William Branham Historical Research

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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

Researchers note the similarities between the “Prosperity Gospel and the doctrines of healing that emerged from the Latter Rain movement to form a new “health and wealth gospel” to replace the Biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ as declared in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The Prosperity Gospel flourished with the second and third wave of Pentecostalism and lifted leaders such as Kenneth Hagin, Joel Ostend, Creflo Dollar and Rod Parsley into fame. The prosperity gospel, however, has roots that run much deeper than the second wave of Pentecostalism, predating the Azusa Street Revival. Themes of the financial pyramid scheme emerged in early British Israelism as core British Israel doctrine, and many pentecostal founders were British Israel converts. Both Frank Sanford and John Alexander Dowie taught British Israelism, and their version of the doctrine spread throughout Pentecostalism through Pentecostal founder Charles Fox Parham. Howard Rand’s Anglo-Saxon Federation taught that the “Israel System of Taxation” was grounded on the Biblical system of tithes, and that tithes would result in a prosperity “in which all men will become capitalists”. Rand believed the 10 percent tithe would eventually increase to 20 percent — making British Israel ministers even wealthier than they were. It should come as no surprise that Rand’s version of British Israelism was adopted by Pentecostal leaders such as Gordon Lindsay who spoke at Rand’s conferences. Anglo Saxon Federation leader William J. Cameron argued in favor of Rand’s system of taxation and credit in his address, “The Economic Law of God”. You can learn this and more on william-branham.org Howard Rand: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/howard_rand ______________________ – 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 Charles and John address the questions sent in by listeners to the show. We discuss: * Why Did You Expose William Branham as a Fraud? * Are Prison Camps Being Built in Alaska? * Where Did William Branham Learn His Seven Dimension Theology? * Where Did William Branham Learn His Intelligent Serpent Doctrine? * Explain William Branham’s Four Conflicting Commission Versions * Explain Raymond Jackson's Dream * Why Did Willard Collins Admit That People Knew the Issues With Branham's Ministry * If William Branham Was Not the Prophet for our Age Then Who Is? * Is the Message a Christian Religion? ______________________ – 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 Charles and John address the questions sent in by listeners to the show. We discuss: * Where Did Branham Learn the Heresy of Satan Designing Eve? * Why Did William Branham Preach Against Wearing Earrings? * Tell Us More About Meda Branham * Why Did William Branham Teach Three Classes of Believers? * Did William Branham Teach the Permissive Will of God theology? * Explain William Branham's Class System theology.

Howard Benjamin Rand was an American attorney, inventor, and three-time candidate for the Massachusetts state office for the Prohibition Party, the same party for which William D. Upshaw was affiliated and ran for President. Rand was also the founder of the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America, an organization devoted to spreading British Israelism in the United States and Canada. Key figures in the Latter Rain were affiliated with Howard Rand and his version of British Israelism, including William Branham's campaign manager and founder of Christ for the Nations, Gordon Lindsay. Lindsay spoke at key events for the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America in multiple countries, often as the featured speaker. Rand was instrumental in the transition between British Israelism and the Christian Identity doctrine, which Branham re-branded as "Serpent's Seed" and spread throughout the Latter Rainrevivals. Branham claimed to have received that doctrine by "divine revelation," though he later admitted that he first encountered it in a church run by white supremacist leader, Roy E. Davis. Rand is credited as having coined the term "Identity" in the Christian Identity movement. He claimed to have been a direct descendant of King David and used this claim to further the notion that Anglo-Saxons were genealogically the descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Anglo-Saxon Federation was eventually branded as a white supremacist group. ______________________ – 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 Charles and John address the questions sent in by listeners to the show. We discuss: * Was Bill Gothard influenced by Latter Rain? * Was C. Peter Wagner influenced by Latter Rain? * Was Bob Jones connected to William Branham? * Does the Message Preach Premillennial Dispensationalism? * What Was William Branham's Sexual Preference? * What Was William Branham's Most Conflicting Doctrine?

In St. Augustine of Hippo's series of twenty-two books entitled "The City of God," two full chapters are dedicated to condemning an early heresy of the early fifth century: The notion of a race that existed before Adam and the Garden of Eden, which is considered the Genesis of all mankind by Christians. The pagans did not accept the Genesis narrative and claimed that the world had existed for at least a hundred thousand years. St. Augustine titled chapter 40 of book 18, "About the Most Mendacious Vanity of the Egyptians, in Which They Ascribe to Their Science an Antiquity of a Hundred Thousand Years." Since Christians believed the Biblical Genesis of mankind to have happened less than a few thousand years prior, the Egyptians claimed to have existed before Adam as a pre-Adamic Race. Augustine argued that the world was less than six thousand years old. The debate on the Genesis narrative was not new to the fifth century; debates on the age of the world pre-date St. Augustine by at least 240 years. Apollonius of Egypt was a respected authority among non-Christians of the second century on the age of the world, who insisted that the world was over 150,000 years old. While Christians maintained the views of Augustine due to the Biblical genealogies and their associated calculations of the lifespans of biblical figures, non-Christians argued in favor of the views of Apollonius and others that a pre-Adamite race existed. The proverbial lines in the sand were blurred with the rise of British Israelism in the late 19th century. As the racial version of the British Israel doctrine began to develop, and leaders of the movement found it unattractive to consider common history with non-whites, the pagan views of a pre-Adamite race gained favor. British Israel converts argued that Cain's wife could not have descended from Adam, and accepted evidence that cultures existed before the Biblical Garden of Eden. After the Christian Identity doctrine entered the Latter Rain movement through William Branham and the Two-Seed doctrine and "Hybreeding" doctrines were popularized, every extra-biblical notion those doctrines were built upon was also introduced into the revivals. Like Swift, Branham taught Latter Rain converts that Cain was the result of a sexual union between Eve and the Serpent and strongly condemned interracial marriage as "hybreeding." Branham taught that the Gospel was not intended to be for the Jewish race and that only a few "renegade" Jews would be saved. These doctrines required the pre-Adamite race as a foundation when followed to their logical conclusions, and Branham's doctrinal teaching followed that logical pattern. White supremacists believed that the Adamic race was the result of "spiritual celestial beings" that were the direct offspring of God, while the non-white races of the Earth were hybrid produced from pre-Adamites and the Serpent. Like Swift and many other white supremacists of the era, Branham included the pagan old-earth beliefs in his doctrinal teaching, including the notion of celestial beings. According to Branham, there was "some other civilization" that pre-existed Adam, and human beings were a "type." You can learn this and more on william-branham.org Pre-Adamite Race:https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/pre-adamite_race The City of God:https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm ______________________ – 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 the final episode of the series, Charles and John look back at the journey of research for the podcast, discuss the surprises along the way, and reflect on memories from the past.

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast In this episode, Charles and John examine the details surrounding William Branham's fatal car accident in December 1965. We discuss: * The accuracy of Jim Jones' death curse and prophecy * The claims of "drunk driving" * The claims of one final healing miracle * The claims of receiving one final prophetic instruction * The conspiracy theories concerning William Branham's death * The scramble to transition Branham's cult into the next phase.

Conrad Gaard was the Washington State Commissioner for the British-Israel World Federation and "one of the best-informed men" on the subject of religious pyramidology. As of 1934, Gaard was the only known individual to have built a replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza. After his creation, Gaard began touring the West Coast of the United States and Canada, lecturing on the pyramid and its "prophetic" meaning. His lectures gained him notoriety as "one of the most significant Identity figures on the West Coast." Gaard was one of the first Christian Identity figures to produce a written presentation of Identity views as the Identity movement emerged from British Israelism. Based in Tacoma, Washington, Gaard led the Christian Chapel Church and Destiny of America Foundation. He was also a religious broadcaster and editor of a Christian Identity publication, the Interpreter. By 1946, Gaard's antisemitic views had attracted Gerald L. K. Smith and Wesley A. Swift, who, with Gaard, would form a collaboration for at least a decade as the Identity movement was birthed. Gaard participated in the 1950 convention of Wesley Swift's Christian Nationalist party in Los Angeles as a "Lecturer of Influence." As the United States entered the Great Depression, Gaard founded and held lectures on behalf of the National Budget Service. After Howard Rand's Anglo-Saxon Federation proclaimed that the Great Pyramid predicted the economic crisis, Gaard formed a replica of the pyramid and began holding an extensive series of lectures on "Current Events in the Light of Bible Prophecy under the auspices of the Anglo-Saxon Federation." When fears of global conflict began to emerge leading to the Second World War, Gaard's lectures transitioned to focus on the Giza pyramid's "prophetic revelation" of the rise of Fascism, Communism, and "Hitler's Place in Prophecy." Gaard believed that the Serpent from the Biblical Garden of Eden was a Pre-Adamite "beast of the field" acting as an agent of Satan to sire Cain. According to Gaard, Cain married a Pre-Adamite woman to produce a "mongrel, hybrid race" to populate the world and control government systems. According to Gaard, "Satan has controlled his Kingdoms of this world through earthly Masters, who received their orders occultly from Secret Hidden Masters, and ... he controls his Kingdom today, including even Communist Russia and Red China, in the same way." In the 1950s, Gaard joined forces with Kingdom Ministries and began claiming that the non-white races were joining together with Communism to form an "Invisible One World Government." It was about this time that Gaard's "One World Government" conspiracy entered the Latter Rain movement through William Branham. On Christmas Day in 1949, Branham declared that "Every government is controlled by the devil," and began expanding upon that notion to include a strategic merging of world governments. In 1953 Branham began claiming to have had a vision in 1933 about Communism, Fascism, and Nazism merging to form one central "ism" before an "invasion of the United States to overthrow the American Government." When speaking to specific audiences, Branham included the antisemitic themes of the Identity movement. Branham claimed that communism's "invasion of the church" was a repeat of the "Jews unit themselves against Jesus" leading up to a race war. Branham claimed that "both white and colored will fight again and die like flies." Branham believed the "ancients" had predicted Gaard's "one-world-government." Conrad Gaard: https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/conrad_gaard

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast In this episode, Charles and John examine the final years of William Branham's life. As all denominations began to pull away and his cult of personality turned destructive, a new creation emerged: the "Elijah Ministry" We discuss: * The historical timeline of Branham's ministry and its association with key political events and movements * The final shift in Branham's stage persona to be exclusive rather than inclusive * The relationship between the "Elijah spirit" and the white supremacy themes