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#The Federation of Churches will persecute the true Christian Church, which will not unite with their system. | #The Federation of Churches will persecute the true Christian Church, which will not unite with their system. | ||
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#It is extremely unlikely that any of the evangelical denominations will agree with the Roman Catholic church on the subject of communion. | #It is extremely unlikely that any of the evangelical denominations will agree with the Roman Catholic church on the subject of communion. | ||
#William Branham's prophecy completely ignores the World Evangelical Alliance, an organization that was established in 1846 and currently represents 600 million Christians globally. The vast majority of these churches are not part of the World Council of Churches. | #William Branham's prophecy completely ignores the World Evangelical Alliance, an organization that was established in 1846 and currently represents 600 million Christians globally. The vast majority of these churches are not part of the World Council of Churches. | ||
#Most people in churches today have never heard of William Branham. In fact, William Branham is becoming less and less known. While in the 1940's and '50's, he was well known, this is not the case today in that most people in and out of churches have never heard of him. | |||
::Compare this to the time of Christ. Jesus was not known outside of Israel at the time of his death but within just over 30 years after his death, the new Christian church came under the direct persecution of the Roman emperor Nero in A.D. 64. Before his death in A.D. 68, he also killed the Apostle Paul and Peter also died during his reign. | |||
::If the message really was the “restoration of the Word”, one would think that its notoriety would be increasing exponentially and the persecution would be marked and dramatic. | |||
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====The Mark of the Beast Identified==== | |||
''And remember, that we found without one mistake, that the mark of the beast is a mark of apostasy, that is, church members hanging to their church instead of walking in the Light. They reject Light, and there's nothing left by darkness (That's right.), both Catholic and Protestant. There is "a beast," and a whore," and she had "harlot" daughters. And these harlot daughters, when they broke forth, they were virgins from the Light of that day, and they organized and bringing people down here, back into here, making them the same kind of a thing that Rome was in the beginning. The Bible said so: the beast, and an image to the beast, the letter of his name, and so forth.<ref>:Sermon: The Seal of God, Jeffersonville, IN, May 14, 1954</ref> | |||
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William Branham did not state whether the Catholic and Christian denominations would reach full-communion or partial-communion. If he meant partial-communion, then regardless of official church policy this prophecy has in many ways already been fulfilled. | William Branham did not state whether the Catholic and Christian denominations would reach full-communion or partial-communion. If he meant partial-communion, then regardless of official church policy this prophecy has in many ways already been fulfilled. | ||
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One of the goals of the World Council of churches, which represents over 550 million Christians, includes "most of the world's Orthodox churches, scores of denominations from such historic traditions of the Protestant Reformation as Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed, as well as many united and independent churches", is to achieve "the goal of visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship." [http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/who/index-e.html] | One of the goals of the World Council of churches, which represents over 550 million Christians, includes "most of the world's Orthodox churches, scores of denominations from such historic traditions of the Protestant Reformation as Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed, as well as many united and independent churches", is to achieve "the goal of visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship." [http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/who/index-e.html] | ||
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