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extended some kindness to the brethren. This is absolutely
contrary to 1. Jn. 5:11-12, “And this is the
record, that God hath given to us eternal life and
this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life;
and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”
Another example is the inconceivable statement
about the tree of life and the tree of knowledge,
“… thus the righteous one and the wicked one stood
side by side there in the midst of the garden … and
no doubt their very branches intertwined each other.”
(pgs. 92-98)! The book does not even differentiate
between Mt. 25, from verse 31, when the nations
will be gathered and judged, which takes place before
the millennial reign, and then the white throne
judgement of Rev. 20, from verse 11, when the
last judgement takes place after the Millennium. I
refuse to deal with the various points that are not
rightly presented in the said book. I beseech everyone
to use the original messages.
When inquiring about it, I was informed that Bro.
Lee Vayle was actually the author of the Church
Age Book. Brother Branham specifically said that
he personally had never read it. On February 17 th ,
1965, in his message “Running from the presence
of the Lord”, pg. 6, he stated, “And then the seven
Church Ages … I think, our precious Brother must have
picked up a little extra inspiration somehow, and he
said, he was going to write a couple of books of his own
off of them like. And so he wrote one called, I believe,
“The twentieth century prophet” and another “Laodicean
Church”, I believe, or something like that … I have never
read it myself. If I’d read them I might change my mind
about that.”
Since some of the teachings therein cannot be reconciled
with the Holy Scriptures, I must suggest that
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