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=What William Branham taught= | |||
William Branham taught that in some of the prior "church ages", a true Christian was required to believe a doctrine of the devil (the Trinity) to be saved. If they rejected the message that the messenger brought (which included the doctrine of the Trinity), they were lost. | |||
Any Message Believer should know this, because: | Any Message Believer should know this, because: | ||
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4) William Branham clearly taught that the doctrine of the Trinity was Satanic. Message believers have to accept this because he said it was “Thus saith the Lord”. | 4) William Branham clearly taught that the doctrine of the Trinity was Satanic. Message believers have to accept this because he said it was “Thus saith the Lord”. | ||
==Each church age had a messenger== | |||
=Each church age had a messenger= | |||
William Branham taught that each church age had a unique messenger that carried the message of God to the church of that age: | William Branham taught that each church age had a unique messenger that carried the message of God to the church of that age: | ||
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:''The '''angel of the church of Philadelphia was John Wesley''', the messenger.<ref>William Branham, 60-1205 - The Ephesian Church Age, para. 60</ref> | :''The '''angel of the church of Philadelphia was John Wesley''', the messenger.<ref>William Branham, 60-1205 - The Ephesian Church Age, para. 60</ref> | ||
=If you believed the messenger you were saved= | ==If you believed the messenger you were saved== | ||
William Branham also taught that in order to be saved, you have to follow the messenger for your age: | William Branham also taught that in order to be saved, you have to follow the messenger for your age: | ||
:''Noah was God’s witness for the antediluvian end time. Now, look how contrary his message was to the whole antediluvian world. Why, the man was considered an insane man. Why, his…But, yet, he had exactly the Word of the Lord. Now, God had spoke He “couldn’t tolerate sin,” so He… when the people begin to sin, then God come down and Noah preached the end-time message. When was it? Just before the end time, this messenger arose. God sent forth this prophet with the message for the end time. And he was laughed at, ridiculed, made fun of, and only the saving of his own household did he save. That’s right. No one would believe him. '''But he had the end-time message. Now, all that did not believe were condemned, and the ones that did believe the message was saved. God gave them Life and they were saved, and the ones that did not believe It was lost.''' | |||
:''That's exactly what took place in the days of Noah; that's what took place in the days of Lot; that's what took place in the other days, the days of Moses; that's what taken place in the days of Jesus Christ. For they despised the message and perished, and '''those who believed the message was lost... or was saved.''' | :''That's exactly what took place in the days of Noah; that's what took place in the days of Lot; that's what took place in the other days, the days of Moses; that's what taken place in the days of Jesus Christ. For they despised the message and perished, and '''those who believed the message was lost... or was saved.''' | ||
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:''Now, now, then comes the church dispensation in. We lived back in Noah's time, the antediluvian; we come into the dispensation of law; then in the dispensation of grace, the church. And now the church dispensation is ending. We all know that. | :''Now, now, then comes the church dispensation in. We lived back in Noah's time, the antediluvian; we come into the dispensation of law; then in the dispensation of grace, the church. And now the church dispensation is ending. We all know that. | ||
:''Now, if God did thus-and-thus in that dispensation, in those other two dispensations, He has to remain the same and do the same in this dispensation, 'cause He said He would do it. I'll prove it in a few minutes, by the Word, that He said He would do it. '''Now, He cannot change His program, He's God.''' Notice what He did in them dispensations.<ref> | :''Now, if God did thus-and-thus in that dispensation, in those other two dispensations, He has to remain the same and do the same in this dispensation, 'cause He said He would do it. I'll prove it in a few minutes, by the Word, that He said He would do it. '''Now, He cannot change His program, He's God.''' Notice what He did in them dispensations.<ref>William Branham, 63-0116 - The Evening Messenger, para. 98, 113-115</ref> | ||
:''He did in that age just as He did in all ages, and like He will do, just as He promised to do. God promises anything, then He comes down and proves His Word to be right. '''All that believe, all that believe the Message of that age, come in and was saved. So will it be in any age. All who did not believe the Message and the messenger, perished.''' | :''He did in that age just as He did in all ages, and like He will do, just as He promised to do. God promises anything, then He comes down and proves His Word to be right. '''All that believe, all that believe the Message of that age, come in and was saved. So will it be in any age. All who did not believe the Message and the messenger, perished.'''<ref>William Branham, 64-0816 - Proving His Word, para. 94</ref> | ||
:''And the prophets, or the Holy Spirit speaking through Paul, which was the Messiah. Wasn't Paul, it was Christ! "God, in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, in this last day by Jesus Christ," Hebrews 1, notice, the Holy Spirit, Christ, Christ-centered Gospel, Christ-centered Word. And if It is Christ-centered, and been vindi-… God will vindicate It to be the Truth. 145 That's the reason you Pentecostal people receive the Holy Ghost in the faith of the Method-… face of the Methodist sanctification, because you was exactly on the Word. | :''And the prophets, or the Holy Spirit speaking through Paul, which was the Messiah. Wasn't Paul, it was Christ! "God, in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, in this last day by Jesus Christ," Hebrews 1, notice, the Holy Spirit, Christ, Christ-centered Gospel, Christ-centered Word. And if It is Christ-centered, and been vindi-… God will vindicate It to be the Truth. 145 That's the reason you Pentecostal people receive the Holy Ghost in the faith of the Method-… face of the Methodist sanctification, because you was exactly on the Word. | ||
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:''That's the reason you Methodist got sanctified when the Lutherans didn't believe in it, you were on the Word. That's how you Lutherans got saved, justified, because your messenger preached justification, and protested the Catholic church which was an off brand of all. They just believed in the church; you come back to the Bible, and you took that Bible truth and held to it. And then along come Wesley with another truth, and held to it; along come the Pentecost with another truth, and held to it; then if you can hold to that and see it's right, why not take the whole thing that's been proved right? Believe it all!<ref>William Branham, 63-0116 - The Evening Messenger, para. 94, 144-148</ref> | :''That's the reason you Methodist got sanctified when the Lutherans didn't believe in it, you were on the Word. That's how you Lutherans got saved, justified, because your messenger preached justification, and protested the Catholic church which was an off brand of all. They just believed in the church; you come back to the Bible, and you took that Bible truth and held to it. And then along come Wesley with another truth, and held to it; along come the Pentecost with another truth, and held to it; then if you can hold to that and see it's right, why not take the whole thing that's been proved right? Believe it all!<ref>William Branham, 63-0116 - The Evening Messenger, para. 94, 144-148</ref> | ||
=Some of the messengers were Trinitarian= | ==Some of the messengers were Trinitarian== | ||
Martin Luther taught the doctrine of the Trinity: | Martin Luther taught the doctrine of the Trinity: | ||
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:''...justification is “the article by which the church stands or falls” because on it the church’s proclamation of the gospel depends, although Luther also ascribed to the Trinity, the incarnation, and the resurrection, among others...<ref>Hans Hübner and Bruce D. Marshall, “Justification,” The Encyclopedia of Christianity (Grand Rapids, MI; Leiden, Netherlands: Wm. B. Eerdmans; Brill, 1999–2003), 95–96.</ref> | :''...justification is “the article by which the church stands or falls” because on it the church’s proclamation of the gospel depends, although Luther also ascribed to the Trinity, the incarnation, and the resurrection, among others...<ref>Hans Hübner and Bruce D. Marshall, “Justification,” The Encyclopedia of Christianity (Grand Rapids, MI; Leiden, Netherlands: Wm. B. Eerdmans; Brill, 1999–2003), 95–96.</ref> | ||
:''As regards Servetus (who believed the [[Oneness]] doctrine), Luther knew only his first work against the Trinity, and pronounced it, in his Table Talk (1532), an “awfully bad book.”<ref>Philip Schaff and David Schley Schaff, History of the Christian Church, vol. 8 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910), 706.</ref> | :''As regards Servetus'' (who believed the [[Oneness]] doctrine), ''Luther knew only his first work against the Trinity, and pronounced it, in his Table Talk (1532), an “awfully bad book.”<ref>Philip Schaff and David Schley Schaff, History of the Christian Church, vol. 8 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910), 706.</ref> | ||
:''The major sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers continued firmly in the Patristic and Catholic tradition in their basic exposition of Trinity and divine personhood. What was stated in the Smalcald Articles (1537) about the Trinity is typical of the lifelong attitude of Luther (who helped draw up these Articles). In Part I — The Trinity, it is stated: ‘That Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three distinct persons in one divine essence, are one God, who created heaven and earth.’<ref>Douglas F. Kelly, Systematic Theology: Grounded in Holy Scripture and Understood in the Light of the Church, vol. 1 (Ross-shire, Scotland: Mentor, 2008), 507.</ref> | :''The major sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers continued firmly in the Patristic and Catholic tradition in their basic exposition of Trinity and divine personhood. What was stated in the Smalcald Articles (1537) about the Trinity is typical of the lifelong attitude of Luther (who helped draw up these Articles). In Part I — The Trinity, it is stated: ‘That Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three distinct persons in one divine essence, are one God, who created heaven and earth.’<ref>Douglas F. Kelly, Systematic Theology: Grounded in Holy Scripture and Understood in the Light of the Church, vol. 1 (Ross-shire, Scotland: Mentor, 2008), 507.</ref> | ||