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William Branham claimed the revelation of the seals had never been known before he preached them and that he received the revelation supernaturally during March 1963. | William Branham claimed the revelation of the seals had never been known before he preached them and that he received the revelation supernaturally during March 1963. | ||
:''Now I want to make this real clear. Every time, every time that these Seals has come to the place; everything that I ever believed on Them, and has read of other people, has been contrary to what come to me in the room.''<ref>William Branham, 63-0324E - The Seventh Seal, para. 29</ref> | :''Now I want to make this real clear. Every time, every time that these Seals has come to the place; '''everything''' that I ever believed on Them, '''and has read of other people''', has been contrary to what come to me in the room.''<ref>William Branham, 63-0324E - The Seventh Seal, para. 29</ref> | ||
Repeatedly and explicitly, William Branham claimed every aspect of the seals was given to him supernaturally and was contrary to everything that he had ever heard or read before. He claimed that his 1963 revelation of the seals was essentially different from anything that had came before. It logically follows that, if that is true, we should not be able to find anyone who had the same essential interpretation of the seals as William Branham before 1963. If someone else had any correct understanding of even one of the seals before 1963, then William Branham’s claim is false. | Repeatedly and explicitly, William Branham claimed every aspect of the seals was given to him supernaturally and was contrary to everything that he had ever heard or read before. He claimed that his 1963 revelation of the seals was essentially different from anything that had came before. It logically follows that, if that is true, we should not be able to find anyone who had the same essential interpretation of the seals as William Branham before 1963. If someone else had any correct understanding of even one of the seals before 1963, then William Branham’s claim is false. | ||
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William Branham owned copies of the books and teachings which he based his sermons on, and even during his sermons on the seals he explained that he had been studying their books. In truth, there is very little that is new or unique about William Branham’s revelation of the seven seals. The essential elements of his sermons on the seals were copied from The Book of Revelation by Clarence Larkin and The Finished Mystery by Charles Taze Russel. | William Branham owned copies of the books and teachings which he based his sermons on, and even during his sermons on the seals he explained that he had been studying their books. In truth, there is very little that is new or unique about William Branham’s revelation of the seven seals. The essential elements of his sermons on the seals were copied from The Book of Revelation by Clarence Larkin and The Finished Mystery by Charles Taze Russel. | ||
William Branham purposefully misled his audiences to think he was preaching something new. | In 2012, this website [[Plagiarism|published information which showed that men before William Branham had already preached the revelation of the seals in a manner that was essentially the same as William Branham]]. | ||
Upon close examination, it is clear that William Branham’s interpretation of the seals was not new or unique. His “Revelation of the Seven Seals” was entirely an adaptation of the teachings of earlier preachers, and he purposefully misled his audiences to think he was preaching something new. | |||
==The Loose Ends== | ==The Loose Ends== | ||