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Some message churches are known to "take people out from under the blood" if they have left the church or have done something that warrants excommunication. We have been asked whether this practice has any basis in scripture. | Some message churches are known to "take people out from under the blood" if they have left the church or have done something that warrants excommunication. We have been asked whether this practice has any basis in scripture. | ||
=Is this scriptural?= | |||
The phrase "under the blood" is found nowhere in the Bible. It is a general reference to the blood of the Passover Lamb in Exodus 12:23: | |||
:''When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down. <ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ex 12:23.</ref> | |||
Those that participated in the Passover were "under the blood", so to speak, and were therefore protected from death. | |||
In the New Testament, "sprinkling by his blood" reflects the language of Numbers 19 and the red heifer purification rites (Exod. 24:4–8; Heb. 9:13–21; 10:22, 29). For Christians, the blood of Christ on the cross covers our sins and brings us salvation.<ref>David Walls and Max Anders, I & II Peter, I, II & III John, Jude, vol. 11, Holman New Testament Commentary (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1999), 7.</ref> | |||
There is no passage in the New Testament that talks about taking a person out from under the blood, and so we must conclude that the concept is not Biblical. | |||
=What William Branham taught= | |||
William Branham equated being "born again" with being "under the blood". But he also went beyond that when he stated: | |||
:''Believers stays under the Blood.''' That's right. It's the only place to stay of safety. <ref>William Branham, 62-0728 - God Has A Provided Way, para. 48</ref> | |||
This seems to infer that a Christian could take themselves "out from under the blood." | |||
He also stated that being under the blood required a person to be in William Branham's message: | |||
:''We are come together to get in the Message.''' And the Message is Christ, He is the Word. That's right. We're to get into It, get beneath It. Yes, sir. That's what we're supposed to do. '''He was not responsible for any persons out from under the blood...''' | |||
This is clearly a false teaching. When we are "sprinkled by the blood", scripture is referring to the blood of Christ. | |||
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''I don't believe in this here Baptist teaching of—of Eternal security. I believe it in a way, but '''I believe you're secure as long as you're in the Church'''. '''But you get out of the… out from under the Blood of Jesus Christ, you're not secure.''' I'm secure from the rain as long as I'm in here.<ref>William Branham, 63-0116 - The Evening Messenger, para. 234</ref> | ''I don't believe in this here Baptist teaching of—of Eternal security. I believe it in a way, but '''I believe you're secure as long as you're in the Church'''. '''But you get out of the… out from under the Blood of Jesus Christ, you're not secure.''' I'm secure from the rain as long as I'm in here.<ref>William Branham, 63-0116 - The Evening Messenger, para. 234</ref> | ||
''And you wait, if the Lord willing, tomorrow night, I want to show you a mystery that's been going all the time right here in this meeting. I doubt very much whether you've ever seen it or not (See?), what's—what's took place. It's been something that's laid right here before you, and I've watched each night for us—for it to rise, or somebody to say, "I see it." See? Don't turn it away, please. I ask you if you're not a Christian, if you're—you're not under the Blood, if you're not borned again, filled with the Holy Spirit, if you've never made a public confession of—of Jesus Christ by being baptized in His Name to witness His death, burial, and resurrection, that you have accepted, the water's ready. <ref>William Branham, 63-0323 - The Sixth Seal, para. 373</ref> | ''And you wait, if the Lord willing, tomorrow night, I want to show you a mystery that's been going all the time right here in this meeting. I doubt very much whether you've ever seen it or not (See?), what's—what's took place. It's been something that's laid right here before you, and I've watched each night for us—for it to rise, or somebody to say, "I see it." See? Don't turn it away, please. I ask you if you're not a Christian, '''if you're—you're not under the Blood, if you're not borned again''', filled with the Holy Spirit, if you've never made a public confession of—of Jesus Christ by being baptized in His Name to witness His death, burial, and resurrection, that you have accepted, the water's ready. <ref>William Branham, 63-0323 - The Sixth Seal, para. 373</ref> | ||
'''''We're not to come together to talk about the Message. We are come together to get in the Message.''' And the Message is Christ, He is the Word. That's right. We're to get into It, get beneath It. Yes, sir. That's what we're supposed to do. '''He was not responsible for any persons out from under the blood''', not one; no matter who he was, he was not responsible. All had to take not only himself, but his whole family. They're only safe when the—the token was displayed. <ref>William Branham, 63-1128E - The Token, para. 119-120</ref> | '''''We're not to come together to talk about the Message. We are come together to get in the Message.''' And the Message is Christ, He is the Word. That's right. We're to get into It, get beneath It. Yes, sir. That's what we're supposed to do. '''He was not responsible for any persons out from under the blood''', not one; no matter who he was, he was not responsible. All had to take not only himself, but his whole family. They're only safe when the—the token was displayed. <ref>William Branham, 63-1128E - The Token, para. 119-120</ref> | ||
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