William Branham Historical Research

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast James and John examine the very strange and unusual doctrine of "being assimilated" by people and entertainment that do not conform to "Message" rules

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast James and John explore the strange things that preachers say about Martin Luther King, segregation and/or integration of races, and the impending "race war" prediction made by William Branham and other white supremacists. We discuss: * Ministers supporting the racist things said about Martin Luther King * Ministers carefully talking around the racist things Branham said about King * Ministers who claim that integration of races cannot happen in this life * William Branham's publicist openly supporting the wrong side of history ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

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Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast John invites Leslie Wells to discuss leaving William Branham's cult of personality. We discuss: * Logical fallacies found in William Branham's doctrinal teaching * Abuse in the "Message" * Hardships faced by women in the cult * Recruitment, bondage, and escape ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

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Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast James and John examine the very strange and unusual usage of pyramids as themes for sermons in churches, including the unbelievable claim that the pyramidion represents -- or is -- Jesus Christ.

In 1963, William Potter Gale published a booklet entitled “The Faith of Our Fathers,” pushing the notion that a Pre-Adamic race existed before the biblical Garden of Eden and populated the earth through Cain and his descendants. As part of the Christian Identity doctrine of the two-seed bloodlines, Gale claimed Cain’s descendants were the “Asiatics and Negroes” while the white race was the true bloodline. Gale resurrected an ancient quasi-Gnostic myth that a pre-agamic race came from the realms of outer space and was not of earthly origin. According to Gale, Lucifer and his fallen angels fought a “great and mighty space battle” across the universe. The forces of God were led by none other than the Archangel, Michael. When Michael and his fleet of spaceships defeated Lucifer and Lucifer, and his rebels were cast down, they fell to planet Earth and began to invade the Earth through sex. Gale, however, was not the first to push the two-seed bloodline in spectacular works of science fiction, nor was he the first to claim that fiction was “Christian doctrine”. As the Christian Identity movement began to develop from British Israelism, and “Christian” ministers began to claim that interracial marriage was not biblical, they needed another “bible” to push that agenda; that doctrine is not in the Christian Bible. It appears that the answer was to combine popular themes from science fiction and label that fiction “biblical.” UFO Theology in Latter Rain: https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/the_impact_of_william_branhams_ufo_theology_on_peoples_temple ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

Fate Magazine was founded in 1948 by Raymond Palmer, editor of Amazing Stories, to create an entertaining publication centered on UFOs, psychics, ghosts, and other paranormal topics for the itching ears. The magazine launched in March 1948, just one month before the first issue of The Voice of Healing, the primary organ for the Latter Rain and Voice of Healing revivals. Fate's inaugural issue captured readers' minds with articles about the Rhodes flying disk photos, as well as an article by Kenneth Arnold, who claimed to have had an encounter with a UFO. The Voice of Healing, which focused on the religious side of the paranormal, gave credit where it was due. This often included crossover articles between the revivalists and the paranormal magazines of the era. In July 1950, for example, Voice of Healing ran an article on the “prophetic” significance of Fate Magazine’s article, copying one of the photographs from Fate magazine and mentioning Fate as the original source. Christian identity themes published in The Voice of Healing included identity’s UFO theology, and Fate magazine’s style of entertaining articles made it the perfect partner for what Gordon Lindsay called “Prophetic significance.” You can learn this and more on william-branham.org. Prophetic Significance of The Flying Saucer by Gordon Lindsay: https://william-branham.org/site/resource?key=voh_1950_07_july.pdf&parent=voice_of_healing Impact of the UFO Theology: https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/the_impact_of_william_branhams_ufo_theology_on_peoples_temple ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

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Hobart Freeman was a controversial "faith healer" from Kentucky and Southern Indiana who convinced members of his cult of personality to refuse medical care. Several members of his cult died as a result of his anti-medication doctrines. Freeman was deeply influenced by leaders in the Word of Faith movement, including Kenneth Hagin, John Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, T. L. Osborn, and E. W. Kenyon. He taught the Latter Rain version of the "Gospel of Divine Healing," which claimed that "healing" was part of the "atonement." Freeman believed that "it was always God's will to heal in response to our faith, and that God would do it without the aid of doctors or medicine." As a result, medical care was strongly discouraged and often reviled. Considering his involvement in Latter Rain and his proximity to Branham's Jeffersonville church, it would appear that his primary source of influence was William Branham. In 1958, Freeman led the First Baptist Church of Sellersburg, Indiana, just a few miles north of the Branham Tabernacle. Freeman held inter-denominational revival services at the New Hope Community Church the previous year. He had recently graduated from Georgetown Kentucky College and attended Louisville Southern Baptist Seminary during his pastorate in Sellersburg. In 1963, after William Branham announced that he would relocate his family to Tucson while becoming a "wander" (traveling evangelist), Freeman joined forces with Melvin Greider and established Faith Assembly in Kosciusko County, Indiana. Within a few years, their following had grown to over a thousand people, and the anti-medication doctrine had become extreme. Several people were critically ill, and many people died. His extremist version of "divine healing" apparently was appealing to the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship. Within a few years after moving his congregation to Claypool, Freeman was invited to speak at multiple Full Gospel Businessmen events. Freeman was eventually indicted on charges of aiding and inducing reckless homicide. A Kosciusko County grand jury indicted Freeman after the death of Pamela Margaret Menne. Pamela, a 15-year-old, died of chronic kidney failure that prosecutors claimed could have been prevented by treatment. Hobart Freeman: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/hobart_freeman ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

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Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast James and John discuss the relics, iconography, and flat-out idolatry that is found in the "Message" movement and its splinter groups. We discuss: * Books, Statues, Furniture, Paintings and more * Various "Words of God" * Worship of man-made objects * Unnatural reverence to cult products ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast James and John examine the fear of the paranormal that was used -- and is still used today -- to captivate audiences.

John invites Joseph Bair to discuss leaving William Branham's cult of personality. We discuss: * The sudden and unexpected character assassination * The church's reaction to his soothing jazz music, the punishment enacted upon this family * The dark place this abuse of power led him to * Recovery, personal growth, spirituality, and more. Newspaper Article for Jazz Band: https://www.register-herald.com/news/life/hep-cats-four-shady-tigers-deliver-jazz-to-the-masses/article_cd94f667-a814-54bc-9f72-cbd3b5ac8e34.html Gowns: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYyl5eb8fQsP_ilqe10NR9A Castles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XdJB8fEhQM Spotify (Gowns): https://open.spotify.com/artist/5fC90doSewXmqatgc99ZhY?si=sbSnUWcSQUKL5YcOM7RO8Q Apple (hillbilly_chic): https://music.apple.com/us/artist/gowns/1502461117 Spotify (hillbilly_chic): https://open.spotify.com/artist/65s6tOIr5DSq39KdN8Trpk?si=GRpoirJ6QKSGSxs3Jr6Sog Apple (hillbilly_chic): https://music.apple.com/us/artist/hillbilly-chic/1677647749 ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, was an English occultist, philosopher, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, mountaineer, and self-proclaimed prophet who founded the religion of Thelema. He remains one of the most influential figures in Western esotericism and counterculture, having popularized the movements with themes of Gnosticism, mysticism, egyptology, and more. Some of those themes made their way into the Latter Rain movement through William Branham and others, making Crowley as much of a grandfather to Latter Rain as was Illinois cult leader John Alexander Dowie. One of Crowley's central themes used for Thelema was the notion of "celestial bodies." Crowley claimed that he, as the central prophet of Thelema, was entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus. In his book, The Book of the Law, Crowley described the "unveiling of the company of heaven," wherein "Every man and every woman is a star, every number is infinite; there is no difference." Thelema described prophecy as progressive revelation, a theme that would become the core philosophy of Latter Rain "prophets." According to The Book of the Law, "All words are sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand a little; solve the first half of the equation." Latter Rain converts believed that celestial bodies were "watching the character" of the physical bodies of humans. William Branham, leader of the Revival, taught converts that the Zodiac was a Bible and that stars in the heaven were actually "messengers" declaring God's "Message." Central to the "celestial bodies" doctrines of Crowley and Latter Rain was the notion that the human form was a "body of light," also called "astral bodies." The concept was not new to Crowley; it was a widespread belief among esoteric, occult, and mystical cult religions and found in the philosophy of Plato. According to this doctrine, the "astral plane" was made of "seven heavens" and physical bodies would ascend to the heavens to unite with the "bodies of light." According to Thelema, the bodies of light were "reincarnating" through "metempsychosis" — "the transmigration of a soul from one body to another after death." Leaders of the Latter Rain movement used the term "light meters" to describe the human form of the "celestial bodies." According to Latter Rain, human bodies were filled with "cosmic light," some having a greater "light" and some having a lesser. This, according to the doctrine, was due to the amount of "God" in the human form. Lights that were nearer to the earth such as the flying saucer craze of the late 1940s through 1960s, according to Latter Rain, were "investigating angels" that would one day lift the "bodies of light" into the heavens as a "Rapture." For Latter Rain and Thelema converts alike, the "watchers" on earth were used as angelic "spirit guides" to leaders of both movements. "Prophets" of the movements had the power to invoke spiritual "messages from God" by communicating with "angels," astrology, divination, or the usage of numerology. The spirit guides could be summoned through various methods, including prayer, meditation, devotion, self-discipline, or ritualistic chanting. When in the presence of the spirit guide, the human form gained insight into the collection of celestial bodies. In Latter Rain Revivals, Branham described his method of chanting. According to Branham, as he entered into the trance, he repeatedly chanted the phrase "two times two equals four." Aleister Crowley: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/aleister_crowley ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast James and John examine the strange and unusual sermons preached against bowling in William Branham's cult of personality, and the history behind that doctrine. ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast In this first episode of "Weird Doctrines" in the William Branham Historical Research Podcast, James and John examine the strange and unusual sermons about "fornication" in William Branham's cult of personality. ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

Gordon Lindsay: Creating Fictional Ministries Gordon Lindsay was the publisher of The Voice of Healing, the primary organ for the Voice of Healing / Latter Rain revivals of the late 1940s and early 1950s. After William Branham stepped down as magazine publisher and Gordon Lindsay assumed the role, Lindsay led the Voice of Healing into an organized, international movement that helped to create the revival ministries of hundreds of evangelists. This eventually led to the creation of Christ for the Nations, Inc., Lindsay’s evangelistic organization. Lindsay was apparently aware that some evangelists were using fictional stage personas and helped promote them as they shifted into newer versions incompatible with former versions. He was also aware that “miracles” claimed by the evangelists were based on claims that could not be substantiated. When news reporters discovered that William Branham, leader of the revivals, was claiming to heal the same girl in multiple cities, Lindsay was interviewed by the press. Lindsay supported Branham by referencing Branham’s 1945 tract that was for sale in Branham’s revivals, “I Was Not Disobedient to the Heavenly Vision,” claiming that 1945 was the beginning of Branham’s healing ministry and that it was the result of a vision — not an angelic visitation. After Branham’s stage persona was changed to include a 1947 “Angelic Visitation” as the beginning of his healing ministry, Lindsay continued advertising Branham and his new back story in The Voice of Healing. Branham was but one of many who claimed wildly unbelievable “miracles” in their ministries. You can learn this and more on william-branham.org. Gordon Lindsay: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/gordon_lindsay Newspaper Article: https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/staged_healings

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Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast John invites author Stephen Montgomery to discuss Converging Apostasy within the New Apostolic Reformation. Stephen Montgomery's Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJLCRMF7 Weaponized Religion: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735160946 Jane Lead: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/jane_lead We discuss: * Jane Lead's Sixty Propositions * Influence of Jane Lead's writings on British Israelism, Pentecostalism, Latter Rain, and the NAR * Esoteric themes that came from Jane Lead ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Stephen Montgomery's Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJLCRMF7 John invites author Stephen Montgomery to discuss Converging Apostasy within the New Apostolic Reformation. We discuss: * Interviews with key figures in the NAR * Ties to Gnosticms through Valentinus * Jane Lead * British Israelism and Christian Identity ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

One of the earliest examples of Christian Identity in the Pentecostal Movement is through its founder, Charles Fox Parham. Parham came in contact with the British Israel Doctrine, which was taught in Frank Sandford’s cult school in Maine, and Sandford favored C. A. L. Totten’s version of the British Israel Doctrine, which included the foundation for what would later become Christian Identity. Parham favored the Pre-Adamite Race theory and believed that God had created two races of people. One had “everlasting human life,” while the other did not. Parham believed that the “sons of God” and “daughters of men” from Genesis 6:2 represented both races - the very foundation for Christian Identity. According to Michael Barkun, Parham’s version of the British Israel doctrine was, in fact, the white supremacist version. In his book Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement, Barkun wrote, “Charles Parham regarded Cain’s marriage to a woman from the land of Nod as the first step in “the woeful intermarriage of races for which cause the flood was sent in punishment.” Barkun’s findings are further solidified by Parham’s own words in his autobiography concerning the Azusa Street Revival. When Charles Fox Parham arrived in Los Angeles in October of 1906 after having been ex-communicated from Zion City, he was shocked to find the interracial unity of the revival. He described the meetings, claiming the people were “all crowded together around the altar, and lay- ing across one another like hogs, blacks and whites mingling; this should be enough to bring a blush of shame to devils, let alone angels, and yet all this was charged to the Holy Spirit." You can learn this and more on william-branham.org Charles Fox Parham: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/charles_fox_parham Everlasting Gospel: https://cupandcross.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/TheEvelastingGospelCharlesFParham144pages.pdf ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

Though the First Amendment to the Constitution declares a separation of Church and State to ensure religious freedom, British Israelism created a framework of doctrine that was fully incompatible — but only as it suited the movement. British Israel teachers advocated for “God’s Law” to be re-established in government institutions, and politicians devoted to the British Israel cause pushed legislation designed to push boundaries away from the First Amendment and towards rules they considered to be “God’s Law.” This was especially the case as British Israel transitioned to Christian Identity and the Civil Rights movement was viewed by Identity converts as a violation of “God’s law”. Identity pushed political agenda strategically towards “biblicizing” American Law, and did so through political parties such as Gerald L. K. Smith’s 1943 “America First” party. Smith and others attempted to overthrow the sitting president, Franklin Roosevelt, claiming that he was an enemy from the “evil bloodline” to threaten the British Israel State they were trying to establish. At the same time Smith launched the America First party, British Israel leader Howard Rand published his Digest of the Divine Law. Rand declared that the United States faced a political and economic crisis that could not be solved with the existing order and hinted at the need to re-establish God’s Law in the nation. These movements later developed into Gerald Smith’s Christian Nationalist Party, which coincided with the birth of the Latter Rain movement. Smith officially launched Christian Nationalism as a political movement in 1948. It should come as no surprise that Christian Identity was a theme used throughout Latter Rain, and leaders such as George Hawtin and William Branham pushed the Two-Seed Identity doctrine. Gerald L. K. Smith: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/gerald_l._k._smith George Hawtin: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/george_hawtin ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

British Israel leader C.A.L. Totten was strongly influenced by pyramidologist C. Piazzi Smyth who claimed that the great pyramid and the zodiac formed a strong relationship to form religious significance in Christianity. Smyth provided the introduction to TOtten's book, the Order of History, and Totten published several books and articles promoting Smyth's unusual doctrines. Many of those doctrines found their way into early Pentecostalism through Frank Sandford and later by Charles Fox Parham. Sandford taught Totten's British Israel doctrines in his Bible School, which Parham visited and briefly attended. Totten used "pyramid calculations" to predict the End-of-Days. According to Totten in 1893, the 2520 years of "the times of the Gentiles" were within five and three-quarter years of their full solar termination. This set the early adopters of British Israelism on fire to proclaim the impending doomsday, a theme that would continue to unravel through the development of Pentecostalism and its effect on evangelical Christianity. During the early years of the Latter Rain movement, long after Totten's doomsday prediction had failed, British Israel converts revised the years to include new and exciting ways in which the world would end at just any moment. The World Wars amplified the doomsday focus, though the outcome was far from Totten's prediction. Totten believed the end-of-days war would be between Russia and England, and that England would completely wipe out Russia. England represented Biblical Israel, while America, Egypt, and Germany represented three Biblical world powers that would eventually divide the world between themselves. You can learn this and more on william-branham.org C.A.L. Totten: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/c._a._l._totten ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books

One of the more unusual themes in the Latter Rain movements was William Branham’s claim that the “Gospel was not for the Jews”. When speaking to specific audiences that were aligned with the antisemitic views of the Christian Identity movement, Branham declared that only the “renegades” among Jews would be saved through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Historians researching Branham often dismiss this statement, not understanding it and its relevance to his other statements concerning the nation of Israel. Worse, since Branham used multiple stage personas depending on his audience, historians often favor Branham’s statements supporting the Jews. It is very difficult for them to understand since the Apostle Paul said in Romans 1 that the Gospel brought salvation first to the Jew and then to the Gentile. Though it’s complicated to understand since both themes appear to be direct conflict, the Christian Identity doctrine ties both together in unison. Leaders in the Identity movement did not see the Jews as prospects for salvation due to the Serpent’s Seed doctrine, which Branham promoted. Instead, they believed that the white-skinned people of the British Isles and the Americas were the “true Jews”, while the dark-skinned races were the “false Jews”. With the loaded language for “Jew”, the word could be used both to describe a Jew or a white supremacist. Identity leaders believed that Cain was the “first Jew”, meaning the “first spawn of Satan”, while Anglo-Saxons were the “true Jews”, descended directly from the Tribes of Israel. An example of this is Branham’s statements to a black-skinned person in The Healing Lines in 1955. Branham used the word “Anglo-Saxon” as a representation of “Jew” when he said, “Here stands a woman. I’m an Anglo-Saxon. She’s an Ethiopian in origin, almost exactly the same picture that when Jesus talked to a woman at the well. He was a Jew and she was a Samaritan. Is that right?” (55-0121 - The Water Of Separation) ______________________ – Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham – Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ – Visit the website: https://william-branham.org – Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamBranhamOrg – Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@william.m.branham – Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmbhr – Buy the books: https://william-branham.org/site/books