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Roy Davis wrote "'''''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.'''''" Roy Davis was also a leader in the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a far-right white supremacist organization.


==Roy Davis' Pentecostal Baptist Church==
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William Branham stated that, prior to ministering on his own, he was the assistant pastor at the Missionary Baptist Church in Jeffersonville, Indiana and that he served under the direction of Dr. Roy E. Davis, the pastor, who also ordained him. 
Because of a dispute over the ordination of women, William Branham left his position as assistant pastor and started holding meetings on his own in 1933.  This date is confirmed both by Douglas Weaver in his book, ''The Healer-Prophet'', and by Owen Jorgensen in his book, ''Supernatural - the Life of William Branham, Book 2''
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.
[[Image:HopeThePreacher.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Dr. Roy E. Davis was the Pastor of the First Pentecostal Baptist Church, and Hope Brumbach was one of the speakers, according to this January 28, 1933 advertisement from the Jeffersonville Evening News.]]
However, William Branham says that 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.  William Branham tells how Hope, just before she dies, makes him promise to go back to the Pentecostal people.
But how could he go back to the Pentecostal people if he had never left them?  If he had been the assistant pastor in a pentecostal church and his own church was known as being Pentecostal before Hope died?
What is the truth?
'''The evidence follows.  Can you tell truth from fabrication?'''
=Letter from Roy E. Davis=


The October 1950 issue of the Voice of Healing magazine contained a letter from Roy E. Davis.  The following excerpts from that letter contain some very interesting information:
The October 1950 issue of the Voice of Healing magazine contained a letter from Roy E. Davis.  The following excerpts from that letter contain some very interesting information:


: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
[[File:VofHealingOct50pg14.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Letter from Roy Davis]]
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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:May the good Lord bless you, and keep His hands on Brother Branham, is the wish and prayer of  
:May the good Lord bless you, and keep His hands on Brother Branham, is the wish and prayer of  


:Yours in the blessed hope,
:::::Yours in the blessed hope,


:R. E. Davis, Sr.
:::::R. E. Davis, Sr.


=Quotes=


==Quotes regarding William Branham receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit==


THE.RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS_  CLEVELAND.OH  SUNDAY_  50-0813A
:''I'm a Pentecostal Baptist. I got the Holy Ghost since I've been a Baptist. That's right.''


EXPECTATIONS_  LA.CA  MONDAY_  51-0507
:''Well, I'm a Pentecostal Baptist now, you know.  So I got the Holy Ghost.''


[[File:VofHealingOct50pg14.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Letter from Roy Davis]]
THE.MANIFESTATION.OF.THE.SPIRIT_  TOLEDO.OH  TUESDAY_  51-0717
 
:''I'm a Baptist, but that... Not... I'm a Pentecostal Baptist. I got the Holy Ghost, so that changed my things a little bi
==Quotes regarding William Branham receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit==


BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ NEW.YORK.NY WEDNESDAY_ 51-1003
:''And so I remember when I first got converted though, and they give me my license in the Baptist church as local exhorter license and to do a little evangelistic work. I'd put my Bible under my arm and I'd go down the street, my, when they call me reverend, oh, I was a full fledged preacher.


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==


THE.WORKS.THAT.I.DO.BEAR.WITNESS.OF.ME_  PHOENIX.AZ  FRIDAY_  51-0413
THE.WORKS.THAT.I.DO.BEAR.WITNESS.OF.ME_  PHOENIX.AZ  FRIDAY_  51-0413
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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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:''He said, "Well then, I'll say over there, 'Come unto me all ye that labor and heavy laden,' Matthew 11:27 said," I'll say, 'That's not inspired then.'"
:''He said, "Well then, I'll say over there, 'Come unto me all ye that labor and heavy laden,' Matthew 11:27 said," I'll say, 'That's not inspired then.'"
So he had him on a spot. And Roy said... The Holy Ghost begin to move on him, say, "Stand up there." So he said, the old bishop, he said, "If that infidel makes that challenge one more time, if I die in my shoes, I'll go to heaven believing God's Word."
 
So he said, "Now, listen, son. Set down and let him just... He's just popping his own brain. Let him alone."
:''So he had him on a spot. And Roy said... The Holy Ghost begin to move on him, say, "Stand up there." So he said, the old bishop, he said, "If that infidel makes that challenge one more time, if I die in my shoes, I'll go to heaven believing God's Word."
So he said, "Now, listen, son. Set down and let him just... He's just popping his own brain. Let him alone."''


:''So it was the Holy Spirit moving. So when he made that challenge again, he let out a big "Ha-ha" and held his watch up. "If there's a God, I'll die in a minute." Waited for a minute and said, "Didn't I tell you wasn't no such a thing? Ha, ha, ha," like that, laughed out like that.
:''So it was the Holy Spirit moving. So when he made that challenge again, he let out a big "Ha-ha" and held his watch up. "If there's a God, I'll die in a minute." Waited for a minute and said, "Didn't I tell you wasn't no such a thing? Ha, ha, ha," like that, laughed out like that.
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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.''
BALM.IN.GILEAD_  CLEVELAND.TN  TUESDAY_  59-0707
:''I was ordained in the Missionary Baptist church by Dr. Roy E. Davis.''


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. ''
THE.GODHEAD.EXPLAINED_  CHICAGO.IL  V-2 N-24  TUESDAY_  61-0425B
:''When I left the Baptist church to come over into Pentecost, then Dr. Roy E. Davis, who had ordained me into the Missionary Baptist church, told me that I had a nightmare, when the vision of the Lord came and--and spoke to me.


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...''
William Branham met John Ryan of William Sowders' School of the Prophets in Louisville, KY. This John Ryan supposedly spoke in tongues and prophesied over William Branham as a child:
51-0718 THE.ANGEL.OF.THE.LORD_ TOLEDO.OH
:''An old man, '''one of the first that I ever seen in the realms of Pentecost''' and came to my house when I was just a--a little lad, and set in my room. '''And I've been always, for Pentecost''', I wasn't critical, but I didn't understand that speaking in tongues before these things happened. And I still, we know that there is some of it make-believe, but behind it there's a genuine article. And this man come to my room when I was just a boy preacher and set in there one day. And I come in and he went... he kind of jumped and threw his hands up and spoke in tongues . And he said, "Thus saith the Lord," speaking in tongues , said, "A great ministry lies before you that God will use you to shake the world." And the elderly brother, is setting right back there, is John Ryan.''
==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."
:''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."
:''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.''


=Video Script=


==Quotes regarding William Branham being a Baptist==
William Branham's ability to captivate his congregation with a heart-warming… or heart wrenching… story, is well know. Among his favorite tales was the oft-repeated account of his introduction to the Pentecostal movement… a key event in William Branham’s life story.


I tell you how I received it. I come just the way the Bible said it. I never varied for any denomination. My own Baptist church put me out because I wouldn't ordain a woman preacher. It's not Scriptural, and it's not right. And I said, "You might as well put me out, 'cause you have to sooner or later. So I'll just walk out before you do do it." All right.
But the story didn’t end there... Not everyone in their family was as impressed with the Pentecostals as the young Baptist minister and his wife.


THE.MESSIAH_ SHREVEPORT.LA TUESDAY_ 61-0117
William Brahnam lost his wife in July, 1937. But before she died, Hope made him promise that he would go back to the Pentecostals he had forsaken, and preach for them...
 
And William Branham made good on his promise to his dying wife…
 
QUOTE
 
Many tears have been shed over the years  - and understandably so - by people reflecting on the heartache endured by this young minister and the cost to him of not obeying the Lord fully…
 
But the lesser known tragedy is this… except for the very real loss of life, very little of this story is what it seems.
 
Did William Branham really start out as a Missionary Baptist?
 
QUOTE
 
In a letter that was published in the Voice of Healing magazine in October 1950, Roy Davis wrote the following:
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 was the first person 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.
 
So, Roy Davis was his first pastor but not in a Missionary Baptist church.  It was a Pentecostal church.
 
And Roy Davis not only pastored the Pentecostal Baptist Church in Jeffersonville, but also referred to this church as a "Pentecostal assembly", and spoke of introducing William Branham to praying for the sick, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
 
And these experiences all took place before 1933.
 
The 1931 City Directory for Jeffersonville confirms that Roy Davis was the Pastor of the Pentecostal Baptist Church. This directory was printed two years before William Branham built his
tabernacle, and before his marriage to Hope.
 
Why did William Branham feel compelled to grossly misrepresent his
"Baptist" roots? 
 
While we may never know for certain, one thing is clear… His introduction to Pentecostalism happened long before his story indicates.
 
Was William Branham really a Baptist pastor?
 
In March 1933, William Branham laid the cornerstone for his new church.  But the name of the church was not “Branham Tabernacle” then.  It was… the Pentecostal Tabernacle.
 
In 2009, Believers International published a photo-anthology of William Branham’s life called “Messenger”.  On page 11 of this book is a newspaper ad from the mid-30’s for William Branham’s church, the Pentecostal Tabernacle. 
 
Further, the obituary for Hope Branham clearly indicated that she was attending the Pentecostal Tabernacle at the time of her death.
 
So William Branham was never the pastor of a Baptist church.
 
His disobedience caused the deaths of many of his loved ones
 
QUOTE
 
But remember this part of the story? 
 
How could the death of William Branham’s brother, Charles, in a car accident on August 5, 1935… a full 2 years before Hope died…  be related to his failure to embrace Pentecostalism when he was preaching in a Pentecostal church.
 
Do you understand why we are having a hard time with some of this??
 
When was William Branham baptized with the Holy Spirit?
As we mentioned earlier, Reverend Roy Davis’ testified that William Branham "received his Baptism of the Holy Ghost in my humble home in Jeffersonville, Indiana."
 
This would have taken place prior to 1933 when he started his own church.
 
However, we appreciate that this does not agree with William Branham’s version of the events… 
 
QUOTE
 
So was it in Roy Davis' home… or out back in his shed… or somewhere else?
 
QUOTE
 
So... how could God's prophet be so confused about when he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, when he said it was impossible for such a thing to happen?
 
QUOTE
 
Does God punish his children for disobedience by killing their loved ones?
Compounding the tragedy of William Branham's personal loss and fabricated testimony is the fact that he suffered from a fatalistic, Old Testament view of God… a God who would wreak havoc, kill his wife and little girl, just to teach him a lesson…  ironically for a rejecting something that he had been a part of for years!
 
He apparently adopted this distorted view of God from his Pentecostal pastor, Roy Davis, who wrote:
 
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. 
 
Does the Bible really teach that we have to live mistake free or face the brutal punishment of a God of wrath?
 
Doesn’t the Bible say that perfect love casts out all fear?
 
QUOTE
 
If you are afraid, it is because you have not fully experienced the perfect love of God.?
 
When we first heard these tragic stories from William Branham’s life, we naturally thought them to be true. 
 
Sadly, the facts show otherwise.
 
Why did William Branham feel the need to misrepresent nearly every aspect of this story…  his background, his faith, his conversion, the order of events. 
 
Did he really feel like God was punishing him? For a fictitious decision?
 
Was it to gain sympathy, or to punish himself for the death of his wife and daughter? He certainly wouldn't be the first to suffer a mental break from such an event. Whatever the case, the tragedy is only aggravated when this manufactured tale is accepted as truth and then told and retold.   
 
Most people assume that when William Branham speaks of Jesus Christ, that he is talking about the same Jesus preached by the apostles. But that isn't consistent with his story of Gods "punishment".
 
According to the gospel Paul preached, the wrath of God was unleashed upon his Son on Calvary. The wrathful punishment of believers as preached by William Branham, for mistakes that they make, bypasses the blood of Jesus and is not biblical.  If this is your revelation… as obtained from the message… then it is a different Message from the grace of the New Testament that Paul preached.
 
==Further reading==
 
*Jorgensen, O., ''Supernatural: the Life of William Branham, Book Two: The Young Man and His Desperation (1933-1946)'', Tucson Tabernacle Books, 1994 
*Lindsay, G. (Editor), ''The Voice of Healing'', Vol.3, No. 7, Voice of Healing, Inc., October, 1950
*Weaver, C.D., ''The Healer-Prophet'', Mercer University Press, 2000
 
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