Roy Davis: Difference between revisions

Roy Davis (view source)

Revision as of 05:57, 8 December 2015

8,259 bytes added , 8 years ago

no edit summary

Admin

Bots, Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, nuke, Suppressors, Administrators

11,144

edits

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+{{Top of Page}}
+{{Early Days}}
+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==
+{| style="border:3px solid #cedff2; float:right; margin-left:15px; padding: 0.3em;"
+|<mediaplayer>http://youtu.be/4qI8l0jTeeY</mediaplayer>
+|-
+|}
 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.
@@ Line 6: / Line 17: @@
 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.
@@ Line 17: / Line 29: @@
 '''The evidence follows.  Can you tell truth from fabrication?'''
-==Letter from Roy E. Davis==
+=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:
@@ Line 40: / Line 52: @@
 :::::R. E. Davis, Sr.
+=Quotes=
 ==Quotes regarding William Branham receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit==
@@ Line 67: / Line 81: @@
 :''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
@@ Line 165: / Line 179: @@
 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:
+-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==
@@ Line 193: / Line 212: @@
 :''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==
+=Video Script=
+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.
+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.
+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
+{{Bottom of Page}}
+[[Category:Honesty and Credibility]]