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 '''The evidence follows.  Can you tell truth from fabrication?'''
-==Letter from Roy E. Davis==
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 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:
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 :''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.''
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+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.
+=References=
 *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