Comments:
This quote is from the same sermon as the previous two. Notice that his angel told him he was "confining too much of the work to working miracles." If, as we saw in one of his previous quotes, William Branham's gift was not to perform miracles, then why didn't the angel just tell him he should not even be performing miracles at all? But on the other hand, WB often said that his angel told him, "If you get the people to believe you, would be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even to cancer." Why would the angel tell him to get people to believe him, then say not to use so many miracles to get people to believe him?

Comments:
Here we see William Branham actually praying to his angel. Does the Bible ever instruct us to pray to anyone but God? The Bible says that there is one intercessor between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5). There is nothing that WB prayed to his angel that he could not have asked God if he were a true believer. In fact, he even asked his angel to heal everyone! Why would he ask his angel and not God? WB got dangerously close (if not stepping over the line) to worshiping his angel.

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his unspiritual mind. (Colossians 2:18).

Comments:
William Branham is talking here about the gift the angel gave him to identify diseases people had by taking their hand and feeling the "vibrations" of the diseases in his own hand. The Bible says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change" (James 1:17). This gift of his, as well as his "gift of discernment," were not perfect. He said he would often guess at the diseases he was supposedly discerning. And as we know from several sermons of his, he sometimes guessed wrong. That is not good. WB's "gift" was not a good and perfect gift. Where in the Bible do we ever see Jesus or the Apostles or prophets from the Old Testament guessing at a Word from the Lord? The fact that WB's gift of discernment was imperfect is evidence that it was not of God. Rather, it seems to have been an ability given to him either by an imperfect source such as his mysterious "angel", or perhaps an invention of his own mind. In any case, this is not what we would expect from a true prophet of the Lord. In fact, it is what we would expect from a false prophet.

Comments:
Maybe William Branham didn't hear very many amens because what he said did not make any sense. He basically just said that to be healed, you have to get saved afterwards. But when you are healed, it shows you are saved. Would you say amen to that?

What I think we see here is his attempt to promote his belief of a kind of dual atonement made by Jesus on the cross. This dual atonement (not to be confused with a similarly nick-named doctrine in Seventh-Day Adventism) stems from Isaiah's prophecy:

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
(Isaiah 53:5)

See also:

Jesus didn't claim to do any healing.  He said, "What the Father shows Me I don't do nothing. I can heal nothing, but just—I do just what the Father shows Me by vision; that's what I do."  And you know that's the truth, isn't it?  Every Bible reader, scholar knows that's the truth.
("Testimony," November 29, 1953, message #53-1129E)

Comments:
Look up the following Bible passages in which Jesus Himself claimed to heal:

Matthew 8:2-3; Matthew 8:7; Matthew 9:27-35; Mark 1:40-41; Luke 5:12-13; Luke 14:1-4

Comments:
If there is any doubt that William Branham wanted his audiences to believe he was a prophet of the Lord, this statement should settle that question. But yet, he implied he wasn't under inspiration when he first said, "when the Angel of the Lord moves down, It becomes then a Voice of God to you." He then apologized for saying it if it offended them. Why would he apologize if it was the truth? Immediately afterwards, he said he was inspired to repeat it: "I am God's Voice to you."

Comments:
Let's take a look at what WB just said:

And God dwells in mankind, and man himself is Deity.

When you receive the Holy Ghost, then you become eternal, because you have—you're with God, you're part of God. Can you see what I mean? You are as eternal as God is...
("Questions And Answers," message #59-1223)

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
(Romans 8:15)

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
(Galatians 4:5)

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will...
(Ephesians 1:5)

Comments:
WB seems to have thought that people naturally have a desire to do good and would gladly respond in faith to the gospel if the devil would only let them. However, that's not the view of human nature according to the Bible:

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. (Romans 3:10-18)

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. (Ephesians 2:3)

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned... (Romans 5:12)

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. (Titus 1:15-16)

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 8:7-8)

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. (Colossians 1:22-23)

Comments:
That is an unusual choice of words. Where in the Bible do we ever read that an angel has ever anointed someone, or somehow came upon a person's mortal body? There have been plenty of times that the "Spirit of the Lord" was on someone who was anointed to speak on God's behalf. But an angel? The only time we see language like that being used by someone other than the Lord is when fallen angels came and possessed or took control of a person's body. In fact, WB has even said this angel would sometimes speak through him:

Now remember, I am not the gift. The one that you'll see in performance here tonight, which is here visibly—invisibly now, He's the gift. He's the One that God sent down. I just speak when He speaks through me. I can say nothing unless He says it to me first.
("Obey the Voice of the Angel," message #50-0713)

And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
(1 Corinthians 11:14,15)

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
(1 John 4:1)

[H]ere's what the Angel of the Lord, the first thing He said to me, "I am sent from the Presence of God, of Almighty God . . ."
("Three Witnesses," message #51-0728)

The Angel of the Lord that comes is not the Lord Jesus. It doesn't look like Him in the same vision. For, the vision I saw of the Lord Jesus, He was a little Man.
("How The Angel Came To Me, And His Commission," message #55-0117)

Comments:
WB talked about the "three Bibles" many times between around 1950 and 1964. Although he had said a couple of times that he did't promote the zodiac or pyramidology as part of his teachings, he liked to use this "parable" (as he called it) a lot. He thought it was important that the zodiac began with Virgo (the virgin), and ended with Leo, the lion. He believed this corresponded to the gospel, which began with the virgin birth and ends with the second coming of Christ as the "lion" of the tribe of Judah.

But his reason for identifying the zodiac as God's "first Bible" was based on his erronious view that the zodiac begins with Virgo and ends with Leo. The zodiac was invented by the Babylonians and refined by the Greeks and the Romans. They traditionally began the zodiac with the sign of Aries and ended it with Pisces. This puts Leo and Virgo side-by-side in the middle of the order of the signs of the zodiac. This removes the effect of WB's parable by placing Leo immediately before Virgo, not after Virgo at the complete end of the zodiac. What sense does it make to rearrange the zodiac to make it look more like the gospel when it has nothing to do with it, anyway?

God's "second Bible" is the Great Pyramid, which WB said Enoch built, and in which he placed his writing. What do we learn from this "Bible?" First, I can only surmise that Enoch's writing might be a reference to the apocalyptic Book of Enoch. WB's main idea, however, was that the the capstone is missing from the Great Pyramid, signifying "the cornerstone which the builders rejected." A major problem with this "Bible" is that Enoch could not have built the Great Pyramid since he left this earth before Noah's Flood, and the pyramids were built after the flood. Also, no writings attributed to Enoch have ever been found inside the Great Pyramid.

Comments:
WB said that in 1955. He said something very similar 5 years later in 1960:

So, God became man, that man might became God, become God. Amen. We, being men, sinners, God became a sinner, took our sins upon Him. Knowing no sins, yet was a sinner because our sins was placed upon Him. That we...He become me, that I might become Him. See? He become a sinner, that I might become a son of God. He become a sinner, that you might become a son of God.
("The Kinsman Redeemer," message #60-1002)

The Bible never calls Jesus a sinner. It would be blasphemous to say such a thing since that would make God a sinner. The Bible says just the opposite. Hebrews 4:15 says, "For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things just as we are, yet without sin." So what would lead Wm. Branham to say that Jesus was a sinner? Did he think that Jesus actually sinned? Here is the verse WB probably got the idea from:

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21)

One more point before we finish. WB said in both the above quotes that God in the form of Jesus became a sinner that we sinners might become God! He was obviously confused on this since he couldn't make up his mind how to say it:

"Jesus became me, that I might become Him."

"The innocent Lamb of God Who knowed no sin, became a sinner, that I might be made adopted son of God."

"God became man, that man might became God, become God."

"He become me, that I might become Him."

"He become a sinner, that I might become a son of God."

"He become a sinner, that you might become a son of God."

Each one of those statements contain some form of blasphemy and/or heresy. He said that Jesus was a sinner and that we become God. The Bible never says that we could ever become Him. We become one in Him (see John 14:20 and 17:20), but as creatures, we could never become the Creator. The Bible does say that He makes believers of Jesus into sons of God, and goes on to say that our sonship is by adoption (see Galatians 4:5).