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William Branham taught that:

:''God ever says anything, He can never change it. He always magnifies it, not change it. The law was magnified, not changed. Magnified!  "'Whosoever commits adultery shall be guilty of death,' but whosoever," now magnified, "looketh upon a woman to lust after her!" He never changed the commandment. He magnified it.''

:''The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; He will magnify the law, and make it honourable.  But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes...<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 42:21–22.''</ref>

===What does magnify mean?===

But what does the word magnify mean in the context of Isaiah 42:21?

Here are couple of other translations of Matt 5:17 in more up to date English:

:''“Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose.'' (NLT)

Paul stated that Jesus came ''"having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross..."'' (Col 2:14)

'''He is talking about the law.'''  Jesus came to fulfill all of the requirements of the law '''on our behalf''' so that the way to God is now opened!

Could this be true?

Jesus did not sweep the the law under the carpet.  He did not do away with it.

Did you know that the ten commandments were received by Israel on the day of Pentecost.  It was forty days after the Jewish passover when Moses went up on Mt. Sinai and received the Law. On that day they received the Law, three thousand people died (Ex 32:28).  But what happened on the day that the church was born, the day of Penecost?  Three thousand people came to life (Acts 2:41).  The law produced death in 3,000 people on its first day, grace produced life in 3,000 people on the day the church was born!

Did Jesus go to Calvary and die to bring back the law to its pristine standard, a standard that ensured that no man could keep the law?  

If he was wanting you to obey what He said here, churches would be filled with blind amputees!

Do you know that the apostles specifically talked about the laws that us Gentiles were required to keep?

So what gives William Branham the right to change the requirements laid down by the Apostles?

The law demands perfections but does not lift a finger to help.  Grace on the other hand imparts perfection and does everything for man through Jesus Christ.

If you try to mix grace and the law as the Galatian church did, Paul said that you have fallen away from grace.  Paul said you are either entirely under the law or you are under grace.  They can't be mixed.

Paul stated:

:''If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  And if I have '''prophecy''', and know '''all mysteries''' and all knowledge, and if I have all '''faith''' so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.  If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit. (1 Co 13:1–3 NET)

We receive a question which asked: ''So, if the law is indeed magnified, would it not be logical to also assume the part of the prophets being done away with is not the case, that instead, the role of the prophet might be magnified as well?

Based on William Branham's criteria, what does the occurrence of a single failure of a vision like [[The Municipal Bridge Vision|the Municipal Bridge Prophecy]] require us to do with his prophetic ministry?

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