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'''What William Branham did was to use a number of scriptures, including Rev, 10:7, for the sole purpose of pointing to himself (in a fashion that the Bible never intended).''' | '''What William Branham did was to use a number of scriptures, including Rev, 10:7, for the sole purpose of pointing to himself (in a fashion that the Bible never intended).''' | ||
=Where did William Branham get his interpretation?= | |||
In his book, The Finished Mystery, Charles Taze Russel said this about the seventh seal of Revelation 6:15: | |||
:''Had opened the '''seventh seal'''.—“The seal of the living God.” (Rev. 7:2.) The opening of the seventh seal is progressive. The opening and unfolding of the Truth goes on as the saints are sealed. By the time the saints are all sealed in their hearts and minds with the Present Truth, the deepest features of the Truth itself will have been disclosed. “The time will undoubtedly come in the near future when the number of the Elect will be complete. Then only such vacancies as might still occur by some falling out would remain.” (Z. ’14‐68.) “God’s people down through this Gospel age have been privileged to know something of the ‘Secret of the Lord’—the Divine Plan. But not until the last seal is broken, does the scroll fly wide open, '''permitting the ‘Mystery of God’ to be fully disclosed; as it is written: ‘In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the Mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the Prophets.'''’ (Rev. 5:1; '''10:7'''.)”—Z. ’97‐257. | |||
:''10:4. And [when] WHATSOEVER the '''seven thunders''' had uttered [their voices], I.—Pastor Russell as a representative of the John class. | |||
:''10:7. But in the days of the voice of the '''seventh angel'''.—Pastor Russell was the seventh angel.—'''Rev. 3:14.''' | |||
Charles Taze Russel went on to explain that a series of seven subjects he published between 1880 and 1910 were the seven thunders that fully revealed the mystery of God, which completed the unrolling of the seventh seal. | |||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||