Why the Message is Another Gospel

    From BelieveTheSign

    Paul talks about someone who "comes and proclaims another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed... or a different gospel than the one you accepted..."[1]

    Paul also tells the Galatian church:

    I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel — not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.[2]

    Does this apply to the message?

    Is the message another gospel?

    Is the message a distortion of the true Gospel?

    William Branham acknowledged the message was something extra

    William Branham stated:

    If you believe the message of the Bible, and the present Message of the day[3]

    William Branham recognized that in order to follow him a person has to believe the Bible AND the present message of the day. This is only necessary if the message is an add-on to the Bible.

    William Branham brought Old Testament law into the New Testament

    William Branham said:

    The old Bible is always in effect, and every Word that God says is in effect. Yes, sir. Only thing it does from the new Bible to the old Bible, it just magnified.[4]
    God ever says anything, He can never change it. He always magnifies it, not change it. The law was magnified, not changed. Magnified! "'Whosoever commits adultery shall be guilty of death,' but whosoever," now magnified, "looketh upon a woman to lust after her!" He never changed the commandment. He magnified it.[5]

    But that is not what the Bible says:

    Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them.[6]

    What does this mean? Jesus came to fulfill all of the requirements of the law on our behalf so that the way to God is now opened!

    Paul stated that Jesus came "having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross..." (Col 2:14)

    What is the handwriting of requirements that Paul is talking about? Again, he is talking about the law.

    Jesus condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. (Ro 8:3–4)
    God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Ro 8:3–5).

    Jesus did not sweep the the law under the carpet. He did not do away with it.

    He came and fulfilled every requirement of the law perfectly on our behalf. So by Jesus, the law has been fulfilled.

    Jesus did not redeem us from the curse of sin. Read your Bible:

    Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us... (Ga 3:13)
    To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. (Ro 5:13)

    Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law (and not from the curse of sin) because where there is no law there is no sin. Even the ten commandments are referred to as producing death.

    But if the ministry that produced death — carved in letters on stone tablets — came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective), how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be? (2 Co 3:7–8 NET)

    Paul called the ten commandments the ministry that produced death.

    Did you know that the ten commandments were received by Israel on the day of Pentecost. It was forty days after the Jewish passover when Moses went up on Mt. Sinai and received the Law. On that day they received the Law, three thousand people died (Ex 32:28). But what happened on the day that the church was born, the day of Penecost? Three thousand people came to life (Acts 2:41). The law produced death in 3,000 people on its first day, grace produced life in 3,000 people on the day the church was born!

    Quotes of William Branham

    He will give you your heart's desire. Line up, you with the prayer cards. Come right over on this side and them line up. He's good. I seen Him bring a plane down out of the air, hold me there all night, and all day the next day to—for the faith of a colored woman for her dying boy. Sure. Do you believe? Do you believe the message? If you can't believe the message, well, you'll never believe the messenger, I'm sure. But if it is the message, God will vindicate it.[7]


    Eliezer sweated it out, until he found character. That's right. Who would he get? And he trusted God. Character for what? Character for Isaac, the bride, which the Church is type of. You know that. That was the natural seed of Abraham; this is the royal Seed of Abraham. Well, if Eliezer, the messenger hunting the bride and trying to find character, if that man is come, a messenger of the last day, trying to find the Bride for Christ, he will not look for a denominational membership. He will look for character that's willing. Watch! Good character first, then to get her ready to meet Isaac. After he found the character, then get her stand still long enough to listen to his message of Isaac. That's the messenger of the last days, the evening Light, is first find that Church (where will they believe the Message?), hunt it.[8]


    [Question:] Brother Branham, when Isaiah spoke to the daughters of Zion (or spoke to, I mean, she—I guess they meant "spoke of") the daughters of Zion about the crisping pins, curling hair, and instead of a well set hair, baldness; instead of a… Will that apply to today or is the old Bible of no effect as some say?

    The old Bible is always in effect, and every Word that God says is in effect. Yes, sir. Only thing it does from the new Bible to the old Bible, it just magnified. Jesus said, "You have heard them say, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery' (you had to be in the act); but I say unto you, whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart." What great outstanding things these are.[9]


    A Message goes through, the people see It, they make fun of It (the world does). And then after the messenger is finished and the Message is done, then they build a denomination upon the Message. And there they die, right there, never come to Life again.[10]


    He did in that age just as He did in all ages, and like He will do, just as He promised to do. God promises anything, then He comes down and proves His Word to be right. All that believe, all that believe the Message of that age, come in and was saved. So will it be in any age. All who did not believe the Message and the messenger, perished. And all who truly believe the Word of God today, will be taken out. All that does not believe the Word of God, will perish with the world, 'cause they are of the world, and everything that's in the world must perish with the world.[11]


    Even my critics don't say that. They, they just say, "You're—you're not a hypocrite, but you're just simply wrong. You're just ignorantly wrong, not willfully." I don't think that I'm ignorantly wrong, because the Word of God testifies of my Message, and It should tell you Who It is. And you clearly hear me say It isn't me, so then It has to be Him. Is that right? Have faith in God then.[12]


    You was in your father, as a germ, and you come forth as a daughter; you, you, every one of you, brothers and sisters, you come forth. If you wasn't in your father, then you wouldn't have been here.

    And if you wasn't in God… If you believe the message of the Bible, and the present Message of the day, a vindication of It; the reason you are sitting here, because you were predestinated to set here. You wouldn't have been here, otherwise; you would have been on the street, maybe drunk, some of you; and some of you out here and running around with some other man's wife; and you women out, married, and running around with some other women's husband, or something like that. See, but you were predestinated to be here.[13]




    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), 2 Co 11:4.
    2. ↑ Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Ga 1:6–7.
    3. ↑ William Branham, 65-1031M - Power Of Transformation, para. 295-296
    4. ↑ William Branham, 64-0823E - Questions And Answers #2, para. 170
    5. ↑ 63-0728, Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed
    6. ↑ Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Mt 5:17.
    7. ↑ William Branham, 62-1123 - The Way Back, para. 107
    8. ↑ William Branham, 63-0116 - The Evening Messenger, para. 243-245
    9. ↑ William Branham, 64-0823E - Questions And Answers #2, para. 170
    10. ↑ William Branham, 65-0801E - Events Made Clear By Prophecy, para. 21
    11. ↑ William Branham, 64-0816 - Proving His Word, para. 94-95
    12. ↑ William Branham, 65-0801E - Events Made Clear By Prophecy, para. 145
    13. ↑ William Branham, 65-1031M - Power Of Transformation, para. 295-296


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