the
Truth:
The
1965
Sermons
of
William
Marrion
Branham
by
John
Collins
This book is dedicated to every man and woman that has suffered or is still suffering persecution by those who are still spreading this message of William Marrion Branham, puffed up like the Pharisees of old.
Table
of
Contents
Introduction
.....................................................................................
4
William
Marrion
Branham
..........................................................
8
Luke
17
.............................................................................................
11
Seed
of
Discrepancy
.....................................................................
26
God
Rich
in
Mercy
.........................................................................
37
Lean
Not
Unto
Your
Own
Understanding
.............................
44
Broken
Cisterns
.............................................................................
54
This
Day
This
Scripture
Is
Fulfilled
........................................
62
Running
From
The
Presence
of
God
.......................................
73
The
Seed
is
not
Heir
With
the
Shuck
......................................
81
Gods
Chosen
Place
of
Worship
................................................
90
Marriage
and
Divorce
...............................................................
105
Who
Is
This
Melchisedec
.........................................................
129
The
Easter
Seal
...........................................................................
141
It
Is
The
Rising
of
the
Sun
........................................................
146
Does
God
Ever
Change
His
Mind
About
His
Word
...........
160
One
in
a
Million
..........................................................................
167
Choosing
of
a
Bride
...................................................................
182
Trying
To
Do
God
A
Service
Without
His
Will
.....................
197
Annointed
Ones
In
The
End
Time
........................................
209
What
is
the
Attraction
on
the
Mountain
..............................
219
A
Solemn
Warning
.....................................................................
231
Introduction
I am not ashamed of the Gospel. When men condemn me with words, the Gospel of Jesus Christ restores my heart and gives me comfort. My Bible is a living, breathing Word of God that is like a sword of Truth, cutting through the hearts of the wicked. I know that these men who come against those who take the Word of God as Truth are mislead. These men are not wicked in themselves, but the very deception that Paul preached against consumes them. My journey has taken me from the bottom of the pit, the worst sinner in the eyes of men and God, and has led me to an assurance that He has offered me salvation in return for faith in Jesus Christ. Every man, woman and child can be freed from their bonds just as I have been, and do not need to be oppressed by thinking they gain salvation by the way they adhere to the doctrines of men. It is by grace that they are saved, through faith in Jesus Christ, and nothing that they can do by themselves. Do not come and follow me on my journey, and do not follow any other man that preaches any other gospel than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Your journey should be one with Christ, and Christ alone. The Bible warns us that false prophets will rise to deceive us, and divide the body of Christ. It does not teach that there will be a separate, elite group of Christians; we are to be one body with Christ. Every cult leader that has risen with false prophecy has pierced into the heart of that body and taught to separate from the body of Christ just as the Bible warned. The Bible warns us of men who worship angels, and are "going on" in detail about their visions. Paul said these men are "puffed up" without reason by their own sensuous minds. He said that these men are not holding fast to their Head (Christ). He said that these men are not holding fast to the whole body of Christ, which should be nourished and knit
together through all joints and ligaments. The body of Christ grows from a growth that is from God. From birth, I was engulfed in the false teachings of a cult leader that was filled with deception. This was not the doing of my mother or father, for they were deceived in the same way I was deceived. While my mother read her Bible, teaching me of the ways of Love in Jesus Christ, I was studying the words of the cult leader, William Marrion Branham. While her life was lining up with Christ, my ways were starting to deviate. By manhood, I was studying solely the words of the prophet instead of the Word of God. And this is common not only to the many spinoffs of the cult of William Marrion Branham, but also to any cult leader that tries to pierce through the heart of the body of Christ. By age thirty, I knew every word by my prophet and very few words of my Jesus. I did not find any fault with this, because my prophet was supposed to have all of the spoken word and the voice of God. He did not. When I found the first discrepancy between the Truth and the words of my prophet, I went to my pastor. Not only did he refuse to answer questions about the conflicting information, he publicly shunned me from behind the pulpit at the church of my family. He wanted to keep this knowledge of the Truth away from his followers at any cost. Though he was my own grandfather, his last words spoken would be threatening. Other churches around the country did the same, and before long I found myself alone and without support. By Gods grace, He sent me a wonderful pastor filled with love for the Gospel, and a new group of people that are more filled with the Holy Spirit than any one of these Pharisees who lead their people by oppression. Because of Gods grace to me, I have dedicated my life to helping Him work his way with others who are oppressed by
the deceitful words of any cult leader. I will not sit idle while the sins of the fathers plague the Body of Christ.
William Marrion Branham is credited with starting the Charismatic movement, and had a number of healing campaigns that could compare to the likes of Oral Roberts, A. A. Allen, and more. He claimed several commissions from angels, stories that conflicted over several years throughout his life. He claimed to have a great commission in the Ohio River that was almost exactly the same story as that of William Sowders. He claimed that newspapers published his great commission by the Associated Press all the way into Canada, though he was not published in any newspaper for several years to come. He claimed to be very poor early in his ministry while he also claimed to drive a brand-new Ford or a brand-new Chevy that he purchased with his own money. Newspapers described him as nattily dressed, the same way they would describe a riverboat gambler. He claimed to be a prizefighter for a title that did not exist at the same time he claimed to be a ranch hand out west. He claimed that he relocated to Indiana due to his fathers trouble with the law, and it was said that his father was either accused of or had committed murder. He claimed to see a vision of his relocation, and that his fathers moving was prophecy fulfilled. He gave his story of his commission to the Associated Press in 1947 during his first recognized healing campaign, giving a different story of a different commission, and a different name for himself, Henry Branham. We do not know the history of William Marrion Branham because his own accounts of his life are so greatly conflicting. All we do know is that none of his accounts line up with actual fact, and he was hiding from something. By his own words, the first twenty-five years of his life were very bad, and we find documented proof that he lied about his own birthdate.
We also cannot find any record of a Charles Branham, Williams father, wanted for murder in Kentucky to substantiate the claims. What we can find is a Henry Branham that was wanted for murder, a faith healer named Henry Branham that changed his name to William, and a man named William Sowders that the story was copied from. Since he knew that his past was haunting him, he could not let the ministry start falling and the people start to question. Therefore, William Marrion Branham introduced claims of several prophecies that he got from God not long after young Henry was wanted for murder. Now, years later, we find that not one of those prophecies were accurate. His following grew into a cult following, a group of people that separated themselves from the body of Christ and would call themselves the little bride. William Branham would lead this following out of their church homes and into oppression by teaching them that Gods wrath would strike these churches that were false Christianity. To prove this point, he would copy several works by Clarence Larkin, the Kabbalah, the Book of Enoch, and works by several other great men of old as well as Gnostic scrolls. He knew that most of his humble following would not have read those works, and would not recognize his plagiarism. At the end of his days, before God took him off of the scene, he started teaching that He and his message was the return of Christ. To this day, his following continues and believes this in a variety of different ways. This is where our story begins: The sermons of the last year of the life of William Marrion Branham.
Luke 17
William
Marrion
Branham
quoted
Luke
17:30
thirty
times
in
1965,
applying
the
"Son
of
Man"
title
to
his
own
ministry.
He
did
this
in
multiple
ways,
from
comparing
his
own
message
to
the
spiritual
return
of
Jesus
Christ
to
the
Elijah
the
End
Time
Messenger
which
he
claimed
to
be.
Lets
review
Luke
17.
Temptations
to
Sin
And
he
said
to
his
disciples,
Temptations
to
sin
are
sure
to
come,
but
woe
to
the
one
through
whom
they
come!
It
would
be
better
for
him
if
a
millstone
were
hung
around
his
neck
and
he
were
cast
into
the
sea
than
that
he
should
cause
one
of
these
little
ones
to
sin.
Pay
attention
to
yourselves!
If
your
brother
sins,
rebuke
him,
and
if
he
repents,
forgive
him,
and
if
he
sins
against
you
seven
times
in
the
day,
and
turns
to
you
seven
times,
saying,
I
repent,
you
must
forgive
him.
William
Branham
avoided
reading
this
scripture,
with
the
exception
of
only
the
sentence
describing
a
millstone
hung
around
his
neck.
This
scripture
is
clearly
teaching
undying
forgiveness
and
divine
Love.
It
is
a
direct
conflict
with
any
cult
that
will
shun
a
member
for
standing
in
the
Truth,
or
turn
them
over
to
the
devil.
Increase
Our
Faith
The
apostles
said
to
the
Lord,
Increase
our
faith!
And
the
Lord
said,
If
you
had
faith
like
a
grain
of
mustard
seed,
you
could
say
to
this
mulberry
tree,
Be
uprooted
and
planted
in
the
sea,
and
it
would
obey
you.
This passage is describing the apostles begging the Lord for greater faith. Jesus responds that you have plenty, and that if you even had the faith of a mustard seed, you could move trees with your words. This is a direct conflict with the message of William Branham wherein he described the church and how it must be restored to the original faith. Unworthy Servants
Will
any
one
of
you
who
has
a
servant
plowing
or
keeping
sheep
say
to
him
when
he
has
come
in
from
the
field,
Come
at
once
and
recline
at
table?
Will
he
not
rather
say
to
him,
Prepare
supper
for
me,
and
dress
properly,
and
serve
me
while
I
eat
and
drink,
and
afterward
you
will
eat
and
drink?
Does
he
thank
the
servant
because
he
did
what
was
commanded?
So
you
also,
when
you
have
done
all
that
you
were
commanded,
say,
We
are
unworthy
servants;
we
have
only
done
what
was
our
duty.
This
passage
is
speaking
of
faithfulness
and
duty
to
the
Lord.
We
must
be
worthy
servants,
not
sitting
idle.
The
master
has
called
us
to
serve
him,
and
as
servants,
we
must
realize
that
we
have
a
greater
work
to
do.
He
does
not
speak
of
a
chief
servant
that
will
lead
us
back
to
some
unknown
original
faith.
He
does
not
teach
us
to
sit
idle
thinking
that
we
have
everything
we
need
because
we
know
a
prophet
as
many
have
done
today.
We
must
help
others
learn
the
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ.
Not
some
other
gospel.
Jesus
Cleanses
Ten
Lepers
On
the
way
to
Jerusalem
he
was
passing
along
between
Samaria
and
Galilee.
And
as
he
entered
a
village,
he
was
met
by
ten
lepers,
who
stood
at
a
distance
and
lifted
up
their
voices,
saying,
Jesus,
Master,
have
mercy
on
us.
When
he
saw
them
he
said
to
them,
Go
and
show
yourselves
to
the
priests.
And
as
they
went
they
were
cleansed.
Then
one
of
them,
when
he
saw
that
he
was
healed,
turned
back,
praising
God
with
a
loud
voice;
and
he
fell
on
his
face
at
Jesus'
feet,
giving
him
thanks.
Now
he
was
a
Samaritan.
Then
Jesus
answered,
Were
not
ten
cleansed?
Where
are
the
nine?
Was
no
one
found
to
return
and
give
praise
to
God
except
this
foreigner?
And
he
said
to
him,
Rise
and
go
your
way;
your
faith
has
made
you
well.
This passage is showing that God offers his grace to every man, but not everyone will follow Him. All ten were cleansed, but only one came back to worship Christ. That predestinated seed worshipped the One that cleansed him.
This
passage
is
talking
about
the
coming
kingdom
of
the
Lord
that
was
spoken
in
Malachi
4.
It
was
coming
in
ways
that
cannot
be
observed;
yet
it
was
in
the
midst
of
them.
And
he
said
to
the
disciples,
The
days
are
coming
when
you
will
desire
to
see
one
of
the
days
of
the
Son
of
Man,
and
you
will
not
see
it.
And
they
will
say
to
you,
Look,
there!
or
Look,
here!
Do
not
go
out
or
follow
them.
For
as
the
lightning
flashes
and
lights
up
the
sky
from
one
side
to
the
other,
so
will
the
Son
of
Man
be
in
his
day.
But
first
he
must
suffer
many
things
and
be
rejected
by
this
generation.
This
passage
is
speaking
of
the
generation
of
people
during
the
days
of
Jesus.
He
would
suffer
many
things
and
be
rejected.
Yet
at
the
same
time,
it
also
is
applied
to
the
second
coming
of
Christ.
Men
will
come
to
Christians
like
ravenous
wolves,
trying
to
separate
the
Body
of
Christ.
Jesus
warns
that
when
they
turn
you
aside
saying
look
here,
this
message
is
the
second
coming
of
Christ,
do
not
believe
them.
Just
as
it
was
in
the
days
of
Noah,
so
will
it
be
in
the
days
of
the
Son
of
Man.
They
were
eating
and
drinking
and
marrying
and
being
given
in
marriage,
until
the
day
when
Noah
entered
the
ark,
and
the
flood
came
and
destroyed
them
all.
Likewise,
just
as
it
was
in
the
days
of
Lotthey
were
eating
and
drinking,
buying
and
selling,
planting
and
building,
but
on
the
day
when
Lot
went
out
from
Sodom,
fire
and
sulfur
rained
from
heaven
and
destroyed
them
all
so
will
it
be
on
the
day
when
the
Son
of
Man
is
revealed.
This passage describes the lack of devotion to the work that Christ commissioned us to do. While we are supposed to be spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we are more concerned
with
the
things
in
our
lives.
We
are
more
concerned
with
feeding
our
bodies
or
making
money.
We
will
be
so
consumed
with
these
things
that
Christ
will
start
raining
fire
and
sulfur
down
upon
us
before
we
even
realize
that
he
has
returned.
On
that
day,
let
the
one
who
is
on
the
housetop,
with
his
goods
in
the
house,
not
come
down
to
take
them
away,
and
likewise
let
the
one
who
is
in
the
field
not
turn
back.
Remember
Lot's
wife.
Remember Lots wife. She was turned to a pillar of salt. This passage is telling us that when the end of the world is coming; do not keep focused on the things we have gained for ourselves. Turning back for them will be like Lots wife turning back to death. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left. And they said to him, Where, Lord? He said to them, Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. This passage is focusing on the aftermath. If we seek to preserve our mortal lives we will lose our eternal life. But if we chose to lose our mortal lives for Christs sake, we will save our eternal souls. After the children of God are taken away, there will be nothing left but rotting corpses. Those left will ask the Lord, Where did everyone go? He will look over the rotting flesh of the dead flesh and respond to them that the vultures will feed on the corpses.
Colossians 2
Paul speaking to the church in Colossians 2 gives a very solemn warning: He said that now that we have received the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we were to "walk in Him." We were to be rooted fast and solid like a tree, and established in the faith, just as we were taught. We were to be abounding in thanksgiving to Jesus Christ. He warns to make sure that no man takes you captive by his own philosophy and empty deceit. No man should create a new human tradition for the church that was based on the elemental spirits of the world instead and not according to Jesus Christ. Paul said that in Christ, the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily. We have been filled with Him, and He is now our head. Christ is all of our rule and authority, not man. Through Christ, we were circumcised, but not by hands. We have been circumcised with the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him. We were buried in baptism and raised through faith by the power of God who raised Christ from the dead. Paul said that Christ disarmed these deceitful rulers and authorities by putting them in open shame. He triumphed over them. Paul said that Christ cancelled and completely blotted out, wiping away the bond we were under by the Law, along with its legal decree. He eliminated all that was in force and hostile to us. This was Law, with its regulations, decrees, and demands were set aside by Christ by nailing it to the cross. Paul continues to warn about Gnosticism. He says to let no man call you unworthy with questions of food or drink. Do not listen when a man tells us there is a specific event coming with a new moon or Sabbath or one of the festivals. He continues speaking out against Gnosticism by warning us not to let any man disqualify your faith. Do not listen when
men are insisting on asceticism, or the denial of worldly things to bring forth spiritual things. Paul warns us about Gnostic men who worship angels, and are "going on" in detail about their visions. Paul said these men are "puffed up" without reason by their own sensuous minds. He said that these men are not holding fast to their Head (Christ). He said that these men are not holding fast to the whole body of Christ, which should be nourished and knit together through all joints and ligaments. The body of Christ grows from a growth that is from God. Paul asked that if you died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do we submit to these regulations of men? Do not handle, do not taste, and do not touch? These things have the appearance of wisdom by promoting self-made religion. But these things were dangerous, promoting asceticism and would sever the body of Christ. Paul said these things are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh. As Christians, we should ask ourselves: Are we rooted solid with Christ, or the doctrine of a man? Are we established in the faith, walking around in thanksgiving to Christ who died for us? Have we let a man tell us of the way that we should live our lives in the flesh, creating a new tradition? Do we let these deceitful rulers have power over us when through Christ we triumph over them? Have we fallen into Gnostic teachings that disqualify our faith by men who tell us not to drink wine -- when the Bible itself gives proverbs that allow it? Do we listen to men that insist we deny ourselves worldly things so that they can bring forth spirits? Do we listen to men who say they have angels and are "going on" about their own visions? Do we not know that these men are "puffed up" without reason by their own sensuous minds? Do we hold on fast to our Head (Christ), or do we hold fast to these men? Do we listen when they sever the body of Christ by telling us to "Come out from them!
A Paradox
William
Branham
preaches
a
sermon
called
A
Paradox
that
places
emphasis
on
the
unexplained
rather
than
emphasis
on
Jesus
Christ.
He
found
throughout
his
campaign
that
the
mysteries
would
attract
larger
crowds,
while
the
real
mystery
of
the
prophets
of
old
was
fulfilled
in
Jesus
Christ.
He
starts
out
by
placing
Emphasis
on
Divine
Healing
Because,
healing
is
the
children's
bread.
We
realize
that.
It's
in
the
atonement,
and
the
atonement
first
is
applied
to
our
souls.
And
healing
has
always
forerun
every
message,
and
it's
also
been
a
means
to
gather
people
together.
{...}
And
that's
just
the
thing,
to
get
the
people
to
listen
a
while,
till
you
can
really
present
to
them
your
message.
God
has
did
that
in
every
age,
through
every
age,
there's
always
been
a
healing
campaign.
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This
is
not
Biblically
correct.
Healing
is
a
spiritual
gift,
and
is
a
lessor
gift
than
Divine
Love.
Healing
did
not
forerun
almost
any
of
the
messages
brought
by
the
prophets
of
the
Bible.
John
the
Baptist
prepared
the
way
for
the
first
coming
of
Christ
by
preaching
repentance
as
a
"Voice
crying
out
in
the
wilderness,"
not
as
a
healer
who
passed
out
prayer
cards.
When
you
consider
that
he
contradicts
most
of
his
other
sermons
with
an
everyone
is
welcome
attitude,
you
must
consider
the
environment
in
which
this
sermon
was
preached:
And
if
there
be
strangers
in
our
gates,
we
want
you
to
know
that,
as
for
myself,
or
this
group
that
I
am
here
with,
the
Full
Gospel
Business
Men,
we
represent
no
certain
denomination
organization.
We
only
represent
Christian
believers
in
all
denominations.
Everybody
is
welcome.
We're
just
glad
to
have
you.
You
say,
"Well,
I
belong
to
a
certain
church,
could
I
be
prayed
for?"
You
don't
even
have
to
belong
to
a
church,
don't
have
to
do
nothing
but
come
up
here
and
believe
God.
That's
all
you
have
to
do.
God
does
the
rest
of
it.
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When
speaking
to
the
Full
Gospel
Business
Men
or
other
joint
groups,
Rev.
Branham
would
say
that
they
all
could
be
Christians.
When
preaching
"home
churches",
Rev.
Branham
would
say
they
had
the
"Mark
of
the
Beast"
if
they
joined.
Also,
like
many
times
before,
he
placed
great
emphasis
on
baptism.
Speaking
of
the
children
of
Israel
as
they
journeyed
to
the
Promised
Land:
Now
they
were
baptized,
repented
and
were
baptized,
and
come
out
to
walk
in
a
new
life,
in
a
new
land,
in
a
newness
journey,
amongst
new
people,
and
the
hand
of
God
upon
them.
But
it
finally
come
to
a
place,
in
this
walk
that
they
had,
that
they
was
not
satisfied
with
their
walk
of
grace.
They
had
to
come
to
something
that
they
could
do
themselves.
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This
is
exactly
backwards.
In
the
Old
Testament,
water
such
as
the
great
flood
were
only
symbols
of
baptism
that
would
be
carried
out
much,
much
later.
There
were
no
requirements
of
baptism
in
the
Old
Testament.
Baptism
is
an
outward
confession
of
the
inward
change.
It
is
not
required
to
receive
the
Holy
Ghost
according
to
Acts.
Also,
the
children
of
Israel
were
not
walking
in
grace.
God
took
the
children
of
Israel
and
put
them
into
slavery
because
they
had
became
stagnant,
then
brought
them
out
of
slavery
and
placed
them
under
the
Law.
Grace
did
not
come
until
Jesus
Christ.
William
Branham
was
confused
by
his
own
soothsaying
and
divination,
which
led
him
to
be
confused
about
Balaam
in
the
Bible:
But
when
it
come
to
the
time
of
when
Balaam
come
out
with
his
false
doctrine,
and
said,
"We're
all
one.
Why
don't
we
just
go
together
and
let
our
children
marry
one
another?
We're
a
great
nation.
We'll
make
you
great
with
us."
Now
anybody
with
common
spiritual
understanding
can
see
exactly
that
same
thing
even
today,
marrying
all
of
them
together.
And
it
was
an
unforgiveable
sin.
It
was
never
forgiven
Israel.
But
then
Joshua
raised
up
for
the
exodus.
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This
is
not
correct
--
It
is
Rev.
Branham's
attempt
to
prove
that
joining
together
with
an
organization
can
be
compared
to
Balaam.
Balaam
was
not
trying
to
make
a
great
nation
with
the
children
of
Israel;
however,
he
was
attempting
to
destroy
Israel.
He
told
Balak
to
sneak
in
idolatry
and
fornication
into
their
camps
and
make
God
curse
the
children
of
Israel
himself.
The
Bible
says:
But
I
have
a
few
things
against
you:
you
have
some
there
who
hold
the
teaching
of
Balaam,
who
taught
Balak
to
put
a
stumbling
block
before
the
sons
of
Israel,
so
that
they
might
eat
food
sacrificed
to
idols
and
practice
sexual
immorality.
Revelation
2:14
William
Branham
plagiarized
his
revelation
of
the
Seven
Seals
of
the
Book
of
Revelation
from
works
by
Clarence
Larkin.
Because
everyone
was
unfamiliar
with
the
works
of
Larkin,
Rev.
Branham
was
able
to
trick
the
followers
into
believing
that
he
was
that
mystery:
Now
we're
taught,
in
Revelation
the
6th
chapter,
I
believe,
yeah,
6th
chapter,
of
the
Seven
Seals.
That's
supposed...
The
Book
to
be
sealed
up
with
seven
mysteries,
or
Seven
Seals,
Revelation
6.
And
in
the
last
day,
Revelation
10,
in
Revelation
10,
we
find
out
that
the
Laodicea,
last
messenger
of
the
last
age,
and
during
the
time
of
his
prophecy,
that
the
Seven
Seals
would
be
opened,
the
seven
mysteries,
sevenfold
mysteries
that
had
been
left
off.
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This
is
Rev.
Branham's
attempt
to
elevate
himself
to
the
level
of
Christ.
It
was
not
one
of
the
prophets
that
open
the
seventh
seal.
When
the
Lamb
opened
the
seventh
seal,
there
was
silence
in
heaven
for
about
half
an
hour.
Revelation
8:1
He
would
confuse
people
of
their
own
understanding
of
the
Bible
by
confusing
the
ages
described
in
Revelation.
The
followers
would
have
to
ask
themselves,
what
is
he
talking
about
when
he
is
speaking
of
the
Second
Ephesian
Age?
Now
you
cannot
add
nothing
to
the
Book,
or
take
nothing
from
It.
Revelation
22:18
says
so,
"Who
will
ever,
will
add
one
Word,
or
take
one
Word,
his
part
will
be
taken
from
the
Book
of
Life."
Now
we
cannot
add
or
take.
So
therefore
we
know
that
Luther
could
not
get
to
It;
Wesley,
and
so
forth,
the
reformers,
Knox,
Finney,
Calvin,
on
down,
so
forth,
they
didn't
get
It
all,
but
what
they
had
was
the
Gospel
Truth.
But
now
in
the
last
days,
we
are
given
the
understanding,
by
the
Word,
that
we
are
going
to
understand
It,
because
it'll
come
an
Ephesian
age
to
it.
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The
Bible
never
teaches
that
another
"Ephesian
Age"
is
to
come.
One
can
argue
that
Rev.
Branham
did
not
mean
this,
but
if
you
read
everything
he
says
about
the
"Ephesians,"
in
context,
you
will
find
that
it
really
doesn't
make
sense
at
all
anyway.
What's
odd
here,
though,
is
that
in
the
same
breath
that
he
says
not
to
"add
to
the
Word,"
he
is
adding
this
strange
Ephesian
thing
to
it.
It
is
incorrect
to
believe
that
the
understanding
of
the
Word
is
only
for
the
last
age.
The
eyes
of
Israel
were
blinded,
but
the
Bible
never
says
that
the
eyes
of
the
Gentiles
have
been
blinded
to
the
Bible.
In
fact,
Jesus
Himself
says
otherwise:
And
Jesus
cried
out
and
said,
Whoever
believes
in
me,
believes
not
in
me
but
in
him
who
sent
me.
And
whoever
sees
me
sees
him
who
sent
me.
I
have
come
into
the
world
as
light,
so
that
whoever
believes
in
me
may
not
remain
in
darkness.
If
anyone
hears
my
words
and
does
not
keep
them,
I
do
not
judge
him;
for
I
did
not
come
to
judge
the
world
but
to
save
the
world.
The
one
who
rejects
me
and
does
not
receive
my
words
has
a
judge;
the
word
that
I
have
spoken
will
judge
him
on
the
last
day.
For
I
have
not
spoken
on
my
own
authority,
but
the
Father
who
sent
me
has
himself
given
me
a
commandmentwhat
to
say
and
what
to
speak.
And
I
know
that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me. John 12:44-50
He
would
also
introduce
very
strange
scientific
facts
that
were
very
untrue,
and
his
followers
today
will
reject
science
to
stand
for
the
words
of
their
prophet.
How
the
moon
can,
billions
of
miles
off
the
earth,
can
still
control
the
tide.
Tell
me
how
that
in
this
galaxy
that
we
live
in,
how
could
the
moon
have
any
effect
upon
the
water
on
the
earth?
Scientifically,
tell
me
how
it's
done.
It
could
not
be
done,
because
there
is
no
scientific
way
of
telling
it.
But
God
set
the
moon
to
watch
the
sea.
And
when
the
moon
begins
to
turn
its
back,
when
the
earth
turns
away,
here
comes
the
tide
in.
But
when
he
wakes
up,
the
next
morning,
looks
back
this
a
way,
the
tide
runs
back
to
its
place
again.
It's
a
watchman.
"Oh,"
you
say,
"that's
just
on
the
seashore."
No.
That's
right
up
here
in
Arizona,
plumb
back
over
in
the
state
of
Kentucky,
wherever
you
dig
a
hole
down
in
the
ground
far
enough
to
find
salt
water.
You'll
find
out,
when
that
tide
goes
out,
that
salt
water
goes
down
in
the
pipe.
And
when
the
tide
comes
in,
it
also
raises,
hundreds
of
miles
from
the
seashore.
We
could
preach
a
sermon
on
that.
How
that
God,
no
matter,
He
is
in
Glory
but
His
orders
there
is
just
the
same
effect
on
the
whole
world
and
anybody
that
takes
the
promise.
His
order
is
given.
He
has
laws
of
nature,
and--and
they--they
will
absolutely
carry
themself
true,
from
Pentecost
or
any
other
time.
Any
time
that
God
made
the
promise,
He
will
still
stay
with
that
promise
regardless
of
where
the
people
is
at,
how
many
thousands
of
years
off.
His
laws
ever
remain
the
same.
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For all those that say that every single word spoken by Rev. Branham is infallible truth, consider this: The moon is approximately 356,400 km from earth. The only way you can dig a hole in Kentucky deep enough to find saltwater is to pierce through to the other side (assuming you miss another continent.) Which Church Age?
Using
tactics
that
are
taught
in
schools
of
psychology
under
the
chapters
regarding
mind-control,
he
would
repeat
many
of
his
strange
doctrines
over
and
over
until
they
were
engrained
in
the
minds
of
his
followers:
And
how
much
more
has
He
promised,
how
much
more
is
it
leaving
in
the
Bible,
to
this
very
age
that
we're
living,
the
Ephesians
again,
of
the
church
ages.
We've
got
seven
church
ages,
and
we're
promised
that
at
the
Laodicea
Church
Age
there
would
be
another
Ephesian.
That's
right.
And
we're
here.
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Again, there is no mention in the Bible that there would be another Ephesian Age. It seems as though maybe Rev. Branham is trying to mix two ages?
Seed of Discrepancy
The
"text"
of
this
sermon
came
to
Rev.
Branham
on
top
of
the
Catalina
mountains
(he
says)
of
one
word:
discrepancy.
And
I
went
down
and
found
the
word
of
discrepancy,
so
I
got
the
dictionary
and
looked
what
the
word
discrepancy
means.
And
it
means
it's
"sowing
discord,"
or--or,
"being
contrary,"
as
Webster
says,
"sowing
a
discord,
something
different,"
or,
"being
contrary
to
what's
already
been."
So
I
thought,
the
text
tonight,
I'd
call
it:
The
Seed
Of
Discrepancy.
And
trust
that
the
Lord
will
bless
His
Word
now
as
we
approach
It.
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The
definition
of
the
word
has
remained
the
same
since
1623
according
to
Websters
Dictionary,
and
has
nothing
to
do
with
"sowing
seeds
of
discord"
as
Rev.
Branham
claims.
Discrepancy
means
nothing
more
than
finding
a
variance:
1)
The
quality
or
state
of
disagreeing
or
being
at
variance
2)
An
instance
of
disagreeing
or
being
at
variance
Webster's
Dictionary
"Sowing
seeds
of
discord"
is
something
that
is
planned,
an
evil
work.
This
phrase
means
to
create
internal
conflict
within
the
enemy.
Secretly
sow
discord
on
the
enemy's
friends,
families,
etc.
Rev.
Branham
goes
on
to
say
that
the
spiritual
gifts
in
the
other
churches
can
be
explained
by
God
pouring
out
his
spirit
on
the
"unjust.
In
doing
so,
he
is
taking
a
scripture
out
of
context:
Another
place
in
the
Scripture
where
it's
written,
that
the
rain
falls
on
the
just
and
the
unjust.
I
remember
my
first
experience
of
ever
coming
amongst
the
Pentecostal
people.
I
was
at
Mishawaka,
Indiana.
And
I
was
at
a
great
convention,
a
hall
about
like
this,
where
the
North
and
the
South
had
come
together.
Because
of
them
days,
of
the
segregation,
they
had
to
meet
up
there.
They
were
two
great
orders
of
the
Pentecostal
brethren.
I
had
never
heard
of
them
or
met
them
before.
The
first
time
I
ever
heard
speaking
in
tongues.
And
at
the
end
of
the
row,
of
the
convention...
Me
being
not
a
member
among
them,
I
was
just
a
young
Baptist
minister,
I
set
way
back
in
the
back.
And
I
remember
the
first
time
I
heard
anyone
speak
in
tongues,
I
didn't
even
know
what--what it was all about. And then these two men, mainly, set up in the front, one would speak in tongues and the other would interpret what the man said. Well, I just started studying my Bible as hard as I could, there then, and found out that that was Scriptural. That's exactly what the Scripture, the Holy Spirit would do. 65-0118 THE.SEED.OF.DISCREPANCY
This
scripture,
when
read
in
context,
is
not
speaking
about
spiritual
gifts
of
God
being
given
to
the
"unjust,"
it
is
speaking
of
God's
instruction
to
love
our
enemies
with
Divine
love,
as
we
are
all
under
the
same
sun
and
the
same
rain.
Although
it
is
a
minor
thing
it
should
be
pointed
out
that
this
part
of
his
story
conflicts
with
his
other
accounts
of
his
hidden
past:
Well,
about
a
day
after
that...
That
night
my
heart
was
so
stirred.
I
slept
in
a
cornfield.
I
didn't
have
enough
money
to
get
me
a--a--a
bed,
so
I
just
had
enough
money
to
get
home
on,
and
I
got
me
some
doughnuts,
couple
days
old,
or
rolls,
it
was,
and
for
my
breakfast.
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Rev.
Branham
bought
a
brand-new
Chevy
(or
Ford
according
to
some
accounts),
and
had
plenty
of
money.
In
his
own
words:
In
1933.
I
just
got
a
1933
Ford,
and
I
dedicated
it
that
morning
to
the
Lord.
Teaching
On
Moses,
May
13,
1956,
Jeff.,
IN,
He
then
goes
on
to
describe
how
one
speaking
in
tongues
was
a
genuine
Christian,
and
the
other
was
either
remarried
or
living
with
another
woman
at
the
same
time.
(Polygamy,
which
Rev.
Branham
also
taught
according
to
many
of
his
followers)
But
his
only
proof
of
this
fact
were
the
children:
After
that,
why,
I
thought,
"If
I
could
only
get
where
these
two
main
men
was
that
spoke
in
tongues
and
interpreted!"
That
was
burning
me
up
in
my
heart,
I
wanted
it
so
bad.
Well,
as
I've
told
you
at
the
beginning,
a
little
gift
that
you
pull
over.
You
know,
gifts
and
callings
are
without
repentance,
you
have
them
all
your
life,
see,
you're
born
with
them,
if
they're
gifts
of
God.
So
I
always,
since
a
little
bitty
baby,
it
always
happened
to
me,
people
who
knows
me
all
my
life,
they
know
that's
true.
Well,
if
I
thought...
I
didn't
know
what
it
was
then,
and
call
it
a
vision,
I
just
didn't
know
what
it
was.
But
I
thought,
"If
I
could
ever
talk
to
them!"
Well,
and
the
spirit
that
was
in
the
building
felt
like
it's
really
the
Spirit
of
God.
So
I--I
got
to
talk
to
one
of
them,
and
I
asked
him
a
few
questions,
and
he
was
a
real
genuine
Christian.
There
was
no
doubt
about
that,
that
man
was
a
real
believer.
And
the
next
man,
when
I
talked
to
him,
if
I
ever
met
a
hypocrite,
that
was
one
of
them.
That
man
was
actually...
His
wife
was
a
blond- headed
woman,
and
he
had
children
by...
two
children
by
a
black-headed
woman.
And
I
thought,
"Well,
now
what?
Here
it
is,
I'm--I'm
all
mixed
up.
I'm
a
fundamentalist;
it
must
be
the
Word,
or
it
isn't
right.
And
here's
that
Spirit,
one
rang
out,
according
to
all
I
know,
genuine;
and
the
other
one
was
no
good
at
all;
and
the
Spirit
falling
on
both
of
them.
Now,
how
can
that
be?"
I'd,
it
had
me
puzzled.
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Don't
get
me
wrong,
it
is
adultery
(in
some
cases)
to
remarry.
That
being
said,
it
is
also
not
the
unforgivable
sin.
Remember
the
Bible
books
describing
either
God's
instruction
to
marry
a
harlot
or
Jesus
himself
saving
a
woman
with
five
husbands.
Rev.
Branham
himself
earlier
read
how
a
solid
marriage
could
produce
a
"black
baby,"
because
of
earlier
genetics.
He
then
goes
on
to
reference
the
book
of
Hebrews:
Two
years
later,
I
had
been
praying
in
a
cave
where
I
would
go
to
pray.
Got
dusty
in
the
cave,
and
one
afternoon
I
walked
out,
laid
my
Bible
on
a
log,
and
the
wind
blowed
It
open
to
Hebrews,
the
6th
chapter.
Which
said,
that
in
the
last
days,
how
it
would
be
if
we
fell
away
from
the
Truth
and
renewed
ourselves
again
unto
repentance,
there
was
no
more
sacrifice
for
sin,
and
how
that
thorns
and
thistles,
which
was
nigh
unto
rejection,
whose
end
is
to
be
burned;
but
the
rain
cometh
upon
the
earth,
often,
to
water
it,
to
dress
it;
but
the
thorns
and
thistles
would
be
rejected,
but
the
wheat
would
be
gathered.
And
I
thought,
"Well,
it
just
the
wind
happened
to
blow
that
open."
Well,
I
just
laid
the
Bible
down
again.
And
I
thought,
"Well,
now
I'll
just..."
And
here
come
the
wind
and
blowed
It
open.
That
happened
three
times.
And
I
thought,
"Well,
now,
that's
strange."
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The first thing to comment on is the 'cave' and 'dusty' -- this place is also described as a cabin with a wood floor by William Branham himself in other sermons. None of his angelic commission stories fully match. "Snipping" parts of that chapter out of context, it seemingly fits Rev. Branham's purpose, but the wind cannot blow the words off the page to that meaning. 1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit. 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
There
are
multiple
interesting
things
to
note
here:
This
entire
chapter
is
speaking
out
against
those
that
place
their
faith
in
the
works
instead
of
the
doctrines
of
Christ
It
condemns
those
that
doe
these
works
and
have
not
gone
on
to
greater
things
It
tells
us
not
to
debate
on
the
baptisms
(notice
the
plural
's'),
which
most
Branham
Cult
churches
still
debate
with
'outsiders'
It
tells
us
to
look
at
the
fruits
that
are
produced
(and
make
sure
they
are
not
thorns)
He
goes
on
to
read
from
Hebrews
6:
Notice
in
verse
41,
the
two
also
very
close,
so
close
in
the
last
days
till
He
didn't
do...
He
could
not
depend
on
some
certain
church
to
separate
them,
say,
the
Methodist
or
the
Baptist,
or
the
Pentecostals,
to
separate
them.
He
said,
"He
sends
His
angels
to
separate
them."
An
angel
is
coming
to
bring
the
separation,
the
segregation
between
the
right
and
the
wrong.
And
no
one
can
do
that
but
the
Angel
of
the
Lord.
He's
the
One
that
is
going
to
tell
which
is
right
and
which
is
wrong.
God
said
He
will
send
His
angels
at
the
last
times.
Not
angels
down
through
here,
but
angels
at
the
last
time,
and
would
gather
together.
We
know
that
this
is
the
coming
harvest
time
now.
Now,
an
angel
is
actually
interpreted
a
"messenger."
And
we
see
that
there
is
seven
angels
of
the
seven
churches,
and
now...
no,
through
the
church
ages.
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Hebrews 6
We all know that when Rev. Branham is referring the 'two spirits' he was referring to Matthew 24:24:
"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."
But
notice
how
this
verse
is
twisted
to
fit
Rev.
Branham's
purpose.
It
does
not
speak
of
organizations
or
even
false
churches.
This
verse
is
talking
about
false
Christs
[anointed
ones]
and
false
prophets.
Those
who
have
prophesy
that
do
not
come
to
pass,
those
who
twist
the
truth
to
deceive.
Also,
'angel'
is
NOT
interpreted
as
a
'messenger'.
Rev.
Branham
considered
himself
the
messenger
for
the
last
age,
is
he
trying
to
say
that
he
is
an
angel?
Are
the
Archangels
Gabriel
or
Michael
men?
He
then
goes
on
to
say
that
each
age
has
its
own
'seed':
Quote:
Now
He
said,
"The
Seed
of
God,
the
Word
of
God."
Jesus
said,
in
a
certain
place,
that
"The
Word
is
a
Seed."
And
every
seed
will
bring
forth
of
its
kind.
And
now
if
the
Christian,
the
children
of
God,
the
children
of
the
Kingdom
has
become
the
Seed
of
God,
then
they
must
be
the
Word
of
God,
the
Word
of
God
manifested
in
the
age
that
they're
living
in,
for
the
promised
Seed
of
that
age.
God
gave
His
Word
at
the
beginning,
and
each
age
has
had
its
Seed,
its
time,
its
promises.
Now,
when
Noah
came
on
the
scene,
and
he
was
the
Seed
of
God,
the
Word
of
God
for
that
age.
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Using Noah as an example, that may be somewhat true. Noah was at the end of an age of this world. A new age started, and we are looking to the end of this age when the Battle of Armageddon comes. But the truth of the matter is that Jesus spread the 'seed of this age', which was the Good News that He died for us, rose again, and we can all be saved by faith in Him. There is no new 'seed' that will be planted at the end. Rev. Branham then conflicts his own teaching about Judas, which he believed was a true man of God that had turned:
Notice, their seeds grew together just exactly like God said over here also in the 13th chapter, of our text tonight, of Matthew, "Let them grow together." Now, Cain went to the land of Nod, found himself a wife, and married; and Abel was slew, and God raised up Seth to take his place. And the generations started moving on, between right and wrong. Now, we notice they gathered, each one of them, time after time, and God had to... It got so wicked till God had to destroy it. But they finally came forth until both of those seeds, the seed of discrepancy and the Seed of God, put forth their genuine heads, and that wound up in Judas Iscariot and in Jesus Christ. For, He was the Seed of God, He was the beginning of the creation of God, He was nothing less than God. And Judas Iscariot was borned the son of perdition, come from hell, returned to hell. Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Word of God made manifest. Judas Iscariot, in his discrepancy, was the seed of the Devil, come to the world, and for deceit; just like he was at the beginning, Cain, his former father. Judas only played church. He wasn't really sincere. He didn't actually have faith; he'd have never betrayed Jesus. But, see, he sowed that seed of discrepancy. He thought that he could make friends with the world, mammon, and also have friendship with Jesus, but it was too late for him to do anything about it. When the dead hour came, when he did this evil thing, he crossed the separating line between going forward and returning back. He had to go on in the way that he went, as a deceiver. He sowed the seed of discrepancy, he tried to find favor with those great organizations of that day, with the Pharisees and Sadducees. And thought he'd make hisself a piece of money, and would be popular among the people. If that doesn't cause so many people to get in that discrepancy, trying to find favor with man! Let's find favor with God, not with man. But that's what Judas done when this discrepancies headed up in him. 65-0118 THE.SEED.OF.DISCREPANCY
Rev.
Branham
earlier
said
that
Judas
was
saved
and
lost
his
salvation.
That
directly
conflicts
with
this
statement.
Rev.
Branham
then
goes
on
to
show
how
the
orthodox
churches
are
the
works
of
Satan.
Quote:
The
enemy
joins
church
and
becomes
very
orthodox
in
a
creed
or
something.
But
that's
not...
That's
discrepancy,
anything
that
interferes
with
that
strain
of
genuine
Truth
of
God's
Word.
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Paul
preached
about
the
false
prophets
that
would
rise
and
separate
the
body
of
Christ.
It
does
not
say
that
the
Body
of
Christ
will
come
out
of
a
church
led
by
false
prophets.
He
then
says
that
Balaam
was
part
of
the
'seed'
because
he
tried
to
organize
the
churches
of
his
day:
What
happened?
The
church
just
got
started
out
of
Egypt,
on
its
feet
a
few
days,
and
what
happened?
Satan
come
along
with
his
discrepancy
in
the
person,
the
second
Cain,
which
was
Balaam,
and
he
sowed
discrepancy
amongst
them.
We
know
that's
right.
That
Balaam,
the
teaching
of
Balaam,
that
"we're
all
the
same,
we
serve
the
same
God
you
do,"
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Since Rev. Branham seems to use this example of Balaam multiple times in his comparison to the organizing of religion, I recommend everyone go back and read the story of Balaam. He did not try to join people together; he gave advice on how to send harlots and idol worship to them so that God Himself would smite them down with a curse. Rev. Branham gives a false reference that not many people are aware of:
But I'll tell you, friends, that's only a type of the genuine Opium from the Lily of the Valley that I know of. He is the Lily of the Valley. He was squeezed out on Calvary. 65-0118 THE.SEED.OF.DISCREPANCY
It's given multiple places on tape, but opium comes from poppy seeds. You cannot squeeze opium from a lily pad. We should ask ourselves: After comparing all of this to the Bible, do we find any discrepancy?
Again,
Rev.
Branham
uses
'Ephesus
Age'
for
some
unknown
purpose:
Now
if
many
of
you
like
to
just
mark
down
Scriptures
that
a
minister
reads.
And
I
would
like
for
you
to,
tonight,
if
you
would,
to
turn
to
Ephesians.
And
I
was
speaking
last
Sunday
on
the
Ephesians,
how
that
the
Book
of
Joshua
was
the
Ephesians
of
the
Old
Testament,
and
how
it
was
a
Book
of
redemption.
And
redemption
has
two
different
parts:
"come
out
of"
and
"entering
into."
First,
you
have
to
come
out.
Some
people
wants
to
bring
the
world
in
with
them;
but
you
got
to
come
out
of
the
world,
to
enter
into
Christ.
You
have
to
come
out
of
unbelief,
to
enter
into
faith.
There
cannot
be
one
thing
in
your
way.
To
really
have
genuine
faith,
you
must
absolutely
leave
everything
that's
contrary
to
the
Word
of
God,
behind,
to
enter
into
faith.
And
that
was
the
Book
of
the
Ephesians
of
the
Old
Testament,
Joshua.
Where,
Moses
represented
the
law,
could
not
save
no
one;
but
grace
could,
and
here
Joshua
is
the
same
word
like
Jesus,
"Jehovah-saviour."
And
now
then,
we
find
out
that
we
have
come
to
another
Ephesians,
another
Ephesus
now.
Where,
that,
in
our
intellectual
denominations
and
so
forth,
and
all
of
our
educational
programs
has
come
to
its--its
Jordan,
then
we
must
have
an--an
Ephesians
again.
We
must
have
an
exodus,
to
"come
out"
and
to
"go
into,"
for
the
Rapture.
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There are multiple problems with this section. First, 'redemption' does NOT mean 'come out of' and 'enter into.' Here are the facts: 1) Redemption means 'deliverance.' 2) Exodus means 'come out of' 3) Ephesus means, To let go, relax. (It was the story of the backslidden church) 4) None of these words means 'go into' In Ephesians, Paul is not teaching the group to separate themselves from the unbelievers -- he is teaching them to
spread
the
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ!
No
mysteries,
no
secrets
for
some
Masons-style
group,
just
the
plain
and
simple
Mystery
of
the
prophets
that
had
been
revealed
already
in
Jesus
Christ.
When
you
raise
a
Bible
question,
or
show
a
Branham
Cult
minister
something
that
is
wrong,
it
reminds
me
of
this
statement:
Now
if
you
want
to
listen
to
the
clucking
of
some
denominational
hen,
and
live
back
out
there
in
the
things
of
the
world,
then
it
goes
to
show
that
there
is
something
wrong.
Because,
That
is
the
Word.
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Try
to
show
one
of
these
threads
to
someone
in
the
Branham
Cult,
with
the
humble
attitude
that
you
simply
want
to
learn
more
about
God's
Word,
and
understand
it
as
the
Truth
above
all
else!
See
if
the
Branhamite
denomination
does
not
do
the
same!
Rev.
Branham
says
that
the
prophets
are
likened
to
'eagles':
We
find
now
that
God
was
so
merciful
to
Moses
out
there
in
that
dead
sea,
out
in
the
Red
Sea
out
there,
rather.
Then
when
He
said
here,
in
Exodus
19:4,
He
said,
"I
carried
you
away
on
eagles'
wings,
brought
you
to
Myself.
Carried
them
on
eagles'
wings,
and
brought
you
to
Myself!"
There
was
other
men
in
the
middle
of
that
sea
out
there,
also,
trying
to
impersonate.
But
what?
"He
carried
them
on
eagles'
wings."
Now
God
always
likens
His
prophets
to
eagles.
And
what
was
it?
Moses
was
His
messenger.
And
they
were
following
Moses,
and
that
was
the
eagles'
wings
that
they
were
carried
on,
because
he
was
packing
God's
message.
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This
is
a
common
theme
throughout
Rev.
Branham's
ministry,
and
yet
is
not
Biblical.
It
can
only
be
used
for
a
prophet
who
is
attempting
to
make
himself
very
close
to
the
level
of
God.
The
eagle
is
used
for
a
little
over
30
references
in
the
Bible:
1)
God:
Exodus
19:4,
Deuteronomy
28:49,
Proverbs
23:5
2)
Jeremiah
49:16,
Deuteronomy
32:11,
Ezekiel
17:7
3) The actual bird: Leviticus 11:13, Deuteronomy 14:12, Job 39:27, 4) Proverbs 30:19, Ezekiel 1:10, Ezekiel 10:14 5) Speed of Warriors: 2 Samuel 1:23, Jeremiah 4:13, Jeremiah 48:40, 6) Jeremiah 49:22, Lamentations 4:19, Habakkuk 1:8 7) Passing of Time: Job 9:26 8) King of Babylon: Ezekiel 17:3, 9) Nebuchadnezzar's hair: Daniel 4:33 10) One of the Four Kings: Daniel 7:4 11) One of the Four Creatures: Revelation 4:7 12) The Woman: Revelation 12:14 13) Eagle announcing the three angels: Revelation 8:13 14) Edom: Obadiah 1:4 15) Baldness: Micah 1:16 16) YOU AND ME: Psalm 103:5, Isaiah 40:31
The
Truth
of
the
matter
is
that
God
likens
HIMSELF
to
an
eagle.
According
to
the
Bible,
YOU
AND
I
have
just
as
much
'likening'
to
an
eagle
as
Rev.
Branham
does.
Rev.
Branham
compared
Korah
and
Dathan
to
those
who
did
not
believe
him:
Quote:
We
could
say
the
same
about
Korah
and
about
Dathan
and
their
gang
of
unbelieving
people,
as
they
tried
to
impersonate.
They
tried
to
inflict
something
into
God's
program.
They
didn't
like
a
one-man
program.
They
didn't
like
that.
They
had
to
have
something
to
do.
Korah
said,
"Why,
there
is
more
holy
men
than
you,
Moses.
You
act
like
you're
the
only
beach
on
the...
or
the
only
pebble
on
the
beach,
rather."
And
said,
"I--I...
you
oughtn't
to
do
that.
And
there
is
more
men
here."
And
Moses
knowed
that
he
was
to
carry
those
children
over
into
the
promised
land,
because
the
promise
was
given
to
him.
And
he
must
pack
them
to
the
promised
land.
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The reverse of this statement could also be said from Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, or any of the other spiritual leaders of the day. Rev. Branham did the same thing as Korah and Dathan if you really stop and think about it. (Assuming you
have
already
researched
the
fabricated
prophesies
and
are
aware
that
they
were
all
false
prophecy.)
For
those
that
still
believe
Rev.
Branham
is
a
prophet,
just
skip
the
statement
above
and
continue
comparing
to
the
Bible....
Rev.
Branham
gives
the
story
of
William
D.
Upshaw:
Quote:
Way
back
there
sat
an
old
man,
Congressman
Upshaw,
many
of
you
knows
his
testimony.
He
had
been
a
good
man,
tried
all
of
his
life,
sixty-six
years
an
invalid
in
a
wheel
chair,
pushed
in
bed;
crutches
under
his
arms,
that
he
walked
with,
never
no
more
to
walk
normal.
And
there
he
sat
there,
looking
on
that.
And
all
of
a
sudden,
I
looked
out
and
saw
a
vision.
Here
he
come,
walking
down
across
the
top
of
that
audience,
bowing
his
head,
could
walk
as
good
as
anybody.
I
didn't
know
who
the
man
was.
I
said,
"There
is
a
great
man
sitting
back
there.
He
fell
off
of
a
wagon
when
he
was
a
little
boy,
onto
a
hay
frame,
and
hurt
his
back.
They
bored
holes
in
the
floor,
to
keep
the
vibration,
when
the
people
walked,
from
striking
on
his
back."
I
said,
"He
becomes
a
great
man,
and
he
keeps
growing
greater.
He
is
sitting
in
a
great
circle
at
the
White
House."
And
then
this
man
come
and
told
me,
said,
"That's
Congressman
Upshaw.
Did
you
ever
hear
him?"
I
said,
"Never
heard
of
him."
And
so
he
run
a
little
extension
mike
back
there
and
they
was
talking,
back
and
forth.
Then
I
started
to
look
around,
and
I
seen
the
old
Congressman
coming,
walking
towards
me,
in
a
vision,
just
as
perfect
and
normal
as
he
could
be.
God,
rich
in
mercy,
pulled
him
from
that
wheel
chair,
and
he
walked
without
crutches
till
the
day
he
died.
God
rich
in
mercy!
When
doctors
had
failed,
when
science
had
failed,
when
everything
else
had
failed,
God
was
rich
in
mercy
to
Congressman
Upshaw.
65-0119
THE.GOD.WHO.IS.RICH.IN.MERCY
Rev. Branham claims that he was preaching and saw a vision of Congressman Upshaw. The 'vision' is told in full during other sermons, clearly laying out the situation: Rev. Branham preaching, Upshaw in the meeting, a vision strikes Rev. Branham, he goes to the congressman, and then Rev. Branham finds out who the congressman is.
It
differs
from
Upshaw's
own
testimony,
however.
Rev.
Branham
had
exhausted
and
was
being
carried
out.
His
first
retelling
of
the
story
includes
no
vision,
but
over
time
the
story
grows.
I
walked
into
that
Branham-Baxter
meeting
in
Calvary
Temple,
Los
Angeles,
in
February,
1951,on
my
crutches
that
had
been
my
buddiesmy
helpful
comrades
for
59
of
my
66
years
as
a
cripple
7
of
those
years
having
been
spent
in
bedWe
knew
Billy
Branham
would
be
great
but
we
were
not
prepared
for
Baxter,
who
is
an
imperative
John
the
Baptist,
preparing
the
way
for
Branham.
I
sat
entranced,
still
praying
for
appropriating
faith,
but
holden
somehow
to
that
contact
and
that
contract
with
the
Lord
60
odd
years
ago.
Others
were
healed
all
around
me.
Then
Brother
Branham,
exhausted,
was
carried
from
the
platform.
Angels
were
hovering
near!
I
knew
my
blessed
wife
and
her
prayer
warriors
were
wrapping
me
in
prayer.
I
remembered
how
she
said,
When
you
are
trying
to
lead
a
sinner
to
accept
Christ,
you
say:
Acceptconfess
Christ
and
step
out-
He
will
do
the
rest
and
bring
the
feeling.
It
was
the
touchstone.
Brother
LeRoy
Kopp,
Calvarys
Temple
golden
hearted
pastor,
came
back
to
the
pulpit
and
said:
Brother
Branham
says,
The
congressman
is
healed.
My
heart
leaped.
I
said
in
my
battling
soul,
Brother
Branham
knows
the
mind
of
God.I
will
step
out
and
accept
the
Lord
as
my
healer.
I
laid
aside
my
crutches
and
started
toward
the
startled
LeRoy
Kopp
and
my
happy,
shouting
wifeand
he
bottom
of
Heaven
fell
outMy
crutches
are
still
on
the
Calvary
temple
pulpit,
and
I
am
Happy
on
the
wayLeaning
on
the
Everlasting
Arms.
Praise
God!
William
David
Upshaw.
2524,
24th
Street,
Santa
Monica,
Calif.
On April 09, 1951, Rev. Branham stated Upshaw lived for many years afterwards, though he actually died within 23 months of his healing, or on Nov. 21, 1952 Legend of the Fall It is interesting that the 'organization' has removed the questionable parts from this testimony on their website: in their page entitled 20100208_CongressmanUpshaw
Throughout
his
ministry,
Rev.
Branham
explained
his
commission.
The
angel
supposedly
said,
"As
Moses
was
given
two
signs,
so
will
you
[Rev.
Branham]
be
given
two
signs."
Here
is
yet
another
place:
Moses
was
given
two
signs,
and
each
sign
had
a
voice.
That's
right.
I
preached
on
it
here
sometime
ago,
somewhere,
on,
The
Voice
Of
The
Sign.
It
must
have
a--a
Voice
of
the
sign.
It's
a
changing.
Always
it's
that
way.
If
it
isn't,
then
it
didn't
come
from
God.
65-0119
THE.GOD.WHO.IS.RICH.IN.MERCY
Many
followers
of
Rev.
Branham
do
not
realize
that
this
is
not
Biblical.
Moses
was
given
THREE
signs,
not
two:
1)
Turning
the
rod
into
a
serpent
-
a
symbol
of
Satan
and
God's
power
over
Satan.
2)
Turning
his
right
hand
into
leprosy
-
a
symbol
of
sin.
Curing
the
leprosy
on
his
hand,
it
shows
that
God
forgives
our
sins.
3)
Turning
the
water
into
blood
-
the
symbol
of
life.
After
the
three
signs,
the
message
came
forth:
Let
my
people
go.
The
entire
sermon
is
taken
from
Proverbs
3:
Trust
in
the
Lord
with
all
your
heart,
and
do
not
lean
on
your
own
understanding.
When
taken
out
of
context,
this
sounds
like
Solomon
is
telling
us
not
to
become
educated.
Rev.
Branham
said
as
much:
Today
we
send
our
children
to
the
school,
to
have
understanding.
Then
after
they
are
through
the
grammar
schools,
we
send
them
to
high
school
for
a
better
understanding
of
knowledge.
Then
after
they
are
through
there,
some
children
are
even
fortunate
enough
to
go
to
college,
and
go
through
college
to
complete
their
education
and
their
understanding
of
knowledge.
What
they
are
acquired
of
by...
Many
times,
to
get
a
job,
you
have
to
have
at
least
a
high
school
understanding,
or
a
college
education,
or
so
forth.
Yet,
the
wise
Solomon
told
us
that,
"not
to
lean
to
it,
not
to
our
own
understanding;
learn
not
of
these
things."
65-0120
LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
Solomon
never
said,
"Learn
not
of
these
things
[education,
wisdom].
In
fact,
further
down
in
the
same
chapter,
Solomon
spoke
of
getting
God's
wisdom:
Science
and
education
has
proven
and
will
continue
to
prove
God.
The
Christian
can
see
it
because
God
opens
their
eyes.
Not
because
they
decided
to
lean
on
the
wisdom
of
a
prophet
that
placed
his
wisdom
on
Gnostic
texts.
Now
may
that
Eagle,
God!
You
know,
God
likens
His
prophets
to
eagles.
And
He
calls
Himself
an
eagle;
He
is
Jehovah
Eagle,
Papa
Eagle.
65-0120
LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
Blessed
is
the
one
who
finds
wisdom,
and
the
one
who
gets
understanding,
This is a common theme throughout Rev. Branham's ministry, and yet is not Biblical. It can only be used for a prophet who is attempting to make himself very close to the level of God. Branham would have us to believe that we could not understand our own Bibles. He would claim that you must
read
in-between
the
lines
to
know
the
Truth
of
the
Bible,
which
is
not
scriptural.
Our
letters
have
been
straightforward,
and
there
is
nothing
written
between
the
lines
and
nothing
you
cant
understand.
I
hope
someday
you
will
fully
understand
us
2
Corinthians
1:13
This
was
clearly
not
the
way
that
Branham
taught
his
version
of
the
Bible.
It
did
not
agree
with
the
words
of
Paul.
Now,
we
realize
that
this
Book
has
been
written
in
such
a
way
that
You've
hid
It
from
all
the
scholars,
the
wise
and
prudent.
And
You
said
You
would
reveal
It
to
babes
such
as
would
learn.
55-1002
THE.UNWELCOMED.CHRIST
You
have
to
be
in
love
with
the
Author
to
be
able
to
read
between
the
lines,
because
God
promised
and
He
said
that
He
had
hid
it
from
the
eyes
of
the
wise
and
prudent
and
would
reveal
it
to
babes
such
as
would
learn.
You
know
that's
Scripture,
don't
you?
And
so,
we--we,
you
want...
It
doesn't
take
a
great
degree
in
theology;
it
doesn't
take
some
B.A.
or
D.D.
56-0426
JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER
Now,
this
blessed
old
Book
is
a
Book
of
all
books.
And
there's
only
One
can
rightfully
interpret
this
Book,
and
that's
the
Holy
Spirit.
He's
the
Writer
of
it.
And
it's
only
One
that
can
really
interpret.
No
matter
how
well
we
think
we
know
it,
we
don't
know
it
until
the
Holy
Spirit
has
revealed
it,
because
it's- -it's
all
a
mystery.
It's
cut
up
in
mysteries.
And
God
said
He
did
it
purposely,
so
He
could
hide
It
from
the
smart
and
wise,
but
He
would
reveal
It
to
babes
such
as
would
learn.
56-0728
MAKING.THE.VALLEY.FULL.OF.DITCHES
The eagle is used for a little over 30 references in the Bible, as we have mentioned before. For some unknown reason, Rev. Branham pulls out a Pagan idea from his hat and throws it into the sermon. From the sound of it, he caught himself, and back-tracked in front of the
audience
of
men
from
other
churches
who
actually
knew
their
Bible:
Now,
you
know,
many
times,
they
take
one
another's
spirits;
and
so
that
might
point,
in
like
a
group
of
man,
to
a
certain
thing,
but
it
won't--it
won't
point
to
Christ.
But
the
Holy
Spirit
always
points
to
Christ,
and
Christ
is
the
Word.
We
see
this
so
plainly
in
the
Bible.
Or,
I
do.
Maybe
I
might
be
wrong,
but,
in
my
thinking,
but
I
don't
think
so.
65-0120
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Taking
one
another's
spirits
is
a
Pagan
idea,
and
is
definitely
NOT
in
the
Bible.
Men
can
only
take
the
Holy
Spirit
or
the
evil
spirit.
That
being
said,
he
did
say
that
he
might
be
wrong
about
this,
so
we
can
skip
it.
He
then
started
to
pull
one
of
his
"women
are
the
cause
of
the
fall"
quotes
out
of
his
hat,
but
stopped
himself
in
mid-sentence
in
front
of
the
crowd
that
studied
their
bibles:
Now,
but
we
find
that
Eve
was
easily
persuaded
by
Satan,
from
the
Word
of
God,
and
she
leaned
on
her
own
understanding,
because
Satan
had
projected
something
to
her
which
wasn't
to
her
real
understanding
of
God.
But
she
had
something
else
told
to
her
by
the
enemy,
Satan,
and
she
believed
it.
Now
we
find
the
results
of
this.
It
plunged
the
whole
human
race
to
death,
because
the
first
mother
on
the
earth,
leaned
to
her
own
understanding,
contrary
to
the
Word
of
God,
and
plunged
the
whole
human
race
to
death.
Now
do
you
believe
that?
[Congregation
says,
"Amen."--Ed.]
That's
the
Word.
Well,
a
woman
is
always...
65-0120
LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
The description of The Fall Rev. Branham gives here is not Biblical, however. Sin entered into the world by one man (Adam), not by one woman. (Rom 5:12) Eve did not lean to her own understanding; Satan DECEIVED her! She leaned on Satan's understanding, not her own. (1 Timothy 2:14) I find it odd that he also uses the 'organization' as an example, a member of a great body of people.
And when the Word is made manifest, the Word is revealed, they won't accept It, because they won't do it, because they lean to their own understanding. "This church was built here. It's a beautiful place. It's a great organization. It's a member of a great body of people. Why shouldn't we belong to that? I'll trust in it." Trust not in your own understanding, but trust in the Word of the Lord! 65-0120 LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
When
you
consider
that
the
followers
are
now
either
a
"Message
Believer"
or
"one
who
ain't",
and
they
have
created
their
own
denomination,
this
quote
is
striking.
He
then
speaks
out
against
those
who
study
the
Bible
together:
Quote:
And
some
of
these
so-called,
perverted,
Bible
schools
teaching
man's
knowledge
65-0120
LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
John
5:39-40
INSTRUCTS
us
to
study
the
scriptures.
Afterwards
he
speaks
out
against
the
IRS:
Sometime
ago,
someone...
I
was
in
a
dispute
on
the
income
tax.
And
they
said
to
me,
said,
"Why,
your
trustees
are
nothing
but
puppets,
I
suppose."
65-0120
LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
The
Bible,
of
course,
instructs
us
to
"render
unto
Caesar
that
which
is
Caesars
(speaking
of
taxes).
When
you
consider
the
AMOUNTS
that
the
IRS
were
coming
after,
for
this
man
who
claimed
to
be
poor,
you
find
that
the
IRS
did
NOT
lean
unto
their
own
understanding
--
they
had
accurate
records
that
Rev.
Branham
did
not
render
unto
Caesar.
In
1955
Rev.
Branham
ran
into
in
difficulties
with
the
IRS.
He
owed
$390K
in
back
taxes,
which
Rev.
Branham
never
repaid.
At
death,
$3M+
plus
stocks
&
bonds
was
found
in
his
vault.
A
recalculation
makes
$3M
(1965
USD)
equivalent
to
21
Million
(2010
USD).
Legend
of
the
Fall
Rev.
Branham
then
gets
to
the
heart
of
the
matter
(in
his
eyes):
I'm
just
getting
to
this.
That
thing
is
occuring
again,
till,
men
and
women
and
people
will
lean
to
a
certain
church
that
they
have
joined
and
belonged
to,
no
matter
what
the
Word
of
God
says
about
it.
They
go
right
on
with
that,
leaning
to
their
own
understanding,
and
ignoring
the
Word
of
God,
as
if
It
hadn't
(never)
even
been
written.
It's
un-germitized
seed
of
human
life.
It's
got
the
physical
life,
but
no
spiritual
life
in
it
to
be
quickened.
The
veil
was
over
their
face.
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Joining
a
church
that
believes
in
Jesus
Christ
as
their
savior,
and
that
faith
in
Jesus
Christ
will
give
them
eternal
life
is
NOT
condemned
in
the
Bible.
It
was
not
condemned
by
any
of
the
'church
age
messengers'
that
Rev.
Branham
'chose',
and
they
themselves
fought
against
those
who
did
not
confirm
to
orthodox
beliefs.
Rev.
Branham
then
condemns
the
rich:
The
Bible
promised
in
the
last
days,
that,
"The
Laodicea
Church
Age
would
get
so
rich,
and
get
so
in
suffic--...
or
in
a
sufficiency
of
their
own,
'I
am
rich.
I
have
need
of
nothing.
I
set
as
a
queen.'"
And
she
is
rich.
And
He
said,
"Thou
knowest
it
not
that
you
are
miserable."
Now
that's
the
entire
church
age,
the
church!
"To
the
church
of
Laodicea,
you
are
naked,
blind,
poor,
miserable,
and
don't
know
it."
Sitting
in
her
riches,
ten
thousands
times
ten
thousands,
and
thousands
of
members,
wealth
of
the
world
in
her
hand,
almost.
65-0120
LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
It is VERY interesting when you think about the amount of money Rev. Branham had in bank accounts at this time according to those close to him. While he condemns ten thousands, he sat on millions... He goes on to accuse the rich organizations:
But the churches, themself, has become rich. "Pretty near the wealth of the world," says the Bible, "lays in the Catholic church." That's why Russia run her out, why Russia excommunicate... That's, was the very grass roots of communism, because the church taught to be something, there wasn't no more from the rest of the world. 65-0120 LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
Little
did
he
know
that
the
world
would
one
day
find
out
that
his
own
organization
is
sitting
on
over
a
hundred
million
dollars
according
to
their
tax
returns.
He
gives
an
example
of
the
boy
in
Finland
that
was
raised
from
the
dead:
When
we
was
up
there
in
Finland,
that
little
boy
was
raised
from
the
dead.
There
stood
them
Russian
soldiers
at
attention,
and
they
said,
"We
will
receive
a
God
that
can
raise
up
the
dead."
65-0120
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Interesting
fact
here:
according
to
those
around
him,
Rev.
Branham
was
the
ONLY
one
who
pronounced
the
child
'dead.'
He
claimed
it
was
'packed
in
the
newspapers',
but
that
claim
was
evidently
fabricated
since
not
a
single
newspaper
can
be
found
of
this
'miracle.'
Oh,
people,
don't
think
I...
You
may
think
I'm
crazy.
But
when
my
voice
is
silenced
in
death,
these
tapes
will
still
be
playing,
and
you'll
recognize
that
what
I've
said
has
come
to
pass
65-0120
LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
Was
this
supposed
to
happen
BEFORE
or
AFTER
1977,
which
is
the
date
he
predicted
the
world
to
end?
Though
it's
of
little
importance,
it
should
be
noted
that
the
height
and
size
of
Samson
came
only
from
Rev.
Branham's
opinion:
What
of
Samson,
out
in
the
field,
when
the
Philistines,
a
thousand
men
run
up
on
him?
And
there
he
was
standing
there, a little bitty, curly-headed shrimp, about that high. He didn't; well, he wasn't a swordsman, 'cause he didn't know; he had no training, military training. He was just a little old curly-headed sissy, like, with seven locks hanging down, mama's boy, standing out there, and here come a thousand Philistines. Well, he didn't have nothing in his hand. He looked down, and he found an old, bleached-out, white jawbone of a mule, and he picked it up. 65-0120 LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
There
is
nothing
in
the
Bible
that
suggests
that
Samson
was
a
little
'sissy,'
and
it
is
even
believed
that
he
may
have
been
related
to
the
Philistines.
Similar
stories
are
found
in
other
legends
and
religious
'gods'
that
suggest
their
'gods'
were
actually
a
descended
legend
of
Samson.
Greek
Herakles
(Hercules)
has
many
similarities.
Either
way,
Samson
was
a
man
of
God,
and
the
point
is
not
his
size
--
the
point
is
his
God!
Rev.
Branham
then
throws
in
a
little
marriage
and
divorce
doctrine,
something
that
he
would
address
in
sermons
later
in
1965:
What
if
John
would
have
tried
to
lean
to
his
own
understanding?
But
he
walked
right
up.
They
said,
"Now,
wait
a
minute,
John,
don't
you
preach
on
Marriage
And
Divorce."
He
walked
right
up
to
Herod's
place,
and
he
said,
"It's
not
lawful
for
you
to
have
her."
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The
point
John
was
making
here
was
not
only
Herodius
leaving
Herod's
brother,
but
the
fact
that
their
own
bloodlines
were
too
close.
(Herodias
being
the
daughter
of
Aristobulus,
the
brother
of
both
Herod
and
Philip
[Josephus,
Antiquities,
18.5,4].)
Then,
in
the
worst
statement
of
the
entire
sermon,
Rev.
Branham
actually
compares
Eve
to
Judas
Iscariot!
There
was
one
man
who
did
lean
to
his
own
understanding,
and
his
name
was
Judas
Iscariot.
Oh,
he...
I--I
don't
see
how
he
could
have
done
it.
He
had
walked
face
to
face
with
Christ,
just
like
Eve
did
in
the
beginning.
He
had
seen
the
vindication,
As
the
Bible
proved
before,
Eve
was
deceived,
and
Adam
was
the
cause
of
the
fall.
This
is
purely
showing
Rev.
Branham's
hatred
for
women.
Rev.
Branham
then
speaks
about
his
'commission':
Now
the
Bible
said,
"That
He
is
the
High
Priest,
today,
that
can
be
touched
by
the
feeling
of
our
infirmities."
That
right?
[Congregation
says,
"Amen."--Ed.]
Don't
go
to
reason,
say,
"Oh,
that's..."
He
said,
"Today
He
is
that.
He
is
right
now
a
High
Priest
that
can
be
touched
by
the
feeling
of
our
infirmities.
The
same
yesterday,
today,
and
forever!"
What
do
you
think
when
I
was
out
there
as
a
Baptist
preacher,
and
that
Angel
of
the
Lord
met
me
out
there
and
commissioned
me
to
go
do
this
that
I'm
doing?
Why,
my
pastor
said,
"You've
gone
crazy.
Why,
you
had
a
nightmare,
you."
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he had looked at God in the face, like Eve did in the cool of the evening. Eve looked at Christ, in the cool of the evening, in the garden. And Judas had sat in the cool of the evening, in the garden of Gethsemane and many places, and had looked at the same Christ; had heard Him teach, prove Himself by the Word, vindicated to be the Prophet that Moses had spoke of would be raised up. And told them in the Scripture Who He was, and all about it. They had seen it proved by God, that He was, and then he leaned to his own understanding. 65-0120 LEAN.NOT.UNTO.THY.OWN.UNDERSTANDING
It
should
be
noted
this
is
another
story
that
changed
and
grew
over
time.
His
angelic
visitations
or
commissions
happened
prior
to
birth,10
at
birth,11
in
1915,
at
seven
years
of
age,12
in
1920
at
twelve
years
of
age,13
in
1923
at
14
or
15
years
of
age,14
in
1930
in
1931
in
1932
in
1933
1936
in
1944
on
May
6,
1946
on
May
7,
1946
or
on
May
6,
1947
in
1950
in
Houston,
TX,
and
finally
in
1963
in
Arizona.
Seemingly
coincidental
with
his
many
commissions,
there
appears
to
exist
a
disturbing
parallel
phenomenon
of
mental
depression
in
the
life
of
Rev.
Branham. This mental illness also recurred about every seven years, of which Rev. Branham spoke just before his death. Legend of the Fall.
Broken Cisterns
Rev.
Branham
catches
himself
in
his
own
conflicting
story
at
the
beginning
of
the
sermon:
was
it
Dowagiac,
MI,
or
was
it
Jeffersonville,
IN?
Preaching
to
the
Baptists,
he
would
certainly
say
that
he
came
to
know
God
in
the
little
Missionary
Baptist
Church:
My,
that
Baptist,
you
know,
I
used
to
belong
to
the
Baptist
church
myself.
I
was
a
member
of
the
Missionary
Baptist
Church.
When
I
come
among
the
people,
I
know
how
you
feel.
I
felt
the
same
way,
just
full
of
something
that
I--I
didn't
know.
I
remember
my
first
experience
of
seeing
a
pentecostal,
it
was
in
Dowagiac,
Michigan...
I
beg
your
pardon,
I
had
been
at
Dowagiac
on
a
fishing
trip,
and
was
coming
down
from
Dowagiac,
to
down
into
Indiana.
And
so
I
seen
the
names,
of
"Jesus"
all
over
the
cars
and
things,
and
I
listened
to
their
services
that
day.
And
the
next
day
they
asked
me
to
come
to
the
platform,
to
say
a
few
words,
and
I
did.
And
I...
They
asked
me
what
church
I
belonged
to,
and
I
told
them
I
was
a
Baptist.
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In
1950,
however,
when
he
is
speaking
to
another
group,
it
was
Dowagiac,
MI
Just
before
Billy
was
born,
we
had
saved
enough
money,
till
I
was,
wanted
to
take
a
little
time
off.
And
we...
I
went
up
to
Dowagiac,
Michigan,
to
a--a
meeting,
and
the--with
an
old
man
that
had
white
beard
and
white
hair,
by
the
name
of
John
Ryan.
And
so
I
went
up
there.
And
on
the
road
back,
coming
back,
I
seen
a
sign,
great
crowds
of
people
everywhere
when
I
passed
through
Mishawaka.
I
thought,
"What
are
those
people."
And
I
went
over
there,
and
there's
some
of
them
in
T-Model
Fords,
and
some
in
Cadillacs.
And
they
told
me
that
they
were...
I
couldn't
get
nothing
to,
no
place
to
stay.
And
they
said
you're- -you're...
There's
a
conference
going
on
here.
The
Pentecostal
people
are
having
a
conference.
The--the
P.
A.
of
J.
C.,
I
believe
it
was,
P--P.
A.
of
J.
C.
denomination
of
Pentecost
called
that.
Well,
I
seen
all
kinds
of
people.
I
thought,
"Well,
that's
a
religious
meeting.
Believe
I'll
go
in."
Well,
I
never
heard
so
much
noise
in
all
my
life.
So...
Oh,
church
manners,
they
didn't
have
it.
They
were
screaming,
shouting, and carrying on. I thought, "What in the world?" I looked around there, and they got a tabernacle... Some of you might know the man's name. His name's Rowe, Reverend Rowe. Anybody here happen to know Reverend Rowe? And a... Yes, someone here knows of him. Reverend Rowe, it was in his church. Well, they were just clapping their hands, and carrying on, and dancing. And why, I said, "My, isn't that horrible, people dancing in the church?" I said, "Well, that's a shame." And I was setting in a seat of the scornful, sure enough. So I thought... Something though kinda got a hold of me a little bit. And I thought, "Well, now." I'm counting my money. I had--I had two dollars and fifteen cents left. And I went out and got... Thought, "Well now, I can't stay in a tourist court, 'cause I ain't got the money. But I'm going to stay over. Just got enough money to buy my gasoline to get home." So I went out that night and slept in a cornfield. And I knowed I, but I didn't have very good clothes. And the next morning, why I went to the service. And that day, oh, my, ministers preaching... And how I noticed, that night they called, said, "Every preacher come to the platform." Hundred and fifty, more preachers come up to the platform. They was having a conference, international conference. They was all setting on the platform. He said, "We haven't got time for all of you testify." I went up. He said, "Just say who are and where you're from." And it come to me, I said, "Evangelist, William Branham, Jeffersonville," set down. 50-0200 HERE.WE.HAVE.NO.CONTINUING.CITY_ LITTLE.ROCK.AR
This
next
statement
is
striking
when
you
consider
that
some
of
the
doctrines
of
each
religion
can
be
found
in
Rev.
Branham's
teachings:
And
we're
seeing
God,
from
every
section
of
denominations,
all
the
way
from
Catholicism,
through
all
the
protestant
churches,
Buddhas
and
whatmore,
from
India,
and
whatever
more.
He's
calling
His
people
together,
assembling
them
together.
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BROKEN.CISTERNS
I
agree
that
God
calls
people
from
each
of
these
religious
beliefs
to
Christianity.
I
do
think
that
as
they
come,
though,
they
leave
their
idolatry
and
Pagan
beliefs
behind.
Take
the
Buddhist
teaching
of
the
Yin
and
Yang,
and
compare
it
to
what
you
have
been
taught
by
Rev.
Branham
about
Jesus
and
Satan.
Rev.
Branham
taught
they
were
equal
at
one
time.
"Yin
and
Yang"
literally
means
"dark
and
light",
is
used
to
describe
how
polar
opposites
or
seemingly
contrary
forces
are
interconnected
and
interdependent
in
the
natural
world,
and
how
they
give
rise
to
each
other
in
turn.
Opposites
thus
only
exist
in
relation
to
each
other.
Again,
Rev.
Branham
turns
the
focus
of
blame
to
Eve:
God
made
His
program
at
the
beginning,
in
the
garden
of
Eden,
where
the
place
He
would
meet
man,
and
that
wasn't
upon
intellectual
understandings;
if
it
had,
Eve
was
exactly
in
line
with
His
program.
But
we
know
that
her
accepting
Satan's
intellectual
conception,
"Surely,
God
will
not,"
but
God
said
He
would!
And
so
then
He
chose
the
place
of
redemption,
and
it
was
by
Blood,
and
not
by
intellectual
conception.
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The
description
of
The
Fall
Rev.
Branham
gives
here
is
not
Biblical,
however.
Sin
entered
into
the
world
by
one
man
(Adam),
not
by
one
woman.
(Rom
5:12)
Eve
did
not
have
a
'broken
cistern';
she
was
DECEIVED
by
Satan!
She
leaned
on
Satan's
understanding,
not
her
own.
(1
Timothy
2:14)
Rev.
Branham
speaks
of
Jeremiah,
the
'weeping
prophet':
Now
Jeremiah
was
called,
also,
"the
weeping
prophet."
And
because,
I
believe,
that
made
this
prophet
weep--weep,
rather,
was
because
him
being
a
prophet
(and
the
Word
of
the
Lord
comes
to
such)
and
seeing
the
people
walk
after
their
traditions,
and
thought
they
were
all
right,
and
no
way
at
all
to
turn
them.
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This
statement
is
correct,
and
cannot
be
disputed.
It
is
interesting
when
you
fully
understand
the
ENTIRE
reason
behind
Jeremiah's
sorrow
for
the
children
of
Israel.
Jeremiahs
statement
about
the
new
covenant
is
significant
(31:31-34).
The
old
covenant
was
a
temporary
covenant
that
was
to
be
replaced.
Hebrews
8:6-13
quotes
Jeremiah
31,
noting
that
the
first
covenant
was
being
replaced
by
the
New
Testament
(covenant)
of
Jesus
Christ.
There
are
several
references
to
the
Messiah
in
Jeremiah
(cf.
Jeremiah
31:15
with
Matthew
2:16-18).
Especially
note
Jeremiahs
references
to
the
Branch,
a
term
for
the
Messiah
(Jeremiah
23:5,6;
33:14-18).
When
people
saw
Jesus,
they
thought
of
Jeremiah
(Matthew
16:14).
During
Rev.
Branham's
ministry,
he
pulls
several
laws
of
the
old
covenant
that
fit
his
purpose
(leaving
several
others
behind).
Rev.
Branham
himself
made
a
tradition
of
several
of
the
laws.
Would
Jeremiah
have
wept
at
the
number
of
people
Rev.
Branham
has
turned
over
to
tradition
today?
Out
of
the
entire
sermon,
this
one
section
is
the
most
troublesome.
It
borders
on
blasphemy:
Now
we
notice
in
Saint
Mark,
the
16th
chapter,
Jesus
did
not
say,
"Go
ye
into
all
the
world,
and--and--and
teach."
He
said,
"Go
preach
the
Gospel."
Preach
the
Gospel,
is,
demonstrating
the
Power
of
the
Holy
Spirit!
"Go
ye
into
all
the
world,
and
demonstrate
the
Power
of
the
Holy
Ghost."
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is NOT demonstrating the power. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the Good News that God sent His Son to us, Jesus Christ. He lived a perfect life, and died on the cross for our sins. He was buried in the tomb for three days, conquering death, hell, and the grave. He rose from the grave so that we can be raised with Him. Any other 'gospel' is PAGAN. It is by faith in Jesus Christ that we are saved, not by the mighty works that we do.
I
have
to
question
whether
or
not
he
believed
this,
however,
when
he
told
several
people
that
'God
had
given
them'
their
children
and
grandchildren.
Those
children
and
grandchildren
(from
the
ones
I
have
spoken
with)
have
the
opinion
that
the
only
thing
required
for
salvation
is
to
be
in
'The
Message.'
More
than
one
of
them
are
not
even
in
'The
Message.'
Rev.
Branham
refers
to
what
we
believe
to
be
Brother
Lawrie:
My
Indian
brother
there
knows
that.
Come
up
around
Bombay
and
you'll
see
the
people
there,
the
Hindus
and
so
forth,
laying
on
spikes
and
upon...
walking
on
glass
and--and
walking
in
fire,
to
show
what
they
can
do,
and
things
like...
That's
carnal
impersonations
of
some
man
back
in
the
jungle
there,
is
doing
that
to
a
sacrifice
for
his
god.
We
find
that
amongst
all
religious
life,
carnal
impersonations,
somebody
trying
to
be
like
the
other.
There
is
only
one
example
you're
to
be
like,
that's
like
Jesus
Christ,
Who
was
the
Word.
And
then
when
the
Word
of
God
comes
to
you,
it'll
be
the
same
way.
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The reader should examine some of the many other things Rev. Branham said about Brother Lawrie in sermons (that have not been edited), newspaper articles, and testimonies. Brother Lawrie later went on to preach the end-of-the-world prophecy that ministers now say was 'only a prediction' regarding 1977. 1976 was a good year for the roses. (Or tithe offerings)
Rev.
Branham's
explanation
of
El
Shaddai
is
interesting
when
you
consider
where
it
came
from:
In
Genesis
17,
He
is
Abraham's
nursing
Breast,
El
Shaddai.
But
when
his
life
was
gone
from
him,
still
he...
God
said.
"A
man
of
a
hundred
years
old,
how
will
this
thing
be?
I
am
old,
my
wife
is
old,
how
can
these
things
be?"
He
said,
"I
am
El
Shaddai."
Now,
El
is
"the,"
and--and
Shaddai
is
"breast,"
and
Shaddai
is
plural,
which
means
"I
am
the
breasted
God."
Like
a
baby
that's
fretting
and
it's
sick,
and
its
strength
is
gone
from
it,
lean
upon
the
mother's
bosom
and
nurse
its
strength
back.
Sure.
Not
only...
When
it's
nursing,
it
isn't
fretting
no
more.
At
the
mother's
breast,
it's
satisfied
while
it
is
getting
its
strength.
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El
Shaddai
is
generally
translated
as
"God
Almighty".
In
Exodus,
it
is
simply
used
as
"The
God
of
Abraham."
Shaddai
was
a
city
on
the
Euphrates
river,
and
it
is
said
that
the
city's
literal
translated
name
was
used
to
describe
God
--
the
God
of
Shaddai,
or
the
God
of
Abraham.
The
'breasted'
part
comes
from
the
Kaballah,
and
was
an
attribute
of
a
Semitic
goddess.
The
word
Shaddai
is
connected
with
'shadayim'
with
is
the
plural
meaning
(breasts)
that
Rev.
Branham
is
referring
to.
Shaddai
is
singular.
One
of
Kabbalahs
most
distinctive
images
of
the
feminine
divine
is
that
of
a
motherly,
breastfeeding
God.
Suckling
at
My
Mothers
Breasts
traces
this
idea
from
its
origins
in
ancient
rabbinic
literature
through
its
flourishing
in
the
medieval
classic
Sefer
ha-Zohar
(The
Book
of
Splendor).
Taking
the
position
that
kabbalistic
images
provide
specific,
detailed
models
for
understanding
the
relationship
between
God
and
human
beings,
Ellen
Davina
Haskell
connects
divine
nursing
theology
to
Jewish
ideals
regarding
motherhood,
breastfeeding,
and
family
life
from
medieval
France
and
Spain,
where
Kabbalah
originated.
Haskells
approach
allows
for
a
new
evaluation
of
Kabbalahs
feminine
divine,
one
The question is: Did Rev. Branham worship a Semetic Goddess? Or did he simply try to combine religions to create 'mystery?'
centered on culture and context, rather than gender philosophy or psychoanalysis. As this work demonstrates, the image of the nursing divine is intended to cultivate a direct emotional response to God rooted in nurture, love, and reliance, rather than knowledge, sexuality, or authority. Suckling at My Mother's Breasts: The Image of a Nursing God in Jewish Mysticism Ellen Davina Haskell
Rev.
Branham
starts
by
describing
the
'birth
pains'
that
the
world
had
with
World
War
I,
and
then
compared
it
to
the
Old
Testament
--
obviously
setting
himself
equal
to
the
Old
Testament
prophets.
He
said
that
Israel
got
a
'birth
pain'
with
each
one
of
the
prophets:
Under
every
prophet's
Message,
Israel
got
a
birth
pain,
because
that
these
prophets
would
come
on
the
scene
after
the
theologians
and
clergymen
would
have
the
church
all
in
a
organization
form.
And
when
them
prophets
come
on
the
scene
with
THUS
SAITH
THE
LORD,
they
shook
them
churches,
and
she
had
a
birth
pain.
Finally,
she
had
birth
pains
plumb
on
up
until
she
delivered
a
Son
of
the
Gospel,
which
was
the
Word
Itself
made
flesh.
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Biblically,
however,
this
was
not
true.
Jonah
was
called
to
prophesy
to
the
Gentiles,
not
the
Jews.
Most
of
the
Old
Testament
prophecies
were
leading
up
to
the
coming
of
the
Messiah,
which
was
to
become
grace
for
all--Jews
and
Gentiles.
When
the
prophets
spoke
to
Israel
after
they
got
into
'organization
form,'
it
was
generally
because
they
had
became
'puffed
up'
--
which
could
apply
to
any
church,
especially
Branham
Cult
churches
of
today.
He
then
embellished
the
story
he
had
told
before
about
the
pages
being
stuck
together
in
his
bible.
How
a
Catholic
priest
had
handed
Rev.
Branham
a
Bible
to
read
from.
Only
this
time,
he
added
a
voice
that
spoke
out:
And
just
as
plain
as
you
could
hear
any
voice,
a
Voice
come
to
me,
and
said,
"He
entered
into
Nazareth,
to
where
He
was
brought
up
at;
and
went
into
the
synagogue,
as
it
was
His
custom.
And
the
priest
gave
Him
the
Scriptures
to
read,
and
He
read
Isaiah
61.
And
when
He
had
read
the
Scriptures,
He
set
down;
handed
the
priest
back
the
Bible,
the
Book,
and
sat
down.
And
all
the
eyes
of
the
congregation
was
upon
Him.
And
precious
Words
proceeded
from
His
mouth.
And
He
said,
'This
day
this
Scripture
is
fulfilled.'"
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There
is
one
major
problem
with
this,
though.
He
just
compared
himself
to
Jesus
Christ.
It
is
interesting
to
note
the
two
'[blank
spot
on
tape]'s
in
the
next
section.
Earlier,
Rev.
Branham
had
given
the
current
'year
of
the
jubliee,'
but
got
his
math
wrong.
I
assume
that
he
must
have
spoken
dates
again,
and
they
would
have
conflicted
with
his
incorrect
'year
of
the
jubilee'
which
was
not
Biblical
in
the
first
place:
Notice
the
Messiah
standing
in
the
platform,
to
identify
Himself
with
the
Word
of
promise
for
that
age.
How
strange,
the
Messiah
standing
up
before
the
church!
And
look
at
these
precious
Words,
when
He
says
here,
"To
preach
the
acceptable
year."
"The
acceptable
year,"
as
we
all
know,
as
Bible
readers,
was
"the
year
of
jubilee."
That,
when
all
slaves
and
prisoners,
as
they
were,
been
taken,
prison;
and
had
to
give
a
son,
to
pay
a
debt;
or
a
daughter,
to
pay
a
debt,
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
and
they
were
in
bondage.
No
matter
how
long
they
had
been
in
bondage,
or
how
long
they
was
supposed
to
stay
there;
when
the
year
come,
of
the
jubilee,
when
the
trumpet
sounded,
every
man
could
go
free
if
he
wanted
to
go
free.
[Blank.spot.on.tape.]
You're
free.
You
was
no
more
slave.
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If
you'll
remember,
in
1961
Rev.
Branham
gave
his
interpretation
of
the
'year
of
the
jubilee',
which
was
significant
--
it
was
the
same
year
he
predicted
the
end
of
the
world:
Now,
listen
to
what
he
says
about
this
year
of
the
jubilee
And
not
knowing
it,
God
knows
my
heart,
I
never
knowed
it
until
yesterday,
that
1977
is
the
jubilee,
and
exactly
the
same
amount
of
time
run
out
that
He
give
with
Israel
and
everything
at
the
end.
So
we're
at...
And
here
we
are
at
the
end
of
the
age,
at
the
coming
in
of
the
seventieth
week.
We
don't
know
what
time
that
the
church
will
be
gone.
Oh,
my.
What
can
we
do,
friends?
Where
are
we
at?
61-0806
THE.SEVENTIETH.WEEK.OF.DANIEL
Rev.
Branham
makes
a
BIG
mistake
that
not
many
people
have
caught.
Though
he
never
really
said
what
his
'message'
was,
he
makes
it
the
Absolute
with
this
section:
But
if
you
turn
your
back
upon
the
Message
and
refuse
to
hear
It,
notice,
you
were
bored
in
the
ear,
with
an
awl.
That
means,
to
say,
that
you
have
crossed
the
line
between
grace
and
judgment,
and
you
will
never
hear
the
Gospel
again.
You'll
never
get
any
further.
You
must
be
a
slave
to
the
system
you're
in,
the
rest
of
your
days,
if
you
refuse
to
hear
the
acceptable
year.
Now,
the
other
part
of
it,
as
I
said,
didn't
need
to
be
answered,
because
this
coming
Messiah,
a
time
now,
is
when
He
will
bring
judgment.
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THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
Scripturally
this
is
incorrect.
"For
it
is
by
grace
you
have
been
saved,
through
faith--and
this
not
from
yourselves,
it
is
the
gift
of
God"
(Eph
2:8)
Also,
since
the
world
did
NOT
end
in
1977
and
the
'year
of
Jubilee'
did
NOT
happen
in
1977,
this
would
add
to
his
own
discredit.
Considering
the
fact
that
Rev.
Branham
and
Gordon
Lindsay
SOLD
pamphlets
on
'how
to
keep
your
healing'
in
their
campaigns,
I
find
the
following
statement
very
hypocritical:
Now,
we
find
Him,
as
He
would
not
join
up
with
them,
He
would
not
have
nothing
to
do
in
their
ranks,
then
He
was
an
outcast.
He
would
not
have
any...
Besides
that,
He
went
into
the
temple
one
day.
A
Man
went
in
there
and
found
the
house
of
God
just
about
contaminated
as
it
is
today.
They
were
buying,
selling,
changing
money.
And
He
turned
over
the
money
tables;
took
ropes
and
plaited
them,
and
beat
the
moneychangers
out
of
the
temple.
And
looked
upon
them
with
anger,
and
said,
"It's
written,"
hallelujah,
"My
Father's
house
is
a
house
of
prayer;
and
you've
made
it
a
den
of
thieves.
And
you,
with
your
traditions,
has
made
the
commandments
of
God
of
none
effect."
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One
might
also
ask
about
the
cardboard
suitcase
of
trinkets
that
'the
organization'
sells
to
make
their
millions...
Rev.
Branham
then
says
that
Baptism
in
the
'Jesus
Only'
method
is
the
only
way
that
you
can
receive
the
Holy
Ghost:
Well,
He's
the
same
yesterday,
today,
and
forever.
Every
time
the
Church
ever
received
the
Holy
Ghost,
It's
always
come
like
He
did
the
first
time,
under
the
same
prescription,
Acts
2:38;
never
has
changed,
never
will
change.
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THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
This
is
not
correct,
Biblically.
Read
Acts
10:44-48.
They
received
the
Holy
Ghost
BEFORE
they
were
baptized.
John
baptized
unto
repentance,
not
yet
knowing
the
Christ.
Jesus
said
to
"go
forth
baptizing
in
the
Name
of
the
Father
and
of
the
Son
and
of
the
Holy
Ghost",
NOT
"Go
forth
baptizing
in
my
name."
The
word
for
"name"
can
also
be
translated
as
"authority",
and
words
spoken
does
not
a
soul
save.
Then,
Rev.
Branham
makes
a
wild
reference
to
his
"halo"
picture
in
Houston,
TX
that
has
also
been
disproven
by
his
fabrications
to
the
specifics.
He
actually
says
that
Jesus
had
the
same
'halo'
above
Him!
Jesus,
the
Son
of
God,
having
a
Halo!
John
said,
"This
day
I
am
'the
voice
of
one
crying
in
the
wilderness,'
as
said
the
prophet
Isaiah.
Prepare
the
way
for
the
Lord!"
They
didn't
understand
it.
Say,
"Oh,
you're
Jesus...
you're-- you're
the
Christ,"
rather.
He
said,
"I
am
not
the
Christ."
He
said,
"I'm
not
worthy
to
loose
His
shoes.
But,"
he
said,
"He
is
standing
among
you,
somewhere,"
for
he
was
sure
that
He
would
be
there.
He
would
be
in
his
day,
'cause
God
told
him
he
was
to
introduce
the
Messiah.
One
day
a
young
Man's
come
walking
down
through
there,
and
he
seen
like
a
Light
over
the
top
of
Him,
a
sign.
And
he
cried
out,
"Behold
the
Lamb
of
God!
This
day
this
Scripture
is
fulfilled
before
you."
Sure.
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THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
Scripturally,
this
was
not
true.
Luke
11-23
tells
us
that
John
the
Baptist
heard
about
Jesus
raising
the
dead,
and
he
sent
messengers
to
find
out,
and
knew
Jesus
was
the
Messiah
before
seeing
him
face-to-face.
He
then
downplays
speaking
in
tongues:
At
the
Day
of
Pentecost,
how
Peter
stood
up
and
quoted
their
Scripture,
of
Joel
2:38.
When,
they
was
all
laughing,
those
people.
They
couldn't
talk
in
their
own
language.
They
were
jabbering
off
something
else.
The
Bible
said,
"Cloven
tongues."
Cloven
is
a
"parted"
tongue,
not
saying
nothing,
just
a
jabbering.
Running
around
like
a
bunch
of
drunk
people!
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THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
Cloven
does
mean
"divided,"
but
is
referring
to
speaking
in
tongues.
Now
learning
that
Gene
and
Leo
were
homosexual,
and
Rev.
Branham
not
only
allowed
it
but
helped
them
start
their
commune
at
"The
Park,"
this
statement
is
hypocritical:
Notice
another,
the
increase
in
scientific
research.
Now,
one
time,
just
a...
My
grandfather
went
to
see
my
grandmother,
in
an
ox
cart.
Now
it's
a
jet
plane,
or
even
an
orbit
into
the
air,
into
outer
space.
Its
great...
How,
who
said
this?
Daniel
12:4,
said,
"Knowledge
shall
increase
in
the
last
days."
We
see
the
hour
we're
living.
Notice
now
the--the
conditions
of
the
world,
the
condition
of
science.
And
notice
again,
today,
in
our
educational
system.
Now
don't
try
to
deny
this.
I've
got
the
newspaper
clippings,
teaching
sex
in
our
chur-...
in
our
schools,
of
young
students
to
have
sexual
affairs
with
one
another
and
see
if
they
can
mate
in
the
world.
Yes,
sir.
How
about
in
our
priesthood?
Tonight
I
got
a
piece
out
of
the
paper.
Over
in
Los
Angeles,
California,
of
where
a
bunch
of
clergymen,
Baptist
and
Presbyterians,
ministers,
brought
a
bunch
of
homosexuals
in
and
practiced
homosexual,
saying
they
was
trying
to
win
them
to
God.
When,
that's
one
of
the
curses
of
the
hour,
a
Sodomite!
And
the
law
even
arrested
them.
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It
is
scary
when
you
consider
that
this
is
the
same
thing
Jim
Jones
taught:
Now
we
found
out
the
condition
of
the
world.
We
see
where
the
church
normal,
normal...
Organization,
denomination,
we
see
where
they
are.
We
see
where
the
nations
are.
And
we
see
that
this
day
these
promises
is
fulfilled.
Now,
but
in
this
day
there
is
to
come
a
super,
Royal
Seed
of
Abraham.
That's
exactly
what
It'd
be,
would
be
a
Royal
Bride
to
the
Royal,
promised
Son.
As
I
spoke
last
night,
it
won't
be
a
natural
seed,
it'll
be
a
spiritual
Seed.
There
is
to
be
a
spiritual
Bride
raise
up,
which
will
be
the
Royal
Seed
of
the
royal
Faith
of
Abraham's
Royal
Son.
She
is
to
come
on
the
scene
in
the
last
days,
and
the
time
and
the
place
is
a
promise
that's
given
to
Her.
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God
looks
to
the
humble
and
lowly.
It
is
by
grace
through
faith,
not
preparation
in
ourselves.
Rev.
Branham
then
changes
the
fabrication
of
the
1933
baptism:
Then,
consider
now,
I
ask
you
at
this
hour,
you
people
here
of
Jeffersonville.
In
1933,
the
supernatural
Light
that
fell
down
yonder
on
the
river,
that
day
when
I
was
baptizing
five
hundred
in
the
Name
of
Jesus
Christ,
as
about
a
twenty-year- old
boy.
What
did
It
say,
Jeffersonville?
What
was
It
at
the
foot
of
Spring
Street
there,
when
the
Courier
Journal,
I
believe
it
was
the
Louisville
Herald,
packed
the
article
of
It?
It
went
plumb
across
the
Associated
Press,
plumb
into
Canada.
Doctor
Lee
Vayle
cut
it
out
of
the
paper,
way
up
in
Canada,
in
1933.
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THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
There
is
no
such
article
picked
up
by
the
A.P.,
and
it
cannot
be
found
in
ANY
newspaper
containing
A.P.
articles.
He
then
compares
himself
to
Moses
and
the
burning
bush:
And
when
God
came
down
there
and
said
that,
when
I
was
a
little
boy,
in
a
burning
bush,
or
a
bush
up
there,
on
fire
with
a
Pillar
of
Fire,
up
here
at
Wathen's
place
on
the
Utica
Pike;
packing
water
back
there,
from
that
barn
to
a
moonshine
still,
Only
problem
is
that
he
also
said
it
was
a
tree
that
he
"looked
up
into,"
and
gives
various
ages
of
this
account.
Rev.
Branham
then
throws
in
the
"halo":
These
promises
that
was
made,
notice,
all
these
promises
had
been
vindicated
and
fulfilled
by
the
God
of
the
promise.
Look,
hanging
in
Washington,
D.C.,
tonight,
the
picture
of
the
Angel
of
the
Lord!
As
George
J.
Lacy,
the
head
of
the
FBI
fingerprint
and
document
for
the
United
States
government,
examined
It
from
Houston,
Texas,
and
said,
"This
is
the
only
supernatural
Being
was
ever
photographed
in
all
the
world."
He
ought
to
know;
he's
the
best
that's
in
the
world,
for
it.
Notice,
there
It
hangs,
as
the
Truth,
the
same
Pillar
of
Fire
that
led
Israel
back
yonder
at
the
wilderness.
It's
leading
today,
the
same
kind
of
a
Message,
of,
"Come
up
out
of
Egypt!"...?...
This
day
this
Scripture
is
fulfilled.
You
know
the
Message
that
He
said.
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you know the truth of it. He said, "Don't you never smoke, or drink, or defile your body, for there's a work for you to do when you get older." I testify to that being the Truth, that I saw It. And God, as He did with Moses, spoke out before the congregation down yonder, and said, "This is the Truth." 65-0219 THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED_
The
picture
has
never
"hung
in
Washington
DC,"
it's
in
a
drawer
with
documents
from
other
cults.
Mr.
Lacy
was
never
a
head
of
any
department
of
the
FBI,
he
was
a
private
consultant
PAID
to
authenticate
the
photo.
His
assessment
did
not
include
any
'supernatural'
findings,
simply
that
'a
light
struck
the
lens.'
Then
Rev.
Branham
reminds
the
congregation
of
the
seven
seals:
And
said,
"The
Seven
Seals
of
the
hidden
mysteries
of
the
entire
Bible
will
be
opened,
and
fulfill
Revelations
10,
that
in
the
seventh
angel's
Message
these
things
should
come
to
pass."
This
day
this
Scripture
is
fulfilled
before
our
eyes.
This
day
this
Scripture
is
fulfilled.
65-0219
THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
Do
you
not
find
it
odd
that
these
'mysteries'
are
EXACTLY
what
Clarence
Larkin
said
in
the
book
that
Rev.
Branham
read?
He
then
changes
the
'age'
we're
living
in
...
again:
Where
we
at
in
this
Abrahamic
age?
Where
are
we
in
this
great
time
we're
standing,
the
great
hour
that
we're
living
in?
All
the
visions
has
been
fulfilled.
65-0219
THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
He
then
says
that
the
BIBLE
was
sealed
in
a
mystery
by
the
seven
seals:
And
I
stood
there
a
little
bit
till
the
Holy
Spirit
revealed
it.
I
said,
"The
entire
Bible,
as
much
as
been
revealed
to
man,
through
justification,
sanctification,
the
baptism
of
the
Holy
Ghost,
the
baptism
in
Jesus'
Name,
and
all
these
things,
has
been
revealed;
but
there
is
secrets
that's
hid
inside,
because
the
Bible
is
sealed
with
Seven
Seals.
I
must
go
there
to
find
it."
65-0219
THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
Scripturally,
this
is
not
correct.
The
'Mystery'
was
revealed
in
Jesus
Christ.
"Now
to
him
who
is
able
to
strengthen
you
according
to
my
gospel
and
the
preaching
of
Jesus
Christ,
according
to
the
revelation
of
the
mystery
that
was
kept
secret
for
long
ages"
(Romans
16:25).
The
scroll
John
describes
in
Revelation
was
NOT
the
Bible,
the
Bible
has
not
been
sealed
up
in
mystery.
Rev.
Branham
then
describes
the
cloud
that
is
already
proven
to
be
fabrication
by
his
proximity
during
the
event:
The
Life
magazine
packed
an
article
of
it,
"Mystic
circle
of
Light
goes
up
in
the
air
above
Tucson
and
Phoenix,"
in
the
same
way
that
I
told
you
nearly
a
year
before
it
happened,
how
it
would
be,
and
like
a
triangle.
The
picture
hangs
in
the
church
down
there.
You
that
took
that
magazine
has
it.
There
it
was,
just
exactly.
They
said,
"It's
twenty-seven
miles
high
and
thirty
miles
across."
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THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
The
only
problem
with
this
particular
retelling
is
that
he
says
that
he
prophesied
of
the
cloud
before
he
went,
turning
the
cloud
now
into
a
false
prophecy.
Rev.
Branham
Then
discredits
Jesus
a
bit
more:
Now,
when
Jesus
came
to
the
earth,
He
came
in
the
name
of
three
Sons.
Son
of
man,
which
is
a
prophet;
Son
of
God;
and
Son
of
David.
65-0219
THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
Prophets
are
not
described
as
"Son
of
man."
This
was
a
term
of
reverence.
It
has
diverse
meanings,
ranging
from
a
normal
human
being
to
a
prophesied
eternal,
divine
ruler,
but
in
the
case
of
Jesus
Christ,
it
was
THE
prophesied
eternal
divine
ruler!
He
then
discredits
Jesus
quite
a
bit
more:
Now,
He
lived
here
on
earth.
He
never
did
say
He
was
the
Son
of
God.
He
said,
"I'm
the
Son
of
man."
Jehovah
Himself
called
Ezekiel
and
the
prophets,
"Son
of
man."
Because,
He
had
to
come
to
fulfill
Scripture
as
a
prophet.
Moses
said,
"The
Lord
your
God
shall
raise
up
a
Prophet
likened
unto
me."
That's
the
reason
He
could
not
be
the
Son
of
God
there,
because
He
was
the
Son
of
man.
He...
"The
Word
came
to
the
prophets."
And
He
was
the
Word
in
Its
fullness.
Son
of
man,
the--the
major
prophet...
Not
the
major
prophet,
but
the
God-Prophet,
"The
fullness
of
the
Godhead
bodily
was
in
Him."
Therefore,
He
was
the
Son
of
man.
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THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
There
is
no
gentle
way
around
this
one
--
it
is
blasphemy.
Even
worse,
he
describes
how
'The
Prophet'
(Son
of
man)
would
return
in
the
last
days,
likening
himself
to
Jesus
Christ:
Now,
Jesus
said,
just
at
the
end
of
this
church
age
that
we're
living
in,
that,
"The
Son
of
man
would
be
revealed
again
in
the
same
manner
it
was,
as
it
was
at
Sodom."
65-0219
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Scripturally,
this
is
not
correct.
Jonah
was
sent
to
the
Gentiles,
and
Jesus
himself
had
one
of
his
most
miraculous
events
to
the
Gentiles.
Mark
7:31
tells
us
of
Jesus
entering
in
the
midst
of
the
borders
of
Decapolis,
where
he
later
began
feeding
four
thousand
from
the
loaves
and
fishes.
Decapolis
was
a
Gentile
region,
and
very
few
Jews
would
have
been
there.
Rev.
Branham
Then
plays
the
significance
of
the
spelling
of
his
last
name
as
compared
to
Abraham's
first
name:
Not
one
time
has
the
history,
church
of
the
world,
ever
had
an
evangelist
to
go
to
it,
with
a
name
ending
in
h-a-m,
till
this
day,
Billy
G-r-a-h-a-m.
Is
that
right?
[Congregation
says,
"Amen."--Ed.]
G-r-a-h-a-m,
six
letters.
A-b-r-a-h-a-m
is
seven
letters.
But
G-r-a-h-a-m
is
six
letters,
which
is
the
world,
man.
See?
65-0219
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Unfortunately for the listeners of the day, they did not have the iPads with the Lexicon built into it. A-b-r-a-h-a-m is English, and may have a similar number of letters. In the original Hebrew, however, there are only five letters of this FIRST NAME to compare to Rev. Branham's LAST NAME.
It
is
very
interesting
that
Rev.
Branham
cuts
himself
short
here
after
you
read
Sarah
Branham's
letter
stating
that
there
was
over
$3
million
saved
up
by
this
time.
He
was
careful
not
to
say
that
he
does
not
gain
money:
Course,
we
will
take
up
a
offerings,
I
suppose.
And
we
don't
want
them
man
to
pay
for
that
themselves;
we'll
pay
for...
pay
them
back.
But
when
we
get
our
expenses
and
things,
well,
then,
of
course,
we
stop
taking
offerings.
We
don't...
65-0217
A.MAN.RUNNING.FROM.THE.PRESENCE.OF.THE.LORD
Also
interesting
to
the
'uneducated'
people
of
the
day
is
his
mention
of
the
'Serpent's
Seed.'
Many
Branham
Cult
people
believe
that
only
THEY
have
the
revelation
of
this,
not
realizing
that
it
came
from
the
Kaballah.
Many
people
know
about
this,
and
it
has
spun
off
very
evil
movements
such
as
Hitler
and
the
KKK.
It
actually
makes
the
people
seem
less
intelligent
since
they
think
that
this
originated
with
Rev.
Branham.
First,
we
took
it
right
off
of
the
tape,
the
way
it
was
written
or
spoken.
You
know,
you
can
preach
a
sermon,
is
one
thing,
and
then
write
a
book
is
another.
See,
like
I'd
happen
to
touch
on
a
subject,
like
I'd
say
to
you,
you'd
understand,
I'd
say,
"Now,
the
serpent's
seed,"
see.
Well,
now,
the
reader
of
that
book,
if
you
took
that
off,
would
wonder,
"What
is
the
serpent's
seed?"
See?
And
they
wouldn't
know.
If
that
happened
to
go
into
such
a
place
like
Princeton
or
somewhere,
and
they--they
would
think
we
were
unintelligent
people.
65-0217
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Rev.
Branham
tries
to
compare
the
ship
Jonah
was
travelling
in
with
the
denominations
of
this
day.
Scripturally
and
historically,
this
was
not
correct.
Oh,
how
many
denominational
ships
have
we
got
going
down
to
Tarshish,
for
the
Jonah's
of
these
days,
nine
hundred
of
them, something, a ships that takes the easy route. Don't want to face up to it. Jonah didn't want to face up, the thing of going to the Gentiles. He didn't want to take that cruel Message over there, "Within forty days, you'll perish if you don't repent." He hated to do that. And he thought, "Them Gentiles, is hard to tell what they'll do to me." But he had to face up to it. See? But he took a easy ship and went down to Tarshish, went down in the hull of the ship and went to sleep; took the easy route. 65-0217 A.MAN.RUNNING.FROM.THE.PRESENCE.OF.THE.LORD
What
many
Branham
Cult
believers
do
not
realize
is
that
God
saved
the
souls
of
every
one
of
those
men.
Jonah's
being
aboard
that
ship
that
was
'the
easy
way'
brought
them
near
to
death!
God
saved
those
men
not
only
from
the
storm,
but
gave
them
salvation
for
their
souls.
According
to
Jonah
1:16,
"Then
the
men
feared
the
Lord
exceedingly,
and
offered
a
sacrifice
unto
the
Lord,
and
made
vows."
Also,
historically,
that
'cruel
message'
scenario
is
also
not
correct.
Jonah's
'cruel
message'
was
simply
'put
away
your
idols
and
repent.'
He
did
not
fear
the
people
because
of
his
'cruel
message',
he
feared
the
people
because
they
were
violently
opposed
to
the
Jews.
They
would
torture
Jews
in
indescribable
horrors
--
filleting
their
bodies,
dismembering
them,
and
worse.
It
would
be
similar
to
one
of
us
today
going
to
the
Taliban
and
saying,
"Praise
MY
God!
Repent!"
It
is
very
interesting
that
there
is
a
[blank
spot
on
tape]
here,
considering
the
subject
matter.
This
is
one
of
Rev.
Branham's
conflicting
stories,
where
he
went
back
and
forth
between
communism
/
rome
/
Russia
/
Rome
/
Communism/one
of
the
isms.
It
would
be
highly
interesting
to
see
which
way
he
waffled
this
particular
time,
since
it
was
the
year
of
his
death:
We
see
isms
and
things
rising
up,
and
all
these
different
things,
we
know
there
has
got
to
be
a
true
answer
to
this.
There is people out here in the country now, a going into caves and things, "And on the 16th of March," you've read it in the paper, "the Lord is coming." You know that isn't so. Jesus said, "No man knows the minute or the hour." When we see all these things, and things taking place the way they are, and there's got to be a true answer somewhere. There's got to be a Truth. There is one, east; and one, west; but there's a one, southeast, and northwest, or something. But there's got to be a true answer, somewhere, to the problem. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] 65-0217 A.MAN.RUNNING.FROM.THE.PRESENCE.OF.THE.LORD
If
you
want
to
see
all
of
the
waffling,
and
how
this
'vision'
is
contradicted
by
his
own
words,
you
can
look
through
the
quotes
in
the
'Visions
of
1933'
section.
He
then
pulls
some
punching
on
Gospel
singers
of
the
day,
knowing
that
most
followers
had
thrown
out
their
televisions
and
did
not
know
his
accusations
towards
them
were
either
untrue
or
a
very
MINOR
group
when
compared
to
the
whole:
And
then
over
there
they
had
a
television.
And
in
this
television,
these
kids
got
to
watching,
on
Sunday
morning,
some
kind
of
a
hymn-singing
that
come
on.
And,
you
know,
it-- it
would
almost
make
you
ashamed;
if
there
wasn't
a
genuine
Christianity
somewhere
that
you
could
put
your
hands
on,
to
see
what's
called
Christianity.
Why,
it
seems
like
all
the
sincerity
is
gone
out
of
it.
Why,
they
don't,
they
don't
seem
to...
Why,
it's
just
terrible
the
way
they
stand
there
and
draw
their
fists
and
fight
one
another,
on
there,
and
try
to
sing
hymns
and
everything
like
that;
and
pull
jokes
that
hardly
a
sailor
would
pull,
and
say
all
kinds
of
things,
and
kid
and
go
on.
You
know,
the
sacredness
of--of--of
Christianity
has
seemed
to
lose
its
place.
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Now, most Branham Cult members either have a television, hidden monitor that plays 'videos', or watches their entertainment at some friends house. Most have seen the gospel videos of today and the gospel videos of the times of old. If I were a betting man, I would place large wagers against
those
old
gospel
singers
telling
jokes
that
'hardly
a
sailer
would
pull.'
Statements
like
these
have
turned
pastors
like
the
one
currently
running
Rev.
Branham's
home
church
in
Jeffersonville
against
music
altogether.
It
is
interesting
that
the
'organization'
is
so
excited
about
the
national
quartet
convention
after
a
statement
like
this.
But
the
worse
part:
Matthew
7:
Judge
not
lest
ye
be
judged.
Within
every
crowd
are
God's
people,
and
that
includes
the
Gospel
singers.
He
then
injects
a
Buddhist
doctrine
into
the
sermon:
You
can
see,
people
today.
There
is
two
spirits.
And
one
of
them
is
the
Holy
Spirit;
the
other
one
is
a
unholy
spirit,
and
one
is
governed
by
that.
And
both
of
them
religious.
Now,
yeah,
that's
the
strange
part,
they're
both
religious.
And
just
like
Esau
and
Jacob
was,
both
religious;
like
Cain
and
Abel
was,
both
religious;
like
Judas
and
Jesus
was,
both
religion,
both
religious.
And
we
see
it
today,
both
sides,
religious.
See,
it's
the
same
spirit.
The
people
die,
but
the
spirit
doesn't
die.
It
goes
right
on,
both
religious.
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This
can
be
traced
to
both
Buddhism
and
Gnosticism.
Two
forces,
good
and
evil.
Yin
and
Yang.
Powerful
God,
powerful
devil.
Holy
spirit,
evil
spirit.
Not
biblical.
God
is
omnipotent,
but
Satan
is
NOT
omnipotent.
The
Bible
does
not
speak
of
God
and
Satan
alone,
it
speaks
of
God
and
"Satan
and
his
DEMONS".
We
should
not
bring
Buddhism
into
teachings
that
will
raise
Satan
higher
in
power,
even
if
it
is
just
in
our
own
minds.
He
then
goes
into
smoking
and
drinking.
First
let
me
say
that
I
do
not
condone
either
one
of
them:
They,
ignoring
the--the
unchanging
Word
of
God,
as
though
It
never
had
been
written.
See, you can say, "Now, looky here, if--if the baptism..." "I have the Holy Spirit!" "And standing there with that cigar in your hand, smoking it?" "Yes, I have the Holy Spirit! I don't think it's wrong to take a little drink. I don't think it..." See? And did you notice, "I don't think"? But God thinks different, you see, according to His Word. See? See, they... And they--they just simply as much as--as spit on It. That's exactly right. 65-0217 A.MAN.RUNNING.FROM.THE.PRESENCE.OF.THE.LORD
Consider
the
fact
that
the
great
men
of
old
burned
incense.
This
is
a
pleasant
odor
you
breathe,
and
I
can
tell
you
from
experience
that
it
can
definitely
fill
your
lungs
--
more
Branham
Cult
people
that
you
might
realize
use
it.
But
here's
the
real
problem:
Consider
proverbs:
Give
strong
drink
unto
him
that
is
ready
to
perish,
and
wine
unto
those
that
be
of
heavy
hearts.
(Proverbs
31:6)
Then
ask
yourself:
What
did
Jesus
give
the
disciples
during
the
last
supper?
It
is
interesting
when
you
read
the
next
[blank
spot
on
tape],
makes
you
wonder
if
people
during
that
day
had
found
the
Truth
to
these
things
and
were
going
to
make
things
right:
Stop
running.
Don't
get
out
of
His
Presence;
just
move
up
into
His
Presence.
That's
right.
And
I
know
that's
what
you're
desiring
to
do.
Cause,
I
seen
licenses
out
there
from
Texas,
and
Louisiana,
and
everywhere.
That's
what
we're
here
for,
is
not
to
run
from
His
Presence,
but
to
run
into
His
Presence.
Come
back,
get
off
the...
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
been
a
Jonah
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A.MAN.RUNNING.FROM.THE.PRESENCE.OF.THE.LORD
He
then
tries
to
show
these
men
who
assumedly
found
out
the
Truth
by
giving
them
an
example
of
his
1933
baptism:
I
am
duty
bound
to
a
Message
that's
been
given
to
me
from
Almighty
God.
As
I
stand
here
tonight,
and
God
knows
that's
true,
that
right
down
on
this
river...
There
is
people,
perhaps,
It
is
already
proven
that
his
1933
claims
were
fabricated,
but
that
evidence
was
not
available
to
those
men
during
that
day.
Had
it
been
available,
they
might
have
'nipped
it
in
the
bud.'
He
then
likens
his
'discernment'
in
the
prayer
lines
to
that
of
Jesus
Christ:
That's
the
way
He
done
them
things.
He
could
tell
fortunes.
He
looked
through
their--their
minds
and
perceived
their
thoughts.
He's
a
fortuneteller."
But,
what
it
was,
He--He
was
the
Word
of
God
made
manifest
for
that
hour.
And
He
was
duty
bound.
He
said,
"I
do
always
that
which
is
pleasing
to
My
Father."
God
help
us
to
do
the
same
thing,
do
that
which
is
pleasing
to
the
Father.
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A.MAN.RUNNING.FROM.THE.PRESENCE.OF.THE.LORD
setting here, when that Angel of the Lord come down there and told me what He did, right there in 1933, right down on this Spring Street here. If you're a stranger here, drive right down. It's corner of Spring Street, there where you hit the river, and there is where it happened. That's been in 1933. It's probably been about thirty-two years ago, then. Oh, it's been thirty-... it's been thirty-... thirty-two years ago, thirty-two years ago. 65-0217 A.MAN.RUNNING.FROM.THE.PRESENCE.OF.THE.LORD
"Spiritual Discernment" is a gift to the church to determine good and evil. It is not the gift to read what was written on the back of a prayer card and handed in to the "healer." God alone knows the hearts of men, and does not give that gift to ANYONE. According to the Bible, humanly no one can read other peoples minds anymore than one can read Gods mind and determine His or their motives and intents. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. (1 Cor. 2:11) Biblical Examples of Discernment:
1. Determine false prophets or teachers (1 John 4:1-2) 2. Understand the mysteries of the Spirit, (1 Cor. 13:2) 3. Identify the beast of Revelation (Rev. 13:18) 4. Determine when people s motives and words were false (Acts 5:1-11) 5. Prevent being mislead by all sorts of false doctrines, (Eph. 4:14)
Subjects
that
are
the
doctrines
of
men
are
NOT
VITAL.
Jesus
Christ
did
not
teach
that
we
must
find
a
doctrine
and
everyone
must
fully
understand
it.
Paul
says
it
best:
Therefore
leaving
the
principles
of
the
doctrine
of
Christ,
let
us
go
on
unto
perfection;
not
laying
again
the
foundation
of
repentance
from
dead
works,
and
of
faith
toward
God,
of
the
doctrine
of
baptisms,
and
of
laying
on
of
hands,
and
of
resurrection
of
the
dead,
and
of
eternal
judgment.
And
this
will
we
do,
if
God
permit.
(Hebrews
6:1-3)
For
it
is
by
grace
you
have
been
saved,
through
faith--and
this
not
from
yourselves,
it
is
the
gift
of
God
(Ephesians
2:8)
It
is
interesting
that
Rev.
Branham
even
continues
to
mention
this
book,
"I
Was
Not
Disobedient
To
The
Heavenly
Vision."
The
dates
of
his
'commission'
and
the
story
of
how
the
commission
came
about
do
not
match
his
life
stories:
This
ground
tonight,
this
very
spot,
holds
a
great
thing
for
me.
Since
I
knew
that
they
built
this
school
auditorium
here,
I
have
wanted
to
have
a
service
in
this
place.
I'm
very
grateful
to
the
school
board
and
to
those
who
graciously
let
us
have
it.
It
was
upon
this
spot,
right
about
somewhere
where
this
building
stands
tonight,
that
a
great
thing
took
place
some
thirty
years
ago,
right
on
this
same
ground.
It
was
nothing
but
a
broom-sedge
field
at
that
time.
And
I
lived
in
a
little
house
just
beyond
here,
about
two
hundred
yards.
I
was
very
concerned
in
those
days
about
the
salvation
of
my
father
and
mother.
Which,
both
are
gone
on
tonight.
And
especially,
in
that
day,
I
was
concerned
about
my
father.
I
remember,
I
was
sleeping
on
the
porch.
It
was
warm,
summertime.
13
This
is
written,
I
believe,
in
the
little
book
called
Jesus
Christ
The
Same
Yesterday,
Today,
And
Forever,
or
either
it
was
in
the
little
book
called
I
Was
Not
Disobedient
To
The
Heavenly
Vision.
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THE.SEED.IS.NOT.HEIR.WITH.THE.SHUCK
He
gives
his
ever-changing
account
of
the
1933
baptism,
this
time
with
the
angel
of
the
lord
seen
in
public:
Just
about
six
months
after
that,
I
had
my
first
baptism
down
here
on
the
river,
when
the
Light
came
down
right
here
at
Spring
Street.
Many
of
you
people
might
want
to
go
down
and
take
a
look
at
it,
at
Spring
Street
and
water,
right
at
the
riverfront.
And
there
is
where
the
Angel
of
the
Lord
appeared
in
public,
first,
and
at
two
o'clock,
one
afternoon.
And
a
Voice
came
from
it,
said,
"As
John
the
Baptist
was
sent
to
forerun
the
first
coming
of
Christ,
your
Message
will
forerun
the
second
Coming."
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THE.SEED.IS.NOT.HEIR.WITH.THE.SHUCK
When Rev. Branham first spoke of this to Gordon Lindsay, there was no angel, and there were some 130 people around: Quote:
The
dates
of
his
retelling
range
from
1931
to
1939,
the
number
of
people
ranges
from
130
to
5000,
and
oddly
enough
the
commission
date
of
1933
above
conflicts
with
the
1945
date
mentioned
in
"I
Was
Not
Disobedient
To
The
Heavenly
Vision."
as
his
first
commission
also
mentioned
above.
Rev.
Branham's
next
statement
conflicts
with
most
of
the
New
Pharisee
pastors
of
today:
When
the
Message
first
started
out,
it
was,
of
course,
everybody;
was
praying
for
the
sick,
great
signs,
wonders,
and
miracles.
That
started,
especially
in
the
Pentecostal
people,
a
universal
revival
of
a
healing
campaigns
that
swept
the
world.
For
fifteen
solid
years
there's
been
revivals
on
every
hill
there
is,
I
suppose,
revival
fires
a
burning.
Literally
millions
have
accepted
Christ
as
their
Saviour,
by
that
one
commission.
That
inspired,
from
there,
to
Oral
Roberts,
and
so
forth,
and
on
and
on,
as
it's
went
around.
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THE.SEED.IS.NOT.HEIR.WITH.THE.SHUCK
At the baptismal service which followed the revival, some 130 persons were baptized in water. It was at this time that a heavenly light appeared above him as he was about to baptize the seventeenth person. This was witnessed by the vast congregation that stood looking on, by the banks of the Ohio River.
Rev. Branham himself admits that many went around healing the sick and afflicted, as does the 'Voice of Healing' magazine that Rev. Branham created to have writers tell of his own great works. Branham Cult pastors today seem to think that their little churches are the ONLY ones that have divine healing -- which is simply not true. God heals, not man. The interesting part here is the fact that Rev. Branham says "When the Message first started out." What was that 'message?' He never really comes out to say what this 'Message' that God sent him to give to the end time church was! Bring your hearts closer to God? ALL churches teach that!
He
says
that
when
Jesus
came
with
His
message,
the
people
followed
the
healing
--
but
left
when
he
brought
His
message:
Now,
it's
hard
to
get
in
a
church
for
a
sponsorship,
just
as
it
was
with
our
Lord
Jesus,
'cause
it's
Him;
it
isn't
me.
But
as
He
preached
at
the
first,
and
healed
the
sick,
raised
the
dead,
and
cleansed
the
lepers,
and
cast
out
devils,
everybody
wanted
Him.
But
there
come
a
time
where
there's
a
Message
that
always
follows
every
sign,
because
the
sign
has
a
voice.
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THE.SEED.IS.NOT.HEIR.WITH.THE.SHUCK
This
is
not
Biblical.
John
tells
us
that
during
his
'healing
campaign'
the
Jews
persecuted
Jesus,
and
sought
to
kill
Him,
because
He
had
done
these
things
on
the
Sabbath.
At
the
end
of
the
days
of
Jesus,
there
were
even
more
people
than
during
the
healings.
As
they
walked
into
Jerusalem
there
was
a
multitude!
"And
a
very
great
multitude
spread
their
garments
in
the
way;
others
cut
down
branches
from
the
trees,
and
strawed
them
in
the
way."
(Matt
21)
It
is
HIGHLY
interesting
that
Rev.
Branham
gets
into
the
Trinity.
Not
against
it,
but
ACCEPTING
IT!
This
single
statement
is
EXACTLY
what
the
Trinitarian
churches
believe,
yet
Rev.
Branham
condemned
the
Trinity.
Now
we
understand,
also,
that
God
is
perfected
in
threes.
Now,
God
is
"perfected"
in
three.
"Grace"
is
five.
Seven
is
"completion,"
like
the
world.
God
is
perfected
in
Father,
Son,
Holy
Ghost.
That's
the
perfection
of
the
Godhead.
All
one
God.
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THE.SEED.IS.NOT.HEIR.WITH.THE.SHUCK
Notice
in
this
one
statement
alone,
he
contradicts
himself
AND
the
Bible:
That's
why
the
Rapture
is
different,
and
will
only
be
for
the
royal
Seed
of
Abraham.
It
cannot
come
by
the
natural,
carnal
seed
of
the
church.
It'll
have
to
be
the
royal
Seed
of
the
Word
of
God,
through
Abraham,
the
royal
Seed.
That's
why
the
Rapture
has
to
be
first.
Cause,
remember,
"We
which
are
alive
and
remain
shall
not
hinder,
prevent
those
which
are
asleep.
For
the
trumpet
of
God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise first. We which are alive and remain shall be caught up with them, together, and meet the Lord in the air." Notice, and again it's written, "And the rest of the dead lived not, for a thousand years." Therefore, there, they will not be heirs together. They'll not be in the Rapture together. There is absolutely a church natural, and Church spiritual; a church carnal, a Church spiritual. 65-0218 THE.SEED.IS.NOT.HEIR.WITH.THE.SHUCK
He
then
says
that
Abraham's
seed
will
not
go
through
the
Judgement:
There
is
no
Judgment
to
the
royal,
spiritual,
predestinated
Seed
of
Abraham,
for
they
are
predestinated
to
Eternal
Life.
They
have
accepted
God's
provided
Sacrifice;
and
that
Sacrifice,
which
was
Christ,
the
Word.
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Jesus
said
to
them,
Truly,
I
say
to
you,
in
the
new
world,
when
the
Son
of
Man
will
sit
on
his
glorious
throne,
you
who
have
followed
me
will
also
sit
on
twelve
thrones,
judging
the
twelve
tribes
of
Israel.
Matthew
19:28
So
then
Rev.
Branham
gets
to
the
heart
of
the
sermon.
Tying
it
to
the
Kaballah's
doctrine
of
serpent's
seed,
showing
how
sex
was
evil,
and
the
bloodlines
were
doomed
to
begin
with:
Sarah,
the
true
wife
of
the
promise,
being
the
tassel,
brought
forth
a
gentle
man.
In
the
returns,
brought
forth
a
promised
nation
that
served
God.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
But,
Mary,
by
no
sex
at
all,
but
believed
the
promised
Word;
when
she
was
a
virgin,
knowing
no
man.
And
the
Angel
of
the
Lord
met
her,
said,
"Hail,
Mary,
blessed
art
thou
amongst
the
women,
for
God
is
with
thee."
And
she
said,
"How
will
these
things
be?"
He...
She
said.
The
Angel
said,
"The
Holy
Ghost
shall
overshadow
thee."
It had never been done in all of the ages, but Mary believed God. And she said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord." She believed the Word. How is she going to have it? She knowed that Hagar had the baby by a sex desire, with Abraham; and Sarah had the baby by sex desire, with Abraham, children of promise; the bondswoman and the freewoman. But here she is asked to believe. That's a contribution to the faith that was in Abraham, who believed the impossibles, "As long as God said it's so, that makes it right." She believed God, never questioned. She said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. No matter how much criticism I have to bear from the world, be it unto me according Thy Word." There come forth the genuine Seed. Sarah could not do it, because it was sex. That's right. And neither could Sarah, because it was sex. 65-0218 THE.SEED.IS.NOT.HEIR.WITH.THE.SHUCK
Contrary to Branham Cult popular belief, sex is NOT evil. God told us to be fruitful and multiply BEFORE the fall. Though the hearts of the men in come bloodlines turned to idolatry, it was not the blood that was the problem; it was because the hearts of the children chose the way of the fathers and that way did not lead to God. Let's see what the Bible says about it: And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place Acts 17:26 Rev. Branham then starts changing the very nature of Jesus according to the Bible. This is the worst doctrine ever brought forth by Rev. Branham, because if Jesus did not come and take our place as a man, then he died on the cross as a God -- which essentially means that we have no salvation. Fortunately for us, this is not the case.
It
is
interesting
that
there
is
a
section
of
this
cut
out
without
one
of
those
hidden
'[blank
spot
on
tape]'
markings,
because
I
would
be
interested
to
hear
him
finish
that
train
of
thought.
...I'm
sure
there
was
a
purpose
behind
that
snipping
of
tape:
Mary,
the
true
one,
said,
by
the...
-out
sex,
{...}
Notice
how
more
like
the
real
Thing,
Mary
was,
but
like
the
shuck.
The
shuck
hugs
the
seed
in
itself
and
protects
it,
and
nurtures
it
until
it's
standing
alone,
mature.
So
has
this
third
church
age
(of
Pentecost)
matured,
holding
this
Grain
until
it's
time
to
open
up
the
shuck.
Mary,
being
the
mother
of
Christ,
just
a
incubator.
He
was
no
blood
of
Mary;
He
was
no
blood
of
Jew;
He
was
no
blood
of
Gentile.
He
was
the
Blood
of
God.
God
created
this
Blood.
It
could
not
be
sex.
He
wasn't
Jew
nor
Gentile.
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Let's
see
what
the
Bible
says
about
Jesus
not
being
blood
of
Mary
or
being
a
Jew:
"When
Jesus
saw
his
mother
and
the
disciple
whom
he
loved
standing
nearby,
he
said
to
his
mother,
Woman,
behold,
your
son!
John
19:26
"The
book
of
the
genealogy
of
Jesus
Christ,
the
son
of
David,
the
son
of
Abraham."
Matthew
1
"He
came
to
his
own,
and
his
own
people
[Jews]
did
not
receive
him."
--
John
1:11
"You
worship
what
you
do
not
know;
we
[Jews]
worship
what
we
know,
for
salvation
is
from
the
Jews."
John
4:22
"For
it
is
evident
that
our
Lord
was
descended
from
Judah,
and
in
connection
with
that
tribe
Moses
said
nothing
about
priests."
Hebrews
7:14
Rev.
Branham
Then
uses
one
of
the
most
infamous
twistings
of
scripture,
one
that
he
uses
constantly
throughout
his
ministry:
Notice,
see
how
close
it
looks.
Matthew
said,
Saint
Matthew
24:24,
said,
that,
"The
two
spirits
in
the
last
days,"
the
church
spirit
of
the
church
people,
and
the
Bride
Spirit
of
the
Bride
people,
"would
be
so
close
together
till
it
would
deceive
the
very
Elected
if
it
was
possible."
That's
how
close.
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This
is
blatant
twisting
of
scripture
to
make
his
point
that
his
"bride"
were
the
seed
and
the
denominations
of
today
were
the
"shuck."
Let's
examine
this
scripture
to
see
if
it
speaks
of
a
false
church
and
a
"bride"
church:
For
false
christs
and
false
prophets
will
arise
and
perform
great
signs
and
wonders,
so
as
to
lead
astray,
if
possible,
even
the
elect.
Matthew
24:24
What
Bible
was
he
quoting
from?
This
is
speaking
of
false
prophets,
which
is
very
interesting
when
you
consider
that
not
a
single
prophecy
given
by
Rev.
Branham
was
accurate!
He
then
compares
the
denominations
to
'hawks'
and
the
'bride'
to
'eagles'.
This
comes
from
one
of
his
misunderstandings
of
the
Bible
scripture
in
the
KJV
that
says
"Where
the
carcase
is,
the
eagles
will
gather.":
Hop
along
like
a
vulture,
eating
dead
a
carrion
on
the
ground!
Yes,
sir.
He
is
too
soft
to
take
the
rugged
beyonds,
anymore.
Hops
like
a
vulture,
and
eats
vultures'
food.
That's
what
it
is.
That's
right.
Until,
he's
begin
to
look
like
a
vulture.
He
acts
like
a
vulture.
He
ain't
no
more
a
hawk
than
nothing.
He
is
more
like
a
vulture
than
he
is
a
hawk.
A
hawk
is
supposed
to
sail;
not
set
on
a
telephone
pole
and
watch
for
a
dead
rabbit,
and
then
get
down
there
and
pop
up-and-down
the
road
like
a
vulture.
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The correct translation of that passage is "Where the corpse is, the vultures will gather." When read in context, these are large birds feeding on the dead corpses after the tribulation has came and Armageddon has happened. Here is the sequence in Matthew 24: 1) Jesus warns of deception 2) He warns of false Christs, or annointed ones 3) He warns of wars
4)
He
warns
of
persecution
5)
He
warns
of
false
prophets
6)
He
warns
that
love
will
wax
cold
7)
He
says
that
HIS
GOSPEL
(not
some
other's
message)
would
be
preached
to
the
ends
of
the
world
8)
The
end
will
come
9)
The
coming
of
the
Son
of
Man
10)
The
vultures
eating
the
remains,
or
corpses.
Rev.
Branham
then
goes
into
his
'church
age
messengers,'
telling
how
they
only
made
it
so
far
and
then
'denominated'
before
they
could
reach
the
fullness
of
Christian
life:
Wesley
failed
the
same
way
as
Sarah
did,
doubting
the
supernatural
Birth
being
the
baptism
of
the
Holy
Ghost,
as
Sarah
did
at
the
oak
tree.
When
Wesley
was
introduced
to
the
supernatural,
when
the
Pentecostal
age
come
on
and
Wesley
was
introduced
to
speaking
in
tongues
and
all
This,
they
laughed
and
made
fun
of
It.
All
you
church
of
Christ,
and
you,
so-called,
and
you
Baptists,
and
Presbyterians,
every
one
of
you,
turned
your
nose
up,
on
It,
and
went
away
from
It.
Right.
What'd
you
do,
Wesley?
You
sold
your
child
to
an
organization,
and
it
died
and
perished.
That's
exactly
right.
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John
Wesley
would
roll
over
in
his
grave
to
know
the
slander
that
Rev.
Branham
has
done
towards
him
for
all
these
years,
and
the
millions
of
people
around
the
world
that
now
believe
it
because
of
Rev.
Branham's
deception
In
his
comment
on
Matthew
3:11
Wesley
remarks
He
shall
fill
you
with
the
Holy
Ghost,
inflaming
your
hearts
with
that
fire
of
love,
which
many
waters
cannot
quench.
And
this
was
done,
even
with
a
visible
appearance
as
of
fire,
on
the
day
of
Pentecost
--John
Wesley"
Rev.
Branham
starts
of
on
the
wrong
foot
from
the
beginning.
In
his
prayer,
he
says
that
they
have
come
there
for
correction
and
understanding.
And
then,
Father,
we
pray
that
You'll
visit
us
tonight
in
the
Word.
We
come
here
for
correction,
for
understanding,
that
we
might
know
just
how
to
live
in
this
present
day;
what
to
look
forward
to,
what
to
do.
For,
we
know
the
Coming
of
the
Lord
is
drawing
nigh,
according
to
all
the
signs
that
the
prophets
foretold.
We're
nearing
the
time,
Lord,
when
complete
deliverance
will
be
given
to
Your
children.
God,
let
us,
every
one,
be
there,
Father.
May
there
not
be
one
missing.
That's
our
purpose
of
being
here,
Lord.
We
love
You,
and
we're
trying
to
prepare
for
that
hour.
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According
to
the
Bible,
We
come
to
church
for
fellowship
and
praise
to
God,
not
for
'correction
and
understanding.'
The
church
of
the
new
covenant
is
NOT
the
temple
of
the
old
covenant;
our
bodies
are
the
temples
and
God
is
our
High
Priest.
He
says
that
he
can
practically
say
anything
he
wants;
God
would
close
his
mouth
if
it
were
wrong:
I
certainly
deem
this
a
grand
privilege
tonight,
to
be
back
here
at
the
platform
again,
here
in
this
high
school,
to
face
these
fine
people
that's
gathered
out
to
hear
the
Gospel.
I
ask
God's
mercy
to
help
me
to
tell
you
the
Truth
as
far
as
I
know
the
Truth.
He
still
can
close
the
mouth
of
a
man,
the
same
as
He
could
the
mouth
of
a
lion.
And
if
I
would
ever
try
to
say
anything
that
was
wrong
and
contrary
to
His
will,
my
sincere
prayer
is
that
He
would
close
my
mouth,
that
I
won't
say
it.
For,
truly,
I
want
to
be
in
Heaven,
myself;
and
I'd
never
be
there,
and,
besides
all
that,
I'd
be
a
false
leader,
somebody
who
had
done
something
falsely.
If
I
do
it,
it's
because
I
don't
know
no
different.
The
Lord
bless
you.
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"For
it
is
by
grace
you
have
been
saved,
through
faith--and
this
not
from
yourselves,
it
is
the
gift
of
God"
(Eph
2:8)
Not
true.
According
to
the
BIble,
we
are
to
"Beware
of
false
prophets,
who
come
to
you
in
sheep's
clothing
but
inwardly
are
ravenous
wolves."
(Matt
7:15)
The
next
statement
is
very
interesting:
And
now,
today,
we
hear--hear
it
said,
so
many
of
our
people
in
the
world
today...
As
being
a
missionary,
have
taken
several
trips
across
the
sea
and
around
the
world,
I've
been
in
contact
with
many
different
religions,
such
as
Buddha,
and
Mohammedan,
and
Sikhs,
and
Jains,
and
whatmore,
of
the
religions
of
the
world.
And
then
here
in
our
own
United
States;
and
other
foreign
countries,
meet
with
all
of
our
different
churches,
such
as
our
denominational
churches,
beginning
with
the
early
Roman
Catholic,
and
then
to
the
Greek,
and
so
forth,
and
the--the
different
rites,
and
then
down
into
the...
all
the
denominational
ages,
of
nine
hundred
and
something
different
Protestant
denominations.
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Not
many
people
realize
that
Rev.
Branham
had
knowledge
of
all
of
these
religious
faiths,
or
even
that
he
had
studied
them.
You
find
threads
of
some
of
each
of
these
religions
all
throughout
his
ministry,
and
we
try
to
show
those
in
this
book.
At
the
time,
nobody
knew
that
most
of
his
'revelations'
of
the
seven
seals,
Book
of
Revelation
in
general,
and
Book
of
Daniel
came
from
the
writings
and
drawings
of
Clarence
Larkin.
This
next
statement
is
hypocritical:
Now,
if
it
is
a
Bible
question,
then
it
should
have
a
Bible
answer.
It
should
not
be
able
to
come
from
a
group
of
man,
from
any
certain
fellowship,
or
from
some
educator,
or
from
some
denomination.
It
should
come
straight
from
the
Scripture,
where
God's
meeting
place
is,
of
worship.
And
surely,
being
God,
there
is
a
meeting
place
somewhere,
that
He
meets.
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After
full
review,
you
can
find
practically
all
of
Rev.
Branham's
divine
revelations
in
works
of
Clarence
Larkin,
Book
of
Enoch,
Gospel
of
Judas,
sutras
of
Buddha,
and
the
Kaballah.
This
next
statement
is
comical,
when
you
think
about
the
hundreds
that
flock
to
Jeffersonville
at
Easter
to
hope
for
Rev.
Branham's
resurrection.
They
pray
to
Rev.
Branham's
grave,
and
the
local
pastors
and
'leaders'
of
the
'organization'
teach
that
he
will
rise
up
from
the
grave
and
'ride
this
trail
once
more.'
I've
been
to
the
grave
where
the
white
horse
is
changed
every
four
hours.
Where,
Mohammed,
a
great
priest
and--and
leader
right
after
Christ,
was
supposingly
to
be
a
prophet,
and,
I
don't
doubt
but
what
he
was,
right
after
the
Maccabee
brothers.
But
when
they...
He
died.
He
claimed
that
he
would
raise
again
and
would
conquer
the
whole
world.
Now,
about
every
four
hours
they
change
guards,
and
they
keep
a
white
horse
at
his
grave.
They
have,
for
two
thousand
years,
expecting
him
to
rise
again
and
conquer
the
world.
But
you
see...
And
you
go
to
Buddha;
Buddha
lived
many
hundred
years,
about
twenty-three
hundred
years
ago,
the
god
of--of
Japan.
And
so
he
was
a
philosopher,
something
like
Confucius,
and
so
forth.
But
all
these,
for...
founders,
and
so
forth,
all
of
them
died
with
their
philosophy,
and
is
buried
and
in
the
grave.
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Rev.
Branham
then
makes
a
false
accusation
against
the
denominations
of
faith
in
Jesus
Christ.
To
this
day,
many
Branham
Cult
believers
STILL
think
this
is
the
way
denominations
live
their
lives
--
faith
in
their
denomination
over
faith
in
Jesus
Christ.
Though
some
may,
in
the
same
way
MOST
of
the
Branham
Cult
believers
think
they
are
saved
because
they
are
in
"The
Message",
it
is
by
far
not
the
norm:
Now,
being
that
there
is
nine
hundred
and
something
questions
about
where
God
meets,
"He
meets
with
the
Methodist,
or
He
meets
in
the
Baptist,
and
He
meets
in
this,
and
that,
and
the
other."
Now,
there's
a
question
there,
so
everyone
has
to
seek
out
his
own
salvation
with
fear
and
trembling.
But tonight I want to try to find, and prove in the Scripture, where the correct place is where God meets and worships with the people. And, if that's it, that's the only place He'll ever meet. 65-0220 GOD'S.CHOSEN.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP
Rev.
Branham
then
adds
confusion
to
the
Word
of
God
by
saying
that
there
were
TWO
laws
of
God.
Which
law
to
follow?
Only
Rev.
Branham
knew
the
right
one!
Now,
we
took
this
text
out
of
Deuteronomy.
It's
a
Greek
word
which
has
a
compound
meanings,
or,
it
means,
"two
laws."
The
Greek
word,
Deuteronomy,
means
"two
different
laws."
And
that's
just
what
God
has,
two
different
laws.
And
one
of
them
is
a
law
of
death,
and
the
other
one
is
a
law
of
Life.
God
has
two
laws.
To
follow
Him,
and
serve
Him
and
worship
Him,
is
Life;
to
reject
It
is
death.
There
is
two
laws
in
God.
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This
is
NOT
Biblical.
The
English
name
of
the
fifth
book
of
the
Pentateuch,
Deuteronomy,
is
derived
from
the
Greek
translation
of
the
Hebrew
phrase,
meaning
"the
second
law"
or
"the
repeated
law".
Underlying
this
name
is
the
supposition
that
Deuteronomy
represents
a
recapitulation
of
the
laws
from
Exodus
through
Numbers.
"And
when
he
sits
on
the
throne
of
his
kingdom,
he
shall
write
for
himself
in
a
book
a
copy
of
this
law,
approved
by[a]
the
Levitical
priests."
(Deut
17:18)
Then,
Rev.
Branham
further
twists
the
scriptures,
saying
that
the
Mosaic
law
was
still
in
effect
because
it
started
with
Abraham,
and
--
because
Deut.
was
the
second
law:
There
was
also
two
covenants
give
to
the
people.
We're
going
to
speak
of
them
in
the
morning.
One
of
them
was
given
to
Adam
on
condition,
"if
you
do
this
and
don't
do
that,"
but
that
law
was
broken.
Adam,
Eve
broke
that,
in
the
garden
of
Eden.
Then
God
made
the
second
covenant,
and
give
that
to
Abraham,
and
that
law
was
unconditional.
"It
isn't
what
you've
done
or
what
you
will
do;"
He
said,
"I
have
already
done
it."
That's
grace.
That's
the
law
of
Life.
God
did
that
for
Abraham
and
his
Seed
after
him,
that's,
all
of
Abraham's
Seed.
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This
is
not
Biblically
correct.
There
was
only
the
old
covenant
and
the
new
covenant.
Jesus
Christ
came
to
fulfill
the
law
and
replace
the
Mosaic
law
with
grace.
Jesus
came
to
fulfill
the
Law
(Matthew
5:17)
To
those
outside
the
law
I
became
as
one
outside
the
law
(not
being
outside
the
law
of
God
but
under
the
law
of
Christ)
that
I
might
win
those
outside
the
law.
(1
Corinthians
9:21)
Rev.
Branham
'grab
bagged'
a
handful
of
old
covenant
laws,
saying
that
he
had
the
'divine
revelation'
of
which
of
these
laws
were
still
in
effect.
The
fact
of
the
matter
is
that
we
are
not
under
the
old
covenant,
and
therefore
are
not
bound
by
those
same
laws.
Here
are
some
of
the
laws
in
the
old
covenant
that
can
give
you
an
example
of
this
fallacy:
1.
You
can't
boil
a
beetle
and
think
it's
all
good
with
God.
2.
Women
having
their
period
cannot
enter
the
temple
3.
Men
with
injured
in
their
testicles
cannot
enter
the
temple
4.
Disobeying
children
and
those
who
do
not
honor
the
Sabbath
must
be
stoned
5.
We
cannot
wear
garments
of
wool
and
linen
6.
Women
should
not
grab
a
man's
private
parts
during
a
fight
7.
Remember
the
Sabbath
day
and
keep
it
holy.
(1
day,
7
8.
weeks
out
of
the
year,
1
year
every
49
years)
9.
You
must
wash
your
hands
in
a
brass
basin
before
entering
the
temple
Rev.
Branham
then
makes
a
false
statement
about
husband
and
wife.
Greater
light
(sun)
and
lessor
light
(moon):
Just
like,
the
moon
is
a
shadow
of
the
sun.
It
serves
in
the
absence
of
the
sun,
just
like
the
Church
is
to
serve
in
the
absence
of
the
S-o-n
of
God.
In
the
absence
of
the
Son,
the
lesser
Light,
the
Church,
the
believers,
serve
God
and
give
Light
in
the
absence
of
the
Son.
But
when
the
sun
rises,
you
don't
see
the
moon
no
more,
because
it's
gone
down.
It
doesn't
need
its
light
anymore,
because
it
only
gets
its
light
secondarily, off the sun. Now, like husband and wife, the sun and moon is, Church and Christ. 65-0220 GOD'S.CHOSEN.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP
The
bible
says
that
the
man
should
be
in
authority
over
the
women,
just
as
Christ
is
in
authority
over
His
children.
This
does
not
imply
a
lessor
'light,'
and
certainly
NOT
that
men
and
women
are
unequal.
Deborah
was
a
judge
in
Israel
(Judges
4)
as
well
as
a
wife;
Lydia
was
a
seller
of
purple
fabrics
(Acts
16:14).
The
maidservant
of
Naamans
wife
told
her
master
about
possible
healing
for
Naamans
disease
(2
Kings
5:34).
Miriam,
the
sister
of
Aaron
and
Moses,
led
the
Israelite
women
in
celebration
and
worship,
singing
and
dancing
as
they
came
out
of
Egypt
(Exodus
15:2021).
The
noble
wife
described
in
Proverbs
31
was
wise,
a
beloved
mother,
a
home-based
businesswoman,
charitable,
strong,
and
unafraid
of
heavy
work.
Queen
Esther
used
her
position
as
the
wife
of
the
Persian
king
to
save
her
people,
the
Israelites.
And
don't
forget
Tabitha,
who
was
famous
for
her
"Light"
shining
in
her
day,
brighter
than
most
men.
(Acts
9:36)
Rev.
Branham
then
says
that
the
Sabbath
(feasts
and
holidays
he
calls
them)
were
a
type
of
Christ,
and
because
of
these
there
is
no
place
for
a
denomination.
He
never
really
says
WHY
this
is
a
type
of
Christ
or
WHY
they
are
condemning
denominations:
Now,
all
the
feasts,
the
holidays,
all
the
tabernacle,
all
the
wood,
everything
in
the
tabernacle,
everything
typed
Christ.
All
the
offerings,
all
the
laws,
everything
was
in
type
of
Christ.
We've
been
through
it,
time
after
time,
here
at
the
tabernacle.
Then
we
see,
by
these,
that
every
creed,
church,
and
denomination
is
left
far
behind.
It's
not
even
in
the
race,
at
all.
Every
creed,
every
church,
every
denomination,
is
completely
left
out.
There
is
no
place
for
them
at
all.
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Though there is a 'thread' of truth to this type, it was not a type of Christ himself, but instead a type of the event we are
all
looking
towards,
all
denominations!
It
was
a
'type'
of
resting
on
the
seventh
day
of
creation,
and
a
'type'
of
entering
into
God's
rest.
For
we
who
have
believed
enter
that
rest,
as
he
has
said,
As
I
swore
in
my
wrath,
They
shall
not
enter
my
rest,
although
his
works
were
finished
from
the
foundation
of
the
world.
For
he
has
somewhere
spoken
of
the
seventh
day
in
this
way:
And
God
rested
on
the
seventh
day
from
all
his
works.
And
again
in
this
passage
he
said,
They
shall
not
enter
my
rest.
Since
therefore
it
remains
for
some
to
enter
it,
and
those
who
formerly
received
the
good
news
failed
to
enter
because
of
disobedience,
again
he
appoints
a
certain
day,
Today,
saying
through
David
so
long
afterward,
in
the
words
already
quoted,
Today,
if
you
hear
his
voice,
do
not
harden
your
hearts.
For
if
Joshua
had
given
them
rest,
God[a]
would
not
have
spoken
of
another
day
later
on.
So
then,
there
remains
a
Sabbath
rest
for
the
people
of
God,
for
whoever
has
entered
God's
rest
has
also
rested
from
his
works
as
God
did
from
his.
Let
us
therefore
strive
to
enter
that
rest,
so
that
no
one
may
fall
by
the
same
sort
of
disobedience.
Hebrews
4:3-11
This
is
not
Biblical.
He
missed
one
VERY
important
fact,
however.
In
the
Old
Testament,
the
NAME
of
God
was
HOLY.
To
speak
His
name
aloud
was
forbidden
during
the
days
of
the
Old
Testament.
The
proper
name
of
God,
YHVH,
is
found
almost
8000
times
in
the
Tanakh
(Old
Testament).
Because
the
Name
of
God
is
sacred
and
holy,
translators
replaced
it
with
LORD,
or
similar
words
that
could
be
said
aloud
without
fear.
They
did
not
want
the
Lord's
name
taken
in
vain.
Rev.
Branham
tried
to
say
that
the
name
of
Jesus
Christ
was
the
name
of
the
God
in
the
Old
Testament,
which
is
false.
The
name
of
God
was
JHVH.
The
name
Jesus
means,
literally,
"JHVH
Rescues."
Rev.
Branham
then
gives
a
false
impression
of
ALL
denominational
churches.
I
almost
have
doubt
as
to
whether
or
not
this
event
happened,
but
even
if
it
did,
it
was
by
far
the
minority
and
not
the
majority:
A
man
called
me
not
long
ago,
in
Beaumont,
Texas.
He
said,
"Mr.
Branham,
if
your
name
is
not
on
our
church
book,
you
cannot
go
to
Heaven."
Would
you
ever
think
of
that?
Don't
you
believe
such
a
thing
as
that.
They
think
you
have
to
belong
to
that
certain
church
or
you
cannot
go
to
Heaven.
That's
wrong.
To
believe
that,
is
antichrist.
I'll
say
this:
if
you
believe
such
a
spirit,
you're
lost.
That's
a
good
sign
you
are
lost,
because
it's
taking
away
from
what
God
did.
God
never
put
His
Name
in
any
church.
He
put
It
in
His
Son,
Christ
Jesus,
when
He
and
His
Son
became
One.
That's
the
genuine
place
of
worship.
No
other
foundations
was
laid,
no
other
rock.
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The truth of the matter is that there is a very important reason behind joining your local church. Not that you are joining 'the denomination', but that you are to be counted among the sheep for your particular pastor, and allowed to vote on the decisions made by the church. If you start to stray, it signifies that you are willing for the pastor to call on you, lead you back to Christ, and not simply going to church with no direction.
The
funny
part
is
that
the
Branham
Cult
churches
have
the
same
doctrine
and
do
not
even
know
it.
They
would
never
allow
someone
from
off
the
streets
to
come
in
on
election
day
and
vote
in
church
affairs.
If
a
person
visits
a
few
times,
the
pastor
would
never
call
on
them
to
help
them
out
(assuming
that
he
was
a
shepherd
who
looked
after
his
sheep;
my
Branham
Cult
pastor
was
NOT).
By
paying
tithe
to
the
Branham
Cult
churches,
they
have
considered
you
to
have
'joined'
their
church
and
therefore
allowed
to
vote.
They
ignore
all
votes
by
non-tithe-paying
individuals,
who
have
not
'joined'
their
church.
Rev.
Branham
Then
gets
into
the
seven
feasts,
saying
that
they
were
not
intended
for
the
denominations:
Notice,
all
seven
Jewish
feasts
was
kept
in
the
same
place.
They
never
kept
one
feast
here
for
the
Methodist,
and
one
over
here
for
the
Baptist,
one
over
there
for
the
Presbyterian,
one
back
here
for
the
Catholic,
and
one
for
the
Protestant.
All
seven
feasts
was
kept
in
the
same
place.
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This
is
hypocritical,
because
Rev.
Branham
himself
did
not
honor
the
Jewish
feasts.
No
Branham
Cult
church
to
this
day
teaches
that
we
should
cease
all
work
for
an
entire
week
seven
times
a
year!
Rev.
Branham
Then
makes
an
astounding
statement,
one
that
has
good
truth
to
it:
My
friends,
I
don't
want
to
hurt
feelings,
but
I
am
responsible
for
a
Message,
and,
that
Message
is,
"Come
out
of
this
mess!"
And
if
I
ask
you
to
come
out,
where
am
I
going
to
take
you
to?
Would
I
take
you
to
the
Branham
Tabernacle?
It's
as
much
fault
as
any
of
the
rest
of
them.
But
there's
one
place
I
can
take
you
to,
where
you're
safe
and
protected
from
death,
that's
in
Jesus
Christ,
God's
place
of
worship.
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In
Rev.
Branham's
distorted
view,
the
denominational
churches
thought
they
were
going
to
heaven
because
they
were
part
of
a
church.
The
Branham
Tabernacle
thought
they
were
going
to
heaven
because
they
were
part
of
a
church.
If
he
thought
it
was
bad
then,
how
about
now?
There
are
local
churches
that
will
not
even
FELLOWSHIP
with
other
churches
because
they
have
taken
'The
Mark
of
the
Beast'
One
of
Rev.
Branham's
many
versions
of
'the
mark
of
the
beast'
was
becoming
stagnant
in
your
church,
thinking
that
you
are
going
to
heaven
because
you
have
'joined.'
If
this
is
the
case,
Rev.
Branham
has
just
condemned
almost
every
Branham
Cult
church
on
the
face
of
this
planet.
Rev.
Branham
also
taught
that
you
must
be
perfect
in
order
to
make
it
to
heaven:
He
must
also
be
"without
a
blemish,"
as
I
said.
No
denomination
can
claim
that.
They
do;
they're
antichrist.
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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God (Eph 2:8)
The
summary
statement
of
this
sermon
is
correct.
We
are
ALL
in
the
Body
of
Christ
by
faith
in
Him:
Now
we
want
to
find
how
we
get
into
Him.
How
do
we
get
into
this
place
of
worship?
First
Corinthians
12
settles
it,
for,
"By
one
Spirit!"
Not
by
one
church,
not
by
one
creed,
not
by
one
pastor,
not
by
one
bishop,
not
by
one
priest.
But,
"By
one
Holy
Spirit
we
are
all
baptized
into
one
Body,"
which
is
the
Body
of
Jesus
Christ,
and
subject
to
every
gift
that
lays
in
that
Body.
Yes,
sir!
No
joining,
no
reciting
of
creeds,
no
pumping
up,
letting
down,
handshaking,
or
nothing
else.
But,
by
Birth
we
are
baptized
into
the
Body
of
Jesus
Christ!
Amen.
"By
one
Holy
Spirit
we
are
all
baptized
into
one
Body."
And
what
is
that
Body?
"In
the
beginning
was
the
Word,
and
the
Word
was
with
God,
and
the
Word
was
God.
And
the
Word
was
made
flesh
and
dwelt
among
us."
How
can
we
be
in
that
Body
and
deny
one
Word
of
It,
or
place
It
off
somewhere
else
that It's not even in the Body? How can we ever do it? God's chosen place! 65-0220 GOD'S.CHOSEN.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP
Through
Christ,
we
are
all
in
one
Body.
From
the
Catholics
to
the
Baptists
to
the
Methodists,
ALL
who
God
has
given
grace
through
faith
in
Jesus
Christ.
The
question
is,
why
did
Rev.
Branham
try
to
prove
otherwise
in
this
very
same
sermon?
Rev.
Branham
then
says
that
the
baptism
of
the
day
was
all
wrong.
He
said
this
was
Matthew
speaking,
but
remember
this
was
Jesus
Speaking:
When
Matthew
said,
"Go
ye
therefore,
teach
all
nations,
baptizing
them
into
the
Name
of
the
Father,
of
the
Son,
and
of
the
Holy
Ghost."
How
it's
been
misinterpreted
today,
and
say,
"In
the
name
of
the
Father,
name
of
the
Son,
name
of
the
Holy
Ghost."
It's
not
even
written.
It's,
"In
the
Name,"
singular,
"of
the
Father,
Son,
Holy
Ghost."
Father
is
not
a
name,
Son
is
not
a
name,
Holy
Ghost
is
not
a
name;
it's
a
title.
Ten
days
later,
Peter
stood
up
and
said,
"Repent,
every
one
of
you,
and
be
baptized
in
the
Name
of
Jesus
Christ."
Then
did
he
do
what
He
told
him
not
to
do?
He
did
what
He
told
him
to
do.
The
Name
of
the
Father,
Son,
and
Holy
Ghost
is
"the
Lord
Jesus
Christ."
Every
person
in
the
New
Testament
was
baptized
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
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He is correct about one thing: "It's in the Name." The word used for "name" was also the word used for "authority." It was in the authority of the divine God. The name of the Father was JHVH. The name of the son was "JHVH rescues" (Jesus). The Holy Spirit had no name in the Bible other than simply 'Holy Spirit.' Baptism is done in the authority of God, no matter what words are spoken. Otherwise, if you count on the words spoken, then you essentially are speaking words of enchantment. Rev. Branham then makes an incorrect account of history:
Not one person in the Bible was ever baptized in the titles of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. That never did come into existence until the Nicaea creed was put on at Nicaea, Rome. It was an order of the Catholic church, found, vindicated the same thing, in the catechism. I've got it, that's right, Facts Of Our Faith, and so forth, that it absolutely is a Roman Catholic creed. 65-0220 GOD'S.CHOSEN.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP
This
is
not
historically
accurate.
The
Didache,
written
by
the
apostles,
predates
the
Nicene
Crede.
It
was
written
in
the
same
time
period
as
the
events
in
the
book
of
Acts.
It
states
very
clearly
for
baptism:
"in
the
Name
of
the
Father,
and
of
the
Son
and
of
the
Holy
Spirit"[17]
in
living
water
(that
is,
natural
flowing
water)
It
is
interesting
that
Rev.
Branham
would
give
this
statement:
In
the
beginning,
God
fortified
His
people
with
His
Word.
One
Word,
misconstrued,
caused
every
death,
every
heartache,
every
sorrow.
Eve,
she
never
broke
a
sentence;
she
broke
a
Word.
When
Jesus
come
in
the
middle
of
the
Book...
That
was
the
first
of
the
Book.
When
Jesus
come
in
the
middle
of
the
Book,
what'd
He
say?
"It
is
written
that
man
shall
not
live
by
bread
alone,
but
by
every
Word
that
proceedeth
out
of
the
mouth
of
God."
In
the
last
of
the
Book,
Revelations
the
22nd
chapter,
the
18th
verse,
the
very
last
part
of
the
Bible,
Jesus
speaks
Himself,
said,
"I
testify
that
if
any
man
shall
take
one
Word
out
of
this
Book,
or
add
one
word
to
It,
his
part
will
be
taken
out
of
the
Book
of
Life,"
because
he's
a
false
prophet
and
has
misconstrued
the
people,
and
their
blood
will
be
accounted
to
his
hand,
of
doing
so.
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When you consider the fact that Rev. Branham himself added the words "To Dwell In" to Matthew 3:17, he has essentially condemned HIMSELF as a false prophet!
Rev.
Branham
then
goes
into
his
"light
about
the
evening
time"
teaching,
which
is
scripturally
NOT
for
how
Rev.
Branham
intended
to
use
it:
Amen!
It
shall
be
Light
about
the
evening
time,
God's
only
chosen
place
to
worship.
Oh,
what's
this
Message
come
to,
what
is
He
going
to
do?
And
in
his
day
it
shall
be
Light
at
the
evening
time,
and
(what?)
to
welcome
His
children
back
home
to
the
true
promised
Land,
by
the
same
sign
of
the
Pillar
of
Fire
that
led
the
children
of
Israel
through
the
wilderness.
God's
chosen
place
to
worship,
Jesus
Christ.
That's
the
only
place
there
is.
That's
the
only
Name
God
has
for
salvation.
That's
what
He
has
named
the
family
in
Heaven,
when
it's
on
earth,
is
Jesus
Christ.
O
church,
O
people,
sinner
friend,
don't
trust
in
nothing
else
but
Jesus
Christ.
Don't
trust
in
any
preacher.
Don't
trust
in
anybody
else
to
save
you.
Trust
not
in
any
church,
any
creed,
any
denomination.
Trust
only
in
Jesus
Christ,
for
He
is
the
Light
of
the
hour.
Let
us
bow
our
heads.
It
shall
be
Light
about
the
evening
time,
The
path
to
Glory
you
will
surely
find;
In
the
water
way
is
the
Light
today,
Buried
in
the
precious
Name
of
Jesus.
Young
and
old,
repent
of
all
your
sins,
The
Holy
Ghost
will
surely
enter
in;
The
evening
Lights
have
come,
It
is
the
facts
that
God
and
Christ
are
One.
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This is one that Rev. Branham got confused on several times, and people even sing songs about it. The Light at the Evening Time doctrine even spun off Evening Light churches. Zechariah 14 describes the light at the evening time, but it is after the battle of Armegeddon. This is after the coming of the Lord. Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. 2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations
as when he fights on a day of battle. 4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. 5 And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost.[a] 7 And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light. Zechariah 14
This
sermon
is
one
of
the
most
highly
regarded
sermons
in
Rev.
Branham's
lineup,
because
he
revealed
the
great
'mystery'
regarding
marriage
and
divorce.
For
many,
this
is
the
dividing
line
in
the
sand
between
the
Branham
Cult
churches
and
the
'Mark
of
the
Beast'
churches
of
the
'denominational
world.'
The
odd
part
is
that
he
says
that
this
message
was
only
for
his
church,
and
was
not
for
other
churches.
If
the
word
came
down
from
the
Lord,
it
would
be
for
everyone,
not
a
little
commune.
Branham
considered
himself
to
be
an
expert
because
of
his
divine
word
of
God,
yet
he
was
a
very
poor
example
of
what
marriage
should
be
when
you
consider
his
years
past:
Hannah,
[Hagar]
one
time,
she
had
a
little,
thirsty
baby.
It
was
dying.
She
wondered
how
her
mistress,
Mrs.
Abraham,
Sarah,
how
that
they
could
treat
her
like
that.
She'd
been
a
true,
little
worker
for
them.
And
legally
(when
polygamy
was
legal),
she
had
married
him,
just
as
legally
as
it
could
be.
Polygamy
was
not
legal.
There
was
no
law
given
at
that
time;
the
Law
was
given
to
Moses.
Gods
only
rule
regarding
marriage
at
that
time
was
that
marriage
made
a
couple
one
flesh.
Speaking
to
someone
the
other
day
about
polygamy.
I
said
the
nation
in
a
whole
would
be
better
off
if
it
practiced
polygamy.
It
would.
We're
the
highest
rated
nation
in
the
world
with
divorces,
marrying
and
intermarrying,
marrying
and
intermarrying.
Because
we
try
to
make
the
men
of
the
world
outside
coincide
with
Christian
doctrine,
and
you
can't
put
the
nature
of
a
lamb
in
a
pig.
Polygamy
would
be
better
off
for
him.
You
may
not
believe
it
but
God
would
look
at
polygamy
and
excuse
it
a
lot
quicker
than
what
He
would...Now,
remember,
don't
you
say
that
I
believe
in
polygamy;
I
don'tThe
Pharisee
said
to
Jesus,
said,
"Why
did
Moses
suffer
a
writing
of
divorcement?"
Said,
"He
did
it
because
the
hardness
of
your
heart."
Right.
But
it
wasn't
so
from
the
beginning,
never
will
be.
God
did
it
because
of
the
hardness
of
their
heart.
But
in
the
nations
where
they
have
polygamy
the
God
gave
man
marriage
all
men
and
not
just
Jews.
He
gave
marriage
to
Gentiles
also.
Rev.
Branham
is
promoting
Mormon
doctrine
in
this
example,
and
God
never
instituted
polygamy.
God
cannot
have
two
standards,
and
Gods
commandment
was
that
man
and
woman
would
be
one
flesh.
Every
example
given
in
the
Bible
references
one
husband
and
one
wife:
Adam
and
Eve,
Christ
and
his
Bride,
and
more.
Branham
did
not
understand
the
roles
or
the
customs
of
the
Bible
he
claimed
to
know
so
well:
You
notice
the
difference
in
there?
Sarah
tried
to
give
Abraham,
or
give
God,
rather,
a
little
bit
of
help,
by
herself.
She
thought,
you
know,
that,
otherwise
than
what
God
promised.
"Now,
you
know,
I'm
an
old
woman,
but
Hagar
here
is
a
beautiful
woman.
Abraham
won't
mind
marrying
her,
too.
So,
you
know,
that'll--that'll
help
God.
That'll
help
God,
'cause
Hagar,
here,
she
is
probably
only
twenty
years
old.
She
is
my
maid.
And
you
know
what
I'll
do?
I'll
give
her
to
my
husband,
for
a
wife,"
'cause
polygamy
was
legal.
So
he
said...
"I'll
give
her,
and
she'll
have
a
baby
by
my
husband,
and
then
I'll
take
the
baby.
And
that's
the
one,
God
promised."
divorce courts are at ebb, low. But in here where we're trying to make and govern this country as a nation, because being a Christian nation, but the name of Christian nation doesn't make it a Christian nation. And you cannot govern the world by the rules of God. You can't. I have no--nothing against a sinner drinking. I have nothing against a sinner committing adultery, nothing against the sinner doing this. But what I'm talking about is these people who are supposed to be Christians and then doing that.
In
other
places,
Branham
has
divine
revelation
that
Sarah
was
turned
into
a
much
younger,
beautiful
woman.
Not
only
does
this
conflict
with
Branhams
own
words,
but
Hagar
never
became
Abrams
wife.
As
the
custom
of
the
day,
Abram
had
Hagar,
but
the
child
would
be
considered
Sarahs
child.
In
other
places,
he
reiterated
that
Hagars
situation
was
legal:
So
was
Hagar
misunderstood.
And
she
had
her
child,
little
Ishmael,
that
was
the
fruit
of
her
womb,
from
a
legal
marriage to her husband Abraham. And she was--she was a slave girl. And she had been given by her mistress, Sarah, to Abraham, to wife; which, polygamy was legal in them days. And she lawfully had married the man, because she had been given to him. She had bore the child, just what their hopes was. There's nothing the woman had done out of the way. 63-0122 REMEMBERING.THE.LORD
Polygamy
was
not
legal
as
Rev.
Branham
claimed.
Hagar
was
not
misunderstood,
she
harassed
Sarah
because
Sarah
was
barren.
Hagar
was
dismissed,
not
divorced,
because
she
was
not
married
to
Abram.
He
was
not
consistent
on
his
teaching,
either.
Though
polygamy
was
legal,
he
considered
it
to
be
adultery:
Notice
Sarah,
the
tassel
that
had
the
pollen,
that
Jewish
nation
raised
from
her.
From,
come
out
of
Sarah,
brought
Isaac;
through
Isaac,
brought
Jacob;
Jacob
brought
the
patriarchs;
and
through
the
patriarchs,
brought
forth
a
nation.
71
Mary,
the
virgin's
faith,
produced
the
true,
spiritual
Seed
Word
made
flesh.
See?
The
three
women,
three
women
that
this
Seed
was
carried
through.
One
of
them
was
actually
an
adultery,
under
polygamy;
the
second
was
a
freewoman;
and
the
third
one
had
no
sex
affair
at
all,
but
by
faith
she
believed
the
Word
of
God.
Hagar,
Sarah,
both
Sarah
and
Hagar,
was
sex;
but
Mary
was
virgin,
by
the
power
of
the
promised
Word
of
God.
That's
right.
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THE.SEED.IS.NOT.HEIR.WITH.THE.SHUCK
How
could
Ishmael
be
the
product
of
adultery
if
polygamy
were
legal?
He
starts
out
with
a
correct
statement.
Had
he
ended
the
sermon
here,
his
words
would
have
been
correct:
And
there
is
two
great
schools
on
this.
And
if
there
is
two
questions,
there
is
either
one
of
them
got
to
be
right,
or
neither
one
of
them
is
right.
So
we're
going
to
try
to
look
to
the
Word
of
God,
this
morning,
to
settle
this.
To
me,
if
it's
a
Bible
question,
the
Bible
surely
has
the
answer
to
it.
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So
first
before
we
go
through
the
sermon,
let's
examine
whether
or
not
Rev.
Branham
actually
goes
to
the
Bible
for
the
answer.
This
is
a
very
long
sermon,
one
of
the
longest
that
he
gave.
You
would
think
that
it
would
be
PACKED
with
Bible
scriptures
to
prove
this
'mysterious'
point,
but
there
are
only
a
very
few
scriptures
--
and
most
have
absolutely
NOTHING
to
do
with
marriage
and
divorce:
Here
are
the
scriptures
that
Rev.
Branham
uses
that
actually
pertain
to
marriage
and
divorce
today:
1.
Acts
2:38
--
Baptism
in
Jesus
name
[authority]
2.
Matthew
28:19
--
Baptism
in
the
name
[authority]
of
the
Father,
Son,
and
Holy
Ghost
3.
Matthew
19:8
-
Divorce
was
allowed
4.
Matthew
5:31-32
--
Divorce
and
adultery
5.
1
Corinthians
7:10
--
The
wife
should
remain
with
their
husbands
Here are the scriptures that Rev. Branham uses that have nothing to do with marriage and divorce today: 1. Genesis 3:16 - Women's submission to their husbands 2. Romans 9:14 -- Justice to Jacob and Esau 3. 1 Timothy 2:9-15 -- Modest apparel, no braided hair, profess godliness, submission to husband, 4. 1 Corinthians 14:34 -- Women silent in churches 5. Leviticus 21:7 -- Priests [not others] are not to marry divorced women or women who've had sex 6. Ezekiel 44:22 -- Priests [not others] are not to marry divorced women or women who've had sex Based on the scriptures he gives alone, there is not a very convincing argument in either way. So what does Rev. Branham do? Belittle the women! Let's go through it. He starts out speaking about his first experience, a pillar of fire hanging in a bush when he was seven:
It's
odd
that
this
story
conflicts
with
his
first
story
given
in
1947:
I
was
11
when
I
was
first
called,
he
said.
I
was
carrying
water
and
a
tree
talked
to
me.
When
I
was
14,
I
tried
to
smoke
a
cigarette.
A
man
with
a
long
white
beard
and
flowing
robe
visited
me.
He
told
me
not
to
smoke.
I
haven't
touched
a
cigarette
since
then.
Then,
11
months
ago
[1947],
I
got
a
call
so
insistent
that
I
went
out
and
started
healing
people.
Associated
Press,
interview
with
William
Marrion
Branham
(who
said
he
was
Henry
Branham)
I was called when I was just a little boy. And in this was a visible, audible sign given me, a--a Pillar of Fire hanging in a bush, at seven years old, right here on the Utica Pike. My father was working for Mr. O. H. Wathen that just recently died. And you've read the book, you know the story. And from that time... Down on the river then It appeared visibly before the people. And now It's had the picture taken, many times, and it hangs in Washington, D.C., as a copyright, in the Religious Hall of Art, as the only supernatural Being that was ever scientifically proven to be photographed; same Pillar of Fire, exactly in the same look and every way, that brought Israel out of Egypt. I believe It's Jesus Christ in Spirit form, in the Sonship of God. 65-0221M MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE
You'll notice how the story changed. Tree or bush? One experience at age seven, or two experiences at 11 and 14? Split the difference and call it seven? He says the 'halo picture' hangs in Washington DC in the Religious Hall of Art. There is and never was such a place. He says that it was authenticated as the 'only supernatural being that was ever scientifically proven to be photographed.' Not true. George J. Lacey was paid by the Branham campaign to authenticate that the photograph was not doctored. His statement simply says that it was not doctored. He then sets himself up for a slam-dunk, though you don't catch it unless you see both halves:
Remember, our Lord Jesus Christ never did identify Himself as the Son of God. He said, "You said I was; to this end I was born," and so forth, but He never identified Himself. {...} Later: People has called me a prophet. I don't call myself no prophet, because I would be daresn't to say that, but I have... Say, I can say this, that the Lord has let me foresee things, tell things that has happened, will happen, is happening, and not one time has it ever failed, in the tens of thousands of times. Everything that He said would happen, happened. We all know that. If there is a person in this visible audience this morning, or anywhere, can say one time it failed, you're at liberty to stand up and say so. But if everybody knows that every time, of the thousands of times, it's been perfectly right, say, "amen." [Congregation says, Amen] 65-0221M MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE
Rev.
Branham
then
places
emphasis
on
the
'pillar
of
fire'
since
he
claimed
that
his
own
'halo'
was
the
'pillar
of
fire.':
And
after
His
death,
burial,
and
resurrection.
Saul
of
Tarsus
was
on
his
road
down
to
Damascus,
to
persecute
the--the
Christians,
because
they
were
teaching
things
contrary
to
what
they
had
been
taught.
And
he
was
a
great
warrior;
under
Gamaliel,
one
of
the
outstanding
teachers
of
the
day,
in
their
school,
their
monastery;
and
a
great
man,
and
an
officer
of
the
church.
And
it
was
there
that
a
great
Light,
the
Pillar
of
Fire
again,
struck
him
down,
in
the
middle
of
the
day.
And
a
Voice
said,
"Saul,
Saul,
why
persecutest
thou
Me?"
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Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your Law, I said, you are gods? If he called them gods to whom the word of God cameand Scripture cannot be broken do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, You are blaspheming, because I said, I am the Son of God? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.
Let's
take
a
look
at
the
scripture
to
see
if
there
was
a
'pillar
of
fire':
But
Saul,
still
breathing
threats
and
murder
against
the
disciples
of
the
Lord,
went
to
the
high
priest
and
asked
him
for
letters
to
the
synagogues
at
Damascus,
so
that
if
he
found
any
belonging
to
the
Way,
men
or
women,
he
might
bring
them
bound
to
Jerusalem.
Now
as
he
went
on
his
way,
he
approached
Damascus,
and
suddenly
a
light
from
heaven
shone
around
him.
And
falling
to
the
ground
he
heard
a
voice
saying
to
him,
Saul,
Saul,
why
are
you
persecuting
me?
And
he
said,
Who
are
you,
Lord?
And
he
said,
I
am
Jesus,
whom
you
are
persecuting.
But
rise
and
enter
the
city,
and
you
will
be
told
what
you
are
to
do.
The
men
who
were
traveling
with
him
stood
speechless,
hearing
the
voice
but
seeing
no
one.
Acts
9
Notice
that
there
is
NO
pillar
of
fire.
It
is
very
good
that
he
combines
Malachi
4
with
Luke
17:
And
now,
in
this
time,
whatever
the
Lord
has.
If
this
isn't
the
thing
that
He
prophesied
of,
of
Malachi
4
and
of
also
of
Luke
17,
and
many
other
Scriptures
that's
to
happen
in
this
last
day,
may
I
say
this
in
closing,
it's
laid
the
foundation
for
the
man
when
he
will
come.
So
I
am
very
thankful
that
God
Almighty,
if
it
be
that
way,
has
let
me
do
a
little
something,
in
my
uneducated
condition,
to
show
my
appreciation
of
His
love
to
me,
my
love
to
Him,
and
our
love
to
the
people.
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When
you
read
Luke
17
in
full
context,
it
is
speaking
warnings
of
deception.
Hopefully
some
in
the
congregation
read
the
entire
chapter
and
did
not
simply
take
him
at
his
word.
Rev.
Branham
then
starts
talking
about
the
original
sin:
This
Scripture,
this
question,
confronted
Jesus
at
the
very
beginning
of
His
ministry.
And
it
confronted
Moses
at
the
very
beginning
of
his
ministry.
It's
a
foremost
question
in
believers'
hearts.
The
sinner
doesn't
care.
But
it's
to
believers,
because
the
believer
is
trying
to
do
all
that
he
knows
how
to
do
to
live
right
before
God.
Therefore
it,
any
question
comes
up
on
religion,
then
the
Marriage
And
Divorce
case
comes
up,
(why?)
because
it
is
the
cause
of
the
original
sin.
That's
where
sin started. And that's the reason it's brought up every time, because it is the very beginning of sin. 65-0221M MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE
This
is
not
only
not
scriptural,
it
conflicts
with
what
Rev.
Branham
himself
taught.
He
earlier
said
that
sex
was
the
original
sin
as
he
had
learned
from
the
Kaballah.
Rev.
Branham
Then
starts
to
refer
to
the
seven
seals
that
he
plagiarized
from
Clarence
Larkin:
We
have
also
two
thoughts
of
this
Marriage
And
Divorce.
Now,
that,
our
Lord
has
opened
the
Seven-Seal
mystery
of
His
Word
to
us,
in
this
last
days.
Now,
many
of
you,
this
might
be
Greek
to
you,
but
my
church
understands.
By
what?
And
you've
heard
of
the
visions
and
what
taken
place.
And
the
question
is
a
Bible
question,
we
are
invited
here
to
believe
there
must
be
a
true
answer
to
the
whole
hidden
secret
that's
been
hid
since
the
foundation
of
the
world.
And
the
Bible
prophesies
and
says
that
in
this
day
these
secrets
would
be
made
known.
Revelations
10,
"And
at
the
sounding
of
the
seventh
angel,
the
Laodicea
messenger,
the
mysteries
of
God
would
be
made
known."
And
this
is
the
last
age,
which
is
Laodicea.
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He
speaks
of
his
visions,
which
have
all
been
proven
to
be
false
prophecy,
but
then
makes
a
very
incorrect
statement
about
Revelations
10.
The
'mystery'
of
the
seventh
seal
was
not
for
this
time,
it
was
for
AFTER
the
tribulation.
Let's
take
a
look
at
the
Book
of
Revelation:
Then
the
sixth
angel
blew
his
trumpet,
and
I
heard
a
voice
from
the
four
horns
of
the
golden
altar
before
God,
saying
to
the
sixth
angel
who
had
the
trumpet,
Release
the
four
angels
who
are
bound
at
the
great
river
Euphrates.
So
the
four
angels,
who
had
been
prepared
for
the
hour,
the
day,
the
month,
and
the
year,
were
released
to
kill
a
third
of
mankind.
The
number
of
mounted
troops
was
twice
ten
thousand
times
ten
thousand;
I
heard
their
number.
And
this
is
how
I
saw
the
horses
in
my
vision
and
those
who
rode
them:
they
wore
breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire[c] and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound. The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. Revelations 9
Not scriptural. It was the man, not the woman. Romans 5:12 says, "Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned."
He
then
gets
into
his
Gnostic
doctrines
that
flow
all
the
way
into
Buddhism:
Did
you
know
Satan
was
co-equal
with
God
one
day?
Sure
was,
all
but
a
creator;
he
was
everything,
stood
at
the
right
hand
of
God,
in
the
Heavens,
the
great
leading
Cherubim.
Notice
the
reason
that
she
did
this,
she
was
not
in
the
original
creation.
She
is
not
in
God's
original
creation;
she
is
a
by- product.
Therefore,
"at
the
beginning,"
as
Jesus
referred
to
it,
she
was
not
original
creative
being
of
God.
She
is
a
by-product
of
a
man,
when
Jesus
referred
to
"the
beginning."
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Satan
used
to
be
God's
archangel
and
musician,
but
was
jealous
of
God
until
he
had
a
third
of
God's
angels
deceived
with
him.
He
tried
to
take
over,
and
was
punished
by
being
thrown
down
to
earth.
That
same
God
that
had
the
power
to
throw
him
to
earth
is
alive
today.
All
of
Satans
gifts
and
powers
were
stripped
from
him
before
he
was
sent
to
earth.
It
is
only
when
we
let
him
come
into
our
hearts
and
minds
that
he
even
has
power.
God
is
so
far
more
powerful
than
Satan,
that
he
will
rise
us
up
greater
than
him
according
to
Isaiah
14:
They
that
see
thee
shall
narrowly
look
upon
thee,
and
consider
thee,
saying,
Is
this
the
man
that
made
the
earth
to
tremble,
that
did
shake
kingdoms;
nothing designed, in all creation, that can stoop as low as a woman can. She can tear a man's heart to pieces easier than anything else there is in the world, is his wife. Let that nice little wife get to running around with some other man; look at that fellow sitting there with his children, the tears dropping out of his eyes. She is designed that way. She is designed to do this. There is no hog, no dog, or no other animal, designed like her or can stoop as low as she can stoop. Now, that is true. With regards to my sisters, I just want you to watch. {...} Now, there is nothing can stoop like her, and she is designed so that she can be deceiving. And Satan is really working on her today, in these last days, because he is her designer. 65-0221M MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)
Some of Rev. Branham's view of women comes from the fact that he mistakenly thought we were living under the old covenant, and the Mosaic laws applied to us. This is not the case in the new covenant, however. Let's examine the New Testament: By the time of Jesus, women no longer had the freedoms and status they had enjoyed in the Old Testament era. Jewish society had become very much male-dominated. Women were considered to be inferior beings and were assigned almost the same status as slaves. They were not educated, not allowed to take any leadership roles, and confined to mostly domestic duties. But two women of this time became models of faithfulness and virtue. Mary, the mother of Jesus, put aside her fears, doubts and shame to take on the role of mother of the Messiah. She simply placed her whole trust in God (Luke 1:26- 38). Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, also put her faith in God (Luke 1:39-45).
Jesus'
view
of
women
was
very
different
from
what
was
customary
at
the
time.
Most
women
were
constrained
to
their
duties
in
the
home.
But
Jesus
allowed
women
to
travel
with
Him
and
His
twelve
disciples
(Luke
8:1-3).
Jews
were
forbidden
speak
to
Samaritans,
and
certainly
not
to
Samaritan
women.
But
remember
that
Jesus
had
a
long
conversation
with
a
Samaritan
woman
at
Jacob's
well.
(John
4:4-30,
39-42).
Jewish
women
were
generally
not
educated.
They
were
not
allowed
any
active
role
in
the
religious
affairs.
Mary
sat
at
Jesus'
feet
in
the
role
of
a
disciple
while
Jesus
taught
her,
and
asked
Martha
do
the
same
(Luke
10:38-42).
The
female
followers
of
Jesus
included
Mary
Magdalene,
Mary
the
mother
of
James
and
Joses,
Salome,
Joanna,
Susanna
and
others.
Remember
that
some
remained
with
Jesus
to
comfort
Him
as
He
died
--
when
all
His
male
apostles
had
fled
in
terror
(Matthew
27:55-56,
Mark
15:40-41).
It
was
the
women,
not
the
men,
who
were
first
to
discover
that
Jesus
had
risen
from
the
dead
(Matthew
28:1-10,
Mark
16:1-7;
Luke
24:1-11).
The
role
of
women
cannot
be
abused
in
the
way
Rev.
Branham
does
in
this
sermon,
God
will
one
day
punish
those
who
punish
their
women
with
oppression.
He
then
says
that
the
women
are
lower
than
the
animals.
He
gives
references
of
how
even
animals
do
not
have
sex
for
enjoyment:
No
animal
can
be
immoral.
You
call
the
dog
a
"slut,"
the
female
dog,
you
call
the
male...
hog
a
"sow,"
but
her
morals
is
a
million
miles
beyond
many
Hollywood
star.
That's
how
low
she
is
designed
to
stoop.
She
can't...
Just
think
of
this
now.
There
is
nothing
in
the
world,
made
in
God's
creation,
that
can
be
immoral,
stoop
that
low.
You
say,
"Wait
a
minute,
'man'!"
We're
going
to
get
to
that.
The
woman
has
to
say
"yes."
Notice,
there
is
nothing
designed
to
stoop
so
low,
or
be
filthy,
but
a
woman.
A
dog
can't
do
it,
a
hog
can't
do
it,
a
bird
can't
do
it.
No
animal
is
immoral,
nor
it
can
be,
for
it
is
not
designed so it can be. A female hog can't be immoral, a female dog can't be immoral, a female bird can't be immoral. A woman is the only thing can do it. 65-0221M MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE
Any
person
who
owns
a
dog
will
tell
you
that
an
animal
enjoys
sex,
and
that
their
lower
leg
is
sometimes
an
object
of
attraction.
Rev.
Branham
Then
stops
to
condemn
beauty.
He
had
always
taught
that,
quoted
saying,
"Beauty
is
of
the
devil
(64-0401)":
Let
me
stop
here
just
for
a
moment.
"Pretty!"
Did
you
know,
at
the
first
destruction,
internationally,
of
the
world,
or
worldwide,
was
because
of
pretty
women?
"When
the
sons
of
God
saw
the
daughters
of
men
were
fair,
they
taken
unto
them
women."
Is
that
right?
Have
you
noticed
the
increase
of
beauty
of
women
in
this
day?
I
have
seen
the
picture
of
Pearl
Bryan,
which
was
supposed
to
be
the
prettiest
woman
in
the
nation,
at
one
time.
There
isn't
a
teen-age
girl
in
this
school
but
what
would
out-shadow
her,
when
it
comes
to
beauty.
The
increase
of
the
beauty
of
women
is
showing
the
time
of
deception.
When
did
the
church
look
any
more
prettier
than
it
does
today?
Everything
is
featuring
great,
big
fine
buildings,
and
millions
of
this
and
millions
of
that.
Don't
you
see,
"she,"
the
deception!
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This is not only unscriptural, it can be compared to the children of Israel grumbling and complaining. EVERYTHING God has created is beautiful. Not only men and women, but trees and flowers, mountains and valleys, everything! Why did Rev. Branham forget Esther? She spent much time preparing herself with cosmetics and perfumes to become one of the most beautiful women of her time? Or David's wife? Josephus says that David's wife was THE most beautiful women on earth at her time!
He
then
says
that
[human]
women
are
designed
for
sex,
because
they
have
'mating
season'
so
often
and
the
animals
do
not.
Then
again,
why
she
was
designed
this
way
and
not
like
other
females,
why
was
the
woman
designed
so
and
not
other
females?
None
of
the
other
females
was
designed
like
that.
They're
not,
today.
They
can't.
Not
being
made
that
way,
she
can't
do
it.
Why
did
He
not
make
this
female
then,
a
woman,
just
like
other
females,
so
she
would
just
be
the
same
way,
could
just
raise
her
babies?
Then
she
would
have
her
husband,
and
live;
and
when
it
come
time
for
her
baby,
she
would
have
her
baby.
Why,
why
didn't
He
make
her
like
this?
159
I
can't
say
these
words.
And
you
understand
what
I'm
talking
about,
don't
you?
If
you
can
understand,
say
"amen."
[Congregation
says,
"Amen."--Ed.]
Yeah.
See?
There
is
young
girls
setting
here,
and
young
boys,
see.
But
you
know,
the
animal
has
to
come
to
a
certain
time
of
the
year,
then
her
mate,
then
that's
all.
But,
a
woman,
it's
any
time.
And
why
did
He
make
her
like
this?
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Anyone
who
has
pet
rabbits
know
this
is
not
the
case.
Rabbits
can
produce
babies
in
as
little
as
thirty
days.
How
many
other
animals
have
monthly
mating
seasons?
Why
did
somebody
not
stand
up
and
cry
foul
here?
He
then
makes
up
a
BIG
fabrication
about
the
percentage
of
men
vs.
women
in
crime
--
a
blatant
lie:
And
an
analyst
just
from
Chicago,
a--a
woman
wrote
this
article,
the
police
force;
that
they
chased
down,
in
United
States,
metropolitan
United
States,
that
"Ninety-eight
percent
of
every
crime
that
was
ever
did
in
any
form,
in
the
United
States,
there
was
either
a
woman
in
it
or
behind
it."
Now
I'm
saying
all
this,
to
get
to
one
thing
here
at
the
end,
so
that
you
can
see
what's
the
matter.
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*
Aggrivated
assault
101
men
vs.
16
women
*
Major
robbery:
65
men
vs.
4
women
*
Petty
theft:
391
men
vs.
74
women
*
Auto
theft:
121
men
vs.
5
women
*
drunkenness:
3573
men
vs.
212
women
*
DUI:
344
men
vs.
21
women
*
Sex
offenses:
81
men
vs.
17
women
*
Male
and
female
arrest
rates/100,000,
male
and
female
arrest
proles,
and
female
percentage
of
arrests.
(19601990,
uniform
crime
reports),
Steffensmeier
&
Allen
Research
The
list
can
go
on,
but
you
get
the
idea.
The
men
outnumber
the
women
in
great
numbers,
even
in
sexual
misconduct.
He
then
says
the
woman
was
made
to
deceive,
which
is
not
scriptural:
She
was
made
to
deceive,
like
she
did
Adam
at
the
beginning,
tell
him
that
the
fruit
was
pleasant,
and
so
forth,
to
deceive
him
and
take
him
away
from
the
Word.
That's
the
way
the
church
does
today,
same
thing.
Re-read
the
first
two
chapters
of
Genesis.
God
designed
women,
not
Satan.
Satan
deceived
Eve.
"and
Adam
was
not
deceived,
but
the
woman
was
deceived
and
became
a
transgressor."
(1
Timothy
2:14)
Rev.
Branham
Condemns
teaching
sex
education:
Even
in
our
schools
today,
they're
teaching
sex
acts.
Our
rotten
world
of
woman-worship!
I
know
they
don't
want
to
believe
that.
Stand
and
sing
some
kind
of
hymn,
and
so
forth,
on
one
day;
and
out
with
women,
running
around,
all
night
long.
See?
All
right.
When,
in
God's
sight,
the
Word,
she
is
the
lowest
of
all
animals
that
God
put
on
the
earth.
Watch.
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I personally know people that did not understand how "it worked" as they were approaching marriage. Pastors of today are STILL teaching this, taking the natural plan by God and calling it "of satan."
Rev.
Branham
then
says
they
can't
do
ANYTHING
in
the
church
but
sit
with
a
veiled
face:
So
now
we
see
the
whole
picture
of
it
unfolding
to
us.
There
she
is.
That's
why
God
won't
let
her
teach,
won't
let
her
do
anything
in
the
church
but
to
sit
still
with
a
veiled
face.
Now
can
you
see
why
I
have
said
the
things
and
done
the
things
that
I
have
done,
knowing
all
this
in
my
heart,
brother,
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Has
Rev.
Branham
never
read
about
the
women
in
the
Bible
we
mentioned
above?
They
were
not
allowed
in
the
TEMPLE
unveiled,
not
the
church!
And
Jesus
himself
taught
the
women
so
they
could
go
forth
teaching
about
Him!
...I
question
whether
or
not
Rev.
Branham
had
actually
read
his
Bible,
or
just
took
the
words
others
like
Clarence
Larkin
wrote.
Rev.
Branham
then
says
that
the
Elijah
in
the
Old
Testament
was
a
woman-hater:
They
said
Elijah
was
a
woman-hater.
He
wasn't
a
woman-hater,
of
real
women.
He
just
didn't
like
them
Jezebels.
191
And
if
that
be
so,
then
must
be
God
must
be
the
same
way,
because
He
is
the
Word
which
come
to
the
prophets.
So
it
must
be
God,
the
same
way,
so,
see,
He
knows
the
original
creation,
"from
the
beginning,"
He
said,
"from
the
beginning."
They
were
prophets
who
the
Word
came
to.
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Scripturally,
this
was
not
correct.
Elijah
was
an
idolatry-hater!
The
only
woman
he
came
against
was
Jezebel,
and
it
was
because
she
was
spreading
idolatry:
And
as
if
it
had
been
a
light
thing
for
him
to
walk
in
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
he
took
for
his
wife
Jezebel
the
daughter
of
Ethbaal
king
of
the
Sidonians,
and
went
and
served
Baal
and
worshiped
him.
1
Kings
16:31
Rev. Branham blamed death in the world today on Eve, putting down women:
Now we find out, death was caused. Death is the cause of sin of the woman, come through the woman and not the man. By her way of living her life, and by her, all death comes. Her way of giving life is death. How many knows that? Job 14, if you want to put down the Scripture. 65-0221M MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE
Rev.
Branham
Then
says
that
Eve
was
the
tree
in
the
Garden
of
Eden:
But
when
he
is
born
into
the
creation
of
God,
he
cannot
die;
he
is
from
that
other
Tree
that
was
in
the
garden
of
Eden,
Christ.
Eternal
Life
come
by
the
Tree.
"Oh,"
you
say,
"she
was
a
tree?"
Sure.
"Well,
they
said,
'Thou
shall
not
take
of
this
tree.'
God
said,
in
Genesis
back
there,
'Thou
shall
not
take
of
this
tree.'"
Well
the
woman
is
the
tree.
She
is
the
fruit
tree.
You're
the
fruit
of
your
mother.
The
fruit
of
the
womb
is
you.
That's
right.
And
then
the
fruit
of
the
Tree
of
Life,
that
was
in
the
garden
of
Eden,
is
Christ.
Through
the
woman
come
death;
through
the
Man,
in
the
original
creation,
come
Life.
To
be
born
of
a
woman
is
death;
to
be
born
of
Christ
is
Life.
Get
the
idea?
That's
where.
Now
you
see
where
the
goddesses
went
to,
don't
you?
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For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 1 Corinthians 15:21
Notice
the
order
of
events
in
Genesis.
The
trees
were
created
BEFORE
Eve,
and
God
told
Adam
not
to
eat
of
that
fruit.
Rev.
Branham
then
combines
'adultery'
with
'fornication',
saying
that
when
a
man
remarries,
it
must
be
a
virgin.
According
to
the
Old
Testament,
the
PRIESTS
had
to
marry
virgins.
And
that
was
the
OLD
covenant:
See,
she
has
got
a
living
husband,
so
no
man
can
marry
her.
Care
what
she
does
and
who
she
is,
she's
got
a
living
husband,
there
is
no
grounds
for
her
at
all.
But,
it's
not,
for
him.
"Causes
her,"
not
him.
Get
it?
You
have
to
make
the
Word
run
in
continuity. See, nothing saying he couldn't, but she can't. See, "causes her," not him. That's exactly what the Bible says, "causes her." It is not stated against him to remarry, but "her." Why? Christ in the type. Notice, it is stated that he cannot remarry, only a virgin. He can remarry. He can, he can remarry again if it's a virgin, but he can't marry somebody else's wife. No indeedy. And if he does marry a divorced woman, he is living in adultery, I don't care who he is. The Bible said, "Whosoever marrieth her that is put away, liveth in adultery." There you are, not no divorcees. See that original back there, "from the beginning," now? Remarrying, now notice, he can, but she can't. Like David, like Solomon, like the continuity of the whole Bible, now, same as David and the rest of them. 65-0221M MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE
He
then
makes
the
mistake
of
saying
that
his
plagiarism
of
Clarence
Larkin's
seven
seals
were
'opening'
this
mystery
in
the
Bible:
But
now
that
the
Seals
are
opened,
the
Spirit
of
Truth
directs
us
to
the
Word.
That
explains
why
all
the
mistakes
has
been
down
through
the
ages,
because
the
Seals
was
not
opened,
This
was
not
revealed.
It's
true.
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Though
Larkin's
works
were
really
good,
and
aside
from
the
fact
that
Rev.
Branham
claimed
them
as
his
own
'divine
revelation'
from
God,
they
had
absolutely
NOTHING
to
do
with
marriage
and
divorce.
And
the
seven
seals
were
NOT
sealing
the
Bible.
Rev.
Branham
then
places
the
blame
of
lust
on
the
women,
not
on
the
sinful
men
that
look
at
them:
And
you,
some
of
the
women,
put
on
these
nasty
clothes
and
get
out
here
to
throw
yourself
before
man.
Jesus
said,
"Whosoever
looketh
upon
a
woman
to
lust
after
her
has
committed
adultery
with
her
already
in
his
heart."
Then
who
is
guilty,
the
man
or
you?
He
is
a
male,
made
so
he
could
take
this
act,
see;
and
you're
the
female,
that
ought
to
refuse.
And
why
do
you
put
yourself
out
like
that?
It
ain't
for
comfort,
you
know
it
can't
be,
when
you're
half
froze
to
death
with
them shorts on. See, can't be for comfort. Then what is it? It's for filth! You won't admit it, but it's the Bible says so. It's the Truth. It's a filthy spirit that's in you. You don't want to be filthy; but you don't realize, spiritually you are filthy, because you're presenting yourself filthy. Now, a man, his old, dirty, knotty knees, and if he had on hardly any clothes at all, wouldn't make any difference, his body is not tempting. Why? He was in the original creation, character; should be, see. But, you're the by-product, to tempt by. God, have mercy! Oh, my, this sinful world! I'll be glad when it's over. 65-0221M MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE
When
you
re-read
Matthew
5
in
context,
Jesus
was
speaking
against
the
men,
NOT
the
women.
Moreover,
in
his
reverse
example
of
women
lusting
after
men,
what
woman
would
lust
after
the
man
he
described?
Why
did
he
not
describe
a
sexy
man
rippling
with
muscles
and
a
solid
chin?
Rev.
Branham
then
decides
he
would
confuse
the
women,
who
he
could
see
were
getting
heated
at
his
ungodly
condemnation:
Now,
some
of
you
women,
some
of
you
men,
I--I
know
you're-- you're
disagreeing
with
It.
Cause,
you
know,
you
can't
hide
that
right
now.
You
can't.
But
let
me
just
show
you
something.
If
Matthew
28:19
said,
"Go
ye
therefore,
teach
all
nations,
baptizing
them
in
the
Name
of
the
Father,
and
of
the
Son,
and
the
Holy
Ghost,"
and
they
turned
around,
and
every
person
that
was
ever
baptized
was
baptized
contrary
to
that,
baptized
in
the
Name
of
Jesus
Christ,
for
even
all
through
the
Bible
age
and
for
three
hundred
years
after
the
Bible
age,
to
the
Nicaea
Council.
Then
they
adopted
dogmas
instead.
What's
the
difference,
if
it
isn't
revealed?
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This
is
essentially
saying,
"Yeah,
you
women!
I
see
you
disagree
with
me!
Let
me
show
you
why
I
can
condemn
you,
because
the
Nicaea
council
didn't
baptize
the
way
I
did!"
Did
it
confuse
them?
Hopefully
they
saw
that
he
was
just
doing
double-talk
like
the
funny
guy
on
the
old
Candid
Camera
shows.
It's
interesting
that
he
says
that
this
great
mystery
of
marriage
and
divorce
is
because
of
these
hidden
mysteries
in
the
little
scroll
of
Revelation
10:
Now
on
the
Marriage
And
Divorce,
see,
it
has
to
be
revealed.
Until
it's
revealed,
you
don't
know
it.
But
He
promised
in
this
last
days,
in
this
age,
that
every
hidden
mystery
in
the
Bible
would
be
revealed.
How
many
knows
that?
Revelation,
the
10th
chapter!
Jesus
promised
it,
that
all
of
these
hidden
mysteries
on--on
Marriage
And
Divorce,
all
these
other
hidden
mysteries
that's
been,
would
be
revealed
in
the
end
time.
Now
you
remember,
the
Voice
said,
"Go
to
Tucson."
Remember
the
mystic
Light
in
the
sky;
the
seventh
Angel
standing
there;
come
back,
and
the
opening
of
the
Seven
Seals?
Watch
what's
taken
place.
That
is
true.
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You'll
remember
that
this
little
scroll
was
the
seven
thunders
(that
came
AFTER
the
tribulation),
and
Rev.
Branham
said
that
he
did
not
know
what
they
were.
So
it
all
boils
down
to
this
one
statement.
This
is
why
the
marriage
and
divorce
doctrine.
Because
the
women
were
so
evil:
But,
you
see,
woman,
you
are--you
are
a
jewel
if
you
want
to
be
a
jewel,
but
the
desire
has
to
be
by
you.
And
you
see
why
the
Marriage
And
Divorce
was,
that
Jesus
pointed
back
yonder,
it
was
because
your
kind
was
the
cause
of
all
sin.
That's
the
reason
polygamy
and
divorce,
and
things,
was
introduced.
At
the
beginning
it
never
was
so,
and
it
won't
be
so
in
the
world
over
yonder.
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We've
already
proven
above
that
the
scriptures
tell
us
it
was
the
MAN
who
sinned.
The
woman
(Eve)
was
deceived
by
the
serpent.
It's
hard
to
say
which
Gnostic
text
has
Jacob
with
a
dozen
wives.
I
know
that
it
is
not
in
the
canonical
Bible:
Look
at
Jacob,
out
of
whom
come
the
patriarchs.
He
had
at
least
a
dozen
wives.
He
married
two
sisters,
and
had
concubine
wives
besides
that,
common-law
women
that
he
lived
with.
And
those
patriarchs
was
born
right
out
of
those
concubine
women.
Is
that
right?
[Congregation
says,
"Amen."- -Ed.]
See,
you
have
to
make
the
Word
run
smooth.
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This
next
statement
by
Rev.
Branham
is
significant.
It
seems
like
a
small
thought,
and
notice
how
he
stops
himself
in
the
middle
and
at
the
end:
Just
like
it
was
on
The
Serpent's
Seed,
but
it's
absolutely
proven
to
be
right.
I
got
papers
right
here,
out
of
the
paper,
where
women
right
now...
and
even
in--in
the
great...
Some
of
the
great
dioceses
has
got
the
pictures
of
the
original,
a
snake
crawling
on
a
woman's
leg,
and
just
in
how
it
goes
around
her;
she
has
all
kinds
of
sensations
and
things,
something
a
man
could
never
touch
her
with,
with
this
huge
snake
wrapping
around
her,
and
so
forth.
That's
exactly
the
truth.
And
it's
going
worse
and
worse,
and
will
get
worse.
Serpent,
which
he
was
not,
he
could
not
have
had
the
sex
affair
with
her
when
he
was
a
serpent,
but
remember...
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Consider the life, teachings, and painting and poetry by the English poet William Blake. First, compare his life to Rev. Branham: William (Blake and Branham) only attended school long enough to learn reading and writing William (Blake and Branham) claimed to see visions throughout their lives William (Blake and Branham) claimed to have a visitation from God through the window at a very early age
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
claimed
to
have
seen
angels
in
a
tree
before
teenage
years
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
favored
their
mother
and
did
not
approve
of
their
father
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
lost
a
brother
early
in
their
careers
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
looked
toward
nature
for
their
religion
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
believed
it
was
an
angel
who
gave
them
their
abilities
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
were
only
accepted
by
a
'chosen
few'
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
taught
Gnostic
doctrines
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
believed
in
an
eternal
hell
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
thought
their
prophecies
were
unveiling
the
secrets
of
old
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
taught
that
America
was
naked
and
did
not
know
it
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
thought
they
were
a
"voice
of
one
crying
out
in
the
wilderness"
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
prophesied
that
females
would
be
America's
downfall
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
believed
that
knowledge
of
God
depends
upon
revelation
William
(Blake
and
Branham)
Aligned
himself
with
the
Biblical
prophets,
and
above
all,
Jesus
Christ
The
only
difference
is
that
William
Blake
seemingly
prophesied
of
Rev.
Branham.
Soon
as
she
saw
the
terrible
boy
then
burst
the
virgin
cry.
I
know
thee,
I
have
found
thee,
&
I
will
not
let
thee
go;
Thou
art
the
image
of
God
who
dwells
in
darkness
of
Africa;
And
thou
art
fall'n
to
give
me
life
in
regions
of
dark
death.
On
my
American
plains
I
feel
the
struggling
afflictions
Endur'd
by
roots
that
writhe
their
arms
into
the
nether
deep:
I
see
a
serpent
in
Canada,
who
courts
me
to
his
love;
In
Mexico
an
Eagle,
and
a
Lion
in
Peru;
I
see
a
Whale
in
the
South-sea,
drinking
my
soul
away.
O
what
limb
rending
pains
I
feel.
thy
fire
&
my
frost
Mingle
in
howling
pains,
in
furrows
by
thy
lightnings
rent;
This
is
eternal
death;
and
this
the
torment
long
foretold.
It's
interesting
that
he
talks
about
his
plans
Easter,
and
the
motion
for
something
in
Jeffersonville.
This
let
to
the
local
Jeffersonville
church
holding
Rev.
Branham's
body
from
the
grave
from
Dec
(when
he
died)
to
Easter
in
hopes
that
he
would
rise
from
the
grave:
Now,
the
Lord
willing,
we'll
be
back
again
soon,
as
soon
as
we
can
find
a
day.
I
made
a--a
motion,
or--or
said
something
about
Easter.
I
better
check
that,
because
I
think
I've
got
a
schedule
in
California
along
about
that
time.
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It's
disgusting
when
you
think
about
it,
but
they
thought
that
Rev.
Branham
would
have
his
own
resurrection
in
the
same
way
that
Jesus
Christ
was
resurrected.
Biblically,
the
next
resurrection
will
be
many
people,
not
just
Rev.
Branham.
Rev.
Branham
starts
the
sermon
saying
that
the
seventh
age
messenger
[himself]
would
be
the
only
one
who
could
know
who
the
'Melchisedec'
was:
Think
of
this
great
Person,
of
how
great
this
Man
must
be!
And
now,
the
question
is,
"Who
is
this
Man?"
Theologians
has
had
different
ideas.
But
since
the
opening
of
the
Seven
Seals,
the
mysterious
Book
that's
been
mysterious
to
us...
According
to
Revelations
10:1
to
7,
all
the
mysteries
that's
wrote
in
this
Book,
that's
been
hid
down
through
the
age
of
the
reformers,
is
supposed
to
be
brought
out
into
view
by
the
angel
of
the
last
church
age.
How
many
knows
that's
right?
[Congregation
says,
"Amen."--Ed.]
That's
right,
supposed
to
be
brought.
All
the
mysteries
of
the
mysterious
Book
is
to
be
revealed
to
the
Laodicea
messenger
of
that
age.
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Now,
when
you
consider
that
Rev.
Branham's
entire
seven
seals
teaching
was
plagiarized
from
Clarence
Larkin,
you
can
immediately
tell
that
what
is
coming
cannot
be
any
new
'revelation.'
Now
here
is
the
REAL
funny
part:
And
then
while
reading
the
first
three
verses
of
Hebrews
7:1
to
3,
and
then
commenting
on
this.
And
we
don't
know
what
the
Lord
will
do;
we
do
not
know.
The
only
thing
we
do
is
just
believe, watch, pray. That right? And believe that "He'll make everything work together for good to them that loves Him," because He promised to. For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; Let's read a little farther. Without father, without mother, without descent,... neither beginning of days, or end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. Think of this great Person, of how great this Man must be! And now, the question is, "Who is this Man?" Theologians has had different ideas. But since the opening of the Seven Seals, the mysterious Book that's been mysterious to us... According to Revelations 10:1 to 7, all the mysteries that's wrote in this Book, that's been hid down through the age of the reformers, is supposed to be brought out into view by the angel of the last church age. How many knows that's right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] That's right, supposed to be brought. All the mysteries of the mysterious Book is to be revealed to the Laodicea messenger of that age. Seeing there is much dispute about this Person and this subject, I think it behooves us to break into it, to find out Who this is. Now, there is several schools of thought on Him. One of the schools are, claims, "He's just a myth. He wasn't actually a person." And the others says, that, "It was a priesthood. That was the Melchisedec priesthood." That's the most likely one, that hold better to that side than they do to the other, is because they say it was a priesthood. It can't be that, for in the 4th verse It says He was a Person, a "Man." So, in order to be a Person, He has to be a personality, a "Man." Not a order; but a Person! So He was not just a priesthood order, neither was He a myth. He was a Person. And the Person is Eternal. If you notice, "He had no father. He had no mother. He had no time He ever began. And He had no time He ever ended." And ever Who it was is still alive tonight, because the Bible said here, that, "He had neither father, nor
mother, beginning of days, or ending of life." So It would have to be an Eternal Person. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] An Eternal Person! So it could only be one Person, that's God, 'cause He's the only One that's Eternal. God! Now, in First Timothy 6:15 and 16, if you'd like to read that sometime, I'd like for you to read it. Now, the thing that I contend is, that, He was God, because He's the only Person that can be immortal. And now, God changing Himself into Person; that's what He was, "No father, no mother, no beginning of life, no ending of days." 65-0221E WHO.IS.THIS.MELCHISEDEC
OK,
so
Melchesidec
was
a
great
mystery.
Theologians
do
not
even
know
to
whom
this
scripture
is
referring
to
when
reading
Hebrews
7:1
to
3.
...why
exactly
were
they
confused,
when
the
rest
of
the
chapter
in
the
Bible
tells
exactly
who
He
was!
Later,
in
the
22nd
verse,
Hebrews
practically
SHOUTS
out
who
this
is!
"This
makes
Jesus
the
guarantor
of
a
better
covenant."
Jumping
ahead
a
bit,
we
find
that
Rev.
Branham
tries
to
trick
everyone
in
the
audience
into
thinking
the
rest
of
the
world
did
not
know
this
'great
mystery:'
Notice,
like
the
sculpture,
he
hides,
with
a--a
mask
over
it.
That's
what
God
has
done
to
this
age.
It's
been
hid.
All
these
things
has
been
hid,
and
is
supposed
to
be
revealed
in
this
age.
Now,
the
Bible
says
they
will
be
revealed
in
the
latter
times.
It's
like
a
sculptor
keeping
his--his
piece
of
work
all
covered
over
until
the
time
he
takes
the
mask
off
of
it
and
there
it
is.
And
that's
what
the
Bible
has
been.
It
has
been
a
work
of
God
that's
been
covered
up.
And
It's
been
hid
since
the
foundation
of
the
world,
and
Its
sevenfold
mystery.
And
God
promised
in
this
day,
at
the
age
of
this
Laodicean
church,
He
would
take
the
mask
off
the
whole
thing
and
we
could
see
It.
What
a
glorious
thing!
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There is no 'mask' over it! By the end of Rev. Branham's ministry, they must have been so confused that they could not even understand their own bibles, otherwise somebody
would
have
surely
stood
up
and
said,
"I
also
know
the
mystery!
It
is
in
the
next
few
verses!"
Rev.
Branham
Then
goes
into
the
Godhead
again:
Now
we
find
in
the
Scripture
that
many
people
teaches
that,
"three
personalities
in
the
Godhead."
So,
you
cannot
have
a
personality
without
being
a
person.
It
takes
a
person
to
make
a
personality.
A
Baptist
minister,
a
few
weeks
ago,
come
up,
and
to
my
house,
and
said,
"I'd
like
to
straighten
you
out
on
the
Godhead
sometime
when
you
got
time."
Called
me
up,
rather.
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Though
Rev.
Branham
gives
a
different
account
of
the
conversation,
I'm
imagining
a
Baptist
minister
calling
Rev.
Branham
to
say,
"look,
we
do
not
believe
in
three
gods,
we
are
saying
the
same
thing
you
are.
We
just
have
a
name
for
it."
Rev.
Branham
tries
to
ridicule
the
thought
by
saying
that
God
cannot
have
three
personalities,
however
Rev.
Branham
did
the
same
thing
when
he
took
the
"breasted
god"
[female]
attribute
from
the
Kaballah
and
applied
it
to
El
Shaddai.
God
has
shown
his
different
personalities
throughout
the
ages,
and
because
of
this,
there
are
many
different
names
of
God.
Rev.
Branham
also
taught
this,
but
decided
to
ridicule
the
minister
instead.
For
those
of
you
who
think
that
Rev.
Branham
was
Sola
Scriptura,
take
this
next
statement:
Now,
now,
we
find
out
that
this
Person
"had
no
father,
no
mother,
no
beginning
of
days
or
ending
of
life."
It
was
God,
en
morphe.
Now,
the
world,
the
word
comes,
the
Greek
word,
means,
"change,"
was
used.
Changing
Himself,
en
morphe,
from
one
person
to...
One
person;
the
Greek
word
there,
en
morphe,
means...
It
was
taken
from
the
stage
act,
that
one
person
is
changing
his
mask,
to
make
him
some
other
character.
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Find the term 'en morphe' in any of the translations of the bible, even the original greek.
The
closest
you
will
find
is
Phil
2-7:
"but
made
himself
nothing,
taking
the
form
of
a
servant,
being
born
in
the
likeness
of
men."
This
word
'form'
comes
from
the
word
'morphen,'
which
simply
means
'shape
or
form.'
This
is
one
of
the
scriptures
that
Trinitarians
use
TO
SUPPORT
the
explanation
of
the
Trinity,
God
can
be
the
Father,
can
be
the
Son,
can
be
the
Holy
Ghost,
but
is
still
one
God.
He
exists
beyond
time
and
space,
and
can
take
any
form
He
chooses.
Rev.
Branham
then
gets
into
Gnosis.
Watch
out:
Now
we
find
Him
at
the
beginning,
His
attributes.
And,
now,
you
were
with
Him
then.
Then
is
when
the
Book
of
Life
comes
into
view.
Now,
we
read
over
here
in
Revelations
the
13th
chapter,
the
8th
verse,
that,
"The
beast
that
comes
upon
the
earth,"
in
these
last
days,
"will
deceive
all
those
people
on
the
earth
whose
names
were
not
written
in
the
Lamb's
Book
of
Life
before
the
foundation
of
the
world."
Think
of
it!
Before
Jesus
was
ever
born,
four
thousand
years
before
He
came
on
earth,
and
several
thousand
years
before
you
come
on
earth;
Jesus,
in
God's
mind,
died
for
the
sins
of
the
world,
and
the
Book
of
Life
was
made,
and
your
name
was
put
on
that
Book
of
Life
before
the
foundation
of
the
world.
That's
the
Bible
Truth.
See,
your
name
was
ordained
of
God
and
placed
on
the
Book
of
Life
before
the
foundation
of
the
world.
You
were
there
in
His
attributes.
You
don't
remember
it,
no,
because
you're
just
a
part
of
His
Life.
You
are
a
part
of
God
when
you
become
a
son
or
a
daughter
of
God.
Just
as
you
are
a
part
of
your
earthly
father!
That's
right.
You
are.
The
male
carries
the
hemoglobin,
the
blood.
And
when
that
has
gone
in--in
the
egg,
then
you
become
a
part
of
your
father;
and
your
mother
is
a
part
of
your
father,
also;
so
you're
all
a
part
of
your
father.
Glory!
That
lets
the
denomination
out,
altogether.
Uh-huh.
Certainly
does!
God,
in
all,
the
only
place!
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Compare
his
'revelation'
of
God
before
the
creation
to
the
Gnostic
belief
of
Sophia:
"And...Sophia
(Wisdom)...being
an
Aeon,
conceived
a
Thought
from
herself
with
the
reflection
of
the
invisible
Spirit
[the
Absolute]
and
Foreknowledge
[one
of
the
higher
Aeons,
or
possibly
here
referring
to
the
Power
of
the
Absolute;
i.e.
"Shakti"].
She
wanted
to
bring
forth
a
likeness
out
of
herself
without
the
consent
of
the
[Absolute]
Spirit...and
without
her
consort....And
because
of
the
invincible
power
which
is
in
her,
her
thought
did
not
remain
idle
and
a
thing
came
out
of
her
which
was
imperfect
and
different
from
her
appearance,
because
she
had
created
it
without
her
consort..."
[Apocryphon
of
John,
from
the
Nag
Hammadi
Library,
James
M.
Robinson,
Ed,
pp.103-4
(Harper
&
Row,
1981,
San
Franscisco)]
Many
of
these
in
the
divine
healing
movement
fell
into
the
same
trap,
though
it
is
unclear
if
they
did
so
BECAUSE
of
Rev.
Branham,
or
if
Rev.
Branham
was
influenced
by
them.
Since
this
spirit
is
so
prevalent
in
the
churches
today,
people
like
Phillip
Lee
are
writing
books
to
expose
this
Pagan
idolatry.
Take
a
sample
excerpt
from
his
book,
"Against
the
Protestant
Gnostics":
The
object
of
gnosis
is
simply
unknowable:
The
transendence
of
the
supreme
deity
is
stressed
to
the
utmost
degree
in
all
gnostic
theology.
Topologically,
he
is
transmundane,
dwelling
in
his
own
realm,
entirely
outside
the
physical
universe,
at
immeasurable
distance
from
man's
terrestrial
abode
...
he
is
naturally
unknown
(naturaliter
ignotus),
ineffable,
defying
predication,
surpassing
comprehension,
and
strictly
unknowable.
All
of
this
sounds
frightfully
close
to
the
description
of
the
attributes
of
God
listed
in
the
Westminster
Confession
of
Faith
(1647):
There
is
but
one
only
living
and
true
God,
who
is
infinite
in
being
and
perfection,
a
most
pure
spirit,
invisible,
without
body,
parts,
or
passions,
immutable,
immense,
eternal,
incomprenhensible, almighty, most wise, most holy, most free, most absolute. Do these similarities support the popular notion of the Protestant intention--that the Reformation attempted to remove Christianity from the realm of the natural and the historical and, in turn, attempted to spiritualize it, personalize it?
Though
this
is
not
really
important
to
salvation
in
any
way,
it
should
be
pointed
out
that
this
statement
is
not
correct:
A
theophany
is
something
that
you
could
not
see.
It
could
be
right
here
now,
yet
you
cannot
see
it.
It's
just
like,
well,
like
television.
That's
in
another
dimension.
Television;
people
are
moving
right
through
this
room
now,
singing;
there
is
colors,
also.
But
the
eye
is
only
subject
to
the
five
senses...
Your
whole
being
is
only
subject
to
five
senses,
rather.
And
you
are
only
subject
to
what
the
sight
has
been
limited
to
see.
But
there
is
another
dimension
that
can
be
seen
by
a
transformation,
by
television.
59
Now,
television
does
not
manufacture
a
picture.
A
television
only
channels
it
into
a
circuit,
and
then
the
television
screen
picks
it
up.
But
the
picture
is
there,
to
begin
with.
Television
was
here
when
Adam
was
here.
Television
was
here
when
Elijah
set
on
mount
Carmel.
Television
was
here
when
Jesus
of
Nazareth
walked
the
shores
of
Galilee.
But
you're
just
now
discovering
it.
They
wouldn't
have
believed
it
back
there.
You'd
have
been
crazy
to
have
said
something
like
it.
But
now
it's
become
a
reality.
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Television was NOT around when Jesus was alive, and television does not move full pictures of people moving through the room through another dimension. Television did not exist until the first transmitting towers started broadcasting, and the images move through radio waves, not another dimension.
That
being
said,
his
point
is
accurate,
scientifically
it
was
available
if
they
knew
how
to
build
it.
It
is
interesting
that
Rev.
Branham
brings
up
the
Witch
of
Endor,
and
spoke
about
her
in
a
good
way:
Also
let
us
notice
another
prophet,
one
time,
by
the
name
of
Samuel.
He
was
a
great
man.
He
had
taught
Israel;
told
them
they
shouldn't
have
a
king.
He
said,
"Have
I
ever
said
one
thing
to
you
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
but
what
come
to
pass?"
They
said,
"No.
Everything
you've
always
said
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
come
to
pass."
He
was
a
prophet,
and
he
died.
About
three
or
four
years
later,
the
king
got
in
trouble;
that
was
before
the
Blood
of
Jesus
Christ
was
ever
shed.
He
was
in
paradise.
And
a
witch
of
Endor
called
for
somebody
to
come,
and
console
Saul.
And
when
the
witch
saw
him
standing
up,
she
said,
"I
see
god
raising
up
out
of
the
earth."
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You'll
remember
that
Rev.
Branham
himself
claimed
to
have
searched
through
'the
other
side'
for
a
person
who
just
lost
a
loved
one,
and
said
that
'they
were
happier
on
the
other
side.'
This
is
Biblical
--
but
only
for
the
EVIL
ones.
Those
with
familiar
spirits.
Regard
not
them
that
have
familiar
spirits,
neither
seek
after
wizards,
to
be
defiled
by
them:
I
am
the
LORD
your
God.
(Leviticus
19:31)
And
the
soul
that
turneth
after
such
as
have
familiar
spirits,
and
after
wizards,
to
go
a
whoring
after
them,
I
will
even
set
my
face
against
that
soul,
and
will
cut
him
off
from
among
his
people.
(Leviticus
20:6
)
Rev.
Branham
then
said
that
Jesus
had
no
mother
--
which
takes
away
the
'man'
part
of
Jesus
that
died
for
our
sins:
Now
notice,
now,
we
see
Melchisedec
and
why
that
Mary
wasn't
His
mother.
That's
the
reason
He
called
her
"woman,"
not
mother.
"He
had
no
father,"
for
He
was
the
Father,
the
everlasting
Father,
the
three
in
the
One.
"He
had
no
mother,"
certainly
not.
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"When
Jesus
saw
his
mother
and
the
disciple
whom
he
loved
standing
nearby,
he
said
to
his
mother,
Woman,
behold,
your
son!
John
19:26
To
be
a
son
of
a
woman
would
indeed
make
that
woman
mother.
Rev.
Branham
then
tries
to
raise
himself
up
a
bit
towards
the
level
of
Jesus
--
by
pulling
Jesus
down
a
bit
to
his
level:
"So
Moses
was
truly
a
vindicated
prophet,
and
he
said,
'The
Lord
your
God
shall
raise
up,
among
you,
out
of
your
brethren,
a
Prophet
like
unto
me.
And
all
that
won't
hear
him
will
be
cut
off
from
the
people.'"
He
said,
"Now,
children,
remember,
that,
as
Hebrews,
we
believe
God's
vindicated
prophets."
Now
listen
close.
Don't
miss
it.
And
he
said,
"When
the
Messiah
comes,
you
will
know
Him,
for
He
will
be
a
Prophet- Messiah.
Now,
they
said
it's
been
four
hundred
years.
We
haven't
had
a
prophet
since
Malachi,
but
He'll
be!"
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WHO.IS.THIS.MELCHISEDEC
The
prophets
of
old
prophesied
the
coming
Messiah
--
not
some
'prophet
messiah'.
This
was
God's
only
begotten
Son,
not
some
lowly
man
with
a
spiritual
gift.
It's
interesting
that
Rev.
Branham
uses
the
term
'Red
Light
Woman':
There
was
a
woman
which
was
ill-famed.
We
would
call
her,
today,
a
redlight
woman,
or
prostitute.
She
had
too
many
husbands.
So
while
Jesus
was
setting
there,
this
woman
come
out
about
eleven
o'clock.
65-0221E
WHO.IS.THIS.MELCHISEDEC
Rev.
Branham
was
very
familiar
with
these
types
of
women,
though
he
would
typically
avoid
casting
that
impression.
Rev.
Branham
spent
some
time
in
and
around
London
until
flying
to
Paris
for
a
couple
of
days
of
seeing
the
sights
there.64
No
word
of
seeing
King
George
VI.
These
sights
included
a
visit
to
Place
Pigalle,
the
Paris
Red
Light
District.
It
was
called
Pig
Alley
by
US
soldiers
visiting
this
prostitution
district
during
WW
II.
Rev.
Branham
said
he
had
heard
about
its immorality and just had to go there and see it for himself. His verdict, Its true! Legend of the Fall
There
is
a
very
interesting
'[Blank
spot
on
tape]'
here.
Rev.
Branham
is
leading
up
to
the
point
where
he
claims
that
Malachi
4
[Rev.
Branham]
would
be
the
involved
in
this
somehow,
but
whatever
was
said
is
cut
out
from
the
listener:
Now
we've
had
two
thousand
years
of
teaching,
coming
down
through
the
Roman
Catholic
church,
after
the
apostles.
Then
we
come
down
through
the
Roman
Catholic,
the
Greek,
and
so
forth,
on
down
to
Luther's
age,
and
Wesley,
whatmore,
nine
hundred
different
organizations
coming
down.
They
had
all
these
ages,
teaching.
Now
He
promised,
just
before
the
end
time
would
come,
that
the
picture
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
would
again,
"As
it
was
in
the
days
of
Sodom,
so
shall
it
be
in
the
coming
of
the
end
time,
the
Son
of
man
will
reveal
Himself
again."
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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WHO.IS.THIS.MELCHISEDEC
Again,
Rev.
Branham
tries
to
claim
that
the
number
of
letters
in
his
name
are
significant:
Look
at
the
world
today.
Look
at
the
Sodom
condition.
Look
at
the
earthquakes
in
divers
places,
and
the
things
that's
taking
place.
Look
at
the
church
and
the
mess
it's
in,
of
Babylon.
Look
at
the
messenger
to
it,
an
Oral
Roberts
and
a
Billy
Graham.
G-r-a-h-a-m,
first
time
we
ever
had
a
messenger,
to
all
the
churches,
that
his
name
ever
end
in
h-a-m,
like
Abraham.
A-b- r-a-h-a-m
is
seven
letters.
G-r-a-h-a-m
is
six
letters.
Where
is
he
at?
To
the
world.
Six
is
man's
number.
Man
was
created
on
the
sixth
day.
But
seven
is
God's
number.
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Unfortunately for the listeners of the day, they did not have the iPads with the Lexicon built into it. A-b-r-a-h-a-m is English, and may have a similar number of letters. In the original Hebrew, however, there are only five letters of this FIRST NAME to compare to Rev. Branham's LAST NAME.
Genesis 17 speaks about the name change from Avrm to avrhm. In ancient Hebrew there are NO vowels; the reader must supply them. So we actually have 4 letters in Abrms name which God, not Abraham's father changed to Abrhm. In summary, after processing the examples and scriptures used to prove his point, there is no greater 'unveiling of this mystery' of who this Melchisedec was than to have simply read the next few verses of the chapter in the Bible. Unfortunately, people's fear to study the Bible for themselves had already set in, though it is much worse today. Jesus Christ was the mystery fulfilled, and there is nothing more we need to know than to have faith in Him.
This
sermon
was
given
before
the
Full
Gospel
Businessman's
Association,
the
last
group
of
people
that
left
their
doors
open
to
Rev.
Branham.
He
was
very
careful
not
to
close
that
door,
and
his
sermons
given
to
that
association
stayed
very
close
to
the
Bible
and
very
close
to
the
combined
beliefs
of
the
members
of
the
association.
The
first
section
is
interesting,
however:
Certainly
a
privilege
to
be
here
this
morning,
on
this
birthday
of
the
Full
Gospel
Business
Men's
chapter
here
at
Phoenix,
and
to
know
that
the
Lord
granted
me
a
little
part
of
it,
to
be
part
of
this
fellowship.
I
want
to
greet
Brother
Carl
Williams
and
his
wife,
Brother
Stromei,
the
rest
here
at
the
platform,
Brother
Shores,
Brother
Outlaw,
the
ministers,
and
all
you
fine
people.
You
know,
I--I
had
a
birthday
last
week,
too.
And
I'm
just
a
teeny
bit
older
than
a
chapter.
I
believe
he
said,
"Five
and...
years
old,
for
the
chapter."
Somebody
said,
other
day,
said,
"How
old
are
you,
Brother
Branham?"
I
said
"Twenty-six."
And
I
said,
"I
wiped
out
the
first
twenty- five
years.
I
didn't
serve
Him
so
well
in
them."
I
said,
"I
hope
He
does,
too."
To
get
Him
to
do
it
will
be
different.
65-0410
THE.EASTER.SEAL
When you consider the fact that Rev. Branham was not truthful about his birthdate in his retellings of his life's story, it is no wonder that he would not be forthright about his age or birthdate. His marriage certificate written in his own handwriting claimed 1908, yet he wanted to appear to have been born under an astrological event, which he claimed to have been 1909. But it is slightly deeper than that. He says, "I wiped out the first twenty-five years." This is a very true statement, since NONE of his accounts of the first twenty-five years match! Considering that the name he gave the Associated Press in 1947 was 'Henry', there are some very good questions that can be raised.
Preaching
in
front
of
the
Gospel
Businessman's
Association,
Rev.
Branham's
force
and
drive
for
HIS
message
is
calmed
to
a
message
that
is
more
Biblical:
Jesus
said
that.
"Go
ye
into
all
the
world
and
preach
the
Gospel
to
every
creature."
How
far?
"All
the
world."
Who
to?
"Every
creature."
They've
never
received
It
yet.
"And
these
signs
shall
follow
them
that
believe."
How
long?
"All
the
world."
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Remember
in
the
few
sermons
before
back
home
in
Jeffersonville,
it
was
the
Message
that
was
given
to
the
Prophet
that
must
be
spread
to
all
the
nations,
not
the
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ.
Oddly,
he
condemns
the
'other
message'
with
his
next
statement:
Paul
is
ordaining
these
gifts
into
the
Church,
thirty
years
later.
And
said,
in
Galatians
1:8,
"If
an
Angel
from
Heaven
preaches
to
you
any
other
Gospel
than
This
which
is
already
received,"
see,
already
been
preached,
"let
him
be
accursed."
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Rev.
Branham
then
places
a
strange
twist
on
Jesus
Christ
with
his
non-scriptural
view
of
'sin
is
unbelief':
Watch
the
action
of
those
disciples,
a
scared.
They
knowed
Jesus
was
the
Truth,
but,
you
see,
It
was
against
the
popular
idea,
the
popular
religion
of
the
hour,
the
most
strictest
religion,
Sar-...
Pharisees,
Sadducees,
and
so
forth,
their
cults,
clans,
and
denominations.
They
were--they
were
against
That,
"Heresy."
But
Jesus
was
the
identified
Word.
And
Jesus
is
the
Holy
Ghost,
in
Spirit.
"A
little
while
and
the
world
seeth
Me
no
more.
You
shall
see
Me,"
not
the
body;
the
Life
that
was
in
Him.
God
is
upon
the
Church,
to
call
sons
like
He
did
then,
obedient.
"I
always
do
that
which
is
pleasing
to
My
Father.
Which
one
of
you
can
accuse
Me
of
Sin?"
Other
words,
sin
is
"unbelief."
"What
has
the
Word
said
about
Me,
that
I
haven't
done?"
There
it
is.
"Show
Me
what
the
Word
said
that
I'd
do,
that
I
didn't
do.
Which
one
can
accuse
Me?
Which
one
can
lay
your
fingers on Me, and say that I haven't fulfilled My Father's Word?" Oh, when the Pentecostal church gets to that spot! "Who can accuse Me of unbelief?" 65-0410 THE.EASTER.SEAL
Jesus
came
to
earth,
God's
only
begotten
Son,
to
live
a
perfect
life
for
us.
Through
His
perfect
life,
free
from
sin,
He
alone
could
die
FOR
our
sins.
He
was
our
sacrifice.
Every
man
is
born
into
sin,
and
that
sin
INCLUDES
unbelief.
Not
vice-versa.
Sin
includes
a
wide
variety
of
other
disgrace,
unbelief
being
the
ultimate
problem
--
faith
in
Jesus
Christ
is
our
salvation.
Rev.
Branham
taught
that
women
could
have
'accidental
adultery'
by
a
man
looking
upon
them
to
lust.
Those
women
might
still
believe,
and
did
not
sin.
He
then
pulls
a
political
punch,
in
a
non-scriptural
account
of
Elijah:
Look
at
Elijah,
after
his
work
was
finished
on
earth.
He
was
so
full
of
that
quickening
power,
he
condemned
them
Jackie
Kennedy
haircuts
in
his
day.
He
had
told
old
Jezebel
what
he
thought
of
her.
He
told
them
preachers
and
priests
what
was
right
and
wrong,
and
they
didn't
believe
him.
But
he
condemned
them
painted-faced
women
and
things,
so
bad.
And
he
so
full
of
that
quickening
power
till
nothing
could
harm
him.
God
had
fed
him
from
the
heavens,
took
him
out
and
set
him
aside.
He
was
so
full
of
quickening
power,
come
time
to
die,
the
Jordan
opened
up,
and
he
just
walked,
sent
down
a
chariot
and
took
him
up
Home,
so
full
of
that
quickening
power.
He
become
a
true,
genuine
son
of
God.
Yeah.
65-0410
THE.EASTER.SEAL
Elijah did not condemn Jezebel for her appearance, he condemned her because she was spreading idolatry. Rev. Branham tried to prove through Jezebel that makeup was 'of the devil', but forgot about Esther in the Bible who used cosmetics to make herself beautiful. Not only is there no scripture to support Elijah condemning Jezebel for her paint,
there
is
no
scripture
to
support
saying
that
he
condemned
Jezebel
for
her
'short
hair',
or
even
that
says
that
she
did
in
fact
have
'short
hair.'
Rev.
Branham
then
elevates
himself
to
the
level
of
Christ:
"As
it
was
in
the
days
of
Noah,
so
shall
it
be
in
the
coming
of
the
Son
of
man.
They
were
eating,
drinking,
marrying,
given
in
marrying.
And
as
it
was
in
the
days
of
Lot,
so
will
it
be
in
the
hours
that
the
Son
of
man
will
be
revealed
on
earth,"
not
Son
of
God,
no
more.
"Son
of
man,"
come
back
as
the
prophetic
Message
for
the
last
day
when
that
eagle
will
be
flying;
not
the
lion;
not
the
ox
in
the
sacrifice
age.
See?
Every
time,
a
religious
power
went
forth
to
meet
the
challenge
of
the
political
power
of
the
world.
When
the
lion
raised
up,
the
religious
power,
it
went
to
meet
the
Roman
power.
65-0410
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Christ does not return as a 'message', Christ returns as Christ. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. (Luke 21) (And no, this is not the 'spiritual cloud' that Rev. Branham claimed, it has been proven that he fabricated that event.) We are actually warned of this very statement made by Rev. Branham in the book of Luke. Jesus warns us, See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, I am he! and, The time is at hand! Do not go after them." (Luke 21:8)
It
is
interesting
that
Rev.
Branham
brings
up
the
'king's
sword'
again,
considering
that
the
vision
before
his
leaving
for
Arizona
did
not
match
his
account
of
what
happened
afterwards.
His
later
accounts
of
the
story
lost
focus
of
the
'sword
of
the
king'
after
the
photo
of
the
'supernatural
cloud'
was
published
in
a
magazine:
Realizing
that
our
time
is
limited
here,
especially
for
those
friends
who
are
listening
in
by
this
telephone,
I
would
like
to
call
your
attention
this
morning
to
a--a
picture
that
sometime
ago
was
taken
by
the
camera,
of
a
vision
that
I
had
here
at
the
tabernacle,
of
leaving
Indiana,
to
Arizona;
where
I
was
to
meet,
in
the
form
of
a
pyramid,
seven
Angels.
Not
knowing
what
would
happen
later,
when
I
got
there,
thinking
it
was
the
end
of
my
life,
that
no
one
could
stand
the
blast;
and
I'm
sure
all
of
you
are
acquainted
with
the
story.
And
then
in
Sabino
Canyon,
one
morning
like
this,
while
in
prayer,
there
had
been
a
sword
placed
in
my
hand,
and
said,
"This
is
the
Word,
and
the
Sword
of
the
Word."
Later,
the
Angels
appeared
as
was
prophesied.
And
at
the
same
time,
a
great
cluster
of
Light
left
where
I
was
standing,
and
moved
thirty
miles
high
in
the
air,
and
around
the
circle,
like
the
wings
of
the
Angels,
and
drawed
into
the
skies
a
shape
of
a
pyramid
in
the
same
constellation
of
Angels
that
appeared.
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Rev.
Branham
was
not
standing
there
in
Arizona
when
this
cloud
appeared
--
he
was
in
Houston,
TX.
Evidently
there
were
people
who
questioned
this
cloud
back
then,
because
he
tried
to
throw
them
off
trail.
He
said
that
they
tracked
the
cloud
all
the
way
from
Mexico:
Science
took
the
picture,
all
the
way
from
Mexico,
as
it
moved
from
northern
Arizona,
where
the
Holy
Spirit
said
I
would
be
standing,
"forty
miles
northeast
of
Tucson."
And
it
went
into
the
air,
and
Life
magazine
packed
the
pictures,
"A
mystic
something
way
in
the
spheres,
where
there
could
be
no
moisture,
where
there
could
be
no
evaporations
of
anything;
thirty
miles
high,
and
twenty-seven
miles
across,"
and
coming
right
up
from
where
those
Angels
were.
Now,
they
asked,
to
know.
Science,
the
one
of
them
in
Tucson,
wanted
to
know
any
significance,
but
I
didn't
tell
them.
You
all knew it, told beforehand. But it wasn't for them; it was for you. 65-0418M IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN
It
is
not
true,
however.
The
cloud
originated
close
to
Vandenberg
AFB,
and
was
on
a
direct,
eastward
path
over
300km
north
of
where
Rev.
Branham
was
standing.
Also,
his
account
of
'no
moisture',
and
other
dynamics
are
not
true.
Then
he
gets
back
into
his
'revelation'
of
the
seven
seals:
And
so
there
He
spoke
to
me,
and
said,
"The
Seven
Seals
will
be
opened.
The
seven
mysteries,
sevenfold
mystery
of
the
Bible,
that's
been
closed
up
since
the
foundation
of
the
world,
will
be
revealed."
And
we,
yet
a
humble
little
group,
compared
with
all
the
world,
we've
enjoyed
these
blessings,
a
hearing
those
mysteries.
Marriage,
divorce,
serpent's
seed,
all
these
different
questions,
has
been
completely
revealed
to
us,
not
by
man,
but
by
God,
Himself,
that's
opened
those
seven
mysteries;
of
what
the
Church
was,
how
It
was
in
Christ
at
the
beginning,
and
how
It
would
be
revealed
in
the
last
day.
And
now,
as
this
went
up,
we
have
the
picture
outside
on
the
plaque.
But,
then,
I
have
the
picture
laying
present
here,
if
you
notice,
as
Life
magazine
had
it.
But
I
wonder
if
my
audience,
visible
here,
has
ever
really
looked
at
the
picture,
see,
see,
in
the
way
it
should
be.
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This
revelation
came
from
plagiarized
works
from
Clarence
Larkin.
He
then
goes
into
the
seven
church
ages,
that
he
also
plagiarized
from
Clarence
Larkin's
works:
You
remember,
I
was
preaching
when
this
vision
came,
upon
the
subject
of
the
Book
of
the
Revelations,
where
the
old
judges,
where
we
seen
Jesus
in
Revelations
1.
When
we
started
to
open
the
Seven
Seals...
or
the--or
the
Church
Ages,
rather,
just
prior
to
the
opening
of
the
Seven
Seals.
Christ
was
standing
with
"hair
like
wool,
white."
And
I
described
that
to
you,
that
the
old
English
judges,
and
judges
of
long
ago,
when
they
went
to
the
bench,
to
be
sworn
in,
their
supreme
authority
was
given
them.
They
wore
a
white
wig,
as
it
was,
over
their
heads,
to
show
their
supreme
authority.
65-0418M IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN
Then
he
goes
into
the
story
of
the
1933
baptism,
which
we
have
also
proven
was
fabricated
by
his
own
words.
I
wish,
this
morning,
that
I
had
just
much
time
to--to
spend
upon
these
phenomena
that's
beyond
any
shadow
of
doubt,
been
proven
for
the
past
thirty
years,
or
thirty-five
years,
right
here
at
this
church;
since
down
on
the
river,
when
that
same
Light
came
down
here
in
Jeffersonville,
in
1933,
and
spoke
those
words,
"As
John
the
Baptist
was
sent
to
forerun
the
first
coming
of
Christ,
your
Message
will
forerun
the
second."
We're
at
the
end
time,
and
we
see
it.
We
wonder
sometimes
why
it
hasn't
spread
over
the
earth;
maybe
sometime
we'll
have
a
chance
to
explain
that,
if
God
willing.
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If
it
were
simply
this
one
retelling,
there
would
be
no
way
to
confirm
or
deny,
but
in
other
accounts
of
this
story,
he
tells
how
the
Associated
Press
reported
the
story
from
Louisville
all
the
way
up
into
Canada.
Not
a
single
A.P
newspaper
from
that
day
can
be
found
containing
even
a
mention
of
William
Branham,
and
in
fact,
the
first
newspaper
article
mentioning
him
is
in
1947
when
he
went
by
the
name
'Henry.'
After
giving
all
of
these
fabrications,
he
says
that
'the
word
must
come
first.':
Now
I
want
you
to
turn
in--in
your
Bibles,
as
we
always
believe
that
the
Word
must
come
first,
of
the
reading
of
the
Word.
I
always
read
That,
because
It...
My
words
is
the
word
of
a
man,
it
will
fail;
but
the
Word
of
God
can
never
fail.
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Had
he
stuck
with
this
and
not
told
the
fabricated
stories
above,
the
sermon
may
have
stayed
on
the
right
course.
Rev.
Branham
then
describes
the
'Good
News,'
the
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ.
He
is
very
close
in
his
description:
No
wonder
the
Gospel
is
good
news.
The
very
word
Gospel
means
"the
good
news."
The
good
news,
what?
If
a
man
died
for
our
sake,
that's
good
news.
If
Christ
was
born,
that's
good
news. But never a news, never was there news like this news, that, He Who made the promise has confirmed the promise, that, "He's alive forevermore, and have the keys of both death and hell, in His hand." All the gloom was shook away. There was no more gloom to be seen, for the Son was up from the grave. There was no, "Well, He will come, or He may come." He had already come, the Gospel, good news! Notice, the very Message of the Gospel, Itself, is to prove to the people that He is risen. "Go tell My disciples that I am risen from the dead, and I'll meet with them, to confirm this to them." O God, how in this last day there shall be Light again across the earth! "And I'll prove to My disciples! Go tell them that I am not dead, and I'm not a tradition, but I am a living Christ. I'll meet them. Take this Message to My disciples, that I am risen from the dead," the Gospel, good news. You say, "Is that right?" 65-0418M IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN
This
description
is
close,
but
is
missing
VERY
important
elements.
God
sent
his
only
begotten
Son
to
earth,
who
was
both
man
and
God.
As
a
man,
he
lived
a
perfect
life
for
us,
free
from
sin.
Because
he
was
blameless,
he
died
on
the
cross
for
OUR
sins
instead
of
His
own;
Jesus
Christ
had
no
sin.
He
was
buried
for
three
days,
and
during
that
time,
he
conquered
death,
hell,
and
the
grave.
He
rose
again
so
that
we
can
live
again
with
Him.
This
next
part
is
interesting.
Not
from
what
Rev.
Branham
says
alone,
but
how
the
editors
have
capitalized
it
the
words:
Now,
if
there
is
another
gospel,
as
Paul
spoke
to
one
of
the
groups,
"I
am
so
surprised
that
you
turned
to
another
gospel."
Which
there
is
no
other,
but
a
make-belief
gospel,
to
a
denominational
fiction,
turning
from
that
good
news.
"And
because
I
live,
ye
live
also.
And
I
live
in
you,
and
the
works
that
I
do,"
John
14:12,
"the
works
that
I
do
will
identify
Myself
in
you."
What
a
Message!
No
wonder,
we've
had
a
dark
world
of
theology,
but
in
the
evening
time
there
shall
come
Light
again.
There
will
be
a
resurrection
in
the
evening
time.
It
shall
be
Light
at
the
evening
time.
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This
statement
is
correct,
and
Paul
is
correct.
The
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ
IS
the
Message,
and
Message
in
this
case
SHOULD
be
capitalized.
Rev.
Branham
and
his
followers
use
the
same
technique
for
Rev.
Branham's
'message',
which
Paul
is
actually
speaking
about
in
this
passage.
There
should
be
NO
other
'message'
than
the
'Message'
of
Jesus
Christ,
which
is
the
Good
News
--
the
Gospel.
It
is
interesting
that
Rev.
Branham
condemns
the
Romans
for
their
worship
of
the
son
god:
If
there
would
be
any
holy
ritual,
it
should
come
forth
on
the
sabbath
day,
which
was
the
seventh
day
of
the
week,
which
is
Saturday.
But
did
you
notice,
in
this
memorial,
to
wave
it
on
the
first
day
of
the
week?
"The
sheaf,
which
was
the
first
of
your
seed
that
you
planted,
when
it
comes
up
and
ripened,
you
cut
down
this
sheaf
and
take
it
to
the
priest.
And
let
him
take
it
and
wave
it
before
the
Lord,
for
your
acception,
that
you
are
accepted.
You
have
come
with
your
sheaf,
and
he
is
to
wave
it
before
the
Lord,
on..."
Not
on
the
sabbath,
the
seventh
day;
but
on
the
first
day,
which
we
call
Sunday,
S-u-n-d-a-y.
Course,
that's
a--a
Roman
word,
which
they
called
it
the
sun
day
for
the
sun
god.
But
how
it
is
changed!
It's
not
s-u-n
anymore.
It's
the
S-o-n
d-a-y,
the
Son
day,
that
that
corn
of
Wheat
(God's
first
One
up
from
the
dead)
is
to
be
waved
over
the
congregation,
that
we
are
His
Seed;
and
that's
the
first
of
the
Seed
of
those
that
slept,
waved
upon
the
first
day
of
the
week.
On
Sunday,
He
raised
up.
Waved
good-bye,
and
ascended
up
on
High,
in
the
presence
of
the
people.
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This is a correct statement. Deuteronomy 4 says to "beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven." Rev. Branham himself did not follow this. He was lured in by the Gnostic texts to believe that the first bible was the Zodiac,
which
is
used
in
worship
of
astrology.
He
turned
his
eyes
away
from
God
by
saying
that
his
first
Bible
was
nature,
a
Pagan
belief
that
has
been
practiced
since
before
the
Dark
Ages.
Rev.
Branham
then
says
[falsely]
that
the
second
coming
of
Christ
will
be
the
'Message'.
Now,
Who
is
the
Son
of
man?
"In
the
beginning
was
the
Word,
and
the
Word
was
with
God,
and
the
Word
was
God.
And
the
Word
was
made
flesh,
and
dwelt
among
us."
And
if
all
the
teaching
that
we
have,
and
confirmation
of
the
Word
of
God;
by
Word
of
God,
by
signs,
by
wonders,
we
see
today,
that
in
the
Book
of--of
Luke
here,
that
as
we
just
quoted
from,
or
the--the
Luke
the
17th
chapter
and
the
30th
verse;
and
Malachi
4,
and
the
different
Scriptures
that
we
are
acquainted
with,
that
that
Word
again
is
waved
over
the
people,
that
the
dead
traditions
of
man
is
dead,
and
the
Son
of
God
is
alive
again
with
the
baptism
of
the
Holy
Spirit
right
among
us,
and
is
giving
us
Life.
As
Christ
was
the
first
One
to
raise,
from
all
the
prophets,
and
so
forth;
although
typed
in
many
places,
He
was
the
Firstfruits
of
those
that
slept.
In
the
Bride,
coming
of
Christ,
coming
out
of
the
church,
there'll
have
to
be
a
Sheaf
waved
again
in
the
last
days.
Oh,
my!
Waving
of
the
sheaf!
What
was
the
sheaf?
The
first
one
that
come
to
mature,
the
first
one
that
proved
it
was
a
wheat,
that
proved
it
was
a
sheaf.
Hallelujah!
I'm
sure
you
see
what
I'm
talking
about.
It
was
waved
over
the
people.
And
the
first
time
there
will
come
forth,
for
the
Bride
age,
for
a
resurrection
out
of
dark
denominationalism,
will
be
a
Message,
that
the
full
maturity
of
the
Word
has
turned
back
again
in
Its
full
Power,
and
being
waved
over
the
people,
by
the
same
signs
and
wonders
that
He
did
back
there.
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Christ does not return as a 'message', Christ returns as Christ. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. (Luke 21)
We
are
actually
warned
of
this
very
statement
made
by
Rev.
Branham
in
the
book
of
Luke.
Jesus
warns
us,
See
that
you
are
not
led
astray.
For
many
will
come
in
my
name,
saying,
I
am
he!
and,
The
time
is
at
hand!
Do
not
go
after
them."
(Luke
21:8)
Rev.
Branham
Then
makes
a
false
statement
about
the
Holy
Spirit,
saying
that
it
was
not
for
everyone
--
only
a
chosen
bride:
Now,
the
Holy
Spirit
comes
now.
Of
course,
It
wasn't
sent...
Why
won't
all
the
people
receive
It?
It
wasn't
sent
to
them.
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This
is
not
scriptural.
The
Holy
Spirit
is
for
ALL
who
will
believe
in
Jesus
Christ
by
faith.
And
in
the
last
days
it
shall
be,
God
declares,
that
I
will
pour
out
my
Spirit
on
ALL
flesh,
and
your
sons
and
your
daughters
shall
prophesy,
and
your
young
men
shall
see
visions,
and
your
old
men
shall
dream
dreams;
(Acts
2:17)
Notice
that
it
also
mentions
daughters
prophesying.
How
many
Branham
Cult
churches
do
you
know
that
would
listen
to
the
prophecy
of
a
female?
Rev.
Branham
then
pulls
a
few
punches
against
the
people
smarter
than
himself,
and
includes
denominations
with
the
punch:
And
when
we
see,
not
a
denomination,
not
a
Ph.D.,
not
a
LL.D.,
not
a
good
neighbor;
but
a
son
of
God
molded
in
the
image
of
God,
with
the
dynamic
Power
of
God
to
answer
the
request
of
this
day,
that
He's
the
same
yesterday,
today,
and
forever,
there
ain't
no
hen
going
to
hold
you.
He
hunts
for
his
Mama.
He's
an
eagle,
to
begin
with.
He
recognizes.
This
real
eagle
recognizes
the
call
of
God's
Word.
Why?
He's
an
eagle.
A
eagle
to
a
eagle!
The
Word
before
the
foundation,
the
Word
to
the
Word!
The
Word,
predestinated,
to
the
Word
written
for
the
hour.
You
realize
your
position.
He
hunts
for
It.
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Historically,
this
is
not
accurate.
Great
men
of
God
do
not
fit
into
Rev.
Branham's
mold
of
the
perfect
[uneducated]
man.
The
fact
that
they
wrote
books
of
original
thought
instead
of
plagiarized
books
of
Clarence
Larkin's
work
can
testify
of
that
fact.
St.
Luke
was
highly
educated,
a
physician
to
Paul.
Irenaeus
rose
up
against
anyone
who
taught
Gnostic
doctrines
similar
to
Rev.
Branham's,
and
he
was
the
one
that
Rev.
Branham
'chose'
as
a
church
age
messenger.
During
his
own
time,
people
outside
his
little
following
could
see
that
a
cult
was
forming.
They
could
see
that
Rev.
Branham
was
elevating
himself
to
the
level
of
Jesus
Christ,
and
bringing
Jesus
Christ
down
to
his
level:
As
in
the
Marriage
And
Divorce
case,
the
other
day.
When
the
Holy
Spirit
had
told
me
that,
I
come
said
it
just
the
way
He
told
me.
Some
minister
lady
give
me
a
right
sharp,
little
bawling
out.
She
said,
"I
guess
you
take
the
place
of
God?"
I
said,
"No,
ma'am."
Said,
"Well,
you
told
them
their
sin
is
forgiven."
Said,
"Where?"
Said,
"Only
God
has
power."
See,
another
Pharisee.
See?...?...
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Knowing
that
there
were
probably
many
others
who
came
forward
to
set
Rev.
Branham
back
on
the
right
path,
it
is
interesting
that
he
chose
a
woman
as
the
one
who
condemned
him
for
his
blasphemy.
By
using
a
woman
minister,
which
is
wrong
according
to
the
scriptures,
ALL
ministers
who
condemned
him
fall
into
the
same
category.
He
then
condemns
anyone
who
takes
communion
that
does
not
have
the
same
physical
shape
as
the
broken
bread
that
Rev.
Branham
and
his
little
following
took:
Talking
to
a
little
preacher
the
other
day,
he
said
to
me,
he
said,
"Now,
Brother
Branham,
I've
come
out
and
joined,
went
over
to
a
certain-certain
church,
a
Pentecostal
church."
Where,
the
Pentecostal
now
has
started
taking
the
round
wafer,
you
know.
You've
heard
of
that,
I
guess;
the
kosher,
the
moon-god,
you
know.
And
they
all
accepted
it
and
taking
it.
This
man
said...
His--his
congregation
went
to
him;
he
said,
"What I bless is blessed." Now, ain't that what the priest says, he "has power to turn it back to the body of Christ"? See, just six of one and half a dozen of the other, just the same. 65-0418M IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN
The
funny
part
here
is
that
the
'round
wafer'
would
have
probably
looked
more
like
the
bread
that
Jesus
broke
for
the
Last
Supper.
Unleavened
bread
is
usually
cooked
in
a
rounded
shape
and
broken
into
the
jagged
edge
before
eating.
It
may
have
actually
looked
like
a
half-moon
when
they
ate
it.
Rev.
Branham
then
gets
into
the
baptism:
And
he
said,
"I
want
to
ask
you
something."
He
was
trying
to
dodge
that
issue
of
the
baptism
in
Jesus'
Name,
because
this
was
the
man
that
said
it
was--it
was
the
antichrist
that
did
that.
He
said,
"Do
you
think
it's
all
necessary
that
a
man
should
be
baptized
in
the
Name
of
Jesus
Christ?"
I
said,
"Yes,
sir."
He
said,
"After
he's
been
baptized
in
name
of
'Father,
Son,
and
Holy
Ghost'?"
I
said,
"Yes,
sir.
He
hasn't
been
baptized,
at
all.
See?
He
hasn't
been
baptized,
at
all;
no
Name.
That's
a
title."
I
said,
"It
isn't
recognized."
I
said,
"Why
did--why
did
Peter..."
He
said,
"Well,
now,
let
me
tell
you
something."
He
said,
"Now,
in
Acts
10:49,
he
said,
'While
Peter
yet
spake
these
words,
the
Holy
Ghost
fell
upon
them.'"
"But,"
I
said,
"he
turned
right
around
and
said,
'Can
a
man
forbid
water
that
these
should
not
be
baptized?'"
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We've already covered why the words spoken have nothing to do with the outward display of faith, but the interesting part here is that he mentions this instance in Acts 10:49. Rev. Branham (and most message churches today) teach that you must be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ in order to receive the Holy Ghost. In this passage, the Holy Ghost fell upon them BEFORE they were baptized!
Rev.
Branham's
mother
had
a
dream
that
a
women
told
Rev.
Branham
that
he
was
a
'madman.'
Rather
than
showing
Divine
Love
and
trying
to
help
the
poor
lady,
Rev.
Branham
decided
to
condemn
her
for
her
shoes!
He
must
have
thought
about
that
fact
after
he
spoke,
because
he
cut
himself
short.
There
was
a
lady
came
by.
Now,
you
know
what
kind
of
shoes
people
wore
thirty-five
years
ago.
There
was
a
lady
come
by,
had
on
a
great
big
pair
like
they
wear
today,
spike-heeled
shoes.
And
she
come
by.
And
I
said,
"Wait
a
minute,
sister.
You
can't
walk
that
highway
with
that."
And
I
said,
"You--you,
you
can't
do
that."
And
she
said,
"Ah!"
She
said,
looked
around
at
the
rest
of
the
women,
said,
"Don't
believe
him.
He's
a
madman.
See?
Don't
believe
him.
I'll
show
you
I
can
be
justified,
sanctified,
and
filled
with
the
Holy
Ghost,
and
still
walk
that."
And
she...
I
just
let
her
go.
Couldn't
do
no
more
about
it,
couldn't
stop
her.
And
she
jumped
up
on
the
highway.
And
she
looked
back
at
the
sister,
said,
"See,
I
told
you!"
She
started
to
run
up,
and
she...
You
know,
as
the
Bible
said,
in
Isaiah,
5th
chapter,
that
they
would
have
"outstretched
necks."
They
have
to;
they're
pitched
over,
see.
"Mincing
as..."
They
have
to,
have
to
twist,
"Mincing
as
they
go,
making
a
tinkling
with
their
heels;
see,
the
daughters
of
Zion
in
the
last
day."
And
she
started
up
that
highway,
just
as
hard
as
she
could
run.
And,
after
a
while,
the
road
got
narrower
and
narrower.
She
started
reeling,
mincing
like
that,
and
off
she
went.
And
mother
said,
"The
horriblest
screams
that
I
ever
heard
in
my
life,
was
that
woman
falling
into
those
flames
and
smoke,
going
down,
down
like
that."
Said,
I
"turned
around
and
said,
'See?'"
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There is absolutely no mention of the shape or size of the shoes we wear in the Bible, and nothing that could possibly support this 'high-heeled doctrine that Rev. Branham taught. Had Jesus stood there in Rev. Branham's place, He would have probably said, "My child, could I help you across the street?" This action Rev. Branham took is the opposite of the Divine Love that Paul taught.
Could
it
be
that
his
own
mother
was
prophesying
in
a
dream
that
Rev.
Branham
was
sending
poor
souls
to
hell
by
not
showing
Divine
Love?
Notice
the
Narcissistic
personality
disorder
showing
its
ugly
head.
Rather
than
stare
in
horror
at
what
had
just
happened,
Rev.
Branham
looked
at
the
woman
and
said,
"See?"
as
if
to
tell
her,
"I
told
you
so!"
Rev.
Branham
again
twists
the
scriptures
to
elevate
himself
to
Jesus
Christ:
Well,
how
can
the
Bride
come,
and
fail
to
manifest
everything
was
promised
of
Him;
and
the
Groom
come,
and
He
wouldn't
be
the
Bride?
But
when
He
did
everything,
even
to
proving
it
by
raising
Himself
up
from
the
dead,
afterwards,
then
don't
the--the
Bride
have
to
do
the
same
thing,
have
to
be
exactly
what
the
Word
said
She
would
be
in
these
last
days?
Don't
She
have
to
return
through
Malachi
4?
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The
scroll
of
Malachi
was
entitled
"The
oracle
of
the
word
of
the
Lord
to
Israel
by
Malachi,"
but
we
will
not
get
into
that
argument
here.
What
is
incorrect
is
that
Malachi
4
speaks
of
Elijah
coming
BEFORE
the
coming
of
Christ,
not
AS
the
coming
of
Christ.
Christ
will
not
return
through
Malachi
4
as
Rev.
Branham
falsely
stated.
Rev.
Branham
then
gives
his
account
of
Enoch,
which
he
got
from
the
Gnostic
'Book
of
Enoch':
Let's
take
another
man.
There
was
a
man
by
the
name
of
Enoch.
Now,
he
had
walked
with
every
Word
of
God,
for
about
five
hundred
years.
He
had
a
testimony,
that,
"I
haven't
one
time
failed
His
Word."
He
got
so
full
of
the
quickening
Power
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This
conflicts
with
the
Bible,
which
says
that
Enoch
lived
365
years,
contrary
to
the
Book
of
Enoch.
Thus
all
the
days
of
Enoch
were
365
years.
Genesis
5:23
He
then
elevates
Elijah
by
comparing
him
to
Jesus,
since
he
also
claimed
to
be
Elijah:
That
same
quickening
Power
of
God
presented
in
both
of
these
prophets.
Look
at
their
names,
are
almost
the
same,
Elisha,
Elijah.
See
the
Bride
and
the
Groom?
One
of
them
is
Mr.
Jesus;
the
other
one
is
Mrs.
Jesus.
You
see,
almost
the
same,
just--just
between
the--the
He
and
She.
See?
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Did
Rev.
Branham
forget
that
the
names
'Elijah'
and
'Elijah'
looked
NOTHING
like
each
other
in
the
original
Hebrew
symbols?
Only
two
of
the
symbols
matched!
It
would
be
interesting
to
see
how
many
other
names
use
those
two
symbols.
He
then
brings
up
his
'divine
revelation'
of
the
seven
seals
again,
as
if
to
somehow
say,
"See,
I
did
that":
Look
what
we've
seen
in
this
day.
The
Quickening
Power
has
come
to
us,
to
open
the
Seven
Seals.
What
was
that,
the
intelligence
of
a
man?
No,
the
quickening
Power
of
God.
See,
the
quickening
Power
of
God
foretold
this
would
take
place.
See,
the
quickening
Power
of
God
made
the
world
testify
to
It,
it's
the
Truth.
The
Angel
of
the
Lord,
I
told
you,
was
around,
in
a
Pillar
of
Fire;
quickening
Power
let
the
world
testify
that
It's
the
Truth.
And,
in
that,
they
didn't
know
what
It
was;
and
we
knew,
just
look
this
a
way,
and
It's
our
Lord
up
there,
you
see.
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This
was
not
to
Rev.
Branham
from
the
'quickening
power
of
God.'
It
was
to
Clarence
Larkin
through
the
'quickening
power
of
God.'
This
[blank
spot
in
tape]
is
interesting.
Now
look
at
transfiguration.
We
was,
every
one,
represented
there.
There
was
the
living
saints
that
had
raptured,
there
was
Elijah
standing
there;
and
there
stood
Moses,
the
dead
saints
repre-...
Also,
both
of
them
had
quickening
Power.
Whether
one
died,
and
the
other
didn't
die,
they're
all
there.
Notice, oh, look what we are now seeing in these last days. The same thing that He promised, John 14:12. Now look. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Certainly. 65-0418M IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN
This scripture, John 14:12, is one that supports the Trinitarian doctrine. It shows the personification of the Father and the Son, and says that the "Son is going to the Father." Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me[e] anything in my name, I will do it. John 14:12-14 Quick! Let's hide the scriptures that prove our doctrines wrong!!! We can't let word of this get out!
Rev.
Branham
starts
by
ordaining
ministers
to
his
cause.
Notice
that
he
is
not
ordaining
ministers
to
the
Message
that
Paul
said
we
should
go
forward
with,
he
was
ordaining
them
to
his
'message'
(lowercase)
that
is
now
called
'the
message
of
the
hour.'
(lowercase).
These
men,
do
you
believe
this
Message
to
be
the
Truth
from
God's
Word?
[The
brethren
say,
"Amen."--Ed.]
Do
you
believe
that
with
all
your
heart?
["Amen."]
All
right.
And
you
are
desirous,
and
think
if
we
lay
hands
upon
you...
We
want
you
to
know
that
we
are
with
you,
and
we'll
do
anything
that
we
can
do
to
help
you.
And
now
I
want
you
brethren,
so
that
I
can
lay
hands
on
them
too,
to
step
right
up
here
now.
And
let's
all
bow
our
heads,
as
we
lay
hands
on
them.
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DOES.GOD.EVER.CHANGE.HIS.MIND.ABOUT.HIS.WORD
Scripturally,
we
should
go
forward
with
the
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ,
not
the
message
of
a
man:
But
even
if
we
or
an
angel
from
heaven
should
preach
to
you
a
gospel
contrary
to
the
one
we
preached
to
you,
let
him
be
accursed.
(Galations
1:8)
This takes up a third of the recorded tape. When he finally gets into the message, we find that the entire premise of the sermon is unscriptural. To make matters worse, he calls this particular sermon a 'message', and the editors at the organization have capitalized it as though it were something straight out of the Bible: Now we'll read the Word and pray, and get straight into this Message that I feel that the Holy Spirit would have me to bring to you tonight. 65-0418E DOES.GOD.EVER.CHANGE.HIS.MIND.ABOUT.HIS.WORD When he gets to the heart of the sermon, we notice the problem that Rev. Branham had all throughout his ministry. He could not discern between gifts that came from God and the false gifts that come from Satan:
Now, in this statement here, the reason I chose this statement, was because it's one of the statements of the Bible that a reader, trying to see, or try to say that God does change His mind; this would be more like that He changed His mind than any place in the Bible, I know of, because He told Balaam one thing and then told him another. And now, many people has tried to make Balaam just a, oh, a soothsayer or something. But Balaam was not a soothsayer. He was a prophet of the Lord. {...} Now, we notice that both of these were spiritual men, both were prophets, both were called. And Moses, right in the line of duty, with a fresh Pillar of Fire before him every day, the Spirit of God upon him, in the line of duty. Here comes another servant of God, called of God, ordained of God, a prophet to whom the Word of God comes to. Here is the danger line. There is nobody could dispute that man being of God--of God, because the Bible said the Spirit of God spoke to him, and he was a prophet. But, you see, when he got the real answer from God, he wouldn't keep It. He didn't notice It, then he went to challenge Moses. 65-0418E DOES.GOD.EVER.CHANGE.HIS.MIND.ABOUT.HIS.WORD
Balaam was not a prophet of God. A prophet is a person who receives a prophecy, message from God. They put themselves out of the way, letting God speak THROUGH them. It has nothing to do with the prophet, nothing that makes a prophet better than any other person, it is simply a gift from God. They do not exalt themselves for having this gift, and that gift does not speak error. Rev. Branham's prophecies have errors in them, placing him more in the category of Balaam -- which is the reason he tried to exalt Balaam in this sermon! Balaam, if you remember, could not speak his false prophecy against the children of Israel. God knew his divine plan for the children of Israel, and had Balaam spoke anything against them, it would have been false prophecy. Since he could not bring this evil upon them by God, he devised a plan to turn the
children
of
Israel
over
to
idol
worship
--
truly
not
the
way
of
a
prophet
of
God.
Later,
the
Bible
speaks
of
how
the
children
of
Israel
killed
Balaam,
who
was
a
sorcerer
and
soothsayer,
not
a
prophet
of
God:
Balaam
also,
the
son
of
Beor,
the
one
who
practiced
divination,
was
killed
with
the
sword
by
the
people
of
Israel
among
the
rest
of
their
slain.
(Joshua
13:22)
God
does
not
change
his
mind
about
his
Word.
Every
Christian
minister
will
tell
you
that,
and
it
needs
no
'divine
interpretation.'
It
is
written
in
God's
Word.
It
does
condemn
those
who
inject
their
own
ideas
into
the
Word
of
God,
going
forth
with
'some
other
Gospel.'
Rev.
Branham
knew
in
his
heart
that
it
was
wrong,
and
knew
others
could
see
his
fault:
Quote:
Now,
in
this,
and
you
people
out
in
the--on
the
telephones,
I
want
to
first
say
that
I--I
do
not
wish
to
be
critical,
and
I
hope
I'm
not.
But,
the
Message
that's
been
given
to
me,
I
must
be
faithful
to
that
Message,
or
I'll
be
a
hypocrite.
See?
I--I
can't
say
no
more
than
what
I
am
sent
to
say.
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DOES.GOD.EVER.CHANGE.HIS.MIND.ABOUT.HIS.WORD
As
for
me
and
my
house,
I
will
serve
the
Lord.
I
will
spread
the
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ,
not
some
other
Gospel.
Rev.
Branham
then
takes
the
side
of
Esau
(in
the
physical),
confusing
followers
as
to
the
reason
why
God
would
choose
Jacob
as
the
one
who
gained
the
birthright.
Now
notice,
the
natural
always
tries
to
type
the
spiritual.
But,
as
in
Jacob
and
Esau,
it
will
not
work.
It
would
not.
Now,
when
it
come
to
doing
good
works,
I--I
believe
that
Esau
actually
was
a
better
man
than
Jacob,
in
the
sight
of
man.
He
tried
to
take
care
of
his
daddy;
he
was
blind,
a
prophet.
And
all
these
things
that
he
tried
to
do,
but
yet
Esau
didn't
think
about
that
being
just
carnal
work.
He
thought
he
could
get
in
by
what
he
done, do something good for somebody, which was all right. But Jacob, his whole soul was to get that birthright, and that's what God recognized in him spiritual. 65-0418E DOES.GOD.EVER.CHANGE.HIS.MIND.ABOUT.HIS.WORD
Esau would have fit Rev. Branham's mold much better than Jacob when you take a full study of his life. He loved the wilderness. He avoided studying the things of God, making nature his 'bible' and not knowing the spiritual things that he should be aware of. His focus was not on God. Remember, this is a man that was so full of anger that he was going to kill his own brother. Biblical history has it that the two brothers were very different in character. Jacob spent all his time at home, engaged in study with his father and grandfather Abraham. Esau, however, avoided studying, and spent most of his time in the fields. He enjoyed hunting and killing, and was often absent from his home for many days. Legend has it that on the day of Abrahams death, Esau was not at his grandfather's side -- he was out in the fields as usual. He had lost his way and was trying to find his way back, when King Nimrod arrived with two servants. Esau hid behind a rock, and when Nimrod was left unguarded, he killed him. Esau escaped with King Nimrods clothes, which were Adams garments that later became the property of Noah. These divine clothes had made Nimrod a powerful and skillful hunter and a mighty ruler over all other kings. Esau had come into possession of the most valuable and cherished property a hunter could desire, and could have cared less about his birthright. This was not the way of a man who was focusing his mind upon God. Jacob was truly the most holy sibling. Though the legend cannot be counted as Biblical fact, it seemingly fits the character of Esau. Either way, Jacob was a more holy choice for the birthright.
Rev.
Branham
then
contradicts
the
sermon
subject
matter,
with
an
unscriptural
account
of
the
law
of
Moses:
God
permitted
Israel
to
take
a
law,
in
Exodus
the
19th
chapter.
When
grace
had
already
give
them
a
prophet,
Pillar
of
Fire,
a
sacrifice
lamb,
a
delivering
power,
but
they
cried
out
for
a
Law.
It
wasn't
God's
will,
but
it
was
injected
because
man
wanted
it.
And
he
was
cursed
by
the
very
law
that
he
wanted.
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DOES.GOD.EVER.CHANGE.HIS.MIND.ABOUT.HIS.WORD
God's
law
given
to
Moses
was
perfectly
according
to
God's
plan
throughout
the
ages.
Rev.
Branham
never
fully
understood
the
purpose
of
the
law,
because
he
would
make
references
to
his
belief
that
we
were
still
bound
by
some
of
that
law.
The
law
was
given
to
the
children
of
israel
in
order
to
prepare
the
situation
for
the
sacrifice
of
God's
only
Son.
If
the
law
were
not
given,
then
Jesus
could
not
come
to
fulfill
that
law!
The
people
did
not
'cry
out
for
a
law.'
The
people
looked
to
God
to
guide
them.
Exodus
19,
when
studied
in
its
entirety,
is
a
direct
conflict
with
this
statement.
Historically,
Rev.
Branham
makes
a
false
statement
on
the
history
of
baptism:
Now,
that
man
who
reads
that
Bible,
he
can't
read
It
unless
he
sees
that
that's
the
Truth.
There
is
nobody
ever
baptized
using
the
titles
of
"Father,
Son,
Holy
Ghost."
It's
a
Catholic
creed
and
not
a
Bible
Doctrine.
No
person
in
the
Bible
was
ever
baptized,
or
three
hundred
years
after
the
death
of
the
last
apostle,
but
what
was
baptized
in
the
Name
of
Jesus
Christ.
The
Catholic
church
started
that,
and
the
rest
of
them
come
to
it.
And
any
minister
setting
in
his
study
and
will
look
at
that,
knows
that's
the
Truth.
But,
for
popularity,
to
hold
his
position,
better
thought
of
among
the
people,
he
compromises.
The
Apostles
wrote
a
scroll
called
the
Didache
long
before
the
Nicene
counsel.
They
baptized
in
the
way
that
Jesus
commanded
them:
Go
therefore
and
make
disciples
of
all
nations,
baptizing
them
in[a]
the
name
of
the
Father
and
of
the
Son
and
of
the
Holy
Spirit
(Matthew
28:19)
One in a Million
One
in
a
million
is
just
one
of
many
sermons
with
the
intent
to
serve
a
plate
of
fear
into
the
hungry
sheep
so
that
they
follow
the
wolf.
When
counting
the
many
different
threads
of
fear
in
the
sermons,
we
find
that
it
may
even
surpass
the
number
of
actual
scriptural
teachings.
He
preached
about
the
end
of
the
world
a
number
of
times,
he
preached
about
watching
Russia
which
he
finally
gave
up
on
when
his
communism
vision
failed
and
he
changed
the
history
of
the
vision.
He
was
afraid
of
cats
and
he
saw
demons
everywhere.
One
of
his
scary
demons
supposedly
looked
like
Alley
Oop
from
the
funny
papers.
In
ancient
Pagan
cultures,
a
Shaman
or
other
false
leader
employs
power
and
fear,
and
Branham
was
certainly
influenced
by
those
cultures.
Mother
nature
was
his
god,
and
she
would
not
lead
you
astray,
he
said
in
one
place.
He
looked
to
the
Zodiac
for
guidance
and
animals
also
influenced
him.
My
first
Bible
was
mother
nature.
57-0125
HEAR.YE.HIM_
LIMA.OH
I
see
God
in
His
universe.
It
was
my
first
teacher
to
set
down
by
mother
nature,
and
she's
taught
me
of
the
things
of
God.
57-0323
GOD.IN.HIS.WORD
I
was
noticing,
as
for
my
first
Bible
I
ever
knew
was
grand
old
mother
nature.
If
you'll
just
follow
that,
you
won't
be
too
far
off
the
road,
watching
nature,
how
it
works.
60-0630
GOD'S.PROVIDED.APPROACH.TO.DIVINE.FELLOWSHIP
Now,
we
find
out
that
Moses,
now,
when
he
was
out
there...But
he
walked
up
to
Mother
Nature,
took
off
his
shoes,
knelt
down
and
begin
to
talk
to
It.
And
It
talked
back
to
him.
That's
the
way.
63-0412E
GOD.HIDING.HIMSELF.IN.SIMPLICITY
But
nature
has
to
do
the
healing,
and
nature
is
God.
God
is
nature.
Throughout
WMB's
life
and
preaching
we
see
this
motif
of
nature,
power
and
fear.
Can
anyone
show
me
where
any
of
the
biblical
OT
prophets,
or
NT
Apostles,
ever
manifested
this
in
their
life
and
teaching?
If
not,
why
would
we
follow
a
man
who
did?
In
another
Full
Gospel
Businessman's
Associating
meeting,
Rev.
Branham
opens
up
a
little
bit
more,
trying
to
convince
them
of
his
fabrication
regarding
the
events
he
put
together
in
several
stories
about
his
'sword
of
the
king'
and
'spiritual
cloud.'
And
I
looked
around.
I
said,
"Well,
now,
how
could
that
ever
happen?
Here
I
am
standing
here,
right,
here,
and
no
one
around
for
miles
and
miles,
and
where
did
that
come
from?"
And
I
said,
"Well,
I--I
suppose
maybe
it's
the--the
Lord
telling
me
it's
my
end
time."
And
a
Voice
spoke
and
said,
"This
is
the
Sword
of
the
Lord."
And
I
thought,
"Well,
a
sword,
then
it's
for
like
a
king,
to
knight."
You
know,
how
it
used
to
do
in
England
and
different
places.
I
thought,
"That's
what
that
is
for,
to
knight."
And
I
thought,
"Well,
maybe
I'm
supposed
to
lay
hands
on
people,
or..."
I
had
all
kinds...
The
human
mind
can
be
all
messed
up,
you
know.
You
don't
know.
Our
minds
is
finite;
His
is
infinite.
So,
and
as
I
was,
it...
Then
it
left
my
hand
and
I
didn't
know
where
it
went,
just
disappeared.
Why,
if
a
person
didn't
understand
a
little
bit
about
spiritual
things,
you--you'd
go
crazy
like
that.
You'd
be
standing
there,
wondering
what
happened.
And
He
said,
"The
vision
is
not
your
end
time.
It's
for
your
ministry.
That
Sword
is
the
Word.
The
Seven
Seals
will
be
opened,
the
mysteries
of..."
And
then
two
weeks
after
that,
or
two
months,
rather,
after
that,
I
was
up
in
the
mountain
with
a
bunch
of
friends
when
it,
happened.
Seven
Angels,
just
as
clear
as
you're
standing
here,
came
sweeping
down
from
Heaven.
The
rocks
in
the
mountains
rolled
out
and
down
the
hills,
and--and
people
standing
there
were
screaming
and
going
on,
you
know,
and
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These
were
two
separate
prophecies,
neither
of
which
happened.
Rev.
Branham
was
in
Houston,
TX
at
the
time
of
the
supernatural
cloud.
Rev.
Branham
gives
an
account
of
a
healing
that
conflicts
with
an
account
only
three
sermons
before.
Sitting
on
this
certain
rock
there,
right
where
He
had
appeared,
I
had
a--a
friend
that
was
with
us,
that
had
come
down
from
up
in
Minnesota.
His
people
are
here
this
morning
and
I'm
not
sure
but
what
he
may
be
here
on
some
of
the
other
floors.
It
was
Donavon
Weerts,
and
a
fine
young
fellow,
a
Lutheran
that
had
just
give
his
life
to
Christ
and
been
filled
with
the
Spirit.
Very
humble
German
boy,
about
thirty
years
old,
family,
two
or
three
little
children.
He
moved
down
in
Tucson
just
to
be
neighbors
with
me,
where
three
or
four
hundred
had
moved
in
to
be
neighbors.
So
he...
And
I'm
glad
to
have
such
neighbors
as
that.
They
follow
me
all
the
way
to
South
Africa,
and
everywhere
around,
just
to
be
near
and
see
the...
with
me,
and
to
be
with
me
and
enjoy
the
pleasures
of
the
Lord.
Such
a
humble
fellow,
I
had
never
noticed
him
very
much.
Course,
the
people
that
I
know
and
associate
with
are
just
like
my
own
brother,
sister.
I
watch
them,
and
feel
if
I
think
they're
getting
out
of
line,
and
take
them
out
to
one
side
and
talk
with
them,
because
I
love
them.
We
want
to
live
in
Glory
together.
And
sometimes
maybe,
in
the
meetings,
you
think
I
the dust flying everywhere. And when it was, He said, "Return to your home. Now will be, each Angel will be one of the seals of the Seven Seals." Which, it's on tape. And the book will be out pretty soon, being now it's kind of grammarized. As you know, my grammar is not very good, and people wouldn't... You just have to be people that love me and know how to understand me on my grammar. But some theologian is grammarizing it for me, and taking out all the--the... Well, maybe I said the wrong word there. I don't even know. So, I heard someone laughing, so I guess that "grammarize" wasn't right. But like the Dutchman, you take me for what I mean and not what I say, really. 65-0424 ONE.IN.A.MILLION
speak harsh to you. That isn't from it. That isn't because that I don't love you, but it does come from my heart, because I--I... It must be just one way. There is only one way to serve God, and that's... And we must stay in His way, no matter what our thoughts is. His way! And I noticed Donavon, on the right tip of his ear, was swollen perhaps three times its size, and looked very red. Well, now thinking maybe that, there in the desert for a few days, that where we had been, that maybe he had got some cactus in his ear. But, taking a hold of his hand, I found out that it was a cancer. So I said to Donavon, I said, "Donavon, have you... How long has that been on your ear?" Just to kind of throw him off, like I didn't know. I said, "How long has that been on there, Donavon?" He said, "Brother Branham, about six months," he said. I said, "Why didn't you mention it to me?" He said, "Oh, seeing you so busy," said, "I didn't want to--to do it." Said, "I just thought maybe sometime the Lord might tell you." So I said, "Do you realize what it is?" He said, "I have a good idea." I said, "That is right." And the second morning. No more than that, holding the boy by the hand; the second morning, there wasn't even a scar on his ear. It was all completely gone.
This
account
has
all
of
the
elements
of
a
good
'vision
story'.
He
had
went
up
to
sit
on
a
rock
on
top
of
a
mountain,
like
Gandhi.
This
precious
brother
came
like
he
was
entering
the
courts
of
Buddha.
A
long
conversation
followed.
The
man
was
healed.
Now,
I
do
not
doubt
the
man
was
healed.
God
heals,
not
man.
God
could
heal
with
a
simple
touch;
no
conversation
is
even
needed,
and
we
do
not
need
an
oracle
sitting
on
a
rock.
But
the
truth
of
the
matter
is
that
the
first
time
this
is
mentioned,
Rev.
Branham
clearly
states
that
he
never
spoke
a
word!
There's
a
little
fellow
setting
right
here,
that,
under
this
church
now.
A
few
days
ago...
That
man
believes.
Little
old
boy
had
a
cancer
on
his
ear,
and
he
wouldn't
say
nothing
about
it.
He was working up there at the house. I had been on a hunting trip with him, up there at the Moseley brothers, and Brother Dawson here. We was up here a hunting, Brother William's son. And I happened to look over on his ear. I seen his ear all swelled up. I said, "What's the matter, Donavon, that ear?" He said, "Brother Branham, it's been on a long time. I don't know." I just--just caught him by the hand there. That was a big cancer on his ear. Never said one word; just held it, and thought, "My brother!" In a day or two after that, there wasn't even a scar left of it. It was his respect in the God of Heaven, by His quickening power, killed that cancer and spared the life of Donavon Weerts back there. That's right. 65-0410 THE.EASTER.SEAL
Why
did
the
story
change
so
drastically
when
it
was
told
in
another
city?
Was
it
even
cancer?
There
was
no
medical
examination,
no
verification
that
he
had
anything
more
than
an
infected
ear!
This
story
would
sound
good
to
these
Full
Gospel
Businessmen.
Rev.
Branham
then
twists
a
scripture
to
fit
his
purpose:
Let
me
give
you
a
shocking
something.
See,
"Not
all
that
saith
unto
Me,
'Lord,
Lord,'
will
enter
in;
but
the
one
that
doeth
the
will
of
My
Father."
His
will
is
His
Word.
We
can
be
ever
so
religious,
have
great
times,
shouting,
jumping,
in
these
meetings,
which
we're...
I
don't--I
don't
want
to
be
critical.
But
I
have
a--a
duty
to
do
to
God,
and
that
duty
is
to
be
sincere
and
to
65-0424
ONE.IN.A.MILLION
Scripturally,
these
words
are
there,
but
are
taken
out
of
context.
For
it
is
by
grace
you
have
been
saved,
through
faith--and
this
not
from
yourselves,
it
is
the
gift
of
God
(Eph
2:8)
If we read this section of Matthew 7 in context, it is speaking about false prophets who have done great and mighty things in the name of the Lord:
Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name? And then will I declare to them, I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. Matthew 7
He
then
goes
into
a
trail
of
thought
that
leads
to
destruction,
the
heart
of
the
'one
in
a
million.'
subject
matter.
There
is
approximately
five
hundred
million
so-called
Christians
in
the
world
today,
and
each
day
ends
a
generation.
And
now,
what
if
the
Rapture
would
come
today
and
five
hundred
people,
universally,
would
be
taken
in
the
Rapture?
You
would
never
know
or
even
see
in
the
paper,
of
them
going.
And
the
Coming
of
the
Lord
is
a
secret
Coming.
He'll
come
and
steal
away.
It'll
be
such
a
minority,
till...
65-0424
ONE.IN.A.MILLION
This
statement
alone
is
intended
to
separate
Christians
from
Christians,
just
as
the
Word
of
God
warns
us
will
happen
in
the
last
days.
Luke
10:2
says,
"And
he
said
to
them,
The
harvest
is
plentiful,
but
the
laborers
are
few.
Therefore
pray
earnestly
to
the
Lord
of
the
harvest
to
send
out
laborers
into
his
harvest."
Christians
account
for
less
than
33%
of
the
population
of
the
earth,
and
a
large
percentage
of
those
are
members
of
a
cult
that
have
strayed
from
the
Truth.
I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; (Acts 20:29) It is interesting that Rev. Branham again brings up the trip to India. This was one of two prophecies that were 'prophesied'
before
the
event
happened,
and
like
the
other
one
was
a
failed
prophecy:
In
his
store,
the
other
day,
was
a
man
came
in,
was
very
striking,
he
was
saying
something
that
brought
back
a
memory
to
me,
when
I...
last
time
I
was
in--in
India.
Where,
I
think
the
Lord
gave
us
the
greatest
crowd
we
ever
had
at
one
time,
was
in
Bombay.
We
couldn't
even
find
places
nowhere
to
put
them,
tens
of
thousands
and
thousands
of
people.
65-0426
PROVING.HIS.WORD
There
were
supposed
to
be
tens
of
thousands
and
thousands
of
people
'saved',
but
in
his
own
words,
they
were
simply
'gathered'.
Here
is
the
original
vision:
Mark
my
word;
write
it
in
the
pages
of
your
Bible,
for
it's
THUS
SAITH
THE
LORD,
"Remember,
when
we
land
in
India,
you're
going
to
hear
of
tens
of
thousands
times
thousands
being
saved."
The
Holy
Spirit
has
said
it;
I've
wrote
it
here
in
my
Bible;
it's
wrote
in
tens
of
thousands
of
Bibles
right
here,
like
the
resurrection
of
the
little
boy.
By
a
vision
that
He
said,
"There's
three
hundred
thousand
of
them
in
there."
And
you
see
if
that
isn't
right.
There's
how
the
Gospel's
going
to
be
preached
just
overnight.
She'll
just
sweep
like
that
from
place
to
place.
BRANHAM,
Questions
and
Answers,
May
15,
1954
(tape
#54- 0515)
It is interesting that Rev. Branham uses this particular quote from the Bible:
Now God is just as able to prove His Word, tonight, as He ever did prove It. And the Bible also said, "Prove all things. Hold fast to that what's good." 65-0426 PROVING.HIS.WORD
Followers
today
hold
fast
to
what
is
spoken
by
Rev.
Branham,
even
if
it
conflicts
with
the
Word.
Rev.
Branham
is
caught
in
a
lie
by
letters
from
his
own
daughter
[unauthenticated]
that
were
confirmed
by
Brother
Jackson
[authenticated]:
"The
other
hunter,
your
friend,
tells
me
that
you
get
to
hunt
everywhere.
You
got
plenty
of
money?"
Said,
"I
guess
it's
none
of
my
business."
And
I
said,
"No,"
I
said,
"it
isn't
plenty
of
money."
I
said,
"I--I'm
sponsored."
And
he
said,
"Oh,
I
see."
He
said,
"Well,
I
guess
it's
none
of
my
business
again,
but,"
said,
"are
you
with
a
firm
that
sponsors
you?"
65-0426
PROVING.HIS.WORD
At
the
time
of
his
death,
Rev.
Branham
had
gathered
over
three
million
dollars
that
were
stored
in
bank
accounts.
Followers
see
him
as
a
humble
man
that
did
not
spend
much
money,
but
this
large
game
hunter
knew
that
these
hunts
cost
a
fortune!
Rev.
Branham
then
supports
the
Mormon
church,
well
known
to
be
a
cult:
And
then
he
said--he
said,
"I
want
to
ask
you
something."
He
said,
"I
am
told
that
the
Mormon
church
is
the
only
true
church
there
is."
He
said,
"Do
you
believe
that?"
I
said,
"When
it
comes
to
church,
I
guess
it's
as
good
as
any
of
them.
I
only
know
one
Truth,
and
that's
Jesus
Christ."
I
said,
"I
know
He
is
True."
65-0426
PROVING.HIS.WORD
Rev. Branham himself tells about the Mormon prophecy that pointed to himself, so there is no wonder that he would support them:
And then one night, I was coming out of Seattle, and there was a man standing over there. And he had a book under his arm. He kept telling me, "Brother Branham, you're in the wrong church." And I didn't know what he was talking of. And he put the book under my arm. It was called the Mormon Word Of God. I don't know what it was. It's a--it's one of their prophets of The Latter Day Saint, some bunch of them, that they claims they see the neophytes. And--and back there a hundred and... long long... how long ago it was, it... on a certain page there... I have the book in my library. It prophesied, their prophet, and said, that, "In the last days that Germany would have a--a ism called Nazis." And it went ahead and said, "In that day, let W-i double l-i-a-m, William Branham be called and set aside in humility for the service that I have called him to." That's right. 51-0509 Believe Ye That I Can Do This
When He was on earth here, the first time, He was the Son of man. He could not be Son of God then; He never claimed to be. He said He was "Son of man." 65-0426 PROVING.HIS.WORD
This
is
not
biblical
--
Jesus
was
both
man
AND
the
Son
of
God.
She
said
to
him,
Yes,
Lord;
I
believe
that
you
are
the
Christ,
the
Son
of
God,
who
is
coming
into
the
world.
(John
11:27)
My
Father,
who
has
given
them
to
me,
is
greater
than
all,
and
no
one
is
able
to
snatch
them
out
of
the
Father's
hand.
(John
10:29)
Rev.
Branham
then
claims
that
the
Bible
promised
that
the
church
would
be
restored
back
to
the
original
Pentecostal
faith.
Now,
quickly,
let's
think
of
Him
a
moment,
here
He
is
on
His
road
up.
A
little
priest
came
down,
no
doubt
but
that
little
fellow
was
a
borderline
believer.
There
is
so
many
of
them
in
the
world
today,
little
borderline
believers.
They
want
to
believe
That.
They
want
to
believe
that
the
Holy
Ghost
is
real.
They
want
to
believe
this
is
the
apostolic
move,
as
God
promised
in
the
last
days
He
would
pour
out
His
Spirit.
We...
he
wants
to
believe
in
Malachi
4,
that
He
promised,
in
the
last
days
the--the
original
pentecostal
Faith
would
be
restored
back
to
the--to
the
church
again.
Malachi
4
claims
it.
"Behold,
I
will
send
to
you
Elijah
in
the
last
day,"
that's
right,
"and
He
will
restore
the
Faith
of
the
children
back
to
the
fathers
again,"
see,
"the
Faith
of
the
fathers
to
the
children,
also."
See,
it's
got
to
be.
You
say,
"Well,
that
was
John
the
Baptist."
No,
no.
John
the
Baptist
was
Malachi
3.
That's
right.
Matthew
11
says
so,
"If
you
can
receive
it,
this
is
he
who
is
spoke
of,
'Behold,
I
send
My
messenger
before
My
face.'"
It
was
Elijah,
certainly.
Jesus
said
it
was.
But
not
the
Elijah
of
Malachi
4,
at
all.
65-0426
PROVING.HIS.WORD
Rev. Branham took a scripture, and changes one word to serve his purpose -- just like the serpent did for Eve.
No
don't
get
me
wrong,
it
is
by
faith
in
Jesus
Christ
that
we
are
all
saved.
But
Elijah
is
not
coming
to
restore
any
faith.
The
scripture
he
refers
to
speaks
of
Elijah
preparing
the
way,
and
can
just
as
easily
be
proven
that
it
was
describing
John
the
Baptist.
Faith
comes
from
Jesus
Christ,
not
from
any
man.
And
it
is
given
by
grace.
Let's
compare
what
Rev.
Branham
says
with
what
the
scriptures
say:
Behold,
I
will
send
you
Elijah
the
prophet
before
the
great
and
awesome
day
of
the
Lord
comes.
6
And
he
will
turn
the
**hearts**
of
fathers
to
their
children
and
the
hearts
of
children
to
their
fathers,
lest
I
come
and
strike
the
land
with
a
decree
of
utter
destruction.
Malachi
4
Notice
that
the
scripture
says
'hearts'
instead
of
'faith'.
Now
notice
the
capitalization
used
by
the
editors
of
the
organization
in
the
reading
of
scripture
by
Rev.
Branham,
capitalizing
'Faith'
as
though
it
were
some
great
revelation
that
Rev.
Branham's
twisting
of
the
scripture
were
more
correct
in
some
way.
It
is
very
interesting
when
you
consider
this
[blank
spot
on
tape]
for
more
reasons
that
just
one:
He
promised
that
in
this
day,
the
day
that
we're
living
in,
that
the
world
would
be
in
a
Sodom
condition,
homosexuals.
Just
look
at
it
in
the
world
today,
all
over
the
world
where
I
travel;
not
only
here,
everywhere.
It's
critical.
In
Sweden,
young
men
and
women
go
skiing,
stark-naked.
And
they
in
Germany
and
in
France,
and
everywhere
else,
it's
just
about
kind
of
a
riffraff
that
we
have
here
in
the
United
States.
It's
an
age.
I,
if
I
get
a
chance
to
ever
come
back,
I'd
like
to
speak
on
some
of
the
prophetic
things,
to
you,
and
show
you
that,
the
age
that
we're
living
in.
The
Bible
said
that,
"Children
would
rule
their
parents."
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
Word.
65-0426
PROVING.HIS.WORD
Rev. Branham starts by condemning this 'Sodom condition', with these homosexuals. Gene Goad and Leo Mercer,
according
to
Dr.
Lee
Vayle,
were
homosexual.
According
to
Vayle,
Rev.
Branham
knew
this,
and
allowed
it.
Does
that
place
Rev.
Branham
in
a
'Sodom
condition?'
Then,
he
talks
about
the
women
going
stark-naked.
This
is
even
more
interesting,
when
you
consider
the
fact
that
Rev.
Branham
himself
was
overly
interested
in
the
stark-naked
people.
Rev.
Branham
spent
some
time
in
and
around
London
until
flying
to
Paris
for
a
couple
of
days
of
seeing
the
sights
there.
No
word
of
seeing
King
George
VI.
These
sights
included
a
visit
to
Place
Pigalle,
the
Paris
Red
Light
District.
It
was
called
Pig
Alley
by
US
soldiers
visiting
this
prostitution
district
during
WW
II.
Rev.
Branham
said
he
had
heard
about
its
immorality
and
just
had
to
go
there
and
see
it
for
himself.
His
verdict,
Its
true!
Legend
of
the
Fall
This is interesting, because when read in context, Jesus was warning us about those that would turn us away from our focus in Jesus Christ. Rev. Branham often used the end of this passage to show how it was the 'little bride.' Rev. Branham would say that "where the carcass is, the eagles will gather," saying that eagles eat fresh meat. The actual
translation
is,
"Wherever
the
corpse
is,
there
the
vultures
will
gather."
Rev.
Branham
said
that
the
eagle
will
only
eat
fresh
meat,
which
isn't
true.
They
also
eat
the
same
dead
corpse
that
vultures
will
eat.
There
are
some
Bible
translations
that
use
'eagle',
because
that
was
the
way
that
Josephus
described
the
emblems
on
the
roman
soldiers.
The
more
accurate
translation,
however,
is
vultures
--
the
griffon
vulture
specifically,
which
was
much
larger
than
the
eagle.
When
you
read
the
entire
scripture
in
context,
you
find
that
it
is
speaking
of
false
prophets
rising
right
before
the
tribulation,
and
at
the
end
of
the
tribulation,
the
vultures
eat
the
corpses.
Either
way
you
look
at
it,
eagles
or
vultures,
these
were
the
'bad
guys',
not
the
'good
guys'.
Again,
Rev.
Branham
tries
to
claim
that
the
number
of
letters
in
his
name
are
significant:
Positionally,
the
world
has
never
sit
in
that
estate,
from
that
day
that
Jesus
made
the
promise,
until
right
now.
I
want
to
ask
any
historian
that
might
be
in
the
building,
or
if
you
hear
even
on
this
tape,
and
hear
it
at
any
time,
please
write
me.
I've
studied
history
now
for
some
thirty
years,
the
Bible
history,
and
there
never
has
been
a
person
that
I've
ever
seen
in
all
the
history
of
the
church,
through
the
seven
church
ages.
That
we're
now
in
Laodicea,
and
we
know
that.
Never
has
there
been
a
messenger,
that
ever
went
to
the
entire
church,
with
his
name
ending
with
h-a-m,
till
now.
G-r- a-h-a-m,
Billy
Graham.
There
has
been
Moody's,
Finney,
Sankey,
Knox,
Luther,
and
so
forth,
but
never
a
h-a-m,
"father
to
nations."
Now
remember,
he
is
G-r-a-h-am,
six
letters.
But
A-b-r-a-h-a-m
is
seven
letters.
Unfortunately for the listeners of the day, they did not have the iPads with the Lexicon built into it. A-b-r-a-h-a-m is English, and may have a similar number of letters. In the original Hebrew, however, there are only five letters of this FIRST NAME to compare to Rev. Branham's LAST NAME.
Genesis
17
speaks
about
the
name
change
from
Avrm
to
avrhm.
In
ancient
Hebrew
there
are
NO
vowels,
they
must
be
supplied
by
the
reader.
So
we
actually
have
4
letters
in
Abrms
name
which
God,
not
Abraham's
father
changed
to
Abrhm.
Rev.
Branham
then
gets
into
the
prayer
line,
but
reminds
the
congregation
of
his
powerful
halo:
Here,
how
many
ever
seen
that
Light
in
the
picture?
You
seen
the
picture
of
It?
[Congregation
says,
"Amen."--Ed.]
There
It
hangs
right
there.
Can't
you
see
It?
65-0426
PROVING.HIS.WORD
As already proven, Rev. Branham's claims for the supernatural are invalidated by his fabrications in the details.
Choosing of a Bride
Rev.
Branham
starts
quickly
into
the
sermon,
but
speaks
of
the
accuracy
of
the
prayer
lines:
Brother
Shakarian
was
saying
this
morning,
how
he
used
to
go
through
the
prayer
lines,
and
reach
down
there
and
get
those
cards
before
the
people
would
come
up,
and
look
at
them,
and
see
whether--whether
I
told
them
what
they
had
wrote
out
there.
They
write
all
kinds
of
stuff
on
their
prayer
cards,
you
know,
and
he
just
wanted
to
see
if
it
was
right.
He
said,
out
of
the
hundreds
that
he
had
checked,
there
had
never
been
one
wrong.
[Brother
Shakarian
says,
"Never
one
wrong."--Ed.]
65-0429E
THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
Evidently,
Brother
Shakarian
was
not
around
when
the
lines
got
out-of-order.
Take
the
example
of
Middletown,
OH,
the
prayer
line
got
out
of
order.
The
first
person
was
praying
for
her
son,
and
the
first
person
was
praying
for
a
sinner.
They
were
out
of
order
in
the
prayer
line.
God
will
reveal
to
me
what
that
someone
has,
will
you
believe?
Its
your
son.
He's
just
a
lad,
a
boy
of
about
twelve
years
old.
{}
That's
correct.
THUS
SAITH
THE
LORD.
next
person
Your
a
praying
for
your
son.
And
your
son
has
a
heart
trouble.
And
he's
got
a
black
shadow
over
him,
for
death.
No,
I
beg
your
pardon,
lady.
He's
a
sinner.
BRANHAM,
58-0330E
CHRIST.KNOCKING.AT.THE.DOOR_
MIDDLETOWN.OH
Later,
also
in
Middletown,
Mr.
Short
and
Miss
Day
were
out
of
order.
Back
trouble
and
kidney
trouble,
down
the
row
there,
Miss
Day,
you
want
to
receive
your
healing?
next
person
There
is
a
man
standing
before
me,
he's
had
a
operation
for
hemorrhoids;
didn't
do
any
good.
Mr.
Day,
I
beg
your
pardon,
Mr.
Short,
stand
up
and
receive
your
healing.
At
home
in
Jeffersonville,
Mrs.
Burton
was
supposed
to
be
after
his
landlord,
and
Mrs.
Parker
was
supposed
to
be
in
line
ahead
of
his
landlord.
next
person
next
person
You're
near
Bedford,
Springville,
something
like.
That's
where
it's
at,
Springville.
Mrs.
Burton
not
I
beg
your
pardon;
I
didn't
mean
it.
Mrs.
Parker,
that's
your
name,
isn't
it?
BRANHAM,
63-1110E
HE.THAT.IS.IN.YOU_
JEFFERSONVILLE.IN
V-6
N-12
SUNDAY_
Mrs.
Burton,
if
you
will
believe...
I
don't
know
the
woman,
but
if
you'll
believe
with
all
your
heart...
ABRAHAM'S.GRACE.COVENANT_
Rev.
Branham
then
scares
the
crowd
a
bit.
You'd
better
listen
to
that
call!
God
may
never
call
again!
And
many
time,
men
and
women
hear
God's
Truth,
and
see
It
vindicated
and
proven,
Truth,
but
yet
they
don't
want
to
hear
It.
There's
some
other
reason.
There's
some
other
choosing
that
they
have,
than
to
face
up
to
Truth
and
fact,
therefore
their
ears
can
be
closed
to
the
Gospel.
They'll
never
hear
It
again.
My
advice
to
you,
when
God
speaks
to
your
heart,
you
act
right
then.
Elijah
gave
them
a
choice
which
they
should.
"Choose
you
this
day
whom
you
shall
serve.
If
God
be
God,
serve
Him.
But
if
Baal
be
God,
serve
him."
65-0429E
THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end (Lamentations 3:22)
Now, as we see that all of the natural thing is a type of the spiritual things, as we went through in our lesson this morning, as the sun and his nature. That was my first Bible. Before I ever read a page in the Bible, I knew God. Because, the Bible is written everywhere in nature, and it just corresponds with the Word of God: how the death, burial, resurrection of the nature; and the sun rising, crossing, setting, dying, rising again. There's so many things that we could type, God in nature, that we have to bypass, for this Message. 65-0429E THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
In
Deuteronomy
4,
Moses
warned
the
children
of
Israel
not
to
raise
their
eyes
towards
heaven
to
worship
astrology
or
astronomy,
lest
they
be
drawn
away
and
bow
down
to
serve
them.
These
were
things
that
the
Lord
God
had
given
to
all
the
people
under
the
whole
heaven.
The
Lord
had
taken
them
out
of
Egypt
to
be
a
people
of
His
own
inheritance.
Rev.
Branham
makes
a
statement
that
is
a
mistake
that
would
be
easy
for
any
one
of
us
to
make.
As
a
man
who
did
not
know
his
bible,
this
is
a
seemingly
correct
statement.
Again,
the
kind
of
woman
that
a
man
would
choose,
will
reflect
his
ambition
and
his
character.
If
a
man
chooses
the
wrong
woman,
it
reflects
his
character.
And
what
he
ties
himself
to,
shows
truly
what's
in
him.
A
woman
reflects
what's
in
the
man
when
he
chooses
her
for
wife.
It
shows
what's
down
in
him.
No
matter
what
he
says
outside,
watch
what
he
married.
I
go
to
a
man's
office,
and
he
says
he's
a
Christian;
pin-ups
all
around
on
the
walls,
that
old
boogie-woogie
music
going
on.
I
don't
care
what
he
says.
I
don't
believe
his
testimony,
because
his
spirit
is
feeding
on
them
things
of
the
world.
What,
say,
if
he
would
marry
a
chorus
girl,
or
what
if
he
would
marry
a
sex
queen,
or
just
a
pretty,
modern
ricketta?
It
reflects.
It
shows
what
he
has
in
his
mind,
of
what
his
future
home
is
going
to
be, because he's took her to raise his children by. And whatever she is, that's the way she'll raise those children. So, it reflects what's in the man. A man that takes a woman like that, shows just what he's thinking of the future. Could you imagine a Christian doing a thing like that? No, sir. I could not. A true Christian will not look for such beauty queens, and chorus girls, and sex queens. He'll look for Christian character. 65-0429E THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
Remember,
though,
Rev.
Branham
claimed
to
be
a
prophet.
He
claimed
to
know
the
prophets.
What
about
Hosea,
who
married
a
prostitute
to
show
God's
relationship
to
the
faithless?
God
does
not
look
towards
the
outside;
God
looks
towards
the
inside.
Message
pastors
today
preach
the
'yoke
not
yourselves
with
unbelievers'
doctrine
when
facing
this
conflict,
forgetting
that
it
might
be
in
God's
divine
plan
to
save
that
poor
soul
from
hell
fires!
He
then
basically
says,
"good
girls
can't
be
pretty."
Now,
you
can't
have
all
things.
There
might
be
one
girl
that's
real
pretty.
And
the
other
girl,
maybe
she's
a...
her
stature
looks
better
than
this
one.
And
you
might
have
to
sacrifice
one
for
the
other,
but,
if
she's
not
the
stature
of
a
lady,
of
a
woman.
And,
she's...
I
don't
care
whether
she's
pretty
or
not.
You
better
look
at
her
character,
whether
she's
pretty
or
not
pretty.
65-0429E
THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
True, you should look towards the character. But this does not mean that women of the church should not do their best to be pretty before the eyes of the men they love! Remember Esther in the bible. She used cosmetics and fine perfumes to appear as beautiful before her man.
Rev.
Branham
then
goes
into
the
'women
should
stay
home
and
be
housewives'
doctrine,
which
is
still
kept
by
most
Branham
Cult
believers
today:
Now,
I'm
not
much
of
this
modernistic
taste,
of
women
working.
When
I
seen
these
women
with
these
uniforms
on,
riding
around
in
this
city,
on
motorcycles,
as
police,
it's
a
disgrace
to
any
city
that
will
let
a
woman
do
that.
See?
See?
As
many
men
that's
without
work,
it
shows
the
modern
thinking
of
our
city.
It
shows
the
degrading.
We
don't
have
to
have
them
women
out
there
like
that.
They
ain't
got
no
business
out
there
like
that.
65-0429E
THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
This
teaching
is
not
scriptural,
it
is
extra-biblical.
Deborah
worked
as
a
Judge
in
Israel
(Judges
4--5).
Anna
worked
at
the
Temple
(Luke
2:36-38).
Tabitha
worked
in
her
community
sewing
clothes
for
the
needy
(Acts
9:36,
39).
Phoebe
worked
as
a
deaconess
(Romans
16:1-2).
An
unnamed
woman
in
Abel
was
an
effective
negotiator
speaking
with
Joab
about
exposing
a
traitor
who
was
hiding
out
in
her
city
(2
Samuel
20:16-22).
Rev.
Branham
then
compares
women
to
cattle:
I--I
used
to
go
with
a
rancher
that
I
worked
with,
to
buy
cattle.
And
I
noticed
the
old
fellow
always
looking
right
in
the
face
of
a
heifer
before
he
went
to
bidding.
Then
he
turned
her
head,
and
looked
back
and
forth.
I
followed
him
along,
watched
him.
And
he
looked
her
up
and
down,
if
she
looked
all
right,
the
stature.
Then
he
turned
and
looked
her
in
the
face,
and
sometime
he'd
shake
his
head
and
walk
away.
I
said,
"Jeff,
I
want
to
ask
you
something."
He
said,
"Say
on,
Bill."
And
I
said,
"Why
you
always
look
that
cow
in
the
face?"
I
said,
"She
looks
all
right,
a
good--good
heavy
cow."
Said,
"I
want
to
tell
you,
boy,
you
got
a
lot
to
learn."
And
I--I
realized
it
after
he
told
me.
Said,
"I
don't
care
how
she's
made
up.
She
might
be
beef,
plumb
to
the
hoof.
But
if
she's
got
that
wild
stare
in
her
face,
don't
you
never
buy
her."
Said,
"Why
so,
Jeff?"
"Well," said, "the first thing is," said, "she'll never stay put." And he said, "The next thing is, she'll never be a mammy to her calf." And said, "They put her in a pen now, the reason she's fat. You turn her loose, with that wild stare, she'd run herself to death." I said, "You know, I kind of learned something. I believe that applies to women, too." Right. Right. That wild, starey, ricketta look, better stay away from her, boy, all that there blue stuff over top her eyes. And I didn't... I wouldn't want that. I don't think that's becoming to a Christian. I don't care how much the television and paper says it's pretty. It's the most horrible-looking, hideous sight that I ever seen in my life. Forgetting about Esther, Rev. Branham taught that makeup was 'of the devil'. All of that aside, it is clearly NOT divine love to compare women to cattle. Is this the way that Jesus spoke to the woman at the well? He then gives another example of where he failed to use divine love -- only this time it was in front of people in public, not just behind the pulpit! Quote: I said, "What's the matter with that woman?" See? And he said, "That, that's paint." I said, "Well, my, my!" See? I thought they ought to have her in a pesthouse somewhere, you know, keep it from breaking out all over other women. 65-0429E THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
He
probably
meant
it
as
a
joke,
but
he
later
makes
an
accurate
statement
when
he
says,
"Now,
maybe
I'm
just
an
old
crank.
"
Rev.
Branham
then
gets
into
polygamy.
Not
against
it,
but
to
try
to
prove
why
it
was
legal
under
the
old
laws!
Now,
notice
again
how
the
natural
bride
types
the
spiritual.
The
Word
says,
that,
"She
was
made
for
man,
and
not
man
made
for
her."
134
Now
I'm
going
to
speak,
and
why,
in
a
few
minutes,
on
the
Bride
of
Christ,
but
I'm
trying
to
show
you
the
background
of
it.
135
"Woman
was
made
for
man,
and
not
man
for
woman."
That's
the
reason,
under
the
old
laws,
that
polygamy
was
legal.
Look
at
David
setting
down
there
with
God
never
approved
David
or
Solomon's
many
wives
and
concubines.
There
is
no
scriptural
support
or
background
that
would
support
breaking
God's
natural
plan.
From
Adam
and
Eve
to
Christ
and
his
Bride,
there
has
always
been
a
biblical
type
of
one
man
and
one
woman.
God
and
his
Church.
Instead,
David
is
proof
that
God
will
save
the
vilest
sinner!
Rev.
Branham
then
condemns
the
very
thing
he
is
trying
to
do
by
twisting
the
scriptures:
Notice,
now,
she
could
not
have
but
one
husband,
because,
"Woman
was
made
for
man,
and
not
man
for
woman."
That
whole
five
hundred
women
was
just
David's
wife,
and
it
was
a
type.
When
Christ
sets
on
the
Throne
in
the
Millennium,
His
Bride
will
be
not
one
person,
but
it'll
be
tens
of
thousands,
the
Bride,
all
in
One.
And
David
had
many
wives,
as
individuals,
but
only
all
of
them
together
was
his
wife.
Like
the
whole
Body
of
believers
is
the
Bride
of
Christ,
'cause
It's
She,
the
woman.
He
was
the
Man.
Now,
we
were
made
for
Christ.
Christ
wasn't
made
for
us.
That's
what
we
try
to
do
today
in
our
textbooks,
is
try
to
make
the
Word
(which
is
Christ)
suit
us,
instead
of
us
trying
to
make
ourself
to
suit
the
Word.
That's
the
different.
65-0429E
THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
five hundred wives, and the Bible said, "He was a man after God's own heart." With five hundred wives, and Solomon with a thousand, but not one of them women could have another husband. 65-0429E THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
not. And some of you women wants to be so pretty! See where it comes from. In the beginning, we find that Satan was so beautiful till he deceived Angels. And he was the most beautiful Angel of all of them. Showed, it lays in the Devil. Proverbs said, Solomon said, "Beauty is vain." That's right. Sin is beautiful. Certainly, it is. It's attractive. 65-0429E THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
Whoever
said,
"be
careful
here,
preacher"
should
be
commended.
Beauty
is
of
God.
God
created
even
the
Devil.
God
created
Lucifer
with
beauty
because
God
loves
beauty.
From
the
flowers
to
the
rivers
and
streams,
beauty
is
in
all
of
God's
creation.
To
the
choirmaster.
A
Psalm
of
David.
The
heavens
declare
the
glory
of
God,
and
the
sky
above
proclaims
his
handiwork.
(Psalm
19:1)
Rev.
Branham
then
regurgitates
his
'women
are
lower
than
a
dog'
doctrine:
I
want
to
ask
you,
and
say
something
here
to
you.
I
want
you
to
notice,
a
few
minutes.
Of
all
of
the
species
in
the
world,
birds,
animals,
we
find
that
on
the
animal
life,
all
besides
human,
it's
the
male
that's
pretty,
and
not
the
female.
Why
that?
Look
at
the...
Look
at
the
deer,
the--the
beautiful
big
buck
with
his
horns,
and
the
little
muley
doe.
Look
at
the--the
hen,
the
little,
speckled
hen,
and
the
big
beautiful-feathered
rooster.
Look
at
the
male
bird
and
the
female
bird.
Look
at
the
mallard
duck
and
the
female.
See?
And
there
isn't
one
specie
in
the
world,
that's
made,
that
can
deceive
and
stoop
as
low
as
a
woman.
Now,
sister,
don't
get
up
and
go
out.
Just
wait
till
we
hear
the
end
of
This.
See?
See?
There
is
nothing,
no
female
besides
a
woman,
could
be
immoral.
You
call
a
dog
"a
slut,"
you
call
a
hog
"a--a
sow,"
but,
morally,
they
got
more
morals
than
half
the
movie
stars
there
is
out
here.
They
cannot
be
nothing
else
but
moral.
65-0429E
THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
We've already spoken of the fallacy in these words, but for just a moment take the reverse of this statement. There is not
an
animal
on
earth
that
can
stoop
lower
than
a
man!
Of
course,
they
both
fit
the
scenario
--
because
animals
cannot
sin!
Rev.
Branham
then
starts
fretting
over
how
women
were
becoming
more
and
more
beautiful:
And
the
woman
was
the
one
that
was
changed
over,
for
the
perversion.
That's
right.
See
where
the
beauty
takes
her
to?
Now,
that's
why
that,
today,
we
find
that
women
is
on
the
increase
of
beauty.
You
take
Pearl
Bryan,
you
ever
see
her
picture?
Supposed
to
be
American's
great
beauty.
There
isn't
a
school
kid
out
of
any
school
but
what
would
have
her
in
a--a
back
row.
Did
you
know
it's
supposed
to
be
that
way?
Did
you
know
the
Bible
speaks
that
that's
the
way
it's
going
to
be?
Do
you
know
the
fall
came
by
women
at
the
beginning?
And
fall...
The
end
is
going
to
wind
up
the
same
way,
women
coming
into
authority
and
ruling
over
men,
and
so
forth.
You
know
the
Scripture
says
that?
[Congregation
says,
"Amen."-- Ed.]
You
know,
the
day
that
she
puts
on
man's
clothes,
and
bobs
her
hair,
all
those
things
are
contrary
to
God's
Word.
And
you
know
she
represents
the
church?
["Yes."]
When
you
watch
what
women
are
doing,
you'll
see
what
the
church
is
doing.
That's
exactly
right.
Now,
now,
that's
just
as
true
as
the
Word
of
God
is
true.
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When
you
consider
the
course
of
tragedy
that
followed
all
of
the
preachers
and
evangelists
in
the
Latter
Rain
movement
and
their
predecessors,
this
statement
actually
makes
sense.
Women
were
becoming
more
beautiful
--
to
those
ministers
suffering
with
sexual
addiction
or
worse.
Most
of
these
preachers
and
evangelists
gave
in
to
either
money
or
sex,
ruining
their
careers.
Rev.
Branham's
career
was
cut
short
for
him,
so
we
cannot
say
with
certain
which
direction
he
would
have
went.
Rev.
Branham
then
tries
to
inject
a
little
Serpent's
Seed
doctrine,
the
doctrine
he
got
from
reading
the
Kaballah:
Cain,
Satan's
son,
thought
that
God
accepted
beauty.
He
does
today.
Cain
was
Satan's
son.
"Oh,
now!"
you
say.
We
won't
go
into
details
on
that,
but
just
let
me
settle
it
for
you.
The
Bible
said
that
he
"was
of
that
evil
one."
So,
that
settles
it.
All
right.
Now, he was Satan's son. And he thought that, bringing in an altar and making it real pretty for worship, that's what God would respect. They think, think the same thing today. Certainly. This, "We build a great building. We'll have great denominations. We'll make the biggest building and the finest-dressed people, the most cultured clergymen." Sometimes God is ten million miles from it. That's right. Yet, it's a church. 65-0429E THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE
The
trees
were
created
before
woman,
so
we
won't
reiterate
that
position.
But
Rev.
Branham
tries
here
to
tie
beauty
to
Cain.
The
Bible
never
said
that
Cain's
offering
was
beautiful,
it
says
that
Cain
gave
his
offering
from
the
work
of
his
own
hands,
the
fruit
of
the
ground.
Cain's
sacrifice
was
insufficient
because
it
did
not
have
the
blood,
which
was
required
in
the
offering.
Now
Abel
was
a
keeper
of
sheep,
and
Cain
a
worker
of
the
ground.
3
In
the
course
of
time
Cain
brought
to
the
Lord
an
offering
of
the
fruit
of
the
ground,
4
and
Abel
also
brought
of
the
firstborn
of
his
flock
and
of
their
fat
portions.
And
the
Lord
had
regard
for
Abel
and
his
offering,
5
but
for
Cain
and
his
offering
he
had
no
regard.
Genesis
4
Rev.
Branham
makes
a
big
mistake
about
this,
however:
So,
if
God
just
respects
worship,
sincerity,
sacrifice,
Cain
was
just
as
just
as
Abel.
But
it
was
by
revelation,
that
he
understood
that
it
was
not
apples
that
his
parents
eat.
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Cain was not just, he evidently did not obey God's command. And there is no mention of Abel's revelation, this is extra- biblical.
Then,
Rev.
Branham
gets
into
the
evils
of
science
and
it's
toll
on
the
world
today:
Now,
just
look
what
science
has
done
for
her.
She
comes
out,
first,
with
her
hair
chopped
off,
with
one
of
these
Jacqueline
Kennedy
hairdos,
see,
or
something
like
that.
And
you
know
what
the
Bible
said?
The
Bible
actually
gives
a
man,
if
he
wants
to,
the
right
to
put
her
away
in
divorcement,
if
she
does
that.
"She's
a
dishonorable
woman,
that'll
cut
her
hair."
The
Bible
said
so.
Right.
Didn't
know
that?
Huh?
Oh,
yeah!
I
preach
too
much
in
California
for
you
not
to
know
that.
That's
right.
Oh,
yeah!
What
good
does
it
do
me?
They
do
it,
anyhow.
You
can't
take
the
pig
and
change
his
name,
make
him
a
lamb.
Notice.
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Science
has
nothing
to
do
with
haircuts;
the
women
of
the
Old
Testament
shaved
their
heads
for
mourning.
The
Bible
does
not
say
anything
about
putting
a
woman
away
for
divorcement
if
her
hair
is
cut
--
this
is
extra-biblical.
Also,
the
woman
does
not
dishonor
herself
by
cutting
her
hair
as
Rev.
Branham
states.
She
dishonors
her
husband
if
she
prophesies
with
her
head
uncovered.
Rev.
Branham
was
against
learning
about
the
scriptures,
because
once
people
learned
the
Bible,
they
might
learn
that
Rev.
Branham
twisted
it:
That's
the
way
the
church
does,
gets
big
DD.,
Ph.D.,
LL.D.
So
you
say,
"Our
pastor
is
this,
that,
and
the
other,"
maybe
know
no
more
about
God
than
a
Hottentot
knows
about
Egyptian
night.
That's
right.
Right.
Some
theological
seminary
experience
out
there,
and
knows
no
more
about
God
than
nothing.
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Rev.
Branham
then
makes
a
statement
that
could
apply
to
the
women
of
the
'message'
today:
Notice,
just
a
minute,
a
nun
in
a
Catholic
church.
That
woman,
to
become
a
nun,
and
takes
that
last
veil,
she
is
absolutely
sold
out
to
that
church.
She
is
(soul,
body,
and
spirit)
property
of
that
church.
She
has
no
mind
of
her
own.
She
can't
have,
when
she
takes
that
last
veil,
no
mind
of
her
own,
no
will
of
her
own.
See
out
here,
that
Satan
makes
them
his
bogus,
like
the
true.
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Once
in
the
'message',
they
have
no
mind
of
their
own.
They
are
owned
by
their
husbands
like
slaves,
forbidden
to
teach
like
the
great
women
of
the
bible,
compared
to
cattle,
and
cast
down
so
low
that
they
might
as
well
give
up.
Rev.
Branham
then
gets
back
into
his
"do
you
remember
the
visions,
do
you
remember
the
cloud"
stories
which
we
have
already
proven
were
fabricated,
but
makes
this
one
statement
which
explains
why
he
keeps
re-hashing
them
over
and
over.
He
could
not
stand
that
Jesus
could
do
greater
things.
Where,
you
have
to
do
something,
to
symbolize
it.
Like
a
man
put
some
salt
in
a
cruse,
and
throwed
it
in
the
water,
and
said,
"THUS
SAITH
THE
LORD,
let
there
be
sweet
water."
And
another
one,
Jesus
picked
up
water
and
poured
it
into
a
jug,
and--and
made
wine
out
of
it.
You
have
to
have
something,
to
symbolize.
That's
what
that
was,
that
went
up
in
the
air
and
come
down.
That
started
that
little
whirlwind.
Within
twenty-four
hours,
It
had
shook
that
mountain
till
it
cut
a
ridge
around
it.
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This
is
basically
saying,
"Jesus
did
this.
See,
I
have
a
symbol
too!"
The
only
problem
is
that
Rev.
Branham's
symbol
was
fabricated.
Rev.
Branham
then
gets
into
his
vision
of
the
naked
ladies
passing
by
at
the
end
of
the
world.
He
says
that
this
vision
of
naked
ladies
was
the
reason
he
had
this
sermon:
That's
the
reason
I
said
what
I
have,
tonight.
I
want
to
ask
you
a
question.
Is
it
later
that
we
think?
Could
She
already
be
called
and
chosen,
sealed
away?
There
won't
be
one
extra
one,
you
know.
Could
it
be
possible?
Oh,
yeah.
Oh,
yeah.
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This again is the same scare tactic as mentioned above. God has an "open door policy", and all we have to do is go through it. It is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and he is persistently knocking on our hearts.
Rev.
Branham
then
places
the
salvation
on
the
people
themselves,
instead
of
the
grace
of
God:
And,
lady,
if
you
can't
measure
up
to
the
qualification
of
a
Christian,
not
as
a
nominal
Christian;
but
in
your
heart,
and
your
life
is
patterned
exactly
like
God's
marriage
certificate
here
says
it
has
to
be.
And,
church
member,
if
your
church
isn't
like
that,
can
measure
up
to
God's
qualification
of
His
Word,
get
out
of
it
and
get
into
Christ.
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Remember:
Rev.
Branham
then
reminds
Los
Angeles
of
his
vision
that
he
plagiarized
from
Joe
Brandt:
"Oh,
Capernaum,"
said
Jesus,
"thou
who
exalted
into
heaven,
will
be
brought
down
into
hell.
For,
if
the
mighty
works
had
been
done
in
Sodom
and
Gomorrah,
it'd
have
been
standing
to
this
day."
And
Sodom,
Gomorrah
lays
in
the
bottom
of
the
Dead
Sea.
And
Capernaum
is
in
the
bottom
of
the
sea.
Thou
city,
who
claims
to
be
the
city
of
the
Angels,
who
has
exalted
yourself
into
heaven,
and
sent
all
the
dirty,
filthy
things
of
fashions
and
things,
till
even
the
foreign
countries
come
here
to
pick
up
our
filth
and
send
it
away,
to
your
fine
churches
and
steeples,
and
so
forth,
the
way
you
do.
Remember,
one
day
you'll
be
laying
in
the
bottom
of
the
sea,
your
great
honeycomb
under
you
right
now.
The
wrath
of
God
is
belching
right
beneath
you.
How
much
longer
He
will
hold
this
sandbar
hanging
out
over
that?
When,
that
ocean
out
yonder,
a
mile
deep,
will
slide
in
there,
plumb
back
to
the
Salton
Sea.
It'll
be
worse
than
the
last
day
of
Pompeii.
Repent,
Los
Angeles.
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"For
it
is
by
grace
you
have
been
saved,
through
faith--and
this
not
from
yourselves,
it
is
the
gift
of
God"
(Eph
2:8)
The only problem with Rev. Branham's 'vision' is that the angel supposedly told him that Capernaum was in the bottom of the sea. Capernaum has NEVER been in the bottom of the sea! Ages and ages, centuries and centuries, Capernaum remains (in ruin) to this day. It was not in the bottom of the
sea when Rev. Branham made this false statement, nor has it ever been according to history.
Rev.
Branham
starts
out
reminding
the
people
of
his
prophecy
of
'Capernaum',
as
he
related
it
to
Los
Angeles:
A
few
nights
ago,
many
of
you,
just
in
about
a
month
before
going
over
to
Africa,
many
of
you
perhaps
has
the
tape,
of
you
people
that
get
the
tapes,
on,
Choosing
A
Bride,
was
preached
in
California.
The
last
few
minutes
of
that
tape,
I
don't
remember
of
ever
being
there.
But
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
came
in
such
a
way.
I
had
been
condemning
them
the
way
they
were
living
and
doing,
and
after
the
Gospel
had
been
preached
and
declared
before
them
so
much.
And
all
of
a
sudden
the
Holy
Spirit
spoke
out
and
said,
"Capernaum,"
see,
"the
city
that
calls
yourself
by
the
name
of
the
angels,"
that's
Los
Angeles,
"thou
are
exalted
into
Heaven,
but
be
brought
down
to
hell."
See?
And
then
after
it
was
over,
why,
I
was
outside,
and
Brother
Moseley
and
Billy
was
with
me.
And
they
said...
Went
back
and
looked,
and
the
whole
floor
was
just
laying
full
of
people,
ministers
sobbing.
And
I
went
and
got
the
Scripture.
I
said,
"There
is
something
about
that
in
the
Bible."
And
it
was
Jesus
rebuking
Capernaum,
all
those
coastal
cities
that
He
had
visit.
Why,
He
said,
"Capernaum,
thou
art
exalted
into
Heaven,
will
be
brought
down
into
hell."
He
said,
"For
if
the
works
had
been
done
in
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
that's
been
done
in
you,
it'd
been
standing
today."
And
at
that
time,
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
was
in
the
bottom
of
the
sea.
And
just
after
that,
maybe
a
hundred
years
or
something,
after
Jesus'
prophecy,
Capernaum,
the
only
coastal
city
that
He
had
visit,
a
earthquake
sunk
it
in
the
sea.
And
you
know
that
was
a
direct
answer
to
California,
to
Los
Angeles.
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As
we
mentioned
earlier,
Capernaum
has
never
been
in
the
bottom
of
the
sea,
and
this
vision
was
seemingly
plagiarized
from
Joe
Brandt.
It
should
be
noted
that
Rev.
Branham
mistakes
the
interpretation
of
the
sentence
quoted
from
scriptures:
Jesus
said,
"I
come
in
My
Father's
Name."
Every
son
comes
in
his
father's
name.
And
He
came
in
the
Name
of
the
Father.
Jesus
came
in
the
name
[authority]
of
the
Father.
The
father's
name
was
JHVH,
not
Jesus.
He
then
describes
the
great
men
of
old
as
having
their
own
'message'.
Men
have
their
own
doctrines,
but
there
should
be
ONE
Message,
and
that
is
the
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ:
Now,
we
find
that
God
had
a
way
of
doing
things.
But
David,
just
being
blessed
of
God,
like
he
had,
and
become
king,
he
just
thought
that
he
would
just
do
something
for
God,
anyhow.
And
he
never
went
about
it
in
the
right
way.
We
notice,
God
reveals
His
Word
in
His
Own
predestinated
season.
Now,
how
could
Martin
Luther
a
knowed
about
the
Message
today?
How
could
the
Presbyterians?
How
could
Martin...
or
the
Catholic
church
know
Martin
Luther's
message?
How
could
John
Wesley
a
knowed
Luther's
message?
How
could
Wesley
a
knowed
the
Pentecostal
message?
Or
how
could
the
Pentecostals
know
this
Message?
See?
He
reveals
It
in
His
seasons,
because
It
is
a
Seed.
And
as
It
grows
and
matures,
He
reveals
Himself.
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But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. (Galations 1:8)
Rev.
Branham
then
claims
that
baptism
in
the
name
of
Father,
Son,
and
Holy
Ghost
was
somebody's
false
revelation.
In
the
same
breath,
he
says
that
the
Kaballah
teaching
of
Serpent's
Seed
is
clearly
in
the
Bible.
When
somebody
says
they
"got
a
revelation
to
baptize
people
in
the
Name
of
the
'Father,
Son,
Holy
Ghost,'"
that's
contrary
to
the
Word.
None
of
the
rest
of
them
ever
did.
When
they
say,
that,
"Oh,
we're
going
to
stand,
and
this,
that,
and
the
other,"
and
so
forth,
that's
contrary
to
the
Word.
When
they
say
they
"don't
believe
the
serpent's
seed,"
that's
contrary
to
the
Word.
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This
was
not
somebody's
false
revelation.
To
condemn
somebody
for
using
these
words
is
a
false
revelation.
Jesus
Himself
said,
"Go
therefore
and
make
disciples
of
all
nations,
baptizing
them
in
the
name
of
the
Father
and
of
the
Son
and
of
the
Holy
Spirit"
Matthew
28:19
There
is
no
solid
biblical
proof
that
the
Serpent's
Seed
is
biblical.
It
can
be
argued,
but
is
not
somebody's
lack
of
reading
the
Word
of
God.
Only
those
that
read
the
Kaballah
and
believe
it
to
be
scriptural
truth
can
say
this
with
assurance
due
to
'scriptural'
reading,
because
it
is
extra- biblical.
Rev.
Branham
makes
a
false
statement
that
the
Ark
of
the
Covenant
was
Christ.
It
is
no
wonder,
when
he
also
thought
nature
was
Christ
and
Astrology
was
Christ.
Notice,
they
consulted
only
the
priests
of
that
day,
the
theologians,
the
denominations.
And
notice,
by
doing
that,
consulting
the
priests
and
consulting
the
congregation,
consulting
the
people,
they
did
it
wrong.
Notice,
the
ark
was
the
Word.
We
know
that's
right.
Cause,
the
ark
is
Christ,
and
Christ
is
the
Word.
See?
The
ark,
or
the
Word,
was
not
put
in
its
first,
ordained,
original
ordained
position.
Oh,
don't
fail
to
get
this,
church!
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The ark of the convent was a TYPE of Christ, in the same way that a husband is a TYPE of Christ. That does not make a husband 'The Word,' and neither does it make the Ark of the Covenant 'The Word.'
After
comparing
the
Ark
of
the
Covenant
to
Christ,
Rev.
Branham
takes
it
upon
himself
to
be
the
one
who
is
burdened
with
'carrying
Christ.'
Notice,
"Upon
the
shoulders
of
the
priests!"
And
David
and
all
the
priests,
that
really
ought
to
have
knowed
better,
but
what
was
it?
The
priests
should
a
knowed
better.
The
scribes,
theologians,
should
a
knowed
better,
because
the
Word
said
not
to
do
that.
And
today
when
they
want
to
say,
"Oh,
Jesus
Christ
isn't
the
same
yesterday,
today,
and
forever.
That's
mental
telepathy.
That's
this,
that,
or
the
other."
They
fail
to
see
the
promised
Word.
"Oh,
that
was
a
day
gone
by."
David
said,
"Oh,
well,
now
wait
a
minute.
'Upon
the
shoulders
of--of
the
priests,'
that
was
back
when
Moses
come
out.
Sure,
we,
we'll
put
it
on
a
new
cart
today.
I
got
a
revelation
of
it."
The
priests
said,
"Amen,
David!"
See,
influenced
by
their
new
ecumenical
council,
that
they
should
all
be
together
and
do
this
this
way
and
that
way,
that's
what
caused
the
priests
to
stumble.
They
never
consulted
the
right
person.
They
didn't
do
it
right,
therefore
they
got
in
trouble.
Yeah.
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Rev.
Branham,
then
placing
his
emphasis
again
on
the
law
of
the
old
covenant:
'What
if
Jesus
would
come,
said,
"Now
I'll
tell
you
what
we'll
do.
We'll
just
go
up
on
the
mount,
like
Moses
did,
and
get
a
new
declaration
of
laws"?
See?
Huh-uh!
He
was
that
law.
See?
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Jesus
was
not
the
law!
The
law
had
failed,
and
Jesus
came
to
fulfill
the
law!
For
by
works
of
the
law
no
human
being[c]
will
be
justified
in
his
sight,
since
through
the
law
comes
knowledge
of
sin.
(Romans
3:20)
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. (Matthew 5:17)
As
we've
already
proven
by
the
Bible,
Balaam
was
a
diviner,
not
a
prophet
of
God.
He
was
later
killed
by
the
Children
of
Israel
for
this.
Again,
Rev.
Branham
calls
the
Ark
of
the
Covenant
God.
Rev.
Branham
worshipped
the
mysteries:
And
here
this
good
man,
that
had
been
caretaker,
he
was
a
bishop,
thought,
"Well,
here,
I
don't
want
God
to
be
let
down,"
so
he
put
his
hand
on
the
ark.
Where,
he
wasn't
a
Levite,
and
he
died.
Three
things!
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Rev.
Branham
then
condemns
the
entire
nation,
and
shows
exactly
where
he
stands
on
Divine
Love:
America.
God
bless
America.
It's--it's
a
nation,
it's
a
Christian
country."
It's
a
million
miles
from
being
a
Christian
country.
I
don't
even
pray
for
it.
How
can
I
pray
for
it,
and
it
won't
repent
under
the
mighty
powers
of
God
demonstrated
before
it;
and
denying,
and
closing
the
doors
to
It,
and
walking
away?
I
commit
it
to
God.
And
she
is
going
further
away.
And
now
she
is
going
to
sink.
Just
watch
what
happens.
This
statement
shows
not
only
Rev.
Branham's
narcissistic
personality
disorder,
but
also
a
complete
disregard
for
the
words
of
the
Bible.
Rev.
Branham
would
not
have
had
the
mark
on
his
forehead
had
he
lived
in
Ezekiel's
day.
"Go
through
the
midst
of
the
city,
through
the
midst
of
Jerusalem,
and
put
a
mark
on
the
foreheads
of
the
men
who
sigh
and
cry
over
all
the
abominations
that
are
done
within
it."
(Ezekiel
9:1-6)
Not
fully
understanding
that
he
had
created
a
cult,
Rev.
Branham
condemns
cults:
Many
sincere
person
go
join
an
organization,
or
a
group,
or
a
cult
of
some
sort,
and
there
they
die,
spiritually.
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3. The information one is allowed to access and be exposed to is tightly restricted. -- no television 4. The doctrine claims to answer all questions and problems. One need not think for themselves, the doctrine does the thinking for him. -- do not question 'the prophet' 5. Members are have specific goals and tasks thus restricting their free time and behavior. -- listen to those tapes. no 'things of the world' 6. The cults "loaded language" keeps members feeling special and separate from the world around them. It also confuses newcomers and implies that they must simply "study harder" in order to "understand". Understanding simply means believing. -- you must read between the lines of the scriptures 7. Members are trained to disbelieve any criticism. Critical words are explained away in advance as " the lies Satan puts in people's minds" -- There can be no debating the Bible truth against the words of the prophet. They are lies by Satan 8. Members are told to avoid contact with ex-members, those who could provide the most information are ones to be especially shunned. -- If you no longer believe, you are taken 'out from under the blood' 9. People are not allowed to question the leaders or the doctrine. If there is a problem it is always that of the individual's and they are at fault. Since the doctrine is the 'TRUTH' any flaw is viewed as the believer's imperfection. -- "This message is the truth!" 10. There's not a legitimate reason for a person to ever leave and those doing so will have evil befall them. -- Everyone who leaves is either killed or punished by God
Rev.
Branham
shows
his
jealousy
of
the
other
evangelists,
like
Billy
Graham
and
Oral
Roberts:
Look
today
at
the
big
crusades
that
we've
had
across
the
land.
It's
proven
that
it's
been
in
vain.
And
didn't
Jesus
say
here
now,
Luke
7:7,
"In
vain
do
they
worship
Me"?
In
vain
did
David
bring
the
ark
up.
In
vain
did
Ahab
train
them
prophets.
Compare
this
statement
to
when
Rev.
Branham
was
in
the
center
of
attention:
There's
thousands
and
hundreds
of
thousands
of
precious
saints
of
God
suffering
tonight.
And
they
are
crying
and
crying
and
cried
for
years
for
God
to
restore
the
gift
of
Divine
healing
to
the
church.
And
when
God
moved
the
orbits
thirty-seven
years
ago,
and
foreordained
it
and
sent
it,
many
hundreds
of
people
are
passing
by
without
recognizing
it,
friends.
Now,
it's
brought
to
pass.
I
hate
to
say
this.
God
have
mercy.
Look,
friends,
down
through
the
rest
of
the
country,
over
in
Phoenix,
over
in
Houston,
over
in
San
Antonio,
down
in
Arkansas,
down
across
the
country,
thousands
are
being
healed,
coming
through
there,
of
all
kinds
of
sickness
and
diseases.
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Can't you feel the Holy Spirit screaming out from you? "Oh, United States and the world, how oft I would have gathered you, but you would not. Now your hour has come. Your god of pleasure, your god of filth, your Sodom and Gomorrah god, has come among you." Even our little kids, beatle haircuts and bangs across their faces, and little perverts starting out. Our women is gone. It's beyond redemption. Our men has become big sissies, walking around with little, short pants on, and acting like a girl, and hair hanging down their necks. And we are Sodomites, and the fire and the wrath of God waits for us. You know how He'll kill, how He'll destroy it? The way He always did. When a prostitute did anything wrong, she was stoned to death; they picked up stones to kill the woman that was a prostitute. That's how He'll kill the church. 65-0718M TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE.WITHOUT.BEING.THE.WILL.O F.GOD
Under the Mosaic law, this was the case. It is not for us to judge under the new covenant. Remember Hosea.
He
blames
the
condition
of
the
church
on
not
hearing
his
new
'message':
We're
in
the
last
days.
We're
standing
near
the
judgment.
Why?
They're
trying
to
eat
old
manna
that
fell
back
yonder
fifty
years
ago,
the
Pentecostal
church.
The
Holiness
church
is
trying
to,
over
two
hundred
years
ago.
The
Lutherans,
about
three
hundred,
or
more,
years
ago,
many
hundreds
of
years
ago.
They're
trying
to
eat
old
manna.
Oh,
brother,
that
stuff
is
stagnated.
It's
contaminated.
It'll...
It's
got--it's
got...
Why,
I
always
said,
wiggle-tails
in
it,
maggots.
It'll
kill
you,
to
eat
it.
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The
Gospel
does
not
get
stagnant.
Only
the
New
Age
religions,
like
Rev.
Branham
brought
forth,
become
stagnant.
Rev.
Branham
did
not
listen
to
the
words
of
Paul:
But
even
if
we
or
an
angel
from
heaven
should
preach
to
you
a
gospel
contrary
to
the
one
we
preached
to
you,
let
him
be
accursed.
(Galations
1:8)
He
then
combines
all
of
these
fabricated
signs,
plagiarized
works
of
Clarence
Larkin,
and
more
into
one
single
statement:
Notice,
what
is
then?
What
can
be
done?
What
is
to
be
done?
Let's
consult
the
prophet,
the
Bible,
where
we
cannot
add
to
or
take
from
It.
If
we
do,
God
takes
us
from
the
Book
of
Life.
The
Bible
said,
in
Malachi
4,
what
would
happen
today.
Revelations
10,
how
the
Seven
Seals
would
be
opened
and
reveal
all
these
mysteries
that's
been
hid
through
these
reformers!
He
said
how
it
would
be
done.
It's
in
the
Bible,
THUS
SAITH
THE
LORD.
God
has
completely,
perfectly
identified that; and vindicate It to be Truth, by signs, wonders in the heavens, in the skies, and everything else, for thirty- three years. 65-0718M TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE.WITHOUT.BEING.THE.WILL.O F.GOD
Now, God has a provided and original way to do things, and He'll never do it contrary to that. Now He promised in the last days that what He would do. And It sent them, us the Message; and this Message would have the same identification as Elijah had, as Elisha had, as John the Baptist had. And It would turn the hearts of the people, not to the denomination, but back to the original, apostolic fathers, back to the Word. How these things have been a vindicated. How that in the sounding of the last angel, Revelations 10, "In the days of the seventh angel, these mysteries that's all been..." "Why did the Methodist do this, and the Baptist, and the church of Christ, and the Jehovah Witness, all do that?" "Them mysteries will be revealed in the last day, when the seven angel's... seventh angel's Message, when he..." Not when he starts out doing this, but, "When he begins to sound his Message." See? Not the years in preparation, but, "When he begins to sound the Message, these mysteries then will be revealed." And here they are; not knowing them, and you people are a witness of that. 65-0718M TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE.WITHOUT.BEING.THE.WILL.O F.GOD
The Bible never promised a second message. The Gospel of Jesus Christ was good enough, and Paul warned us not to listen to any other message. The mystery was made known in Jesus Christ, there is no new mystery that pertains to our salvation. The only mystery that remains is how, when, and where Christ will come back to earth. ...and it's not in a prophet or his message.
He
brings
up
the
cloud
one
more
time.
Maybe
they
had
missed
it
all
the
other
times:
And
then
in
that
great
observatory,
so
that
the
world
will
be
without,
they're
still
wondering
what
happened.
In
Tucson,
them
big
observatories
took
the
picture
of
it
up
there;
still
wondering
what
happened.
What
is
it?
They
still
put
in
the
paper,
"Does
anybody
know
anything
about
what,
how
it
could
have
happen?"
There
is
no
fog
up
there,
there's
no
air,
there's
no
moisture;
thirty
miles
high
in
the
air.
Oh,
my!
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This
statement
is
not
correct.
The
initial
preliminary
report
was
a
motion
to
approve
further
investigation.
The
full
investigation
on
the
cloud
proved
that
it
was
a
T.H.O.R
missile
launched
from
Vandenberg
AFB.
It
was
not
higher
than
the
cloud
formations,
the
analysis
of
the
cloud
proved
that.
And
it
happened
while
Rev.
Branham
was
in
Houston,
TX,
nowhere
near
the
location
Rev.
Branham
was
travelling
to.
Rev.
Branham
then
raises
up
his
recordings
to
the
level
of
the
Bible:
This
was
Moses
speaking
to
Israel,
after
he
had
been
a
vindicated
by
God,
by
a
Pillar
of
Fire,
and
knowed
he
was
proven
to
be
God's
servant
to
lead
them
out.
And
before
they
went
into
the
land,
before
they
entered,
Moses
said,
"Now,
the
words
that
I
have
spoken
to
you,
I
call
heaven
and
earth
to
witness
against
you.
If
you
add
one
thing
to
It,
or
take
one
Word
from
It,
you'll
not
stay
in
the
land
where
the
Lord
God
gives
you."
So
say
I,
in
the
Name
of
Jesus
Christ!
Don't
you
add
one
thing.
Don't
take,
put
your
own
ideas
in
It.
You
just
say
what
is
said
on
those
tapes.
You
just
do
exactly
what
the
Lord
God
has
commanded
to
do.
Don't
add
to
It.
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Though
this
is
proven
to
be
false
prophecy,
there
is
an
interesting
aspect
of
this
particular
retelling.
Houses
were
sinking
at
a
rate
of
thirty
inches
an
hour!
They
must
be
halfway
to
China
by
now!
There
is
always
some
settling
after
an
earthquake,
but
California
is
still
standing.
Billy
Paul
Branham,
who
Rev.
Branham
said
would
not
be
an
old
man
before
it
happened,
is
now
an
elderly
man.
We
have
entered
into
a
new
century,
proving
the
fact
that
it
did
not
happen
before
1977
--
the
year
Rev.
Branham
claimed
he
could
see
nothing
past.
Rev.
Branham
then
confuses
the
people
with
his
sudden
knowledge
of
the
tectonic
plates:
As
the
scientists
said
the
other
day,
on
the
television,
speaking
of
the
great
thousands-of-miles
break
in
the
earth
that's
going
to
sink.
He
was
asked
the
question,
"It
could
sink
there?"
That's
Los
Angeles,
the
West
Coast.
And
many
of
you
seen
how
they
followed
it
with
radar,
and
went
up
through...
broke
in
below
San
Jose,
went
across
over
into
Alaska,
out
through
the
Aleutian
Islands,
about
two
hundred
miles
out
into
the
sea,
and
come
back
down
into
San
Diego,
went
around
in
behind
Los
Angeles,
and
come
up
there,
a
great
pocket.
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There
are
seven
major
tectonic
plates
that
are
constantly
floating
and
moving,
causing
earthquakes
in
various
places
as
the
Bible
foretold.
There
are
eight
secondary
plates
that
have
the
same
effect.
The
fact
that
Los
Angeles
sits
on
one
of
these
plates
is
of
little
significance,
these
plates
are
all
around
the
world.
He
starts
off
on
the
wrong
foot
when
he
speaks
about
false
prophets:
Now
to
take
our
time,
to
get
a--a
basic
fact,
because
I'm
making
a
statement
here
that's
astounding.
How
can
the
Holy
Spirit
anoint
a
false
teacher?
But
that's
what
Jesus
said
would
happen.
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God
never
said
that
he
would
anoint
false
teachers
or
false
anointed
ones.
Satan
will
work
through
these
men
in
the
last
days.
Rev.
Branham
himself
is
evidence
of
that
fact.
It
is
interesting
that
Rev.
Branham
references
Hebrews
6:
Now
to
follow
this
up,
to
another
prophecy
pertaining
to
this,
may
we
turn
now
to
Hebrews
the
6th
chapter,
for
the
next
follow-up
verse
on
this,
where
Paul
bringing
back
to
mind
the
same
thing
that
Jesus
said.
Paul,
speaking
now.
While
you're
hunting
it...
And
you
out
in
the
broadcast,
get
your
Bibles
near
you
and
a
piece
of
paper,
and
look
up
this
now.
Hebrews
the
6th
chapter,
Paul
writing
to
the
Hebrews,
showing
them
the
shadows
and
the
types,
bringing
them
from
under
Judaism
into
Christianity,
showing
them
that
how
all
the
old
things
just
foreshadowed
the
things
that
was
to
come.
Paul
speaking
now,
Hebrews
6.
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Hebrews
6
warns
us
of
exactly
the
very
thing
that
Rev.
Branham
attempted
to
do
in
his
day:
1)
Laying
a
foundation
from
dead
works
2)
Giving
instruction
about
washings
3)
Laying
on
of
hands
4)
Resurrection
of
the
dead
5)
Doctrines
of
eternal
judgement
Paul
said
that
to
go
through
all
of
these
doctrines
again
was
impossible.
To
do
so
would
crucify
again
the
Son
of
God
to
their
own
contempt.
Instead,
Paul
said
to
look
towards
better
things
--
things
that
belong
to
salvation.
Rev.
Branham
then
twists
a
scripture
out
of
context
regarding
the
"rain
that
falls
upon
the
just
and
the
unjust."
But,
you
see,
"He
sends
the
rain,"
back
to
our
subject,
"on
the
just
and
the
unjust."
Jesus
tells
you
here
now,
in
Matthew
24,
it
would
be
a
sign
at
the
end
time.
Now,
if
this
sign
is
only
to
be
known
at
the
end
time,
then
it'll
have
to
be
after
the
opening
of
those
Seals.
See?
It's
a
sign
of
the
end.
That
would
be,
when
these
things
happens,
it'll
be
at
the
end
time.
And
it'll
be
a
sign,
now,
so
the
Elected
will
not
be
confused
in
these
things.
You
see
it?
Then,
it's
got
to
be
revealed,
exposed.
Notice,
both
the
wheat
and
the
weeds
live
by
the
same
Anointing
from
Heaven.
Both
of
them
rejoice
over
It.
I
remember
this,
referring
back
to
this
instance
up
there
that
day
at
the
Green's
Mill.
I--I
seen
that
vision
come
up.
And
there
was
a
great
earth,
and
it
had
been
all
disked
up.
And
there
went
a
Sower
forth,
first.
I
want
to
keep
that
before
you.
Watch
what
goes
forth
first,
then
what
follows
it.
And
as
this
Man
with
white
on
came
forth
around
the
earth,
sowing
seed,
then
behind
Him
come
a
man,
dark
clothes
on,
looked
very
sneaking,
slipping
along
behind
Him,
sowing
weeds.
And
as
this
taken
place,
then
I
seen
both
crops
come
up.
And
as
they
come
up,
one
was
wheat
and
the
other
one
was
weeds.
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Many
times
throughout
his
ministry,
Rev.
Branham
used
this
scripture
to
prove
his
point
that
spiritual
gifts
were
given
by
God
to
the
unjust.
It
is
taken
out
of
context.
In
Matthew
5,
Jesus
is
talking
about
Divine
Love
when
he
uses
this
example
of
rain.
We
should
love
our
neighbors
as
ourselves
since
the
same
rain
that
falls
on
us
falls
on
them.
You
have
heard
that
it
was
said,
You
shall
love
your
neighbor
and
hate
your
enemy.
44
But
I
say
to
you,
Love
your
enemies
and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers,[i] what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Rev.
Branham
then
twists
the
scriptures
even
more,
saying
that
faith
and
revelation
are
one
and
the
same:
What
is
faith?
Faith
is
something
that's
revealed
to
you;
that
is
not
yet,
but
you
believe
it
will
be.
Faith
is
a
revelation
of
the
will
of
God.
So,
by
revelation!
And
the
churches
today
don't
even
believe
in
spiritual
revelation.
They
believe
in
a
dogmatic
teaching
of
some
system.
"By
revelation
Abel
offered
unto
God
a
more
excellent
sacrifice
than
that
of
Cain,
which
God
testified
he
was
righteous."
Amen.
I
hope
you
see
that.
See
where
we're
living?
See
the
hour?
I
was
talking
to
a--a
gentleman
not
long
ago,
a
Christian
scholar
and
gentleman.
He
said,
"Mr.
Branham,
we
refuse
all
revelations."
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Faith
is
absolute
trust
and
confidence
in
something,
even
if
it
has
not
yet
been
revealed
to
us.
Rev.
Branham
claimed
he
had
revelation
of
the
seven
seals
and
seven
church
ages,
and
the
people
who
followed
him
had
faith
that
Rev.
Branham
was
not
copying
these
ideas
from
somebody
else
to
present
as
his
own.
It
is
a
good
thing
for
Rev.
Branham
nobody
in
the
congregation
had
read
the
works
of
Clarence
Larkin,
or
their
faith
would
have
been
shattered.
He
then
twists
the
scriptures
again,
saying
that
the
'fruits'
Jesus
was
referring
to
were
'teachings.':
Notice,
but
it's
what
they
produce
that
tells
you
the
difference.
"By
their
fruit,"
Jesus
said,
"you
shall
know
them."
"Man
does
not
gather
grapes
off
of
a
thistle,"
even
though
the
thistle
be
right in the grapevine. That could be possible, but the fruit will tell it. What is the fruit? The Word, for the fruit for the season. That's what it is, their teaching. The teaching of what? The teaching of the season, what time it is. Man's doctrine, denominational doctrine, but, or God's Word for the season? 65-0725M THE.ANOINTED.ONES.AT.THE.END.TIME
This
is
not
true.
The
"fruit"
is
the
results
of
that
teaching,
not
the
teaching
itself.
The
fruits
of
the
'message'
that
Rev.
Branham
brought
forth
would
be
all
of
the
scorn
in
the
churches,
the
fighting
among
their
own
believers,
the
abuse
and
molestation,
the
sex
acts
that
are
covered
up
by
the
pastors,
and
the
love
of
money
that
flows
throughout.
The
fruit
of
the
true
Bride
of
Christ
would
be
Divine
love
one
for
the
other,
and
the
other
spiritual
gifts
that
follow.
Another
false
statement
twists
the
scriptures:
Notice.
Remember,
God
is
not
the
author
of
organization.
The
Devil
is
the
author
of
organization.
I've
proved
that
by
the
Word,
back
and
forth,
and
over
and
over;
won't
have
to
go
into
that
this
morning.
We
know
that
God
never
did
organize
people
together
like
that,
make
a
organization.
Hundreds
of
years
after
the
death
of
the
last
disciple,
'fore
they
ever
had
the
first
organization
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God is not the author of confusion, the devil is. The devil is not the author of organization. God organized a group of apostles to go forward and spread the Word. They were true men of God, organized together in one accord. They did not have an organization headquarters sitting on excessive tithes like the 'message' now has. God has created a world so organized that the stars and planets do not even miss one single nanosecond in their alignments and movement. Gods world is perfect, and Satan tries to pervert it.
Prophets
are
not
great
men.
They
are
men
that
humble
themselves
to
allow
God
to
speak
through
them.
Diviners
and
soothsayers
are
the
ones
who
claim
to
be
great.
Rev.
Branham
then
makes
false
statements
about
the
other
soothsayers
in
the
Bible,
saying
they
were
"anointed.":
Notice
closely
as
we
study
on.
We'll
take
another
instance,
over
in
the
Book
of
Kings.
There
was
a--a
prophet,
and
his
name
was
Micaiah.
He
was
the
son
of
Imlah,
and
he
was
a
prophet.
He
was.
And
there
was
another
prophet,
the
head
of
a
organization
of
prophets,
anointed
ones.
The
Bible
said
they
were
"prophets,"
just
the
same
as
He
said
Balaam
was
a
prophet,
anointed
ones.
And
there
was
one
of
them
by
the
name
of
Micaiah,
who
was
anointed
with
God
and
sent
by
God,
with
the
Word
of
God.
There
was
one,
Zedekiah,
who
thought
he
was
sent
by
God.
He
was
anointed
of
God,
but
his
teaching
was
contrary
to
the
Word
of
God.
"Rise,
false
Christs,
show
great
signs,
would
deceive
the
Elected
if
possible."
Notice, both of them, both of them anointed. Now, how could you tell which was right, and wrong? 65-0725M THE.ANOINTED.ONES.AT.THE.END.TIME
Diviners
and
soothsayers
are
not
anointed
men
of
God.
They
do
not
receive
the
word
from
God
but
from
somewhere
else.
Again,
he
combines
God
with
the
'messenger',
which
is
not
scriptural:
The
Holy
Spirit
is
the
Prophet
of
this
hour;
He
a
vindicating
His
Word,
proving
It.
The
Holy
Spirit
was
the
Prophet
of
Moses'
hour.
The
Holy
Spirit
was
the
Prophet
of
Micaiah's
hour.
The
Holy
Spirit,
which
wrote
the
Word,
comes
and
confirms
the
Word.
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Whatever
Rev.
Branham
said
in
this
[blank
spot
in
tape]
must
have
been
a
doozy:
Now,
just
a
minute.
I
want
to
look
up
something
here.
I
think
I
wrote
this
down
right.
I'm
not
sure,
but
I
want
to
say
it,
and
look
it
up
before
I--I
say
it.
Now,
just
one
minute.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
"Reprobates
concerning
the
Truth,
concerning
the
Faith."
"The
Faith,"
there
is
only
one
Faith.
That's
right.
"Concerning
the
Faith,
reprobates!"
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I'm
going
to
say
it.
No,
yes,
no
...
silence.
Who
knows
what
blasphemy
was
spoken
here,
even
the
editors
could
not
leave
it
in
the
tape.
Rev.
Branham
then
starts
an
"I
was
here
first"
ploy
to
let
the
people
know
that
these
others
with
the
gifts
of
prophecy
on
their
campaigns
were
impostors:
Notice,
they
did
the
same
miracles,
but
they
didn't...
Notice,
they
didn't
do
it
till
after
the
original
Word
went
forth,
first.
That's
the
way
Satan
done
in
the
garden
of
Eden.
That's
the
way
he
done
all
time.
Who
prophesied
first?
Moses.
Who
come
on
the
scene
first,
Moses
or
Balaam?
Moses.
Who
come
on
the
scene
first,
Jeremiah
or
Hananiah?
You
see
what
I
mean?
[Congregation
says,
"Amen."--Ed.]
Notice,
they
copied.
Carnal
impersonators,
sincere,
thinking
they
were
"doing
God
a
service,"
as
David
did,
last
week,
but
carnal impersonation. I'm just waiting a minute. I want you to think between these places. If I don't say it, surely the Holy Spirit will reveal it, especially to the Elected. See? 65-0725M THE.ANOINTED.ONES.AT.THE.END.TIME
This
is
not
scriptural;
timing
has
nothing
to
do
with
satans
deception.
He
asks
us
again
to
read
between
the
lines.
Rev.
Branham
then
brings
in
his
"where
the
carcase
is
the
eagles
will
gather"
doctrine.
"Jerusalem,
Jerusalem,
how
oft
would
I,"
from
the
beginning
of
time;
not
a
third
Person,
somebody
else,
but,
"I
would
have
hovered
you
as
a
hen
did
her
brood,
but
you
would
not.
But
now
your
hour
is
come."
See?
"Where
the
Carcase
is,
the
eagles
will
gather."
But
after
the
carcase
is
rotten,
then
the
buzzards
gather.
See?
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This
is
not
scriptural.
Luke
24
correctly
translated
is
"where
the
corpse
is,
the
vultures
will
gather."
Eagles
eat
carrion,
just
the
same
as
vultures.
This
is
also
describing
an
event
that
happens
after
the
tribulation.
All
of
the
corpses
left
by
the
false
prophets
are
fed
to
the
vultures.
Rev.
Branham
claimed
to
be
a
"game
warden",
yet
he
does
not
know
that
eagles
eat
carrion
and
evidently
has
never
watched
a
frog
jump:
A
trinity
of
frogs!
A
frog
is
an
animal
that
always
looks
backward.
He
never
looks
where
he's
going;
he
looks
where
he's
come
from.
{...}
And
he
is
a
type
of
an
eagle,
a
buzzard
is.
We
know
that.
He
sure
is,
but
he
can't
follow
that
genuine
eagle.
See?
He
just
can't
do
it.
No,
sir.
His
body
isn't
built;
he's
been
eating
on
different
carrion,
see,
and
it
won't
be...
it
won't--it
won't
be
the
fresh
Meat,
the
fresh
Manna.
It'd
be
something
that
Luther
said,
Wesley
said,
or
Doctor
So-and-so
said.
It
won't
be
on
what
Jesus
said
for
this
hour.
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Frogs do not look backwards everywhere they go, and eagles do not only eat fresh meat. Eagles eat carrion along with the vultures.
This
was
the
last
sermon
that
God
permitted
Rev.
Branham
to
preach.
The
entire
sermon
was
devoted
to
remind
the
people
that
he
had
seen
a
"mysterious
cloud"
on
the
mountain.
Nobody
at
that
time
knew
that
he
was
in
Houston,
TX
when
that
cloud
appeared,
and
were
taken
in
by
his
comparison
of
this
"spiritual
event"
to
the
life
and
times
of
Jesus
Christ.
Rev.
Branham
was
always
against
education,
and
taught
that
it
was
education
that
would
destroy
us:
But
the
nations
and
the
people
will
grow
"weaker
and
wiser."
Just
think,
the
average
American
now
is
in
middle
age,
about
twenty
years
old,
weaker
but
wiser.
They
didn't
have
jet
planes
in
them
days,
and--and
atomic
warheads,
but
they
lived
a
lot
longer.
We're
getting
weaker
and
wiser,
and
our
own
wisdom
is
what's
going
to
destroy
us.
We
will
destroy
ourselves.
God
will
not
destroy
us;
our
wisdom
will
destroy
us.
It's
always
been
that
way,
and
so
will
it
be
again.
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The
Bible
teaches
us
wisdom.
The
Bible
teaches
us
against
sin,
not
wisdom.
The
prophets
of
old
always
prophesied,
"I
will
destroy
saith
the
Lord."
Never
was
it
"You
will
destroy
saith
the
Lord."
Therefore
I
strike
you
with
a
grievous
blow,
making
you
desolate
because
of
your
sins.
(Micah
6:13)
It is interesting to hear Rev. Branham speak of his next sermon, which we are told was to be "Trail of the Serpent": Now, the Lord willing, next Sunday morning, not knowing now what I will speak on, but I trust that the Lord, if He lets us live and nothing happens, and it be His will, we aim to speak another Message next Sunday morning, have prayer for the sick next Sunday night. Then it falls my lot to return back home to Arizona, to take the family back so the children can register in school. Then you'll be... We'll notify you, just as we can, of the meetings as they mature, or the times that we... places that we aim to be. So, God bless you all. Clarence Larkin wrote a book entitled "Dispensational Truth," which Rev. Branham claimed many "revelations" from. There was a chapter entitled "Trail of the Serpent."
For
a
man
who
died
with
over
three
million
dollars
(according
to
a
letter
by
his
own
daughter
that
was
verified
by
Bro.
Jackson's
own
words),
it
is
hypocritical
to
say
that
he
did
not
do
any
of
this
for
money.
And
now
to
you
who
never
heard
the
Message
this
morning,
and
you
have
a
tape
recorder;
we
never
solicit,
selling
tapes.
We
never
solicit,
selling
anything.
Sometimes
in
a
big
meeting
they'll
announce
they
got
some
books
back
there;
we
don't
make
anything
out
of
them.
Brother
Vayle
is
the
writer.
The
tapes,
the
man
that
operates
the
tape
business
there
will
tell
you,
we
don't
make
no
tape
money.
We
don't...
It
ain't
"the
tapes";
it's
the
Message.
And
when
a
man
gets
on
his
mind
that
it's
money,
he
ain't
going
to
make
tapes
no
more.
That's
right.
I
was
asking
about
it,
I
think
our
tapes
sell
about,
under
five
dollars,
or
something,
three
to
five,
or
something
like
that.
What
say?
Three
and
four,
for
them
big,
long
tapes.
24
And
a
certain
minister,
I
asked
about
one
of
his
tapes,
and
it
was
nine
dollars,
about
twenty
minutes
or
thirty,
of
a
message.
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The
truth
of
the
matter
is,
Rev.
Branham
created
the
"Voice
of
Healing"
magazine
to
sell,
and
to
promote
his
own
campaign.
He
created
a
brochure
that
he
sold
during
his
healing
campaigns
telling
people
that
it
was
instructions
on
"how
to
keep
your
healing"
which
is
an
unscriptural
doctrine.
Even
if
he
only
made
fifty
cents
on
the
tapes,
he
knew
how
many
thousands
and
thousands
of
them
that
would
sell,
multiplied
by
how
many
hundreds
of
tapes
he
recorded.
Rev.
Branham
made
a
reference
to
the
"churches
of
that
day"
comparing
his
own
ministry
to
that
of
Jesus
Christ:
The
people
of
that
day,
the...
what
they
called
that
day,
"a
better
religious
class
of
people,"
hated
Him.
The
churches
of
that
day
hated
Him
and
denounced
Him,
and
denounced
all
that
listened
to
Him.
And
if
they
went
and
attended
His
campaigns,
they
were
immediately
excommunicated
from
the
fellowship
of
the
church.
No
wonder
the
Scripture
said,
"He
came
unto
His
Own,
and
His
Own
received
Him
not."
The
ones
who
ought
to
have
loved
Him,
the
ones
who
ought
to
have
been
for
Him,
was
His
bitter,
bitterest
enemies.
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The
Full
Gospel
Businessman's
Association,
the
last
group
that
would
put
up
with
Rev.
Branham's
unscriptural
teachings,
had
finally
separated
themselves
from
Rev.
Branham,
and
he
was
clearly
upset
about
it.
This
may
sound
scriptural,
when
compared
to
Jesus
Christ,
but
Rev.
Branham
was
not
Jesus
Christ
(Though
he
said
that
he
was
in
the
sermons
prior).
And
Rev.
Branham
did
not
live
before
Christ
died
for
our
sins.
Now
we
are
one
body
in
Christ,
and
Paul
warns
us
not
to
allow
ANYONE
to
sever
that
body.
In
Colossians
2,
Paul
asked
that
if
you
died
with
Christ
to
the
elemental
spirits
of
the
world,
why
do
we
submit
to
these
regulations
of
men?
Do
not
handle,
do
not
taste,
do
not
touch?
These
things
have
the
appearance
of
wisdom
by
promoting
self-made
religion.
But
these
things
were
dangerous,
promoting
asceticism
and
would
sever
the
body
of
Christ.
Rev.
Branham
Continues
to
compare
his
problems
with
Jesus
Christ,
but
while
doing
so,
he
lowers
Jesus
Christ
just
a
little
bit
down
to
his
level:
And
He
had
made
up
His
little
group
out
of
a
bunch
of
poor
people,
fishermen,
tax
gatherers,
uneducated.
The
Bible
said
some
of
them
was
even
"ignorant,
unlearned."
Some
could
not
even
sign
their
name.
He
never
went
to
the
churches
to
get
His
people.
And
He
never
agreed
with
any
of
the
church
leaders.
And,
besides
that,
He
followed
the
very
trend
of
a
prophet.
He
condemned
everything
that
they
done,
as
the
ones
before
Him
had;
because
they
were
a
portion
of
the
Word,
and
He
was
the
Word
in
Its
fullness.
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Jesus Christ did not "follow the very trend of a prophet." A prophet is a man who humbles himself low enough to allow God to speak through him, not a man who compares himself to Jesus Christ. The prophets of old did not condemn the things of the world. Like Jonah, they did not even want to speak the words. It was God that spoke through them. They were God's mouthpieces.
Rev.
Branham
was
going
through
his
nervous
battle,
one
that
he
said
that
he
fought
for
his
entire
life.
He
mentions
several
paragraphs
how
"nervous"
this
time
was
in
the
days
of
Jesus:
Well,
we
find
that
drawed
a
nervous
tension.
It
had
to.
It
must
do
it.
They
were
waiting,
they
were
wondering
what
He
would
do
when
He
got
there.
They
wanted
to
be
there
to
get
anything
that
He
done.
They
wanted
It.
They
wanted
to
see
It.
They
believed
Him.
Others
had
heard
He
was
coming,
and
they
went
up
there
to
make
fun
of
Him.
So
after
all
the
nervous
anticipation,
a
very
unusual
day,
very
unusual
time,
churches
asleep,
the
people's
nerve
was
on
edge,
there
was
so
many
people
there,
and
then
it
happened!
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And here just recently there was a prophet who stood up among them, that was vindicated a prophet, Zechariah, and he said, that, "You daughters of Jerusalem and you daughters of Zion, rejoice, shout, scream out, for your King comes to you, meek and lowly and humble, riding upon the foal of an ass." And here those people that read that Scripture, day by day, watched Him come riding in, and cried, "Who is this?" See? God fulfilling His Word to the people that should have knowed what It was, but they didn't know It. When God fulfills His Word, It always causes an attraction, always does. Causes an attraction, for It is the unusual. So unusual, when He fulfills His Word to the modern trend of the day, 'cause the modern trend of the day don't believe in It. They have their own way. 65-0725E WHAT.IS.THE.ATTRACTION.ON.THE.MOUNTAIN
This is unscriptural. Prophets were not vindicated in their own time. Prophets were vindicated by history which proved their prophecy. And it was not because the 'prophet' claimed they had visions twenty to thirty years after the 'prophecy', it was because they were written down and widely available. If they were not an event that would come long afterwards, they were spoken to the people affected and then written down.
Not
one
of
Rev.
Branham's
prophecies
can
be
'vindicated'
by
history.
Leaders
of
the
organization
ask
you
to
believe
it
anyway,
without
proof
that
the
prophecy
was
even
a
prophecy.
Rev.
Branham
then
regurgitates
his
'where
the
carcase
is
the
eagles
will
gather'
doctrine:
The
religious
people,
after
crucifying
the
Prince
of
Life,
and
everything,
still
didn't
see
the
promise
of
the
coming
of
the
Holy
Spirit.
The
attraction,
"Who
is
this?
What
meaneth
this?
What's
the
matter
with
them
people?"
91
Oh,
my!
It's
the
same
today.
We'll
bypass
a
lot
of
this
to
bring
it
to
this
hour.
The
same
thing
is
today.
The
same
thing
is
taking
place.
The
same
question
is
asked.
"What's
all
that
racket?"
Look
up-and-down
the
street,
cars
from
Michigan
to
Florida,
from
Maine
to
California.
This
morning
when
I
was
riding
out,
or
right
after
noon,
we
was
going
down
the
street,
wife
and
I
was
looking
at
licenses
on
cars.
That's
where
I
thought
of
this
text.
"What
meaneth
this?"
Just
as
It
said,
"Where
the
Carcase
is,
there
the
eagles
will
gather."
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This
is
not
scriptural.
Luke
24
correctly
translated
is
"where
the
corpse
is,
the
vultures
will
gather."
Eagles
eat
carrion,
just
the
same
as
vultures.
This
is
also
describing
an
event
that
happens
after
the
tribulation.
All
of
the
corpses
left
by
the
false
prophets
are
fed
to
the
vultures.
He
continues
this
with
his
"evening
light"
doctrine:
Another
earthquake
splitting
open
the
earth!
If
you
want
to
follow
out
a
Scripture
here,
notice
in
this
5th
verse,
it
applies
that
the
cleaving
of
the
Mount
of
Olives
is
due
to
an
earthquake,
and
this
is
confirmed
by
Isaiah
29:6
and
Revelation
16:9.
Exactly!
What
is
it?
The
same
prophet
told
of
His
first
coming,
seen
His
second
Coming.
Notice,
"As
in
the
days
of
the
earthquake."
See
what
the
earthquakes
are
doing?
See
the
predictions
of
them?
... and the LORD your God shall come, and all of his saints with thee. And it shall come to pass in that day, (hallelujah) in that day, that the light shall not be clear, or dark: But it shall be one day with... one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that in the evening time it shall be light. (O God!) 65-0725E WHAT.IS.THE.ATTRACTION.ON.THE.MOUNTAIN
This
is
one
that
Rev.
Branham
got
confused
on
several
times,
and
people
even
sing
songs
about
it.
The
Light
at
the
Evening
Time
doctrine
even
spun
off
Evening
Light
churches.
Zechariah
14
describes
the
light
at
the
evening
time,
but
it
is
after
the
battle
of
Armegeddon.
This
is
after
the
coming
of
the
lord.
Behold,
a
day
is
coming
for
the
Lord,
when
the
spoil
taken
from
you
will
be
divided
in
your
midst.
2
For
I
will
gather
all
the
nations
against
Jerusalem
to
battle,
and
the
city
shall
be
taken
and
the
houses
plundered
and
the
women
raped.
Half
of
the
city
shall
go
out
into
exile,
but
the
rest
of
the
people
shall
not
be
cut
off
from
the
city.
3
Then
the
Lord
will
go
out
and
fight
against
those
nations
as
when
he
fights
on
a
day
of
battle.
4
On
that
day
his
feet
shall
stand
on
the
Mount
of
Olives
that
lies
before
Jerusalem
on
the
east,
and
the
Mount
of
Olives
shall
be
split
in
two
from
east
to
west
by
a
very
wide
valley,
so
that
one
half
of
the
Mount
shall
move
northward,
and
the
other
half
southward.
5
And
you
shall
flee
to
the
valley
of
my
mountains,
for
the
valley
of
the
mountains
shall
reach
to
Azal.
And
you
shall
flee
as
you
fled
from
the
earthquake
in
the
days
of
Uzziah
king
of
Judah.
Then
the
Lord
my
God
will
come,
and
all
the
holy
ones
with
him.
On
that
day
there
shall
be
no
light,
cold,
or
frost.
7
And
there
shall
be
a
unique
day,
which
is
known
to
the
Lord,
neither
day
nor
night,
but
at
evening
time
there
shall
be
light.
Zechariah
14
... behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea,... all that do wickedly, shall be as stubbles:... 101 Now, this is not... That's Malachi 3, was the first coming, now here is the next coming. Even the Doctor Scofield here, I certainly don't agree with him in his footnotes, but he's got it lined out here right. "The commission of John," to Malachi 3; and, "The second Coming of Christ," and Elijah beforehands. All right. ... all the proud shall burn up, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Where's the "Eternal" hell then?) But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness rise with healing campaigns, healing in his wings;... you shall go forth, and grow up; as calves of the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked;... they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in that day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Remember... the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded... him in Horeb for all Israel,... the statutes and judgment. 65-0725E WHAT.IS.THE.ATTRACTION.ON.THE.MOUNTAIN The last section of Malachi 4 reminds us of the Law. Christ came to fulfill the Law, and Malachi had seen it. The entire scroll of Malachi was entitled, "The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi" Rev. Branham then gets into his "Latter Rain" doctrine, which the organization currently denies him starting: Oh, there will be a true former and latter rain in the last days upon that little group that come with Him on this little donkey, low and humble, no don-... or denomination, crying, "Hosanna to the King that comes in the Name of the Lord!" What's the matter today? What's the attraction on the mount? 65-0725E WHAT.IS.THE.ATTRACTION.ON.THE.MOUNTAIN
They deny it because the teachers of the Latter Rain movement all fell into sin through sex or money -- this coming from an organization that has a hundred million dollars stored up.
Rev.
Branham
then
reminds
us
that
he
saw
angels
in
the
"spiritual
cloud,"
that
we
have
already
proven
was
fabricated:
I
went
in
and
got
my
book,
looked
into
it,
and
it
said,
"It
shall
come
to
pass..."
Eight
years
later!
Then
when
I
looked
at
it,
I
said,
"It's
time
now,
honey,
we
must
turn
west."
Two
days
after
that,
standing
in
the
room
about
ten
o'clock
one
morning,
I
went
into
the
Spirit
of
God.
I
saw
that
little
cluster
of
doves
flying,
looked
at
them
little
birds.
You
remember
it.
I
seen
seven
Angels
in
the
form
of
a
pyramid,
come
rushing
in
to
me.
Said,
"Turn
westward,
go
to
Tucson,
be
forty
miles
northeast.
And
you'll
be
picking
a
cocklebur,"
or
a
bullheader,
they
call
it
there,
"off
your
clothes."
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He
then
reminds
us
that
he
held
"the
king's
sword,"
and
it
would
be
vindication
of
his
ministry:
I
went
up
in
the
canyon,
climbed
plumb
up
where
the
eagles
was
flying
around.
I
was
watching
some
deer
standing
there.
I
knelt
down
to
pray,
and
raised
up
my
hands,
and
a
Sword
struck
my
hand.
I
looked
around.
I
thought,
"What's
that?
I'm
not
beside
myself.
Here
is
that
Sword
in
my
hand;
bright,
shiny,
glistening
in
the
sun."
I
said,
"Now,
there's
not
people
in
miles
of
me,
way
up
here
in
this
canyon.
Where
could
that
come
from?"
I
heard
a
Voice,
said,
"That's
the
King's
Sword."
I
said,
"A
king
knights
a
man
with
a
sword."
He,
the
Voice,
come
back,
said,
"Not
a
king's
sword,
but,
'The
King's
Sword,'
the
Word
of
the
Lord."
Said,
"Fear
not.
It's
only
the
Third
Pull.
It's
the
vindication
of
your
ministry."
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JEFFERSONVILLE.IN
V-8
N-8
SUNDAY_
The
"vindication"
he
claimed
was
the
divine
revelation
of
the
seven
seals
that
he
plagiarized
from
Clarence
Larkin.
He
then
continues
to
tell
about
these
seven
"mysteries"
that
he
got
by
reading
Clarence
Larkin:
I
met
Brother
Fred
and
them,
a
little
after.
Said,
"What
was
it?"
I
said,
"That
was
it."
"What are you going to do? "Return home. For, THUS SAITH THE LORD, the seven mysteries that's been hid in the Bible all these years, these denominations and everything, God is going to open those seven mysteries to us in the Seven Seals." There was that circle coming up from the earth, like a mist forming. When It did, It went plumb up into the mountain, begin to circle on westward, from the way It come. Science found It after a while, thirty miles high and twenty-five miles across, just exactly in the circle of the pyramid. 65-0725E WHAT.IS.THE.ATTRACTION.ON.THE.MOUNTAIN
These
"mysteries"
were
not
mysteries
at
all,
taken
from
books
by
Clarence
Larkin.
And
the
great
mysterious
cloud
he
saw
happened
while
he
was
in
Houston,
TX.
Looking
back,
it
almost
sounds
like
he
himself
is
telling
us
not
to
listen
to
whatever
possessed
him
to
say
these
things:
Quote:
What's
happened
upon
Mount
Sunset?
God
confirming
His
Word.
That's
what
all
this
noise
is
about.
Notice,
it's
God
fulfilling
His
promised
Word
again,
of
Revelations
10:1
to
7,"And
in
the
days
of
the
sounding
of
the
seventh
angel's
Message,
the
mystery
of
God
should
be
finished."
The
hidden
mystery
of
Revelations
10:1
to
7,
the
last
Message
to
the
last
church
age.
Fulfills
exactly,
in
this
age,
Saint
Luke
17:30,
"The
day
when
the
Son
of
man
shall
be
revealed."
149
"And
there
shall
rise
false
prophets
and
false
Christs,
show
great
signs
and
wonders,
insomuch
it'd
deceive
the
Elected
if
possible."
The
people
still
in
doubt.
And,
as
usual,
the
church
is
just
as
puzzled.
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When
you
consider
the
words
of
Paul,
this
places
the
followers
in
a
very
scary
place:
Let
no
one
disqualify
you,
insisting
on
asceticism
and
worship
of
angels,
going
on
in
detail
about
visions,
puffed
up
without
reason
by
his
sensuous
mind
Colossians
2:18
He
tries
to
throw
everyone
off
track,
saying
that
science
did
not
understand
it:
And
the
science,
all
through
Tucson
yet,
they're
writing
pieces
and
put
in
the
paper.
Way
back
over
there
on
Mount
Lemmon,
them
big
cameras
didn't
see
It
rising
up
from
where
we
was
standing;
drifting
on
towards
the
West,
showing
the
time
is
over.
It
can't
go
but
a
little
piece
there;
it's
at
the
West
Coast.
Judgment
struck
just
in
the
very
way
it
went.
Going
right
up
over
Phoenix
and
right
on
across,
on
to
Prescott
and
across
the
mountains
to
the
West
Coast,
right
on
up
into...
Where
was
they
going?
Right
on
up
into
Alaska,
and
she
is
thundering,
heading
right
that
way.
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This
simply
is
not
true.
It
was
investigated
to
the
conclusion
that
a
T.H.O.R
missile
detonation
caused
the
ring
that
floated
eastward,
not
westward
across
Arizona.
If
this
ring
meant
judgement,
it
was
headed
in
the
wrong
direction.
He
compared
"his
cloud"
to
the
star
that
the
Magis
followed
looking
for
the
Christ
Child:
And
the
observatories
and
all
of
them
in
Tucson
are
still
asking,
research
of
science
trying
to
find
out
what
it
is.
So
high
they
can't
be
fog,
mist,
or
nothing
up
there.
"What
did
it?
Where
is
it
at?"
They're
just
as
puzzled
of
that
supernatural
Halo
hanging
yonder
in
the
sky
as
they
was
when
the
Magis
come
in
following
a
Star,
saying,
"Where
is
He
that's
born
King
of
the
Jews?"
What
was
it?
God
fulfilling
His
Word,
"And
there
shall
rise
a
star
out
of
Jacob."
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In
doing
so,
he
was
directly
comparing
himself
to
Jesus
Christ.
He
then
blends
the
lines
between
when
the
Son
of
Man
was
revealed
in
human
form
and
the
Spirit
of
Elijah
which
he
claimed
to
be
himself:
Now,
Lord
Jesus,
from
Your
Own
Words,
You
said
that
the
world
would
be
in
a
Sodom
condition.
We
know
that,
we
can
look
at
it.
And
You
said,
in
that
day,
"As
it
was
in
Sodom."
There
was
three
messengers
sent
to
the
Gentile
and
Hebrew
world.
And
one
of
them,
which
was
God
Himself,
the
Son
of
man, revealed Himself in a human form and performed a miracle, insomuch that told Abraham what Sarah was doing behind Him in the tent. You said it would repeat again when the whole Gentile world would be in a Sodom condition. And we're here, Lord. Other prophecies confirming the same thing, of sending Elijah in the last days, the Spirit of Elijah upon the earth, to bring the hearts of the fathers, or, "the children back to the fathers." And I pray, God, that this hour that You will confirm Your Word, that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. Grant it, Father. They are all Yours. I pray that You'll grant these blessings and confirm what's been said, for the Glory of God. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. 65-0725E WHAT.IS.THE.ATTRACTION.ON.THE.MOUNTAIN
Rev. Branham had already admitted that he was suffering from his nervous condition, and was afraid that it would consume him as it did in the early part of his ministry -- taking him back off the field. Sadly, God took him off the field before his mental condition could be treated.
A Solemn Warning
This is a solemn warning to anyone who would consider joining or attending a church that is outside of the normal category of churches: 1. Know your Bible before you make any decision. 2. Know the history of your newfound church before you even attend. 3. Learn the reasons why they deviate from the norm, and understand what those differences are fully. If you are considering having scriptural teaching by one of these churches, remember that every person in that church may be friendly and Christ-like on the outside. Every person in that church may desire to do exactly the will of God, and will devote their lives to becoming more like their leader instructs. Once you are involved, it is too late. If they are the type of church that Paul warns about, then your involvement has turned into deception. It will change your mortal lives until there is no thread of your past remaining. Should you decide to fellowship and worship with a follower of the message of William Branham, you consider these things and address them to the pastor of the church and know exactly where you stand before you are deceived into a life- long struggle to get back out: Message churches will ex-communicate, shun, or turn people over to the devil when they choose the Bibles teachings over the doctrine of their prophet. Like the Amish, they will even require family to turn away from their victim. Message churches will shun a victim without providing Biblical reason for doing so.
Message churches will ask for a private meeting when a question will arise that might put the Bible or actual fact over the doctrine of their prophet. Message church pastors know that every prophecy (except two failed prophecies) was prophesied after the events happened, sometimes thirty years later. Message churches will ask you to believe that a voice spoke from the heavens in 1933 to vindicate William Branham, and that the Associated Press printed the story in every newspaper from Jeffersonville, IN to Canada when it did not happen. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham prophesied the untimely deaths of several men on the municipal bridge in Louisville, KY, when they know that William Branham read that story regarding a bridge being built before his birth. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham prophesied that Roosevelt would cause WWII instead of Hitler when history proves otherwise. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham prophesied that Mussolini fought his last battle in Ethiopia, when history and photography proves otherwise, and that William Branham did not change his mind about this vision several times. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham prophesied that the Siegfried Line would be built when history proves it had already been constructed. Message churches will ask you to believe William Branham prophesied that cars will be shaped like an egg and drive themselves with no human intervention, when science magazines of the day were printing similar articles, and that William Branham did not change his mind about this vision several times.
Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham prophesied that President Kennedy would be president immediately before Armegeddon, and that William Branham did not change his mind about this vision several times. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham prophesied that California and specifically Los Angeles would sink below the ocean before his son, Billy Paul Branham (now in his late seventies) is an old man. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham prophesied that Marilyn Monroe died of a heart attack before her death when the autopsy report clearly indicates an overdose caused the demise. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham was told by God to preach a sermon entitled Smoking Mans Filter with an audible voice, when William Branhams own words from five years earlier state that he heard that sermon from Billy Graham. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham raised a boy in Finland from the dead and that newspaper articles proved the resurrection, when not a single newspaper article was printed to that effect and no medical examiner was present. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham healed a young Donnie Morton of brain disease while Readers Digest articles tell of the poor childs death within a few months. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham healed thousands in Canada at the beginning of his healing campaigns when the people involved in the campaign testify that not a single person was healed and several had died.
Message churches will ask you to believe that a man who questioned William Branham died of a terrible fate when William Branhams own words determine the entire event was completely fabricated. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham saw a spiritual cloud above him in Arizona when he was in Houston, TX. Message churches will ask you to believe that science could not determine the cause of that cloud, when investigations prove that a T.H.O.R missile detonation caused the ring. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham is the second coming of Christ, as William Branham stated. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branhams every word is infallible. Message churches will ask you to believe that the original sin was sex, and therefore women are now the root of all evil as William Branham stated. Message churches will ask you to separate yourselves from other people in this world because they have the mark of the beast for joining a denominational church as William Branham stated. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham saw an angel when William Branham gave five different conflicting accounts of that angel. Message churches will ask you to believe that William Branham had a halo that they call the pillar of fire photographed by George J. Lacy the head of the FBI, when Mr. Lacy was never FBI. The Branham team paid Mr. Lacy for his evaluation.
Message churches will ask you to believe that this photograph authenticated by Mr. Lacy was declared proof in the supernatural, when Mr. Lacy did not declare this in his evaluation. Message churches will ask you to believe that this halo picture hangs in the Religious Hall of Art in Washington, DC, when no such museum ever existed. Message churches will ask you to spread the message of William Branham instead of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is condemned by Paul. Message churches will condone worship of William Branham and prayer to his name by not speaking out against it. Message churches will condone worship of William Branhams son and prayer to his name by not speaking out against it. Message churches will tell you there is a very small, elect group when there is actually over two million followers. Message churches will ask you to pay a dedicated ten percent tithing which is no longer scriptural so that they can gain massive amounts of money. A 2011 tax return shows over a hundred million dollar profit for the headquarters while pictures of the followers in other countries show poor people without even shoes on their feet. Message churches will tell you that every tape is accurate word of God but will not tell you why they edited out Jim Jones, the man who killed his congregation when he lost his mind to the devil. Message churches will tell you that every tape is accurate word of God but will not tell you why the original recordings were buried in the middle of the desert by the homosexual men in Branhams campaign.
Message churches will tell you that every tape is accurate word of God but will not tell you why refuse to respond to questions why they edited out Branhams claims concerning polygamy and how it was acceptable by God. Message churches will ask you to believe that El Shaddai (The Breasted God) is the same God the other churches are worshipping, when it is actually a Semetic Goddess. Message churches will expect you to believe that William Branham will raise from the dead to accomplish the things that have not happened, when only Jesus Christ can rise from the dead before the final resurrection. Message churches will condemn you for independent thought if it conflicts with the prophet. Message church members will segregate themselves from you if you do not have the same doctrinal theology.
References
The Bible: KJV The Bible: ESV The Bible: Interlinear Legend of the Fall Peter Duyzer A Logical Refutation of William Branhams Message Nathan Rivera The Book of Enoch The Gospel of Judas The Kaballah Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus Wmbranham.net Accessed 10 June, 2012, Internet. Branham.org Accessed 10 June, 2012, Internet. Logansport Press Aug 31, 1930: Hills of Kentucky Scene of a Feud Associated Press: Faith Healer Draws Crowds, June 30, 1947 Associated Press: Vandalia Jammed with Ailing People Seeking To Be Cured, June 30, 1947 Associated Press: Faith Healer Ends Meet with 5-Hour Session, July 1, 1947 Wmb1.com Accessed 10 June 2012 http://en.believethesign.com Accessed 10 June, 2012
Readers Digest, November 1952 The Rose of the World Daniel Andreev The Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People Tim Reiterman, John Jacobs http://www.acfar.org/is-brother-branham-your-absolute.aspx Accessed Feb, 2012 http://messagedoctrine.com/leevayle/view/sermon/godhead/ 12godhead/ Accessed Feb, 2012 http://www.eri-nonprofitsalaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=3 51609054&Cobrandid=0 Accessed Feb, 2012 The Seven Thousand Years Of Human History Clarence Larkin The Church and the Kingdom Clarence Larkin The Church Clarence Larkin The Heavens Clarence Larkin The Mountain Peaks Of Prophecy Clarence Larkin Ages and Dispensations Clarence Larkin The Second Coming Clarence Larkin The Resurrections and Judgments Clarence Larkin The (Spiritual) Underworld Clarence Larkin http://www.caftucson.com Accessed Jan 2012 http://www.thecenters.org/ Accessed Feb 2012
Let Us Reason Ministries Accessed Feb 2012 http://www.apologeticsindex.org Accessed Feb 2012 http://newspaperarchive.com Accessed Mar 2012 http://irs.gov Accessed May 2012 Against Heresies Irenaeus