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| :''"O my brethren, let none of you that fear God recommend such a writer any more; much less labor to make the deadly poison palatable, by sweetening it with all care! All his folly and nonsense we may excuse; but not his making God a liar; not his contradicting, in so open and flagrant a manner, the whole oracles of God! True, his tales are often exceeding lively, and as entertaining as the tales of...the fairies! But I dare not give up my Bible for them; and I must give up one or the other. If the preceding extracts are from God, then the Bible is only a fable! But if all Scriptures are given by inspiration of God, then let these dreams sink into the pit from whence they came." <ref>~ Thoughts on the writings of Baron Swedenborg, by John Wesley, Wakefield, May 8, 1782.</ref> | | :''"O my brethren, let none of you that fear God recommend such a writer any more; much less labor to make the deadly poison palatable, by sweetening it with all care! All his folly and nonsense we may excuse; but not his making God a liar; not his contradicting, in so open and flagrant a manner, the whole oracles of God! True, his tales are often exceeding lively, and as entertaining as the tales of...the fairies! But I dare not give up my Bible for them; and I must give up one or the other. If the preceding extracts are from God, then the Bible is only a fable! But if all Scriptures are given by inspiration of God, then let these dreams sink into the pit from whence they came." <ref>~ Thoughts on the writings of Baron Swedenborg, by John Wesley, Wakefield, May 8, 1782.</ref> |
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| |Now, now, we're going to turn to the 5th chapter. Now, this is not the Seven Seals. It is the "Breach Between the Church Ages and the Seven Seals." Now, there is also a 6th chapter of... and there was a 4th chapter, rather, of Revelation, and in that it kind of revealed something that would take place after the Church going up: '''that the Church goes up on the 3rd chapter of Revelations and does not return until the 19th chapter of Revelations.''' See? Therefore, the Church misses the tribulation. '''I know that's contrary to--to pretty near every teacher I ever talked to, but I--I don't mean to be dis--disagreeable.''' I--I mean to be your brother, but I--I must teach just as I can see it. If I don't, I can't put it together. You see? And now, whether it goes up before the tribulation or after the tribulation, I want to go up with it. That's the main thing.<Ref>THE.BREACH.BETWEEN.THE.SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES.AND.THE.SEVEN.SEALS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317E</ref>
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| Do you realize that the first three chapters of Revelation deals with the church in the church age? That's the tribulation period, not the church age; '''the church raptures and goes up at the 4th chapter of Revelation, never comes again till the 19th chapter when it comes with Jesus.''' That's right. That's in the tribulation period, not nothing to do with the church at all.<ref>QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 62-0527</ref>
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| John caught up in the 4th chapter to see things which was, which is, and which is to come. '''But the Church finishes at the 4th chapter, and Christ takes up the Church, caught up in the air to meet Him, and does not appear again until the 19th chapter''' when He comes back with--as King of king and Lord of lords with the Church.<ref>THE.FIRST.SEAL JEFF.IN 63-0318</ref>
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| And at the same time the Church is gone, and these things don't even happen in the church age at all. That's right. They're--they're away from the church age. The Church absolutely is raptured at this time. '''The Church goes up in the 4th chapter of Revelation, and does not return until it comes back with its King in the 19th chapter.''' But these Seals here are revealing what has been, what is, and what will be. See? And now, what was to be for the church age was revealed by these Seals, and now, watch what takes it.<ref>THE.FIFTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN 63-0322</ref>
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| |The word “hereafter” permits a “time space,” while the words “after these things” refer to the things that shall immediately follow the completion of the “Church Age,” as prefigured in the Messages to the Seven Churches. '''The Church disappears from view with the close of the third chapter and is not heard of again until the nineteenth chapter''', where her marriage to the Lamb is announced. Rev. 19:7–9.<ref>Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture, 32 (Philadelphia, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Estate, 1919).</ref>
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| =Problems with William Branham's interpretation= | | =Problems with William Branham's interpretation= |