William Branham and the Freemasons: Difference between revisions

    From BelieveTheSign
    No edit summary
    Line 6: Line 6:


    =The Sacred Pentagram=
    =The Sacred Pentagram=
    [[File:Branham tabernacle.jpg|750px|thumb|right|Can you spot the Sacred Pentagram?]]  
    [[File:Branham tabernacle.jpg|750px|thumb|right|Can you spot the Sacred Pentagram?]]
    The pentagram is one of the most ancient symbols in human history.  The earliest images of pentagrams have been found scratched into stone age caves and in Babylonian drawings.  The Pentagram is believed to be from the star shaped pattern formed by the the planet Venus in its journey through the sky as watched by ancient astronomers.
    The pentagram is one of the most ancient symbols in human history.  The earliest images of pentagrams have been found scratched into stone age caves and in Babylonian drawings.  The Pentagram is believed to be from the star shaped pattern formed by the the planet Venus in its journey through the sky as watched by ancient astronomers.



    Revision as of 15:50, 29 August 2014

    Click on headings to expand them, or links to go to specific articles.
    The Pentagram of Venus

    There has been a lot of speculation whether William Branham was a member of a masonic lodge (a Freemason).

    The answer, in our view, is an emphatic "yes" because of the clear Masonic symbol - the Sacred Pentagram - that was displayed openly on the original Branham Tabernacle.

    The Sacred Pentagram

    Can you spot the Sacred Pentagram?

    The pentagram is one of the most ancient symbols in human history. The earliest images of pentagrams have been found scratched into stone age caves and in Babylonian drawings. The Pentagram is believed to be from the star shaped pattern formed by the the planet Venus in its journey through the sky as watched by ancient astronomers.

    In many contemporary Wiccan traditions (witchcraft), the elements are associated with the points of the Pentagram in the following way: Spirit (top), Air (left), Water (right), Earth (bottom left), Fire (bottom right).

    The pentagram was also a common symbol in freemasonry. The following is from a book on masonry:

    There was a passage in the Old Testament book of Isaiah 14:12 which prophesied the overthrow of Babylon's king, stating: 'How are you fallen from heaven, day star, son of the dawn!' As is made clear by the term 'son of the dawn', the Isaiah reference was to the King of Babylon, but astronomically the 'day star' or 'morning star' is Venus, which appears in the sky before sunrise. In Latin, Venus 'the light-bringer' was referred to as the lux-fer, or as it was more commonly written, 'the lucifer'.[1]

    The Sigil of Baphomet

    The Seal of Baphomet

    What is the Sigil of Baphomet? Is this the symbol that was originally displayed on the front of the Branham Tabernacle?

    The inverted pentagram with a goat's face drawn in it has become the official symbol of the Church of Satan. Here is a description of it from a book published in 1897:

    ...oriented in the opposite direction, the pentagrammatic Star is nothing more than a symbol of iniquity, perdition, blasphemy: its two points in the air become the horns of the foul Goat threatening Heaven, and whose head is framed with the stellar pentacle, with its low ears in the side branches, and its beard in disorder in the single lower point.[2]

    Quotes of William Branham

    By the '50's, the star had faded a bit

    You Masons here and so forth and ones of you and know the order, how they cut out the stones and hauled them to Joppa and so forth. And by ox cart taking them on down, the tall cedars in Lebanon and how they cut it and so forth and brought it down. But when it was all piled together outside of Jerusalem, there wasn't a buzz of a saw or a sound of a hammer for the space of forty years.[3]

    I have nothing against lodges, but Masonry, Odd Fellows, or any of them, would be just as well if it's ceremony. It has it's good and bad, just like the Church. But Christianity is a living Being in mankind, that's a proof of the resurrection of--of God's Son, Who was God with us.[4]



    Footnotes

    1. Laurence Gardner, The Shadow of Solomon
    2. Stanislas de Guaita, La Clef de la Magie Noire, 1897, Page 386
    3. THE.INSIDE.MAN CHICAGO.IL 53-1212
    4. JESUS.ON.THE.AUTHORITY.OF.THE.WORD WOOD.RIVER.IL 54-0217


    Navigation