William Branham Historical Research

Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode, Charles and John discuss the early origins of the Latter Rain movement and its relationship with the New Apostolic Reformation. We discuss: * George Hawtin * Sharon Orphanage * John Alexander Dowie * William Branham's Canada tour * Old Order vs. New Order of the Latter Rain * Charismatic Movement and Hyper-Charismatic Movement

Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode, Charles and John discuss the entertainment aspect of William Branham's healing revivals, from the entertainment industry leaders that were involved to the mechanics of the meetings to the mechanics of the doctrines and strategies used. We discuss: * Divine healing in the Roy Davis revivals * Branham's sudden rise to fame and the surprising names involved * Strategy of Branham's campaign teams and how they functioned * Various changes in campaign teams * Side shows vs. main attractions * Birth and re-birth of the "Name it and claim it" strategy * Where Branham likely heard the positive confession doctrine * Consequences of the "Name it and claim it" doctrine * Many obvious failed healings in the Branham campaigns * Ern Baxter admitting Branham's poor healing statistics

Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode, John and Charles examine the impact that the spiritualist movement had on William Branham and his "Message" cult of personality. We discuss: * Spiritualism in the early 1900s-1930s * Indiana spiritualism * Harry Houdini's battle against spiritualism * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's evangelism for spiritualism * Roy Davis' spiritualism gimmick * Branham's integration of Davis' gimmick in his ministry * William Branham's speaking with the dead * William Branham's fortune telling * William Branham's spirit guide

Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode, John and Charles work to piece together the years that have been erased from William Branham's early ministry. With the help of a surprise guest, they realize that other key ministries are working to conceal Branham's racist past and unusual stage personas, and begin piecing together Branham's actual history from 1936 to 1947 and beyond. We discuss: * Factions within the early formation of the UPC * Racist divisions within the early years of the UPC * Key figures, very racist, who helped form Branham's new stage persona * Branham's strong ties to the newly-formed UPC * Raymond "Chaplain Ray" Hoekstra" * Little David * Mysticism in the Latter Rain * The origins of several new factions, from Word of Faith to New Apostolic Reformation

Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode, John and Charles examine the history of changes to William Branham's alleged commissions by God to heal the sick, how they transitioned to different versions of angelic visitations, and why each new version was necessary. We discuss: * William Branham's 1945 stage persona * William Branham's 1946 stage persona * William Branham's 1947 stage persona * William Branham's 1948 stage persona * Examining angelic visitation location changes * Branham's 1946-1947 ministry as a "sideshow act" * The healing of Betty Daugherty

Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode, John and Charles examine the history of the "lost years" and how they contributed to William Branham's usage of multiple stage personas, as well as a little-known satellite church near Branham's Jeffersonville Tabernacle. We discuss: * William Branham's "I Was Not Disobedient to the Heavenly Vision" tract, which describes his 1945 ministry * The tract's timeline of yet another stage persona prior to 1945 * The contrast between these two stage personas and Braham's 1946 and 1947 stage persona * The "healing ministry" before the biography's "healing ministry" started * Branham's connection to Milltown * Roy E. Davis' prison sentence and why he was in prison. * William Branham's connection to William Sowders cult from Shepherdsville, Kentucky * Branham's temporary separation from Roy Davis.

Available on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode, John and Charles examine the real history behind what William Branham claimed to be the event of his "Pentecostal Experience" and conversion into the Pentecostal faith: God killing his wife and daughter in the 1937 flood of the Ohio River. We discuss: * William Branham's "Life Story Claims" and how they differ not only in his own recordings but also in the books that are deemed to be "authentic biographies." * Branham's claim to be a Baptist minister refusing the "Pentecostal call," which he claimed resulted in the death of his wife and daughter * Some significant discrepancies in the historical timeline * Hope's participation, including leadership, in the Pentecostal meetings * Branham's historical timeline as a "faith healer" * The real tragedy, which is far worse than the "Life Story" tragedy * Psychological issues which may have contributed to his alteration of the story

As many of you are aware, Charles and I have published our final episode on the research of the life and times of William Branham. It has been a fascinating journey from start to finish, and we have put together what is definitely the most comprehensive study on what is called 'The Message,' the different versions of 'the message,' and the different stage personas used by William Branham and his co-conspirators to create those "message movements". We have three additional podcasts to release in that series, all recorded in one EXHAUSTING session, that will address the many questions that have been sent in to us. The plan is to release those as podcasts starting next Monday, though we may not release them as a 'premiere' with chat while we take a much-overdue break. For those of you who have supported us in this journey after having escaped the 'Message' cult, ending the series on Branham presents a huge problem: a mass exodus that would otherwise fizzle out. Social media such as YouTube is ranked based on activity and content release, and should those two metrics die out, the likelihood of wandering souls trapped in the Branham cult might be limited as to what they can find. It is a problem that I have faced all along—I've tried to walk away from this several times, but each time either the cult attacked and brought down one of our many social media accounts, or I'd notice the traffic fading. Even though I don't push people to do so, those 'likes' and 'subscribes' are... extremely... important for search engine optimization. Simply put: we are seeing the largest exodus from the "Message" and its splinter groups globally that we have ever seen, and we will not let that exodus fade. Last year, Charles and I stumbled onto something that neither of us had considered, and it is absolutely fascinating. It is still related to William Branham, though indirectly, and is a trail of research that definitely needs to be exposed. Christianity was weaponized by various individuals in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and some of those key players included the Nazis. We covered this briefly in our podcast about the 'Great Sedition Trial of 1944,' but there is much, much more to the story. Christian fundamentalism was fully weaponized by key religious and political figures in multiple countries, and a war was waged on United States politics through religion. William Branham mentioned almost being arrested for his part in the weaponization, which was the key to unlocking that history once we learned Roy E. Davis's, F. F. Bosworth's, Paul Rader's, and others' connection to Gerald Burton Winrod, the 'Kansas Hitler.' After releasing that, we found Gordon Lindsay working with one of the main actors in what would become the most brutal and corrupt religious systems in recent world history, leading to the white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and more. Our plan going forward is to dive deeper into that investigation and publish that history. Some of you have given us some very old documents of Branham history; others have contributed key information about various movements, and others have sent us comparisons of the current religious extremists who are weaponizing religion today as part of the 'New Apostolic Reformation.' William Branham Historical Research will soon shift to that mode of research as our research on Branham himself is now complete. Branham will still remain a historical marker, a central conduit linking many of these corrupt movements together, and will be mentioned from time to time for his role in the plot to seize American Christianity. You will soon start seeing research into that history, and the podcast will adjust to match the research. We are still deciding on co-hosts and the format going forward, and during our break, we plan to iron out all of these details. Many of you have asked for us to also focus on the current religious figures who have built empires upon Branham's legacy. There are also plans to do this, though we have to be very careful in how that is presented. Literally billions of dollars are at stake with these pseudo-Christian empires, and they have and will continue to attack what we and our partners do. Regardless, many of those questions will also be addressed, and as we have already shown in our podcasts, many new questions will be raised. Stay tuned to william-branham.org for updates. John Collins. Founder, William Branham Historical Research

Available on Spotify, Google and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode of the William Branham Historical Research Podcast, John and Charles take a small detour after realizing the significance of their combined research. When piecing the historical timeline together, realizing that Branham was dishonest about his own timeline in conflicting versions of his own life story accounts, it looks very much like William Branham entered the revival circuits as a means to evade criminal prosecution. We discuss: * Recap of the Bridge Prophecy and re-examination that came after the last episode * Experiments performed to test Branham's claim to have seen the bridge as a child on the Wathen compound * Discussion of the Wathen compound itself, from covert liquor operations to horse gambling and prostitution and more * The Branham family involvement in the illegal operation * Charles Branham's arrest and the support of Otto Wathen during trial * William Branham's involvement in the liquor ring, including his age at the time of the raids * William Branham's sudden change of age and birth year, apparently to decrease risk of prosecution * William Branham's change of the timeline for starting his ministry with Roy E. Davis * The three year federal investigation that followed, and Charles Branham's conviction and sentence to the Indiana state prison * The implications all of this has on Branham's angelic visitation claims You can learn more information on the websites: https://william-branham.org https://christiangospelchurch.org

Available on Spotify, Google and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode of the William Branham Historical Research Podcast, John and Charles investigate William Branham's claim to have had a vision concerning the George Rogers Clark Municipal Bridge spanning the Ohio River from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Louisville, Kentucky. We discuss: * William Branham's vision and the details allegedly given by God to prepare him for his alleged role in the forewarning of impending destruction of the United States * The "twenty-two years" sign of the vision, which is a problem, mathematically speaking, since this detail did not match the historical timeline * William Branham's claim to have seen the bridge from the hill where he and his family lived on the grounds of the Wathen farm * An examination of the Big Four Bridge history which appears to be where William Branham stole the idea for his stage persona You can learn more information on the websites: https://william-branham.org https://christiangospelchurch.org Research materials: https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/bridge_prophecy https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/bridge_architectural_drawings https://searchingforvindication.com/bridge.html

Available on Spotify, Google and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode of the William Branham Historical Research Podcast, John and Charles discuss the different versions of the "Life Story" accounts of early childhood that were used in William Branham's revival meetings. In this episode Charles and John examine: * Branham's cult of personality altering Branham's birth story * The Indiana childhood stage persona versus the Kentucky childhood stage persona * The death of Charles Branham: was it in Kentucky or Indiana? * The Branham family migration to Indiana * The "Toddler prophecy" * William Branham's actual middle name: "Marvin" * The criminal histories of the Branham family * William Branham working a liquor still to supply alcohol to the Chicago mob * William Branham getting shot during the Klan's cleanup of Jeffersonville liquor stills * The "coon grease in the eyes" story * William Branham's birth year * William Branham's "fortune teller" story You can learn more information on the websites: https://william-branham.org https://christiangospelchurch.org Research Materials: https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/cabins_location https://william-branham.org/site/research/overview/the_message_part_02 https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/toddler_prophecy

Available on Spotify, Google and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In this episode of the William Branham Historical Research Podcast, John and Charles discuss some Indiana history that is critical to understanding both William Branham and the formation of what would later become his "Message" cult of personality. WARNING: some of the subject matter may be disturbing and is not suitable for children. We discuss: * Formation of the "white caps" in Indiana and their vigilante style of justice * The anti-Catholic agenda was the primary mission of the Indiana Klan, as compared to the discrimination and injustice of African Americans in other sects. * The rise and fall of D. C. Stephenson and his stronghold on the Indiana government * The Klan's "cleanup" of Jeffersonville coincides with William Branham's "hunting accident" * Roy E. Davis, William Branham's mentor, was on Stephenson's side of the Klan split * The opportunity seized by Davis when D. C. Stephenson was convicted * Stephenson naming names in the Klan, Branham's sudden travels * The actual timeline of Branham's early years as a minister, as compared to the timeline Branham used for his stage persona. Books Mentioned: Citizen Klansman: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana Grand Dragon: The life of DC Stephenson The Klan by Patsy Sims A Man Sent From God by Gordon Lindsay You can learn more information on the websites: https://william-branham.org https://christiangospelchurch.org Research Information: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/garfield_t._haywood https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/knights_of_the_flaming_sword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._Stephenson

Available on Spotify, Google and Apple Podcasts: https://william-branham.org/podcast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/branham In the Season 2 reboot of the William Branham Historical Research Podcast, John introduces the new co-host, discusses the reason for the reboot, and describes the critical research that our new partner brings to the table. Both discuss the significance of the combined research and give listeners a taste of the amazing things planned in the show. The new co-host describes his background as a leader of a splinter cell of William Branham's cult of personality, and John describes the importance of that sect. The information that our new co-host brings to the table is ... unbelievable. William Branham often spoke of those "hidden mysteries", and his cult of personality only thought that he was referring to religion. There were truly hidden mysteries in the "Message" cult and some very deep, dark, disturbing secrets. Season two resets the timeline, and we start at the very beginning. We are going to walk listeners through each and every historical fact that has been uncovered and expose many of the hidden secrets that Branham cult leaders have been concealing for decades. Join us! Those "hidden mysteries" will now be made known. You can learn more information on the websites: https://william-branham.org https://christiangospelchurch.org

Along with what would eventually transition into Christian Identity and white supremacy doctrines, British Israelism influenced modern Pentecostalism with other heretical and destructive doctrines. Among them was the "King's Chamber Doomsday Prophecy", a prediction that the world was soon to be destroyed due to a pseudo-scientific study of the Great Pyramid of Giza. British Israel converts adopted the pyramidism doctrines of John Taylor, who published The Great Pyramid in 1859. Taylor mistakenly believed that the Pyramid was constructed using the English inch-based measurement system, and developed absurd mathematical calculations to prove it. Eventually, British Israelites came to believe that the Pyramid was an ancient "Bible" of sorts, mapping out the timeline for the final destruction of the world systems. Adoption of Taylor's heresy continued well into the Latter Rain movement and beyond through key figures in the revivals. Combined with global fear of world wars, pyramid doomsday theology turned even more destructive by giving credence to a variety of End-of-Day prophecies about how this timeline would end. Many began claiming that the timeline, when matched with the tunnel in the pyramid, had reached the King's Chamber -- meaning that world destruction was imminent and the "pyramid bible" had no remaining time in its "tunnel timeline". Now, several decades later, most splinter groups of Latter Rain have abandoned the "Kings Chamber Doomsday Prophecy". Only a handful of destructive groups, such as the one that my family escaped, continue teaching it due to its evident failure over a half-century in our past. Sadly, however, many of the doctrines that were built on top of this foundation remain widespread. Gospel of the Pyramid: https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/pyramid

Of the strange and unusual doctrines that William Branham plagiarized from the works of other men to claim as his own “supernatural” revelation for the Latter Rain revivals, none is so odd as Branham’s “Seven Dimension” doctrine lifted from Hinduism. In Hinduism, it is believed that there are “seven dimensions of the mind”, and that by achieving a state of spiritual ecstasy, one can lift themselves into awareness of the other dimensions. The lower dimensions, according to Hinduism, are filled with darkness and confusion but as the fifth dimension a light begins to emerge. The gods, according to Hinduism, were in the seventh dimension. In 1954, William Branham began introducing the notion that Pentecostal people need to rise above the current dimension and ascend to the higher dimensions. Initially, he claimed that there were eight, and that in the higher dimensions was “where God lives”. By 1955, shortly before working with Jim Jones, He was certain that God was in the seventh as is taught in Hinduism. This theology deeply influenced Jim Jones and the trajectory of Peoples Temple. Well into the 1970s, Jones claimed to have ascended to the higher dimensions. You can learn this and more on william-branham.org Hindu Seven Dimensions: https://www.hinduismtoday.com/philosophy-and-scripture/seven-dimensions-of-the-mind/ Hindu Seventh Dimension: https://www.himalayanacademy.com/view/bd_2007-01-20_sixth-seventh-dimensions Quote: Now, the sixth dimension is in Christ, the saints, dead saints, or, resting saints, who is completely, work finished on earth, and has entered into rest with Christ under the altar, beautifully. If you would parallel it like a wonderful dream that you didn’t want to wake up. It ain’t a dream, it’s natural. It’s real. But I’m just making a parable to you. And course, the seventh dimension is God alone. 62-1125E - The Countdown Rev. William Marrion Branham http://table.branham.org

One of the less obvious failed prophecies of William Branham was focused upon the Jewish people living in Israel when the Nation of Israel was formed in 1948. Branham often claimed that his alleged supernatural experiences were closely tied to those Jews, claiming that he first met with an “angel” to receive his “commission” when the nation of Israel was formed. (Though his claim was largely inaccurate since his healing ministry began in the early 1940s and the Nation of Israel was not formed until 1948.) When William Branham preached his “Seven Seals” series in March of 1963, Branham claimed that the generation of Jews that had migrated to form the nation of Israel were the ones to witness Branham’s end-of-day predictions. Branham said that it was specifically for that generation. Now, 76 years later, as most of that generation has died out, Branham’s cult of personality has begun re-writing that failed prophecy to suggest that it was … not … for that generation as Branham had claimed. Instead, it was for future generations, and without Branham as their prophet-savior. This was not always the case. Early versions of Branham’s stage persona claimed that he himself would play a significant role in converting all of Israel, what he called, “Getting Israel back to the Lord”. This claim was closely tied to his “Malachi 4”, Manifested Sons of God theology. Branham convinced his followers to believe that he was the one referenced in Malachi 4 verse 6, “And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers” You can learn this and more on william-branham.org Quote But notice. The very generation of Jews that seen the return, back into Palestine, that generation would see these things happen. And just the last two years, she was fully become a nation, with her own money and whatever. There she is. 63-0324E - The Seventh Seal Rev. William Marrion Branham http://table.branham.org

As multiple holiness sects merged to form what would become modern Pentecostalism, many unusual men, women, and ministries became immortalized as “heroes of the faith”, many of which are described as such in books and videos naming them as “God’s Generals”. The religious empire of John Alexander Dowie, for example, was one of the multiple prototypes used by Charles Fox Parham as he was birthing the Apostolic Faith movement. Parham visited Frank Sandford’s Shiloh commune and Dowie’s Zion commune while building his own religious sect in Kansas. Many of these religious leaders of the late 1800s and early 1900s, however, would not be viewed as “Christian heroes” if all of the critical information about them were to be published in those same books and documentaries. From sex crimes to murder, swindling to theft, many of these “Generals” were purely evil men and women. From a religious standpoint, they were not what one would call “Christian”. It should come as no surprise that a majority of the critical issues with their ministries are not included in the propaganda spread by “historians” immortalizing their stage acts in what can only be called “Christian fantasy”. Some of the grandfathers of the Latter Rain Movement did not advertise themselves or their ministries as Biblical Christians. They were not looking to attract “normal” Christians. Instead, they were seeking to find people unsatisfied with Christianity and exploring an alternative belief system. John Dowie, for example, advertised himself as a “Christian Spiritualist” or as a “Medium” when speaking to new converts. Over time, and with a large portion of their histories concealed from converts and their offspring, the strange blend of Spiritualism and Christianity became advertised as “true Christianity” in the movement while Biblical Christianity was denounced by leaders and their converts. You can learn this and more on william-branham.org John Alexander Dowie: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/john_alexander_dowie Militant Christian Extremism: A Critical Examination of John Alexander Dowie: https://www.amazon.com/Militant-Christian-Extremism-Examination-Alexander/dp/173516092X

One of the tools of manipulation used by leaders of destructive cults is to label people into “classes”, incite anger or ridicule against a particular “class” that they invented based on cult doctrine, and cause people to feel superior in the cult — which is also given a class. Even those who are undecided on what, exactly, they believe, are given a class. In the Latter Rain revivals, William Branham called this the “Three classes of believers: Believers, Unbelievers, and Make Believers.” Those who accepted the “Five Fold Ministry” rank and status of the Latter rain evangelists were called “Believers”. Those who rejected the Post WWII Healing Revival as a whole were “Unbelievers” — even if they were Christian. People who were on the fence, those coming to the revival to see a miracle while still attending a denominational church, were “Make Believers”. This strategy was one Branham adopted from a book in his library entitled Tarbell’s Teachers Guide to the International Sunday-School Lessons for 1912 by Martha Tarbell. “The world has been divided into four classes - unbelievers, make-believers, half-believers, and believers.” Branham simplified Tarbell’s doctrine by combining the “make believers” and “half-believers”, and trained his cult of personality to ridicule those in other classes. You can learn this and more on william-branham.org

Of the white supremacy doctrines introduced into American Christianity in the 20th Century, the Christian Identity doctrine is one of the most destructive. It has been used by hate groups as a basis for discrimination, white supremacists as a justification for murder, and extreme-right political activists to push racist agendas for decades. From the Ku Klux Klan to the Aryan Nations, many violent hate groups adopted the Christian Identity Doctrine and weaponized religion against people with black skin. Christian Identity Doctrine is the believe that the Biblical Eve mated with the Serpent from the Garden of Eden to produce a cursed and evil bloodline. Wesley Swift popularized the doctrine, teaching white supremacists that the bloodline continued through time to produce “Mystery Babylon” from the Book of Revelation, and and end-of-days race war was imminent. According to Swift, that evil bloodline came through Noah’s son Ham, which was believed to be the father of the nations of Africa. William Branham further helped spread the doctrine in the 1950s and 1960s. As leader of the Post WWII Healing Revival, Branham rebranded Swift’s Christian Identity Doctrine as “Serpent’s Seed”, and removed the word “black” and “jew” from the doctrine. Instead, he hinted at people with black skin by claiming — like Swift — the evil bloodline came through Ham, the son of Noah. Quote: Now, just look at that spirit, how it rose up back there in Cain, how it come on down through Ham, on out through Nimrod, into Babylon; out of Babylon, come on down into the days of the coming of Jesus. Teachers, Bible students, and they failed to recognize the Lord Jesus Christ. 53-0325 - Israel And The Church #1 Rev. William Marrion Branham http://table.branham.org Once Serpent’s Seed was established in the Latter Rain revivals, Branham introduced the racial component into Latter Rain theology. Branham called the racial component, “Hybreeding”, suggesting that interracial marriage between blacks and whites would produce a “hybrid”, and that hybrid could not enter the kingdom of heaven for several generations. You can learn this and more on william-branham.org Serpent’s Seed: https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/serpents_seed Wesley Swift: https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/wesley_a._swift Christian Identity: https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/christian-identity

In the early 1900s, there were several men and women claiming divine influence on their lives, ministries, theologies, and more. As John Alexander Dowie’s multi-million-dollar empire became exposed as a financial scheme disguised as a religious one, many copycat ministries began to emerge offering unsuspecting victims additional ways to lose their money. It was such a problem that researchers and journalists began to investigate and publish articles exposing the long list of “Nineteenth Century Prophets”. One such researcher, Henry W. Mitchell from Melbourne, Australia, published a list of over one hundred “prophets” whose ministries made a significant impact. From Joana Southcott who influenced the House of David sect and the Latter Rain Movement to Kentucky’s George O. Barnes the “Mountain Messiah”, to Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, Mitchell’s list of “prophets” offers substantial evidence supportive of deception rather than a “move of God”; many of the people in the list cross-pollinated the religious landscape of the early 1900s leading to the Latter Rain, Charismatic Movement, and their many splinter groups and sub-sects. Mitchell admitted that his list was not complete, but also noted that most people were unaware of how many charlatans existed in just one century. Volumes of interesting and unusual articles could be written about each one of the self-proclaimed prophets and prophetesses who claimed Divine Inspiration, and even more, could be written about the destructive theology that emerged from the false doctrines that they introduced into Christianity. You can learn this and more on william-branham.org Link to Article: https://william-branham.org/site/resource?key=a744d8c4-f07b-4d47-91b6-4da162985d7e&parent=prophet

Dominion Theology is the result of merging political ideologies with militant and extremist versions of Christianity that would result in a nation led, governed, and enforced by those extremist Christians based on their understandings of Biblical law. In many cases, it was combined with British Israelism or Christian Identity to enforce sections of Old Covenant Law. Converts to dominionism base their beliefs off of a passage in the Bible from Genesis 1:28: “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Dominionist converts claim that this passage should be extended from the animal kingdom as the passage is written to the political realm. Early leaders in the movement did so by claiming through either British Israelism or Christian Identity doctrine that certain classes of people were not part of God’s original creation and that those people have influenced political agendas in the United States. Though dominion theology was popularized in the late 1980s, its roots can be traced to much earlier. R. J. Rushdoony, for example, taught Christian Reconstruction theology in the late 1960s and 1970s. William Branham, leader of the Post WWII Healing Revivals, taught dominions as early as 1960. According to Branham: Man was made to be a god. His domain is the earth. The whole earth's awaiting now for the manifestation of the sons of God to be made manifest. - Branham, William You can learn this and more on william-branham.org

The Latter Rain movement of the late 1940s and early 1950s redefined what it means to be considered a “prophet” or to have a “prophecy”. In Biblical terms, a “prophet” is a person used as a mouthpiece for God, in many cases speaking of current or past events with the purpose of correction, blessing, protection, and towards the end of the Old Testament, to describe curses of the Mosaic Law for failure to keep the Commandments of that Law. Leaders in Latter Rain redefined this term to be “seers of the future”, which the ancients would have called “fortune tellers” and associated with sorcery — a crime punishable by death under the Mosaic Law. Latter Rain “prophets” defended this by equating their ministries to that of Christ, and referencing passages from the New Testament describing the Jews condemning Jesus by associating him with “fortune telling”. Unsuspecting converts did not realize the difference, and as a result, put these “prophets” in such positions of authority that many of them formed cults of personality. Worse, the Latter Rain movement redefined the term “prophecy” in such a way that it resembled trying to shoot a target in the distance with scattered buckshot from a 12-gauge rifle. If most of the “prophecies” missed the mark, but one single ball happened to strike a target of some sort, their alleged “gift of prophecy” was “accurate”. You can learn this and more on william-branham.org

The war between white supremacy and the television/film industry has been waged since the re-organization of the Ku Klux Klan in 1915. Due to the strong influence of leaders in white supremacy on American religion, it is a battle that was and is often fought through religious leaders. When the Ku Klux Klan was rebirthed in 1915, it came on the heels of D. W. Griffith's film "The Birth of a Nation." In many ways, the film was responsible for reviving the Klan after the 1865 Klan died out. The film depicted people with black skin as inferior predators of white women and those who supported racial equality in Washington as "Radical Republicans". The racist narrative was widely accepted as historical fact, and when the Klan was rebirthed in Atlanta under Colonel William Joseph Simmons, it presented itself as the solution to the problem that the film created. When New York World exposed the Ku Klux Klan as a domestic terrorist organization in 1921, however, many of those "values" were not so widely accepted — especially in the northern states. The film industry shifted dramatically, and films produced were not aligned with the agenda of white supremacists. As the studio system was introduced and the Golden Age of Hollywood began to form, many of those involved did not support the Klan's agenda. Yet the media they produced was largely popular and highly influential. White supremacists began to fear that the film industry would have a greater influence on the nation than that of their own propaganda engine. Though it was short-lived, the solution in the 1920s was a counter-offensive. The Klan began to produce films of their own. The films were played in cinemas owned or run by Klansmen or white supremacists sympathetic to the Klan's agenda. One theater in Noblesville, Indiana, for example, advertised that patrons could view the film "before or after the K.K.K. parade tonight" and that the theater was "Kool, Kozy, and Klean." In regions where the religious communities were sympathetic to the Klan, local churches, schools, parks, and other public venues played the films. William Branham, the leader of the Post WWII Healing Revival mentored by the Klan's 2nd-in-command, Roy E. Davis, introduced themes into the revivals such as "The Invasion of the United States" targeting Hollywood's influence. He ridiculed Television programs opposed to Klan values, such as "I Love Lucy" which portrayed an interracial marriage. Though William Branham owned a Television set and frequently watched it in his home or in hotels,[9] he strongly condemned owning a Television and claimed that he would never have one in the home because "God told me not to do it". You can learn this and more on william-branham.org Television and Movies: https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/movies_and_television

One of the most obvious racial slurs of the 1950s and 1960s is one that many people today overlook when reading transcripts or listening to audio recordings of white supremacists. “That boy”. It is a racial slur that William Branham used often, likely a habit picked up from his mentor, Roy E. Davis who led many white supremacy groups from 1920 to the late 1960s. White supremacists refused to acknowledge blacks or Jews as adult men, referring to them as “boy” as an insult. It is an insult often used in movies and television to expose the wrongs of white supremacy. In 1962, when 29-year-old Air Force veteran James Meredith sparked the Ole Miss Riot for attending the University of Mississippi, William Branham pushed the white supremacy agenda to belittle Meredith and claim that Meredith had a hidden agenda. When doing so, he referred to him as “that boy”. Meredith was not the only one Branham used the racial slur to describe. He often described black men with venereal diseases as “that boy”, slave men that were “that boy”, elderly black men, Jewish men and more. Even the Apostle Paul, according to Branham, was “that boy”. You can learn this and more on william-branham.org Quote: Now if you notice when Paul, Saul, raised up, he said, “Lord, Who are You?” Now, that boy, being a Jew, he certainly wouldn’t have called anything, unless it’d been something to symbol God, he wouldn’t have called it “Lord.” So, It was the same Pillar of Fire. 65-0221M - Marriage And Divorce Rev. William Marrion Branham http://table.branham.org Quote: I don’t think the boy really realized. He had been raised up among this Pharisee, which was a—a—a great ruler, a prince, or—or religious man. 64-0418E - Jesus Keeps All His Appointments Rev. William Marrion Branham http://table.branham.org Quote: Puts me in mind of a colored man down in the south, an old fellow packed his Bible around. Said, “Why you carrying that Bible for, boy?” He said, “I believes It.” 53-0328 - Israel And The Church #4 Rev. William Marrion Branham http://table.branham.org

When William Branham introduced the Christian Identity Doctrine of Wesley Swift into the Voice of Healing and Latter Rain revivals and converts to the “Latter Rain Message” began to adopt its principles, it came at a very deadly cost: converts to the white supremacy ideology began refusing to have blood transfusions — even those who desperately needed them. According to Wesley Swift’s theology, the Biblical Eve mated with the Serpent from the Garden of Eden to produce an evil and “hybrid” bloodline between human and beast. It was allegedly a cursed bloodline, one that could be traced through the lineage of Ham, the son of Noah, and resulted in the people with black skin. Though Branham did not use the word “black”, he traced the same lineage. Following this out to its logical conclusion, many of Branham’s (and Swift’s) converts refused to accept blood transfusions from “unbelievers”. The blood of a non-cult member could potentially be blood from the Serpent himself, which according to the theology, was the blood of the devil. Sadly, this very dangerous doctrine was widespread among white supremacists. Eldon Edwards, who appointed Branham’s mentor Roy E. Davis as Grand Dragon in Texas, helped spread fear of blood transfusions. Many people who desperately needed blood to survive rejected transfusions due to this anti-biblical theology. You can learn this and more on William-branham.org