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Branham claimed that throughout life he was guided by an angel who first appeared
to him in a cave in Kentucky in 1946. It is interesting that Mohammed also
claimed to be visited by an angel in a cave outside of Mecca. Branham was
given power to read people's thoughts, and Charismatics David Harrell, Walter
Hollenweger, and Kenneth Hagin claim that Branham's prophecies and thought reading
were absolutely accurate, though Hollenweger admits that far more healings were
reported than actually happened. Thought reading was not a New Testament Apostolic
gift. Rather, it is found only in Christ and in occultic mystics like Edgar
Cayce. This tells us that it is not given to anyone but Christ,
the Word,
"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12 .
It is characteristic of mystic gurus that they try to clamber into the Godhead through mediumistic powers.
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Branham endeared himself to Charismatics who were tired of the glitzy greedy faith healers typical of the big meeting circuit. Branham remained common, dressed modestly, boasted of his youthful poverty, and on occasion turned away offerings saying he had enough money yet. He hunted big game animals in Africa and dirtied his hands in common situations with friends. He hoed weeds and mended fences and maintained a believable southwest USA image.
This
was absolutely unheard of before or after Branham in the faith healing gang. He
was self-conscious about has lack of education, which has always been a hall mark
of Charismatic healing hot shots. But Branham's eagerness to admit his limitations
made him seem genuine. I have known a good number of his followers, and they are
hard working self-sufficient survivors. They are seldom into tax rebellion and
anti-government issues, but many of them home school.
Branham concealed
his Oneness doctrine and his strange doctrines, and the Trinitarian Pentecostals
welcomed him. He could really pull the crowd, and the Full Gospel Business
Men's International grabbed him up to bolster their entourage. Demos Shakarian
was always willing to overlook a little heresy to get the high powered platform
lineup, but after Branham's weird doctrines came out, all Pentecostals distanced
themselves from him except Kenneth Hagin. Hagin claimed Branham was a true
Biblical prophet, which Branham clearly insisted he was. He was never humble
about exalting himself as a true prophet.
Question: "Brother Branham, is there anything wrong with belonging to a secret lodge, after we have become a Christian, such as the Masons?"
Answer: "No Sir! You can be a Christian wherever you are. I don't care where you are, you can still be a Christian."
It has been alleged by many that Branham had been a Mason. Some believe he was mixed up possibly in Wicca or influenced somehow by it. He bragged about the Masons helping him when he was a boy and needed medical help. He never once spoke against this cult.
His trips into the woods at night for spiritual encounters makes us wonder if he was into some neo-wiccian experience like Joseph Smith and his woods experiences with supposed angels that turned out to be wiccian visits. The visit of the spirit in his private shack in the woods at night (and his cave hide out with the pyramid in the ceiling) gives us suspicions especially after he started using mystic methods in his meetings. Many high ranking world Masons in government and business and involved in wicca and satanism received him by a mysterious hand grip.How could he have known these secret signs and grips without being a member himself?
He believed the writings of the Jewish Kabbalah and the Talmud were sacred. He taught the doctrine of Lilith and the serpent seed. The serpent seed doctrine came out of the perverted Jewish Kabbalah and the Babylonian Talmud. Was Branham a god, a junior elohim, a malaki, a spirit being manifested, an avatar, a magician using the name of Jesus for his miracles? Did Branham claim to be God or an angel manifested? Many believe he was a god. Some believe he was an angel manifest on par with Michael and Gabriel. They use the word "angel" to mean more than a man, a spirit being incarnated.
Some of his followers made him Jesus Christ manifest again, they baptized in his name for the remission of sins. In the autobiography, "Footsteps In The Sand Of Time," Branham claims Moses and Elijah were manifestations of God. He challenges his followers to look at him and see if they do not see the same God manifested again and he was not refering to a move of the Spirit u pon his life, but a real incarnation.
After his untimely death, many went to his grave and held vigils expecting him to self-resurrect himself and prove to the world he was God. What about the serpent seed doctrine (a rebuttal soon to be published at this site)? This doctrine comes to us via Jewish mysticism and a reinterpretation of the fall of Adam and Eve embodied in Babylonian, Jewish, and other branches of gnosticsm.
The sexual orgies of the mystery cults reenacted the serpent seed interpretation ad part of their rites and rituals that were started by Nimrod and his sister/wife Semiramas. The serpent seed doctrine is not a revelation of God. It is an old corruption and reinterpretation that was used in the Baal religion in the Old Testament.
A tape recording of the serpent seed doctrine that was made prior or subsequent to Branham coming out with it, and possibly the message that converted him to the doctrine, is extant. In it, the white races are the good seed and the negro and mingled races are the serpent's seed.
Many Jews interpreted the serpent seed to be the Gentiles in their Talmud. The doctrine comes from Babylonian gnosticism and the Jewish adoption of the sexual reinterpretation of the fall they wrote afterward into the Kabbalah and their Talmud. This doctrine is the basis of Jewish gnosticism and is incorporated into all branches of Judaism today that rejects Jesus as the Messiah. It is a false doctrine through and through.
FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE
Branham insisted that anyone baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit must be re-baptized in the name on Jesus Only. He claimed that the sin of Eve in the Garden was that she had sexual relations with Satan. This is also claimed by Medieval Roman Catholics, and it is claimed that women today can have sex with Satan by some nut case "converted" witches. This is an old saw used to stimulate the imaginations of those who need this stimulation but feel wrong buying a Playboy. The sin of Eve heresy lead later to Branham's teaching that if you saw anything bad heppening, a woman was the cause of it-- All trouble in the world is because of women.
Branham claimed that some people in the earth today are descended from the seed of Eve and Satan, which illustrates the peril of this doctrine some Fundamentalists promote-- Angels had sex with earthly women and produced half-man, half-devil beings. Some teach that this will happen again soon. Beware, "for in heaven they do neither give nor take in marriage." Why would God give the angels that fell sexual powers when they never had them in heaven? Why would He not tell us about it? Stop this fool conjecturing.
Branham taught that anyone who received his teaching became the seed of God. This, with his seed of Satan and Eve, sounds vaguely familiar to anyone who has studied the sexual program of Mormonism. Branham taught that others in denominations who are saved will have to go through the Great Tribulation to be cleansed.
Perhaps
the most devilish aspect of Branham's life was a halo, aura, or, according to
his followers, "a pillar of fire" which hung over his head. Every one of
their churches has a picture of Branham photographed with the halo glowing over
his head. One church I was in had the halo only in a photo, like an icon
in a Roman Catholic of Greek Orthodox church. His followers all have this
picture in their homes as a sort of icon. They also are transfixed with
any cloud that looks peculiar, as if it is some sort of sign. Bible believers
know full well that halos are the sole property of the Roman Catholic Whore system,
and there is NO such thing in the whole Bible. This is a wicked prank Branham
played on his followers.
Below
you can see that Branham has nothing on me.
I can produce the same signs he
did with a ceiling light and a step stool.
Result:
Every follower
of his adapts to the home spun temperament. They have all his sermons taped
and on a shelf at the front of all churches in the cult, and the central aspect
of every meeting is the tape recorder on which they play his tapes, often still
using old reel to reel tapes. Also, I have found that most, not all, of
the cult today look down on those of us who are destined to go through the Great
Tribulation, and they are often bold in showing their disdain for us.
Result:
I
have found Branham's followers to be highly cultic and recluse. They avoid
any other Christians who are not believers in Branham. Also, because of
Branham's death in 1965, his followers today are woefully ignorant and disinterested
in recent fulfilled prophecy, and they are not informed in Satan's devices in
the New Age Movement and Hindu Eastern intrusions into the world church. They
believe that Branham was a true prophet, and this gullibility opens them wide
to receive another Prophet-- the False Prophet. One church I saw with the
Branham mystique had piles of Branham's books in every pew from which they studied.
They are perhaps even further along than the Seventh Day Adventist who exalt
Ellen G. White, in practical terms, higher than the Bible.
The succession of prophets according to Branham are:
The Apostle Paul
Irenaeus
Saint Martin-- A Roman Catholic flake
Columba
Martin Luther
Wesley
William Marion Branham
I
note that the last great prophet today, to Branham's followers, is Saint Panasonic,
the mystic tape recorder used to play Branham's tapes on Sunday morning. Branhamites
don't trust any man on earth today to teach the Word of God.
Result: The teaching that Eve had sex with Satan opens these folks to the witchcraft doctrines of incubus and succubus attacks. I would be very surprised if these illusions have not been thrust on many of them in night visits by devils. The home spun and common appearance of these folks, like the Amish and their sexual depravity, is a thin candy veneer covering much evil and an imagination centered on the libido. Experience with the cults and psycho-mystic Christianity teaches me that this must be assumed. Is this fair without dragging it out of them? "We are not ignorant of his devices." Also, because Branham taught that women are the cause of all bad things, and that women are intensely tempted by sex, I KNOW that the extreme modesty of Branhamite women is because they have come to believe this heresy, and they are in terror of themselves. This is precisely the same doctrine that Mohammed taught. Mohammed said that a woman is a walking sex organ, and Branhamite woman behave just like Muslims women when around other men. They are terrified of themselves.
Result:
Branham's followers may generally be unsaved since they have added to the
Revelation which was closed with a curse in Revelation 22. Ironically, they
plan to beat the rest of us out of here in the Rapture, when, in fact, for adding
to the Word of God, "God shall add unto him the plagues
that are written in this book:" Rev. 22:18. The tape library
in a Branham church is a sacred treasure on the same level as the Bible. For
this, they are a heretical cult.
Are some of Branham's followers saved? Possibly, if they do NOT hold Branham to be a true prophet, for he was obviously a devilized mystic. Also, they may not hold Branham's tapes to be revelation on the same level with the Bible.
You are a Balaam and a fool if you give these folks comfort in their cult. You ought to lovingly challenge them in the areas mentioned above with Scriptural proofs.
2
Timothy 4:3, For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching
ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall
be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
LINKS:
This
cave was revealed by Branham's daughter!
Second Site where
this may be found
WHAT
A SCAM. A FLASH PICTURE MAKES A REFLECTION IN
THE WINDOW, AND THE IDIOT
CLAIMS IT IS THE ANGEL OF
THE LORD
VIDEO: Branham exalting himself and playing all manner of tricks with the Word of God. His visions are clearly demonic visitations.
LISTEN TO BRANHAM PREACH AND EXALT HIMSELF
BRANHAM,
THE SEVENTH ANGEL
HERE
IS A GOOD CONCISE DISCUSSION OF BRANHAM:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/l07.html
PHOTO
ALBUM OF BRANHAM: Mystic halo, cloud, and other
vanity are seen here:
http://www.biblebelievers.org/pa00list.htm
REAL
AUDIO MESSAGE SHOWING THE DOWN
HOME APPEAL OF THIS VIPER:
http://www.nathan.co.za/message.asp?sermonum=1098
This is the sermon in print.
http://www.bibleway.org/stream/wmb/65-0711.ram
This is the Real Audio version. You can see why Branhan
stood apart
from the showy faith healers like Oral Roberts
and the drunk A.A. Allan.
UPC
PASTOR RECKART'S PAGE ON BRANHAM:
While this man's salvation doctrine is
heretical, his data on
Branham has not proven in error to me, so you ought
to read it
for information.
http://jesus-messiah.com/html/branham.html
THIS
PAGE SHOWS THE FANATICAL DEFENSE OF
BRANHAM, WHICH IS 100% CULTIC:
http://www.propheticrevelation.com/branhamism.htm
PROMOTER
OF BRANHAM IN AUSTRALIA:
These people try to get links from your Web Site
whicle they
conceal who they are. Many of their ideas sound interesting,
and they do NOT have the sermons by Branham in which he
trashes women
and his other heresies.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/index.htm
TO READ
THE TEXT OF THE ALLEGED PROPHET:
http://www.nfoweb.com/folio.pgi/stdobject/buttoni.gif/message/
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