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[[Image:CadillacProphet.jpg|thumb|400px|William Branham accepts the keys to a free Cadillac in front of his free house.]] | [[Image:CadillacProphet.jpg|thumb|400px|William Branham accepts the keys to a free Cadillac in front of his free house.]] | ||
William Branham protrayed himself as growing up dirt poor and never having much money in his life. Is this true? | |||
=William Branham's early years= | |||
= | =William Branham's estimated net worth in 1965= | ||
Sarah Branham published that her father, William Branham, had control of funds of $3,113,676 at the time of his death, plus stocks. | |||
==2013 equivalent dollars== | |||
$3,100,000 USD in 1965 would equal almost $23,000,000 million USD in 2013 equivalent dollars. That would be enough wealth to put William Branham in the to 150,000 richest people in the world today or well within the top 0.005% of the wealthiest people in the world. | |||
[[Voice of God Recordings]], the entity controlled by William Branham's sons and dedicated to spreading William Branham's message, reported assets of $109,834,481 on its US tax return as of June 30, 2011. <ref>http://www.whas11.com/video/featured-videos/Exclusive-I-Team-Investigation-into-Ind-religious-group-151386375.html and http://207.153.189.83/EINS/351609054/351609054_2010_07cf03e3.PDF</ref> | |||
=Sarah Branham's Testimony= | ==Sarah Branham's Testimony== | ||
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=Quotes of William Branham= | |||
And I said, "Well, value!" I said, "Could you..." I remember years ago when '''I got my first little T-model Ford. I was a sinner. About 1926'''... And I would just shine that little thing all day Sunday to make it shine, stay home, didn't go to church, and shined it. Now, what if today I tried to find one piece of that car? It's gone. You couldn't do it. It's finished.<ref>THE.WORKING.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT_ PRINCE.ALBERT.SK THURSDAY_ 56-0816</ref> | |||
{{ | '''''I'm a poor man. I haven't got no capital.''' And I go along. I've never took an offering in all my life, never did, just what people freely send me. Then I take that and hold it together, what I can, and then, as soon as I get enough built up, I take right off to the heathens and preach the Gospel with it, so... I'll have to answer for your tithing, the people that give it to me.''<ref>THE.FAITH.OF.ABRAHAM_ SAN.JOSE.CA FRIDAY_ 59-0424A</ref> | ||
''Looky here today, what they're going on now. Hollering at me about spending some money out yonder for Christians, and wanting to give me twenty years in the state prison for spending money to operate a religious move. And whiskey and beer and cigarettes write off tens of millions of dollars a year to corrupt the nation. And me trying to preach righteousness, standing in the door of Jesus Christ, and send me to the penitentiary for it. And take stuff like that of the evil, lowdown, smart, intelligence, and let them write it off for television programs which corrupted the world, sent women to the dogs. One of the greatest curses the nation's ever had, and they get by with it. They send me to penitentiary for preaching the Gospel taking a few dollars out here to--to preach the Gospel, that people give me to preach the Gospel with. '''I'm not rich''', and I can't write that out. But yet they want to send me to the penitentiary, hold me two years, and got a trial coming soon. Oh, how lowdown, how filthy. God, be merciful.''<ref>HEARING.RECOGNIZING.ACTING.ON.THE.WORD.OF.GOD JEFF.IN 60-0221</ref> | |||
''All expenses was made. You had to sponsor that. You had to pay for it. Wish I could've just paid for it myself, but I--I can't do that. I can't afford it; I haven't got money like that. And I... The reason I can come to small meetings, as I have explained...Now, there's some of our brethren, such as Brother Roberts, and many of those men, who have great business, and they have radio and television, and so forth, that they've got to make so many thousands of dollars every day to sponsor that. See? They have to have it.''<ref>TO.TAKE.ON.THE.WHOLE.ARMOR.OF.GOD SANTA.MARIA.CA 62-0701</ref> | |||
''Why, these cars that we got today, couldn't run over these highways we used to have. My first trip west, it taken me sixteen days to go from Jeffersonville to Phoenix, Arizona, eighteen hundred miles. But, my, the most of--'''it was 1926''', they had nothing but just old rock roads. I was a little boy setting there, holding this '''spool-top Ford'''; I thought I was making good time. Would took a horse two or three months to do it, if my daddy would've come.<ref>A.SUPER.SIGN_ GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 141 SUNDAY_ 62-0708</ref> | |||
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