Quite simply:
They will have everything
to lose should they look closely into the Sacred Scriptures.
Hence, they have to SAY
WHAT THE PROPHET SAID, otherwise their revelation would fail. Are
they not like the Pharisees who also had to SAY WHAT THEIR PROPHETS
SAID otherwise their traditional teachings would fail? They
would have to admit their errors and bow to THE WORD, something
which they would not do.
Both these two religious
groups have put their trust in their prophets, which is alright, but
they did so without a revelation. Their faiths are based, not
upon the Written Inspired Word of God but upon the traditions
handled down by oral words, passed from person to person.
Israel’s last prophet was
Malachi. After 400 years of silence John the Baptist came. As much as
the Pharisees, and other Jewish religious leaders, claimed to have the
truth, their faith in their prophets was mainly based upon the
oral tradition ― the interpretations of their elders. Their
faith, therefore, was according to the tradition of the elders.
Because of such foolish traditional belief, they made the Word of God no
effect, not only to themselves but also to those whom they have made
proselytes, they have made them twice the children fit for hell than
themselves (cf. Mat.23:15).
Now, the Branhamites take
William Branham’s oral words and make them THUS SAITH THE LORD. To
them, nothing Branham said was ever an error. Some also claimed that
"only to Bro. Branham was it given to have the power of infallibility,
that of necessity, had to return to the church to clear up all the
scriptural questions left after the church ages had finished out.”
Nevertheless, True Bible Believers know what Paul said about the
Inspired Sacred Scripture (cf. 2Tim.3:16) and what Branham
had also said about it.
If Branhamites are truly
born again, and have the Holy Spirit Baptism, they will say what the
Scripture said, not what the prophet said, especially not what the
“elders” of the “Message Movement” said.