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=Video Transcript= | |||
In the introduction to his sermon on the Fifth Seal, William Branham clearly states the source of his revelation: | |||
:''...if He would not reveal It to me, I could not give It to you. I’m not trying to use any of my own thoughts or anything; just as He will give It. That’s right. And I—I’m sure, if I don’t use my own thoughts, and It comes in the way It has. And all through life It’s never been wrong. It won’t be wrong this time. | |||
:''...today, '''not knowing one thing about that Fifth Seal''', It came in that same mysterious way, this morning, just about an hour before daybreak, when I was out in prayer.<ref>63-0322 - The Fifth Seal, para. 5, 26</ref> | |||
He also makes it clear that his revelation disagreed with everyone else and with everything he had read on the subject: | |||
:''Now, here is where I’m going to get some real disagreeings. But you just watch just a minute. And just... See? I thought that, too, but it didn’t come that way. We have... I have always thought that these souls under the altar were the—the—the martyrs of the early Church. And I’m sure that, well, Dr. Uriah Smith, and '''every one of them, says it is'''. See? But, I thought so, myself. '''But when the Holy Spirit showed the vision to it, it wasn’t; it isn’t the souls.'''<ref>63-0322 - The Fifth Seal, para. 215</ref> | |||
William Branham wanted his followers to clearly understand that he received his revelation directly from God and didn’t get it from someone else’s book. | |||
So what was the revelation that came to William Branham? | |||
:''Now, these cannot be them souls. Because, the—the souls of the—of the righteous, martyred, and the righteous people, the Church, the Bride, has done been took up, so they wouldn’t be under the altar. They would be in Glory, with the Bride. Now watch. For, they are gone in the Rapture, in the 4th chapter of Revelation. They was taken up. Now, who are these souls, then? That’s the next thing. Who are they, then, if they’re not the early Church? '''This is Israel''' that’s to be saved as a nation, all them that are predestinated. That’s Israel. That’s Israel, itself. <ref>63-0322 - The Fifth Seal, para. 220-221</ref> | |||
It is interesting that William Branham states that he looked at all of his books and none of them had his understanding. | |||
We have seen that William Branham had Clarence Larkin’s books. Let’s take a look at what Clarence Larkin had to say: | |||
:''The removal of the Church at the end of the third chapter opens the way for God to renew His dealings with '''Israel''', and take up the broken thread of Jewish History.<ref>Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture (Philadelphia, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Estate, 1919), 32.</ref> | |||
:''The fact that their “SOULS” were under the “Sacrificial Altar” is proof that they had been offered as a “Sacrifice,” that is that they were MARTYRS. But '''they were not the Martyrs of the Christian Church'''...<ref>Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture (Philadelphia, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Estate, 1919), 58</ref> | |||
:''...these Martyrs whose SOULS are seen are mainly JEWS. This is still more likely when we consider that the “Gospel of the Kingdom” is to be preached to the NATIONS, and '''Israel''' has never been numbered among the Nations.<ref>Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture (Philadelphia, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Estate, 1919), 59</ref> | |||
William Branham and Clarence Larkin have an identical interpretation of who the souls under the altar are. They both say those are the souls of Jewish martyrs waiting for their brethren and fellow servants (also Jews) to be killed during the tribulation. | |||
How did Clarence Larkin get that revelation in 1919 when the fifth seal was not opened until 1963? | |||
How do we mesh this with William Branham’s statement that all of the theologians that he had read taught that the souls under the altar were martyrs of the Christian church? We know William Branham read Clarence Larkin. | |||
Was William Branham intentionally misleading his listeners? | |||
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