2 Corinthians 6:17: Difference between revisions

The theological intent of both passages concerns spiritual compromise — not total withdrawal from churches that teach the Bible but are loosely part of a denomination or organization. The Message exploits this by inverting the purpose: instead of protecting believers’ faith commitments, they weaponize separation language to enforce dependency and prevent critical evaluation of Message teachings.

:''But God’s chosen Ones are commanded to come out from among them. “Be ye separated,” saith God, “and I will receive you. Touch not their worldly things, and I’ll be a Father to you, or God, and you’ll be My sons and daughters. Yoke yourself not up with unbelievers, but come out of it!” God wants separation from the world. He wants to be unionized with you, Himself. And no man-made scheme of organization, denomination, or any man-made theories will ever stand.<ref>William Branham, 62-0211 - Oneness, para. 201</ref>

:''Jacob was a perfect type: both of them religious, both of them twins. Esau was the ecclesiastical type. He was a man that was smart. He had good moral stands and things like that, but he didn't have no use for that birthright. Jacob didn't care what he had to do, just so he got the birthright. And as long as they were together they could not produce. Is that right? One was against the other. Have you caught it? Amen! "Come out from amongst it; be ye separate saith God, and touch not their unclean things; I'll receive you," see. Jacob had to separate himself from his denominational brother before God would ever bless him. God told Abraham the same thing. Israel and Moab. The four hundred prophets of Israel stood before Micaiah, and Micaiah separated himself from them and got the Word of the Lord and come back with it. Moses and Korah, same thing, wouldn't mix, they had to separate. Is that true?<ref>62-0401_Wisdom Versus Faith_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #200</ref>

Any church associated with the World Council of Churches is Babylon:

:''What did this angel say? “Come out of her!” Yes, sir. This angel came to the earth, and he come to bring the Light, and he shined the Light around the world. He was a mighty angel. And he come to proclaim the Message of “Come out of Babylon! Touch not her unclean things!”  Got a whole cage full of them. Said, “She’s the cage of every hateful bird.” Yeah, she got a cage full of them now, the World Council of Churches, or lodges. She’s got the whole bunch caged up now, they’re all coming together.

:''...And when you join up with a citizen…a system, and become a citizen of that system, you are showing what you are. And in this last days, God is calling the people out of it. The Bible said so, “Come out of her, that you be not partakers with her, and I will receive you. Touch not her unclean things, see, and I will receive you. And you’ll be sons and daughters to Me, and I’ll be God to you.” See?<ref>William Branham, 62-1111E - Why I'm Against Organized Religion, para. 216-217, 223</ref>

:''And, remember, this election, is coming now, is just not going to another nation, it’s going to Glory, where their names are wrote on the Lamb’s Book of Life. Not under the natural, little animal lamb that brought Israel out, that they could backslide from there and go back. But, this can’t. This is under the Blood of the Lamb of God that was slain before the foundation of the world. And their names were put on the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world. And they’re in there, elected. And when that Light flashes over them, like that, them denominational walls drop away from them, and here they come. “Come out from among them,” said the Holy Spirit in these last days. “Touch not their unclean things. I’ll be God to you; you be sons and daughters to Me.” Now, watch.<ref>William Branham, 63-0630M - The Third Exodus, para. 246</ref>

:''What was he? Manifestation of the Word, Light. Same God that spoke in Genesis; that spoke this, and here come the Light. As He said, “Let there be light, for the sun,” the sun come in existence; say He said there’d be “a voice of one crying in the wilderness,” here it come forth. It was the Light of the hour. He also said, in the last days! Amen! It’s the Light of the hour, crying in the wilderness of Babylon, “Come out of her, My people, that you be not partakers of her sins. Touch not her unclean thing! Get away from it! Flee from the wrath that is to come!”<ref>William Branham, 63-1229M - There Is A Man Here That Can Turn On The Light, para. 202-203</ref>

If you are in any kind of organized church, you are dead and need to come out:

:''Losing your hold on the Word, and accepting creeds and self-exaltation by man’s exhortation, we have seen them lose their hold with the great Holy Spirit. We’ve seen the Pentecostals do the same thing. And you see it. When they organize, they die. There is no way back; there never has been, and there never will be. God is against the thing. It’s really sin. Said, in the last days He’d say, “Come out from among them, My people, that you touch not their unclean things; and I’ll receive you.”<ref>William Branham, 64-0315 - Influence, para. 210</ref>

:''Cannot do it! Now it’s Seed time, or Bride time. The shucks are dead. The shucks are dried up. The virgin Word time, not touched. It’s a virgin, remember, a virgin Word time. If you’d put It in the hands of a denomination, It sure won’t be virgin; It’ll be man-handled, time you get to It. But God’s Church is not touched by denomination. Hallelujah! It’s a virgin-born Word of God made manifest, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hallelujah! How, how wonderful! I love It. I believe It. I know that It’s the Truth. It’ll not be touched. There’ll be no denominational man-handling in the virgin Birth of the Bride. No, sir! She is—she is commanded by God to come out of such. “Touch not their unclean things, become vultures.”<ref>William Branham, 65-0218 - The Seed Is Not Heir With The Shuck, para. 111</ref>