WILLIAM
BRANHAM (1909-1965)
BIBLE
WAY CULT
ONENESS
PENTECOSTALS
THEY
TRADED JESUS FOR BRANHAM!
Branham was not Christian for
his teachings contradict the bible. One example is opening the seven
seals of Revelation:
He
said, “I saw seven angels in the form of a pyramid that swept
down, picked me up and was brought east to open the seven seals of
God” (Commissioned by Seven Mighty Angels). “Who
is worthy to open the book and loose the seals? No
man in heaven or earth was able to open the book except the lamb that
was slain and redeemed us to God by his blood” (Rev.
5:1-10).
The
last Bible book is The Revelation of Jesus Christ not Branham.
He nor any other sinner only Jesus could open the seals. Scripture is
our sole rule for faith and practice so all must agree with it to
separate truth from error. Their preachers read the bible through a
Branham lens then rubber-stamp his lies with no objective bible
study. Christianity is historic and
evidential.
Remember:
Judas was one of the inner circle of the
12 Apostles who cast out devils, worked miracles, and looked like the
real article but according to Jesus “was a devil” (John
6:70). That explains Branham’s ministry for wonderful works and
prophecy can be marks of a wolf in sheep’s clothing (Matt.
7:15-23; Deut. 13:1-5). His evolving beliefs and ramblings about
church ages, the bride, Rome etc. are conspiracy theories with no
basis in reality. At best the whole shebang is the skin of truth
stuffed with lies.
A
man from Edmonton stopped for a red light on Fraser Highway, Langley,
BC., as a Branham tape rolled with maximum volume in his car. He
said, “The Bible Way Church in Cloverdale is a cult.”
This shows they have divisions. Holding the cross, I asked: “Who
is the final authority that speaks for God in these last days?”
He answered, “William Branham, the prophet to the lukewarm
Laodicean church, the last of seven church ages.”
Those
churches were not in ages but in Asia 2,000 years ago.
What does Hebrews 1:1-2 say?” I asked, but he did not know.
It
says: “God spoke in past times by
prophets but today has spoken by Jesus” not Branham.
They swallow cyanide in print and on tape by the megadose.
Ashley
in a donut shop said: “Branham was vindicated as a true prophet
by a pillar of fire” as seen in a picture. In contrast, the
right bible way to “judge” a prophet is to compare
his words with God’s standard, the Bible (Acts 17:11; 1 Cor.
14:29). God in scripture does not give contradictory messages but
Branham has other substandard demonic sources, pyramids and zodiacs.
The errors
mentioned here are a tip of the iceberg:
Error
#1: Branham Witchcraft:
He
said the zodiac and Egyptian pyramids are
equal to Scripture in the revelation of God’s Word.2
He has a pyramid shaped tombstone in Indiana. Witchcraft, astrology
and New Age all use pyramids and zodiacs for divination which means
predicting the future. Mormon founder, Joseph Smith, saw pillars of
light and angels. Russell, Jehovah’s Witness founder,
measured Egyptian pyramids, changed inches to years, to confirm
world’s end in 1914.
Nothing happened so he added inches and years in later writings.
Their next president, Rutherford, rejected pyramidology. Ellen White,
7th Day
Adventist co-founder, predicted the end in 1844, Joseph Smith, 1891,
Branham 1977. All had lying spirits in their mouths (1 Kings 22:22).
It is biblical to name people who lie publicly (Acts 5:1-10).
A GRAVE PROBLEM!
The
Great Pyramid was the hub of a huge complex of cemeteries.
Mummified kings were entombed with vast amounts of gold, food and
other things to maintain an opulent lifestyle in the after-life. Poor
people were buried with nothing in surrounding cemeteries. In that
culture of death dads ended up as mummies. Pyramids have an Occultic
alignment with the stars.
Mummies were preserved
life-like as possible to provide a permanent home for the soul to
cheat death and have eternal life. Evidently the soul did not know
the body was dead. The pyramid is an essential point of pilgrimage
for Occultists, witches, magicians, necromancers (seekers of the
dead) and a place of demons and spirits. All are an abomination
(Deut. 18). Narrow passages through the rock allowed Occultic soul
travel.
Branham
bought into these far-fetched fantasies saying the pyramid and zodiac
are equal to scripture to reveal God’s word. A man at Jesus’
tomb said, “He is not here for he
is risen” (Mark 16:6). What
revelation of God’s word would Branham get from Egyptian
cemeteries? Do fantasy-prone followers practice mummification at
their churches? Benny Hinn visits graves to get anointing from bones.
Zodiacs are used by witches and
astrologers to tell the future and also enabled Branham to predict
Jesus’ return in 1977. Astrologers, sorcerers and star gazers
are abominable (Jer. 47:12,13).
May
6, 2005: I stood on a street in Abbotsford, BC. with a Jesus sign.
Soon a young lady dressed in black grabbed my cross, broke it in
several pieces, threw it into traffic and walked home. Later, on her
driveway, the witch turned to me saying, “Satan
lives here!” then continued in a state of rage ordering
me off her property.
As
a last resort she threatened to turn two pit bulls loose to drive me
away. I said, “Bring them on! Dogs are my friends.” She
opened her high fence gate and roared, “Attack!
Attack!” Her dogs ran up to me and I petted one then
extended my hand and said, “In Jesus
Name.” She became quiet and walked down the street.
Jesus can close mouths of lions, witches or dogs. All cultists are
Satanists for Satan is the author of their belief systems. “Resist
the devil and he will run” (James 4:7). Witches are enemies of
the cross. See New Age article
Error
#2: Branham is Elijah: At
a Seattle seminar a woman asked, “Why did God allow Branham to
be killed in a car accident?” Morris Cerullo answered, “I
think because followers lifted him up as Elijah and he went along
with it.” Cerullo, like Copeland, has a deity complex and is
duped exalting himself as a duplicate of God so his life is also in
danger.
In a meeting, Cerullo shouted,
“You are not looking at Morris Cerullo; you are looking at God;
you are looking at Jesus.” After Elijah went to heaven, his
spirit rested upon Elisha (2 Kings 2:15). The same spirit came upon
John the Baptist to fulfill Malachi 4:6, “turning hearts of
fathers to children” (Luke 1:17).
Only
Jesus can restore all things (Acts 3:20,21). Eden
Lost will become Eden
Restored as seen in Revelation 21. Branhamites, like
Hindus, believe in reincarnation saying their founder is Elijah
returned. Jesus said, “Elias shall first come and restore all
things” (Matt. 17:11). With slight of hand they lift this verse
out of context as if it referred to Branham but the next two verses
make it clear it is about John the Baptist. God the Father said to
listen to Jesus not to Elijah (Matt. 17:3-5).
Error #3: Jesus to return
in 1977:
“Jesus
did not say no man could know the year, month or week in which his
coming would be completed. I sincerely believe and maintain as a
private student of the Word along with divine
inspiration that 1977 ought to terminate the world systems
and usher in the millennium.”1
Did
Jesus come in 1977? On page 10 of The Messenger we are told
Branham is “infallible” so is in the same league as
Popes. There is no need to speculate for the bible tells exactly when
Jesus will return, when you least expect him “like a thief in
the night” (1 Thess. 5:1). Prophetic words must be “judged”
by comparing them with the bible record for God does not contradict
himself (Acts 17:11; 1 Cor. 14:29). Writings of true prophets are
scripture
but Branham’s do not qualify. The Full Gospel Business Men’s
Fellowship distanced themselves from Branham after he wanted his
writings recognized as scripture.
Aug.
3/02: A motor-mouth follower of Branham showed me a copy of a later
edition of the book, Seven Church Ages, to prove my above
quote wrong. He claimed “divine inspiration” so blamed
God for his lies. In the new edition it appears they deleted “divine
inspiration.” Truly, a slight of mind and hand as
they repackage the lies. In the Bible, false prophets did not
correct false prophecies but were stoned to death.
California
did not slide into the ocean as predicted (tape: choosing a
bride). The USA was not destroyed by atomic bombs and The
World Council of Churches did not consume all denominations under
control of Roman Catholics by 1977. He should have read his
tea leaves again. It is a non-prophet organization based on
speculation not revelation. Tune up your balogna detector! False
prophets and fortune tellers were killed (Deut. 13:1-5; 18:20-22) and
the same thing happened to Branham and Mormon founder, Joseph Smith
who was shot in jail. Prophecies, visions and dreams that do not
square with scripture are mind delusions and unbridled speculation
from fertile imaginations. The ground-hog’s predictions are by
far more accurate. Catholic visionaries speak of praying to Mary.
The
church is built on the foundation of Jesus’ apostles and
Old Testament prophets. Jesus is the Chief Cornerstone (Eph.
2:20). When you erect a building, a foundation is laid once.
“God spoke in times past by prophets but in these last days has
spoken by his Son” (Heb. 1:1,2). Jesus is the greatest
“Apostle” (Heb. 3:1). False prophesying is like shooting
an arrow into a tree then painting a bull’s eye around it. They
make predictions then with slight of mind and newspaper theology
revise history to make it appear they came true. Jesus told the
future to the world’s end in Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21 and
Revelation so there is no need for guessing games. Prophets today
repeat what scripture says about the past, present and future to
build up, stir up and cheer up believers (1 Cor. 14:3).
We
are told Branham was accurate in his predictions in spite of his
record showing Jesus returning in 1977. The bible tells us a false
prophet can show a sign that comes to
pass to convince you to go after his
false gods but that prophet shall be put to death (Deut. 13: 1-5).
Many have followed Branham’s false god and false Christ after
seeing an imaginary sign.
Error #4: The Serpent had Sex
with Eve:
The
Theatre of the Absurd continues: Branham said the serpent in
Eden was the missing link between man and monkey. Truly, a giant leap
for mankind! Does he have fossils or transitional forms to confirm
evolution? Species lines do not cross since every creature reproduces
after its kind. He said reptiles mate with humans: “Man and
animal did mingle. Eve had sex with the snake and Cain was born.”3
The Bible says, “Adam knew his wife and she conceived and bare
Cain then said I received a man from the Lord” [not from
Satan] (Genesis 4:1). Where are the hybrids, Nephalim, half
snake and half human like mermaids? Sons of God, believers, and
daughters of men, unbelievers, had children who became mighty men
like Goliath not hybrids (Gen. 6:4). Missing links are still missing.
This wild distortion shows he overdosed on false doctrine. What was
he smoking?
He
also claimed Eve’s eating was adultery with the serpent.
Genesis 3:15 is the first mention of the Gospel and says Jesus would
step on the snake’s [Satan’s] head. This is symbolic of
Jesus defeating Satan at Calvary and does not refer to a literal
snake in Eden. Metaphors tell what Satan is
like not what he
looks like.
He is cunning and devious like a snake, produces fear like a “roaring
lion” and is also like a dragon in Revelation. The snake
“crawling on its belly in the dust” is symbolic of Jesus
putting his enemies under his feet and shows the extent of Satan‘s
fall, from heaven to walking on earth (1 Cor. 15:25; Job 1:7).
Bob Larson, Neil
Anderson and John Hagee echo the same mythology that demons have sex
with humans. To believe that one must be psychotic, out of touch with
reality. Their sophistry is pure sensationalism with no basis in
reality since demons have neither physical bodies nor human sperm but
are fallen angels that do not procreate.
Larson
speaks of male and female sexual spirits, Incubus and Secubus, and
uses the bible like a sword to castrate male sex demons and lies
claiming Christians can be demon possessed. Brigham Young, polygamist
Mormon false prophet, said, “Adam God was resurrected, had
sex with Mary and Jesus was
born.” They have more hang-ups than a dry cleaner! All liars
shall have their part in the lake of fire (Rev. 21:8). Don’t be
like a half-cooked piece of spaghetti. Stand against this
superstitious rubbish.
A
Branhamite threatened: “I will put an Ichabod curse on
you!” The whole scene is more like black magik of Voodoo than
Christianity with its collective madness and doorways
to the Occult: pyramids, zodiacs, sex perversion, curses,
missing links, a created Jesus, false gods, men as legalistic
control freaks and dictators, women as doormats, reincarnation, fake
healings, snakes and women having sex, out of body experiences, false
prophecies, trances, women haters, tape brainwashing, motor mouths,
angels of light and a pyramid-shaped church with no cross in
Cloverdale. False prophets: Kenneth Hagin, and Copeland endorse
Branham. There is no sign of Christianity in the above list.
Error
#5: Legalism & Brainwashing:
Branham
said: “You be sure to say just what the tape says. Don’t
say nothing else because I don’t say that of my own it’s
him that says it.” Some left Hutterite colonies and joined
Branham. A colony is considered an ark on a troubled sea and only
those in the ark will be saved. The controlling Colony Boss thinks
all others are brain dead and does all their thinking. Just kiss your
brains good-bye when you join this cult.
Regimented Hutterite women with
long hair wear dresses that sweep the floor and listen to 500 year
old sermons so they easily adapt to the dictator/doormat suffocating
Branham lifestyle. The issue of “head covering” is not a
command but a cultural custom we can ignore (1 Cor. 11:1-16). Romans
had a custom of “greeting one another with a holy kiss”
that does not fit into our culture today (Romans 16:16). Muslims wear
traditional veils that have nothing to do with spirituality only
outward appearance since God looks on the heart. Jews practice
outward flesh circumcision which was fulfilled by heart circumcision
and a changed life (Romans 2:28, 29).
This
chauvinistic, barbaric subculture with subjugation of women by
dehumanized male control freaks reminds me of Mormons and polygamy,
Jehovah Witness slavery or the brutal Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Men ruling over women is part of the curse from the Garden of Eden
(Genesis 3:16). In Christianity there is “neither Jew nor
gentile, male nor female” (Gal. 3:28). A Branham follower said,
“Women are there to serve men.” We are all called to
serve each other and to esteem others better than ourselves. In this
protocol, wives must feel like maids.
God is not apartheid, practicing racial or gender segregation, since
the only supreme race in the Bible is the human race. Abraham was the
father of many nations. If you are in Christ, the one Royal Seed,
you are an heir of the promises through Abraham’s seed, Jesus.
Branham
said it was politically incorrect to give women the vote then added,
“While growing up I hated women and have to watch every move
now to keep from thinking the same thing.”4
How can one hate women or anyone else and claim to be a Christian?
This forerunner of the Taliban with a dictator/doormat, master/slave
outdated view of women and no love is like “sounding brass and
tinkling symbols” (1 Cor. 13:1). A 2007 study showed that
bullying or belittling your spouse causes fear, stress and heart
attacks.
Their
main brainwashing method is listening to Branham’s old
heretical tapes. Some call them tapeworms. “God spoke in times
past by prophets
but in these last days has spoken by his Son” (Heb. 1:1,2).
They lie and twist this Scripture like a pretzel saying, “In
these last days God speaks by Branham.” When their motor-mouths
start they run memorized tapes. Mormons, United Pentecostals,
Crossroads Church of Christ, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Moonies
are also very divisive and exercise suffocating control with members
on a virtual leash in a cage. They have no credibility of their own
so they use Christian words but pour their own heretical meanings
into them.
Error
#6: A False Christ & Salvation:
Paul
warned of a false Jesus, gospel and spirit (2 Cor. 11:4). Their
belief system teaches that Jesus is a created being not the Creator
“not eternal but had a beginning.”5
Jesus created all things (John 1:3; Col. 1:16). He is O
Immanuel, The God with us (Matt. 1:23 Greek; John 1:1).
Astronaut, Neal Armstrong, said, “It is more important
that God walked on earth than man walked on the moon.”
Branham denied the Holy Spirit is a person and believed like
Christian Science: “He is word manifested thought.”6
Also, “In the beginning Christ was not God but an attribute
that was a thought”(The Mighty God Unveiled Before us,
p.11). If Jesus did not exist before his birth, how could he be
“with the Father before the world began?” (John 17:5).
Branham corrected Jesus: “Multitudes who were not born again
will go into eternal life.”7
Did he mean eternal life in hell? Compare that with Jesus’
words (John 3:1-16). He also said hell is not eternal. We can find
forgiveness of sins by praying to a priest if we have the right
Priest, Jesus Christ, The Great High Priest (Heb. 4:14). Jesus
is : “God manifest in
flesh: (1 Tim. 3:16)
Error
#7: The Rock is revelation:
Branham
said the church is built on the rock of revelation.8
“That Rock is
Christ” not revelation (1 Cor. 10:4). The sayings of Jesus are
also rock and all the rest is shifting sand (Matt. 7:24). Seven
church ages is a myth. The churches were in Asia not in ages
(Rev. 1:11). They existed in the first century and do not represent
this age. Branham said denominations are the mark of the beast so he
organized another one. Christians in Ephesus burned their occult
books (Acts 19:19). You have nothing to lose but your darkness and
chains so burn Branham books and tapes. Pray: God be merciful to me a
sinner.
Error
#8: Fake Healing:
In
the Bible, gifts of healings are from the Spirit (1 Cor. 12). Branham
said a 200 pound barefoot angel did the healing so he obviously
weighed the angel. Satan disguises himself as an angel of light (2
Cor. 11:1-15). He spoke of fireballs in his meetings but he is the
only one that saw them. Demonic altered states of consciousness
produce these mind games. The circus is run from the monkey cage. He
is so far from the truth you can’t get a radar fix on him.
In
a Winnipeg crusade, a newspaper told of many healings. Later,
reporters checked and found all had become worse or died. It was a
form of mass hysteria and hypnotism where people see what they want
to see. With slight of hand and mind he created the mirage of healing
and claimed to discern cancer through vibrations and swelled hands.
He prayed for people and declared the cancers dead then said they
would be sick for a few days until poisons came out of their bodies.
Did Jesus ever say that to people? Branham left town well healed in
his wallet but his patients died.
Error
#9: A False God: Branham
said: “In the beginning God was not even God just a thought”
(The Spoken Word, Vol. 3, p.79). If God did not exist but was
only a thought, who had the thought? This is counterfeit
Christianity. God doesn’t have to think, He knows! The truth is
the Eternal Father had an Eternal Son. When you have a
false God and false Christ it follows that everything else in the
colossal hoax is false as minds are clouded by fantasy.
In his book, The Mighty God unveiled before us, he claimed to
be one of the manifest Sons
of God and said, “God always had skin on him” which is
like human Mormon gods. The Christian God is spirit with neither skin
nor bones (John 4:24; Luke 24:39). The belief that “God always
had skin on him” denies the incarnation which tells us at a
point in time “the Word became flesh” after coming down
from heaven (John 1:1,14; 6:33). Mary wrapped her gift to the world
and laid him in a manger for there was no room in the Inn. Make room
for Jesus for there is room at the cross for you. Branham could not
tell the difference between The Spoken Word, the Bible, and
the Living Word, Jesus.
Branham
believed the modalistic Oneness doctrine of God which denies
the trinity and teaches Jesus is his own father and the only person
in the Godhead who appeared in three different modes like one
actor coming on stage at different times as three different persons.
He said Jesus appeared as Father in the Old Testament, as Son in the
Gospels and as Holy Spirit in Acts but the Father and Spirit are both
in Genesis 1:2.
Sabellius,
a third century Egyptian philosopher and expert in pyramidology (not
theology), started this heresy. It includes United
Pentecostals, most Apostolics, T.D.Jakes, Rod Parsley, Arnold Murray
and others. Oneness people were excommunicated from the Assemblies
of God, USA, about 1914. At Jesus’
baptism, the Father spoke from heaven and the Spirit descended in the
form of a dove (Matt. 3:16,17). All three persons were present at the
same time so how can Jesus be the only one in the Godhead? Was Jesus
praying to himself from the cross, “Father, forgive them for
they know not what they do?” (Luke 23:34). They say Jesus’
human nature prayed to his divine nature but it is separate persons
that communicate not natures.
In
his rapture tape, Branham corrected the Bible and traced the seven
church ages to “Enoch, the seventh from
Noah.” In contrast, the Bible says, “Enoch
was seventh from Adam,” not Noah (Jude 14). He claims
Enoch’s rapture to heaven is “a type of the seven church
ages and this age takes the rapture.”
His
misled, biblically illiterate followers with no compass, in an
altered state of consciousness, are totally confused by winds of
doctrine and commandments of men. Like witches, New Agers, and
French astrologer, Nostradamus, Branham received revelations from the
angel of light, Satan, by using zodiacs and pyramids. Extra-biblical
revelations are the foundation of cultism. They are directed by
shooting stars not the North Star, the Bible. Kenneth Hagin and
Copeland were influenced by Branham and we see that fruit is like the
heretical tree as both claim to be Gods. The best way to find out if
a man is a God or not is to ask his wife. That is the acid test.
Hagin built his cult on an incorrect translation of the Greek word
“Rhema” which means
“wicked words of persecutors” (Mat. 5:11). He said it is
a creative word but only the Creator, not human creatures, can speak
creative words. Copeland said “God is the greatest failure of
all time.” He commands God but clay cannot command the Potter
(Isaiah 45). See Copeland article:
The
majority have the gift of gab as motor- mouths go 60 miles an hour
with gusts to 100. Trying to get a word in edgewise in this
irrational emotionalism is an exercise in futility. “A fool is
full of words” (Eccl. 10:14). Their motor-mouths start then
run old memorized heretical Branham tapes. They should join
Compulsive Talkers Anon Anon Anonymous.
ERROR
#10: Baptism Cleanses From Sin:
They
put the cart before the horse saying waters of baptism wash away sin.
Remission of sins comes by believing in Jesus (Acts 10:43). One must
believe “with all his heart” before baptism (Acts 8:37).
The biblical command is to first repent then be baptized (Acts 2:38).
Baptism is a symbol showing you believe
in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ and you are dead to
your old life and risen to walk in newness of life (Romans 6). A
wedding ring is a symbol of marriage but
if you lost your ring you are still married. Also, if you believe in
Jesus but do not have the symbol,
baptism, you are still a Christian.
The gospel does not include
baptism (1 Cor. 1:17). Our sins are washed away by the blood of Jesus
not by water (Rev. 1:5). Saul of Tarsus had his sins washed away by
“calling on the Lord” then became the Apostle Paul (Acts
22:16). The true bible way is to baptize believers, Christians.
Unbelievers will be damned not unbaptized believers (Mark 16:16).
Noah’s flood is likened unto baptism but he was righteous
before going through the waters just as believers are righteous
before baptism (1 Peter 3:20,21).
United
Pentecostals held a convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I met them at
various places and without exception they asked, “What formula
was used in your baptism?” It reminded me of babies in high
chairs bawling about their formula. We are not saved by works,
by anything we do, including baptism or speaking in tongues.
Salvation is possible only by what Jesus did for us at Calvary.
Baptizing an unbeliever changes him from a dry to a wet hell-bound
sinner. Salvation is Christ plus nothing. There is no infant baptism
in scripture.
“In the name of Jesus”
means “in the authority of Jesus.” It is not some magic
mantra. Imagine a policeman at your door saying, “Open in the
name of the law.” Does the law have a name? It means in the
authority of the law. Cornelius changed the sequence of the Oneness
formula. He believed, received the Holy Spirit then was baptized
(Acts 10:42-48).
You can’t expect them to
understand baptism when they are confused about the Godhead. Error
begets more error. Like Jehovah’s Witnesses, they speak of the
trinity as three heads on one neck. God, the Father, is invisible
Spirit with neither neck, flesh nor bones (John 4:24; Luke 24:39).
Minds become like concrete, all mixed up and firmly set. Let’s
hang together or they will hang us separately.
The
first two verses in Hebrews puts the whole Branham belief system in
the garbage can. It says: “God spoke in the past by
prophets but now speaks by Jesus” not Branham. Jesus is that
prophet who will restore all things (Acts 3:19-26). The restoration
is described in Revelation 21, Eden lost becomes Eden restored.
The best Branham can do is
destroy but Jesus restores. The death rate is one per person so
accept Christ now. Branham followers no doubt teach their children
not to lie but they endorse Branham’s lies that contradict the
Bible. All cultists are Satanists for Satan is the author of their
belief systems. Burn Branham tapes and books as in Acts 19:19 and
renounce all works of darkness. Run, don’t walk, to the nearest
exit.
Branham
followers no doubt expect me and other Christians to roll over and
play dead as they insist we have the Mark of the Beast which
they interpret as belonging to some other denomination other than
their Bible Way. The Bible says “Give an answer” (1
Peter 3:15). It is not unloving to tell the truth.
7th
Day Adventists echo the same condemnation saying we must go to their
church on Saturday but Sunday worship is The Mark of the Beast.
Will the real Beast please stand up? Adventists who keep all rules
and the Sabbath are “Weak in Faith”
(Romans 14). Judge nobody by Sabbaths (Col. 2:16).Click here for Adventist
article
The Gospel
that saves is a Down-To-Earth message of
Jesus coming down to earth from heaven to save us from our sins
(1 Cor.15:1-4; John 6:33). If I was guilty and sentenced to hang
but some innocent person loved me and died as my substitute to pay my
penalty I could go free. Christ died in our place but we must accept
his pardon and free gift of salvation not of works by praying, “God
be merciful to me a sinner (Luke 18:10-14). At death we are “carried
by angels” to the place of comfort or torment (Luke
16:22). A great gulf exists between believers in Paradise and those
separated from God (v.26).
Branham,
Branhamized cult leaders and others display mule
mentality like the mule Jesus rode into Jerusalem (Matt. 21).
Crowds shouted and waved palm branches as Jesus entered the city. The
Mule was impressed with the celebration and thought: It
is all about me. I am very popular here!
But it did not
realize the focus was on Jesus riding on his back not himself.
In
like manner, bad apples masquerading as oranges read the bible then
with fortress mentality conclude: “It
is all about me. I
write by divine inspiration; I opened the seven seals of Revelation;
I will restore all things; I am a God; I know the end will come in
1977; I am Elijah the last days prophet; I get revelations from
pyramids and zodiacs; I command God.”
Moses’
serpent on a pole was a preview of Jesus on the cross (John 3:14-16),
also the Passover Lamb and Jewish sacrificial system, temple
destruction, Jonah and the fish, baptism and the Lord’s supper
point to his death, burial and resurrection (1 Cor. 5:7; John
2:19-21; Mat. 12:40; Rom. 6; 1 Cor. 11). Jesus,
speaking of the
scriptures said, “It
is all about Me”
(John 5:39). The whole cultic belief system with its false hopes is a
placebo for the disease called sin. The death-rate is one per-person
so accept the real Jesus now. If you are sucked into the black
hole of cultism, running on empty and fear, pray: Jesus, forgive
my sins as I receive you as my Saviour. Deliver me from my abyss of
deception, in Jesus name, Amen.
All churches have one thing in
common, none can save, Jesus Saves (Matt. 1:21). I have attended
Alliance, Assembly of God, Pentecostal (PAOC), Baptist and Christian
Life Assembly churches. Trade Branham for Jesus! Don’t be
concerned about hair loss for it will be restored in the hair-after!
1.
7 Church Ages, 322. 2. Al Dager, Vengeance is ours, 59.
3.
Original Sin, 2,3. 4. Branham, My Life Story, 27.
5.
Exp. of SCA, 37. 6. op.cit. 7 & 8, SCA,
266,13.
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