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Apostasy is rebellion against God

Apostasy is final separation from God and His word

Apostasy began in the time of the apostles

5 developments of apostasy through church history

Nicolaitanism

Balaamism

Jezebel spirit

Denominationalsim

Ecumenism

First Stage - False Gospel

The seed of the wicked one was planted in the womb of the first woman

brought in by the false apostles, false prophets and false teachers

Second Stage - False Church

formed with the development of false doctrines

Third Stage - False Christ / Anti-Christ

Satan-possessed man

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Main Points

The Ecumenical Movement

Denominational Christianity formed global councils to unite the churches

World Council of Churches

composed of 349 global, regional, sub-regional, national, and local churches

590 million christians

composed of 349 global, regional, sub-regional, national, and local churches

in 150 countries

520,000 congregations

493,000 pastors, priests, and other leaders

founded in 1948

International Council of Christian Churches

founded in 1948 by fundamentalist congregations who believed WCC was liberal

about 200 member churches

World Council of Independent Christian Churches

established 1993

formed from ICCC

World Council of Biblical Churches

created by ACCC

World Evangelical Alliance

began in 1846

became global in 1951

represents 600 million evangelicals

129 countries

WMB called them “Federation of Churches”

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215 Now the church life is at the end, the normal church, the church.

Now, this may stick just a little bit, but the church carnal, the Esau church, she’s come to her end.

What she doing?

Heading up in the federation of churches, which will finally join with Romanism, to fight Catholicism…or with Catholicism to fight communism.

Pope John is calling for all the churches to come back, and they will.

And they’ll unite themselves together, just exactly what THUS SAITH THE LORD.

216 You say, “Wait a minute, Brother Branham.

You’re getting off the line.”

If I am, God wrote His Bible off the line.

You have to be Micaiah, on this case.

217 Morris Cerullo said to me the other night, said, “Where is the antichrist, Brother Branham?

The Jew is the antichrist.”

I said, “Morris!

And you, a Jew?”

He said, “They’re the greatest God-haters there is.”

218 I said, “Morris, don’t!

Tell me in the Scripture where the antichrist come out of Jerusalem.

The antichrist come out of Rome, not out of Palestine.”

He said, “Well, look, I’m…They’re God-haters.”

219 “Yes, didn’t God say He blinded their eyes so we could have a day of seeing?

But our day will be over soon.”

220 He said, “Oh, Brother Branham, I never thought of that.”

See, there you are.

221 See, we’re at the end.

The carnal world, the carnal church is at it, end.

Watch how it’s heading up in the federation of churches.

United Brethren went into them.

The Pentecostal is into them.

All the rest of them organize themselves.

See you down, them Canaanites, all the way down through those Esau spirits, very religious, and confederated themselves with the world; not spiritual understanding, not able to overcome, not elected of God, to be called out and separated.

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25 And that same old religious spirit lives right down amongst the church today, the very same thing, just as religious as it can be, and knows no more about God than the Hottentot would know about Egyptian night.

You know that’s the truth.

Religious spirits!

Don’t think that Stalin is the antichrist.

The Bible said, “The two spirits would be so close together, deceive the very Elect if possible.”

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I said, “The Bible spoke of you.

And on the days,” I said, “remember, our troubles my brother, sister, I’m telling you now, is not coming from communism, and the outside world, it’s right on the inside of us.

The antichrist is a religious spirit.

It started in seed back yonder, in Genesis, through Cain.

Cain offered the same kind of a sacrifice.

He knelt down and he prayed.

He done everything religious that Abel done.

Yes, sir.

And Jesus said, “The two spirits in the last days would be so close it would deceive the very elect, if possible.”

Is that right?

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16 I predict that the two denominational groups, Pentecostal and the evangelical groups, will work together in a denomination, will unite themselves together and will become a member, all of them, of the Federation of the Council Churches, or the Council of Churches.

They already belong to it, all of them.

And there will come, through them, a forcing, or a boycott, that will stop everything but what belongs to that union of churches.

That’s what a…The Bible said that there would be a boycott, even to such a way it would ’cause people to not buy or sell unless they had received this: the mark of the beast, which is Romanism; and the image of the beast, which is Protestantism.

That the image…The beast had power, authority, to give the image life, to speak, and it did.

And that’s the Confederation of Churches, when they confederate themselves together.