Theodore Mugalu: Violence in the Message

Theodore Mugalu is a William Branham "Message" cult leader from the Democratic Republic of Congo and former DRC ambassador to Tanzania. In 2018, Mugalu made news throughout Africa for his physical violence against members of the Catholic Church when he and several converts to the "Message" stripped the clothes off of Catholics and beat their naked flesh.

Taking William Branham's anti-Catholic doctrines literally, Mugalu organized a party of cult members to sabotage a peaceful march by members of the Catholic Church. Mugalu instructed, "There must be fights", and "We must allow our soldiers to intervene".

Members of the "Message" in DRC joined Mugalu, and as soldiers, they attacked the Catholics. Mugalu forced 145 Catholic priests and converts to undress and lie on the ground with their hands on their heads. Once prostrate, the cult members began to beat them. At least six people were killed.

Mugalu, like many other black converts in Africa, is unaware that Branham's anti-Catholic end-of-days race war theology was rooted in white supremacy. Branham taught the Christian Identity Doctrines of Wesley Swift, which Branham re-branded as his "Serpent's Seed" doctrine. Though Branham did not use the words "black" or "jew" when he introduced Serpent's Seed, Branham traced the lineage of the "evil bloodline" from Swift’s theology through the descendants of Ham, the black-skinned inhabitants of Africa — just as Swift taught.

This doctrine by Branham was closely tied to his anti-Catholic doctrine. Branham taught his cult of personality to believe that the Catholic Church would rein over the descendants of the evil bloodline, or "the seed of the Serpent".

Though Mugalu’s actions would not be supported by many members of Branham’s cult of personality back in the United States, his charge to be bold was one that Branham himself supported on recording. Branham often rebuked ministers for not being more like Jesus beating the money changers out of the temple, and tied it to his “Ahab” doctrine against the Roman Catholic Church.

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Theodore Mugalu:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/theodore_mugalu