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He said this because he had seen Moses and Elijah with Jesus. This is the second appearing of Elijah in the New Testament and the fourth in the Bible. | He said this because he had seen Moses and Elijah with Jesus. This is the second appearing of Elijah in the New Testament and the fourth in the Bible. | ||
So if William Branham's biblical interpretation is correct and the spirit of | So if William Branham's biblical interpretation is correct and the spirit of Elijah was to appear five times, then there is no room for a Gentile Elijah. | ||
=''The day cometh, that shall burn as an oven''= | |||
In Malachi 4:1 we read: | |||
:''For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Mal 4:1.</ref> | |||
William Branham interpreted Malachi 4 as applying to himself, as prophesying his ministry. He stated that Malachi was "speaking over to a day coming. ...To a day of the coming of the Lord."<ref>William Branham, 60-1211E - The Laodicean Church Age, para. 63</ref> . He believed that all of Malachi chapter 4 was applicable to the second coming of Christ and not to Christ's first coming. | |||
In Acts 2:15, Peter says that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost as the fulfillment of Joel 2:28–32 | |||
:''These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: | |||
::''‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ac 2:15–21.</ref> | |||
It is interesting that the words preceeding the prophecy of Joel 2:28-32 contain words strikingly similar to Malachi 4:! | |||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||