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There are significant problems with William Branham's teaching on the [[Seven Churches In Asia|Seven Church Ages which you can read about by clicking here.]] | There are significant problems with William Branham's teaching on the [[Seven Churches In Asia|Seven Church Ages which you can read about by clicking here.]] | ||
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But the question must be asked - What was the reason that he taught this doctrine? Was it simply another way to point to himself as a great prophet? | But the question must be asked - What was the reason that he taught this doctrine? Was it simply another way to point to himself as a great prophet? | ||
=William Branham believed himself to be a prophet= | |||
:''To my precious dear brothers and sisters (See?), all of you, as a servant of God… I never said this before in the wor-… in—in this church, '''I've never said, but as a prophet of the Lord''', I say to you, "This is the Light; walk ye in It."<ref>William Branham, 61-0813 - Faith</ref> | |||
:''Listen. '''Do you believe me to be His prophet? I haven't confessed that before.''' I believe I stand with people who understand and know what I'm trying to get to you. There's people in here that's professing Christianity, should be right here. Come, won't you? Let me ask you, how are you ever going to? '''You'll never receive another sign. This is It. THUS SAITH THE LORD. Would a prophet of God make a statement like that if it wasn't true?''' You're receiving your greatest sign, and '''your last sign, before the appearing of Christ'''. Come! The reason I'm saying these things, I've never said this in any other meeting, I feel that right here is opportunity here for something to happen. That's why I'm saying the way I am. I believe you understand. You wouldn't go around, make some kind of a cult, say, "Brother Branham is a god," or something like that. You understand what I'm talking about. Come now. Come. Let me persuade you, in the Name of Christ. Come! <ref>William Branham, 62-0707 - Jehovah-Jireh #3</ref> | |||
=William Branham believed himself to be the last messenger= | =William Branham believed himself to be the last messenger= | ||
Willian Branham believed himself to be the angel of Revelation 10:7 and he tied that in with the messenger to the church of Laodicean: | |||
:''God just fools them, every time. It always comes different. It did in Noah's time; did in Moses' time; did in Christ's time; did in John's time; did in disciples' time; did in Wesley's time; did in Luther's time; did in Pentecostal time; '''and so has it again'''. It don't change Its pattern. Always comes the same thing. '''Only reformers through them seven, six ages, till the seventh. And Revelation 10 said, in this hour it'll change. And it did'''.<ref>65-1125 - The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ</ref> | |||
:''Notice. This last message of the last church age is not a reformer; '''he is a prophet''', not a reformer. Show me where one prophet ever started a church age. He's not a reformer; he is a prophet. '''Others was reformers but not prophets.''' If they would've been, the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet; that's the reason they continued on in the baptism in Father, Son, Holy Ghost, and all these other things, because they were reformers and not prophets. But yet they were great men of God and saw the need of the day that they lived in, and God anointed them, and they sent out there and tore those things to pieces. But the full Word of God never come to them, because they was not prophets. They were reformers. '''But in the last days it'll have to be a prophet to take up the mysteries of God''', bring it back, because the mysteries was only re—known by prophets. So it has to be this fellow come. See what I mean now? He can't be a reformer; it's got to be a prophet, because it's got to be somebody that's gifted and set there that catches the Word.<ref>63-0318 - The First Seal, para. 191-192</ref> | |||
:''All right. Now, these messages are all kept up until this earthly vessel, until the time of God's appointed time at the last messenger at the earth, and all that these people had judged at and said, "I know it's there; I believe it's there"; and they'd fought at it, and brought it forth, and produced the things; by faith they believed it. But now it's going to be brought to us in revelations and from the hand of God by vindication. God said so; He promised it.<ref>William Branham, 63-0317E - The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals</ref> | |||
:''Now we're taught, in Revelation the 6th chapter, I believe, yeah, 6th chapter, of the Seven Seals. That's supposed… The Book to be sealed up with seven mysteries, or Seven Seals, Revelation 6. And in the last day, Revelation 10, in Revelation 10, we find out that the '''Laodicea, last messenger of the last age, and during the time of his prophecy, that the Seven Seals would be opened''', the seven mysteries, sevenfold mysteries that had been left off.<ref>William Branham, 65-0117 - A Paradox</ref> | |||
:''Now this person, who in this verse is called an 'angel' in the King James version is NOT an heavenly being. The sixth trumpeting angel, who is an heavenly being, is in Revelation 9:13, and the seventh of like order is in Revelation 11:15. This one here in Revelation 10:7 is the seventh age messenger and it is a man, and he is to bring a message from God, and his message and ministry is going to finish the mystery of God as declared to His servants, the prophets. '''God is going to treat this last messenger as a prophet BECAUSE HE IS A PROPHET.''' That is what Paul was in the first age, and the last age has one, too.<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Nine - The Laodicean Church Age</ref> | |||
=William Branham also wanted to paint himself as being rejected= | |||
William Branham found himself increasingly on the outside in the latter days of his ministry, primarily because of his strange doctrinal teachings: | |||
:'' | :''Now, you might add this in saying that this Brother Branham has been rejected. He's been called anything from a--from a soothsayer, or a Simon the sorcerer, or a regular Beelzebub. But that's exactly what Jesus said would take place.<ref>William Branham, Audio Letter to Lee Vayle (May 1964, Tucson, AZ)</ref> | ||
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