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#A list of activities is given (buying, selling, planting and building), and there is surprisingly no mention of the sins of Sodom. It is the thought of unpreparedness and attachment to earthly pursuits rather than of sin which is uppermost. | #A list of activities is given (buying, selling, planting and building), and there is surprisingly no mention of the sins of Sodom. It is the thought of unpreparedness and attachment to earthly pursuits rather than of sin which is uppermost. | ||
#There is a practical warning in face of the coming catastrophe. The picture employed is that of people fleeing without stopping to collect their possessions; the contrast is provided by Lot’s wife who lingered and was lost. Attachment to earthly things will lead to disaster.<ref>I. Howard Marshall, The Gospel of Luke: A Commentary on the Greek Text, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1978), 664.</ref> | #There is a practical warning in face of the coming catastrophe. The picture employed is that of people fleeing without stopping to collect their possessions; the contrast is provided by Lot’s wife who lingered and was lost. Attachment to earthly things will lead to disaster.<ref>I. Howard Marshall, The Gospel of Luke: A Commentary on the Greek Text, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1978), 664.</ref> | ||
But Oral Roberts and Billy Granham are dead? How does that work with William Branham's faulty type in the scriptures? | |||
The answer: It doesn't! | |||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||
Revision as of 05:26, 23 February 2018
Over 250 times, William Branham quoted a passage in the Bible - "As it was in the days of Sodom..."
He then went on to teach that, just as three messengers went to Abraham in the days of Sodom, so three messengers came to the church in our day. These three messengers were William Branham, Billy Graham and Oral Roberts. William Branham taught that Oral Roberts and Billy Graham were the two messengers that went to Sodom. But William Branham was God himself, the angel that did not go down to Sodom.
What does the Bible teach?
The Bible does not contain the words "as it was in the days of Sodom". We do read the following in Matthew 17:28-30:
- Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.[1]
Genesis 18 & 19 tells us what happened to Abraham:
- And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground...[2]
- And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground...[3]
The problem is that William Branham ran the metaphor much farther than scripture takes it. Here are the things that are noted:
- A list of activities is given (buying, selling, planting and building), and there is surprisingly no mention of the sins of Sodom. It is the thought of unpreparedness and attachment to earthly pursuits rather than of sin which is uppermost.
- There is a practical warning in face of the coming catastrophe. The picture employed is that of people fleeing without stopping to collect their possessions; the contrast is provided by Lot’s wife who lingered and was lost. Attachment to earthly things will lead to disaster.[4]
But Oral Roberts and Billy Granham are dead? How does that work with William Branham's faulty type in the scriptures?
The answer: It doesn't!
Quotes of William Branham
- Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so will it be in the days that the Son of man is revealed from heaven.” You see the message? “When the Son of man is revealed from heaven…”[5]
- Well, that’s exactly what the Bible said, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.”[6]
He said, here in Mark, the—the 17th chapter and the 30th verse, He said, “As it was in the days of Sodom.” Now go back. Jesus was referring to the same Genesis that we’re referring to. “In the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.” Now go back and look what it was in the days of Sodom, then see where we’re at and see what’s supposed to happen now. In the days of Sodom, when…
Abraham, which was a type, he…We, only being dead in Christ, take on Abraham’s seed, and are heirs with him according to the promise. Any of you in the court, this afternoon, knows that. Watch Abraham. He received all kinds of signs, everything, from the supernatural God in the form of a Light, going between sacrifice. He received Him in a voice, and so forth. But the last sign that Abraham received upon the hill from Sodom, just before the Gentile world was destroyed, was God Himself in the form of a human Being. You understand, court? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] There was three Messengers come up to him. Three Messengers, and he went out to meet them.
Two of them, a modern Oral Roberts and Billy Graham, goes down into Sodom and preach the Gospel, and blinded them with their Gospel. But this One that set back there, that eat the flesh of a calf, drank the milk from a cow, and eat bread, and Abraham washed His feet. And He set there, a Man. And He said…[7]
God making Himself known among His people like He did to Abraham, by His promise here that the Son of man would reveal Himself in the days that the world become in a Sodom condition.”
And there was three messengers went forth, come down from Heaven. And there was a denominational group down in Sodom, and a Billy Graham and a Oral Roberts went down there. And remember as I’ve told you, nowhere in the history of the church has there ever been a messenger sent universal to the church, until now, with his name ending like Abraham, h-a-m. G-r-a-h-a-m, six letters, to the world, man’s number.
But Abraham had seven letters in the name, God’s complete and perfect number. See? And notice what the messengers did that went out in there: preached the Word, called them out, told them to repent.
But the One Who stayed back with Abraham, see, performed a miracle by telling Abraham what Sarah was doing and thinking in the tent behind Him. And Jesus, Who was the One that was in this Person, said, “When the world gets in a Sodom condition, like it was then, the Son of man will be revealed again.” And all the other Scriptures confirming that to be so.[8]
Footnotes
- ↑ The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Lk 17:26–30.M
- ↑ The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 18:1–2.
- ↑ The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 19:1–2.
- ↑ I. Howard Marshall, The Gospel of Luke: A Commentary on the Greek Text, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1978), 664.
- ↑ William Branham, 58-0109 - The Called-Out, para. 19
- ↑ William Branham, 61-0411 - But It Wasn't So From The Beginning, para. 46
- ↑ William Branham, 64-0427 - A Trial, para. 200-2204
- ↑ William Branham, 65-1127E - I Have Heard But Now I See, para. 233-238