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Bro Branham taught that the antichrist begins as a spirit opposing God's Word, already working in the early church as the Nicolaitane spirit, which denies the full authority of Scripture and introduces man-made doctrines. Evidence: [THE SECOND SEAL — 63-0319: ¶184–¶187]; [THE FIRST SEAL — 63-0318: ¶301–¶305].
This antichrist spirit progresses through church ages: first as a spirit (white horse rider with a bow but no arrows, a bluff), then incarnate as a crowned false prophet (red horse, uniting church and state with power to persecute), and finally as the beast (pale horse, Satan incarnate after the Church is raptured, enforcing the mark). Evidence: [THE SECOND SEAL — 63-0319: ¶188–¶202]; [THE FIRST SEAL — 63-0318: ¶363–¶401]; [THE FOURTH SEAL — 63-0321: ¶152–¶165].
The false church embodies this spirit, starting with turning from the Word to dogma (as Eve did), leading to prostitution of the true Bride through organizations like Rome, with daughters following the same pattern of denying God's power while maintaining a form of godliness. Evidence: [THE SERPENT’S SEED — 58-0928E: ¶204–¶208]; [HEARING, RECOGNIZING, ACTING ON THE WORD OF GOD — 60-0221: ¶216–¶222].
False anointing refers to a religious power mimicking the true Holy Ghost—able to shout, cast out demons, or perform works—but not vindicated by the Word, like Hitler's or others pulling from Scripture; true anointing restores faith to the original Word. Evidence: [THE FALLING APART OF THE WORLD — 62-1216: ¶197].
The antichrist differs from Christ as Satan's counterfeit trinity versus God's: antichrist (against Word, spirit then man), false prophet (crowned pope/vicar), beast (devil incarnate like Judas to Christ's Emmanuel); Christ restores the Word with supernatural power, while antichrist deceives with religion so close it could fool the elect. Evidence: [THE SECOND SEAL — 63-0319: ¶192–¶197]; [THE THIRD SEAL — 63-0320: ¶263–¶276].
First, now. You remember this. The first thing he is, he is an “antichrist spirit.” John said so. “Little children, the spirit of antichrist already working in the children of disobedience.” [THE SECOND SEAL — 63-0319: ¶186]
Notice Satan’s trinity. Same person coming; just incarnate, from one to the other... Nicolaitane, “spiritual antichrist.” Pope, “false prophet.” “Beast,” the devil himself, incarnate. [THE SECOND SEAL — 63-0319: ¶184]
The antichrist spirit is not the communistic spirit. The antichrist spirit is a religious spirit. [THREE WITNESSES — 51-0728: ¶22]
Now, anything that pulls you away from That is wrong, that’s a false messiah, a false anointing. [THE FALLING APART OF THE WORLD — 62-1216: ¶197]
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