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According to Douglas Weaver in his book, ''The Healer-Prophet'', Roy E. Davis was the pastor of the First Baptist Pentecostal Church in Jeffersonville, Indiana . Roy Davis' church was not a Missionary Baptist Church as indicated by William Branham but was a "Holy Ghost church where they worship God in Spirit and not in fleshly denominations" (See ''Jeffersonville Evening News'', 10 June 1933, 4:7) | According to Douglas Weaver in his book, ''The Healer-Prophet'', '''Roy E. Davis''' was the pastor of the '''First Baptist Pentecostal Church''' in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Roy Davis' church was '''not''' a Missionary Baptist Church as indicated by William Branham but was a "''Holy Ghost church where they worship God in Spirit and not in fleshly denominations''" (See ''Jeffersonville Evening News'', 10 June 1933, 4:7). | ||
According to Roy Davis himself (see below), William Branham received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in Roy Davis' home in Jeffersonville. While Roy Davis had originally been a baptist, at the time that William Branham attended his church he was a Pentecostal minister. | According to Roy Davis himself (see below), '''William Branham received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in Roy Davis' home in Jeffersonville'''. While Roy Davis had originally been a baptist, at the time that William Branham attended his church he was a Pentecostal minister. | ||
According to William Branham, he first encountered Pentecostal people at a convention in Mishawaka, Indiana. While he was drawn to them and was invited to speak in their churches, he stated that he refused to join with them because of his mother-in-law. He indicated that this was one of the biggest mistakes of his life and God allowed his wife and daughter to be taken from him because of his disobedience to God in not joining the Pentecostals. | |||
This is a heartbreaking story that is familiar to all followers of William Branham; however, on closer examination, '''is it the truth?''' According to Roy Davis and Douglas Weaver, William Branham attended a Pentecostal church pastored by Roy Davis well before Hope died. Roy Davis himself says that William Branham received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in his home. This all precedes the death of Hope and Sharon Rose Branham in July 1937. | |||
'''The evidence follows. Can you tell truth from fabrication?''' | |||
==Letter from Roy E. Davis== | ==Letter from Roy E. Davis== | ||
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[[File:VofHealingOct50pg14.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Letter from Roy Davis]] | [[File:VofHealingOct50pg14.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Letter from Roy Davis]] | ||
:First, I am the minister who received Brother Branham into the first Pentecostal assembly he ever frequented. I baptized him, and was his pastor for some two years. I also preached his ordination sermon, and signed his ordination certificate, and heard him preach his first sermon. I was the first man on this earth whom Billy ever saw anoint and pray for a sick person. I feel I can write more intimately of Billy Branham than any living minister, as he also received his Baptism of the Holy Ghost in my humble home in Jeffersonville, Indiana. After that experience we were most "chummy" and grew to love each other a great deal. Many intimate conversations were indulged in between us during those days concerning the deeper things of the Holy Ghost. | :First, '''I am the minister who received Brother Branham into the first Pentecostal assembly he ever frequented'''. '''I baptized him, and was his pastor for some two years'''. I also preached his ordination sermon, and signed his ordination certificate, and heard him preach his first sermon. '''I was the first man on this earth whom Billy ever saw anoint and pray for a sick person'''. I feel I can write more intimately of Billy Branham than any living minister, as '''he also received his Baptism of the Holy Ghost in my humble home in Jeffersonville, Indiana'''. After that experience we were most "chummy" and grew to love each other a great deal. Many intimate conversations were indulged in between us during those days concerning the deeper things of the Holy Ghost. | ||
:He would always drift out into some sort of conversation which I did not grasp, and later came to disregard as entirely visionary, and finally to dismiss his strange cogitations as useless and irrational. I had been a Baptist preacher for many years, and had been taught to disregard such ideas and concepts of spiritual things as visions, talking with the Lord, and kindred things. Therefore this explains my impatience with Brother Branham, and at a time when had I listened also to that "voice" perhaps he would not have been circumscribed so long by my imposed provincialism. As a direct result of my failure to listen to God on matters so deeply important to us both and to the world in general, I went through the very fires of hell. Still I was unbending, and would NOT yield myself wholly over to God in matters which were more or less strange to me. | :He would always drift out into some sort of conversation which I did not grasp, and later came to disregard as entirely visionary, and finally to dismiss his strange cogitations as useless and irrational. I had been a Baptist preacher for many years, and had been taught to disregard such ideas and concepts of spiritual things as visions, talking with the Lord, and kindred things. Therefore this explains my impatience with Brother Branham, and at a time when had I listened also to that "voice" perhaps he would not have been circumscribed so long by my imposed provincialism. As a direct result of my failure to listen to God on matters so deeply important to us both and to the world in general, I went through the very fires of hell. Still I was unbending, and would NOT yield myself wholly over to God in matters which were more or less strange to me. | ||
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QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD THURSDAY_ 61-0112 | QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD THURSDAY_ 61-0112 | ||
:''I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost back in my shed. See? And about a year later, or something like that, I was--I was--spoke in tongues.'' | :''I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost '''back in my shed'''. See? And about a year later, or something like that, I was--I was--spoke in tongues.'' | ||
THE.MESSIAH_ SHREVEPORT.LA TUESDAY_ 61-0117 | THE.MESSIAH_ SHREVEPORT.LA TUESDAY_ 61-0117 | ||
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THERE.IS.ONLY.ONE.WAY.PROVIDED.BY.GOD.FOR.ANYTHING_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0731 | THERE.IS.ONLY.ONE.WAY.PROVIDED.BY.GOD.FOR.ANYTHING_ CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0731 | ||
:''I was converted in a converted barroom. And I feel very much at home now. I look back there and see that counter, and so forth. It was a little, colored church, where I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, was led there by the Lord.'' | :''I was converted in a converted barroom. And I feel very much at home now. I look back there and see that counter, and so forth. '''It was a little, colored church, where I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost''', was led there by the Lord.'' | ||
INFLUENCE_ NY.NY V-18 N-9 THURSDAY_ 63-1114 | INFLUENCE_ NY.NY V-18 N-9 THURSDAY_ 63-1114 | ||
:''I know many of them think that I've lost my mind. Even my good old righteous mother, that died a few years ago. When I first received the Holy Ghost, there was no one in our country knowed anything about It. And I was just a local, little, young Baptist preacher about twenty years old.'' | :''I know many of them think that I've lost my mind. Even my good old righteous mother, that died a few years ago. '''When I first received the Holy Ghost, there was no one in our country knowed anything about It.''' And I was just a local, little, young Baptist preacher about twenty years old.'' | ||
==Quotes regarding Roy Davis== | ==Quotes regarding Roy Davis== | ||
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THE.ANGEL.OF.THE.LORD_ CONNERSVILLE.IN THURSDAY_ 53-0604 | THE.ANGEL.OF.THE.LORD_ CONNERSVILLE.IN THURSDAY_ 53-0604 | ||
:''And Doctor Roy Davis was, Missionary Baptist Church that ordained me into the Missionary Baptist Church, was the one who sent him to me--the one who first told me I had a nightmare, when the Angel of the Lord came to me. Now he's preaching Divine healing himself. See? So he said in his letter, many of you read in the "Voice of Healing," where he said, "If I hadn't been backslid in my own heart, I would've believed the boy in the beginning." See? And so now he sent him over there.'' | :''And '''Doctor Roy Davis''' was, Missionary Baptist Church that ordained me into the Missionary Baptist Church, was the one who sent him to me--the one who first told me I had a nightmare, when the Angel of the Lord came to me. Now he's preaching Divine healing himself. See? So '''he said in his letter, many of you read in the "Voice of Healing'''," where he said, "If I hadn't been backslid in my own heart, I would've believed the boy in the beginning." See? And so now he sent him over there.'' | ||
LORD.SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.AND.IT.SUFFICETH.US_ CHICAGO.IL MONDAY_ 53-0907A | LORD.SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.AND.IT.SUFFICETH.US_ CHICAGO.IL MONDAY_ 53-0907A | ||
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:''I'd heard of Pentecostal, but they were a bunch of "holy-rollers that laid on the floor and frothed at their mouth," and everything that they told me about. So I didn't want nothing to do with it.'' | :''I'd heard of Pentecostal, but they were a bunch of "holy-rollers that laid on the floor and frothed at their mouth," and everything that they told me about. So I didn't want nothing to do with it.'' | ||
VISIONS.OF.WILLIAM.BRANHAM_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 60-0930 | VISIONS.OF.WILLIAM.BRANHAM_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 60-0930 | ||
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WHY_ BLOOMINGTON.IL THURSDAY_ 61-0413 | WHY_ BLOOMINGTON.IL THURSDAY_ 61-0413 | ||
:''And Doctor Roy E. Davis of the Missionary Baptist church that baptized me into the Baptist faith, was a--or Baptist fellowship we call it. '' | :''And Doctor Roy E. Davis of the Missionary Baptist church that baptized me into the Baptist faith, was a--or Baptist fellowship we call it. '' | ||
TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN COD FRIDAY_ 62-0601 | TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN COD FRIDAY_ 62-0601 | ||
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:''Then, about seventeen years after that, I was, had become a minister, a Baptist preacher, of the Missionary Baptist Church. Dr. Roy E. Davis ordained me as one of the local pastors, give me rights then, by the state, to marry, bury, baptize, so forth. And the Missionary Baptist Church burned down, which I was assistant pastor, at the time. And Mr. Davis come back to Texas, which he was of Davis mountains, and--and down near Van Horn, Texas. That's where they come from. And so, while he was gone, I started to take over the congregation. | :''Then, about seventeen years after that, I was, had become a minister, a Baptist preacher, of the Missionary Baptist Church. Dr. Roy E. Davis ordained me as one of the local pastors, give me rights then, by the state, to marry, bury, baptize, so forth. And the Missionary Baptist Church burned down, which I was assistant pastor, at the time. And Mr. Davis come back to Texas, which he was of Davis mountains, and--and down near Van Horn, Texas. That's where they come from. And so, while he was gone, I started to take over the congregation. | ||
==Quotes regarding William Branham's First Introduction to the Pentecostal Movement== | |||
DEMONOLOGY.RELIGIOUS.REALM_ CONNERSVILLE.IN DE 41-78 TUESDAY_ 53-0609A | |||
:''I was right up here in Indiana, at a certain place called Mishawaka. The first group of Pentecostal people I ever seen is called the--the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ...'' | |||
LIFE.STORY_ OWENSBORO.KY SUNDAY_ 53-1108A | |||
:''...I got my first acquaintance with Pentecostal people. We come through Dawa... or Mishawaka, and there was a... Mishawaka, Indiana. And there was a great convention going on. ...And I thought, "That's just awful that they'd do that." My self-styled Baptist ways, you know, so I--I thought...'' | |||
GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY.OF.HEALING_ CHICAGO.IL MONDAY_ 54-0719A | |||
:''When I first seen the Pentecostal people, and heard them speak with tongues, I'd been taught as a Baptist that that was of the devil. '' | |||
THE.RESULTS.OF.DECISION_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_ 55-1008 | |||
:''I remember when I first seen Pentecostal people, over around Mishawaka, Indiana...'' | |||
==Quotes regarding William Branham's Mother-in-law== | |||
LIFE.STORY_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 51-0415A | |||
:''When we got to her mother--got to her mother...?... When we got over there, why there's where the trouble started, right there. | |||
:''She said, "William Branham, do you mean to tell me that you'd take my daughter out amongst a bunch of trash like that?" | |||
:''I said, "Well, look, Mrs. Brumbach. They're not trash." | |||
THE. | :''She said, "That's a bunch of holy-rollers." She said, "And you take her out of here, she'll starve to death." She said, "Today she might have something to eat, and tomorrow she might not have nothing to eat." | ||
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:''But brother, I come to find out what she called "trash" was "the cream of the crop." And bless my heart...?... And said, "You mean to tell me that you'd take..." Said... | |||
:''And Hope started crying. And she said, "Mother..." She said, "I--I--I want to go with him." And she said, "Very well, Hope. If you go, your mother will go in a grave heartbroken. That's all." And then Hope started crying. | |||
:''And--and there, friends, is where my sorrows started. '''I listened to my mother-in-law in the stead of God.''' '' | |||
SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.AND.IT'LL.SATISFY.US_ CONNERSVILLE.IN WEDNESDAY_ 53-0610 | |||
:''And I stood down there not long ago. Say, "Will it last?" Yes, sir. I stood there when my own baby, about fourteen years ago, fifteen, my own little baby, six months old when I was praying for it, and it died and it went out from under my arms. I was walking up the road... I lost my father, my brother, and my wife (You know my story.), just because that I wouldn't hook myself up with you people.'' | |||
:''My mother-in-law said that we were too good to be with such people, said they were nothing but a bunch of backwash.'' | |||
MY.LIFE.STORY_ ZURICH.SWITZERLAND SUNDAY_ 55-0626A | |||
:''Now, from here, listen. I listened to my mother-in-law instead of God, and forsaken the church, and went on back with the Baptist people. Right away, plagues hit my home. My wife took sick; my father died on my arm; my brother was killed. And everything happened just in a few days. A great flood hit the country and washed away the homes. My wife was in the hospital. And I was out on a rescue with my boat. And one night out in the water, my boat got in the current, and was going over a big falls. I couldn't get the motor started, and I raised up my hands, and I said, "Oh, God, don't let me drown. I am not worthy to live, but think of my wife and baby."'' | |||
:''And I tried again, and it wouldn't start, and I cried again to God. And then, just before going over the falls, the motor started, and I got to the land.'' | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Weaver, C. | *Weaver, C.D., ''The Healer-Prophet'', Mercer University Press, 2000 | ||
*Lindsay, G. (Editor), ''The Voice of Healing'', Vol.3, No. 7, Voice of Healing, Inc., October, 1950 | |||