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William Branham preached a series of sermons in March 1963 on the Seven Seals of the book of Revelation, and said that each seal identifies a religious disturbance.   
William Branham preached a series of sermons in March 1963 on the Seven Seals of the book of Revelation, and said that each seal identifies a religious disturbance.  William Branham compared Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:4-5 with the First seal.   


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=Where did William Branham say he got his revelation from?=
|Matthew 24:4-5<br>
''And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.''<br>
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Revelation 6:1-2<br>
''And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. '' 
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==Plagiarism?==


William Branham said this about his "revelation" of the first seal:
William Branham said this about his "revelation" of the first seal:


:'''''I would've had a horrible mistake on that if it hadn't been about twelve o'clock today when the Holy Spirit came in the room and corrected me''' on something that I was writing down to say. I was taking it from an old context. I had nothing on it. I don't know what the Second Seal is no more than nothing, but I'd got some old contexts of something that I'd spoke on several years ago and wrote it down, and I'd gathered this context—context…  
:'''''I would've had a horrible mistake on that if it hadn't been about twelve o'clock today when the Holy Spirit came in the room and corrected me''' on something that I was writing down to say. I was taking it from an old context. '''I had nothing on it.''' I don't know what the Second Seal is no more than nothing, but I'd got some old contexts of something that I'd spoke on several years ago and wrote it down, and I'd gathered this context—context…  


:''And Dr. Smith, '''many great outstanding teachers that I—I'd gathered''', and all of them believed that, so I'd wrote it down. And I was fixing to say, "Well, now I'll study it from that standpoint." '''And there about twelve o'clock in the day the Holy Spirit just swept right down into the room, and the whole thing just opened up to me''', and there it was…?… of this—of this First Seal being opened.  
:''And Dr. Smith, '''many great outstanding teachers that I—I'd gathered''', and all of them believed that, so I'd wrote it down. And I was fixing to say, "Well, now I'll study it from that standpoint." '''And there about twelve o'clock in the day the Holy Spirit just swept right down into the room, and the whole thing just opened up to me''', and there it was…?… of this—of this First Seal being opened.  
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In summary, this was a very tame warm-up sermon in preparation of more radical sermons to come. What he does not seem to realize is that everything he says about not following a man (the Pope) can equally be applied to the church following his own leadership.
In summary, this was a very tame warm-up sermon in preparation of more radical sermons to come. What he does not seem to realize is that everything he says about not following a man (the Pope) can equally be applied to the church following his own leadership.
 
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