Notice, how from the beginning Satan has been so close. Now, a lot of people say today, “Oh, Brother Branham, don’t you think that communism is awful?” Yes, it’s awful. But that’s not the antichrist. No, sir. Jesus said the antichrist would be so close like the real, it would deceive the very elect if possible. It’s religious people. That’s where it comes in. Now, I want…Let’s go back to the beginning, way back. Go back in the garden of Eden, even we could go before that. But let’s take the first two boys that was borned on this earth. Cain, first, really, he was supposed to have the birthright, but lost it just as Esau was, just as the first church of the mother church, as you want to call it. All the way through, lost the birthright…

Earnestly Contending for the Faith That Was Once Delivered to the Saints, 1953-06-14, Connersville, IN, §16