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:''To my precious dear brothers and sisters (See?), all of you, as a servant of God… I never said this before in the wor-… in—in this church, I've never said, but '''as a prophet of the Lord, I say to you''', "This is the Light; walk ye in It."<ref>61-0813 - Faith</ref>
:''To my precious dear brothers and sisters (See?), all of you, as a servant of God… I never said this before in the wor-… in—in this church, I've never said, but '''as a prophet of the Lord, I say to you''', "This is the Light; walk ye in It."<ref>61-0813 - Faith</ref>


The scriptural test of a prophet is clear as outlined by Moses in Deuteronomy 18:
Furthermore, he believed that he was [[William Branham's View of Himself#He said he was an Old Testament Prophet in the New Testament|a prophet in the Old Testament sense]].
 
The scriptural test of a prophet in the Old Testament is detailed in Deuteronomy 18:


:''But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.  Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’—18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Dt 18:20–22.</ref>
:''But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.  Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’—18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Dt 18:20–22.</ref>