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    =Where did William Branham say he got his revelation from?=


    William Branham preached a series of sermons in March 1963 on the Seven Seals of the book of Revelation, and said that each seal identifies a religious disturbance.  William Branham compared Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:7-8 with the Fourth seal. 
    William Branham said this about his "revelation" of the second seal:


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    :'''''Just thought this One wouldn’t come, but It finally did'''. And so I’m so thankful, that being the last of those four horse riders, which I think is one of the main Messages to the Church at this time. I don’t know what the other One is. '''I’m just taking it day by day, just as He reveals It. I’m trying to—to give It, by…as He gives It to me.'''<ref>William Branham, 63-0321 - The Fourth Seal, para. 4-5</ref>
    !Matthew 24:9-13
     
    !Revelation 6:7-8
    ==William Branham's Revelation of the Fourth Seal==
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    |Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
    For the fourth horse rider, the pale horse, William Branham said the following:
    |And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.  
     
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    :''Now, '''this fellow, we find out that he is riding on a pale horse.''' Pale! Oh, my! After, notice after…  “Sixty-eight million Protestants,” as we took from—from Schmucker’s Glorious Reform, of the—of the martyrology of Rome, last night. We find that, up to the 1500 mark, I believe it was, or eighteen-…I don’t remember exactly now. '''But it was sixty-eight million put to death, to protest the first Roman church, Rome. No wonder, he could impersonate himself in the personified name of… and called Death. He sure was.'''
    |}
     
    :''Now, God only knows how many he caused to spiritually die, by his anti-Bible, -Word teaching! This is the one he put sixty-eight million to the sword, and killed them. And probably, literally, billions died spiritually, on his false teaching. No wonder he could take the name of Death!
     
    :''See the rider? '''The first place, as an antichrist, he was death, to begin with'''; but he was innocent then. '''Then he received a crown''', a triple one; and when he did, then he be united, Satan united his church and state, because he was over both of them then. '''Antichrist was Satan, in a form of a man.'''<ref>William Branham, 63-0321 - The Fourth Seal, para. 152-154</ref>
     
    ==Comparison to the teachings of Charles Taze Russell==
     
    As with the first three Seals, we again compare William Branham's teaching above to what Charles Taze Russel said in the 1918 book, The Finished Mystery:
     
    :''6:7. And when He had opened the fourth seal.—'''Disclosing the history of the Papacy in its fourth stage, the period synchronizing with the Thyatira and Sardis epochs.''' See Rev. 2:18-29; 3:1-6.
    :''6:8. And I looked, and behold a pale horse.—The ghastly and horrible teachings that God's true people must be “exterminated.” “The ghastly green of terror and of death. The word is used of grass in Rev. 8:7; 9:4; Mark 6:39.”—Cook.
    :''And his name that sat on him was Death.—'''Still the same rider, the Papacy;''' and an apt description of its chief claim to recognition during the pre-Reformation period.
    :''...And Hell followed with him.—'''All the people killed by the pope went to hell'''.
     
    ==Perversion changed to Pestilence==
    What William Branham does not point out is that the word for “Pale” is “Green” in Greek (Chloros).  So it wasn’t a skin-colored horse, it was a green (or sick) horse.  What William Branham does do is change the meaning of the Fourth Horse Rider from perversion to pestilence when he reviews all of the Seals during the Sixth Seal:
     
    166 Fourth Seal, “pestilences” and “death.” Notice, Matthew 24. We’ll read the—the 8th verse, 7th and 8th, I believe it is, on this Fourth Seal, I got here. All right.<ref>William Branham, 63-0323 - The Sixth Seal, para. 166</ref>
     
    Why does William Branham do this?  Could it be that he was [[Plagiarism|once again plagiarizing from Clarence Larkin]].  Here is an excerpt of what Larkin said about the Fourth Seal:


    The Fourth seal is rider on a pale horse, death and hell follow him, and he could kill with the sword, hunger, and animals. During this sermon he identifies the rider as the spirit of perversion, a mixture of the three previous horse riders of religious (white), military (red), and political (black) powers.   William Branham goes on to teach that pale is eternal separation from God, and Rome will lead the world to Armageddon.
    :''When the “FOURTH SEAL” was broken John heard the fourth, or “Eagle-like Living Creature” say—“Come,” and a “PALE HORSE” appeared and went forth. Note the “corpse-like” color of the Horse. We are not surprised then when the Rider upon the “PALE HORSE” is called “DEATH,and that “HADES,the “Grave,” not “Hell,” follows after “Death” like a great “Voracious Monster” to swallow up the victims of “DEATH.” It is worthy of note that the Riders of the first three Horses are not named, but it will be very clear when the events they chronicle occur, who and what is meant. Here however the Rider is personified and called “DEATH,and his consort is called “HADES,” they are inseparable companions. The reference here is clearly to '''some great PESTILENCE that shall come upon the earth'''. After a devastating war, followed by famine, during which the dead are left unburied, '''a PESTILENCE is sure to follow'''.<ref>Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture (Philadelphia, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Estate, 1919), 57–58.</ref>
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    :''“It’s a perversion to mix colors with white.  You pervert the original color…Truth and error cannot mix. It cannot mix.  Its either the THUS SAITH THE LORD or its wrong. …gathering, on their mixed-colored horse.  And, see, he is gathering this thing together, mixed with creeds, denomination, man-made doctrine. … I've seen witches speak in tongues, seen wizards speak in tongues and dance in the spirit.”''


    What William Branham does not point out is that the word for “Pale” is “Green” in Greek (Chloros).  So it wasn’t a skin-colored horse, it was a green (or sick) horse.  What William Branham does do is change the meaning of the Fourth Horse Rider from perversion to pestilence when he reviews all of the Seals during the Sixth Seal.  
    It should be noted that the capitalization of the word "PESTILENCE" was done by Larkin himself.


    ==The Eagle Angel, Elijah==
    William Branham taught that the beast that counters this rider is the eagle-angel.  He also takes the time to point out the prophets are eagles, and he is the only one to this age.  
    William Branham taught that the beast that counters this rider is the eagle-angel.  He also takes the time to point out the prophets are eagles, and he is the only one to this age.  
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    :''“God always likens His prophets to eagles…now we find out, that eagle age was promised in Revelation 10:7 and in Malachi 4. …There never was two major prophets on the earth, prophesying the same time.  Look back and see if there was. No sir, too much scrupled up!”''


    :''“God always likens His prophets to eagles…now we find out, that eagle age was promised in Revelation 10:7 and in Malachi 4. …There never was two major prophets on the earth, prophesying the same time. Look back and see if there was. No sir, too much scrupled up!”''
    [[The Prophet and The Eagle|'''Learn from the Bible why Eagles do not represent Prophets.''']]


    William Branham then makes some very strong and strange statements about his role as Elijah:   
    William Branham then makes some very strong and strange statements about his role as Elijah:   
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    :''"“Before He passed judgment upon her, He gave her a place to repent. And it's in the Name of the Lord I say this: He's give the Protestant church the same thing, and she won't do it. These messages shook everywhere, and she won't do it. She's going to have her own dogmas and creeds; I don't care how much you explain it...Like He give Egypt, He give Egypt place to repent. What was that last plague? Was death. That's the last plague that's hit the Pentecostal church. It's spiritual death; she's dead. That's in the Name of the Lord. She's spiritually dead.”''
    :''"“Before He passed judgment upon her, He gave her a place to repent. And it's in the Name of the Lord I say this: He's give the Protestant church the same thing, and she won't do it. These messages shook everywhere, and she won't do it. She's going to have her own dogmas and creeds; I don't care how much you explain it...Like He give Egypt, He give Egypt place to repent. What was that last plague? Was death. That's the last plague that's hit the Pentecostal church. It's spiritual death; she's dead. That's in the Name of the Lord. She's spiritually dead.”''


    ==Plagiarism==
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    |"ale is  red  and--and  white  and so mixed together. See? He... It's--it's all mixed in this one horse… Sure, a mixed color--the mixed color of the  dead  ,  pale  horse of the world... Now, that's right. Mixed colors of the  dead  , worldly form of the  pale  horse.
    |"Pale is  red  and--and  white  and so mixed together. See? He... It's--it's all mixed in this one horse… Sure, a mixed color--the mixed color of the  dead  ,  pale  horse of the world... Now, that's right. Mixed colors of the  dead  , worldly form of the  pale  horse.
    <ref> William Branham, March 21, 1963, The Fourth Seal </ref>  
    <ref> William Branham, March 21, 1963, The Fourth Seal </ref>  
    |Note the “corpse-like” color of the Horse.   
    |Note the “corpse-like” color of the Horse.   
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    ==Quotes and Questions==
    ==Quotes and Questions==
    *''' “I don’t doubt but what Joseph Smith saw the vision, but it wasn’t according to the rest of the Word.  So therefore, to me, it’s wrong.”''' (William Branham, The Fourth Seal)  
    *''' “I don’t doubt but what Joseph Smith saw the vision, but it wasn’t according to the rest of the Word.  So therefore, to me, it’s wrong.”''' (William Branham, The Fourth Seal)  
    **Do you believe all of William Branham’s visions are true?  What about the one that says there is nothing wrong with the doctrine of the Trinity?  If you don't know that vision, [[Plum and Apple Trees|click here to read it]].  
    *Do you believe all of William Branham’s visions are true?  '''What about the one that says there is nothing wrong with the doctrine of the Trinity?''' If you don't know that vision, [[Plum and Apple Trees|click here to read it]].  
     
    =Moving to the Next Seal=


    Click [[Fifth Seal|here to go to the next article - The Fifth Seal]]


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    Revision as of 18:16, 15 January 2022

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    Where did William Branham say he got his revelation from?

    William Branham said this about his "revelation" of the second seal:

    Just thought this One wouldn’t come, but It finally did. And so I’m so thankful, that being the last of those four horse riders, which I think is one of the main Messages to the Church at this time. I don’t know what the other One is. I’m just taking it day by day, just as He reveals It. I’m trying to—to give It, by…as He gives It to me.[1]

    William Branham's Revelation of the Fourth Seal

    For the fourth horse rider, the pale horse, William Branham said the following:

    Now, this fellow, we find out that he is riding on a pale horse. Pale! Oh, my! After, notice after… “Sixty-eight million Protestants,” as we took from—from Schmucker’s Glorious Reform, of the—of the martyrology of Rome, last night. We find that, up to the 1500 mark, I believe it was, or eighteen-…I don’t remember exactly now. But it was sixty-eight million put to death, to protest the first Roman church, Rome. No wonder, he could impersonate himself in the personified name of… and called Death. He sure was.
    Now, God only knows how many he caused to spiritually die, by his anti-Bible, -Word teaching! This is the one he put sixty-eight million to the sword, and killed them. And probably, literally, billions died spiritually, on his false teaching. No wonder he could take the name of Death!
    See the rider? The first place, as an antichrist, he was death, to begin with; but he was innocent then. Then he received a crown, a triple one; and when he did, then he be united, Satan united his church and state, because he was over both of them then. Antichrist was Satan, in a form of a man.[2]

    Comparison to the teachings of Charles Taze Russell

    As with the first three Seals, we again compare William Branham's teaching above to what Charles Taze Russel said in the 1918 book, The Finished Mystery:

    6:7. And when He had opened the fourth seal.—Disclosing the history of the Papacy in its fourth stage, the period synchronizing with the Thyatira and Sardis epochs. See Rev. 2:18-29; 3:1-6.
    6:8. And I looked, and behold a pale horse.—The ghastly and horrible teachings that God's true people must be “exterminated.” “The ghastly green of terror and of death. The word is used of grass in Rev. 8:7; 9:4; Mark 6:39.”—Cook.
    And his name that sat on him was Death.—Still the same rider, the Papacy; and an apt description of its chief claim to recognition during the pre-Reformation period.
    ...And Hell followed with him.—All the people killed by the pope went to hell.

    Perversion changed to Pestilence

    What William Branham does not point out is that the word for “Pale” is “Green” in Greek (Chloros). So it wasn’t a skin-colored horse, it was a green (or sick) horse. What William Branham does do is change the meaning of the Fourth Horse Rider from perversion to pestilence when he reviews all of the Seals during the Sixth Seal:

    166 Fourth Seal, “pestilences” and “death.” Notice, Matthew 24. We’ll read the—the 8th verse, 7th and 8th, I believe it is, on this Fourth Seal, I got here. All right.[3]

    Why does William Branham do this? Could it be that he was once again plagiarizing from Clarence Larkin. Here is an excerpt of what Larkin said about the Fourth Seal:

    When the “FOURTH SEAL” was broken John heard the fourth, or “Eagle-like Living Creature” say—“Come,” and a “PALE HORSE” appeared and went forth. Note the “corpse-like” color of the Horse. We are not surprised then when the Rider upon the “PALE HORSE” is called “DEATH,” and that “HADES,” the “Grave,” not “Hell,” follows after “Death” like a great “Voracious Monster” to swallow up the victims of “DEATH.” It is worthy of note that the Riders of the first three Horses are not named, but it will be very clear when the events they chronicle occur, who and what is meant. Here however the Rider is personified and called “DEATH,” and his consort is called “HADES,” they are inseparable companions. The reference here is clearly to some great PESTILENCE that shall come upon the earth. After a devastating war, followed by famine, during which the dead are left unburied, a PESTILENCE is sure to follow.[4]

    It should be noted that the capitalization of the word "PESTILENCE" was done by Larkin himself.

    The Eagle Angel, Elijah

    William Branham taught that the beast that counters this rider is the eagle-angel. He also takes the time to point out the prophets are eagles, and he is the only one to this age.

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    “God always likens His prophets to eagles…now we find out, that eagle age was promised in Revelation 10:7 and in Malachi 4. …There never was two major prophets on the earth, prophesying the same time. Look back and see if there was. No sir, too much scrupled up!”

    Learn from the Bible why Eagles do not represent Prophets.

    William Branham then makes some very strong and strange statements about his role as Elijah:

    1. He says that his own words are a divine source of life when he quotes John 6:63, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” then says “God revealed to Moses what to do. Moses spoke it, and it happened… Just as He can create squirrels the same as He can create flies or frogs or anything else. He's God, the Creator.”
    2. “He strongly suggests that he will never die when he says “Elijah was a prophet that prophesied and condemned Jezebel, in that particular generation. And Elijah never died. He certainly didn’t."
    3. He strongly suggests that anyone who rejects Elijah will be eaten by wild beasts like Jezebel, “The first Elijah was a rejected man, but the churches. And Jezebel and Ahab was the head of them churches…now if you want to see their bodies, let’s turn over here to Revelations 19.”
    4. And he says that God opened the seals to Elijah. “Elijah…thought he was the only one saved, until God opened one of the Seals and showed him the mystery in the Book, that He had seven hundred that never bowed down to them creeds…Whew! God opened the Seals.”

    With these statements William Branham lays the foundation for stronger statements of judgement in the fifth, sixth and seventh seals.

    "“Before He passed judgment upon her, He gave her a place to repent. And it's in the Name of the Lord I say this: He's give the Protestant church the same thing, and she won't do it. These messages shook everywhere, and she won't do it. She's going to have her own dogmas and creeds; I don't care how much you explain it...Like He give Egypt, He give Egypt place to repent. What was that last plague? Was death. That's the last plague that's hit the Pentecostal church. It's spiritual death; she's dead. That's in the Name of the Lord. She's spiritually dead.”

    Plagiarism

    William Branham’s secret source of information for this sermon was the writings of Clarence Larkin. Here is a comparison:

    What William Branham Said What Clarence Larkin Said [5]
    "Pale is red and--and white and so mixed together. See? He... It's--it's all mixed in this one horse… Sure, a mixed color--the mixed color of the dead , pale horse of the world... Now, that's right. Mixed colors of the dead , worldly form of the pale horse.

    [6]

    Note the “corpse-like” color of the Horse.
    Now, notice, none of the other rider... None of the other horses or no time that this rider ever rode, they didn't have--that man had no name, but now he is called death. It's not mentioned. See? He's revealed now what he is--is death.

    [7]

    We are not surprised then when the Rider upon the “PALE HORSE” is called “DEATH,” and that “HADES,” the “Grave,” not “Hell,” follows after “Death” like a great “Voracious Monster” to swallow up the victims of “DEATH.” It is worthy of note that the Riders of the first three Horses are not named,
    Fourth Seal, pestilence and death...

    [8]

    Here however the Rider is personified and called “DEATH,” and his consort is called “HADES,” they are inseparable companions. The reference here is clearly to some great PESTILENCE that shall come upon the earth.
    Matthew 24:7 and 8. I'm sorry. Now, that opens up the rain... or the famine, opens up the famine.

    All right, now the pestilences and death... Yes, sir, now we're going to it; 7 and 8, now, that would be the Fourth Seal. [9]

    But awful as those days will be, they will be only the “BEGINNING OF SORROWS” for those who are left. Matt. 24:6–8.

    Quotes and Questions

    • “I don’t doubt but what Joseph Smith saw the vision, but it wasn’t according to the rest of the Word. So therefore, to me, it’s wrong.” (William Branham, The Fourth Seal)
    • Do you believe all of William Branham’s visions are true? What about the one that says there is nothing wrong with the doctrine of the Trinity? If you don't know that vision, click here to read it.

    Moving to the Next Seal

    Click here to go to the next article - The Fifth Seal


    Footnotes

    1. William Branham, 63-0321 - The Fourth Seal, para. 4-5
    2. William Branham, 63-0321 - The Fourth Seal, para. 152-154
    3. William Branham, 63-0323 - The Sixth Seal, para. 166
    4. Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture (Philadelphia, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Estate, 1919), 57–58.
    5. Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture, 57-58 (Philadelphia, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Estate, 1919)
    6. William Branham, March 21, 1963, The Fourth Seal
    7. William Branham, March 21, 1963, The Fourth Seal
    8. William Branham, March 23, 1963, The Sixth Seal
    9. William Branham, March 23, 1963, The Sixth Seal


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