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:''Now I'm going to ask the tapes to.... Well, go ahead, tape it. But look, I'm just going to say this to the Tabernacle people, you that's been here. '''I charge any of you in the name of the Lord Jesus to ever ... to put your finger on one thing of the hundreds of things that has been told before they come to pass, and say they did not come to pass. Tell me one time that on the platform, out there wherever it was, that He ever spoke anything that wasn't perfectly just exactly that way.''' How could a human mind be that way? Certainly not.<ref>63-0319_The Second Seal_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #36</ref> | :''Now I'm going to ask the tapes to.... Well, go ahead, tape it. But look, I'm just going to say this to the Tabernacle people, you that's been here. '''I charge any of you in the name of the Lord Jesus to ever ... to put your finger on one thing of the hundreds of things that has been told before they come to pass, and say they did not come to pass. Tell me one time that on the platform, out there wherever it was, that He ever spoke anything that wasn't perfectly just exactly that way.''' How could a human mind be that way? Certainly not.<ref>63-0319_The Second Seal_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #36</ref> | ||
It should be possible for us to examine William Branham's ministry and determine whether he met the test of Deut. 18:20-22. That is the purpose of the passage - to provide the standard by which a prophet is to be judged. | |||
=Summary: The "One Mistake" rule= | =Summary: The "One Mistake" rule= | ||
Deuteronomy 18:20-22 states: | Deuteronomy 18:20-22 states: | ||
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:''But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other 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 the name of the Lord, '''if the word does not come to pass or come true''', that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. '''You need not be afraid of him.'''<ref>Deuteronomy 18:20-22</ref> | :''But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other 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 the name of the Lord, '''if the word does not come to pass or come true''', that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. '''You need not be afraid of him.'''<ref>Deuteronomy 18:20-22</ref> | ||
The true Prophet of the Lord predicts that which does come to pass. If the Prophet's predictions fail, they are exposed as NOT of God. Jeremiah 28:9 tells us: | A true Prophet must be 100% accurate. There is absolutely no margin for error. The true Prophet of the Lord predicts that which does come to pass. If the Prophet's predictions fail, they are exposed as NOT of God. Jeremiah 28:9 tells us: | ||
:''The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.<ref>Jeremiah 28:9</ref> | :''The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.<ref>Jeremiah 28:9</ref> | ||
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