Judaism: The Christian Era

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The Christian Era Then came the Christian Dispensation. Still most of the Jews had been holding on to Judaism without really seeing that Christianity was the continuation of Judaism. But as far as God was concerned, Judaism was over.

The Christian Dispensation too started with 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ and just as the Israelites multiplied in the Jewish Age, the Christians too were multiplying in number in spite of great persecution. They were given promises of the Coming of Christ. A forerunner with the Spirit of Elijah too was promised before the coming of Christ (Malachi 4:5-6). As the days went by when the church went off the Word, the Lord sent Messengers to bring them back to the Word and in spite of it the church …show more content…

(John 1:4-9, Malachi 4:5-6, Revelation 10:7). The Great Light of God which was manifesting in the ministry of John the Baptist has been manifesting again in our Generation in the ministry of one William Branham of the United States of America, whom the Light identified and vindicated as the forerunner to the Second Coming of Christ and as the Messenger to the Seventh (Last) Church Age and also as Elijah.

He was not afraid to preach the Truth and he condemned the Christian churches for deviating from the Word of God. But the organized churches and denominations did not even acknowledge him to be a Man sent from God. Just as John was the greatest prophet messenger before the coming of Jesus Christ (Matthew 11:11-14), William Branham had the greatest message and ministry manifesting the Power of God before the Second Coming of …show more content…

He would rather starve than to ask any man for his needs. His needs were always met by God miraculously.

The Second Coming Of Christ Announced During the First Ever Moon-landing, on July 21, 1969 (IST) when man was about to Land on the moon for the First Time, Bro. Paulaseer Lawrie was preaching in the Life Tabernacle, Chicago, U.S.A. At that time he had the revelation, that, when man landed on the moon for the first time, the Lord Jesus Christ descended to the earth and came down into him.

This experience of God descending into Bro. Paulaseer Lawrie is also similar to the experience that Jesus had when the fullness of the Godhead descended into Him bodily after he was baptized of John (Matthew 3:16-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22, John 1:29-34, Colossians 2:9).

This incident is similar to when men were building up the Tower of Babel when God came down and and scattered them helter-skelter (Genesis 11: 1-9, Exodus 3:9-10, Acts of Apostles 7: 32-34, Genesis 18:20-21, Matthew 17:1-3, 24:36-39,42,44, Mark

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