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While William Branham said that he was under a Nazarite vow for life, it is clear that he wasn't. | |||
Why did he say that he was? | Why did he say that he was? | ||
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Was it part of trying to convince people that he was a prophet? Someone that was in the same category as the three other people in the bible that were born under a Nazarite vow - Samson, Samuel, and John the Baptist? | Was it part of trying to convince people that he was a prophet? Someone that was in the same category as the three other people in the bible that were born under a Nazarite vow - Samson, Samuel, and John the Baptist? | ||
One thing is clear, he was not born under a Nazarite vow and he also had no understanding of what a Nazarite vow was. | One thing is clear, he was not born under a Nazarite vow and '''he also had no understanding of what a Nazarite vow was'''. | ||
==William Branham drank wine== | |||
Drinking wine or grape juice, eating grapes or anything from the grape vine was forbidden to someone under a Nazarite vow, but that did not seem to have any impact on William Branham: | |||
:''The Bible said, "In like manner He took the cup. And when He had supped, He took--said, "Take and drink; this is the cup of the New Testament. As oft as you do this, you show forth the Lord's death till He come." '''As I hold in my hand tonight this wine, made from the--from the life of grapes''' that's been brought together here to represent the Blood of Jesus Christ. There's never a time yet, that I've ever picked up the communion tray, but I didn't look in there and see my sin's gone.<ref>COMMUNION_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0707E</ref> | |||
==William Branham cut his hair== | |||
William Branham obviously cut his hair on a regular basis, | |||
==William Branham conducted funeral services== | |||
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