Reverend William Marrion Branham

The True Story as I See it!

A Man Ordained by God but deceived by the Devil
To Distort God's Word

The Devil is in the Details

The scriptures make it very clear that to blaspheme the Holy Spirit is the unforgivable sin that will not be forgiven on Earth or in Heaven. To blaspheme the Holy Spirit means to give the devil credit for what God has done. If what I am about to describe is not true and I am attempting to prove that the devil is responsible for what has happened, then I will have committed that unforgiveable sin. Even though, I am willing to take that chance in order to oppose what has been revealed to me was the works of the devil. Why am I doing this? I’m revealing these facts in order to save the children of God from missing their chance at eternal life by believing the lies that satan has perpetrated. . The Bible says, in the words of Jesus that: Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”. With this in mind, I am doing just that if I am wrong. But there is no doubt in my mind that God has shown me these things and I am willing to put my life on the line for the sake of my friends who are God’s people in order to reveal to them what the truth of these matters really are.

Because I have such profound love for God and the people of God and because I am convinced that my calling of God is to do this and expose the deceptive works of the devil, I willingly do what I believe with all my heart is in the will of God. If what I know is the truth and I remain quiet about it, I fail in what God has called me to do. I would rather be seen as being wrong by many people and speak out, than to be right and not speak out for what I believe is the truth for the benefit of God’s people and so I will.

It is very clear according to the bible that satan’s work and mission from the beginning was to convince the people of the Earth that God’s Word is not true. From the record that we have in the bible, satan began his deception in the Garden of Eden when he convinced Adam and Eve that they wouldn’t die as a result of eating of the forbidden tree like God said they would. Throughout history satan has been continuing to get the people to disbelieve the word that God has passed on to us and in these last days the Bible which contains the Word of God is his target.

Up to now I have been gently presenting this information about William Branham’s ministry to all of you in the hope that you would open your hearts and see the truth of what I have given you. Since we have but a short time left until this age comes to a close and Christ returns, it is time for me to take the gloves off and present to you the urgency of what God has given me to say. Jesus stated that we must worship the Father in Spirit and the truth. I believe that your worship of God has been in the Spirit and now it’s time for you to see and accept the truth and include the truth of His Word in your worship of Him.

My friends, let me remind you that the bible tells us that at one time there was a war in Heaven. The devil attempted to rise above Jehovah God and take over Heaven, but Michael and his angels fought against the devil and his angels. Michael and his angels prevailed over the devil and his angels and they were cast down to the Earth. Now that the devil knows that the time is short he is engaging in a war against God on the Earth and the spoils are to be the souls of mankind as you know. As always, the devil is attempting to win over God by deceiving mankind into not believing the written Word of God. God has the truth on His side which He has passed down to us in the bible. All the devil has to work with is his lies and his persuasion over mankind to instill doubt in the hearts of man about the truth of the scriptures.

Most of the religions of the World and most of Christianity have already sealed their fate because of the false doctrines they have adopted because of false teachers teaching their interpretation of God’s Word instead of the truth of the scriptures. But now there is a group of called out people, called out of the devil controlled religions of the World thanks to the Evangelistic ministry of William Branham. It is to these people and for these people that God has assembled together for the purpose of learning the truth and preparing themselves to inherit God’s promises.

The things that I am about to point out about William Branham’s ministry have been presented for many years, by every means available to be the truth by those who believe it without any solid evidence to back up their claims. I cannot debunk everything that has been said simply because it is almost impossible to disprove a negative statement, but where facts have presented itself, I can and will speak to them.

William Branham has been said to be many things which have been associated with people and events in bible history. It wasn’t enough to see him as a God sent Evangelist who was successful in his calling to present God to the unbelievers in the World. No that was not enough, instead there were those who attempted to present him as having fulfilled or be associated with many prophesies in the bible without any solid proof that he was indeed connected to them. Sometimes too many assertions make it look too good to be true and it usually is too good to be true. This then is followed according to the truth of the saying that if you proclaim something often enough it will eventually be accepted as truth whether it is or not.

William Branham and his ministry has been associated with many persons and events in the bible such as Abraham’s name change by God. Like Moses, the claim was that William Branham was given two gifts to prove himself to the people that God sent him. Then there was the belief that he was Elijah the Prophet fulfilling Malachi Chapter four and Matthew 17:11. That was followed by the assertion that he was the Messenger to the seventh church age of Revelations 3:14. Then he was seen as the seventh angel of Revelations 10:7 who was to reveal all the mysteries of God and on and on. One of the most profound assertion that William Branham made was that the second coming of Christ had occurred in his flesh being evidenced by the gifts that were prevalent in his ministry. Again I say that too much is too much to believe without any substantial verifiable evidence of the truth of these assertions.

Let’s just examine a few things that are disturbing to me and cause me to doubt that William Branham’s ministry was in totality the perfect will of God.

The bottom line, the end result of his ministry was marred by his deviation from his teaching according to what the scriptures state as facts. His teaching that a person could not understand the bible unless the truth was revealed to them according to his interpretation was an obvious sign that something was wrong. Then he asserted that the only people who could receive the revelation of the truth were those who were chosen by God before the foundation of the World and they would be known as God’s Elect, the Bride of Christ. All of this kind of teaching was a result of the failure to keep the scriptures in context from Genesis to Revelations and believing what they said without depending upon a revelation to understand them. If it wasn’t for this deviation from scriptural truth by the errors that were made, all of the assertions that were attributed to him about the fulfillment of certain prophesies could have certainly been believable.

Now let’s just look at a few discrepancies in his ministry and what he had to say.

First we’ll start with his connection to Abraham and the name change that both he and Abraham experienced that indicated approval by God. The following is what William Branham stated that caused the spelling of his last name to come about.

“Now, I have to be honest. There's things here that I do not like to say, and I wish I could bypass it and not have to say it. But yet, to tell the truth, you must tell the truth if it's on yourself or your people. Be honest about it, and then it's always the same.”

“My father was a long way from being a religious person. He was a typical mountain boy that drank constantly, all the time. And he had gotten in some trouble in a fight , and there had been two or three man almost killed as they fighting, shooting, and cutting one another with knives, at some kind of a party up in the mountains. And Dad had been one of the ringleaders of this fight, because that there had been a friend of his had got hurt, and had hit someone with a chair. The man had a knife out and was going to cut Dad's friend on the floor with this knife, through his heart, and Dad took his part. And it really must have been a terrible fight, because they, from all the way down to Burkesville, many miles away, they sent a sheriff up after Dad, horseback.”

“So the man was laying at the point of death. Might be some of his people listening in. But he was a bully, great powerful man, killed his own boy with a fence rail. So he was a very powerful and wicked man. And so there was a great knife fight between he and Dad. And my father almost killed the man, so he had to run and leave Kentucky and come across the river to Indiana.

And he had a brother that lived, at the time, in Louisville, Kentucky, was the assistant superintendent of the Wood Mosaic Saw Mills in Kentucky, in Louisville. And so Dad come to find his older brother. Dad was the youngest of the boys, of seventeen children. And so he came to find his older brother, and while he was gone for almost a year. He could not come back, because the law was looking for him. And then when we had heard from him by letter, signed by another name, but that he had told mother how it would be that she'd hear from him.”

The person who quoted William Branham as telling this story stated the facts as he knew it as follows:

In the Old Testament God changed Abram's name to Abraham. The Lord inserted "ha" into the Name of Abram, giving it seven letters, signifying the "completion" of Abraham's Faith. Charles 'Branam' was unknowingly doing God a service by inserting the letter "h" into 'branam' to make "Branham", seven letters, signifying completion, even in the name that his son, William would also carry the rest of his days. Now, ALL three of William's names would contain seven letters each - William Marrion Branham - the Seventh Messenger to the Seventh and last Church Age. Of course, Charles Branham, being far from religious, knew nothing of these things.

William Branham many times in his sermons spoke of God changing the name of Abram to Abraham, making Abraham’s name seven letters long. William Branham then said that God was responsible for his last name to be changed from Branam (6 letters) to Branham (7 letters) also. He said the way this occurred was that his father, Charles Branam had run from the law in Kentucky to Indiana and changed his last name from Branam to Branham so they could not find and identify him. Thus his last name being changed from Branam to Branham must have been orchestrated by God.

After reviewing the Federal Census records for Kentucky, it was found that William Branham’s Father was born Charles Branham and not Charles Branam as was told. William Branham’s Grandfather and Charles Branham’s Father was listed in the Census report as being George Branham and not George Branam as you would have thought if the name change story was true. The bottom line is that William Branham’s last name was not changed from Branam to Branham and constitutes an untrue story. William Branham was born a Branham as his father and grandfather were. But these are only documented facts that you may chose not to believe because you hold him as a prophet and a prophet can’t say anything but the truth.

William Branham’s similarity with the calling of Moses has to do with the signs that he and Moses received to validate them being sent by God. William Branham said that the angel that visited him said that he would be given two signs just as Moses received to prove to the people that God had sent him. The problem with this statement is that Moses was given three signs and not just two. This should be proof enough that the visiting angel was not sent by God or he would have known the scriptures more accurately,

In addition to the mistake about the number of signs, the angel said that William Branham was being given a gift of healing. It turned out that this also was not true and he didn’t receive a true gift of healing that only God can bestow upon a person. As William Branham stated many times he couldn’t heal anyone, but God was the healer and if a person believed, God would heal them. This is what’s known as faith healing and not someone having the gift and ability to heal someone like Jesus did.

Then we come to the point when William Branham believed that he was the Seventh Church Age Messenger. Well he said that each Church Age Messenger came near the end of each Church Age and he probably was right. This is definitely near the end of this age, but William Branham is gone and the end of this age hasn’t arrived as of yet. Oh but you say that it was his message that was to forerun the second coming of Christ and not him personally. That part is probably right, but I wonder if this age will continue until the real message is accepted before Christ returns? The message that we are to return to the truth in the bible and believe the written Word of God and not the interpretation of some man who was falsely identified as a prophet.

Then William Branham believed that he was the seventh angel of Revelations 10:7 that is supposed to finish all the mysteries of God before the end comes. In order to do that he knew that he would have to preach on the opening of the seven sealed book, which he did. But you see, that also is against scripture. Scripture tells us that no man in Heaven, on the Earth, or under the Earth can break the seals, only the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. Then we must understand and believe that the scriptures tell us that Christ will open this book in Heaven and not on the Earth and this will be witnessed by those who have already been taken into Heaven after the Rapture and the First Resurrection. This also has not happened yet, but we are closer than we might think.

Now we come to the picture that has been presented to us as being a heavenly being that has been photographed. Well it very well could have been just that, but if it has served God at the time it was taken, it has also served the devil just as well by being the image to worship in every household today. How so? Even after William Branham has gone off the scene we still have this image to convince us that he was a prophet of God and cause us to remember and hold to all that he had taught. I bet the devil just loves that. He is wining a battle finally by using this image to aid us in believing a man’s interpretation of scripture instead of the truth of the written Word of God. This is what it has all been about. The devil used a man that was called of God to be an Evangelist and promoted him in our hearts as a prophet for us to believe his lies.

Let’s look at what helped catapulted William Branham into a Worldwide healing ministry a little while after his angel visitation when he was told that he would have to get the people to believe him to be healed. Not believe God, but believe him. This girl he visited was on the brink of dying and to increase her faith in him, he described that a parlor trick was performed by having a little bracelet hanging from a chandelier move around. When the girl saw that happen William Branham said that God didn’t make it move, that it was his faith that made it move. Well he was right, it wasn’t God because God doesn’t have to perform parlor tricks to heal anyone or prove anything to anyone.

Then there was a story that he told about a man laying in a morgue who was pronounced dead by three doctors who raised up from the dead when he visited him. You would think that one doctor would have been enough, but to make it more believable there had to be three doctors who said the man was dead. These kind of stories that he told went on and on over the years for the benefit of building up his believability so he could get the people to believe him. That is just what the devil was after, that the people would believe anything he said and the devil knew that whatever he taught from the pulpit would become the gospel truth.

Well I don’t believe those things happened and no other sensible person would either, but they worked and gullible people throughout the World believed him and promoted him to the position of prophet. Well, that’s where we are today. William Branham was called by God to be an Evangelist and preach the Gospel of Christ and ended his ministry by preaching another Gospel, just what the Apostle Paul warned the people about.

So the bottom line is this. If you believe that William Branham was Elijah the Prophet, or a Prophet at all, write me and give me the evidence that you have. Or if you believe that he was the Seventh Church Age Messenger or the seventh angel of Revelations 10:7 who revealed all the mysteries of God, then write me and tell me what you believe these mysteries were. Then if you believe that William Branham represented Elijah in turning the hearts of the Children back to the beliefs of the Apostolic Fathers and has restored all things as Jesus said, then write me and tell me what things he has restored.

Now my comment section is open for you to use. I had to install some safeguards on it because of so much spam advertisements, but I will publish your comments as long as they are relevant to the subject matter and not just accusatory or inflammatory. Then I will respond to your comments by using bible scripture and let’s see who comes closer to the truth of God’s Word. For you that say that you have received a revelation that convinced you his teaching was true, I have received a revelation that the scriptures are true instead. So you have your invitation and I am waiting for your comments.

Now if you would like to ask me, which I’m sure that you won’t and don’t really care, why am I presenting these things to you? I’ll tell you this, I am an old man who is not looking for anything from any of you. My time is short to remain in this World and have no desire to acquire a following. I have only one desire that God has called me to do and that is to inspire you all to believe what the bible says. The bible is our only connection to God that we have, without it we have no way of knowing the truth of God and His Son Jesus the Christ. Don’t turn your back on the Word of God in favor of anything or anyone else, your future depends on it.

Look around and you will see the signs of the times being played out. Today in our generation is the prelude to the return of Christ which is being played out as it is described in the thirteenth chapter of Revelations. It tells of great wonders happening, fire or light coming down out of Heaven, signs and miracles being performed, the worship of an image and the mark of the beast that will condemn those who partake of it. This is followed by the return of the Bridegroom. We must keep our eyes open so as not to be deceived and we must hold to the truth of God’s Word to be saved.

Paul the Apostle, the one who met with and heard the audible voice of Jesus and was chosen to be the Apostle to the Gentiles (us) gave us a word that we should all adhere to. That word was “if any man or an angel from Heaven, or a prophet (my words) teach anything contrary to what I have taught you, let him be accursed.”

Now just one more time that it should be very evident as to what has happened. According to William Branham’s testimony, the angel told him that in order for his ministry to be successful, he had to get the people to believe him. And so he did by doing and saying whatever was necessary. So I wonder if the end really justified the means? I’m sure that the devil believes it did because of the false interpretation of scripture that has been accepted by those who are the called out ones.

It’s up to you as to who you will believe and stand with. Will it be God and His Word, or will you believe the lies of the devil?

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