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Richard Kimera of Uganda claims the message preached by William Branham titled "Marriage and Divorce" caused him to understand why he loved his wife.....yet he longed to marry another. He claims the message of William Branham gave him the revelation of POLYGAMY. | |||
From a news article in DAILY MONITOR of July 16, 2013: | |||
:''While many may have heard of the pastor with many wives, not many have heard of his End Times Gospel Message church. | |||
By then he had met and married his first wife Margaret with whom he lived a monogamous life until 2001. “I love and respect her, I found her in 1984,” says Kimera. | |||
:''The transition to polygamy with a growing church to explain it to was helped along a little, by another preacher who had gained popularity in the 50s and 60s and is seen as extremely anointed and controversial in equal measure. William Marrion Branham. Kimera is full of praise for Branham who was known for his extreme views on modest dressing for women and immorality. | |||
:''“I had received his word, read his work and was impressed. I decided to model my church and teachings on his. His message on marriage and divorce was the first time a preacher helped me understand why I still loved one wife and wanted another one,” he says. | |||
:''But despite the background and Branham’s teaching, the pastor still didn’t make the leap into polygamy immediately. | |||
:''It was in 2001 when he moved from theory to practice. According to him, he and his wife had a small disagreement. “It was a scuffle really, she wanted to travel for some time and I told her if she left me alone, I would marry another wife. His first wife in a burst of defiance told him to go ahead and left the country. | |||
:''Pastor Kimera kept his promise but not before sharing with the church his intentions. “I preached the marriage and divorce message and they clapped and cheered when I told them I would marry another wife,” he says. | |||
:''Kimera met Christine, then a university student and proudly introduced her to his members thinking they would cheer him on. They did not. They left in droves and Kimera found himself with only a handful of church members. Some of those who left went to court in an attempt to get their pastor to vacate the church property hence the long drawn lawsuit. | |||
While his first wife stayed away for three years indignant at him marrying a second and then a third, she eventually came back to the fold. | |||
:''“She apologised and said I was right, and also refuted allegations that I had divorced her to marry other wives,” he says. | |||
The pastor of many wives says he divorced one wife due to infidelity, one of the few allowed grounds for divorce in the Bible. | |||
:''“Of the four I have, only three are active,” he says cheekily. His eldest wife who was on a visit to the US at the time of our interview is relieved of some wifely duties which the other three all below 35 pick up. “Margaret is my wife, but she is almost my age, she will cook for me, spend time with me but I do not disturb her very much,” says the pastor. | |||
:''I am most curious about the living arrangement, how Kimera is able to divide his time between the different homes. He thinks nothing of it saying casually, “I manage, I respond to the one who needs me, and the wives know it. I am there for whoever needs me, even if it is in the middle of the night, I will go. I just let the one I am with know I am needed elsewhere.” Sometimes this avid reader needs his space, and then he withdraws to one of the homes where he can be alone, summoning one wife to take care of him from time to time. | |||
:''He is not about to stop either marrying or preaching the polygamy gospel. “Why should I? Fathers are jostling to give me their daughters,” he says. | |||
==Text of letter to Voice of God Recordings== | ==Text of letter to Voice of God Recordings== | ||