Conrad Gaard and the One World Government Theology

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