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 Russell, like William Branham, believed that he was chosen for his "great work" from before his birth.
-==Seven Seals==
+==Similarities between the message of William Branham and the Jehovah's Witnesses==
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+|+Comparison of William Branham's teaching with Jehovah's Witness doctrine
-==Seven Church Ages==
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+! style=max-width:50em | William Branham !! style=max-width:50em | Jehovah's Witnesses
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+| ...pagan Rome when it become papal Rome  ...And the dragon is “Rome,” always.<ref>Branham, William,  ''Look Away To Jesus'' ( 63-1229E), para. 45, 47</ref>
+| ...the great wicked dragon, also called Pagan Rome (later Papal Rome)<ref>Russell, Charles Taze, ''The Finished Mystery'' (1918), p.679</ref>
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+|Notice Revelation 10:1 to 7, all the mysteries are to be revealed to the Bride, by the messenger of the Laodicea Church.<ref>Branham, William,  ''The Feast Of The Trumpets'' (64-0719M), para. 128</ref>
+|Rev. 10:7. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel — Pastor Russell was the seventh angel.— Rev. 3:14.<ref>Russell, Charles Taze, The Finished Mystery (1918), p.230</ref>
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+| :''“And at that time, Michael shall stand, the great prince.” Michael was Christ, of course, Who fought the Angelic wars in Heaven, with the devil. Satan and Michael fought together, or fought against each other, rather.<ref>William Branham, 55-0109E - Beginning And Ending Of The Gentile Dispensation, para. 112</ref> || The same events are referred to in Daniel’s prophecy: “And at that time shall Michael [Christ] stand up [assume control], the great Prince...<ref>Russell, Charles Taze, The Time is at Hand: A Helping Hand for Bible Students (1889)</ref>
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+===Seven Church Ages===
 The November 1, 1917, Watch Tower, carried an article titled “A Tribute to the Seventh Messenger” in which it said:
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 Given that William Branham studied the publications of the Watchtower Society, it is likely that this is where he got his idea of the "seventh church age messenger".
+Here are some quotes from "The Finished Mystery" published by the Watchtower Society in 1918:
+:''Futhermore, the details of the messages given to these seven churches apply to and fit historically the one Church of the living God, over every member and branch of which the Lord has a care. This thought, that the seven represented completeness, we find emphasized in the other symbolical representations— in the seven golden candlesticks, the seven stars, etc."  Colosse (Col. 1:2), Miletus (Acts 20:17) and Hierapolis (Col. 4:13) were churches in Asia, not here mentioned. The Asia mentioned is the westernmost province of Asia Minor:
+#''Unto Ephesus .— The Apostolic Age of the Church.
+#''And unto Smyrna .— The Church during the period of persecution by Pagan Rome.
+#''And unto Pergamos .— The Church during the period of the rise of Antichrist.
+#''And unto Thyatira .— The Church during the Dark Ages, the period of Antichrist's glory, and persecution by Papal Rome.
+#''And unto Sardis .— The Church in the dawn of the Reformation.
+#''And unto Philadelphia .— The Church in the period of reformation by sects.
+#''And unto Laodices .— The Church in the time of the Lord's Second Presence.<ref>Better Bible Bureau; Charles Taze Russell. Studies in the Scriptures: Fast Navigation, Search with NCX and Chapter Index (pp. 2981-2982). Kindle Edition. </ref>
+===Seven Seals===
 Here are some quotes from "The Finished Mystery" published by the Watchtower Society in 1918:
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 ::Compare this to the following statement by William Branham:
-:::''Same rider, now. This first stage, he was innocent. And second, now, if you went a little bit higher, a little more than that; the second stage, the Bible said he’d be “given a crown.” And they crowned a man, a superman. See, crowned him! And, then, the Bible didn’t call him a pope.<Ref>Woilliam Branham, 63-0320 - The Third Seal, para. 273</ref>
+:::''Same rider, now. This first stage, he was innocent. And second, now, if you went a little bit higher, a little more than that; the second stage, the Bible said he’d be “given a crown.” And they crowned a man, a superman. See, crowned him! And, then, the Bible didn’t call him a pope.<Ref>William Branham, 63-0320 - The Third Seal, para. 273</ref>
 :''"God's people down through this Gospel age have been privileged to know something of the ‘Secret of the Lord'— the Divine Plan. But not until the last seal is broken, does the scroll fly wide open, permitting the ‘Mystery of God' to be fully disclosed; as it is written: ‘In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when be shall begin to sound, the Mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the Prophets.' (Rev. 5:1; 10:7.)"<ref>Better Bible Bureau; Charles Taze Russell. Studies in the Scriptures: Fast Navigation, Search with NCX and Chapter Index (p. 3155). Kindle Edition. </ref>
 :''"As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man"--in the days of his presence. Not before his days, not after his days, but in (during) his days, the world will be eating, drinking, marrying, buying, selling, planting and building. These scriptures, then, clearly teach that our Lord will be present in the end of this age, entirely unknown to the world, and unseen by them.<ref>Better Bible Bureau; Charles Taze Russell. Studies in the Scriptures: Fast Navigation, Search with NCX and Chapter Index (p. 475). Kindle Edition. </ref>