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'''William Branham railed against religious systems.'''  The Catholic Church, as the first and strongest Christian denomination, was identified by William Branham as the Beast.  The World Council of Churches (the WCC), in its spirit of ecumenism (inter-denominational unity in worship), was identified by him as the Image to the Beast.   
'''William Branham railed against religious systems.'''  The Catholic Church, as the first and strongest Christian denomination, was identified by William Branham as the Beast.  The World Council of Churches (the WCC), in its spirit of ecumenism (inter-denominational unity in worship), was identified by him as the Image to the Beast.   


=The prophecy=
=Summary of the prophecy=


William Branham's made the following very specific prophecies:
William Branham's made the following very specific prophecies:
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=The problems with the prophecy=
=Problems with the prophecy=


There are a number of problems with William Branham's prophecy relating to the WCC:
There are a number of problems with William Branham's prophecy relating to the WCC:
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::If the message really was the “restoration of the Word”, one would think that its notoriety would be increasing exponentially and the persecution would be marked and dramatic.
::If the message really was the “restoration of the Word”, one would think that its notoriety would be increasing exponentially and the persecution would be marked and dramatic.


=The Prophecies=
=The Prophecies in Quotes=


====Unity in Communion====
====Unity in Communion====
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''And remember, that we found without one mistake, that the mark of the beast is a mark of apostasy, that is, church members hanging to their church instead of walking in the Light. They reject Light, and there's nothing left by darkness (That's right.), both Catholic and Protestant. There is "a beast," and a whore," and she had "harlot" daughters. And these harlot daughters, when they broke forth, they were virgins from the Light of that day, and they organized and bringing people down here, back into here, making them the same kind of a thing that Rome was in the beginning. The Bible said so: the beast, and an image to the beast, the letter of his name, and so forth.<ref>:Sermon: The Seal of God, Jeffersonville, IN, May 14, 1954</ref>
''And remember, that we found without one mistake, that the mark of the beast is a mark of apostasy, that is, church members hanging to their church instead of walking in the Light. They reject Light, and there's nothing left by darkness (That's right.), both Catholic and Protestant. There is "a beast," and a whore," and she had "harlot" daughters. And these harlot daughters, when they broke forth, they were virgins from the Light of that day, and they organized and bringing people down here, back into here, making them the same kind of a thing that Rome was in the beginning. The Bible said so: the beast, and an image to the beast, the letter of his name, and so forth.<ref>:Sermon: The Seal of God, Jeffersonville, IN, May 14, 1954</ref>
=Fulfillment=
William Branham did not state whether the Catholic and Christian denominations would reach full-communion or partial-communion.  If he meant partial-communion, then regardless of official church policy this prophecy has in many ways already been fulfilled. 
Time Magazine Reports:
''In an interfaith age, Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy pray together and picket together, and hardly a church exists that has not been preached to by a minister of another faith. But there is a point where ardent advocates of ecumenism draw the line: interCommunion.''<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,835149,00.html Time, The Inter-Communion Barrier, Friday, Feb. 25, 1966]</ref>
In 2007 the Catholic "Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith" (which, incidentally, is the successor of the "Holy Office of the Inquisition") issued a statement that:
:''“Jesus established here on earth only one Church and instituted it as a visible and spiritual community that from its beginning and throughout the centuries has always existed and will always exist, and in which alone are found all the elements that Christ himself instituted. […] This Church, constituted and organised in this world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the successor of Peter and the Bishops in communion with him.”''
The World council of Churches responded to this statement with the following paragraph:
:''"Each church is the Church catholic and not simply a part of it. Each church is the Church catholic, but not the whole of it. Each church fulfils its catholicity when it is in communion with the other churches." ''
One of the goals of the World Council of churches, which represents over 550 million Christians, includes "most of the world's Orthodox churches, scores of denominations from such historic traditions of the Protestant Reformation as Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed, as well as many united and independent churches", is to achieve "the goal of visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship." [http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/who/index-e.html]


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