Offshoot
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Roger Martin, a former member of the Branch First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve, organized a congregation known as Covenant Yeshua Messiah Patriarchal Lineage Ephraim (CYMPLE) which has been referred to with the moniker "The Twig" as it is an offshoot of "The Branch." While Martin's name does not appear on the main site page, a whois registry search for that web domain lists a Roger Martin of Provo, Utah as the registered website owner
According to the site's glossary CYMPLE practices the Mormon fundamentalist practice of "united order." "The latter day independent patriarchal consecrated united order that hosts CYM, the congress of independent consecrated united orders. It is also dedicated for the preservatons and advancement of the covenants and values of this, the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times." According to this glossary, CYMPLE is a "restorationist" church as it accepts Joseph Smith's restoration. "The latter day restoration of the Gospel and Priesthood through Divine revelation to living prophets and apostles, beginning in 1820, when Yoseph Testator received direct testimony of the Father and Son, being followed by the incremental restoration of all principles spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the days of Adam, as a forerunner to the establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth and the dawn of the Millenial reign of Messiah."
These members who have departed believed that Gerald Sr. and the Prophet Joseph Smith also guide Martin in other independent callings.
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