William Branham

William Marrion Branham

William Marrion Branham (born April 6, 1909 in Burkesville, Kentucky , † December 24, 1965 in Amarillo , Texas ) was an American preacher and spiritual healer of the Healing Revival . Sanctification , healing of the sick and end-time themes shaped his message, which is known as " The Message ". He called himself a prophet and the only true messenger of the end of the time, and is viewed by his followers as the actual voice of God on earth. His sermons represent the doctrinal substructure of the so-called Message Churches , the Free People's Mission in Krefeld and the movement around Paulaseer Lawrie Muthukrishna in India (Manujothi Ashram). The following Christian communities classify as a sect .

Life

Most of the statements about William Branham's life come from himself and his followers. It is noticeable that he was not so careful with data and the truthfulness.

William Branham was born in a simple cabin in Burkesville, Kentucky , the oldest of ten children . His father was Charles Branham (1887 - November 30, 1936), a lumberjack of Irish descent, his mother Ella Rhea Harvey (June 24, 1887, † October 27, 1961). Ella's grandmother was a Cherokee , so over the years the imprecise claim that William Branham's mother was a half-Indian emerged. Since Branham did not have a birth certificate, he assumed April 8, 1908 as the date of his birth for a long time, until an astrologer informed him that he was born on April 6, 1909. According to his own testimony, his parents were 18 years and 15 years old when he was born. Branham also believed, on communication from an astrologer, that he was born under a special star.

His parents were Catholic by origin, but had William Branham consecrated in a Baptist church.

Childhood and youth

Spent his childhood William Branham in Jeffersonville ( Indiana ), where the family after a short stay in the village in 1911 Utica (Indiana) was drawn. As he later reported, he grew up in poor circumstances and had to work early. His self-esteem suffered from his father's disdain and the rejection and taunts of children his age. The effect was hysterical attacks, which caused his parents to consult a doctor. The research literature assumes that Branham suffered from neurotic disorders ( conversion disorders ) that occurred more frequently at rhythmic intervals. Branham himself confirmed this in one of his last sermons and said that he even known why Mayo Clinic in Rochester ( Minnesota had visited) and learn that the disease is chronic.

At the age of 14, he went hunting with his childhood friend Jim Poole, who accidentally shot him in both legs with a shotgun. Because of this proven gunshot wound, Branham had to undergo surgery at Clark County Memorial Hospital. The hospital costs were assumed by a church community and the Ku Klux Klan, which was highly regarded in large parts of the USA at the time . Shortly thereafter, his father was hired as the driver of billionaire Otto H. Wathen, who ran the whiskey distillery RE Wathen & Co. in Louisville and u. a. supplied the mafia in Chicago . This helped the family to have a better standard of living.

His poor education, repeatedly criticized by others, attributed William Branham to the fact that he only attended school up to the 7th grade and had to support the family after the death of his father. In fact, his father did not die of pulmonary edema until 1936. In his sermons, Branham deviates from the constant consumption of alcohol, an overdose of strychnine or a heart attack.

Early years and calling

Little is known about Branham's early economic situation. Even if, in retrospect, he presented himself as a poor young man in later sermons, at the age of 17 he was already able to buy a new Ford T-model and travel to the West. One reason Branham moved west was because an astrologer told him, based on the position of the stars, that he wanted to be successful. According to his own statements, he devoted himself to boxing from 1926 and won a total of fifteen professional boxing matches in Evansville (Indiana) over the next few years . His trainer at the time was a well-known boxer by the name of Six-Second-Smith, whose name may be traced back to the 1923 film of the same name about a boxer. There is no external evidence for his career as a boxer. Between 1927 and 1928 he left Indiana and worked for a time on a farm in Phoenix, Arizona, about 1,700 miles from his home . His apartment was on 16th and Henshaw Street (now Buckeye Road) in Phoenix.

After the death of his brother Edward Winferd Branham (* May 12, 1910, † June 20, 1929) Branham returned to Jeffersonville. His parents at the time lived at 401 Graham Street in Jeffersonville. He is said to have started his field service from 1930. Contrary to his later assertions in his sermons or to the press, William Branham never worked as an Indiana state ranger or gamekeeper. Rather, he worked from 1931 for the Public Service Company of New Albany (Indiana), for which he was active as a gas reader and route tester until 1947. He is said to have suffered gas poisoning in an accident at work. As a result of the effects on the internal organs, he was sick for several weeks, eventually the doctors diagnosed appendicitis and he was operated on. After the operation, he had a near death experience in which he heard the voice that had accompanied him since childhood. He was allowed to go home a few days later, but he still had poor eyesight and stomach problems. Only then did his actual conversion take place. Branham names different places of his conversion: a Baptist church, a coal shed and the church of a Pentecostal church. He was finally healed through the prayer of the Baptist church.

In December 1932, Branham was baptized by Roy Elonza Davis, pastor of the First Pentecostal Baptist Church of Jeffersonville and official spokesman for the Ku Klux Klan in Louisville. Davis was a good friend of Branham's and became his spiritual mentor whenever Branham disagreed with him about the ministry of women. Branham became Davis' assistant minister until the meetinghouse burned down and Davis left Jeffersonville for Texas. Branham then began setting up his own tented mission and held services in a rented hall. From the audience that grew up around him, the congregation "The Pentecostal Tabernacle", which still exists today, developed on the corner of 8th Street and Penn Street in Jeffersonville, the cornerstone of which he laid in March 1933 and which he said was completed in September 1933. The year of the start of construction is strongly doubted. In the Jeffersonville City Directory, Branham was not listed as pastor of the Pentecostal Tabernacle until 1935. The construction of the tabernacle probably took place the following year. According to the cadastre of the Clark County Courthouse in Jeffersonville, the building site was not acquired for the Pentecostal Tabernacle until November 9, 1936 by a widower named William T. Ingram. In accordance with the officially documented ownership structure, the purchase contract for the building site also bears this date. It is believed that Braham laid the foundation stone later in 1933 in order to create a connection to the year 33 AD and thus to the work of Christ.

In his new role as an auxiliary pastor, Branham is believed to have baptized about 130 people on June 11, 1933 in the Ohio River at the end of Spring Street in Jeffersonville. Only a baptismal service of Branham on June 2, 1933 is documented. During the baptism of the 17th person a light / the angel of the Lord / a pillar of fire / the morning star appeared and said a voice: “As John the Baptist sent ahead of the first coming of Christ then the message you have been given will be a forerunner of the second coming of Christ. "

In 1950 Branham mentioned this event for the first time in one of his sermons, but spoke only of a star-like light. From 1952 he added the audible broadcast order to the story. In the life story written by his friend Gordon Lindsay in 1950, only light and no voice is mentioned. As is characteristic of many of his retrospective representations, Branham also mentions different dates for the consignment order. So August 1933, June 16, 1933, the year 1930, 1931, 1936 and even 1939.

Even if one can often read in the relevant religious literature that at least 1,000 people witnessed this phenomenon, there is no objective evidence for this. In later sermons, Branham claimed that several US and even Canadian newspapers covered the supernatural event. There is no evidence of this. In the coming years he also said that not 3,000 people, as he mentioned earlier, but almost 10,000, then 7,000-8,000, finally 3,000 again and finally 10,000 people were present during this baptism. Regardless of the fact that Jeffersonville had a total of only 12,000 inhabitants at the time. Nevertheless, the story about this became known throughout Jeffersonville from 1950. This mission was fundamental to Branham's self-image as a prophet, even if the view that he had a fully developed prophetic teaching as early as 1933 is unsustainable.

In this year also falls the vision, mentioned several times by Branham from 1955, in which the angel of the Lord revealed to him seven end-time secrets, the content of which he dealt with in more detail for the first time in a sermon on May 13, 1956 and repeatedly as the most important prophecy until the end of his life worked out. Branham mentions the year 1931, 1932 or 1933 for these as well.

The events of the church building, his mission and the end-time visions that Branham retrospectively assigned to the year 1933 must be strongly questioned, as they are due to his spiritual fixation on the year '33.

On June 22, 1934, Branham married Amelia Hope Brumbach (* July 16, 1913, † July 22, 1937), whom he had met in the First Pentecostal Baptist Church of Jeffersonville and with whom he was to have two children. It was the time of the Great Depression, and Branham said they had so little money that they had to forego their honeymoon.

About three months after his marriage came Branham with the " School of the Prophets " ( " School of the Prophets ") in Louisville in contact, which opened by William Sowders (* 1879, † 1952) and an offshoot of the 1902 by the charismatic itinerant preacher and self-proclaimed prophet Benjamin Purnell (* 1861, † 1927) was founded House-of-David sect. The center of the group was located in the amusement settlement of the same name in Benton Harbor (Michigan) , which opened in 1903, near Paw Paw Lake, where Branham was invited. Despite allegedly poor financial circumstances, Branham undertook the journey of about 300 miles to Benton Harbor. In later sermons he named fishing as the reason for the excursion. The real reason, however, was far more serious, and contact with the House of David teaching would have a major impact on William Branham's life. The House of David sect, based on the Christian Israelite Church , taught that the seven angels of Revelation were human ambassadors, the first of which was considered to be the self-proclaimed prophet Joanna Southcott (* 1750, † 1814). Benjamin and his wife, Mary Purnell, considered themselves the seventh and final angel and messenger of Revelation chapter 10 verse 7. The followers of their teaching are those 144,000 elect named in Revelation chapter 7 verse 4 who would prepare for the second coming of Christ in the commune they founded. The spiritual writings of the Purnells were, among other things, a. of the unsealing and revelation of the divine mysteries.

On the way back, Branham said he first came into contact with the Pentecostal movement when he attended a meeting of the Third General Assembly of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ near Mishawaka, Indiana. Branham's statement does not apply, as he had been in contact with a Pentecostal church years earlier and was even baptized by its pastor Roy E. Davis (see above). As the youngest preacher present at the Mishawaka meeting, Branham had been asked to offer the morning devotion. In Mishawaka, Branham accepted the "Jesus Only" image and was baptized solely in the name of Jesus. He was then invited to take part in revival meetings in, among others, Texas and Florida. According to a later presentation, out of consideration for his alleged Lutheran mother-in-law, he renounced this offer and withheld the fact that she was in fact a member of his Pentecostal church and not the Pentecostal faith, but rather the Oneness faith.

Branham's 15-year-old brother Charles R. Branham (* 1920, † August 5, 1935) died in a car accident in 1935.

On September 13, 1935, his son William (Billy) Paul Branham was born.

His daughter Sharon Rose Branham was born on October 27, 1936.

William Branham was nearly killed in the flooding of the Ohio River in early 1937 and the devastating effect it had on Jeffersonville. His wife and daughter died of tuberculosis shortly after the flood. Branham attributed this misfortune to the fact that instead of listening to God he listened to his mother-in-law Hazel Elizabeth Brumback (* 1894), who allegedly prevented him from joining the Pentecostal movement in 1934. Highlighting God's punishment, Branham even claimed in later sermons that the death of his brother and father, and his wife's fatal illness, occurred within a few days. Desperate for his situation, he wanted to shoot himself in the head, but no shot went off.

After this stroke of fate, he joined the Pentecostal movement and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. When this happened is unknown. The location is just as unclear, as Branham names his shed and a colored church.

The number of visitors to his community dropped drastically by 1941. On October 23, 1941, Branham married Meda Marie Broy (born April 26, 1919, † May 11, 1981), with whom he had three more children, two daughters and a son. Meda Broy, ten years his junior, had been the nurse of Branham's first wife until 1937.

In 1941 he conducted a two-week revival event at Totten's Ford near Milltown .

St. Louis, Missouri, Pentecostal pastor Robert Daugherty, whom Branham met in Mishawaka in 1934, sent him a telegram in 1945 asking him to pray for his eight-year-old daughter Betty, who had minor chorea . Branham then visited the family and prayed for the child. When the girl suddenly stopped showing symptoms a few months later, Branham saw this as a miracle he had worked. He was not aware that minor chorea can often go away on its own in children, which is known in medicine as spontaneous healing .

His daughter Rebekah Branham was born on March 21, 1946.

Beginning of the healing ministry

After the apparent success with the healing of Betty Daugherty, Branham had carried out the first so-called healing campaign at the instigation of Pastor Daugherty in St. Louis, which was soon followed by a series of events at the invitation of the Oneness Pentecostalists. Branham attributed the gift of healing the sick, which he propagated from then on, to an angelic apparition that he claims to have received on May 7, 1946. The angel told him that from now on he would recognize illnesses through the vibration of his left hand and that his prayer would even cure cancer. A nine-day event in Vandalia, Illinois , in the summer of 1947 , which attracted approximately 8,000 visitors and was covered by several newspapers, made Branham known within the United States. At that time Wilford Eldon Kidson from Houston Branham's manager, but he was replaced by James Gordon Lindsay (* 1906, † 1973) in the fall . Lindsay had good contacts within the Christian Awakening Movement and began organizing campaigns in Oakland, California , Phoenix (Arizona), Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) and Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) that became part of the so-called Healing Revival . The early campaigns were structured in such a way that Gordon Lindsay or the Canadian Pentecostal preacher Ern Baxter, who joined in the fall of 1947, delivered a sermon and Branham joined this in his healing ministry. According to Lindsays, the campaigns drew 60,000 visitors within 14 days. At this early stage, Branham's speeches began to be recorded on tape.

Branham (right) during one of his healing campaigns

Branham became known for recognizing the patient's illness before he even told him about it. What proponents of Branham often suppress is the fact that numbered prayer cards were used, on which each patient had to write his name, address and illness in advance of a healing event, before he was allowed to stand in the so-called prayer line . The cards were collected by Branham's brother and, in later years, by his son Billy Paul, and the patients were asked individually according to their number onto the stage where Branham prayed for them. Branham then surprised the audience by being able to name the patient's name, place of residence and the respective illness without having spoken to them. Branham said that he could only use his ability as a healer when the angel who had been with him since childhood was present. If he did not see the angel at his side, he stopped the events immediately. In many cases he viewed demonic forces as the source of the patients' illnesses. To promote Branham's healing meetings, Gordon Lindsay published the first issue of Voice of Healing - an Inter-Evangelical Publication of the Branham Healing Campaigns in April 1948 . A later co-editor of the magazine was the spiritual healer Jack Coe . Branham's reputation as a healer even earned him an - albeit critical - article in Time Magazine. Among the most famous personalities who are said to have been healed by Branham include the former American MP William David Upshaw (* 1866, † 1952; healing 1951) from Georgia and King George VI, who was friends with Roy E. Davis . of Great Britain. The former cure is highly controversial as Upshaw was already recovered by that time and was known as a simulant and cheat. There is only one testimony of Branham as evidence of the healing of the latter. Many people said they experienced miraculous healing during Branham's events. Branham was even credited with resurrecting someone who had just died. However, the announced numbers of the sick healings that took place during the healing services and their sustainability were questioned early on. So said Pastor Alfred Pohl, who was present in 1947, for example. E.g. "After Branham and his party were gone, many people returned to their original condition, or died."

Some pastors from North Battleford (Saskatchewan, Canada) who attended Branham's events in Vancouver in November 1947 and heard of divine healing as the work of the Holy Spirit in the last few days led them in their homeland so-called Latter Rain Revival - named after a saying of the Old Testament prophet Joel (Joel 2:23). Even if Branham understood this exactly, his practice of the laying on of hands was influential and he himself had personal contact with members of the movement, the claim that he was the founder of the Latter Rain Revival must be contradicted. Branham also took the view that the true Easter message should not be associated with organized groups or churches. Through Branham's interdenominational healing ministry, Christians of different faith communities were exposed to a Pentecostal experience. The Pentecostal movement became a popular subculture within the United States.

In January 1948, prominent Pentecostal leader Fred Francis Bosworth joined the Revival movement in Pensacola, Florida . In the same month Branham visited the Armenian spiritual healer Avak Hagopian in Miami, Florida , whose appearance he compared to Jesus Christ. From then on Branham described his angel to his audience in a very similar way.

The physical and psychological exertion that the healing campaigns brought with them for their protagonists usually did not just result in physical exhaustion. In May 1948, Branham suffered a severe nervous breakdown and withdrew for several months. During this time, other healing preachers such as Oral Roberts , AA Allen , TL Osborn and Kathryn Kuhlman appeared in the charismatic revival movement , but it was still Branham who set the pace.

In an article published in the Voice of Healing magazine in August 1948 , Branham proclaimed that the end of the world was at hand and interpreted the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16:16) as the struggle of Western democracy against communism.

From the end of 1948, Branham, accompanied by Lindsay, Baxter and Bosworth, carried out further campaigns in the United States. After a long stay in Houston (Texas) in January 1950, the Branham team traveled to Europe. After visiting the cities of London and Paris, healing events followed in Finland, Sweden and Norway. In London, Branham a. a. for a woman named Florence Nightingale Shirlaw, whom he later portrayed as a descendant of the famous and childless Florence Nightingale . In Kuopio in Finland Branham witness was a traffic accident and propagated in this context, a raising of the dead, which is very different from the statements of other witnesses accident. His events in Scandinavia drew up to 7,000 people despite opposition from the state church and the press. Branham's manager Gordon Lindsay published a book about Branham's work in 1950 with the title A Man sent from God , which was the result of a collaborative effort and reflects Branham's sketched image of life. That year, Branham publicly referred to himself as God's "prophet" for the first time.

His daughter Sarah Branham was born on March 19, 1951.

A trip to South Africa followed from November 7th to 30th, 1951, during which 30,000 people are said to have converted in a single meeting in Durban . Branham's companions included a. FF Bosworth and William Paul Branham. Branham's gatherings had a major impact on the development of Pentecostalism in parts of Africa. The tremendous impression that Branham's stay in Africa made led Julius Stadsklev to write the treatise William Branham, A Prophet Visits South Africa , and to publish it in 1952. The book of edification contained many later accounts by Branham that contradicted his view of life and the facts: Among them Branham's claim that Florence Nightingale had called him to South Africa. In his spare time in Africa, Branham et al. a. after his favorite hobby: hunting wild animals. Branham was a passionate hunter and gun collector.

Teaching

When Branham began demonizing education and scientific progress in 1953, it led to a huge turnaround on the part of his audience. The rejection increased when he described the doctrine of the Trinity of God as diabolical in 1954 and interpreted organized Christian denominations as the sign of the beast from Revelation, which is why all members of the existing Christian denominations belong to the system of the Antichrist and would end up in the lake of fire as a punishment. This alienated him more and more from former supporters such as Gordon Lindsay and Ern Baxter, who ultimately left him. Gordon Lindsay is said to have warned Branham in 1964 against God's punishment if he did not repent of his false teachings. Ern Baxter said in a later interview that he had repeatedly asked Branham not to publicly proclaim his seemingly esoteric and in Baxter's eyes false teachings, which is why he finally separated from him. The Baptist pastor and revival preacher Billy Graham also distanced himself from Branham.

Branham began instead to hold more events with AW Rasmussen and Joseph Mattsson-Boze of the Philadelphia Church in Chicago, Illinois, who were closely related to the Latter-Rain Movement . However, it only attracted hundreds of listeners, not thousands.

Nonetheless, he continued his preaching trips and in 1954 flew via Lisbon and Rome to Bombay, India. However, he had to cancel his stay in India after only four days because the crowd had violated him and he had to leave the event with his clothes torn and under the protection of the military. He himself described the trip as a disappointment, but later changed his presentation and claimed that he spoke in front of 500,000 people. One of the few supporters that Branham was able to win over in Bombay was the visionary Rasiah Paulaseer Lawrie Mathukrishna (* 1921, † 1989). Branham was to meet him personally in the USA in 1960, baptize him and encourage him to serve as a spiritual healer, whereupon he founded the religious gathering Manujothi Ashram in South India .

1955 followed a trip to Switzerland and Germany, which was financed by the Vice President of the Full Gospel Business Men's International , Minor Arganbright. The Swiss theologian Walter J. Hollenweger , who had partly taken on his translation during Branham's stay in Switzerland, came to the conclusion regarding the healing events: "Unfortunately his healing prognosis was accurate only in rare cases." Triggered by the major events taking place in Karlsruhe in August , a small circle of Branham's supporters in Germany emerged. a. the Free People's Mission Krefeld emerged under the direction of Ewald Frank (* 1933), which sees its task to this day in the dissemination of Branham's sermons. Among the visitors to Karlsruhe was the later sect leader Paul Schäfer , who formed a German following of Branham's teachings and with them founded the Colonia Dignidad in Chile .

This was the last great tour of Branham, who at the end of his life claimed to have traveled seven times around the earth. He also visited the graves of the religious founders Mohammed , Buddha and Confucius . A meeting with the exiled Egyptian King Faruq in Rome had actually taken place in connection with his trip to India, even if the reason for this was not Branham, but his internationally known companion Baron William T. Frary von Blomberg .

Branham officially showed little interest in the donations from the events he led and had no experience with the tax contributions to be paid. It so happened that his manager reported a taxable income of $ 80,000, while Branham reported an income of only $ 7,000. The Internal Revenue Service then accused Branham of tax evasion in 1955. Branham was tried for tax evasion for five years. Eventually there was an out-of-court settlement, according to which Branham paid $ 40,000 and thus settled the tax matter. Until the end of his life, Branham was only able to settle part of his tax debts in installments.

In a sermon held in 1955 at the Philadelphia Church in Chicago, Branham first made his end-time prophecies known, which he claims to have received in a vision in 1933 and which he had never publicly mentioned before.

Joseph Branham was born on May 19, 1955.

Branham declared 1956 as the turning point for the USA, in which it would accept his message or be rejected by God.

From 11.-15. June 1956 William Branham supported the young preacher of the Latter-Rain Movement and later sect leader Jim Jones and appeared as a guest preacher in a series of sermons he led at the Cadle Tabernacle in Indianapolis (Indiana) . Branham promised God's blessings to Jim Jones and his congregation.

In 1958 Branham resigned his healing ministry, which also ended the Healing Revival that had begun in 1947. It is believed that it was not only the rejection of his teaching, but also the crisis surrounding the allegation of tax evasion that was the reason for the radical change in Branham's ministry that was now beginning. Branham began to devote himself more and more to his own teachings and eschatological topics rather than healing events. He justified the resignation of the healing service by saying that it was only intended to receive attention in order to be able to spread his divine teaching.

This included the doctrine of the serpent 's seed , first announced by him in 1958 ; a doctrine that he very likely had taken over from the Baptist preacher Daniel Parker (* 1781, † 1844). According to this interpretation, the actual fall of man was Eve's sex act with the serpent. Likewise, Branham equated the tree of knowledge with Satan and thus again justified his demonization of education. In addition to the previous disagreements, this new teaching led to large parts of the Pentecostal churches distancing themselves from him and his audience shrinking significantly in the years to come. The cause for Branham's acceptance of bizarre beliefs is seen in the research literature in his poor education and lack of knowledge of the Bible, with his fervent dissemination of the above teachings and the accompanying promotion of religious exclusivity resulted in his group of followers in later years increasingly assumed the structure of a sect . The center of his teaching activity was the Tabernacle he founded in Jeffersonville.

Branham Tabernacle, 804 Penn Street, Jeffersonville, IN 47130

In previous years, Branham had preached about the Seven Church Ages, which according to the interpretation of dispensationalism began with the resurrection of Jesus Christ and will end with the rapture of the Christian community (church). From 1960, however, he devoted himself to the topic in more detail and oriented himself strongly on the eschatology of the Baptist pastor Clarence Larkin (* 1850, † 1924) and the theologian Cyrus I Scofield (* 1843, † 1921), whose works he had read. As early as 1947 Branham mentions the possession of a Scofield Bible. Although Branham claimed that his interpretation of the Book of Revelation was inspired by a divine inspiration, he drew this almost entirely from Clarence Larkin's work "The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture" published in 1919 . Likewise the chronological division of the seven church ages, which are taken almost identically from the works of Larkin. Branham, however, announced that the angel of the Lord had appeared during one of his sermons and had written the historical sequence of the seven church ages on a board for all to see. From Larkin he also adopted the view that the angels of the seven churches listed in Revelation are to be equated with human messengers of the church ages; Branham's addition was merely to name the first six messengers, as the House of David sect had done. He saw himself as the end-time messenger prophesied in Malachi 4: 5 (or 3:23) d. H. the second Elijah, as Frank Sandford and John Alexander Dowie had already done, and for the first time predicted the end of the world for 1977 in November 1960.

In January 1963, Branham and his family moved from Jeffersonville to Tucson, Arizona, 1,700 miles away and told his ward that he was staying there by a divine destiny. On November 21, he ordained Pearry Green (* 1933, † 2015) pastor of the Tabernacles of Tucson, founded by Green in the spirit of Branham. However, Branham continued his field service in the Tabernacle of Jeffersonville regularly and began his series of sermons on the Seven Seals of Revelation in 1963, the content of which he traced back to an angelic vision and an associated divine revelation. The loss of audience made Branham to create, especially since the events of the respected evangelist and revival preacher Billy Graham showed no comparable decline. Even if Branham claimed in retrospect that Billy Graham's events like this one had turned out to be smaller over the years or even had to be canceled due to a lack of audience, this was not the case. In order to feel spiritually superior to Billy Graham, Branham resorted to an infantile comparison: The name of the biblical ancestor ABRAHAM consists of seven letters, as does BRANHAM; the name GRAHAM, however, has only six letters: "If you'll notice, Graham is six letters. Abraham is seven letters, and so is Branham seven letters. Now, if you're going to make that in conclusion, it might be a good thing. " Six is ​​the number of man because he was formed on the sixth day of creation, while seven is the number of God because God rested on the seventh day. The personality of Branham is seen in the research literature as ambivalent, because he presented himself on the one hand as a unique, greatest and salvation necessary prophet of God - the second prophet Elijah - and on the other hand acted humbly and rejected a deification of his person. In November 1965, in Shreveport, Louisiana , Branham announced that the second Elijah was identical to Jesus Christ. He delivered his last sermon on December 12, 1965 at the Tucson Tabernacle .

death

Branham's teaching career ended abruptly when a drunk driver collided head-on with his vehicle on Highway 60 in Texas on December 18, 1965. The family was on their way to Jeffersonville for the Christmas holidays. Branham and his wife were seriously injured. Branham died in a hospital in Amarillo after a six-day coma . The funeral service was held on December 29, but his body was not buried until April 11, 1966 (Easter Monday) in the East Cemetery in Jeffersonville. The tombstone consists of a marble pyramid with an eagle on top; Symbols to which he attached great importance. The front of the pyramid was provided with an open Bible and the quotations from Malachi 4: 5 (or 3:23) and Revelation 10: 7, which Branham referred to himself. On the back the words of his order to be sent. On the other two opposite pages is a listing of the seven church ages and their assigned prophets, with Branham at the top.

Branham's grave in Jeffersonville

Branham's death was a shock to parts of the American Pentecostal movement. Others saw it as God's punishment for spreading false teachings. His son William Paul Branham had announced on March 27, 1966 that the period from the anniversary of his father's death until Easter of that year was the time of the purification of the Bride of Christ, during which his father's followers would hear the last of his recorded sermons. Until recently, his followers had believed in a healing miracle or even a resurrection. a. so that he would fulfill the predictions that had not yet come true, which is why the actual burial had been waited until Easter.

Teaching

The Branham movement and its descendants are generally counted as part of the Pentecostal movement , but are viewed very distantly by many Pentecostal believers due to some special teachings. It should therefore be seen more as a parallel movement to the various Pentecostal movements. As stated in his previous résumé, Branham had no secondary education or any theological training. Due to his lack of knowledge of Hebrew he gave z. B. the Old Testament tetragram YHWH regularly with JVHU again. Branham was very critical of theological education as it deprived Christianity of the supernatural element. He traced the doctrine he spread to divine revelations in connection with his special position as a prophet. Since it differs greatly in many respects from the essential Christian beliefs, it is classified as sectarian by the majority of Christian denominations . Branham's teachings that differ from traditional Christianity include:

Image of God

Branham rejected the Trinity as three persons of the deity and even called it diabolical. He mistakenly understood the Trinity as a trinity. He taught one God in three forms; some kind of modalism . The Jehovah in the Old Testament be Jesus in the New Testament and the Holy Spirit today. Branham represented a believer's baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. According to him, "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" ( Matthew 28:19) is not a baptismal formula, since neither father nor son nor holy spirit represent a name but are merely titles. Only a baptism in the "Lord Jesus Christ" is therefore valid. Because he rejected the complexity of the Trinity, Branham denied that Jesus Christ et al. a. referred to as the Son of God according to John 10:36: "He never called Himself the Son of God." Also, contrary to John 14:26, God the Father did not send the Holy Spirit, but assumed a form so designated: "He was changing Himself, making Himself known to His people in a different form."

Branham himself taught the Trinity until 1954 and 1956, respectively.

Self-image

Branham saw himself as the last sign, the second Elijah foretold by the prophet Malachi, the voice of God and the only true end-time prophet of God. Those who do not accept his teaching and call him a fanatic are sin against the Holy Spirit. A sin that will not be forgiven. It is not enough to believe in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; one will only be saved if one also believes his teachings: " You have to believe in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost in order to be a Christian. But believing that still won't help you in this gift. You 've got to believe that I've told you the truth ". Whoever believes in God must also believe that he (Branham) is God's prophet. The second Elijah is identical with Jesus Christ. Only those who follow him receive eternal life.

Branham taught that a prophet does not always speak as a person, but God literally speaks through him. Every statement that he added “Thus saith the Lord” was made by him and is regarded by his followers as a divine saying and thus as infallible. He said: " When a man comes with THIS SAITH THE LORD, he and the Message is one. [...] So the Word of God and the messenger of the age was the selfsame thing all the time. " Branham continued his saying with the Same as saying of the Old Testament prophets. However, the original wording is: "Thus speaks YHWH", Branham was only known to the translation of the King James Bible , which reproduces the proper name of God as "LORD".

It is worth noting that during his ministry as a preacher, Branham denied being a prophet of God several times, claiming it just as often, and then again saying that he never said it. In Branham's recorded sermons, he asked his audience 98 times "Do you believe me to be God's prophet?", 8 times he asked: "Will you obey me, as God's prophet?", 16 times he said of himself: "I'm His Prophet "/" I'm Your Prophet "/" As your Prophet "/" As a prophet of the Lord ", 12 times he says:" I'm not a prophet "/" I ain't no prophet "/" I do not regard myself to be a prophet of the Lord "and finally 4x" I never said I was a prophet ". A behavior that is interpreted in the research literature as strong self-doubt.

He is not a false prophet, because God would not lie: " I'm not a false prophet. I tell the truth. God wouldn't lie. "

The church ages and their prophets

Branham established the historical sequence of the seven church ages (Revelation chapters 2-3) as follows:

• Church Age Ephesus: AD 53–170
• Smyrna Church Age: 170-312
• Pergamon Church Age: 312-606
• Thyatira Church Age: 606-1520
• Sardis Church Age: 1520-1750
• Philadelphia Church Age: 1750-1906
• Laodicean Church Age: 1906-Present

Compare this to the almost identical historical classification of the seven church ages according to Clarence Larkin .

Branham equated the angels of the Seven Epistles of Revelation with historical persons who were to be assigned to the respective church ages. He referred to the first six as Paulus (* 7/10, † 60), Irenäus von Lyon (* 135, † 200), Martin von Tours (* 316, † 397), Columban (* 521, † 597), Martin Luther (* 1483, † 1546) and John Wesley (* 1703, † 1791). It is noticeable that Columban as an accepted ambassador and prophet of the fourth church age did not even live within the time span of that age.

Branham as the seventh angel:

Branham taught that the seventh angel of Revelation chapter 10 verse 7 would restore true faith and reveal the mysteries of God and the meanings of the seven seals. One of the mysteries of God was the doctrine of the serpent's seed that Branham preached. Branham eventually claimed to have opened the seven seals to God in a vision. By treating the meaning of the seven seals extensively in several sermons and tracing his knowledge back to a divine revelation, he made it clear that he was the seventh angel that his followers consider him to be.

Anyone who did not accept / accept the message of the angel of the particular church age in which he lived / does not live will be lost. It is interesting at this point that Martin Luther and John Wesley in particular understood and preached the Trinity of God as formulated in the Nicene Creed (Council of Nicaea, 325 AD) as an essential doctrine of Christianity. A teaching which, according to Branham, is diabolical (see above).

It should also be noted that Branham himself prophesied that the seventh angel, after revealing the mysteries of God, would still be on earth when Christ comes again. This should happen according to his prediction in 1977 (see below).

The serpent's seed

According to Branham's doctrine of the serpent's seed ("The Serpent's Seed"), the Fall was caused by Eve having a sexual relationship with the serpent. The tree of knowledge is to be equated with Satan , with the eating of the fruit denoting sexual intercourse. Cain emerged from the union of Eve with the serpent. Adam himself never sinned, but only took the guilt of Eve on himself out of love.

According to Branham's account, the snake was - before it had to crawl on its belly - an upright being, which of all animals was most similar to humans and was regarded by him as a " missing link ". Let Cain and all his offspring be the serpent's seed. The descendants of Set are the sheep of Christ, from which the bride of Christ is clear that before the tribulation raptured will. Branham founded his teaching a. a. so that Cain is not mentioned in Noah's family tree in Genesis chapter 5, which is inevitably not possible due to the lineage.

The result of the Fall is the sexual immorality of women and the science-based modern culture by the descendants of Cain, which Branham identified with educated people and scientists. Education has thus become the greatest obstacle to belief in God.

Branham presented the doctrine of the serpent's seed as the new and one of the last revelations of God given to him. In fact, however, this teaching has existed as part of Gnosis since the 2nd century. a. Taught by Tatian the Assyrian and reproduced in the so-called Gospel of Philip . It is also worth mentioning that Irenaeus of Lyons of all people condemned the doctrine as heresy ; the same Irenaeus whom Branham saw as the infallible messenger of the second church age.

Status of woman

Since Genesis chapter 1 verse 27 says that God created man and woman, but that the creation of Eve is not discussed until chapter 2, Branham taught that Adam consisted of a male and female before the creation of Eve have. Only later were these parts separated. The woman is only a byproduct ("byproduct") of creation, because she was formed from already existing matter. In addition, Satan designed them.

Every sin on earth was caused by a woman. Women in skimpy and tight clothes are a "tool of the devil".

Women are prohibited from coloring their hair, cutting their hair, wearing make-up and trousers. If a married woman cuts her hair, it is a reason for her husband to divorce her. Notwithstanding the fact that Jesus Christ cites sexual immorality alone as the justification for divorce (Matthew 5:32). According to Branham's teaching, it was forbidden for a divorced woman to remarry; a divorced man, however, is permitted as long as his second wife is still a virgin. Unlike a woman, a man can get a divorce whenever he wants.

Other teachings

• Organized religious communities are the sign of the beast mentioned in Revelation and are "synagogues of Satan" ("synagogues of Satan"). All members of the major Christian denominations would belong to the system of the Antichrist and would end up in the lake of fire as punishment. Any true Christian who is in contact with such communities would accept the mark of the beast and would not participate in the rapture. For this reason, Branham's followers generally only meet in local, isolated congregations or churches.
• Hell is finite and the fate of the damned including Satan is the annihilation . Until 1957, Branham had viewed hell as an eternal punishment before adopting the view of total annihilation or eternal death, which had already represented Charles Fox Parham .
• God gave man three Bibles : the signs of the zodiac (zodiac), the pyramids and the written Bible . The only way to understand the written Bible is to read between the lines.
• Pyramids would represent a stone revelation from God. It was Enoch who built the great pyramid of Egypt. He referred to the Great Seal of the United States and the image of the pyramid contained therein. Branham claims that the headstone at the top of the pyramid was never built because it symbolizes Christ and Christ was cast out. Aside from the fact that the top of the pyramid was torn down over the centuries, Branham forgot that Christ is equated with the cornerstone in Matthew 21:42 and not with the capstone. It is believed that the missing top of the pyramid is the stone of Scone . Pyramids appear again and again in Branham's visions. It was not without reason that a pyramid was chosen as Branham's tombstone.
• The eagle is the symbol of a prophet. He referred to the Great Seal of the United States, which not only shows the pyramid, but also the eagle. Branham taught that the prophets of the Bible were always associated or even equated with eagles. For this reason, an eagle figure adorns the top of his tombstone. There is no biblical evidence for equating a prophet with an eagle; rather, according to Leviticus 11:13, the eagle is an unclean animal.
• Noah and Enoch lived at the same time and called to repentance. Noah realized he had to go into the ark when he saw Enoch being caught up into heaven. Notwithstanding the fact that, according to the genealogical tree in Genesis chapter 5, Noah was born 69 years after the rapture of Enoch and went into the ark 600 years later (Genesis 7: 6).
• Contrary to the description in 1 Kings 17: 19-23 and 2 Kings 4: 32-36, the Old Testament prophets Elijah and Elisha did not pray when they raised a dead child to life: " Elijah went with her to the death chamber, and there walked up-and-down the room, not praying for the baby. "" And Elijah (sic) said, "Well, can't get rid of her, I might as well go with her." So he girded up his loins and away he went. Watch when he got into the room. He didn't know what to do. He never prayed. "
• God never set up two prophets or great prophets at the same time: “ He never even had two prophets the same time. “This statement, repeated several times by Branham, proves once again how poorly Branham was familiar with the content and chronology of the Bible. Contemporaries of the great prophet Jeremiah were the great prophets Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets Joel, Nahum and Habakkuk and Zefaniah. In the time of the great prophet Isaiah , the prophets Hosea, Amos, Jonah and Micah appeared. The prophets Haggai and Zechariah also prophesied according to Ezra 5: 1 at the same time, as did Daniel and Haggai, who according to Daniel 6: 1-6 and Haggai 1: 1-3 were both called to be prophets under the rule of the Persian king Darius.
• Three divine messengers: Branham taught that three messengers will appear on earth in the end times, whom he equated with the three men from Genesis chapter 18 who visited Abraham before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and two of whom were angels during the other personified the word of God or God himself. Branham saw in these ambassadors the revival preacher Billy Graham, the evangelist Oral Roberts, and himself. His role in this he implied by saying that Graham and Roberts, like the angels going to Sodom and Gomorrah, were sent to the people as evangelists . He also emphasized that the name ending in -ham represents a connection to Abraham, but that the name Graham has only six and not seven letters compared to the name Abraham. The number six stands for the human, while the number seven stands for the divine. Needless to say, the name Branham has seven letters and what intended conclusions were drawn from it. Even if it is often overlooked that the name Abraham (אַבְרָהָם) is a translation and in Hebrew, and thus according to the original text, consists of only five letters.
• The archangel Michael (Daniel 10:13; Jude's letter verse 9) is identical with Jesus Christ. "Michael was Christ, of course". Equating the Archangel Michael with Jesus Christ is also part of the teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses .
• Only God can cure sick people, which is why drugs actually have no effect. It is therefore not possible to cure diseases by taking medication. He saw the faith of the person seeking healing as a crucial point. When a sick person was not cured in his healing services, Branham, like many charismatics in the deliverance ministry, saw the cause either in unknown sin or in demonic possession , both of which, in Branham's view, were absolute obstacles to faith. Hence, exorcisms were an essential element of his healings. He always warned skeptics to move away from this part so that they would not be possessed by the displaced demons. He also warned those who had been healed that they should never fall away from the faith, otherwise they would become even sicker than before.
• Branham saw the origin of intercourse, and thus sex in general, as an expression of sin. It was not God's actual will that human offspring should be conceived through sexual intercourse, but through an emergence from nothing: " God never did have His perfect will for women and men to bring children in the earth. " " When she crossed that line and brought this sin, now the world's to be repopulated again by sex; not by creation; by sex. "" In the beginning, it was not God's perfect will for children to be born on the earth through sex. "" He never did intend children to be born by sex ".

Light appearances, visions and prophecies

Early apparitions and visions

According to Branham himself, a light miracle should have happened on the day he was born, when a light the size of a pillow came through the window into the room and stopped over the place where he was. Here, too, Branham is inconsistent in his later presentation and reports elsewhere that it was the angel of the Lord or the biblical pillar of fire that stood over his cot.

He has had visions since early childhood. In his sermons, he said that he remembered receiving his first visions when he was about 3 years old. When he was 7 years old, he noticed a rustling in a tree without a leaf moving and heard a voice that said: "Never drink alcohol! Don't smoke! Don't stain yourself with women! Because when you get older you will do a great work. "

After he was shot at the age of 14 and had to undergo an operation, he had a vision of a golden cross from which the glory of God poured down on him.

While playing with his little brothers on the Ohio River, he received a vision: A bridge was built over the river, with 16 people falling into the water and dying. Years later, this happened with the construction of the Municipal Bridge (George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge) between Louisville and Jeffersonville. There is no evidence of such an accident during the construction of the bridge, which opened on October 31, 1929. Branham first mentioned this vision publicly in 1948.

Shipment order

As mentioned in his life chart above, Branham said that a light appeared to him in June 1933 in the Ohio River and a divine voice gave him his mission to broadcast. For this event, too, Branham's dates differ greatly. In addition to 1933, he also mentioned 1939 and 1931.

The seven end-time prophecies

According to his own account, Branham received seven visions about the end times in 1933. The time of these visions is, however, unclear, since Branham mentions the years 1931, 1932 and 1933 in his sermons. Before the return of Jesus Christ - which he foretold in 1977 - seven significant events would take place:

1. The US-American President Franklin D. Roosevelt would plunge the whole world into a war: " And I seen this President Roosevelt leading the world to a world. " (Later Branham changed this statement and said Roosevelt was only involved in a world war From 1964 he also retroactively included Adolf Hitler in his prophecy.)
2. The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini will conquer Ethiopia and then come to an end: " The new dictator of Italy, Mussolini, shall make his first invasion towards Ethiopia, and he will take Ethiopia; but that'll be his last. He shall come to his end. "
3. The USA would wage war against Germany, in which the Germans would entrench themselves behind the Maginot Line : " We'd go to war with Germany, and Germany would be fortified behind concrete, the Maginot Line ." (Later Branham replaced the Maginot Line with the Siegfried Line ).
4. Fascism and National Socialism will merge into communism: " The three isms (Nazism, Fascism, and Communism) would all wind up in Communism ." In addition, communism will destroy Catholicism: " I said there's three isms, Communism, Fascism, and Nazism. They'll all wind up out of Russia in Communism, and it will destroy Catholicism ."
5. The development of self-driving cars in eggshell form: " Cars to be on the road with remote control, looking like an egg, only you don't drive it; it controls itself. " (Branham himself saw this fulfilled in the VW Beetle Type 1. In 1933 he had visited the world exhibition in Chicago with the motto " A Century of Progress ").
6. A woman will come to power in the USA and plunge the country into disaster: " And then, there'll be a great woman rise up, 'cause America is a woman's nation. And it'll… A great woman will rise up and be president, or something like that in the nation, and then there will come a total annihilation, the entire nation will be wiped out . " (Branham recognized in the woman a future president, the Catholic Church or the Catholic President John F. Kennedy , who had been elected to office because of the high turnout of women).
7. The complete devastation of the USA: " I saw the United States just blowed to pieces. There wasn't nothing left on it ."

Branham first made his seven end-time visions public in 1955 and predicted the total annihilation of the world by 1977. In November 1960, he announced that the first five prophecies had already been fulfilled. The inaccuracy and shortcomings of the prophecies were pointed out early on, although most of Branham's followers do not question his authority on this point.

Other prophecies:

• Communist Russia will destroy the Vatican with an atomic bomb: " Communism is working straight in the hands of Almighty God to destroy the Roman ... And remember, I say this as God's prophet: The Russian empire will drop an atomic bomb of some sort on the Vatican City and destroy it in one hour. THUS SAITH THE LORD . "
• He will travel to Durban, Africa again and preach to 300,000 people in a single event. This is one of those prophecies that Branham's followers are expected to fulfill.
• In 1962, Branham announced that he had prophesied in 1956 that revival preacher Billy Graham would have to cancel his events that last year due to a lack of audience and the decline of the revival movement, and that is exactly what happened. Aside from the fact that there was no sermon Branham made before or during 1956 in which he made such a prophecy, Billy Graham neither canceled an event nor decreased his audience. For example, Billy Graham B. 1957 a 16-week evangelism event in New Yok City, attended by 2.3 million people.
• In July 1963 Branham preached that as early as 1933 he had prophesied the warning that people in the end times should not live in a valley and not eat eggs: "I was prophesying, and said," It shall come to pass in the last days, don't live in a valley and don't eat eggs. "I've got it on my book. I thought there was something about that, and I went and looked at it." Don't eat eggs. " That was way back in 1933. " In a later sermon he mentions the year 1931.

Predictions

Branham differentiated between prophecies ("prophecies") and predictions ("predictions"). His predictions are divinely inspired, but do not necessarily have to come true. However, he also made predictions, to which he added the affirmation "Thus says the LORD", which again gave them a special significance.

• The world will end by 1977: " As a servant of God who had multitudes of visions, of which none has ever failed, let me predict (I did not say prophesy, but predict) that this age will end around 1977. [...] I sincerely believe and maintain as a private student of the Word, along with Divine inspiration that 1977 ought to terminate the world system and usher in the millennium. "Some of his followers today distance themselves from this statement or suggest it to 2077. Branham himself said on the subject: "Don't get it wrong and say," Brother Branham said that Jesus will come in 1977. "I never said such a thing. Jesus could come today. But I predicted that between '33 and '77 something will happen, that all the things I saw coming will happen in the vision. And five of them have already come. "In his execution at this point, however, Branham made a calculation error: He set the duration of the work Of God with the people of Israel to 1,954 years and said that from the crucifixion of Christ in 33 to 1977 the Christian Church was also exactly 1,954 years. After 1977 passed without a doomsday scenario, his followers explained this by saying that it was merely a prediction and not a prophecy. Certain German descendants of the Branham movement, such as the Free People's Mission Krefeld, now claim that this “prophecy” did not come from Branham himself, but from his publisher Lee Vayle. This led to a separation from the US-American Branham movement, and it is beyond doubt that Branham explicitly claimed this in several sermons.
• Los Angeles will sink into the sea during the lifetime of his son Billy Paul: " I predicted Los Angels will go beneath the ocean. And THUS SAITH THE LORD, it will ."

• Man will never land on the moon ( moon landing ): “ We're trying to build a machine to take us to the moon? You'll never make it . "" Taking a trip to the moon [...] They ain't going to get there . "

• In July 1951, Branham claimed that he predicted the Ohio River flooding in 1937.

• After Branham hunted in British Columbia in May 1961 and killed a bear, he predicted in several sermons in 1962 that he would go to British Columbia again and this time kill a bear twice as large. He reiterated the prediction with "Thus saith the Lord!" This is one of the prophecies that Branham's followers are still expected to fulfill.

Later apparitions and visions

When William Branham was at a low point in 1947 because the visions and light phenomena were criticized, he withdrew to the solitude of a remote hut. In his later sermons he reported that an angel appeared to him in the hut, who had previously been seen as a star and then took the form of a man. The angel told him not to be afraid and that he was sent out of the presence of Almighty God to inform him that his special birth and life indicated that he was bringing a gift of divine healing to the people of the world. If he was sincere and sincere, even Cancer wouldn't withstand his prayer. He would have large crowds and pray for kings and monarchs. On the basis of visions, he proclaimed the healing of individuals or entire assemblies.

In his 1960 sermons, Branham mentions that the angel of the Lord appeared to him on the founding day of the State of Israel . However, he named three different dates for this: May 7, 1946, May 6, 1946 and May 7, 1947. The actual founding of the state of Israel took place on May 14, 1948. It is assumed that Branham began his mission to heal the sick on the day of Wanted to equate the founding of the state of Israel to highlight the connection between his ministry and the impending end times.

Aureole:

William Branham kept saying that he had been accompanied by a heavenly light or angel of the Lord since he was born. As evidence of this, his followers often refer to a photo by Branham, on which a blurred light can be seen above his head that resembles an aureole . According to Branham, it was the same pillar of fire that led the people of Israel during the desert wandering . According to him, the photo taken on January 24, 1950 at the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston (Texas) was checked for authenticity by George J. Lacy by the FBI and the light was confirmed as supernatural. A copy was said to have been exhibited in the "Hall of Religious Art" in Washington DC or brought to the "Halls of Germany" in Germany. None of the halls mentioned exist. The fact is that the negative of the photo by Pastor Gordon Lindsay had been given to the Houston document examiner George J. Lacy with a request to investigate subsequent manipulation and was examined by him. In his report dated January 29, 1950, George J. Lacy ruled out subsequent manipulation of the negative and came to the end result that the light bar was due to a light that had struck the negative: "I am of the definite opinion that the light streak appearing above the head in a halo position was caused by light striking the negative. " George J. Lacy did not work for the FBI, nor did he confirm a supernatural origin of light.

Branham himself took the photo as divine confirmation of his service. He also did not condemn it when some of his followers kneeled down in prayer in front of the picture.

Marilyn Monroe Vision:

Branham reported on October 13, 1962 that a few weeks ago he had the vision of a beautiful young woman who was dying of a heart attack. The Angel of the Lord then told him that the woman died at 4:00 a.m., but it was claimed that she had committed suicide. It was only when Branham heard the news on the radio a few days later that he realized that the woman he had seen was the actress Marilyn Monroe : “ Back there one night, I saw a vision. And it was a - a lovely, pretty woman, looked young woman running; she had her hand here, and she was perishing with a heart attack, a beautiful woman. And she dropped and was gone. And the Angel of the Lord said, "Now, when you hear of this, remember, they're going to say that she committed suicide, but she died in a heart attack. And it's almost 4:00, so you just say 4 o'clock, "and then He left me. [...] And on the road out two days later, there it come in on the radio that this Miss (I can't think of her name.) Monroe, Mrs. Monroe. I think that was her stage name, or whatever it was; her name was something else. And she had died, and they said she committed suicide. "

Branham mentioned the vision in several subsequent sermons and assured his listeners that he had the vision two days before Marilyn Monroe's actual death on August 5, 1962.

The cloud appearance

Branham described several times a vision he had during a hunting expedition between the 6th and 8th centuries. March 1963 on Sunset Mountain in Rattlesnake Mesa near Tucson, Arizona I received the seven seals of Revelation and opened the seals. In the vision seven angels appeared to him, which formed a pyramid. When the angels disappeared, a cloud remained. In this context, Branham referred to a strange cloud formation treated in Life Magazine on May 17, 1963 (and in Science Magazine on April 19, 1963 ), which was observed and photographed on February 28, 1963 over Flagstaff (Arizona) within the stratosphere . In the sermons listed above, he repeatedly emphasized that it was the same cloud. In 1965, two years later, Branham announced that the photo of the cloud showed the face of Christ. To do this, the photo must be rotated 90 ° to the right and viewed in grayscale.

The scientific investigation of the cloud formation came to the conclusion that it was the residue of a rocket launched and exploded from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Starts corresponding to the date of the cloud appearance are recorded.

Works

• William Marrion Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages (1965)
• William Marrion Branham The Revelation of the Seven Seals (1977)

• His recorded messages are sent in many languages by Voice Of God Recordings . The message booklets and cassettes are produced in America and are still being sent worldwide today. Since 2003, William Branham's sermons have been heard and read (in English) on DVDs and CDs. This digital work is called The Table and contains around 1100 speeches recorded between 1947 and 1965, the Bible (Old and New Testament), a Hebrew and Greek lexicon, books by other authors on Christian topics, film recordings. The Table is produced in America. The Table has been published in part as an Internet version since 2006 .

German translations:

• Jesus Christ - the same today . Edited by Julius Stadsklev, 1962
• Introduction to the seven seals. Edited by Ewald Frank, 1963
• The spoken word , ed. Ewald Frank, 1968
• Presentation of the seven church ages , Ed. Ewald Frank, 1968

effect

Branham's followers revere William Branham to this day as a prophet and literal voice of God, whose teaching they call “ The Message ”. After his death they founded The Voice of God Recordings (founded in 1981 by Joseph Branham) and the Spoken Word Publications , through which his sermons in sound and text are distributed worldwide. The name Voice of God Recordings refers to a statement by William Branham who said: "I am God's voice to you". Both William Paul Branham and Joseph Branham view their father as a manifestation of God who is identical to Jesus Christ.

In Germany, Ewald Frank takes up the teaching of Braham with his Free People's Mission . Frank sees himself given the same prophetic mission by angelic apparition as Branham. Understanding the words of Branham as God's word, the Free People's Mission Krefeld distributes Branham's sermons in German translation with the title page: "The spoken word by William Branham [title] The spoken word is the original seed".

Within the awakening movement and among Branham's followers, a limited number of imitators can be recorded who speak of personal visions with the imagery adopted from him and see themselves as his prophetic successor.

Branham's writings have been translated into 30 languages; Worldwide the following of his teaching is estimated at 700,000 and 2 million respectively and is represented in 29 countries. The majority of Voice of God Recordings' offices are in Africa and South America.

In Russia, the Interior Ministry's Center for Combating Extremism initiated a procedure in April 2017 to classify Branham's writings (books and 20 brochures) as extremism and thus ban them. A commission of experts from the State University of Saint Petersburg came to the conclusion that the writings contain techniques of neuro-linguistic programming , which is why a classification as extremism was judicially confirmed.

The majority of the life pictures of William Branham were written by followers of his teaching, in which all statements of Branham are presented as facts and not subjected to a factual-critical examination. The more critical authors include C. Douglas Weaver, Peter M. Duyzer, John Collins, and Roy Weremchuk.

criticism

Branham's interpretation of the Bible and teaching was and is subject to severe criticism. Not least because he reproduces biblical narratives differently or does not appear consistent in his interpretation. His poor knowledge of the Bible and poor education are seen as the reason for this. The origin of his visions postulated by him was repeatedly questioned. The same applies to Branham's predictions and prophecies, especially with regard to the timing of their publication and the accuracy of their content. Branham is accused of having more and more embellished, supplemented or retrospectively adapted his prophecies to the actual course of past events. Since none of his prophecies, made public before an event, came true, Branham is considered a false prophet whose divine visions of the end times were due to some form of religious madness .

Branham's light appearances are also rated very controversial by his critics. While Branham interpreted them as manifestations of God and heavenly powers, his critics as well as his visions attribute them to a mental illness, magnetopathic-clairvoyant powers or an occult burden. Not least because Branham was a believer in astrology and pyramidology . The criticism justifies z. B. the theologian Kurt E. Koch with the fact that Branham's father Schnapsbrenner and his family were fortune-telling.

Peter M. Duyzer comes to the conclusion in his book Legend of the Fall - An Evaluation of William Branham and his Message : "This analysis of William Branham's life and teaching has shown that to no extent are the claims of William Branham regarding his life, call and ministry supported by Scripture, neither by his messages, nor by reality. "

By understanding himself as the second prophet Elijah, whom he equated with Jesus Christ and thus with God himself, and taught that salvation was only possible through faith in his teaching, he founded a new sect.

For these reasons, Branham's teaching is considered heresy by the majority of Christian denominations.

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• Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity In Crisis: The 21st Century , Thomas Nelson, Nashville TN 2009
• Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival: Looking for God in all the wrong places , Thomas Nelson Publishing, 1997
• Walter J. Hollenweger, Pentecostalism: Origins and Developments Worldwide , Hendrickson Publishers Inc., Peabody, Massachusetts 1997
• David Edwin Harrell, All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America , Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN 1978, ISBN 978-0-253-20221-5 Google Books
• Kurt Jurgensmeier, God's Prophets: Is God still giving revelation today? , Training Timothys Publishing, 2012
• Ogbu Kalu, African Pentecostalism: An Introduction , Oxford University Press, 2008
• John E. Kleber, The Encyclopedia of Louisville , University Press of Kentucky, 2001
• Kurt E. Koch, Christ or Satan: Occultism and its Effects from the Perspective of Biblical Pastoral Care , Biblical and Scripture Mission, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2003
• Kurt E. Koch, Occult ABC , Bible and Scripture Mission, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1981, 4th edition (1996)
• Ronald Kydd, Healing through the Centuries: Models for Understanding , Hendrickson Publishers, 1998
• Bill J. Leonard, Encyclopedia of Religious Controversies in the United States : Volume One: A – L, ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara CA, 2nd edition (2013)
• Gordon Lindsay: William Branham: A Man Sent from God , Jeffersonville 1950
• Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Occult , Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee, 2008
• J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Protestantism , Facts on File Inc., New York NY 2005
• J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena , Visible Ink Press, 2008
• Garry J. Nokes, Images of America: Jeffersonville, Indiana , Arcadia Publishing, 2002
• Tom Reiterman, Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People , EP Dutton Inc., New York, NY (1982), 2008
• Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy and Ruy Blanes, Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia , Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland 2017
• Georg Schmid , Churches, Sects, Religions , Theological Publishing House Zurich, 1969. Branham-Gemeinde , S. 128f., 7th edition (2003)
• Aaron Sen, The ABC's of God: Hebrew for "Dumee" (My Blood) , A Mivasair of God, Xlibris Corporation 2010
• Russell J. Sharrock, Covenant Theology: A Critical Analysis Of Current Pentecostal Covenant Theology , Lulu Enterprises, Morrisville, NC 2006
• Julius Stadsklev, William Branham, A Prophet Visits South Africa , Minneapolis 1952
• Elaine Cotsirilos Thomopoulos, Legendary Locals of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor , Legendary Locals, Charleston, South Carolina 2017
• Bruce Tucker, Oneness Pentecostal Churches: Their Doctrine and Practice , Xlibris 2002
• C. Douglas Weaver, The Healer-Prophet: William Marrion Branham: a Study of the Prophetic in American Pentecostalism , Mercer University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-86554-710-0 at Google Books
• Roy Weremchuk, "Thus Saith the Lord?" William M. Branham (1909-1965). Life and teaching , Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV) , Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-86888-150-9
• Joseph W. Williams, Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing , Oxford University Press, New York, NY 2013
• Stuart A. Wright, Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict , University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1995

Web links

Commons : William Marrion Branham  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about William Branham in the catalog of the German National Library
• William Branham's sermons in many languages, including German
• https://churchages.net/en/sermons/branham/ All of Branham's sermons in the original wording
• Books and sermons in German
• http://www.branham.org/
• http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Main_Page Critical examination of the person and teaching of Branham
• http://www.botschaftonline.de
• William Branham prays for a blind girl in Karlsruhe 1955
• https://www.youtube.com/user/BelieveTheSign Critical videos about the person and teaching of Branham
• Over 300 sermons by William Branham, explaining the seven church ages, in German
• The secret of the 7th seal ( Memento from August 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• http://www.seekyethetruth.com/ Articles and videos on the person and teaching of Branham
• http://searchingforvindication.com/timeline.html Timeline of government documents, charters and newspaper articles related to Branham

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The message. Retrieved April 4, 2020 . 
2. ^ William Branham: The Mark of the Beast , May 13, 1954, paragraphs 135-137
3. Jump up ↑ C. Douglas Weaver, The Healer-Prophet: William Marrion Branham: a Study of the Prophetic in American Pentecostalism , Mercer University Press (2000), 19
4. ↑ https://branham.org/en/AboutUs website of the "Voice of God Recordings"
5. ↑ George Schmid, 'Kirchen, Sekten, Religionen', Theologischer Verlag Zurich, 7th edition (2003), page 137
6. ↑ Kurt E. Koch (1981), Occult ABC , pp. 110-111
7. ^ Gomes, Alan W., Unmasking the Cults , Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 26.
8. ↑ Bruce Tucker, Oneness Pentecostal Churches: Their Doctrine and Practice , Xlibris 2002, p. 17
9. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), Legend of the Fall - An Evaluation of William Branham and his Message , Independent Scholar's Press, page 325
10. ^ William Branham, Life story , Aug. 20, 1950, paragraph E-33
11. ↑ J.Gordon Melton (2008), The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena , Visible Ink Press, page 42
12. ↑ William Branham's Birth
13. ↑ Roy Weremchuk, THUS Saith the Lord? , Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2019, page 1.
14. ^ Timothy L. Hall, American Religious Leaders , Facts on File Inc., New York NY 2003, 34
15. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 319
16. ^ William Branham, Jehovah-Jireh Part 3, Aug. 3, 1960, paragraph E28. "I was born in Kentucky where they don't have a birth records. And you know what my birth mark is, birth record in Kentucky? The year the old stump blowed away up over on the hill. And that's all they knowed."
17. ↑ United States Federal Census 1920, Jeffersonville, Clark, Indiana; Roll: T625-425; Page 11A. Also noted on the marriage certificate with Amelia Hope Brumback, 1934. See Peter M. Duyzer (2014), p. 25
18. ^ William Branham, How the Angel came to me, and His commission , Jan. 17, 1955, paragraphs 77-1. "She said," I'm an astrologist. "[…] And she said," You were born on April the 6th, 1909, at five o'clock in the morning. "
19. ^ William Branham, The Revelation That Was Given To Me , Feb.10, 1960, paragraph E11
20. ^ William Branham, Life story , Apr. 15, 1951, paragraph E22
21. ^ William Branham, Souls that are in prison now , Nov. 10, 1963, paragraphs 13-2
22. ↑ William Branham, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever , June 3, 1955, paragraph E-3: “My people before me, Catholic. And my father and mother didn't attend church at all. I never was in a church house since the day I was ... Well, I suppose about eight days old or ten when my mother take me up to old Southern Baptist Church up there for Sunday school. And I was dedicated to the Lord. "
23. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} John E. Kleber (2001), The Encyclopedia of Louisville , University Press of Kentucky, p. 114
24. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), pp. 25 + 69
25. ^ William Branham, Confirmation of the Commission , Jan. 22, 1962, paragraph E-17
26. ^ William Branham, My commission , May 5, 1951, paragraph E-12
27. ^ William Branham, Experiences , Dec. 7, 1947, paragraph E-10
28. ^ William Branham, My Life Story , Apr. 19, 1959, paragraph 72
29. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 67, 84, 145-146
30. ^ William Branham, On the wings of a snow-white dove , Nov. 28, 1965, paragraphs 137-153
31. ^ William Branham, Souls that are in prison now , Nov. 10, 1963, paragraphs 11-1-11-2
32. ^ Hospitalization: December 26, 1923 - January 19, 1924. The Courier-Journal , Louisville March 21, 1924
33. ↑ William Branham, Souls that are in prison now , November 10, 1963, paragraphs 11-4: "Church society and the Klu Klux Klan paid the hospital bill for me."
34. ^ William Branham, Life Story , April 19, 1959, paragraphs 22-6ff
35. ↑ John A. Collins, Jim Jones - The Malachi 4 Elijah Prophecy , Dark Mystery Publications 2017, chapter 8
36. ↑ Wiliam Branham, Behold, a greater than Solomon is here , June 12, 1962, paragraph 15: "My education's very limited"
37. ^ William Branham, Leading of the Spirit of God , Aug. 7, 1955, Paragraph E4: "I didn't get much education, just the seventh grade."
38. ^ William Branham, The Faith that was once delivered to the saints , November 29, 1953, Paragraph E2: "When I was a boy, my father died. I had ten children to take care of, and I had to work and support my mother and the children. "
39. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Peter M. Duyzer (2014), p. 27
40. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 68th
41. ^ William Branham, Life story , Aug. 20, 1950, paragraph E39
42. ^ William Branham, Here we have no continuing city , Feb.1950, paragraph E48
43. ^ William Branham, Exhortation of Devine Healing , May 1, 1951, paragraph E39
44. ^ William Branham, The Lamb's book of life , June 3, 1956, paragraph E-8: "Remember when I had that little old T-model Ford, the little old '26 model? How I'd polish that thing. I was just a kid about sixteen, seventeen years old. "
45. ^ William Branham, Workings of the Holy Ghost , Aug. 16, 1956, paragraph E-10
46. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 11
47. ^ William Branham, Souls that are in prison now , November 10, 1963, paragraphs 13-2 or 71: "I've always wanted to go west. You know how it is. It's always been something to the west. But because an astronomer told me one time the same thing, that I should go west ... The stars, when they cross their cycles and so forth, I was born under that sign, and I'd never be a success in the east, I 'd have to go west. "
48. ^ William Branham, The greatest battle ever fought , March 11, 1962, paragraphs 42-2-42-3
49. ^ William Branham, The conflict between God and Satan , May 31, 1962, paragraph E34
50. ^ William Branham, Wisdom versus Faith , Apr. 1, 1962, paragraphs 3-4
51. ^ Six Second Smith (silent film), March 18, 1923, Director Malcom St. Clair. See Internet Movie Database; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783806/
52. ^ William Branham, The ministry of Christ , June 7, 1953, paragraph E-6.
53. ↑ John E. Kleber (2001), page 114. as early as September 1927.
54. ↑ Julius Stadsklev (1952), William Branham, A Prophet Visits South Africa . PDF at www.williambranhamstorehouse.com/pdf_downloads/a prophet visits south africa.pdf
55. ^ William Branham, The way of a true prophet , Jan 19, 1963, paragraph E-12
56. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), pp. 25-26
57. ↑ William Branham, blind Bartimaeus , January 24, 1961, paragraph E-40
58. ^ William Branham, The conflict between God and Satan , May 31, 1962, paragraph E-77
59. ^ William Branham, Desperations , Sep. 1, 1963, paragraph 197
60. ^ William Branham, Obey the Voice of the Angel , July 13, 1950, paragraph 3.
61. ^ St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Everyday Magazine , St. Louis, Missouri, July 6, 1947.
62. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 82nd
63. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 27-28 + 82nd
64. ^ ^{A b} C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 25
65. ^ William Branham, The Angel of God , July 20, 1951, paragraph E15. "I was converted in the Baptist church"
66. ^ William Branham, As the eagle stirreth up her nest , Aug. 15, 1959, paragraph E-32. "I was converted in an old coal shed."
67. ↑ William Branham, There is only One Way provided by God for anything , July 31, 1963, paragraph 50. "I tell you, even to our Pentecostal move when we used to go down in old barrooms like this and places. I was converted in a converted barroom. "
68. ↑ Gordon Lindsay: William Branham, A man sent from God
69. ↑ John A. Collins, Stone Mountain to Dallas: The Untold Story of Roy Elonza Davis , Dark Mystery Publications 2016
70. ^ William Branham, Life Story , Apr. 19, 1959, paragraphs 35-2
71. ^ William Branham, The Laodicean Church Age , Dec. 11, 1960, paragraph 302
72. ^ William Branham, He cares. Do you care? July 21, 1963, paragraph 19: "Roy Davis, a - a - a personal friend of mine, who baptized me the only time I've ever been baptized."
73. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 34
74. ^ Roy E. Davis, Voice of Healing , Oct. 5, 1950
75. ^ William Branham, God keeps his word , March 6, 1957, paragraph E-4
76. ^ Roy E. Davis, Voice of Healing , Oct. 5, 1950
77. ^ William Branham, Does God ever change His mind about His word? , April 18, 1965, paragraph 46
78. ↑ DE Harrell: All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN 1978, 28.
79. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 68
80. ↑ J.Gordon Melton (2008), page 42
81. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 69
82. ↑ The Lily Pond Church (The Branham Tabernacle 1930's)
83. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), pages 27 + 37
84. ↑ Clark County Courthouse, Book # 20 Jeffersonville City, Fulton Grove Zoning Plan, 35. Ownership, Lot 16: William T. Ingram, acquired Nov. 9, 1936 for the Pentecostal Tabernacle
85. ↑ John Crowder, Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics , Destiny Image Publishers Inc., Shippensburg, PA 2006, page 324.
86. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 34th
87. ^ William Branham, Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever , p. 9: "One day at the foot of Spring Street, Jeffersonville, Indiana, after a two week's revival, I was baptizing 130 people. It was a hot August day and there were about three thousand people present. I was about to baptize the 17th person when all of a sudden I heard that still, little voice again and it said, "Look up." The sky was like brass on that hot August day. We had not had any rain for about three weeks. I heard the voice again, and then again the third time it said, "Look up." I looked up and there came from the sky a big bright star which I had seen many times before but that I had not told you about. "
88. ^ William Branham, What was the Holy Ghost given for? , December 17, 1959, paragraph: 142
89. ^ William Branham, The Approach to God , Jan 23, 1955, paragraph E47
90. ^ William Branham, A Court Trial , April 12, 1964, paragraphs E50 + E52
91. ^ William Branham, A man running from the presence of the Lord , Feb.17, 1965, paragraph 172
92. ^ William Branham, Do you now believe? , August 17, 1952, paragraph E14. "As John the Baptist was sent to warn the people of the first coming of Christ, so is this message to warn the people of the second coming."
93. ^ William Branham, God revealing Himself to His people , Aug. 13, 1950, paragraph E-18
94. ^ William Branham, Do you now believe? August 17, 1952, paragraph E-14: "I was baptizing on the river at Jeffersonville, when all the local newspapers packed It, two o'clock in the afternoon when I was praying, here It come right down out of the heavens , right at two o'clock in the evening, June, or in the afternoon, rather, in June, about the middle of June, hung right over where I was, and a Voice from It, saying, "As John the Baptist. .. "
95. ↑ See Gordon Lindsay, William Branham: A Man Sent from God , Jeffersonville 1950, p. 43
96. ^ William Branham, God revealing Himself to His people , Aug. 13, 1950, paragraph E-18
97. ^ William Branham, Watchman, what of the night? , July 22, 1960, paragraph E-21
98. ^ William Branham, Testimony upon the sea , July 26, 1962, paragraph E-87
99. ^ William Branham, Questions ans Answers , May 15, 1954, paragraphs 16-107
100. ↑ Wiliam Branham, What was the Holy Ghost given for? , December 17, 1959, paragraph 142
101. ^ William Branham, Questions and Answers , May 27, 1962, paragraphs 719-156
102. ^ William Branham, My Commission , May 5, 1951, paragraph E-15
103. ^ Aaron Sen, The ABC's of God: Hebrew for "Dumee" (My Blood) , A Mivasair of God, Xlibris Corporation 2010, p. 252
104. ^ William Branham, God revealing Himself to His people , Aug. 13, 1950, paragraphs E-18 - E-19
105. ^ William Branham, Testimony upon the sea , July 26, 1962, paragraph E-87
106. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 37-38.
107. ^ William Branham, Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever , 9
108. ↑ William Branham, God revealing Himself to His people , August 13, 1950, paragraph E-18: "It appeared down there on the Ohio River before nearly ten thousand people while I was baptizing".
109. ^ William Branham, The healing of Jairus' daughter , Feb. 27, 1955, paragraph E-85
110. ^ William Branham, Watchman, what of the night? , July 22, 1960, paragraph E-21
111. ^ William Branham, Testimony upon the sea , July 26, 1962, paragraph E-87
112. ↑ US Census Bureau: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts
113. ^ Garry J. Nokes (2002), Images of America: Jeffersonville, Indiana , Arcadia Publishing, 66
114. ↑ See C. Douglas Weaver (2000), The Healer-Prophet: William Marrion Branham: a Study of the Prophetic in American Pentecostalism , Mercer University Press, p. 28
115. ^ William Branham, Faith once delivered to the saints , May 1, 1955, paragraphs E16-E17
116. ^ William Branham, The Voice of the Sign, March 21, 1964, paragraphs E34-36
117. ^ William Branham, Teaching On Moses , May 13, 1956, paragraphs 18-22
118. ↑ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), pp. 30-32
119. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 435-436.
120. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), pp. 98ff + 201ff
121. ↑ John A. Collins (2017), Chapter 7
122. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 26
123. ^ William Branham, Testimony , Nov. 28, 1963, paragraph 48, "The first year we were married, I didn't have enough money to take a honeymoon."
124. ↑ William Branham, How the angel came to me and his commission , January 17, 1955, paragraph 62-3ff: "I thought he was from Benton Harbor up here at the House of David. And they had a place in Louisville. I was trying to find them people, and they called it the School of the Prophets. So I thought I'd go over and see what that was . "
125. ^ Stuart A. Wright, Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict , University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1995, pp. 7 + 10
126. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), pp. 69–70
127. ↑ Elaine Cotsirilos Thomopoulos, Legendary Locals of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor , Legendary Locals, Charleston, South Carolina 2017, p. 61
128. ^ William Branham, How the angel came to me and his commission , January 17, 1955, paragraphs 62-3ff: "And there's where I met this old man; he invited me to come up to his place. I went up for a vacation . "
129. ^ William Branham, Life Story , April 19, 1959, paragraphs 34-5ff
130. ^ William Branham, Life Story , April 19, 1959, paragraphs 34-5ff: "And I remember one day I had saved up my money and I was going to take a little vacation, going up to a place, to Paw Paw Lake to fish. "
131. ↑ Elaine Cotsirilos Thomopoulos (2017), page 62
132. ^ Stuart A. Wright (1995), p. 7
133. ^ Stuart A. Wright (1995), p. 10
134. ↑ This was a meeting of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PA of W.) and Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ (PA of JC). William Branham, As the Eagle stirreth up her nest , Aug. 15, 1959, paragraph E-21
135. ^ William Branham, Life Story , February 1950, paragraph E-39
136. ^ William Branham, My Life Story , Apr. 19, 1959, paragraphs 39-3-39-5
137. ^ William Branham, The seed of discrepancy , Jan. 18, 1965, paragraphs 9-11
138. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 70
139. ^ William Branham, My Life Story , Apr. 19, 1959, paragraphs 39-3-39-5
140. ^ William Branham, My Life Story , August 20, 1950, paragraph 106 + April 19, 1959, paragraph 100ff.
141. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 57 + 71st
142. ^ Jeffersonville Evening News , Aug. 5, 1935
143. ↑ James E. Casto, The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 , Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina (2009)
144. ^ William Branham, Life Story , June 26, 1955, paragraphs E19-21
145. ^ William Branham, Life Story , Aug. 20, 1950, paragraph E106
146. ↑ William Branham, Life Story , June 26, 1955, paragraph E-21: "My wife took sick; my father died on my arm; my brother was killed. And everything happened just in a few days."
147. ^ William Branham, Life Story , June 26, 1955, paragraph E-30: "I took my gun, pulled back the hammer, and put it up to my head, and raised my hand. I said," Oh, God, I hate to be a coward, but I can't stand it no more. I'm going mad. I have to take my life. "And I pulled the trigger, and it would not fire."
148. ^ William Branham, Questions and Answers , Jan. 12, 1961, paragraph E103: "I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost back in my shed"
149. ^ William Branham, There is only one way provided by God for anything , July 31, 1963, Paragraph E52: "It was a little, colored church, where I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost"
150. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.onlybelieve.com/PDF/1998 04.pdf (link not available)
151. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 67-68.
152. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 119
153. ^ Robert A. Scott, Miracle Cures: Saints, Pilgrimage, and the Healing Powers of Belief , University of California Press, 2010, 116
154. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 119
155. ^ Allan Heaton Anderson (2014), An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity , Cambridge University Press, 159
156. ↑ Pearry (1969), The Acts of the Prophet , p 159ff.
157. ^ David Edwin Harrell (1978), p. 27
158. ^ John Crowder (2006), pp. 324-325
159. ^ Everyday Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch , July 6, 1947
160. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), p. 13
161. ↑ Kurt E. Koch (1981), page 676
162. ↑ Everyday Magazine of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch , St. Louis, Missouri, July 6, 1947, 1.
163. ↑ Duyzer, 2014, pp. 173–175.
164. ↑ Duyzer, 2014, pp. 173–175.
165. ↑ Weaver (2000), pp. 22-35.
166. ↑ Lawrence E. Burkholder, The Leviathan Factor , Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon 2017, 193
167. ↑ Kurt E. Koch, Christ or Satan: Occultism and its Effects from the Perspective of Biblical Pastoral Care , Biblical and Scripture Mission, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2003, page 556
168. ^ John Crowder (2006), 325.
169. ^ Joseph W. Williams, Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing , Oxford University Press, New York, NY 2013, pp. 60-61
170. ^ J. Gordon Melton (2005), 101
171. ↑ John Crowder (2006), pp. 325 + 332
172. ^ Gordon Lindsay: The Voice of Healing Magazine ( Memento June 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
173. ↑ Voice of Healing ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
174. ^ Bill J. Leonard, Encyclopedia of Religious Controversies in the United States : Volume One: AL, ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara CA 2013 (2nd edition), 124
175. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 75
176. ↑ John A. Collins (2017), Chapter 11
177. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 176-180.
178. ^ William Branham, The Good Shepherd of the sheep , March 8, 1957, paragraph E-26. "King George had stomach trouble, and he had multiple sclerosis. That's the one that sent for me to pray for him. And the Lord healed him of it."
179. ↑ Timothy L. Hall (2003), 35
180. ^ John Crowder (2006), 325
181. ^ Ronald Kydd (1998), Healing through the Centuries: Models for Understanding , 175
182. ↑ Quoted in Peter M. Duyzer (2014), pp. 190–191
183. ↑ John A. Collins (2017), Chapter 10
184. ^ William Branham, Why I am a holy-roller , Aug. 30, 1953, paragraph E-62: "But God in this last days is sending the latter rain now (That's right.), The power of the Holy Ghost coming back. "
185. ^ Moritz Fischer, Pentecostal Movement Between Fragility and Empowerment , V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2011, pp. 225–226
186. ^ Russell J. Sharrock, Covenant Theology: A Critical Analysis Of Current Pentecostal Covenant Theology , Lulu Enterprises, Morrisville, NC 2006, 48
187. ^ William Branham, The Greatest News flash in History , Apr. 24, 1961, paragraph E-14. "The real Easter message wasn't going to make organizations: was to go and preach the Gospel"
188. ↑ Allan Heaton Anderson (2014), An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity , Cambridge University Press, pp. 158–159
189. ^ Roscoe Barnes III, FF Bosworth: The Man behind "Christ the Healer" , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2009, p. 80
190. ↑ William Branham, The Angel of God , March 4, 1948, paragraphs 32-33
191. ↑ Roy Weremchuk 2019, p. 124
192. ^ John Crowder (2006), p. 321
193. ^ William Branham, Do you now believe? , December 6, 1953, paragraph E-57
194. ^ Allan Heaton Anderson (2014), 159
195. ↑ John A. Collins (2017), Chapter 10
196. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 157-158.
197. ^ William Branham, Who hath believed our Report? , July 19, 1951, paragraphs 26-27.
198. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), pp. 161–162.
199. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 51
200. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 171-174.
201. ^ William Branham, Expectations , Apr 5, 1950, paragraph 68
202. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 51
203. ↑ Roscoe Barnes III (2009), 80
204. ^ Ogbu Kalu (2008), African Pentecostalism: An Introduction , Oxford University Press, p. 256
205. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 51
206. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), pp. 196–197.
207. ^ William Branham, Israel at the Red Sea 1, March 26, 1953, paragraph 105. “God isn't known by theology or education. God's knowed by faith. Knowledge takes a man away from God "
208. ↑ ^{a b c d} Bill J. Leonard (2013), p. 125
209. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), pp. 113 + 140
210. ^ William Branham, Revelation, Chapter 4, Throne of mercy and judgment, Part 3, Jan. 8, 1961, paragraph 174.
211. ^ J. Gordon Melton (2005), Encyclopedia of Protestantism , Facts on File Inc., 101
212. ^ John Crowder (2006), p. 328
213. ^ William Marrion Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages , Spoken Word Publications, Tuscon, Arizona 1965, pp. 279 + 372
214. ^ Bruce Tucker (2002), p. 17
215. ↑ J.Gordon Melton (2008), page 42
216. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), p. 28
217. ↑ Kenneth E. Hagin, He Gave Gifts unto Men: A Biblical Perspective of Apostles, Prophets and Pastors , Faith Library Publications Inc., 1992, 164-170
218. ↑ New Wine Magazine, New Wine Interviews Ern Baxter , Christian Growth Ministries, Ft. Lauderdale, December 1978, pages 22-24: "Branham saw himself as a teacher of some kind of" in "truth. To me, some of it was quite esoteric. I became aware early in his ministry that there was a mixture. I urged him not to say some things in public. As long as we worked together, he refrained. One of the reasons for my leaving him was that he was starting to say some seriously wrong things. When that, coupled with other circumstances, eventually became unbearable, I resigned. “Interview as PDF at http://seekyethetruth.com/files/awareness/ern%20baxter%20interview.pdf
219. ↑ Kurt E. Koch (2003), page 555
220. ↑ John A. Collins (2017), Chapter 12
221. ^ David Edwin Harrell (1978), p. 159
222. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 51
223. ^ William Branham, India Trip Report , Jan. 26, 1957, paragraph 84
224. ^ William Branham, India Trip Report , Jan. 26, 1957, paragraph 30
225. ^ William Branham, Hear Ye Him , March 13, 1960, paragraph 45
226. ↑ Michael Bergunder, The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century , William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2008, 281
227. ↑ Michael Bergunder (2008), pp. 106-107
228. ↑ Michael Bergunder (2008), page 282
229. ^ LD Dale, The Lightning From The East: Biography of Rasiah Paulaseer Lawrie Muthukrishna , 1972 (reprinted 2005), 35
230. ↑ Kurt E. Koch (1981), Occult ABC , pp. 110-111
231. ↑ Michael Bergunder (2008), page 282
232. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), pp. 51-52
233. ^ Walter J. Hollenweger, Pentecostalism: Origins and Developments Worldwide , Hendrickson Publishers Inc., Peabody, Massachusetts 1997, p. 229
234. ↑ George Schmid (1969, 7th edition 2003), p. 137
235. ↑ Ulla Fröhling, Our robbed life: The true story of love and hope in a cruel sect , Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2012
236. ^ William Branham, Scriptural Signs of the Time , Apr 10, 1964, paragraph E16. "I've been seven times around the world"
237. ↑ William Branham, Go, tell my deciples , April 5, 1953, paragraph 8. “I've visit the grave of most all the founders of a religions; the Mohammedan, and also to ... to the grave of Buddha, and Confucius, and many of the philosophers. "
238. ^ William Branham, The Mark of the Beast , Feb.17, 1961, paragraph E-50. "And when I got off at Cairo, Egypt, just before we met that King Farouk, and we - at Rome."
239. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 222nd
240. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 94
241. ^ William Branham, All Things , Nov. 24, 1962, paragraph E-18: " I went down and borrowed forty thousand dollars, with the understanding that I'd pay it back in ten years, four thousand a year. "
242. ↑ David Edwin Harrell (1978), pp. 39-41
243. ^ William Branham, Faith once delivered to the saints , May 1, 1955, paragraphs E16-E17
244. ↑ John A. Collins (2017), Chapter 13
245. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), p. 28
246. ^ William Branham, Fellowship , Feb. 12, 1956, paragraph E-12: "And I believe that this 1956 is a turning time. I predict this, not by spiritual inspiration, or I don't say that, not by vision. But this is the turning time for the USA They'll either accept it this year or they'll be cast off. "
247. ↑ Tom Reiterman, Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People , EP Dutton Inc. (1982), 2008, pp. 50ff
248. ↑ Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple , Simon & Schuster, New York, NY 2017, 82
249. ↑ John A. Collins, (2017), Chapter 14
250. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 52
251. ↑ Timothy L. Hall (2003), 35
252. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), pp. 108-109
253. ^ William Branham, The serpent's seed , September 28, 1958, paragraphs 162ff and 23-4ff
254. ↑ Michael Barkun, Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement , The University of North Carolina Press 1997, 161
255. ^ William Branham, Satan's Eden , Aug. 29, 1965, paragraphs 19-5. "Satan got Eve to listen to his gospel of theology, the gospel of knowledge, higher schooling, higher ethics, better civilization, higher education, and so forth"
256. ↑ Bruce Tucker (2002), page 17: " Branham's attitude of exclusiveness is proven by the fact that only followers of Branham, one way or another, will have eternal life. "
257. ^ John Crowder (2006), p. 328
258. ^ William Branham, The Seven Church Ages , May 12, 1954
259. ↑ William Branham, Gabriel's instructions to Daniel , July 30, 1961, paragraph 33: “I've been reading Dr. Larkin's book, Dr. Smith's book, Dr. Scofield's notes. "
260. ^ William Branham, The Feast of the Trumpets , July 19, 1964, paragraphs 7-1–7-2: “I'd read Mr. Larkin; I'd read oh, so many different ones of their commentaries on this. "
261. ^ William Branham, The Angel and His commission , Nov. 2, 1947, paragraph E-25. "I was reading my little Scofield Bible"
262. ↑ See Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of the Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture , Philadelphia (1919)
263. ↑ William Branham, The Evening Messenger , January 16, 1963, paragraph 63: “That Angel of the Lord that you see in the picture (Many have seen that picture, haven't you, that Light?), It came right down in the room, before about three hundred or four hundred people, went right over on the side of the wall, as a light like that, and drawed those church ages by Itself. We all stood there looking at It, watched It draw the first church age, the second, third, and fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh. "
264. ↑ Clarence Larkin: The Book of Revelation . 2nd edition, 1919, page 12.
265. ^ J. Gordon Melton (2008), 42
266. ↑ George Schmid (1969, 7th edition 2003), p. 128
267. ↑ Roy Weremchuk 2019, p. 278
268. ^ William Branham, Condemnation by Representation , November 13, 1960, paragraphs 5-2ff
269. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 295-296.
270. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 103
271. ^ Tucson Tabernacle - Home. Retrieved September 17, 2018 (UK English). 
272. ^ William Branham, The First Seal , March 18, 1963
273. ^ William Branham, Come, follow Me , June 1, 1963, paragraphs E7-E8
274. ^ William Branham, A greater than Solomon is here , June 28, 1962, paragraph E-8
275. ^ Audio letter from William Branham to Lee Vayle, Tucson, Arizona, May 1964
276. ^ William Branham, Who is this Melchizedec? February 21, 1965, paragraph 159: "Billy Graham: Graham. First time we ever had a messenger to all the churches that his name ever end in ham like Abraham. Abraham is seven letters; Graham is six letters. Where's he at? To the world. Six is ​​man's number. Man was created on the sixth day. But seven's God's number. "
277. ^ John Crowder (2006), pp. 328-329
278. ^ William Branham, Trying to do God a service without it being God's will , Nov. 27, 1965, paragraph 212, "The Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ."
279. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 104
280. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), pp. 104 + 153-154
281. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 152 (footnote 47)
282. ↑ Compare this to the description and the source under the section Other teachings : Pyramiden, Adler.
283. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 105
284. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 154
285. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 153
286. ↑ George Schmid (1969), 7th edition 2003, p. 129
287. ^ David Edwin Harrell (1978), p. 164
288. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 154
289. ^ John R. Hall, Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History (1987), Routledge, New York, NY 2017, 292
290. ^ John Crowder (2006), p. 329
291. ^ William Branham, God keeps His Word , Apr. 7, 1957, paragraph E-34
292. ↑ William Branham, Questions and Answers on Hebrews Part 2, October 2, 1957, paragraphs 282-440
293. ^ William Branham, Ephesians parallels Joshua , May 15, 1960, paragraph 100
294. ^ William Branham, The First Seal , March 18, 1963, paragraphs 157-2 / 274
295. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 113.
296. ↑ Timothy L. Hall (2003), 35
297. ^ Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity In Crisis: The 21st Century , Thomas Nelson, Nashville TN 2009, 78
298. ↑ Jeffrey Scott Holland, Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets , Sterling Publishing Co., New York (2008), 111
299. ^ William Branham, Revelation, Chapter 4, Throne of mercy and judgment, Part 3, Jan. 8, 1961, paragraph 174. "Trinitarianism is of the Devil. I say that THUS SAITH THE LORD."
300. ^ William Branham, Spiritual Adoption , Sep 23, 1956, paragraph E23. "God is perfected in the three dispensations of His Godhead manifestation: Father, Son, Holy Spirit."
301. ^ William Branham, The mighty God unveiled before us , June 29, 1964, paragraphs 8-5-9-2
302. ^ William Branham, The mighty God unveiled before us , June 29, 1964, paragraphs 9-2
303. ^ William Branham, Law or Grace , Oct. 6, 1954, paragraphs 20-21. "There's three persons in the Godhead"
304. ^ William Branham, Gifts , Dec. 7, 1956, paragraph E23: "One God, manifested in three persons."
305. ^ William Branham, Spiritual Amnesia , Apr. 11, 1964, paragraph E-73
306. ↑ George Schmid (1969, 7th edition 2003), p. 128
307. ^ William Branham, My commission , May 5, 1951, paragraph 40
308. ^ William Branham, The Deep Calleth To The Deep , June 24, 1954, paragraph E-62
309. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 19
310. ^ William Branham, But it wasn't so from the beginning , April 11, 1961, paragraph E-108. "Call Me fanatic if you wish to and blaspheme the Holy Ghost."
311. ^ William Branham, Show us the Father and it'll satisfy us , June 11, 1953, paragraph E-105
312. ^ William Branham, Obey the Voice of the Angel , July 13, 1950, paragraph E-14
313. ^ William Branham, Trying to do God a service without it being God's will , Nov. 27, 1965, paragraph 212, "The Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ."
314. ^ Bruce Tucker (2002), p. 17
315. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 80
316. ↑ Timothy L. Hall (2003), p. 34
317. ^ William Branham, Spiritual Food in the Due Season , July 18, 1965, paragraph 67
318. ^ First: William Branham, God testifying of his gifts , July 13, 1952, paragraph 70. Most recently : William Branham, What is the attraction on the mountain? , July 25, 1965, paragraph 172.
319. ^ First: William Branham, The pool of Bathesda , August 11, 1950, paragraph 18. Most recently : William Branham, Who is Melchizedec? , February 21, 1965, paragraph 196.
320. ^ First: William Branham, Expectations , April 5, 1950, paragraph 68. Most recently: William Branham, Questions and Answers , August 30, 1964, paragraph 12.
321. ^ First: William Branham, The seal of the Antichrist , March 11, 1955, paragraph 30.For the most recent, William Branham, Why little Bethlehem , December 14, 1963, paragraph 156
322. ↑ William Branham, Hearing, receiving and acting , June 7, 1960, paragraph 70. William Branham, Three kinds of believers , November 24, 1963, paragraph 249. William Branham, A testimony on the sea , March 7, 1964, paragraph 80 William Branham, Spiritual Amnesia , Apr. 11, 1964, paragraph 198.
323. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 133
324. ^ William Branham, God hath a provided way , Jan. 8, 1956, paragraph E-78
325. ↑ William Branham, The Ephesian Church Age , December 5, 1960, paragraph 46. "The Ephesian Church Age, from AD 53 until AD 170, then started in the Smyrna Church Age which lasted from AD 170 until AD 312. Then come in the Pergamos Church Age, and the Pergamos Church Age begin at 312 and lasted till AD 606. Then come in the Thyatira Church Age, and the church age of Thyatira begin at 606 and went to 1520, the dark ages. And then the Sardis Church Age begin at 1520 and lasted till 1750, the Lutheran age. Then from 1750, the next age come in was the Philadelphian, Wesley age; that begin at 1750 and lasted till 1906. And at 1906 the Laodicean church age set in, and I don 't know when it'll end, but I predict it'll be done by 1977. I predict, not the Lord told me, but I predict it according to a vision that was showed me some years ago, that five of those things has (out of the seven) - has already taken place ".
326. ^ William Branham, The Philadelphian Church Age , Dec. 10, 1960, paragraphs 18-24
327. ^ William Branham, The First Seal , March 18, 1963, paragraphs 147-3 / 203. "The original Bible faith is to be restored by the seventh angel."
328. ^ William Branham, The breach between the seven Church Ages and the seven Seals , March 17, 1963, paragraph 74-1 / 39. "We know that this Book of Redemption will not be thoroughly understood: it's probed at through six church ages, but at the end, when the seventh angel begins to sound his mystery, he winds up all of the loose ends that these fellows probed at, and the mysteries comes down from God as the Word of God and reveals the entire revelation of God. Then the Godhead and everything else is settled. All the mysteries: serpent's seed and whatevermore is to be revealed. "
329. ^ William Branham, Standing in the gap , June 23, 1963, paragraph 80. "And I was brought east to open the Seven Seals for God."
330. ↑ William Branham, The breach between the seven Church Ages and the seven Seals , March 17, 1963, paragraph 73-1 / 37. “Now, see, the mystery of this seven-sealed Book will be revealed at the sounding of the seventh church angel's message. Lake? The seventh angel begins to sound, and there's the messages wrote out there, and we got it in tape and book form. "
331. ^ William Branham, Proving His Word , Aug. 16, 1964, paragraph 94. “All that believe the message of that age, come in and was saved. So it will be in any age. All who did not believe the message and the messenger, perished. "
332. ^ William Branham, The breach between the seven Church Ages and the seven Seals , March 17, 1963, paragraphs 74-2 / ​​41. "And when the Seals are broke and the mystery is revealed, down comes the Angel, the Messenger, Christ , setting His foot upon the land and upon the sea with a rainbow over His head. Now remember, this seventh angel is on earth at the time of this coming. "
333. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 98
334. ^ William Branham, Questions and Answers on Hebrews Part 1, September 25, 1957, paragraphs 239-Q-57-241-190
335. ^ William Branham, The God of this Evil Age , Aug. 1, 1965, paragraph 142
336. ^ William Branham, Questions and Answers on Hebrews Part 3, October 6, 1957, paragraphs 314-649
337. ^ John W. Buckley, Prophecy Unveiled: Understanding the Past, Predicting the Future , Xulon Press (2007), 25
338. ^ William Branham, Fellowship , Feb. 12, 1956, paragraph E54. "Adam never sinned"
339. ^ William Branham, Fellowship , Feb. 12, 1956, paragraph E-54
340. ^ William Branham, The Serpent's Seed , Sep. 28, 1958, paragraphs 22-2-24-1
341. ^ William Branham, The Rapture , Dec. 4, 1965, paragraph 104
342. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 114
343. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 113
344. ^ William Branham, Handwriting on the wall , June 18, 1958, paragraph 58
345. ^ Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer, The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds , New Seeds, Boston, Massachusetts, 2006, p. 160
346. ↑ Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity , Random House Inc., New York, 1988, p. 22
347. ^ Gospel of Philip, paragraph 36b. The Gospel of Philip: Annotated & Explained, Skylight Path Publishing , Woodstock, Vermont, 2005, 42-43
348. ↑ Irenaeus, Irenaeus Against Heresies , Aeterna Press, 2016
349. ^ William Branham, Corinthians, book of correction , April 14, 1957, paragraph E-49. "He made him a dual person, both male and female"
350. ^ William Branham, The Mark of the Beast , July 15, 1956, paragraph E29. "She's not even a creation in God. She's a byproduct."
351. ^ William Branham, Marriage and Divorce , Feb.21, 1965, paragraphs 17-5--18-5
352. ^ William Branham, Marriage and Divorce , Feb.21, 1965, paragraphs 20-5, 50-4. "Satan designed her."
353. ^ William Branham, Marriage and Divorce , Feb. 21, 1965, paragraphs 27-3. "Every sin that ever was on the earth was caused by a woman."
354. ^ William Branham, The way of a true prophet of God , May 13, 1962, paragraph 332
355. ^ William Branham, Blasphemous Names , Nov. 4, 1962, paragraphs 14-3. "If you've got red hair and you want black, and you go down here and color it black, just because ... You done wrong."
356. ^ William Branham, Wisdom versus Faith , Apr. 1, 1962, paragraphs 4-2. "Don't bob off your hair; don't wear makeup; don't do this; get it rugged."
357. ^ William Branham, The way of a true prophet , Jan 19, 1963, paragraph 97
358. ^ William Branham, Going beyond the camp , July 19, 1964, paragraph 98
359. ^ William Branham, The worst sinner in the city , Feb. 18, 1956, paragraph E-73. "And the Bible rights gives any man a right to leave and divorce and leave his wife, that'll cut her hair. That's the Bible. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD."
360. ^ William Branham, Marriage and Divorce , Feb. 21, 1965, paragraphs 37-2-37-3. "It is not stated against him to remarry, but her. [...] He can remarry again if it's a virgin."
361. ↑ William Branham, Marriage and Divorce , February 21, 1965, paragraphs 40-3 + 50-4: "He can put away his wife any time he wants to, but she can't put him away. [...] I have told you the truth, THUS SAITH THE LORD, all the way through! "
362. ^ J. Gordon Melton (2005), 101
363. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), pages 114 + 140
364. ^ William Branham, The Philadelphian Church Age , Dec. 10, 1960, paragraph 222
365. ^ William Marrion Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages , Spoken Word Publications, Tuscon, Arizona 1965, pp. 279 + 372
366. ^ Bruce Tucker (2002), p. 17
367. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 117
368. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 152
369. ^ William Branham, The Perfection , Apr. 19, 1957, paragraph 16
370. ^ William Branham, That day on calvary , Sep. 25, 1960, paragraph 46
371. ^ William Branham, Thinking mans filter , Aug. 22, 1965, paragraph 69: "I believe in an eternal death, same as I believe in an eternal heaven, but not an eternal hell. There's no such a thing as eternal hell. There is an eternal death ".
372. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 117
373. ^ William Branham, The Pillar of Fire , May 9, 1953, paragraph E16. "God's wrote three Bibles: one, the Zodiac, one in the pyramids, one on paper."
374. ^ William Branham, Law or Grace , Oct. 6, 1954, paragraphs 20-21
375. ^ William Branham, Adoption, Part 4, May 22, 1960, paragraphs 20-23
376. ^ William Branham, Jehovah-Jireh , Feb. 24, 1956, paragraph E49
377. ^ William Branham, Adoption, Part 4, May 22, 1960, paragraphs 20-23. "God wrote in the pyramids"
378. ^ William Branham, Blasphemous Names , Nov. 4, 1962, paragraphs 12-1
379. ^ William Branham, The future home of the Heavenly Bridegroom and the Earthly Bride , Aug. 2, 1964, paragraphs 50-7
380. ^ William Branham, Jesus keeps all His appointments , April 18, 1964, paragraph 18 or E-10
381. ^ William Branham, Abraham's covenant confirmed , March 18, 1961, paragraph E22: "We watch the pyramid. It was built like this. But you notice, the headstone never was put on the pyramid. Did you ever think of that? You got a dollar bill in your pocket? Look what it says: the Great Seal, the pyramid. And look above it, the stone. The headstone never was found. Why? The headstone was rejected — Christ. "
382. ^ William Branham, Jesus keeps all His appointments , April 18, 1964, paragraph 18 or E-10
383. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 152 (footnote 47)
384. ↑ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), pp. 151-152
385. ↑ William Branham, Hear ye Him , March 1, 1958, paragraph E69: " A prophet in the Bible is an eagle. "
386. ^ William Branham, The God who is Rich in Mercy , Jan. 19, 1965, paragraph 76
387. ^ William Branham, Jesus keeps all His appointments , April 18, 1964, paragraph 18 or E-10: "Look on your one dollar bill. The seal of the United States is that eagle."
388. ^ William Branham, Former and Latter Rain , March 3, 1960, paragraph E16. "The Bible likes His prophets to being eagles."
389. ^ William Branham, Who is this Melchizedec? February 21, 1965, paragraph 88. "Everyone knows that a prophet's called the eagle in the Bible"
390. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 152 (footnote 47)
391. ^ William Branham, The junction of time , Jan 15, 1956, paragraph E13: " Noah and Enoch preaching at the same time. "
392. ^ William Branham, The great coming revival, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit , July 18, 1954, paragraph E20: " Noah had a sign to start on. When he seen Enoch was taken up, Enoch was taken up, then Noah-- was time Noah to start, for he knew that that would be the sign of his beginning and then the end would be near. "
393. ^ William Branham, The conflict between God and Satan , May 31, 1962, paragraph E53
394. ^ William Branham, The Third Seal , March 20, 1963, paragraphs 256-4 / 204
395. ^ William Branham, Believest thou this? , July 16, 1950, paragraphs E78-E79
396. ^ William Branham, Perseverance , Nov. 16, 1963, paragraph 215
397. ^ William Branham, Super Sign , June 24, 1962, paragraph E64
398. ↑ William Branham, Our hope is in God , September 29, 1951, paragraph E-9: " There never was in the age, any two major prophets on the earth at one time. "
399. ^ William Branham, Getting in the Spirit , Apr. 28, 1961, paragraph E-12
400. ^ William Branham, The Evening Messenger , Jan 16, 1963, paragraph 85
401. ^ William Branham, The Second Seal , March 19, 1963, paragraphs 55 and 184-6 / 54, respectively
402. ^ William Branham, The Feast of the Trumpets , July 19, 1964, paragraphs 12-5
403. ^ William Branham, Trying to do God a service without it being God's will , Nov. 27, 1965, paragraph 212: " He never had two major prophets at the same time, never in the world. "
404. ^ William Branham, Trial , April 27, 1964, paragraph E-68: " But the last sign that Abraham received upon the hill from Sodom, just before the Gentile world was destroyed, was God Himself in the form of a human Being. You understand, court? There was three Messengers come up to him, three Messengers, and he went out to meet them. Two of them, a modern Oral Roberts, and Billy Graham, goes down into Sodom and preached the Gospel, and blinded them with their gospel. "
405. ^ See William Branham, Trial , April 27, 1964, paragraph E-68
406. ↑ William Branham, I have heard but now I see , November 27, 1965, paragraphs 233-238: " God making Himself known among His people like He did to Abraham by His promise here that the Son of man would reveal Himself in the days that the world become in a Sodom condition. And there was three Messengers went forth, come down from heaven. And there was a denominational group down in Sodom, and a Billy Graham and a Oral Roberts went down there. And remember as I've told you; nowhere in the history of the church has there ever been a messenger sent universal to the church until now, with his name ending like Abraham: ham. Graham, six letters, to the world, man's number. But Abraham had seven letters in the name, God's complete and perfect number. See? […] But the One who stayed back with Abraham (See?). "
407. ^ See William Branham, I have heard but now I see , Nov. 27, 1965, paragraphs 233-238
408. ^ William Branham, Beginning and Ending of the Gentile Dispensation , Jan. 9, 1955, paragraph 112
409. ^ William Branham, Christ is the mystery of God revealed , Jul 28, 1963, paragraph 543
410. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 253
411. ↑ William Branham, Life is the healer , June 12, 1956, paragraph 15: "All the fine medicines we got in the world, we haven't got one medicine that'll cure any disease."
412. ^ William Branham, Life is the healer , Jun 11, 1957, E-17
413. ↑ John A. Collins (2017), Chapter 13
414. ↑ C. Douglas Weaver: The Healer Prophet William Marrion Branham: A Study , Chapter Branham the Healer , 2000
415. ^ William Branham, Believing God , Feb. 24, 1952, paragraph 103
416. ^ William Branham, Marriage and Divorce , Feb. 21, 1965, paragraphs 32-3
417. ^ William Branham, Does God ever change His mind about His Word? , April 18, 1965, paragraph 93
418. ^ William Branham, Does God change His mind? , April 27, 1965, paragraph 51
419. ^ William Branham, Israel in the homeland, Part 5, March 29, 1953, paragraph 40
420. ^ William Branham, Early Spiritual Experiences , July 13, 1952, paragraph E12
421. ^ Bill J. Leonard (2013), p. 124
422. ^ William Branham, Personal experience with God , July 24, 1954, paragraph E66
423. ^ John Crowder (2006), p. 323.
424. ^ William Branham, Life Story , Apr. 19, 1959, paragraphs 24-4. "Don't you never drink, smoke, or defile your body in any way. There'll be a work for you to do when you get older."
425. ^ William Branham, Souls that are in prison now , Nov. 10, 1963, paragraphs 10-5
426. ↑ William Branham, Souls that are in prison now , November 10, 1963, paragraphs 13-1 and 70, respectively. "There was a great golden cross in the skies, and the Glory of the Lord flowing off of that cross, and I stood with my hands out like this, and that Glory was falling into my chest. "
427. ^ William Branham, Experiences , March 2, 1948, paragraph 44
428. ↑ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), pp. 22-23
429. ^ William Branham, My Life Story , Los Angeles, April 19, 1959, paragraphs 25-3-25-4
430. ^ John E. Kleber (2001), p. 123
431. ↑ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), page 27 ff.
432. ^ William Branham, What was the Holy Ghost given for? , December 17, 1959, paragraph: 142
433. ^ William Branham, The Approach to God , Jan 23, 1955, paragraph E47
434. ^ William Branham, A Court Trial , April 12, 1964, paragraphs E50 + E52
435. ^ William Branham, Do you now believe? , August 17, 1952, paragraph E14
436. ^ William Branham, My commission , May 5, 1951, paragraph E15
437. ^ William Branham, What was the Holy Ghost given for? , December 17, 1959, paragraph 142
438. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), page 29 ff.
439. ^ William Branham, The Voice of the Sign , March 21, 1964, paragraphs E34-36
440. ^ William Branham, Jezebel Religion , March 19, 1961, paragraph E66
441. ^ William Branham, Condemnation By Representation , Nov. 13, 1960, 5-1-6-1
442. ^ William Branham, Conference , Nov. 25, 1960, paragraph E4
443. ^ William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages (1964), pp. 321-322
444. ^ William Branham, Condemnation By Representation , Nov. 13, 1960, 5-1-6-1
445. ^ William Branham, Conference , Nov. 25, 1960, paragraphs E4-E7
446. ^ William Branham, The Ephesian Church Age , Dec. 5, 1960, paragraphs 46-48
447. ↑ William Branham, The Thyatirean Church Age , December 8, 1960, paragraph 219-232
448. ^ William Branham, The Laodicean Church Age , Dec. 11, 1960, paragraphs 43-48
449. ^ William Branham, Jehovah-Jireh , Apr. 3, 1964, paragraph 252
450. ^ William Branham, Recognizing your day and its message , July 26, 1964, paragraph 142
451. ^ William Branham, Questions and Answers , Aug. 23, 1964, paragraph 16
452. ^ William Branham, Conference , Nov. 25, 1960, paragraphs E4-E7
453. ^ William Branham, The Ephesian Church Age , Dec. 5, 1960, paragraphs 46-48
454. ↑ William Branham, The Thyatirean Church Age , December 8, 1960, paragraph 219-232
455. ^ William Branham, The Laodicean Church Age , Dec. 11, 1960, paragraphs 43-48
456. ^ William Branham, The Voice of the Sign , March 21, 1964, paragraphs E34-36
457. ^ William Branham, Condemnation By Representation , Nov. 13, 1960, 5-1-6-1
458. ^ William Branham, Condemnation By Representation , Nov. 13, 1960, 5-1-6-1
459. ^ William Branham, Conference , Nov. 25, 1960, paragraphs E4-E7
460. ^ William Branham, The Ephesian Church Age , Dec. 5, 1960, paragraphs 46-48
461. ↑ William Branham, The Thyatirean Church Age , December 8, 1960, paragraph 219-232
462. ^ William Branham, The Laodicean Church Age , Dec. 11, 1960, paragraphs 43-48
463. ^ William Branham, The Ephesian Church Age , Dec. 5, 1960, paragraphs 46-48
464. ^ William Branham, The Voice of the Sign , March 21, 1964, paragraphs E34-36
465. ^ William Branham, Questions and Answers , Aug 23, 1964 Morning, paragraphs 923-16-924-20
466. ^ William Branham, The Ephesian Church Age , Dec. 5, 1960, paragraphs 46-48
467. ↑ William Branham, The Thyatirean Church Age , December 8, 1960, paragraph 219-232
468. ^ William Branham, The Laodicean Church Age , Dec. 11, 1960, paragraphs 43-48
469. ^ William Branham, The Voice of the Sign , March 21, 1964, paragraphs E34-36
470. ^ William Branham, Conference , Nov. 25, 1960, paragraphs E4-E7
471. ^ William Branham, The Ephesian Church Age , Dec. 5, 1960, paragraphs 46-48
472. ↑ William Branham, The Thyatirean Church Age , December 8, 1960, paragraph 219-232
473. ^ William Branham, The Laodicean Church Age , Dec. 11, 1960, paragraphs 43-4
474. ^ William Branham, Questions and Answers , Aug. 23, 1964, paragraphs 923-16-924-20
475. ^ William Branham, By Faith, Moses , July 20, 1958, paragraphs E3-E4
476. ^ William Branham, The Voice of the Sign , March 21, 1964, paragraphs E34-36
477. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 30
478. ↑ John A. Collins (2017), Chapter 8
479. ^ William Branham, Teaching On Moses , May 13, 1956, paragraphs 18-22
480. ^ William Branham, Life , May 12, 1958, paragraph E31
481. ^ William Branham, Conference , Nov. 25, 1960, paragraphs E4-E7
482. ^ William Branham, By Faith, Moses , July 20, 1958, paragraphs E3-E4
483. ^ William Branham, The Ephesian Church Age , Dec. 5, 1960, paragraphs 46-48
484. ↑ William Branham, The Thyatirean Church Age , December 8, 1960, paragraph 219-232
485. ^ William Branham, The Laodicean Church Age , Dec. 11, 1960, paragraphs 43-48
486. ^ William Branham, Conference , Nov. 25, 1960, paragraphs E4-E7
487. ^ William Branham, The Laodicean Church Age , Dec. 11, 1960, paragraphs 43-48
488. ^ William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages (1964), pp. 321-322
489. ↑ William Branham, The Thyatirean Church Age , December 8, 1960, paragraph 219-232
490. ^ William Branham, Faith once delivered to the saints , May 1, 1955, paragraphs E16-E17
491. ^ William Branham, By Faith, Moses , July 20, 1958, paragraphs E3-E4
492. ^ William Branham, Conference , Nov. 25, 1960, paragraphs E4-E7
493. ↑ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), pp. 30-32
494. ^ William Branham, The Mark of the Beast , May 13, 1954, paragraphs 135-137
495. ^ William Branham, Early Spiritual Experiences , July 13, 1952, paragraphs E59-61
496. ^ William Branham, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever , March 23, 1958, paragraph E23
497. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 209
498. ^ William Branham, A greater than Solomon is here , June 28, 1962, paragraph E-8: " Nineteen fifty-six I prophesied in Chicago that Billy Graham that year would return and cancel his meetings. Tommy Osborn would return, and America would see its last call. And from then the revival would die. I just count back and see. We got that on record. See? And the revival is gone. "
499. ↑ George Burnham and Lee Fisher, Billy Graham and the New York Crusade , Wildside Press, 2017
500. ^ William Branham, He cares. Do you care? , July 21, 1963, paragraph 99
501. ↑ William Branham, There is only One Way provided by God for anything , July 31, 1963, paragraph 46: "I went back in my book where the Lord spoke to me in 1931, and there I had written in my book, In the last days, warn the people not to eat eggs or live in a valley. "
502. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 80
503. ^ William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages (1964), pp. 321-322
504. ↑ William Branham, The Seventieth Week Of Daniel , Aug. 6, 1961, paragraph 227. "Don't misunderstand now, and say," Brother Branham said Jesus will come in 1977. "I never said no such a thing. Jesus may come Today. But I have predicted that between '33 and '77 something would take place, that these things that I seen come to pass in the vision would take place. And five of them has already took place. "
505. ^ William Branham, Daniel's Seventy Weeks , Aug 6, 1961, paragraphs 195-196: "We will have the same span of time given to us as God dealing with us in the power of the Holy Spirit since AD ​​33 until 1977, the same span of time of 1954 years. "
506. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), 155
507. ↑ http://frei-volksmission.de/?lang=1&site=detail Version: Feb. 2012
508. ^ William Branham, Condemnation by Representation , November 13, 1960, paragraphs 5-2ff. Doomsday first mentioned in 1977.
509. ↑ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), pp. 103-104
510. ↑ Pearry Green, The acts of the Prophet , 119.Branham testimony on September 11, 1965
511. ↑ William Branham, The choosing of a bride , April 29, 1965, paragraph 35-3
512. ^ William Branham, Works is Faith Expressed Nov. 26, 1965, paragraphs 60-62
513. ^ William Branham, The Rapture , Dec. 4, 1965, paragraphs 191-197
514. ^ William Branham, Handwriting on the wall , March 9, 1958, paragraph E49
515. ^ William Branham, Countdown , Sep. 9, 1962, paragraph E101
516. ^ William Branham, The Manifestation of the Spirit , Jul 17, 1951, paragraph E-29
517. ^ William Branham, Early Spiritual Experiences , July 13, 1952, paragraph E-14
518. ^ William Branham, Wisdom versus Faith , April 1, 1962, paragraphs 8-1-8-2
519. ↑ William Branham, presuming , June 10, 1962, paragraph E-34
520. ^ William Branham, Possessing all things , May 6, 1962, paragraph 11
521. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 209
522. ^ William Branham, The Angel and His commission , November 2, 1947, paragraphs E-25 - E-26
523. ^ William Branham, As I was with Moses , May 3, 1951, paragraph E-8
524. ^ The Chicago Campaign Video
525. ^ William Branham, Ephesians parallels Joshua Part 1, May 15, 1960, paragraph 131
526. ^ William Branham, The manifestation of Thy resurrection to the people of this day , Aug. 9, 1954, paragraph E13
527. ^ William Branham, The great coming revival, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit , July 18, 1954, paragraph E51
528. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), p. 37
529. ↑ Believers Christian Fellowship, photo (pillar of light over the head of William Branham) ( Memento from January 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
530. ^ William Branham, At Thy Word , July 14, 1950, paragraphs E20-E22
531. ^ William Branham, Early Spiritual Experiences , July 13, 1952, paragraph E37
532. ^ William Branham, Questions and Answers , Aug 23, 1964, paragraphs 1020-114-1021-115
533. ^ William Branham, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever , May 19, 1961, paragraph E94
534. ^ William Branham, Show us the Father , June 6, 1963, paragraphs E24-E25
535. ↑ John A. Collins (2017), Chapter 11
536. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 432nd
537. ↑ The Houston Photograph - BelieveTheSign. Accessed August 28, 2018 . 
538. ^ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), p. 50.
539. ^ William Branham, Then Jesus came , April 7, 1957, paragraph E-30
540. ^ William Branham, One man's influence on another , Oct. 13, 1962, paragraphs 52-53
541. ^ William Branham, All Things , Nov. 24, 1962, paragraph E-43
542. ^ William Branham, Come, follow Me , June 1, 1963, paragraph E-28
543. ^ William Branham, Show us the Father , June 6, 1963, paragraph E-56
544. ^ William Branham, Standing in the gap , June 23, 1963, paragraph 130
545. ^ William Branham, The flashing red light of the sign of His coming , June 23, 1963, paragraph 89
546. ^ William Branham, Then Jesus came and called , Apr 17, 1964, paragraph E-16
547. ^ William Branham, Come, follow Me , June 1, 1963, paragraphs E7-E8
548. ^ William Branham, Shalom , Jan. 19, 1964, paragraphs 25-27
549. ^ William Branham, Standing in the gap , June 23, 1963, paragraph 82
550. ^ William Branham, O Lord, just once more , June 28, 1963, paragraphs 41-42
551. ^ William Branham, Is your life worthy of the Gospel? , June 30, 1963, paragraphs 9-14
552. ^ William Branham, Perseverant , Aug. 2, 1963, paragraphs 23-29
553. ^ William Branham, It is the Rising of the Sun , April 18, 1965, paragraphs 1-9-2-3
554. ^ William Branham, Shalom , Jan. 19, 1964, paragraphs 25-27. “I saw a constellation of Angels like a - a pyramid come down just north of Tucson; [...] And there stood those seven Angels. "
555. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 457ff.
556. ^ William Branham, It is the Rising of the Sun , April 18, 1965, paragraphs 2-4-3-3
557. ^ C. Douglas Weaver, (2000), 101
558. ↑ http://www.spacearchive.info/vafblog.htm Recorded rocket launches: 1963 FEB 28, Atlas D, 576 A-3, SAC launch. Pitch pine. 1963 FEB 28, TAT / Agena D, 75-3-5, AFSC launch. Farm Country.
559. ^ Bill J. Leonard (2013), p. 126
560. ↑ Joseph Branham. Retrieved August 29, 2018 . 
561. ↑ J.Gordon Melton (2008), page 42
562. ^ William Branham, My commission , May 5, 1951, paragraph 40
563. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 471st
564. ↑ http://www.cesnur.org/2001/fronkova.htm
565. ^ Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival: Looking for God in all the wrong places , Thomas Nelson Publishing, 1997: " One of the most revered leaders of today's Counterfeit Revival is William Branham. "
566. ^ J. Gordon Melton (2005), 101
567. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 475th
568. ↑ George D. Chryssides, Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements , The Scarecrow Press Inc., Plymouth, UK, 2nd Edition 2012, p. 63
569. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 469th
570. ^ Insufficient specialist knowledge , Novaya Gazeta, December 4, 2018
571. ^ St. Petersburg court declares books by US missionary Branham extremist. Retrieved May 25, 2020 . 
572. ↑ Roy Weremchuk (2019), page 470-471.
573. ^ William Branham: Historical Research. Retrieved May 15, 2020 . 
574. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), pp. 303-308
575. ^ John Crowder (2006), p. 328
576. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), pp. 201–212
577. ↑ C. Douglas Weaver (2000), page 31: "A comparison of his descriptions of the predictions reveals Branham's tendency to exaggerate and embellish his actual prophecies. [...] At other times Branham altered the contents of the visions to enhance his prophetic authority. "
578. ^ Kurt Jurgensmeier, God's Prophets: Is God still giving revelation today? , Training Timothys Publishing, 2012, pp. 362-365
579. ^ Justin Deering, The End-Of-The-World Delusion: How Doomsayers Endanger Society , iUniverse Inc. Bloomington 2012, p. 132
580. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), page 61
581. Jump up ↑ Martin, Walter, The Kingdom of the Occult , Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee, 2008, 241.
582. ↑ Kurt Jurgensmeier (2012), page 364
583. ^ Hutten, Kurt: Seher Grübler Enthusiasten: p. 201: 12th edition: Stuttgart: Quell Verlag 1982; [ ISBN 3-7918-2130-X ]
584. ↑ Peter M. Duyzer (2014), p. 325
585. ^ William Branham, Obey the Voice of the Angel , July 13, 1950, paragraph E-14
586. ↑ John A. Collins (2017), Chapter 15
587. ↑ Jerry Stokes, Changing World Religions, Cults & Occult , Spring Study 2007, pp. 171–173