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In the WHAS11 News coverage of William Branham and the Message, they aired a video clip in which Branham is seen vehemently voicing his prediction that the Second Coming of Jesus will happen in 1977. How do Message believers reconcile this claim with the fact that we\u2019re living in 2012? By conveniently latching onto one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[949,962,581,609],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eschatology","category-preaching","tag-eschatology","tag-preaching","tag-stories","tag-the-message"],"yoast_head":"\n
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