The Blemished Lamb That Was Slain For Hell - William Branham Cult Theology

There were many Christian themes based firmly on the New Testament that were rejected in the Latter Rain movement to support William Branham’s Manifest Sons of God theology. As Branham pushed the idea that God would manifest Himself in the form of a prophet just before the End-of-Days to fulfill Luke 17:30 as a “prophet God”, certain passages of Bible text had to be removed or re-written. One of the most significant themes changed was the “Lamb that was slain” theme for the crucifixion itself.

According to Biblical Christian doctrine, God sent His Son to offer Himself as a sacrifice to fulfill the Old Covenant. That sacrifice, according to Old Covenant Law, must be pure; without spot or blemish. Hebrews 9 declares that Jesus accomplished this, through the “eternal spirit”, and was without spot or blemish.

Branham, however, claimed that the eternal Spirit was … not … with Jesus at the crucifixion. Instead, Jesus had to die as just a man. According to Branham’s altered and anti-Biblical narrative, the eternal Spirit left Jesus at Gethsemane, and Jesus was required to be offered as an impure sacrifice. Branham fully rejected the book of Hebrews in his theology.

Branham’s altered version of the Gospel was widely accepted among his converts to the “Message” cult, and quickly propagated through the Latter Rain revivals. As the group splintered, the new and different Gospel became the standard for many of the groups that splintered from the “Message” and is still taught today.

You can learn this and more on william-branham.org.

The Bible:
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who THROUGH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT offered himself WITHOUT BLEMISH to God, purify our[b] conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 9:13-14

Branham (Quote):
The SPIRIT LEFT HIM, in the garden of Gethsemane. He had to die, a man. Remember, friends, He didn't have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh, which was human flesh. And He didn't... If He'd have went up there, as God, He'd have never died that kind of death; can't kill God. But He didn't have to do it. - Branham, 65-0418

Branham (Quote):
It wasn’t that he didn’t sin; he did sin. And Christ was…He never…GOD WOULDN'T HAVE SENT HIM TO HELL PURE. He had to send Him to hell condemned
- Branham, 55-0227