Contents Introduction My Testimony Controversial Prophecies of William Branham Controversial Teachings of William Branham Issues and Events in William Branham's Life Pearry Green and The Acts of the Prophet Jesus According to William Branham The Holy Spirit According to William Branham Scripture Misinterpretations Quote Book What is the Gospel If it's Not the Message? Leaving the Message--Now What? Contact __________________________________ Articles by John Kennah: What Was the Attraction on the Mountain? Voice of God Recording's FAQs Answered and Re-answered William Branham's Golden Calf The 10 Commandments and Wm. Branham Wm. Branham and the Doctrines of Grace Comments on VGR's, "Because He Said So!" __________________________________ Message Related Links: Centers for Apologetics Research (CFAR) with Paul Carden Let Us Reason Ministries Searching for Vindication Field Guide to the Wild World of Religion __________________________________ Please see four informative videos on Understanding & Answering William Branham, by Tim Martin & CFAR: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 __________________________________ More articles by John Kennah as they've appeared in Christian Awareness Fellowship's newsletter, The SERVANT : "The Message of William Branham" (1992) "The Message of William Branham: Part 2 " (1992) "The Message of William Branham: Part 3-- Factions Within the Message" (1993) "What Was the Attraction on the Mountain? " (1996) And this helpful resource by my friend, Paul Carden: World Religions Made Easy (Includes an entry on William Branham) __________________________________ Books that provide further insight into William Branham and his teachings: All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charasmatic Revivals in Modern America, by David Edwin Harrell, Jr. (Indiana University Press, 1975) The Healer Prophet, William Marrion Branham: A Study in the Prophetic in American Pentecostalism, by C. Douglas Weaver (Mercer University Press, 1987) Legend of the Fall: An Evaluation of William Branham and His Message, by my good friend, the late Peter Duyzer (Independent Scholar's Press, 2014) A Man and His Angel: A Biblical Examination of William Branham's Practices and Teachings, by Mike Oppenheimer (Let Us Reason Ministries, 2019) Modern Divine Healing, by Waymon Doyne Miller (Miller Publishing Co., 1956) The New Charismatics: A Concerned Voice Responds to Dangerous New Trends, by Michael G. Moriarty (Zondervan Publishing House,1992) The Pentecostals, by Walter J. Hollenweger (Hendricksons Publishers, 1988 [originally published in 1969]) Quotations of William M. Branham, by Robert Moore (no publisher, no date) Spiritual Warfare: A Struggle for Truth, by Russell Sharrock (Lulu Enterprises, Inc., 2007) __________________________________

Dear Readers,

Whoever desires to study William Branham's Message as a source of spiritual truth must consider the following questions:

• Did he ever prophesy something that failed to come to pass or not according to the way he predicted it?
• Did he ever teach doctrine as coming from the Lord that doesn't agree with Scripture, or that takes Scripture out of context?
• Did he ever teach anything that directly contradicts God's Word?
• Did any of his prophecies or revelations ever contradict any of those he had previously given?

If you know that the answer to one or more of these questions is yes, then please consider what Jesus said:

Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits.
(Matthew 7:15-20)

Is it always obvious that false prophets are false? Jesus said no. They would appear as sheep, but inwardly, that is, in their motives and ambitions where we cannot see, they are ravenous wolves. In other words, false prophets may appear like true prophets, but while we cannot judge their hidden motives, we can judge what they are by their fruits. What are the bad fruits of a false prophet?

William Branham was a self-proclaimed prophet who constantly spoke on behalf of God. A true prophet cannot produce bad fruit. But William Branham produced an abundance of bad fruit. We cannot judge him by his motives and ambitions because only he knew what they were. We must judge him by his fruit. Every time he made a false prophecy he put false words into God's mouth. That was bad fruit. Each time he erroneously discerned the names or diseases of those in his prayer lines, that was bad fruit. Every time he taught doctrine as a revelation from the Lord that could not be supported by, or outright contradicted the Bible, that was bad fruit. Every time his Message added something to the Bible that isn't in there, that is bad fruit. Every time he contradicted himself in prophecy, Message doctrine, or the telling of certain events in his life, that was bad fruit; it was not according to the truth. To follow a false prophet and his teachings is a sin because Jesus told us not to. It is to follow someone who spoke falsely in God's name. It is to follow someone who put words in God's mouth that God did not and could not have said. False prophets put lies in God's mouth and fool us into thinking they are the truth. To follow William Branham and his Message is to disobey Jesus' explicit command to beware of false prophets whose messages are full of bad fruit.

Since the creation of this Website, many followers of the Message have become convinced that William Branham was a false prophet, and some of them have created their own forums & Websites, as well as writing their own books. If only one of these many sources of information has successfully made the case that any of the above questions can be answered affirmatively, then they have proven that William Branham was a prophet with bad fruit—he was indeed a false prophet.

The word is out there. Beware of false prophets who produce bad fruit. Beware of William Branham who appeared as a sheep among us but continually produced bad fruit. Repent and believe in the true Gospel of Jesus Christ!

For the Glory of God,
John Kennah
Webmaster, Examining the Message of William Branham
Email: JohnK63@comcast.net

William Marrion Branham (often referred to at this Website as WMB) was a main figure of the Pentecostal movement's healing revivals of the late 40's and 50's. Many believe that his was the most dramatic healing ministry of the revivals. His followers believe he was a Major, or "Word" prophet (that is, a prophet who receives direct revelation from God to be given to the Church). William Branham's followers believe (based on his teachings, known as The Message) that he is the fulfillment of Malachi 4:5,6. William Branham taught that the seven churches in Asia from the book of Revelation represent the history of the Christian Church in 7 specific dispensations or ages. He often implied that he was the angel (messenger) to the Laodicean Church Age.^** As such, his followers believe he was the 7th angel referred to in Revelation 10:7, sounding (i.e., revealing) the mysteries of God which he believed to be apostolic teaching that had been lost to the Church over the centuries.

However, William Branham could not have been a true prophet of the Lord by biblical standards. In his lifetime he made several prophecies that did not come to pass (Deuteronomy 18:20-22). Indeed, there is no evidence that he ever prophesied an event that came to pass as predicted. The majority of his most well-known prophecies were shared with his followers only after the events he predicted had already happened. Even if it could be shown that he ever made a prophecy that later came to pass as predicted, he would still be disqualified as a true prophet of God because he pointed his followers to a different Jesus (see Deuteronomy 13:1-3. See also, Jesus According to William Branham). Much of his theology is based on his misinterpretations of the Scriptures, new extra-biblical "revelations," or the teachings and prophecies that he borrowed from other false teachers and cults, such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, and Edgar Cayce (see Jeremiah 23:30-32). The source of much of his dispensational theology and eschatology come from the Schofield Reference Bible and the writings of Clarence Larkin.

William Branham said that the Lord revealed to him that as John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah to forerun the first coming of Jesus Christ, so he was sent in the spirit of Elijah to forerun His second coming. His Message was to restore the Word of God that had been twisted and manhandled through centuries of denominational Christianity. Emphasis is not placed on evangelizing the lost but on preparing the Bride (his followers) for the second coming of Christ.

I created this Website in 1999 (based on a booklet I wrote in 1990) as an outreach to followers of the Message of William Branham, as well as a guide for those beginning the process of escaping "the Message," and as a resource for those who want to know more about "Brother Branham" and his Message. May this Website glorify God by alerting the world to the false gospel of William Branham and proclaiming the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.

John Kennah, Tucson, AZ

Doctrines

William Branham's most controversial doctrines are said to be apostolic teaching which lay between the lines of Scripure but whose meaning had been lost during the early years of Church history. He believed that God sent him as a prophet to restore those lost "mysteries" to the Church. Some of his most well known teachings include:

1. God is not a Trinity. There is no disctinction of persons within the Godhead. God is one person who has made Himself known to the world in three separate manifestations:
   1. As Father in the Old Testament;
   2. As Son (that is, indwelling the body of a man named Jesus) in the New Testament;
   3. As Holy Spirit in His Church.
   He taught that God was not omnipresent. Since God is a being, He could not be everywhere at once. He also said that the incarnate Jesus was not God until the Holy Spirit indwelt His body at the time of His baptism. When His earthly ministry had come to a close, Jesus was again reduced to a mere mortal man as the Holy Spirit left His body in the Garden of Gethsemane so He could be crucified and die as a man, since God cannot die.
2. The fall in the Garden of Eden was a result of an adulterous affair between Eve and the Serpent. This doctrine is known as Serpent's Seed. As a result of this affair, Cain was born (i.e., the Serpent--not Adam--was Cain's true father).
3. William Branham purported to have received a supernatural revelation of the meanings of the Seven Seals from the book of Revelation which he made known to his followers in a series of sermons in March, 1963.
4. The Catholic Church is the fulfillment of Mystery Babylon from the book of Revelation. Mystery Babylon is the mother of harlots. Her children are our present protestant denominational churches. He believed that Revelation 18:4 was a call for Christians to leave their denominational churches and come to his Message, the only true revelation of Jesus Christ.
5. Hell is not eternal.
6. William Branham taught that his Message represents the required truth necessary for members of the Elect Bride of Jesus Christ to accept in order to make the Rapture.
7. Members of the Bride are Eternal, having "theophanies" (their glorified bodies waiting for them in heaven) which had no beginning and will never die.
8. Christians who reject the Message are lost. Christians who are ignorant of the importance of the Message may be saved as lower class believers if they treat Message believers kindly. They will not make the Rapture, however, but must endure the Great Tribulation while followers of the Message are Raptured.

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^* Still shot from the Voice of God Recordings film, "The Twentieth Century Prophet" (1953).
^** During a prayer line, William Branham once said, "You, setting here in front, you believe me to be God's prophet? A prophet is a messenger to an age. You believe I have God's message?" (Discerning the Body of the Lord, August 12, 1959, tape #59-0812).

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