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=The Four Living Creatures or Beasts=
=The Four Living Creatures or Beasts=


161 You know what the Beasts were. We’ve took them. “One like a lion; one like a calf; and one like a man; and one like an eagle.” Now, this first Beast said…Watch, each time there’s a different Beast, till them four horse riders pass. There is four Beasts, and there is four horse riders.
William Branham stated his view of the four living creatures:
 
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162 Notice, each one of them Beasts announce. Matthew, Mark—Mark, Luke, and John. We’re going to get back in and prove which one, Matthew, Mark, which one Mark—Mark, which one was John,
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:''And Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, those Gospels are standing there guarding That. The wisdom of a man; the power of a lion; the work of an ox; and the swiftness of the leopard…or the eagle, rather. Yes, the Gospels standing there!<ref>William Branham, 63-0317E - The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals, para. 189</ref>


:''You know what the Beasts were. We’ve took them. “One like a lion; one like a calf; and one like a man; and one like an eagle.” Now, this first Beast said…Watch, each time there’s a different Beast, till them four horse riders pass. There is four Beasts, and there is four horse riders.  Notice, each one of them Beasts announce. Matthew, Mark—Mark, Luke, and John.<ref>William Branham,  63-0318 - The First Seal, para. 161-162</ref>
 
In the early Church, it was thought that the figures in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4:7 represented he four Evangelists:
In the early Church, it was thought that the figures in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4:7 represented he four Evangelists:
#The Lion—Matthew—Kingship.
#The Lion—Matthew—Kingship.
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#The Eagle—John—Godhead.<ref>W. H. Griffith Thomas, Methods of Bible Study, Sixth Edition (New York: Association Press, 1911), 74.</ref>
#The Eagle—John—Godhead.<ref>W. H. Griffith Thomas, Methods of Bible Study, Sixth Edition (New York: Association Press, 1911), 74.</ref>


We can't determine exactly where William Branham copied this but it is clear that he did, because this view dated back to the Ante-Nicene Fathers.


=Moving to the Next Seal=
=Moving to the Next Seal=