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From: Isaiah (Original Message)

Sent: 11/19/2003 3:05 PM

The following excerpt regarding the ministry of William Branham is from Part 2 of Is Healing in the Atonement?, an article by David W. Cloud posted at the site above:

Alfred Pohl was a worker in one of Branham's crusades in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Pohl was right by Branham's side during the meetings and attended Branham when he prayed over the bedridden cases following the evening healing services.

Alfred Pohl made the following statements about this crusade in an interview with the editor of O Timothy magazine, February 21, 1990:

O Timothy: Now, did many claim to be healed, or did it seem that many were healed in the meeting?

Pohl: In the meetings? Ah, yes, there were those that claimed to be healed, and there were those people that thought they saw healings, or thought they saw miracles. But, when you were on the inside, you saw that some of those things that were supposed to be miracles, were not miracles at all. From the outside, you would think that something had really happened; but having been right close to Branham, and working right with him, I discovered that a lot of those supposed healings or miracles were really not miracles after all.

O Timothy: Okay. As you took him through the dorm, he prayed for different individuals. What did he say during those encounters with the individuals?

Pohl: Well, one of the things he did was to take the hand of the person, and quite often I heard him say that the angel that gave him this gift told him that to identify certain diseases--and he would speak of cancer very much--there are vibrations that he felt on his hand that indicate that this person has cancer. So he would take the patient's hand and hold it. He would say, "Yes, the vibrations tell me that you have cancer."

Then he'd say something like this, "We're going to pray for you, that the Lord will heal you." And he proceeded to do this. Then he went on, and when he was through praying, he would take that hand again or else he would hold the hand throughout the prayer, and he would say, "The vibrations are gone. The cancer is dead. You are healed."

And the person would rejoice, of course; so would I. I thoroughly believed in Branham, I thought he was God's man and so forth, and we wanted to see people healed. So [supposedly] the cancer was dead, and we were happy about this.

But then he had a little added statement there, and that was something like this, "Now, just keep on trusting the Lord. You're healed. Don't loose your faith in the Lord. Just keep your faith and trust the Lord, and you're healed." He said, "You're going to be sick for a while. You're going to be quite sick for a few days." Quite often he referred to three days. "You're going to be very sick for three days."

The people often asked, "Well, what do you mean, Brother Branham? If I'm healed, why should I be sick?"

He said, "The cancer, the cancerous growth which is now dead inside your body has to be carried out by the blood stream. And it's waste material; it has to be carried out; it's poison material, and so you'll be sick for quite awhile until that is carried away."

But what happened then was this: that in the meantime the people wouldn't worry about it.

They'd say, "Well, that's what Branham said would happen. I'm healed."

But this went on, till some of these people got sicker and sicker and died.

So he had an out. By this time he was gone [from that place].

O Timothy: Right. So there were many that he proclaimed healed?

Pohl: Yes, yes. Practically every one as I recall, standing beside these various bedsides--practically everyone was pronounced healed. But the tragedy is that so many of those died after Branham was gone. So there was something wrong.

He also said, "Don't let your faith fail." In other words he emphasized that point. "Don't let your faith fail." And his out was this, I'm sure, that when they died, well, "Their faith failed."

It wasn't his faith, it was their faith. In other words, it was the patient's faith, which I don't see that in Scripture. When the Lord healed people, they were healed. And there wasn't such a thing as "You'll be sick for five days, or three days," and so, "don't lose your faith." I don't see that in Scripture.

O Timothy: There was a newspaper that tried to investigate the healings. Can you tell me something about that? What were they able to confirm as far as healings?

Pohl: Yes, in Winnipeg. Branham came to Canada at that time and he preached at a number of Apostolic churches in Canada. The first church was the church of our moderator in Winnipeg, who brought him into Canada. And Mr. Branham had his campaign there. Then he came later on to Saskatoon.

When the campaign was in progress in Winnipeg, the newspaper (one of the large city newspapers) was giving considerable coverage to the meetings, and they indicated that there were a lot of people healed. They were favorable to this church, and advertised it and gave news reports that quite a few people were healed. But later on that same editor sent out some reporters to check on some of these people that they had written up in the paper weeks before. [The reporters were] to check up and see whether these people who were supposedly healed at that time, were still healed, were still alive, or whatever.

And when these reporters went back, they discovered that these people had died, or were in the same state or in a worse state than they were before. So, the editor then put it in the paper that these cases had turned out to be phonies, and that these people weren't healed after all. And there was something wrong with these so-called miracles and healings.

But when the pastor of the church saw these reports in the paper, he went to the editor rather disturbed and not very happy about the situation, and he confronted the editor: "Why do you do this to our church? You're hurting the reputation of our church, and you shouldn't do that to us."

And the editor said words something to this effect, "Well, pastor, if the healings are genuine, you don't have to worry, do you?"

And I thought to myself later on when I heard this, well, that editor certainly had a lot of common sense, because if they're genuine, why worry? If they're not, well then they should be exposed--which is what the paper did.

And the editor said, "Pastor, we gave you good coverage when Mr. Branham was here." The pastor had to admit they did. "Now," he said, "we owe it to our people to give them the rest of the story." And he said, "That's what we found." He said to the pastor, "I'll tell you what I'll do, if you can bring me one genuine case of a genuine healing, I'll give you the front page."

And I was told right in that pastor's home that they couldn't find one.

O Timothy: Not one?

Pohl: Not one.

O Timothy: I understand there was a radio pastor whose wife supposedly was healed, and also a man with four students in the college. Could you tell me about those two?

Pohl: Oh, yes. Yes. The first one I would relate to is a man from a little place near Regina, Saskatchewan. He and his wife were staunch Christians in our denomination. Very fine family. They had four children, and they were all attending our Bible school at that time, in which I was on staff. We knew these children very well--such very fine children, and young people, and a very fine family.

One day during the healing campaign, the phone rang in our dorm and I answered it in our office there, and here was this man phoning from the airport. He'd flown his wife in from near Regina, and he said, "We're here. We want Branham to pray for my wife. She's dying of cancer. What shall we do?"

Well, I said, "Bring her down to the Bible school dorm." And he knew very well where that was. I said, "I'll meet you at the south door, and we'll put her in a room, and I'll see that Branham prays for her."

Which he did, and after the meeting that night we proceeded to take Branham from room to room, and of course we had her in mind very much. And we brought him into her room, and the husband was there, too. Branham prayed for her and pronounced her healed.

Well, there was great rejoicing on the part of all of us. We really were rejoicing that the Lord had healed this woman. [We were rejoicing] for the sake of the whole family. He had given them this story, of course, that "she's still going to be sick, though she's healed; she's going to feel pretty bad." So, they flew back as soon as they could. They wouldn't stay around. We didn't have the facilities to take care of sick people there. There was just a dormitory, and so they went back as soon as they could.

About 10 to 14 days later, in that time frame, I was sitting in the office in the Bible school. Branham was gone; the meetings were over. The door opened to the main building, and I could hear footsteps, then a knock on the office door. In came this gentleman. Of course I recognized him immediately, but I saw that his face was very downcast; he was really under pressure and a heavy burden. So I invited him to sit down, and I said, "Brother," I said, "what's on your heart?" And he said, "Brother Pohl, you were standing beside my wife when she was sick in one of the rooms in the dorm. Mr. Branham prayed for her, and he pronounced her healed."

I said, "Yes, I was right there." He said, "Tell me, how is it that my wife who was healed ten days ago (somewhere in that time frame), is now in the grave?" He said, "Tell me, how that can be?"

Well, it really hit him hard, and it hit me hard too, because that's the first I heard that she had died. We hadn't heard that she had died. So here he was all broken up and he wanted an explanation. What could I tell him? I think that's one of the hardest questions I've ever had to answer in my life. Why is she dead, if she was healed? And I was witness. He couldn't figure this out, a very fine Christian, and I felt for him.

To this day I don't know what I said, but I know we wept together and we prayed together. I could have said this: "Brother, your faith failed, or your wife's faith failed."

What help would I have been to him? I mean, that's a terrible thing to do. I wouldn't dare say that to him, to anyone. He was broken. He had enough to burden him down at this stage without saying, "Your faith failed you." That was the wrong thing to say, so I didn't say it.

I could have said that, because that's the feeling behind a lot of these cases. The healer will say, well "Your faith failed, and it's not my fault."

But, I don't see that that is the case in Scripture either--where people's faith failed, and they lost their healing after God healed, or the Lord healed them, or the Apostles healed them. So, it's ridiculous.

Anyway, he left then, and of course we prayed for him, and so on. But it really was a difficult blow to this man and his family.

Then the other party was--I recall so well--was a pastor from Port Arthur, Ontario, which is now called Thunderbay, Ontario. (They combined two cities, Port Arthur and Port William.)

This man was a Pentecostal pastor, had a radio broadcast and, I understand, quite a sizable church. He flew his wife in and the nurse to Saskatoon which was quite a trip--quite costly. And again I had the phone call from the airport and placed them in a room there eventually in the dorm. And when the meeting was over, and the prayer line was over in the church, I brought Branham into the dorm and he prayed for this lady as well. He prayed also for the nurse. The nurse was deaf. He prayed for her healing, and claimed that she was healed. He also claimed that the pastor's wife was healed of cancer.

Well, there was great rejoicing. Let me tell you, we rejoiced together, because I thoroughly believed in Branham all this time, I thought he was just ... just it. He was God's man. We rejoiced together, and then Branham left. And the husband (the pastor) said to me, "Now, Brother Pohl," he said, "I've spent thousands of dollars to try to get help for my wife, on doctors, and this and that and the other, medicines." He said, "I really can't afford it, but here"-- and he wrote out a sizable check. He said, "I can't afford it, but Branham is worth it." He said, "My wife is healed."

He took Branham at his word. See, it wasn't anything else; he just believed Branham. And here was this sizable check. He said, "Give it to Branham." Which I did, the next day.

Later on, about three, four weeks later, I left for Ontario. I was missionary secretary of our denomination, and I visited some of our churches in Ontario. And in the process of visiting our churches, I came to Port Arthur, Port William. We had a church in Port William, and one of the first things I did when I got to Port William was to ask the pastors, "What about pastor so and so in Port Arthur?" I named him. I said, "How's his wife doing?" I said, "She was healed in the meetings in Saskatoon."

And I saw a strange look that came over their faces as I asked that question. And I thought in my heart, "Oh, no, not another one." Just like the family I was telling you about in Saskatoon, from Regina. And I said in my heart, "No, not another one."

And they said, "Haven't you heard, haven't you heard? She's dead. She passed away."

Well that was another blow to me, because I began to realize that something was wrong with this kind of healing. This was counterfeit; something was drastically wrong. Of all people, here was a pastor who loved the Lord and served the Lord, and, you know, why did this happen? Did his faith fail? Did his wife's faith fail? He had a whole church behind him. But no, she passed away.

I was told that the worst thing was that this man (the pastor) had a very good radio broadcast in the area. He went on the air as soon as he got home, and he announced that they had been to Saskatoon to the Branham meetings and had wonderful meetings there, and there were many healings, and amongst them his wife was gloriously healed in those meetings.

I'm sure that many people rejoiced, were happy to hear that. But, it wasn't very long after that, a few days later, he had to get on the same radio station and mention the fact that his wife had passed away. And I was told this gave his radio program a severe blow and setback, because the world at large--I mean they think too, they're not stupid--here one day she was gloriously healed, and a few days later she's dead. You know, this doesn't add up.

We had more of those cases--these are just two exceptional ones--but there were others that passed away. I stood beside bed after bed, person after person who was pronounced healed and yet, where were they? They passed away. So there was something very wrong with this type of healing.

As with many other alleged "healing evangelists" who will be profiled on this Field Guide website, William Branham was either what he claimed to be--"The Elijah forerunner" of Jesus Christ, a miracle worker whose claims of the power to dispense and declare miraculous healings, and claims that his very words could call things into existence "out of nothing," should be able to be substantiated--or he was a false teacher at best, and a false prophet at worst.

From: joie

Sent: 11/19/2003 3:48 PM

Isaiah, you are doing a great work of finding and exposing these evil things. I want to give this testimony.

I also once believed in this William Branham. I heard I suppose everyone of his tape messages. I read many of the books. I went to the Branham churches.

I was hooked.

Yet I kept hearing him say things which I questioned. I kept hearing things which I KNEW were not true to the Word of God nor written in the Word. The Written Word is our ONLY safety. Without that, we have nothing to base anything on.

Flee anyone who denounces the Written Word of God in any kind of way. They are the enemy of your soul.

I kept studying and trying to find the truth of Branham. It was hard at first for me to accept what the Word of God PROVED to me --- that this man was teaching very ugly lies against God's truth.

But finally I saw completely through it and accepted it. Now I am determined to try to open eyes of friends and kin folks of mine who are still deceived by the man. He was BOTH a false teacher and a false prophet.

I finally received such teaching from the Word itself; from the Spirit itself, that I saw those kinds of prophets [those who recieve the word and give it to us] were done away with as was all the law itself.

God did away with the whole of the OT Covenant, this includes those kinds of prophets.

Yet many of my very own friends and kin folks still to this day believe he was like God--- every word he said is pure truth not to be disputed. I have a sister and many friends including my last boyfriend, who will not have anything to do with me because of my stand against this false healer, teacher, prophet.

Yet I will not stop trying to show people his evil teachings. Millions of people denounce Jesus, because to accept another prophet since John the Baptist is to deny that in these last days God speaks to us BY HIS SON.

May many people be woke up to this foolish way of pretend healing to build up a big name and money ministry.

I know a man right now, personally who copies this branham and pretends to heal. He has the same 'out'; your faith failed. I guess branham taught them.

I myself went before this man for prayer; he did not even ask me what was wrong; just kind of said a quick word, said you are healed; the spirit ran through you. Well sad to say, the spirit did not run through me; I was not healed.

Now I know God heals. I have received healing many times; right on the spot. But know what? It came by simple prayer and faith. It did not take a big minister putting on a show. My husband prayed for my aching, throbbing throat once, and it stopped instantly.

I was prayed for at home by friends and the swimming which had made my life unbearable for a long time, stopped right then and there and has not been back.

God is a healer. Any of us can perform the prayer of faith. It does not take big, money men with their fake way of doing it.

Thank God for those who can and will pray, call for prayer and heal according to the Word of God.

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Sent: 11/19/2003 9:03 PM

William Marion Branham
What You Should Know
What His Followers Will Not Tell You
Seventh Church Age Messenger Or False Prophet

We don't have to look to much further to see what he taught is contrary to what God says. Branham taught that the Word of God was given in three forms, the Zodiac, the Egyptian pyramids, and the written scripture (Al Dager, Vengeance is Ours, Sword, p. 59).

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Learn More About The Branham Hoax

By Cohen G. Reckart, Pastor

There are many who believe that William Branham was a Prophet of God. Some actually believe he was God manifest again as a second type of Christ. Some believe that he is the messenger of Malachi 4 to precede the second coming of the Lord. Our questions are:

1.) Was he a prophet of God or a false prophet?
2.) Did he preach the true Apostolic Message?
3.) Does his doctrine match what Jesus or the Apostles taught?
4.) Did he believe what other Apostolics believe?
5.) Is the serpent seed doctrine Apostolic, Jewish, Gnostic, or Wiccian mysticism?

The answers to these questions will determine what and who William Branham was. He will be judged by the Word of God and the words spoken by himself. We will not have space to deal with his use of the satanic halo, his seances with his deceased first wife and daughter, or his two attempts at suicide. What William Branham was is contained in his answers to questions asked of him by those who followed him:
Question: "Is it not true that you are not saved unless you have received the Holy Ghost?"
Answer: "There could take about a good five hour discussion on that" (Vol. 1, Conduct, Order, and Doctrine, p 368 Question #77 to William Branham).
Why would it take five hours, when Jesus plainly said in John 3:3-5 that no man can see or enter the Kingdom of God, Christian Judaism, the Church, without being born of the Spirit? This is the new birth.
Branham's answer to this question comes later and is found under question #49 of the same book: "Therefore the question is, that a man is saved I BELIEVE , if he's looking to towards Calvary and dies in that estate, CERTAINLY, I BELIEVE HE'LL BE SAVED "
This "look doctrine" is no where taught by Christ or the Apostles.
Question: "Will only those who have the baptism of the Holy Ghost be in the rapture of the Church, or will all believers be indicated?"
Answer: "We ain't ...we haven't got time to justify that, but brother, only the Holy Ghost bride will be in the rapture, see? The Bible ...the others won't be lost ." (Ibid Q. p 192 # 40, A. p 271).
Because Branham was a friend to trinitarians like Demos Shakarian, Ray Hookster [Chaplin Ray], and helped found the Full Gospel Christian Businessman's Fellowship, he would not say these "believers" would be lost without obedience to Acts 2:38.
Question: "Please explain Apostolic Faith."
Answer: "Now here is my thoughts, it may be wrong. ...My thoughts is, that if a Roman Catholic, or whatever he might be, Methodist, Presbyterian, Church of Christ, Lutheran, wherever he is, if he believes on the Lord Jesus Christ and solemnly trusting him for salvation, I believe he is saved" (Ibid, pp 672).
Is this the Apostolic Faith of the New Testament?
Why is it that few if any Branham followers preach this same doctrine today, while they believe a person will go to hell if they don't believe Branham was a prophet?
What motivated Branham to this doctrinal position? The answer is he wanted some comfort for his own lack of spiritual leadership concerning his deceased wife Hope. Hope, his first wife, died while a Trinitarian, had not been baptized according to Acts 2:38. This was Branham's fault. He knew and had been exposed on his way home from his trip to Benton Harbor, Michigan to the House of David church. At this time Branham was a staunch Primitive Baptist and believed in hyper Calvinism on predestination (born saved or born damned). Branham chose to reject the truth about salvation while his wife was alive. He rejected that he and his wife must be baptized in the name of Jesus Messiah for the remission of sins and receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. His error here caused him to fabricate his own doctrine of salvation wherein he could feel comfort his wife had not died lost in unbelief because of his own spiritual stubbornness.
Branham's whole doctrine of salvation was founded upon him being able to save and justify his first wife. We will not here be her judge. But Branham cannot use her and her spiritual condition because of his own failure, to push upon the New Testament Church a new doctrine of salvation which Jesus and the Apostles did not teach all nations. His dear wife Hope was looking with faith toward Jesus and we will not deny that. We question whether unfulfilled faith is valid when Acts 2:38 is so clear and to the point on salvation. Supposedly, his wife Hope told Branham Jesus name baptism and Acts 2:38 salvation was correct, but she died without it he remaining steadfast and resolute in his spiritual stubbornness.
This is the foundation of his "look doctrine" and his interpretation of the Bride [Apostolics], and the Trinitarians as friends of the Bride. He has the friends of the Bride being saved by solemnly trusting Christ for salvation although denying Acts 2:38 and the name Jesus being essential in water baptism. In further explanation of his doctrine of salvation and we believe influenced by the condition of Hope as saved or lost, he said this: "I do believe that any person upon their faith and sincerity and walk in all the light they have will be saved" (Ibid Q. 56, p 656).
Based upon this, an Apostolic Minister in the congregation asked Branham:
Question: "Do you believe that Saul was saved.?"
Answer: "The Saul, ..the King Saul?"
The Apostolic replied: "Yes."
Branham: "Why I am sure."
I have yet to meet any true Apostolic Minister who believes that Saul died saved. Yet according to Branham he died saved (his doctrine of unconditional eternal security or predestination).
Did William Branham believe Acts 2:38 was the only plan of salvation? We will let him answer for himself:
"I [William Branham] believe if a man was baptized wrong ignorantly [remember this addresses Hope], not knowing that he was baptized wrong, ...Now, I can't say this scripturally, but I believe it with my heart that if a man did not know what to do right, and he did something to the best of his knowledge, I believe that God would overlook that and save him anyhow" (Ibid Q. #54, p 655).
On the issue of speaking in tongues, did William Branham believe a person would speak in tongues as the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost? We will let him answer:
Question: "Can one have the Holy Ghost and not the signs?"
Answer: "I disagree with you that they must speak in tongues. ...I would be judge if I said they did not have the Holy Ghost, if they did not speak with tongues." (Questions and Answers, 1969, Aug 30th, Jeffersonville, Ind).
In the same service William Branham said that speaking in tongues was BABYHOOD. He indicated plainly: Tongues is not the evidence.
What did Branham teach concerning women cutting their hair:
"I [William Branham] say one thing I wished, ...Now, I know my kids has done that too, Rebekah and Sarah, I seen when they cut their hair off in front, like this, ...I don't, I ...but when they got all long, hanging down like this, and just cut the front of it out of their eyes, little kids maybe, I, I wouldn't know whether that'd be wrong. (Conduct, Order, And Doctrine, Q #187. p 1102).
So a sister then speaks up and ask him:
Question: "Is it wrong for me to run a beauty shop. I don't believe in Christians [women] cutting [their own] hair, but I cut others and color also."
Answer: "Sister dear, I would not know what to tell you" (Ibid Q #250, p 957).
On the subject of jewelry what did Branham teach?
Branham: "Now I don't mean by that Sister, if you had a pin, ...now this is me, not the Lord, if you had a pin that you wanted to wear, or little necklace your husband gave you or maybe your ...something like that you wore, I don't think that's bad." "Now I know you Nazarene people, it used to be that you wouldn't even baptize a woman with a wedding ring on. See? I, I don't believe that as necessary. In the Bible they wore wedding rings, only it was a tablet they called it, around their head" (Ibid Q #65 & 66, p 1008).
What did Branham teach about belong to secret cults with blood oaths and satanic doctrines?
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." (Ibid Q 162, p 680).
What did Branham believe about baptism in Jesus name for the remission of sins. Did he believe that in the water and being baptized brought cleansing of sin by the blood of Jesus? Did he believe the blood was applied in the water for the remission of sins? Here are his own words from the last message he preached in his life (12-12-1965 he was in a car wreck on 12-17-1965 five days after this statement, and he died on 12-24-1965):
"Neither do I believe that the baptism of Jesus Christ, in the Name of Jesus Christ, in water does forgive your sins. I do not believe that you... I believe you could be baptized all day long... Now, I know that there's perhaps people setting here who come from the Apostolic church, I mean, or the United Pentecostal church, which they teach that. But, you see, I--I do not believe that the water forgives sins. Or if it was, then Jesus died in vain. See? I believe that it's only an ordinance of God (See?) to show that you have been forgiven. But to be baptized for regeneration, no, I--I--I don't believe that. I don't believe that water forgives sins (Communion 12-12-1965).
Branham believed in Acts 2:38 for an ordinance! He did not believe a person received remission of sins by the blood of Jesus during the act of water baptism. He said baptism was to show a person had already been forgiven. This is contrary to what Jesus commanded in Luke 24:49-50 and what Peter said in Acts 2:38. Branham lied! We can see his Acts 2:38 baptism in the name of Jesus Christ was NEVER a valid baptism. All who were baptized by him would have to be rebaptized or be lost! If he did not baptize for the remission of sins by the blood of Jesus, then all his baptisms were false. All who baptized after his doctrine are lost. All who did the baptising are lost! A small perversion of the baptism doctrine of the Apostle Peter can cause a lot of souls to be lost. Branham's baptisms were false. I think it was this one thing that he preached last that brought the anger and judgments of God on him. He totally rejected the baptisms of remission of sins practiced by all Apostolic Churches and also UPC Churches. This reveals his Acts 2:38 baptisms were even false, and incorrectly interpreted.
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 although he was quick to denounce the UPC and other Jesus name groups and independent churches as cults. 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 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?
Branham believed in a Pre-Tribulation rapture and predicted 1977. He believed the writings of the Jewish Kabbalah and the Talmud were sacred. He taught the doctrine of Lilith and the serpent seed. He claimed to be a Protestant. He taught that Martin Luther was God's servant and messenger. In his book The Seven Church Ages, Branham said: "Now Martin Luther, himself, was a sensitive Spirit-filled Christian. He was definitely a man of the Word." What did Martin Luther say about himself? "While I slept and drank my beer with dear Melanchthon at Arnsdorf, I gave the papacy such a shock." We Apostolics are shocked also, more so by Branham's claim that this beer-swilling Protestant was "Spirit-filled and a man of the Word.
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 and sad 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 in my possession. 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.
Clearly, William Branham was a mystic and not an Apostolic. He did not preach the Apostles' Doctrine. He did not believe in the Acts 2:38 plan of salvation. He did not believe in the essentially of the new birth of water and Spirit baptisms to be saved. He accepted trinitarianism and trinity groups as being saved. He believed membership in blood oath secret societies was acceptable. Do not judge Branham by his miracles for devils working through men and women can do miracles, read palm vibrations, and read their fortunes by divination. Rather, judge Branham by the Word of God, not his claims nor the claims of his followers. Judge him by his word and his testimony for by it, he like all others shall be judged or condemned by their words.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity ((MAT 7:22-23).
If ever there was a man who fits this description, William Branham was that man.
True Apostolics rejected Branham very early in his ministry because he was heady and high-minded and would not heed their counsel. He refused to have fellowship with them except where they compromised with him and condoned his false doctrines. Rejecting us, he choose the pulpits of trinitarians and others. His rejection of us and accepting our baptism in Acts 2:38, although not as essential, will never make him an Apostolic.
We conclude then that William Branham was not a prophet of God. And if he ever was a true prophet, which this writer has found no evidence, he surrendered it up when he began to dabble in the occult and other mystic practices and tried to incorporate these into his ministry with spiritualist tricks, as the works of God.
Those of you who are Branhamites, if you do not believe it is Godly and holy to be a member of the Masonic Lodge cult, then you also believe Branham was a false prophet on this. If you believe it is a sin and it is unGodly for a woman to cut, trim, or dye her hair, then you also believe Branham was a false prophet on this. If you believe the Holy Ghost baptism is essential to salvation with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, then you MUST also believe Branham was a false prophet when he taught a person did not need to receive this Baptism, all they had to do was believe in their heart and look toward calvary. If you believe that a person MUST be baptized according to Acts 2:38 by faith to be saved, then you also must believe Branham was a false prophet for teaching a person could be saved without baptism in the Name Of Jesus Messiah, and just believe for full salvation.
In the months I have had this posted on the internet I have had many hate letters from Branhamites. Most admit he was wrong on these important issues but they refuse to call him a false prophet . These same individuals when asked admitted that if the Mormons, Baptist, Catholics, Methodist, Church of Christ, Charismatics, et al, taught what Branham taught on these issues they would be false prophets. Why then, refuse they to admit against Branham what they easily and without alarm charge against other groups who allow membership in the Masonic lodge and these other sins? They will not admit Branham was a false prophet because to do so would force them to seek other fellowships where these things are preached against and that is exactly what they do NOT WANT. They do not want a man to Pastor them in the Apostolic Truth. They want their Pastor to be a dead man who cannot exercise authority over them. They can be free-wheelers, Church hoppers, and home destroyers and be under subjection to no man. They do not want to attend a Church that stands against Branham and against his heresies. So they remain Branhamites and do not tell their converts what Branham believed that they believe is false. Branham made mistakes you say! No, not mistakes, these are grave and serious doctrinal issues that will cause many to be lost and end up in a devil's hell. I want to save these innocent and unsuspecting souls from this horror. That is why I have posted this study on the internet.
With love toward all and malice toward none.
See our next page: William Branham Biography
Pastor G. Reckart

From: joie

Sent: 8/5/2005 9:21 PM

Do not judge Branham by his miracles for devils working through men and women can do miracles, read palm vibrations, and read their fortunes by divination. Rather, judge Branham by the Word of God, not his claims nor the claims of his followers. Judge him by his word and his testimony for by it, he like all others shall be judged or condemned by their words. [taken from the message above]

I wish to help expose this false man for what he really was. So I am sending this back to the front. I wish to print this out and also go to the web-site it originated from

I wish to thank the man who is helping expose this false teacher and self-appointed 'prophet'.

Let's find some more of this stuff, and post it here, Larry.

From: <NOBR>

Sent: 8/5/2005 9:42 PM

Jo, you need to print this out and give it to 2 of your ministers friends. You know who I am talking about.

From: <NOBR>

Sent: 8/6/2005 3:32 AM

William Branham Biography
Of Lies
The Cloud Hoax Story
By Pastor Reckart
William Branham lied..
William Branham claims that on 2/28/1963 he was up in Sabino Canyon 40 miles northeast of Tucson, when he was visited by seven angels who descended to him in the form of an inverted pyramid "V". When they departed be claimed a circular cloud appeared over him and it gradually rose higher and higher going up to the level of 140,000 feet. He made reference to this mystery cloud in a sermon "Rising of the Sun" preached in Jeffersonville on 4/18/1965. This is over two years from the time the mystery cloud appeared.
Here are some facts:
Branham claimed these seven angles instructed him to go back to Jeffersonville, it was time to reveal the seven seals. The visit by the angels was also the cause of an alleged blast so loud and strong that hugh bolders rolled down mountain sides where Branham was at. According to Fred Sothman, a Canadian who moved to Tucson in 1962 to be near Branham, he, Branham and Gene Norman were up in the mountains hunting Javelina when these angels supposedly came to Branham.
Here is Branham's quote:
"Brother Branham said: Science took the picture all the way from Mexico as it moved from northern Arizona, where the Holy Spirit said I would be standing (forty miles northeast of Tucson). And it went into the air, and "Life" magazine packed the pictures: a mystic something way in the spheres there there can be no moisture, where there can be no evaporations of anything, thirty miles high and twenty-seven miles across and coming right up from where those Angels were. RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M".
Branham lied! The cloud as he said went right up from where those angels were and he alleged it was the same cloud that appeared the same evening at sundown ovehead in Flagstaff, 190 miles to the North. It is very clear that the mystery cloud that "did" appear over Flagstaff on the evening of 2/28/1963 continued moving in a west to east direction at the 140,000 ft elevation even 28 minutes after sundown and its shape over this half an hour time changed drastically until it looked like a hangman's noose. Since the mystery cloud was moving in the normal direction of the high winds at that height, and since Branham claimed the cloud went up in the air, we can assume the cloud acted like all other normal vapor or smoke clouds in association to wind direction and speed. There were no winds of any speed on 2/28/1963 that was blowing vapor or smoke clouds from Tucson toward Flagstaff on this date. Branham did not claim the angels went up to 140,000 feet and left a circle cloud. He did not say he say the angels fly to the north toward Flagstaff and somewhere in that direction released or caused this circle cloud. He said the cloud went right up from where those angels were that visited him. This means the circle cloud had to rise up over Sabino Canyon, continue on rising higher and higher until it was at the 140,000 elevation. And then, in order for it to be overhead in Flagstaff at 1840 MST, it had to travel 190 miles in a short time. Branham lied, Sothman lied, and Gene Norman lied.

Here is a man who claimed such a dynamic visitation with blast and a miracle circle cloud and yet his conduct soon afterward was not at all the least affected. The stories do not match. Sothman said they were up there hunting javelina. Branham claimed different. He claimed in his message at Jeffersonville on 3/17/1963 the following:
"On early morning."
"I got up into Sabino Canyon."
"I want to be honest."
"I'm more inclined to believe that it was a vision."
"I had my hands out saying,: Lord, what does this blast mean, and what does these seven angels in a constellation of, of the pyramid, picking me up from off the ground and turning me eastward: what does it mean?"
Branham then goes into a strange account of holding a King's sword.
He makes no mention of Sothman or Norman being with him on this trip.
He makes no mention of hunting javelina.
He makes no mention of THE CLOUD!
The story Sothman concocted years later is a lie. He claims the Cloud and angels visited Branham when they were on a hunting trip together and Branham claimed he was alone when the blast and cloud appeared. Who is lying here?
Here are some more facts.
Branham claimed he he went up to the mountain early in the morning. He claims the cloud appeared early that same morning. Yet according to recorded facts about the mystery cloud, it was being blown by 130mph winds at the 140,000 foot height going from due West to due East, AND IT WAS 6:40pm in the evening right at sundown when it was passing over Flagstaff 190 miles north of Tucson. No winds were blowing from Sabino Canyon toward Flagstaff, South to North, at any height that day.
Branham made a big deal of this mystery cloud when he discovered it via newspapers and magazines. He used this cloud and his claim it was caused by seven angles who visited him, to make him look more the prophet Elijah. He placed a lot of emphasis on this mystery cloud until he boasted of it a whole year before he was killed on Christmass eve by a drunk driver in Texas. He came out with this claim the cloud was made by the angels in his message dated 4/18/65. He was to live just over eight months after this message!
Here are some more things to think about:
If anyone else had such an encounter with seven angels and a blast so violent it shook rocks off mountains, it would be something you soon told. The next time you were before a congregation you would mention it. Especially if the angels picked you up by the hair of your head and turned you eastward.
The first message Branham preached after the mystery cloud appeared on 2/28/63, was in Houston, Texas on 3/04/1963. You can read the transcript of this message over and over and not find any mention of the CLOUD or ANGELS or BLAST that shook rocks down mountain sides. Now 2/28/1963 was on a Thrusday. He went back home that day and told no one. Get that, he told no one about what he supposedly had experienced, not even his wife! He did not call anyone and tell them, not a single member of the 600 size congregation there. He went to bed that night and got up Friday (April 1) and departed for Houston, Texas. He arrived in Houston on Sunday April 3rd. On Monday, April 4th he preached his sermon "A Absolute" http://nathan.co.za/message.asp?sermonum=918. Get that, four days after this explosive encounter and the cloud he is preaching in Houston and NEVER MENTIONS THESE THINGS!
He departed from Houston and NEVER TOLD A SOUL!
Branham then goes to Jeffersonville where he preached on 3/17/63 "God Hiding." He again MENTIONS NOTHING OF THE CLOUD!
He preached on 3/17; 3/18; 3/19; 3/20; 3/21; 3/22; 3/23; and 3/24 in Jeffersonville revealing the seven seals. In his message entitled The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals (63-0317E) he mentions the seven angels and the pyramid shape of their descent. He NEVER MENTIONS THE CLOUD. All he mentions is the V shape of the angels as he says they appeared to him.
The facts are clear. Branham did not make use of the mystery cloud until after he learned of it whenit was published in Science Magazine on April 19, 1963. Branham did not discover this magazine until many months after it came out. It was the article in Life Magazine on May 17, 1963 that the cloud first caught his attention and he made use of it. All the pictures of the mystery cloud used by Branhamites come from the stories in these magazines. Branham outright lied when he said this cloud is the same one he claims the seven angels made when they came and departed from him.
The fact is, this cloud is not a vapor cloud at all. It is a cloud of smoke and the remains of rocket fuel from a Thor rocket that had been launched the afternood of 2/28/1963 at 1:52PST at Vandenburg, California. The rocket was blown up at 147,000 feet because of a malfunction. At this height there was a west to east wind blowing around 130mph. The smoke from the explosion formed the circle shaped cloud. The jet stream winds carried the cloud due east from Vandenburg toward Flagstaff, Arizona. Because of some lower clouds this one was not observed in Arizona until around sunset. The cloud remained sunlit for 28 minutes after official sundown in Flagstall. Giving account for the curvature of the earth and it being seen as far away as Elpasso, Texas it was estimated to be 140,000-147,000 feet high exactly on the same level as the smoke and vaporized rocket fuel of the destroyed Thor rocket.
The issue is always made out that water vapor does not exist at this height because it is between -40 and -60 degrees. It is claimed that because it is not natural for such a cloud at this height except over the Arctic (nacreous clouds). Therefore it is a miracle cloud and angels visiting Branham created it. Reports from all the magazines and from James McDonald are used to prove the cloud is a miracle cloud and has no earthly explanation. From this a leap is made to say this verifies and validifies Branham's claim it was created when the angels visited him 40 miles north of Tucson.
As stated already, there was no wind blowing from Tucson toward Flagstaff that day at any elevation. And do not tell me the angels carried the cloud 190 miles north and then released it to then be blown further East by the West jet stream.
The cloud hoax is another of Branham's lies. It is another lie still used by Branhamites to make his false doctrines acceptable by means of these miracles.
Branham lied. The mystery cloud came from the explosion of a rocket, not by seven angels.
The fact that Branham did not mention this cloud BEFORE he learned of it from newspapers and magazines, is easily seen. If he had mentioned this cloud in his Houston trip we could come better believing him. He did not and to me this translates that he never saw this cloud and he never saw these alleged angels forming a cloud.

Pastor Reckart

These messages here are for the people that still follow the so-called preachin of William Branhamm. There were many false prophets like him before his time and their are many more after his time. Tweety

So true, Tweety. The world is filled with them. Europe is over-run with their evil, all out in the streets. It is disgusting to walk down many of their streets, .... >> evil statues all over the place... >>> naked men, with children at their feet.... evil insinuations....>>. naked men holding women's heads in their hands, with the woman laying on the ground, all mangled up........such filth.....which they call 'art'. (this filthy 'serpent-seed' teaching is the father of these lies and evil statues.)

I told some of them that I call it filth. AMEN. And they hate this truth being called to their attention. Europe glories in their 'shame'.

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