Many people today do not know they are following Branham inside the “gifted church,” those who claim to be filled with the Spirit.  The idea of new revelation, the office of a prophet[s] ( not just the gift of prophecy) the visitation of angels, the trips to heaven, glory clouds and other Old Testament manifestations, visions and dreams, word faith teachings, Latter Rain all were popularized and found its permanency in the church by William Branham. He is esteemed by nearly all involved in these practices and teachings today.

As I further study this mans life and what made him tick the more I understand the modern church’s ways of error and heresy. Because nearly everything he did nearly 50 years ago has been adopted. Branham’s story telling is still unmatched by the best that relate their spiritual experiences to the audience. Some echo him nearly word for word (certainly thought for thought) as they steal his teachings and make it their own. If one takes the time to read his nearly 1,200 sermons they can spot what is copied today, showing there is nothing new under the sun.

Branham was more confused than Joseph Smith on nearly everything that happened, he had two, three or more stories on nearly every event in his life. While most blame this on his lack of education, this could only be related to his grammar, not his memory. For he spoke portions and near whole sermons word for word, sometimes years apart. The man was not dumb, he was ingenious, especially the way he convinced the people that he was sent of God. If one is fully convinced themselves, certainly their enthusiasm can persuade others. Add supernaturalism to the mix and what transpired was a Canard.

It was 17 years after (Aug. 1950) the now famous baptism event that Braham taught in his sermons that 3 years after his conversion God’s glory came down in front of thousands at his first baptism and an angel spoke out loud “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Jesus Christ, so are you sent to forerun His second coming!” Which ha said was heard by all, but no one heard but him; did he? Branham presents different versions of what he said he heard that day. He said as proof The next edition of the Jeffersonville Evening News reported the incident with the subheading, “Mysterious Star Appears Over Minister While Baptizing,” and was also carried by UPI which not one copy to our knowledge has not been produced, even by the followers of Branham.

Quite a variety of different words of intent. Gordon Lindsay published the book, “A Man Sent From God.” On p. 43 Branham gave an account of this baptismal event but evidently does not include the voice with the message of Branham’s ministry as John the Baptist’s ministry.  The official story Lindsay wrote, describes a prophecy given at a Branham meeting which said, “...that as John the Baptist was sent as a forerunner of the Lord's first coming, so was He sending forth this evangelist [William Branham] and others like him to move the people and prepare them for His second coming”  (a Man Sent from God By Gordon Lindsay p. 105).

Yet no one else had what Branham attributed to himself. Branham adjusted this to mean Him and to this day his followers interpret it as this.

Furthermore the wording “As John the Baptist was sent.” The term “Baptist,” was Branham’s denomination at the time. John the Baptist is not a biblical term even though it is used in certain Bibles (KJV). John did not belong to a denomination. In Greek the word is either baptizo or Baptistes meaning the one who baptizes, or immerses. For us to believe God spoke using this type of inaccuracy, using the vernacular of our day, is hardly acceptable and brings into question where this came from. John came preaching to repent, to the Jews in Israel and stayed in the wilderness, people came out to him.

And I didn't know what he was talking of. And he put the book under my arm. It was called the Mormon Word Of God. I don't know what it was. It's a--it's one of their prophets of The Latter Day Saint, some bunch of them, that they claims they see the neophytes. And--and back there a hundred and... long long... how long ago it was, it... on a certain page there... I have the book in my library. It prophesied, their prophet, and said, that, "In the last days that Germany would have a--a ism called Nazis." And it went ahead and said, "In that day, let W-i double l-i-a-m, William Branham be called and set aside in humility for the service that I have called him to." That's right.” (Testimony 51-0509, Testimony, Calvary Temple, Los Angeles, CA)

So a Mormon prophecy was bearing witness to Branham, validating him. What true prophet use a church by a false prophet to validate himself as a prophet? Branham used it, even though he spoke unfavorably against the Mormon church. This same account was recorded a bit differently in his life biography William Branham, a man sent by God by Gordon Lindsay.

“On one occasion while in Santa Rosa, California, a man came into the building, and seeking out Brother Branham asked him to spell his name. When he had done this the man held a piece of yellow paper in his hand and said, "That's it, mother." He said that he had come from a Pentecostal Church, and he claimed that 22 years ago, while he and his wife were praying, the Holy Ghost spoke through him saying, "My servant, William Branham will come up this West coast bearing a gift of Divine healing in the latter times." They believed that it was a prophecy that had been given. And when they had heard Brother Branham's name they dug out that old prophecy and there it was written.”

Notice the difference? Come from a Pentecostal Church That’s how it was revisioned in his book, the Holy Ghost spoke through the Mormon on Branham?

Whatever happened on June 11, 1933, it has grown to legendary proportions to advertise Branham's ministry and endorse him as being the prophet for our age. And way too many people accept it without ever looking into the actual details of his life or teaching.

This is no different than his birth story where he claims a light of God, God’s glory entered the room. Branham who spent much of his life in the woods saw nature, and the supernatural working in unity, seen by William Branham's visions and voices.

 "My first prayer that I was going to pray to confess my sins, I didn't know how to do it; so I was going to write a letter to God and tack it on a tree in the woods so He could read it when He come down the path. For I knowed He was there” (59-0419E, Show Us The Father And It Will Satisfy Us, Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, CA) Why would he do this? Because  I knowed He stayed in the woods. (56-0902, The Handwriting On The Wall, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN)

“And I wrote out my prayer. I said, "God, I've been an awful man. If You'll just forgive me." I took it and tacked it on the tree. .... I thought if He come by, He could read it, and know that I was sorry for what I done. (56-0902, The Handwriting On The Wall, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN)

Branham said, “How I love it and in the nature I meet God. My first Bible was mother nature. Who could look in the face of that flower and be...?... and say there's no God. Where did it come from...?... No, God is in nature.” (57-0125, Hear Ye Him, Memorial Hall, Lima, OH)

“Watch nature. God and nature works in continuity, because God is in nature. See?” (65-1205, Things That Are To Be, First Assembly Of God, Rialto, CA)

Branham’s Pantheistic view on God was repeated over and over in short statements.