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William Branham opens the Sixth Seal with a modified retelling of Max Brand’s 1920 story “A Sagebrush Cinderella”.
==Two Prophets Controlling Nature==
William Branham ties the earthquake, and signs in heaven and on earth, to the ministries of Moses and Elijah after the Rapture.  Since Moses and Elijah both performed signs in heaven and earth during their ministries, he concluded that they would return to continue their job.    


He then ties the earthquake, and signs in heaven and on earth, to the ministries of Moses and Elijah after the Rapture.  Since Moses and Elijah both performed signs in heaven and earth during their ministries, he concluded that they would return to continue their job.   
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:''“Israel is God’s son, so he is going to deliver him here in the Tribulation period, just exactly the way He did down in Egypt. …There is your Seal.  Who does it?  It’s the prophets, the other side of the Rapture.  With the Power of God, the Word of God, they just condemn nature.  They can send earthquakes, turn the moon into blood, the sun can go down, or anything, at their command.”''  
:''“Israel is God’s son, so he is going to deliver him here in the Tribulation period, just exactly the way He did down in Egypt. …There is your Seal.  Who does it?  It’s the prophets, the other side of the Rapture.  With the Power of God, the Word of God, they just condemn nature.  They can send earthquakes, turn the moon into blood, the sun can go down, or anything, at their command.”''  


==One Prophet Controlling Nature==
By 1964, William Branham was trying out his own hand at condemning nature, proclaiming judgment on Los Angeles, and claiming that an earthquake in Alaska was fulfillment of his ministry’s judgment on the West Coast.   
By 1964, William Branham was trying out his own hand at condemning nature, proclaiming judgment on Los Angeles, and claiming that an earthquake in Alaska was fulfillment of his ministry’s judgment on the West Coast.   


==Question the Visions!==
William Branham again makes a number of very strange statements in this sermon:  
William Branham again makes a number of very strange statements in this sermon:  
#He talks respectfully about Mormon prophets: “Joseph Smith…that fine man, and the vision, I don’t doubt at all but what he had the vision. I believe he was a sincere man.  But the vision he had was contrary to the Scripture.”
#He talks respectfully about Mormon prophets: “Joseph Smith…that fine man, and the vision, I don’t doubt at all but what he had the vision. I believe he was a sincere man.  But the vision he had was contrary to the Scripture.”
#He mentions a vision being present in Heaven with Jesus and the recording angel, when the recording angel calls his name.  Meda and Hope then enter heaven with him.  This story is to reassure those who listened to sermon on the Fifth Seal, that those waiting under the altar following his ministry would enter heaven with him.
#He mentions a vision being present in Heaven with Jesus and the recording angel, when the recording angel calls his name.  Meda and Hope then enter heaven with him.  This story is to reassure those who listened to sermon on the Fifth Seal, that those waiting under the altar following his ministry would enter heaven with him.


William Branham also takes the time to lash out critically at big-game hunters:
If Joseph Smith's vision was real but not Biblical, shouldn't you also put William Branham's visions to the Biblical test? Double check whether your faith is in receiving the Holy Spirit, or in William Branham's vision of heaven.    
 
:''"Why, it's a sin. That's not sport. When I was standing out on the field out yonder, in where I hunt and things like that, and see where them white hunters come out there and shoot them deer and cut a hindquarters off of it and sometimes kill eight or ten little does and leave them laying there, and their fawns running around trying to find their mammy, and you mean that's sportsmanship? That's pure murder in my book… Buffalo Bill and them plainsmen had shot off all them buffaloes, forty, fifty in an afternoon. They know when they ridded that, they got rid of the Indian. Oh, my, a stain on the flag the way they treated them Indians. There you are. But remember, the Bible said, "The hour's come that God will destroy them that destroys the earth."''
 
On May 26, 1965, William Branham went to Africa and shot 33 large game animals (including buffalo) in 21 days. Owen Jorgenson wrote that “Bill wanted to shoot a lion…He tried setting a trap.  First he shot a zebra.  Tying the dead zebra behind the Land Rover, he drug it in a wide circle around a tree, then left the zebra carcass under the tree, hoping a lion would smell the zebra scent and follow it to the tree”.  So it turns out that William Branham became the big-game hunter that he condemned so harshly.  Think about it…when is the last time you shot 33 large game animals in 21 days? William Branham simply did in Africa what he accused the white man of doing in America – and he did it while wearing shorts.




==Plagiarism==
==Plagiarism==
William Branham’s secret source of information for this sermon was the writings of [[Plagiarism|Clarence Larkin]].  Here is a comparison:
William Branham opens the Sixth Seal with a modified retelling of Max Brand’s 1920 story “A Sagebrush Cinderella”.  He also continues taking the bulk of his sermon notes directly from the writings of [[Plagiarism|Clarence Larkin]].  Here is a comparison:


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==Questions==
==Questions==
Voice of God Recordings and many Message Believers have tried to justify inconsistencies in William Branham's stories, doctrines and prophecies by saying there are discrepancies in the Bible.  As part of the Sixth Seal, William Branham addresses these concerns himself:


:''“I can take one Scripture and say, “Judas went and hung himself,” take another and say, “You go do the same.” See?  But, see, it won’t blend in with the rest of It.”
===God Will Judge Big Game Hunters===
*''"you mean that's sportsmanship? That's pure murder in my book… Buffalo Bill and them plainsmen had shot off all them buffaloes, forty, fifty in an afternoon. They know when they ridded that, they got rid of the Indian. Oh, my, a stain on the flag the way they treated them Indians. There you are. But remember, the Bible said, "The hour's come that God will destroy them that destroys the earth."''
**[[William Branham the Hunter|William Branham then went to Africa and shot 34 large game animals in 21 days]]. What other sins did he preach against, but participate in? 


:''"The Bible does not contradict itself.  “And the Bible does not contradict Itself anywhere. I've heard the old critics say that, but I have had an offer for him for a long time to show me where it's at. It isn't in here.”
*''“I can take one Scripture and say, “Judas went and hung himself,” take another and say, “You go do the same.” See?  But, see, it won’t blend in with the rest of It...The Bible does not contradict itself.  “And the Bible does not contradict Itself anywhere. I've heard the old critics say that, but I have had an offer for him for a long time to show me where it's at. It isn't in here.”''
 
**Voice of God Recordings and many Message Believers have tried to justify inconsistencies in William Branham's stories, doctrines and prophecies by saying there are discrepancies in the Bible.  As part of the Sixth Seal, William Branham addresses these concerns himself.  So if William Branham's Message was the "Word for your day" as he claimed, then shouldn't it be free from contradictions as well?   
If William Branham's Message was the "Word for your day" as he claimed, then shouldn't it be free from contradictions as well?   
 
 
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William Branham preached hard against the "sin" of big-game hunting, during an important sermon like the Sixth Seal. He then went out and shot 33 large animals in Africa in 21 days.  In other words, he did the very thing he preached against. 
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What other sins did William Branham preach against, but participate in? 
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