.CANCER.IS_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 53-0904</ref>
...hen, THUS SAITH THE LORD, "You don't have to." Is that right? ...See? It's what… '''It's all based on your faith'''.<ref>William Branham, 57-0922E - Hebr
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...rvivors of it. Now she has passed away and I am the only living witness of what actually happened in the car.
...’t know how many times my mother told me: “Take it with you to the grave.” What she meant by that I have to tell you now. It seems that I cannot live with
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=What the Bible teaches=
In Matthew 27:46 and in Mark 15:34, we read:
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What is legalism? Did William Branham teach a legalistic version of the Gospel?
=What is legalism?=
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=What does vindication mean?=
...gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?’ — when a prophet speaks in
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...at Billy Paul ''"wouldn't be an old man until sharks will swim right where we are standing"'', which was in front of the May Company in downtown Los Ange
...ing Joseph Branham, was robotic in nature. In other words, I had to ignore what I saw, and accept the evident discrepancies in the words and/or message as
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=What William Branham taught=
...howed his colors. That’s exactly what the Canaan spies did; that’s exactly what Esau done.<ref>64-0830M - Questions And Answers #3, para. 289</ref>
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I am sure that you have heard of this issue but I think for completeness we should include it in our discussion. I will eventually send some follow-up questi
...id, "But there's some confusion about the meeting." And I said, "No matter what the confusion is, if I was supposed to go, wherever it was, I'll go anyhow.
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||38:But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the b
39: And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drin
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...wrote "three Bibles": the Zodiac, the Pyramids and the written Bible that we are familiar with. But does this make any sense?
:''Watch. What does the zodiac start off with? The Virgin. What does it end with? Leo the lion: the first coming of Christ, and the second
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...ok of Revelation with regard to the Churches. How careful should we be if we are going to add even one word to the Book of Revelation?
...that Cain was the offspring of Eve and the serpent. Is this Biblical, and what are the implications?
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=Question 15 - What doctrines comprise the message?=
This is a follow-on question from “What is the message?”
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...God, the Father of Eternity, the Prince of Peace. Considered in this way, we see that Jesus is the One who gives us eternal life. By His death, burial,
...showing that the doctrine of the Trinity is false, as Oneness Pentecostals believe?
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...ere a Pentagram clearly displayed on the front of the Branham Tabernacle? What does the Pentagram mean?
...t?''' What symbolism could be more important than the cross on a church? What does that say about William Branham and his beliefs?
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...iever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
...And then God will take His church over Jordan. That's over death. Now, you believe that with all your heart.
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...oubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection. '''Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts''' — not only their own but their fri
:''But even as believers should learn to look for reasons behind their faith, skeptics must learn to look f
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'''''What a glorious decision you have made.'''''
...to what took place. Given his significant problems with [[Credibility]], we can not take his version of the events as true without corroborating eviden
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...d last night, don't you? All right, that's what it was. 20 All right, now we'll start over here on some of these. I just don't like to call right out an
...church they go to, they're… We're all brothers in Christ, and that's when we're born again of the Spirit. And I appreciate Brother Joseph with all my he
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|What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have a
|Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
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=What does the passage mean?=
...eference to the “restoration of all things” were to be recognized here, we should be reminded of Jesus’ words in Mark 9:12, “Elijah does come first to re
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...her Branham and myself, and you [Gordon Lindsay] will probably recall that we were probably there for over an hour. When the atmosphere seemed to be char
It should also be noted that these corrected facts directly contradict William Branha
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...world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, <br> but have everlasting life.'' (John 3:16)
...were deeply troubled and said to Peter and the other apostles, “What shall we do, brothers?”
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...the time of her death was 4 o’clock, although he did not specify AM or PM (we assume he meant PM).
*Marilyn Monroe died August 5, 1962 and we know the following facts from police and medical reports:
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...to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since th
...a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
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...al creation and was a perversion from the beginning. However, this is not what scripture teaches.
=What William Branham taught=
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...'cause it runs to the nerve that runs to your brain. Really, people… A man should never shave over their lips. That's exactly right. When your razor pulls, t
...up, men kissing one another in the mouth. That's dirty. That's filth. And what does it do? It starts homosexuals. Stay away from that.<ref>61-1015M, Quest
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...demonstrated by looking closely at what the Bible says and then looking at what William Branham said. With respect to the Godhead, William Branham's doctr
=What the Bible says=
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'''We don't know of any.'''
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...d Prophecies]] that we and others have presented and state "You just don't believe" and then advocate a kind of "blind faith" that requires true believers to
...uestion) is the truest, most sincere, and most valuable form of faith that we can offer God.
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...nham did not see the eaglets on the wings of their mother. He did not see what he claimed to have witnessed.
Was this part of his "exaggerating" that you referred to? At what point in time does exaggeration become dishonesty?
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...adicted himself. It is also in complete opposition to the vision he had. We will eventually get to some of the doctrinal issues in the future but I am
...rnerstone, that what would take place in the last days; and everyone knows what that was; it's been just exactly the Word. It will be just this way. (53-03
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What did William Branham believe about the Holy Spirit? Was his view Biblical?
=What William Branham taught?=
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=What does the Bible say=
...joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Ve
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We have a copy of a letter that was written by Billy Paul Branham to a woman w
We do not have a copy of the letter that she wrote to Billy Paul Branham, but
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As we look at the statements that William Branham made in his sermons there is a
...ls are changed and this is impossible to justify. As the years passed, he should have just been restating the visions and relating world events to their pro
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...s appear I lost track of who asked the last question. So the last question we have here today, I'm not sure exactly whose question it is.
Rod Bergen: Question five. I think that's where we're at.
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==What the Bible says==
...nd so forth that will unite themselves together, speaking things that they should not, and they’ll all beat at one another, until they’ll finally wind up
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William Branham did not believe that illegitimate children could go in the rapture and his teaching was bas
=What William Branham taught=
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...think is one of the main Messages to the Church at this time. I don’t know what the other One is. '''I’m just taking it day by day, just as He reveals It
...the martyrology of Rome, last night. We find that, up to the 1500 mark, I believe it was, or eighteen-…I don’t remember exactly now. '''But it was sixty-
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This ties into something we previously quoted:
...y successful politicians, evangelists and confidence tricksters alike–they believe they are telling the truth, even when it seems sure they must have known th
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==What the Bible says==
==What William Branham said==
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...ere canceled. He stated that he had been around the world seven times but we have been unable to confirm this. The only time he actually could have gon
Here are the facts that we have been able to confirm:
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...ide you into all truth. This is what we're doing. This is truth. You gotta believe us.
...Spirit did lead them into all truth and they wrote it down and that's what we have. So anyways that's that.
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==What the Bible teaches==
...fe was crushed at a young Man of '''thirty-three and a half years''', that we might live.<ref>THE.CRUELTY.OF.SIN.AND.THE.PENALTY.THAT.IT.COST.TO.RID.SIN.
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:''And now we’re going to see what the Book says about how It become open. And '''is not made known until the
...robed, and presumed, and stumbled, and wondered, and—and that’s the reason we’re all in such a confusion.
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...door. I can see Him draw the whole picture in His mind of the Kingdom and what it might be.'' <ref>SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.AND.IT'LL.SATISFY.US_ CONNERSVILLE
...ese signs shall follow them that believe." How much more reliability could we place upon anything than the Words of the '''eternal Son of God'''. <ref>A
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Followers of the message believe there are multiple tiers of Christians and that this will be reflected in h
...s and rulers. Jesus told His disciples…They said, “What will we have after we have left father, and mother, and all to follow You?” 45 He said, “Veri
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...ourth term,” he was on his first then, “will run into the fourth term, and we will be taken to a Second World War.”<ref>''Seventieth Week of Daniel 196
...there at that line…Now, you remember; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD." '''Why we are not a denomination September 27, 1958'''
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...us...?... ' I've always packing...?... This is my fiancee, Patricia Brown. We're going to be married, Friday.“
...s age. But for a small, close-knit group of Phoenicians, that's precisely what he was.''
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...and the things that I have to do. '''It's a Nazarite birth.''' And so we--we don't... it's not... You can't teach that all people have to be that way. S
.... He was born a Nazarite birth. A Nazarite means "separated to the Word." What a nice thing it would be tonight if all Christians would be Nazarites to th
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|'''''I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.''''' - Friedrich Nietzsche
...necessary to also deceive oneself'''. The actor playing Hamlet must indeed believe in the moment that he is the Prince of Denmark, though when he leaves the s
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...h life, though brief, is crucial to us in our quest for eternal life. Here we receive bodies of flesh and bones and are tested in all things. Those who l
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...in 1964 (see above), he said ''“it’s written in the scripture that no food should be received without it being received with thanksgiving, for it’s sanctif
:''“Eggs should not be placed upon your table.”<ref>Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the C
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...finding the will of God. I only speak occasionally but I do enjoy sharing what I have learned in my spiritual journey as I try to follow Christ and be led
...m Branham started was a cult. And I think he was directly responsible for what one sees today.
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==What William Branham believed==
==What the Bible teaches==
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...o gain their excitement at the platform for advertisement photography. But what happened when those crowds were not obedient to his command?
...ing you a warning. This may be your last one too. You repent. I don't care what church you belong to. If you're not repented and the love of God's not in y
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...evers and unbelievers. What the believers don't understand, they believe. What the unbelievers don't understand, they disbelieve.''
...e the message, they are likely to respond with a simple, “''Because I just believe it!''” A Jehovah’s Witness believes the Watchtower Bible and a Sciento
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Jay Cox: It is Rod's turned for a fourth question, I believe. Is that correct?
...I'm content with the time and all that, and being fair and all that, then we can move forward with fourth question. Sure.
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*If not, how much should Christians give?
*If not, what does biblical accountability look like?
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=What does that Bible actually say?=
...e, we are obligated to take God at His word, even when it contradicts what we’ve been taught by popular prophecy writers.<ref>Gary DeMar, Last Days Mad
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What does this mean? When William Branham said in 1962 that he would shoot a br
|''And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ <br> — when a prophet spe
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But does this tie into what the Bible teaches? Why does William Branham's teaching on this subject app
But William Branham's understanding is completely contrary to what the Bible says.
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William Branham seemed to believe at times that prior to his baptism, Jesus was not God and that he also ceas
...was made one on that great memorial day when John baptized Jesus.''' Now, what if they would've been a wolf? The sweet cooing of the Dove would've never b
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...for death. Jesus was Deity in service for death, to redeem the world. But what did the world do to It? They refused It. They rejected It. Why? Some of the
...e other creatures. He is the perfect creature, and has become God, so that we may term Him ‘the only-begotten God,’ etc.
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=Question 13 - What is the message?=
...es of all these churches and things, how they happened, and what tak-…how, what taken place. (65-0718E - Spiritual Food In Due Season, para. 161)
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But the question must be asked - What was the reason that he taught this doctrine? Was it simply another way to
...his - "Simply look around at churches today, they clearly demonstrate that we are in the age of Laodicea." While this sounds like a good argument, as th
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In 1875, Uriah Smith wrote the following, which we must assume is where William Branham got his information:
...1; D, 500; (e not used as a numeral;) I, 1. Adding these numbers together, we have just 666.
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...y. Actually, many of you are aware of this because this has been something we've been excited about for quite some time.
...r or not William Branham was a prophet specifically, whether or not he was what his followers claim him to be the Elijah prophet of the last age, the seven
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...to be found committing adultery. Given these and other statements he made we have to ask whether William Branham actually understood the New Testament c
==Some African Ministers believe William Branham taught that polygamy was acceptable==
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=Question 13 - What is the Message?=
...es of all these churches and things, how they happened, and what tak-…how, what taken place. (65-0718E - Spiritual Food In Due Season, para. 161)
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...to making his machine go, that this time his design will be the result of what has been learned in this motorized-buggy era. This means that he will start
...w they're shaping down every year, right to it. We're nearer the end time; we are.<ref>May 1, 1955, Chicago, Illinois, para. 17</ref>
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So, we are to look for two possibilities – a cruel powerful woman or the Catholi
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...– the song of deliverance ringing in my heart in happy consonance with the should of victory from those who thronged about me – their tears of rejoicing cr
But in the newspapers, we find Upshaw traveling across the country, '''walking around freely carrying
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We were recently sent a quote by William Branham from
...nd, in a cave, and shut the door down.” That won’t do it one bit of good. “We’ll stay in the house, and put a mask over our face, and—and put some di
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...sus Christ''. This is an highly important issue for message believers and we are aware of at least one instance where a deacon baptized an individual in
...is no biblical record that anyone was baptized using this formula. Rather we read the following:
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...that the women, through permitting to vote, would elect--elect this ricky we got up here now, a modern Ahab setting there with Jezebel turning his neck?
...got your letters on that, that great woman that... "Every criminal case... We've X-rayed it down now to: every criminal case was ever done in this United
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...be fulfilled in the order of the visions. There is no reason therefore to believe that the visions did not represent a sequence of events starting with Musso
...he Rapture cannot happen until all of the visions have been fulfilled then we have a very peculiar situation. William Branham is effectively saying that
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...last call. And from then the revival would die. I just count back and see. We got that on record. See? And the revival is gone. (62-0628 - A Greater Than
...t Billy Graham in Chicago in 1956 (this is assumed to be his reference to “we got that on record” since there are no other records):
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...sputniks in the skies? What's the matter? What is this modern Babylon that we're trying to build a machine to take us to the moon? '''You'll never make i
...ther economy on the moon. '''They ain't going to get there'''.<ref>I don't believe, with all my heart, they'll ever get there. See?'' Countdown, September 9,
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=What William Branham taught=
...himself a eagle, and we're eaglets then, the--the believers. You see? And what is the carcass that they feed on? Is the Word. Wherever the Word is, the tr
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...gerprint, and--on the--that there is in the United States, and 'course, we believe, in the world. He had it for several days. He said it looked like an amber
So the light William Branham saw was not amber. Perhaps what he really saw was '''the limelight'''.
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...spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.”'''
...ve done this, you have done that. "" Shut up!<ref>Joseph Coleman, "This is what was spoken by the prophet Malachi 4", March 27, 1983</ref>
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...ans, how do we know we are reading what God intended? It is expedient that we know the truth about this subject. Is the King James Version Bible the onl
...ay|Cloverdale Bible Way]] has translated the KJV into Chinese because they believe that the KJV best reflects the doctrines of [[The Message|the Message of Wi
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'''The majority of message church believe the Oneness doctrine.'''
:''And now we find out that Jesus said, also, “I came in My Father’s Name, and you re
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...if I've got it written down here: 22:19. I may be wrong. No, 22:9. That's what it is, I was looking at 22:9. That's right. Oh, yes, here.
:''Now, watch. Isn't the prophet that we're looking to come, some man anointed with the—with the Spirit like Elija
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...range feeling come on me. And I stopped and set down aside of a tree. And we were right up on the bank from the Ohio River. And I looked down towards Je
From his various retellings of the vision, we can draw the following conclusions about the vision and its fulfillment:
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|"Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone,
</ref>, but is usually a term for “what” God is, rather than “who” God is. At its greatest depth, knowing ab
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...not speaking in tongues. However, he changed his mind several times as to what he truly thought it was. The questions is - Did he get it right?
=What William Branham taught=
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...nderful Grace he has broken the bars of deception for me and pointed me to what is Truth, His Word.
...dership of a man instead of the Holy Ghost. In doing so you will be led to believe many things that are not Scripture and without realizing it, your faith wil
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=What William Branham said=
...or Saul, rather, when he was chosen, ... They said, "That's our king." And what did it lead them to? Finally, a backslidden condition. And their king backs
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...if the guilty party was the man, the wife could remarry (and that this is what William Branham was really teaching).
Honestly, I find this interpretation to be completely illogical based on what William Branham said. He points back to the Old Testament and states that,
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...nts on the podcast website, which we have provided for our readers below. We have also included our comments below.
More importantly, we have added Pastor Gwena's use of red herrings to our article on the subject
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...east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
...e be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
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There is a lot of attention in the media being given to '''Blood Moons''' and we have received several emails asking whether William Branham said anything a
[[File:Four-blood-moons-john-hagee.jpg|250px|thumb|right|We have no intention of reading this book. It would be a complete waste of ti
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==What does the Bible teach?==
We would also point out that, as with many things William Branham taught, he w
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=What the Bible says=
What he actually said, in the Greek, were just 2 words - "I am" (ἐγώ εἰμ
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=What does the Bible say about makeup?=
...e ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the c
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We often hear from message ministers that
=What independent observers said about William Branham=
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...ny of William Branham's prophecies came to pass. However, this is not how we are to judge a prophet. The scriptural test of a prophet is clearly outline
...other gods, that prophet must die. Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’ — w'''henever a prophet spe
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What was William Branham's actual birthday? We have four different possibilities...
...is dated June 22, 1934 and is the earliest recorded official document that we have that indicated his birthday.
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...e ought to gain all we can gain but this it is certain we ought not to do; we ought not to gain money at the expense of life, nor at the expense of our h
...y the place of an husband to the widow, and of a father to the fatherless. We maybe a defence for the oppressed, a means of health to the sick, of ease t
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Church leadership should ensure that there is transparency to anyone who gives funds to the church a
==What the Bible teaches==
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''But I have come to this place that I want to explain what stage of time we're living in according to the ministry that the Lord give me. And I wanted
...which was soon to be my wife the following year was to be with us the day we was to lay the cornerstone.''
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|'' Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.'' (II Timoth
...uffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.''
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..., to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
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...if you have heard of a "''message fairy tale''" that we haven't heard and we will add it to our collection.
...that we are the worst nightmare that a message minister can imagine. But we aren't going away. None of them would dare go on the witness stand and giv
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...or reason are often the reason for faith. For example, Message Believers believe faithfully in a man they consider to be a vindicated prophet. But take away
...ch, its these carnal, spiritual babies, that couldn’t get the pastor to do what they wanted, it’s them that’s out there attacking the word of the hour.
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==What is the "Oracle" act?==
...come familiar with that. And you’ll tell people all of their diseases, and what they’ve got in their body. And then if you’ll be…”
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=Question 31 - What is the significance of a Seven-Lettered Name?=
...he was saying and doing. I believe the third option, obviously. And if you believe the third option, you can find his exaggerations likewise have a sincere mo
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As a result of our research, we have had countless people email us asking the question: '''''"If Bro. Branh
...hat a Gentile Elijah must come. But '''is this assumption correct?''' Do we have to look for a Gentile prophet to fulfill Malachi 4:5?
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''I went out, and they told me what I said. And I listened, went back and searched the Scripture. You know, '''
In Matthew 8:14-16, we read that Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law while in Capernaum and Mark
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...m]]'' wrote a response to those who criticize William Branham's ministry. We have attached this letter below, and also encourage to read [[An Open Lette
.... You reject information that contradicts what you have already decided to believe, whether or not your beliefs, your prejudices, are based on fact or fantasy
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...f hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of these prophecies and we find a number of problems:
...out of the dragon, the false prophets, and so forth. [when they said] "We believe there is a trinity of Gods." (July 25, 1965, Jeffersonville, Indiana).</re
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...’re not divided in this work of the Lord. We’re all together, one body are we, moving on. And every morning, at ten till eleven o’clock, they having se
...ed in my ministry in January 1964. Several of us had gone to a restaurant. We were sitting at the table getting ready to order, when the Spirit of the Lo
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:While Christians believe that baptism is a very important practice, they hold that it is by faith al
...f life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection:'' (Romans 6:3-5)
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...aler, right now. How many of you will believe that? How many of you really believe, put your hands up. Now, lay your—put your hands down.
...rciful to these people. This may be our last meeting time, dear God, until we see You standing yonder. Oh, if You're going to come for Your Church before
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...erson telling the story was clearly making it up (we did not mention where we got this report) and one of the scientists got quite angry that someone wou
:''Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brough
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...ngs of William Branham]]. This is what unites those in the message and is what holds them apart and separate from other Christians.
Care must be taken to approach the subject properly and we have written and article that specifically deals with '''"[[How to help tho
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...ny boys standing here now that was at that '''Siegfried Line''' that knows what it was. And remember, that was eleven years before the Siegfried Line was b
...se visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?” Over 80 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of
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=What does the Bible say?=
In Acts 9:4, we read:
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...s of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
..., who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter.
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Was William Branham a prophet? We invite you to learn more about his life and ministry:
:*[[William Branham|'''Life Story''']] by Believe The Sign (based on William Branham's tape recordings)
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..."straw man" argument''', in that he constructs what he thinks Trinitarians believe (but which in fact they deny vehemently) and then attacks that incorrect vi
:''Now we find in the Scripture that many people teaches that, "three personalities i
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...would like to acquaint you and your friends with certain information that should give you a clearer knowledge and understanding of the ministry which the Lo
...that I could tell the thoughts and intents of people's hearts, and nothing should be hidden as well as tell the diseases.
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...s and that this would mark the end of the revival in the United States. '''What did William Branham actually say? Did Billy Graham cancel any meetings in 1
...last call. And from then the revival would die. I just count back and see. We got that on record. See? And the revival is gone.<ref>William Branham, 62-0
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#What was written in the flyleaf of the Bible?
...t precious I can remember, because of the blessing of God upon us. Then as we were returning from Puijo, a terrible accident occurred. A car ahead was un
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Is this what Scripture teaches?
=What the Bible says=
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NO COMPROMISE, SAY AND BELIEVE WHAT THE PROPHET SAID”
...r changed one iota in my Doctrine. The first thing I started with, I still believe the same thing tonight”.
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''"What about the the time Bill promised a big brown bear for dinner and we went to bed hungry?" asked Berean.
So he asked Berean, "''What happened?''"
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|If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cl
...ldren, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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=What the Bible teaches=
...speaking in tongues. With regard to this gift as well as all other gifts, we must simply say that the Holy Spirit “apportions each one individually as
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...e works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believ
...ow, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
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=What is a cult?=
...Morey, How to Answer a Mormon: Practical Guidelines for What to Expect and What to Reply When the Mormons Come to Your Door (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House
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"Mr. Bedell said while living there was no God and never did believe in One. He did not hesitate to speak of these things. Occasionally he atten
...as taken by automobile first to Berlin Center and then to North Benton. As we came to Berlin Center, I asked an old man if he could tell me where the Bed
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...on, which was published in 1871, it was claimed, "''that no one, so far as we are aware, has ventured to challenge the accuracy of the historical proofs
''And our scene this morning is in Babylon. It’s very good for us that we find out a little about this great city. And I’ve been studying recently
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...lech called Abraham, and said unto him, ''What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a grea
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, ''What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?''
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...rom scientific truths, and even if there were, there would be no reason to believe them.
What, then, should we say about scientism, and what should Christians say to those who hold this belief?
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Most message followers believe that her death was a direct result of the [[Ohio River flood of 1937]], but
...ry as sermon material. Was it to make it more dramatic for the audience? We can never know for sure...
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...id that the vision of the brown bear was “'''''THUS SAITH THE LORD'''''.” What does Deut. 18:20-22 say about such vision if it fails?
...n the construction of the bridge and neither of them by drowning. What do we do with a vision that fails?
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...Protestant church says, "It represents the body." ...They call it a mass; we call it a communion. A mass is hoping it's so. A communion is knowing it's
...s is coming to one big bundle. That's right. What is that bundle? You know what it is. World Council of Churches, forming the image of the beast. Truly. An
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...g them. Instead of approaching it as an opportunity to prove the “truth”, we were warned to avoid any questions at all.
:```God doesn’t require us to understand, he just requires us to believe it```.
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...are the true continuation of Bro. Branham's followers.” That is precisely what every message group would say of themselves. Personally, I do not think th
My goal is simply to be a true follower of Jesus Christ. I also firmly believe that following William Branham will lead a person away from being a true fo
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=What the Bible actually says=
...e beings were in heaven… Now, over in Revelations 11—or the 7th chapter, I believe—or no, no, it's the 12th chapter, He gives a picture of the woman standin
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=What did William Branham teach about church governance?=
#The people should vote for the pastor
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...five of them has already happened. So you can judge yourself how far away we are. '''Condemnation by representation 13th November 1960'''
...3 and '77." And it'll have to squeeze awful hard to get through there. And we're setting on a powder keg, friends. Everything's ready. '''The Thyatirean
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|God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall
|What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visites
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...belief that there is not a plurality of persons in the Godhead, unitarians believe that Jesus was only a moral authority whereas the deity and humanity of Jes
They believe in the one [[God]], and the complete and full deity of [[Jesus Christ]]. O
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The ëcarí will be discussed in detail later but what about actual scientific achievements post World War II? Here are some high
...ckets and on our desks but are increasingly embedded in the artefacts that we purchase. It would be difficult to name an area of human endeavour that is
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:''And now coming especially on these lessons where we’re just waiting; '''if He would not reveal It to me, I could not give It
...’m trying to stay right with that Message of these Seals. Its important. I believe it’s—it’s the hour of Its revealing time, of revelation of It.
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...was taking it from an old context. '''I had nothing on it.''' I don't know what the Second Seal is no more than nothing, but I'd got some old contexts of s
...said, try to teach it that way.” They give a very good exclamation of it, what it really meant. And they said, “Now, here is a white horse, and a white
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''He don’t care what your organization is. It’s nonsense. '''It’s connected with Catholicism
...church, as they have in theirs. Let us make an image unto the beast.” And what’d the Bible said, she is a “WHORE,” and that’s a “HARLOT,” thro
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...sickness or need. From seeing the phenomenon so often, I began to pick up what these were and became adept at reading them. ...Yes, you could see it. Then
...dn't had some kind of relationship with God based on process, I don't know what I would have done. But I maintained the pastoral oversight of my church whi
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And, behold, they cried out, saying, ''What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us
...pt them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
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=What William Branham taught=
...that in some of the prior "church ages", a true Christian was required to believe a doctrine of the devil (the Trinity) to be saved. If they rejected the me
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...athering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.''
...so sore, that there was no breath left in him. And she said unto Elijah, ''What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my
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...ink since we let pastor Smith go first with the introductions, perhaps we should let you go first
...: [00:00:12]''' I'm happy either way and let's just keep going. Cause then we won't get confused. So I will ask pastor Smith, a question, and then he can
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...an be sure, see, of these things, because this is a—a tremendous time that we’re living in. Yeah.
...allowed them souls under the altar to be the early Christian martyrs. But we found out, last night, '''when the Lord God broke that Seal for us''', it a
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=What does the Bible say?=
...d, since abundant provision has been made to that end, and under this view we must approach even the worst sinner; but which, and how many, will be saved
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==What were the Seven Visions==
...were the visions?' rather than 'The visions were' but determining exactly what they were, turns out not to be problematical.
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:'''''"We don't have to understand it, that’s where faith comes in.”
=What William Branham taught=
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=What did William Branham believe?=
William Branham was all over the map on what he believed and what he preached. So it is not surprising that this is also true when it came t
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We find that Scripture:
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...ruthful, as these stories are in direct contravention with the facts. They believe that William Branham's own testimony clearly show that he made up the stori
...gstaff, or Prescott, which is below Flagstaff." '''Well, that's just where we was at, see, just exactly.'''''<ref>:::COME.FOLLOW.ME_ TUCSON.AZ SATURDAY
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27: And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
...and rose up in haste, [and] spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unt
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But what is the proof behind this statement?
...o a unipersonal God. And indeed it is not once only, but three times, that we are immersed into the three persons, at each several mention of their names
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What happens when you mix law and grace? '''Why did William Branham teach that
=What did William Branham teach?=
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...the world. If you will be sincere when you pray and can get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even cancer. '''You will g
'''We believe this to be a failed prophecy.'''
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:Let them know that You are going to call a mighty Church soon, such as we have never seen.
:We still believe You.
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...rayed from Christian orthodoxy in the latter stages of his ministry. They believe this is the reason for his obscurity today.
...lievers of [[The Message|the Message of the Hour]]. Some of his followers believe that William Branham's every word was infallible, while others will admit t
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=What did William Branham see?=
...n state without doubt that William Branham never saw this take place. And we would challenge any followers of William Branham to send us scientific evid
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At the end of the Book of Luke, we read:
By this simple act, we know that Jesus is God because of the prohibition in scripture to worship o
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:''We believe that the Laodicean church started in a.d. 1906. I predict…Now, remember,
...here and wave it over and over, “Watch Russia, the king of the North! See, what he would do, for all those isms will heap up into Russia.”
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William Branham repeatedly stated that the Bible clearly taught that "''we should cast down reasoning''". The problem is that there is no scripture in the B
We are steadfastly convinced of two things:
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:''9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the
When we interpret scripture, it is important to look at context. In the case of 1
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Message believers have to reconcile what they believe (that William Branham was a prophet) with historic facts (that William Bran
#We still believe the Bible despite its mistakes.
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...letter that the original letter was actually from Jason Watkins himself. We cannot comment on why Jason Watkins did not simply state on his Facebook po
...s page. In it, among other things, Jason Watkins issues a challenge which we respond to below.
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...ng to as their absolute interpreter of scripture, and trust their souls on what he says.
...out there and, when the man come in, he'd shoot him through the back. Now we find he's "big guy" that comes down.''' Why, it's--it's absolutely glorifyi
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...ho had embraced the Valentinian heresy. We cannot doubt that to this visit we owe the lifelong struggle of Irenaeus against the heresies that now came in
...as permitted that every form of heresy which was ever to infest the Church should now exhibit its essential principle, and attract the censures of the faithf
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Here is the way the story evolved over time highlighting what William Branham said was revealed to him regarding the man's deception and
...u have." And '''screaming, he run from the building'''. …I '''don't know what ever happened'''.''
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...id Of themselves term no one else as God, or name [no other] as Lord; and, what is much more important, [since it is true] that our Lord [acted likewise],
..., neither, if any one were to rise from the dead and go to them, will they believe him."(4)
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=What really happened=
...hing that would do just that - "''"There it is, just exactly, see, '''just what I've been looking for.'''".<ref>William Branham, 64-0112 - Shalom</ref> Wh
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...heard from Owen Jorgenson. Author William Zinsser once said: “To defend what you have written is but a sign that you are alive.”
...e error. Often, that mandates direct speech and pointed observations. This should not be confused with a lack of civility or respect. It is not my intent to
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...own Los Angeles before he was an old man. Billy Paul was born in 1935 and should be considered a man in his senior years by now.
...ruins are on the shore of the sea of Galilee to this day. We know because we've been to Capernaum. The ruins are still there.
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:''...“Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyr
...speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you '''what must take place AFTER THIS'''.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Vers
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...” into the future. This is a bad interpretation because the text literally should read, “the things which are about to occur after these things.” Further
.... Since the Book of Revelation was written to a first-century audience, we should expect the first-century readers to be able to calculate the number with re
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What is a requirement of someone that is a pastor or minister in a church?
=What William Branham taught=
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In looking at this prophecy, we need to ask a couple of questions.
...his prophecy in 1933. Given the way history was moving it was not hard to believe in 1933 that a woman would eventually be president or vice president. If t
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...r the person being baptized). Here is an amalgam of some of the questions we have received:
...then surely there would be some record in scripture that baptism could or should be in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. But thi
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:''We're promised in the last days, that he will return to this country too. I kn
:''Watch what He said, "Elias truly must first come." Past, present--in the future tense,
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But is this biblical? '''What does the Bible say?'''
=What the Bible teaches=
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Thanks for your recent response. I am doing some thinking on what you said and will have a follow up after a couple of additional questions.
Followers of the message believe William Branham to be the greatest prophet since Paul and one of the greate
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...erms of the claims relating to William Branham, and this is the question we're addressing. Was William Branham the messenger to the church of Laodice
...ment is appropriate given the statements in Luke 1:1-4 and Acts 1:1 to 3. We also read in 1 Samuel 3:19 to 20: "As Samuel grew up, the Lord was with him
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...at believe the message and the not-so-special sons and daughters that just believe the Bible?
What does the Bible teach on this issue?
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However, let us look at what William Branham said subsequent to 1964 (emphasis added):
...men not to cut their hair,''' they say, “We can cut it, Dr. So-and-so said we could. Brother So-and-so said you’re just too narrow-minded.” Uh-huh, u
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...that other online versions are true to the book as originally published. We therefore encourage you to find an original printed version of this book.
...am Branham was not honest or that any of his stories had been altered from what had actually transpired. As such the book can be regarded as a hagiography
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==What William Branham said==
We are told that Rev. Best secured the services of Mr. James Ayers and Mr. Ted
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...s, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in
...'''that same prophet shall die'''. And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’ — when a prophet speaks in
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...Furthermore, he demanded a code of silence from those few people that knew what had taken place. Because this was not handled in a Biblical way, the abuse
...the souls of these two individuals to handle the situation Biblically. He should have seen to it that they got help rather than covering it up so that the a
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=Question 14 (ABM) - What if a person rejects the message?=
This further question is a natural progression from Question 13 - What is the message?.
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''We were in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, at Bro. Branham's meetings, and they asked
...Bro. Branham said, "What's in the box?" He says, "The Lord hasn't shown me what's in that box"''
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...at, he told his followers not to interpret what he said but to simply "say what the tapes say".
...hat [[Condensed List of Issues with the Message#Did William Branham preach what Paul preached?|many things that he taught were not scriptural]].
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...esteryear and some families create their own traditions. Grace is knowing we can celebrate family traditions founded on love while not worrying about ho
...emories of what previous people did on the same days and gives us mercy as we seek to walk forward in Christ with our families.
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...rches look; how big and polished the congregation looks; how glamorous and what great gatherings they have, that don't faze them a bit.<ref>CONDEMNATION.BY
''What did Eve try to do? Hybreed it, mix it with something. You've got to take it
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...ted wings; and--and--and they come in a swarm and swiftly--more swift than what the little birds was--flew eastward.
I believe we just disagree with how we assess his statements. It is not clear to me that the number was ever firm
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Sexual abuse appears to be all too common in the message. We are aware of a number of cases that happened in message churches, that were
But what was William Branham's position on sexual abuse, particularly that of minors
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35 I have deep respect for every organization, and I think we're all good, every one of them. I will not talk against them because I have
He will tell them just exactly what kind of—of what church they belong to and—and different things like that. But never did H
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...nterpretation of the seal was not divinely revealed to him. Interestingly, what he did say on the seventh seal was also copied from the writing of Charles
...me. And now you—you do whatever you want to. I don’t know who is going to…what’s going to take place. I do not know. '''I just know that those Seven Thu
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=What is the Message?=
...Branham. Yet, they all claim they have a revelation of the Word and they believe the Bible.
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...simply a Pentecostal Baptist minister who thought more of himself than he should have?
...of the Prophetic|Did William Branham make any '''REAL''' prophecies?]] '''(We can't find any ''before the fact'' prophecies on any tape!)'''
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=Question 23 -Can we ignore the plain reading of Deuteronomy 18:20-22?=
...ves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?” If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come tru
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It should also be noted that, while William Branham said that he prophesied the birth
...dicate him to the Lord yet, and will not until we return again. So you see what it is.<ref>William Marrion Branham, Sermon: Who Is This Melchisedec?, 65-02
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...y successful politicians, evangelists and confidence tricksters alike–they believe they are telling the truth, even when it seems sure they must have known th
...as a result, we should not judge William Branham or his message. Is this what the Bible truly teaches?
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...God created the world, and is the first physical manifestation of God that we can understand. The Word of God also spoke with Adam in the garden of Eden
...the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying
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*Added to sections to the article on [[Matthew 17:11]] on the subjects of '''"What did John the Baptist restore?"''' and '''"Do message followers think Willia
**[[Question 13 (ABM) - What is the Message?|Question 13 - What is the Message?]]
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=What does the Bible say?=
...ranham or anyone else to return from the dead years after they have died. What this explanation does demonstrate is the reality of [[Cognitive Dissonance|
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:''...as many of you might know, the Indian trip wasn't the success that it should've been, because I failed to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, and nev
...t is down there where you can't even talk to the people. And there'd be... We're at least expecting three hundred thousand, one single meeting.
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...visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?” Almost 70 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of
Because the prophecies were written down, each retelling should have been consistent through the years. However, this is not the case as i
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...ility, I would like to deal with a story that I have a real problem with. We refer to it as the “man from Windsor.” The issue here is – why did W
Here is the way the story evolved over time highlighting what William Branham said was revealed to him regarding the man's deception and
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=What William Branham taught=
...has to come a sensation to bring the egg through the tube to the womb. See what you do with God? You make Him in a sexual mess."''
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=What the Bible says=
We further read in Genesis 3:
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...rvivors of it. Now she has passed away and I am the only living witness of what actually happened in the car.
...’t know how many times my mother told me: “Take it with you to the grave.” What she meant by that I have to tell you now. It seems that I cannot live with
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While you are reading this tract, you should ask yourself the following questions:
#What year did William Branham receive this heavenly vision?
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:''...as many of you might know, the Indian trip wasn't the success that it should've been, because I failed to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, and nev
...t is down there where you can't even talk to the people. And there'd be... We're at least expecting three hundred thousand, one single meeting.
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We have had ex-message followers tell us that they do not believe Jesus even existed.
...as "mythicists." But it is interesting to note that no reputable scholars believe that the mythicists are correct.
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#What is your name?
#What is your address? and
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=What the Bible says=
:''...What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches '''which a
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At first, this sounds great, but you have to ask what "Word" William Branham is actually referring to?
...ou believe me to be God's prophet? A prophet is a messenger to an age. You believe I have God's message?" 59-0812
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..., because the Revelation 7:1 talks about the "four corners" of the world. we would have disregarded this as a "human error". However, Voice of God Recor
...ine]]'''. In the prior six "church ages", a true Christian was required to believe a doctrine of the devil (the Trinity) to be saved. If they rejected the mes
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The crucifixion of Jesus should be considered historical fact based on the ''criterion of embarrassment''.
The crucifixion of Jesus should be considered historical fact based on the ''criterion of multiple attestat
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We have done our best to provide answers below on questions that have been ema
=What is the meaning of "begotten"?=
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...bruary 18 1546 was a German monk,<ref>Ewald Plass, "Monasticism", in <cite>What Luther Says: An Anthology</cite> (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 19
...ereafter cited in notes as ''LW'').</ref> His statements that Jews' homes should be destroyed, their synagogues and schools burned, money confiscated, and r
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...'''"If you find that the evidence on this site has misled you in the past, we apologize."''''']]
...t in fulfillment of Malachi 4:5 and Revelation 10:7. In the fall of 2011, we changed the main scripture reference of the website to ''“Jesus Christ th
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...they will not look at the evidence because they have been called to "only believe".
But what does the Bible say we should look at?
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...a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and '''we''' will come unto him, and make '''our''' abode with him.<ref>The Holy Bibl
So that we are all on the same page, a basic definition of the Trinity is necessary:
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