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:''I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet...<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Re 1:10.</ref> | :''I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet...<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Re 1:10.</ref> | ||
William Branham initially believed the reference to the Lord's Day to be a reference to Sunday, the first day of the week. But when he preached the sermon series on the Seven Churches, he changed his view. Was | William Branham initially believed the reference to the Lord's Day to be a reference to Sunday, the first day of the week. But when he preached the sermon series on the Seven Churches, he changed his view. Was this a revelation from God or was this simply another case of stealing a "revelation" from Clarence Larkin? | ||
=Clarence Larkin= | =Clarence Larkin= | ||
We know William Branham took much of the church age sermon series from Clarence Larkin. Here is what Larkin said on the subject: | We know William Branham took much of the church age sermon series from Clarence Larkin. Here is what Larkin said on the subject of the "Lord's Day": | ||
:''The Messages to the Seven Churches, Rev. 2:1–3; 22. As these Messages were to seven churches that were in existence in John’s day, and to whom he personally wrote, '''the advocates of the theory that John was in the Spirit on a certain Sabbath or “Lord’s Day,” naturally claim that John at that time could not have been transported into the “Day of the Lord.”''' But that does not necessarily follow.<ref>Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture (Philadelphia, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Estate, 1919), 13.</ref> | :''The Messages to the Seven Churches, Rev. 2:1–3; 22. As these Messages were to seven churches that were in existence in John’s day, and to whom he personally wrote, '''the advocates of the theory that John was in the Spirit on a certain Sabbath or “Lord’s Day,” naturally claim that John at that time could not have been transported into the “Day of the Lord.”''' But that does not necessarily follow.<ref>Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture (Philadelphia, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Estate, 1919), 13.</ref> | ||