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As a result, what William Branham says in relation to Luke 17:30 doesn't include the full picture. The passage is about people being caught off guard and surprised by Jesus' return. The core sins of Sodom according to Ezekiel were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while neglecting the poor and needy. Sexual perversion was also present as indicated by Jude but it was only part of the picture. As always, the entirety of scripture must be examined to get a true picture. | As a result, what William Branham says in relation to Luke 17:30 doesn't include the full picture. The passage is about people being caught off guard and surprised by Jesus' return. The core sins of Sodom according to Ezekiel were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while neglecting the poor and needy. Sexual perversion was also present as indicated by Jude but it was only part of the picture. As always, the entirety of scripture must be examined to get a true picture. | ||
Trying to type the modern church to Sodom and tying it into Luke 17:30 requires significant twisting of the scriptures. In fact, the very things that Sodom was guilty of in Ezekiel are manifest abundantly within the message, even more so than they are in most "worldly" churches. | Trying to type the modern church to Sodom and tying it into Luke 17:30 requires significant twisting of the scriptures. In fact, the very things that Sodom was guilty of in Ezekiel are manifest abundantly within the message, even more so than they are in most "worldly" churches. | ||
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While William Branham stated that Sodom was destroyed because of sexual immorality, that's not the whole picture. And when | While William Branham stated that Sodom was destroyed because of sexual immorality, that's not the whole picture. And when ridicules denominational churches for preaching down in Sodom, that is where the church is supposed to be - preaching against sin and standing up to the pride, gluttony and laziness as well as sexual immorality. | ||
Jesus prayed: | |||
:''I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. '''I do not ask that you take them out of the world''', but that you keep them from the evil one.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Jn 17:14–15.</ref> | |||
So the church is in the world but is not of the world. That is our calling. | |||
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