Untangling The Truth - 1965 PDF

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.
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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
God’s 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 God’s
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 God’s 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

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 father’s

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 father’s 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,
William’s 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 God’s 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.
Let’s 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.

The Coming of the Kingdom
Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would

come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming
in ways that can be observed, nor will they say, ‘Look, here it
is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of
you.”
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 Lot—they 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 Lot’s 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 Lot’s 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 Christ’s 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.

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.
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.

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.
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.
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
commandment—what 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.
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 Webster’s 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.
The scripture Rev. Branham is referring to is this:

Quote:
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse
you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which
despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in
heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the
good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do
not even the publicans the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than
others? do not even the publicans so?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in
heaven is perfect.
Matthew 5:43-48
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.

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."
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:

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
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.
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.
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.

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,"
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.
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?

God Rich in Mercy

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.
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.
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.
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.
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 “buddies”…my helpful comrades for 59 of my 66
years as a cripple… 7 of those years having been spent in
bed…We 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: “Accept…confess Christ and step out- He will
do the rest and bring the feeling.’” “It was the touchstone.
Brother LeRoy Kopp, Calvary’s 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 wife…and he bottom of Heaven fell
out…My crutches are still on the Calvary temple pulpit, and I
am “Happy on the way…Leaning 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.
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.

Lean Not Unto Your Own Understanding

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."
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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:
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets
understanding,
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.
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 can’t 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.
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...
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!
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
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."
The Bible, of course, instructs us to "render unto Caesar that

which is Caesar’s (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.
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.
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.
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."
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
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.
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."
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,

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.
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."
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.
65-0123 BROKEN.CISTERNS
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.

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.
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.

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.
Jeremiah’s 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
Jeremiah’s 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."
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.

Rev. Branham makes a very good, very sound statement:
Any man-made system will keep him right in that; he'll blind
the thing from the intellectual, the intellectual eyes, that they
think, "I belong to church, my name is on the book. I have did
this. My father was this, and so forth." That sounds all right;
which, it is, nothing to say against it. But still, friend, Jesus
said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot even see," see,
there, doesn't mean that he sees with his eyes, but,
"understand the Kingdom of Heaven." Until you're born in!
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.
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.
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 Kabbalah’s most distinctive images of the feminine

divine is that of a motherly, breastfeeding God. Suckling at My
Mother’s 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. Haskell’s approach allows
for a new evaluation of Kabbalah’s feminine divine, one

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
The question is: Did Rev. Branham worship a Semetic

Goddess? Or did he simply try to combine religions to create
'mystery?'

This Day This Scripture Is Fulfilled

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.
65-0219 THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED
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.'"

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.
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
Unfortunately his math was wrong: 33 + 49 = 1982, not 1977

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.
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.
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.

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!
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.

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.
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.
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,

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."
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.
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.

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.
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."
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."

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.
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.
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."

He then makes a false statement about salvation, again by
bloodlines:
Watch, He did that before the Jews, and the Samaritans, but
never the Gentiles. The Gentiles, we people, were heathens in
them days, the other nations, packing a club on our back,
worshiping idols. We wasn't looking for no Messiah.
He only appears to those who is looking for Him, and we are
supposed to be looking for Him.
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?
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.

Running From The Presence of God

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...
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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.
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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.
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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.]
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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.
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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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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,

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.
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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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"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

people’s minds anymore than one can read God’s 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)
The worst statement of this sermon, however is this:

Many here tonight, Lord, and will be here, that's confused on
these subjects that's vital. O God, open that fountain in the
house of God, that--that's for cleansing us. I pray, God, that
You'll wash us and cleanse us in Thy Blood, and make us new
creatures. And give us grace and strength, to bring forth the
Word of Truth in Its Divine revelation of the Being of Jesus
Christ.
May He appear before us, Lord. May He come and heal our
sickness, forgive our sins, fill our hungry hearts with good
tidings of great joy, the Gospel made manifest in our lives.
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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)

The Seed is not Heir With the Shuck

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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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."
When Rev. Branham first spoke of this to Gordon Lindsay,

there was no angel, and there were some 130 people around:
Quote:

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here's what the Bible says about it:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
(1 Thessalonians 4:17)
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.
This is not Biblical. Here's what the Bible says:

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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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"

God’s Chosen Place of Worship

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.
65-0220 GOD'S.CHOSEN.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP
According to the Bible,

"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)
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.

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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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 Naaman’s wife told her master about possible
healing for Naaman’s disease (2 Kings 5:3–4). 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 15:20–21). 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.
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
Rev. Branham then gets into the 'titles' of God:

Now, and, He, what is His Name, first? We'll have to (Name)
find what God's Name is before we can find what it is He is
putting in the place.
Now, we find out that He had many titles. He is called the... He
was called "Father," which is a title. And He was called "Son,"
which is a title. He was called "Holy Ghost," which is a title. He
was called "Rose of Sharon," which is a title. "Lily of the
Valley," a title, "Morning Star." "Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-
rapha," seven different, compound, redemptive names, and all
of them were titles. None of them were names.
But He has a Name. {...} And now we find out that Jesus said,
also, "I came in My Father's Name, and you received Me not."
Then, the Name of the Father must be Jesus. That's right.

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.
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.
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.

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.
Not biblically correct:

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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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

Marriage and Divorce

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. God’s 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't…The 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

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.
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 God’s
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."
In other places, Branham has “divine revelation” that Sarah

was turned into a much younger, beautiful woman. Not only
does this conflict with Branham’s own words, but Hagar never
became Abram’s wife. As the custom of the day, Abram had
Hagar, but the child would be considered Sarah’s child.
In other places, he reiterated that Hagar’s 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.
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.
65-0221M MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE

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:

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.
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)
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]
Biblically, this is incorrect. Let's look at John 10:

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 came—and 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.”
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?"

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.
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.
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.
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
Then, the 'woman bashing' starts -- none of it scriptural:

Then, it was the woman that caused the separation of the
lovely home. It was not a Cherubim that bothered the earth. It
was not Adam that throwed the home out. It was not
anything else that throwed the home out, and throwed the
whole thing out of continuity, but a woman, Eve. And it is here
that "the beginning," that Jesus spoke of, was broken. Jesus
said, "At the beginning, God made one male, one female, of
each kind." And now when this woman... not the female horse,
not the female dog; but the woman, she broke the entire
continuity of God's operation on the earth, and throwed
everything into death. The woman, not the man, she broke the
covenant. She broke the covenant, because (why?) she stepped
across the borders of God's Word. Now, if she broke her
covenant with her husband, she broke her covenant with God;
then, because she broke the covenant with God, she broke it
with her husband.
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."
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 Satan’s 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;
He then deems all women as both deceitful and easily

deceived:
There is nothing designed to be so deceitful, as a woman
that's deceitful. There cannot be nothing else; there is nothing
made to be that way.
Also, there is nothing that can be so easily deceived as a
woman. Now, the fall proves this statement to be true, the fall
in the beginning.
She was not in the original beginning creation. She was in
Adam, but not in a female sex, herself, at the beginning. She
was the by-product made.
Now, there is nothing designed that can deceive, and be
deceived, as easy as a woman. There is nothing designed or
can stoop as low as a woman can. Think now. There is

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.
This is FAR from scriptural.
"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.
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!
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?
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.
Let's review:
1960:
* Simple assault: 265 men vs. 29 women

* 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 proﬁles, and female percentage of arrests.
(1960–1990, 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.
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,
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.
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.
Scripturally, this is not correct. Let's examine Corinthians:

Quote:
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the
resurrection of the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:21
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?

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.
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.

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.
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...
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.

America: A Prophecy -- William Blake

Who Is This Melchisedec

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.
65-0221E WHO.IS.THIS.MELCHISEDEC
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.
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."
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!
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.
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.
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!

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.
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."
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.

"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!"
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.
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, “It’s 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.]
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.

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 Abrm’s
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.

The Easter Seal

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."
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."
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?"
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.
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.
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 The Rising of the Sun

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.
65-0418M IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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?"
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.

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?...?...
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.
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?'"
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?'"
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?
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
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?
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.
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.
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!

Does God Ever Change His Mind About His Word

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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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 Abraham’s 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 Nimrod’s clothes, which were
Adam’s 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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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.

"Well," you say, "God blessed him."
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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.”

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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.
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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.
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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.
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But nature has to do the healing, and nature is God. God is

nature.

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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

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.
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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

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.
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
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...
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)
In his own words, this is what happened:

And when... I had been very much constrained to go to--to
India. And yet, as many of you might know, the Indian trip
wasn't the success that it should've been, because I failed to
follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, and never recognized it
after He give me a vision to go to Africa first and then to
India.
BRANHAM, India Trip Report, (tape #57-0126B)
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."
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?"
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."
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
Quoting followers of William Draves:

The Church of Christ with the Elijah Message is a
denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement. Its founder,
William Draves (1912 - 1994), claimed to have received
visitations and messages from an angel who identified himself
as John the Baptist and Elijah. William Draves compiled all of
these messages in a book entitled The Word of the Lord
Brought to Mankind by an Angel. The 52nd message, written
on October 4, 1941, mentions William Branham in the 18th
paragraph, as transcribed below:
Therefore; let John Bracken, Lloyd Ford, John S. Seiffert,
George William Draves, George T. Morris, David Spitler,
William Pearl Brown, and my servant William Branham be
set apart as elders. Let them be very humble and swift to
obedience, and the greater portion of the Spirit will come over
them to lead the way. Let them be at work, for the Lord has
heard their prayers.
Source: http://www.elijahmessage.net
Rev. Branham then changes the scriptural account of Jesus

Christ:
As I said the other night, He come in three names; the name of
the Son of God, Son of man, and Son of David.

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."
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.
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.
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, “It’s true!”
Legend of the Fall
Rev. Branham Then gives a reference to Luke 17:30

Quote:
Watch Jesus, in Luke 17:30, see, when He was saying there
about the end time, how they would be like in days of Noah.
Then He said, "And like, likewise, in the days of Sodom," said,
"when the Son of man is being revealed." The Son of man
again, not Son of God. "Son of man," see, that brings in
Malachi 4 again, right straight back. All these other
prophecies coming right in, how it's supposed to be done. He
proves His Word to be so. That's right.
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.

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 Abrm’s
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?
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? It’s 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.

BRANHAM, 61-0317 ABRAHAM'S.GRACE.COVENANT_
MIDDLETOWN.OH
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.
Mrs. Burton, if you will believe... I don't know the woman, but
if you'll believe with all your heart...
…next person…
Sister Larsen, I do know you. She's my landlord.
…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_
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."
This is not Biblical.
The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and

abounding in steadfast love. (Psalms 145:8)

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never
come to an end (Lamentations 3:22)
Rev. Branham then gets into his Gnostic teaching.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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

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.
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.
Rev. Branham then regurgitates his 'beauty is of the devil'

doctrine:
When a man chooses a certain girl out of a family, he must
not rely upon beauty, for beauty is deceiving. And beauty,
modern worldly beauty, is of the Devil.
Quote:
"Oh," I hear someone say out there, "be careful here,
preacher!"
I say that these things on this earth, that's called beautiful, is
absolutely of the Devil. I'll prove it to you. Then, in the light of
this remark, let's search God's holy Word, to see if it's right or

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
Remember:
"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)
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.
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.

Trying To Do God A Service Without His Will

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.

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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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Remember the words of Paul:

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.

All these other things, that's contrary to the Word. It must be
with the Word and at the season.
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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)
Rev. Branham then gives his account on Balaam:

And God told Balaam, and he was a prophet, first, He told him,
"Don't go down."
But the influence of these other men caused him to do it
contrary to what God said do it, and it become a curse instead
of revival.
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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.

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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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Let's take a quick look at the two standard definitions of a

cult:
1) A system of religious veneration and devotion directed

toward a particular figure or object.
2) A relatively small group of people having religious beliefs
or practices regarded by others as strange
Not only does 'the message' of William Branham fall into both
of these definitions, the group itself meet every one of the top
ten signs of a cult:
1. Autonomy and individuality are discouraged. Dependence,

conformity and obedience are encouraged and sometimes
required.
-- No new ideas or beliefs. 'The prophet' has already said them
2. A person must shed his old identity and aquire a new one
that is desired by the group.
-- get rid of those shorts, pants, etc

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.

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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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Again, Rev. Branham shows his lack of Divine Love:

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.
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Under the Mosaic law, this was the case. It is not for us to
judge under the new covenant. Remember Hosea.

Rev. Branham did not follow the words of Jesus:
“If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a
stone at her.” All the men left and Jesus was the only one left
standing. Jesus then told her, “Go now and leave your life of
sin.”
(John 8:3-11)
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:

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.
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Rev. Branham then gets into the mysteries of the Bible:

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.
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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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F.GOD
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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F.GOD
Refer back to the top ten signs of a cult.

Annointed Ones In The End Time

Rev. Branham starts out by reminding everyone of his
prophecy of California:
So now, so that we won't be too long on a great lesson this
morning... I have sought the Lord, thinking, "What could I
say?" knowing that this may be our last service that we'll ever
have. The Coming of the Lord is so close at hand!
I see, after that prediction made in California, there is houses
out there, and places, sinking at the rate of thirty inches a
hour, timbers cracking and breaking in. And they don't know
what's doing it. We are at the end. Hundred-thousand-dollar
homes, sinking. I got big headlines in the paper, pictures, that
I hope to bring tonight, as I want to speak on something on
that tonight.
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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.

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.
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.
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.
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."
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?
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
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. God’s world is perfect, and Satan
tries to pervert it.

Rev. Branham then raises up Balaam:
Balaam, anointed with the same Spirit that was upon Moses.
What was the difference? The teaching of Moses was perfect.
Balaam was a diviner and soothsayer, not an anointed man of

God. He was later killed by the children of Israel because of his
sorcery.
Rev. Branham then raises up Elijah, making him sound

greater than he was since he claimed to be Elijah
reincarnated:
Quote:
Notice, both of them, both of them anointed. Now, how could
you tell which was right, and wrong? Watch what the Word
promised to Ahab. The prophet which was before him, which
was Elijah, one of the greatest prophets of the age, that was a
vindicated prophet.
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?
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.
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!"
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?
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?
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.

Frogs do not look backwards everywhere they go, and eagles
do not only eat fresh meat. Eagles eat carrion along with the
vultures.

What is the Attraction on the Mountain

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.
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.

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.
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!
He speaks of Zechariah, and uses the word "vindicated":

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.
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."
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!)
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
Rev. Branham then compares himself to Christ through use of

Malachi 4:
Let us turn over to another Scripture in the Old Testament,
Malachi the 4th chapter, and read that little 4th chapter.

... 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.
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?
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."
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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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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
He then goes back to his nervousness, trying to publicly deny

it.
Now don't be nervous. What would it be if I was nervous?
Now, I'm making a thing here that it has to depend on the
sovereignty of God. But why do I do this? He said it would be.
That settles it.
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 Bible’s
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.

Branham prophesied that Roosevelt would cause WWII
instead of Hitler when history proves otherwise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Branham prophesied that Marilyn Monroe died of a heart
attack before her death when the autopsy report clearly
indicates an overdose caused the demise.

Branham was told by God to preach a sermon entitled
“Smoking Man’s Filter” with an audible voice, when William
Branham’s own words from five years earlier state that he
heard that sermon from Billy Graham.

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.

Branham healed a young Donnie Morton of brain disease
while Reader’s Digest articles tell of the poor child’s death
within a few months.

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 Branham’s own words determine the entire event
was completely fabricated.

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.

Branham is the second coming of Christ, as William Branham
stated.

Branham’s 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.

Branham saw an angel when William Branham gave five
different conflicting accounts of that angel.

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

Branham’s 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.

“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 Branham’s campaign.

“word of God” but will not tell you why refuse to respond to
questions why they edited out Branham’s 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 Branham’s 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://www.egliseprimitive.org Accessed 10 June, 2012, Internet.
http://en.believethesign.com Accessed 10 June, 2012

Reader’s 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-nonprofit-
salaries.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
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suffered or is still suffering persecution by those who are still

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When men condemn me with words, the Gospel of Jesus

Do not come and follow me on my journey, and do not follow

The Bible warns us of men who worship angels, and are

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From birth, I was engulfed in the false teachings of a cult

While my mother read her Bible, teaching me of the ways of

By age thirty, I knew every word by “my prophet” and very

Because of God’s grace to me, I have dedicated my life to

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He claimed several commissions from angels, stories that

He claimed that newspapers published his “great commission”

He claimed that he relocated to Indiana due to his father’s

He gave his story of his commission to the Associated Press in

We do not know the history of William Marrion Branham

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His following grew into a cult following, a group of people that

To prove this point, he would copy several works by Clarence

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Let’s review Luke 17.

And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to

William Branham avoided reading this scripture, with the

Increase Our Faith

This passage is describing the apostles begging the Lord for

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This passage is speaking of faithfulness and duty to the Lord.

Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers

On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between

This passage is showing that God offers his grace to every

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Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would

This passage is talking about the coming kingdom of the Lord

This passage is speaking of the generation of people during

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of

This passage describes the lack of devotion to the work that

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Remember Lot’s wife. She was turned to a pillar of salt. This

Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but

This passage is focusing on the aftermath. If we seek to

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He said that now that we have received the Gospel of Jesus

He warns to make sure that no man takes you captive by his

Paul said that in Christ, the whole fullness of deity dwells

Paul said that Christ cancelled and completely blotted out,

Paul continues to warn about Gnosticism. He says to let no

He continues speaking out against Gnosticism by warning us

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Paul said these things are of no value in stopping the

As Christians, we should ask ourselves: Are we rooted solid

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He starts out by placing Emphasis on Divine Healing

This is not Biblically correct. Healing is a spiritual gift, and is a

When you consider that he contradicts most of his other

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