William Branham: Difference between revisions

 

='''Early Life'''=

*[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/The_Prophet_and_The_Eagle He taught that prophets were eagles in the Bible] – which is not supported by scripture.  

*[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Fallen_From_Grace William Branham also did not understand the doctrine of grace.  He taught that falling from grace was looking like Elvis], and remaining in God’s grace required obedience to his many rules on conduct, order, and doctrine.   

It was during these years that William Branham introduced the vision of the “third pull” that was to play a more significant part in later years. The third pull relates to a vision of an Angel who was teaching him how to fish. He was to cast his line out, pull slow at first (his healing ministry), jerk a little harder the second time (his discernment ministry), and set the hook for the catch on the third pull. However, in the vision William Branham got his line tangled, and the Angel rebuked him for making a public show of his ministry. He said the angel then took him back to a tent where people were being saved (reminiscent of his 1945 commissioning vision), and that the pillar of fire left him and went into a small building to meet people privately. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Third_Pull </ref>

It is in the late 1950’s that William Branham began talking about ‘speaking things into existence’.  By his word, he claimed to have raised dead fish to life, brought a woman’s two sons to instant salvation, and created squirrels.  He shot the squirrels, and one follower of William Branham claimed they sat in his freezer for years, and had no belly buttons. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Third_Pull#The_First_Temptation </ref>

In an interview, Ern Baxter said “Branham as a teacher was outside of his calling. The fruits of his teaching ministry are not good.”     <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Ern_Baxter </ref>

On June 1956 William Branham preached a three day campaign at the Cadle Tabernacle in Indianapolis with Jim Jones. This three day campaign was attended by over 11, 000 people and sky-rocketed Jim Jones to fame.  Jones later went on to commit mass suicide in 1978 after the world never ended in 1977. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Jim_Jones </ref>

In the 1960’s William Branham would often say, “I am a prophet”, then “I am not a prophet”.  He also expressed confusion as to whether he was a seer or an evangelist. <ref>http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/An_Uncertain_Sound </ref>    

|'''1962 Vision''' <br> [http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Prophecy_of_the_Cloud learn about the Prophecy of the Cloud]

William Branham came back for meetings in Jeffersonville in early 1963 where he preached about an angelic visitation he had received without his son Joseph and without birds appearing, and how he was divinely instructed to preach about the Seven Seals. These sermons contained a lot of church history, and also borrowed heavily from the commentary of Clarence Larkin once again. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Plagiarism </ref>  People who believe that William Branham was a major prophet consider these sermons the fulfillment of Matthew 17:11, where Jesus says that Elijah must come and “restore all things”. The seals as taught by William Branham can be summarized as follows:

|''The 7 Seals''' <br> [http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Seven_Seals  Learn about the Seven Seals]

 

 

 

{{Portal Navigation}}

|}