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The question must therefore be asked - '''Where did William Branham get this doctrine?''' | The question must therefore be asked - '''Where did William Branham get this doctrine?''' | ||
==“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”== | |||
In Matthew 27:46 and in Mark 15:34, we read: | |||
:''About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Mt 27:46.</ref> | |||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||
Revision as of 00:57, 2 March 2021
William Branham taught that, on the cross, God poured His wrath out upon Christ, and that Jesus died under the judgments and wrath of God.[1] He also taught that in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Spirit of God left Jesus and that he died on the cross as a man.[2]
Does the Bible teach this?
What the Bible teaches
There are no passages in the New Testament that state that the wrath of God was poured out on Jesus.
The question must therefore be asked - Where did William Branham get this doctrine?
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
In Matthew 27:46 and in Mark 15:34, we read:
- About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).[3]
Quotes of William Branham
Being forsaken in life, being forsaken in death, and all the wrath of God poured upon Him and He stood our judgments. And God, He took our judgments and bore them away into an isolated place, into the regions beyond; and the law—laws of God condemned and put the damned, and He took our sins there. And resurrected again on Easter morning for our justification, now stands in the Person of the Holy Spirit to save every lost sinner in the world.[4]
When He was in Heaven, He was the “Logos” that went out of God, in the beginning. And He came down on earth, and was not to be made an Angel. He came down on earth and took the form of a bondsman, not an Angel; not come down in the great Jehovah Glory. But He came down as a Man, to redeem man, to die for man, to die for…as a man. He never died as God. He died as a man. The sin of man was upon the Son of man. And He had to become a Man, in order to pay the penalty.[5]
I want to unite under His power. I want to unite with you men and women tonight under His power. He did cry at the cross, “Father, why has Thou forsaken Me?” He died as a man. But on Easter morning, when He broke the Roman seal and rolled away the stone, and rose triumphantly He proved He was God. He’s thrilled the hearts. He looked like God. He acts like God. He is God. That’s true.[6]
God poured His wrath out upon Christ Who took my place at Calvary. He died under the judgments and wrath of God. God poured out His fierce judgment upon Him and He took my place.” I said, “I was a sinner, and He took my place.” And I noticed tears coming up in the woman’s eyes. I said, “We’re sinful, and we have no hope. But God knowed that we had to stand these judgments, and Jesus took them for us. And them clouds hanging over the cross was God’s wrath pouring out upon Him. And He bore the wrath of God in His own body that we might be free.”[7]
Is there a sinner in here that don’t know nothing about this what I’m talking about, but yet you believe it to be the truth, that Jesus Christ is God’s Son, that the wrath of God was poured out upon Him and He died at Calvary the death of a sinner to take your place? He died your death at Calvary, and only in Him can you be saved, and you’ve never done it yet, I’ll invite you to this altar. Come here now and be reconciled to God through Christ.[8]
And then one day He came to Kadesh-barnea, where He stood the judgment for us all: the judgment seat of God, where God poured out upon Him the iniquity, and the penalty for our iniquity, the wrath of God upon Him. And He bore in His body our sins, and He crossed the river that we call Jordan, death.[9]
The Spirit left Him, in the Garden of Gethsemane. He had to die, a man. Remember, friends, He didn’t have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh, which was human flesh. And He didn’t…If He’d a went up there, as God, He’d have never died that kind of death; can’t kill God. But He didn’t have to do it.[10]
Dear God, one by one we are called, one by one we have to meet the challenge to walk down through the valley of the shadow of death. And it’s due to every one of us, as mortals. But, tonight, You have offered us Your petition, that if we would believe on Him and be baptized in His Name, that You would take us in. And then in this Body, the Body of Christ, not in the church; but in the Body of Christ, that Body has already been judged. It will not have to come to Judgment. God poured out His wrath upon that body, and that body is free from sin; and, being in Him, puts us free from sin, by His Atonement that died for us. And in there we have fellowship with one another, while the Blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, keeps us clean from all sin and defilement.[11]
Footnotes
- ↑ William Branham, 61-0217 - The Mark Of The Beast And The Seal Of God #2, para. 40
- ↑ William Branham, 65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun, para. 241
- ↑ The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Mt 27:46.
- ↑ William Branham, 54-1114 - Redemption By Judgment, para. 53
- ↑ William Branham, 56-0401M - The Mighty Conqueror, para. 95
- ↑ William Branham, 58-0326 - United Under One Head, para. 49
- ↑ William Branham, 61-0217 - The Mark Of The Beast And The Seal Of God #2, para. 40
- ↑ William Branham, 61-0316 - The Church Choosing Law For Grace, para. 67
- ↑ William Branham, 62-0611 - It Is I, Be Not Afraid, para. 12
- ↑ William Branham, 65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun, para. 241
- ↑ William Branham, 65-0220 - God's Chosen Place Of Worship, para. 121