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:::<small>Revelation 1:11b, 20</small>
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=Did the Holy Spirit
=Did an Angel draw the Church Age diagram on the wall of the Branham Tabernacle?=


My grandparents were there the day that happened. They said it was made by a car light coming through the window. I've heard other people say the same thing.
William Branham stated that after he finished teaching on the Seven Church ages:


Did the car light drew the church ages as started by Branham?
:''...that Angel of the Lord, that Light, It come right in before three hundred people, moved Itself right over on the wall, and drawed with that round Light, just the way I drawed the churches, and showed exactly the same depths and everything, as it went through, while three hundred people screaming, and crying, and looking at It on the side of the wall. Why, It stood out here, and reflected Itself on the wall and made that same thing.<ref>William Branham, 61-0208 - Sirs, We Would See Jesus, para. 11</ref>
 
[2:20 p.m., 2022-01-12] Charles Paisley: No. It just went across the wall as the car turned. No one even thought it drew the picture at the time. Brother Branham and people just started to say it afterwards.
[2:20 p.m., 2022-01-12] Charles Paisley: Some people did scream though, in the back when it happened. Like it was something supernatural happening.


But multiple people who were there said what they saw was the reflection of the headlights of a car coming through the window. The light simply went across the wall as the car turned. No one even thought it drew the picture at the time. Brother Branham and people just started to say it afterwards. There were a couple of people who did scream in the back when it happened, as thought it was something supernatural.


=Problems with William Branham's interpretation=
=Problems with William Branham's interpretation=
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The second and third chapters of the book of Revelation contain "the things that are now", while the remainder of the book contains " the things that will happen afterwards." <ref>John Chappel Woodhouse, The Apocalypse, Or, Revelation of Saint John, Translated; With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, vol. 2 (London: J. Hatchard; J. Brettell, 1805), 40–41.</ref>
The second and third chapters of the book of Revelation contain "the things that are now", while the remainder of the book contains " the things that will happen afterwards." <ref>John Chappel Woodhouse, The Apocalypse, Or, Revelation of Saint John, Translated; With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, vol. 2 (London: J. Hatchard; J. Brettell, 1805), 40–41.</ref>


=Plagiarism in the Church Ages=
=Plagiarism in the Church Ages=
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=Quotes of Wiiliam Branham=
=Quotes of William Branham=


''For as soon as I come down, and not knowing what to draw these church ages on a blackboard, showing just how much of the Holy Spirit come in the Ephesus Church Age, then on down to the Smyrna, and Pergamos, and Thyatira, and on out, '''and if that Angel of the Lord, that Light, It come right in before three hundred people, moved Itself right over on the wall, and drawed with that round Light''', just the way I drawed the churches, and showed exactly the same depths and everything, as it went through,''' while three hundred people screaming, and crying, and looking at It on the side of the wall.''' Why, It stood out here, and '''reflected Itself on the wall''' and made that same thing.<ref>William Branham, 61-0208 - Sirs, We Would See Jesus, [ara. 11</ref>
''For as soon as I come down, and not knowing what to draw these church ages on a blackboard, showing just how much of the Holy Spirit come in the Ephesus Church Age, then on down to the Smyrna, and Pergamos, and Thyatira, and on out, '''and if that Angel of the Lord, that Light, It come right in before three hundred people, moved Itself right over on the wall, and drawed with that round Light''', just the way I drawed the churches, and showed exactly the same depths and everything, as it went through,''' while three hundred people screaming, and crying, and looking at It on the side of the wall.''' Why, It stood out here, and '''reflected Itself on the wall''' and made that same thing.<ref>William Branham, 61-0208 - Sirs, We Would See Jesus, [ara. 11</ref>