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Does God want to do something new but we are eating off something that is fifty years old? | Does God want to do something new but we are eating off something that is fifty years old? | ||
=Why does this always happen?= | =Why does this always happen?= | ||
:''How often have you heard Christians say, "God is doing a new thing in his church"? The "new thing" they refer to may be called a revival, an outpouring, a visitation, or a move of God. | :'''''How often have you heard Christians say, "God is doing a new thing in his church"?''' The "new thing" they refer to may be called a revival, an outpouring, a visitation, or a move of God. | ||
:''Yet very often, this "new thing" dies out very quickly. And once it has faded, it can´t be found again. In this way, it proves not to be a move of God at all. In fact, Christian sociologists have tracked many of these visitations and discovered the average span of life of such an event is about five years. Personally, I believe God is doing a new thing in his church today. Yet this great work of the Spirit can´t be found in just one location. It´s happening worldwide. | :''Yet very often, this "new thing" dies out very quickly. And once it has faded, it can´t be found again. In this way, it proves not to be a move of God at all. In fact, Christian sociologists have tracked many of these visitations and discovered the average span of life of such an event is about five years. Personally, I believe God is doing a new thing in his church today. Yet this great work of the Spirit can´t be found in just one location. It´s happening worldwide. | ||
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:''And even what is eat today, don't try to keep it for tomorrow. "Burn it with fire, before daylight come," for there's a new Message coming forth, and a new thing. <ref>William Branham, THE.RAPTURE_ YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_ 65-1204</ref> | :''And even what is eat today, don't try to keep it for tomorrow. "Burn it with fire, before daylight come," for there's a new Message coming forth, and a new thing. <ref>William Branham, THE.RAPTURE_ YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_ 65-1204</ref> | ||
==Is a "new thing" necessarily good?== | |||
''So they took Paul, brought him before the city council, the Areopagus, and said, “We would like to know what this new teaching is that you are talking about. Some of the things we hear you say sound strange to us, and we would like to know what they mean.” (For all the citizens of Athens and the foreigners who lived there liked to spend all their time telling and hearing the latest '''new thing'''.)<ref>American Bible Society, The Holy Bible: The Good News Translation, 2nd ed. (New York: American Bible Society, 1992), Ac 17:19–21.</ref> | |||
=Is the message now the "old thing"?= | =Is the message now the "old thing"?= | ||
William Branham chided the Pentecostals for eating "old" mana: | |||
''We're in the last days. We're standing near the judgment. Why? '''They're trying to eat old manna that fell back yonder fifty years ago''', the Pentecostal church.''<ref>TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE WITHOUT BEING THE WILL OF GOD JEFF.IN 65-0718M</ref> | ''We're in the last days. We're standing near the judgment. Why? '''They're trying to eat old manna that fell back yonder fifty years ago''', the Pentecostal church.''<ref>TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE WITHOUT BEING THE WILL OF GOD JEFF.IN 65-0718M</ref> | ||
The fiftieth anniversary of William Branham's | The fiftieth anniversary of William Branham's death has already passed. According to William Branham's theology, it is time for something new. '''The message is stale old manna'''...if it ever was manna. | ||
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