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#The assistant minister at our church yelled, "Don't they know that Elias must come first"? I sat there wondering why he didn’t quote the rest of the verse, where Jesus said that Elias had already come, but you didn't know it (John the Baptist). | #The assistant minister at our church yelled, "Don't they know that Elias must come first"? I sat there wondering why he didn’t quote the rest of the verse, where Jesus said that Elias had already come, but you didn't know it (John the Baptist). | ||
#A minister discovered a discrepancy in Bro. Branham’s math, and taught that the end of the United States would be in 1984, rather than 1977. In 1985, he realized that the date should have been 1994 instead. When he passed on, he said, “Bro. Branham lied to us!” | #A minister discovered a discrepancy in Bro. Branham’s math, and taught that the end of the United States would be in 1984, rather than 1977. In 1985, he realized that the date should have been 1994 instead. When he passed on, he said, “Bro. Branham lied to us!” | ||
=The sexual abuse of a child= | |||
The Pastor of a Message church showed his congregation a short video of a Catholic Priest preaching a fireball sermon to an evangelical audience. I was a teenager in the audience. The pastor stopped the video and told us that the Catholic Priest in the video was a pedophile. He then told us how the Catholic Church is spiritually bankrupt. Years later, I learned that the same Message Pastor was hiding ongoing sexual interaction between an adult and a minor in his congregation when he showed the video. I talked to the Pastor about this, and he lied about the events that happened. Realizing that the Pastor was spiritually bankrupt, many people in his congregation left to form a new Message Church. | |||
A few years later, the Pastor of the new Message church showed his congregation a short video of a Catholic Priest preaching a fireball sermon to an evangelistic audience. I was an adult in the audience. The pastor stopped the video and told us that the Catholic Priest in the video was a pedophile. He then told us how the Catholic Church is spiritually bankrupt. He never mentioned that the same issues exist in Message Churches. I began to think about why we would call the Catholic Church the Mother Whore when our Message Churches were acting like her daughters? | |||
I realized that I had seen this all before, and decided not to let my children too far out of my sight. Very soon after I left the Message. | |||
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