A Religious following built upon deception

The extraordinary ministry that God used William Branham in which resulted in many thousands of converts to Christianity, salvation to eternal life and bodily healings unfortunately ended in a movement that was built upon deceptive practices because of the overwhelming desire to do more for God than what was God’s intent for him to accomplish.
 
Most of what I have witnessed can be contributed to the influence of those men who were in the inner circle of William Branham’s friends who were determined to promote him as the source of the only true interpretation of Bible Scriptures. It was apparent that William Branham was complicit in this promotion on his part because of the influence of his closest friends.

The complicity occurred because of his use of certain innuendos threaded throughout his sermons which convinced the people to believe that he was the fulfillment of enough bible prophesies and scripture to convince them that his messages were the final and end time truth of God’s plan.

Some of these concepts that were promoted was that he was the Elijah that was to come to return the hearts of the children back to their apostolic fathers and to restore all things in the end of the Gentile age. William Branham couldn’t have been the one to come in the spirit of Elijah because he was the complete opposite of the character of Elijah during Elijah’s ministry.

  Other things that were promoted were; the promotion of his last name being changed from Branam to Branham just as Abram was changed to Abraham by God because of his calling. This name change was promoted to somehow vindicate his ministry as a prophet. In reality, his last name was never changed. His last name had always been Branham, as well as his Father's and his Grandfather's. This was nothing except a complete fabrication used to present him to be someone special like Abraham.

  Then there was the promotion of William Branham being the seventh church age messenger and the angel of Revelation 10:7. Then the promotion of his gift of the word of knowledge to support his healing ministry being the Messianic sign that was supposed to be evident before the Lord’s return. John the baptist was still alive on the Earth at the first coming of Christ, but William Branham is gone and the Lord hasn’t returned yet.

  Only one more of many things I could comment on was when he cut out a part of his seventh seal message that was on tape and recorded a portion of it over in a motel room because he was afraid that the original message that he preached under inspiration would cause many of his followers to leave him.

  All through his self commissioned teaching ministry William Branham pointed to the supernatural signs that God had given him saying that they were vindication of the truth of his teaching doctrine. Well, these gifts that were in operation during his ministry were to support his healing ministry only, but were promoted to be a vindication of everything that he preached about and not as vindication that his teaching was correct. 

William Branham thought he knew why God had given him those two signs. Here is what he said: “There's the new ministry. It's just been revealed to me. "Pray for the sick. Get the people to believe you. God can never leave that". That's His commission; he said: "no matter what goes on, how much I fail. I fail miserably. I should've never went ahead with them signs; that wasn't the will of God”. Those signs were to vindicate his calling to “pray for the sick” and not to vindicate his doctrinal teaching, but he allowed the people to believe that they did.

 So that is what it was all about. Everything that occurred was to promote whatever had to be done to insure that the people would accept his teaching as the true interpretation of God’s Word and know because of their acceptance of him as a prophet, whatever he preached about had to be the complete truth of God’s Word and they couldn’t find the truth anywhere else.

 That’s all about control over the people and is evident to those who are not blind or deaf that God probably wasn't in it.

 

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Can You Face the Facts

Can any of William Branham’s followers who call themselves Message of the Hour believers face the facts about William Branham’s ministry? The answer to that is probably no, or maybe with few exceptions. You must look at it this way, for most of them to dedicate many years of their lives believing what they have been taught by William Branham himself and now to admit that the real facts do not support what they have heard, they would view all of that time in their lives to be wasted. What a blow to them that would be. So what is their recourse? To continue believing as they have been and hope for the best? That doesn’t sound like the intelligent thing to do because there is too much at stake.

Since the first time years ago when I examined William Branham’s “Tent Vision” experience, it was evident that the interpretation of that vision was not revealed to him by God. Have you ever questioned why God would give him a vision of something to take place concerning him in the future and not give him at least the interpretation of it before he died, let alone the fulfillment of the vision? The way that I see it, was that the interpretation of the vision, nor the fulfillment of the vision was for him.

There was a part of his “Tent Vision” where he said that the light left him which had been with him for a long time. When I was trying to understand what significance that would be, it was revealed to me exactly what that meant. I was made to understand that it was the light above his head in the picture which was published in 1950 that had been a part of his ministry for 15 years. That tent vision would point to that light being removed from the picture because of the importance it had with the people who took it as a sign of God’s approval of his ministry. Then we must look at the fact that if God was in full approval of William Branham’s ministry, then why in just 15 years would He have allowed his ministry to tragically end before some prophecies and visions had taken place?

I am not going to list all of the known details of the origination of this picture that was developed in January of 1950, but because of everything I have learned about it, I have concluded that this picture did not depict the appearance of a supernatural heavenly being above his head, but did occur on the negative of this picture because of another reason. Instead, this was the occurrence of an anomaly that occurred and was used to perpetuate a false belief as to what it was and why it occurred.

This picture became the glue that has held William Branham’s followers together for 60+ years, believing his prophecies that never came to pass, believing his visions that never came true and believing his teaching of the bible was by divine revelation while it contradicted much of the scripture that God had inspired chosen men to write for our benefit.

Without this deceiving picture and the fabrication of the events surrounding its presentation, William Branham’s followers would have nothing more to hold them to his beliefs except for hearsay. All that it takes is to make a close examination of everything he said in his recorded sermons and you can be certain that his teaching was not according to scripture and was not of God. This has been accomplished by myself and many other people and the results of these examinations are spread across the Internet. Of course at the time that these recordings were made, none of his close followers and confidents ever dreamed that such close scrutiny of his ministry would be possible as it is now.

Unfortunately these facts that have been made known mean nothing to his followers because they have been made to believe that the devil has used people to distort the facts about his ministry. Can they face the facts? Oh yes they can, but they have been blinded by that light that appears above his head.

My friends. Take a little advice from a former Message of the Hour believer who personally knew Brother William Branham, who loved him as a great man of God and believed all that I heard about his ministry was perfectly true according to the Word of God.

Then came a day when the Lord opened my eyes to the fact that our Brother left his first love and his calling of God to Evangelize and pray for the sick and he began to take the place of a Bible Teacher of which he was not called to do.

He began to deceive himself into believing that the bible scriptures needed to be interpreted according to a revelation that he believed the Lord gave him and got into error by teaching in opposition to what the written Word of God stated.

Everyone needs to think hard about this for their souls sake and decide whether you are going to believe the written Word of God, or the misleading interpretation of Brother Branham. There is too much proof that has been revealed and published that substantiates what I have published on my web site and the Lord has vindicated to me that these things are true.

You must make your decision today who you will believe and follow. Will it be the Word of God that’s in the Bible or the word of man. It’s that simple and your decision will determine your future destiny.

 

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