Revelation 6, part 2 - Sign, commission, event
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Jesus and John the Baptist were not polite when they spoke to Jewish religious leaders. No man is the head of a church.
- Turn back to the first church age beliefs by searching the Scriptures
- William Branham is not the infallible Voice of God
- The cloud sign of the Son of man, the commission, and then revealing 6 Seals
- The revelation of 6 Seals is not the opening of all 7 Seals
- There were two clouds on 28 February 1963 above Flagstaff in Arizona
- Brother Branham was never under the cloud of 1963
- Prophets are not false prophets because they make mistakes
- The Bible is the Voice of God. Brother Branham is not infallible
Turn back to the first church age beliefs by searching the Scriptures
REVELATION 6:7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
This verse of the fourth Seal deals with the conditions during the seventh church age which describes the church of the Laodiceans as being blind, unable to see the truth.
This apostate church is a product of the preaching of its pastors.
They have successfully deflected attention away from the understanding of Scripture and focused on the manipulation of quotes.
The early church consisted of small groups that were run by elders. They met in houses. The first historical evidence that we have of a building used as a church dated from just after the year AD 220. Thus the first church age that ended in AD 170 never had separate church buildings.
We have to get back to that pattern.
The 2020 COVID-19 virus closed down the churches in their buildings and put people in lockdown in their houses. God was trying to tell us something.
Nowhere in the New Testament was there ever a pastor in charge of a church.
Nor does the Bible ever say that the tithes belong to the pastor.
But the Old Testament condemns pastors six times. What did Jeremiah know that we cannot see?
JEREMIAH 22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
The wind represents war and strife. The endless doctrinal disputes over quotes because church leaders cannot prove their doctrines from written Scripture. Preachers find it easier to leave the Bible and manipulate and splice carefully selected quotes, ignoring the contradicting quotes that do not fit their pet theory. But different people do this in different ways so that the quotes of brother Branham have now evolved into numerous different variations of the message. Each assembly is kept captive to their church leader's opinions because those who dare to disagree are no longer welcome. In addition, there is an endless contention between different church heads. Issues cannot really be settled because they do not reason from the Scripture. Try finding the right "new name of Jesus" when clever preachers come up with at least 8 different names. And there is no Scripture for any of these guesses because no man knows His new name.
REVELATION 19:12 ... and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
So preachers waste wind or hot air on these fruitless speculations.
Brother Pearry Greene knew of 27 different seven-Thunders theories. All intensely defended by the different men who subscribed to whichever one impressed them. Much ado about nothing, as nothing is written about the content of the seven Thunders in the Bible.
Then there are winds of strife and argument about the 7th Seal which preachers claim to understand, even though the Coming of the Lord is the biggest mystery in the Universe. The 7th Seal is not written, but they think they understand it. Such is their lack of respect for the written Bible because there is much of the Bible that they do not understand.
Their assemblies listen to these unscriptural arguments, that are considered to be clever, and then end up knowing very little about the Bible. They think that they have unfolded these deep mysteries that have no written Bible verses, and therefore they do not think that they need Bible verses for other doctrines either. So they are involved in an endless unscriptural conflict. Carefully selected quotes become the foundation of their beliefs. Each one knowing that they have ignored other quotes that contradict them. This is such a pretense as they are unable to run their ideas through the written verses of Scripture. It is thus a total waste of time.
But they are well paid. That is what basically counts.
Martin Luther described this as prattling for pennies rather than serving God.
The first church age searched the Scriptures daily to see if what was preached was Scriptural.
Speaking of the Jews who listened to Paul in the city of Berea, the Bible says:
ACTS 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
We are supposed to be going back to the first church age.
Christmas was never celebrated by the first church age Christians as it was only invented by Pope Julius I around the year AD 350. The Bible never asked us to remember the Lord's birth. So why do we do Christmas? Just out of tradition, because message-people remain closet Catholics. They think that they can indulge in Catholic paganism because that is their right to serve God in their own way. Even though the Bible never asked us to remember the Lord's birth. But people today believe in selected quotes, not the Bible.
According to some historians, the early Christians never even celebrated any person's birthday. They regarded that as a pagan custom. Scripture records two birthdays, Pharaoh and Herod. Both committed murder on that day. So what is God trying to tell us? But we are too obsessed with the habits of our modern world to change.
We are no longer listening as we are smugly fast asleep according to Matthew Chapter 25, where 10 virgins, clean women, represent all the end-time saved Christians. Irrespective of what church they belong to.
MATTHEW 25:5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Christmas, birthdays, and the noisy pagan New Year did not get celebrated in the New Testament. They had a very different lifestyle to us in these modern days.
Paul was scathing about Christians who attached importance to a certain day of the month, every year. He called this bondage to paganism. It made him feel that he had wasted his time on these Christians.
He doubted that they knew God. Although God obviously knew about them.
GALATIANS 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Christmas. 25th day. 12th month. Christmas time. Every year.
The same applies to a birthday on a fixed day and month every year.
New Year. First day. First month. Pagans celebrated this with loud noises to drive away demons. We still have noises and exploding fireworks on this day. Why? Paganism is in our blood and we do not want to let it go.
No wonder Paul despaired.
GALATIANS 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
This kind of Christianity was just a waste of time.
Instead of getting back to the early church of the apostles, we allow our church leaders to deviate us away from the early church as we cling to our modern traditions.
We have a right to celebrate certain days of the year if we want to. People's rights. That is the meaning of Laodicea.
REVELATION 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;
"The church of the Laodiceans". The people of Laodicea make up their own beliefs and their own way of serving God.
While God vomits the church of the Laodiceans, where preachers interpret quotes, out of His mouth.
REVELATION 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
We were supposed to use the quotes to interpret Scripture and get back to the New Testament.
But be warned, we will have no rights in the Tribulation.
William Branham is not the infallible Voice of God
A major error amongst message-people is the subtle elevation of William Branham to the Godhead.
Only God is infallible.
In 1870 the Pope declared himself to be infallible. Now, message-people copy the Roman Catholics and declare William Branham to be infallible. The daughters returning to the mother church instead of returning to the New Testament church.
God allowed brother Branham to make a big mistake in order to prove to the quote-obsessed message-pastors that William Branham is not infallible.
He is not the Absolute. He is not the Son of Man. He is not the Voice of God.
Why? Because he made mistakes in some places.
One mistake, one wrong quote disqualifies him from the Godhead, from being the Absolute, the Voice of God, infallible.
John the Baptist who was the forerunner of the first Coming also made a mistake by doubting that Jesus was the Messiah.
A prophet does not have to be perfect all the time.
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for they can hear plainly the God's Voice, calling, through His Word
... Listen to the Bible, the Voice of God calling to you in this day.
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We know the Bible is right; that's not my voice; that's God's voice, speaking
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That's what gets things scrupled up, you see. That, they claim in here that some brethren up there that said that I sent them up there, and they're preaching that men should leave their wives and hunt for their spiritual mate, and that I am perfectly infallible. That there's nothing... And, oh, some of the awfullest things you ever heard.
The wise will realize this, but message-preachers have severely brainwashed many followers who can no longer discern between fact and fantasy.
Religious extremism is the domain of the white horse rider of religious deception, our greatest enemy.
A supernatural cloud formed by 7 angels, that had no natural explanation, was photographed on 28 February 1963 just north of Flagstaff City in Arizona.
This is 200 miles north of Sunset Peak where a special invisible visitation by these same angels occurred 8 days later.
Confusion entered when brother Branham thought that the angels forming the cloud and the angels visiting him 8 days later were one and the same event.
He knew nothing about the cloud until just over two months after it was photographed.
If you build a doctrine on his quotes concerning the cloud, you will find contradictions and wrong facts or fake news, if you are honest. But truth limps through the church while error and fake news flies. Fancy doctrines were built on faulty quotes and much error has been generated. Those errors are now fiercely defended.
Doctrine should only be built on Scripture, not on quotes. The quotes, where accurate, came to reveal the Scriptures.
The cloud sign of the Son of man, the commission, and then revealing 6 Seals
This cloud of 28 February 1963 above Flagstaff in Arizona was a sign of an impending event, the Revelation of the Seven Seals.
Only 6 Seals were revealed as the 7th Seal is a total mystery that refers to the Coming of the Lord.
Notice, there is no mountain below the cloud. The cloud was never over Sunset Peak.
There is also no face in the cloud.
It is a serious mistake to think that a sign, indicating an upcoming event, is an event itself.
The sign was spectacular and message-pastors have interpreted wrong quotes and proclaimed the cloud as the Coming of the Lord and the coming down of the Angel of Revelation 10.
Despite the cloud staying at an incredible height of 42 kilometers during the 28 minutes that it was visible, after sunset.
Brother Branham was hunting at 8 o'clock in the morning when the angels came. He never hunted after sunset.
Do not confuse a sign for being an event.
- The sign of an upcoming event.
The cloud near Flagstaff on 28 February 1963 was the sign of the Son of man in the heaven that indicated that the Seals would be revealed. Those revelations would tie us back to the Word of God by making us able to understand the mysteries of the Bible.
MATTHEW 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
63-0818 THE UNITING TIME AND SIGN
Never before, since the early church age, did they ever see the things that we are seeing today. And this was only made possible when God sent the Seven Seals and give us a sign by It, and sent seven Angels down out of Heaven; and come to bring back that scattered Word in them denominations, and tie it back into the Word of God again, to bring down His Holy Spirit.
The supernatural cloud was the sign in the heaven of the Son of man. Jesus was about to reveal the Seven Seals that would take us back to the beliefs of the early church.
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And then in that great observatory, so that the world will be without, they're still wondering what happened. In Tucson, them big observatories took the picture of it up there; still wondering what happened. What is it? They still put in the paper, "Does anybody know anything about what, how it could have happen?" There is no fog up there, there's no air, there's no moisture; thirty miles high in the air. Oh, my!
"There shall be signs in the heaven above. And when these things take place, earthquakes in divers places, then shall appear the sign in the heaven, of the Son of man."
But the sign is not the important thing. The event, the Revelation of the Seven Seals, is the important thing.
The sign, the amazing cloud, put no emphasis on brother Branham as he was 200 miles south in Tucson and knew nothing about the cloud. God did not glorify the seventh angel. The emphasis would be on the revelation of the mysteries, not on the end-time prophet.
But look at the fake news that the message-pastors published.
The cloud never was on Sunset Mountain. The above picture is a photostat where some light leaked in at the top left. That created two dark areas that look like eyes and the top of a nose. So, this was used as proof that Jesus had Come on Sunset Mountain.
Notice. Very cunning. They cut off the ground because there was no mountain in the picture.
2. The commission
The visit of the 7 angels at Sunset Peak on 8 March 1963 was the commission to reveal six of the Seven Seals.
No cloud was formed on that day.
Brother Branham's big mistake was to believe that the 7 angels formed the cloud when they met him at Sunset Peak.
Message-preachers never did a fact check. They claim that it is wrong to check the prophet.
So they ran with his mistake and made a mess. They turned the message into a mess-age.
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And I looked, and standing before me stood seven Angels; just exactly the way it was. ...... right close. And I seen then what it was. Well, as soon as... I got my commission, and the Scripture, "The Seven Seals which is the seven mysteries." See?
The Seventh Seal was revealed as the Coming of the Lord and thus we can know nothing about it. As a result, brother Branham was only able to get an understanding of the first Six Seals. Even then, he was told very little about the Tribulation.
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There stood seven Angels standing there, commissioned me go back and to bring these Messages, and said, "One by one" they would "meet and tell what happened."
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Seven Angels come down, and said, "The complete revelation of the six-seal mystery of God would be unfolded."
3. The actual event was the Revelation of the Seals.
Six of the Seven Seals were revealed between March 17 – 24 1963 at Jeffersonville, Indiana
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Takes the Book ... of Seals and breaks them and shows the seventh angel, for this alone, the mysteries of God, is the ministry of the seventh angel.
The revelation of 6 Seals is not the opening of all 7 Seals
Please note, the famous book of sermons on the Seven Seals was called the "Revelation of the Seven Seals", not the "Opening of the Seven Seals". Do not be fooled on this point.
So, message-preachers introduced errors at the beginning. They cannot tell the difference between the revelation of the Seven Seals and the opening of the Seven Seals which happens in Heaven, after the Bride is caught up to Heaven.
They claimed, from quotes, that brother Branham opened the Seven Seals. But if he opened the Seals, there had to be someone before Him who revealed the Seven Seals. But there never was such a person.
If the Seven Seals had never been previously revealed, then brother Branham could not open them.
First the revelation and only then the opening.
AMOS 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Message-preachers fool you by saying the Seven Seals have opened. They fool you by saying that the Cloud was a major event when it was simply a sign of an impending event.
They fool you when they say that all Seven Seals have been opened.
The 7th Seal is the Coming of the Lord. We know nothing about it. Brother Branham could only reveal the first six Seals. That is why they are in a separate Chapter to the 7th Seal.
Chapter 7 comes between the 6 Seals of Chapter 6 and the 7th Seal of Chapter 8. This makes the 7th Seal look like a Capstone on the pyramid. A lovely symbol of the Coming of the Lord.
Brother Branham knew nothing about the Seventh Seal. Nor do we.
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The Seventh Seal hasn't opened yet, you know. That's His Coming.
Only six Seals were revealed.
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The seventh angel was to open the six-seal mystery. It's all to be gathered up in the Son of man, His fullness of time has come to the fullness of His Word, to manifest the fullness of His Body. That's the Word, then, that's the spoken Word made manifest by the Word, reveal the Word.
The spoken word of brother Branham can only be made manifest when it reveals Christ walking through the pages of His written Word.
The spoken word quotes are to reveal the written Word to the Bride individuals so that the fullness of His Body, all the Bride members, can understand the Bible mysteries by explaining them from the Scripture verses.
There were two clouds on 28 February 1963 above Flagstaff in Arizona
Message-preachers have made a huge mess by turning the supernatural cloud into the Coming of the Lord or the coming down of the mighty Angel of Revelation Chapter 10. Despite the fact that the cloud was only visible for 28 minutes after sunset at a height of 42 kilometers above Flagstaff. It certainly never came down. Brother Branham knew nothing about the cloud until an article appeared in the 17 May 1963 edition of Life magazine, page 112.
He never knew that there were two clouds over Flagstaff. Message believers still deny the second cloud despite photographic evidence and Dr. James McDonald stating that he could not explain two clouds. That is why he called the cloud a mystery.
The smaller smoke cloud behind the bigger supernatural cloud was caused by a high-altitude rocket explosion above Vandenberg Airforce Base in California on 28 February 1963.
Brother Branham got confused on this cloud issue and made different statements that were wrong by saying that the angels forming the cloud went up, or came down, or hung in the air all day. He was simply guessing about something that he had never seen.
Water vapour forms a rain cloud. Smoke vapour forms a smoke cloud. Saint Peter predicted a future smoke cloud.
ACTS 2:19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
This was fulfilled by a high-altitude rocket explosion above Vandenberg Airforce Base on 28 February 1963.
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There stood seven Angels standing there, commissioned me go back and to bring these Messages, and said, "One by one" they would "meet and tell what happened." And it did exactly that way. And when they ascended up on High, like that, went thirty miles high in the air; and, on the same day, they took the picture of It, science did, and went around the world.
Here he says the angels were photographed going up.
The 7 angels left brother Branham, without forming a cloud, at Sunset Peak 8 days after they formed the cloud near Flagstaff on 28 February when the hunting season was not yet open. Brother Branham was still in Tucson.
63-0623 STANDING IN THE GAP
And, now, I didn't know at the time, that they were taking pictures of that, scientists was, as the Angels lowered themselves from Heaven, to bring the Message.
Here he says the angels were photographed coming down. At that height, it was a noctilucent cloud which is not visible in daylight against the glare of the sun from the blue sky.
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But this is twenty-six miles, and she hung there all day.
No. The 7 angels only formed the supernatural cloud for 28 minutes after sunset.
Three different statements. All wrong and obviously contradictory. Did the angels go up, or down, or hang in the sky all day?
Brother Branham was never under the cloud of 1963
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And, now, I didn't know at the time, that they were taking pictures of that, scientists was, as the Angels lowered themselves from Heaven, to bring the Message.
… See the pyramid of the Cloud? I was standing just below this.
His next big mistake. Thinking that at Sunset Peak he was standing below the Cloud that formed north of Flagstaff.
The cloud was 200 miles north of Sunset Peak and it formed 8 days before the 7 angels visited brother Branham. There is no way that he could be standing below the cloud that was only seen after sunset because the angels met him at 8 o’clock in the morning.
Again he says the angels formed the cloud as they came down.
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… and I and Brother Gene Norman, standing right there present when it went up. They took the picture, still they don't know what about it.
Then he claims that he and Gene Norman stood under the cloud as the angels went up and formed the cloud.
No cloud formed on 8 March when the 7 angels went up. So the two men never stood under the cloud that had formed 8 days earlier.
These facts are just hopelessly wrong and confused.
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Like the March 17th, the March issue of the Life magazine, you seen that circle of Light in the skies, thirty miles high, twenty-seven miles across. Why, moisture is only about nine miles high, and they can't even make up what it was.
And right standing beneath that, a man that is sitting right present now, was right standing there by me, when seven Angels come down from God, visibly standing right there, and told me about the end time, and these revelations and things of the Book of Revelation, the Seven Seals, and said, "Return home, and one by one will bring the Message." That, that's right. And It went right up, and begin to turn white as It went up, on up;
Again he says the cloud was formed by angels coming down. And Gene Norman was under the cloud. Then he states that the cloud formed by the angels went white as they went up.
Did the cloud form as the angels went up or down on 8 March 1963 at Sunset Peak?
The answer is that the angels formed no cloud on that day. They had formed the cloud on 28 February 1963.
The angels visited him on 8 March but formed no cloud. There was nobody at Flagstaff who was spiritual when the cloud moved past, just north of the city, 8 days before.
Notice the confusing quotes. Angels formed the cloud coming down or angels formed the cloud going up? Both of these statements contradicted by the next quote that the cloud hung unimaginably high in the sky.
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Now science took the picture of It, you seen It, went on Associated Press. They didn't know what It was. There is a Cloud hanging, twenty-six miles high.
This statement is correct. The cloud moved past Flagstaff towards Winslow, keeping the same height.
If, after all those mistakes that brother Branham made (because he never saw the cloud and was just guessing), you still believe that he is infallible, then you are deeply brainwashed.
He just got the cloud-issue very wrong. So, correct his quotes and move on.
He knew the 7 angels had visited him on 8 March. Then he heard of a cloud of mystery. He realized the cloud was supernatural and had to be formed by the same 7 angels. What he missed was that the cloud and the visit of the angels were two separate events. He also missed that there were two clouds, which is why the scientist called the big cloud a mystery. One high altitude rocket explosion can only make one cloud.
Prophets are not false prophets because they make mistakes
He is human and made a big mistake. Whoever has never made a mistake must cast the first stone.
Do we remember brother Branham for this mistake, or do we remember him for all his amazing insights into the mysteries of Scripture that he got right?
Einstein forgot where he lived one day and had to ask the university for directions to his home. A dumb mistake. Asked what his phone number was, he had to look it up in the telephone directory. Also, pretty dumb. Do I remember him for those dumb mistakes, or do I remember him for his brilliant theory about relativity? It is essential to make GPS work accurately and enables me to follow directions to find places that I have never been to before. Einstein got lost himself, but his GPS fine-tuning theory saves me, and billions of others, from getting lost when we travel. So, I remember Einstein fondly with a deep respect for his unmatched brilliance. Not to mention his laser theory that enables lasers to read barcodes and saves the long, frustrating queues at supermarket checkouts from taking forever. His lasers have also revolutionized eye surgery to enable us to see better.
That reminds me of brother Branham. His revelations of the written Bible have enabled me to see the truth of Scripture much better. He showed me the Big Picture like the seven church ages spread over 2000 years. Then he enabled me to see the tiny details like six of the seven cities having their normal names. But one city, Pergamum, is called in the Bible by its Greek name Pergamos instead of its usual name Pergamum. Why?
That is typical of his spiritual eagle-eye. See the vast panorama of God's plan and still be able to pick out the minute details.
Brother Branham has taught me so much Scripture that I am endlessly indebted to him. No other church could teach me why Luke never mentioned Jesus walking on water, why Matthew never mentioned the ascension of Jesus to Heaven, or why Elisha cursed 42 children in the name of the Lord. To me, brother Branham is the spiritual Einstein or spiritual genius of our age. So what if he made some mistakes.
Shortly after getting saved I read that Abraham made a big mistake with Hagar. Instead of condemning Abraham I actually heaved a sigh of relief. If a great man like Abraham could make a big mistake it made me feel that I also had a better chance of making heaven despite all my own dumb mistakes. Humans make mistakes. Jesus never makes mistakes. So I focus on Jesus, not some man. Jesus uses a man to reveal the Bible to us. That does not mean we have to glorify the man and thereby take our eyes off Jesus.
If we know what we are talking about, we can correct those mistakes. Then we move on with what he got right. But you cannot do that if you are the type of message-preacher who insists that you cannot correct brother Branham. Then they have to weave a pattern of fake news around his wrong quotes in order to prove that he is infallible. A sad joke.
Faced with conflicting quotes and yet claiming that brother Branham is infallible leaves people trapped in their own propaganda. They can only appeal to the severely brainwashed who are told not to dare speak to anyone else. People become enslaved to the ignorance and errors of their pastors.
Convenient fiction is preferred by the mentally lazy rather than established facts that take time and effort to uncover.
Mass delusion makes us blind to our own failings. Our self-deluded over-confidence and self-inflated ego is the “mother of all biases”. We all think our church has got it right. But the Bible condemns all our churches today by saying nothing good about any church in all the end-time prophecies and parables.
We were never asked to celebrate or remember Christ’s birth. So, a mass-delusion is Christ’s mass or Christmas. Protestants return to the mother harlot by celebrating this unscriptural mass. Church-goers are easily fooled. Satan is much cleverer than what we are. So we must not dare leave Scripture.
The only way to deal with a mistake is to admit it and move on. But pastors, to justify their own unscriptural position as the head of the church, have to desperately try to prove that brother Branham is infallible as the Voice of God and thus cannot make a mistake. So, confusion and controversy continue.
Justifying brother Branham’s errors make him irrelevant to those who need him most, as he alone had the deep insight into Scripture.
Many preachers do not know much about the Bible. That is too much like hard work. So, they want to forsake Scripture and argue about quotes. That is a much easier option. Do not let them fool you into believing that quotes are the Absolute.
You have just read several wrong and contradictory quotes on the supernatural cloud.
The Bible is the Voice of God. Brother Branham is not infallible
Claiming that brother Branham’s mistakes are the absolute truth is a delusion that just takes people into a grey misty indifference rather than the harsh reality of real facts. That preserves their illusions and fantasies. And makes them detest and avoid people who do know the actual facts.
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That's what the Angel told me, "Get the people to believe you."
And if I tell the Word of God, it ain't "believe me," it's "believe the Word."
You must not believe something because brother Branham said so. It would be best if you believed it because he was speaking from Scripture.
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But those who can accept the Word in Its fullness, not me preaching It, because It's the Bible says so. Those who accept that is free, because they--the Word's already been judged.
Brother Branham came so that his quotes could explain the Scripture, not replace the Scripture.
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Now, all these things I've said, if they don't jive with the Bible, or dovetail with God's Word, they're wrong, they're wrong,
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… so that the peoples that has believed the Message that the Lord Jesus has given me for this hour, might know what's taking place, and placing it in the Scripture.
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Believe all the Message. Believe That. If it isn't written in the Bible, then don't you believe it.
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We know the Bible is right; that's not my voice; that's God's voice, speaking
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… for they can hear plainly the God's Voice, calling, through His Word
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Listen to the Bible, the Voice of God calling to you in this day.
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That's what gets things scrupled up, you see. That, they claim in here that some brethren up there that said that I sent them up there, and they're preaching that men should leave their wives and hunt for their spiritual mate, and that I am perfectly infallible. That there's nothing... And, oh, some of the awfullest things you ever heard.
Saying that brother Branham is infallible is simply awful.
The white horse rider of religious deception smiles as he rides through the message-churches who complacently think that their churches have got it right.
What gets ignored in the disputes about the supernatural cloud is that there were two clouds over Flagstaff. A high-altitude rocket explosion caused a smaller cloud.
Brother Branham knew nothing about the second smoke cloud.
There are always more facts to the truth. Reality is complex.