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sorry i did not read it all ,but i will do it ,my comment is that ,your topic of deserting,departing,or backsliding is personal so you deceived yourself, Moreover, you came in freely and you get out freely no problem try to stay a xtian and we who are still in the massage are still pressing on ,
I warn you that,after trying ignoring the truth you will see for yourself that this is the message of this hour until Our Lord Jesus returns to take His own.I forgive you for all.
I wish you were publishing more posts. Your blob was a real help to me.
Bro, I read you testimony and I understood one thing: You did not really understand the Message and the Messenger. In the time of Noah, no one else but Noah has the truth ! In the time of Moses, Jannes and Jambres tried to imitate Moses but he was the only one for that time. Now your are free to take this statement i will make or not. I respect your opinion and position. But listen now : BRANHAM is the fulfillment of Jesus second second coming people…The world is just blind just as it was the case in the first coming. Gen 18, revelation 10 is the full revelation of the Messiah who act like a SUN (SON).
As lightning came out of east ( Israel : first coming of Christ) and shine unto to the west ( USA, sunset mountain : The Second Coming of Christ) so shall be the coming of the Son of Man. Even message believers failed to understand it ! while they are riding, all of them, the sermon : ”God hiding himself into simplicity” even the Bible states that bro !
ISAIAH 45:15
15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Jesus himself made this statement :
MATTHEW 11:25
25 ¶At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
did you ever ask yourself why the Bible is written in parables ? God find his glory in hiding things and you need to be a king to find out the secret !
PROVERBS 25:2
2 ¶ It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matte
In conclusion dear bro. You failed to recognize your Messiah you are pretending to serve ! only few elects will discover it. Call it anything you want but God does never change his mind upon his word. Thank you
Funny to read personal opinions and how people change religious groups which is not news ,remember our only enemy is not flesh and blood but the devil,( satan, dragon, belial, lucifer, belzebub ,serpent, demons,).
The original truth is that ,there was a one noah and the ark,,one moses to Israel,,one martin luther,and reformation,and one william branham until the rapture.
I advise you to repent and stay in the messagewhich is the absolute for our time.
Dont backslide to think that you are somebody but only deceiving yourself and trying to form a new cultt of ex-message believers..
I left,Bahai, Jehovah witness,,Roman catholic,Protestant,Pentecostal churches,baptist,seventh day adventist,mormons,moonies of the late rev sun moon who was calling himself Christ,african witchcraft (or traditional beliefs) but settled inthe message of the hour.
I know about the sect that exalts Branham more than Jesus Christ but we rebuke them in love and correct them or excommunicate from the sober assemblies.
Bob ,message believer since1990 in east africa
I have bee ngreatly blessed by your forthrightness and humility in sharing your journey out of the Message. I stopped attending a Message church years ago for a number of reasons not the least of which was a domineering spirit from the pastor. I have found that some of the denominational churches I have attended do not have the heavy religious spirit that I sensed when I sat under a Message ministry. I am on my own journey of discovery. I don’t have all of the answers. All I’ve ever wanted since I was 4 years old was to serve God and be one of His children.
I was raised in an ortodox church and became an atheist in comunist school, but Lord Jesus Christ had merci of me and reveled Himself to me in the message sent by brother William Branham . I can tell you what is the problem with you and others who do not understand brother Branham teachings : You ar missing to receive Holly Gost , and that’s because you know nothing about Him . You just have a brilliant mind in your earthly body, but not a soft heart with an eternal soul in it . Just check yourself first if you are in faith, afterwards criticize what you d’ont know about others , because nobody is your servant to humiliate him
I was raised in the message as well, from the age of six onward, and share many of the same thoughts you have expressed. I was groomed for ministry from that very early age and was eventually ordained in a message church. After almost 40 years of being in the inner workings of several message churches, the back room dealings, the use and abuse of good people, and watching many men who were not called to preach, or had any spiritual gifts at all on display in their lives destroy many good people, I decided to call it quits. I appreciated reading your comments, and the humble attitude that your writing displays.
I know what you are going through. Am I not in the same place right now? I read a lot of hesitancy in your writing so I encourage you to pray…a lot. Your only Lord and Saviour will guide you into perfect Truth which of course is Himself. I wish I can tell you that I am completely free as of now but that is not so. At this moment, my husband and three boys are at church and I am here on the internet committing Eve’s sin. Before he comes home I must erase my browsing data. How I hate this. I don’t like this subterfuge but for the saving of my spiritual life I must do this. Where to fellowship now is another serious matter, every church seem, somehow lacking…. But I know I can’t go back now. I read something somewhere recently, “you can take the man out of the cult but it is not so easy to take the cult out of the man”. He goes on to say that it may just take years! Yet the encouragement is you will be free. How must God highly favour us who have come out. Why? Could it be He wants to use us to save the rest? After all, now they are the ones who might just be outside of Noah’s Ark. And I have no desire to close the door on them. May God help all of us.
One thing we all must remember in this, WE ARE ALL NEEDY CREATURES.
Please it would be nice to hear from you. ********Two feet almost out of the Message now, fighting a daily fight of lingering fear. God bless.