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Arvel Mosier

2026-04-14T15:15:12Z

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[[Image:Arvel Mossier.jpg|thumb|Photograph of Arvel Mosier from the [[Generation book]].]]
Arvel Mosier was Hattie Wright's son. He was born August 23, 1944, in Depauw, Indiana, to Walter and Hattie Mosier and died Wednesday, July 23, 2014.

=Looking to be a Part of the Tent Vision=
:''"We had a very long talk, maybe about three hours, and he was telling me all about setting up this large tent revivial. At the time, I was driving a truck for the rock quarry, and he said to me, "By the time you come back from the Army, I'll have this all set up. Now, it is going to take one trailer truck to haul the chairs, another trailer truck to haul the tent, and it will take another trailer truck to haul the supplies." And he said, "Would you be interested in being one of my truck drivers?" He said, "There will be a lot of setup work."
:''I thought about it, and I told him that I would. Then, that December, he had that bad wreck and died." <ref> From the [[Generation book]] </ref>

=Conversion Experience=

==Arvel Mosier's Version==
Arvel was one of the two children whose mother Hattie Wright had been listening to William Branham and said, "That's nothing but the truth." Arvel's retelling of this story is not that exciting, and does not disclose to what story his mother said, "That's nothing but the truth".

:''"Then Mother, who had been listening real close, said, "That's nothing but the truth."
:''"The next thing you know, he told Mother to ask for anything she wanted, anything in the world. And I can remember her saying that she wanted the salvation of her two boys. Later, we were baptized at the Tabernacle. I was 15 years old."''<ref> From the [[Generation book]] </ref>

This is not the same story that William Branham tells.

==William Branham's version==
William Branham's version of the story includes a few extra facts.
#Hattie Wright response was to his story of creating squirrels.
#William Branham said "Thus Saith The Lord", and
#The boys fell on their knees instantly.
None of these things are mentioned in Arvel's version.

:''"Hattie Wright, she, I guess she's here this morning, sitting right there. She was the first one, when we seen those squirrels; and she knowed the commission about that, and when them seven straight times that God created something. I said, "That's the same God that could create a ram for Abraham, to convince him of his commission; is the same God that can create a squirrel, because that's what I had need of." Little ol' Hattie Wright there, sitting in the back of the building. With her heart off the things of the world, she was believing. She said, "Brother Branham, that's nothing but the truth."<ref>William Branham, September 11, 1960, As I was with Moses.</ref>

:''"And little ol' Hattie setting back there, said, "Brother Branham, that's nothing but the Truth!"

:''...I said, "Sister Hattie, THUS SAITH THE LORD, you said the right word like the Syrophenician woman said. The Holy Spirit's speaking to me now, and said for me to give you the desire of your heart."

:''...Her boys had got to be regular 'Ricky's,' school days, you know, and just sassing their mother; and fifteen, sixteen years old. And, oh, they were standing over there laughing at what I was saying.

:''...She said, "Brother Branham, the greatest desire in my heart is the salvation of my two boys."

:''...I said, "I give you your boys, in the Name of Jesus Christ." And them snickering, laughing, fun making boys fell across their mother's lap, and surrendered their life to God, and was filled with the Holy Ghost right there. Why? '''That is Truth! God has the authority to kill me, before these people across the nation.'''<ref>William Branham, '''November 27, 1965''', I have heard but now I see.</ref>

William Branham died less than a month after this last statement.

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Arvel Mosier

2026-04-14T15:14:40Z

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{{Top of Page}}
[[Image:Arvel Mossier.jpg|thumb|Photograph of Arvel Mosier from the [[Generation book]].]]
Arvel Mosier was Hattie Wright's son. He was born August 23, 1944, in Depauw, Indiana, to Walter and Hattie Mosier and died Wednesday, July 23, 2014.

=Looking to be a Part of the Tent Vision=
:''"We had a very long talk, maybe about three hours, and he was telling me all about setting up this large tent revivial. At the time, I was driving a truck for the rock quarry, and he said to me, "By the time you come back from the Army, I'll have this all set up. Now, it is going to take one trailer truck to haul the chairs, another trailer truck to haul the tent, and it will take another trailer truck to haul the supplies." And he said, "Would you be interested in being one of my truck drivers?" He said, "There will be a lot of setup work."
:''I thought about it, and I told him that I would. Then, that December, he had that bad wreck and died." <ref> From the [[Generation book]] </ref>

=Conversion Experience=

==Arvel Mosier's Version==
Arvel was one of the two children whose mother Hattie Wright had been listening to William Branham and said, "That's nothing but the truth." Arvel's retelling of this story is not that exciting, and does not disclose to what story his mother said, "That's nothing but the truth".

:''"Then Mother, who had been listening real close, said, "That's nothing but the truth."
:''"The next thing you know, he told Mother to ask for anything she wanted, anything in the world. And I can remember her saying that she wanted the salvation of her two boys. Later, we were baptized at the Tabernacle. I was 15 years old."''<ref> From the [[Generation book]] </ref>

==William Branham's version==
William Branham's version of the story includes a few extra facts.
#Hattie Wright response was to his story of creating squirrels.
#William Branham said "Thus Saith The Lord", and
#The boys fell on their knees instantly.
None of these things are mentioned in Arvel's version.

:''"Hattie Wright, she, I guess she's here this morning, sitting right there. She was the first one, when we seen those squirrels; and she knowed the commission about that, and when them seven straight times that God created something. I said, "That's the same God that could create a ram for Abraham, to convince him of his commission; is the same God that can create a squirrel, because that's what I had need of." Little ol' Hattie Wright there, sitting in the back of the building. With her heart off the things of the world, she was believing. She said, "Brother Branham, that's nothing but the truth."<ref>William Branham, September 11, 1960, As I was with Moses.</ref>

:''"And little ol' Hattie setting back there, said, "Brother Branham, that's nothing but the Truth!"

:''...I said, "Sister Hattie, THUS SAITH THE LORD, you said the right word like the Syrophenician woman said. The Holy Spirit's speaking to me now, and said for me to give you the desire of your heart."

:''...Her boys had got to be regular 'Ricky's,' school days, you know, and just sassing their mother; and fifteen, sixteen years old. And, oh, they were standing over there laughing at what I was saying.

:''...She said, "Brother Branham, the greatest desire in my heart is the salvation of my two boys."

:''...I said, "I give you your boys, in the Name of Jesus Christ." And them snickering, laughing, fun making boys fell across their mother's lap, and surrendered their life to God, and was filled with the Holy Ghost right there. Why? '''That is Truth! God has the authority to kill me, before these people across the nation.'''<ref>William Branham, '''November 27, 1965''', I have heard but now I see.</ref>

William Branham died less than a month after this last statement.

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The Egg-shaped Car

2026-04-13T01:34:17Z

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{{1933 Visions}}
[[Image:VoGR car.jpg|thumb|250px|right|And egg-shaped car owned by Joseph Branham]]
William Branham said that in 1933 he was given [[Prophecy#William Branham's SevenTen Visions of 1933|seven prophecies]]. On of them was that "cars would keep getting more like an egg, until the last days they'd be just in the shape of an egg."

=Video Feature - Egg-shaped Cars?=

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=The prophecy was "after the fact"=
[[Image:Electric Egg small.jpeg|thumb|250px|right|L'Oeuf Electrique - designed in 1938]]
There is no way to verify that William Branham made the prophecy in 1933. In 1964 he admitted that:

:''Of course, there's nobody here, I guess, that's a-living today or among us that heard me say that.'' (see full quote below)

The first time that he mentions this prophecy is in 1953 and, later, William Branham states that the Volkswagen Beetle was a fulfillment of his prophecy.

The Porsche Type 12 or "Auto für Jedermann" (car for everybody) was a German automobile project produced in 1931. The Type 12 was designed by Ferdinand Porsche for Zündapp. It featured the rounded, "egg-shaped" styling then in vogue, typified by the Schlörwagen, Tatra V570, Chrysler Airflow, and Volkswagen Beetle). The Type 12 served as one step in the development of the VW Bug.

The Volkswagen Beetle (officially the Volkswagen Type 1 and informally referred to as the Volkswagen Bug), is a two-door, four passenger, rear-engined economy car manufactured and marketed by German automaker Volkswagen from 1938 until 2003.

In 1933, William Branham toured the World's Fair Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. This fair provided visitors with a glimpse into the future, walking patrons through the latest technologies, prototypes, and future direction.
[[Image:1280px-Dynamaxion 1933.jpg|thumb|250px|right|2010 replica of the 1933 Dymaxion]]
One of the exhibits in in the 1933 World's Fair was an egg-shaped vehicle - the first prototype of the Dymaxion - which made test runs at the Fair, and was involved in an accident that killed the driver and seriously injured two passengers. The canvas top of the vehicle did not offer sufficient protection against impact, and the single rear wheel did not offer enough stability. After its accident, the investors abandoned the project.

All manufacturers seemed to be competing to produce their idea of the future as described by Norman Bel Geddes, who was quickly becoming a recognized name in the automotive industry, as well as many other industries. These "egg car" schematics were already public knowledge prior to the World's Fair. In 1932, Norman Bel Geddes published a prophetic book of the advancements in science that were soon to become reality. In "Horizons," Bel Geddes describes the car of the future:

:'''''This form is approximately that of an egg''', though the small end of the drop tapers more sharply to a conical point. In falling, the larger and blunt end of the drop is foremost. This is the shape that creates the least turbulence"<ref>Page 45, ''Horizons'', Author: Norman Bel Geddes, Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1932</ref>
[[Image:Horizons00geddrich 0073.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Page 45 of "Horizons"]]
:''"It is my prediction that within the next two or three years some farseeing manufacturer will again turn his attention to making his machine go, that this time his design will be the result of what has been learned in this motorized-buggy era. This means that he will start afresh and that his objective will be the ultimate form of the future motor car. This car will look very different from those you seen on the road to-day but not very different from Car Number 8 as illustrated here."<ref>Page 63, ''Horizons'', Author: Norman Bel Geddes, Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1932</ref>

If William Branham thought that the VW Bug fulfilled the prophecy, then the 1931 Tatra V570 and the 1931 Porsche Type 12 '''fulfilled the prophecy before it was made'''.

This truly was an "after the fact" prophecy"

In 1953, Branham started claiming to have had a vision describing this shape of a car. Also, during sermons, Branham claimed that the shape had become common — reminding listeners of how the early automobiles were designed. His original intent was to describe a prophecy that listeners would see as already fulfilled.

Over time, this motive changed. As technology increased, and automobiles no longer styled themselves like the VW Bug, Branham added additional details to this prophecy. From rounded glass tops to self-guidance systems, this prophecy of a car shaped like an egg began to take other forms pointing to future innovation. For details of this, see our article on [[Driverless Cars]].

Again, Branham claimed that his vision had been fulfilled. This time, however, it was fulfilled by the driverless car. That same car was on exhibit in the 1962 World's Fair Century 21 Exposition, in Seattle, Washington. Branham toured the exhibits, and described the car as fulfillment of prophecy.

=Quotes of William Branham=
[[iMAGE:World-solar-challenge.jpg|thumb|frame|205px|right|Is this a fried egg?]]
''I said, "Just before that time comes, that automobiles...They'll look like an egg. They'll be shaped. That's a vision. Be something on the shape of something like that." And that's the way they'll be just before the rapture.<ref>March 26, 1953, Jeffersonville, Indiana, para. 42</ref>

''And at that time, automobiles, just before the coming of the Lord, will be in the shape of an egg." Now, remember that; keep it in mind. See? That was in 1932, or something like that. And look how they're shaping down every year, right to it. We're nearer the end time; we are.<ref>May 1, 1955, Chicago, Illinois, para. 17</ref>

''And, you, how many can remember what a '33 car looked like back there? Oh, it kind of run out like this, and way up the back, and chopped down for the spare tire to hang on. I saw a vision, that before the coming of the Lord, that cars would look like an egg. How many remembers that prediction? Is there anybody left in here? Brother Steward's gone, and I guess. It was 1933 when we were having services over here. I guess just about all of them's gone now, since then.<ref>56-0513, Teaching On Moses</ref>

''Picking up, the other day, an old book, up there, reading some of the things that the Lord had told, foretold, already come to pass: about this juvenile stuff, and about how the war would come out. And all those things has hit—just the two things left. And one of those great prophesies; that is, for '''cars to be on the road with remote control, looking like a egg,''' only you don't drive it; it controls itself. And then, there'll be a great woman rise up, 'cause America is a woman's nation. And it'll… A great woman will rise up and be president, or something like that in the nation, and then there will come a total annihilation, the entire nation will be wiped out. And that, I predict—now this is not the Lord saying this—the other about the woman and this, is the Lord. But '''I predicted in 1933 that the world would be total annihilation before '77'''.<ref>58-0720M, By Faith, Moses</ref>

''And in 1933 when the Lord, when we was having meetings over here where that Church of Christ is standing now, the old Masonic home, the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that... And also said that cars would keep getting more like an egg, until the last days they'd be just in the shape of an egg.<ref>58-0927, Why Are We Not A Denomination?</ref>

''You remember, I predicted that in 1933. And it will be that way too. For I saw a vision before the end time, that great and powerful thing stood up in the United States, and she become as stubbles. So then, it's going to happen. I said, "Automobiles will—come like the shape of an egg." You know what a '33 car looked like.<ref>60-0805, Lamb And Dove</ref>
[[Image:1280px-Porsche Typ12 Model2 Nuremberg.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Porsche Type 12 (1931)]]

''Now, I said, "Then after that time, that science would really progress." They did, they made the atomic bomb and everything. I said, "During their progression, they would make a… cars would constantly begin to shape like an egg." And you remember the big old hood on the 1933, the big back come down like this, the spare tire on the back of it? Look how it is now, see: streamlined, see, like an egg.<ref>60-1211E, The Laodicean Church Age</ref>

''I remember when I stood by the side of the seashore the first time... It wasn't the sea; it was Lake Michigan. I was just a boy preacher, went up to hear Paul Rader preach at the '''World's Fair, about 1933''', I believe it was, when it was at Chicago. And I had my first opportunity to walk out and look at the large body of water, larger than the Ohio River. And it was just jumping, and going on, you know. And it was early spring, Easter sunrise service we were there. And I seen those great big whitecaps coming in, you know, and hit the — the bank, and roll out. And I thought of that... [Blank.spot.on.tape — Ed.]... <ref>62-0612 BEHOLD.A.GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE</ref>

''I saw it in 1933. See, I looked off. You said, you might have said, "Well, it didn't happen then." 160 But it's going to happen! Neither was Mussolini in power, neither was the Maginot Line built, neither did the car look like an egg in them days, and the things, neither did the women elect a President that would look like a—a college boy, and all these other things, neither would there be a Catholic President, and so forth, spoke of. About thirty years ago, or more, these things were predicted, but He only showed me way off down to the end.<ref>63-0724, God Doesn't Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him</ref>

''1933, the Holy Spirit came one morning and told me seven things that would take place before this nation was destroyed. One of them is that. It's on old paper there at the church, many has looked at it. How that we would go to war with Hitler and they'd… How Germany would fortify and build a Maginot Line, or the Siegfried Line, I believe it was, eleven years before it was ever thought of. And how that automobiles would constantly shape like eggs.<ref>63-1117, Once More</ref>

''In my book in there, that I keep wrote down: In 1933, one morning, fixing to go to Sunday school, a Baptist Sunday school where I was pastor, the Holy Spirit come and showed me down to the end time, and showed me seven things that would happen. I marked them down. It's on old yellow paper... I said, "Such progress will take place!" I said, "I see automobiles looking like an egg, going down the street. There is cars go down the highways, with some kind of a control, they don't have to guide it. I seen an American family playing checker in the back of a car." They've got the car right now, if they just had the highways to put it on. '''The little Volkswagen is a perfect egg, just exactly,''' and it's all the other cars. Could you imagine, in 1933, what the cars looked like, to now?<ref>64-0321E, The Voice Of The Sign</ref>

''Look at 1933, how it say the women would act in this last days. How it said the people… How Mussolini, how he'd come to his end. How Hitler would come to a mysterious end. How that the three ism would come in communism. How that the machines would come, looking like an egg.<ref>64-0726M, Recognizing Your Day And Its Message</ref>

''The Lord's Word is perfectly accurate. That was in 1933. That would be… Let's see, what would that be? Thirty-two years ago, wouldn't it? This is '64. Yeah, thirty… Yeah, thirty-one years ago. Thirty-one years ago the Lord told me that, and here it is. And the company's here that's already ordered them; and the—and trucking companies and things are getting trucks made like them. They can control it right from their headquarters like that, don't even have to have a driver in it. And here it is all already made, and there it is with the cars. Now, it's on the bulletin board in the back, and you can read the prophecy and just see how accurate our God is, how His Word… He said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never fail." Just look, thirty-three years ago. You know what a—what a 1931, or whatever it was, model car would look like; it'd look like a relic. '''And It said, "It'll look just like an egg, become like an egg.''' '''Of course, there's nobody here, I guess, that's a-living today or among us that heard me say that.'''<ref>64-0823M, Questions And Answers #1</ref>

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2026-04-13T01:31:40Z

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Under The Halo

2026-04-08T02:44:11Z

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*[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Rod_Bergen_Under_The_Halo?id=9h1GEQAAQBAJ Google Play]
*[https://www.amazon.ca/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham/dp/1038313929/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EXYJZCPE3WPJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ljgNiwyTZYwHAKgu-5JuvA.qFFyB0JmSyk5a712G22Bs5apaHd0x-464s6zFnPo8qc&dib_tag=se&keywords=rod+bergen+under+the+halo&qid=1739839368&sprefix=%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1 Canada - Amazon.ca]
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==Portuguese translation==

'''''Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham''''' (the Portuguese edition of Under The Halo) is now available in print and electronic formats:

*[https://www.amazon.com/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando/dp/1069662704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LMSRCBDC99BM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MbUDhcskIZj_1108I_1GqA.YQ38dQGYGUpj01WLZQbyYS4KumITwYWfjddFmXAY7UY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403069&s=digital-text&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Cdigital-text%2C204&sr=1-1-catcorr Amazon.com]
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=Reviews=

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==Kirkus review==

''Bergen takes a critical look at self-proclaimed prophet William Branham in this nonfiction work. ...Bergen’s text proves to be a very readable work of investigation. Even for those who have never heard of this evangelist, who died in 1965, the book provides an insightful look into a curious subset of Christianity. A thorough, inviting examination of an evangelist’s substantial spiritual claims.'' - [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rod-bergen/under-the-halo/ Kirkus Reviews]

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Under The Halo

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'''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham''''' is available in print, electronic and audiobook versions. A Portuguese translation of the book (Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham) is also available (see below). Spanish and French translations are in process.

Under The Halo is an examination of whether William Branham, a twentieth-century faith-healer and evangelist, was a prophet of God as believed by an estimated 1 to 1.5 million followers who call his teachings the “Message.“ Written by a former Message member who shares his journey into and out of this religious movement, it’s a well-researched review of the prophecies, visions, stories, and doctrines of William Branham—things that can’t be questioned by those in the Message.

The audiobook and electronic formats are the lowest price options.

=How to get the audiobook for free!=

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Typically, a standard Audible free trial lasts for 30 days. During this period, you get:

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===Step-by-Step Guide to Claiming Your Free Audiobook===

#Navigate to the Audible free trial page. You'll often see banners for it on Amazon as well.
#Click the Try 3 months for $0.00 button to begin the sign-up process. You will need to sign in with your Amazon account. If you don't have one, you can create one for free.
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#Once your trial is active, browse the Audible library and find the book you want.
#On the book's page, you'll see the option to "Buy with 1 Credit." Select this, and '''''Under The Halo''''' is yours.

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====Critical Question: Do You Keep ''Under the Halo'' After the Trial?====

This is a crucial point of confusion for many users. The answer is yes and no. '''''Under The Halo''''', which you bought with your free credit, is '''yours to keep forever''', even if you cancel your membership. It will remain in your Audible library permanently.

Audiobooks you listened to from the Plus Catalog are only accessible during your trial or with an active membership. If you cancel, you will lose access to these titles.

I should add that I am a huge fan of Audible and have been a paid member for a number of years. You can access a number of [[Resources that have helped us|our suggested books]] from Audible.

=Where to get Under The Halo=
[[Image:UTH Portuguese cover for web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Portuguese edition]]
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'''Audiobook'''

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'''Electronic and print versions'''
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*[https://www.amazon.com/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham-ebook/dp/B0DX7682CJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.i98OTJSlfON2R8gJi1QNOAtfFAnj1XemExoriyZa5bwgT0GU7feQ8i9CZ0OCaSnJ_AXLJQ0MLqNnYvM_3MlLZr4s-6JwVM8mSDcniz76sD-TIrW7eQV71YXzeAfde_j1duAuBGJCl85NzmaBTHu8WQ.RZQB_r3O4bKEq_2UcxyYjgOKpU9gZZftJHbH0zJWRUg&qid=1739834214&sr=8-1 USA - Amazon.com]
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*[https://books.apple.com/us/book/under-the-halo/id6741875038 Apple Books]
*[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Rod_Bergen_Under_The_Halo?id=9h1GEQAAQBAJ Google Play]
*[https://www.amazon.ca/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham/dp/1038313929/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EXYJZCPE3WPJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ljgNiwyTZYwHAKgu-5JuvA.qFFyB0JmSyk5a712G22Bs5apaHd0x-464s6zFnPo8qc&dib_tag=se&keywords=rod+bergen+under+the+halo&qid=1739839368&sprefix=%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1 Canada - Amazon.ca]
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==Portuguese translation==

'''''Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham''''' (the Portuguese edition of Under The Halo) is now available in print and electronic formats:

*[https://www.amazon.com/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando/dp/1069662704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LMSRCBDC99BM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MbUDhcskIZj_1108I_1GqA.YQ38dQGYGUpj01WLZQbyYS4KumITwYWfjddFmXAY7UY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403069&s=digital-text&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Cdigital-text%2C204&sr=1-1-catcorr Amazon.com]
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=Reviews=

<youtube>https://youtu.be/0yxXeU6Sez8?si=D-kAEHlKJaaL-Ycf</youtube>

==Kirkus review==

''Bergen takes a critical look at self-proclaimed prophet William Branham in this nonfiction work. ...Bergen’s text proves to be a very readable work of investigation. Even for those who have never heard of this evangelist, who died in 1965, the book provides an insightful look into a curious subset of Christianity. A thorough, inviting examination of an evangelist’s substantial spiritual claims.'' - [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rod-bergen/under-the-halo/ Kirkus Reviews]

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Testimonies of Former Followers

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This page contains interviews and videos of former followers of William Branham. Each has a unique story of why they left the message in their search for spiritual truth.

=Podcast Interviews with people who left the message=

*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-1-bryan-lynch-interviews-rod-bergen/ Rod Bergen - British Columbia, Canada]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-3-getting-to-know-your-hosts-part-3/ Bryan Lynch - North Carolina, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/ots-6-joe-anna-barone-1/ Joe & Anna Barone - Minnesota, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-11-careyann-m/ CareyAnn M. - New York, USA]

*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/ots-29-sylvia-perkins-1/ Sylvia Perkins - Indiana, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-35-interview-with-john-collins-author-of-the-seek-the-truth-website/ John Collins - Indiana, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-39-interview-with-paul-kathy-jenkins/ Paul & Kathy Jenkins - Ohio, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-48-a-biblical-view-of-the-seven-church-ages-an-interview-with-andrew-loza-part-1/ Andrew Loza - Arizona, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-53-an-interview-with-dr-gabriel-pollen/ Dr. Gabriel Pollen - Zambia, Africa]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-55-an-interview-with-cindy-and-anna-bergen-part-1/ Cindy & Anna Bergen]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/season-2-kick-off-introducing-our-new-co-hosts/ Tim Kraus - Washington, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-64-the-seven-thunders-part-1/ Eleisha Moreno - New York, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/ots-82-the-message-in-brazil/ Arthur Antunes - Brazil, South America]

=Jennifer Hamilton=

Jennifer Hamilton spent most of her life in the message. Here is her story - My Testimony of [[Why I Left the Message by Jennifer Hamilton]]

=Jennifer Landes=
Jennifer Landes was raised in the message and was a follower of William Branham for 35 years. She attended a message church in Virginia, where her husband was a deacon. Jennifer and her husband left the message in 2013. This is part of her story.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phh_OnJA1Fw</youtube>

=Matt Landes=
Matt Landes was raised in a Christian home and became a follower of William Branham as a young adult. He attended a message church in Virginia and was a deacon in that church. Matt and his wife, Jennifer, left the message in 2013.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzC4aOYu9b4</youtube>



=John Collins=
John Collins is the grandson of the Pastor of the Branham Tabernacle, Willard Collins. He was raised in the Message, and is the author of the[http://www.seekyethetruth.com/Pages/57/index.html Seek Ye The Truth] website.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL3XmiJ81Ak</youtube>

=Danny Burboa=
Danny Burboa grew up in the Message. His testimony is a call to honest faith.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAFrugGw1Js</youtube>

=David Young=
David Young was a message believer and employee at Voice of God Recordings in Jeffersonville, Indiana for years.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57wn8Jo51tE</youtube>

=Evenes Mafupa=
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>https://youtu.be/AzFEoKIXs7Y</youtube>

I used to be a "Message" believer, but I left. It's been a year since I've left the "Message".

The "Message" is basically what the people call themselves who believe William Branham. They believe that he was the "seventh messenger", "the Elijah who is supposed to come according to Malachi 4". That's the church that I use to go to for about fifteen years. Last year, around February the 12th was my last "End Time Message" service. It's been a year now since I left, and I felt that I should speak out about it because I feel more comfortable now. When I left, I was in all sorts of places. I wasn't doing well. I suffered from insomnia, and from a kind of depression. I was very depressed because I had believed this "Message" for fifteen years.

The reason why I left is, I found out through reading and questioning some of the things that were happening. I thought, "No, this can't be ordained by God. This can't be proper." It was shocking for me, being someone who had always been an avid reader of the Bible, even from a young age. I still remember my dad bought me a Bible when I was still in grade 4. I've been reading the Bible ever since. Reading the Bible is something that I do even now. I do every day. Some of the things that were happening, I just thought, "No, no, no - this can't be." For example, the fact that there are failed prophecies, that this person who claimed to be a prophet actually said, "Thus Saith the LORD". So many times, in his preaching and his prophecies, he used to say "Thus Saith the LORD never fails". Actually, they failed! The "Message" people have a song for that: "Thus Saith the LORD never fails". And yes, definitely "Thus Saith the LORD never fails". But he has lots of failed prophecies! I was looking at his son, Billy Paul. His son is very old. And he said in one of his prophecies that "Billy Paul, my son, you won't be an old man before Los Angeles sinks". At that time, he was a young man, definitely. But now he's old. Then, when I was looking at it, he was 82? 83? I thought, "He's an OLD MAN, like come on! 82 and 83? That's old according to me!" I'm sure you know definitely that that is old. And Los Angeles is not under the sea. That's a failed prophecy. The Bible says if someone claims to be a prophet and they say something that doesn't come to pass, don't fear him, he's not a prophet. He has spoken presumptuously. That was the first thing that actually got me thinking, "look here, I need to look at this thing some more because this is not adding up."

The other thing that got me questioning was the egg-shaped cars. Apparently, there was a newspaper article that said this was a concept car and it's going to wait for this and that, waiting for the roads or something, I can't remember. But yes, it was a concept car back before 1933! So, this guy literally read something from a newspaper and then presented it to the people (who were ignorant of the fact that this thing was in the newspaper) and said it was a "prophecy"! Which it wasn't; it was after the fact. When I started searching a bit more that's when I noticed that there are so many things, like what I was questioning, was just the surface. I could brush that off easily to say, "ok, It's probably one mistake". But the "cloud", he wasn't there. Even his daughter mentioned that he wasn't there. He wasn't where that "cloud" was happening! No! He wasn't there! He was there a week or two later, I think. Not before, later. So, you start thinking, "Ok, so this person preached and said God was coming to talk to him, an angel was coming to give him the "opening of the Seven Seals" and yet he wasn't there. This "opening of the Seven Seals" that an "angel" was supposed to be coming to talk to him every day - it wasn't there. This guy was literally studying Clarence Larkin's books if you look at it!

Do your own research. I would recommend that you do your own research. Because even for me I had to do my own research. I didn't just read from these websites, that many have blamed. I didn't just read from them and then all of a sudden thought, "I don't' believe the 'Message' anymore". I searched and searched. Sometimes I used to even do all night of researching, binge researching on what this thing is. I wanted to get to the bottom of it because I'd believed this thing for fifteen years; it was my life! My adult life and started in the "Message". When I found out that it was all a scam, it was all a lie, my life crumbled. Completely. I got sick. I wouldn't get well, I would be on this and that, antibiotics and whatever the case may be, and I wouldn't get well. I remember at some time I was telling my husband that; my whole body is just sore. My whole body. I don't have the flu, my head is not aching, my tummy is not sore, I didn't get hurt anywhere, but my whole body is just sore. My whole world crumbled. This is what was normal to me, and now it was a scam. It was fake. It was a situation whereby those who invest, say you invest in a scam, and you invest your life savings - basically all you have in life - and you invest everything. You mortgage your house, and everything is invested in that. And then you realize it ten years later that it's a scam. You've been cultivating it. You've been living your life looking towards that thing, and then you realize fifteen years later that it is a scam. You can imagine what happened. I was devastated. I cried. It was difficult. Very, very difficult. I was angry. That's why I can only record this now because now, I'm looking at it in a better light.

My husband actually said, "Look here. You can't be angry at the "Message people". Because I was angry at the "Message" people as well. He said, "You can't be angry at the message people because they are as much a victim as you are. They didn't create this". Yes, they'd perpetuated it so, so much such that, sometimes you can't even recognize the similarities between what William Branham - him being a scam -- preached and what the message is now. Some of them have even added their own rules to it. "Hey! We don't do this! We don't wear high heels! We don't wear this! We don't do that! Some of the things are just human and man-made laws. They aren't God's laws! So, I was very angry. I think some of that was also because of the response that I got from my close friends. You understand hey, I lost my friends. In fifteen years of living in this "Message", we were told you're not supposed to be friends with anyone who doesn't go to the "Message". So, you basically have your circle of friends in the "Message". If you leave the "Message", you've lost your friends, because, they're not supposed to be talking to you. As much as I still have some friends who still talk to me we're, not as close anymore. We're not as close as we used to be because they are not supposed to be talking to me anyway. So, they are trying to keep their distance. I'm sure they are scared that I will influence them. My friends, the ones that I told or the ones that heard about it and came to question me, were very angry. To the extent of even spelling evil! They'd say, "Hey, bad luck is going to happen! Why did you do this? How can you backslide? You out of all people! Why did it have to be you! I mean, you're my friend and now you're backslidden" and all that kind of stuff. Some won't even talk to me, and I'm fine with that. I knew it was going to happen, because that's what we're told, right from the pulpit. The Pastor would say "Don't talk to them! Don't go to their house! Don't visit them! No!" So, I expected that.

What made me stop going to the "Message"? Because, for some time, I was like, "I'll just keep going and then I'll just believe what I believe." Because leaving the "Message" was a big risk. My kids were born in the "Message". The "Message" is what they know. My oldest is now fifteen. The "Message" is all he knows. I didn't want to confuse them. Leaving the "Message" felt like I'm going to disrupt my kids. What am I going to tell them? That "your parents lived a lie or believed a lie all these years"? "We've believed a lie!" - that's what you're going to tell them? I thought, "No, I'm not going to leave the message". "I'm going to keep on going to church, and I want to serve the lives of my kids." I'll just believe what I believe. Which is what some of my friends even told me. "No man, we don't believe that! We don't believe that much! No, no, no, no! We are just in the church, and we know that we believe in Christ! This William Branham thing, um-um!" As long as we go to church, and we don't want to disrupt our lives. So for me, I didn't want to disrupt my kids' lives. I didn't want to disrupt my family life, or my life as well. So I had intended on staying in the "Message" anyway. But, this other time, the pastor at the "Message" church that I used go to started saying things like, "I didn't believe this "Message" because of the 'cloud'! 'Cloud' or no 'cloud', William Branham there on that day or not. I believe the "Message" anyhow. I didn't believe the "Message" because there were two men or sixteen men or eighteen men that fell from that bridge!" (The Municipal Bridge). William Branham apparently said that there was going to be sixteen men drown, and then only 2 men died. So, he was like "I didn't believe the "Message" because of that! I don't' care about that! I believe the "Message" anyhow!"

And I thought, "Man! I care about that! I care!" If I think a man is a prophet, he should measure up and it should be Biblical. Or else I'm going to believe in every person that raises up and says, "I'm a prophet look here I'm a prophet!" So, I said, "no, no, no, no!" I care! And I care too much to ignore that. I told my husband, "I don't think it works for me to keep on going to church - to this church. The "Message", it screws up your mind. I'm telling you. It does. Even this pastor told us, "These people, they're busy criticizing William Branham and his 'Message', but they are not offering an alternative." Come on! The alternative is Jesus Christ! That's the alternative! That's the origin! That has been perverted for so many years. It's not even an alternative; that's where the people are supposed to be! And they said things like, "Hey, they are finding fault with the 'Message'! There are so many faults in the Bible anyway, so they're going to be atheists then!" I thought, "Ok. You are screwing my mind! And I said I can't sit under the preaching of this guy. Not now. I don't think ever. Because you are literally saying if you leave the message you become an atheist." And that's not true. Why come to the message so that you can turn me into an atheist? So, it's either this or nothing? No, no, no, no! The "Message" of William Branham is not Christianity. Christianity stands on its own, and it prevails without William Branham. William Branham tried to pervert it, but he didn't succeed. We saw the scam that he was and left the message completely.

And so that's when I thought, "No, I can't do this. I can't do this." This was the time I was driving from work, and then I thought, "No, man, you should remain in the 'Message'! Your kids! Your family! The people who've always looked up to you, because of the fact that you are in the 'Message'". I don't believe that God does something just for the sake of doing it. So, I thought, "Why would God reveal this information about William Branham to me?" The internet has always been there. It's always been there, in my life. And people have been saying things about William Branham and I used to just brush them off. But in His time God revealed this information, and he made me care enough to research. To say, look here, these people can't just be talking, and talking, and talking. Let me research and if I'm going to believe William Branham as the "messenger" of the "seventh age" or whatever, the age we are in now, but he said a generation is about 40 years. So, whatever I'm going to believe, I want to believe it after researching and seeing the different sides of the coin. So, I thought, "Ok, why did God reveal this information to me if I'm not supposed to use it?" If I'm supposed to just say, "Hey no", Because now I know so many things that William Branham said which were not true - so many things. His prophecies which failed, which he said after the fact, he probably read in the newspapers or something, or a science journals. So many things that he said that were not true. His extra-Biblical teachings that were not true. So, I thought, "Ok, why did God reveal this information, for me to just brush it off?" And if I die today, I was driving then, and say I have an accident now, and then I die. Will I be able to answer God that "I didn't want to disrupt my life?" "I didn't want to disrupt the life of my kids, that's the reason why I kept on congregating with people that are definitely in a cult?" "That doesn't put You first, but put William Branham first?" "That read William Branham's 'Messages' than they read the bible?" Was I going to be able to do that? And when the answer was: no. I knew what to do. I knew I couldn't take it any longer. I couldn't push it any longer. I couldn't' keep on doing the things I was doing any longer. I had to change. And if I was going to keep my life, preserve my life, and not follow the Word of God, it was going to cost me eternal life. And I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to take that chance. So, I left. And that's the reason why I left.

- Evenes Mafupa, Former "Message Believer"

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This page contains interviews and videos of former followers of William Branham. Each has a unique story of why they left the message in their search for spiritual truth.

=Podcast Interviews with people who left the message=

*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-1-bryan-lynch-interviews-rod-bergen/ Rod Bergen - British Columbia, Canada]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-3-getting-to-know-your-hosts-part-3/ Bryan Lynch - North Carolina, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/ots-6-joe-anna-barone-1/ Joe & Anna Barone - Minnesota, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-11-careyann-m/ CareyAnn M. - New York, USA]

*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/ots-29-sylvia-perkins-1/ Sylvia Perkins - Indiana, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-35-interview-with-john-collins-author-of-the-seek-the-truth-website/ John Collins - Indiana, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-39-interview-with-paul-kathy-jenkins/ Paul & Kathy Jenkins - Ohio, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-48-a-biblical-view-of-the-seven-church-ages-an-interview-with-andrew-loza-part-1/ Andrew Loza - Arizona, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-53-an-interview-with-dr-gabriel-pollen/ Dr. Gabriel Pollen - Zambia, Africa]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-55-an-interview-with-cindy-and-anna-bergen-part-1/ Cindy & Anna Bergen]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/season-2-kick-off-introducing-our-new-co-hosts/ Tim Kraus - Washington, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/episode-64-the-seven-thunders-part-1/ Eleisha Moreno - New York, USA]
*[https://offtheshelf.life/podcast/ots-82-the-message-in-brazil/ Arthur Antunes - Brazil, South America]

=Jennifer Hamilton=

Jennifer Hamilton spent most of her life in the message. Here is her story - My Testimony of [[Why I Left the Message by Jennifer Hamilton]]

=Jennifer Landes=
Jennifer Landes was raised in the message and was a follower of William Branham for 35 years. She attended a message church in Virginia, where her husband was a deacon. Jennifer and her husband left the message in 2013. This is part of her story.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phh_OnJA1Fw</youtube>

=Matt Landes=
Matt Landes was raised in a Christian home and became a follower of William Branham as a young adult. He attended a message church in Virginia and was a deacon in that church. Matt and his wife, Jennifer, left the message in 2013.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzC4aOYu9b4</youtube>

=Emily Arndt=
Emily Arndt was raised in a Message home in Wisconsin. She left the Message and is now working in Africa.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8of6_-6wLsw</youtube>

=John Collins=
John Collins is the grandson of the Pastor of the Branham Tabernacle, Willard Collins. He was raised in the Message, and is the author of the[http://www.seekyethetruth.com/Pages/57/index.html Seek Ye The Truth] website.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL3XmiJ81Ak</youtube>

=Danny Burboa=
Danny Burboa grew up in the Message. His testimony is a call to honest faith.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAFrugGw1Js</youtube>

=David Young=
David Young was a message believer and employee at Voice of God Recordings in Jeffersonville, Indiana for years.
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57wn8Jo51tE</youtube>

=Evenes Mafupa=
 
<youtube width='440' height='320'>https://youtu.be/AzFEoKIXs7Y</youtube>

I used to be a "Message" believer, but I left. It's been a year since I've left the "Message".

The "Message" is basically what the people call themselves who believe William Branham. They believe that he was the "seventh messenger", "the Elijah who is supposed to come according to Malachi 4". That's the church that I use to go to for about fifteen years. Last year, around February the 12th was my last "End Time Message" service. It's been a year now since I left, and I felt that I should speak out about it because I feel more comfortable now. When I left, I was in all sorts of places. I wasn't doing well. I suffered from insomnia, and from a kind of depression. I was very depressed because I had believed this "Message" for fifteen years.

The reason why I left is, I found out through reading and questioning some of the things that were happening. I thought, "No, this can't be ordained by God. This can't be proper." It was shocking for me, being someone who had always been an avid reader of the Bible, even from a young age. I still remember my dad bought me a Bible when I was still in grade 4. I've been reading the Bible ever since. Reading the Bible is something that I do even now. I do every day. Some of the things that were happening, I just thought, "No, no, no - this can't be." For example, the fact that there are failed prophecies, that this person who claimed to be a prophet actually said, "Thus Saith the LORD". So many times, in his preaching and his prophecies, he used to say "Thus Saith the LORD never fails". Actually, they failed! The "Message" people have a song for that: "Thus Saith the LORD never fails". And yes, definitely "Thus Saith the LORD never fails". But he has lots of failed prophecies! I was looking at his son, Billy Paul. His son is very old. And he said in one of his prophecies that "Billy Paul, my son, you won't be an old man before Los Angeles sinks". At that time, he was a young man, definitely. But now he's old. Then, when I was looking at it, he was 82? 83? I thought, "He's an OLD MAN, like come on! 82 and 83? That's old according to me!" I'm sure you know definitely that that is old. And Los Angeles is not under the sea. That's a failed prophecy. The Bible says if someone claims to be a prophet and they say something that doesn't come to pass, don't fear him, he's not a prophet. He has spoken presumptuously. That was the first thing that actually got me thinking, "look here, I need to look at this thing some more because this is not adding up."

The other thing that got me questioning was the egg-shaped cars. Apparently, there was a newspaper article that said this was a concept car and it's going to wait for this and that, waiting for the roads or something, I can't remember. But yes, it was a concept car back before 1933! So, this guy literally read something from a newspaper and then presented it to the people (who were ignorant of the fact that this thing was in the newspaper) and said it was a "prophecy"! Which it wasn't; it was after the fact. When I started searching a bit more that's when I noticed that there are so many things, like what I was questioning, was just the surface. I could brush that off easily to say, "ok, It's probably one mistake". But the "cloud", he wasn't there. Even his daughter mentioned that he wasn't there. He wasn't where that "cloud" was happening! No! He wasn't there! He was there a week or two later, I think. Not before, later. So, you start thinking, "Ok, so this person preached and said God was coming to talk to him, an angel was coming to give him the "opening of the Seven Seals" and yet he wasn't there. This "opening of the Seven Seals" that an "angel" was supposed to be coming to talk to him every day - it wasn't there. This guy was literally studying Clarence Larkin's books if you look at it!

Do your own research. I would recommend that you do your own research. Because even for me I had to do my own research. I didn't just read from these websites, that many have blamed. I didn't just read from them and then all of a sudden thought, "I don't' believe the 'Message' anymore". I searched and searched. Sometimes I used to even do all night of researching, binge researching on what this thing is. I wanted to get to the bottom of it because I'd believed this thing for fifteen years; it was my life! My adult life and started in the "Message". When I found out that it was all a scam, it was all a lie, my life crumbled. Completely. I got sick. I wouldn't get well, I would be on this and that, antibiotics and whatever the case may be, and I wouldn't get well. I remember at some time I was telling my husband that; my whole body is just sore. My whole body. I don't have the flu, my head is not aching, my tummy is not sore, I didn't get hurt anywhere, but my whole body is just sore. My whole world crumbled. This is what was normal to me, and now it was a scam. It was fake. It was a situation whereby those who invest, say you invest in a scam, and you invest your life savings - basically all you have in life - and you invest everything. You mortgage your house, and everything is invested in that. And then you realize it ten years later that it's a scam. You've been cultivating it. You've been living your life looking towards that thing, and then you realize fifteen years later that it is a scam. You can imagine what happened. I was devastated. I cried. It was difficult. Very, very difficult. I was angry. That's why I can only record this now because now, I'm looking at it in a better light.

My husband actually said, "Look here. You can't be angry at the "Message people". Because I was angry at the "Message" people as well. He said, "You can't be angry at the message people because they are as much a victim as you are. They didn't create this". Yes, they'd perpetuated it so, so much such that, sometimes you can't even recognize the similarities between what William Branham - him being a scam -- preached and what the message is now. Some of them have even added their own rules to it. "Hey! We don't do this! We don't wear high heels! We don't wear this! We don't do that! Some of the things are just human and man-made laws. They aren't God's laws! So, I was very angry. I think some of that was also because of the response that I got from my close friends. You understand hey, I lost my friends. In fifteen years of living in this "Message", we were told you're not supposed to be friends with anyone who doesn't go to the "Message". So, you basically have your circle of friends in the "Message". If you leave the "Message", you've lost your friends, because, they're not supposed to be talking to you. As much as I still have some friends who still talk to me we're, not as close anymore. We're not as close as we used to be because they are not supposed to be talking to me anyway. So, they are trying to keep their distance. I'm sure they are scared that I will influence them. My friends, the ones that I told or the ones that heard about it and came to question me, were very angry. To the extent of even spelling evil! They'd say, "Hey, bad luck is going to happen! Why did you do this? How can you backslide? You out of all people! Why did it have to be you! I mean, you're my friend and now you're backslidden" and all that kind of stuff. Some won't even talk to me, and I'm fine with that. I knew it was going to happen, because that's what we're told, right from the pulpit. The Pastor would say "Don't talk to them! Don't go to their house! Don't visit them! No!" So, I expected that.

What made me stop going to the "Message"? Because, for some time, I was like, "I'll just keep going and then I'll just believe what I believe." Because leaving the "Message" was a big risk. My kids were born in the "Message". The "Message" is what they know. My oldest is now fifteen. The "Message" is all he knows. I didn't want to confuse them. Leaving the "Message" felt like I'm going to disrupt my kids. What am I going to tell them? That "your parents lived a lie or believed a lie all these years"? "We've believed a lie!" - that's what you're going to tell them? I thought, "No, I'm not going to leave the message". "I'm going to keep on going to church, and I want to serve the lives of my kids." I'll just believe what I believe. Which is what some of my friends even told me. "No man, we don't believe that! We don't believe that much! No, no, no, no! We are just in the church, and we know that we believe in Christ! This William Branham thing, um-um!" As long as we go to church, and we don't want to disrupt our lives. So for me, I didn't want to disrupt my kids' lives. I didn't want to disrupt my family life, or my life as well. So I had intended on staying in the "Message" anyway. But, this other time, the pastor at the "Message" church that I used go to started saying things like, "I didn't believe this "Message" because of the 'cloud'! 'Cloud' or no 'cloud', William Branham there on that day or not. I believe the "Message" anyhow. I didn't believe the "Message" because there were two men or sixteen men or eighteen men that fell from that bridge!" (The Municipal Bridge). William Branham apparently said that there was going to be sixteen men drown, and then only 2 men died. So, he was like "I didn't believe the "Message" because of that! I don't' care about that! I believe the "Message" anyhow!"

And I thought, "Man! I care about that! I care!" If I think a man is a prophet, he should measure up and it should be Biblical. Or else I'm going to believe in every person that raises up and says, "I'm a prophet look here I'm a prophet!" So, I said, "no, no, no, no!" I care! And I care too much to ignore that. I told my husband, "I don't think it works for me to keep on going to church - to this church. The "Message", it screws up your mind. I'm telling you. It does. Even this pastor told us, "These people, they're busy criticizing William Branham and his 'Message', but they are not offering an alternative." Come on! The alternative is Jesus Christ! That's the alternative! That's the origin! That has been perverted for so many years. It's not even an alternative; that's where the people are supposed to be! And they said things like, "Hey, they are finding fault with the 'Message'! There are so many faults in the Bible anyway, so they're going to be atheists then!" I thought, "Ok. You are screwing my mind! And I said I can't sit under the preaching of this guy. Not now. I don't think ever. Because you are literally saying if you leave the message you become an atheist." And that's not true. Why come to the message so that you can turn me into an atheist? So, it's either this or nothing? No, no, no, no! The "Message" of William Branham is not Christianity. Christianity stands on its own, and it prevails without William Branham. William Branham tried to pervert it, but he didn't succeed. We saw the scam that he was and left the message completely.

And so that's when I thought, "No, I can't do this. I can't do this." This was the time I was driving from work, and then I thought, "No, man, you should remain in the 'Message'! Your kids! Your family! The people who've always looked up to you, because of the fact that you are in the 'Message'". I don't believe that God does something just for the sake of doing it. So, I thought, "Why would God reveal this information about William Branham to me?" The internet has always been there. It's always been there, in my life. And people have been saying things about William Branham and I used to just brush them off. But in His time God revealed this information, and he made me care enough to research. To say, look here, these people can't just be talking, and talking, and talking. Let me research and if I'm going to believe William Branham as the "messenger" of the "seventh age" or whatever, the age we are in now, but he said a generation is about 40 years. So, whatever I'm going to believe, I want to believe it after researching and seeing the different sides of the coin. So, I thought, "Ok, why did God reveal this information to me if I'm not supposed to use it?" If I'm supposed to just say, "Hey no", Because now I know so many things that William Branham said which were not true - so many things. His prophecies which failed, which he said after the fact, he probably read in the newspapers or something, or a science journals. So many things that he said that were not true. His extra-Biblical teachings that were not true. So, I thought, "Ok, why did God reveal this information, for me to just brush it off?" And if I die today, I was driving then, and say I have an accident now, and then I die. Will I be able to answer God that "I didn't want to disrupt my life?" "I didn't want to disrupt the life of my kids, that's the reason why I kept on congregating with people that are definitely in a cult?" "That doesn't put You first, but put William Branham first?" "That read William Branham's 'Messages' than they read the bible?" Was I going to be able to do that? And when the answer was: no. I knew what to do. I knew I couldn't take it any longer. I couldn't push it any longer. I couldn't' keep on doing the things I was doing any longer. I had to change. And if I was going to keep my life, preserve my life, and not follow the Word of God, it was going to cost me eternal life. And I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to take that chance. So, I left. And that's the reason why I left.

- Evenes Mafupa, Former "Message Believer"

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|'''Statement of Honesty'''

In the past we believed that William Branham was Elijah the Prophet in fulfillment of Malachi 4:5. We apologize to anyone we may have affected as we lived and shared this false doctrine. We realize now that we minimized the power of Jesus' death on the cross to completely save the lost, and replaced it with faith in a man. We also realize that we minimized the power of the Holy Spirit in our churches, our lives, and in the lives of others. Today, we acknowledge faith in Christ alone, and we ask for your forgiveness.
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{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="width: 10%;" | Name
! style="width: 15%;" | Years in the Message
! style="width: 15%;" | Position
! style="width: 12%;" | Country
|-
|Sylvia Perkins
||50 years
||
||U.S.A.
|-
|Hannah Verhoek
||44 years
||Sunday School Teacher
||Netherlands
|-
|James Perkins
||43 years
||
||U.S.A.
|-
|Jane Olin
||43 years
||
||U.S.A.
|-
|Paul Jenkins
||41 years
||Worship Leader
||U.S.A.
|-
|Sharon Barradas
||41 years
||
||U.S.A.
|-
|David Barradas Sr.
||41 years
||Musician, Trustee
||U.S.A.
|-
|James Manuel
||40 years
||Pastor, Trustee
||South Africa
|-
|Jennifer Collins
||40 years
||
||U.S.A.
|-
|Kathy Jenkins
||40 years
||Worship leader's wife
||U.S.A.
|-
|Greg Goad
||40 years
||
||U.S.A.
|-
|James Goad
||40 years
||
||U.S.A.
|-
|Joe Olin
|39 years
|
|U.S.A.
|-
|Rod Bergen
|39 years
|Song leader, Trustee
|Canada
|-
|John Collins
||37 years
||part of the Amen corner
||U.S.A.
|-
|Sarah Barradas Thomas
||37 years
||
||U.S.A.
|-
|Jennifer Landes
||35 years
||Deacon's wife, Organist
||U.S.A.
|-
|Joanna Gillis Steinke
||35 years
||Sunday School Teacher
||U.S.A.
|-
|David Young
||35 years
||Former VGR Employee
||U.S.A.
|-
|Vince Barnhart
||33 years
||Minister
||U.S.A.
|-
|Anna Barone
||33 years
||
||U.S.A.
|-
|Jake Bergen
||33 years
||Musician & Song Leader
||Canada
|-
|Sharon Rolland
||32 years
||Pianist
||Netherlands, Norway
|-
|Dio Hernandez
||32 years
||Deacon, Song leader
||U.S.A.
|-
|Jeremy Bergen
||32 years
||Sunday School Teacher
||Canada
|-
|Joanna Bergen
|32 years
|Pianist
|Canada
|-
|Bryan Lynch
||30 years
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Revelation 10:7

2026-04-07T15:17:33Z

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William Branham's interpretation of Revelation 10:7 is solely about pointing to himself. Branham thought that he was:

*The angel sent to the Church in Laodicea in Revelation 3:14;
*Responsible for the opening of the seven seals of Revelation 6; and,
*The angel of Revelation 10:7.

Under William Branham's interpretation, the angel of Revelation 3:14 and the angel of Revelation 3:14 are the same angel. Additionally, William Branham must himself be the LAMB since it is the Lamb who opens each of the seven seals of Revelation chapter 6 and Revelation 8:1.

=Important questions that must be addressed=

#When does this take place?
#Which scripture says that Revelation 3:14, the unveiling of Revelation 6, and Revelation 10:7 all happen at the same time?
#Where does the Bible say that the Angel in Revelation 3 is the same Angel as that in Revelation 10?
#What passage states that the Angel to Laodicea in Revelation 3:14 is the one who opens the seals?
#How can you conclude biblically that the Angel to Laodicea in Revelation 3:14 is the same angel that sounds in Revelation 11:15? (which is the same as the Angel in Revelation 10:7)?

These questions must have scriptural answers. '''What does the Bible say?'''

==What the Bible says==

Revelation 10:7 in the New American Standard Bible, a word for word translation, states:

:''...but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, '''when he is about to sound''', then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets.<ref>New American Standard Bible, 1995 Edition: Paragraph Version (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), Re 10:7</ref>

Revelation 10:7 is prior to the sounding of the seventh trumpet - "when he is about to sound."

The mystery (not multiple "mysteries") of God is finished. The mystery is that which had been previously announced by God to His servants the prophets. It is not something that the seventh angel announces.

===When does this take place?===

The Greek can literally be translated, “but in the days of the voice [phonē] of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound his trumpet.” Since the seventh angel does not speak, however, the word "phonē" must refer to the “sound” that the angel’s trumpet makes. Fulfillment does not come when the angel is “about to” blow the trumpet, but occurs after the trumpet sounds, which happens in Revelation 11:15.<ref>Craig R. Koester, Revelation: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, ed. John J. Collins, vol. 38A, Anchor Yale Bible (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2014), 480.</ref>

When the seventh angel, who is about to trumpet his message, sounds his instrument, then the mystery of God preached through the prophets will be accomplished or completed.<ref>Paige Patterson, Revelation, ed. E. Ray Clendenen, vol. 39, The New American Commentary (Nashville, TN: B&H, 2012), 233.</ref>

===Is the angel of Revelation 10:7 the same angel as Revelation 3:14?===

The Bible speaks of an angel (or messenger) to each of the churches in Revelation chapters 2 & 3. There is '''no''' indication that these are the same angels as indicated in Revelation 8:1 which states:

:''Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.<ref>Revelation 8:1 (ESV)</ref>

The angels of Revelation chapters 2 & 3 do not have trumpets. The ones with trumpets are the angels of Revelation 8:1.

'''The Bible does not teach that Revelation 3:14, the unveiling of Revelation 6, and Revelation 10:7 all happen at the same time.''' It also does not teach that the Angel in Revelation 3:14 is the same angel as that in Revelation 10. It does not teach that the Angel to Laodicea in Revelation 3:14 is the one who opens the seals (the Lamb is the one that opens the seals). Similarly, the Bible does not teach that the Angel to Laodicea is the same angel who sounds in Revelation 11:15.

So where did William Branham get this from?

Charles Taze Russell in his book, The Finished Mystery, is the first person who tied together Revelation 10:7 and Revelation 3:14:

:''[Rev] 10:7. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel.—Pastor Russell was the seventh angel.—Rev. 3:14.<ref>Charles Taze Russell, The Finished Mystery, (Published Posthumously), Edited by C. J. Woodworth and George H. Fisher, Copyright 1917, Peoples Pulpit Association, Brooklyn, N. Y., U. S. A., International Bible Students Association</ref>

In fact, it is clear that the sixth '''trumpeting''' angel sounds in Revelation 9:13 and the seventh '''trumpeting''' angel (the one spoken of in Revelation 10:7) does not actually sound his trumpet until Revelation 11:15:

:''Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”<ref>Revelation 11:15 (ESV)</ref>

'''The sounding of the seventh trumpet takes place AFTER [[The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11|the two witnesses of Revelation 11:1-12]] have been resurrected and leave the earth'''.

'''What William Branham did was to use the same interpretation as Charles Taze Russell. Russell used this interpretation to point to himself. William Branham plagiarized Russell's interpretation for the sole purpose of pointing to himself (in a fashion that the Bible never intended).'''

=Where did William Branham get his interpretation?=

In his book, The Finished Mystery, Charles Taze Russel said this about the seventh seal of Revelation 6:15:

:''Had opened the '''seventh seal'''.—“The seal of the living God.” (Rev. 7:2.) The opening of the seventh seal is progressive. The opening and unfolding of the Truth goes on as the saints are sealed. By the time the saints are all sealed in their hearts and minds with the Present Truth, the deepest features of the Truth itself will have been disclosed. “The time will undoubtedly come in the near future when the number of the Elect will be complete. Then only such vacancies as might still occur by some falling out would remain.” (Z. ’14‐68.) “God’s people down through this Gospel age have been privileged to know something of the ‘Secret of the Lord’—the Divine Plan. But not until the last seal is broken, does the scroll fly wide open, '''permitting the ‘Mystery of God’ to be fully disclosed; as it is written: ‘In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the Mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the Prophets.'''’ (Rev. 5:1; '''10:7'''.)”—Z. ’97‐257.

:''10:4. And [when] WHATSOEVER the '''seven thunders''' had uttered [their voices], I.—Pastor Russell as a representative of the John class.

:''10:7. But in the days of the voice of the '''seventh angel'''.—Pastor Russell was the seventh angel.—'''Rev. 3:14.'''

Charles Taze Russel went on to explain that a series of seven subjects he published between 1880 and 1910 were the seven thunders that fully revealed the mystery of God, which completed the unrolling of the seventh seal.

=Quotes of William Branham=

:''We know that '''the seventh angel has given the message'''. We see It vindicated with signs. We know we're at the end of the Laodicean age. We know that national strife, signs and wonders, are appearing everywhere. We know that we're at the end time, God bearing witness. And it behooveth us; it's becoming to us that we fulfill all righteousness. Nations against nations, perplexed at time, distressed, all these things that we have heard... If you can receive it...<ref>IT.BECOMETH.US.TO.FULFIL.ALL.RIGHTEOUSNESS JEFF.IN 61-1001M</ref>

:''...Revelations 10, "And at the sounding of '''the seventh angel, the Laodicea messenger,''' the mysteries of God would be made known." And this is the last age, which is Laodicea.<ref>MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE JEFF.IN 65-0221M</ref>

:''Now mark that with what the last prophet said, "Behold I send to you Elijah the prophet, and he will restore the--the hearts of the children back to the fathers." See? A Message to bring them back to the Bible, and the Son of man will be revealing Himself in that day. '''And at that day of the sounding of the last church age, the seventh angel, the mysteries of God should be made known in that day. The Seven Seals would be broken.''' The mysteries of all these churches and things, how they happened, and what tak-... how, what taken place.<ref>SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON JEFF.IN 65-0718E</ref>

:''Here is where I wanted to get to, in Revelations 10. We'll get to it in a few minutes, and another Scripture verse. He said, "In the days of the Message of the seventh angel, the mystery of God ought to be finished." Here is the question, is, if you follow in that line in this hour, will it be finished? "Will I find the Faith?" Will Malachi 4 be fulfilled in this time, "Restore the Faith of the children, back to the Faith of the fathers, the original, the Word"? See?<ref>THE.ANOINTED.ONES.AT.THE.END.TIME JEFF.IN 65-0725M</ref>

:''And '''the Seven Seals of God, when It was opened there on the mountain''', God will let me die right now at this pulpit if That ain't the Truth. And I foretold you, a year and six months before it happened, what He told me, "Go to Arizona," and what would happen out there in the desert. And there's men setting right here, tonight, was standing right there and present when the seven Angels come down. And even mag-... The magazine, Life magazine, packed the article of It.<ref>THE.INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE.OF.CHRIST SHP.LA 65-1125</ref>

:''Now, we're promised a church age through reformers, and we've had them. But He promised, in Malachi 4, He'd keep His pattern in the last days, what would take place, "To turn the hearts of the children back to the Faith of the apostolic father." For that very purpose! And the church is so broke up in denominations and isms, it's so tore to pieces till it's dead; it's been a carrier. And then He promised, '''in the hour of the seventh angel's Message''', the '''Seven Seals would be revealed'''; and the mysteries of God would be declared ('''Revelation 10''') when the seventh angel begins to sound his Message, '''not the healing service, the Message that follows the healing service'''.<ref>I.HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE SHREVEPORT.LA 65-1127E</ref>

:''And '''these Seven Seals was not to be opened (Revelations 10) until the sounding of the last earthly angel on earth, Revelations 10:7'''. See? "And in the days of the sounding of the last angel's Message, seventh angel, the mystery of God should be finished in that age." That, and that's the age that we're living in.

:''We all know we're living in the Laodicea Age. There will never be another age to it. It can't be. So, we're living in the Laodicea Age. And these Seven Seals that's held that Book, is a mystery to people, should be opened at that day. That's what He promised. Now, it won't be nothing outside the Word, because you can't add to the Word or take from the Word. It's got to remain always the Word. But the revelation is to reveal the Truth of It, what It is, to make It fit with the rest the Scripture. And then God vindicates that to be the Truth. See?

:''...now, '''in the seventh church age, "When the seventh angel begins to sound, the mysteries of God was to be made known''' right there," the Seals.<ref>THE.RAPTURE_ YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_ 65-1204</ref>
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Under The Halo

2026-04-05T16:05:07Z

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'''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham''''' is available in print, electronic and audiobook versions. A Portuguese translation of the book is also available (see below). Spanish and French translations are in process.

Under The Halo is an examination of whether William Branham, a twentieth-century faith-healer and evangelist, was a prophet of God as believed by an estimated 1 to 1.5 million followers who call his teachings the “Message.“ Written by a former Message member who shares his journey into and out of this religious movement, it’s a well-researched review of the prophecies, visions, stories, and doctrines of William Branham—things that can’t be questioned by those in the Message.

The audiobook and electronic formats are the lowest price options.

=How to get the audiobook for free!=

The most well-known method for getting a specific audiobook you want for free is by using the Audible's free trial. This is Audible's primary way of introducing new users to its premium service, and it's very generous.

Typically, a standard Audible free trial lasts for 30 days. During this period, you get:

*1 Free Credit: This is the best part. This credit can be used to purchase '''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham'''''. It is completely free.
*Access to the Plus Catalog: Beyond your credit, the trial also grants you unlimited access to the Audible Plus Catalog. This is a rotating collection of thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals that you can stream on demand without using a credit.

===Step-by-Step Guide to Claiming Your Free Audiobook===

#Navigate to the Audible free trial page. You'll often see banners for it on Amazon as well.
#Click the Try 3 months for $0.00 button to begin the sign-up process. You will need to sign in with your Amazon account. If you don't have one, you can create one for free.
#Although the trial is free, you will likely need to add a payment method (like a credit card). This is for security and to allow the subscription to auto-renew if you choose not to cancel. You will not be charged if you cancel before the 30-day trial period ends.
#Once your trial is active, browse the Audible library and find the book you want.
#On the book's page, you'll see the option to "Buy with 1 Credit." Select this, and '''''Under The Halo''''' is yours.

If you cancel your membership before the end of the 30 trial period, there are no charges, and you have acquired '''''Under The Halo''''' for free.

====Critical Question: Do You Keep ''Under the Halo'' After the Trial?====

This is a crucial point of confusion for many users. The answer is yes and no. '''''Under The Halo''''', which you bought with your free credit, is '''yours to keep forever''', even if you cancel your membership. It will remain in your Audible library permanently.

Audiobooks you listened to from the Plus Catalog are only accessible during your trial or with an active membership. If you cancel, you will lose access to these titles.

I should add that I am a huge fan of Audible and have been a paid member for a number of years. You can access a number of [[Resources that have helped us|our suggested books]] from Audible.

=Where to get Under The Halo=
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Get your copy of Under The Halo at:

'''Audiobook'''

Audible permits you to receive one free book if you subscribe. If you quit before the end of the first month, you get to keep your free book. Some of the other audiobook sellers have similar programs.

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'''Electronic and print versions'''
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==Portuguese translation==

'''''Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham''''' (the Portuguese edition of Under The Halo) is now available in print and electronic formats:

*[https://www.amazon.com/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando/dp/1069662704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LMSRCBDC99BM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MbUDhcskIZj_1108I_1GqA.YQ38dQGYGUpj01WLZQbyYS4KumITwYWfjddFmXAY7UY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403069&s=digital-text&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Cdigital-text%2C204&sr=1-1-catcorr Amazon.com]
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=Reviews=

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==Kirkus review==

''Bergen takes a critical look at self-proclaimed prophet William Branham in this nonfiction work. ...Bergen’s text proves to be a very readable work of investigation. Even for those who have never heard of this evangelist, who died in 1965, the book provides an insightful look into a curious subset of Christianity. A thorough, inviting examination of an evangelist’s substantial spiritual claims.'' - [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rod-bergen/under-the-halo/ Kirkus Reviews]

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Under The Halo

2026-04-05T16:04:45Z

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'''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham''''' is available in print, electronic and audiobook versions. A Portuguese translation of the book is also available (see below). Spanish and French translations are in process.

Under The Halo is an examination of whether William Branham, a twentieth-century faith-healer and evangelist, was a prophet of God as believed by an estimated 1 to 1.5 million followers who call his teachings the “Message.“ Written by a former Message member who shares his journey into and out of this religious movement, it’s a well-researched review of the prophecies, visions, stories, and doctrines of William Branham—things that can’t be questioned by those in the Message.

The audiobook and electronic formats are the lowest price options.

=How to get the audiobook for free!=

The most well-known method for getting a specific audiobook you want for free is by using the Audible's free trial. This is Audible's primary way of introducing new users to its premium service, and it's very generous.

Typically, a standard Audible free trial lasts for 30 days. During this period, you get:

*1 Free Credit: This is the best part. This credit can be used to purchase '''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham'''''. It is completely free.
*Access to the Plus Catalog: Beyond your credit, the trial also grants you unlimited access to the Audible Plus Catalog. This is a rotating collection of thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals that you can stream on demand without using a credit.

===Step-by-Step Guide to Claiming Your Free Audiobook===

#Navigate to the Audible free trial page. You'll often see banners for it on Amazon as well.
#Click the Try 3 months for $0.00 button to begin the sign-up process. You will need to sign in with your Amazon account. If you don't have one, you can create one for free.
#Although the trial is free, you will likely need to add a payment method (like a credit card). This is for security and to allow the subscription to auto-renew if you choose not to cancel. You will not be charged if you cancel before the 30-day trial period ends.
#Once your trial is active, browse the Audible library and find the book you want.
#On the book's page, you'll see the option to "Buy with 1 Credit." Select this, and '''''Under The Halo''''' is yours.

If you cancel your membership before the end of the 30 trial period, there are no charges, and you have acquired '''''Under The Halo''''' for free.

====Critical Question: Do You Keep ''Under the Halo'' After the Trial?====

This is a crucial point of confusion for many users. The answer is yes and no. '''''Under The Halo''''', which you bought with your free credit, is '''yours to keep forever''', even if you cancel your membership. It will remain in your Audible library permanently.

Audiobooks you listened to from the Plus Catalog are only accessible during your trial or with an active membership. If you cancel, you will lose access to these titles.

I should add that I am a huge fan of Audible and have been a paid member for a number of years. You can access a number of [[Resources that have helped us|our suggested books]] from Audible.

=Where to get Under The Halo=
[[Image:UTH Portuguese cover for web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Portuguese edition]]
Get your copy of Under The Halo at:

'''Audiobook'''

Audible permits you to receive one free book if you subscribe. If you quit before the end of the first month, you get to keep your free book. Some of the other audiobook sellers have similar programs.

*[https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/under-the-halo-examining-the-legacy-of/id1800524373 Apple Books]
*[https://www.audible.com/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ967HJ8?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_us&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=fXjogUhrYgDiCPTD&pageLoadId=nQG3jsTRXTpcnNCJ&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - USA]
*[https://www.audible.ca/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ975MVL?qid=1741473092&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=b278ed0a-c3b2-4491-808c-7cb2190a487c&pf_rd_r=Y3EEE30QVDVJBM5Q519H&plink=92euNN2wdRa4hr50&pageLoadId=eltUHukmcpSL0rvy&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1 Audible - Canada]
*[https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ97MVPJ?source_code=AUDORWS022318009C-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_au&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=97a1c91a-2694-43e4-ad66-256f5ac11479&pf_rd_r=PN23M0HGQDRSGYZW8432&plink=nk7iw6puXRDQNT2u&pageLoadId=5GBKtsBajH0k82jw&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - Australia]
*[https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ8RQ43F?source_code=AUKFrDlWS02231890H6-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_uk&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=d2O1LbRvltxR4sqG&pageLoadId=ojtmxZU5MnH3Qzo1&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - UK]
*[https://www.audible.de/pd/Under-the-Halo-Hoerbuch/B0DZ91TQVF?source_code=EKAORWS0223189009-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_de&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=IPKf3DWTtkpx9ucZ&pageLoadId=1mIkEAy4riiVUS4F&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - Germany]
*[https://www.audible.fr/pd/Under-the-Halo-Livre-Audio/B0DZ8YKMRP?source_code=FRAORWS022318903B-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_fr&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=PbvYMAezxq3iCA10&pageLoadId=8qlFH9sHUeqiB5t2&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - France]
*[https://open.spotify.com/show/5bizC1l0EJIW6uWmMRSTIa Spotify]
*[https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=under+the+halo&fclanguages=en Rakuten kobo]
*[https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798347866700-under-the-halo-abridged?srsltid=AfmBOoou4WYgt2FKWGU93LGah9IoUxUrdVCC30guOeBS1lvg_rgNAIGq Libro.fm (Europe)]
*[https://www.everand.com/audiobook/837917764/Under-The-Halo-Examining-the-Legacy-of-William-Branham Everand]

'''Electronic and print versions'''
*[https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/under-the-halo Kobo store - Canada]
*[https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/under-the-halo Kobo store - USA]
*[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/under-the-halo-rod-bergen/1146985308?ean=2940184727233 USA - Barnes & Noble]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham-ebook/dp/B0DX7682CJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.i98OTJSlfON2R8gJi1QNOAtfFAnj1XemExoriyZa5bwgT0GU7feQ8i9CZ0OCaSnJ_AXLJQ0MLqNnYvM_3MlLZr4s-6JwVM8mSDcniz76sD-TIrW7eQV71YXzeAfde_j1duAuBGJCl85NzmaBTHu8WQ.RZQB_r3O4bKEq_2UcxyYjgOKpU9gZZftJHbH0zJWRUg&qid=1739834214&sr=8-1 USA - Amazon.com]
*[https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000434102875 Canada - FriesenPress]
*[https://books.apple.com/us/book/under-the-halo/id6741875038 Apple Books]
*[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Rod_Bergen_Under_The_Halo?id=9h1GEQAAQBAJ Google Play]
*[https://www.amazon.ca/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham/dp/1038313929/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EXYJZCPE3WPJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ljgNiwyTZYwHAKgu-5JuvA.qFFyB0JmSyk5a712G22Bs5apaHd0x-464s6zFnPo8qc&dib_tag=se&keywords=rod+bergen+under+the+halo&qid=1739839368&sprefix=%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1 Canada - Amazon.ca]
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham-ebook/dp/B0DX7682CJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.or9Iq7RFNYAGIGYITGBCvA.h-7HbP5MchHJDmZb9Guumh3txl_UZ0LosMDFTeKQ6nA&qid=1739839664&sr=1-1 UK - Amazon.co.uk]

==Portuguese translation==

'''''Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham''''' (the Portuguese edition of Under The Halo) is now available in print and electronic formats:

*[https://www.amazon.com/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando/dp/1069662704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LMSRCBDC99BM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MbUDhcskIZj_1108I_1GqA.YQ38dQGYGUpj01WLZQbyYS4KumITwYWfjddFmXAY7UY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403069&s=digital-text&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Cdigital-text%2C204&sr=1-1-catcorr Amazon.com]
*[https://www.amazon.com.br/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando-ebook/dp/B0GHJHZYD9/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=26S7Y5KOEAYDK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MhFn8I1Wr3E7rEVij1h1Ng.WHs0u6xybpvIArcMt7gHzozN67YpYpFhBy_I5xDYXv0&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403491&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1 Amazon Brazil]

=Reviews=

<youtube>https://youtu.be/0yxXeU6Sez8?si=D-kAEHlKJaaL-Ycf</youtube>

==Kirkus review==

''Bergen takes a critical look at self-proclaimed prophet William Branham in this nonfiction work. ...Bergen’s text proves to be a very readable work of investigation. Even for those who have never heard of this evangelist, who died in 1965, the book provides an insightful look into a curious subset of Christianity. A thorough, inviting examination of an evangelist’s substantial spiritual claims.'' - [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rod-bergen/under-the-halo/ Kirkus Reviews]

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Under The Halo

2026-04-05T16:04:05Z

Admin: /* Portuguese translation */

[[Image:UTH Cover.jpg|right|250px|]]
'''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham''''' is available in print, electronic and audiobook versions. A Portuguese translation of the book is also available (see below). Spanish and French translations are in process.

Under The Halo is an examination of whether William Branham, a twentieth-century faith-healer and evangelist, was a prophet of God as believed by an estimated 1 to 1.5 million followers who call his teachings the “Message.“ Written by a former Message member who shares his journey into and out of this religious movement, it’s a well-researched review of the prophecies, visions, stories, and doctrines of William Branham—things that can’t be questioned by those in the Message.

The audiobook and electronic formats are the lowest price options.

=How to get the audiobook for free!=

The most well-known method for getting a specific audiobook you want for free is by using the Audible's free trial. This is Audible's primary way of introducing new users to its premium service, and it's very generous.

Typically, a standard Audible free trial lasts for 30 days. During this period, you get:

*1 Free Credit: This is the best part. This credit can be used to purchase '''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham'''''. It is completely free.
*Access to the Plus Catalog: Beyond your credit, the trial also grants you unlimited access to the Audible Plus Catalog. This is a rotating collection of thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals that you can stream on demand without using a credit.

===Step-by-Step Guide to Claiming Your Free Audiobook===

#Navigate to the Audible free trial page. You'll often see banners for it on Amazon as well.
#Click the Try 3 months for $0.00 button to begin the sign-up process. You will need to sign in with your Amazon account. If you don't have one, you can create one for free.
#Although the trial is free, you will likely need to add a payment method (like a credit card). This is for security and to allow the subscription to auto-renew if you choose not to cancel. You will not be charged if you cancel before the 30-day trial period ends.
#Once your trial is active, browse the Audible library and find the book you want.
#On the book's page, you'll see the option to "Buy with 1 Credit." Select this, and '''''Under The Halo''''' is yours.

If you cancel your membership before the end of the 30 trial period, there are no charges, and you have acquired '''''Under The Halo''''' for free.

====Critical Question: Do You Keep ''Under the Halo'' After the Trial?====

This is a crucial point of confusion for many users. The answer is yes and no. '''''Under The Halo''''', which you bought with your free credit, is '''yours to keep forever''', even if you cancel your membership. It will remain in your Audible library permanently.

Audiobooks you listened to from the Plus Catalog are only accessible during your trial or with an active membership. If you cancel, you will lose access to these titles.

I should add that I am a huge fan of Audible and have been a paid member for a number of years. You can access a number of [[Resources that have helped us|our suggested books]] from Audible.

=Where to get Under The Halo=
[[Image:UTH Portuguese cover for web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Portuguese edition]]
Get your copy of Under The Halo at:

'''Audiobook'''

Audible permits you to receive one free book if you subscribe. If you quit before the end of the first month, you get to keep your free book. Some of the other audiobook sellers have similar programs.

*[https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/under-the-halo-examining-the-legacy-of/id1800524373 Apple Books]
*[https://www.audible.com/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ967HJ8?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_us&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=fXjogUhrYgDiCPTD&pageLoadId=nQG3jsTRXTpcnNCJ&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - USA]
*[https://www.audible.ca/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ975MVL?qid=1741473092&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=b278ed0a-c3b2-4491-808c-7cb2190a487c&pf_rd_r=Y3EEE30QVDVJBM5Q519H&plink=92euNN2wdRa4hr50&pageLoadId=eltUHukmcpSL0rvy&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1 Audible - Canada]
*[https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ97MVPJ?source_code=AUDORWS022318009C-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_au&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=97a1c91a-2694-43e4-ad66-256f5ac11479&pf_rd_r=PN23M0HGQDRSGYZW8432&plink=nk7iw6puXRDQNT2u&pageLoadId=5GBKtsBajH0k82jw&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - Australia]
*[https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ8RQ43F?source_code=AUKFrDlWS02231890H6-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_uk&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=d2O1LbRvltxR4sqG&pageLoadId=ojtmxZU5MnH3Qzo1&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - UK]
*[https://www.audible.de/pd/Under-the-Halo-Hoerbuch/B0DZ91TQVF?source_code=EKAORWS0223189009-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_de&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=IPKf3DWTtkpx9ucZ&pageLoadId=1mIkEAy4riiVUS4F&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - Germany]
*[https://www.audible.fr/pd/Under-the-Halo-Livre-Audio/B0DZ8YKMRP?source_code=FRAORWS022318903B-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_fr&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=PbvYMAezxq3iCA10&pageLoadId=8qlFH9sHUeqiB5t2&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - France]
*[https://open.spotify.com/show/5bizC1l0EJIW6uWmMRSTIa Spotify]
*[https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=under+the+halo&fclanguages=en Rakuten kobo]
*[https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798347866700-under-the-halo-abridged?srsltid=AfmBOoou4WYgt2FKWGU93LGah9IoUxUrdVCC30guOeBS1lvg_rgNAIGq Libro.fm (Europe)]
*[https://www.everand.com/audiobook/837917764/Under-The-Halo-Examining-the-Legacy-of-William-Branham Everand]

'''Electronic and print versions'''
*[https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/under-the-halo Kobo store - Canada]
*[https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/under-the-halo Kobo store - USA]
*[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/under-the-halo-rod-bergen/1146985308?ean=2940184727233 USA - Barnes & Noble]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham-ebook/dp/B0DX7682CJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.i98OTJSlfON2R8gJi1QNOAtfFAnj1XemExoriyZa5bwgT0GU7feQ8i9CZ0OCaSnJ_AXLJQ0MLqNnYvM_3MlLZr4s-6JwVM8mSDcniz76sD-TIrW7eQV71YXzeAfde_j1duAuBGJCl85NzmaBTHu8WQ.RZQB_r3O4bKEq_2UcxyYjgOKpU9gZZftJHbH0zJWRUg&qid=1739834214&sr=8-1 USA - Amazon.com]
*[https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000434102875 Canada - FriesenPress]
*[https://books.apple.com/us/book/under-the-halo/id6741875038 Apple Books]
*[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Rod_Bergen_Under_The_Halo?id=9h1GEQAAQBAJ Google Play]
*[https://www.amazon.ca/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham/dp/1038313929/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EXYJZCPE3WPJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ljgNiwyTZYwHAKgu-5JuvA.qFFyB0JmSyk5a712G22Bs5apaHd0x-464s6zFnPo8qc&dib_tag=se&keywords=rod+bergen+under+the+halo&qid=1739839368&sprefix=%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1 Canada - Amazon.ca]
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham-ebook/dp/B0DX7682CJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.or9Iq7RFNYAGIGYITGBCvA.h-7HbP5MchHJDmZb9Guumh3txl_UZ0LosMDFTeKQ6nA&qid=1739839664&sr=1-1 UK - Amazon.co.uk]

==Portuguese translation==

'''''Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham''''' (the Portuguese edition of Under The Halo) is now available in print and electronic formats:

*[https://www.amazon.com/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando/dp/1069662704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LMSRCBDC99BM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MbUDhcskIZj_1108I_1GqA.YQ38dQGYGUpj01WLZQbyYS4KumITwYWfjddFmXAY7UY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403069&s=digital-text&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Cdigital-text%2C204&sr=1-1-catcorr Amazon.com]
*[https://www.amazon.com.br/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando-ebook/dp/B0GHJHZYD9/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=26S7Y5KOEAYDK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MhFn8I1Wr3E7rEVij1h1Ng.WHs0u6xybpvIArcMt7gHzozN67YpYpFhBy_I5xDYXv0&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403491&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1 Amazon Brazil]

==Reviews==

<youtube>https://youtu.be/0yxXeU6Sez8?si=D-kAEHlKJaaL-Ycf</youtube>

===Kirkus review===

''Bergen takes a critical look at self-proclaimed prophet William Branham in this nonfiction work. ...Bergen’s text proves to be a very readable work of investigation. Even for those who have never heard of this evangelist, who died in 1965, the book provides an insightful look into a curious subset of Christianity. A thorough, inviting examination of an evangelist’s substantial spiritual claims.'' - [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rod-bergen/under-the-halo/ Kirkus Reviews]

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2026-04-05T16:02:41Z

Admin:

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Português

2026-04-05T15:56:05Z

Admin: /* Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo */

[[Image:UTH Portuguese cover for web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Portuguese edition]]
=Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo=
Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham (a edição portuguesa de "[[Under The Halo]]") já está disponível em formato impresso e eletrônico:

*[https://www.amazon.com/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando/dp/1069662704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LMSRCBDC99BM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MbUDhcskIZj_1108I_1GqA.YQ38dQGYGUpj01WLZQbyYS4KumITwYWfjddFmXAY7UY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403069&s=digital-text&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Cdigital-text%2C204&sr=1-1-catcorr Amazon.com]
*[https://www.amazon.com.br/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando-ebook/dp/B0GHJHZYD9/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=26S7Y5KOEAYDK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MhFn8I1Wr3E7rEVij1h1Ng.WHs0u6xybpvIArcMt7gHzozN67YpYpFhBy_I5xDYXv0&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403491&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1 Amazon Brazil]

=Desmistifcando Branham=

Desmistificando Branham é o site definitivo em língua portuguesa sobre a mensagem de William Branham. Pode ser acedido [https://desmistificandobranham.com/ aqui]. Eles também têm um canal no YouTube em [https://youtube.com/@desmistificandobranham?si=KCAnXh7Ygt9j1fqS @DesmistificandoBranham].

=Livro português recentemente publicado=
[[Image:OSegredoDoSetimoAnjo.jpg|thumb|right|250px|link=https://bit.ly/OSegredoDoSetimoAnjo]]
Arthur Antunes do Brasil publicou recentemente um livro em português intitulado:

:'''''O SEGREDO DO SÉTIMO ANJO: A DERROCADA DO BRANHAMISMO'''''

O livro está disponível em [https://bit.ly/OSegredoDoSetimoAnjo O SEGREDO DO SÉTIMO ANJO]

=Uma entrevista com Rod Bergen, um ex-crente da mensagem de Cloverdale em Vancouver=

==Part 1==

<youtube>https://youtu.be/_mWFKzIS5gA</youtube>

==Part 2==

<youtube>https://youtu.be/XRO13uY5lJo</youtube>

=Artigos em portugues=

*[[Profecias]]
*[[A Visão da Ponte Municipal]]
*[[WILLIAM BRANHAM ERA RACISTA?|William Branham era racista?]]

=Artigos de jornal=

==Catorze Convertidos==

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Catorze conversões são relatadas em uma reunião de tenda, realizada nas Ruas Eighth e Pratt, pelo Reverendo William Branham.
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Jeffersonville Evening News, 02 de Junho de 1933

[[1933 Ohio River Experience]]
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==A Simples Verdade Sobre A Profecia Da Ponte==

William Branham profetizou que 16 homens cairiam da ponte municipal de Louisville e se afogariam durante a construção da mesma.

"Eu olhei para o rio, e foi-se a uma ponte. Um grande, uma ponte muito grande, indo pelo rio. E eu contei dezasseis homens que cairam da ponte e se afogaram. E eu fui e contei para mamãe.... E 22 anos depois, no mesmo terreno por onde foi a Ponte Municipal, e 16 homens perderam a vida sobre ela". William Branham, 3 de março de 1948.

Apenas duas pessoas morreram durante a contrução da ponte memorial de Louisville e nenhum se afogou.

Aqui estao as revistas recortadas, reportando a morte de Richal Pilton em 18 de Junho de 1929 e de Loyd McEwam em 9 de Setembro de 1929 durante a construção da Ponte Municipal de Louisville.

===Jeffersonville Evening News, 19 de junho de 1929===
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'''Morreu a primeira pessoa na instalação da nova ponte municipal de louisville, Jeffersonville.'''

Era aproximadamente 14:30 na tarde de quarta feira, Richard pilton, 26 anos de idade, de Jeffersonville, foi atingido por uma manivela que foi usada para apertar um cabo de aço perto do pilar numero cinco. O golpe derrubou o trabalhador para fora de uma barca ao lado do pilar, e seu corpo caiu no rio. O corpo foi recuperado cinco minutos depois pela guarda costeira dos estados unidos.

O vice legalista de louisville, Joseph Beck disse que a morte de Pilton deu-se devido a uma fractura no crânio. Ele foi empregado há dois meses pela companhia americana de pontes, com a qual tinha contrato como ferreiro da ponte municipal. Outros quatro trabalhadores estavam perto quando piton foi jogado no rio, Edward Gibbs, Franck Pezzullo, Edward Cornell, Alfred Sult e William Seibert foi o guarda costeira que recuperou o corpo.

Por mais de um ano os trabalhadores têm se engajado na construção da ponte de tráfego sobre o rio ohio, de Jefersonville para Louisville. Um programa de segurança inaugurado pelas companhias e contratadores que colocaram homens a serviço nessa construção, foi reconhecido como eficiente, neste que é o primeiro acidente sério e fatal que aconteceu...

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===Jeffersonville Evening News, 10 septembre 1929===
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'''TRABALAHADOR MORRE EM QUEDA DE 85 PÉS DE ALTURA DA PONTE DE TRÁFEGO.'''

Lloyd McEwen, 25 anos, rebitador, empregado pela companhia americana das pontes, contradores para construção da nova super-ponte de aço, de Jeffersonville para Louisville, morreu quando era 11:30, na manhã de quarta feira quando caiu numa altura de 85 pés da ponte à baixo para um barco contendo aço, que estava ancorado no rio.

A morte de McEwen aconteceu por ter quebrado o pescoço. O medico legalista Asa D. Comba, relatou na quarta feira que ele também quebrou uma costela, o braço esquerdo e tinha lacerações em sua cabeça.

O operário que viu o homem cair, contou que ele trabalhava no chão da ponte e aparentemente deu um passo em falso e perdeu o equilíbrio.

A morte de McEwen foi a segunda ocorrência desde que a ponte foi iniciada, a um ano atrás.

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=Dissonância Cognitiva=
Uma das principais razões pelas quais os crentes da mensagem não podem aceitar informações que exponham as discrepâncias a respeito dos ensinos de William Branham é devido à Dissonância Cognitiva.
O QUE É DISSONÂNCIA COGNITIVA?

Dissonância cognitiva é um termo usado em psicologia para descrever a sensação de desconforto quando se é confrontado com fatos ou informações que estão em conflito com uma crença há muito estabelecida. Num estado de dissonância, pessoas podem sentir algumas vezes “desequilíbrio”, em geral, frustração, náusea, ameaça, culpa, raiva, embaraço, ansiedade, etc.

A Dissonância Cognitiva leva as pessoas a aceitarem qualquer informação que afirme suas opiniões já estabelecidas, ao invés daquelas informações que possam se referir a algo que as contradiz.

A maioria das pessoas evitará situações ou fontes de informações que façam surgir nelas sentimentos de inquietação ou dissonância. Se essa inquietação não for reduzida através da mudança daquilo em que se acredita, a dissonância pode ser resolvida através de falsa percepção, rejeição ou refutação da informação, ou procurando apoio de outros que compartilham crenças alternativas.

A Dissonância Cognitiva geralmente é a primeira reação que alguém tem quando confrontado com os sérios problemas que há na mensagem de William Branham. Essa é uma reação natural uma vez que os crentes consideram os ensinamentos da mensagem como verdade absoluta.

Apenas quando se supera a Dissonância Cognitiva e se examina sinceramente os fatos que expõem o erro da mensagem, que se torna possível abraçar totalmente a verdade e seguir adiante (para fora do erro, observação minha, JHC).
[[Cognitive Dissonance|Mais informações, em inglês]]

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Português

2026-04-05T15:55:36Z

Admin:

=Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo=
[[Image:UTH Portuguese cover for web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Portuguese edition]]
Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham (a edição portuguesa de "[[Under The Halo]]") já está disponível em formato impresso e eletrônico:

*[https://www.amazon.com/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando/dp/1069662704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LMSRCBDC99BM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MbUDhcskIZj_1108I_1GqA.YQ38dQGYGUpj01WLZQbyYS4KumITwYWfjddFmXAY7UY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403069&s=digital-text&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Cdigital-text%2C204&sr=1-1-catcorr Amazon.com]
*[https://www.amazon.com.br/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando-ebook/dp/B0GHJHZYD9/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=26S7Y5KOEAYDK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MhFn8I1Wr3E7rEVij1h1Ng.WHs0u6xybpvIArcMt7gHzozN67YpYpFhBy_I5xDYXv0&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403491&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1 Amazon Brazil]

=Desmistifcando Branham=

Desmistificando Branham é o site definitivo em língua portuguesa sobre a mensagem de William Branham. Pode ser acedido [https://desmistificandobranham.com/ aqui]. Eles também têm um canal no YouTube em [https://youtube.com/@desmistificandobranham?si=KCAnXh7Ygt9j1fqS @DesmistificandoBranham].

=Livro português recentemente publicado=
[[Image:OSegredoDoSetimoAnjo.jpg|thumb|right|250px|link=https://bit.ly/OSegredoDoSetimoAnjo]]
Arthur Antunes do Brasil publicou recentemente um livro em português intitulado:

:'''''O SEGREDO DO SÉTIMO ANJO: A DERROCADA DO BRANHAMISMO'''''

O livro está disponível em [https://bit.ly/OSegredoDoSetimoAnjo O SEGREDO DO SÉTIMO ANJO]

=Uma entrevista com Rod Bergen, um ex-crente da mensagem de Cloverdale em Vancouver=

==Part 1==

<youtube>https://youtu.be/_mWFKzIS5gA</youtube>

==Part 2==

<youtube>https://youtu.be/XRO13uY5lJo</youtube>

=Artigos em portugues=

*[[Profecias]]
*[[A Visão da Ponte Municipal]]
*[[WILLIAM BRANHAM ERA RACISTA?|William Branham era racista?]]

=Artigos de jornal=

==Catorze Convertidos==

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Catorze conversões são relatadas em uma reunião de tenda, realizada nas Ruas Eighth e Pratt, pelo Reverendo William Branham.
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Jeffersonville Evening News, 02 de Junho de 1933

[[1933 Ohio River Experience]]
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[[Image:14Converted.jpg|right|250px]]
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==A Simples Verdade Sobre A Profecia Da Ponte==

William Branham profetizou que 16 homens cairiam da ponte municipal de Louisville e se afogariam durante a construção da mesma.

"Eu olhei para o rio, e foi-se a uma ponte. Um grande, uma ponte muito grande, indo pelo rio. E eu contei dezasseis homens que cairam da ponte e se afogaram. E eu fui e contei para mamãe.... E 22 anos depois, no mesmo terreno por onde foi a Ponte Municipal, e 16 homens perderam a vida sobre ela". William Branham, 3 de março de 1948.

Apenas duas pessoas morreram durante a contrução da ponte memorial de Louisville e nenhum se afogou.

Aqui estao as revistas recortadas, reportando a morte de Richal Pilton em 18 de Junho de 1929 e de Loyd McEwam em 9 de Setembro de 1929 durante a construção da Ponte Municipal de Louisville.

===Jeffersonville Evening News, 19 de junho de 1929===
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'''Morreu a primeira pessoa na instalação da nova ponte municipal de louisville, Jeffersonville.'''

Era aproximadamente 14:30 na tarde de quarta feira, Richard pilton, 26 anos de idade, de Jeffersonville, foi atingido por uma manivela que foi usada para apertar um cabo de aço perto do pilar numero cinco. O golpe derrubou o trabalhador para fora de uma barca ao lado do pilar, e seu corpo caiu no rio. O corpo foi recuperado cinco minutos depois pela guarda costeira dos estados unidos.

O vice legalista de louisville, Joseph Beck disse que a morte de Pilton deu-se devido a uma fractura no crânio. Ele foi empregado há dois meses pela companhia americana de pontes, com a qual tinha contrato como ferreiro da ponte municipal. Outros quatro trabalhadores estavam perto quando piton foi jogado no rio, Edward Gibbs, Franck Pezzullo, Edward Cornell, Alfred Sult e William Seibert foi o guarda costeira que recuperou o corpo.

Por mais de um ano os trabalhadores têm se engajado na construção da ponte de tráfego sobre o rio ohio, de Jefersonville para Louisville. Um programa de segurança inaugurado pelas companhias e contratadores que colocaram homens a serviço nessa construção, foi reconhecido como eficiente, neste que é o primeiro acidente sério e fatal que aconteceu...

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===Jeffersonville Evening News, 10 septembre 1929===
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'''TRABALAHADOR MORRE EM QUEDA DE 85 PÉS DE ALTURA DA PONTE DE TRÁFEGO.'''

Lloyd McEwen, 25 anos, rebitador, empregado pela companhia americana das pontes, contradores para construção da nova super-ponte de aço, de Jeffersonville para Louisville, morreu quando era 11:30, na manhã de quarta feira quando caiu numa altura de 85 pés da ponte à baixo para um barco contendo aço, que estava ancorado no rio.

A morte de McEwen aconteceu por ter quebrado o pescoço. O medico legalista Asa D. Comba, relatou na quarta feira que ele também quebrou uma costela, o braço esquerdo e tinha lacerações em sua cabeça.

O operário que viu o homem cair, contou que ele trabalhava no chão da ponte e aparentemente deu um passo em falso e perdeu o equilíbrio.

A morte de McEwen foi a segunda ocorrência desde que a ponte foi iniciada, a um ano atrás.

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|-
|}
=Dissonância Cognitiva=
Uma das principais razões pelas quais os crentes da mensagem não podem aceitar informações que exponham as discrepâncias a respeito dos ensinos de William Branham é devido à Dissonância Cognitiva.
O QUE É DISSONÂNCIA COGNITIVA?

Dissonância cognitiva é um termo usado em psicologia para descrever a sensação de desconforto quando se é confrontado com fatos ou informações que estão em conflito com uma crença há muito estabelecida. Num estado de dissonância, pessoas podem sentir algumas vezes “desequilíbrio”, em geral, frustração, náusea, ameaça, culpa, raiva, embaraço, ansiedade, etc.

A Dissonância Cognitiva leva as pessoas a aceitarem qualquer informação que afirme suas opiniões já estabelecidas, ao invés daquelas informações que possam se referir a algo que as contradiz.

A maioria das pessoas evitará situações ou fontes de informações que façam surgir nelas sentimentos de inquietação ou dissonância. Se essa inquietação não for reduzida através da mudança daquilo em que se acredita, a dissonância pode ser resolvida através de falsa percepção, rejeição ou refutação da informação, ou procurando apoio de outros que compartilham crenças alternativas.

A Dissonância Cognitiva geralmente é a primeira reação que alguém tem quando confrontado com os sérios problemas que há na mensagem de William Branham. Essa é uma reação natural uma vez que os crentes consideram os ensinamentos da mensagem como verdade absoluta.

Apenas quando se supera a Dissonância Cognitiva e se examina sinceramente os fatos que expõem o erro da mensagem, que se torna possível abraçar totalmente a verdade e seguir adiante (para fora do erro, observação minha, JHC).
[[Cognitive Dissonance|Mais informações, em inglês]]

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Under The Halo

2026-04-05T15:51:57Z

Admin: /* Where to get Under The Halo */

[[Image:UTH Cover.jpg|right|250px|]]
'''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham''''' is available in print, electronic and audiobook versions. A Portuguese translation of the book is also available (see below). Spanish and French translations are in process.

Under The Halo is an examination of whether William Branham, a twentieth-century faith-healer and evangelist, was a prophet of God as believed by an estimated 1 to 1.5 million followers who call his teachings the “Message.“ Written by a former Message member who shares his journey into and out of this religious movement, it’s a well-researched review of the prophecies, visions, stories, and doctrines of William Branham—things that can’t be questioned by those in the Message.

The audiobook and electronic formats are the lowest price options.

=How to get the audiobook for free!=

The most well-known method for getting a specific audiobook you want for free is by using the Audible's free trial. This is Audible's primary way of introducing new users to its premium service, and it's very generous.

Typically, a standard Audible free trial lasts for 30 days. During this period, you get:

*1 Free Credit: This is the best part. This credit can be used to purchase '''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham'''''. It is completely free.
*Access to the Plus Catalog: Beyond your credit, the trial also grants you unlimited access to the Audible Plus Catalog. This is a rotating collection of thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals that you can stream on demand without using a credit.

===Step-by-Step Guide to Claiming Your Free Audiobook===

#Navigate to the Audible free trial page. You'll often see banners for it on Amazon as well.
#Click the Try 3 months for $0.00 button to begin the sign-up process. You will need to sign in with your Amazon account. If you don't have one, you can create one for free.
#Although the trial is free, you will likely need to add a payment method (like a credit card). This is for security and to allow the subscription to auto-renew if you choose not to cancel. You will not be charged if you cancel before the 30-day trial period ends.
#Once your trial is active, browse the Audible library and find the book you want.
#On the book's page, you'll see the option to "Buy with 1 Credit." Select this, and '''''Under The Halo''''' is yours.

If you cancel your membership before the end of the 30 trial period, there are no charges, and you have acquired '''''Under The Halo''''' for free.

====Critical Question: Do You Keep ''Under the Halo'' After the Trial?====

This is a crucial point of confusion for many users. The answer is yes and no. '''''Under The Halo''''', which you bought with your free credit, is '''yours to keep forever''', even if you cancel your membership. It will remain in your Audible library permanently.

Audiobooks you listened to from the Plus Catalog are only accessible during your trial or with an active membership. If you cancel, you will lose access to these titles.

I should add that I am a huge fan of Audible and have been a paid member for a number of years. You can access a number of [[Resources that have helped us|our suggested books]] from Audible.

=Where to get Under The Halo=
[[Image:UTH Portuguese cover for web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Portuguese edition]]
Get your copy of Under The Halo at:

'''Audiobook'''

Audible permits you to receive one free book if you subscribe. If you quit before the end of the first month, you get to keep your free book. Some of the other audiobook sellers have similar programs.

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*[https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/under-the-halo Kobo store - USA]
*[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/under-the-halo-rod-bergen/1146985308?ean=2940184727233 USA - Barnes & Noble]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham-ebook/dp/B0DX7682CJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.i98OTJSlfON2R8gJi1QNOAtfFAnj1XemExoriyZa5bwgT0GU7feQ8i9CZ0OCaSnJ_AXLJQ0MLqNnYvM_3MlLZr4s-6JwVM8mSDcniz76sD-TIrW7eQV71YXzeAfde_j1duAuBGJCl85NzmaBTHu8WQ.RZQB_r3O4bKEq_2UcxyYjgOKpU9gZZftJHbH0zJWRUg&qid=1739834214&sr=8-1 USA - Amazon.com]
*[https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000434102875 Canada - FriesenPress]
*[https://books.apple.com/us/book/under-the-halo/id6741875038 Apple Books]
*[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Rod_Bergen_Under_The_Halo?id=9h1GEQAAQBAJ Google Play]
*[https://www.amazon.ca/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham/dp/1038313929/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EXYJZCPE3WPJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ljgNiwyTZYwHAKgu-5JuvA.qFFyB0JmSyk5a712G22Bs5apaHd0x-464s6zFnPo8qc&dib_tag=se&keywords=rod+bergen+under+the+halo&qid=1739839368&sprefix=%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1 Canada - Amazon.ca]
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham-ebook/dp/B0DX7682CJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.or9Iq7RFNYAGIGYITGBCvA.h-7HbP5MchHJDmZb9Guumh3txl_UZ0LosMDFTeKQ6nA&qid=1739839664&sr=1-1 UK - Amazon.co.uk]

==Portuguese translation==

Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham (the Portuguese edition of Under The Halo) is now available in print and electronic formats:

*[https://www.amazon.com/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando/dp/1069662704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LMSRCBDC99BM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MbUDhcskIZj_1108I_1GqA.YQ38dQGYGUpj01WLZQbyYS4KumITwYWfjddFmXAY7UY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403069&s=digital-text&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Cdigital-text%2C204&sr=1-1-catcorr Amazon.com]
*[https://www.amazon.com.br/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando-ebook/dp/B0GHJHZYD9/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=26S7Y5KOEAYDK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MhFn8I1Wr3E7rEVij1h1Ng.WHs0u6xybpvIArcMt7gHzozN67YpYpFhBy_I5xDYXv0&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403491&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1 Amazon Brazil]

==Reviews==

<youtube>https://youtu.be/0yxXeU6Sez8?si=D-kAEHlKJaaL-Ycf</youtube>

===Kirkus review===

''Bergen takes a critical look at self-proclaimed prophet William Branham in this nonfiction work. ...Bergen’s text proves to be a very readable work of investigation. Even for those who have never heard of this evangelist, who died in 1965, the book provides an insightful look into a curious subset of Christianity. A thorough, inviting examination of an evangelist’s substantial spiritual claims.'' - [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rod-bergen/under-the-halo/ Kirkus Reviews]

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File:UTH Portuguese cover for web.jpg

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Admin: Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo Examinando o legado de William Branham Cover for the Portuguese edition of Under The Halo

== Summary ==
Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo
Examinando o legado de William Branham
Cover for the Portuguese edition of Under The Halo

Under The Halo

2026-04-05T15:42:54Z

Admin:

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'''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham''''' is available in print, electronic and audiobook versions. A Portuguese translation of the book is also available (see below). Spanish and French translations are in process.

Under The Halo is an examination of whether William Branham, a twentieth-century faith-healer and evangelist, was a prophet of God as believed by an estimated 1 to 1.5 million followers who call his teachings the “Message.“ Written by a former Message member who shares his journey into and out of this religious movement, it’s a well-researched review of the prophecies, visions, stories, and doctrines of William Branham—things that can’t be questioned by those in the Message.

The audiobook and electronic formats are the lowest price options.

=How to get the audiobook for free!=

The most well-known method for getting a specific audiobook you want for free is by using the Audible's free trial. This is Audible's primary way of introducing new users to its premium service, and it's very generous.

Typically, a standard Audible free trial lasts for 30 days. During this period, you get:

*1 Free Credit: This is the best part. This credit can be used to purchase '''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham'''''. It is completely free.
*Access to the Plus Catalog: Beyond your credit, the trial also grants you unlimited access to the Audible Plus Catalog. This is a rotating collection of thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals that you can stream on demand without using a credit.

===Step-by-Step Guide to Claiming Your Free Audiobook===

#Navigate to the Audible free trial page. You'll often see banners for it on Amazon as well.
#Click the Try 3 months for $0.00 button to begin the sign-up process. You will need to sign in with your Amazon account. If you don't have one, you can create one for free.
#Although the trial is free, you will likely need to add a payment method (like a credit card). This is for security and to allow the subscription to auto-renew if you choose not to cancel. You will not be charged if you cancel before the 30-day trial period ends.
#Once your trial is active, browse the Audible library and find the book you want.
#On the book's page, you'll see the option to "Buy with 1 Credit." Select this, and '''''Under The Halo''''' is yours.

If you cancel your membership before the end of the 30 trial period, there are no charges, and you have acquired '''''Under The Halo''''' for free.

====Critical Question: Do You Keep ''Under the Halo'' After the Trial?====

This is a crucial point of confusion for many users. The answer is yes and no. '''''Under The Halo''''', which you bought with your free credit, is '''yours to keep forever''', even if you cancel your membership. It will remain in your Audible library permanently.

Audiobooks you listened to from the Plus Catalog are only accessible during your trial or with an active membership. If you cancel, you will lose access to these titles.

I should add that I am a huge fan of Audible and have been a paid member for a number of years. You can access a number of [[Resources that have helped us|our suggested books]] from Audible.

=Where to get Under The Halo=

Get your copy of Under The Halo at:

'''Audiobook'''

Audible permits you to receive one free book if you subscribe. If you quit before the end of the first month, you get to keep your free book. Some of the other audiobook sellers have similar programs.

*[https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/under-the-halo-examining-the-legacy-of/id1800524373 Apple Books]
*[https://www.audible.com/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ967HJ8?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_us&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=fXjogUhrYgDiCPTD&pageLoadId=nQG3jsTRXTpcnNCJ&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - USA]
*[https://www.audible.ca/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ975MVL?qid=1741473092&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=b278ed0a-c3b2-4491-808c-7cb2190a487c&pf_rd_r=Y3EEE30QVDVJBM5Q519H&plink=92euNN2wdRa4hr50&pageLoadId=eltUHukmcpSL0rvy&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1 Audible - Canada]
*[https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ97MVPJ?source_code=AUDORWS022318009C-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_au&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=97a1c91a-2694-43e4-ad66-256f5ac11479&pf_rd_r=PN23M0HGQDRSGYZW8432&plink=nk7iw6puXRDQNT2u&pageLoadId=5GBKtsBajH0k82jw&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - Australia]
*[https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ8RQ43F?source_code=AUKFrDlWS02231890H6-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_uk&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=d2O1LbRvltxR4sqG&pageLoadId=ojtmxZU5MnH3Qzo1&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - UK]
*[https://www.audible.de/pd/Under-the-Halo-Hoerbuch/B0DZ91TQVF?source_code=EKAORWS0223189009-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_de&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=IPKf3DWTtkpx9ucZ&pageLoadId=1mIkEAy4riiVUS4F&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - Germany]
*[https://www.audible.fr/pd/Under-the-Halo-Livre-Audio/B0DZ8YKMRP?source_code=FRAORWS022318903B-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_fr&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=PbvYMAezxq3iCA10&pageLoadId=8qlFH9sHUeqiB5t2&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - France]
*[https://open.spotify.com/show/5bizC1l0EJIW6uWmMRSTIa Spotify]
*[https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=under+the+halo&fclanguages=en Rakuten kobo]
*[https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798347866700-under-the-halo-abridged?srsltid=AfmBOoou4WYgt2FKWGU93LGah9IoUxUrdVCC30guOeBS1lvg_rgNAIGq Libro.fm (Europe)]
*[https://www.everand.com/audiobook/837917764/Under-The-Halo-Examining-the-Legacy-of-William-Branham Everand]

'''Electronic and print versions'''
*[https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/under-the-halo Kobo store - Canada]
*[https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/under-the-halo Kobo store - USA]
*[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/under-the-halo-rod-bergen/1146985308?ean=2940184727233 USA - Barnes & Noble]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham-ebook/dp/B0DX7682CJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.i98OTJSlfON2R8gJi1QNOAtfFAnj1XemExoriyZa5bwgT0GU7feQ8i9CZ0OCaSnJ_AXLJQ0MLqNnYvM_3MlLZr4s-6JwVM8mSDcniz76sD-TIrW7eQV71YXzeAfde_j1duAuBGJCl85NzmaBTHu8WQ.RZQB_r3O4bKEq_2UcxyYjgOKpU9gZZftJHbH0zJWRUg&qid=1739834214&sr=8-1 USA - Amazon.com]
*[https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000434102875 Canada - FriesenPress]
*[https://books.apple.com/us/book/under-the-halo/id6741875038 Apple Books]
*[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Rod_Bergen_Under_The_Halo?id=9h1GEQAAQBAJ Google Play]
*[https://www.amazon.ca/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham/dp/1038313929/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EXYJZCPE3WPJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ljgNiwyTZYwHAKgu-5JuvA.qFFyB0JmSyk5a712G22Bs5apaHd0x-464s6zFnPo8qc&dib_tag=se&keywords=rod+bergen+under+the+halo&qid=1739839368&sprefix=%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1 Canada - Amazon.ca]
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham-ebook/dp/B0DX7682CJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.or9Iq7RFNYAGIGYITGBCvA.h-7HbP5MchHJDmZb9Guumh3txl_UZ0LosMDFTeKQ6nA&qid=1739839664&sr=1-1 UK - Amazon.co.uk]

==Portuguese translation==

Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham (the Portuguese edition of Under The Halo) is now available in print and electronic formats:

*[https://www.amazon.com/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando/dp/1069662704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LMSRCBDC99BM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MbUDhcskIZj_1108I_1GqA.YQ38dQGYGUpj01WLZQbyYS4KumITwYWfjddFmXAY7UY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403069&s=digital-text&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Cdigital-text%2C204&sr=1-1-catcorr Amazon.com]
*[https://www.amazon.com.br/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando-ebook/dp/B0GHJHZYD9/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=26S7Y5KOEAYDK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MhFn8I1Wr3E7rEVij1h1Ng.WHs0u6xybpvIArcMt7gHzozN67YpYpFhBy_I5xDYXv0&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403491&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-1 Amazon Brazil]

==Reviews==

<youtube>https://youtu.be/0yxXeU6Sez8?si=D-kAEHlKJaaL-Ycf</youtube>

===Kirkus review===

''Bergen takes a critical look at self-proclaimed prophet William Branham in this nonfiction work. ...Bergen’s text proves to be a very readable work of investigation. Even for those who have never heard of this evangelist, who died in 1965, the book provides an insightful look into a curious subset of Christianity. A thorough, inviting examination of an evangelist’s substantial spiritual claims.'' - [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rod-bergen/under-the-halo/ Kirkus Reviews]

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Under The Halo

2026-04-05T15:38:58Z

Admin:

[[Image:UTH Cover.jpg|right|250px|]]
'''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham''''' is available in print, electronic and audiobook versions. A Portuguese translation of the book is also available (see below). Spanish and French translations are in process.

Under The Halo is an examination of whether William Branham, a twentieth-century faith-healer and evangelist, was a prophet of God as believed by an estimated 1 to 1.5 million followers who call his teachings the “Message.“ Written by a former Message member who shares his journey into and out of this religious movement, it’s a well-researched review of the prophecies, visions, stories, and doctrines of William Branham—things that can’t be questioned by those in the Message.

The audiobook and electronic formats are the lowest price options.

=How to get the audiobook for free!=

The most well-known method for getting a specific audiobook you want for free is by using the Audible's free trial. This is Audible's primary way of introducing new users to its premium service, and it's very generous.

Typically, a standard Audible free trial lasts for 30 days. During this period, you get:

*1 Free Credit: This is the best part. This credit can be used to purchase '''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham'''''. It is completely free.
*Access to the Plus Catalog: Beyond your credit, the trial also grants you unlimited access to the Audible Plus Catalog. This is a rotating collection of thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals that you can stream on demand without using a credit.

===Step-by-Step Guide to Claiming Your Free Audiobook===

#Navigate to the Audible free trial page. You'll often see banners for it on Amazon as well.
#Click the Try 3 months for $0.00 button to begin the sign-up process. You will need to sign in with your Amazon account. If you don't have one, you can create one for free.
#Although the trial is free, you will likely need to add a payment method (like a credit card). This is for security and to allow the subscription to auto-renew if you choose not to cancel. You will not be charged if you cancel before the 30-day trial period ends.
#Once your trial is active, browse the Audible library and find the book you want.
#On the book's page, you'll see the option to "Buy with 1 Credit." Select this, and '''''Under The Halo''''' is yours.

If you cancel your membership before the end of the 30 trial period, there are no charges, and you have acquired '''''Under The Halo''''' for free.

====Critical Question: Do You Keep ''Under the Halo'' After the Trial?====

This is a crucial point of confusion for many users. The answer is yes and no. '''''Under The Halo''''', which you bought with your free credit, is '''yours to keep forever''', even if you cancel your membership. It will remain in your Audible library permanently.

Audiobooks you listened to from the Plus Catalog are only accessible during your trial or with an active membership. If you cancel, you will lose access to these titles.

I should add that I am a huge fan of Audible and have been a paid member for a number of years. You can access a number of [[Resources that have helped us|our suggested books]] from Audible.

=Where to get Under The Halo=

Get your copy of Under The Halo at:

'''Audiobook'''

Audible permits you to receive one free book if you subscribe. If you quit before the end of the first month, you get to keep your free book. Some of the other audiobook sellers have similar programs.

*[https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/under-the-halo-examining-the-legacy-of/id1800524373 Apple Books]
*[https://www.audible.com/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ967HJ8?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_us&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=fXjogUhrYgDiCPTD&pageLoadId=nQG3jsTRXTpcnNCJ&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - USA]
*[https://www.audible.ca/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ975MVL?qid=1741473092&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=b278ed0a-c3b2-4491-808c-7cb2190a487c&pf_rd_r=Y3EEE30QVDVJBM5Q519H&plink=92euNN2wdRa4hr50&pageLoadId=eltUHukmcpSL0rvy&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1 Audible - Canada]
*[https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ97MVPJ?source_code=AUDORWS022318009C-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_au&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=97a1c91a-2694-43e4-ad66-256f5ac11479&pf_rd_r=PN23M0HGQDRSGYZW8432&plink=nk7iw6puXRDQNT2u&pageLoadId=5GBKtsBajH0k82jw&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - Australia]
*[https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Under-the-Halo-Audiobook/B0DZ8RQ43F?source_code=AUKFrDlWS02231890H6-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_uk&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=d2O1LbRvltxR4sqG&pageLoadId=ojtmxZU5MnH3Qzo1&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - UK]
*[https://www.audible.de/pd/Under-the-Halo-Hoerbuch/B0DZ91TQVF?source_code=EKAORWS0223189009-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_de&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=IPKf3DWTtkpx9ucZ&pageLoadId=1mIkEAy4riiVUS4F&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - Germany]
*[https://www.audible.fr/pd/Under-the-Halo-Livre-Audio/B0DZ8YKMRP?source_code=FRAORWS022318903B-BK-ACX0-436839&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_436839_rh_fr&overrideBaseCountry=true&ipRedirectOverride=true&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&plink=PbvYMAezxq3iCA10&pageLoadId=8qlFH9sHUeqiB5t2&creativeId=292d6343-f11b-4bbe-a8a5-d4b7272abf61 Audible - France]
*[https://open.spotify.com/show/5bizC1l0EJIW6uWmMRSTIa Spotify]
*[https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=under+the+halo&fclanguages=en Rakuten kobo]
*[https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798347866700-under-the-halo-abridged?srsltid=AfmBOoou4WYgt2FKWGU93LGah9IoUxUrdVCC30guOeBS1lvg_rgNAIGq Libro.fm (Europe)]
*[https://www.everand.com/audiobook/837917764/Under-The-Halo-Examining-the-Legacy-of-William-Branham Everand]

'''Electronic and print versions'''
*[https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/under-the-halo Kobo store - Canada]
*[https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/under-the-halo Kobo store - USA]
*[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/under-the-halo-rod-bergen/1146985308?ean=2940184727233 USA - Barnes & Noble]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham-ebook/dp/B0DX7682CJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.i98OTJSlfON2R8gJi1QNOAtfFAnj1XemExoriyZa5bwgT0GU7feQ8i9CZ0OCaSnJ_AXLJQ0MLqNnYvM_3MlLZr4s-6JwVM8mSDcniz76sD-TIrW7eQV71YXzeAfde_j1duAuBGJCl85NzmaBTHu8WQ.RZQB_r3O4bKEq_2UcxyYjgOKpU9gZZftJHbH0zJWRUg&qid=1739834214&sr=8-1 USA - Amazon.com]
*[https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000434102875 Canada - FriesenPress]
*[https://books.apple.com/us/book/under-the-halo/id6741875038 Apple Books]
*[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Rod_Bergen_Under_The_Halo?id=9h1GEQAAQBAJ Google Play]
*[https://www.amazon.ca/Under-Halo-Examining-William-Branham/dp/1038313929/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EXYJZCPE3WPJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ljgNiwyTZYwHAKgu-5JuvA.qFFyB0JmSyk5a712G22Bs5apaHd0x-464s6zFnPo8qc&dib_tag=se&keywords=rod+bergen+under+the+halo&qid=1739839368&sprefix=%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1 Canada - Amazon.ca]
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==Portuguese translation==

Por Trás da Coluna de Fogo: Examinando o legado de William Branham (the Portuguese edition of Under The Halo) is now available in print and electronic formats:

*[https://www.amazon.com/Por-Tr%C3%A1s-Coluna-Fogo-Examinando/dp/1069662704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LMSRCBDC99BM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MbUDhcskIZj_1108I_1GqA.YQ38dQGYGUpj01WLZQbyYS4KumITwYWfjddFmXAY7UY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Por+tra%CC%81s+da+Coluna+de+Fogo&qid=1775403069&s=digital-text&sprefix=por+tra%CC%81s+da+coluna+de+fogo%2Cdigital-text%2C204&sr=1-1-catcorr Amazon.com]
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==Reviews==

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===Kirkus review===

''Bergen takes a critical look at self-proclaimed prophet William Branham in this nonfiction work. ...Bergen’s text proves to be a very readable work of investigation. Even for those who have never heard of this evangelist, who died in 1965, the book provides an insightful look into a curious subset of Christianity. A thorough, inviting examination of an evangelist’s substantial spiritual claims.'' - [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rod-bergen/under-the-halo/ Kirkus Reviews]

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A Scriptural Challenge to Followers of William Branham

2026-04-04T21:35:13Z

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This website contains hundreds of problems, concerns and issues relating to William Branham and his message.

We believe that all of [[Evidence and the Message|the evidence presented on this website]] is trustworthy. We have tried to provide detailed footnotes referencing where we obtained this evidence so that you, our readers, can '''confirm it independently on your own'''. Look at the evidence, verify it, and try to answer the questions that we have raised.

=The response we get when we ask questions=

When we started asking sincere questions, we received no answers that made any sense from people in the message. This just started us asking more questions. At no point in time has anyone actually given us any valid answers to the questions that we have raised.

In fact, when we raise these questions today, the responses we get are:
#"[[It's a revelation]]."
#"If you're predestinated, you'll see it."
#"[[Reason and the Message|The Bible says we should cast down reasoning]]."
#William Branham was vindicated by God so it has to be true.
#William Branham was just a man.
#[[No one dared oppose William Branham when he was alive]].

But the apostle Peter stated:

''...but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect...''<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Pe 3:15.</ref>

The Greek word ''apologia'' is found seven times in the New Testament (Acts 22:1; 25:16; 1 Cor. 9:3; Phil. 1:7, 16; 2 Tim. 4:16; 1 Pet. 3:15). The English equivalent of apologia is defense (literally, “a speech for the defense”). In the original Greek language, ''apologia'' had a definite legal connotation. It was a technical term in ancient Greek law. When ''apologia'' is used in the New Testament, it describes a public defense of the gospel, as illustrated in Acts 22:1. Sometimes, in fact, this defense was carried out in a court of law (Acts 25:16; 2 Tim. 4:16).<ref>Dan Story, Defending Your Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1997), 2.</ref>

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='''A Challenge to ALL Message Ministers and Message Believers'''=

To date, '''there has been no adequate defense of the message''' with respect to [[List of Issues with the Message|any of the issues, concerns and problems]] raised by this website [[Research Sources for William Branham and His Message#Independent research sources|and others]]. As a result, we make the following challenges to all followers of William Branham.

=='''Challenge #1 - Prove us wrong!'''==

''OUR PROMISE''' - If you are aware of '''any''' errors/problems/concerns with information in any article on this website, please let us know [[Contact information|by email]] or by [https://www.facebook.com/BelieveTheSign a message to us on our Facebook page]. We will correct any factual errors as quickly as possible.

Here are the main issues that you are invited to address:

#[[List of Issues with the Message#Was William Branham really a prophet?|Was William Branham a prophet?]]
#[[List of Issues with the Message#Was William Branham Honest?|Was William Branham honest?]]
#[[List of Issues with the Message#Are William Branham's teachings in agreement with the Bible?|Did William Branham preach what Paul preached?]]

To date, we have received notice of several errors which we corrected immediately. To the best of our knowledge, all of the information on this website is accurate and verifiable.

=='''Challenge #2 - Please provide a scriptural defence!'''==

'''We challenge all message ministers and message believers to make a defense of William Branham and his message''' to all former and current message believers that have questions, as required by 1 Peter 3:15. We have presented [[List of Issues with the Message|detailed reasons why the message is false]] each of which constitutes asking for a "reason" for the hope that is in you.

'''Click [[List of Issues with the Message|here to see a list of all of our unanswered questions]].'''

=='''Challenge #3 - A Challenge To Openly Discuss the Issues'''==

Further to the challenges above, we issue an invitation to tom Rae, Donny Reagan, Jason Watkins, Tim Pruitt, [[Joseph Branham]] or any credible North American message minister (one with a congregation of more than 200 people) to an open discussion of [[List of Issues with the Message|the questions we have raised on this website]] or in our book, Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham.

We propose using pre-agreed-upon rules to ensure the discussion is fair and respectful. The open discussion would be held online with one or two moderators whom both parties could mutually agree on. We would also require that, if it were a minister, they be native English speakers. The discussion would be recorded on video, and a copy would be given to each participating party.

Simply [[Contact information|email us]] if you are prepared to meet this challenge.

But we stress that any interaction must be done in a Biblical manner - with "gentleness and respect" (1 Peter 3:15).

==Our promise to any successful challenge==

If anyone meets the criteria of any of the 3 challenges above, we will immediately provide the results of the challenge on this website.

==Failed attempts to refute our facts==

The website, [[Searching for Vindication|Searchingforvindication.com]], is a direct result of someone in the message trying to disprove us. The authors of [[Searching for Vindication|Searching For Vindication]] spent more than 400 hours in a failed attempt to prove our facts and conclusions false as they related to [[The Municipal Bridge Vision|the municipal bridge vision]]. They have now left the message.

We are aware of one message minister who tried to address [[The Cloud|our issues with the Cloud]], but it was clear from his "defense" that he had never read our concerns. How can we say this? Because his "reasons" were issues that we had addressed clearly on our website. Simply ignoring the questions raised is no defense.

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Under The Halo

2026-03-30T21:52:48Z

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'''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham''''' is available in print, electronic and audiobook versions. Portuguese, Spanish and French translations are in process.

Under The Halo is an examination of whether William Branham, a twentieth-century faith-healer and evangelist, was a prophet of God as believed by an estimated 1 to 1.5 million followers who call his teachings the “Message.“ Written by a former Message member who shares his journey into and out of this religious movement, it’s a well-researched review of the prophecies, visions, stories, and doctrines of William Branham—things that can’t be questioned by those in the Message.

The audiobook and electronic formats are the lowest price options.

=How to get the audiobook for free!=

The most well-known method for getting a specific audiobook you want for free is by using the Audible's free trial. This is Audible's primary way of introducing new users to its premium service, and it's very generous.

Typically, a standard Audible free trial lasts for 30 days. During this period, you get:

*1 Free Credit: This is the best part. This credit can be used to purchase '''''Under The Halo: Examining the Legacy of William Branham'''''. It is completely free.
*Access to the Plus Catalog: Beyond your credit, the trial also grants you unlimited access to the Audible Plus Catalog. This is a rotating collection of thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals that you can stream on demand without using a credit.

===Step-by-Step Guide to Claiming Your Free Audiobook===

#Navigate to the Audible free trial page. You'll often see banners for it on Amazon as well.
#Click the Try 3 months for $0.00 button to begin the sign-up process. You will need to sign in with your Amazon account. If you don't have one, you can create one for free.
#Although the trial is free, you will likely need to add a payment method (like a credit card). This is for security and to allow the subscription to auto-renew if you choose not to cancel. You will not be charged if you cancel before the 30-day trial period ends.
#Once your trial is active, browse the Audible library and find the book you want.
#On the book's page, you'll see the option to "Buy with 1 Credit." Select this, and '''''Under The Halo''''' is yours.

If you cancel your membership before the end of the 30 trial period, there are no charges, and you have acquired '''''Under The Halo''''' for free.

====Critical Question: Do You Keep ''Under the Halo'' After the Trial?====

This is a crucial point of confusion for many users. The answer is yes and no. '''''Under The Halo''''', which you bought with your free credit, is '''yours to keep forever''', even if you cancel your membership. It will remain in your Audible library permanently.

Audiobooks you listened to from the Plus Catalog are only accessible during your trial or with an active membership. If you cancel, you will lose access to these titles.

I should add that I am a huge fan of Audible and have been a paid member for a number of years. You can access a number of [[Resources that have helped us|our suggested books]] from Audible.

=Where to get Under The Halo=

Get your copy of Under The Halo at:

'''Audiobook'''

Audible permits you to receive one free book if you subscribe. If you quit before the end of the first month, you get to keep your free book. Some of the other audiobook sellers have similar programs.

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'''Electronic and print versions'''
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*[https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/under-the-halo Kobo store - USA]
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==Reviews==

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===Kirkus review===

''Bergen takes a critical look at self-proclaimed prophet William Branham in this nonfiction work. ...Bergen’s text proves to be a very readable work of investigation. Even for those who have never heard of this evangelist, who died in 1965, the book provides an insightful look into a curious subset of Christianity. A thorough, inviting examination of an evangelist’s substantial spiritual claims.'' - [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rod-bergen/under-the-halo/ Kirkus Reviews]

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List of Issues with the Message

2026-03-24T21:09:56Z

Admin: /* Responses to issues raised by Message followers */

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This page is a '''master list of all of the issues that have come to our attention in respect to William Branham and his message'''. It summarizes, in the form of a list of questions, virtually all of the research we have conducted since 2004 with respect to William Branham.''' Click on any of the questions or colored links''' to read further details on the issue.

=The List of Questions=

The purpose of this list is to provide a short concise summary of all known issues that can be used as a quick reference guide when discussing any concerns relating to William Branham, his message or those that follow him. Our aim is to provide a detailed explanation for each issue, as well as our detailed research. To the extent that the specific question does not link to anything, it simply means we have not had the time to research the issue as yet.

===Our request & promise===

Please let us know of any factual errors on our website, either [[Contact information|by email]] or by [https://www.facebook.com/BelieveTheSign a message to us on our Facebook page]. If you provide us with evidence, we will correct any errors as quickly as possible.

Some followers of William Branham have suggested that it is wrong to highlight these issues. However, we believe it is not only right but that we are [[Are we wrong to highlight the problems with William Branham and his message?|required to tell people the information we have found.]]

If you do disagree with anything on this website, we would request that you '''[[A Scriptural Challenge to Followers of William Branham|please prove us wrong]]'''. Honestly, we don't want this website to contain any incorrect information. However, to date, we have only received a couple such requests and corrected the errors as soon as they were reported to us.

==Did any of William Branham's visions or prophecies fail?==

The scriptural test of a prophet is clear as outlined by Moses in Deuteronomy 18:

:''But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’ — whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Dt 18:20–22.</ref>

While at first we found this almost impossible to believe, '''we have been unable to locate a single unambiguous prophecy that was made in advance in a public forum (on tape) and that was later clearly fulfilled.''' However, there are numerous examples of visions that were made publicly which failed (were not fulfilled) and prophecies that changed drastically over time. If you click on the individual lines below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

'''How can William Branham be a true prophet of God if he failed the test of Deut 18:20-22?'''

{{Prophetic Questions}}

==Was William Branham Credible?==

:'''If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.''' - ''Mark Twain''

The Bible plainly tells us what is expected of Christian leaders:

:''An elder must be blameless...<ref>Titus 1:6 (NET)</ref>

:''For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work...<ref>Titus 1:7 (NET)</ref>

:''The overseer then must be above reproach...<ref>1 Timothy 3:2 (NET)</ref>

:''And these also must be tested first and then let them serve as deacons if they are found blameless.<ref>1 Timothy 3:10 (NET)</ref>

William Branham portrayed himself as a simple, honest, uneducated man who was sent from God as a prophet to fore-run the second coming of Christ. However, many of the stories that he told have been proven to be untrue and many of the doctrines that he said he received directly from God were, in fact, plagiarized from other ministers. If you click on the individual items below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

{{Credibility Questions}}

==Are William Branham's teachings in agreement with the Bible?==

If you study the message, you will find that William Branham departed significantly from the plain meaning of scripture in many things that he taught. If you click on the individual items below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

{{Doctrinal Questions}}

==Strange, bizarre, or contradictory beliefs of William Branham==

{{Strange Teachings}}

==Other Issues Relating to William Branham's Message==

#[[Hagin Prophecy|Kenneth Hagin's Prophecy]]
#[[Deception by message followers]]
#[[The Vision of the Pentecostal Kitten|The Vision of the Message Kitten]]
#[[Why didn't people correct William Branham?]]
#Our review of Owen Jorgensen's biography - ''[[Supernatural: The Life of William Branham‎]]''
#Our response to [[A Biographer Answers Critics of William Branham|Owen Jorgensen's defense of William Branham]]
#[[An Open Letter to Owen Jorgensen]] by Luca Freeman
#Who is [[Voice of God Recordings]] and how much money do they have?
#[[Bad Fruit|Why is there so much "bad fruit"]] in the message?
#[[Billy Paul Branham]]
#[[Joseph Branham]]

==False Doctrine and Misinformation Taught by Message Churches==

These doctrines may not have been taught directly by William Branham (or at least we have not found quotes yet) but are widely held by Message ministers/believers and are taught in a variety of message churches (please note that they may not be found in all message churches).

#[[Is the Message a Cult?#William Branham's message > the Bible|ALL message churches place the words of William Branham above or at least equal to the Bible]].
#Excuses for the failure of the Municipal Bridge vision - [[The Municipal Bridge Vision#The men drowned in concrete|The sixteen men drowned in concrete]]
#The use of red herring arguments when [[Failed Prophecies]] are pointed out (see video)
#[[The Message|The message]] is Jesus Christ.
#[[Access to the blood]] can only be achieve through the message of the hour
#[[Progressive_Revelation|The doctrine of progressive revelation]]
#[[Vaylism|The heretical teachings of Lee Vayle]]
#[[Stories from the Message|True stories from message churches]]
#[[Luke 20:4-8]]
#[[Acts 3:21]]
#[[Anti-Intellectualism]]
#[[Spiritual Idolatry]]
#[["Blind Faith"]]
#[[Logic and the Message]]
#[[Reason and the Message|Thinking is discouraged]]
#The [[The King James Version of the Bible|KJV is the only inspired translation]] of the Bible.
#[[The Rules of the Message]]
#Are [[Blood Moons]] of importance today?
#Legalistic teachings related to [[The Celebration of Christmas]]

==Other issues related to message churches==

#[[Message Urban Legends|'''Urban legends''' of the message]]
#[[The Status of Message Believers|What is the spiritual status of message believers]]?
#[[Questions and Answers with a Message Minister|Q&A with a message minister]]
#[[Bethel Tabernacle|An open letter to Jason Watkins]]

==But Message believers reject these teachings==

There are a few things that William Branham taught that followers of William Branham simply do not believe in any practical sense.

#[[The Message is Greater than the Bible|Is the message a cult?]]
#[[The Importance of a Right Spirit]]
#[[Draw a bigger circle]]
#The vision of the [[Plum and Apple Trees]]

==Responses to issues raised by Message followers==

Here are some responses to issues raised by message followers:
*[[The Jonah Defense]]
*[[Because he said so]]
*[[William Branham was just human]]
*[[Responding to Allistair Francis]]
*[[Questions and Answers with a Message Minister]]
*[[A response to Tim Pruitt's Defense of William Branham]]
*[[A response to Jason Watkins' letter to a believer who has left the message|Responding to Jason Watkins]]
*[[A response to Bill Ivy's Defense of the Message|A Response to Bill Ivy]]
*You can't see the Message because "[[It's a revelation]]"
*[[A response to Pastor Wisper Gwena]]
*[[The failure of message ministers to obey scripture]]
*[[The Importance of Vindication]]

=Now what? Where do I go from here?=

[[A Synopsis of the Message|If you have honestly looked at these questions and the research provided in our analysis of each issue]], you must question whether William Branham was a true prophet of God.

To help those who are now confronted with these issues and wonder what the next course of action should be we would recommend the following links:

#Listen to the [http://offtheshelf.life Off The Shelf] podcast!
#[[What should we believe?#What church should we go to?|Were should I go to church? Aren't denominations of the devil?]]
#[[What should we believe?|So what should I believe now?]]
#[[How to help those in the message|How do I help people who are still in the message?]] Do I tell them the message is wrong or is there a better way? [[How to help those in the message|How do I interact with my spouse/family member/friend]] who is still in the message?
#[[Reason and the Message#Jesus' reaction to someone who questioned him|What did Jesus say about asking questions?]]
#Should we abandon Christianity? Does it still make sense to follow Jesus after leaving the message?
##[[Is belief in God rational?]]
##[[Is the New Testament historically reliable?]]
#[[Testimonies of Former Followers]]
#[[Here we stand, corrected|'''You are not alone!!!''']]
#Further research on William Branham - [[Research Sources for William Branham and His Message]]
#[[A commentary on Christian cults|A video commentary on Christian cults]]
#[[Can we judge William Branham?]]
#If you are looking for non-message sources to help you grow spiritually - [[Resources that have helped us]]
#[[If you need help]]
#[[BelieveTheSign:What We Believe|What we believe]]
#If you want to ask us a question, you can [[Contact information|email us]].

We sincerely pray that this information has helped you on your spiritual journey. May the Holy Spirit lead you into the truth of Jesus Christ!

Shalom!

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The failure of message ministers to obey scripture

2026-03-24T21:08:30Z

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=Video Script=

'''The Credibility of Message Ministers (Part 3): 1 Peter 3:15 - The Failure to Obey Scripture'''

The apostle Peter issues a command to all Christians in 1 Peter 3:15:
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect…

The Greek word for “defense” used here is ἀπολογία (apologia) – which is the same word that the Greeks used to describe a lawyer defending a case in a court of law. And the Greek for “reason” is λόγον, from which we get the word “logic”.

But my experience with virtually all message ministers is that, first, they are not prepared to make a defense, second, they are not prepared to give any coherent reasons for their beliefs, and, third, they rarely do so with gentleness and respect.

Take, for example, the pastor of Bethel Tabernacle in North Carolina. This message minister has specifically stated on several occasions that he will not engage in Bible discussions on Facebook. He also refused to answer a sincere question online as to whether he agreed with a particular quote of William Branham. His solution was simply to remove the entire discussion so that people could not witness his failure to obey scripture.

Is Peter the only one to tell us how to react when people ask questions? NO! In Acts 6, a synagogue full of people rose up and disputed with Stephen, but unlike message ministers, Stephen didn't avoid conflict. Rather, his opponents could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. The apostle Paul was constantly reasoning with the Jews in the synagogue. In fact, the scripture says, in Acts 18:4, that he did this every Sabbath.

Then why is it that message preachers hate the very concept of reasoning? Is it because they exalt William Branham above the Bible. Their prophet, in a clear misquoting of scripture, repeatedly said that the Bible tells us to “cast down reasoning”? But there is no such passage in the Bible. Was William Branham adding to scripture?

The approach of message people is to tell their congregations not to think. Check your brains at the door. Rather than giving a defense, they tell people to shut their minds off and ignore the evidence.

We have proved, using clear evidence, that William Branham lied, had visions that failed and had prophecies that changed dramatically over time. In fact, we have yet to find one unambiguous prophecy that William Branham made on a tape, BEFORE THE FACT, that was later clearly fulfilled.

Is that the test of a prophet?

Luke took the time to amass a body of evidence that proved the Gospel to be true. He stated in Luke 1:4 that the purpose of his Gospel was to provide certainty to the things Theophilus had been taught. In Acts 1:3, he states that Jesus provided the apostles with many infallible proofs.

The problem with the message is that the “proofs” have been clearly shown to be fallible. That's why I left the message. Some message preachers are knowingly lying to their congregations while others have simply stuck their heads in the sand.

What's the real reason message preachers won’t answer our questions? Why can't they defend the message against the facts we have presented?

The simple truth is… They don’t have the evidence on their side.

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Credibility

2026-03-24T21:04:39Z

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|'''''I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.''''' - Friedrich Nietzsche
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'''''In order to thoroughly deceive others, it is necessary to also deceive oneself'''. The actor playing Hamlet must indeed believe in the moment that he is the Prince of Denmark, though when he leaves the stage he will usually remember who he really is.''

''On the other hand, '''when someone's entire life is based on such pretense, they seldom if ever return to reality. That is the secret of many successful politicians, evangelists and confidence tricksters alike–they believe they are telling the truth, even when it seems sure they must have known that they faked the evidence.''' Sincerity, my dear Julia, is a quality not to be trusted.'' – Sarah Caudwell from 'The Sibyl in Her Grave'
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In our search to find the truth and to separate fact from fiction as it relates to William Branham and his ministry, one of the the most important issues that has to be addressed is his credibility. This need to be examined in relation to the various stories he tells in describing his supernatural experiences.

''To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.'' — Edward R. Murrow

Credibility refers to the believability, trustworthiness and reliability of a person.

=But didn't Abraham lie? And David commit adultery?=

We have had many message follwers deflect the issue of William Branham's credibility by pointing to the flaws of some of the prophets in the Old Testament. Such a response is clearly coming out of [[Cognitive Dissonance]] (if you don't know what this is, please click on the link).

When a message follower, confronted with the clear facts that William Branham lied, states, "''Abramham lied and he was the father of faith,''" they are effectively admitting that William Branham lied but that it is not a big deal.

The problem with this argument is that it is a [[Failed Prophecies|red herring]].

Why did Abraham lie? Because he feared that his life was in danger.

William Branham, on the other hand, appeared to have lied to uphold the claim that God spoke to him and that his prophecies were authentic. William Branham lied to make himself look like a prophet so that people would follow him.

Under the new covenant, as outlined in the New Testament, lying is not acceptable behaviour because the Bible plainly tells us what is expected of Christian leaders:

:''Therefore an overseer must be above reproach...<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Ti 3:2–3.</ref>

:''An elder must be blameless...<ref>Titus 1:6 (NET)</ref>

:''For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work...<ref>Titus 1:7 (NET)</ref>

:''Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, '''liars''', perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, 11 in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Ti 1:8–11.</ref>

A church leader blatantly disregards the truth is disqualified from any position of leadership in the church. PERIOD. THE END.

Also, because many of William Branham's prophecies failed, we must also deal with [[Prophecy|Deuteronomy 18:20-22]].

=Was William Branham credible?=
[[Image:Credibility.png|thumb|right|250px]]
Because William Branham was a minister of the Gospel, one starts off with the assumption that he generally told the truth, that he was credible. But that assumption must be discarded if it can be demonstrated that he regularly strayed from telling the truth.

William Branham portrayed himself as a simple, honest, uneducated man who was sent from God as a prophet to forerun the second coming of Christ. However, many of the stories that he told have been proven to be untrue and many of the doctrines that he said he received directly from God were, in fact, [[Plagiarism|plagiarized]] from other ministers. Another significant issue is that many of [[Different Stories|William Branham's stories changed dramatically over time]]. Why did this happen?

The following items have caused us to question William Branham's credibility (click on the links to read a detailed explanation of the issue):

#Did William Branham visit the Vatican and see the inscription "''[[VICARIVS FILII DEI]]''" above the throne of the Pope?
#[[William Branham and Billy Graham|Did William Branham lie about his prophecy regarding Billy Graham?]]
#[[1933 Ohio River Experience|Did anyone hear the voice on the Ohio River in 1933?]]
#Did William Branham see [[Stories about Eagles|a mother eagle carry her babies on her wings?]]
#[[The Cloud|Why did William Branham say that he was under the cloud when they took its picture, when he clearly wasn't?]]
#Did William Branham travel [[William_Branham's Travels#Around the world seven times?|around the world seven times?]]
#[[Bible saved from the flood|Was William Branham's Bible saved miraculously in the 1937 flood?]]
#[[The Man from Windsor|Why did the story of the man from Windsor change so drastically over time?]]
#[[Plagiarism|Why did William Branham say that he received his revelations from God when he took many of his doctrines from other men?]]
#Why did William Branham change the story of [[Congressman Upshaw]]'s healing?
#[[William Branham's Exaggerations]]
#[[Roy Davis|When did William Branham embrace Pentecostalism?]]
#Was [[Donny Morton]] really healed?
#[[William Branham speaks in tongues|Did William Branham speak in an unknown tongue that a Finnish woman understood?]]
#[[Was William Branham Honest|Was it reasonable for William Branham to blame his poor grammar on his dad?]]
#Did William Branham prayer for [[King George VI|King George VI and was he really healed?]]
#[[Kari Holma|Did William Branham raise a boy from the dead in Finland?]]
#Who was [[Hope Branham's Nurse]]?
#Was [[Florence Nightingale]] the granddaughter of the original Florence Nightingale?
#[[The Pillar of Fire|Did the Pillar of Fire really appear above William Branham's head in Houston? Why did other pictures from that evening appear in the newspaper, when he said his picture was the only one that turned out?]]
#[[Proposing to Hope Brumbach|Was William Branham truthful about asking Hope's parents for her hand in marriage?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham in Shorts|If only sissies wear shorts, why did William Branham wear them?]]
#[[Leo Mercer|How could William Branham have allowed Leo Mercer to be part of his ministry?]]
#[[An Uncertain Sound|Did William Branham claim to be a prophet?]]
#[[The Nazarite Birth|Was William Branham born under a Nazarite Vow?]]
#[[Was William Branham's discernment ministry genuine?|Was William Branham's discernment 100% accurate?]]
#[[Guessing the disease|Was William Branham's ministry always 100%?]]
#[[The Mystery of the Empty Cornerstone|What was in the cornerstone of Branham Tabernacle?]]
#[[William Branham's Travels|Did William Branham travel around the world seven times?]]
#[[Billy Paul Branham|Why was William Branham dishonest about his son's first marriage?]]
#[[Prophecy of the Cloud|Why was the vision of the five angels changed to a vision of seven angels?]]
#[[Rattlesnake Mesa|Why did William Branham say that he was at Sunset Mountain when he was actually at Rattlesnake Mesa?]]
#Why did William Branham make up [[The Story of the Pyramid Box|the story of the Pyramid Box]]?
#[[Different Stories|Why did William Branham's stories change so radically over time?]]
#[[The Perfect Man|Was William Branham really the first fruits of spiritual maturity? The perfect man?]]
#[[The Houston Photograph|Was the photo from Houston supernatural or just the out of focus picture of a flood light?]]
#[[The Amber Light|Did William Branham see an amber light?]]
#[[Jim Jones|Did William Branham help to launch the ministry of Jim Jones?]]
#Was Marshal [[Matt Dillon]] from Gunsmoke a real person?
#[[Is Joseph Branham a prophet?]]
#Was there a [[Mormon prophecy about William Branham]]?
#[[Prophecy: Danny Henry|Danny Henry message]]
#[[William Branham's View of Himself|How did William Branham view himself?]]
#[[William Branham and Money|Was William Branham a wealthy man when he died?]]
#[[William Branham Speaking as God|If God spoke through William Branham, why did he mess up?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham the Hunter|If it was wrong to kill animals for sport, why did William Branham do it?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham at the Theatre|Why did William Branham deny that he went to movies 3 weeks after admitting that he did?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham, sold out for a Cadillac|Why did William Branham criticize those who drove Cadillac's when he owned one?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#Trimmed Hair & Short Skirts in the Branham Family|Why did William Branham criticize women that cut their hair and wore short skirts, when his own family did?]]
#[[Arvel Mosier|What actually happened to Hattie Wright's boys?]]
#[[William Branham on Suicide#Inaccuracies about William Cowper's death|Why did William Branham say he went to William Cowper's grave when he didn't?]]
#[[William Branham on Suicide#Inaccuracies about William Cowper's death|Why did William Branham say William Cowper committed suicide when he died of heart failure?]]
#[[William Branham on Suicide#Stephen Foster|Why did William Branham state the Stephen Foster committed suicide, when this is not true?]]
#Was there really a connection between [[The Pope and the Lunar Eclipse|the Pope visiting israel in 1964 and the lunar eclipse that preceded his visit?]]

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List of Issues with the Message

2026-03-24T21:02:49Z

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This page is a '''master list of all of the issues that have come to our attention in respect to William Branham and his message'''. It summarizes, in the form of a list of questions, virtually all of the research we have conducted since 2004 with respect to William Branham.''' Click on any of the questions or colored links''' to read further details on the issue.

=The List of Questions=

The purpose of this list is to provide a short concise summary of all known issues that can be used as a quick reference guide when discussing any concerns relating to William Branham, his message or those that follow him. Our aim is to provide a detailed explanation for each issue, as well as our detailed research. To the extent that the specific question does not link to anything, it simply means we have not had the time to research the issue as yet.

===Our request & promise===

Please let us know of any factual errors on our website, either [[Contact information|by email]] or by [https://www.facebook.com/BelieveTheSign a message to us on our Facebook page]. If you provide us with evidence, we will correct any errors as quickly as possible.

Some followers of William Branham have suggested that it is wrong to highlight these issues. However, we believe it is not only right but that we are [[Are we wrong to highlight the problems with William Branham and his message?|required to tell people the information we have found.]]

If you do disagree with anything on this website, we would request that you '''[[A Scriptural Challenge to Followers of William Branham|please prove us wrong]]'''. Honestly, we don't want this website to contain any incorrect information. However, to date, we have only received a couple such requests and corrected the errors as soon as they were reported to us.

==Did any of William Branham's visions or prophecies fail?==

The scriptural test of a prophet is clear as outlined by Moses in Deuteronomy 18:

:''But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’ — whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Dt 18:20–22.</ref>

While at first we found this almost impossible to believe, '''we have been unable to locate a single unambiguous prophecy that was made in advance in a public forum (on tape) and that was later clearly fulfilled.''' However, there are numerous examples of visions that were made publicly which failed (were not fulfilled) and prophecies that changed drastically over time. If you click on the individual lines below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

'''How can William Branham be a true prophet of God if he failed the test of Deut 18:20-22?'''

{{Prophetic Questions}}

==Was William Branham Credible?==

:'''If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.''' - ''Mark Twain''

The Bible plainly tells us what is expected of Christian leaders:

:''An elder must be blameless...<ref>Titus 1:6 (NET)</ref>

:''For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work...<ref>Titus 1:7 (NET)</ref>

:''The overseer then must be above reproach...<ref>1 Timothy 3:2 (NET)</ref>

:''And these also must be tested first and then let them serve as deacons if they are found blameless.<ref>1 Timothy 3:10 (NET)</ref>

William Branham portrayed himself as a simple, honest, uneducated man who was sent from God as a prophet to fore-run the second coming of Christ. However, many of the stories that he told have been proven to be untrue and many of the doctrines that he said he received directly from God were, in fact, plagiarized from other ministers. If you click on the individual items below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

{{Credibility Questions}}

==Are William Branham's teachings in agreement with the Bible?==

If you study the message, you will find that William Branham departed significantly from the plain meaning of scripture in many things that he taught. If you click on the individual items below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

{{Doctrinal Questions}}

==Strange, bizarre, or contradictory beliefs of William Branham==

{{Strange Teachings}}

==Other Issues Relating to William Branham's Message==

#[[Hagin Prophecy|Kenneth Hagin's Prophecy]]
#[[Deception by message followers]]
#[[The Vision of the Pentecostal Kitten|The Vision of the Message Kitten]]
#[[Why didn't people correct William Branham?]]
#Our review of Owen Jorgensen's biography - ''[[Supernatural: The Life of William Branham‎]]''
#Our response to [[A Biographer Answers Critics of William Branham|Owen Jorgensen's defense of William Branham]]
#[[An Open Letter to Owen Jorgensen]] by Luca Freeman
#Who is [[Voice of God Recordings]] and how much money do they have?
#[[Bad Fruit|Why is there so much "bad fruit"]] in the message?
#[[Billy Paul Branham]]
#[[Joseph Branham]]

==False Doctrine and Misinformation Taught by Message Churches==

These doctrines may not have been taught directly by William Branham (or at least we have not found quotes yet) but are widely held by Message ministers/believers and are taught in a variety of message churches (please note that they may not be found in all message churches).

#[[Is the Message a Cult?#William Branham's message > the Bible|ALL message churches place the words of William Branham above or at least equal to the Bible]].
#Excuses for the failure of the Municipal Bridge vision - [[The Municipal Bridge Vision#The men drowned in concrete|The sixteen men drowned in concrete]]
#The use of red herring arguments when [[Failed Prophecies]] are pointed out (see video)
#[[The Message|The message]] is Jesus Christ.
#[[Access to the blood]] can only be achieve through the message of the hour
#[[Progressive_Revelation|The doctrine of progressive revelation]]
#[[Vaylism|The heretical teachings of Lee Vayle]]
#[[Stories from the Message|True stories from message churches]]
#[[Luke 20:4-8]]
#[[Acts 3:21]]
#[[Anti-Intellectualism]]
#[[Spiritual Idolatry]]
#[["Blind Faith"]]
#[[Logic and the Message]]
#[[Reason and the Message|Thinking is discouraged]]
#The [[The King James Version of the Bible|KJV is the only inspired translation]] of the Bible.
#[[The Rules of the Message]]
#Are [[Blood Moons]] of importance today?
#Legalistic teachings related to [[The Celebration of Christmas]]

==Other issues related to message churches==

#[[Message Urban Legends|'''Urban legends''' of the message]]
#[[The Status of Message Believers|What is the spiritual status of message believers]]?
#[[Questions and Answers with a Message Minister|Q&A with a message minister]]
#[[Bethel Tabernacle|An open letter to Jason Watkins]]

==But Message believers reject these teachings==

There are a few things that William Branham taught that followers of William Branham simply do not believe in any practical sense.

#[[The Message is Greater than the Bible|Is the message a cult?]]
#[[The Importance of a Right Spirit]]
#[[Draw a bigger circle]]
#The vision of the [[Plum and Apple Trees]]

==Responses to issues raised by Message followers==

Here are some responses to issues raised by message followers:
*[[The Jonah Defense]]
*[[William Branham was just human]]
*[[Responding to Allistair Francis]]
*[[Questions and Answers with a Message Minister]]
*[[A response to Tim Pruitt's Defense of William Branham]]
*[[A response to Jason Watkins' letter to a believer who has left the message|Responding to Jason Watkins]]
*[[A response to Bill Ivy's Defense of the Message|A Response to Bill Ivy]]
*You can't see the Message because "[[It's a revelation]]"

=Now what? Where do I go from here?=

[[A Synopsis of the Message|If you have honestly looked at these questions and the research provided in our analysis of each issue]], you must question whether William Branham was a true prophet of God.

To help those who are now confronted with these issues and wonder what the next course of action should be we would recommend the following links:

#Listen to the [http://offtheshelf.life Off The Shelf] podcast!
#[[What should we believe?#What church should we go to?|Were should I go to church? Aren't denominations of the devil?]]
#[[What should we believe?|So what should I believe now?]]
#[[How to help those in the message|How do I help people who are still in the message?]] Do I tell them the message is wrong or is there a better way? [[How to help those in the message|How do I interact with my spouse/family member/friend]] who is still in the message?
#[[Reason and the Message#Jesus' reaction to someone who questioned him|What did Jesus say about asking questions?]]
#Should we abandon Christianity? Does it still make sense to follow Jesus after leaving the message?
##[[Is belief in God rational?]]
##[[Is the New Testament historically reliable?]]
#[[Testimonies of Former Followers]]
#[[Here we stand, corrected|'''You are not alone!!!''']]
#Further research on William Branham - [[Research Sources for William Branham and His Message]]
#[[A commentary on Christian cults|A video commentary on Christian cults]]
#[[Can we judge William Branham?]]
#If you are looking for non-message sources to help you grow spiritually - [[Resources that have helped us]]
#[[If you need help]]
#[[BelieveTheSign:What We Believe|What we believe]]
#If you want to ask us a question, you can [[Contact information|email us]].

We sincerely pray that this information has helped you on your spiritual journey. May the Holy Spirit lead you into the truth of Jesus Christ!

Shalom!

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List of Issues with the Message

2026-03-24T21:01:58Z

Admin: /* Responses to issues raised by Message followers */

{{Top of Page}}
{{URGENT}}
[[Image:Answers small.jpg|thumb|250px|right]]

This page is a '''master list of all of the issues that have come to our attention in respect to William Branham and his message'''. It summarizes, in the form of a list of questions, virtually all of the research we have conducted since 2004 with respect to William Branham.''' Click on any of the questions or colored links''' to read further details on the issue.

=The List of Questions=

The purpose of this list is to provide a short concise summary of all known issues that can be used as a quick reference guide when discussing any concerns relating to William Branham, his message or those that follow him. Our aim is to provide a detailed explanation for each issue, as well as our detailed research. To the extent that the specific question does not link to anything, it simply means we have not had the time to research the issue as yet.

===Our request & promise===

Please let us know of any factual errors on our website, either [[Contact information|by email]] or by [https://www.facebook.com/BelieveTheSign a message to us on our Facebook page]. If you provide us with evidence, we will correct any errors as quickly as possible.

Some followers of William Branham have suggested that it is wrong to highlight these issues. However, we believe it is not only right but that we are [[Are we wrong to highlight the problems with William Branham and his message?|required to tell people the information we have found.]]

If you do disagree with anything on this website, we would request that you '''[[A Scriptural Challenge to Followers of William Branham|please prove us wrong]]'''. Honestly, we don't want this website to contain any incorrect information. However, to date, we have only received a couple such requests and corrected the errors as soon as they were reported to us.

==Did any of William Branham's visions or prophecies fail?==

The scriptural test of a prophet is clear as outlined by Moses in Deuteronomy 18:

:''But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’ — whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Dt 18:20–22.</ref>

While at first we found this almost impossible to believe, '''we have been unable to locate a single unambiguous prophecy that was made in advance in a public forum (on tape) and that was later clearly fulfilled.''' However, there are numerous examples of visions that were made publicly which failed (were not fulfilled) and prophecies that changed drastically over time. If you click on the individual lines below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

'''How can William Branham be a true prophet of God if he failed the test of Deut 18:20-22?'''

{{Prophetic Questions}}

==Was William Branham Credible?==

:'''If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.''' - ''Mark Twain''

The Bible plainly tells us what is expected of Christian leaders:

:''An elder must be blameless...<ref>Titus 1:6 (NET)</ref>

:''For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work...<ref>Titus 1:7 (NET)</ref>

:''The overseer then must be above reproach...<ref>1 Timothy 3:2 (NET)</ref>

:''And these also must be tested first and then let them serve as deacons if they are found blameless.<ref>1 Timothy 3:10 (NET)</ref>

William Branham portrayed himself as a simple, honest, uneducated man who was sent from God as a prophet to fore-run the second coming of Christ. However, many of the stories that he told have been proven to be untrue and many of the doctrines that he said he received directly from God were, in fact, plagiarized from other ministers. If you click on the individual items below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

{{Credibility Questions}}

==Are William Branham's teachings in agreement with the Bible?==

If you study the message, you will find that William Branham departed significantly from the plain meaning of scripture in many things that he taught. If you click on the individual items below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

{{Doctrinal Questions}}

==Strange, bizarre, or contradictory beliefs of William Branham==

{{Strange Teachings}}

==Other Issues Relating to William Branham's Message==

#[[Hagin Prophecy|Kenneth Hagin's Prophecy]]
#[[Deception by message followers]]
#[[The Vision of the Pentecostal Kitten|The Vision of the Message Kitten]]
#[[Why didn't people correct William Branham?]]
#Our review of Owen Jorgensen's biography - ''[[Supernatural: The Life of William Branham‎]]''
#Our response to [[A Biographer Answers Critics of William Branham|Owen Jorgensen's defense of William Branham]]
#[[An Open Letter to Owen Jorgensen]] by Luca Freeman
#Who is [[Voice of God Recordings]] and how much money do they have?
#[[Bad Fruit|Why is there so much "bad fruit"]] in the message?
#[[Billy Paul Branham]]
#[[Joseph Branham]]

==False Doctrine and Misinformation Taught by Message Churches==

These doctrines may not have been taught directly by William Branham (or at least we have not found quotes yet) but are widely held by Message ministers/believers and are taught in a variety of message churches (please note that they may not be found in all message churches).

#[[Is the Message a Cult?#William Branham's message > the Bible|ALL message churches place the words of William Branham above or at least equal to the Bible]].
#Excuses for the failure of the Municipal Bridge vision - [[The Municipal Bridge Vision#The men drowned in concrete|The sixteen men drowned in concrete]]
#The use of red herring arguments when [[Failed Prophecies]] are pointed out (see video)
#[[The Message|The message]] is Jesus Christ.
#[[Access to the blood]] can only be achieve through the message of the hour
#[[Progressive_Revelation|The doctrine of progressive revelation]]
#[[Vaylism|The heretical teachings of Lee Vayle]]
#[[Stories from the Message|True stories from message churches]]
#[[Luke 20:4-8]]
#[[Acts 3:21]]
#[[Anti-Intellectualism]]
#[[Spiritual Idolatry]]
#[["Blind Faith"]]
#[[Logic and the Message]]
#[[Reason and the Message|Thinking is discouraged]]
#The [[The King James Version of the Bible|KJV is the only inspired translation]] of the Bible.
#[[The Rules of the Message]]
#Are [[Blood Moons]] of importance today?
#Legalistic teachings related to [[The Celebration of Christmas]]

==Other issues related to message churches==

#[[Message Urban Legends|'''Urban legends''' of the message]]
#[[The Status of Message Believers|What is the spiritual status of message believers]]?
#[[Questions and Answers with a Message Minister|Q&A with a message minister]]
#[[Bethel Tabernacle|An open letter to Jason Watkins]]

==But Message believers reject these teachings==

There are a few things that William Branham taught that followers of William Branham simply do not believe in any practical sense.

#[[The Message is Greater than the Bible|Is the message a cult?]]
#[[The Importance of a Right Spirit]]
#[[Draw a bigger circle]]
#The vision of the [[Plum and Apple Trees]]

==Responses to issues raised by Message followers==

[[The Jonah Defense]]
[[William Branham was just human]]
[[Responding to Allistair Francis]]
[[Questions and Answers with a Message Minister]]
[[A response to Tim Pruitt's Defense of William Branham]]
[[A response to Jason Watkins' letter to a believer who has left the message|Responding to Jason Watkins]]
[[A response to Bill Ivy's Defense of the Message|A Response to Bill Ivy]]
You can't see the Message because "[[It's a revelation]]"

=Now what? Where do I go from here?=

[[A Synopsis of the Message|If you have honestly looked at these questions and the research provided in our analysis of each issue]], you must question whether William Branham was a true prophet of God.

To help those who are now confronted with these issues and wonder what the next course of action should be we would recommend the following links:

#Listen to the [http://offtheshelf.life Off The Shelf] podcast!
#[[What should we believe?#What church should we go to?|Were should I go to church? Aren't denominations of the devil?]]
#[[What should we believe?|So what should I believe now?]]
#[[How to help those in the message|How do I help people who are still in the message?]] Do I tell them the message is wrong or is there a better way? [[How to help those in the message|How do I interact with my spouse/family member/friend]] who is still in the message?
#[[Reason and the Message#Jesus' reaction to someone who questioned him|What did Jesus say about asking questions?]]
#Should we abandon Christianity? Does it still make sense to follow Jesus after leaving the message?
##[[Is belief in God rational?]]
##[[Is the New Testament historically reliable?]]
#[[Testimonies of Former Followers]]
#[[Here we stand, corrected|'''You are not alone!!!''']]
#Further research on William Branham - [[Research Sources for William Branham and His Message]]
#[[A commentary on Christian cults|A video commentary on Christian cults]]
#[[Can we judge William Branham?]]
#If you are looking for non-message sources to help you grow spiritually - [[Resources that have helped us]]
#[[If you need help]]
#[[BelieveTheSign:What We Believe|What we believe]]
#If you want to ask us a question, you can [[Contact information|email us]].

We sincerely pray that this information has helped you on your spiritual journey. May the Holy Spirit lead you into the truth of Jesus Christ!

Shalom!

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List of Issues with the Message

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This page is a '''master list of all of the issues that have come to our attention in respect to William Branham and his message'''. It summarizes, in the form of a list of questions, virtually all of the research we have conducted since 2004 with respect to William Branham.''' Click on any of the questions or colored links''' to read further details on the issue.

=The List of Questions=

The purpose of this list is to provide a short concise summary of all known issues that can be used as a quick reference guide when discussing any concerns relating to William Branham, his message or those that follow him. Our aim is to provide a detailed explanation for each issue, as well as our detailed research. To the extent that the specific question does not link to anything, it simply means we have not had the time to research the issue as yet.

===Our request & promise===

Please let us know of any factual errors on our website, either [[Contact information|by email]] or by [https://www.facebook.com/BelieveTheSign a message to us on our Facebook page]. If you provide us with evidence, we will correct any errors as quickly as possible.

Some followers of William Branham have suggested that it is wrong to highlight these issues. However, we believe it is not only right but that we are [[Are we wrong to highlight the problems with William Branham and his message?|required to tell people the information we have found.]]

If you do disagree with anything on this website, we would request that you '''[[A Scriptural Challenge to Followers of William Branham|please prove us wrong]]'''. Honestly, we don't want this website to contain any incorrect information. However, to date, we have only received a couple such requests and corrected the errors as soon as they were reported to us.

==Did any of William Branham's visions or prophecies fail?==

The scriptural test of a prophet is clear as outlined by Moses in Deuteronomy 18:

:''But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’ — whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Dt 18:20–22.</ref>

While at first we found this almost impossible to believe, '''we have been unable to locate a single unambiguous prophecy that was made in advance in a public forum (on tape) and that was later clearly fulfilled.''' However, there are numerous examples of visions that were made publicly which failed (were not fulfilled) and prophecies that changed drastically over time. If you click on the individual lines below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

'''How can William Branham be a true prophet of God if he failed the test of Deut 18:20-22?'''

{{Prophetic Questions}}

==Was William Branham Credible?==

:'''If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.''' - ''Mark Twain''

The Bible plainly tells us what is expected of Christian leaders:

:''An elder must be blameless...<ref>Titus 1:6 (NET)</ref>

:''For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work...<ref>Titus 1:7 (NET)</ref>

:''The overseer then must be above reproach...<ref>1 Timothy 3:2 (NET)</ref>

:''And these also must be tested first and then let them serve as deacons if they are found blameless.<ref>1 Timothy 3:10 (NET)</ref>

William Branham portrayed himself as a simple, honest, uneducated man who was sent from God as a prophet to fore-run the second coming of Christ. However, many of the stories that he told have been proven to be untrue and many of the doctrines that he said he received directly from God were, in fact, plagiarized from other ministers. If you click on the individual items below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

{{Credibility Questions}}

==Are William Branham's teachings in agreement with the Bible?==

If you study the message, you will find that William Branham departed significantly from the plain meaning of scripture in many things that he taught. If you click on the individual items below, they will take you to a detailed explanation of each issue.

{{Doctrinal Questions}}

==Strange, bizarre, or contradictory beliefs of William Branham==

{{Strange Teachings}}

==Other Issues Relating to William Branham's Message==

#[[Hagin Prophecy|Kenneth Hagin's Prophecy]]
#[[Deception by message followers]]
#[[The Vision of the Pentecostal Kitten|The Vision of the Message Kitten]]
#[[Why didn't people correct William Branham?]]
#Our review of Owen Jorgensen's biography - ''[[Supernatural: The Life of William Branham‎]]''
#Our response to [[A Biographer Answers Critics of William Branham|Owen Jorgensen's defense of William Branham]]
#[[An Open Letter to Owen Jorgensen]] by Luca Freeman
#Who is [[Voice of God Recordings]] and how much money do they have?
#[[Bad Fruit|Why is there so much "bad fruit"]] in the message?
#[[Billy Paul Branham]]
#[[Joseph Branham]]

==False Doctrine and Misinformation Taught by Message Churches==

These doctrines may not have been taught directly by William Branham (or at least we have not found quotes yet) but are widely held by Message ministers/believers and are taught in a variety of message churches (please note that they may not be found in all message churches).

#[[Is the Message a Cult?#William Branham's message > the Bible|ALL message churches place the words of William Branham above or at least equal to the Bible]].
#Excuses for the failure of the Municipal Bridge vision - [[The Municipal Bridge Vision#The men drowned in concrete|The sixteen men drowned in concrete]]
#The use of red herring arguments when [[Failed Prophecies]] are pointed out (see video)
#[[The Message|The message]] is Jesus Christ.
#[[Access to the blood]] can only be achieve through the message of the hour
#[[Progressive_Revelation|The doctrine of progressive revelation]]
#[[Vaylism|The heretical teachings of Lee Vayle]]
#[[Stories from the Message|True stories from message churches]]
#[[Luke 20:4-8]]
#[[Acts 3:21]]
#[[Anti-Intellectualism]]
#[[Spiritual Idolatry]]
#[["Blind Faith"]]
#[[Logic and the Message]]
#[[Reason and the Message|Thinking is discouraged]]
#The [[The King James Version of the Bible|KJV is the only inspired translation]] of the Bible.
#[[The Rules of the Message]]
#Are [[Blood Moons]] of importance today?
#Legalistic teachings related to [[The Celebration of Christmas]]

==Other issues related to message churches==

#[[Message Urban Legends|'''Urban legends''' of the message]]
#[[The Status of Message Believers|What is the spiritual status of message believers]]?
#[[Questions and Answers with a Message Minister|Q&A with a message minister]]
#[[Bethel Tabernacle|An open letter to Jason Watkins]]

==But Message believers reject these teachings==

There are a few things that William Branham taught that followers of William Branham simply do not believe in any practical sense.

#[[The Message is Greater than the Bible|Is the message a cult?]]
#[[The Importance of a Right Spirit]]
#[[Draw a bigger circle]]
#The vision of the [[Plum and Apple Trees]]

==Responses to issues raised by Message followers==

[[The Jonah Defense]]

=Now what? Where do I go from here?=

[[A Synopsis of the Message|If you have honestly looked at these questions and the research provided in our analysis of each issue]], you must question whether William Branham was a true prophet of God.

To help those who are now confronted with these issues and wonder what the next course of action should be we would recommend the following links:

#Listen to the [http://offtheshelf.life Off The Shelf] podcast!
#[[What should we believe?#What church should we go to?|Were should I go to church? Aren't denominations of the devil?]]
#[[What should we believe?|So what should I believe now?]]
#[[How to help those in the message|How do I help people who are still in the message?]] Do I tell them the message is wrong or is there a better way? [[How to help those in the message|How do I interact with my spouse/family member/friend]] who is still in the message?
#[[Reason and the Message#Jesus' reaction to someone who questioned him|What did Jesus say about asking questions?]]
#Should we abandon Christianity? Does it still make sense to follow Jesus after leaving the message?
##[[Is belief in God rational?]]
##[[Is the New Testament historically reliable?]]
#[[Testimonies of Former Followers]]
#[[Here we stand, corrected|'''You are not alone!!!''']]
#Further research on William Branham - [[Research Sources for William Branham and His Message]]
#[[A commentary on Christian cults|A video commentary on Christian cults]]
#[[Can we judge William Branham?]]
#If you are looking for non-message sources to help you grow spiritually - [[Resources that have helped us]]
#[[If you need help]]
#[[BelieveTheSign:What We Believe|What we believe]]
#If you want to ask us a question, you can [[Contact information|email us]].

We sincerely pray that this information has helped you on your spiritual journey. May the Holy Spirit lead you into the truth of Jesus Christ!

Shalom!

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The Jonah Defense

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Jonah prophesied against Nineveh saying that it would be destroyed but it wasn't. Similarly William Branham prophesied certain things and they didn't come to pass. Sometimes prophets say things that don't come to pass, message people explain. Thus if some of William Branham's propehecies failed, it's no different than Jonah... who was still a prophet

The problem with this explanation is that it is done without a true knowledge of the scripture.

=Jeremiah has the answer=

God told Jeremiah in Jeremiah 18:7–8:

:''At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it; if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it.''<ref>Jeremiah 18:7–8 (NASB95)</ref>

So God has clearly outlined the conditions under which a "Thus Saith The Lord" prophecy will not come to pass. But those conditions do not apply to ANY of William Branham's failed prophesies.

[[The Municipal Bridge Vision]] involves a vision which William Branham said was fulfilled. The problem is that it was not fulfilled. How can you compare that with Jonah and Nineveh?

In [[The Brown Bear Vision|the vision of the brown bear]], William Branham states with an emphatic "Thus Saith The Lord" that he will shoot a huge brown bear. He didn't. How can anyone validly compare that with Jonah and Nineveh?

==William Branham said Deuteronomy 18:20-22 applied to him-==

The real problem, '''the Biblical problem''', with William Branham's unfulfilled visions is Deuteronomy 18:20-22.

:''But the prophet who speaks a word '''presumptuously''' in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, '''that prophet shall die'''.’ You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’ When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, '''if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.'''''<ref>Deut 18:22(NASB)</ref>

William Branham agreed with this being the Biblical standard.

:''But we both know that the visions God gives me NEVER FAIL. NOT ONCE. If anyone can prove a vision ever failed I want to know about it. Now that you follow me this far here is my story.''<ref>PERGAMEAN CHURCH AGE - CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT 5</ref>

:''"If there be a prophet among you, or one who professes to be, and what he says doesn't come to pass, then don't you fear him. It's not right. But if the Lord has spoke to him, He will bring it to pass." See? That's the way you will know it. God give us instructions whether to know. Where we don't have to presume anything, nothing. You don't have to just imagine; you can have an experience to know it. Yes, sir.''<ref>PRESUMING PHOENIX.AZ WEDNESDAY 62-0117</ref>

:''He said here was the test of a prophet: if a prophet prophesied, and that what he said come to pass, then hear him. But if it don't come to pass, then God hasn't spoke. That's all. So don't--don't fear him. That's right. "If there be one among you who's spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord God, will make myself known unto him in visions, speak to him in dreams. And if it comes to pass, then I--that's Me speaking." Sure, God ain't going to lie. You know He can't lie there's nothing in Him to lie. He's the Fountain of all purity, all truth, is God. So it can't be a lie come from God. He's perfect, pure.''<ref>THE SIGNS OF HIS COMING CLEVELAND TN SATURDAY 62-0407</ref>

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The Jonah Defense

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Jonah prophesied against Nineveh saying that it would be destroyed but it wasn't. Similarly William Branham prophesied certain things and they didn't come to pass. Sometimes prophets say things that don't come to pass, message people explain. Thus if some of William Branham's propehecies failed, it's no different than Jonah... who was still a prophet

The problem with this explanation is that it is done without a true knowledge of the scripture.

=Jeremiah has the answer=

God told Jeremiah:

:''At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it; if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it.''<ref>Jeremiah 18:7–8 (NASB95)</ref>

So God has clearly outlined the conditions under which a "Thus Saith The Lord" prophecy will not come to pass. But those conditions do not apply to ANY of William Branham's failed prophesies.

[[The Municipal Bridge Vision]] involves a vision which William Branham said was fulfilled. The problem is that it was not fulfilled. How can you compare that with Jonah and Nineveh?

In [[The Brown Bear Vision|the vision of the brown bear]], William Branham states with an emphatic "Thus Saith The Lord" that he will shoot a huge brown bear. He didn't. How can anyone validly compare that with Jonah and Nineveh?

==William Branham said Deuteronomy 18:20-22 applied to him-==

The real problem, '''the Biblical problem''', with William Branham's unfulfilled visions is Deuteronomy 18:20-22.

:''But the prophet who speaks a word '''presumptuously''' in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, '''that prophet shall die'''.’ You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’ When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, '''if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.'''''<ref>Deut 18:22(NASB)</ref>

William Branham agreed with this being the Biblical standard.

:''But we both know that the visions God gives me NEVER FAIL. NOT ONCE. If anyone can prove a vision ever failed I want to know about it. Now that you follow me this far here is my story.''<ref>PERGAMEAN CHURCH AGE - CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT 5</ref>

:''"If there be a prophet among you, or one who professes to be, and what he says doesn't come to pass, then don't you fear him. It's not right. But if the Lord has spoke to him, He will bring it to pass." See? That's the way you will know it. God give us instructions whether to know. Where we don't have to presume anything, nothing. You don't have to just imagine; you can have an experience to know it. Yes, sir.''<ref>PRESUMING PHOENIX.AZ WEDNESDAY 62-0117</ref>

:''He said here was the test of a prophet: if a prophet prophesied, and that what he said come to pass, then hear him. But if it don't come to pass, then God hasn't spoke. That's all. So don't--don't fear him. That's right. "If there be one among you who's spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord God, will make myself known unto him in visions, speak to him in dreams. And if it comes to pass, then I--that's Me speaking." Sure, God ain't going to lie. You know He can't lie there's nothing in Him to lie. He's the Fountain of all purity, all truth, is God. So it can't be a lie come from God. He's perfect, pure.''<ref>THE SIGNS OF HIS COMING CLEVELAND TN SATURDAY 62-0407</ref>

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The Serpent's Seed

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=A summary of William Branham's view of the Serpent's Seed=
William Branham taught a version of the original sin that was highly unorthodox, and which is referred to by his followers as the '''"serpent's seed"''' or '''"serpent seed"''' doctrine. It requires reading into the scripture something that is not evident in a plain reading of the text. William Branham's first pastor was [[Roy Davis]], who was a high ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The Serpent's Seed doctrine has clear racist origins.

This doctrine is comprised of the following related beliefs:

#The original sin in the Garden of Eden was not eating a fruit, it was a sexual sin;
#Eve's sin was not disobedience, but sexual intercourse;
#The serpent was an upright beast, effectively the "missing link";
#Cain and Abel were maternal non-identical twins:
##Cain was the son of Eve and the serpent; and
##Abel was the son of Eve and Adam.

The serpent's seed doctrine is based on a few scriptures that can be used in isolation to support a position that is not supportable when viewed in the context of ALL scripture. This doctrine also requires that you accept a number of beliefs as outlined below that you may not be aware are part of this doctrine. In our view, these beliefs eventually lead to the rejection of the Bible as the true, inspired, word of God.

:''“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness...”<ref>2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)</ref> 
 

=Does the New Testament Teach the Serpent's Seed doctrine?=

The New Testament does not support William Branham's doctrine of the Serpent's Seed for the following reasons:

#The New Testament contains no explicit reference to the serpent having sex with Eve.
#Acts 17:26 states that all men sprang from one man, Adam, and not two (Adam and the Serpent).
#2 Cor. 11:2-3 does not state that the serpent had sex with Eve. While it is possible to read that into the text, that is not what the text says.
#Rom. 5:12 tells us that sin entered into the world through Adam, not through Eve.

==2 Corinthians 11:2-3==

The KJV states:

:''For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, '''as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty''', so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

From the wording, message followers argue that this demonstrates that while Christians need to avoid having their minds corrupted, Eve experienced a physical corruption. But is that what the passage actually states?

Let us look at a couple of other translations:

:NASB - ''For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid that, '''as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness''', your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.<ref>New American Standard Bible, 1995 Edition: Paragraph Version (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

:NIV -''I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that '''just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning''', your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

:CEB - ''I’m deeply concerned about you with the same concern that God has. As your father, I promised you in marriage to one husband. I promised to present you as an innocent virgin to Christ himself. But I’m afraid that '''your minds might be seduced in the same way as the snake deceived Eve with his devious tricks'''. You might be unable to focus completely on a genuine and innocent commitment to Christ.<ref>Common English Bible (Nashville, TN: Common English Bible, 2011), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

Does this passage state that the relationship between Eve and Satan was physical? Such an interpretation reads into the text more than it actually says. A common way that scripture is misinterpreted is when we draw wrong conclusions from the text by reading into the text what isn’t there. What we need to do is draw out from the text only what is there.<ref>James B. Williams and Randolph Shaylor, eds., God’s Word in Our Hands: The Bible Preserved for Us (Greenville, SC; Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ambassador Emerald International, 2003), 366.</ref>

The sole characteristic of the serpent mentioned by Paul is his deviousness. It was by his words that the serpent deceived her in the Genesis account, a point Paul implies in that it is by what the enemies of the Gospel preach that the Corinthians are led astray. This viewpoint is supported in a closely parallel passage where Paul writes of “those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned … By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people … The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet” (Rom 16:17–18, 20). The references in 2 Cor 11:3 and Rom 16:18, 20 to

:(1) “the serpent” (i.e., Satan—v. 14),

:(2) “crush Satan,” and

:(3) “deceive” tie both passages back to Genesis 2–3 and to each other.

Paul sees words — erroneous in content but smooth of delivery — as Satan’s instrument to seduce the church from her loyalty to Christ.<ref>Paul Barnett, The Second Epistle to the Corinthians, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1997), 501–502. </ref>

==Acts 17:26==

The KJV states that God ''"hath made of '''one blood''' all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth."''<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Acts 17:26</ref>

Translations into modern English also make it very clear:

:''And '''he made from one man every nation''' of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.<ref> Acts 17:26 - The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.</ref>

:''And '''He made from one [common origin, one source, one blood] all nations of men''' to settle on the face of the earth, having definitely determined [their] allotted periods of time and the fixed boundaries of their habitation (their settlements, lands, and abodes)... <ref> Acts 17:26 (Amplified Bible, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation</ref>

:'''''From one man''' he made '''every nation living on the entire surface of the earth''', and he fixed the limits of their territories and the periods when they would flourish.<ref>David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Hadashah (New Testament), 1st ed. (Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications, 1998), Ac 17:26.</ref>

The Serpent seed doctrine requires that a person reject Acts 17:26 because it requires the belief that the serpent injected his blood into the human race. That's 2 bloods, not one. That's two origins not one, and two sources, not one.

This is also another case where William Branham can't keep his doctrines straight. He said:

:''If you were a--a Chinese or a colored man or whoever it is, that God made of one blood of all men. But, you know, they put a speck of animal blood in you it would kill you? And no animal can take... use one another's blood, from one specie to another. See how God made us? '''We never come from animal'''; We come from God. God made us in His own Image. <ref>THE.SECOND.COMING_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 55-0220A</ref>

But then he completely goes against this when he states:

:''It wasn't apples that Adam and Eve ate; it was absolutely sexual things that had separated them and divided them, and knowing that they become...?... and through the blood of Adam, and '''through the blood of the serpent that had started this'''... <ref>QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.HEBREWS.3_ JEFF.IN 57-1006</ref>

The problem is that anyone plagued by [[Cognitive Dissonance]] can't see this.

==Romans 5:12==

William Branham stated:

:That’s what You give Adam and Eve, in the garden of Eden, to defeat the enemy. And when Eve reasoned with It, and projected reasons with the Word, it fell apart, and sin entered.<ref>William Branham, 63-0123 - Identification, para. 276</ref>

But Paul said that "as by '''one man''' sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men..."<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Rom 5:12.</ref>

That one man was Adam, not Cain. Not one woman, not one serpent. One man - Adam.

:''So then, just as sin entered the world through '''one man''' and death through sin, and so death spread to all people.<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2006), Rom 5:12.</ref>

:''Sin came into the world through '''one man''', and his sin brought death with it. As a result, death has spread to the whole human race because everyone has sinned.<ref>American Bible Society, The Holy Bible: The Good News Translation, 2nd ed. (New York: American Bible Society, 1992), Ro 5:12.</ref>

If you believe the Serpent's seed is physical, you deny the truth of Romans 5:12

=Does the Old Testament Teach the Serpent's Seed doctrine?=

The Old Testament does not support William Branham's doctrine of the Serpent's Seed for the following reasons:

#The Old Testament does not state that the serpent had sex with Eve.
#The doctrine of the Serpent's Seed requires you to believe that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was actually Satan's tree or Satan himself. The Bible does not teach this.
#The Serpent's Seed doctrine requires you to believe that the Bible is incorrect when it states in Gen 3:6 that "the tree was good for food."
#The Serpent's Seed doctrine requires you to believe that Eve committed adultery and sinned against her husband. The Bible does not teach this.
#This teaching requires you to believe that Adam watched his wife have sex with the serpent.
#Gen. 4:1 indicates that Adam did not have sex with his wife until after they were out of the garden.
#The Bible does not state that Cain and Abel were twins with different fathers.
#If Adam's since was also sexual, why was the ground cursed for his sake and not his body?

==Was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil really Satan's Tree?==

William Branham stated:

:''Notice, the children of obedience, and disobedience, has nothing in common. The disobedience worship their god. "Oh," they say, "we believe the Bible." Yes, it's a mixed tree. See, they add the world and knowledge to It. '''Satan's tree''', mixed; see, '''she took from Satan's tree''', good and evil. "Oh, we believe the Word." Sure, but not all of It. Eve believed the Word, too, but let--'''let Satan take his tree''' and pervert It a little bit. That's what it is.<ref>THE.GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0801M</ref>

How could the tree be Satan's tree when God created it?

==Or is the tree Satan himself?==

William Branham taught that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was Satan or the serpent:

:''The Bread of Life was from the Tree of Life, where they was eating, from the garden of Eden. He was the Tree of Life. Now, if the Tree of Life was a Person, then '''the tree of knowledge was a person. Now, say the serpent didn't have a seed'''. If life come by man, death come by the woman. All right, she was the tree of death. <ref>THE.EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 131-183 MONDAY_ 60-1205</ref>

:''Now that we have come this far, let me try to crystallize your thinking on this subject so you can see the necessity of our going into the 'serpent seed doctrine' as I have. We start with the fact that there were TWO trees in the midst of the garden. The Tree of Life was Jesus. '''The other tree is definitely Satan''' because of what came forth of the fruit of that tree. Now then, we know that both of those trees had a relationship to man or they would never have been placed there. <ref>EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.3</ref>

According to 1 Timothy 2:14, Adam was not deceived. Serpent seed theology interprets Eve eating the fruit as actually having sex with the serpent, a male. Since Adam also ate of this fruit, accepting this theory is to make the claim that '''Adam purposely committed a homosexual act with the serpent'''. William Branham's followers suggest that Adam eating of the fruit was a sex act with Eve. But if the tree was Satan or the serpent, wouldn't the fruit have to be the same thing that Eve participated in? Sex with the serpent?

If Eve was the one who the serpent had sex with, was it not Eve who offered Adam the fruit? Note the same fruit and the same tree. If the fruit is sex with the serpent, then the fruit stays sex with the serpent.

How could a man having sex with his own wife be sin? Does that make any sense?

Obviously, this is nonsense - which is why message believers are quick to reject this obvious conclusion, and why serpent seed is clearly a false doctrine.

If Serpent's Seed is wrong, accepting it means you are bearing false witness against Adam in that he had sex with the serpent.

==Did Eve commit adultery?==

As mentioned above, Serpent's Seed teaches that Eve had sex with the serpent. Since she was married, it would mean that she committed adultery. The Bible does not teach that.

If the Serpent's Seed doctrine is wrong, it constitutes bearing false witness against Eve.

If Eve committed adultery, don't you think that the Bible would have just come out and said it?

==What about the other trees?==

The Bible states in Genesis 2:15-17 and Genesis 3:1-7:

:'' The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, '''but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat''', for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

:''He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ge 2:15–17, 3:1–7</ref>

What are we supposed to think about the conversation with the serpent in which he asked Eve whether all the trees were off-limits and she replied that they were all allowed to be eaten from except That one?

If eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was actually a sex act with the serpent, what was eating of the other trees?

Could Adam and Eve have sex with every tree (other animals?) except the serpent?

Really?

==Did Adam watch his wife have sex with the serpent?==

The KJV states in Genesis 3:6 that:

:''...she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband '''with her'''; and he did eat. <ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Genesis 3:6</ref>

'''What does the phrase "with her" mean?'''

Let's look at a couple of other Bible translations:

:''...she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband '''who was with her''', and he ate. <ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version, Genesis 3:6 (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001).</ref>

:''...she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband '''who was with her''', and he ate it.<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Genesis 3:6 (Biblical Studies Press, 2006).</ref>

:''Then she gave some to her husband, '''who was with her''', and he ate it, too.<ref>Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation, 3rd ed., Genesis 3:6 (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2007).</ref>

Are we to believe that Adam watched his wife and the serpent get it on while he watched? That is effectively what William Branham taught if you read the Bible as it is written. Of course, if the serpent seed doctrine is wrong, then this passage makes a lot more sense.

==Was Cain Was The Son of the Serpent?==

Genesis 4:1 is clear that Adam is Cain’s father:

:KJV - ''And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 4:1–2.</ref>

:ESV - ''Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ge 4:1.</ref>

:NET - ''Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created a man just as the LORD did!”<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Ge 4:1.</ref>

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine completely ignores or dismisses this verse as false in order to uphold their theory. William Branham said that this was proved by the fact that the Bible says that [[Enoch and Noah#The Seventh from Adam|Enoch was the seventh from Adam]]. But if you [[Enoch and Noah#The Seventh from Adam|read our article on the subject]], you will realize that William Branham again twisted scripture to his own ends.

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine says this verse is 100% false, forcing you to deny another portion of scripture and call God a liar.

==Cain Was Conceived Inside of The Garden==

According to the Serpent’s Seed doctrine, Cain was conceived inside of the Garden when Adam and Eve had sex with the Serpent. However, as we read above, Genesis 4:1 is clear that Adam and Eve were outside of the garden when Cain was conceived. The Serpent’s Seed doctrine says this is 100% false, forcing you to deny another portion of scripture and call the Holy Spirit a liar.

==Cain Is Not In Adam’s Genealogy==

Again, Genesis 4:1 is clear that Adam is Cain’s father. If you read all of Genesis 4, the rest of Cain’s genealogy is there. This is another belief that makes you deny a portion of scripture.

==William Branham's KKK connection==
[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Roy_Davis#Roy_Davis_and_the_KKK Roy E. Davis] was William Branham's first pastor. He was also a member of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK). One of the doctrines of the KKK is Serpent Seed. It justifies racial hatred and abuse, as well as the oppression of women. William Branham learned this doctrine from Roy Davis, and it was reinforced in his family by his mother-in-law.

=How did the seed of the serpent get through the flood?=

William Branham taught that Ham was of the seed of the serpent:

:''For instance, many of them, like how that formal religion began in Cain. How it come on out and '''come down through the sons of Noah, Ham.''' Out of Ham, he had Nimrod. Nimrod built the tower of Babel. Babel comes on down through King Nebuchadnezzar’s time, and on out into Revelation, Babylon. '''How that little seed started way back there at the east side of the gates of Eden''', coming on down, winding out. All kinds of cults and everything started back there, winding themselves out to the end.<ref>William Branham, 53-0328 - Israel And The Church #4, para. 24</ref>

:''Now, the church, the—the nominal believers like Lot, he’s going through the tribulation period (see?) and be saved as if it was by fire. Noah went through the tribulation period, carried above it, come out with '''Ham who polluted the earth again.''' See? Lot came out, his own daughters slept with him, and had children by his own daughters. See? But Abraham brought forth the Royal Seed, brought forth the Seed of the promise. Enoch went to glory in the rapture, just took a walk and went home. He never went through the tribulation period. You see?<ref>William Branham, 64-0823E - Questions And Answers #2, para. 230</ref>

But this makes no sense! '''If Shem, Ham and Japheth were brothers of the same mother and father, how could Ham be of the wicked one, genetically different from his brothers?
'''

=Logic Problems=

There are quite a few logical problems when it comes to accepting the the Serpent’s Seed doctrine teachings. There are no rules when it comes to interpreting scripture, so they interpret whatever they want, however they want.

==Only some things are symbolic?==

Why is the fruit and the tree symbolic and everything else in Genesis is real?

Why don't message followers see the story of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Noah, Enoch, or Moses as allegories? Are they not all stories, which Genesis holds as a reliable accurate testimony, of real literal events of the history of the world, mankind and it's fall and beginning stages of redemption? Why not see Joseph's coat of many colors as not a real coat, but merely a symbol? How about Abraham as he walked up that proverberial mountain to sacrifice his son on that 'altar'?

Do you see the folly in adding or subtracting from God's revelation by a novel interpretation that allows for many other novel doctrines to slip into the Bible? There is no consistency of interpretation within the Christian faith when you allow for any chapter of Genesis, which is literal history, to be interpreted as an allegory. Why? Because it damages the literal meaning of the text. God's revelation is on the pages of scripture, not between the lines. God's revelation to us is His written Word.

If don't believe God's Word when it states that Adam and Eve ate a literal fruit, then you effectively doubt the Word of God. You are effectively asking, ''"Did God really say?"''

One problem with accepting the serpent seed doctrine stems from how we view 'symbols' and their covenantal relationship between God and man.

The 'serpent seed doctrine' is inconsistent with the redemptive framework of scripture. Was it not the ark of the covenant, a literal ark, which when touched outside of the limits of God's commands killed the man who touched it? Is not the actual rainbow in the sky a covenant promise to humanity? There are numerous examples of real physical 'relics' or 'symbols' which are not concealed forms of truth. Rather they are carriers of very real blessings or curses.

When God makes vows to mankind in the Old Testament, there were very real physical objects involved. So why is it so problematic that God chose to use literal trees and fruits to carry covenantal blessings or curses which carried very real physical and spiritual consequences?

Are you going to question whether or not Samson's hair really had anything to do with the loss of his supernatural strength? We must realize that, as Christians, we need to be consistent in our defense of scripture and we should never make arguments from the grounds of plausibility.

So if you stand upon an allegorical interpretation, then why not be consistent and interpret the rest of Genesis the same way? Whose standard are you using to interpret Genesis 3 to 5? If the Bible itself does not guide us to interpret Genesis that way, but you claim your authority comes from William Branham, then you are standing on the same foundation as Catholics do - namely, that they need an external authority to truly know how to understand the scriptures.

==Nothing's real?==

If the tree of good and evil was an act and not an actual tree, why did God place the angel to guard the garden of Eden so that Adam and Eve wouldn't touch the tree of life?

Would that not have been a spiritual act or revelation also?

==The problem with sinful genes==

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine teaches that the serpent passed his sinful genes down to Cain, which is why he murdered Abel. But the Bible states in Romans 5:19:

:''For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.<ref>Romans 5:19 (ESV)</ref>

What the Bible really says is that Cain's problems weren't genetic, they were spiritual! They resulted from disobedience.

==If the Tree of Knowledge is Satan, then???==

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine teaches that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was Satan. It also interprets eating from this tree as having sex with the Serpent.

But what about the Tree of Life. Traditionally the Tree of Life is compared to Christ while also being a literal tree. If you follow the Serpent’s Seed, do you also believe that Adam and Eve had permission to have sex with the Tree of Life? Did God put cherubim around the tree to keep Adam and Eve from having sex with the good tree?

These are some of the strange places that this doctrine leads!

==Proverbs 30:20==

The Bible states that:

:''Such is the way of an adulterous woman;
:''She eateth, and wipeth her mouth,
:''And saith, I have done no wickedness.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Pr 30:20.</ref>

Message preachers use this scripture to justify the serpent's seed doctrine by saying that the sexual act is likened to the eating of a fruit.

Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems with this rationale:

#There is NO direct reference to the eating of a fruit and, in particular, the eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What the author of Proverbs has done in the passage is to associate behavior that is out of bounds with eating; depicting a sexual appetite that knows no restraint. In Proverbs 30:14, the act of eating is associated with the persecution of the poor and needy. The fact is that the author of the book of Proverbs uses the metaphor of eating in other situations and not solely to depict the sexual act.<ref>Paul E. Koptak, Proverbs, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003), 661.</ref>
#Wiping her mouth after eating means that the adulteress treats sexual liaisons the same way she does eating: she just finishes up and goes home without a care and certainly without a sense of guilt.<ref>Duane A. Garrett, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, vol. 14, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 241.</ref> Again, the author uses the metaphor of eating to illustrate the woman's attitude and not to make a statement about sex being like eating.
#The whole point of the metaphor is to illustrate the way that this woman thinks of her sin. People look at adultery and state, "That is a terrible thing" and ask, "How can she live with herself?" Yet for her it is no big deal. Yes, the first time she did it, it was probably quite something but no longer. Her conscience has been seared.<ref>Gary Brady, Heavenly Wisdom: Proverbs Simply Explained, Welwyn Commentary Series (Darlington, England: Evangelical Press, 2003), 783.</ref>
#There are other metaphors of eating in the Book of Proverbs that have nothing to do with sex:

:::''...therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Pr 1:31.</ref>

:::''A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: But the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Pr 13:2.</ref>

:::''She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Pr 31:27.</ref>

Based on the above, using Proverbs 30:20 to justify Serpent's Seed is [[Eisegesis|eisegesis]] (which is a common method of interpreting scripture in message circles) and not exegesis<ref>[[Eisigisis]] is the act of reading an understanding, or an opinion into a biblical text, which may or may not be supported or evident by the text itself - in accordance with the person’s own presuppositions, agendas, and/or biases. This is the opposite of exegesis, which means to derive the meaning ‘out of’ the text.</ref>.

==How could the fruit of the tree be sex with Eve when the tree preceded her?==

If the fruit of the tree represented a sexual act with Eve, then how could it have existed before Eve did? It just doesn't make sense.

:''Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not [n]eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”<ref>Genesis 2:15-16 (KJV)</ref>

=Why wasn't Jesus born of sex?=

A message follower asked the following question: '''Why wasn't Jesus born of sex?'''

The reason for asking this question is that message followers think it gives validity to the arguments for the doctrine of the serpent's seed. But this simply isn't true.

The best response to this question, when posed by a message follower, is simply the following question: '''Who was the father of Jesus?'''

Since God the Father does not have a body, how could he have possibly had sex with a woman? It seems logical that if an infinite spiritual being wanted to come to earth as a baby he would simply create a body in the womb of a woman. It is significant that qualities such as those attributed to the Greek gods (like sexuality) are not ascribed to God in the Bible.<ref>Willem VanGemeren, ed., New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1997), 1010.</ref>

=Eve was an after-thought?=

William Branham frequently said of the woman, “She was not part of the original creation. She was a by-product, designed by Satan, to deceive by.” By taking Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 together and by reading them carefully, we can see that this is an error. God created both male and female, one from the dust of the ground and the other from a rib. Both were part of God's creation, which was said to be very good.

=Was the tree of knowledge a fruit tree or something else?=

Genesis 3:6 states

:''So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food...<ref>Genesis 3:6 (ESV)</ref>

What part about being "good for food" makes eating the fruit of the tree a sexual act? This is probably the clearest sign of a false doctrine that there is in the serpent seed doctrine.

This is even clearer in other versions:

:''When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food...<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Gen 3:6 (Biblical Studies Press, 2006).</ref>

:''The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her.<ref>Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation, 3rd ed., Gen 3:6 (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2007).</ref>

==Why was the ground cursed?==

We are asked by message followers the following question: '''If adultery wasn't the original sin, why do you believe God cursed Eve in childbearing specifically?'''

But a similar question could be asked with respect to Adam which is equally as relevant: '''If eating a literal fruit was not the original sin, why was the ground cursed for Adam's sake and why did the ground bear thorns and thistles for him, making it difficult to till the soil?'''

:''To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

::“Cursed is the ground because of you;
::through painful toil you will eat food from it
::all the days of your life.
::It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
::and you will eat the plants of the field.
::By the sweat of your brow
::you will eat your food
::until you return to the ground,
::since from it you were taken;
::for dust you are
::and to dust you will return.”''<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ge 3:17–19.</ref>

=Cain was of the wicked one?=

The Bible states that:

:''Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. <ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 1 Jn 3:12.</ref>

William Branham interprets this as follows:

:''Before Adam ever had carnal knowledge of Eve, the serpent had that knowledge ahead of him. And that one born of it was Cain. '''Cain was of (born of, begotten of) that "Wicked One". I John 3:12.''' The Holy Spirit in John could not in one place call Adam the "Wicked One" (for that is what he would be if he fathered Cain) and in another place call Adam the "Son of God" which he was by creation. Luke 3:38. Cain turned out in character like his father, a bringer of death, a murderer. His utter defiance of God when faced by the Almighty in Genesis 4:5,9,13,14, show him to be absolutely unhuman-like in characteristics, seeming even to surpass any account we have in Scripture concerning a confrontation of Satan by God.<ref>EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.3</ref>

==Does the Bible say that Cain was "born of" the Wicked One?==

But what the apostle John is saying in his epistle is that Cain literally, '''"belonged to the evil one"''', just as Jesus’ opponents in the Fourth Gospel '''“belong to your father, the devil”''' who “was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44), and just as John’s opponents were “the children of the devil” (1 John 3:10).<ref>Thomas F. Johnson, 1, 2, and 3 John, Understanding the Bible Commentary Series (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2011), 80.</ref>

John is not stating that his opponents were genetically of the serpent. Their problem was spiritual, just as Cain's was.

'''The key to really understanding scripture is context.''' Isolating verses and taking them out of context leads to all sorts of interpretational problems.

Heb 11:4 states, ''“By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than did Cain”''; and Jude 10–11 says that those who revile what they do not understand ''“have gone on the path of Cain.”''<ref> Raymond E. Brown, The Epistles of John: Translated, with Introduction, Notes, and Commentary, vol. 30, Anchor Yale Bible (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 443.</ref>

John’s statement that Cain “belonged to the evil one” reflects Jesus’ words regarding those who were trying to murder him: ''“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning”'' (John 8:44). Verse 13 echoes John 15:18–19: “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” There are also a number of lesser references (cf. John 3:7; 5:28, 38).<ref>James Montgomery Boice, The Epistles of John: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2004), 92.</ref>

John's description of Cain as one ‘who belonged to the evil one’ has no parallel in the Genesis account, but in some Jewish texts (e.g., the second-century-b.c. T. Benjamin 7:1–5 and the first- or second-century-a.d. Apocalypse of Abraham 24:3–5) the murder of Abel by his brother Cain is regarded as an act inspired by the devil. The evil character of Cain is universally assumed in both biblical and extrabiblical sources. The apostle John, too, works on this assumption when he adds: ''And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous''. The text of Genesis, while implying that it was because Cain’s actions were evil that his offering was not accepted by the Lord, and that it was because of Abel’s righteous actions that the Lord accepted his offering, does not specify the nature of their respective actions. However, the writer to the Hebrews, reflecting on the text of Genesis 4, notes that: ''‘By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings’'' (Heb 11:4). As far as that writer was concerned, what differentiated Abel from Cain was the former’s faith and, presumably, the latter’s lack of it.<ref>Colin G. Kruse, The Letters of John, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2000), 133–134.</ref>

Jesus said they (the religious leaders) were of their father, the devil. He didn't mean this genetically, and neither was the apostle john referring to Cain's genes.

:''“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.” – 2 Timothy 3:1-8

=Watch out for the lie!=

A number of Serpent Seed believers end up mocking any idea that man fell "simply" for taking and eating of the fruit of the tree, resorting to the apologetics of embarrassment - '''"Are you serious? You believe that??"'''

What they are in essence asking - what William Branham in essence taught - was, '''"Did God ''really'' say that?"''' Following the question with the declaration, "God really didn't say that."

It has an all too familiar ring to it... doesn't it?

The challenge followed by the lie.

This is a spiritual war, and the one behind the serpent seed lie is the devil, who became the father of all lies in that garden moment, with the planting of the "unseed", the lie that produced death for the first time in the history of the universe. He is the one with the audacity to snuggle up next to the truth and tell you the truth is the lie and the lie is the truth.

'''He's been doing it from the beginning.'''

=Did first-century Jews believe the Serpent's Seed doctrine?=

Message believers are quick to point to the fact that there is some Jewish fiction and rabbinical speculation that regarded the fall of Eve as a sexual sin. The suggestion that they cast light on Paul’s reference to Eve and that Paul might at least have had them in mind, since he pictures the Corinthians as a pure virgin who may not be found pure at her presentation to her bridegroom, is a distortion of the text. There is nothing sexy in Paul’s words. Eve was a married woman and not a virgin. The notion of the devil and of devils and evil angels having sexual intercourse with women is monstrous and found its ugliest form in the fiction of the incubus and the succubus in the days of the witchcraft craze. We mention this aberration only because it still appears in books.<ref>R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Paul’s First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1963), 1239.</ref>

Reading 2 Cor. 11:3 as saying that the serpent sexually seduced Eve, seems to be reading biases into the text.<ref>Robert James Utley, How It All Began: Genesis 1–11, vol. Vol. 1A, Study Guide Commentary Series (Marshall, Texas: Bible Lessons International, 2001), 59.</ref> It is also contrary to Titus 1:15 - 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.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Tt 1:15.</ref>

The serpent’s seduction of Eve was not sexual, but rather a beguiling of the mind by denying the truth of what God had said. The story of Eve aptly depicts the sort of danger the Corinthians faced, i.e. that their minds might be led astray. 4 Paul spells out the exact nature of the seduction he fears: the easy acceptance by the Corinthians of a different Jesus, a different spirit and a different gospel from those they received through his preaching. Paul does not tell us in what way they differed.<ref>D. A. Carson, R. T. France, et al., eds., New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition, 4th ed. (Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, 1994), 2 Co 11:1–6.</ref>

With the expression “just as the snake deceived Eve by his cunning” Paul states a precedent that informs his fear. It would appear that he intends his hearers to recognize three parallels between the record of Eve’s temptation by the snake in Gen. 3:1–13 and the situation he himself faced in Corinth.

First, just as Eve was deceived in her thinking (Gen. 3:1–6) and so lost her innocence (Gen. 3:7),54 so too the Corinthian church was at risk of being deluded in thought (φθαρῇ τὰ νοήματα ὑμῶν) and so losing her virginity (ἀπὸ … τῆς ἁγνότητος). In response to God’s inquiry, “What is this you have done?” Eve declares, “The snake deceived me (ὁ ὄφις ἠπάτησέν με, LXX)” (Gen. 3:13). As in 1 Tim. 2:14, Paul uses the compound verb ἐξηπάτησεν, where the prefix ἐκ- points to “successful deceit” (Moulton and Howard 311) or, more probably, to complete deception.

With the movement from παρθένον ἁγνήν (v. 1) to ἁγιότητος (v. 2) Paul is clearly developing the betrothal-marriage analogy further, but he may also be introducing a new analogy, that of “the church as in some sense the last Eve, related to Christ in the same way that Eve was related to Adam — derived from him, existing for his sake, and for him only.”

Now although the verb ἐξαπατάω, “I turn (someone) away from the right road by deceit” (Zerwick, Analysis 409), could be rendered “entice” or “lure,” it need not refer to sexual seduction. For Paul, the means of the deceit was not lust, but cunning (ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ αὐτοῦ), and the word νοήματα, not σώματα, is the subject of φθαρῇ. We need not go outside Genesis 3 to explain the expression ὁ ὄφις ἐξηπάτησεν Εὕαν.<ref>
Murray J. Harris, The Second Epistle to the Corinthians: a Commentary on the Greek Text, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2005), 740–741.</ref>

=Are you a woman who believes the Serpent' Seed doctrine?=

If you are a woman who believes the serpent seed doctrine, there are a few extra statements by William Branham that should concern you.

==Did Adam and Eve wear clothes before the fall?==

First, William Branham taught that Eve had clothes in the Garden of Eden before the fall.
:''Now notice, it was Eve that led Adam to the wrong, and it was the woman that took off her clothes before her Adam took off his. See?'' <ref> William Branham, August 29, 1965, Satan’s Eden </ref>

==Was Eve actually the tree and not Satan or the serpent?==

Second, William Branham mentioned a number of times that Eve was the Tree of Death. This means that the serpent was simply the "can opener" that Satan used to loose his perverted creation, Eve the tree, on innocent Adam.

:''If Life come by Man, death come by the woman. All right, s'''he was the tree of death'''.’’ <ref> William Branham, December 5, 1960, The Ephesian Church Age </ref>

:''Now you can probably well understand what I've been hitting at. By her beauty and her sex control, '''her shape that was given to her by Satan''', the by-product that Satan did, she is sent to deceive sons of God. And she can sway more of them to hell than any other instrument Satan has got. That's exactly right.'' <ref> William Branham, February, 21, 1965, Marriage and Divorce </ref>

:''"Oh," you say, "she was a tree?" Sure. "Well, they said, ''''Thou shall not take of this tree'''.' God said, in Genesis back there, 'Thou shall not take of this tree.'" Well '''the woman is the tree.''' She is the fruit tree. You're the fruit of your mother. The fruit of the womb is you. That's right. And then the fruit of the Tree of Life, that was in the garden of Eden, is Christ. Through the woman come death;'' <ref> William Branham, February, 21, 1965, Marriage and Divorce </ref>

:''Eve, is Satan's queen. See, Satan, the serpent, got to Eve before Adam got to her. See? That's right. So he beguiled her, see; so '''Satan, the serpent, was the husband of Eve''' before Adam ever knew. <ref> William Branham, August 29, 1965, Satan’s Eden </ref>

:'''''The other tree is definitely Satan''' because of what came forth of the fruit of that tree. Now then, we know that both of those trees had a relationship to man or they would never have been placed there.’’ <ref> The Ephesian Church Age Book, William Branham </ref>

So if you are a woman, and you believe William Branham, you are a tree of death.

Thankfully, the power of this false doctrine is obliterated by the words of the Apostle Paul, who wrote:

:''There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.'' (Galatians 3: 28)

=What about Eve being the mother of all living?=

Message followers often point to Genesis 3:20 in support of the Serpent's Seed doctrine:

:''And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 3:20.</ref>

The argument is that Eve is called the mother of all living but Adam is not called the father of all living, thereby allowing for the existence of the seed of the serpent in humanity. '''Is this what the passage is really saying?'''

The place to begin in attempting to understand this verse is with the fact that “Eve” was Adam’s name for his wife and not God’s name for Adam’s wife. We are so used to speaking of Adam and Eve that we generally fail to notice that not once in the story of the creation and the fall, up to this point, has Adam’s wife been called Eve. She has been called a “female” (Gen. 1:27), a “helper suitable” for Adam (Gen. 2:18), a “woman” (Gen. 2:22, 23), a “wife” (Gen. 2:24, 25; 3:8). But those are all descriptive or generic terms, not names. We do not find the name “Eve.”

This does not mean that God did not name the woman, however. He did.

But the name God gave her is not found in these chapters. It is found in Genesis chapter 5. There, in verses 1 and 2, we read, “When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them ‘man’ [or ‘Adam,’ because ‘Adam’ means man].” In other words, the name that God gave the woman was “man” or “Adam,” which was the name of her husband.

God called the woman “Adam.” But that immediately raises the question, “Why, if God called Eve ‘Adam,’ did Adam call Eve ‘Eve’?” The answer is not that Adam was contradicting God or changing the name of his wife on his own authority. Her name remained “Adam.” What Adam was actually doing was giving Eve a title. For “Eve” is a title; it means “life” in the sense of being a “life-giver.” We would say “mother.” The text says, “Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.”

It is sometimes the case in studying the Bible that the solution to one problem introduces another—that is what makes the study of the Bible so fascinating—and that is precisely what happens here. Yet it is at this point that we really come to the heart of the text. The problem is that, although Adam called his wife’s name Eve, meaning “life-giver” or “mother,” Eve was not a mother. In fact, if we read this and the next chapter closely, we have reason to believe that she had not even conceived. Her first child was Cain, and we are told not only of the birth but also the conception of Cain in Genesis chapter 4: “Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain” (Gen. 4:1). '''So we ask: Why did Adam name his wife “mother” when she was not yet a mother and, in fact, had not even become pregnant?'''

There is only one answer to that question, and it comes from the context. Five verses before this Adam and Eve had heard the judgment of God against Satan in which God said, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel” (Gen. 3:15). This verse mentioned the woman’s offspring and said flatly that her seed would crush the head of Satan.

God had said that the punishment for eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was death. Adam and Eve had seen the judgment of God against Satan. Satan had appeared to them in the guise of the serpent, which was most assuredly not the slithering, lowly creature we know as a snake today. The Hebrew word translated “serpent” in Genesis 3:1 is nachash, which in its early and primary use probably meant “a shining one” (Gesenius). The serpent stood upright and was perhaps the most glorious of all God’s creatures. Suddenly, however, Adam and Eve heard God’s judgment on Satan and saw this beautiful animal turn into a snake and slide away into the bushes. They must have been paralyzed with fear. They had seen the serpent’s judgment, and they were next. What would God do to them? Would they become snakes also? Would they die?

As they thought about this and heard the greatly reduced words of the judgment of God on themselves, the deliberately hopeful words contained in God’s reference to the woman’s offspring must have gotten through. The fact that Eve would have offspring was itself significant. Since she had not yet given birth it meant that she would not die physically, at least not then. Since she had not yet conceived it meant that Adam would not die either (the conception of Cain comes in Genesis 4:1). Moreover, there was the nature of the one to come. He would be a deliverer. He would crush the head of Satan. This was their hope. God had said that Eve would give birth to one who in some manner would be the deliverer. So when Adam named his wife Eve, mother, she not even being pregnant, it was an act of faith, by which he testified to his belief that God would keep his promise and that the deliverer would come.

Genesis 3:20 is not the only place in Genesis that would lead us to think this way. When Eve finally conceived (Gen. 4:1) and brought forth Cain, both she and Adam thought that he was the deliverer. They thought Cain was Jesus, which is why they named him “Cain,” meaning “brought forth” or “acquired.” In colloquial language we would say, “I’ve got him” or “Here he is.” Indeed, when we get to chapter 4, I am going to show that Eve’s words were even stronger than this. For she did not merely say, “I have brought forth [there is the meaning of ‘Cain’] a man,” that is, the man who was promised. She said (so I believe), “I have brought forth a man, even Jehovah [the ‘Redeemer’].”

We know, of course, that Eve and Adam were mistaken. They thought they had brought forth the deliverer when actually they had brought forth a murderer, for Cain killed his brother Abel. But up to this point their perceptions were right. God had promised a deliverer, and they believed him, showing their belief by the naming of Eve by Adam and Cain by Eve. By this they showed that they were staking their hope on the word of God.<ref>James Montgomery Boice, Genesis: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998), 228–233.</ref>

'''So the argument of message followers is false.''' Genesis 3:20 does not support the argument that there is special significant in Eve being called the mother of all living but Adam not being called the father of all living, They miss the true meaning of the passage because they read it with a presupposed meaning in view and not the actual words of the passage.

=Who was the seed of the woman?=

''The LORD God said to the serpent,

:''“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ge 3:14–15.</ref>

Imagine a group of people, a family, and into the midst of them comes slithering as fast as it can (and you know how fast they can come) a snake, a venomous snake, a poisonous snake, coming right at them. One man goes after the snake, and he begins to stomp on it. Finally he crushes the head and saves the family, but only after, in the process, the snake bites him, the poison goes into him, and he dies. That’s the picture.

What God is saying is - the serpent is not just a snake but is Satan. It represents evil. God is saying that an offspring of Eve, the seed of the woman, a human being, is going to destroy sin and death itself but get a fatal wound in the process. A human being is going to come, and he’s going to destroy sin and death, and in the process lose his life. I wonder who that could be...

The first Adam should have done something like that, not just stood there and let the Serpent destroy his family. The first Adam should have jumped on the snake or stomped on the snake or whatever. But the second Adam will. It’s Jesus Christ. Keep this in mind. In Romans 4 Paul says, “In Christ your sins are covered.” In Romans 4 Paul says, “Blessed is the one whose sin is covered. Blessed is the one to whom God does not impute sin.”

In the whole history of the world, there was only one human being that was only an offspring of a woman.

:''Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Is 7:14.</ref>

This is the prophecy of the coming of Jesus Christ, and what Jesus Christ is going to do is he is going to destroy all the works of the Serpent.

If you go to Revelation 12, where it talks about the Serpent, the Dragon, Satan, and his seed, and the woman and her seed, God is not saying, “From now on, snakes and people will hate each other.” That’s not what he’s saying. “This is how the serpent lost his legs and why snakes and people hate each other.” No.

What it’s talking about is the human race will have only two kinds of people in it. There will be people who follow Satan’s advice in the garden and there will be people who follow the Lord. When it says here, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and hers,” that can’t mean it’s putting hatred in the snake. The snake already hates the woman. It can’t mean it’s putting hatred and enmity in the children of the snake, the followers of the snake, because they already hate God.

What is it saying? The first step of salvation is when God puts in you a hatred for Satan and all his ways. You only begin to move out of moralism and legalism, where you just hate the consequences of bad behavior but you’re afraid and proud, and you move into the position where you actually begin to hate sin.<ref>Timothy J. Keller, The Timothy Keller Sermon Archive (New York City: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2013).</ref>

==Interpretive issues==

The divinely ordained hostility that takes place between the serpent’s seed and the seed of the woman. In the vast majority of cases where the Hebrew word "zeraʿ" (lit., “seed”) is used, it refers to an immediate offspring rather than a distant descendant. For example, Seth is Eve’s “other seed” (Genesis 4:25); Abram laments that he is still without seed (Genesis 15:3); Lot’s daughters want to bear their father’s seed (Genesis 19:32, 34); Ishmael is Abraham’s seed (Genesis 21:13); Samuel is Hannah’s seed (1 Sam. 1:11; 2:20); Solomon is David’s seed (2 Sam. 7:12). This observation alone should caution us about seeing too quickly a clear-cut reference here to some remote individual.

Similarly, one should not force an interpretation on her offspring that the expression cannot bear. The Septuagint translates the Hebrew word "zarʿāh" (lit., “her seed”) as spérmatos autḗs (lit., “her seed”). Bbt to read the Septuagint as “her sperm” in order to see a hint here of the virgin birth of this seed (the absence of a sperm-supplying father) is farfetched indeed. If for no other reason, Gen. 4:25 would invalidate that proposal, for here Eve says that God has given her “another seed,” and certainly Seth was not born of a virgin!

However, Genesis 3:15 is good news as the words of God to the woman and the man include expressions both of divine grace and of divine judgment. Yes, there will be pain for Eve, but she is promised children. Sterility will not be one of her problems. Yes, there will be frustration for Adam because of intractable soil, but he will eat and not starve to death.

One may surmise, therefore, that God’s speech to the serpent contains both judgment and promise. Indeed, the serpent is banned and he becomes a crawler. He is under judgment. The promise is that some unspecified member(s) of the human race will one day lash out against this serpent’s seed. More than a change in the serpent’s position is involved here — it is now a question of his existence.

Would this individual, or these individuals, be among the kings of Israel and Judah who are the “offspring” of their father (2 Sam. 7:12; Ps. 89:4), who “crush” their enemies (Ps. 89:23) “under their feet” (2 Sam. 22:39), so that these enemies “lick the dust” (Ps. 72:9)? Later revelations will state that it is Jesus who reigns until he puts all his enemies under his feet (1 Cor. 15:25).<ref>Victor P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1–17, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1990), 198–200.</ref>

=Genetic arguments=

William Branham and followers of the message are "young earth" proponents, that is, the earth is approximately 6,000 years old. Therefore, the biblical timeline they use is approximately as follows:

*Creation: ~4004 BC (Ussher chronology, standard with youn earth theology).
*Flood: ~2348 BC.
*Pre-Flood period: roughly the first 1,656 years of human history.

Message followers believe the pre-Flood earth was populated with two distinct bloodlines:

*Godly Sethites (“sons of God,” carrying the divine seed).
*Vast numbers of serpent-seed Cainites (“daughters of men,” literal hybrid offspring of the serpent-beast + Eve).

These Cainites allegedly built cities, invented metallurgy, music, etc., and were numerous enough that their intermarriage with Sethites provoked the Flood.

==Ancient DNA Evidence from the “Pre-Flood” Window==
We now have thousands of high-quality ancient human genomes sequenced from periods that fall squarely before 2348 BC on the biblical timeline:

*Neolithic and Chalcolithic samples from the Levant, Anatolia, and Europe (~10,000–4000 BC).
*Early Bronze Age samples from the ancient Near East (~3500–2500 BC).
*Specific examples include genomes from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pottery Neolithic, and Intermediate Bronze Age in the very region where Cain’s descendants supposedly lived and built cities (Mesopotamia/Levant).

All of these pre-“Flood” individuals carry:

*Y-chromosome haplogroups that are direct ancestors of modern human Y-DNA (e.g., E, J, G branches).
*mtDNA haplogroups that are direct ancestors of modern human mtDNA (e.g., H, U, K, etc.).

Every single one fits perfectly into the single, continuous human phylogenetic tree we see today. There is zero trace of a second, highly divergent paternal lineage that a literal serpent-beast fathering Cain would have introduced. No “beast-of-the-field” Y-DNA, no hybrid markers, no genetic cluster that looks non-human or even slightly outside normal Homo sapiens variation.Why This Directly Contradicts Serpent Seed

===Expected signature is missing===
If even a small fraction of the pre-Flood population were literal serpent-seed hybrids (as the doctrine claims), their Y-chromosomes would form a completely separate branch — just as Neanderthal or Denisovan admixture is still detectable today as distinct segments in non-African genomes. We have sequenced enough pre-Flood-era individuals that we should have sampled both bloodlines. We have not.

==Genetic continuity across the Flood date==

Ancient DNA from the Levant shows smooth genetic continuity through ~2500–2000 BC. There is no sudden population replacement or extreme bottleneck that would match “only Noah’s eight people survived.” The data simply do not support a global wipe-out followed by repopulation from one family.
No second bloodline anywhere in the record.

The entire ancient DNA dataset (now >10,000 genomes worldwide) shows one single origin for all modern and ancient humans — exactly as predicted by standard genetics, and exactly as your earlier point about Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve already established. Serpent seed requires a second root; the data show only one.

'''Bottom Line:''' Even if we grant the strict young-earth timeline that Branham used, the ancient DNA record from the pre-Flood era is genetically identical in structure to modern humans. All sequenced individuals belong to the same unbroken paternal and maternal lines we carry today. There is no room left for a literal serpent-seed bloodline that was supposedly numerous, city-building, and intermarrying right up until the Flood.

The serpent-seed doctrine is not only incompatible with living human genetics — it is incompatible with the ancient DNA that was actually alive “in the days of Noah.”

=Where did William Branham get this doctrine?=

In 1910, Benjamin Purnell from the House of David in Benton, Michigan published a book entitled, "The Star of Bethlehem" which contained details of the Serpent's Seed doctrines:

:''Adam was placed in a garden eastward in Eden, as keeper and lord of the garden; and Eve, the mother of all living (soul) with him as a helpmeet, and not a helpmate — nor did she help him, except to the grave. The serpent beast was a preacher, called Gadrel. And the proof is, he preached to Eve, and transformed the word of the Lord God, and said to her, Yea hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden, etc.

:''Eve did partake of that which was forbidden, and gave unto her husband, and he did eat; (which was Adam — he representing her spiritual husband, being immortal;) but by this act fell, and received the blood with the tares, which she had received from Gadrel in this act of adultery and fornication... <ref>Purnell, Benjamin F. and Mary S., "The Star of Bethlehem", Benton Harbor, MI, 1910, pp.191 & 308)</ref>

We know by William Branham's own admission that he preached at The House of David. is this where he got his doctrine of the Serpent's Seed?

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=A summary of William Branham's view of the Serpent's Seed=
William Branham taught a version of the original sin that was highly unorthodox, and which is referred to by his followers as the '''"serpent's seed"''' or '''"serpent seed"''' doctrine. It requires reading into the scripture something that is not evident in a plain reading of the text. William Branham's first pastor was [[Roy Davis]], who was a high ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The Serpent's Seed doctrine has clear racist origins.

This doctrine is comprised of the following related beliefs:

#The original sin in the Garden of Eden was not eating a fruit, it was a sexual sin;
#Eve's sin was not disobedience, but sexual intercourse;
#The serpent was an upright beast, effectively the "missing link";
#Cain and Abel were maternal non-identical twins:
##Cain was the son of Eve and the serpent; and
##Abel was the son of Eve and Adam.

The serpent's seed doctrine is based on a few scriptures that can be used in isolation to support a position that is not supportable when viewed in the context of ALL scripture. This doctrine also requires that you accept a number of beliefs as outlined below that you may not be aware are part of this doctrine. In our view, these beliefs eventually lead to the rejection of the Bible as the true, inspired, word of God.

:''“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness...”<ref>2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)</ref> 
 

=Does the New Testament Teach the Serpent's Seed doctrine?=

The New Testament does not support William Branham's doctrine of the Serpent's Seed for the following reasons:

#The New Testament contains no explicit reference to the serpent having sex with Eve.
#Acts 17:26 states that all men sprang from one man, Adam, and not two (Adam and the Serpent).
#2 Cor. 11:2-3 does not state that the serpent had sex with Eve. While it is possible to read that into the text, that is not what the text says.
#Rom. 5:12 tells us that sin entered into the world through Adam, not through Eve.

==2 Corinthians 11:2-3==

The KJV states:

:''For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, '''as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty''', so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

From the wording, message followers argue that this demonstrates that while Christians need to avoid having their minds corrupted, Eve experienced a physical corruption. But is that what the passage actually states?

Let us look at a couple of other translations:

:NASB - ''For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid that, '''as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness''', your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.<ref>New American Standard Bible, 1995 Edition: Paragraph Version (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

:NIV -''I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that '''just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning''', your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

:CEB - ''I’m deeply concerned about you with the same concern that God has. As your father, I promised you in marriage to one husband. I promised to present you as an innocent virgin to Christ himself. But I’m afraid that '''your minds might be seduced in the same way as the snake deceived Eve with his devious tricks'''. You might be unable to focus completely on a genuine and innocent commitment to Christ.<ref>Common English Bible (Nashville, TN: Common English Bible, 2011), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

Does this passage state that the relationship between Eve and Satan was physical? Such an interpretation reads into the text more than it actually says. A common way that scripture is misinterpreted is when we draw wrong conclusions from the text by reading into the text what isn’t there. What we need to do is draw out from the text only what is there.<ref>James B. Williams and Randolph Shaylor, eds., God’s Word in Our Hands: The Bible Preserved for Us (Greenville, SC; Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ambassador Emerald International, 2003), 366.</ref>

The sole characteristic of the serpent mentioned by Paul is his deviousness. It was by his words that the serpent deceived her in the Genesis account, a point Paul implies in that it is by what the enemies of the Gospel preach that the Corinthians are led astray. This viewpoint is supported in a closely parallel passage where Paul writes of “those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned … By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people … The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet” (Rom 16:17–18, 20). The references in 2 Cor 11:3 and Rom 16:18, 20 to

:(1) “the serpent” (i.e., Satan—v. 14),

:(2) “crush Satan,” and

:(3) “deceive” tie both passages back to Genesis 2–3 and to each other.

Paul sees words — erroneous in content but smooth of delivery — as Satan’s instrument to seduce the church from her loyalty to Christ.<ref>Paul Barnett, The Second Epistle to the Corinthians, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1997), 501–502. </ref>

==Acts 17:26==

The KJV states that God ''"hath made of '''one blood''' all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth."''<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Acts 17:26</ref>

Translations into modern English also make it very clear:

:''And '''he made from one man every nation''' of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.<ref> Acts 17:26 - The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.</ref>

:''And '''He made from one [common origin, one source, one blood] all nations of men''' to settle on the face of the earth, having definitely determined [their] allotted periods of time and the fixed boundaries of their habitation (their settlements, lands, and abodes)... <ref> Acts 17:26 (Amplified Bible, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation</ref>

:'''''From one man''' he made '''every nation living on the entire surface of the earth''', and he fixed the limits of their territories and the periods when they would flourish.<ref>David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Hadashah (New Testament), 1st ed. (Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications, 1998), Ac 17:26.</ref>

The Serpent seed doctrine requires that a person reject Acts 17:26 because it requires the belief that the serpent injected his blood into the human race. That's 2 bloods, not one. That's two origins not one, and two sources, not one.

This is also another case where William Branham can't keep his doctrines straight. He said:

:''If you were a--a Chinese or a colored man or whoever it is, that God made of one blood of all men. But, you know, they put a speck of animal blood in you it would kill you? And no animal can take... use one another's blood, from one specie to another. See how God made us? '''We never come from animal'''; We come from God. God made us in His own Image. <ref>THE.SECOND.COMING_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 55-0220A</ref>

But then he completely goes against this when he states:

:''It wasn't apples that Adam and Eve ate; it was absolutely sexual things that had separated them and divided them, and knowing that they become...?... and through the blood of Adam, and '''through the blood of the serpent that had started this'''... <ref>QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.HEBREWS.3_ JEFF.IN 57-1006</ref>

The problem is that anyone plagued by [[Cognitive Dissonance]] can't see this.

==Romans 5:12==

William Branham stated:

:That’s what You give Adam and Eve, in the garden of Eden, to defeat the enemy. And when Eve reasoned with It, and projected reasons with the Word, it fell apart, and sin entered.<ref>William Branham, 63-0123 - Identification, para. 276</ref>

But Paul said that "as by '''one man''' sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men..."<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Rom 5:12.</ref>

That one man was Adam, not Cain. Not one woman, not one serpent. One man - Adam.

:''So then, just as sin entered the world through '''one man''' and death through sin, and so death spread to all people.<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2006), Rom 5:12.</ref>

:''Sin came into the world through '''one man''', and his sin brought death with it. As a result, death has spread to the whole human race because everyone has sinned.<ref>American Bible Society, The Holy Bible: The Good News Translation, 2nd ed. (New York: American Bible Society, 1992), Ro 5:12.</ref>

If you believe the Serpent's seed is physical, you deny the truth of Romans 5:12

=Does the Old Testament Teach the Serpent's Seed doctrine?=

The Old Testament does not support William Branham's doctrine of the Serpent's Seed for the following reasons:

#The Old Testament does not state that the serpent had sex with Eve.
#The doctrine of the Serpent's Seed requires you to believe that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was actually Satan's tree or Satan himself. The Bible does not teach this.
#The Serpent's Seed doctrine requires you to believe that the Bible is incorrect when it states in Gen 3:6 that "the tree was good for food."
#The Serpent's Seed doctrine requires you to believe that Eve committed adultery and sinned against her husband. The Bible does not teach this.
#This teaching requires you to believe that Adam watched his wife have sex with the serpent.
#Gen. 4:1 indicates that Adam did not have sex with his wife until after they were out of the garden.
#The Bible does not state that Cain and Abel were twins with different fathers.
#If Adam's since was also sexual, why was the ground cursed for his sake and not his body?

==Was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil really Satan's Tree?==

William Branham stated:

:''Notice, the children of obedience, and disobedience, has nothing in common. The disobedience worship their god. "Oh," they say, "we believe the Bible." Yes, it's a mixed tree. See, they add the world and knowledge to It. '''Satan's tree''', mixed; see, '''she took from Satan's tree''', good and evil. "Oh, we believe the Word." Sure, but not all of It. Eve believed the Word, too, but let--'''let Satan take his tree''' and pervert It a little bit. That's what it is.<ref>THE.GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0801M</ref>

How could the tree be Satan's tree when God created it?

==Or is the tree Satan himself?==

William Branham taught that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was Satan or the serpent:

:''The Bread of Life was from the Tree of Life, where they was eating, from the garden of Eden. He was the Tree of Life. Now, if the Tree of Life was a Person, then '''the tree of knowledge was a person. Now, say the serpent didn't have a seed'''. If life come by man, death come by the woman. All right, she was the tree of death. <ref>THE.EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 131-183 MONDAY_ 60-1205</ref>

:''Now that we have come this far, let me try to crystallize your thinking on this subject so you can see the necessity of our going into the 'serpent seed doctrine' as I have. We start with the fact that there were TWO trees in the midst of the garden. The Tree of Life was Jesus. '''The other tree is definitely Satan''' because of what came forth of the fruit of that tree. Now then, we know that both of those trees had a relationship to man or they would never have been placed there. <ref>EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.3</ref>

According to 1 Timothy 2:14, Adam was not deceived. Serpent seed theology interprets Eve eating the fruit as actually having sex with the serpent, a male. Since Adam also ate of this fruit, accepting this theory is to make the claim that '''Adam purposely committed a homosexual act with the serpent'''. William Branham's followers suggest that Adam eating of the fruit was a sex act with Eve. But if the tree was Satan or the serpent, wouldn't the fruit have to be the same thing that Eve participated in? Sex with the serpent?

If Eve was the one who the serpent had sex with, was it not Eve who offered Adam the fruit? Note the same fruit and the same tree. If the fruit is sex with the serpent, then the fruit stays sex with the serpent.

How could a man having sex with his own wife be sin? Does that make any sense?

Obviously, this is nonsense - which is why message believers are quick to reject this obvious conclusion, and why serpent seed is clearly a false doctrine.

If Serpent's Seed is wrong, accepting it means you are bearing false witness against Adam in that he had sex with the serpent.

==Did Eve commit adultery?==

As mentioned above, Serpent's Seed teaches that Eve had sex with the serpent. Since she was married, it would mean that she committed adultery. The Bible does not teach that.

If the Serpent's Seed doctrine is wrong, it constitutes bearing false witness against Eve.

If Eve committed adultery, don't you think that the Bible would have just come out and said it?

==What about the other trees?==

The Bible states in Genesis 2:15-17 and Genesis 3:1-7:

:'' The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, '''but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat''', for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

:''He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ge 2:15–17, 3:1–7</ref>

What are we supposed to think about the conversation with the serpent in which he asked Eve whether all the trees were off-limits and she replied that they were all allowed to be eaten from except That one?

If eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was actually a sex act with the serpent, what was eating of the other trees?

Could Adam and Eve have sex with every tree (other animals?) except the serpent?

Really?

==Did Adam watch his wife have sex with the serpent?==

The KJV states in Genesis 3:6 that:

:''...she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband '''with her'''; and he did eat. <ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Genesis 3:6</ref>

'''What does the phrase "with her" mean?'''

Let's look at a couple of other Bible translations:

:''...she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband '''who was with her''', and he ate. <ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version, Genesis 3:6 (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001).</ref>

:''...she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband '''who was with her''', and he ate it.<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Genesis 3:6 (Biblical Studies Press, 2006).</ref>

:''Then she gave some to her husband, '''who was with her''', and he ate it, too.<ref>Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation, 3rd ed., Genesis 3:6 (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2007).</ref>

Are we to believe that Adam watched his wife and the serpent get it on while he watched? That is effectively what William Branham taught if you read the Bible as it is written. Of course, if the serpent seed doctrine is wrong, then this passage makes a lot more sense.

==Was Cain Was The Son of the Serpent?==

Genesis 4:1 is clear that Adam is Cain’s father:

:KJV - ''And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 4:1–2.</ref>

:ESV - ''Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ge 4:1.</ref>

:NET - ''Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created a man just as the LORD did!”<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Ge 4:1.</ref>

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine completely ignores or dismisses this verse as false in order to uphold their theory. William Branham said that this was proved by the fact that the Bible says that [[Enoch and Noah#The Seventh from Adam|Enoch was the seventh from Adam]]. But if you [[Enoch and Noah#The Seventh from Adam|read our article on the subject]], you will realize that William Branham again twisted scripture to his own ends.

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine says this verse is 100% false, forcing you to deny another portion of scripture and call God a liar.

==Cain Was Conceived Inside of The Garden==

According to the Serpent’s Seed doctrine, Cain was conceived inside of the Garden when Adam and Eve had sex with the Serpent. However, as we read above, Genesis 4:1 is clear that Adam and Eve were outside of the garden when Cain was conceived. The Serpent’s Seed doctrine says this is 100% false, forcing you to deny another portion of scripture and call the Holy Spirit a liar.

==Cain Is Not In Adam’s Genealogy==

Again, Genesis 4:1 is clear that Adam is Cain’s father. If you read all of Genesis 4, the rest of Cain’s genealogy is there. This is another belief that makes you deny a portion of scripture.

==William Branham's KKK connection==
[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Roy_Davis#Roy_Davis_and_the_KKK Roy E. Davis] was William Branham's first pastor. He was also a member of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK). One of the doctrines of the KKK is Serpent Seed. It justifies racial hatred and abuse, as well as the oppression of women. William Branham learned this doctrine from Roy Davis, and it was reinforced in his family by his mother-in-law.

=How did the seed of the serpent get through the flood?=

William Branham taught that Ham was of the seed of the serpent:

:''For instance, many of them, like how that formal religion began in Cain. How it come on out and '''come down through the sons of Noah, Ham.''' Out of Ham, he had Nimrod. Nimrod built the tower of Babel. Babel comes on down through King Nebuchadnezzar’s time, and on out into Revelation, Babylon. '''How that little seed started way back there at the east side of the gates of Eden''', coming on down, winding out. All kinds of cults and everything started back there, winding themselves out to the end.<ref>William Branham, 53-0328 - Israel And The Church #4, para. 24</ref>

:''Now, the church, the—the nominal believers like Lot, he’s going through the tribulation period (see?) and be saved as if it was by fire. Noah went through the tribulation period, carried above it, come out with '''Ham who polluted the earth again.''' See? Lot came out, his own daughters slept with him, and had children by his own daughters. See? But Abraham brought forth the Royal Seed, brought forth the Seed of the promise. Enoch went to glory in the rapture, just took a walk and went home. He never went through the tribulation period. You see?<ref>William Branham, 64-0823E - Questions And Answers #2, para. 230</ref>

But this makes no sense! '''If Shem, Ham and Japheth were brothers of the same mother and father, how could Ham be of the wicked one, genetically different from his brothers?
'''

=Logic Problems=

There are quite a few logical problems when it comes to accepting the the Serpent’s Seed doctrine teachings. There are no rules when it comes to interpreting scripture, so they interpret whatever they want, however they want.

==Only some things are symbolic?==

Why is the fruit and the tree symbolic and everything else in Genesis is real?

Why don't message followers see the story of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Noah, Enoch, or Moses as allegories? Are they not all stories, which Genesis holds as a reliable accurate testimony, of real literal events of the history of the world, mankind and it's fall and beginning stages of redemption? Why not see Joseph's coat of many colors as not a real coat, but merely a symbol? How about Abraham as he walked up that proverberial mountain to sacrifice his son on that 'altar'?

Do you see the folly in adding or subtracting from God's revelation by a novel interpretation that allows for many other novel doctrines to slip into the Bible? There is no consistency of interpretation within the Christian faith when you allow for any chapter of Genesis, which is literal history, to be interpreted as an allegory. Why? Because it damages the literal meaning of the text. God's revelation is on the pages of scripture, not between the lines. God's revelation to us is His written Word.

If don't believe God's Word when it states that Adam and Eve ate a literal fruit, then you effectively doubt the Word of God. You are effectively asking, ''"Did God really say?"''

One problem with accepting the serpent seed doctrine stems from how we view 'symbols' and their covenantal relationship between God and man.

The 'serpent seed doctrine' is inconsistent with the redemptive framework of scripture. Was it not the ark of the covenant, a literal ark, which when touched outside of the limits of God's commands killed the man who touched it? Is not the actual rainbow in the sky a covenant promise to humanity? There are numerous examples of real physical 'relics' or 'symbols' which are not concealed forms of truth. Rather they are carriers of very real blessings or curses.

When God makes vows to mankind in the Old Testament, there were very real physical objects involved. So why is it so problematic that God chose to use literal trees and fruits to carry covenantal blessings or curses which carried very real physical and spiritual consequences?

Are you going to question whether or not Samson's hair really had anything to do with the loss of his supernatural strength? We must realize that, as Christians, we need to be consistent in our defense of scripture and we should never make arguments from the grounds of plausibility.

So if you stand upon an allegorical interpretation, then why not be consistent and interpret the rest of Genesis the same way? Whose standard are you using to interpret Genesis 3 to 5? If the Bible itself does not guide us to interpret Genesis that way, but you claim your authority comes from William Branham, then you are standing on the same foundation as Catholics do - namely, that they need an external authority to truly know how to understand the scriptures.

==Nothing's real?==

If the tree of good and evil was an act and not an actual tree, why did God place the angel to guard the garden of Eden so that Adam and Eve wouldn't touch the tree of life?

Would that not have been a spiritual act or revelation also?

==The problem with sinful genes==

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine teaches that the serpent passed his sinful genes down to Cain, which is why he murdered Abel. But the Bible states in Romans 5:19:

:''For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.<ref>Romans 5:19 (ESV)</ref>

What the Bible really says is that Cain's problems weren't genetic, they were spiritual! They resulted from disobedience.

==If the Tree of Knowledge is Satan, then???==

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine teaches that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was Satan. It also interprets eating from this tree as having sex with the Serpent.

But what about the Tree of Life. Traditionally the Tree of Life is compared to Christ while also being a literal tree. If you follow the Serpent’s Seed, do you also believe that Adam and Eve had permission to have sex with the Tree of Life? Did God put cherubim around the tree to keep Adam and Eve from having sex with the good tree?

These are some of the strange places that this doctrine leads!

==Proverbs 30:20==

The Bible states that:

:''Such is the way of an adulterous woman;
:''She eateth, and wipeth her mouth,
:''And saith, I have done no wickedness.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Pr 30:20.</ref>

Message preachers use this scripture to justify the serpent's seed doctrine by saying that the sexual act is likened to the eating of a fruit.

Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems with this rationale:

#There is NO direct reference to the eating of a fruit and, in particular, the eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What the author of Proverbs has done in the passage is to associate behavior that is out of bounds with eating; depicting a sexual appetite that knows no restraint. In Proverbs 30:14, the act of eating is associated with the persecution of the poor and needy. The fact is that the author of the book of Proverbs uses the metaphor of eating in other situations and not solely to depict the sexual act.<ref>Paul E. Koptak, Proverbs, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003), 661.</ref>
#Wiping her mouth after eating means that the adulteress treats sexual liaisons the same way she does eating: she just finishes up and goes home without a care and certainly without a sense of guilt.<ref>Duane A. Garrett, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, vol. 14, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 241.</ref> Again, the author uses the metaphor of eating to illustrate the woman's attitude and not to make a statement about sex being like eating.
#The whole point of the metaphor is to illustrate the way that this woman thinks of her sin. People look at adultery and state, "That is a terrible thing" and ask, "How can she live with herself?" Yet for her it is no big deal. Yes, the first time she did it, it was probably quite something but no longer. Her conscience has been seared.<ref>Gary Brady, Heavenly Wisdom: Proverbs Simply Explained, Welwyn Commentary Series (Darlington, England: Evangelical Press, 2003), 783.</ref>
#There are other metaphors of eating in the Book of Proverbs that have nothing to do with sex:

:::''...therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Pr 1:31.</ref>

:::''A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: But the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Pr 13:2.</ref>

:::''She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Pr 31:27.</ref>

Based on the above, using Proverbs 30:20 to justify Serpent's Seed is [[Eisegesis|eisegesis]] (which is a common method of interpreting scripture in message circles) and not exegesis<ref>[[Eisigisis]] is the act of reading an understanding, or an opinion into a biblical text, which may or may not be supported or evident by the text itself - in accordance with the person’s own presuppositions, agendas, and/or biases. This is the opposite of exegesis, which means to derive the meaning ‘out of’ the text.</ref>.

==How could the fruit of the tree be sex with Eve when the tree preceded her?==

If the fruit of the tree represented a sexual act with Eve, then how could it have existed before Eve did? It just doesn't make sense.

:''Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not [n]eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”<ref>Genesis 2:15-16 (KJV)</ref>

=Why wasn't Jesus born of sex?=

A message follower asked the following question: '''Why wasn't Jesus born of sex?'''

The reason for asking this question is that message followers think it gives validity to the arguments for the doctrine of the serpent's seed. But this simply isn't true.

The best response to this question, when posed by a message follower, is simply the following question: '''Who was the father of Jesus?'''

Since God the Father does not have a body, how could he have possibly had sex with a woman? It seems logical that if an infinite spiritual being wanted to come to earth as a baby he would simply create a body in the womb of a woman. It is significant that qualities such as those attributed to the Greek gods (like sexuality) are not ascribed to God in the Bible.<ref>Willem VanGemeren, ed., New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1997), 1010.</ref>

=Eve was an after-thought?=

William Branham frequently said of the woman, “She was not part of the original creation. She was a by-product, designed by Satan, to deceive by.” By taking Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 together and by reading them carefully, we can see that this is an error. God created both male and female, one from the dust of the ground and the other from a rib. Both were part of God's creation, which was said to be very good.

=Was the tree of knowledge a fruit tree or something else?=

Genesis 3:6 states

:''So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food...<ref>Genesis 3:6 (ESV)</ref>

What part about being "good for food" makes eating the fruit of the tree a sexual act? This is probably the clearest sign of a false doctrine that there is in the serpent seed doctrine.

This is even clearer in other versions:

:''When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food...<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Gen 3:6 (Biblical Studies Press, 2006).</ref>

:''The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her.<ref>Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation, 3rd ed., Gen 3:6 (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2007).</ref>

==Why was the ground cursed?==

We are asked by message followers the following question: '''If adultery wasn't the original sin, why do you believe God cursed Eve in childbearing specifically?'''

But a similar question could be asked with respect to Adam which is equally as relevant: '''If eating a literal fruit was not the original sin, why was the ground cursed for Adam's sake and why did the ground bear thorns and thistles for him, making it difficult to till the soil?'''

:''To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

::“Cursed is the ground because of you;
::through painful toil you will eat food from it
::all the days of your life.
::It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
::and you will eat the plants of the field.
::By the sweat of your brow
::you will eat your food
::until you return to the ground,
::since from it you were taken;
::for dust you are
::and to dust you will return.”''<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ge 3:17–19.</ref>

=Cain was of the wicked one?=

The Bible states that:

:''Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. <ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 1 Jn 3:12.</ref>

William Branham interprets this as follows:

:''Before Adam ever had carnal knowledge of Eve, the serpent had that knowledge ahead of him. And that one born of it was Cain. '''Cain was of (born of, begotten of) that "Wicked One". I John 3:12.''' The Holy Spirit in John could not in one place call Adam the "Wicked One" (for that is what he would be if he fathered Cain) and in another place call Adam the "Son of God" which he was by creation. Luke 3:38. Cain turned out in character like his father, a bringer of death, a murderer. His utter defiance of God when faced by the Almighty in Genesis 4:5,9,13,14, show him to be absolutely unhuman-like in characteristics, seeming even to surpass any account we have in Scripture concerning a confrontation of Satan by God.<ref>EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.3</ref>

==Does the Bible say that Cain was "born of" the Wicked One?==

But what the apostle John is saying in his epistle is that Cain literally, '''"belonged to the evil one"''', just as Jesus’ opponents in the Fourth Gospel '''“belong to your father, the devil”''' who “was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44), and just as John’s opponents were “the children of the devil” (1 John 3:10).<ref>Thomas F. Johnson, 1, 2, and 3 John, Understanding the Bible Commentary Series (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2011), 80.</ref>

John is not stating that his opponents were genetically of the serpent. Their problem was spiritual, just as Cain's was.

'''The key to really understanding scripture is context.''' Isolating verses and taking them out of context leads to all sorts of interpretational problems.

Heb 11:4 states, ''“By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than did Cain”''; and Jude 10–11 says that those who revile what they do not understand ''“have gone on the path of Cain.”''<ref> Raymond E. Brown, The Epistles of John: Translated, with Introduction, Notes, and Commentary, vol. 30, Anchor Yale Bible (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 443.</ref>

John’s statement that Cain “belonged to the evil one” reflects Jesus’ words regarding those who were trying to murder him: ''“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning”'' (John 8:44). Verse 13 echoes John 15:18–19: “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” There are also a number of lesser references (cf. John 3:7; 5:28, 38).<ref>James Montgomery Boice, The Epistles of John: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2004), 92.</ref>

John's description of Cain as one ‘who belonged to the evil one’ has no parallel in the Genesis account, but in some Jewish texts (e.g., the second-century-b.c. T. Benjamin 7:1–5 and the first- or second-century-a.d. Apocalypse of Abraham 24:3–5) the murder of Abel by his brother Cain is regarded as an act inspired by the devil. The evil character of Cain is universally assumed in both biblical and extrabiblical sources. The apostle John, too, works on this assumption when he adds: ''And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous''. The text of Genesis, while implying that it was because Cain’s actions were evil that his offering was not accepted by the Lord, and that it was because of Abel’s righteous actions that the Lord accepted his offering, does not specify the nature of their respective actions. However, the writer to the Hebrews, reflecting on the text of Genesis 4, notes that: ''‘By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings’'' (Heb 11:4). As far as that writer was concerned, what differentiated Abel from Cain was the former’s faith and, presumably, the latter’s lack of it.<ref>Colin G. Kruse, The Letters of John, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2000), 133–134.</ref>

Jesus said they (the religious leaders) were of their father, the devil. He didn't mean this genetically, and neither was the apostle john referring to Cain's genes.

:''“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.” – 2 Timothy 3:1-8

=Watch out for the lie!=

A number of Serpent Seed believers end up mocking any idea that man fell "simply" for taking and eating of the fruit of the tree, resorting to the apologetics of embarrassment - '''"Are you serious? You believe that??"'''

What they are in essence asking - what William Branham in essence taught - was, '''"Did God ''really'' say that?"''' Following the question with the declaration, "God really didn't say that."

It has an all too familiar ring to it... doesn't it?

The challenge followed by the lie.

This is a spiritual war, and the one behind the serpent seed lie is the devil, who became the father of all lies in that garden moment, with the planting of the "unseed", the lie that produced death for the first time in the history of the universe. He is the one with the audacity to snuggle up next to the truth and tell you the truth is the lie and the lie is the truth.

'''He's been doing it from the beginning.'''

=Did first-century Jews believe the Serpent's Seed doctrine?=

Message believers are quick to point to the fact that there is some Jewish fiction and rabbinical speculation that regarded the fall of Eve as a sexual sin. The suggestion that they cast light on Paul’s reference to Eve and that Paul might at least have had them in mind, since he pictures the Corinthians as a pure virgin who may not be found pure at her presentation to her bridegroom, is a distortion of the text. There is nothing sexy in Paul’s words. Eve was a married woman and not a virgin. The notion of the devil and of devils and evil angels having sexual intercourse with women is monstrous and found its ugliest form in the fiction of the incubus and the succubus in the days of the witchcraft craze. We mention this aberration only because it still appears in books.<ref>R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Paul’s First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1963), 1239.</ref>

Reading 2 Cor. 11:3 as saying that the serpent sexually seduced Eve, seems to be reading biases into the text.<ref>Robert James Utley, How It All Began: Genesis 1–11, vol. Vol. 1A, Study Guide Commentary Series (Marshall, Texas: Bible Lessons International, 2001), 59.</ref> It is also contrary to Titus 1:15 - 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.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Tt 1:15.</ref>

The serpent’s seduction of Eve was not sexual, but rather a beguiling of the mind by denying the truth of what God had said. The story of Eve aptly depicts the sort of danger the Corinthians faced, i.e. that their minds might be led astray. 4 Paul spells out the exact nature of the seduction he fears: the easy acceptance by the Corinthians of a different Jesus, a different spirit and a different gospel from those they received through his preaching. Paul does not tell us in what way they differed.<ref>D. A. Carson, R. T. France, et al., eds., New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition, 4th ed. (Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, 1994), 2 Co 11:1–6.</ref>

With the expression “just as the snake deceived Eve by his cunning” Paul states a precedent that informs his fear. It would appear that he intends his hearers to recognize three parallels between the record of Eve’s temptation by the snake in Gen. 3:1–13 and the situation he himself faced in Corinth.

First, just as Eve was deceived in her thinking (Gen. 3:1–6) and so lost her innocence (Gen. 3:7),54 so too the Corinthian church was at risk of being deluded in thought (φθαρῇ τὰ νοήματα ὑμῶν) and so losing her virginity (ἀπὸ … τῆς ἁγνότητος). In response to God’s inquiry, “What is this you have done?” Eve declares, “The snake deceived me (ὁ ὄφις ἠπάτησέν με, LXX)” (Gen. 3:13). As in 1 Tim. 2:14, Paul uses the compound verb ἐξηπάτησεν, where the prefix ἐκ- points to “successful deceit” (Moulton and Howard 311) or, more probably, to complete deception.

With the movement from παρθένον ἁγνήν (v. 1) to ἁγιότητος (v. 2) Paul is clearly developing the betrothal-marriage analogy further, but he may also be introducing a new analogy, that of “the church as in some sense the last Eve, related to Christ in the same way that Eve was related to Adam — derived from him, existing for his sake, and for him only.”

Now although the verb ἐξαπατάω, “I turn (someone) away from the right road by deceit” (Zerwick, Analysis 409), could be rendered “entice” or “lure,” it need not refer to sexual seduction. For Paul, the means of the deceit was not lust, but cunning (ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ αὐτοῦ), and the word νοήματα, not σώματα, is the subject of φθαρῇ. We need not go outside Genesis 3 to explain the expression ὁ ὄφις ἐξηπάτησεν Εὕαν.<ref>
Murray J. Harris, The Second Epistle to the Corinthians: a Commentary on the Greek Text, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2005), 740–741.</ref>

=Are you a woman who believes the Serpent' Seed doctrine?=

If you are a woman who believes the serpent seed doctrine, there are a few extra statements by William Branham that should concern you.

==Did Adam and Eve wear clothes before the fall?==

First, William Branham taught that Eve had clothes in the Garden of Eden before the fall.
:''Now notice, it was Eve that led Adam to the wrong, and it was the woman that took off her clothes before her Adam took off his. See?'' <ref> William Branham, August 29, 1965, Satan’s Eden </ref>

==Was Eve actually the tree and not Satan or the serpent?==

Second, William Branham mentioned a number of times that Eve was the Tree of Death. This means that the serpent was simply the "can opener" that Satan used to loose his perverted creation, Eve the tree, on innocent Adam.

:''If Life come by Man, death come by the woman. All right, s'''he was the tree of death'''.’’ <ref> William Branham, December 5, 1960, The Ephesian Church Age </ref>

:''Now you can probably well understand what I've been hitting at. By her beauty and her sex control, '''her shape that was given to her by Satan''', the by-product that Satan did, she is sent to deceive sons of God. And she can sway more of them to hell than any other instrument Satan has got. That's exactly right.'' <ref> William Branham, February, 21, 1965, Marriage and Divorce </ref>

:''"Oh," you say, "she was a tree?" Sure. "Well, they said, ''''Thou shall not take of this tree'''.' God said, in Genesis back there, 'Thou shall not take of this tree.'" Well '''the woman is the tree.''' She is the fruit tree. You're the fruit of your mother. The fruit of the womb is you. That's right. And then the fruit of the Tree of Life, that was in the garden of Eden, is Christ. Through the woman come death;'' <ref> William Branham, February, 21, 1965, Marriage and Divorce </ref>

:''Eve, is Satan's queen. See, Satan, the serpent, got to Eve before Adam got to her. See? That's right. So he beguiled her, see; so '''Satan, the serpent, was the husband of Eve''' before Adam ever knew. <ref> William Branham, August 29, 1965, Satan’s Eden </ref>

:'''''The other tree is definitely Satan''' because of what came forth of the fruit of that tree. Now then, we know that both of those trees had a relationship to man or they would never have been placed there.’’ <ref> The Ephesian Church Age Book, William Branham </ref>

So if you are a woman, and you believe William Branham, you are a tree of death.

Thankfully, the power of this false doctrine is obliterated by the words of the Apostle Paul, who wrote:

:''There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.'' (Galatians 3: 28)

=What about Eve being the mother of all living?=

Message followers often point to Genesis 3:20 in support of the Serpent's Seed doctrine:

:''And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 3:20.</ref>

The argument is that Eve is called the mother of all living but Adam is not called the father of all living, thereby allowing for the existence of the seed of the serpent in humanity. '''Is this what the passage is really saying?'''

The place to begin in attempting to understand this verse is with the fact that “Eve” was Adam’s name for his wife and not God’s name for Adam’s wife. We are so used to speaking of Adam and Eve that we generally fail to notice that not once in the story of the creation and the fall, up to this point, has Adam’s wife been called Eve. She has been called a “female” (Gen. 1:27), a “helper suitable” for Adam (Gen. 2:18), a “woman” (Gen. 2:22, 23), a “wife” (Gen. 2:24, 25; 3:8). But those are all descriptive or generic terms, not names. We do not find the name “Eve.”

This does not mean that God did not name the woman, however. He did.

But the name God gave her is not found in these chapters. It is found in Genesis chapter 5. There, in verses 1 and 2, we read, “When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them ‘man’ [or ‘Adam,’ because ‘Adam’ means man].” In other words, the name that God gave the woman was “man” or “Adam,” which was the name of her husband.

God called the woman “Adam.” But that immediately raises the question, “Why, if God called Eve ‘Adam,’ did Adam call Eve ‘Eve’?” The answer is not that Adam was contradicting God or changing the name of his wife on his own authority. Her name remained “Adam.” What Adam was actually doing was giving Eve a title. For “Eve” is a title; it means “life” in the sense of being a “life-giver.” We would say “mother.” The text says, “Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.”

It is sometimes the case in studying the Bible that the solution to one problem introduces another—that is what makes the study of the Bible so fascinating—and that is precisely what happens here. Yet it is at this point that we really come to the heart of the text. The problem is that, although Adam called his wife’s name Eve, meaning “life-giver” or “mother,” Eve was not a mother. In fact, if we read this and the next chapter closely, we have reason to believe that she had not even conceived. Her first child was Cain, and we are told not only of the birth but also the conception of Cain in Genesis chapter 4: “Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain” (Gen. 4:1). '''So we ask: Why did Adam name his wife “mother” when she was not yet a mother and, in fact, had not even become pregnant?'''

There is only one answer to that question, and it comes from the context. Five verses before this Adam and Eve had heard the judgment of God against Satan in which God said, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel” (Gen. 3:15). This verse mentioned the woman’s offspring and said flatly that her seed would crush the head of Satan.

God had said that the punishment for eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was death. Adam and Eve had seen the judgment of God against Satan. Satan had appeared to them in the guise of the serpent, which was most assuredly not the slithering, lowly creature we know as a snake today. The Hebrew word translated “serpent” in Genesis 3:1 is nachash, which in its early and primary use probably meant “a shining one” (Gesenius). The serpent stood upright and was perhaps the most glorious of all God’s creatures. Suddenly, however, Adam and Eve heard God’s judgment on Satan and saw this beautiful animal turn into a snake and slide away into the bushes. They must have been paralyzed with fear. They had seen the serpent’s judgment, and they were next. What would God do to them? Would they become snakes also? Would they die?

As they thought about this and heard the greatly reduced words of the judgment of God on themselves, the deliberately hopeful words contained in God’s reference to the woman’s offspring must have gotten through. The fact that Eve would have offspring was itself significant. Since she had not yet given birth it meant that she would not die physically, at least not then. Since she had not yet conceived it meant that Adam would not die either (the conception of Cain comes in Genesis 4:1). Moreover, there was the nature of the one to come. He would be a deliverer. He would crush the head of Satan. This was their hope. God had said that Eve would give birth to one who in some manner would be the deliverer. So when Adam named his wife Eve, mother, she not even being pregnant, it was an act of faith, by which he testified to his belief that God would keep his promise and that the deliverer would come.

Genesis 3:20 is not the only place in Genesis that would lead us to think this way. When Eve finally conceived (Gen. 4:1) and brought forth Cain, both she and Adam thought that he was the deliverer. They thought Cain was Jesus, which is why they named him “Cain,” meaning “brought forth” or “acquired.” In colloquial language we would say, “I’ve got him” or “Here he is.” Indeed, when we get to chapter 4, I am going to show that Eve’s words were even stronger than this. For she did not merely say, “I have brought forth [there is the meaning of ‘Cain’] a man,” that is, the man who was promised. She said (so I believe), “I have brought forth a man, even Jehovah [the ‘Redeemer’].”

We know, of course, that Eve and Adam were mistaken. They thought they had brought forth the deliverer when actually they had brought forth a murderer, for Cain killed his brother Abel. But up to this point their perceptions were right. God had promised a deliverer, and they believed him, showing their belief by the naming of Eve by Adam and Cain by Eve. By this they showed that they were staking their hope on the word of God.<ref>James Montgomery Boice, Genesis: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998), 228–233.</ref>

'''So the argument of message followers is false.''' Genesis 3:20 does not support the argument that there is special significant in Eve being called the mother of all living but Adam not being called the father of all living, They miss the true meaning of the passage because they read it with a presupposed meaning in view and not the actual words of the passage.

=Who was the seed of the woman?=

''The LORD God said to the serpent,

:''“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ge 3:14–15.</ref>

Imagine a group of people, a family, and into the midst of them comes slithering as fast as it can (and you know how fast they can come) a snake, a venomous snake, a poisonous snake, coming right at them. One man goes after the snake, and he begins to stomp on it. Finally he crushes the head and saves the family, but only after, in the process, the snake bites him, the poison goes into him, and he dies. That’s the picture.

What God is saying is - the serpent is not just a snake but is Satan. It represents evil. God is saying that an offspring of Eve, the seed of the woman, a human being, is going to destroy sin and death itself but get a fatal wound in the process. A human being is going to come, and he’s going to destroy sin and death, and in the process lose his life. I wonder who that could be...

The first Adam should have done something like that, not just stood there and let the Serpent destroy his family. The first Adam should have jumped on the snake or stomped on the snake or whatever. But the second Adam will. It’s Jesus Christ. Keep this in mind. In Romans 4 Paul says, “In Christ your sins are covered.” In Romans 4 Paul says, “Blessed is the one whose sin is covered. Blessed is the one to whom God does not impute sin.”

In the whole history of the world, there was only one human being that was only an offspring of a woman.

:''Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Is 7:14.</ref>

This is the prophecy of the coming of Jesus Christ, and what Jesus Christ is going to do is he is going to destroy all the works of the Serpent.

If you go to Revelation 12, where it talks about the Serpent, the Dragon, Satan, and his seed, and the woman and her seed, God is not saying, “From now on, snakes and people will hate each other.” That’s not what he’s saying. “This is how the serpent lost his legs and why snakes and people hate each other.” No.

What it’s talking about is the human race will have only two kinds of people in it. There will be people who follow Satan’s advice in the garden and there will be people who follow the Lord. When it says here, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and hers,” that can’t mean it’s putting hatred in the snake. The snake already hates the woman. It can’t mean it’s putting hatred and enmity in the children of the snake, the followers of the snake, because they already hate God.

What is it saying? The first step of salvation is when God puts in you a hatred for Satan and all his ways. You only begin to move out of moralism and legalism, where you just hate the consequences of bad behavior but you’re afraid and proud, and you move into the position where you actually begin to hate sin.<ref>Timothy J. Keller, The Timothy Keller Sermon Archive (New York City: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2013).</ref>

==Interpretive issues==

The divinely ordained hostility that takes place between the serpent’s seed and the seed of the woman. In the vast majority of cases where the Hebrew word "zeraʿ" (lit., “seed”) is used, it refers to an immediate offspring rather than a distant descendant. For example, Seth is Eve’s “other seed” (Genesis 4:25); Abram laments that he is still without seed (Genesis 15:3); Lot’s daughters want to bear their father’s seed (Genesis 19:32, 34); Ishmael is Abraham’s seed (Genesis 21:13); Samuel is Hannah’s seed (1 Sam. 1:11; 2:20); Solomon is David’s seed (2 Sam. 7:12). This observation alone should caution us about seeing too quickly a clear-cut reference here to some remote individual.

Similarly, one should not force an interpretation on her offspring that the expression cannot bear. The Septuagint translates the Hebrew word "zarʿāh" (lit., “her seed”) as spérmatos autḗs (lit., “her seed”). Bbt to read the Septuagint as “her sperm” in order to see a hint here of the virgin birth of this seed (the absence of a sperm-supplying father) is farfetched indeed. If for no other reason, Gen. 4:25 would invalidate that proposal, for here Eve says that God has given her “another seed,” and certainly Seth was not born of a virgin!

However, Genesis 3:15 is good news as the words of God to the woman and the man include expressions both of divine grace and of divine judgment. Yes, there will be pain for Eve, but she is promised children. Sterility will not be one of her problems. Yes, there will be frustration for Adam because of intractable soil, but he will eat and not starve to death.

One may surmise, therefore, that God’s speech to the serpent contains both judgment and promise. Indeed, the serpent is banned and he becomes a crawler. He is under judgment. The promise is that some unspecified member(s) of the human race will one day lash out against this serpent’s seed. More than a change in the serpent’s position is involved here — it is now a question of his existence.

Would this individual, or these individuals, be among the kings of Israel and Judah who are the “offspring” of their father (2 Sam. 7:12; Ps. 89:4), who “crush” their enemies (Ps. 89:23) “under their feet” (2 Sam. 22:39), so that these enemies “lick the dust” (Ps. 72:9)? Later revelations will state that it is Jesus who reigns until he puts all his enemies under his feet (1 Cor. 15:25).<ref>Victor P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1–17, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1990), 198–200.</ref>

=Genetic arguments=

William Branham and followers of the message are "young earth" proponents, that is, the earth is approximately 6,000 years old. Therefore, the biblical timeline they use is approximately as follows:

*Creation: ~4004 BC (Ussher chronology, standard with youn earth theology).
*Flood: ~2348 BC.
*Pre-Flood period: roughly the first 1,656 years of human history.

Message followers believe the pre-Flood earth was populated with two distinct bloodlines:

*Godly Sethites (“sons of God,” carrying the divine seed).
*Vast numbers of serpent-seed Cainites (“daughters of men,” literal hybrid offspring of the serpent-beast + Eve).

These Cainites allegedly built cities, invented metallurgy, music, etc., and were numerous enough that their intermarriage with Sethites provoked the Flood.

==Ancient DNA Evidence from the “Pre-Flood” Window==
We now have thousands of high-quality ancient human genomes sequenced from periods that fall squarely before 2348 BC on the biblical timeline:

*Neolithic and Chalcolithic samples from the Levant, Anatolia, and Europe (~10,000–4000 BC).
*Early Bronze Age samples from the ancient Near East (~3500–2500 BC).
*Specific examples include genomes from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pottery Neolithic, and Intermediate Bronze Age in the very region where Cain’s descendants supposedly lived and built cities (Mesopotamia/Levant).

All of these pre-“Flood” individuals carry:

*Y-chromosome haplogroups that are direct ancestors of modern human Y-DNA (e.g., E, J, G branches).
*mtDNA haplogroups that are direct ancestors of modern human mtDNA (e.g., H, U, K, etc.).

Every single one fits perfectly into the single, continuous human phylogenetic tree we see today. There is zero trace of a second, highly divergent paternal lineage that a literal serpent-beast fathering Cain would have introduced. No “beast-of-the-field” Y-DNA, no hybrid markers, no genetic cluster that looks non-human or even slightly outside normal Homo sapiens variation.Why This Directly Contradicts Serpent Seed

Expected signature is missing.
If even a small fraction of the pre-Flood population were literal serpent-seed hybrids (as the doctrine claims), their Y-chromosomes would form a completely separate branch — just as Neanderthal or Denisovan admixture is still detectable today as distinct segments in non-African genomes. We have sequenced enough pre-Flood-era individuals that we should have sampled both bloodlines. We have not.

==Genetic continuity across the Flood date==

Ancient DNA from the Levant shows smooth genetic continuity through ~2500–2000 BC. There is no sudden population replacement or extreme bottleneck that would match “only Noah’s eight people survived.” The data simply do not support a global wipe-out followed by repopulation from one family.
No second bloodline anywhere in the record.

The entire ancient DNA dataset (now >10,000 genomes worldwide) shows one single origin for all modern and ancient humans — exactly as predicted by standard genetics, and exactly as your earlier point about Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve already established. Serpent seed requires a second root; the data show only one.

'''Bottom Line:''' Even if we grant the strict young-earth timeline that Branham used, the ancient DNA record from the pre-Flood era is genetically identical in structure to modern humans. All sequenced individuals belong to the same unbroken paternal and maternal lines we carry today. There is no room left for a literal serpent-seed bloodline that was supposedly numerous, city-building, and intermarrying right up until the Flood.

The serpent-seed doctrine is not only incompatible with living human genetics — it is incompatible with the ancient DNA that was actually alive “in the days of Noah.”

=Where did William Branham get this doctrine?=

In 1910, Benjamin Purnell from the House of David in Benton, Michigan published a book entitled, "The Star of Bethlehem" which contained details of the Serpent's Seed doctrines:

:''Adam was placed in a garden eastward in Eden, as keeper and lord of the garden; and Eve, the mother of all living (soul) with him as a helpmeet, and not a helpmate — nor did she help him, except to the grave. The serpent beast was a preacher, called Gadrel. And the proof is, he preached to Eve, and transformed the word of the Lord God, and said to her, Yea hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden, etc.

:''Eve did partake of that which was forbidden, and gave unto her husband, and he did eat; (which was Adam — he representing her spiritual husband, being immortal;) but by this act fell, and received the blood with the tares, which she had received from Gadrel in this act of adultery and fornication... <ref>Purnell, Benjamin F. and Mary S., "The Star of Bethlehem", Benton Harbor, MI, 1910, pp.191 & 308)</ref>

We know by William Branham's own admission that he preached at The House of David. is this where he got his doctrine of the Serpent's Seed?

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=A summary of William Branham's view of the Serpent's Seed=
William Branham taught a version of the original sin that was highly unorthodox, and which is referred to by his followers as the '''"serpent's seed"''' or '''"serpent seed"''' doctrine. It requires reading into the scripture something that is not evident in a plain reading of the text. William Branham's first pastor was [[Roy Davis]], who was a high ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The Serpent's Seed doctrine has clear racist origins.

This doctrine is comprised of the following related beliefs:

#The original sin in the Garden of Eden was not eating a fruit, it was a sexual sin;
#Eve's sin was not disobedience, but sexual intercourse;
#The serpent was an upright beast, effectively the "missing link";
#Cain and Abel were maternal non-identical twins:
##Cain was the son of Eve and the serpent; and
##Abel was the son of Eve and Adam.

The serpent's seed doctrine is based on a few scriptures that can be used in isolation to support a position that is not supportable when viewed in the context of ALL scripture. This doctrine also requires that you accept a number of beliefs as outlined below that you may not be aware are part of this doctrine. In our view, these beliefs eventually lead to the rejection of the Bible as the true, inspired, word of God.

:''“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness...”<ref>2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)</ref> 
 

=Does the New Testament Teach the Serpent's Seed doctrine?=

The New Testament does not support William Branham's doctrine of the Serpent's Seed for the following reasons:

#The New Testament contains no explicit reference to the serpent having sex with Eve.
#Acts 17:26 states that all men sprang from one man, Adam, and not two (Adam and the Serpent).
#2 Cor. 11:2-3 does not state that the serpent had sex with Eve. While it is possible to read that into the text, that is not what the text says.
#Rom. 5:12 tells us that sin entered into the world through Adam, not through Eve.

==2 Corinthians 11:2-3==

The KJV states:

:''For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, '''as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty''', so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

From the wording, message followers argue that this demonstrates that while Christians need to avoid having their minds corrupted, Eve experienced a physical corruption. But is that what the passage actually states?

Let us look at a couple of other translations:

:NASB - ''For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid that, '''as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness''', your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.<ref>New American Standard Bible, 1995 Edition: Paragraph Version (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

:NIV -''I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that '''just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning''', your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

:CEB - ''I’m deeply concerned about you with the same concern that God has. As your father, I promised you in marriage to one husband. I promised to present you as an innocent virgin to Christ himself. But I’m afraid that '''your minds might be seduced in the same way as the snake deceived Eve with his devious tricks'''. You might be unable to focus completely on a genuine and innocent commitment to Christ.<ref>Common English Bible (Nashville, TN: Common English Bible, 2011), 2 Co 11:2–3.</ref>

Does this passage state that the relationship between Eve and Satan was physical? Such an interpretation reads into the text more than it actually says. A common way that scripture is misinterpreted is when we draw wrong conclusions from the text by reading into the text what isn’t there. What we need to do is draw out from the text only what is there.<ref>James B. Williams and Randolph Shaylor, eds., God’s Word in Our Hands: The Bible Preserved for Us (Greenville, SC; Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ambassador Emerald International, 2003), 366.</ref>

The sole characteristic of the serpent mentioned by Paul is his deviousness. It was by his words that the serpent deceived her in the Genesis account, a point Paul implies in that it is by what the enemies of the Gospel preach that the Corinthians are led astray. This viewpoint is supported in a closely parallel passage where Paul writes of “those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned … By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people … The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet” (Rom 16:17–18, 20). The references in 2 Cor 11:3 and Rom 16:18, 20 to

:(1) “the serpent” (i.e., Satan—v. 14),

:(2) “crush Satan,” and

:(3) “deceive” tie both passages back to Genesis 2–3 and to each other.

Paul sees words — erroneous in content but smooth of delivery — as Satan’s instrument to seduce the church from her loyalty to Christ.<ref>Paul Barnett, The Second Epistle to the Corinthians, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1997), 501–502. </ref>

==Acts 17:26==

The KJV states that God ''"hath made of '''one blood''' all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth."''<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Acts 17:26</ref>

Translations into modern English also make it very clear:

:''And '''he made from one man every nation''' of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.<ref> Acts 17:26 - The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.</ref>

:''And '''He made from one [common origin, one source, one blood] all nations of men''' to settle on the face of the earth, having definitely determined [their] allotted periods of time and the fixed boundaries of their habitation (their settlements, lands, and abodes)... <ref> Acts 17:26 (Amplified Bible, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation</ref>

:'''''From one man''' he made '''every nation living on the entire surface of the earth''', and he fixed the limits of their territories and the periods when they would flourish.<ref>David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Hadashah (New Testament), 1st ed. (Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications, 1998), Ac 17:26.</ref>

The Serpent seed doctrine requires that a person reject Acts 17:26 because it requires the belief that the serpent injected his blood into the human race. That's 2 bloods, not one. That's two origins not one, and two sources, not one.

This is also another case where William Branham can't keep his doctrines straight. He said:

:''If you were a--a Chinese or a colored man or whoever it is, that God made of one blood of all men. But, you know, they put a speck of animal blood in you it would kill you? And no animal can take... use one another's blood, from one specie to another. See how God made us? '''We never come from animal'''; We come from God. God made us in His own Image. <ref>THE.SECOND.COMING_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 55-0220A</ref>

But then he completely goes against this when he states:

:''It wasn't apples that Adam and Eve ate; it was absolutely sexual things that had separated them and divided them, and knowing that they become...?... and through the blood of Adam, and '''through the blood of the serpent that had started this'''... <ref>QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.HEBREWS.3_ JEFF.IN 57-1006</ref>

The problem is that anyone plagued by [[Cognitive Dissonance]] can't see this.

==Romans 5:12==

William Branham stated:

:That’s what You give Adam and Eve, in the garden of Eden, to defeat the enemy. And when Eve reasoned with It, and projected reasons with the Word, it fell apart, and sin entered.<ref>William Branham, 63-0123 - Identification, para. 276</ref>

But Paul said that "as by '''one man''' sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men..."<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Rom 5:12.</ref>

That one man was Adam, not Cain. Not one woman, not one serpent. One man - Adam.

:''So then, just as sin entered the world through '''one man''' and death through sin, and so death spread to all people.<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2006), Rom 5:12.</ref>

:''Sin came into the world through '''one man''', and his sin brought death with it. As a result, death has spread to the whole human race because everyone has sinned.<ref>American Bible Society, The Holy Bible: The Good News Translation, 2nd ed. (New York: American Bible Society, 1992), Ro 5:12.</ref>

If you believe the Serpent's seed is physical, you deny the truth of Romans 5:12

=Does the Old Testament Teach the Serpent's Seed doctrine?=

The Old Testament does not support William Branham's doctrine of the Serpent's Seed for the following reasons:

#The Old Testament does not state that the serpent had sex with Eve.
#The doctrine of the Serpent's Seed requires you to believe that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was actually Satan's tree or Satan himself. The Bible does not teach this.
#The Serpent's Seed doctrine requires you to believe that the Bible is incorrect when it states in Gen 3:6 that "the tree was good for food."
#The Serpent's Seed doctrine requires you to believe that Eve committed adultery and sinned against her husband. The Bible does not teach this.
#This teaching requires you to believe that Adam watched his wife have sex with the serpent.
#Gen. 4:1 indicates that Adam did not have sex with his wife until after they were out of the garden.
#The Bible does not state that Cain and Abel were twins with different fathers.
#If Adam's since was also sexual, why was the ground cursed for his sake and not his body?

==Was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil really Satan's Tree?==

William Branham stated:

:''Notice, the children of obedience, and disobedience, has nothing in common. The disobedience worship their god. "Oh," they say, "we believe the Bible." Yes, it's a mixed tree. See, they add the world and knowledge to It. '''Satan's tree''', mixed; see, '''she took from Satan's tree''', good and evil. "Oh, we believe the Word." Sure, but not all of It. Eve believed the Word, too, but let--'''let Satan take his tree''' and pervert It a little bit. That's what it is.<ref>THE.GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0801M</ref>

How could the tree be Satan's tree when God created it?

==Or is the tree Satan himself?==

William Branham taught that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was Satan or the serpent:

:''The Bread of Life was from the Tree of Life, where they was eating, from the garden of Eden. He was the Tree of Life. Now, if the Tree of Life was a Person, then '''the tree of knowledge was a person. Now, say the serpent didn't have a seed'''. If life come by man, death come by the woman. All right, she was the tree of death. <ref>THE.EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 131-183 MONDAY_ 60-1205</ref>

:''Now that we have come this far, let me try to crystallize your thinking on this subject so you can see the necessity of our going into the 'serpent seed doctrine' as I have. We start with the fact that there were TWO trees in the midst of the garden. The Tree of Life was Jesus. '''The other tree is definitely Satan''' because of what came forth of the fruit of that tree. Now then, we know that both of those trees had a relationship to man or they would never have been placed there. <ref>EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.3</ref>

According to 1 Timothy 2:14, Adam was not deceived. Serpent seed theology interprets Eve eating the fruit as actually having sex with the serpent, a male. Since Adam also ate of this fruit, accepting this theory is to make the claim that '''Adam purposely committed a homosexual act with the serpent'''. William Branham's followers suggest that Adam eating of the fruit was a sex act with Eve. But if the tree was Satan or the serpent, wouldn't the fruit have to be the same thing that Eve participated in? Sex with the serpent?

If Eve was the one who the serpent had sex with, was it not Eve who offered Adam the fruit? Note the same fruit and the same tree. If the fruit is sex with the serpent, then the fruit stays sex with the serpent.

How could a man having sex with his own wife be sin? Does that make any sense?

Obviously, this is nonsense - which is why message believers are quick to reject this obvious conclusion, and why serpent seed is clearly a false doctrine.

If Serpent's Seed is wrong, accepting it means you are bearing false witness against Adam in that he had sex with the serpent.

==Did Eve commit adultery?==

As mentioned above, Serpent's Seed teaches that Eve had sex with the serpent. Since she was married, it would mean that she committed adultery. The Bible does not teach that.

If the Serpent's Seed doctrine is wrong, it constitutes bearing false witness against Eve.

If Eve committed adultery, don't you think that the Bible would have just come out and said it?

==What about the other trees?==

The Bible states in Genesis 2:15-17 and Genesis 3:1-7:

:'' The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, '''but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat''', for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

:''He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ge 2:15–17, 3:1–7</ref>

What are we supposed to think about the conversation with the serpent in which he asked Eve whether all the trees were off-limits and she replied that they were all allowed to be eaten from except That one?

If eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was actually a sex act with the serpent, what was eating of the other trees?

Could Adam and Eve have sex with every tree (other animals?) except the serpent?

Really?

==Did Adam watch his wife have sex with the serpent?==

The KJV states in Genesis 3:6 that:

:''...she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband '''with her'''; and he did eat. <ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Genesis 3:6</ref>

'''What does the phrase "with her" mean?'''

Let's look at a couple of other Bible translations:

:''...she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband '''who was with her''', and he ate. <ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version, Genesis 3:6 (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001).</ref>

:''...she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband '''who was with her''', and he ate it.<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Genesis 3:6 (Biblical Studies Press, 2006).</ref>

:''Then she gave some to her husband, '''who was with her''', and he ate it, too.<ref>Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation, 3rd ed., Genesis 3:6 (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2007).</ref>

Are we to believe that Adam watched his wife and the serpent get it on while he watched? That is effectively what William Branham taught if you read the Bible as it is written. Of course, if the serpent seed doctrine is wrong, then this passage makes a lot more sense.

==Was Cain Was The Son of the Serpent?==

Genesis 4:1 is clear that Adam is Cain’s father:

:KJV - ''And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 4:1–2.</ref>

:ESV - ''Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ge 4:1.</ref>

:NET - ''Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created a man just as the LORD did!”<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005), Ge 4:1.</ref>

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine completely ignores or dismisses this verse as false in order to uphold their theory. William Branham said that this was proved by the fact that the Bible says that [[Enoch and Noah#The Seventh from Adam|Enoch was the seventh from Adam]]. But if you [[Enoch and Noah#The Seventh from Adam|read our article on the subject]], you will realize that William Branham again twisted scripture to his own ends.

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine says this verse is 100% false, forcing you to deny another portion of scripture and call God a liar.

==Cain Was Conceived Inside of The Garden==

According to the Serpent’s Seed doctrine, Cain was conceived inside of the Garden when Adam and Eve had sex with the Serpent. However, as we read above, Genesis 4:1 is clear that Adam and Eve were outside of the garden when Cain was conceived. The Serpent’s Seed doctrine says this is 100% false, forcing you to deny another portion of scripture and call the Holy Spirit a liar.

==Cain Is Not In Adam’s Genealogy==

Again, Genesis 4:1 is clear that Adam is Cain’s father. If you read all of Genesis 4, the rest of Cain’s genealogy is there. This is another belief that makes you deny a portion of scripture.

==William Branham's KKK connection==
[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Roy_Davis#Roy_Davis_and_the_KKK Roy E. Davis] was William Branham's first pastor. He was also a member of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK). One of the doctrines of the KKK is Serpent Seed. It justifies racial hatred and abuse, as well as the oppression of women. William Branham learned this doctrine from Roy Davis, and it was reinforced in his family by his mother-in-law.

=How did the seed of the serpent get through the flood?=

William Branham taught that Ham was of the seed of the serpent:

:''For instance, many of them, like how that formal religion began in Cain. How it come on out and '''come down through the sons of Noah, Ham.''' Out of Ham, he had Nimrod. Nimrod built the tower of Babel. Babel comes on down through King Nebuchadnezzar’s time, and on out into Revelation, Babylon. '''How that little seed started way back there at the east side of the gates of Eden''', coming on down, winding out. All kinds of cults and everything started back there, winding themselves out to the end.<ref>William Branham, 53-0328 - Israel And The Church #4, para. 24</ref>

:''Now, the church, the—the nominal believers like Lot, he’s going through the tribulation period (see?) and be saved as if it was by fire. Noah went through the tribulation period, carried above it, come out with '''Ham who polluted the earth again.''' See? Lot came out, his own daughters slept with him, and had children by his own daughters. See? But Abraham brought forth the Royal Seed, brought forth the Seed of the promise. Enoch went to glory in the rapture, just took a walk and went home. He never went through the tribulation period. You see?<ref>William Branham, 64-0823E - Questions And Answers #2, para. 230</ref>

But this makes no sense! '''If Shem, Ham and Japheth were brothers of the same mother and father, how could Ham be of the wicked one, genetically different from his brothers?
'''

=Logic Problems=

There are quite a few logical problems when it comes to accepting the the Serpent’s Seed doctrine teachings. There are no rules when it comes to interpreting scripture, so they interpret whatever they want, however they want.

==Only some things are symbolic?==

Why is the fruit and the tree symbolic and everything else in Genesis is real?

Why don't message followers see the story of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Noah, Enoch, or Moses as allegories? Are they not all stories, which Genesis holds as a reliable accurate testimony, of real literal events of the history of the world, mankind and it's fall and beginning stages of redemption? Why not see Joseph's coat of many colors as not a real coat, but merely a symbol? How about Abraham as he walked up that proverberial mountain to sacrifice his son on that 'altar'?

Do you see the folly in adding or subtracting from God's revelation by a novel interpretation that allows for many other novel doctrines to slip into the Bible? There is no consistency of interpretation within the Christian faith when you allow for any chapter of Genesis, which is literal history, to be interpreted as an allegory. Why? Because it damages the literal meaning of the text. God's revelation is on the pages of scripture, not between the lines. God's revelation to us is His written Word.

If don't believe God's Word when it states that Adam and Eve ate a literal fruit, then you effectively doubt the Word of God. You are effectively asking, ''"Did God really say?"''

One problem with accepting the serpent seed doctrine stems from how we view 'symbols' and their covenantal relationship between God and man.

The 'serpent seed doctrine' is inconsistent with the redemptive framework of scripture. Was it not the ark of the covenant, a literal ark, which when touched outside of the limits of God's commands killed the man who touched it? Is not the actual rainbow in the sky a covenant promise to humanity? There are numerous examples of real physical 'relics' or 'symbols' which are not concealed forms of truth. Rather they are carriers of very real blessings or curses.

When God makes vows to mankind in the Old Testament, there were very real physical objects involved. So why is it so problematic that God chose to use literal trees and fruits to carry covenantal blessings or curses which carried very real physical and spiritual consequences?

Are you going to question whether or not Samson's hair really had anything to do with the loss of his supernatural strength? We must realize that, as Christians, we need to be consistent in our defense of scripture and we should never make arguments from the grounds of plausibility.

So if you stand upon an allegorical interpretation, then why not be consistent and interpret the rest of Genesis the same way? Whose standard are you using to interpret Genesis 3 to 5? If the Bible itself does not guide us to interpret Genesis that way, but you claim your authority comes from William Branham, then you are standing on the same foundation as Catholics do - namely, that they need an external authority to truly know how to understand the scriptures.

==Nothing's real?==

If the tree of good and evil was an act and not an actual tree, why did God place the angel to guard the garden of Eden so that Adam and Eve wouldn't touch the tree of life?

Would that not have been a spiritual act or revelation also?

==The problem with sinful genes==

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine teaches that the serpent passed his sinful genes down to Cain, which is why he murdered Abel. But the Bible states in Romans 5:19:

:''For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.<ref>Romans 5:19 (ESV)</ref>

What the Bible really says is that Cain's problems weren't genetic, they were spiritual! They resulted from disobedience.

==If the Tree of Knowledge is Satan, then???==

The Serpent’s Seed doctrine teaches that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was Satan. It also interprets eating from this tree as having sex with the Serpent.

But what about the Tree of Life. Traditionally the Tree of Life is compared to Christ while also being a literal tree. If you follow the Serpent’s Seed, do you also believe that Adam and Eve had permission to have sex with the Tree of Life? Did God put cherubim around the tree to keep Adam and Eve from having sex with the good tree?

These are some of the strange places that this doctrine leads!

==Proverbs 30:20==

The Bible states that:

:''Such is the way of an adulterous woman;
:''She eateth, and wipeth her mouth,
:''And saith, I have done no wickedness.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Pr 30:20.</ref>

Message preachers use this scripture to justify the serpent's seed doctrine by saying that the sexual act is likened to the eating of a fruit.

Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems with this rationale:

#There is NO direct reference to the eating of a fruit and, in particular, the eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What the author of Proverbs has done in the passage is to associate behavior that is out of bounds with eating; depicting a sexual appetite that knows no restraint. In Proverbs 30:14, the act of eating is associated with the persecution of the poor and needy. The fact is that the author of the book of Proverbs uses the metaphor of eating in other situations and not solely to depict the sexual act.<ref>Paul E. Koptak, Proverbs, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003), 661.</ref>
#Wiping her mouth after eating means that the adulteress treats sexual liaisons the same way she does eating: she just finishes up and goes home without a care and certainly without a sense of guilt.<ref>Duane A. Garrett, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, vol. 14, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 241.</ref> Again, the author uses the metaphor of eating to illustrate the woman's attitude and not to make a statement about sex being like eating.
#The whole point of the metaphor is to illustrate the way that this woman thinks of her sin. People look at adultery and state, "That is a terrible thing" and ask, "How can she live with herself?" Yet for her it is no big deal. Yes, the first time she did it, it was probably quite something but no longer. Her conscience has been seared.<ref>Gary Brady, Heavenly Wisdom: Proverbs Simply Explained, Welwyn Commentary Series (Darlington, England: Evangelical Press, 2003), 783.</ref>
#There are other metaphors of eating in the Book of Proverbs that have nothing to do with sex:

:::''...therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Pr 1:31.</ref>

:::''A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: But the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Pr 13:2.</ref>

:::''She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Pr 31:27.</ref>

Based on the above, using Proverbs 30:20 to justify Serpent's Seed is [[Eisegesis|eisegesis]] (which is a common method of interpreting scripture in message circles) and not exegesis<ref>[[Eisigisis]] is the act of reading an understanding, or an opinion into a biblical text, which may or may not be supported or evident by the text itself - in accordance with the person’s own presuppositions, agendas, and/or biases. This is the opposite of exegesis, which means to derive the meaning ‘out of’ the text.</ref>.

==How could the fruit of the tree be sex with Eve when the tree preceded her?==

If the fruit of the tree represented a sexual act with Eve, then how could it have existed before Eve did? It just doesn't make sense.

:''Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not [n]eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”<ref>Genesis 2:15-16 (KJV)</ref>

=Why wasn't Jesus born of sex?=

A message follower asked the following question: '''Why wasn't Jesus born of sex?'''

The reason for asking this question is that message followers think it gives validity to the arguments for the doctrine of the serpent's seed. But this simply isn't true.

The best response to this question, when posed by a message follower, is simply the following question: '''Who was the father of Jesus?'''

Since God the Father does not have a body, how could he have possibly had sex with a woman? It seems logical that if an infinite spiritual being wanted to come to earth as a baby he would simply create a body in the womb of a woman. It is significant that qualities such as those attributed to the Greek gods (like sexuality) are not ascribed to God in the Bible.<ref>Willem VanGemeren, ed., New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1997), 1010.</ref>

=Eve was an after-thought?=

William Branham frequently said of the woman, “She was not part of the original creation. She was a by-product, designed by Satan, to deceive by.” By taking Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 together and by reading them carefully, we can see that this is an error. God created both male and female, one from the dust of the ground and the other from a rib. Both were part of God's creation, which was said to be very good.

=Was the tree of knowledge a fruit tree or something else?=

Genesis 3:6 states

:''So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food...<ref>Genesis 3:6 (ESV)</ref>

What part about being "good for food" makes eating the fruit of the tree a sexual act? This is probably the clearest sign of a false doctrine that there is in the serpent seed doctrine.

This is even clearer in other versions:

:''When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food...<ref>Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Gen 3:6 (Biblical Studies Press, 2006).</ref>

:''The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her.<ref>Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation, 3rd ed., Gen 3:6 (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2007).</ref>

==Why was the ground cursed?==

We are asked by message followers the following question: '''If adultery wasn't the original sin, why do you believe God cursed Eve in childbearing specifically?'''

But a similar question could be asked with respect to Adam which is equally as relevant: '''If eating a literal fruit was not the original sin, why was the ground cursed for Adam's sake and why did the ground bear thorns and thistles for him, making it difficult to till the soil?'''

:''To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

::“Cursed is the ground because of you;
::through painful toil you will eat food from it
::all the days of your life.
::It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
::and you will eat the plants of the field.
::By the sweat of your brow
::you will eat your food
::until you return to the ground,
::since from it you were taken;
::for dust you are
::and to dust you will return.”''<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ge 3:17–19.</ref>

=Cain was of the wicked one?=

The Bible states that:

:''Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. <ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 1 Jn 3:12.</ref>

William Branham interprets this as follows:

:''Before Adam ever had carnal knowledge of Eve, the serpent had that knowledge ahead of him. And that one born of it was Cain. '''Cain was of (born of, begotten of) that "Wicked One". I John 3:12.''' The Holy Spirit in John could not in one place call Adam the "Wicked One" (for that is what he would be if he fathered Cain) and in another place call Adam the "Son of God" which he was by creation. Luke 3:38. Cain turned out in character like his father, a bringer of death, a murderer. His utter defiance of God when faced by the Almighty in Genesis 4:5,9,13,14, show him to be absolutely unhuman-like in characteristics, seeming even to surpass any account we have in Scripture concerning a confrontation of Satan by God.<ref>EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.3</ref>

==Does the Bible say that Cain was "born of" the Wicked One?==

But what the apostle John is saying in his epistle is that Cain literally, '''"belonged to the evil one"''', just as Jesus’ opponents in the Fourth Gospel '''“belong to your father, the devil”''' who “was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44), and just as John’s opponents were “the children of the devil” (1 John 3:10).<ref>Thomas F. Johnson, 1, 2, and 3 John, Understanding the Bible Commentary Series (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2011), 80.</ref>

John is not stating that his opponents were genetically of the serpent. Their problem was spiritual, just as Cain's was.

'''The key to really understanding scripture is context.''' Isolating verses and taking them out of context leads to all sorts of interpretational problems.

Heb 11:4 states, ''“By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than did Cain”''; and Jude 10–11 says that those who revile what they do not understand ''“have gone on the path of Cain.”''<ref> Raymond E. Brown, The Epistles of John: Translated, with Introduction, Notes, and Commentary, vol. 30, Anchor Yale Bible (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 443.</ref>

John’s statement that Cain “belonged to the evil one” reflects Jesus’ words regarding those who were trying to murder him: ''“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning”'' (John 8:44). Verse 13 echoes John 15:18–19: “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” There are also a number of lesser references (cf. John 3:7; 5:28, 38).<ref>James Montgomery Boice, The Epistles of John: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2004), 92.</ref>

John's description of Cain as one ‘who belonged to the evil one’ has no parallel in the Genesis account, but in some Jewish texts (e.g., the second-century-b.c. T. Benjamin 7:1–5 and the first- or second-century-a.d. Apocalypse of Abraham 24:3–5) the murder of Abel by his brother Cain is regarded as an act inspired by the devil. The evil character of Cain is universally assumed in both biblical and extrabiblical sources. The apostle John, too, works on this assumption when he adds: ''And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous''. The text of Genesis, while implying that it was because Cain’s actions were evil that his offering was not accepted by the Lord, and that it was because of Abel’s righteous actions that the Lord accepted his offering, does not specify the nature of their respective actions. However, the writer to the Hebrews, reflecting on the text of Genesis 4, notes that: ''‘By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings’'' (Heb 11:4). As far as that writer was concerned, what differentiated Abel from Cain was the former’s faith and, presumably, the latter’s lack of it.<ref>Colin G. Kruse, The Letters of John, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2000), 133–134.</ref>

Jesus said they (the religious leaders) were of their father, the devil. He didn't mean this genetically, and neither was the apostle john referring to Cain's genes.

:''“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.” – 2 Timothy 3:1-8

=Watch out for the lie!=

A number of Serpent Seed believers end up mocking any idea that man fell "simply" for taking and eating of the fruit of the tree, resorting to the apologetics of embarrassment - '''"Are you serious? You believe that??"'''

What they are in essence asking - what William Branham in essence taught - was, '''"Did God ''really'' say that?"''' Following the question with the declaration, "God really didn't say that."

It has an all too familiar ring to it... doesn't it?

The challenge followed by the lie.

This is a spiritual war, and the one behind the serpent seed lie is the devil, who became the father of all lies in that garden moment, with the planting of the "unseed", the lie that produced death for the first time in the history of the universe. He is the one with the audacity to snuggle up next to the truth and tell you the truth is the lie and the lie is the truth.

'''He's been doing it from the beginning.'''

=Did first-century Jews believe the Serpent's Seed doctrine?=

Message believers are quick to point to the fact that there is some Jewish fiction and rabbinical speculation that regarded the fall of Eve as a sexual sin. The suggestion that they cast light on Paul’s reference to Eve and that Paul might at least have had them in mind, since he pictures the Corinthians as a pure virgin who may not be found pure at her presentation to her bridegroom, is a distortion of the text. There is nothing sexy in Paul’s words. Eve was a married woman and not a virgin. The notion of the devil and of devils and evil angels having sexual intercourse with women is monstrous and found its ugliest form in the fiction of the incubus and the succubus in the days of the witchcraft craze. We mention this aberration only because it still appears in books.<ref>R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Paul’s First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1963), 1239.</ref>

Reading 2 Cor. 11:3 as saying that the serpent sexually seduced Eve, seems to be reading biases into the text.<ref>Robert James Utley, How It All Began: Genesis 1–11, vol. Vol. 1A, Study Guide Commentary Series (Marshall, Texas: Bible Lessons International, 2001), 59.</ref> It is also contrary to Titus 1:15 - 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.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Tt 1:15.</ref>

The serpent’s seduction of Eve was not sexual, but rather a beguiling of the mind by denying the truth of what God had said. The story of Eve aptly depicts the sort of danger the Corinthians faced, i.e. that their minds might be led astray. 4 Paul spells out the exact nature of the seduction he fears: the easy acceptance by the Corinthians of a different Jesus, a different spirit and a different gospel from those they received through his preaching. Paul does not tell us in what way they differed.<ref>D. A. Carson, R. T. France, et al., eds., New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition, 4th ed. (Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, 1994), 2 Co 11:1–6.</ref>

With the expression “just as the snake deceived Eve by his cunning” Paul states a precedent that informs his fear. It would appear that he intends his hearers to recognize three parallels between the record of Eve’s temptation by the snake in Gen. 3:1–13 and the situation he himself faced in Corinth.

First, just as Eve was deceived in her thinking (Gen. 3:1–6) and so lost her innocence (Gen. 3:7),54 so too the Corinthian church was at risk of being deluded in thought (φθαρῇ τὰ νοήματα ὑμῶν) and so losing her virginity (ἀπὸ … τῆς ἁγνότητος). In response to God’s inquiry, “What is this you have done?” Eve declares, “The snake deceived me (ὁ ὄφις ἠπάτησέν με, LXX)” (Gen. 3:13). As in 1 Tim. 2:14, Paul uses the compound verb ἐξηπάτησεν, where the prefix ἐκ- points to “successful deceit” (Moulton and Howard 311) or, more probably, to complete deception.

With the movement from παρθένον ἁγνήν (v. 1) to ἁγιότητος (v. 2) Paul is clearly developing the betrothal-marriage analogy further, but he may also be introducing a new analogy, that of “the church as in some sense the last Eve, related to Christ in the same way that Eve was related to Adam — derived from him, existing for his sake, and for him only.”

Now although the verb ἐξαπατάω, “I turn (someone) away from the right road by deceit” (Zerwick, Analysis 409), could be rendered “entice” or “lure,” it need not refer to sexual seduction. For Paul, the means of the deceit was not lust, but cunning (ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ αὐτοῦ), and the word νοήματα, not σώματα, is the subject of φθαρῇ. We need not go outside Genesis 3 to explain the expression ὁ ὄφις ἐξηπάτησεν Εὕαν.<ref>
Murray J. Harris, The Second Epistle to the Corinthians: a Commentary on the Greek Text, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2005), 740–741.</ref>

=Are you a woman who believes the Serpent' Seed doctrine?=

If you are a woman who believes the serpent seed doctrine, there are a few extra statements by William Branham that should concern you.

==Did Adam and Eve wear clothes before the fall?==

First, William Branham taught that Eve had clothes in the Garden of Eden before the fall.
:''Now notice, it was Eve that led Adam to the wrong, and it was the woman that took off her clothes before her Adam took off his. See?'' <ref> William Branham, August 29, 1965, Satan’s Eden </ref>

==Was Eve actually the tree and not Satan or the serpent?==

Second, William Branham mentioned a number of times that Eve was the Tree of Death. This means that the serpent was simply the "can opener" that Satan used to loose his perverted creation, Eve the tree, on innocent Adam.

:''If Life come by Man, death come by the woman. All right, s'''he was the tree of death'''.’’ <ref> William Branham, December 5, 1960, The Ephesian Church Age </ref>

:''Now you can probably well understand what I've been hitting at. By her beauty and her sex control, '''her shape that was given to her by Satan''', the by-product that Satan did, she is sent to deceive sons of God. And she can sway more of them to hell than any other instrument Satan has got. That's exactly right.'' <ref> William Branham, February, 21, 1965, Marriage and Divorce </ref>

:''"Oh," you say, "she was a tree?" Sure. "Well, they said, ''''Thou shall not take of this tree'''.' God said, in Genesis back there, 'Thou shall not take of this tree.'" Well '''the woman is the tree.''' She is the fruit tree. You're the fruit of your mother. The fruit of the womb is you. That's right. And then the fruit of the Tree of Life, that was in the garden of Eden, is Christ. Through the woman come death;'' <ref> William Branham, February, 21, 1965, Marriage and Divorce </ref>

:''Eve, is Satan's queen. See, Satan, the serpent, got to Eve before Adam got to her. See? That's right. So he beguiled her, see; so '''Satan, the serpent, was the husband of Eve''' before Adam ever knew. <ref> William Branham, August 29, 1965, Satan’s Eden </ref>

:'''''The other tree is definitely Satan''' because of what came forth of the fruit of that tree. Now then, we know that both of those trees had a relationship to man or they would never have been placed there.’’ <ref> The Ephesian Church Age Book, William Branham </ref>

So if you are a woman, and you believe William Branham, you are a tree of death.

Thankfully, the power of this false doctrine is obliterated by the words of the Apostle Paul, who wrote:

:''There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.'' (Galatians 3: 28)

=What about Eve being the mother of all living?=

Message followers often point to Genesis 3:20 in support of the Serpent's Seed doctrine:

:''And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 3:20.</ref>

The argument is that Eve is called the mother of all living but Adam is not called the father of all living, thereby allowing for the existence of the seed of the serpent in humanity. '''Is this what the passage is really saying?'''

The place to begin in attempting to understand this verse is with the fact that “Eve” was Adam’s name for his wife and not God’s name for Adam’s wife. We are so used to speaking of Adam and Eve that we generally fail to notice that not once in the story of the creation and the fall, up to this point, has Adam’s wife been called Eve. She has been called a “female” (Gen. 1:27), a “helper suitable” for Adam (Gen. 2:18), a “woman” (Gen. 2:22, 23), a “wife” (Gen. 2:24, 25; 3:8). But those are all descriptive or generic terms, not names. We do not find the name “Eve.”

This does not mean that God did not name the woman, however. He did.

But the name God gave her is not found in these chapters. It is found in Genesis chapter 5. There, in verses 1 and 2, we read, “When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them ‘man’ [or ‘Adam,’ because ‘Adam’ means man].” In other words, the name that God gave the woman was “man” or “Adam,” which was the name of her husband.

God called the woman “Adam.” But that immediately raises the question, “Why, if God called Eve ‘Adam,’ did Adam call Eve ‘Eve’?” The answer is not that Adam was contradicting God or changing the name of his wife on his own authority. Her name remained “Adam.” What Adam was actually doing was giving Eve a title. For “Eve” is a title; it means “life” in the sense of being a “life-giver.” We would say “mother.” The text says, “Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.”

It is sometimes the case in studying the Bible that the solution to one problem introduces another—that is what makes the study of the Bible so fascinating—and that is precisely what happens here. Yet it is at this point that we really come to the heart of the text. The problem is that, although Adam called his wife’s name Eve, meaning “life-giver” or “mother,” Eve was not a mother. In fact, if we read this and the next chapter closely, we have reason to believe that she had not even conceived. Her first child was Cain, and we are told not only of the birth but also the conception of Cain in Genesis chapter 4: “Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain” (Gen. 4:1). '''So we ask: Why did Adam name his wife “mother” when she was not yet a mother and, in fact, had not even become pregnant?'''

There is only one answer to that question, and it comes from the context. Five verses before this Adam and Eve had heard the judgment of God against Satan in which God said, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel” (Gen. 3:15). This verse mentioned the woman’s offspring and said flatly that her seed would crush the head of Satan.

God had said that the punishment for eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was death. Adam and Eve had seen the judgment of God against Satan. Satan had appeared to them in the guise of the serpent, which was most assuredly not the slithering, lowly creature we know as a snake today. The Hebrew word translated “serpent” in Genesis 3:1 is nachash, which in its early and primary use probably meant “a shining one” (Gesenius). The serpent stood upright and was perhaps the most glorious of all God’s creatures. Suddenly, however, Adam and Eve heard God’s judgment on Satan and saw this beautiful animal turn into a snake and slide away into the bushes. They must have been paralyzed with fear. They had seen the serpent’s judgment, and they were next. What would God do to them? Would they become snakes also? Would they die?

As they thought about this and heard the greatly reduced words of the judgment of God on themselves, the deliberately hopeful words contained in God’s reference to the woman’s offspring must have gotten through. The fact that Eve would have offspring was itself significant. Since she had not yet given birth it meant that she would not die physically, at least not then. Since she had not yet conceived it meant that Adam would not die either (the conception of Cain comes in Genesis 4:1). Moreover, there was the nature of the one to come. He would be a deliverer. He would crush the head of Satan. This was their hope. God had said that Eve would give birth to one who in some manner would be the deliverer. So when Adam named his wife Eve, mother, she not even being pregnant, it was an act of faith, by which he testified to his belief that God would keep his promise and that the deliverer would come.

Genesis 3:20 is not the only place in Genesis that would lead us to think this way. When Eve finally conceived (Gen. 4:1) and brought forth Cain, both she and Adam thought that he was the deliverer. They thought Cain was Jesus, which is why they named him “Cain,” meaning “brought forth” or “acquired.” In colloquial language we would say, “I’ve got him” or “Here he is.” Indeed, when we get to chapter 4, I am going to show that Eve’s words were even stronger than this. For she did not merely say, “I have brought forth [there is the meaning of ‘Cain’] a man,” that is, the man who was promised. She said (so I believe), “I have brought forth a man, even Jehovah [the ‘Redeemer’].”

We know, of course, that Eve and Adam were mistaken. They thought they had brought forth the deliverer when actually they had brought forth a murderer, for Cain killed his brother Abel. But up to this point their perceptions were right. God had promised a deliverer, and they believed him, showing their belief by the naming of Eve by Adam and Cain by Eve. By this they showed that they were staking their hope on the word of God.<ref>James Montgomery Boice, Genesis: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998), 228–233.</ref>

'''So the argument of message followers is false.''' Genesis 3:20 does not support the argument that there is special significant in Eve being called the mother of all living but Adam not being called the father of all living, They miss the true meaning of the passage because they read it with a presupposed meaning in view and not the actual words of the passage.

=Who was the seed of the woman?=

''The LORD God said to the serpent,

:''“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ge 3:14–15.</ref>

Imagine a group of people, a family, and into the midst of them comes slithering as fast as it can (and you know how fast they can come) a snake, a venomous snake, a poisonous snake, coming right at them. One man goes after the snake, and he begins to stomp on it. Finally he crushes the head and saves the family, but only after, in the process, the snake bites him, the poison goes into him, and he dies. That’s the picture.

What God is saying is - the serpent is not just a snake but is Satan. It represents evil. God is saying that an offspring of Eve, the seed of the woman, a human being, is going to destroy sin and death itself but get a fatal wound in the process. A human being is going to come, and he’s going to destroy sin and death, and in the process lose his life. I wonder who that could be...

The first Adam should have done something like that, not just stood there and let the Serpent destroy his family. The first Adam should have jumped on the snake or stomped on the snake or whatever. But the second Adam will. It’s Jesus Christ. Keep this in mind. In Romans 4 Paul says, “In Christ your sins are covered.” In Romans 4 Paul says, “Blessed is the one whose sin is covered. Blessed is the one to whom God does not impute sin.”

In the whole history of the world, there was only one human being that was only an offspring of a woman.

:''Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Is 7:14.</ref>

This is the prophecy of the coming of Jesus Christ, and what Jesus Christ is going to do is he is going to destroy all the works of the Serpent.

If you go to Revelation 12, where it talks about the Serpent, the Dragon, Satan, and his seed, and the woman and her seed, God is not saying, “From now on, snakes and people will hate each other.” That’s not what he’s saying. “This is how the serpent lost his legs and why snakes and people hate each other.” No.

What it’s talking about is the human race will have only two kinds of people in it. There will be people who follow Satan’s advice in the garden and there will be people who follow the Lord. When it says here, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and hers,” that can’t mean it’s putting hatred in the snake. The snake already hates the woman. It can’t mean it’s putting hatred and enmity in the children of the snake, the followers of the snake, because they already hate God.

What is it saying? The first step of salvation is when God puts in you a hatred for Satan and all his ways. You only begin to move out of moralism and legalism, where you just hate the consequences of bad behavior but you’re afraid and proud, and you move into the position where you actually begin to hate sin.<ref>Timothy J. Keller, The Timothy Keller Sermon Archive (New York City: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2013).</ref>

==Interpretive issues==

The divinely ordained hostility that takes place between the serpent’s seed and the seed of the woman. In the vast majority of cases where the Hebrew word "zeraʿ" (lit., “seed”) is used, it refers to an immediate offspring rather than a distant descendant. For example, Seth is Eve’s “other seed” (Genesis 4:25); Abram laments that he is still without seed (Genesis 15:3); Lot’s daughters want to bear their father’s seed (Genesis 19:32, 34); Ishmael is Abraham’s seed (Genesis 21:13); Samuel is Hannah’s seed (1 Sam. 1:11; 2:20); Solomon is David’s seed (2 Sam. 7:12). This observation alone should caution us about seeing too quickly a clear-cut reference here to some remote individual.

Similarly, one should not force an interpretation on her offspring that the expression cannot bear. The Septuagint translates the Hebrew word "zarʿāh" (lit., “her seed”) as spérmatos autḗs (lit., “her seed”). Bbt to read the Septuagint as “her sperm” in order to see a hint here of the virgin birth of this seed (the absence of a sperm-supplying father) is farfetched indeed. If for no other reason, Gen. 4:25 would invalidate that proposal, for here Eve says that God has given her “another seed,” and certainly Seth was not born of a virgin!

However, Genesis 3:15 is good news as the words of God to the woman and the man include expressions both of divine grace and of divine judgment. Yes, there will be pain for Eve, but she is promised children. Sterility will not be one of her problems. Yes, there will be frustration for Adam because of intractable soil, but he will eat and not starve to death.

One may surmise, therefore, that God’s speech to the serpent contains both judgment and promise. Indeed, the serpent is banned and he becomes a crawler. He is under judgment. The promise is that some unspecified member(s) of the human race will one day lash out against this serpent’s seed. More than a change in the serpent’s position is involved here — it is now a question of his existence.

Would this individual, or these individuals, be among the kings of Israel and Judah who are the “offspring” of their father (2 Sam. 7:12; Ps. 89:4), who “crush” their enemies (Ps. 89:23) “under their feet” (2 Sam. 22:39), so that these enemies “lick the dust” (Ps. 72:9)? Later revelations will state that it is Jesus who reigns until he puts all his enemies under his feet (1 Cor. 15:25).<ref>Victor P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1–17, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1990), 198–200.</ref>

=Genetic arguments=

William Branham and followers of the message are "young earth" proponents, that is, the earth is approximately 6,000 years old. Therefore, the biblical timeline they use is approximately as follows:

Creation: ~4004 BC (Ussher chronology, standard with youn earth theology).
Flood: ~2348 BC.
Pre-Flood period: roughly the first 1,656 years of human history.

Message followers believe the pre-Flood earth was populated with two distinct bloodlines:

*Godly Sethites (“sons of God,” carrying the divine seed).
*Vast numbers of serpent-seed Cainites (“daughters of men,” literal hybrid offspring of the serpent-beast + Eve).

These Cainites allegedly built cities, invented metallurgy, music, etc., and were numerous enough that their intermarriage with Sethites provoked the Flood.

==Ancient DNA Evidence from the “Pre-Flood” Window==
We now have thousands of high-quality ancient human genomes sequenced from periods that fall squarely before 2348 BC on the biblical timeline:

*Neolithic and Chalcolithic samples from the Levant, Anatolia, and Europe (~10,000–4000 BC).
*Early Bronze Age samples from the ancient Near East (~3500–2500 BC).
*Specific examples include genomes from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pottery Neolithic, and Intermediate Bronze Age in the very region where Cain’s descendants supposedly lived and built cities (Mesopotamia/Levant).

All of these pre-“Flood” individuals carry:

*Y-chromosome haplogroups that are direct ancestors of modern human Y-DNA (e.g., E, J, G branches).
*mtDNA haplogroups that are direct ancestors of modern human mtDNA (e.g., H, U, K, etc.).

Every single one fits perfectly into the single, continuous human phylogenetic tree we see today. There is zero trace of a second, highly divergent paternal lineage that a literal serpent-beast fathering Cain would have introduced. No “beast-of-the-field” Y-DNA, no hybrid markers, no genetic cluster that looks non-human or even slightly outside normal Homo sapiens variation.Why This Directly Contradicts Serpent Seed

Expected signature is missing.
If even a small fraction of the pre-Flood population were literal serpent-seed hybrids (as the doctrine claims), their Y-chromosomes would form a completely separate branch — just as Neanderthal or Denisovan admixture is still detectable today as distinct segments in non-African genomes. We have sequenced enough pre-Flood-era individuals that we should have sampled both bloodlines. We have not.

==Genetic continuity across the Flood date==

Ancient DNA from the Levant shows smooth genetic continuity through ~2500–2000 BC. There is no sudden population replacement or extreme bottleneck that would match “only Noah’s eight people survived.” The data simply do not support a global wipe-out followed by repopulation from one family.
No second bloodline anywhere in the record.

The entire ancient DNA dataset (now >10,000 genomes worldwide) shows one single origin for all modern and ancient humans — exactly as predicted by standard genetics, and exactly as your earlier point about Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve already established. Serpent seed requires a second root; the data show only one.

'''Bottom Line:''' Even if we grant the strict young-earth timeline that Branham used, the ancient DNA record from the pre-Flood era is genetically identical in structure to modern humans. All sequenced individuals belong to the same unbroken paternal and maternal lines we carry today. There is no room left for a literal serpent-seed bloodline that was supposedly numerous, city-building, and intermarrying right up until the Flood.

The serpent-seed doctrine is not only incompatible with living human genetics — it is incompatible with the ancient DNA that was actually alive “in the days of Noah.”

=Where did William Branham get this doctrine?=

In 1910, Benjamin Purnell from the House of David in Benton, Michigan published a book entitled, "The Star of Bethlehem" which contained details of the Serpent's Seed doctrines:

:''Adam was placed in a garden eastward in Eden, as keeper and lord of the garden; and Eve, the mother of all living (soul) with him as a helpmeet, and not a helpmate — nor did she help him, except to the grave. The serpent beast was a preacher, called Gadrel. And the proof is, he preached to Eve, and transformed the word of the Lord God, and said to her, Yea hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden, etc.

:''Eve did partake of that which was forbidden, and gave unto her husband, and he did eat; (which was Adam — he representing her spiritual husband, being immortal;) but by this act fell, and received the blood with the tares, which she had received from Gadrel in this act of adultery and fornication... <ref>Purnell, Benjamin F. and Mary S., "The Star of Bethlehem", Benton Harbor, MI, 1910, pp.191 & 308)</ref>

We know by William Branham's own admission that he preached at The House of David. is this where he got his doctrine of the Serpent's Seed?

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The Seven Visions of 1933

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William Branham often told of a series of prophecies that were given to him in June 1933 by vision. He was very bold with these prophecies, claiming that the visions would be accurate "to the dot," were "Thus Saith The Lord"<ref>Once More, November 17,1963</ref> and would be fulfilled before the coming of the Lord.<ref>An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, William Marrion Branham, Chapter 9</ref>.

=How many prophecies were there?=

While William Branham stated that there were '''seven visions''', he added the Roosevelt prophecy (in 1958); the egg-shaped, driverless car is clearly two prophecies; and he added an additional prophecy on November 13, 1960 (that he had never previously told) relating to women electing the wrong man.

Thus '''the seven visions of 1933''' are more accurately described as '''the TEN vision of 1933'''. We assume that William Branham went with seven visions because '''seven is a much more spiritual number''' than ten.

In the Laodicean Church Age sermon, William Branham says, “Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?” '''Over 80 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm whether these prophecies were accurate or not.'''

=When were these prophecies made?=

The first time that William Branham mentioned his series of visions was on March 26, 1953 but he does not mention the year he received them. In May 1955, he states that they are written down on a piece of paper. He does not provide a full recitation of the list of visions until November 13, 1960 when he actually states he is reading them from his list. William Branham stated that '''a copy of the list of prophecies had been placed in the cornerstone''' of The Branham Tabernacle. '''However, when [[The Mystery of the Empty Cornerstone|the cornerstone was opened in the late 1970's, nothing was found inside]].'''

William Branham's recorded sermons are the only source as to the content of these visions. There is no corroborating or independent evidence that he ever made these visions public in 1933. In fact, William Branham indicated that most of the visions had been fulfilled in 1960:

:''I was on my way to Sunday school, and when I was getting my Bible, a vision came before me; and I was stopped in the floor. And here was what it said. It's on yellow paper. Will be printed in the "Herald of Faith" right away, because most all of it is fulfilled.<ref>William Branham, 60-1125 - Conference, para. 5</ref>

William Branham often included facts when describing these prophecies that are historically inaccurate. William Branham stated that he kept a book of his prophecies<ref> Souls That are in Prison Now, November 10, 1963</ref>; however, the contents of this book were never released to the public. It is our understanding that the Branham family has stated that this book has been "lost". One has to ask whether it ever existed. However, others have speculated that it was intentionally destroyed because its contents did not support the claims that William Branham made or showed that the prophecies had changed significantly over time.

:''Now, in 1933 when we were worshiping over here in the Masonic temple where the Church of Christ stands today, on one April morning before leaving home, I was dedicating my--a car (I got a '33 model car, and I was dedicating it to the Lord's service.), and in a vision I saw the end time. Now, notice how striking this is. Back yonder when I was just a boy, and you can imagine what a 1933 model car looked like--now, what it looked like. And I went over there to the Masonic temple where... Some of you old-timers in here remembers; '''it's wrote down on an old paper at home. It's already in print and went out around the world.''' See? That was in 1933. And I predicted that there would be some great tragedy happen to this United States before or by the year of 1977. How many remembers me saying that? Look at the hands. Sure.<ref>SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 89-141 SUNDAY_ 61-0806</ref>

We have been unable to locate any copy of the print version of the original 1933 prophecies in any third party publication and many speculate that this never happened. There is no independent evidence that these prophecies were made in 1933. The only evidence we have are William Branham's own words, which we have shown [[Credibility|in other articles are often lacking in credibility]].

=Detailed analysis of the 1933 visions=

Please '''click on the links below''' to go to a detailed analysis of the individual prophecies.

==[[Franklin D. Roosevelt|1 - Franklin Roosevelt]]==

*Prophecy - [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Sept. 27, 1958
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - William Branham mentioned President Roosevelt a number of times in his sermons prior to 1958 but never in relation to this "prophecy." The Roosevelt prophecy is also not included in the list of 1933 prophecies in the [[An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages|Church Age Book]]. '''The prophecy was changed over time so that it appeared to have been fulfilled'''

==[[Mussolini invades Ethiopia|2 - Mussolini Invades Ethiopia]]==

*Prophecy - [[Mussolini invades Ethiopia|Mussolini will invade Ethiopia]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Mar. 26, 1953
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''The prophecy was changed over time'''

==[[Hitler and WWII|3 - Hitler and WWII]]==

*Prophecy - [[Hitler and WWII]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Sept. 27, 1958
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''The prophecy changed over time'''

==[[Russia and the three ...isms|4 - Three Isms]]==

*Prophecy - [[Russia and the three ...isms]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Mar. 26, 1953
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed'''

==[[The Egg-shaped Car|5 - Egg-shaped Cars]]==

*Prophecy - [[The Egg-shaped Car]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Mar. 26, 1953
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed'''

==[[Driverless Cars|6 - Driverless Cars]]==

*Prophecy - [[Driverless Cars]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Sept. 27, 1958
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''William Branham claimed it was fulfilled'''

==[[Morality|7 - American Morality]]==

*Prophecy - [[Morality|American Morality]]
*First time mentioned on tape - April 28, 1956
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed'''

==[[Women's Suffrage|8 - Women will elect the wrong person?]]==

*Prophecy - [[Morality|American Morality]]
*First time mentioned on tape - November 13, 1960 (Five days after J.F. Kennedy won the US presidential election)
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed''' (an analysis of election results showed that more women voted for Nixon than for Kennedy)

==[[Rise of a Woman in America|9 - Cruel American Woman Leader]]==

*Prophecy - The [[Rise of a Woman in America|Rise of a Cruel American Woman Leader]]
*First time mentioned on tape - May 1, 1955
*Timing - '''Before the fact'''
*Status - Ambiguous<ref>The “ambiguous” school of prophecy has as its foremost member in Nostradamus. Ambiguous prophecies are phrased in such a way as to allow a great breadth of potential fulfillments. In respect of William Branham's prophecies, his classic ambiguous prophecy relates to [[Was the birth of Joseph Branham foretold|the "prophesied" birth of his son, Joseph]].</ref> - WMB claimed that it was fulfilled

==[[America in Ashes|10 - America in Ashes]]==

*Prophecy - [[America in Ashes]]
*First time mentioned on tape - August 5, 1960
*Timing - '''Before the fact'''
*Status - Unfulfilled

=Quotes of William Branham=

We believe the following to be an exhaustive list of quotes mentioning the 1933 visions. We have added emphases and numbering to highlight the various visions.

The first mention of the visions was in March 1953. William Branham does not state that there were seven visions and he does not mention the year in which the prophecies were given:

:''People, we’re living in the end time. How many of you people heard years ago down here when they was going to have me arrested down here for preaching on that “mark of the beast”?

::(1) ''When I said that Mussolini, when he first come in power twenty-some-odd years ago, I said, '''“If Mussolini ever goes towards Ethiopia, mark this down, there will never be peace till Jesus Christ comes.”''' And I said,

::(2) ''“There’ll be '''three great isms, Communism, Fascism, and Nazism'''.” And I said, “They’ll '''wind up in one ism''', and that '''one ism will dominate the world and will burn the Vatican City'''.” You remember me saying that years and years and years ago. And just exactly that way! I said,

::(3) ''“Just before that time comes, that automobiles…” Which was built that old straight back, twenty years ago or twenty-five years ago. You can remember twenty years anyhow. And I said, “'''They’ll look like an egg'''. They’ll be shaped. That’s a vision. '''Be something on the shape of something like that''.”

:''And that’s the way they’ll be just before the Rapture.<ref>William Branham, 53-0326 - Israel And The Church #2, para. 41-42</ref>

They are mentioned again in a sermon in May 1955. William Branham does not state that there were seven visions. He only mentions three and he states that it was either in 1932 or 1933:

:''I believe that God is permitting communism to hit the land. I believe I can sensibly prove that by the Bible, that God promised that up into those isms, as communism years ago, when they first got out that N.R.A. I… Now, you remember that. And when Mussolini had first come in power, one morning by a vision… Now, '''it’s written on old paper, laying at the house today''', dated way back in '''1933—’32 or ’33.''' Going to Sunday school one morning, I was caught away in a vision. And I said, “Now…” Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, I said, ''

::(1) ''“Now, there’s going to be '''three great isms.''' Which is now in existence. One of them is in Rome, which is—is Fascism, and one of them is in Germany which is Nazi—Nazism. And the other one is in Russia, which is communism.” I said, “Those three great isms is the unclean spirits that went out of the mouth of the false prophet, and the dragons, and so forth that will unite themselves together, speaking things that they should not, and they’ll all beat at one another, until they’ll finally wind up in one ism. And I predict that that will be communism. And communism will burn the Vatican city. And I said, “Just before the end time comes…” Now remember, I still say this: “Before the end time comes…” Wrote twenty-three years ago.''

::(2) ''“Before the end time comes, '''there’ll be a woman, that’ll be a great ruler in this nation. She will either be president or something on that order''', some great woman. ''
::(3) ''And at that time, '''automobiles, just before the coming of the Lord, will be in the shape of an egg.'''” Now, remember that; keep it in mind. See? '''That was in 1932''', or something like that. And look how they’re shaping down every year, right to it.''

:''We’re nearer the end time; we are.''<ref>William Branham, 55-0501E - The Faith That Was Once Delivered To The Saints, para. 16-17</ref>

About one year later, he states that one of the visions was that a woman would be president before the end (emphasis added):

:''I didn’t mean that to do any harm, women; I don’t mean you Christian women. But just to see women coming into politics and everything, it’s a disgrace; it’s a breaking of the American morale. And remember, this is… America will… A—a woman… I—I better leave it alone. But just remember this. I predict this: that a woman will be president before we’re annihilated. That’s right. I said that in 1933 by a vision. Sure, it’s a woman’s world. Where did it start from? Hollywood. All your dirty, filthy dressing and things, that’s what’s crept into our homes and things like that. And now comes through television, everything else. It’s a disgrace.'<ref>William Branham, 56-0428 - God's Covenant With Abraham, para. 44</ref>

A couple of weeks after this in May 1956, he mentions four prophesies from 1933 and admits that there was no one left who had heard the original prophecies:

:''America! Now you remember, if you haven’t got this wrote down, put it down. This is my prediction. See? In 1933, when we were having services down here where the old, I believe the Church of Christ is there now, it used to be the old…It’s right over here, Brother Neville, right straight down. Charlie Kern used to live there. What’s it… Orphan’s home over here on Meigs Avenue. In 1933, I just got a 1933 Ford, and I dedicated it that morning to the Lord. And, before leaving home, I saw a vision. '''I’ve got it wrote, old yellow paper still waiting in a Bible.''' I saw the end time coming.

:''And, you, how many can remember what a ’33 car looked like back there? Oh, it was kind of run out like this, and way up in the back, and chopped down for the spare tire to hang on. I saw a vision, that:

::(1) ''“Before the Coming of the Lord, that '''cars would look like an egg.'''” How many remembers that prediction? '''Is there anybody left in here? Brother Seward is gone. And I guess…''' It was 1933 when we were having services over here. I guess just about all of them is gone now, since then.

::(2) ''And I predicted, that, “'''America, their number-one god would be women.'''” That’s what it is. Everything is fashioned after Hollywood. I have things on records from the FBI file that would shock you to pieces just to tell you right where. And the scandal on these movie stars, there isn’t a one of them, hardly, but what’s prostitutes. And the FBI exposed it just recently. I have it from their own file. And so all of them living out, even these movie stars, where he proved, they went in and picked them up, living with men, twenty-five and fifty dollars a night, a man, all up and down, in Hollywood and everywhere, had private homes and men back in there where they would send them out to these people. And that’s what we look to, television, and—and out here on these screens and things, and let our children call that an idol. And then call that mother? That’s a long ways from being mother. That’s filth. That’s exactly. And yet they set the pace of the day. Well, let them, the kind of clothes they wear, watch the American women dress right up just like them, and everything. Sure. And America’s god is a woman. Not Jehovah; they’ve turned away from That. Not to mother now, now lay that aside, that’s a sacred thing we’re going to talk about; but I mean woman.

::(3) ''And, remember, I predict that before the great total annihilation, which '''I don’t say the Lord told me this''', but I believe there will be something happen either between now or at that time in ’77. It may come at this hour. But between now and ’77, I predict that either '''a great destruction or a total annihilation of the entire earth, between now and ’77,''' I predicted it in 1933.

::(4)I predicted that women would keep demoralizing and the nation would keep falling, and they’d keep hanging to mother, or like mother like that, till they become, a woman become an idol.

::(5) ''And after a while, that, “'''America would be ruled by a woman.'''” Mark it and see if it’s not right. A woman will take the place of a President or something, of great, some high power in America.<ref>William Branham, 56-0513 - Teaching On Moses, para. 18-21</ref>

He waits almost a year before he mentions the prophesies again but he does not go into any detail other than to state that they were printed in a book and that there had been over a 100,000 copies printed in 17 different languages. The only book that this could be referring to would be "William Branham, A Man Sent From God" written by Gordon Lindsay in collaboration with William Branham. The problem is that, while this book contains references to other visions that William Branham had, it contains no reference to the visions of 1933. We are unaware of any other significant book that was distributed by William Branham. The question must be asked: Which book was he referring to and if it was the book, "A Man Sent From God", why did he state something that was untrue?:

:''My heart has been stirred in the last year, after I have looked across the nations and seen the things heap up, the way they are, and the little isms arising. It well brings to my memory '''what’s wrote there in that cornerstone''', on that morning when we dedicated…or laid the cornerstone. When the Lord woke me up; not knowing what visions was, in those days. I’m looking at the chimney on top of the house, five feet or more from where I was sitting when the vision taken place, twenty-three years ago, in 1933. Be about twenty-four years ago, I suppose. I’m looking at the chimney right now. It was long before I was ever married. I was single, and home. We were just building this church. And we was laying the cornerstone that morning, when the Lord gave me the vision. I had woke up and looked out the window. And it was along in June, and the honeysuckles, or the buds a blooming. And there looked like I went walking out, or something. And I—I saw the Lord Jesus, and saw my tabernacle. And He pronounced to me that this was not my tabernacle; and got me under the sky. '''Many of you know the vision, because it’s wrote and published, and I believe the fourth or fifth edition, of nearly a hundred thousand books has went in seventeen different languages.''' And just watch how that has come to pass, word by word, just did never fail! How that we come together in a lovely little group of people, and how the Lord did bless us, and then from place to place, but finally into the evangelistic fields, and over the world now, how it’s gone.<ref>William Branham, 57-0407M - God Keeps His Word, para. 49-50</ref>

A few months later, in June 1957, he refers to one of the prophecies (emphasis added):

:''You know, the women is on the increase here in the nation, though, you know. That’s what we’re thinking about, you see. I think it’s—it’s about three to five. Three…Out of five children that’s born, three of them are girls. And the women are getting bigger; the men are getting smaller.

:''Women are taking over. Course, that’s just the trend and the prophecy of the day, that this nation is a woman’s nation. It’ll be run by a woman. And remember, thir-…'''1933, I saw that come in a vision, a great powerful woman will take over the whole nation''', some day, that’s exactly right, before the end time, ’fore total annihilation. 34 The cars, in that day, will be shaped like an egg, running back like, in this form there. And it’ll be controlled by some kind of a power, that they won’t even have to use the steering wheel, at times. [Brother Branham snaps his finger once—Ed.] Just set her, and go on like that. See, before the annihilation! Now, you remember, that’s, now, that’s on record. See? '''And women will take over. Women will take over'''.<ref>William Branham, 57-0602 - Life, para. 32-33</ref>

The next mention is over a year later in September, 1958 when he details five of the visions:

:''And in 1933, when the Lord…When we was having meetings over here where that church of Christ is standing now, the old Masonic home, the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that:''

::(1) ''“Germany would rise up and put that '''Maginot Line''' there.” Many of you remember it. And how they’d be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that line. ''

::(2) ''And also said what would take place, and about '''Roosevelt''' and them things, how he would run and make that fourth term. Perfectly, just exactly the way it come to pass. ''

::(3) ''And also said that cars would keep getting '''more like an egg, until the last days they’d be just in the shape of an egg'''. ''

::(4) ''And I said, “It will come to pass that those cars will not be run by a steering wheel. It’ll be something another run them.” It’s them cars they’re bringing out right now, '''remote control''', for safety. Correct. You won’t be able to enter into a city…Then, a twenty-mile zone, you can just go twenty mile. You can’t hit another car, ’cause it’s remote control. See, it’s going like that, and right now. ''

::(5) ''And I said, “Remember, in that day, before the end time comes, before the end time comes, that a woman…Now, you all keep this wrote down. There’ll be '''a great, powerful woman raise up, either be President, or dictator, or some great powerful woman in this United States'''. And she’ll sink, under the influence of women.''

:''Now, you remember, that’s '''THUS SAITH THE LORD'''.” See?<ref>William Branham, 58-0927 - Why Are We Not A Denomination?, para. 136</ref>

The prophecies aren't mentioned again until August 1960 when he relates 3 visions. He refers to the visions a number of times in 1960:

:''You remember, I predicted that in 1933. And it will be that way too. For I saw a vision before the end time,

::(1) ''that '''great and powerful thing stood up in the United States, and she become as stubbles.''' So then, it’s going to happen.

::(2) ''I said, “'''Automobiles will—come like the shape of an egg'''.” You know what a ’33 car looked like.

::(3) ''And I said, “'''There’ll even be traveling on the road, they won’t even have to guide it.'''” They’ve already got that out; I seen it here not long ago. It’ll be controlled by electronics like, or by a magnetic post, to cut their speed and so forth, and raise their speed. They can’t hit against one another and so forth. And I’ve got that wrote in a book since 1933.

:''And it’ll be that way; we’re coming to it now. We’re right in it, because the Holy Spirit is the One that leads the church, and warns us of dangers that is to come.<ref>William Branham, 60-0805 - Lamb And Dove, para. 30</ref>

On November 13, 1960, he states for the first time that he is reading them and that they were from 1932. This is also the first time he mentions that women will elect the wrong person. It is not surprisingly only 5 days after the election of J.F. Kennedy (emphasis added):

:''I’d like to '''read you a prophecy''' that was given. I got on… And may…By the way, Mr. Mercier and many of them are going to take some of these old prophecies, and dig them out, and revise them a little, or bring them up to date, and put them in papers. I’d like to read some things that I’d like for you to—to…This one, first. I’d like to read something to you.

:'''''“1932.”''' Listen to this. “As I was on my way, or as I was getting ready to go on my way to church this morning, it came to pass that I fell into a vision. Our services is being held on Meigs Avenue, at the old orphan’s home where Charlie Kern lives in part of the building.” He lives just across the street now, you know. “And it came to pass, that, while I was in this vision, I seen some dreadful things take place. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. ''

::(1) ''“The President which now is, '''President Franklin D. Roosevelt''',” now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago, “'''will cause the whole world to go to war.'''

::(2) ''And the new dictator of Italy, '''Mussolini, shall make his first invasion towards Ethiopia. And he will take Ethiopia, but that will be his last. He shall come to his end.'''

::(3) ''“We will be in war with Germany. Watch Russia. Now, that, see, '''Communism, Nazism, and Fascism.''' Watch Russia, but that is not the main one to watch. ''

::(4) “It shall also…has been an evil thing done in this country, they have permitted women to vote. This is a woman’s nation, and she will pollute this nation as Eve did Eden.” Now you see why I’m hammering the way I do? I got '''THUS SAITH THE LORD'''. “In her voting, she will elect the wrong person.

::(5) ''“The Americans will take a great beating at a place that Germany will build, which will be a great wall built of concrete,” '''the Maginot Line''', eleven years before it was ever built, “but finally they will be victors. ''

::(6) ''“Then when these women help elect the wrong person, then '''I seen a great woman rise up in the United States''', well-dressed and beautiful, but cruel in heart. She will either guide or lead this nation to ruination.” I got, in parenthesis, “('''Perhaps, Catholic church'''). ''

::(7) ''“Also, science will progress, especially in the mechanical world. '''Automobiles will continue to get like egg-shape.'''

::(8) ''Finally they will build one that '''won’t need a steering wheel. They’ve got it now.''' It will be controlled by some other power. ''

::(9) ''“Then I seen the '''United States as one smoldering, burnt-over place'''. It will be near the end.” Then I got, in parenthesis, “(I predict that this will take place…).” Now, remember, the Lord, that’s what the Lord showed. “(But '''I predict this will take place before 1977'''.) Upon this prediction, I base, because of the onrushing slaught that’s coming now, how fast that it was moving, how long it’ll take till this nation meets its place.” ''

::''Now, look what happened now.''
::'''(see 1 above)''' ''In President Franklin D. Roosevelt, took America to England’s tea party. That’s right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them. Throwed the whole world into a war, that caused the world war.

::'''(see 5 above)''' ''The German’s built the Maginot Line. Which, there, any veteran here knows what she took there at the Maginot Line.

::'''(see 6 above)''' ''Women, given the right to vote, elected President-elect Kennedy, was the woman’s vote, the wrong man; which will finally lead to full control, of the Catholic church, in United States.

::'''(see 9 above)''' ''Then the bomb comes that explodes her.

:''There are seven things predicted, and '''five of them has already happened'''. So you can judge, yourself, how far away we are. We’re near the end. If them five things happened, these other two things are bound to happen. It’s just got to happen.

:''I do not think that Mr. Kennedy will have much effect now, because he’ll make a wonderful President, in order to bring in the others, to get a scene set just like they have in England, like they did in Mexico, like they did everywhere else like that. And American people, so unstabled; not spiritually. They’re smart, but too smart for their own good. Intelligence swings backward, sometime, and backfires. So they…I’m preaching on that, this morning, in a little bit.

:''So, we find out, we’re—we’re right on the verge. Reason I said this; that’s the reason I pressed that, the other day, so hard the way I did. But it was that that did it, that’s right, women’s vote. That put… Did you notice the rallies on the television? Nixon to be, pretty near, all men. All of them wanted to kiss Kennedy, the women, jumping astraddle the cars, everything like that, jumping up-and-down.

:''And now let me bring something else. I haven’t got written here, but, on magnetic tape. And this is taped, too. 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, standing at the…that scho-…Lane Tech High School. They were there. I said, “This year is going to be the changing point of America.” I just come from overseas, don’t know why I come. Come back, canceled my meetings in Africa and around, come back. Billy Graham, something mysterious, he canceled his. Tommy Osborn canceled his. And we all, crossing United States, in meetings. I said, “America will either receive or reject Christ, this year.” Then I said, when they elected, in Indiana, a twenty-two-year boy…-year-old boy, to be judge. The Spirit of the Lord came on me, and I said, “They’ll finally have a President that’ll be one of these crewcut, playboy, beatnik-type Presidents, a ladies’ man.” Now, them is predictions, years ago. See where we’re at? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] It’s later than we think.<ref>William Branham, 60-1113 - Condemnation By Representation, para. 32-48</ref>

A few days later. on November 25, he refers to the visions again. This is the first time that he provides seven specific prophecies. He also states that the list of visions would be published in the "Herald of Faith" magazine, although we have been unable to obtain a copy of this magazine and so cannot confirm that the list of visions was, in fact, published in the magazine:

:''I was on my way to Sunday school, and when I was getting my Bible, a vision came before me; and I was stopped in the floor. '''And here was what it said. It’s on yellow paper. Will be printed in the “Herald of Faith” right away, because most all of it is fulfilled.''' 1933—think of this now. Many, many years ago, about twenty-eight years ago it—it taken place. Watch how accurate His Word is.

::(1) ''Said, “We now have a president (Dwi… Mr. Roosevelt), and this '''Mr. Roosevelt will cause the world to go into a world war''' through his—in his time of his administration, his—his—as president,” and then said,

::(2) ''“And during this time they have permitted women to vote, which will be a curse to the nation. '''They’ll elect the wrong man sometime'''.” And they did the other day. Now, think of that. Said,

::(3) ''“'''We will go to war with Germany, and Germany will be fortified behind concrete.''' And we will take an awful beating at this place,” the Maginot Line eleven years before it was built. See? Exactly. Said,

::(4) ''“This new dictator, '''Mussolini, will take his first step toward Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will fall at his feet.” It did. It said, “That’ll be his last. He will end in disgrace.”''' And I said,

::(5) ''“It will come to pass before the end time comes that '''there will be a great woman stand up in the United States''', because the United States is marked woman. Her number is thirteen, and '''she’ll rise up, either be president, or (I put it in parentheses) perhaps the woman being beautiful and attractive will be the Catholic church but cruel at heart, and she’ll lead the nation to pollution.''' ''

::(6) ''And then it will come to pass that they’ll have an automobile perfected into a place, that '''I seen a family driving in an automobile that was glass topped and didn’t have any steering wheel in it.'''” It was… And I seen the other day that it in the “Popular Mechanics” that the machine is already invented. They can take it anywhere you want to by some sort of a—this radar control. Just set your post to it and it goes right on. You don’t even need it, and it’s glass topped.

::(7) ''Then I turned to look and '''I seen the United States was a smoldering something had burned it up.''' And down beneath there I said, not in the trance, but, “I predict…” (remember this, I guess this is taped too), “'''I predict that these things will take place between now, 1933 and 1977.'''” Which will give us sixteen more years if my prediction strikes right.

:''Now, there was seven things spoke of that would happen. Five of them has already happened. There’s two left to take place. It’ll be that way. '''That’s in the Name of the Lord it shall be that way'''. See?<ref>William Branham, 60-1125 - Conference, para. 5-7</ref>

He mentions them several times during the sermon series on the seven church ages. The first is on December 5, 1960:

:''And at 1906 the Laodicean Church Age set in, and I don’t know when it’ll end, but I predict it’ll be done by 1977. I predict, not the Lord told me, but I predict it according to a vision that was showed me some years ago, that, five of those things has (out of the seven) has already taken place.

:''About… How many remembers that vision, in the church? Sure. Said that, how that even

::''(1) Kennedy would be elected in this last election. How that women would be permitted to vote.

::''(2) How that Roosevelt would take the world to war.

::''(3) How that Mussolini would go towards Ethiopia, his first invasion, and would take it; that’d be the end, he’d die off after that.

::''(4) How these great isms would rise up and all fall back into Communism; Hitlerism, and Mussolini, and Co-…Nazism, and so forth, would all fall back into Communism.

::''(5) And eleven years beforehand, it said that “We’d go to war with Germany, and Germany would be fortified behind concrete,” the Maginot Line. It happened just that way.

::''(6) Said then, after that, would come to place that…come to pass that science would increase so greatly until they would invent a car, the cars would become more like “egg” all the time. And that vision was told right here where the Church of Christ stands now, at the old Mes-…orphans home. Charlie Kern, perhaps in the building tonight, was living at the place at the time. One Sunday morning about seven o’clock it happened.

:''(7) And It said, “Then there would come to pass that they’d invent a car that they didn’t need a steering wheel in it, it would be controlled by some kind of a power.” They’ve got it now. They got it now, in magnetic power, radar control. They don’t even…just set your radar to where you’re going, it takes you yourself, don’t have to steer.

:''(8) Now, and it said in there, “At that time, there’d be a great woman stand up in the United States.” And she was dressed and beautiful, but she was cruel in heart. And I got in parenthesis on the vision, even yellow paper, said, “perhaps the Catholic church.”

:''(1) And the women being permitted to vote would help elect the wrong person for this nation. And that’s what they done. Exactly. Now, said, “That would be the beginning.” ''

:''(9) Now another thing it said, that…Then immediately after that, I saw this nation become as a smolder, just blowed to bits. Now, if them things has happened, so will this other.<ref>William Branham, 60-1205 - The Ephesian Church Age, para. 46-58</ref>''

On December 8, 1960, he mentions the visions again (''emphasis and numbers added''):

:''You remember the vision that was read here, 1933? I was going…The church wasn’t even built. Didn’t know what a vision was, called it a “trance.” I was just a young Baptist preacher, and we were… All my life I saw those visions, and I’ll ask anybody to rise and say if ever one of them ever failed. No, never did! It can’t! See? It won’t! And now, and as I started the Sunday school I fell into a trance. We was having it over here at the old Masonic home, Charlie Kern’s place, little group of us.

::(1) ''And I seen this '''President Roosevelt''' leading the world to a world war. Predicted! I said,

::(2) ''“And there’s '''three isms: the Nazi, and the Fascism, and Communism'''.” I said…(How many in here remembers?) I said, “'''Keep your eyes on Communism, it’ll all head up in there.'''” I said,

::(3) ''“Ethiopia, '''Mussolini''' will go to Ethiopia, but he’ll fail.”

::(4) ''And I said, “We’ll finally '''go to war with Germany''', but” I said “Germany will be fortified in, in a great big bunch of concrete.” Eleven years before the Maginot Line was built, eleven years. I said,

::(5) “Then after the war…We’ll finally win it. And after the war is over, it’ll come to pass that science will be inventing great things.” And I said, “When they do, they’ll make an automobile, and '''automobiles will continually shape down'''.” (You know what they looked like in ’33.) Now then, said, “'''They’ll become like eggs, look like eggs'''.

::(6) ''For I seen on a highway, a great master highway, '''a car going down the road that didn’t have any steering wheel in it'''. It was controlled by a power.” They got it right now. I said,

::(7) ''“During that time…Now they’re permitting women to vote; and women, in voting, will finally…” I said, “This nation is a woman’s nation, it’s marked by a woman. It’s a woman right down through prophecy, everywhere; and number thirteen everywhere in prophecy.” And I said, “It’s a woman’s country, she has her liberties here. And she’ll ruin it, she’s the ruination of the world.” (And, Roy, I got your letters on that, that great woman that… “Every criminal case… We’ve… I’d X-rayed it down now to: every criminal case was ever done in this United States, a woman was behind it.” That’s exactly right. That’s immoral women, you see, and things.) Now, so then I said, “There will be in that time, during that time the '''women will be permitted to vote, and they’ll elect the wrong person'''.” They did it on this last election. That’s right.

::(8) ''“Which will start the stronghold. During that time it’ll come to pass that—that there’ll be '''a great woman rise up in the United States,''' she’ll be beautifully dressed,” and I got in parenthesis: “(perhaps the Catholic church).” See? “That’ll take rulership over the power, overpower the others in the United States. She’ll be beautiful to look at, but she’ll be cruel-hearted as she can be.” I said,

::(9) ''“Then I looked again, and '''I saw the United States just blowed to pieces'''. There wasn’t nothing left on it.”

:''And I predicted then. “Now this, that was '''THUS SAITH THE LORD'''.” And think! Of '''five of those seven predictions, has already happened.''' The church to take a hold, the Catholic church. And the coming of the end time. And I said, “I seen, looked like there was stumps burning; rocks, blowed out; and the whole United States just looked bare, laying like that, as far as I could see where I was standing.”

:''And I said, “I predict, according to the way time is moving, '''it’ll be sometime between this year ’33 and ’77.'''” And it’ll have to squeeze awful hard to get through there. And we’re setting on a powder keg, friends. Everything’s ready.<ref>William Branham, 60-1208 - The Thyatirean Church Age, para. 192-204</ref>

On December 11, 1960, he goes through them again:

:''But the Lord showed me a vision of the great powerful woman, in ’33, 1933, it’s on paper. Of how that

::(1) ''“'''Roosevelt''' would cause…he helped cause the world to go to war.”

::(2) ''How that “'''Mussolini''' would make his first invasion to Ethiopia and he would take it, but he would come to a disgraceful end.” And how that

::(3) ''“Then the three ism: '''Nazism, Fascism, and Communism, would all wind up in Communism.'''” And how many in here remembers me just keep…have you stand, and say it over, I’d tell you, “Watch Russia! Watch Russia, the king of the North! Watch Russia, king of the North! Watch Russia, king of the North!”? How many has heard me just say, just wave that over, over? The old-timers, you see, back in the early part of the church. Just stand there and wave it over and over, “Watch Russia, the king of the North! See, what he would do, for all those isms will heap up into Russia.” Then I said, that

::(4) ''“'''This nation would finally go to war with Germany.''' And Germany would be built in a concrete wall.” And that was the Maginot Line, eleven years before it was ever started to build it, eleven years before. And I said, “The Americans will take an awful beating at that line.” Some of these brethren here was at that line, Brother Roy Roberson and them; ask them what happened. They sure did. All right. “But finally,” I said, “we will overcome and will be one of the winner in the war between us and Germany.” Now, I said, “Then after that time, that science would really progress.” They did, they made the atomic bomb and everything. I said,

::(5) ''“During their progression, they would make a…'''cars would constantly begin to shape like an egg'''.” And you remember the big old hood on the 1933, the big back come down like this, the spare tire on the back of it? Look how it is now, see: streamlined, see, like an egg. And I said,

::(6) ''“Finally '''they will invent a car that they won’t have to have a steering wheel in it.''' I seen a family going down the…Call it, ‘road,’ in a glass-top car, great big fine-looking roads and fine car. And they were sitting, looking at one another, and the car was running by itself, going right on around the curves and everything.” And they’ve got the car right now, it’s already invented. They’ve got the car. And I said then, “Oh, how science will progress in that day!” I said,

::(7) ''“Then I seen a…'''They’re going to permit women and are permitting women to vote. And by voting, they’ll elect the wrong man some of these days.'''” And you did at the last election. It was the woman’s votes that elected Kennedy. We know that, see, between the crooked machines and things fixed up, that FBI exposed. And how could anybody…Why don’t they do something about it? Why ain’t something said? Hah! Afraid somebody’d lose their job. You see, it’s just a bunch of politics, rotten to the core. That’s all. Sure! There ain’t no—ain’t no…isn’t no, excuse me. There is no salvation in this nation, there is no salvation in any nation. Salvation’s in Jesus Christ and Him alone! Uh-huh! That’s right. Now, I’m thankful for America. I’d rather live here than any place in the world, because…outside of Canada. Canada and the United States is twins, we know that, neighboring nations, wonderful place, but I—I believe I’d rather live here than anywhere I know of, because it’s my home. I’m glad that I am an American, and thankful for it. But I tell you, it certainly needs a counter revival, it sure does. And it will not get it! No, sir. She’ll never rise again! No, sir. She’s gone! You remember, about five years ago in Chicago, that’s on tape. You got it, Gene. I said, “They’ll either accept It this year, or they’ll constantly drop down.” And they’ve done it, see, and they will do it till she’ll finally meet her end.

::(8) ''But '''there’ll be a powerful woman!''' Now, remember! This is on tape, too. A powerful woman, great woman, she’ll '''either be President, or it’ll be a woman representing the Catholic church''' (which I think it is) will take over here someday and she’ll rule this country. This nation is a woman’s nation. Flag was made by a woman, it’s number thirteen. She started out, thirteen stars, thirteen stripes, thirteen colonies. Everything’s thirteen, thirteen, thirteen, right on down. Thirteen stars on her silver dollar now. Everything’s a thirteen. It’s number thirteen, and appears in the 13th chapter of Revelation. Completely thirteen! Everything is “woman, woman, woman, woman, woman,” right on down. And she took over all the offices. She’s took over Hollywood. She’s took over the nations. She’s took over the offices. She’s took over everything there is; equal rights with the man, votes with the man, cusses like a man, drinks like a man, anything else. And just bait for the Catholic church, for the worship of a woman! They’re already worshipping a woman, anyhow.<ref>William Branham, 60-1211E - The Laodicean Church Age, para. 44-49</ref>

A month later on January 28, 1961 he states:

:''A few days ago we… Now, I’m not Democrat nor Republican; I’m a Christian; so I don’t mention these things. But I picked up an old book there that the—the Lord had gave me a vision in 1933 when I just first become a minister, going down to the Baptist Tabernacle. And He gave me a vision that morning, and I seen the first one I remember of an international affair.

::(1) ''And I seen that '''President Roosevelt''' that was in then, and seen that we’d go to a world war.

::(2) ''Then I seen also that—that was eleven years before the Maginot line was built, '''I seen Germany fortify themselves in this big concrete place'''.

::(3) '' I also seen they '''permitted women to vote, which was wrong'''. And said they would—'''they would someday elect the wrong man'''; they just did it. And then… So then I seen the time of—of the end coming, and five things that the Lord let… Seven things I saw, five of them has already come to pass.

::(4) ''I seen '''a powerful woman stand up to the United States'''. You can write this down if you do so—it’s going to happen. I don’t know… She’s on her road now. Exactly. And '''she took over.'''

::(5) ''And then '''I seen the United States just like something had burnt it over''' hit it, and just something, blowed up rocks and things.

::(6) ''And then I seen the time there’d be an increase in science. I noticed there’d be an automobile… I had it wrote down there. I got it right with me now, old yellow paper, that there’d be a machine, '''automobile perfected, looked like an egg''', would be glass over it.

::(7) ''And there was a man and woman, '''the family, setting there with their backs turned to one another, playing cards''', and '''the machine traveling itself'''. Something on the bumpers that would—it couldn’t hit the others, going down. And I seen that on television a few nights ago. They got that thing perfected right now.

:''See, all those things that the Lord spoke is true. And we just got two more things left of that to be fulfilled, and that’s the end time. And if there ever was a time that we ought to be trying to get people to God, it’s now.<ref>William Branham, 61-0128 - Why?, para. 93</ref>

On March 12, 1961, he states:

:''And as I said, “We’re '''just being honeycombed with communism''' and everything.” Every ism, it’s… Many of you, if you’d put a righteous President in every county in the whole United States, it’s still gone. She’ll never rise again, '''THUS SAITH THE LORD.''' 1956 she made her fatal move. Now, and she took well on her way about three months ago. Now, she’s gone. Write it in your Bible; see if it’s right. 1933, one morning going to the Baptist tabernacle, I went into a trance, saw a vision.

::(1) ''I saw '''President Roosevelt''' was going to help lead the world to a world war, told it that morning. They was going to lock me up for it. And I said,

::(2) ''“They’ll '''go to war with Germany.'''” Eleven years before the Maginot Line was built, I said, “There…” in that same vision I saw Germany fortified in concrete. And America took a terrible beating there, and many of you boys know what happened, was there. Notice. I said,

::(3) ''“'''Mussolini''' is standing up as a dictator; he will make his first invasion to Ethiopia. But he will take Ethiopia, but he will come to a disgraceful end, him and that woman both.” And they hung them with their feet up, and her clothes hanging over her head in the street, and spit on them. I said, "Science will improve'''.” I said,

::(4) ''“Another thing, the nation has permitted women to vote, one of the most horrible disgraces they’ve done.” And I said, “'''In voting they’ll elect the wrong man'''.” I’m neither Democrat nor Republican. I’m a Christian. Both sides is rotten. But they made their fatal mistake the other day. Women done the works. And how you colored people, sell your birthright to such a thing as that, when the blood of Abraham Lincoln’s stains, up yonder on that dress. God have mercy. Help me, Lord. Oh, my. Maybe I shouldn’t have said it. But I’ve done said it. Remember. Oh, how can it be? My days as evangelist is soon done. I can’t prophetic and evangelist too. I’ll leave the field. That’s in the spirit now. Soon He will be calling me; I’ll leave the field of evangelism. Then He will use me as His seer. What’s the matter with me anyhow? Where was I at? Yes. Genesis 18. Did you get that Gene? Genesis 18, I believe I was speaking on. Then, no, I was on what He told me, would happen. Then He said,

::(5) ''“Science will be increased, until it comes to a place until they’ll '''perfect an automobile, that looks like an egg''', before the end time.” There I seen it. And I said,

::(6) ''“They’ll '''control it with some kind of a steering outfit that they don’t have to touch it theirself.'''” I seen an American family, going down a great big broad way playing cards with a glass-top car, looked like an egg. They’ve got it right now. You seen it on television here not long ago. They’ve got it. And I said,

::(7) ''“Then I seen '''some great powerful woman rise in the United States'''.” ’Cause this is a woman’s nation: woman’s picture on the money; everything is woman here. That’s right. She’s a goddess. Not you Christian women. I’m talking about… Let a little flapper come down the street here with all these shorts, and things. She can do more harm to the church of the living God, among men, than all the bootleg joints there is through the nation. That’s right. This is a… America is a woman’s nation. Got her pictures, Her number’s thirteen, thirteen colonies, thirteen stripes, thirteen stars, thirteen so… Everything is thirteen, thirteen, thirteen and a woman. See? And I seen a great woman rise up, beautiful to look at, but a cruel wicked heart. And that will be a church. And she’s on her road now.

::(8) ''Then I seen the end time when the '''United States looked like a big bunch of bursted up stones and things like that, just blowed out''', smoldering everywhere. Five of them has happened, two of them’s on their road.

:''That has been twenty-one years ago (See?), when it was predicted. If '''five of them is perfectly hit''', the other two’s got to. I see them coming on the road now.<ref>William Branham, 61-0312 - Jehovah-Jireh, para. 74-78</ref>

William Branham reiterates the visions again on August 6, 1961. He indicates that Mrs. Wilson was there and the editor indicates that she shouts "Amen". However, whether Mrs. Wilson was in attendance and whether it was in fact her who shouted "Amen" cannot be verified:

:''Now, in 1933, when we were worshipping over here in the Masonic temple, where the church of Christ stands today. On one April morning, before leaving home… I was dedicating my car. I got a ’33 model car, and I was dedicating it to the Lord’s service. And in a vision, I saw the end time. Now notice how striking this is, back yonder when I was just a boy. And you can imagine what a 1933 model car looked like, now, what it looked like. And I went over there to the Masonic temple, where…Some of you old-timers in here remembers. It’s wrote down on old paper, at home. It’s already in print and went out around the world. See? That was in 1933. And I predicted that there would be some great tragedy happen to this United States before or by the year of 1977. How many remembers me saying that? [The old-timers say, “Amen.”—Ed.] Look at the hand. Sure.

:''Now watch. I predicted seven things was yet in the making of the…before this great consummation or great thing would take place here in the United States, some great horrible thing. I said… Now remember, this is before it started. I said we would go into a Second World War. How many remember hearing me say it? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All right. A Second World War! I said,

::(1) ''“The President that now is…” I copied this off the old scripture, yet, the old thing yesterday, that, “The President that we now have,” which was…How many remembers whose it was? [A brother says, “Franklin Roosevelt.”] '''Franklin D. Roosevelt.''' I said, “The President we have in now will run even in the fourth term,” he was on his first then, “will run into the fourth term, and we will be taken to a Second World War.” I said,

::(2) ''“The dictator that’s now arising in Italy, which is '''Mussolini''', he will come into power. And he will go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will fall at his steps.” There is people setting here now that knows, that there’s a group of people come and stood, when I was having my meeting in the Redman’s Hall down there that night, when I had to go down there to preach that, Redman’s Hall, and was going to throw me out of the hall for saying such a thing. [Sister Wilson says, “Amen. That’s right.”—Ed.] Yeah. Yeah. Mrs. Wilson, I know you’re…[“That’s right.”] That’s right. When I said that…But did he do it? “But,” I said, “he’ll come to a shameful end,” and he did. Him and the woman he run with, was turned up-side-down and hung on a rope in the street, with their feet up, their clothes hanging down. All right, that come to pass. 203 And then I said,

::(3) ''“The '''women has been permitted to vote. Which is absolutely a disgrace upon the nation. And, in voting, some day they’ll elect the wrong man.'''” And they did that in this last election. My, my! Four…(I said, “Science will progress in such a way…”) No, here, that’s third. Pardon me. Here is the next one, there, the fourth. I said,

::(4) ''“Our '''war will be with Germany, and they will build a great big concrete place and fortify themselves in there, and the Americans will take a horrible beating.'''” Almighty God knows, that Who I stand before now, I seen those independent Nazis kick at the Americans like that, and things, at that wall. [A man in the congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] And there is many boys standing here now that was at that Siegfried Line, that knows what it was. [“Amen. Yes, sir. Amen.”] And remember, that was eleven years before the Siegfried Line was built. Is God true? [Congregation says, “Amen.”] Does He still foretell things to happen? [“Amen.”] Watch. That’s, that was the fourth.

::(5) ''Now the fifth thing. “Science will progress in such a way until '''they will make a car that will not have to be guided by a steering wheel.'''

::(6) ''And the '''cars will continue to be shaped like an egg''', until the consummation, the end time. I seen American family going down the road, in a broad way, riding in a car with their backs turned towards where the wheel should be, looked like they were playing checkers or cards.” And we got it. It’s on television. Popular Science, Mechanics, rather, all have it. We got the car. It’s controlled by a remote control, by—by radar. They won’t even have to have any steering wheel in it. Just set your dial like this, like you dial your phone, and your car takes you right on to it; can’t wreck, nor nothing, no other cars. The magnet keeps the rest of them away from you. See? They got it. Oh, my! Think of it. Predicted thirty years before it happened! Now, that brings us then to the election of President Kennedy. And this car coming on the—on the scene, bringing five things (out of the seven) that has happened exactly.

::(7) ''Now, I predicted, and have said, “I saw '''a great woman stand up''', beautiful-looking, dressed in real highly royal-like purple.” And I got little parenthesis down here, “('''She was a great ruler in the United States; perhaps the Catholic church'''.)” A woman, some woman; I don’t know it’ll be the Catholic church. I don’t know. I can’t say. Only thing I seen, I seen the woman, that was all.

::(8)''But this is a woman’s nation. This nation is number thirteen, in prophecy. She’s got thirteen stripes, thirteen stars. She started thirteen colonies. Thirteen, thirteen, everything is thirteen. Appears in the 13th chapter of Revelations, even. She is thirteen. And she is a woman nation. The divorce courts in America produce more divorces, by our women, than all the rest of the nations. The morals in our country is lower, and divorces, than it is in France or Italy, where prostitution is on the street. So, but they are prostitutes; ours is married women trying to live with several men, and several married men trying to live with other women. In the nations where they have polygamy, it’s a thousand times better. And, yet, polygamy is wrong, we know. But, just show how degraded we are.
::
::''I got a piece up there out of the paper, where it showed that when our American boys went overseas, in this last war, that over, I believe, it was around seventy percent…Why, now, wait a minute, I believe it was three out of four that went overseas, was divorced by their wife before they got back. And its great big headline says, “What’s happened to the morals of our American people?” You remember seeing it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All of you did, I guess. “What’s happened to the morals of our American women?” Plants, working out yonder with other men. It’s a woman’s nation. What’s she going have? A woman god, or a goddess. ''
::
::(9) ''Now, then, after that, I turned and looked. And '''I saw this United States burning like a smolder, rocks had been blowed up.''' And it was burning like a—a heap of fire in logs, or something that just set it afire. And looked as far as I could see, and she had been blown up. And then the vision left me. Five out of the three has happened…or five out of the seven, rather, has happened. ''

:''And here comes around and shows. And then I predicted. I never said the Lord told me that, but, standing that morning in the church, I said, “The way progress…” I got back to one end of their wall, and run to the other end of the wall. I said, “The way progress is going on, I’ll predict that the time…I don’t know why I’m saying it. But I predict that '''that’ll all happen between right now, 1933, and 1977.'''” And not knowing it, God knows my heart, I never knowed it until yesterday, that 1977 is the jubilee, and exactly the same amount of time run out that He give with Israel, and everything at the end. So we’re at…And here we are at the end of the age, at the coming in of the seventieth week. We don’t know what time that the Church will be gone. Oh, my! What can we do, friends? Where we at?<ref>William Branham, 61-0806 - The Seventieth Week Of Daniel, para. 200-205</ref>

He mentions the visions in passing on December 30, 1962:

:''You remember, many of you here, the old-timers, Roy Slaughter, maybe, and farther back in that, remembers down yonder when I told you about prophecy. One day, down there at the Odd Fellows’ building, before we ever come to here, I said,

:''(1) “Mussolini will come to a shameful end.” I said, “His first invasion, he will go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will fall at his step. But he’ll come to his end, and nobody will help him. In disgrace will he be buried.” There he is.

:''(2) I said, “There is three isms has rose up. Nazism, fascism, and communism.” I said, “Them isms will revolve and come around into one, and it’ll be communism. Watch. Communism will burn Rome.” See<ref>William Branham, 62-1230M - Absolute, para. 187-188</ref>

The visions are mentioned again on November 17, 1963:

:''1933, the Holy Spirit came one morning and told me seven things that would take place before this nation was destroyed. One of them is that. It’s on old paper there at the church, many has looked at it.

:''(1) How that we would go to war with Hitler and they’d… How Germany would fortify and build a Maginot Line, or the Siegfried Line, I believe it was, eleven years before it was ever thought of.

:''(2) And how that automobiles would constantly shape like eggs.

:''(3) And how that they would permit women to vote, and, in doing so, they would elect the wrong President.

:''(4) And in this would be a woman stand up that would govern the United States; not actually a woman, but a church.

:''(5) Then I seen her with nothing but ashes. It’s going to happen.

:''Five of those things has perfectly been fulfilled exactly.

::''(6) How Mussolini would rise and go to Ethiopia, and fall at his steps; and he would be turned to the people, in shame, with a woman.

:''Many, many years before it happened perfectly on the dot. And it’s never failed, and it won’t fail, because it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. And it’s not contrary to these Bible. It’s got to be.<ref>William Branham, 63-1117 - Once More, para. 124-125</ref>

He does not mention the visions again for about a year but then describes them incompletely in January 1964:

:''And is it not a strange thing, that in this day that when we have come through all these things, and the Message has crossed the earth against organization, It’s blasted it from right to left, that, in this hour that’s been told since 1933, when the Holy Spirit gave me that visions and showed me the end time, seven things that I spoke of, and five of them has already happened, perfectly, right on; like Germany and—and Italy and all the wars, and the national things (seldom speaks to me on those things). But they happened just exactly the way He said they’d happen.

::(1) ''How '''Mussolini''' would go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia would fall at his step, and then how that he’d come to a disgrace, and be spit on by his own people; and disgraced, hung upside down, with that prostitute that he lived with, on the street.

::(2) ''How that '''the Americas would go to war with Germany''', they’d take an awful beating at a place called, a great line where there would be concrete fortified in there, I believe it’s called the Siegfried Line. And there’s one called Maginot, I believe that was the French. Was that right? And the Siegfried Line was the German line. And the Lord let me see that, eleven years before it was built. And they never would admit getting a beating on it, the Americans wouldn’t, till they almost sunk the complete army. When they went in there, the Germans had their guns just trained right out on that fleet, and let it get right in there, and almost sunk it. And I seen that, eleven years before the line was ever—ever a foundation was ever poured for it, or anything, the Siegfried Line.

::(3) ''And all these other things, like '''machines and automobiles''', and—and how everything has come right down exactly what He said,

::(4) ''until '''a woman ruling this nation''', which, perhaps, is the church.

::(5) ''And '''then the end come'''.<ref>William Branham, 64-0112 - Shalom, para. 74</ref>

On March 21, 1964 he said:

:''In my book in there, that I keep wrote down. In 1933, one morning, fixing to go to Sunday school, a Baptist Sunday school where I was pastor, the Holy Spirit come and showed me down to the end time, and showed me seven things that would happen. I marked them down. It’s on old yellow paper.

::''(1) Told me exactly how Germany would build that Siegfried Line, and how the Americans would take a great beating at it, eleven years before the—the line was ever built.

::''(2)Said how Mussolini would raise up, and how he’d go to Ethiopia, and how Ethiopia would “fall at his steps.” And he would die shameful, turned upside down, and his own people would spit on him.

::''(3) And I said, “There is three isms: Communism, Fascism, and Nazism. They’ll all wind up out of Russia, in Communism.” And it will Cath-…destroy Catholicism. See if it don’t!

::''(4)I said, “Such progress will take place!” I said, “I see automobiles looking like an egg, going down the street. There is cars go down the highways, with some kind of a control, they don’t have to guide it. I seen an American family playing checker in the back of a car.” They’ve got the car right now, if they just had the highways to put it on. The little Volkswagen is a perfect egg, just exactly, and it’s all the other cars. Could you imagine, in 1933, what the cars looked like, to now?

::''(5)And then It predicted again, that, permitting women to vote, and what they would do. And how that this country, being a type, like Israel, come into a land and drove out the occupants, and inherited the land. And the first few kings they had, David and Solomon, were God-fearing kings. After a while, they got an Ahab on the scene. They voted him in. The chair’ll got…church got worldly. And, we’ve had a Lincoln and a Washington, look what it is today. Look where we’re going now. Where is the next thing? We’re at the end time.<ref>William Branham, 64-0321E - The Voice Of The Sign, para. 113-118</ref>

He mentions them on July 26, 1964:

:''Look at 1933,

::''(1) how it say the women would act in this last days.

::''(2) How it said the people…How Mussolini, how he’d come to his end.

::''(3) How Hitler would come to a mysterious end.

::''(4) How that the three ism would come in communism.

::''(5) How that the machines would come, looking like an egg.

::''(6) And how that women would wear garments and look like men, even like their underneath clothes; and would finally come to putting fig leaves, like, on them. How the immoral act, how they would act in this day. Look what they’ve done. And it’s right before you, then.<ref>William Branham, 64-0726M - Recognizing Your Day And Its Message, para. 142</ref>

He describes the visions again in July 1964. He states that there were two people who were still around when the visions were told, Mrs. Wilson and William Branham's wife, although there was no indication that either of them was in attendance at the meeting:

:''And now I have predicted by revelation from God, or a vision in 1933, that seven things would happen before the end time. And that, one of them, that,

::(1) ''“'''Mussolini,''' who was then becoming dictator, he would become dictator; and also, he would make an invasion and go down to Ethiopia and would take Ethiopia; and the Spirit, It said, ‘he shall fall at his step.’” I wonder if there is any of the old-timers still left in the tabernacle, remember me saying that in the Redman’s Hall down here when we preached, many, many years ago. Is there one in the building, tonight, that’s left from down there at the old Redman’s Hall when I preached that, when they had the N.R.A. out, way back in time of Roosevelt’s first term? I guess there is not a one in here. Is there one? Yeah, yeah, one, there is one. Yes, Mrs. Wilson, I remember her. My wife, setting in the back. Two left, out of the old generation of those in that day. That, when they said this N.R.A. was the mark of the beast, I said, “Nothing to it; not at all. The mark of the beast don’t come here. It comes out of Rome. And it can’t be the mark of the beast.” And now remember that these things was said. Said,

::(2) ''“'''Adolf Hitler would come to a mysterious end. And he would declare war on the United States.''' And they would build a great—a—a great concrete thing, that they’d even live in it. And right there the Americans would take a horrible beating, at this.” And it was the Siegfried line, eleven years before it was ever started to be built. And then said, “But he would come to an end; and the States would win the war.” And then said, that,

::(3) ''“There is '''three isms: Nazism, fascism, and communism.'''” And I said, “They’ll '''all wind up in communism. Russia will take it all, in communism'''.” And I said,

::(4) ''“Then science is going to be so great, man is going to get so smart, till he’ll invent so many things until he’s going to make an '''automobile that looks like an egg''', that’ll have like a glass top on it,

::(5) ''and it’d be '''controlled by some other power than a steering wheel.'''” And they’ve got the car. And I said,

::(6) ''“Then the '''morals of our women is going to fall in such a degraded things''', till they’re going to be a disgrace to all nations. They’re going to wear man’s clothes. They’re going to keep taking off their clothes till actually they come down like they got their underneath clothes on, that’s all. And, finally, they’ll come to wearing just a fig leaf.” And if you notice, in last month’s Life magazine, they had the woman with the fig leaves on. And that’s the new evening frock, or gown, what they wear of the evening; transparent, can see through it, only the fig leaves just hides a certain spot of her body; with strapless, or strap, unstrapped bathing suits, the top of it, exposed body. And how that those things has happened! Then I said,

::(6) ''“I seen '''a woman stand in the United States, like a great queen or something'''. And she was beautiful to look at, but wicked in her heart. And she made the nation step, go at her step.” Then I said,

::(7) ''“Finally, He told me to look back East again. And, when I did, I seen, looked like, as it was, '''the world had exploded'''. And as far as I could see, was nothing but sticks, and—and smoldering rocks had been blowed up out of the earth.”

And these were to happen before the end of the world. And five of the seven has already happened, in thirty-three years. There we are, back to the end time!<ref>William Branham, 64-0726E - Broken Cisterns, para. 50-57</ref>

The final time the visions are mentioned is on August 23, 1964:

:''Paul Boyd wrote here concerning those seven things that I seen in 1933, that was to come to pass. And he watches them just as close, technically, as he can, because he’s a historian. And he watches it, just exactly what you say. And he seen those things that was told of many years ago:

::''(1) about how that Mussolini…and what would become of him, and

::''(2) Hitler, and what would become of him; and

::''(3) how Communism would take both Fascism and all of these; and

::''(4) how the—the Siegfried Line would be built, and how that the Americans would take a beating there (and they never would admit it till just about two years ago, and they got the German pictures of the siege there; and they really took a beating. They liked…They lost their whole army almost right there); and all those things that were done.

::''(5) And now, it also said, “And it shall come to pass, that before the end time shall come, that automobiles will take on the shape of an egg, become more like an egg.” And I saw an American family driving down a highway in a car that…They were setting facing one another, and had a table, and were, look like, playing checkers or cards. And they didn’t have any steering wheel in the car. And it was controlled by some power without a steering wheel. How many remembers me prophesying that (see?), that’s been here? Now, at the World’s Fair they’ve already got the car on the market. Here is the…It’s sold now; some big company has taken many of them. And this car, here it is. Paul Boyd remembered the prophecy, looked into his book what I’d said, and took the picture in there. And there it is, exactly in the form of an egg, with two seats setting that way, and two seats setting this way, and a table setting in the middle to play the cards and things on, just exactly.

:''The Lord’s Word is perfectly accurate. That was in 1933. That would be…Let’s see, what would that be? Thirty-two years ago, wouldn’t it? This is ’64. Yeah, thirty…Yeah, thirty-one years ago. Thirty-one years ago the Lord told me that, and here it is. And the company’s here that’s already ordered them; and the—and trucking companies and things are getting trucks made like them. They can control it right from their headquarters like that, don’t even have to have a driver in it. And here it is all already made, and there it is with the cars. Now, it’s on the bulletin board in the back, and you can read the prophecy and just see how accurate our God is, how His Word…He said, “Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never fail.”

:''Just look, thirty-three years ago. You know what a—what a 1931, or whatever it was, model car would look like; it’d look like a relic. It said, “It’ll look just like an egg, become like an egg.” Of course, there’s nobody here, I guess, that’s living today or among us that heard me say that. It’s…You’ve heard me say it down through the ages, but…Yeah, here’s a woman setting here. Why, Mrs. Wilson, I didn’t see you there. You remember when that taken place. That’s when she was healed, dying with TB (the woman, her husband and daughter came for me to go pray for her) till she’d hemorrhaged until the—the corner was laying full of—of pillow slips and things that she’d bled. And the doctor said, “There’s not a way of getting her ever to live,” and even…She was trying to say something to me before dying, and the blood would spurt out over the blankets and sheets when she was there, when she’d try to cough. And I took her out of that bed, and took her to a cold river here, and a icy water, and baptized her in the Name of Jesus Christ. And that’s been thirty-three years ago, and here she sets today, still living, when the big, healthy children, a lot of them are gone on. There you are. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!” That just shows how perfect it comes to pass when it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.

:''[A woman speaks to Brother Branham from the congregation—Ed.] Yes, that’s—that’s right, Sister. Yes, sir! The women…

::''(6) I said the women would become so immoral in the la-…Now, you know thirty years ago how they dress. Said they become so immoral, till they walk down the street with just like underneath clothes on. And I said, “Then will come to pass, that they’ll even be so disgraceful, till they’ll wear something looks like a fig leaf.” I saw it, and they’ve got it; and they’re wearing it. Just the—the immorality of women would get so low and degraded! We can’t go no lower now; you can’t go no worse. She’s at the end! See, they’ll never be completely nude.<ref>William Branham, 64-0823M - Questions And Answers #1, para. 16-</ref>

The 1933 visions were also mentioned in the [[An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages|Church Age Book]]. Given that this book was compiled by Lee Vayle from the sermons on the seven church ages and reviewed in detail by William Branham, we would have to view this listing as being determinative. However, they must be compared to what William Branham has stated previously and any discrepancies noted from other times that William Branham stated he was reading from the list of prophecies as recorded by him in 1933. This comparison is detailed above in our analysis (emphasis and numbers added):

:''The Laodicean Age began around the turn of the Twentieth Century, perhaps 1906. How long will it last? As a servant of God who has had multitudes of visions, of which NONE has ever failed, let me predict (I did not say prophesy, but predict) that this age will end around 1977. If you will pardon a personal note here, I base this prediction on seven major continuous visions that came to me one Sunday morning in June, 1933. The Lord Jesus spoke to me and said that the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh, but that before He came, seven major events would transpire. I wrote them all down and that morning I gave forth the revelation of the Lord.

:(1) ''The first vision was that '''Mussolini''' would invade Ethiopia and that nation would “fall at his steps.” That vision surely did cause some repercussions, and some were very angry when I said it and would not believe it. But it happened that way. He just walked in there with his modern arms and took over. The natives didn’t have a chance. But the vision also said that Mussolini would come to a horrible end with his own people turning on him. That came to pass just exactly as it was said.

:(2) ''The next vision foretold that an '''Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler''' would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.

:(3) ''The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be '''three great ISMS, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third.''' The voice admonished, “WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North.”

:(4) ''The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of '''a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control''' so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves.

:(5) ''The fifth vision had to do with the '''moral problem of our age''', centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men’s clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world.

:(6) ''Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.

:(7) ''The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard '''a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America'''.

:''Based on these seven visions, along with the rapid changes which have swept the world in the last fifty years, I PREDICT (I do not prophesy) that these visions will have all come to pass by 1977. And though many may feel that this is an irresponsible statement in view of the fact that Jesus said that “no man knoweth the day nor the hour.” I still maintain this prediction after thirty years because, '''Jesus did NOT say no man could know the year, month or week in which His coming was to be completed.''' So I repeat, 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. Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled? Yes, each one has been fulfilled, or is in the process right now. Mussolini invaded Ethiopia successfully, then fell and lost it all. Hitler started a war he could not finish and died mysteriously. Communism took over both the other two ISMS. The plastic bubble car has been built and is awaiting only a better network of roads. Women are all but naked, and are even now wearing topless bathing suits. And just the other day I saw in a magazine the very dress that I saw in my vision (if you can call it a dress). It was a plastic transparent type of cloth with three darkened spots that covered both breasts in a small area, and then there was a dark place like a small apron below. The Catholic Church is on the rise. We have had one Catholic president and will no doubt have another. What is left? Nothing except Hebrews 12:26, “Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - 9 - The Laodicean Church Age</ref>

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The Seven Visions of 1933

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William Branham often told of a series of prophecies that were given to him in June 1933 by vision. He was very bold with these prophecies, claiming that the visions would be accurate "to the dot," were "Thus Saith The Lord"<ref>Once More, November 17,1963</ref> and would be fulfilled before the coming of the Lord.<ref>An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, William Marrion Branham, Chapter 9</ref>.

=How many prophecies were there?=

While William Branham stated that there were '''seven visions''', he added the Roosevelt prophecy (in 1958); the egg-shaped, driverless car is clearly two prophecies; and he added an additional prophecy on November 13, 1960 (that he had never previously told) relating to women electing the wrong man.

Thus '''the seven visions of 1933''' are more accurately described as '''the TEN vision of 1933'''. We assume that William Branham went with seven visions because '''seven is a much more spiritual number''' than ten.

In the Laodicean Church Age sermon, William Branham says, “Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?” '''Over 80 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm whether these prophecies were accurate or not.'''

=When were these prophecies made?=

The first time that William Branham mentioned his series of visions was on March 26, 1953 but he does not mention the year he received them. In May 1955, he states that they are written down on a piece of paper. He does not provide a full recitation of the list of visions until November 13, 1960 when he actually states he is reading them from his list. William Branham stated that '''a copy of the list of prophecies had been placed in the cornerstone''' of The Branham Tabernacle. '''However, when [[The Mystery of the Empty Cornerstone|the cornerstone was opened in the late 1970's, nothing was found inside]].'''

William Branham's recorded sermons are the only source as to the content of these visions. There is no corroborating or independent evidence that he ever made these visions public in 1933. In fact, William Branham indicated that most of the visions had been fulfilled in 1960:

:''I was on my way to Sunday school, and when I was getting my Bible, a vision came before me; and I was stopped in the floor. And here was what it said. It's on yellow paper. Will be printed in the "Herald of Faith" right away, because most all of it is fulfilled.<ref>William Branham, 60-1125 - Conference, para. 5</ref>

William Branham often included facts when describing these prophecies that are historically inaccurate. William Branham stated that he kept a book of his prophecies<ref> Souls That are in Prison Now, November 10, 1963</ref>; however, the contents of this book were never released to the public. It is our understanding that the Branham family has stated that this book has been "lost". One has to ask whether it ever existed. However, others have speculated that it was intentionally destroyed because its contents did not support the claims that William Branham made or showed that the prophecies had changed significantly over time.

:''Now, in 1933 when we were worshiping over here in the Masonic temple where the Church of Christ stands today, on one April morning before leaving home, I was dedicating my--a car (I got a '33 model car, and I was dedicating it to the Lord's service.), and in a vision I saw the end time. Now, notice how striking this is. Back yonder when I was just a boy, and you can imagine what a 1933 model car looked like--now, what it looked like. And I went over there to the Masonic temple where... Some of you old-timers in here remembers; '''it's wrote down on an old paper at home. It's already in print and went out around the world.''' See? That was in 1933. And I predicted that there would be some great tragedy happen to this United States before or by the year of 1977. How many remembers me saying that? Look at the hands. Sure.<ref>SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 89-141 SUNDAY_ 61-0806</ref>

We have been unable to locate any copy of the print version of the original 1933 prophecies in any third party publication and many speculate that this never happened. There is no independent evidence that these prophecies were made in 1933. The only evidence we have are William Branham's own words, which we have shown [[Credibility|in other articles are often lacking in credibility]].

=Detailed analysis of the 1933 visions=

Please '''click on the links below''' to go to a detailed analysis of the individual prophecies.

==[[Franklin D. Roosevelt|1 - Franklin Roosevelt]]==

*Prophecy - [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Sept. 27, 1958
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - William Branham mentioned President Roosevelt a number of times in his sermons prior to 1958 but never in relation to this "prophecy." The Roosevelt prophecy is also not included in the list of 1933 prophecies in the [[An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages|Church Age Book]]. '''The prophecy was changed over time so that it appeared to have been fulfilled'''

==[[Mussolini invades Ethiopia|2 - Mussolini Invades Ethiopia]]==

*Prophecy - [[Mussolini invades Ethiopia|Mussolini will invade Ethiopia]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Mar. 26, 1953
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''The prophecy was changed over time'''

==[[Hitler and WWII|3 - Hitler and WWII]]==

*Prophecy - [[Hitler and WWII]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Sept. 27, 1958
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''The prophecy changed over time'''

==[[Russia and the three ...isms|4 - Three Isms]]==

*Prophecy - [[Russia and the three ...isms]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Mar. 26, 1953
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed'''

==[[The Egg-shaped Car|5 - Egg-shaped Cars]]==

*Prophecy - [[The Egg-shaped Car]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Mar. 26, 1953
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed'''

==[[Driverless Cars|6 - Driverless Cars]]==

*Prophecy - [[Driverless Cars]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Sept. 27, 1958
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''William Branham claimed it was fulfilled'''

==[[Morality|7 - American Morality]]==

*Prophecy - [[Morality|American Morality]]
*First time mentioned on tape - April 28, 1956
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed'''

==[[Women's Suffrage|8 - Women will elect the wrong person?]]==

*Prophecy - [[Morality|American Morality]]
*First time mentioned on tape - November 13, 1960 (Five days after J.F. Kennedy won the US presidential election)
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed''' (an analysis of election results showed that more women voted for Nixon than for Kennedy)

==[[Rise of a Woman in America|9 - Cruel American Woman Leader]]==

*Prophecy - The [[Rise of a Woman in America|Rise of a Cruel American Woman Leader]]
*First time mentioned on tape - May 1, 1955
*Timing - '''Before the fact'''
*Status - Ambiguous<ref>The “ambiguous” school of prophecy has as its foremost member in Nostradamus. Ambiguous prophecies are phrased in such a way as to allow a great breadth of potential fulfillments. In respect of William Branham's prophecies, his classic ambiguous prophecy relates to [[Was the birth of Joseph Branham foretold|the "prophesied" birth of his son, Joseph]].</ref> - WMB claimed that it was fulfilled

==[[America in Ashes|10 - America in Ashes]]==

*Prophecy - [[America in Ashes]]
*First time mentioned on tape - August 5, 1960
*Timing - '''Before the fact'''
*Status - Unfulfilled

=Quotes of William Branham=

We believe the following to be an exhaustive list of quotes mentioning the 1933 visions. We have added emphases and numbering to highlight the various visions.

The first mention of the visions was in March 1953. William Branham does not state that there were seven visions and he does not mention the year in which the prophecies were given:

:''People, we’re living in the end time. How many of you people heard years ago down here when they was going to have me arrested down here for preaching on that “mark of the beast”?

::(1) ''When I said that Mussolini, when he first come in power twenty-some-odd years ago, I said, '''“If Mussolini ever goes towards Ethiopia, mark this down, there will never be peace till Jesus Christ comes.”''' And I said,

::(2) ''“There’ll be '''three great isms, Communism, Fascism, and Nazism'''.” And I said, “They’ll '''wind up in one ism''', and that '''one ism will dominate the world and will burn the Vatican City'''.” You remember me saying that years and years and years ago. And just exactly that way! I said,

::(3) ''“Just before that time comes, that automobiles…” Which was built that old straight back, twenty years ago or twenty-five years ago. You can remember twenty years anyhow. And I said, “'''They’ll look like an egg'''. They’ll be shaped. That’s a vision. '''Be something on the shape of something like that''.”

:''And that’s the way they’ll be just before the Rapture.<ref>William Branham, 53-0326 - Israel And The Church #2, para. 41-42</ref>

They are mentioned again in a sermon in May 1955. William Branham does not state that there were seven visions. He only mentions three and he states that it was either in 1932 or 1933:

:''I believe that God is permitting communism to hit the land. I believe I can sensibly prove that by the Bible, that God promised that up into those isms, as communism years ago, when they first got out that N.R.A. I… Now, you remember that. And when Mussolini had first come in power, one morning by a vision… Now, '''it’s written on old paper, laying at the house today''', dated way back in '''1933—’32 or ’33.''' Going to Sunday school one morning, I was caught away in a vision. And I said, “Now…” Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, I said, ''

::(1) ''“Now, there’s going to be '''three great isms.''' Which is now in existence. One of them is in Rome, which is—is Fascism, and one of them is in Germany which is Nazi—Nazism. And the other one is in Russia, which is communism.” I said, “Those three great isms is the unclean spirits that went out of the mouth of the false prophet, and the dragons, and so forth that will unite themselves together, speaking things that they should not, and they’ll all beat at one another, until they’ll finally wind up in one ism. And I predict that that will be communism. And communism will burn the Vatican city. And I said, “Just before the end time comes…” Now remember, I still say this: “Before the end time comes…” Wrote twenty-three years ago.''

::(2) ''“Before the end time comes, '''there’ll be a woman, that’ll be a great ruler in this nation. She will either be president or something on that order''', some great woman. ''
::(3) ''And at that time, '''automobiles, just before the coming of the Lord, will be in the shape of an egg.'''” Now, remember that; keep it in mind. See? '''That was in 1932''', or something like that. And look how they’re shaping down every year, right to it.''

:''We’re nearer the end time; we are.''<ref>William Branham, 55-0501E - The Faith That Was Once Delivered To The Saints, para. 16-17</ref>

About one year later, he states that one of the visions was that a woman would be president before the end (emphasis added):

:''I didn’t mean that to do any harm, women; I don’t mean you Christian women. But just to see women coming into politics and everything, it’s a disgrace; it’s a breaking of the American morale. And remember, this is… America will… A—a woman… I—I better leave it alone. But just remember this. I predict this: that a woman will be president before we’re annihilated. That’s right. I said that in 1933 by a vision. Sure, it’s a woman’s world. Where did it start from? Hollywood. All your dirty, filthy dressing and things, that’s what’s crept into our homes and things like that. And now comes through television, everything else. It’s a disgrace.'<ref>William Branham, 56-0428 - God's Covenant With Abraham, para. 44</ref>

A couple of weeks after this in May 1956, he mentions four prophesies from 1933 and admits that there was no one left who had heard the original prophecies:

:''America! Now you remember, if you haven’t got this wrote down, put it down. This is my prediction. See? In 1933, when we were having services down here where the old, I believe the Church of Christ is there now, it used to be the old…It’s right over here, Brother Neville, right straight down. Charlie Kern used to live there. What’s it… Orphan’s home over here on Meigs Avenue. In 1933, I just got a 1933 Ford, and I dedicated it that morning to the Lord. And, before leaving home, I saw a vision. '''I’ve got it wrote, old yellow paper still waiting in a Bible.''' I saw the end time coming.

:''And, you, how many can remember what a ’33 car looked like back there? Oh, it was kind of run out like this, and way up in the back, and chopped down for the spare tire to hang on. I saw a vision, that:

::(1) ''“Before the Coming of the Lord, that '''cars would look like an egg.'''” How many remembers that prediction? '''Is there anybody left in here? Brother Seward is gone. And I guess…''' It was 1933 when we were having services over here. I guess just about all of them is gone now, since then.

::(2) ''And I predicted, that, “'''America, their number-one god would be women.'''” That’s what it is. Everything is fashioned after Hollywood. I have things on records from the FBI file that would shock you to pieces just to tell you right where. And the scandal on these movie stars, there isn’t a one of them, hardly, but what’s prostitutes. And the FBI exposed it just recently. I have it from their own file. And so all of them living out, even these movie stars, where he proved, they went in and picked them up, living with men, twenty-five and fifty dollars a night, a man, all up and down, in Hollywood and everywhere, had private homes and men back in there where they would send them out to these people. And that’s what we look to, television, and—and out here on these screens and things, and let our children call that an idol. And then call that mother? That’s a long ways from being mother. That’s filth. That’s exactly. And yet they set the pace of the day. Well, let them, the kind of clothes they wear, watch the American women dress right up just like them, and everything. Sure. And America’s god is a woman. Not Jehovah; they’ve turned away from That. Not to mother now, now lay that aside, that’s a sacred thing we’re going to talk about; but I mean woman.

::(3) ''And, remember, I predict that before the great total annihilation, which '''I don’t say the Lord told me this''', but I believe there will be something happen either between now or at that time in ’77. It may come at this hour. But between now and ’77, I predict that either '''a great destruction or a total annihilation of the entire earth, between now and ’77,''' I predicted it in 1933.

::(4)I predicted that women would keep demoralizing and the nation would keep falling, and they’d keep hanging to mother, or like mother like that, till they become, a woman become an idol.

::(5) ''And after a while, that, “'''America would be ruled by a woman.'''” Mark it and see if it’s not right. A woman will take the place of a President or something, of great, some high power in America.<ref>William Branham, 56-0513 - Teaching On Moses, para. 18-21</ref>

He waits almost a year before he mentions the prophesies again but he does not go into any detail other than to state that they were printed in a book and that there had been over a 100,000 copies printed in 17 different languages. The only book that this could be referring to would be "William Branham, A Man Sent From God" written by Gordon Lindsay in collaboration with William Branham. The problem is that, while this book contains references to other visions that William Branham had, it contains no reference to the visions of 1933. We are unaware of any other significant book that was distributed by William Branham. The question must be asked: Which book was he referring to and if it was the book, "A Man Sent From God", why did he state something that was untrue?:

:''My heart has been stirred in the last year, after I have looked across the nations and seen the things heap up, the way they are, and the little isms arising. It well brings to my memory '''what’s wrote there in that cornerstone''', on that morning when we dedicated…or laid the cornerstone. When the Lord woke me up; not knowing what visions was, in those days. I’m looking at the chimney on top of the house, five feet or more from where I was sitting when the vision taken place, twenty-three years ago, in 1933. Be about twenty-four years ago, I suppose. I’m looking at the chimney right now. It was long before I was ever married. I was single, and home. We were just building this church. And we was laying the cornerstone that morning, when the Lord gave me the vision. I had woke up and looked out the window. And it was along in June, and the honeysuckles, or the buds a blooming. And there looked like I went walking out, or something. And I—I saw the Lord Jesus, and saw my tabernacle. And He pronounced to me that this was not my tabernacle; and got me under the sky. '''Many of you know the vision, because it’s wrote and published, and I believe the fourth or fifth edition, of nearly a hundred thousand books has went in seventeen different languages.''' And just watch how that has come to pass, word by word, just did never fail! How that we come together in a lovely little group of people, and how the Lord did bless us, and then from place to place, but finally into the evangelistic fields, and over the world now, how it’s gone.<ref>William Branham, 57-0407M - God Keeps His Word, para. 49-50</ref>

A few months later, in June 1957, he refers to one of the prophecies (emphasis added):

:''You know, the women is on the increase here in the nation, though, you know. That’s what we’re thinking about, you see. I think it’s—it’s about three to five. Three…Out of five children that’s born, three of them are girls. And the women are getting bigger; the men are getting smaller.

:''Women are taking over. Course, that’s just the trend and the prophecy of the day, that this nation is a woman’s nation. It’ll be run by a woman. And remember, thir-…'''1933, I saw that come in a vision, a great powerful woman will take over the whole nation''', some day, that’s exactly right, before the end time, ’fore total annihilation. 34 The cars, in that day, will be shaped like an egg, running back like, in this form there. And it’ll be controlled by some kind of a power, that they won’t even have to use the steering wheel, at times. [Brother Branham snaps his finger once—Ed.] Just set her, and go on like that. See, before the annihilation! Now, you remember, that’s, now, that’s on record. See? '''And women will take over. Women will take over'''.<ref>William Branham, 57-0602 - Life, para. 32-33</ref>

The next mention is over a year later in September, 1958 when he details five of the visions:

:''And in 1933, when the Lord…When we was having meetings over here where that church of Christ is standing now, the old Masonic home, the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that:''

::(1) ''“Germany would rise up and put that '''Maginot Line''' there.” Many of you remember it. And how they’d be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that line. ''

::(2) ''And also said what would take place, and about '''Roosevelt''' and them things, how he would run and make that fourth term. Perfectly, just exactly the way it come to pass. ''

::(3) ''And also said that cars would keep getting '''more like an egg, until the last days they’d be just in the shape of an egg'''. ''

::(4) ''And I said, “It will come to pass that those cars will not be run by a steering wheel. It’ll be something another run them.” It’s them cars they’re bringing out right now, '''remote control''', for safety. Correct. You won’t be able to enter into a city…Then, a twenty-mile zone, you can just go twenty mile. You can’t hit another car, ’cause it’s remote control. See, it’s going like that, and right now. ''

::(5) ''And I said, “Remember, in that day, before the end time comes, before the end time comes, that a woman…Now, you all keep this wrote down. There’ll be '''a great, powerful woman raise up, either be President, or dictator, or some great powerful woman in this United States'''. And she’ll sink, under the influence of women.''

:''Now, you remember, that’s '''THUS SAITH THE LORD'''.” See?<ref>William Branham, 58-0927 - Why Are We Not A Denomination?, para. 136</ref>

The prophecies aren't mentioned again until August 1960 when he relates 3 visions. He refers to the visions a number of times in 1960:

:''You remember, I predicted that in 1933. And it will be that way too. For I saw a vision before the end time,

::(1) ''that '''great and powerful thing stood up in the United States, and she become as stubbles.''' So then, it’s going to happen.

::(2) ''I said, “'''Automobiles will—come like the shape of an egg'''.” You know what a ’33 car looked like.

::(3) ''And I said, “'''There’ll even be traveling on the road, they won’t even have to guide it.'''” They’ve already got that out; I seen it here not long ago. It’ll be controlled by electronics like, or by a magnetic post, to cut their speed and so forth, and raise their speed. They can’t hit against one another and so forth. And I’ve got that wrote in a book since 1933.

:''And it’ll be that way; we’re coming to it now. We’re right in it, because the Holy Spirit is the One that leads the church, and warns us of dangers that is to come.<ref>William Branham, 60-0805 - Lamb And Dove, para. 30</ref>

On November 13, 1960, he states for the first time that he is reading them and that they were from 1932. This is also the first time he mentions that women will elect the wrong person. It is not surprisingly only 5 days after the election of J.F. Kennedy (emphasis added):

:''I’d like to '''read you a prophecy''' that was given. I got on… And may…By the way, Mr. Mercier and many of them are going to take some of these old prophecies, and dig them out, and revise them a little, or bring them up to date, and put them in papers. I’d like to read some things that I’d like for you to—to…This one, first. I’d like to read something to you.

:'''''“1932.”''' Listen to this. “As I was on my way, or as I was getting ready to go on my way to church this morning, it came to pass that I fell into a vision. Our services is being held on Meigs Avenue, at the old orphan’s home where Charlie Kern lives in part of the building.” He lives just across the street now, you know. “And it came to pass, that, while I was in this vision, I seen some dreadful things take place. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. ''

::(1) ''“The President which now is, '''President Franklin D. Roosevelt''',” now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago, “'''will cause the whole world to go to war.'''

::(2) ''And the new dictator of Italy, '''Mussolini, shall make his first invasion towards Ethiopia. And he will take Ethiopia, but that will be his last. He shall come to his end.'''

::(3) ''“We will be in war with Germany. Watch Russia. Now, that, see, '''Communism, Nazism, and Fascism.''' Watch Russia, but that is not the main one to watch. ''

::(4) “It shall also…has been an evil thing done in this country, they have permitted women to vote. This is a woman’s nation, and she will pollute this nation as Eve did Eden.” Now you see why I’m hammering the way I do? I got '''THUS SAITH THE LORD'''. “In her voting, she will elect the wrong person.

::(5) ''“The Americans will take a great beating at a place that Germany will build, which will be a great wall built of concrete,” '''the Maginot Line''', eleven years before it was ever built, “but finally they will be victors. ''

::(6) ''“Then when these women help elect the wrong person, then '''I seen a great woman rise up in the United States''', well-dressed and beautiful, but cruel in heart. She will either guide or lead this nation to ruination.” I got, in parenthesis, “('''Perhaps, Catholic church'''). ''

::(7) ''“Also, science will progress, especially in the mechanical world. '''Automobiles will continue to get like egg-shape.'''

::(8) ''Finally they will build one that '''won’t need a steering wheel. They’ve got it now.''' It will be controlled by some other power. ''

::(9) ''“Then I seen the '''United States as one smoldering, burnt-over place'''. It will be near the end.” Then I got, in parenthesis, “(I predict that this will take place…).” Now, remember, the Lord, that’s what the Lord showed. “(But '''I predict this will take place before 1977'''.) Upon this prediction, I base, because of the onrushing slaught that’s coming now, how fast that it was moving, how long it’ll take till this nation meets its place.” ''

::''Now, look what happened now.''
::'''(see 1 above)''' ''In President Franklin D. Roosevelt, took America to England’s tea party. That’s right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them. Throwed the whole world into a war, that caused the world war.

::'''(see 5 above)''' ''The German’s built the Maginot Line. Which, there, any veteran here knows what she took there at the Maginot Line.

::'''(see 6 above)''' ''Women, given the right to vote, elected President-elect Kennedy, was the woman’s vote, the wrong man; which will finally lead to full control, of the Catholic church, in United States.

::'''(see 9 above)''' ''Then the bomb comes that explodes her.

:''There are seven things predicted, and '''five of them has already happened'''. So you can judge, yourself, how far away we are. We’re near the end. If them five things happened, these other two things are bound to happen. It’s just got to happen.

:''I do not think that Mr. Kennedy will have much effect now, because he’ll make a wonderful President, in order to bring in the others, to get a scene set just like they have in England, like they did in Mexico, like they did everywhere else like that. And American people, so unstabled; not spiritually. They’re smart, but too smart for their own good. Intelligence swings backward, sometime, and backfires. So they…I’m preaching on that, this morning, in a little bit.

:''So, we find out, we’re—we’re right on the verge. Reason I said this; that’s the reason I pressed that, the other day, so hard the way I did. But it was that that did it, that’s right, women’s vote. That put… Did you notice the rallies on the television? Nixon to be, pretty near, all men. All of them wanted to kiss Kennedy, the women, jumping astraddle the cars, everything like that, jumping up-and-down.

:''And now let me bring something else. I haven’t got written here, but, on magnetic tape. And this is taped, too. 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, standing at the…that scho-…Lane Tech High School. They were there. I said, “This year is going to be the changing point of America.” I just come from overseas, don’t know why I come. Come back, canceled my meetings in Africa and around, come back. Billy Graham, something mysterious, he canceled his. Tommy Osborn canceled his. And we all, crossing United States, in meetings. I said, “America will either receive or reject Christ, this year.” Then I said, when they elected, in Indiana, a twenty-two-year boy…-year-old boy, to be judge. The Spirit of the Lord came on me, and I said, “They’ll finally have a President that’ll be one of these crewcut, playboy, beatnik-type Presidents, a ladies’ man.” Now, them is predictions, years ago. See where we’re at? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] It’s later than we think.<ref>William Branham, 60-1113 - Condemnation By Representation, para. 32-48</ref>

A few days later. on November 25, he refers to the visions again. This is the first time that he provides seven specific prophecies. He also states that the list of visions would be published in the "Herald of Faith" magazine, although we have been unable to obtain a copy of this magazine and so cannot confirm that the list of visions was, in fact, published in the magazine:

:''I was on my way to Sunday school, and when I was getting my Bible, a vision came before me; and I was stopped in the floor. '''And here was what it said. It’s on yellow paper. Will be printed in the “Herald of Faith” right away, because most all of it is fulfilled.''' 1933—think of this now. Many, many years ago, about twenty-eight years ago it—it taken place. Watch how accurate His Word is.

::(1) ''Said, “We now have a president (Dwi… Mr. Roosevelt), and this '''Mr. Roosevelt will cause the world to go into a world war''' through his—in his time of his administration, his—his—as president,” and then said,

::(2) ''“And during this time they have permitted women to vote, which will be a curse to the nation. '''They’ll elect the wrong man sometime'''.” And they did the other day. Now, think of that. Said,

::(3) ''“'''We will go to war with Germany, and Germany will be fortified behind concrete.''' And we will take an awful beating at this place,” the Maginot Line eleven years before it was built. See? Exactly. Said,

::(4) ''“This new dictator, '''Mussolini, will take his first step toward Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will fall at his feet.” It did. It said, “That’ll be his last. He will end in disgrace.”''' And I said,

::(5) ''“It will come to pass before the end time comes that '''there will be a great woman stand up in the United States''', because the United States is marked woman. Her number is thirteen, and '''she’ll rise up, either be president, or (I put it in parentheses) perhaps the woman being beautiful and attractive will be the Catholic church but cruel at heart, and she’ll lead the nation to pollution.''' ''

::(6) ''And then it will come to pass that they’ll have an automobile perfected into a place, that '''I seen a family driving in an automobile that was glass topped and didn’t have any steering wheel in it.'''” It was… And I seen the other day that it in the “Popular Mechanics” that the machine is already invented. They can take it anywhere you want to by some sort of a—this radar control. Just set your post to it and it goes right on. You don’t even need it, and it’s glass topped.

::(7) ''Then I turned to look and '''I seen the United States was a smoldering something had burned it up.''' And down beneath there I said, not in the trance, but, “I predict…” (remember this, I guess this is taped too), “'''I predict that these things will take place between now, 1933 and 1977.'''” Which will give us sixteen more years if my prediction strikes right.

:''Now, there was seven things spoke of that would happen. Five of them has already happened. There’s two left to take place. It’ll be that way. '''That’s in the Name of the Lord it shall be that way'''. See?<ref>William Branham, 60-1125 - Conference, para. 5-7</ref>

He mentions them several times during the sermon series on the seven church ages. The first is on December 5, 1960:

:''And at 1906 the Laodicean Church Age set in, and I don’t know when it’ll end, but I predict it’ll be done by 1977. I predict, not the Lord told me, but I predict it according to a vision that was showed me some years ago, that, five of those things has (out of the seven) has already taken place.

:''About… How many remembers that vision, in the church? Sure. Said that, how that even

::''(1) Kennedy would be elected in this last election. How that women would be permitted to vote.

::''(2) How that Roosevelt would take the world to war.

::''(3) How that Mussolini would go towards Ethiopia, his first invasion, and would take it; that’d be the end, he’d die off after that.

::''(4) How these great isms would rise up and all fall back into Communism; Hitlerism, and Mussolini, and Co-…Nazism, and so forth, would all fall back into Communism.

::''(5) And eleven years beforehand, it said that “We’d go to war with Germany, and Germany would be fortified behind concrete,” the Maginot Line. It happened just that way.

::''(6) Said then, after that, would come to place that…come to pass that science would increase so greatly until they would invent a car, the cars would become more like “egg” all the time. And that vision was told right here where the Church of Christ stands now, at the old Mes-…orphans home. Charlie Kern, perhaps in the building tonight, was living at the place at the time. One Sunday morning about seven o’clock it happened.

:''(7) And It said, “Then there would come to pass that they’d invent a car that they didn’t need a steering wheel in it, it would be controlled by some kind of a power.” They’ve got it now. They got it now, in magnetic power, radar control. They don’t even…just set your radar to where you’re going, it takes you yourself, don’t have to steer.

:''(8) Now, and it said in there, “At that time, there’d be a great woman stand up in the United States.” And she was dressed and beautiful, but she was cruel in heart. And I got in parenthesis on the vision, even yellow paper, said, “perhaps the Catholic church.”

:''(1) And the women being permitted to vote would help elect the wrong person for this nation. And that’s what they done. Exactly. Now, said, “That would be the beginning.” ''

:''(9) Now another thing it said, that…Then immediately after that, I saw this nation become as a smolder, just blowed to bits. Now, if them things has happened, so will this other.<ref>William Branham, 60-1205 - The Ephesian Church Age, para. 46-58</ref>''

On December 8, 1960, he mentions the visions again (''emphasis and numbers added''):

:''You remember the vision that was read here, 1933? I was going…The church wasn’t even built. Didn’t know what a vision was, called it a “trance.” I was just a young Baptist preacher, and we were… All my life I saw those visions, and I’ll ask anybody to rise and say if ever one of them ever failed. No, never did! It can’t! See? It won’t! And now, and as I started the Sunday school I fell into a trance. We was having it over here at the old Masonic home, Charlie Kern’s place, little group of us.

::(1) ''And I seen this '''President Roosevelt''' leading the world to a world war. Predicted! I said,

::(2) ''“And there’s '''three isms: the Nazi, and the Fascism, and Communism'''.” I said…(How many in here remembers?) I said, “'''Keep your eyes on Communism, it’ll all head up in there.'''” I said,

::(3) ''“Ethiopia, '''Mussolini''' will go to Ethiopia, but he’ll fail.”

::(4) ''And I said, “We’ll finally '''go to war with Germany''', but” I said “Germany will be fortified in, in a great big bunch of concrete.” Eleven years before the Maginot Line was built, eleven years. I said,

::(5) “Then after the war…We’ll finally win it. And after the war is over, it’ll come to pass that science will be inventing great things.” And I said, “When they do, they’ll make an automobile, and '''automobiles will continually shape down'''.” (You know what they looked like in ’33.) Now then, said, “'''They’ll become like eggs, look like eggs'''.

::(6) ''For I seen on a highway, a great master highway, '''a car going down the road that didn’t have any steering wheel in it'''. It was controlled by a power.” They got it right now. I said,

::(7) ''“During that time…Now they’re permitting women to vote; and women, in voting, will finally…” I said, “This nation is a woman’s nation, it’s marked by a woman. It’s a woman right down through prophecy, everywhere; and number thirteen everywhere in prophecy.” And I said, “It’s a woman’s country, she has her liberties here. And she’ll ruin it, she’s the ruination of the world.” (And, Roy, I got your letters on that, that great woman that… “Every criminal case… We’ve… I’d X-rayed it down now to: every criminal case was ever done in this United States, a woman was behind it.” That’s exactly right. That’s immoral women, you see, and things.) Now, so then I said, “There will be in that time, during that time the '''women will be permitted to vote, and they’ll elect the wrong person'''.” They did it on this last election. That’s right.

::(8) ''“Which will start the stronghold. During that time it’ll come to pass that—that there’ll be '''a great woman rise up in the United States,''' she’ll be beautifully dressed,” and I got in parenthesis: “(perhaps the Catholic church).” See? “That’ll take rulership over the power, overpower the others in the United States. She’ll be beautiful to look at, but she’ll be cruel-hearted as she can be.” I said,

::(9) ''“Then I looked again, and '''I saw the United States just blowed to pieces'''. There wasn’t nothing left on it.”

:''And I predicted then. “Now this, that was '''THUS SAITH THE LORD'''.” And think! Of '''five of those seven predictions, has already happened.''' The church to take a hold, the Catholic church. And the coming of the end time. And I said, “I seen, looked like there was stumps burning; rocks, blowed out; and the whole United States just looked bare, laying like that, as far as I could see where I was standing.”

:''And I said, “I predict, according to the way time is moving, '''it’ll be sometime between this year ’33 and ’77.'''” And it’ll have to squeeze awful hard to get through there. And we’re setting on a powder keg, friends. Everything’s ready.<ref>William Branham, 60-1208 - The Thyatirean Church Age, para. 192-204</ref>

On December 11, 1960, he goes through them again:

:''But the Lord showed me a vision of the great powerful woman, in ’33, 1933, it’s on paper. Of how that

::(1) ''“'''Roosevelt''' would cause…he helped cause the world to go to war.”

::(2) ''How that “'''Mussolini''' would make his first invasion to Ethiopia and he would take it, but he would come to a disgraceful end.” And how that

::(3) ''“Then the three ism: '''Nazism, Fascism, and Communism, would all wind up in Communism.'''” And how many in here remembers me just keep…have you stand, and say it over, I’d tell you, “Watch Russia! Watch Russia, the king of the North! Watch Russia, king of the North! Watch Russia, king of the North!”? How many has heard me just say, just wave that over, over? The old-timers, you see, back in the early part of the church. Just stand there and wave it over and over, “Watch Russia, the king of the North! See, what he would do, for all those isms will heap up into Russia.” Then I said, that

::(4) ''“'''This nation would finally go to war with Germany.''' And Germany would be built in a concrete wall.” And that was the Maginot Line, eleven years before it was ever started to build it, eleven years before. And I said, “The Americans will take an awful beating at that line.” Some of these brethren here was at that line, Brother Roy Roberson and them; ask them what happened. They sure did. All right. “But finally,” I said, “we will overcome and will be one of the winner in the war between us and Germany.” Now, I said, “Then after that time, that science would really progress.” They did, they made the atomic bomb and everything. I said,

::(5) ''“During their progression, they would make a…'''cars would constantly begin to shape like an egg'''.” And you remember the big old hood on the 1933, the big back come down like this, the spare tire on the back of it? Look how it is now, see: streamlined, see, like an egg. And I said,

::(6) ''“Finally '''they will invent a car that they won’t have to have a steering wheel in it.''' I seen a family going down the…Call it, ‘road,’ in a glass-top car, great big fine-looking roads and fine car. And they were sitting, looking at one another, and the car was running by itself, going right on around the curves and everything.” And they’ve got the car right now, it’s already invented. They’ve got the car. And I said then, “Oh, how science will progress in that day!” I said,

::(7) ''“Then I seen a…'''They’re going to permit women and are permitting women to vote. And by voting, they’ll elect the wrong man some of these days.'''” And you did at the last election. It was the woman’s votes that elected Kennedy. We know that, see, between the crooked machines and things fixed up, that FBI exposed. And how could anybody…Why don’t they do something about it? Why ain’t something said? Hah! Afraid somebody’d lose their job. You see, it’s just a bunch of politics, rotten to the core. That’s all. Sure! There ain’t no—ain’t no…isn’t no, excuse me. There is no salvation in this nation, there is no salvation in any nation. Salvation’s in Jesus Christ and Him alone! Uh-huh! That’s right. Now, I’m thankful for America. I’d rather live here than any place in the world, because…outside of Canada. Canada and the United States is twins, we know that, neighboring nations, wonderful place, but I—I believe I’d rather live here than anywhere I know of, because it’s my home. I’m glad that I am an American, and thankful for it. But I tell you, it certainly needs a counter revival, it sure does. And it will not get it! No, sir. She’ll never rise again! No, sir. She’s gone! You remember, about five years ago in Chicago, that’s on tape. You got it, Gene. I said, “They’ll either accept It this year, or they’ll constantly drop down.” And they’ve done it, see, and they will do it till she’ll finally meet her end.

::(8) ''But '''there’ll be a powerful woman!''' Now, remember! This is on tape, too. A powerful woman, great woman, she’ll '''either be President, or it’ll be a woman representing the Catholic church''' (which I think it is) will take over here someday and she’ll rule this country. This nation is a woman’s nation. Flag was made by a woman, it’s number thirteen. She started out, thirteen stars, thirteen stripes, thirteen colonies. Everything’s thirteen, thirteen, thirteen, right on down. Thirteen stars on her silver dollar now. Everything’s a thirteen. It’s number thirteen, and appears in the 13th chapter of Revelation. Completely thirteen! Everything is “woman, woman, woman, woman, woman,” right on down. And she took over all the offices. She’s took over Hollywood. She’s took over the nations. She’s took over the offices. She’s took over everything there is; equal rights with the man, votes with the man, cusses like a man, drinks like a man, anything else. And just bait for the Catholic church, for the worship of a woman! They’re already worshipping a woman, anyhow.<ref>William Branham, 60-1211E - The Laodicean Church Age, para. 44-49</ref>

A month later on January 28, 1961 he states:

:''A few days ago we… Now, I’m not Democrat nor Republican; I’m a Christian; so I don’t mention these things. But I picked up an old book there that the—the Lord had gave me a vision in 1933 when I just first become a minister, going down to the Baptist Tabernacle. And He gave me a vision that morning, and I seen the first one I remember of an international affair.

::(1) ''And I seen that '''President Roosevelt''' that was in then, and seen that we’d go to a world war.

::(2) ''Then I seen also that—that was eleven years before the Maginot line was built, '''I seen Germany fortify themselves in this big concrete place'''.

::(3) '' I also seen they '''permitted women to vote, which was wrong'''. And said they would—'''they would someday elect the wrong man'''; they just did it. And then… So then I seen the time of—of the end coming, and five things that the Lord let… Seven things I saw, five of them has already come to pass.

::(4) ''I seen '''a powerful woman stand up to the United States'''. You can write this down if you do so—it’s going to happen. I don’t know… She’s on her road now. Exactly. And '''she took over.'''

::(5) ''And then '''I seen the United States just like something had burnt it over''' hit it, and just something, blowed up rocks and things.

::(6) ''And then I seen the time there’d be an increase in science. I noticed there’d be an automobile… I had it wrote down there. I got it right with me now, old yellow paper, that there’d be a machine, '''automobile perfected, looked like an egg''', would be glass over it.

::(7) ''And there was a man and woman, '''the family, setting there with their backs turned to one another, playing cards''', and '''the machine traveling itself'''. Something on the bumpers that would—it couldn’t hit the others, going down. And I seen that on television a few nights ago. They got that thing perfected right now.

:''See, all those things that the Lord spoke is true. And we just got two more things left of that to be fulfilled, and that’s the end time. And if there ever was a time that we ought to be trying to get people to God, it’s now.<ref>William Branham, 61-0128 - Why?, para. 93</ref>

On March 12, 1961, he states:

:''And as I said, “We’re '''just being honeycombed with communism''' and everything.” Every ism, it’s… Many of you, if you’d put a righteous President in every county in the whole United States, it’s still gone. She’ll never rise again, '''THUS SAITH THE LORD.''' 1956 she made her fatal move. Now, and she took well on her way about three months ago. Now, she’s gone. Write it in your Bible; see if it’s right. 1933, one morning going to the Baptist tabernacle, I went into a trance, saw a vision.

::(1) ''I saw '''President Roosevelt''' was going to help lead the world to a world war, told it that morning. They was going to lock me up for it. And I said,

::(2) ''“They’ll '''go to war with Germany.'''” Eleven years before the Maginot Line was built, I said, “There…” in that same vision I saw Germany fortified in concrete. And America took a terrible beating there, and many of you boys know what happened, was there. Notice. I said,

::(3) ''“'''Mussolini''' is standing up as a dictator; he will make his first invasion to Ethiopia. But he will take Ethiopia, but he will come to a disgraceful end, him and that woman both.” And they hung them with their feet up, and her clothes hanging over her head in the street, and spit on them. I said, "Science will improve'''.” I said,

::(4) ''“Another thing, the nation has permitted women to vote, one of the most horrible disgraces they’ve done.” And I said, “'''In voting they’ll elect the wrong man'''.” I’m neither Democrat nor Republican. I’m a Christian. Both sides is rotten. But they made their fatal mistake the other day. Women done the works. And how you colored people, sell your birthright to such a thing as that, when the blood of Abraham Lincoln’s stains, up yonder on that dress. God have mercy. Help me, Lord. Oh, my. Maybe I shouldn’t have said it. But I’ve done said it. Remember. Oh, how can it be? My days as evangelist is soon done. I can’t prophetic and evangelist too. I’ll leave the field. That’s in the spirit now. Soon He will be calling me; I’ll leave the field of evangelism. Then He will use me as His seer. What’s the matter with me anyhow? Where was I at? Yes. Genesis 18. Did you get that Gene? Genesis 18, I believe I was speaking on. Then, no, I was on what He told me, would happen. Then He said,

::(5) ''“Science will be increased, until it comes to a place until they’ll '''perfect an automobile, that looks like an egg''', before the end time.” There I seen it. And I said,

::(6) ''“They’ll '''control it with some kind of a steering outfit that they don’t have to touch it theirself.'''” I seen an American family, going down a great big broad way playing cards with a glass-top car, looked like an egg. They’ve got it right now. You seen it on television here not long ago. They’ve got it. And I said,

::(7) ''“Then I seen '''some great powerful woman rise in the United States'''.” ’Cause this is a woman’s nation: woman’s picture on the money; everything is woman here. That’s right. She’s a goddess. Not you Christian women. I’m talking about… Let a little flapper come down the street here with all these shorts, and things. She can do more harm to the church of the living God, among men, than all the bootleg joints there is through the nation. That’s right. This is a… America is a woman’s nation. Got her pictures, Her number’s thirteen, thirteen colonies, thirteen stripes, thirteen stars, thirteen so… Everything is thirteen, thirteen, thirteen and a woman. See? And I seen a great woman rise up, beautiful to look at, but a cruel wicked heart. And that will be a church. And she’s on her road now.

::(8) ''Then I seen the end time when the '''United States looked like a big bunch of bursted up stones and things like that, just blowed out''', smoldering everywhere. Five of them has happened, two of them’s on their road.

:''That has been twenty-one years ago (See?), when it was predicted. If '''five of them is perfectly hit''', the other two’s got to. I see them coming on the road now.<ref>William Branham, 61-0312 - Jehovah-Jireh, para. 74-78</ref>

William Branham reiterates the visions again on August 6, 1961. He indicates that Mrs. Wilson was there and the editor indicates that she shouts "Amen". However, whether Mrs. Wilson was in attendance and whether it was in fact her who shouted "Amen" cannot be verified:

:''Now, in 1933, when we were worshipping over here in the Masonic temple, where the church of Christ stands today. On one April morning, before leaving home… I was dedicating my car. I got a ’33 model car, and I was dedicating it to the Lord’s service. And in a vision, I saw the end time. Now notice how striking this is, back yonder when I was just a boy. And you can imagine what a 1933 model car looked like, now, what it looked like. And I went over there to the Masonic temple, where…Some of you old-timers in here remembers. It’s wrote down on old paper, at home. It’s already in print and went out around the world. See? That was in 1933. And I predicted that there would be some great tragedy happen to this United States before or by the year of 1977. How many remembers me saying that? [The old-timers say, “Amen.”—Ed.] Look at the hand. Sure.

:''Now watch. I predicted seven things was yet in the making of the…before this great consummation or great thing would take place here in the United States, some great horrible thing. I said… Now remember, this is before it started. I said we would go into a Second World War. How many remember hearing me say it? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All right. A Second World War! I said,

::(1) ''“The President that now is…” I copied this off the old scripture, yet, the old thing yesterday, that, “The President that we now have,” which was…How many remembers whose it was? [A brother says, “Franklin Roosevelt.”] '''Franklin D. Roosevelt.''' I said, “The President we have in now will run even in the fourth term,” he was on his first then, “will run into the fourth term, and we will be taken to a Second World War.” I said,

::(2) ''“The dictator that’s now arising in Italy, which is '''Mussolini''', he will come into power. And he will go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will fall at his steps.” There is people setting here now that knows, that there’s a group of people come and stood, when I was having my meeting in the Redman’s Hall down there that night, when I had to go down there to preach that, Redman’s Hall, and was going to throw me out of the hall for saying such a thing. [Sister Wilson says, “Amen. That’s right.”—Ed.] Yeah. Yeah. Mrs. Wilson, I know you’re…[“That’s right.”] That’s right. When I said that…But did he do it? “But,” I said, “he’ll come to a shameful end,” and he did. Him and the woman he run with, was turned up-side-down and hung on a rope in the street, with their feet up, their clothes hanging down. All right, that come to pass. 203 And then I said,

::(3) ''“The '''women has been permitted to vote. Which is absolutely a disgrace upon the nation. And, in voting, some day they’ll elect the wrong man.'''” And they did that in this last election. My, my! Four…(I said, “Science will progress in such a way…”) No, here, that’s third. Pardon me. Here is the next one, there, the fourth. I said,

::(4) ''“Our '''war will be with Germany, and they will build a great big concrete place and fortify themselves in there, and the Americans will take a horrible beating.'''” Almighty God knows, that Who I stand before now, I seen those independent Nazis kick at the Americans like that, and things, at that wall. [A man in the congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] And there is many boys standing here now that was at that Siegfried Line, that knows what it was. [“Amen. Yes, sir. Amen.”] And remember, that was eleven years before the Siegfried Line was built. Is God true? [Congregation says, “Amen.”] Does He still foretell things to happen? [“Amen.”] Watch. That’s, that was the fourth.

::(5) ''Now the fifth thing. “Science will progress in such a way until '''they will make a car that will not have to be guided by a steering wheel.'''

::(6) ''And the '''cars will continue to be shaped like an egg''', until the consummation, the end time. I seen American family going down the road, in a broad way, riding in a car with their backs turned towards where the wheel should be, looked like they were playing checkers or cards.” And we got it. It’s on television. Popular Science, Mechanics, rather, all have it. We got the car. It’s controlled by a remote control, by—by radar. They won’t even have to have any steering wheel in it. Just set your dial like this, like you dial your phone, and your car takes you right on to it; can’t wreck, nor nothing, no other cars. The magnet keeps the rest of them away from you. See? They got it. Oh, my! Think of it. Predicted thirty years before it happened! Now, that brings us then to the election of President Kennedy. And this car coming on the—on the scene, bringing five things (out of the seven) that has happened exactly.

::(7) ''Now, I predicted, and have said, “I saw '''a great woman stand up''', beautiful-looking, dressed in real highly royal-like purple.” And I got little parenthesis down here, “('''She was a great ruler in the United States; perhaps the Catholic church'''.)” A woman, some woman; I don’t know it’ll be the Catholic church. I don’t know. I can’t say. Only thing I seen, I seen the woman, that was all.

::(8)''But this is a woman’s nation. This nation is number thirteen, in prophecy. She’s got thirteen stripes, thirteen stars. She started thirteen colonies. Thirteen, thirteen, everything is thirteen. Appears in the 13th chapter of Revelations, even. She is thirteen. And she is a woman nation. The divorce courts in America produce more divorces, by our women, than all the rest of the nations. The morals in our country is lower, and divorces, than it is in France or Italy, where prostitution is on the street. So, but they are prostitutes; ours is married women trying to live with several men, and several married men trying to live with other women. In the nations where they have polygamy, it’s a thousand times better. And, yet, polygamy is wrong, we know. But, just show how degraded we are.
::
::''I got a piece up there out of the paper, where it showed that when our American boys went overseas, in this last war, that over, I believe, it was around seventy percent…Why, now, wait a minute, I believe it was three out of four that went overseas, was divorced by their wife before they got back. And its great big headline says, “What’s happened to the morals of our American people?” You remember seeing it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All of you did, I guess. “What’s happened to the morals of our American women?” Plants, working out yonder with other men. It’s a woman’s nation. What’s she going have? A woman god, or a goddess. ''
::
::(9) ''Now, then, after that, I turned and looked. And '''I saw this United States burning like a smolder, rocks had been blowed up.''' And it was burning like a—a heap of fire in logs, or something that just set it afire. And looked as far as I could see, and she had been blown up. And then the vision left me. Five out of the three has happened…or five out of the seven, rather, has happened. ''

:''And here comes around and shows. And then I predicted. I never said the Lord told me that, but, standing that morning in the church, I said, “The way progress…” I got back to one end of their wall, and run to the other end of the wall. I said, “The way progress is going on, I’ll predict that the time…I don’t know why I’m saying it. But I predict that '''that’ll all happen between right now, 1933, and 1977.'''” And not knowing it, God knows my heart, I never knowed it until yesterday, that 1977 is the jubilee, and exactly the same amount of time run out that He give with Israel, and everything at the end. So we’re at…And here we are at the end of the age, at the coming in of the seventieth week. We don’t know what time that the Church will be gone. Oh, my! What can we do, friends? Where we at?<ref>William Branham, 61-0806 - The Seventieth Week Of Daniel, para. 200-205</ref>

He mentions the visions in passing on December 30, 1962:

:''You remember, many of you here, the old-timers, Roy Slaughter, maybe, and farther back in that, remembers down yonder when I told you about prophecy. One day, down there at the Odd Fellows’ building, before we ever come to here, I said,

:''(1) “Mussolini will come to a shameful end.” I said, “His first invasion, he will go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will fall at his step. But he’ll come to his end, and nobody will help him. In disgrace will he be buried.” There he is.

:''(2) I said, “There is three isms has rose up. Nazism, fascism, and communism.” I said, “Them isms will revolve and come around into one, and it’ll be communism. Watch. Communism will burn Rome.” See<ref>William Branham, 62-1230M - Absolute, para. 187-188</ref>

The visions are mentioned again on November 17, 1963:

:''1933, the Holy Spirit came one morning and told me seven things that would take place before this nation was destroyed. One of them is that. It’s on old paper there at the church, many has looked at it.

:''(1) How that we would go to war with Hitler and they’d… How Germany would fortify and build a Maginot Line, or the Siegfried Line, I believe it was, eleven years before it was ever thought of.

:''(2) And how that automobiles would constantly shape like eggs.

:''(3) And how that they would permit women to vote, and, in doing so, they would elect the wrong President.

:''(4) And in this would be a woman stand up that would govern the United States; not actually a woman, but a church.

:''(5) Then I seen her with nothing but ashes. It’s going to happen.

:''Five of those things has perfectly been fulfilled exactly.

::''(6) How Mussolini would rise and go to Ethiopia, and fall at his steps; and he would be turned to the people, in shame, with a woman.

:''Many, many years before it happened perfectly on the dot. And it’s never failed, and it won’t fail, because it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. And it’s not contrary to these Bible. It’s got to be.<ref>William Branham, 63-1117 - Once More, para. 124-125</ref>

He does not mention the visions again for about a year but then describes them incompletely in January 1964:

:''And is it not a strange thing, that in this day that when we have come through all these things, and the Message has crossed the earth against organization, It’s blasted it from right to left, that, in this hour that’s been told since 1933, when the Holy Spirit gave me that visions and showed me the end time, seven things that I spoke of, and five of them has already happened, perfectly, right on; like Germany and—and Italy and all the wars, and the national things (seldom speaks to me on those things). But they happened just exactly the way He said they’d happen.

::(1) ''How '''Mussolini''' would go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia would fall at his step, and then how that he’d come to a disgrace, and be spit on by his own people; and disgraced, hung upside down, with that prostitute that he lived with, on the street.

::(2) ''How that '''the Americas would go to war with Germany''', they’d take an awful beating at a place called, a great line where there would be concrete fortified in there, I believe it’s called the Siegfried Line. And there’s one called Maginot, I believe that was the French. Was that right? And the Siegfried Line was the German line. And the Lord let me see that, eleven years before it was built. And they never would admit getting a beating on it, the Americans wouldn’t, till they almost sunk the complete army. When they went in there, the Germans had their guns just trained right out on that fleet, and let it get right in there, and almost sunk it. And I seen that, eleven years before the line was ever—ever a foundation was ever poured for it, or anything, the Siegfried Line.

::(3) ''And all these other things, like '''machines and automobiles''', and—and how everything has come right down exactly what He said,

::(4) ''until '''a woman ruling this nation''', which, perhaps, is the church.

::(5) ''And '''then the end come'''.<ref>William Branham, 64-0112 - Shalom, para. 74</ref>

On March 21, 1964 he said:

:''In my book in there, that I keep wrote down. In 1933, one morning, fixing to go to Sunday school, a Baptist Sunday school where I was pastor, the Holy Spirit come and showed me down to the end time, and showed me seven things that would happen. I marked them down. It’s on old yellow paper.

::''(1) Told me exactly how Germany would build that Siegfried Line, and how the Americans would take a great beating at it, eleven years before the—the line was ever built.

::''(2)Said how Mussolini would raise up, and how he’d go to Ethiopia, and how Ethiopia would “fall at his steps.” And he would die shameful, turned upside down, and his own people would spit on him.

::''(3) And I said, “There is three isms: Communism, Fascism, and Nazism. They’ll all wind up out of Russia, in Communism.” And it will Cath-…destroy Catholicism. See if it don’t!

::''(4)I said, “Such progress will take place!” I said, “I see automobiles looking like an egg, going down the street. There is cars go down the highways, with some kind of a control, they don’t have to guide it. I seen an American family playing checker in the back of a car.” They’ve got the car right now, if they just had the highways to put it on. The little Volkswagen is a perfect egg, just exactly, and it’s all the other cars. Could you imagine, in 1933, what the cars looked like, to now?

::''(5)And then It predicted again, that, permitting women to vote, and what they would do. And how that this country, being a type, like Israel, come into a land and drove out the occupants, and inherited the land. And the first few kings they had, David and Solomon, were God-fearing kings. After a while, they got an Ahab on the scene. They voted him in. The chair’ll got…church got worldly. And, we’ve had a Lincoln and a Washington, look what it is today. Look where we’re going now. Where is the next thing? We’re at the end time.<ref>William Branham, 64-0321E - The Voice Of The Sign, para. 113-118</ref>

He mentions them on July 26, 1964:

:''Look at 1933,

::''(1) how it say the women would act in this last days.

::''(2) How it said the people…How Mussolini, how he’d come to his end.

::''(3) How Hitler would come to a mysterious end.

::''(4) How that the three ism would come in communism.

::''(5) How that the machines would come, looking like an egg.

::''(6) And how that women would wear garments and look like men, even like their underneath clothes; and would finally come to putting fig leaves, like, on them. How the immoral act, how they would act in this day. Look what they’ve done. And it’s right before you, then.<ref>William Branham, 64-0726M - Recognizing Your Day And Its Message, para. 142</ref>

He describes the visions again in July 1964. He states that there were two people who were still around when the visions were told, Mrs. Wilson and William Branham's wife, although there was no indication that either of them was in attendance at the meeting:

:''And now I have predicted by revelation from God, or a vision in 1933, that seven things would happen before the end time. And that, one of them, that,

::(1) ''“'''Mussolini,''' who was then becoming dictator, he would become dictator; and also, he would make an invasion and go down to Ethiopia and would take Ethiopia; and the Spirit, It said, ‘he shall fall at his step.’” I wonder if there is any of the old-timers still left in the tabernacle, remember me saying that in the Redman’s Hall down here when we preached, many, many years ago. Is there one in the building, tonight, that’s left from down there at the old Redman’s Hall when I preached that, when they had the N.R.A. out, way back in time of Roosevelt’s first term? I guess there is not a one in here. Is there one? Yeah, yeah, one, there is one. Yes, Mrs. Wilson, I remember her. My wife, setting in the back. Two left, out of the old generation of those in that day. That, when they said this N.R.A. was the mark of the beast, I said, “Nothing to it; not at all. The mark of the beast don’t come here. It comes out of Rome. And it can’t be the mark of the beast.” And now remember that these things was said. Said,

::(2) ''“'''Adolf Hitler would come to a mysterious end. And he would declare war on the United States.''' And they would build a great—a—a great concrete thing, that they’d even live in it. And right there the Americans would take a horrible beating, at this.” And it was the Siegfried line, eleven years before it was ever started to be built. And then said, “But he would come to an end; and the States would win the war.” And then said, that,

::(3) ''“There is '''three isms: Nazism, fascism, and communism.'''” And I said, “They’ll '''all wind up in communism. Russia will take it all, in communism'''.” And I said,

::(4) ''“Then science is going to be so great, man is going to get so smart, till he’ll invent so many things until he’s going to make an '''automobile that looks like an egg''', that’ll have like a glass top on it,

::(5) ''and it’d be '''controlled by some other power than a steering wheel.'''” And they’ve got the car. And I said,

::(6) ''“Then the '''morals of our women is going to fall in such a degraded things''', till they’re going to be a disgrace to all nations. They’re going to wear man’s clothes. They’re going to keep taking off their clothes till actually they come down like they got their underneath clothes on, that’s all. And, finally, they’ll come to wearing just a fig leaf.” And if you notice, in last month’s Life magazine, they had the woman with the fig leaves on. And that’s the new evening frock, or gown, what they wear of the evening; transparent, can see through it, only the fig leaves just hides a certain spot of her body; with strapless, or strap, unstrapped bathing suits, the top of it, exposed body. And how that those things has happened! Then I said,

::(6) ''“I seen '''a woman stand in the United States, like a great queen or something'''. And she was beautiful to look at, but wicked in her heart. And she made the nation step, go at her step.” Then I said,

::(7) ''“Finally, He told me to look back East again. And, when I did, I seen, looked like, as it was, '''the world had exploded'''. And as far as I could see, was nothing but sticks, and—and smoldering rocks had been blowed up out of the earth.”

And these were to happen before the end of the world. And five of the seven has already happened, in thirty-three years. There we are, back to the end time!<ref>William Branham, 64-0726E - Broken Cisterns, para. 50-57</ref>

The final time the visions are mentioned is on August 23, 1964:

:''Paul Boyd wrote here concerning those seven things that I seen in 1933, that was to come to pass. And he watches them just as close, technically, as he can, because he’s a historian. And he watches it, just exactly what you say. And he seen those things that was told of many years ago:

::''(1) about how that Mussolini…and what would become of him, and

::''(2) Hitler, and what would become of him; and

::''(3) how Communism would take both Fascism and all of these; and

::''(4) how the—the Siegfried Line would be built, and how that the Americans would take a beating there (and they never would admit it till just about two years ago, and they got the German pictures of the siege there; and they really took a beating. They liked…They lost their whole army almost right there); and all those things that were done.

::''(5) And now, it also said, “And it shall come to pass, that before the end time shall come, that automobiles will take on the shape of an egg, become more like an egg.” And I saw an American family driving down a highway in a car that…They were setting facing one another, and had a table, and were, look like, playing checkers or cards. And they didn’t have any steering wheel in the car. And it was controlled by some power without a steering wheel. How many remembers me prophesying that (see?), that’s been here? Now, at the World’s Fair they’ve already got the car on the market. Here is the…It’s sold now; some big company has taken many of them. And this car, here it is. Paul Boyd remembered the prophecy, looked into his book what I’d said, and took the picture in there. And there it is, exactly in the form of an egg, with two seats setting that way, and two seats setting this way, and a table setting in the middle to play the cards and things on, just exactly.

:''The Lord’s Word is perfectly accurate. That was in 1933. That would be…Let’s see, what would that be? Thirty-two years ago, wouldn’t it? This is ’64. Yeah, thirty…Yeah, thirty-one years ago. Thirty-one years ago the Lord told me that, and here it is. And the company’s here that’s already ordered them; and the—and trucking companies and things are getting trucks made like them. They can control it right from their headquarters like that, don’t even have to have a driver in it. And here it is all already made, and there it is with the cars. Now, it’s on the bulletin board in the back, and you can read the prophecy and just see how accurate our God is, how His Word…He said, “Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never fail.”

:''Just look, thirty-three years ago. You know what a—what a 1931, or whatever it was, model car would look like; it’d look like a relic. It said, “It’ll look just like an egg, become like an egg.” Of course, there’s nobody here, I guess, that’s living today or among us that heard me say that. It’s…You’ve heard me say it down through the ages, but…Yeah, here’s a woman setting here. Why, Mrs. Wilson, I didn’t see you there. You remember when that taken place. That’s when she was healed, dying with TB (the woman, her husband and daughter came for me to go pray for her) till she’d hemorrhaged until the—the corner was laying full of—of pillow slips and things that she’d bled. And the doctor said, “There’s not a way of getting her ever to live,” and even…She was trying to say something to me before dying, and the blood would spurt out over the blankets and sheets when she was there, when she’d try to cough. And I took her out of that bed, and took her to a cold river here, and a icy water, and baptized her in the Name of Jesus Christ. And that’s been thirty-three years ago, and here she sets today, still living, when the big, healthy children, a lot of them are gone on. There you are. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!” That just shows how perfect it comes to pass when it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.

:''[A woman speaks to Brother Branham from the congregation—Ed.] Yes, that’s—that’s right, Sister. Yes, sir! The women…

::''(6) I said the women would become so immoral in the la-…Now, you know thirty years ago how they dress. Said they become so immoral, till they walk down the street with just like underneath clothes on. And I said, “Then will come to pass, that they’ll even be so disgraceful, till they’ll wear something looks like a fig leaf.” I saw it, and they’ve got it; and they’re wearing it. Just the—the immorality of women would get so low and degraded! We can’t go no lower now; you can’t go no worse. She’s at the end! See, they’ll never be completely nude.<ref>William Branham, 64-0823M - Questions And Answers #1, para. 16-</ref>

The 1933 visions were also mentioned in the [[An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages|Church Age Book]]. Given that this book was compiled by Lee Vayle from the sermons on the seven church ages and reviewed in detail by William Branham, we would have to view this listing as being determinative. However, they must be compared to what William Branham has stated previously and any discrepancies noted from other times that William Branham stated he was reading from the list of prophecies as recorded by him in 1933. This comparison is detailed above in our analysis (emphasis and numbers added):

:''The Laodicean Age began around the turn of the Twentieth Century, perhaps 1906. How long will it last? As a servant of God who has had multitudes of visions, of which NONE has ever failed, let me predict (I did not say prophesy, but predict) that this age will end around 1977. If you will pardon a personal note here, I base this prediction on seven major continuous visions that came to me one Sunday morning in June, 1933. The Lord Jesus spoke to me and said that the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh, but that before He came, seven major events would transpire. I wrote them all down and that morning I gave forth the revelation of the Lord.

:(1) ''The first vision was that '''Mussolini''' would invade Ethiopia and that nation would “fall at his steps.” That vision surely did cause some repercussions, and some were very angry when I said it and would not believe it. But it happened that way. He just walked in there with his modern arms and took over. The natives didn’t have a chance. But the vision also said that Mussolini would come to a horrible end with his own people turning on him. That came to pass just exactly as it was said.

:(2) ''The next vision foretold that an '''Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler''' would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.

:(3) ''The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be '''three great ISMS, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third.''' The voice admonished, “WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North.”

:(4) ''The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of '''a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control''' so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves.

:(5) ''The fifth vision had to do with the '''moral problem of our age''', centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men’s clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world.

:(6) ''Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.

:(7) ''The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard '''a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America'''.

:''Based on these seven visions, along with the rapid changes which have swept the world in the last fifty years, I PREDICT (I do not prophesy) that these visions will have all come to pass by 1977. And though many may feel that this is an irresponsible statement in view of the fact that Jesus said that “no man knoweth the day nor the hour.” I still maintain this prediction after thirty years because, '''Jesus did NOT say no man could know the year, month or week in which His coming was to be completed.''' So I repeat, 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. Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled? Yes, each one has been fulfilled, or is in the process right now. Mussolini invaded Ethiopia successfully, then fell and lost it all. Hitler started a war he could not finish and died mysteriously. Communism took over both the other two ISMS. The plastic bubble car has been built and is awaiting only a better network of roads. Women are all but naked, and are even now wearing topless bathing suits. And just the other day I saw in a magazine the very dress that I saw in my vision (if you can call it a dress). It was a plastic transparent type of cloth with three darkened spots that covered both breasts in a small area, and then there was a dark place like a small apron below. The Catholic Church is on the rise. We have had one Catholic president and will no doubt have another. What is left? Nothing except Hebrews 12:26, “Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - 9 - The Laodicean Church Age</ref>

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The Seven Visions of 1933

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William Branham often told of a series of prophecies that were given to him in June 1933 by vision. He was very bold with these prophecies, claiming that the visions would be accurate "to the dot," were "Thus Saith The Lord"<ref>Once More, November 17,1963</ref> and would be fulfilled before the coming of the Lord.<ref>An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, William Marrion Branham, Chapter 9</ref>.

=How many prophecies were there?=

While William Branham stated that there were '''seven visions''', he added the Roosevelt prophecy (in 1958); the egg-shaped, driverless car is clearly two prophecies; and he added an additional prophecy on November 13, 1960 (that he had never previously told) relating to women electing the wrong man.

Thus '''the seven visions of 1933''' are more accurately described as '''the TEN vision of 1933'''. We assume that William Branham went with seven visions because '''seven is a much more spiritual number''' than ten.

In the Laodicean Church Age sermon, William Branham says, “Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?” '''Over 80 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm whether these prophecies were accurate or not.'''

=When were these prophecies made?=

The first time that William Branham mentioned his series of visions was on March 26, 1953 but he does not mention the year he received them. In May 1955, he states that they are written down on a piece of paper. He does not provide a full recitation of the list of visions until November 13, 1960 when he actually states he is reading them from his list. William Branham stated that '''a copy of the list of prophecies had been placed in the cornerstone''' of The Branham Tabernacle. '''However, when [[The Mystery of the Empty Cornerstone|the cornerstone was opened in the late 1970's, nothing was found inside]].'''

William Branham's recorded sermons are the only source as to the content of these visions. There is no corroborating or independent evidence that he ever made these visions public in 1933. In fact, William Branham indicated that most of the visions had been fulfilled in 1960:

:''I was on my way to Sunday school, and when I was getting my Bible, a vision came before me; and I was stopped in the floor. And here was what it said. It's on yellow paper. Will be printed in the "Herald of Faith" right away, because most all of it is fulfilled.<ref>William Branham, 60-1125 - Conference, para. 5</ref>

William Branham often included facts when describing these prophecies that are historically inaccurate. William Branham stated that he kept a book of his prophecies<ref> Souls That are in Prison Now, November 10, 1963</ref>; however, the contents of this book were never released to the public. It is our understanding that the Branham family has stated that this book has been "lost". One has to ask whether it ever existed. However, others have speculated that it was intentionally destroyed because its contents did not support the claims that William Branham made or showed that the prophecies had changed significantly over time.

:''Now, in 1933 when we were worshiping over here in the Masonic temple where the Church of Christ stands today, on one April morning before leaving home, I was dedicating my--a car (I got a '33 model car, and I was dedicating it to the Lord's service.), and in a vision I saw the end time. Now, notice how striking this is. Back yonder when I was just a boy, and you can imagine what a 1933 model car looked like--now, what it looked like. And I went over there to the Masonic temple where... Some of you old-timers in here remembers; '''it's wrote down on an old paper at home. It's already in print and went out around the world.''' See? That was in 1933. And I predicted that there would be some great tragedy happen to this United States before or by the year of 1977. How many remembers me saying that? Look at the hands. Sure.<ref>SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 89-141 SUNDAY_ 61-0806</ref>

We have been unable to locate any copy of the print version of the original 1933 prophecies in any third party publication and many speculate that this never happened. There is no independent evidence that these prophecies were made in 1933. The only evidence we have are William Branham's own words, which we have shown [[Credibility|in other articles are often lacking in credibility]].

=Detailed analysis of the 1933 visions=

Please '''click on the links below''' to go to a detailed analysis of the individual prophecies.

==[[Franklin D. Roosevelt|1 - Franklin Roosevelt]]==

*Prophecy - [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Sept. 27, 1958
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - William Branham mentioned President Roosevelt a number of times in his sermons prior to 1958 but never in relation to this "prophecy." The Roosevelt prophecy is also not included in the list of 1933 prophecies in the [[An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages|Church Age Book]]. '''The prophecy was changed over time so that it appeared to have been fulfilled'''

==[[Mussolini invades Ethiopia|2 - Mussolini Invades Ethiopia]]==

*Prophecy - [[Mussolini invades Ethiopia|Mussolini will invade Ethiopia]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Mar. 26, 1953
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''The prophecy was changed over time'''

==[[Hitler and WWII|3 - Hitler and WWII]]==

*Prophecy - [[Hitler and WWII]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Sept. 27, 1958
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''The prophecy changed over time'''

==[[Russia and the three ...isms|4 - Three Isms]]==

*Prophecy - [[Russia and the three ...isms]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Mar. 26, 1953
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed'''

==[[The Egg-shaped Car|5 - Egg-shaped Cars]]==

*Prophecy - [[The Egg-shaped Car]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Mar. 26, 1953
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed'''

==[[Driverless Cars|6 - Driverless Cars]]==

*Prophecy - [[Driverless Cars]]
*First time mentioned on tape - Sept. 27, 1958
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''William Branham claimed it was fulfilled'''

==[[Morality|7 - American Morality]]==

*Prophecy - [[Morality|American Morality]]
*First time mentioned on tape - April 28, 1956
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed'''

==[[Women's Suffrage|8 - Women will elect the wrong person?]]==

*Prophecy - [[Morality|American Morality]]
*First time mentioned on tape - November 13, 1960 (Five days after J.F. Kennedy won the US presidential election)
*Timing - After the fact
*Status - '''Failed''' (an analysis of election results showed that more women voted for Nixon than for Kennedy)

==[[Rise of a Woman in America|9 - Cruel American Woman Leader]]==

*Prophecy - The [[Rise of a Woman in America|Rise of a Cruel American Woman Leader]]
*First time mentioned on tape - May 1, 1955
*Timing - '''Before the fact'''
*Status - Ambiguous<ref>The “ambiguous” school of prophecy has as its foremost member in Nostradamus. Ambiguous prophecies are phrased in such a way as to allow a great breadth of potential fulfillments. In respect of William Branham's prophecies, his classic ambiguous prophecy relates to [[Was the birth of Joseph Branham foretold|the "prophesied" birth of his son, Joseph]].</ref> - WMB claimed that it was fulfilled

==[[America in Ashes|10 - America in Ashes]]==

*Prophecy - [[America in Ashes]]
*First time mentioned on tape - August 5, 1960
*Timing - '''Before the fact'''
*Status - Unfulfilled

=Quotes of William Branham=

We believe the following to be an exhaustive list of quotes mentioning the 1933 visions. We have added emphases and numbering to highlight the various visions.

The first mention of the visions was in March 1953. William Branham does not state that there were seven visions and he does not mention the year in which the prophecies were given:

:''People, we’re living in the end time. How many of you people heard years ago down here when they was going to have me arrested down here for preaching on that “mark of the beast”?

::(1) ''When I said that Mussolini, when he first come in power twenty-some-odd years ago, I said, '''“If Mussolini ever goes towards Ethiopia, mark this down, there will never be peace till Jesus Christ comes.”''' And I said,

::(2) ''“There’ll be '''three great isms, Communism, Fascism, and Nazism'''.” And I said, “They’ll '''wind up in one ism''', and that '''one ism will dominate the world and will burn the Vatican City'''.” You remember me saying that years and years and years ago. And just exactly that way! I said,

::(3) ''“Just before that time comes, that automobiles…” Which was built that old straight back, twenty years ago or twenty-five years ago. You can remember twenty years anyhow. And I said, “'''They’ll look like an egg'''. They’ll be shaped. That’s a vision. '''Be something on the shape of something like that''.”

:''And that’s the way they’ll be just before the Rapture.<ref>William Branham, 53-0326 - Israel And The Church #2, para. 41-42</ref>

They are mentioned again in a sermon in May 1955. William Branham does not state that there were seven visions. He only mentions three and he states that it was either in 1932 or 1933:

:''I believe that God is permitting communism to hit the land. I believe I can sensibly prove that by the Bible, that God promised that up into those isms, as communism years ago, when they first got out that N.R.A. I… Now, you remember that. And when Mussolini had first come in power, one morning by a vision… Now, '''it’s written on old paper, laying at the house today''', dated way back in '''1933—’32 or ’33.''' Going to Sunday school one morning, I was caught away in a vision. And I said, “Now…” Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, I said, ''

::(1) ''“Now, there’s going to be '''three great isms.''' Which is now in existence. One of them is in Rome, which is—is Fascism, and one of them is in Germany which is Nazi—Nazism. And the other one is in Russia, which is communism.” I said, “Those three great isms is the unclean spirits that went out of the mouth of the false prophet, and the dragons, and so forth that will unite themselves together, speaking things that they should not, and they’ll all beat at one another, until they’ll finally wind up in one ism. And I predict that that will be communism. And communism will burn the Vatican city. And I said, “Just before the end time comes…” Now remember, I still say this: “Before the end time comes…” Wrote twenty-three years ago.''

::(2) ''“Before the end time comes, '''there’ll be a woman, that’ll be a great ruler in this nation. She will either be president or something on that order''', some great woman. ''
::(3) ''And at that time, '''automobiles, just before the coming of the Lord, will be in the shape of an egg.'''” Now, remember that; keep it in mind. See? '''That was in 1932''', or something like that. And look how they’re shaping down every year, right to it.''

:''We’re nearer the end time; we are.''<ref>William Branham, 55-0501E - The Faith That Was Once Delivered To The Saints, para. 16-17</ref>

About one year later, he states that one of the visions was that a woman would be president before the end (emphasis added):

:''I didn’t mean that to do any harm, women; I don’t mean you Christian women. But just to see women coming into politics and everything, it’s a disgrace; it’s a breaking of the American morale. And remember, this is… America will… A—a woman… I—I better leave it alone. But just remember this. I predict this: that a woman will be president before we’re annihilated. That’s right. I said that in 1933 by a vision. Sure, it’s a woman’s world. Where did it start from? Hollywood. All your dirty, filthy dressing and things, that’s what’s crept into our homes and things like that. And now comes through television, everything else. It’s a disgrace.'<ref>William Branham, 56-0428 - God's Covenant With Abraham, para. 44</ref>

A couple of weeks after this in May 1956, he mentions four prophesies from 1933 and admits that there was no one left who had heard the original prophecies:

:''America! Now you remember, if you haven’t got this wrote down, put it down. This is my prediction. See? In 1933, when we were having services down here where the old, I believe the Church of Christ is there now, it used to be the old…It’s right over here, Brother Neville, right straight down. Charlie Kern used to live there. What’s it… Orphan’s home over here on Meigs Avenue. In 1933, I just got a 1933 Ford, and I dedicated it that morning to the Lord. And, before leaving home, I saw a vision. '''I’ve got it wrote, old yellow paper still waiting in a Bible.''' I saw the end time coming.

:''And, you, how many can remember what a ’33 car looked like back there? Oh, it was kind of run out like this, and way up in the back, and chopped down for the spare tire to hang on. I saw a vision, that:

::(1) ''“Before the Coming of the Lord, that '''cars would look like an egg.'''” How many remembers that prediction? '''Is there anybody left in here? Brother Seward is gone. And I guess…''' It was 1933 when we were having services over here. I guess just about all of them is gone now, since then.

::(2) ''And I predicted, that, “'''America, their number-one god would be women.'''” That’s what it is. Everything is fashioned after Hollywood. I have things on records from the FBI file that would shock you to pieces just to tell you right where. And the scandal on these movie stars, there isn’t a one of them, hardly, but what’s prostitutes. And the FBI exposed it just recently. I have it from their own file. And so all of them living out, even these movie stars, where he proved, they went in and picked them up, living with men, twenty-five and fifty dollars a night, a man, all up and down, in Hollywood and everywhere, had private homes and men back in there where they would send them out to these people. And that’s what we look to, television, and—and out here on these screens and things, and let our children call that an idol. And then call that mother? That’s a long ways from being mother. That’s filth. That’s exactly. And yet they set the pace of the day. Well, let them, the kind of clothes they wear, watch the American women dress right up just like them, and everything. Sure. And America’s god is a woman. Not Jehovah; they’ve turned away from That. Not to mother now, now lay that aside, that’s a sacred thing we’re going to talk about; but I mean woman.

::(3) ''And, remember, I predict that before the great total annihilation, which '''I don’t say the Lord told me this''', but I believe there will be something happen either between now or at that time in ’77. It may come at this hour. But between now and ’77, I predict that either '''a great destruction or a total annihilation of the entire earth, between now and ’77,''' I predicted it in 1933.

::(4)I predicted that women would keep demoralizing and the nation would keep falling, and they’d keep hanging to mother, or like mother like that, till they become, a woman become an idol.

::(5) ''And after a while, that, “'''America would be ruled by a woman.'''” Mark it and see if it’s not right. A woman will take the place of a President or something, of great, some high power in America.<ref>William Branham, 56-0513 - Teaching On Moses, para. 18-21</ref>

He waits almost a year before he mentions the prophesies again but he does not go into any detail other than to state that they were printed in a book and that there had been over a 100,000 copies printed in 17 different languages. The only book that this could be referring to would be "William Branham, A Man Sent From God" written by Gordon Lindsay in collaboration with William Branham. The problem is that, while this book contains references to other visions that William Branham had, it contains no reference to the visions of 1933. We are unaware of any other significant book that was distributed by William Branham. The question must be asked: Which book was he referring to and if it was the book, "A Man Sent From God", why did he state something that was untrue?:

:''My heart has been stirred in the last year, after I have looked across the nations and seen the things heap up, the way they are, and the little isms arising. It well brings to my memory '''what’s wrote there in that cornerstone''', on that morning when we dedicated…or laid the cornerstone. When the Lord woke me up; not knowing what visions was, in those days. I’m looking at the chimney on top of the house, five feet or more from where I was sitting when the vision taken place, twenty-three years ago, in 1933. Be about twenty-four years ago, I suppose. I’m looking at the chimney right now. It was long before I was ever married. I was single, and home. We were just building this church. And we was laying the cornerstone that morning, when the Lord gave me the vision. I had woke up and looked out the window. And it was along in June, and the honeysuckles, or the buds a blooming. And there looked like I went walking out, or something. And I—I saw the Lord Jesus, and saw my tabernacle. And He pronounced to me that this was not my tabernacle; and got me under the sky. '''Many of you know the vision, because it’s wrote and published, and I believe the fourth or fifth edition, of nearly a hundred thousand books has went in seventeen different languages.''' And just watch how that has come to pass, word by word, just did never fail! How that we come together in a lovely little group of people, and how the Lord did bless us, and then from place to place, but finally into the evangelistic fields, and over the world now, how it’s gone.<ref>William Branham, 57-0407M - God Keeps His Word, para. 49-50</ref>

A few months later, in June 1957, he refers to one of the prophecies (emphasis added):

:''You know, the women is on the increase here in the nation, though, you know. That’s what we’re thinking about, you see. I think it’s—it’s about three to five. Three…Out of five children that’s born, three of them are girls. And the women are getting bigger; the men are getting smaller.

:''Women are taking over. Course, that’s just the trend and the prophecy of the day, that this nation is a woman’s nation. It’ll be run by a woman. And remember, thir-…'''1933, I saw that come in a vision, a great powerful woman will take over the whole nation''', some day, that’s exactly right, before the end time, ’fore total annihilation. 34 The cars, in that day, will be shaped like an egg, running back like, in this form there. And it’ll be controlled by some kind of a power, that they won’t even have to use the steering wheel, at times. [Brother Branham snaps his finger once—Ed.] Just set her, and go on like that. See, before the annihilation! Now, you remember, that’s, now, that’s on record. See? '''And women will take over. Women will take over'''.<ref>William Branham, 57-0602 - Life, para. 32-33</ref>

The next mention is over a year later in September, 1958 when he details five of the visions:

:''And in 1933, when the Lord…When we was having meetings over here where that church of Christ is standing now, the old Masonic home, the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that:''

::(1) ''“Germany would rise up and put that '''Maginot Line''' there.” Many of you remember it. And how they’d be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that line. ''

::(2) ''And also said what would take place, and about '''Roosevelt''' and them things, how he would run and make that fourth term. Perfectly, just exactly the way it come to pass. ''

::(3) ''And also said that cars would keep getting '''more like an egg, until the last days they’d be just in the shape of an egg'''. ''

::(4) ''And I said, “It will come to pass that those cars will not be run by a steering wheel. It’ll be something another run them.” It’s them cars they’re bringing out right now, '''remote control''', for safety. Correct. You won’t be able to enter into a city…Then, a twenty-mile zone, you can just go twenty mile. You can’t hit another car, ’cause it’s remote control. See, it’s going like that, and right now. ''

::(5) ''And I said, “Remember, in that day, before the end time comes, before the end time comes, that a woman…Now, you all keep this wrote down. There’ll be '''a great, powerful woman raise up, either be President, or dictator, or some great powerful woman in this United States'''. And she’ll sink, under the influence of women.''

:''Now, you remember, that’s '''THUS SAITH THE LORD'''.” See?<ref>William Branham, 58-0927 - Why Are We Not A Denomination?, para. 136</ref>

The prophecies aren't mentioned again until August 1960 when he relates 3 visions. He refers to the visions a number of times in 1960:

:''You remember, I predicted that in 1933. And it will be that way too. For I saw a vision before the end time,

::(1) ''that '''great and powerful thing stood up in the United States, and she become as stubbles.''' So then, it’s going to happen.

::(2) ''I said, “'''Automobiles will—come like the shape of an egg'''.” You know what a ’33 car looked like.

::(3) ''And I said, “'''There’ll even be traveling on the road, they won’t even have to guide it.'''” They’ve already got that out; I seen it here not long ago. It’ll be controlled by electronics like, or by a magnetic post, to cut their speed and so forth, and raise their speed. They can’t hit against one another and so forth. And I’ve got that wrote in a book since 1933.

:''And it’ll be that way; we’re coming to it now. We’re right in it, because the Holy Spirit is the One that leads the church, and warns us of dangers that is to come.<ref>William Branham, 60-0805 - Lamb And Dove, para. 30</ref>

In November 1960, he states for the first time that he is reading them and that they were from 1932. This is also the first time he mentions that women will elect the wrong person. It is not surprisingly only 5 days after the election of J.F. Kennedy (emphasis added):

:''I’d like to '''read you a prophecy''' that was given. I got on… And may…By the way, Mr. Mercier and many of them are going to take some of these old prophecies, and dig them out, and revise them a little, or bring them up to date, and put them in papers. I’d like to read some things that I’d like for you to—to…This one, first. I’d like to read something to you.

:'''''“1932.”''' Listen to this. “As I was on my way, or as I was getting ready to go on my way to church this morning, it came to pass that I fell into a vision. Our services is being held on Meigs Avenue, at the old orphan’s home where Charlie Kern lives in part of the building.” He lives just across the street now, you know. “And it came to pass, that, while I was in this vision, I seen some dreadful things take place. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. ''

::(1) ''“The President which now is, '''President Franklin D. Roosevelt''',” now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago, “'''will cause the whole world to go to war.'''

::(2) ''And the new dictator of Italy, '''Mussolini, shall make his first invasion towards Ethiopia. And he will take Ethiopia, but that will be his last. He shall come to his end.'''

::(3) ''“We will be in war with Germany. Watch Russia. Now, that, see, '''Communism, Nazism, and Fascism.''' Watch Russia, but that is not the main one to watch. ''

::(4) “It shall also…has been an evil thing done in this country, they have permitted women to vote. This is a woman’s nation, and she will pollute this nation as Eve did Eden.” Now you see why I’m hammering the way I do? I got '''THUS SAITH THE LORD'''. “In her voting, she will elect the wrong person.

::(5) ''“The Americans will take a great beating at a place that Germany will build, which will be a great wall built of concrete,” '''the Maginot Line''', eleven years before it was ever built, “but finally they will be victors. ''

::(6) ''“Then when these women help elect the wrong person, then '''I seen a great woman rise up in the United States''', well-dressed and beautiful, but cruel in heart. She will either guide or lead this nation to ruination.” I got, in parenthesis, “('''Perhaps, Catholic church'''). ''

::(7) ''“Also, science will progress, especially in the mechanical world. '''Automobiles will continue to get like egg-shape.'''

::(8) ''Finally they will build one that '''won’t need a steering wheel. They’ve got it now.''' It will be controlled by some other power. ''

::(9) ''“Then I seen the '''United States as one smoldering, burnt-over place'''. It will be near the end.” Then I got, in parenthesis, “(I predict that this will take place…).” Now, remember, the Lord, that’s what the Lord showed. “(But '''I predict this will take place before 1977'''.) Upon this prediction, I base, because of the onrushing slaught that’s coming now, how fast that it was moving, how long it’ll take till this nation meets its place.” ''

::''Now, look what happened now.''
::'''(see 1 above)''' ''In President Franklin D. Roosevelt, took America to England’s tea party. That’s right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them. Throwed the whole world into a war, that caused the world war.

::'''(see 5 above)''' ''The German’s built the Maginot Line. Which, there, any veteran here knows what she took there at the Maginot Line.

::'''(see 6 above)''' ''Women, given the right to vote, elected President-elect Kennedy, was the woman’s vote, the wrong man; which will finally lead to full control, of the Catholic church, in United States.

::'''(see 9 above)''' ''Then the bomb comes that explodes her.

:''There are seven things predicted, and '''five of them has already happened'''. So you can judge, yourself, how far away we are. We’re near the end. If them five things happened, these other two things are bound to happen. It’s just got to happen.

:''I do not think that Mr. Kennedy will have much effect now, because he’ll make a wonderful President, in order to bring in the others, to get a scene set just like they have in England, like they did in Mexico, like they did everywhere else like that. And American people, so unstabled; not spiritually. They’re smart, but too smart for their own good. Intelligence swings backward, sometime, and backfires. So they…I’m preaching on that, this morning, in a little bit.

:''So, we find out, we’re—we’re right on the verge. Reason I said this; that’s the reason I pressed that, the other day, so hard the way I did. But it was that that did it, that’s right, women’s vote. That put… Did you notice the rallies on the television? Nixon to be, pretty near, all men. All of them wanted to kiss Kennedy, the women, jumping astraddle the cars, everything like that, jumping up-and-down.

:''And now let me bring something else. I haven’t got written here, but, on magnetic tape. And this is taped, too. 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, standing at the…that scho-…Lane Tech High School. They were there. I said, “This year is going to be the changing point of America.” I just come from overseas, don’t know why I come. Come back, canceled my meetings in Africa and around, come back. Billy Graham, something mysterious, he canceled his. Tommy Osborn canceled his. And we all, crossing United States, in meetings. I said, “America will either receive or reject Christ, this year.” Then I said, when they elected, in Indiana, a twenty-two-year boy…-year-old boy, to be judge. The Spirit of the Lord came on me, and I said, “They’ll finally have a President that’ll be one of these crewcut, playboy, beatnik-type Presidents, a ladies’ man.” Now, them is predictions, years ago. See where we’re at? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] It’s later than we think.<ref>William Branham, 60-1113 - Condemnation By Representation, para. 32-48</ref>

A few days later, he refers to the visions again. This is the first time that he provides seven specific prophecies. He also states that the list of visions would be published in the "Herald of Faith" magazine, although we have been unable to obtain a copy of this magazine and so cannot confirm that the list of visions was, in fact, published in the magazine:

:''I was on my way to Sunday school, and when I was getting my Bible, a vision came before me; and I was stopped in the floor. '''And here was what it said. It’s on yellow paper. Will be printed in the “Herald of Faith” right away, because most all of it is fulfilled.''' 1933—think of this now. Many, many years ago, about twenty-eight years ago it—it taken place. Watch how accurate His Word is.

::(1) ''Said, “We now have a president (Dwi… Mr. Roosevelt), and this '''Mr. Roosevelt will cause the world to go into a world war''' through his—in his time of his administration, his—his—as president,” and then said,

::(2) ''“And during this time they have permitted women to vote, which will be a curse to the nation. '''They’ll elect the wrong man sometime'''.” And they did the other day. Now, think of that. Said,

::(3) ''“'''We will go to war with Germany, and Germany will be fortified behind concrete.''' And we will take an awful beating at this place,” the Maginot Line eleven years before it was built. See? Exactly. Said,

::(4) ''“This new dictator, '''Mussolini, will take his first step toward Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will fall at his feet.” It did. It said, “That’ll be his last. He will end in disgrace.”''' And I said,

::(5) ''“It will come to pass before the end time comes that '''there will be a great woman stand up in the United States''', because the United States is marked woman. Her number is thirteen, and '''she’ll rise up, either be president, or (I put it in parentheses) perhaps the woman being beautiful and attractive will be the Catholic church but cruel at heart, and she’ll lead the nation to pollution.''' ''

::(6) ''And then it will come to pass that they’ll have an automobile perfected into a place, that '''I seen a family driving in an automobile that was glass topped and didn’t have any steering wheel in it.'''” It was… And I seen the other day that it in the “Popular Mechanics” that the machine is already invented. They can take it anywhere you want to by some sort of a—this radar control. Just set your post to it and it goes right on. You don’t even need it, and it’s glass topped.

::(7) ''Then I turned to look and '''I seen the United States was a smoldering something had burned it up.''' And down beneath there I said, not in the trance, but, “I predict…” (remember this, I guess this is taped too), “'''I predict that these things will take place between now, 1933 and 1977.'''” Which will give us sixteen more years if my prediction strikes right.

:''Now, there was seven things spoke of that would happen. Five of them has already happened. There’s two left to take place. It’ll be that way. '''That’s in the Name of the Lord it shall be that way'''. See?<ref>William Branham, 60-1125 - Conference, para. 5-7</ref>

He mentions them several times during the sermon series on the seven church ages. The first is on December 5, 1960:

:''And at 1906 the Laodicean Church Age set in, and I don’t know when it’ll end, but I predict it’ll be done by 1977. I predict, not the Lord told me, but I predict it according to a vision that was showed me some years ago, that, five of those things has (out of the seven) has already taken place.

:''About… How many remembers that vision, in the church? Sure. Said that, how that even

::''(1) Kennedy would be elected in this last election. How that women would be permitted to vote.

::''(2) How that Roosevelt would take the world to war.

::''(3) How that Mussolini would go towards Ethiopia, his first invasion, and would take it; that’d be the end, he’d die off after that.

::''(4) How these great isms would rise up and all fall back into Communism; Hitlerism, and Mussolini, and Co-…Nazism, and so forth, would all fall back into Communism.

::''(5) And eleven years beforehand, it said that “We’d go to war with Germany, and Germany would be fortified behind concrete,” the Maginot Line. It happened just that way.

::''(6) Said then, after that, would come to place that…come to pass that science would increase so greatly until they would invent a car, the cars would become more like “egg” all the time. And that vision was told right here where the Church of Christ stands now, at the old Mes-…orphans home. Charlie Kern, perhaps in the building tonight, was living at the place at the time. One Sunday morning about seven o’clock it happened.

:''(7) And It said, “Then there would come to pass that they’d invent a car that they didn’t need a steering wheel in it, it would be controlled by some kind of a power.” They’ve got it now. They got it now, in magnetic power, radar control. They don’t even…just set your radar to where you’re going, it takes you yourself, don’t have to steer.

:''(8) Now, and it said in there, “At that time, there’d be a great woman stand up in the United States.” And she was dressed and beautiful, but she was cruel in heart. And I got in parenthesis on the vision, even yellow paper, said, “perhaps the Catholic church.”

:''(9) And the women being permitted to vote would help elect the wrong person for this nation. And that’s what they done. Exactly. Now, said, “That would be the beginning.”

:''(10) Now another thing it said, that…Then immediately after that, I saw this nation become as a smolder, just blowed to bits. Now, if them things has happened, so will this other.<ref>William Branham, 60-1205 - The Ephesian Church Age, para. 46-58</ref>

On December 8, 1960, he mentions the visions again (''emphasis and numbers added''):

:''You remember the vision that was read here, 1933? I was going…The church wasn’t even built. Didn’t know what a vision was, called it a “trance.” I was just a young Baptist preacher, and we were… All my life I saw those visions, and I’ll ask anybody to rise and say if ever one of them ever failed. No, never did! It can’t! See? It won’t! And now, and as I started the Sunday school I fell into a trance. We was having it over here at the old Masonic home, Charlie Kern’s place, little group of us.

::(1) ''And I seen this '''President Roosevelt''' leading the world to a world war. Predicted! I said,

::(2) ''“And there’s '''three isms: the Nazi, and the Fascism, and Communism'''.” I said…(How many in here remembers?) I said, “'''Keep your eyes on Communism, it’ll all head up in there.'''” I said,

::(3) ''“Ethiopia, '''Mussolini''' will go to Ethiopia, but he’ll fail.”

::(4) ''And I said, “We’ll finally '''go to war with Germany''', but” I said “Germany will be fortified in, in a great big bunch of concrete.” Eleven years before the Maginot Line was built, eleven years. I said,

::(5) “Then after the war…We’ll finally win it. And after the war is over, it’ll come to pass that science will be inventing great things.” And I said, “When they do, they’ll make an automobile, and '''automobiles will continually shape down'''.” (You know what they looked like in ’33.) Now then, said, “'''They’ll become like eggs, look like eggs'''.

::(6) ''For I seen on a highway, a great master highway, '''a car going down the road that didn’t have any steering wheel in it'''. It was controlled by a power.” They got it right now. I said,

::(7) ''“During that time…Now they’re permitting women to vote; and women, in voting, will finally…” I said, “This nation is a woman’s nation, it’s marked by a woman. It’s a woman right down through prophecy, everywhere; and number thirteen everywhere in prophecy.” And I said, “It’s a woman’s country, she has her liberties here. And she’ll ruin it, she’s the ruination of the world.” (And, Roy, I got your letters on that, that great woman that… “Every criminal case… We’ve… I’d X-rayed it down now to: every criminal case was ever done in this United States, a woman was behind it.” That’s exactly right. That’s immoral women, you see, and things.) Now, so then I said, “There will be in that time, during that time the '''women will be permitted to vote, and they’ll elect the wrong person'''.” They did it on this last election. That’s right.

::(8) ''“Which will start the stronghold. During that time it’ll come to pass that—that there’ll be '''a great woman rise up in the United States,''' she’ll be beautifully dressed,” and I got in parenthesis: “(perhaps the Catholic church).” See? “That’ll take rulership over the power, overpower the others in the United States. She’ll be beautiful to look at, but she’ll be cruel-hearted as she can be.” I said,

::(9) ''“Then I looked again, and '''I saw the United States just blowed to pieces'''. There wasn’t nothing left on it.”

:''And I predicted then. “Now this, that was '''THUS SAITH THE LORD'''.” And think! Of '''five of those seven predictions, has already happened.''' The church to take a hold, the Catholic church. And the coming of the end time. And I said, “I seen, looked like there was stumps burning; rocks, blowed out; and the whole United States just looked bare, laying like that, as far as I could see where I was standing.”

:''And I said, “I predict, according to the way time is moving, '''it’ll be sometime between this year ’33 and ’77.'''” And it’ll have to squeeze awful hard to get through there. And we’re setting on a powder keg, friends. Everything’s ready.<ref>William Branham, 60-1208 - The Thyatirean Church Age, para. 192-204</ref>

On December 11, 1960, he goes through them again:

:''But the Lord showed me a vision of the great powerful woman, in ’33, 1933, it’s on paper. Of how that

::(1) ''“'''Roosevelt''' would cause…he helped cause the world to go to war.”

::(2) ''How that “'''Mussolini''' would make his first invasion to Ethiopia and he would take it, but he would come to a disgraceful end.” And how that

::(3) ''“Then the three ism: '''Nazism, Fascism, and Communism, would all wind up in Communism.'''” And how many in here remembers me just keep…have you stand, and say it over, I’d tell you, “Watch Russia! Watch Russia, the king of the North! Watch Russia, king of the North! Watch Russia, king of the North!”? How many has heard me just say, just wave that over, over? The old-timers, you see, back in the early part of the church. Just stand there and wave it over and over, “Watch Russia, the king of the North! See, what he would do, for all those isms will heap up into Russia.” Then I said, that

::(4) ''“'''This nation would finally go to war with Germany.''' And Germany would be built in a concrete wall.” And that was the Maginot Line, eleven years before it was ever started to build it, eleven years before. And I said, “The Americans will take an awful beating at that line.” Some of these brethren here was at that line, Brother Roy Roberson and them; ask them what happened. They sure did. All right. “But finally,” I said, “we will overcome and will be one of the winner in the war between us and Germany.” Now, I said, “Then after that time, that science would really progress.” They did, they made the atomic bomb and everything. I said,

::(5) ''“During their progression, they would make a…'''cars would constantly begin to shape like an egg'''.” And you remember the big old hood on the 1933, the big back come down like this, the spare tire on the back of it? Look how it is now, see: streamlined, see, like an egg. And I said,

::(6) ''“Finally '''they will invent a car that they won’t have to have a steering wheel in it.''' I seen a family going down the…Call it, ‘road,’ in a glass-top car, great big fine-looking roads and fine car. And they were sitting, looking at one another, and the car was running by itself, going right on around the curves and everything.” And they’ve got the car right now, it’s already invented. They’ve got the car. And I said then, “Oh, how science will progress in that day!” I said,

::(7) ''“Then I seen a…'''They’re going to permit women and are permitting women to vote. And by voting, they’ll elect the wrong man some of these days.'''” And you did at the last election. It was the woman’s votes that elected Kennedy. We know that, see, between the crooked machines and things fixed up, that FBI exposed. And how could anybody…Why don’t they do something about it? Why ain’t something said? Hah! Afraid somebody’d lose their job. You see, it’s just a bunch of politics, rotten to the core. That’s all. Sure! There ain’t no—ain’t no…isn’t no, excuse me. There is no salvation in this nation, there is no salvation in any nation. Salvation’s in Jesus Christ and Him alone! Uh-huh! That’s right. Now, I’m thankful for America. I’d rather live here than any place in the world, because…outside of Canada. Canada and the United States is twins, we know that, neighboring nations, wonderful place, but I—I believe I’d rather live here than anywhere I know of, because it’s my home. I’m glad that I am an American, and thankful for it. But I tell you, it certainly needs a counter revival, it sure does. And it will not get it! No, sir. She’ll never rise again! No, sir. She’s gone! You remember, about five years ago in Chicago, that’s on tape. You got it, Gene. I said, “They’ll either accept It this year, or they’ll constantly drop down.” And they’ve done it, see, and they will do it till she’ll finally meet her end.

::(8) ''But '''there’ll be a powerful woman!''' Now, remember! This is on tape, too. A powerful woman, great woman, she’ll '''either be President, or it’ll be a woman representing the Catholic church''' (which I think it is) will take over here someday and she’ll rule this country. This nation is a woman’s nation. Flag was made by a woman, it’s number thirteen. She started out, thirteen stars, thirteen stripes, thirteen colonies. Everything’s thirteen, thirteen, thirteen, right on down. Thirteen stars on her silver dollar now. Everything’s a thirteen. It’s number thirteen, and appears in the 13th chapter of Revelation. Completely thirteen! Everything is “woman, woman, woman, woman, woman,” right on down. And she took over all the offices. She’s took over Hollywood. She’s took over the nations. She’s took over the offices. She’s took over everything there is; equal rights with the man, votes with the man, cusses like a man, drinks like a man, anything else. And just bait for the Catholic church, for the worship of a woman! They’re already worshipping a woman, anyhow.<ref>William Branham, 60-1211E - The Laodicean Church Age, para. 44-49</ref>

A month later in January 1961 he states:

:''A few days ago we… Now, I’m not Democrat nor Republican; I’m a Christian; so I don’t mention these things. But I picked up an old book there that the—the Lord had gave me a vision in 1933 when I just first become a minister, going down to the Baptist Tabernacle. And He gave me a vision that morning, and I seen the first one I remember of an international affair.

::(1) ''And I seen that '''President Roosevelt''' that was in then, and seen that we’d go to a world war.

::(2) ''Then I seen also that—that was eleven years before the Maginot line was built, '''I seen Germany fortify themselves in this big concrete place'''.

::(3) '' I also seen they '''permitted women to vote, which was wrong'''. And said they would—'''they would someday elect the wrong man'''; they just did it. And then… So then I seen the time of—of the end coming, and five things that the Lord let… Seven things I saw, five of them has already come to pass.

::(4) ''I seen '''a powerful woman stand up to the United States'''. You can write this down if you do so—it’s going to happen. I don’t know… She’s on her road now. Exactly. And '''she took over.'''

::(5) ''And then '''I seen the United States just like something had burnt it over''' hit it, and just something, blowed up rocks and things.

::(6) ''And then I seen the time there’d be an increase in science. I noticed there’d be an automobile… I had it wrote down there. I got it right with me now, old yellow paper, that there’d be a machine, '''automobile perfected, looked like an egg''', would be glass over it.

::(7) ''And there was a man and woman, '''the family, setting there with their backs turned to one another, playing cards''', and '''the machine traveling itself'''. Something on the bumpers that would—it couldn’t hit the others, going down. And I seen that on television a few nights ago. They got that thing perfected right now.

:''See, all those things that the Lord spoke is true. And we just got two more things left of that to be fulfilled, and that’s the end time. And if there ever was a time that we ought to be trying to get people to God, it’s now.<ref>William Branham, 61-0128 - Why?, para. 93</ref>

In March 1961, he states:

:''And as I said, “We’re '''just being honeycombed with communism''' and everything.” Every ism, it’s… Many of you, if you’d put a righteous President in every county in the whole United States, it’s still gone. She’ll never rise again, '''THUS SAITH THE LORD.''' 1956 she made her fatal move. Now, and she took well on her way about three months ago. Now, she’s gone. Write it in your Bible; see if it’s right. 1933, one morning going to the Baptist tabernacle, I went into a trance, saw a vision.

::(1) ''I saw '''President Roosevelt''' was going to help lead the world to a world war, told it that morning. They was going to lock me up for it. And I said,

::(2) ''“They’ll '''go to war with Germany.'''” Eleven years before the Maginot Line was built, I said, “There…” in that same vision I saw Germany fortified in concrete. And America took a terrible beating there, and many of you boys know what happened, was there. Notice. I said,

::(3) ''“'''Mussolini''' is standing up as a dictator; he will make his first invasion to Ethiopia. But he will take Ethiopia, but he will come to a disgraceful end, him and that woman both.” And they hung them with their feet up, and her clothes hanging over her head in the street, and spit on them. I said, "Science will improve'''.” I said,

::(4) ''“Another thing, the nation has permitted women to vote, one of the most horrible disgraces they’ve done.” And I said, “'''In voting they’ll elect the wrong man'''.” I’m neither Democrat nor Republican. I’m a Christian. Both sides is rotten. But they made their fatal mistake the other day. Women done the works. And how you colored people, sell your birthright to such a thing as that, when the blood of Abraham Lincoln’s stains, up yonder on that dress. God have mercy. Help me, Lord. Oh, my. Maybe I shouldn’t have said it. But I’ve done said it. Remember. Oh, how can it be? My days as evangelist is soon done. I can’t prophetic and evangelist too. I’ll leave the field. That’s in the spirit now. Soon He will be calling me; I’ll leave the field of evangelism. Then He will use me as His seer. What’s the matter with me anyhow? Where was I at? Yes. Genesis 18. Did you get that Gene? Genesis 18, I believe I was speaking on. Then, no, I was on what He told me, would happen. Then He said,

::(5) ''“Science will be increased, until it comes to a place until they’ll '''perfect an automobile, that looks like an egg''', before the end time.” There I seen it. And I said,

::(6) ''“They’ll '''control it with some kind of a steering outfit that they don’t have to touch it theirself.'''” I seen an American family, going down a great big broad way playing cards with a glass-top car, looked like an egg. They’ve got it right now. You seen it on television here not long ago. They’ve got it. And I said,

::(7) ''“Then I seen '''some great powerful woman rise in the United States'''.” ’Cause this is a woman’s nation: woman’s picture on the money; everything is woman here. That’s right. She’s a goddess. Not you Christian women. I’m talking about… Let a little flapper come down the street here with all these shorts, and things. She can do more harm to the church of the living God, among men, than all the bootleg joints there is through the nation. That’s right. This is a… America is a woman’s nation. Got her pictures, Her number’s thirteen, thirteen colonies, thirteen stripes, thirteen stars, thirteen so… Everything is thirteen, thirteen, thirteen and a woman. See? And I seen a great woman rise up, beautiful to look at, but a cruel wicked heart. And that will be a church. And she’s on her road now.

::(8) ''Then I seen the end time when the '''United States looked like a big bunch of bursted up stones and things like that, just blowed out''', smoldering everywhere. Five of them has happened, two of them’s on their road.

:''That has been twenty-one years ago (See?), when it was predicted. If '''five of them is perfectly hit''', the other two’s got to. I see them coming on the road now.<ref>William Branham, 61-0312 - Jehovah-Jireh, para. 74-78</ref>

William Branham reiterates the visions again on August 6, 1961. He indicates that Mrs. Wilson was there and the editor indicates that she shouts "Amen". However, whether Mrs. Wilson was in attendance and whether it was in fact her who shouted "Amen" cannot be verified:

:''Now, in 1933, when we were worshipping over here in the Masonic temple, where the church of Christ stands today. On one April morning, before leaving home… I was dedicating my car. I got a ’33 model car, and I was dedicating it to the Lord’s service. And in a vision, I saw the end time. Now notice how striking this is, back yonder when I was just a boy. And you can imagine what a 1933 model car looked like, now, what it looked like. And I went over there to the Masonic temple, where…Some of you old-timers in here remembers. It’s wrote down on old paper, at home. It’s already in print and went out around the world. See? That was in 1933. And I predicted that there would be some great tragedy happen to this United States before or by the year of 1977. How many remembers me saying that? [The old-timers say, “Amen.”—Ed.] Look at the hand. Sure.

:''Now watch. I predicted seven things was yet in the making of the…before this great consummation or great thing would take place here in the United States, some great horrible thing. I said… Now remember, this is before it started. I said we would go into a Second World War. How many remember hearing me say it? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All right. A Second World War! I said,

::(1) ''“The President that now is…” I copied this off the old scripture, yet, the old thing yesterday, that, “The President that we now have,” which was…How many remembers whose it was? [A brother says, “Franklin Roosevelt.”] '''Franklin D. Roosevelt.''' I said, “The President we have in now will run even in the fourth term,” he was on his first then, “will run into the fourth term, and we will be taken to a Second World War.” I said,

::(2) ''“The dictator that’s now arising in Italy, which is '''Mussolini''', he will come into power. And he will go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will fall at his steps.” There is people setting here now that knows, that there’s a group of people come and stood, when I was having my meeting in the Redman’s Hall down there that night, when I had to go down there to preach that, Redman’s Hall, and was going to throw me out of the hall for saying such a thing. [Sister Wilson says, “Amen. That’s right.”—Ed.] Yeah. Yeah. Mrs. Wilson, I know you’re…[“That’s right.”] That’s right. When I said that…But did he do it? “But,” I said, “he’ll come to a shameful end,” and he did. Him and the woman he run with, was turned up-side-down and hung on a rope in the street, with their feet up, their clothes hanging down. All right, that come to pass. 203 And then I said,

::(3) ''“The '''women has been permitted to vote. Which is absolutely a disgrace upon the nation. And, in voting, some day they’ll elect the wrong man.'''” And they did that in this last election. My, my! Four…(I said, “Science will progress in such a way…”) No, here, that’s third. Pardon me. Here is the next one, there, the fourth. I said,

::(4) ''“Our '''war will be with Germany, and they will build a great big concrete place and fortify themselves in there, and the Americans will take a horrible beating.'''” Almighty God knows, that Who I stand before now, I seen those independent Nazis kick at the Americans like that, and things, at that wall. [A man in the congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] And there is many boys standing here now that was at that Siegfried Line, that knows what it was. [“Amen. Yes, sir. Amen.”] And remember, that was eleven years before the Siegfried Line was built. Is God true? [Congregation says, “Amen.”] Does He still foretell things to happen? [“Amen.”] Watch. That’s, that was the fourth.

::(5) ''Now the fifth thing. “Science will progress in such a way until '''they will make a car that will not have to be guided by a steering wheel.'''

::(6) ''And the '''cars will continue to be shaped like an egg''', until the consummation, the end time. I seen American family going down the road, in a broad way, riding in a car with their backs turned towards where the wheel should be, looked like they were playing checkers or cards.” And we got it. It’s on television. Popular Science, Mechanics, rather, all have it. We got the car. It’s controlled by a remote control, by—by radar. They won’t even have to have any steering wheel in it. Just set your dial like this, like you dial your phone, and your car takes you right on to it; can’t wreck, nor nothing, no other cars. The magnet keeps the rest of them away from you. See? They got it. Oh, my! Think of it. Predicted thirty years before it happened! Now, that brings us then to the election of President Kennedy. And this car coming on the—on the scene, bringing five things (out of the seven) that has happened exactly.

::(7) ''Now, I predicted, and have said, “I saw '''a great woman stand up''', beautiful-looking, dressed in real highly royal-like purple.” And I got little parenthesis down here, “('''She was a great ruler in the United States; perhaps the Catholic church'''.)” A woman, some woman; I don’t know it’ll be the Catholic church. I don’t know. I can’t say. Only thing I seen, I seen the woman, that was all.

::(8)''But this is a woman’s nation. This nation is number thirteen, in prophecy. She’s got thirteen stripes, thirteen stars. She started thirteen colonies. Thirteen, thirteen, everything is thirteen. Appears in the 13th chapter of Revelations, even. She is thirteen. And she is a woman nation. The divorce courts in America produce more divorces, by our women, than all the rest of the nations. The morals in our country is lower, and divorces, than it is in France or Italy, where prostitution is on the street. So, but they are prostitutes; ours is married women trying to live with several men, and several married men trying to live with other women. In the nations where they have polygamy, it’s a thousand times better. And, yet, polygamy is wrong, we know. But, just show how degraded we are.

::(9)''I got a piece up there out of the paper, where it showed that when our American boys went overseas, in this last war, that over, I believe, it was around seventy percent…Why, now, wait a minute, I believe it was three out of four that went overseas, was divorced by their wife before they got back. And its great big headline says, “What’s happened to the morals of our American people?” You remember seeing it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All of you did, I guess. “What’s happened to the morals of our American women?” Plants, working out yonder with other men. It’s a woman’s nation. What’s she going have? A woman god, or a goddess.

::(10) ''Now, then, after that, I turned and looked. And '''I saw this United States burning like a smolder, rocks had been blowed up.''' And it was burning like a—a heap of fire in logs, or something that just set it afire. And looked as far as I could see, and she had been blown up. And then the vision left me. Five out of the three has happened…or five out of the seven, rather, has happened.

:''And here comes around and shows. And then I predicted. I never said the Lord told me that, but, standing that morning in the church, I said, “The way progress…” I got back to one end of their wall, and run to the other end of the wall. I said, “The way progress is going on, I’ll predict that the time…I don’t know why I’m saying it. But I predict that '''that’ll all happen between right now, 1933, and 1977.'''” And not knowing it, God knows my heart, I never knowed it until yesterday, that 1977 is the jubilee, and exactly the same amount of time run out that He give with Israel, and everything at the end. So we’re at…And here we are at the end of the age, at the coming in of the seventieth week. We don’t know what time that the Church will be gone. Oh, my! What can we do, friends? Where we at?<ref>William Branham, 61-0806 - The Seventieth Week Of Daniel, para. 200-205</ref>

He mentions the visions in passing on December 30, 1962:

:''You remember, many of you here, the old-timers, Roy Slaughter, maybe, and farther back in that, remembers down yonder when I told you about prophecy. One day, down there at the Odd Fellows’ building, before we ever come to here, I said,

:''(1) “Mussolini will come to a shameful end.” I said, “His first invasion, he will go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will fall at his step. But he’ll come to his end, and nobody will help him. In disgrace will he be buried.” There he is.

:''(2) I said, “There is three isms has rose up. Nazism, fascism, and communism.” I said, “Them isms will revolve and come around into one, and it’ll be communism. Watch. Communism will burn Rome.” See<ref>William Branham, 62-1230M - Absolute, para. 187-188</ref>

The visions are mentioned again on November 17, 1963:

:''1933, the Holy Spirit came one morning and told me seven things that would take place before this nation was destroyed. One of them is that. It’s on old paper there at the church, many has looked at it.

:''(1) How that we would go to war with Hitler and they’d… How Germany would fortify and build a Maginot Line, or the Siegfried Line, I believe it was, eleven years before it was ever thought of.

:''(2) And how that automobiles would constantly shape like eggs.

:''(3) And how that they would permit women to vote, and, in doing so, they would elect the wrong President.

:''(4) And in this would be a woman stand up that would govern the United States; not actually a woman, but a church.

:''(5) Then I seen her with nothing but ashes. It’s going to happen.

:''Five of those things has perfectly been fulfilled exactly.

::''(6) How Mussolini would rise and go to Ethiopia, and fall at his steps; and he would be turned to the people, in shame, with a woman.

:''Many, many years before it happened perfectly on the dot. And it’s never failed, and it won’t fail, because it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. And it’s not contrary to these Bible. It’s got to be.<ref>William Branham, 63-1117 - Once More, para. 124-125</ref>

He does not mention the visions again for about a year but then describes them incompletely in January 1964:

:''And is it not a strange thing, that in this day that when we have come through all these things, and the Message has crossed the earth against organization, It’s blasted it from right to left, that, in this hour that’s been told since 1933, when the Holy Spirit gave me that visions and showed me the end time, seven things that I spoke of, and five of them has already happened, perfectly, right on; like Germany and—and Italy and all the wars, and the national things (seldom speaks to me on those things). But they happened just exactly the way He said they’d happen.

::(1) ''How '''Mussolini''' would go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia would fall at his step, and then how that he’d come to a disgrace, and be spit on by his own people; and disgraced, hung upside down, with that prostitute that he lived with, on the street.

::(2) ''How that '''the Americas would go to war with Germany''', they’d take an awful beating at a place called, a great line where there would be concrete fortified in there, I believe it’s called the Siegfried Line. And there’s one called Maginot, I believe that was the French. Was that right? And the Siegfried Line was the German line. And the Lord let me see that, eleven years before it was built. And they never would admit getting a beating on it, the Americans wouldn’t, till they almost sunk the complete army. When they went in there, the Germans had their guns just trained right out on that fleet, and let it get right in there, and almost sunk it. And I seen that, eleven years before the line was ever—ever a foundation was ever poured for it, or anything, the Siegfried Line.

::(3) ''And all these other things, like '''machines and automobiles''', and—and how everything has come right down exactly what He said,

::(4) ''until '''a woman ruling this nation''', which, perhaps, is the church.

::(5) ''And '''then the end come'''.<ref>William Branham, 64-0112 - Shalom, para. 74</ref>

On March 21, 1964 he said:

:''In my book in there, that I keep wrote down. In 1933, one morning, fixing to go to Sunday school, a Baptist Sunday school where I was pastor, the Holy Spirit come and showed me down to the end time, and showed me seven things that would happen. I marked them down. It’s on old yellow paper.

::''(1) Told me exactly how Germany would build that Siegfried Line, and how the Americans would take a great beating at it, eleven years before the—the line was ever built.

::''(2)Said how Mussolini would raise up, and how he’d go to Ethiopia, and how Ethiopia would “fall at his steps.” And he would die shameful, turned upside down, and his own people would spit on him.

::''(3) And I said, “There is three isms: Communism, Fascism, and Nazism. They’ll all wind up out of Russia, in Communism.” And it will Cath-…destroy Catholicism. See if it don’t!

::''(4)I said, “Such progress will take place!” I said, “I see automobiles looking like an egg, going down the street. There is cars go down the highways, with some kind of a control, they don’t have to guide it. I seen an American family playing checker in the back of a car.” They’ve got the car right now, if they just had the highways to put it on. The little Volkswagen is a perfect egg, just exactly, and it’s all the other cars. Could you imagine, in 1933, what the cars looked like, to now?

::''(5)And then It predicted again, that, permitting women to vote, and what they would do. And how that this country, being a type, like Israel, come into a land and drove out the occupants, and inherited the land. And the first few kings they had, David and Solomon, were God-fearing kings. After a while, they got an Ahab on the scene. They voted him in. The chair’ll got…church got worldly. And, we’ve had a Lincoln and a Washington, look what it is today. Look where we’re going now. Where is the next thing? We’re at the end time.<ref>William Branham, 64-0321E - The Voice Of The Sign, para. 113-118</ref>

He mentions them on July 26, 1964:

:''Look at 1933,

::''(1) how it say the women would act in this last days.

::''(2) How it said the people…How Mussolini, how he’d come to his end.

::''(3) How Hitler would come to a mysterious end.

::''(4) How that the three ism would come in communism.

::''(5) How that the machines would come, looking like an egg.

::''(6) And how that women would wear garments and look like men, even like their underneath clothes; and would finally come to putting fig leaves, like, on them. How the immoral act, how they would act in this day. Look what they’ve done. And it’s right before you, then.<ref>William Branham, 64-0726M - Recognizing Your Day And Its Message, para. 142</ref>

He describes the visions again in July 1964. He states that there were two people who were still around when the visions were told, Mrs. Wilson and William Branham's wife, although there was no indication that either of them was in attendance at the meeting:

:''And now I have predicted by revelation from God, or a vision in 1933, that seven things would happen before the end time. And that, one of them, that,

::(1) ''“'''Mussolini,''' who was then becoming dictator, he would become dictator; and also, he would make an invasion and go down to Ethiopia and would take Ethiopia; and the Spirit, It said, ‘he shall fall at his step.’” I wonder if there is any of the old-timers still left in the tabernacle, remember me saying that in the Redman’s Hall down here when we preached, many, many years ago. Is there one in the building, tonight, that’s left from down there at the old Redman’s Hall when I preached that, when they had the N.R.A. out, way back in time of Roosevelt’s first term? I guess there is not a one in here. Is there one? Yeah, yeah, one, there is one. Yes, Mrs. Wilson, I remember her. My wife, setting in the back. Two left, out of the old generation of those in that day. That, when they said this N.R.A. was the mark of the beast, I said, “Nothing to it; not at all. The mark of the beast don’t come here. It comes out of Rome. And it can’t be the mark of the beast.” And now remember that these things was said. Said,

::(2) ''“'''Adolf Hitler would come to a mysterious end. And he would declare war on the United States.''' And they would build a great—a—a great concrete thing, that they’d even live in it. And right there the Americans would take a horrible beating, at this.” And it was the Siegfried line, eleven years before it was ever started to be built. And then said, “But he would come to an end; and the States would win the war.” And then said, that,

::(3) ''“There is '''three isms: Nazism, fascism, and communism.'''” And I said, “They’ll '''all wind up in communism. Russia will take it all, in communism'''.” And I said,

::(4) ''“Then science is going to be so great, man is going to get so smart, till he’ll invent so many things until he’s going to make an '''automobile that looks like an egg''', that’ll have like a glass top on it,

::(5) ''and it’d be '''controlled by some other power than a steering wheel.'''” And they’ve got the car. And I said,

::(6) ''“Then the '''morals of our women is going to fall in such a degraded things''', till they’re going to be a disgrace to all nations. They’re going to wear man’s clothes. They’re going to keep taking off their clothes till actually they come down like they got their underneath clothes on, that’s all. And, finally, they’ll come to wearing just a fig leaf.” And if you notice, in last month’s Life magazine, they had the woman with the fig leaves on. And that’s the new evening frock, or gown, what they wear of the evening; transparent, can see through it, only the fig leaves just hides a certain spot of her body; with strapless, or strap, unstrapped bathing suits, the top of it, exposed body. And how that those things has happened! Then I said,

::(6) ''“I seen '''a woman stand in the United States, like a great queen or something'''. And she was beautiful to look at, but wicked in her heart. And she made the nation step, go at her step.” Then I said,

::(7) ''“Finally, He told me to look back East again. And, when I did, I seen, looked like, as it was, '''the world had exploded'''. And as far as I could see, was nothing but sticks, and—and smoldering rocks had been blowed up out of the earth.”

And these were to happen before the end of the world. And five of the seven has already happened, in thirty-three years. There we are, back to the end time!<ref>William Branham, 64-0726E - Broken Cisterns, para. 50-57</ref>

The final time the visions are mentioned is on August 23, 1964:

:''Paul Boyd wrote here concerning those seven things that I seen in 1933, that was to come to pass. And he watches them just as close, technically, as he can, because he’s a historian. And he watches it, just exactly what you say. And he seen those things that was told of many years ago:

::''(1) about how that Mussolini…and what would become of him, and

::''(2) Hitler, and what would become of him; and

::''(3) how Communism would take both Fascism and all of these; and

::''(4) how the—the Siegfried Line would be built, and how that the Americans would take a beating there (and they never would admit it till just about two years ago, and they got the German pictures of the siege there; and they really took a beating. They liked…They lost their whole army almost right there); and all those things that were done.

::''(5) And now, it also said, “And it shall come to pass, that before the end time shall come, that automobiles will take on the shape of an egg, become more like an egg.” And I saw an American family driving down a highway in a car that…They were setting facing one another, and had a table, and were, look like, playing checkers or cards. And they didn’t have any steering wheel in the car. And it was controlled by some power without a steering wheel. How many remembers me prophesying that (see?), that’s been here? Now, at the World’s Fair they’ve already got the car on the market. Here is the…It’s sold now; some big company has taken many of them. And this car, here it is. Paul Boyd remembered the prophecy, looked into his book what I’d said, and took the picture in there. And there it is, exactly in the form of an egg, with two seats setting that way, and two seats setting this way, and a table setting in the middle to play the cards and things on, just exactly.

:''The Lord’s Word is perfectly accurate. That was in 1933. That would be…Let’s see, what would that be? Thirty-two years ago, wouldn’t it? This is ’64. Yeah, thirty…Yeah, thirty-one years ago. Thirty-one years ago the Lord told me that, and here it is. And the company’s here that’s already ordered them; and the—and trucking companies and things are getting trucks made like them. They can control it right from their headquarters like that, don’t even have to have a driver in it. And here it is all already made, and there it is with the cars. Now, it’s on the bulletin board in the back, and you can read the prophecy and just see how accurate our God is, how His Word…He said, “Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never fail.”

:''Just look, thirty-three years ago. You know what a—what a 1931, or whatever it was, model car would look like; it’d look like a relic. It said, “It’ll look just like an egg, become like an egg.” Of course, there’s nobody here, I guess, that’s living today or among us that heard me say that. It’s…You’ve heard me say it down through the ages, but…Yeah, here’s a woman setting here. Why, Mrs. Wilson, I didn’t see you there. You remember when that taken place. That’s when she was healed, dying with TB (the woman, her husband and daughter came for me to go pray for her) till she’d hemorrhaged until the—the corner was laying full of—of pillow slips and things that she’d bled. And the doctor said, “There’s not a way of getting her ever to live,” and even…She was trying to say something to me before dying, and the blood would spurt out over the blankets and sheets when she was there, when she’d try to cough. And I took her out of that bed, and took her to a cold river here, and a icy water, and baptized her in the Name of Jesus Christ. And that’s been thirty-three years ago, and here she sets today, still living, when the big, healthy children, a lot of them are gone on. There you are. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!” That just shows how perfect it comes to pass when it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.

:''[A woman speaks to Brother Branham from the congregation—Ed.] Yes, that’s—that’s right, Sister. Yes, sir! The women…

::''(6) I said the women would become so immoral in the la-…Now, you know thirty years ago how they dress. Said they become so immoral, till they walk down the street with just like underneath clothes on. And I said, “Then will come to pass, that they’ll even be so disgraceful, till they’ll wear something looks like a fig leaf.” I saw it, and they’ve got it; and they’re wearing it. Just the—the immorality of women would get so low and degraded! We can’t go no lower now; you can’t go no worse. She’s at the end! See, they’ll never be completely nude.<ref>William Branham, 64-0823M - Questions And Answers #1, para. 16-</ref>

The 1933 visions were also mentioned in the [[An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages|Church Age Book]]. Given that this book was compiled by Lee Vayle from the sermons on the seven church ages and reviewed in detail by William Branham, we would have to view this listing as being determinative. However, they must be compared to what William Branham has stated previously and any discrepancies noted from other times that William Branham stated he was reading from the list of prophecies as recorded by him in 1933. This comparison is detailed above in our analysis (emphasis and numbers added):

:''The Laodicean Age began around the turn of the Twentieth Century, perhaps 1906. How long will it last? As a servant of God who has had multitudes of visions, of which NONE has ever failed, let me predict (I did not say prophesy, but predict) that this age will end around 1977. If you will pardon a personal note here, I base this prediction on seven major continuous visions that came to me one Sunday morning in June, 1933. The Lord Jesus spoke to me and said that the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh, but that before He came, seven major events would transpire. I wrote them all down and that morning I gave forth the revelation of the Lord.

:(1) ''The first vision was that '''Mussolini''' would invade Ethiopia and that nation would “fall at his steps.” That vision surely did cause some repercussions, and some were very angry when I said it and would not believe it. But it happened that way. He just walked in there with his modern arms and took over. The natives didn’t have a chance. But the vision also said that Mussolini would come to a horrible end with his own people turning on him. That came to pass just exactly as it was said.

:(2) ''The next vision foretold that an '''Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler''' would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.

:(3) ''The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be '''three great ISMS, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third.''' The voice admonished, “WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North.”

:(4) ''The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of '''a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control''' so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves.

:(5) ''The fifth vision had to do with the '''moral problem of our age''', centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men’s clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world.

:(6) ''Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.

:(7) ''The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard '''a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America'''.

:''Based on these seven visions, along with the rapid changes which have swept the world in the last fifty years, I PREDICT (I do not prophesy) that these visions will have all come to pass by 1977. And though many may feel that this is an irresponsible statement in view of the fact that Jesus said that “no man knoweth the day nor the hour.” I still maintain this prediction after thirty years because, '''Jesus did NOT say no man could know the year, month or week in which His coming was to be completed.''' So I repeat, 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. Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled? Yes, each one has been fulfilled, or is in the process right now. Mussolini invaded Ethiopia successfully, then fell and lost it all. Hitler started a war he could not finish and died mysteriously. Communism took over both the other two ISMS. The plastic bubble car has been built and is awaiting only a better network of roads. Women are all but naked, and are even now wearing topless bathing suits. And just the other day I saw in a magazine the very dress that I saw in my vision (if you can call it a dress). It was a plastic transparent type of cloth with three darkened spots that covered both breasts in a small area, and then there was a dark place like a small apron below. The Catholic Church is on the rise. We have had one Catholic president and will no doubt have another. What is left? Nothing except Hebrews 12:26, “Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - 9 - The Laodicean Church Age</ref>

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==What were the Seven Visions==
It may seem peculiar that this section is headed, 'What were the visions?' rather than 'The visions were' but determining exactly what they were, turns out not to be problematical.
There are five avenues that can be explored:
#The original written record made immediately after the receipt of the visions.
#Affidavits from those who attended the 1933 meeting in which the visions were first detailed.
#Copies of those records, made subsequently, for newspaper articles and wider dissemination.
#The recorded sermons in which he spoke of the visions.
#William Branham's book entitled 'An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages' (the Church Age Book).

===The original written record===
There are no existing, original records of the seven visions of 1933. This is astounding and akin to the situation with the Book of Mormon where the original golden tablets from which it was translated were claimed to have been returned to the angel Moroni.

The world is asked to believe that the Book of Mormon is based on a divine utterance and a supernatural record, which is not available. As regards these visions the world is asked to believe that there was a divine utterance but the records are also, not available.

But William Branham claimed that a written record was made!
:*''I've got it wrote, old yellow paper still waiting in a Bible. I saw the end time coming.<ref>''Teaching on Moses 1956''</ref>
:*''Yeah, I know that, see, just exactly what's wrote on my book of prophecy in 1933, that would take place<ref>''Souls that are in prison now 1963''</ref>
:*''I've got it wrote out here in the Bible. Just like laying yonder in the cornerstone, that what would take place in the last days; and everyone knows what that was; it's been just exactly the Word. It will be just this way<ref>''Israel and the Church 1953''</ref>

If the visions were real then the fact that all of these documents, yellow pages, prophecy book and Bible, do not exist today or, at least, have not been published, is unbelievable.

It is not as though this was a small matter - seven visions, seven prophecies which would prefigure the coming of the Lord in the Rapture and the end of the church ages. One would have thought that recording, copying and publicizing these climactic claims would have been the order of the day. One would assume that the content of the visions would be documented and available for review in a wide variety of formats ñ but no! There are assertions of, but no evidence of, any attempt to secure the content of these visions.

Following William Branham's death, none of these records were produced by the family or executors.

This means that the primary record of the content of the visions is missing and that secondary records need to be found to attempt a reconstruction.

===Affidavits from the 1933 meeting===
William Branham claimed on many occasions that there were people in the congregations who were present in the meeting that he held in 1933 on Meigs Ave in which he explained the visions and the 1977 prediction e.g. in reference to that meeting:

:''Now, then after that, I turned and looked, and I saw this United States burning like a smolder. Rocks had been blowed up, and it was burning like a heap of fire in logs or something that just set it afire. And looked as far as I could see and she had been blown up. And then the vision left me. Five out of the three has happened... five out of the seven, rather, has happened. And here it comes around and shows, and then I predicted... I never said the Lord told me that, but standing that morning in the church, I said, "The way progress..." I got back to one end of the wall and run to the other end of the wall, and I said, "The way progress is going on, I'll predict that the time—I don't know why I'm saying it—but I predict that that'll all happen between right now, 1933, and 1977.<ref>61-0806_The Seventieth Week Of Daniel_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #112</ref>

He is talking about a meeting in 1933. But there are no testimonials from that meeting of what he said about the visions. There is no list of the visions or details of their content. Again, we are asked to accept that there were visions and that they were related to a congregation, but with no corroborating evidence.

===Copies of the original record===
William Branham also said that he had made copies of the vision statements for later publishing:
*Itís already in print and went out around the world<ref>''Seventieth Week of Daniel 1961''</ref>
*I was on my way to Sunday school, and when I was getting my Bible, a vision came before me; and I was stopped in the floor. And here was what it said. It's on yellow paper. Will be printed in the "Herald of Faith" right away, because most all of it is fulfilled<ref>''Conference 1960''</ref>

Here he claims that a general distribution of the visions was made via the ëHerald of Faithí newspaper, that some written statement was prepared and disseminated ëaround the worldí and that some record was placed in the cornerstone of Branham Tabernacle. No copy of the ëThe Herald of Faithí has been found that contains an article with a list of the visions. He claimed they were in print and had been distributed ëaround the worldí and yet no one has found even a single tract or booklet that contains a description of the visions.

Are we to believe that copies were made for a newspaper and for tracts but that somehow, they didnít make it into print? Are we to believe that tracts were sent around the world but that none exist today?

Not only does this close off any chance of obtaining corroborating evidence of the visions from copies made for publishing, it introduces a severe credibility problem as regards the visions themselves and why he said that these copies existed. We need to pause here ñ there are no written records, no verbal affidavits, no acknowledgment of their enunciation to a congregation in 1933, but he claimed that all of these existed. How could he claim all of this without providing the corroborating evidence?

===William Branham's sermons===
A main source of a description of the visions are in the recorded sermons. When making reference to the visions in a sermon it would be expected that his description would always be consistent ñ after all, the visions were only received once, there were no additions and no updates. And yet in the sermons, one is presented with partial descriptions, with descriptions that contain conflicting information and with changing detail.

Here is one example of his descriptions of the Hitler or World War II vision:

:And in 1933 when the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that, Germany would rise up and have put that Maginot Line there. Many of you remember. And how they'd be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that lineNow, you remember; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD."<ref>''Why we are not a Denomination 1958''</ref>

:I'd like to read you a prophecy that was given... This one first. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. The president which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago.) will cause the whole world to go to war. (Now, look what happened now.) In...President Franklin D. Roosevelt took America to England's tea party. That's right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them, throwed the whole world into a war, to cause a world war."<ref>''Condemnation by Representation 1960''</ref>

:How many remembers that vision, here in the church? Sure. Said that, how Öeleven years beforehand, it said that "We'd go to war with Germany, and Germany would be fortified behind concrete," the Maginot Line. It happened just that way.<ref>''Ephesian Church Age 1960''</ref>

:I seen it, thirty--1931. Seven things happened. I got it right on paper here with me, wrote it in 1931. How that I said, "This President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, he will cause all the world, help do it, send the world to war." Hadn't come to war yet, during times of depression. I said, "Another thing..." And my mother, a square-back Democrat, if she didn't look at me hard when I said that. I said, "I don't care if there's a Republican or if he was a Socialist or whatever he is, this is THUS SAITH THE LORD."<ref>''Jezebel Religion 1961''</ref>

:1933, the Holy Spirit came one morning and told me seven things that would take place before this nation was destroyed. One of them is that. It's on old paper there at the church, many has looked at it. How that we would go to war with Hitler and they'd... How Germany would fortify and build a Maginot line, or the Siegfried line, I believe it was, eleven years before it was ever thought of. ÖMany, many years before it happened perfectly on the dot. And it's never failed, and it won't fail, because it's THUS SAITH THE LORD.<ref>''Once More 1963''</ref>

:How that the Americas would go to war with Germany, they'd take an awful beating at a place called, a great line where there would be concrete fortified in there, I believe it's called the Siegfried line. And there's one called Maginot, I believe that was the French. Was that right? And the Siegfried line was the German line. And the Lord let me see that, eleven years before it was built. And they never would admit getting a beating on it, the Americans wouldn't, till they almost sunk the complete army. When they went in there, the Germans had their guns just trained right out on that fleet, and let it get right in there, and almost sunk it. And I seen that, eleven years before the line was ever--ever a foundation was ever poured for it, or anything, the Siegfried line.<ref>''Shalom 1964''</ref>

What could be made of this? During the war where did the Americans take a beating, was it at the Maginot or Siegfried fortification? Who caused the world to go to war, Hitler or Roosevelt? Were the Siegfried Line guns ever trained on the American fleet?

This sort of scatter-gun approach to the facts of the visions gives no confidence that you could ever know, from the sermons, what the 1933 prophecies were. Relying on what was said in sermons could only lead to confusion.

This point alone would make it very difficult to determine what a vision actually was because you would have to search all sermons to make sure that you had found every reference. Then you would need to collate all of the information before you could sum it up. You would need to repeat that process for each vision. And then you can be sure that if 10 people did this that there would be five different versions of what had been said!

It would have just been much easier to elucidate, if the vision had always been quoted straight from the original record!

This one example can be multiplied for other visions. The sermons do not provide a reliable list or a reliable description of the visions because they are inconsistent and contradictory. If you assume that one account is correct then you are always in the position of having to explain another account and so on.

The arguments presented in the ëCritiqueí section will also demonstrate the impossibility of confidently constructing a list of the visions and their content from the sermons.

===Branham's book, ''An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages''===
This is the last possible source of a description of the visions. Fortunately, it suffers from none of the drawbacks and uncertainties of the other four sources.

The book, ''An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages'' (which we also refer to as the "Church Age Book" or "CAB"), was written by William Branham with assistance from a friend and co-worker, Lee Vayle, to summarize fifteen messages he preached in December 1960, which addressed the Seven Church Ages and other topics in the book of Revelation. These sermons were published as a verbatim series entitled "The Revelation of Jesus Christ".

The list of prophecies in the CAB (in the chapter "The Laodicean Church Age") should be an accurate record of the 1933 visions because the original written records of those visions would have been available to ensure that the list was correct. Further, they are unambiguously and succinctly stated and ordered, and there are seven (and only seven) unique visions (according to the book). It would be obvious, therefore, from this work, what the visions were, how many there were, their order, and timing.

A book is quite different from a conversation or a sermon as regards the weight of its propositions and arguments. It has been authored over time, and there is ample opportunity to make sure that basic information is correct. If one assumes that the original records of the visions were available in the 1960s (and why would they not be!), then it would have been a simple task to ensure they were correctly transcribed into the book.

William Branham was the author of this book. It contains his name alone as the author. He noted in the sermon "I have heard but now I see" (27th Nov 1965) that Gordon Lindsay was "doing a great job, printing, printing my book now - The Seven Church Ages".

William Branham is therefore responsible for its content and for the accuracy of its list of the Seven Visions. It is interesting to note that the websites that are the main supporters of the William Branham ministry, such as The Voice of God Recordings at branham.org, all quote the Church Age Book version of the visions as if they constituted the original list. In fact, their choice of the book as the source of the vision descriptions demonstrates the difficulty of proposing another list made up from the sermons. Any such list would have been called into question immediately.

The visions documented in the Church Age Book ought therefore to be definitive. This list was authored by William Branham, and if it is incorrect, there is little basis for deciding what the visions actually were. In fact, given the time that elapsed from the original sermons in December 1960 to the book's publication after Branham's death, there could be no excuse for failing to ensure that the visions were documented as originally recorded. Therefore, there is no room today to say that, in some way, these particular vision statements are inaccurate or incomplete.

This also means that any new or any changed detail suggested in sermons post 1933 would have to be viewed as additional to the originals, with the obvious question ñ how could there be additions to the visions unless there were additional visions!

Note also, that if you prefer another list, say the one in the "Laodicean Church Age" sermon itself or that in "The Seventieth Week of Daniel" then further lists of variations to those lists could be highlighted and would need to be explained in the same way that departures from the Church Age Book list need to be explained.

This is the point; if there was an original list then it was unique and definitive and not able to be changed. Whatever list you might derive from the sermons as representing the original, you have to settle on something and then you have to accept the variations in other sermons and attempt an explanation. You cannot avoid the inconsistencies that arise whichever list you choose.

But the most likely list, the most reasonable source of a definitive list is the Church Age Book. If there were original written records then it would have been mandatory that they were faithfully copied into the text of the book. To have done otherwise would have been a gross abdication of responsibility. To have published a book with such important information and not to have ensured that it was the correct information would have been a dereliction of duty.
With that said, here is the list of visions as stated in the Church Age Book:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! From the Seven Church Ages
|-
| Prediction || The Laodicean Age began around the turn of the Twentieth Century, perhaps 1906. How long will it last? As a servant of God who has had multitudes of visions, of which NONE has ever failed, let me predict (I did not say prophesy, but predict) that this age will end around 1977. If you will pardon a personal note here, I base this prediction on seven major continuous visions that came to me one Sunday morning in June, 1933. The Lord Jesus spoke to me and said that the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh, but that before He came, seven major events would transpire.
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| Mussolini || The first vision was that Mussolini would invade Ethiopia and that nation would ìfall at his steps.î But the vision also said that Mussolini would come to a horrible end with his own people turning on him.
|-
| Hitler|| An Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.
|-
| Three ISMs || The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be three great ISMS, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third. The voice admonished, "WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North."
|-
| Scientific Progress || The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves.
|-
| Women and morals || The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men's clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world.
|-
| Powerful woman in America || Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.
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| America destroyed || The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America.
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==What were the Seven Visions==
It may seem peculiar that this section is headed, 'What were the visions?' rather than 'The visions were' but determining exactly what they were, turns out not to be problematical.
There are five avenues that can be explored:
#The original written record made immediately after the receipt of the visions.
#Affidavits from those who attended the 1933 meeting in which the visions were first detailed.
#Copies of those records, made subsequently, for newspaper articles and wider dissemination.
#The recorded sermons in which he spoke of the visions.
#William Branham's book entitled 'An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages' (the Church Age Book).

===The original written record===
There are no existing, original records of the seven visions of 1933. This is astounding and akin to the situation with the Book of Mormon where the original golden tablets from which it was translated were claimed to have been returned to the angel Moroni.

The world is asked to believe that the Book of Mormon is based on a divine utterance and a supernatural record, which is not available. As regards these visions the world is asked to believe that there was a divine utterance but the records are also, not available.

But William Branham claimed that a written record was made!
:*''I've got it wrote, old yellow paper still waiting in a Bible. I saw the end time coming.<ref>''Teaching on Moses 1956''</ref>
:*''Yeah, I know that, see, just exactly what's wrote on my book of prophecy in 1933, that would take place<ref>''Souls that are in prison now 1963''</ref>
:*''I've got it wrote out here in the Bible. Just like laying yonder in the cornerstone, that what would take place in the last days; and everyone knows what that was; it's been just exactly the Word. It will be just this way<ref>''Israel and the Church 1953''</ref>

If the visions were real then the fact that all of these documents, yellow pages, prophecy book and Bible, do not exist today or, at least, have not been published, is unbelievable.

It is not as though this was a small matter - seven visions, seven prophecies which would prefigure the coming of the Lord in the Rapture and the end of the church ages. One would have thought that recording, copying and publicizing these climactic claims would have been the order of the day. One would assume that the content of the visions would be documented and available for review in a wide variety of formats ñ but no! There are assertions of, but no evidence of, any attempt to secure the content of these visions.

Following William Branham's death, none of these records were produced by the family or executors.

This means that the primary record of the content of the visions is missing and that secondary records need to be found to attempt a reconstruction.

===Affidavits from the 1933 meeting===
William Branham claimed on many occasions that there were people in the congregations who were present in the meeting that he held in 1933 on Meigs Ave in which he explained the visions and the 1977 prediction e.g. in reference to that meeting:

:''Now, then after that, I turned and looked, and I saw this United States burning like a smolder. Rocks had been blowed up, and it was burning like a heap of fire in logs or something that just set it afire. And looked as far as I could see and she had been blown up. And then the vision left me. Five out of the three has happened... five out of the seven, rather, has happened. And here it comes around and shows, and then I predicted... I never said the Lord told me that, but standing that morning in the church, I said, "The way progress..." I got back to one end of the wall and run to the other end of the wall, and I said, "The way progress is going on, I'll predict that the time—I don't know why I'm saying it—but I predict that that'll all happen between right now, 1933, and 1977.<ref>61-0806_The Seventieth Week Of Daniel_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #112</ref>

He is talking about a meeting in 1933. But there are no testimonials from that meeting of what he said about the visions. There is no list of the visions or details of their content. Again, we are asked to accept that there were visions and that they were related to a congregation, but with no corroborating evidence.

===Copies of the original record===
William Branham also said that he had made copies of the vision statements for later publishing:
*Itís already in print and went out around the world<ref>''Seventieth Week of Daniel 1961''</ref>
*I was on my way to Sunday school, and when I was getting my Bible, a vision came before me; and I was stopped in the floor. And here was what it said. It's on yellow paper. Will be printed in the "Herald of Faith" right away, because most all of it is fulfilled<ref>''Conference 1960''</ref>

Here he claims that a general distribution of the visions was made via the ëHerald of Faithí newspaper, that some written statement was prepared and disseminated ëaround the worldí and that some record was placed in the cornerstone of Branham Tabernacle. No copy of the ëThe Herald of Faithí has been found that contains an article with a list of the visions. He claimed they were in print and had been distributed ëaround the worldí and yet no one has found even a single tract or booklet that contains a description of the visions.

Are we to believe that copies were made for a newspaper and for tracts but that somehow, they didnít make it into print? Are we to believe that tracts were sent around the world but that none exist today?

Not only does this close off any chance of obtaining corroborating evidence of the visions from copies made for publishing, it introduces a severe credibility problem as regards the visions themselves and why he said that these copies existed. We need to pause here ñ there are no written records, no verbal affidavits, no acknowledgment of their enunciation to a congregation in 1933, but he claimed that all of these existed. How could he claim all of this without providing the corroborating evidence?

===William Branham's sermons===
A main source of a description of the visions are in the recorded sermons. When making reference to the visions in a sermon it would be expected that his description would always be consistent ñ after all, the visions were only received once, there were no additions and no updates. And yet in the sermons, one is presented with partial descriptions, with descriptions that contain conflicting information and with changing detail.

Here is one example of his descriptions of the Hitler or World War II vision:

:And in 1933 when the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that, Germany would rise up and have put that Maginot Line there. Many of you remember. And how they'd be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that lineNow, you remember; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD."<ref>''Why we are not a Denomination 1958''</ref>

:I'd like to read you a prophecy that was given... This one first. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. The president which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago.) will cause the whole world to go to war. (Now, look what happened now.) In...President Franklin D. Roosevelt took America to England's tea party. That's right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them, throwed the whole world into a war, to cause a world war."<ref>''Condemnation by Representation 1960''</ref>

:How many remembers that vision, here in the church? Sure. Said that, how Öeleven years beforehand, it said that "We'd go to war with Germany, and Germany would be fortified behind concrete," the Maginot Line. It happened just that way.<ref>''Ephesian Church Age 1960''</ref>

:I seen it, thirty--1931. Seven things happened. I got it right on paper here with me, wrote it in 1931. How that I said, "This President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, he will cause all the world, help do it, send the world to war." Hadn't come to war yet, during times of depression. I said, "Another thing..." And my mother, a square-back Democrat, if she didn't look at me hard when I said that. I said, "I don't care if there's a Republican or if he was a Socialist or whatever he is, this is THUS SAITH THE LORD."<ref>''Jezebel Religion 1961''</ref>

:1933, the Holy Spirit came one morning and told me seven things that would take place before this nation was destroyed. One of them is that. It's on old paper there at the church, many has looked at it. How that we would go to war with Hitler and they'd... How Germany would fortify and build a Maginot line, or the Siegfried line, I believe it was, eleven years before it was ever thought of. ÖMany, many years before it happened perfectly on the dot. And it's never failed, and it won't fail, because it's THUS SAITH THE LORD.<ref>''Once More 1963''</ref>

:How that the Americas would go to war with Germany, they'd take an awful beating at a place called, a great line where there would be concrete fortified in there, I believe it's called the Siegfried line. And there's one called Maginot, I believe that was the French. Was that right? And the Siegfried line was the German line. And the Lord let me see that, eleven years before it was built. And they never would admit getting a beating on it, the Americans wouldn't, till they almost sunk the complete army. When they went in there, the Germans had their guns just trained right out on that fleet, and let it get right in there, and almost sunk it. And I seen that, eleven years before the line was ever--ever a foundation was ever poured for it, or anything, the Siegfried line.<ref>''Shalom 1964''</ref>

What could be made of this? During the war where did the Americans take a beating, was it at the Maginot or Siegfried fortification? Who caused the world to go to war, Hitler or Roosevelt? Were the Siegfried Line guns ever trained on the American fleet?

This sort of scatter-gun approach to the facts of the visions gives no confidence that you could ever know, from the sermons, what the 1933 prophecies were. Relying on what was said in sermons could only lead to confusion.

This point alone would make it very difficult to determine what a vision actually was because you would have to search all sermons to make sure that you had found every reference. Then you would need to collate all of the information before you could sum it up. You would need to repeat that process for each vision. And then you can be sure that if 10 people did this that there would be five different versions of what had been said!

It would have just been much easier to elucidate, if the vision had always been quoted straight from the original record!

This one example can be multiplied for other visions. The sermons do not provide a reliable list or a reliable description of the visions because they are inconsistent and contradictory. If you assume that one account is correct then you are always in the position of having to explain another account and so on.

The arguments presented in the ëCritiqueí section will also demonstrate the impossibility of confidently constructing a list of the visions and their content from the sermons.

===An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages ñ William Branham's book===
This is the last possible source of a description of the visions. Fortunately, it suffers from none of the drawbacks and uncertainties of the other four sources.

The book was written by William Branham with assistance from a friend and co-worker, Lee Vayle, to summarise fifteen messages he preached in December 1960 which addressed the Seven Church Ages and other topics in the book of Revelation. These sermons have been published as a series entitled ëThe Revelation of Jesus Christí.

The list in this book (in the chapter ëThe Laodicean Church Ageí) should be an accurate record of the 1933 visions because the original written records of those visions would have been available to ensure that the list was correct. Further, they are unambiguously and succinctly stated and ordered and there are seven (and only seven) unique visions. It would be obvious, therefore, from this work, what the visions were, how many there were and their order and timing.

A book is quite different from a conversation or a sermon as regards the weight of its propositions and arguments. It has been authored over time and there is ample opportunity to make sure that basic information is correct. If one assumes that the original records of the visions were available in the 1960s (and why would they not be!) then it would have been a simple task to ensure that they were correctly transcribed into the text of the book.

William Branham was the author of this book. It contains his name alone as the author. He noted in the sermon ëI have heard but now I seeí (27th Nov 1965) that Gordon Lindsay was ëdoing a great job, printing, printing my book now - The Seven Church Agesí.

William Branham is therefore responsible for its content and for the accuracy of its list of the Seven Visions. It is interesting to note that the web sites that are the main supporters of the William Branham ministry such as The Voice of God Recordings at branham.org all quote the Church Age Book version of the visions as if they constituted the original list. In fact, their choice of the book as the source of the vision descriptions demonstrates the difficulty of proposing another list made up from the sermons. Any such list would have immediately been called into question.

The visions documented in the Church Age Book ought therefore to be definitive. This list was authored by William Branham and if it is not correct then there is little basis for deciding what the visions actually were. In fact, considering the time that elapsed from the original sermons in December 1960 to when the book was published, after 1966, there could be no excuse for a failure to ensure that the visions were documented as originally recorded. Therefore, there is no room, today, to say that in some way these particular vision statements are inaccurate or incomplete.

This also means that any new or any changed detail suggested in sermons post 1933 would have to be viewed as additional to the originals, with the obvious question ñ how could there be additions to the visions unless there were additional visions!

Note also, that if you prefer another list ñ say the one in the ëLaodicean Church Ageí sermon itself or that in ëThe Seventieth Week of Danielí then further lists of variations to those lists could be highlighted and would need to be explained in the same way that departures from the Church Age Book list need to be explained.

This is the point; if there was an original list then it was unique and definitive and not able to be changed. Whatever list you might derive from the sermons as representing the original, you have to settle on something and then you have to accept the variations in other sermons and attempt an explanation. You cannot avoid the inconsistencies that arise whichever list you choose.

But the most likely list, the most reasonable source of a definitive list is the Church Age Book. If there were original written records then it would have been mandatory that they were faithfully copied into the text of the book. To have done otherwise would have been a gross abdication of responsibility. To have published a book with such important information and not to have ensured that it was the correct information would have been a dereliction of duty.
With that said, here is the list of visions as stated in the Church Age Book:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! From the Seven Church Ages
|-
| Prediction || The Laodicean Age began around the turn of the Twentieth Century, perhaps 1906. How long will it last? As a servant of God who has had multitudes of visions, of which NONE has ever failed, let me predict (I did not say prophesy, but predict) that this age will end around 1977. If you will pardon a personal note here, I base this prediction on seven major continuous visions that came to me one Sunday morning in June, 1933. The Lord Jesus spoke to me and said that the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh, but that before He came, seven major events would transpire.
|-
| Mussolini || The first vision was that Mussolini would invade Ethiopia and that nation would ìfall at his steps.î But the vision also said that Mussolini would come to a horrible end with his own people turning on him.
|-
| Hitler|| An Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.
|-
| Three ISMs || The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be three great ISMS, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third. The voice admonished, "WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North."
|-
| Scientific Progress || The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves.
|-
| Women and morals || The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men's clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world.
|-
| Powerful woman in America || Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.
|-
| America destroyed || The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America.
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Hitler

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==Hitler==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Church Age Book statement of the vision
|-
| An Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.
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The first problem with the vision as related in the Church Age Book is that it is '''the FIRST AND ONLY TIME''' that William Branham states that he prophesied that Hitler would become the dictator in Germany. The following statements are the only 4 times that William Branham mentions Hitler in terms of the prophecies:

:''Nineteen thirty-three, the Holy Spirit came one morning and told me seven things that would take place before this nation was destroyed. One of them is that. It's on old paper there at the church, many has looked at it. How that we would go to war with '''Hitler''' and they'd . . . How Germany would fortify and build a Maginot Line, or the Siegfried Line, I believe it was, eleven years before it was ever thought of.<ref>63-1117_Once More_New York, New York USA #54</ref>

:''He promised it. He give seven things in 1933 would happen and now every one of them has come to pass but two things. Perfectly, just exactly. How that even President Kennedy will be taken in—it's right here on my books right now. Told thirty-three years ago. Exactly. How that the Maginot Line would be built, eleven years before it built; how that '''Hitler''' would rise up, and Fascism, and Nazism; and all to bind in Communism, and Communism would destroy Catholicism—it will, no matter what they do.<ref>64-0403_Jehovah-Jireh #2_Louisville, Mississippi, USA #85</ref>

:''Look at 1933: how it say the women would act in this last days; how it said the people ... how Mussolini, how he'd come to his end; how '''Hitler''' would come to a mysterious end...<ref>64-0726M_Recognizing Your Day And Its Message_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #66</ref>

:''And he seen those things that was told of many years ago: about how that Mussolini ... and what would become of him, and '''Hitler''', and what would become of him; and how Communism would take both Fascism and all of these; and how the Siegfried Line would be built, and how that the Americans would take a beating there (and they never would admit it till just about two years ago, and they got the German pictures of the siege there; and they really took a beating. They liked.... They lost their whole army almost right there); and all those things that were done.<ref>64-0823M_Questions And Answers #1_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #10</ref>''

It is surprising that no mention is made of Hitler prophetically until 1963 and that Branham never makes the prophecy on tape that he did in the Church Age Book.

The second problem with the vision, as stated in the Church Age Book, is his prophecy that Hitler would start World War II. This statement correctly indicts Adolf Hitler but does not mention President Roosevelt or Branham's previous prophesies about his role in the war. However, William Branham also referred to President Roosevelt in his previous versions of the prophecy. It is clear that the Roosevelt prophecy was previously one of the Seven Visions:

:*''This one, first. I’d like to read something to you. “1932.” Listen to this. “As I was on my way, or as I was getting ready to go on my way to church this morning, it came to pass that I fell into a vision. Our services is being held on Meigs Avenue, at the old orphan’s home where Charlie Kern lives in part of the building.” He lives just across the street now, you know. “And it came to pass, that, while I was in this vision, I seen some dreadful things take place. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. “The President which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago, “will cause the whole world to go to war.<ref>''Condemnation by Representation 1960''</ref>
:*''But the Lord showed me a vision of the great powerful woman, in '33, 1933, it's on paper. Of how that Roosevelt would cause... He helped cause the world to go to war.<ref>''Laodicean Church Age 1960''</ref>
:*''All right. A Second World War! I said, “The President that now is…” I copied this off the old scripture, yet, the old thing yesterday, that, “The President that we now have,” which was…How many remembers whose it was? [A brother says, “Franklin Roosevelt.”] Franklin D. Roosevelt. I said, “The President we have in now will run even in the fourth term,” he was on his first then, “will run into the fourth term, and we will be taken to a Second World War.”<ref>''Seventieth Week of Daniel 1961''</ref>

But Roosevelt is not named in the Church Age Book which indicates that Roosevelt and his relationship to the causes of World War II and his four terms in office were not included in the original visions. This is another significant disconnect – William Branham said a number of times that the Roosevelt details were part of the Seven Visions but on the other hand they were not.
He included the Roosevelt details in a statement about World War II in the sermon ‘The Laodicean Church Age’ (which was the basis for the Church Age Book) and so all the Roosevelt citations are included in this section.
The first verifiable reference is found in a sermon in March 1958, therefore this is not a prophecy because it relates to an event that occurred in the past - World War II began in 1939.
There are 25 other references to this vision and they are can be reviewed in Appendix 1 under the heading ‘2 Hitler’.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| And in 1933 when…the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that, Germany would rise up and have put that Maginot Line there. Many of you remember. And how they'd be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that line…Now, you remember; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD." '''Why we are not a denomination September 27, 1958'''
|}
The only common element between this statement and the Church Age Book version is ‘Germany’. In the book the vision is:
:*Adolph Hitler would be a dictator in Germany
:*He would start a world war
:*The Siegfried defensive line would cause many Americans to lose their lives
:*Hitler would die mysteriously

In the 1958 version of the sermon the vision is:
:*Germany would ‘rise up’
:*Germany would build the Maginot defensive line
:*The Maginot defensive line would cause many Americans to lose their lives

And this vision was explicitly ‘Thus saith the Lord’, including the Maginot line!

The Maginot line was built by France and the Siegfried line by Germany – which one was in the vision? The statements cannot both be ‘Thus saith the Lord’ since they are contradictory. This is obviously another serious issue.

When problems like this are raised the rationalizations begin. In this case it will be said that the prophet made a slip of the tongue, he meant to say ‘Siegfried’. The problem is that he unequivocally maintained that it was the German Maginot line more than 20 times and made the same statements only a few times about the Siegfried line (I say “approximately’ and ‘few’ here because he was very confused about the French Maginot line and the German Siegfried line sometimes saying that the French built the Siegfried line and the Germans built the Maginot and sometimes using both words (Maginot and Siegfried) in the same sentence to refer to one of the lines).

And then they will say ‘well he wasn’t an educated man’ and therefore can be excused. But the real point is this: God is supposed to have prepared a message for the world, that the Coming of the Lord was drawing nigh and providing historical markers that would convince people that this was true. Why would he then allow his prophet to muddle up the details so that people would be justified in calling the visions into question? Well, one typical answer is that ‘it was done to confound the wise’! Ignoring the absurdities, as you progressively add caveats to a claim in an attempt to justify it, it becomes more difficult to believe that it is actually true.

A classic, hypothetical example is about a man who claims to have a dragon in his garage and he invites you to check it out. But as you apply tests to determine if there really is a dragon in the garage (looking, measuring its temperature, trying to detect footprints etc) you are told that it is invisible, levitates, never walks around and has a very low metabolism and is too cool to detect. The dragon has become such a queer object that it is indistinguishable from ‘no dragon’ at all.

It’s the same with these rationalizations, you end up with a prophecy that is no prophecy at all (or maybe you end up with no prophet).

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| I'd like to read you a prophecy that was given... This one first. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. The president which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago.) will cause the whole world to go to war. (Now, look what happened now.) In...President Franklin D. Roosevelt took America to England's tea party. That's right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them, throwed the whole world into a war, to cause a world war. '''Condemnation by Representation 13 November 1960'''
|}
This definitely adds Roosevelt to the vision. It also incorrectly claims that Roosevelt caused world War II – why, because ‘we picked on them (Germany)’. This is all headed up as a prophecy spoken in the Name of the Lord! But Germany declared war on the USA on December 11th 1941 and the USA reciprocated either on that day or the next. And the war started in 1939, Roosevelt did not cause the world to go to war and it could not be said ‘in the name of the Lord’ that he did.

Roosevelt was an isolationist at the start of the war in Europe and steadfastly refused to get involved. This state of affairs continued until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941 which then triggered the declarations of war. Adolf Hitler ‘picked on’ (declared war on) the USA and Franklin D Roosevelt reciprocated. The two claims made in this rendition of the vision are both incorrect and could not have been framed by an omniscient God.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| I seen that Maginot (Maginot line, it was instead of the Siegfried)--the Maginot line eleven years and told the people. It's wrote on paper. He's never one time...I charge any person in Divine Presence, or in the world, to ever tell me one time that the Holy Spirit ever spoke and said these things that it didn't come to pass. '''Why? 26th November 1960'''
|}
Here William Branham is adamant that in the World War II vision he saw the Maginot line being built and it definitely was not the Siegfried line! He also says that whatever the Holy Spirit says always comes to pass! Well, what was said? Based on this statement either William Branham or the Holy Spirit is in error.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| I got, THUS SAITH THE LORD. In her voting she will elect the wrong person. The Americans will take a great beating at a place that Germany will build, which will be a great wall built of concrete (The Maginot Line, eleven years before it was ever built.) But finally they will be victors…It will be near the end. (Then I've got in parenthesis: "I predict that this will take place." Now, remember, the Lord ne... That's what the Lord showed, but "I predict this will take place before 1977." '''Condemnation by representation 13th November 1960'''
|}
He also maintained that his vision of the Maginot Line was received eleven years before it was built which implies that it was finished by 1944. But the Maginot line was ‘built in several phases from 1930’ and was completed when it was ‘extended to the Strait of Dover in 1934’ (Wikipedia).

If the fortification was the Siegfried then the dating is no better. There was an original line which was named the ‘Siegfried Position’ built by the Germans in 1916-17 (later demolished). The second Siegfried line was established farther east during the 1930s opposite the French Maginot Line and built between 1938 and 1940.

In either case, the claim that he received the vision eleven years before the fortification was started of finished is wrong.

No sense could be made of these renditions of this vision. If one is right then another must be wrong and visions can’t be wrong. Roosevelt did not cause the world to go to war but William Branham said that God told him that he did! He said that God told him that the Germans built the Maginot line – they didn’t. William Branham was wrong and wrong to impute God. These statements invalidate the vision and his prophetical ministry.

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==Hitler==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Church Age Book statement of the vision
|-
| An Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.
|}

The first problem with the vision as related in the Church Age Book is that it is '''the FIRST AND ONLY TIME''' that William Branham states that he prophesied that Hitler would become the dictator in Germany.

:''Nineteen thirty-three, the Holy Spirit came one morning and told me seven things that would take place before this nation was destroyed. One of them is that. It's on old paper there at the church, many has looked at it. How that we would go to war with '''Hitler''' and they'd . . . How Germany would fortify and build a Maginot Line, or the Siegfried Line, I believe it was, eleven years before it was ever thought of.<ref>63-1117_Once More_New York, New York USA #54</ref>

:''He promised it. He give seven things in 1933 would happen and now every one of them has come to pass but two things. Perfectly, just exactly. How that even President Kennedy will be taken in—it's right here on my books right now. Told thirty-three years ago. Exactly. How that the Maginot Line would be built, eleven years before it built; how that '''Hitler''' would rise up, and Fascism, and Nazism; and all to bind in Communism, and Communism would destroy Catholicism—it will, no matter what they do.<ref>64-0403_Jehovah-Jireh #2_Louisville, Mississippi, USA #85</ref>

:''Look at 1933: how it say the women would act in this last days; how it said the people ... how Mussolini, how he'd come to his end; how '''Hitler''' would come to a mysterious end...<ref>64-0726M_Recognizing Your Day And Its Message_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #66</ref>

:''And he seen those things that was told of many years ago: about how that Mussolini ... and what would become of him, and '''Hitler''', and what would become of him; and how Communism would take both Fascism and all of these; and how the Siegfried Line would be built, and how that the Americans would take a beating there (and they never would admit it till just about two years ago, and they got the German pictures of the siege there; and they really took a beating. They liked.... They lost their whole army almost right there); and all those things that were done.<ref>64-0823M_Questions And Answers #1_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #10</ref>''

The second problem with the vision, as stated in the Church Age Book, is his prophecy that Hitler would start World War II. This statement correctly indicts Adolf Hitler but does not mention President Roosevelt or Branham's previous prophesies about his role in the war. However, William Branham also referred to President Roosevelt in his previous versions of the prophecy. It is clear that the Roosevelt prophecy was previously one of the Seven Visions:

:*''This one, first. I’d like to read something to you. “1932.” Listen to this. “As I was on my way, or as I was getting ready to go on my way to church this morning, it came to pass that I fell into a vision. Our services is being held on Meigs Avenue, at the old orphan’s home where Charlie Kern lives in part of the building.” He lives just across the street now, you know. “And it came to pass, that, while I was in this vision, I seen some dreadful things take place. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. “The President which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago, “will cause the whole world to go to war.<ref>''Condemnation by Representation 1960''</ref>
:*''But the Lord showed me a vision of the great powerful woman, in '33, 1933, it's on paper. Of how that Roosevelt would cause... He helped cause the world to go to war.<ref>''Laodicean Church Age 1960''</ref>
:*''All right. A Second World War! I said, “The President that now is…” I copied this off the old scripture, yet, the old thing yesterday, that, “The President that we now have,” which was…How many remembers whose it was? [A brother says, “Franklin Roosevelt.”] Franklin D. Roosevelt. I said, “The President we have in now will run even in the fourth term,” he was on his first then, “will run into the fourth term, and we will be taken to a Second World War.”<ref>''Seventieth Week of Daniel 1961''</ref>

But Roosevelt is not named in the Church Age Book which indicates that Roosevelt and his relationship to the causes of World War II and his four terms in office were not included in the original visions. This is another significant disconnect – William Branham said a number of times that the Roosevelt details were part of the Seven Visions but on the other hand they were not.
He included the Roosevelt details in a statement about World War II in the sermon ‘The Laodicean Church Age’ (which was the basis for the Church Age Book) and so all the Roosevelt citations are included in this section.
The first verifiable reference is found in a sermon in March 1958, therefore this is not a prophecy because it relates to an event that occurred in the past - World War II began in 1939.
There are 25 other references to this vision and they are can be reviewed in Appendix 1 under the heading ‘2 Hitler’.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| And in 1933 when…the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that, Germany would rise up and have put that Maginot Line there. Many of you remember. And how they'd be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that line…Now, you remember; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD." '''Why we are not a denomination September 27, 1958'''
|}
The only common element between this statement and the Church Age Book version is ‘Germany’. In the book the vision is:
:*Adolph Hitler would be a dictator in Germany
:*He would start a world war
:*The Siegfried defensive line would cause many Americans to lose their lives
:*Hitler would die mysteriously

In the 1958 version of the sermon the vision is:
:*Germany would ‘rise up’
:*Germany would build the Maginot defensive line
:*The Maginot defensive line would cause many Americans to lose their lives

And this vision was explicitly ‘Thus saith the Lord’, including the Maginot line!

The Maginot line was built by France and the Siegfried line by Germany – which one was in the vision? The statements cannot both be ‘Thus saith the Lord’ since they are contradictory. This is obviously another serious issue.

When problems like this are raised the rationalizations begin. In this case it will be said that the prophet made a slip of the tongue, he meant to say ‘Siegfried’. The problem is that he unequivocally maintained that it was the German Maginot line more than 20 times and made the same statements only a few times about the Siegfried line (I say “approximately’ and ‘few’ here because he was very confused about the French Maginot line and the German Siegfried line sometimes saying that the French built the Siegfried line and the Germans built the Maginot and sometimes using both words (Maginot and Siegfried) in the same sentence to refer to one of the lines).

And then they will say ‘well he wasn’t an educated man’ and therefore can be excused. But the real point is this: God is supposed to have prepared a message for the world, that the Coming of the Lord was drawing nigh and providing historical markers that would convince people that this was true. Why would he then allow his prophet to muddle up the details so that people would be justified in calling the visions into question? Well, one typical answer is that ‘it was done to confound the wise’! Ignoring the absurdities, as you progressively add caveats to a claim in an attempt to justify it, it becomes more difficult to believe that it is actually true.

A classic, hypothetical example is about a man who claims to have a dragon in his garage and he invites you to check it out. But as you apply tests to determine if there really is a dragon in the garage (looking, measuring its temperature, trying to detect footprints etc) you are told that it is invisible, levitates, never walks around and has a very low metabolism and is too cool to detect. The dragon has become such a queer object that it is indistinguishable from ‘no dragon’ at all.

It’s the same with these rationalizations, you end up with a prophecy that is no prophecy at all (or maybe you end up with no prophet).

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| I'd like to read you a prophecy that was given... This one first. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. The president which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago.) will cause the whole world to go to war. (Now, look what happened now.) In...President Franklin D. Roosevelt took America to England's tea party. That's right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them, throwed the whole world into a war, to cause a world war. '''Condemnation by Representation 13 November 1960'''
|}
This definitely adds Roosevelt to the vision. It also incorrectly claims that Roosevelt caused world War II – why, because ‘we picked on them (Germany)’. This is all headed up as a prophecy spoken in the Name of the Lord! But Germany declared war on the USA on December 11th 1941 and the USA reciprocated either on that day or the next. And the war started in 1939, Roosevelt did not cause the world to go to war and it could not be said ‘in the name of the Lord’ that he did.

Roosevelt was an isolationist at the start of the war in Europe and steadfastly refused to get involved. This state of affairs continued until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941 which then triggered the declarations of war. Adolf Hitler ‘picked on’ (declared war on) the USA and Franklin D Roosevelt reciprocated. The two claims made in this rendition of the vision are both incorrect and could not have been framed by an omniscient God.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| I seen that Maginot (Maginot line, it was instead of the Siegfried)--the Maginot line eleven years and told the people. It's wrote on paper. He's never one time...I charge any person in Divine Presence, or in the world, to ever tell me one time that the Holy Spirit ever spoke and said these things that it didn't come to pass. '''Why? 26th November 1960'''
|}
Here William Branham is adamant that in the World War II vision he saw the Maginot line being built and it definitely was not the Siegfried line! He also says that whatever the Holy Spirit says always comes to pass! Well, what was said? Based on this statement either William Branham or the Holy Spirit is in error.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| I got, THUS SAITH THE LORD. In her voting she will elect the wrong person. The Americans will take a great beating at a place that Germany will build, which will be a great wall built of concrete (The Maginot Line, eleven years before it was ever built.) But finally they will be victors…It will be near the end. (Then I've got in parenthesis: "I predict that this will take place." Now, remember, the Lord ne... That's what the Lord showed, but "I predict this will take place before 1977." '''Condemnation by representation 13th November 1960'''
|}
He also maintained that his vision of the Maginot Line was received eleven years before it was built which implies that it was finished by 1944. But the Maginot line was ‘built in several phases from 1930’ and was completed when it was ‘extended to the Strait of Dover in 1934’ (Wikipedia).

If the fortification was the Siegfried then the dating is no better. There was an original line which was named the ‘Siegfried Position’ built by the Germans in 1916-17 (later demolished). The second Siegfried line was established farther east during the 1930s opposite the French Maginot Line and built between 1938 and 1940.

In either case, the claim that he received the vision eleven years before the fortification was started of finished is wrong.

No sense could be made of these renditions of this vision. If one is right then another must be wrong and visions can’t be wrong. Roosevelt did not cause the world to go to war but William Branham said that God told him that he did! He said that God told him that the Germans built the Maginot line – they didn’t. William Branham was wrong and wrong to impute God. These statements invalidate the vision and his prophetical ministry.

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==Hitler==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Church Age Book statement of the vision
|-
| An Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.
|}

The first problem with the vision as related in the Church Age Book is that it is '''the FIRST AND ONLY TIME''' that William Branham states that he prophesied that Hitler would become the dictator in Germany.

:''Nineteen thirty-three, the Holy Spirit came one morning and told me seven things that would take place before this nation was destroyed. One of them is that. It's on old paper there at the church, many has looked at it. How that we would go to war with '''Hitler''' and they'd . . . How Germany would fortify and build a Maginot Line, or the Siegfried Line, I believe it was, eleven years before it was ever thought of.<ref>63-1117_Once More_New York, New York USA #54</ref>

:''He promised it. He give seven things in 1933 would happen and now every one of them has come to pass but two things. Perfectly, just exactly. How that even President Kennedy will be taken in—it's right here on my books right now. Told thirty-three years ago. Exactly. How that the Maginot Line would be built, eleven years before it built; how that '''Hitler''' would rise up, and Fascism, and Nazism; and all to bind in Communism, and Communism would destroy Catholicism—it will, no matter what they do.<ref>64-0403_Jehovah-Jireh #2_Louisville, Mississippi, USA #85</ref>

:''Look at 1933: how it say the women would act in this last days; how it said the people ... how Mussolini, how he'd come to his end; how '''Hitler''' would come to a mysterious end...<ref>64-0726M_Recognizing Your Day And Its Message_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #66</ref>

:''And he seen those things that was told of many years ago: about how that Mussolini ... and what would become of him, and Hitler, and what would become of him; and how Communism would take both Fascism and all of these; and how the Siegfried Line would be built, and how that the Americans would take a beating there (and they never would admit it till just about two years ago, and they got the German pictures of the siege there; and they really took a beating. They liked.... They lost their whole army almost right there); and all those things that were done.<ref>64-0823M_Questions And Answers #1_Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA #10</ref>

The second problem with the vision, as stated in the Church Age Book, is his prophecy that Hitler would start World War II. This statement correctly indicts Adolf Hitler but does not mention President Roosevelt or Branham's previous prophesies about his role in the war. However, William Branham also referred to President Roosevelt in his previous versions of the prophecy. It is clear that the Roosevelt prophecy was previously one of the Seven Visions:

:*''This one, first. I’d like to read something to you. “1932.” Listen to this. “As I was on my way, or as I was getting ready to go on my way to church this morning, it came to pass that I fell into a vision. Our services is being held on Meigs Avenue, at the old orphan’s home where Charlie Kern lives in part of the building.” He lives just across the street now, you know. “And it came to pass, that, while I was in this vision, I seen some dreadful things take place. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. “The President which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago, “will cause the whole world to go to war.<ref>''Condemnation by Representation 1960''</ref>
:*''But the Lord showed me a vision of the great powerful woman, in '33, 1933, it's on paper. Of how that Roosevelt would cause... He helped cause the world to go to war.<ref>''Laodicean Church Age 1960''</ref>
:*''All right. A Second World War! I said, “The President that now is…” I copied this off the old scripture, yet, the old thing yesterday, that, “The President that we now have,” which was…How many remembers whose it was? [A brother says, “Franklin Roosevelt.”] Franklin D. Roosevelt. I said, “The President we have in now will run even in the fourth term,” he was on his first then, “will run into the fourth term, and we will be taken to a Second World War.”<ref>''Seventieth Week of Daniel 1961''</ref>

But Roosevelt is not named in the Church Age Book which indicates that Roosevelt and his relationship to the causes of World War II and his four terms in office were not included in the original visions. This is another significant disconnect – William Branham said a number of times that the Roosevelt details were part of the Seven Visions but on the other hand they were not.
He included the Roosevelt details in a statement about World War II in the sermon ‘The Laodicean Church Age’ (which was the basis for the Church Age Book) and so all the Roosevelt citations are included in this section.
The first verifiable reference is found in a sermon in March 1958, therefore this is not a prophecy because it relates to an event that occurred in the past - World War II began in 1939.
There are 25 other references to this vision and they are can be reviewed in Appendix 1 under the heading ‘2 Hitler’.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| And in 1933 when…the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that, Germany would rise up and have put that Maginot Line there. Many of you remember. And how they'd be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that line…Now, you remember; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD." '''Why we are not a denomination September 27, 1958'''
|}
The only common element between this statement and the Church Age Book version is ‘Germany’. In the book the vision is:
:*Adolph Hitler would be a dictator in Germany
:*He would start a world war
:*The Siegfried defensive line would cause many Americans to lose their lives
:*Hitler would die mysteriously

In the 1958 version of the sermon the vision is:
:*Germany would ‘rise up’
:*Germany would build the Maginot defensive line
:*The Maginot defensive line would cause many Americans to lose their lives

And this vision was explicitly ‘Thus saith the Lord’, including the Maginot line!

The Maginot line was built by France and the Siegfried line by Germany – which one was in the vision? The statements cannot both be ‘Thus saith the Lord’ since they are contradictory. This is obviously another serious issue.

When problems like this are raised the rationalizations begin. In this case it will be said that the prophet made a slip of the tongue, he meant to say ‘Siegfried’. The problem is that he unequivocally maintained that it was the German Maginot line more than 20 times and made the same statements only a few times about the Siegfried line (I say “approximately’ and ‘few’ here because he was very confused about the French Maginot line and the German Siegfried line sometimes saying that the French built the Siegfried line and the Germans built the Maginot and sometimes using both words (Maginot and Siegfried) in the same sentence to refer to one of the lines).

And then they will say ‘well he wasn’t an educated man’ and therefore can be excused. But the real point is this: God is supposed to have prepared a message for the world, that the Coming of the Lord was drawing nigh and providing historical markers that would convince people that this was true. Why would he then allow his prophet to muddle up the details so that people would be justified in calling the visions into question? Well, one typical answer is that ‘it was done to confound the wise’! Ignoring the absurdities, as you progressively add caveats to a claim in an attempt to justify it, it becomes more difficult to believe that it is actually true.

A classic, hypothetical example is about a man who claims to have a dragon in his garage and he invites you to check it out. But as you apply tests to determine if there really is a dragon in the garage (looking, measuring its temperature, trying to detect footprints etc) you are told that it is invisible, levitates, never walks around and has a very low metabolism and is too cool to detect. The dragon has become such a queer object that it is indistinguishable from ‘no dragon’ at all.

It’s the same with these rationalizations, you end up with a prophecy that is no prophecy at all (or maybe you end up with no prophet).

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| I'd like to read you a prophecy that was given... This one first. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. The president which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago.) will cause the whole world to go to war. (Now, look what happened now.) In...President Franklin D. Roosevelt took America to England's tea party. That's right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them, throwed the whole world into a war, to cause a world war. '''Condemnation by Representation 13 November 1960'''
|}
This definitely adds Roosevelt to the vision. It also incorrectly claims that Roosevelt caused world War II – why, because ‘we picked on them (Germany)’. This is all headed up as a prophecy spoken in the Name of the Lord! But Germany declared war on the USA on December 11th 1941 and the USA reciprocated either on that day or the next. And the war started in 1939, Roosevelt did not cause the world to go to war and it could not be said ‘in the name of the Lord’ that he did.

Roosevelt was an isolationist at the start of the war in Europe and steadfastly refused to get involved. This state of affairs continued until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941 which then triggered the declarations of war. Adolf Hitler ‘picked on’ (declared war on) the USA and Franklin D Roosevelt reciprocated. The two claims made in this rendition of the vision are both incorrect and could not have been framed by an omniscient God.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| I seen that Maginot (Maginot line, it was instead of the Siegfried)--the Maginot line eleven years and told the people. It's wrote on paper. He's never one time...I charge any person in Divine Presence, or in the world, to ever tell me one time that the Holy Spirit ever spoke and said these things that it didn't come to pass. '''Why? 26th November 1960'''
|}
Here William Branham is adamant that in the World War II vision he saw the Maginot line being built and it definitely was not the Siegfried line! He also says that whatever the Holy Spirit says always comes to pass! Well, what was said? Based on this statement either William Branham or the Holy Spirit is in error.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| I got, THUS SAITH THE LORD. In her voting she will elect the wrong person. The Americans will take a great beating at a place that Germany will build, which will be a great wall built of concrete (The Maginot Line, eleven years before it was ever built.) But finally they will be victors…It will be near the end. (Then I've got in parenthesis: "I predict that this will take place." Now, remember, the Lord ne... That's what the Lord showed, but "I predict this will take place before 1977." '''Condemnation by representation 13th November 1960'''
|}
He also maintained that his vision of the Maginot Line was received eleven years before it was built which implies that it was finished by 1944. But the Maginot line was ‘built in several phases from 1930’ and was completed when it was ‘extended to the Strait of Dover in 1934’ (Wikipedia).

If the fortification was the Siegfried then the dating is no better. There was an original line which was named the ‘Siegfried Position’ built by the Germans in 1916-17 (later demolished). The second Siegfried line was established farther east during the 1930s opposite the French Maginot Line and built between 1938 and 1940.

In either case, the claim that he received the vision eleven years before the fortification was started of finished is wrong.

No sense could be made of these renditions of this vision. If one is right then another must be wrong and visions can’t be wrong. Roosevelt did not cause the world to go to war but William Branham said that God told him that he did! He said that God told him that the Germans built the Maginot line – they didn’t. William Branham was wrong and wrong to impute God. These statements invalidate the vision and his prophetical ministry.

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==Hitler==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Church Age Book statement of the vision
|-
| An Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.
|}

The first problem with the vision as related in the Church Age Book is that it is '''the FIRST AND ONLY TIME''' that William Branham states that he prophesied that Hitler would become the dictator in Germany.

The second problem with the vision, as stated in the Church Age Book, is his prophecy that Hitler would start World War II. This statement correctly indicts Adolf Hitler but does not mention President Roosevelt or Branham's previous prophesies about his role in the war. However, William Branham also referred to President Roosevelt in his previous versions of the prophecy. It is clear that the Roosevelt prophecy was previously one of the Seven Visions:

:*''This one, first. I’d like to read something to you. “1932.” Listen to this. “As I was on my way, or as I was getting ready to go on my way to church this morning, it came to pass that I fell into a vision. Our services is being held on Meigs Avenue, at the old orphan’s home where Charlie Kern lives in part of the building.” He lives just across the street now, you know. “And it came to pass, that, while I was in this vision, I seen some dreadful things take place. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. “The President which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago, “will cause the whole world to go to war.<ref>''Condemnation by Representation 1960''</ref>
:*''But the Lord showed me a vision of the great powerful woman, in '33, 1933, it's on paper. Of how that Roosevelt would cause... He helped cause the world to go to war.<ref>''Laodicean Church Age 1960''</ref>
:*''All right. A Second World War! I said, “The President that now is…” I copied this off the old scripture, yet, the old thing yesterday, that, “The President that we now have,” which was…How many remembers whose it was? [A brother says, “Franklin Roosevelt.”] Franklin D. Roosevelt. I said, “The President we have in now will run even in the fourth term,” he was on his first then, “will run into the fourth term, and we will be taken to a Second World War.”<ref>''Seventieth Week of Daniel 1961''</ref>

But Roosevelt is not named in the Church Age Book which indicates that Roosevelt and his relationship to the causes of World War II and his four terms in office were not included in the original visions. This is another significant disconnect – William Branham said a number of times that the Roosevelt details were part of the Seven Visions but on the other hand they were not.
He included the Roosevelt details in a statement about World War II in the sermon ‘The Laodicean Church Age’ (which was the basis for the Church Age Book) and so all the Roosevelt citations are included in this section.
The first verifiable reference is found in a sermon in March 1958, therefore this is not a prophecy because it relates to an event that occurred in the past - World War II began in 1939.
There are 25 other references to this vision and they are can be reviewed in Appendix 1 under the heading ‘2 Hitler’.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sermon statement
|-
| And in 1933 when…the vision of the Lord came to me up here and predicted that, Germany would rise up and have put that Maginot Line there. Many of you remember. And how they'd be all fortified in there, and the Americans would take a great beating right there at that line…Now, you remember; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD." '''Why we are not a denomination September 27, 1958'''
|}
The only common element between this statement and the Church Age Book version is ‘Germany’. In the book the vision is:
:*Adolph Hitler would be a dictator in Germany
:*He would start a world war
:*The Siegfried defensive line would cause many Americans to lose their lives
:*Hitler would die mysteriously

In the 1958 version of the sermon the vision is:
:*Germany would ‘rise up’
:*Germany would build the Maginot defensive line
:*The Maginot defensive line would cause many Americans to lose their lives

And this vision was explicitly ‘Thus saith the Lord’, including the Maginot line!

The Maginot line was built by France and the Siegfried line by Germany – which one was in the vision? The statements cannot both be ‘Thus saith the Lord’ since they are contradictory. This is obviously another serious issue.

When problems like this are raised the rationalizations begin. In this case it will be said that the prophet made a slip of the tongue, he meant to say ‘Siegfried’. The problem is that he unequivocally maintained that it was the German Maginot line more than 20 times and made the same statements only a few times about the Siegfried line (I say “approximately’ and ‘few’ here because he was very confused about the French Maginot line and the German Siegfried line sometimes saying that the French built the Siegfried line and the Germans built the Maginot and sometimes using both words (Maginot and Siegfried) in the same sentence to refer to one of the lines).

And then they will say ‘well he wasn’t an educated man’ and therefore can be excused. But the real point is this: God is supposed to have prepared a message for the world, that the Coming of the Lord was drawing nigh and providing historical markers that would convince people that this was true. Why would he then allow his prophet to muddle up the details so that people would be justified in calling the visions into question? Well, one typical answer is that ‘it was done to confound the wise’! Ignoring the absurdities, as you progressively add caveats to a claim in an attempt to justify it, it becomes more difficult to believe that it is actually true.

A classic, hypothetical example is about a man who claims to have a dragon in his garage and he invites you to check it out. But as you apply tests to determine if there really is a dragon in the garage (looking, measuring its temperature, trying to detect footprints etc) you are told that it is invisible, levitates, never walks around and has a very low metabolism and is too cool to detect. The dragon has become such a queer object that it is indistinguishable from ‘no dragon’ at all.

It’s the same with these rationalizations, you end up with a prophecy that is no prophecy at all (or maybe you end up with no prophet).

{| class="wikitable"
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| I'd like to read you a prophecy that was given... This one first. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. The president which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago.) will cause the whole world to go to war. (Now, look what happened now.) In...President Franklin D. Roosevelt took America to England's tea party. That's right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them, throwed the whole world into a war, to cause a world war. '''Condemnation by Representation 13 November 1960'''
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This definitely adds Roosevelt to the vision. It also incorrectly claims that Roosevelt caused world War II – why, because ‘we picked on them (Germany)’. This is all headed up as a prophecy spoken in the Name of the Lord! But Germany declared war on the USA on December 11th 1941 and the USA reciprocated either on that day or the next. And the war started in 1939, Roosevelt did not cause the world to go to war and it could not be said ‘in the name of the Lord’ that he did.

Roosevelt was an isolationist at the start of the war in Europe and steadfastly refused to get involved. This state of affairs continued until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941 which then triggered the declarations of war. Adolf Hitler ‘picked on’ (declared war on) the USA and Franklin D Roosevelt reciprocated. The two claims made in this rendition of the vision are both incorrect and could not have been framed by an omniscient God.
{| class="wikitable"
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| I seen that Maginot (Maginot line, it was instead of the Siegfried)--the Maginot line eleven years and told the people. It's wrote on paper. He's never one time...I charge any person in Divine Presence, or in the world, to ever tell me one time that the Holy Spirit ever spoke and said these things that it didn't come to pass. '''Why? 26th November 1960'''
|}
Here William Branham is adamant that in the World War II vision he saw the Maginot line being built and it definitely was not the Siegfried line! He also says that whatever the Holy Spirit says always comes to pass! Well, what was said? Based on this statement either William Branham or the Holy Spirit is in error.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Sermon statement
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| I got, THUS SAITH THE LORD. In her voting she will elect the wrong person. The Americans will take a great beating at a place that Germany will build, which will be a great wall built of concrete (The Maginot Line, eleven years before it was ever built.) But finally they will be victors…It will be near the end. (Then I've got in parenthesis: "I predict that this will take place." Now, remember, the Lord ne... That's what the Lord showed, but "I predict this will take place before 1977." '''Condemnation by representation 13th November 1960'''
|}
He also maintained that his vision of the Maginot Line was received eleven years before it was built which implies that it was finished by 1944. But the Maginot line was ‘built in several phases from 1930’ and was completed when it was ‘extended to the Strait of Dover in 1934’ (Wikipedia).

If the fortification was the Siegfried then the dating is no better. There was an original line which was named the ‘Siegfried Position’ built by the Germans in 1916-17 (later demolished). The second Siegfried line was established farther east during the 1930s opposite the French Maginot Line and built between 1938 and 1940.

In either case, the claim that he received the vision eleven years before the fortification was started of finished is wrong.

No sense could be made of these renditions of this vision. If one is right then another must be wrong and visions can’t be wrong. Roosevelt did not cause the world to go to war but William Branham said that God told him that he did! He said that God told him that the Germans built the Maginot line – they didn’t. William Branham was wrong and wrong to impute God. These statements invalidate the vision and his prophetical ministry.

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Credibility

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|'''''I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.''''' - Friedrich Nietzsche
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'''''In order to thoroughly deceive others, it is necessary to also deceive oneself'''. The actor playing Hamlet must indeed believe in the moment that he is the Prince of Denmark, though when he leaves the stage he will usually remember who he really is.''

''On the other hand, '''when someone's entire life is based on such pretense, they seldom if ever return to reality. That is the secret of many successful politicians, evangelists and confidence tricksters alike–they believe they are telling the truth, even when it seems sure they must have known that they faked the evidence.''' Sincerity, my dear Julia, is a quality not to be trusted.'' – Sarah Caudwell from 'The Sibyl in Her Grave'
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In our search to find the truth and to separate fact from fiction as it relates to William Branham and his ministry, one of the the most important issues that has to be addressed is his credibility. This need to be examined in relation to the various stories he tells in describing his supernatural experiences.

''To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.'' — Edward R. Murrow

Credibility refers to the believability, trustworthiness and reliability of a person.

=But didn't Abraham lie? And David commit adultery?=

We have had many message follwers deflect the issue of William Branham's credibility by pointing to the flaws of some of the prophets in the Old Testament. Such a response is clearly coming out of [[Cognitive Dissonance]] (if you don't know what this is, please click on the link).

When a message follower, confronted with the clear facts that William Branham lied, states, "''Abramham lied and he was the father of faith,''" they are effectively admitting that William Branham lied but that it is not a big deal.

The problem with this argument is that it is a [[Failed Prophecies|red herring]].

Why did Abraham lie? Because he feared that his life was in danger.

William Branham, on the other hand, appeared to have lied to uphold the claim that God spoke to him and that his prophecies were authentic. William Branham lied to make himself look like a prophet so that people would follow him.

Under the new covenant, as outlined in the New Testament, lying is not acceptable behaviour because the Bible plainly tells us what is expected of Christian leaders:

:''Therefore an overseer must be above reproach...<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Ti 3:2–3.</ref>

:''An elder must be blameless...<ref>Titus 1:6 (NET)</ref>

:''For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work...<ref>Titus 1:7 (NET)</ref>

:''Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, '''liars''', perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, 11 in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Ti 1:8–11.</ref>

A church leader blatantly disregards the truth is disqualified from any position of leadership in the church. PERIOD. THE END.

Also, because many of William Branham's prophecies failed, we must also deal with [[Prophecy|Deuteronomy 18:20-22]].

=Was William Branham credible?=
[[Image:Credibility.png|thumb|right|250px]]
Because William Branham was a minister of the Gospel, one starts off with the assumption that he generally told the truth, that he was credible. But that assumption must be discarded if it can be demonstrated that he regularly strayed from telling the truth.

William Branham portrayed himself as a simple, honest, uneducated man who was sent from God as a prophet to forerun the second coming of Christ. However, many of the stories that he told have been proven to be untrue and many of the doctrines that he said he received directly from God were, in fact, [[Plagiarism|plagiarized]] from other ministers. Another significant issue is that many of [[Different Stories|William Branham's stories changed dramatically over time]]. Why did this happen?

The following items have caused us to question William Branham's credibility (click on the links to read a detailed explanation of the issue):

#Did William Branham visit the Vatican and see the inscription "''[[VICARIVS FILII DEI]]''" above the throne of the Pope?
#[[William Branham and Billy Graham|Did William Branham lie about his prophecy regarding Billy Graham?]]
#[[1933 Ohio River Experience|Did anyone hear the voice on the Ohio River in 1933?]]
#Did William Branham see [[Stories about Eagles|a mother eagle carry her babies on her wings?]]
#[[The Cloud|Why did William Branham say that he was under the cloud when they took its picture, when he clearly wasn't?]]
#Did William Branham travel [[William_Branham's Travels#Around the world seven times?|around the world seven times?]]
#[[Bible saved from the flood|Was William Branham's Bible saved miraculously in the 1937 flood?]]
#[[The Man from Windsor|Why did the story of the man from Windsor change so drastically over time?]]
#[[Plagiarism|Why did William Branham say that he received his revelations from God when he took many of his doctrines from other men?]]
#Why did William Branham change the story of [[Congressman Upshaw]]'s healing?
#[[Roy Davis|When did William Branham embrace Pentecostalism?]]
#Was [[Donny Morton]] really healed?
#[[William Branham speaks in tongues|Did William Branham speak in an unknown tongue that a Finnish woman understood?]]
#[[Was William Branham Honest|Was it reasonable for William Branham to blame his poor grammar on his dad?]]
#Did William Branham prayer for [[King George VI|King George VI and was he really healed?]]
#[[Kari Holma|Did William Branham raise a boy from the dead in Finland?]]
#Who was [[Hope Branham's Nurse]]?
#Was [[Florence Nightingale]] the granddaughter of the original Florence Nightingale?
#[[The Pillar of Fire|Did the Pillar of Fire really appear above William Branham's head in Houston? Why did other pictures from that evening appear in the newspaper, when he said his picture was the only one that turned out?]]
#[[Proposing to Hope Brumbach|Was William Branham truthful about asking Hope's parents for her hand in marriage?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham in Shorts|If only sissies wear shorts, why did William Branham wear them?]]
#[[Leo Mercer|How could William Branham have allowed Leo Mercer to be part of his ministry?]]
#[[An Uncertain Sound|Did William Branham claim to be a prophet?]]
#[[The Nazarite Birth|Was William Branham born under a Nazarite Vow?]]
#[[Was William Branham's discernment ministry genuine?|Was William Branham's discernment 100% accurate?]]
#[[Guessing the disease|Was William Branham's ministry always 100%?]]
#[[The Mystery of the Empty Cornerstone|What was in the cornerstone of Branham Tabernacle?]]
#[[William Branham's Travels|Did William Branham travel around the world seven times?]]
#[[Billy Paul Branham|Why was William Branham dishonest about his son's first marriage?]]
#[[Prophecy of the Cloud|Why was the vision of the five angels changed to a vision of seven angels?]]
#[[Rattlesnake Mesa|Why did William Branham say that he was at Sunset Mountain when he was actually at Rattlesnake Mesa?]]
#Why did William Branham make up [[The Story of the Pyramid Box|the story of the Pyramid Box]]?
#[[Different Stories|Why did William Branham's stories change so radically over time?]]
#[[The Perfect Man|Was William Branham really the first fruits of spiritual maturity? The perfect man?]]
#[[The Houston Photograph|Was the photo from Houston supernatural or just the out of focus picture of a flood light?]]
#[[The Amber Light|Did William Branham see an amber light?]]
#[[Jim Jones|Did William Branham help to launch the ministry of Jim Jones?]]
#Was Marshal [[Matt Dillon]] from Gunsmoke a real person?
#[[Is Joseph Branham a prophet?]]
#Was there a [[Mormon prophecy about William Branham]]?
#[[Prophecy: Danny Henry|Danny Henry message]]
#[[William Branham's View of Himself|How did William Branham view himself?]]
#[[William Branham and Money|Was William Branham a wealthy man when he died?]]
#[[William Branham Speaking as God|If God spoke through William Branham, why did he mess up?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham the Hunter|If it was wrong to kill animals for sport, why did William Branham do it?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham at the Theatre|Why did William Branham deny that he went to movies 3 weeks after admitting that he did?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham, sold out for a Cadillac|Why did William Branham criticize those who drove Cadillac's when he owned one?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#Trimmed Hair & Short Skirts in the Branham Family|Why did William Branham criticize women that cut their hair and wore short skirts, when his own family did?]]
#[[Arvel Mosier|What actually happened to Hattie Wright's boys?]]
#[[William Branham on Suicide#Inaccuracies about William Cowper's death|Why did William Branham say he went to William Cowper's grave when he didn't?]]
#[[William Branham on Suicide#Inaccuracies about William Cowper's death|Why did William Branham say William Cowper committed suicide when he died of heart failure?]]
#[[William Branham on Suicide#Stephen Foster|Why did William Branham state the Stephen Foster committed suicide, when this is not true?]]
#Was there really a connection between [[The Pope and the Lunar Eclipse|the Pope visiting israel in 1964 and the lunar eclipse that preceded his visit?]]

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Credibility

2026-03-18T19:49:46Z

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{| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #E8B399;background-color:#F0DCC8;vertical-align:top; float:left; text-align:center; padding: 0.3em;margin-left:5px"
|'''''I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.''''' - Friedrich Nietzsche
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{| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #E8B399;background-color:#F0DCC8;vertical-align:top; float:left; text-align:center; padding: 0.3em;margin-left:5px"
|'''''If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.''''' - Mark Twain

'''''In order to thoroughly deceive others, it is necessary to also deceive oneself'''. The actor playing Hamlet must indeed believe in the moment that he is the Prince of Denmark, though when he leaves the stage he will usually remember who he really is.''

''On the other hand, '''when someone's entire life is based on such pretense, they seldom if ever return to reality. That is the secret of many successful politicians, evangelists and confidence tricksters alike–they believe they are telling the truth, even when it seems sure they must have known that they faked the evidence.''' Sincerity, my dear Julia, is a quality not to be trusted.'' – Sarah Caudwell from 'The Sibyl in Her Grave'
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In our search to find the truth and to separate fact from fiction as it relates to William Branham and his ministry, one of the the most important issues that has to be addressed is his credibility. This need to be examined in relation to the various stories he tells in describing his supernatural experiences.

''To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.'' — Edward R. Murrow

Credibility refers to the believability, trustworthiness and reliability of a person.

=But didn't Abraham lie?=

We have had many message ministers deflect the issue of William Branham's credibility by pointing to the flaws of some of the prophets in the Old Testament. Such a response is clearly coming out of [[Cognitive Dissonance]] (if you don't know what this is, please click on the link).

When a message believers, confronted with the clear facts that William Branham lied, states, "''Abramham lied and he was the father of faith,''" they are effectively admitting that William Branham lied but that it is not a big deal.

The problem with this argument is that it is a [[Failed Prophecies|red herring]].

Why did Abraham lie? Because he feared that his life was in danger.

William Branham, on the other hand, appeared to have lied to uphold the claim that God spoke to him and that his prophesies were authentic. William Branham lied to make himself look like a prophet so that people would follow him.

Under the new covenant as outlined in the New Testament, lying is not acceptable behaviour because the Bible plainly tells us what is expected of Christian leaders:

:''Therefore an overseer must be above reproach...<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Ti 3:2–3.</ref>

:''An elder must be blameless...<ref>Titus 1:6 (NET)</ref>

:''For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work...<ref>Titus 1:7 (NET)</ref>

:''Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, '''liars''', perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, 11 in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Ti 1:8–11.</ref>

Also, because many of William Branham's prophecies failed, we must also deal with [[Prophecy|Deuteronomy 18:20-22]].

=Was William Branham credible?=
[[Image:Credibility.png|thumb|right|250px]]
Because William Branham was a minister of the Gospel, one starts off with the assumption that he generally told the truth, that he was credible. But that assumption must be discarded if it can be demonstrated that he regularly strayed from telling the truth.

William Branham portrayed himself as a simple, honest, uneducated man who was sent from God as a prophet to forerun the second coming of Christ. However, many of the stories that he told have been proven to be untrue and many of the doctrines that he said he received directly from God were, in fact, [[Plagiarism|plagiarized]] from other ministers. Another significant issue is that many of [[Different Stories|William Branham's stories changed dramatically over time]]. Why did this happen?

The following items have caused us to question William Branham's credibility (click on the links to read a detailed explanation of the issue):

#Did William Branham visit the Vatican and see the inscription "''[[VICARIVS FILII DEI]]''" above the throne of the Pope?
#[[William Branham and Billy Graham|Did William Branham lie about his prophecy regarding Billy Graham?]]
#[[1933 Ohio River Experience|Did anyone hear the voice on the Ohio River in 1933?]]
#Did William Branham see [[Stories about Eagles|a mother eagle carry her babies on her wings?]]
#[[The Cloud|Why did William Branham say that he was under the cloud when they took its picture, when he clearly wasn't?]]
#Did William Branham travel [[William_Branham's Travels#Around the world seven times?|around the world seven times?]]
#[[Bible saved from the flood|Was William Branham's Bible saved miraculously in the 1937 flood?]]
#[[The Man from Windsor|Why did the story of the man from Windsor change so drastically over time?]]
#[[Plagiarism|Why did William Branham say that he received his revelations from God when he took many of his doctrines from other men?]]
#Why did William Branham change the story of [[Congressman Upshaw]]'s healing?
#[[Roy Davis|When did William Branham embrace Pentecostalism?]]
#Was [[Donny Morton]] really healed?
#[[William Branham speaks in tongues|Did William Branham speak in an unknown tongue that a Finnish woman understood?]]
#[[Was William Branham Honest|Was it reasonable for William Branham to blame his poor grammar on his dad?]]
#Did William Branham prayer for [[King George VI|King George VI and was he really healed?]]
#[[Kari Holma|Did William Branham raise a boy from the dead in Finland?]]
#Who was [[Hope Branham's Nurse]]?
#Was [[Florence Nightingale]] the granddaughter of the original Florence Nightingale?
#[[The Pillar of Fire|Did the Pillar of Fire really appear above William Branham's head in Houston? Why did other pictures from that evening appear in the newspaper, when he said his picture was the only one that turned out?]]
#[[Proposing to Hope Brumbach|Was William Branham truthful about asking Hope's parents for her hand in marriage?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham in Shorts|If only sissies wear shorts, why did William Branham wear them?]]
#[[Leo Mercer|How could William Branham have allowed Leo Mercer to be part of his ministry?]]
#[[An Uncertain Sound|Did William Branham claim to be a prophet?]]
#[[The Nazarite Birth|Was William Branham born under a Nazarite Vow?]]
#[[Was William Branham's discernment ministry genuine?|Was William Branham's discernment 100% accurate?]]
#[[Guessing the disease|Was William Branham's ministry always 100%?]]
#[[The Mystery of the Empty Cornerstone|What was in the cornerstone of Branham Tabernacle?]]
#[[William Branham's Travels|Did William Branham travel around the world seven times?]]
#[[Billy Paul Branham|Why was William Branham dishonest about his son's first marriage?]]
#[[Prophecy of the Cloud|Why was the vision of the five angels changed to a vision of seven angels?]]
#[[Rattlesnake Mesa|Why did William Branham say that he was at Sunset Mountain when he was actually at Rattlesnake Mesa?]]
#Why did William Branham make up [[The Story of the Pyramid Box|the story of the Pyramid Box]]?
#[[Different Stories|Why did William Branham's stories change so radically over time?]]
#[[The Perfect Man|Was William Branham really the first fruits of spiritual maturity? The perfect man?]]
#[[The Houston Photograph|Was the photo from Houston supernatural or just the out of focus picture of a flood light?]]
#[[The Amber Light|Did William Branham see an amber light?]]
#[[Jim Jones|Did William Branham help to launch the ministry of Jim Jones?]]
#Was Marshal [[Matt Dillon]] from Gunsmoke a real person?
#[[Is Joseph Branham a prophet?]]
#Was there a [[Mormon prophecy about William Branham]]?
#[[Prophecy: Danny Henry|Danny Henry message]]
#[[William Branham's View of Himself|How did William Branham view himself?]]
#[[William Branham and Money|Was William Branham a wealthy man when he died?]]
#[[William Branham Speaking as God|If God spoke through William Branham, why did he mess up?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham the Hunter|If it was wrong to kill animals for sport, why did William Branham do it?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham at the Theatre|Why did William Branham deny that he went to movies 3 weeks after admitting that he did?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#William Branham, sold out for a Cadillac|Why did William Branham criticize those who drove Cadillac's when he owned one?]]
#[[William Branham's Double Standard#Trimmed Hair & Short Skirts in the Branham Family|Why did William Branham criticize women that cut their hair and wore short skirts, when his own family did?]]
#[[Arvel Mosier|What actually happened to Hattie Wright's boys?]]
#[[William Branham on Suicide#Inaccuracies about William Cowper's death|Why did William Branham say he went to William Cowper's grave when he didn't?]]
#[[William Branham on Suicide#Inaccuracies about William Cowper's death|Why did William Branham say William Cowper committed suicide when he died of heart failure?]]
#[[William Branham on Suicide#Stephen Foster|Why did William Branham state the Stephen Foster committed suicide, when this is not true?]]
#Was there really a connection between [[The Pope and the Lunar Eclipse|the Pope visiting israel in 1964 and the lunar eclipse that preceded his visit?]]

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Sarah Branham

2026-03-18T05:02:55Z

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Branham married his second wife, Meda Marie Broy, in 1941, and together they had three children; Rebekah (1946–2014), Sarah (b. 1950), and Joseph (b. 1955).

Recently, speculation has surrounded Sarah Branham and her family as to their whereabouts. It appears that she went into seclusion to escape attention and does not want to be found. In 1989. she wrote a letter to the followers of the message.

=Letter from Sarah Branham=

'''Take It with You'''

''By Sarah Branham De Corado''
New York, July 1989

To the Bride of Christ – the followers of the message

Because many people that I have approached for help through all these years have asked me the reason why I am in need – the only one of Brother Branham’s children, including grandchildren and in-laws, while all of them live in the luxuries and comforts that the world can provide. Since none of them have ever worked; why am I not included in this?

I feel I should expose publicly several things that have happened all going back since the days when my father was killed. As you know my mother and I were the only survivors of it. Now she has passed away and I am the only living witness of what actually happened in the car.

I don’t know how many times my mother told me: “Take it with you to the grave.” What she meant by that I have to tell you now. It seems that I cannot live with it no more and I am sure I couldn’t die with it. I’m getting so nervous even thinking about it, simply cannot bare it any longer. In the way I look at it, it is indirectly connected with my father’s accident.

I remember that my father was very troubled before we left Tucson for the Jeffersonville meetings where he was to preach “The trail of the serpent” and expose names of the people of this message that were doing wrong including family members. In this tension we left Arizona. The last argument before we left was because my sister Becky wanted to stay in the apartment with her friend Betty Collins. My father never wanted her to stay. Finally he gave in as mother had already agreed and left her there. She gave her word that she would not leave the apartment.

All day my father was troubled and he would stop and call but she didn’t answer. We traveled until we stopped at evening time to eat. My father ordered his food and then I hear him tell mother: “I am going to call Becky one more time.” He called and came back to the table very upset. He turned to mother and said: “She’s not there.” He had ordered a piece of pie but never ate it. When we left Joseph went in the car with Billy Paul and Loyce which never would have happened any other time.

Just because my father was so troubled he never even noticed it. I got in the back seat, mother and father in the front. They started to argue right away. He was very upset, because Becky was not in the apartment as she had promised. Mother started taking up for her. My father turned to mother and said, “You know where she is.” Mother started crying saying, “Please, Bill…” I laid down in the back seat of the car, because I was very upset too, as this was the first time I had ever seen and heard them argue in that tone. My father said, “I am going to expose many things and names this time.” My mother kept begging: “Please, no, Bill…”

I know my father was a very cautious driver, always keeping speed limits and observing the traffic. Under normal circumstances he would have reacted and avoided the car coming towards him. While speaking he looked over to mother during this unpleasant conversation. Just then it happened.

That was the last thing I remember from ;before the crash until I came to myself in the ambulance. Later I found out that Rebekah was with Pearry Green and they had a difficult time finding her to let her know about the accident. I was two months in the hospital.

When I came home my mother acted very nervous around me. Finally she approached me and wanted to know how much I had remembered from before the accident. She told me not to mention or talk about it ever again, but to take it with me to the grave.

My father had a notebook on his sermon “The trail of the serpent.” My mother let me read where he had written: “I will be betrayed by someone very close to me.” Later when she wanted to see the notes again, she was told by Billy Paul that there were no notes, the pages were empty.

Also I would like to mention something that happened after the accident that always bothered mother and me. My father needed a blood transfusion immediately after the accident. He had a rare blood type and they had to send to another city for it. If he could have had the blood transfusion in time maybe his life could have been spared. How strange his own son would not donate blood in that emergency case.

Only God knows all the facts, but after I saw the document dated the 26th day of October, 1965, I began to wonder even more. Just imagine while my father was still alive, my brother appeared before a Notary Public as William Branham transferring the William Branham Evangelistic Association into another corporation. The document is in my possession. He signed it as William Branham Jr. It was registered on Nov. 4, 1965 at 3:45 p.m. with the “Arizona Corporation Commission.”

Just recently a noted lawyer in New York looked into the matter and showed me different bank statements which are still in my possession. One shows the amount in cash of 3,113,676 plus stocks 130,645 plus other things. This money was left untouched since the departure of my father. According to the notary document it is fixed for 25 years. I am asking myself what will be done with the large sum of money accumulated by now after the 26th of October, 1990.

After the accident things changed dramatically. Suddenly Billy Paul was in possession of lots of money. He built a custom home with all gold fixtures and custom furniture. My mother was very upset.

It`s a known fact than insurance companies are here to rip you off. That`s what insurance companies have been doing for last 100 years, and they continue doing so! Most employers are required by insurance companies to drug test! Challenge the insurance companies and drug testing today with the help of a brand new drug store.

She told me that Billy Paul had fixed it in such a way that he will end up with everything. This has become obvious. His house in Tucson is empty and I have no place to stay. Mother told me that he had forged my father’s signature on that mentioned document to make an association that would give him power and access over the money my father left behind.

Billy had never anything to do with mother. He used to come to the house maybe once a year. But I used to see him get up in the pulpit at meetings and say how much he loves mother when I knew it was a lie. My mother used to get so upset at all the different doctrines that were going on and that Billy Paul would not try to stop them or at least stand for his father which he claimed to love so much. My mother lost her confidence and respect in the brethren pretending to preach the message and in everything they did. She used to refer to the “Branham Tabernacle” as “Collin’s corner” and made her remarks. She said that the spirit which was with my father was no longer there, but the Rev. Collins has made it a place of blasphemy. She wondered how Billy Paul would allow such a man to be a pastor of the tabernacle.

Also I would like to mention that Billy Paul gave 75,000 dollars of the church money to Mr. Doug McQuiz in Tucson to start his church and a construction business. When mother found out she begged Billy not to do it. But, of course, he did. Mr. Doug McQuiz never paid it back to this day and he claims it was a gift from a rich friend. When I asked him to help me because I was in such a need, he said, “Go to work…”

From the family inheritance I received my share of 55,000 dollars after my mother passed away. The Rev. Pearry Green of Tucson presenting himself nicely as the pastor of the Branham family suggested that I give him 50,000 which he would invest into a travel agency. He said, “From this time you don’t need to worry any more. You can go as missionaries to Guatemala and every month you will receive you’re your support.” I don’t remember exactly whether it was three, four or five times he sent a monthly support. Then he informed me that things did not work out the way he expected, and we didn’t see the rest of the money until this day. But we were not the only ones falling into the trap with him. Very soon I hope things will come to light which were done wrong including with all the pastors in the message who take the tenth (tithes) from the people and treat the large sums of money as their private income. They are hiding behind some statements my father made in this regard, not mentioning the fact that he himself drew a salary from the church. Up to this date the money given in the “Branham Tabernacle” in Jeffersonville goes in the church treasury. I was ready to take the whole matter to court but Bro. Frank told me not to do it because it’s against the Scripture (I Cor. 6).

At this point I must mention that I had a very special experience in May 1989, when I was told to go and meet Brother Frank in Germany. Very clearly, and I say this before God Almighty, I saw a huge meeting where my father was preaching as usual. After the sermon a prayer line was called and I was in that prayer line. When my turn came to be prayed for I was told “Go and see Brother Frank.” Of course being taken by surprise, I asked spontaneously: “Brother Frank in Germany?” And the reply was quite commanding: “Yes, go and see Brother Frank in Germany.”

At the beginning of June this year I spent a week at the Mission Center in Krefeld, West Germany. With my own eyes I saw how the stored-up food was made available in the different languages. Because I was told that I should go and see Brother Frank, I had confidential talks with him. As my husband and I could not go along with any of the strange doctrines we of course were pushed out from participating in the money that was so generously given to the members of the family as well as for mission purposes. When I was about to give birth to another child I asked my brother Joseph to give me 1,500 dollars to cover the hospital expenses, his reply was: “Where do you think I can get this money from?” I went to Rev. Pearry Green and he sent me off with “next to nothing.: My sister Becky took me to the Welfare while living in the house that is just as much mine as hers. We were of course not only disappointed we were upset seeing the luxury the rest of the family and also especially the ministers in this message are enjoying.

We were getting bitter because we were humiliated so many times having to beg for money to feed our eight children. The brethren who present themselves pius before the believers have also finished my husband Eddy who is an ordained minister having a diploma of the Tucson University. Of course he could not go along with every wind of doctrine or become a slave of man.

It is very easy to spread the rumor all over the world that Sister Sarah acts strange but cover up the facts that made me act the way I do. In the same way it is very easy to spread the rumor that Sister Jackson from South Africa is mentally ill, at the same time keeping secret why she landed in a mental institution. All insiders know about the 65,000 dollars Brother Sidney Jackson gave to Rev. Pearry Green who promised to take him as a co-pastor and accommodate him in Tucson. After the passing away of Brother Jackson of course Sister Jackson being left without money she begged Rev. Green and even other brothers approached him in this matter and finally he denies having received the money. I only hope that others who were also cheated will have the courage to come up with their stories and claims.

I have said nothing but the truth. My family and others have pushed me through terrible things, sleeping in parks, airports, etc. For truly they are responsible along with the rich ministers for the mess in the Bride. Look at my family and most of the ministers, you see among them diamonds, designer clothes, fancy cars and offices. Most of them have used the tithes of the people to buy real estate and investments, travel agencies. Those having large well-off congregations have made themselves multimillionaires. All these ministers became rich using my father’s name. I would like to thank all of you who are helping us during this time of hardship.

I believe that the return of our Lord is very near. The things which are not right amongst God’s people must be straightened out immediately. If we are not willing to do it the law will have to do it for us. I have just given you this little information to let you know that those who have taken responsibility after my father passed away are not at all the way they present themselves. God will have to raise up men after His own heart who have no desire for fame and money. Perhaps from the so-called Bride which is split up into so many different directions the Lord will have to call out His elect who will go in one direction and that is God’s ordained way according to the message my father preached from the Holy Scriptures. I believe he brought us back to the original Word. It is God’s ordained Message which will forerun the second coming of Christ, not all the false interpretations of the message.

May God bless you all, please pray for us.

Sarah Branham De Corado
P.O. Box 20323
Columbus Circle
New York, N.Y. 10023

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Heresies in the Early Church

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=What is heresy?=

Message followers often quote Acts 24:14 in support of their following William Branham:

:''But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets,<ref>Norton, D., ed. (2011). The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version (Revised edition, Ac 24:13–14). Cambridge University Press.</ref>

The Greek term hairesis originally denoted an action or belief selected from multiple options. In classical Greek, the word could be employed positively or negatively—initially meaning simply “choice,” then “a chosen course of procedure,” and later referring to various schools and intellectual movements, including those devoted to studying Greek literature.

As a result, modern interpretations translate ''hairesis'' as "sect":

:''“But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a '''sect''' I do serve the God of our fathers...<ref>New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), Ac 24:14.</ref>

The Sadducees and Pharisees were designated as sects, as were early Jewish believers in Jesus known as “the sect of the Nazarenes”—neutral descriptors at that stage. However, as the church developed, the term came to identify factious groups holding opinions contrary to apostolic truth. By the time of the New Testament, hairesis denoted organized parties when divisions had crystallized into distinct factions, and in 2 Peter the concept moved toward its later ecclesiastical sense, describing those guilty of doctrinal and moral errors who separated from church fellowship.

In its original meaning, the word heresy does not infer that someone is wrong or has believed a falsehood. Rather, it simply refers to a particular truth or belief that has been extracted from its true and complete context and is subsequently treated as if it were the whole truth. This explains why every heretic in the history of the church has had a verse or two of Scripture they rigidly hold to.<ref>Alan Hirsch and Mark Nelson, Reframation: Seeing God, People, and Mission through Reenchanted Frames (100 Movements Publishing, 2019 [used with permission]), 48.</ref>

Some of the sheep, and even some of the shepherds, may turn out to be wolves in disguise. And the attack will then take the form, not of direct contradiction or a clash of powers, but of distorting the truth. The greatest heresies do not come about by straightforward denial; most of the church will see that for what it is. They happen when an element which may even be important, but isn’t central, looms so large that people can’t help talking about it, fixating on it, debating different views of it as though this were the only thing that mattered.<ref>Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 13-28 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2008), 137–138.</ref>

The point is that the so-called “heretic” really has (re)discovered some truth that has been lost, ignored, or suppressed. That is something to get excited about. However, the error in the heresy is in the exaggerated enthusiasm or preoccupation that ensues. The heretic becomes increasingly obsessive and sectarian by making the newly recovered particular truth into the whole truth. Its real meaning is obscured because it is separated from the greater Truth from which it has been extracted. Truth thereby becomes fragmented.

We are so easily imprisoned by our own interpretations and so convinced of the absolute rightness of them that we close the door to engaging the ever-greater God. This was precisely the problem with Israel’s leaders in the time of Jesus. Their interpretations became the theological prisons for their own souls and minds as well as for the collective mind of Israel. In Jesus’ words, they had access to the keys to the kingdom but ignored them, and hindered others from entering the kingdom as well (Matthew 23:13; Luke 11:52).<ref>Hirsch and Nelson, 48–49, 57.</ref>

Heresy is now described as a kind of unbelief.<ref>Thomas Aquinas. (n.d.). Summa theologica (Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Trans.; Vol. 9, p. 156). Burns Oates & Washbourne.</ref>

=Major heresies in the early church=

==Gnosticism==

==Quartodecimanism==

This wasn't a true "heresy" but the amount of division that it caused in the early church was significant.

The dispute among churches relating to the fixing of the day of Easter was referred to as Quartodecimanism (Easter should be observed on the fourteenth Nisan, irrespective of the day of the week that may happen to be). This was the belief that was primarily held by eastern churches.

Anti-Quartodecimanism held that the crucifixion should be commemorated on the Friday of the week, whether or not it fell on the fourteenth, and the resurrection on the following Lord’s day. This was the view primarily held by the western church (and was officially adopted at the Council of Nicea (A.D. 325)).<ref>Alan Cairns, Dictionary of Theological Terms (Belfast; Greenville, SC: Ambassador Emerald International, 2002), 358.</ref>

We have devoted a separate article to the discussion of the [[Controversy over the Date of Easter]].

==Montanism==

Sometime around the year 157 A.D., in the Roman province of Asia Minor known as Phrygia, a professing Christian named Montanus began to prophesy ecstatically. Claiming the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he was soon joined by two prophetesses, Maximilla and Priscilla (Prisca). They paid special attention to the biblical teachings about the Paraclete, and they claimed to be the last in a succession of prophets that included the daughters of Philip (Acts 21:8–9). They said they were called to summon all believers to righteous preparation for the heavenly descent of the New Jerusalem.

By the 170s, this “New Prophecy” movement, as it was known, spread. The heart of Montanist activity was always in Asia Minor, although converts were eventually won in missionary outposts such as Rome, Byzantium, and Carthage. What attracted scores of early Christians to Montanism? Perhaps the answer lies in three words: authority, vitality, and discipline.

Montanist prophets claimed direct revelations from God, and their utterances (“oracles”) were treasured and preserved as authoritative teaching by the faithful. Here was fresh truth, Spirit-given, for the last days.

Not everyone was so enamored with the movement. In 192, Serapion, bishop of Antioch, declared that “the working of the lying organization called the New Prophesy is held in abomination by the whole brotherhood in the world.”

Many of the leaders of the early church objected to Montanism on five main grounds:

#“Abnormal ecstasy.” Montanus prophesied in a frenzy, without engaging the rational mind, “contrary to the manner which belongs to the tradition and succession of the church from the beginning.”
#No controls. When respected bishops and church leaders sought to practice discernment with Montanist prophets, the prophets refused to submit.
#Worldliness. Some questioned the Montanist financial dealings. Others worried about their lifestyle: “Does a prophet dye his hair, paint his eyelids, love adornment, play at gaming tables and dice, lend money at interest?”
#Extra-scriptural revelation. Many were concerned that people would hold the oracles of the New Prophecy in higher esteem than the Scriptures.
#False prophecies. Maximilla declared that there would be wars and tumults and, after her death, no more prophets but “The End.” Yet, some thirteen years after her death, there was peace.

On the other hand, a few respected teachers, though they didn’t join the movement, refused to condemn it. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon, for example, was concerned that those attacking the Montanists would drive the authentic gift of prophecy from the church. Those who did so, he wrote, “do not admit that aspect presented by John’s Gospel, in which the Lord promised that he would send the Paraclete, but they set aside at once both the Gospel and the prophetic Spirit.”<ref>Christian History Magazine-Issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1996).</ref>

Montanism which started in the 2nd century was largely over by the 4th century.

==Monarchianism==

===Dynamic Monarchianism (aka Adoptionism)===

===Modalistic Monarchianism (aka Sabellianism, Modalism, Patripassianism, Oneness, Jesus Only)===

==Donatism==

==Arianism==

==Monophysitism==

==Pelagianism==

==Adoptionism==

==Nestorianism==

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=What is heresy?=

Message followers often quote Acts 24:14 in support of their following William Branham:

:''But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets,<ref>Norton, D., ed. (2011). The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version (Revised edition, Ac 24:13–14). Cambridge University Press.</ref>

The Greek term hairesis originally denoted an action or belief selected from multiple options. In classical Greek, the word could be employed positively or negatively—initially meaning simply “choice,” then “a chosen course of procedure,” and later referring to various schools and intellectual movements, including those devoted to studying Greek literature.

As a result, modern interpretations translate ''hairesis'' as "sect":

:''“But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a '''sect''' I do serve the God of our fathers...<ref>New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), Ac 24:14.</ref>

The Sadducees and Pharisees were designated as sects, as were early Jewish believers in Jesus known as “the sect of the Nazarenes”—neutral descriptors at that stage. However, as the church developed, the term came to identify factious groups holding opinions contrary to apostolic truth. By the time of the New Testament, hairesis denoted organized parties when divisions had crystallized into distinct factions, and in 2 Peter the concept moved toward its later ecclesiastical sense, describing those guilty of doctrinal and moral errors who separated from church fellowship.

In its original meaning, the word heresy does not infer that someone is wrong or has believed a falsehood. Rather, it simply refers to a particular truth or belief that has been extracted from its true and complete context and is subsequently treated as if it were the whole truth. This explains why every heretic in the history of the church has had a verse or two of Scripture they rigidly hold to.<ref>Alan Hirsch and Mark Nelson, Reframation: Seeing God, People, and Mission through Reenchanted Frames (100 Movements Publishing, 2019 [used with permission]), 48.</ref>

Some of the sheep, and even some of the shepherds, may turn out to be wolves in disguise. And the attack will then take the form, not of direct contradiction or a clash of powers, but of distorting the truth. The greatest heresies do not come about by straightforward denial; most of the church will see that for what it is. They happen when an element which may even be important, but isn’t central, looms so large that people can’t help talking about it, fixating on it, debating different views of it as though this were the only thing that mattered.<ref>Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 13-28 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2008), 137–138.</ref>

The point is that the so-called “heretic” really has (re)discovered some truth that has been lost, ignored, or suppressed. That is something to get excited about. However, the error in the heresy is in the exaggerated enthusiasm or preoccupation that ensues. The heretic becomes increasingly obsessive and sectarian by making the newly recovered particular truth into the whole truth. Its real meaning is obscured because it is separated from the greater Truth from which it has been extracted. Truth thereby becomes fragmented.<ref>Hirsch and Nelson, 48–49.</ref>

Heresy is now described as a kind of unbelief.<ref>Thomas Aquinas. (n.d.). Summa theologica (Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Trans.; Vol. 9, p. 156). Burns Oates & Washbourne.</ref>

=Major heresies in the early church=

==Gnosticism==

==Quartodecimanism==

This wasn't a true "heresy" but the amount of division that it caused in the early church was significant.

The dispute among churches relating to the fixing of the day of Easter was referred to as Quartodecimanism (Easter should be observed on the fourteenth Nisan, irrespective of the day of the week that may happen to be). This was the belief that was primarily held by eastern churches.

Anti-Quartodecimanism held that the crucifixion should be commemorated on the Friday of the week, whether or not it fell on the fourteenth, and the resurrection on the following Lord’s day. This was the view primarily held by the western church (and was officially adopted at the Council of Nicea (A.D. 325)).<ref>Alan Cairns, Dictionary of Theological Terms (Belfast; Greenville, SC: Ambassador Emerald International, 2002), 358.</ref>

We have devoted a separate article to the discussion of the [[Controversy over the Date of Easter]].

==Montanism==

Sometime around the year 157 A.D., in the Roman province of Asia Minor known as Phrygia, a professing Christian named Montanus began to prophesy ecstatically. Claiming the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he was soon joined by two prophetesses, Maximilla and Priscilla (Prisca). They paid special attention to the biblical teachings about the Paraclete, and they claimed to be the last in a succession of prophets that included the daughters of Philip (Acts 21:8–9). They said they were called to summon all believers to righteous preparation for the heavenly descent of the New Jerusalem.

By the 170s, this “New Prophecy” movement, as it was known, spread. The heart of Montanist activity was always in Asia Minor, although converts were eventually won in missionary outposts such as Rome, Byzantium, and Carthage. What attracted scores of early Christians to Montanism? Perhaps the answer lies in three words: authority, vitality, and discipline.

Montanist prophets claimed direct revelations from God, and their utterances (“oracles”) were treasured and preserved as authoritative teaching by the faithful. Here was fresh truth, Spirit-given, for the last days.

Not everyone was so enamored with the movement. In 192, Serapion, bishop of Antioch, declared that “the working of the lying organization called the New Prophesy is held in abomination by the whole brotherhood in the world.”

Many of the leaders of the early church objected to Montanism on five main grounds:

#“Abnormal ecstasy.” Montanus prophesied in a frenzy, without engaging the rational mind, “contrary to the manner which belongs to the tradition and succession of the church from the beginning.”
#No controls. When respected bishops and church leaders sought to practice discernment with Montanist prophets, the prophets refused to submit.
#Worldliness. Some questioned the Montanist financial dealings. Others worried about their lifestyle: “Does a prophet dye his hair, paint his eyelids, love adornment, play at gaming tables and dice, lend money at interest?”
#Extra-scriptural revelation. Many were concerned that people would hold the oracles of the New Prophecy in higher esteem than the Scriptures.
#False prophecies. Maximilla declared that there would be wars and tumults and, after her death, no more prophets but “The End.” Yet, some thirteen years after her death, there was peace.

On the other hand, a few respected teachers, though they didn’t join the movement, refused to condemn it. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon, for example, was concerned that those attacking the Montanists would drive the authentic gift of prophecy from the church. Those who did so, he wrote, “do not admit that aspect presented by John’s Gospel, in which the Lord promised that he would send the Paraclete, but they set aside at once both the Gospel and the prophetic Spirit.”<ref>Christian History Magazine-Issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1996).</ref>

Montanism which started in the 2nd century was largely over by the 4th century.

==Monarchianism==

===Dynamic Monarchianism (aka Adoptionism)===

===Modalistic Monarchianism (aka Sabellianism, Modalism, Patripassianism, Oneness, Jesus Only)===

==Donatism==

==Arianism==

==Monophysitism==

==Pelagianism==

==Adoptionism==

==Nestorianism==

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Heresy

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{{Top of Page}}

=What is heresy?=

Message followers often quote Acts 24:14 in support of their following William Branham:

:''But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets,<ref>Norton, D., ed. (2011). The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version (Revised edition, Ac 24:13–14). Cambridge University Press.</ref>

The Greek term hairesis originally denoted an action or belief selected from multiple options. In classical Greek, the word could be employed positively or negatively—initially meaning simply “choice,” then “a chosen course of procedure,” and later referring to various schools and intellectual movements, including those devoted to studying Greek literature.

As a result, modern interpretations translate ''hairesis'' as "sect":

:''“But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a '''sect''' I do serve the God of our fathers...<ref>New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), Ac 24:14.</ref>

The Sadducees and Pharisees were designated as sects, as were early Jewish believers in Jesus known as “the sect of the Nazarenes”—neutral descriptors at that stage. However, as the church developed, the term came to identify factious groups holding opinions contrary to apostolic truth. By the time of the New Testament, hairesis denoted organized parties when divisions had crystallized into distinct factions, and in 2 Peter the concept moved toward its later ecclesiastical sense, describing those guilty of doctrinal and moral errors who separated from church fellowship.

Heresy is now described as a kind of unbelief.<ref>Thomas Aquinas. (n.d.). Summa theologica (Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Trans.; Vol. 9, p. 156). Burns Oates & Washbourne.</ref>

=Major heresies in the early church=

==Gnosticism==

==Quartodecimanism==

This wasn't a true "heresy" but the amount of division that it caused in the early church was significant.

The dispute among churches relating to the fixing of the day of Easter was referred to as Quartodecimanism (Easter should be observed on the fourteenth Nisan, irrespective of the day of the week that may happen to be). This was the belief that was primarily held by eastern churches.

Anti-Quartodecimanism held that the crucifixion should be commemorated on the Friday of the week, whether or not it fell on the fourteenth, and the resurrection on the following Lord’s day. This was the view primarily held by the western church (and was officially adopted at the Council of Nicea (A.D. 325)).<ref>Alan Cairns, Dictionary of Theological Terms (Belfast; Greenville, SC: Ambassador Emerald International, 2002), 358.</ref>

We have devoted a separate article to the discussion of the [[Controversy over the Date of Easter]].

==Montanism==

Sometime around the year 157 A.D., in the Roman province of Asia Minor known as Phrygia, a professing Christian named Montanus began to prophesy ecstatically. Claiming the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he was soon joined by two prophetesses, Maximilla and Priscilla (Prisca). They paid special attention to the biblical teachings about the Paraclete, and they claimed to be the last in a succession of prophets that included the daughters of Philip (Acts 21:8–9). They said they were called to summon all believers to righteous preparation for the heavenly descent of the New Jerusalem.

By the 170s, this “New Prophecy” movement, as it was known, spread. The heart of Montanist activity was always in Asia Minor, although converts were eventually won in missionary outposts such as Rome, Byzantium, and Carthage. What attracted scores of early Christians to Montanism? Perhaps the answer lies in three words: authority, vitality, and discipline.

Montanist prophets claimed direct revelations from God, and their utterances (“oracles”) were treasured and preserved as authoritative teaching by the faithful. Here was fresh truth, Spirit-given, for the last days.

Not everyone was so enamored with the movement. In 192, Serapion, bishop of Antioch, declared that “the working of the lying organization called the New Prophesy is held in abomination by the whole brotherhood in the world.”

Many of the leaders of the early church objected to Montanism on five main grounds:

#“Abnormal ecstasy.” Montanus prophesied in a frenzy, without engaging the rational mind, “contrary to the manner which belongs to the tradition and succession of the church from the beginning.”
#No controls. When respected bishops and church leaders sought to practice discernment with Montanist prophets, the prophets refused to submit.
#Worldliness. Some questioned the Montanist financial dealings. Others worried about their lifestyle: “Does a prophet dye his hair, paint his eyelids, love adornment, play at gaming tables and dice, lend money at interest?”
#Extra-scriptural revelation. Many were concerned that people would hold the oracles of the New Prophecy in higher esteem than the Scriptures.
#False prophecies. Maximilla declared that there would be wars and tumults and, after her death, no more prophets but “The End.” Yet, some thirteen years after her death, there was peace.

On the other hand, a few respected teachers, though they didn’t join the movement, refused to condemn it. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon, for example, was concerned that those attacking the Montanists would drive the authentic gift of prophecy from the church. Those who did so, he wrote, “do not admit that aspect presented by John’s Gospel, in which the Lord promised that he would send the Paraclete, but they set aside at once both the Gospel and the prophetic Spirit.”<ref>Christian History Magazine-Issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1996).</ref>

Montanism which started in the 2nd century was largely over by the 4th century.

==Monarchianism==

===Dynamic Monarchianism (aka Adoptionism)===

===Modalistic Monarchianism (aka Sabellianism, Modalism, Patripassianism, Oneness, Jesus Only)===

==Donatism==

==Arianism==

==Monophysitism==

==Pelagianism==

==Adoptionism==

==Nestorianism==

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