11,143
edits
An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages: Difference between revisions
An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages (view source)
Revision as of 18:31, 22 August 2022
, 1 year agono edit summary
No edit summary |
|||
| (2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Top of Page}} | {{Top of Page}} | ||
{{7 Church Ages}} | |||
William Branham's only book, "''An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages''", was released after his death at the end of 1965. The book is referred to in this article as the Church Age book or CAB. | William Branham's only book, "''An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages''", was released after his death at the end of 1965. The book is referred to in this article as the Church Age book or CAB. | ||
| Line 17: | Line 18: | ||
The burden of proof is clearly upon William Branham to show that these local letters are successive "ages" or "eras". | The burden of proof is clearly upon William Branham to show that these local letters are successive "ages" or "eras". | ||
==Proof that the "church age" concept is incorrect== | |||
Notice the following from the first chapter of the Book of Revelation (emphasis added): | |||
:''John to the seven churches that are in Asia... | |||
:''...“Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.” | |||
:''Write therefore '''the things that you have seen, those THAT ARE ''and'' those THAT ARE TO TAKE PLACE AFTER THIS.'''<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Re 1:4–19.</ref> | |||
In Revelation Chapters 2 & 3, John writes all of the things he was commissioned to say to each of the seven churches, with Laodecia wrapping up the end of chapter 3. | |||
Now, read carefully the first verse of Chapter 4 (emphasis added): | |||
:''After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you '''what must take place AFTER THIS'''.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Re 4:1.</ref> | |||
Notice carefully that in Revelation 1:19 John is to write about two things: "those things that are" AND "those that are to take place after this." | |||
We see that Revelation 2 & 3 were "those things that are" as the messages to the seven churches refer to things, people and places that existed at the time John had his vision. Revelation 4 and the following chapters deal with those things "that are to take place after this." The text clearly tells us that itself. | |||
As a result, we can state with certainty that Revelation chapters 2 & 3 were never meant to be prophetic of "church ages" that were to occur in the future. | |||
=Critique on specific comments in Branham's book= | =Critique on specific comments in Branham's book= | ||
| Line 44: | Line 67: | ||
|- | |- | ||
|} | |} | ||
{{7 Church Ages Bottom}} | |||
{{Bottom of Page}} | {{Bottom of Page}} | ||
[[Category: Unfinished articles]] | [[Category: Unfinished articles]] | ||