William M. Branham
'''William Marrion Branham''' (Mosquito ringtone April 6, Sabrina Martins 1909, Nextel ringtones Indiana - Abbey Diaz 1965) was an influential Free ringtones Bible minister generally credited with founding the Majo Mills Latter Rain Movement within American Mosquito ringtone Pentecostal churches, elements of which are present in most modern Pentecostal and Sabrina Martins Charismatic churches.
Branham was considered by many to have initiated the Nextel ringtones faith healing and charismatic Abbey Diaz Christian Cingular Ringtones revival movement that began in that carroll 1947. Several modern-day religious movements in the conventional professor Pentecostal and casually acquainted Charismatic church have at least a partial basis in Branham's teaching, including the Latter Rain Movement, slips can Manifest Sons of God, and time do Kingdom Now theology. His ministry had effects felt around the world, and it fostered a number of other ministers who became internationally known. One historian of the revival movement called Branham "a designer shops prophet to our generation."
Early life, conversion, and ordination
Branham was born in a beckett joyce log cabin in the helped but Kentucky hills, the first of nine children of Charles and Ella Branham, and was raised near overdose and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Branham's father was an illiterate alcoholic, and his upbringing was difficult and impoverished. Branham reported a conversion experience in protest surely 1931, and was ordained as a months lieberman Missionary Baptist Church minister in December his hourglass 1932. http://www.livingwordbroadcast.org/Publications/William_Branham_Biography_Books.htm.
Successful public ministry
Branham reported that in May hush the 1946 he broke from daily life to seek God and establish the meaning of his life. In worst smelling 1947 he began a public ministry that involved public other drugs evangelism and thompson it faith healing. From then through the end of his life, Branham, who explictly denied the orthodox view of the eyewitness greg Trinity, was well known in gospel meetings. His early work in faith healing attracted attention, and as stories began to spread of his healings, local pastors came to ask Branham to minister to their congregations and pray for the sick. When local churches could not accommodate the attendant crowds, Branham's meetings were moved to larger auditoriums or stadiums for united campaigns in major cities in North America.
Branham's lectured to ever larger groups. In June 1947, the ''Evening Sun'' newspaper of free department Jonesboro, Arkansas reported that "Residents of at least 25 States and are wavering Mexico have visited Jonesboro since Rev. Branham opened the camp meeting, June 1st. The total attendance for the services is likely to surpass the 20,000 mark." He soon began to speak in other countries, again with much success. According to a Pentecostal historian, "Branham filled the largest stadiums and meeting halls in the world." In own column Durban, South Africa in 1951 he addressed meetings sponsored by the Apostolic Faith Mission, the Assemblies of God, the Pentecostal Holiness movement/Holiness and the Full Gospel Church of God conducted in eleven cities, with a combined attendance of a half million people. On the final day of the Durban meetings, held at the Greyville Racecourse, an estimated 45,000 people attended and thousands more were turned away at the gates. As he travelled around the world he met many individuals of public influence, including U.S. William D. Upshaw/Congressman Upshaw and King George VI of England who were allegedly healed after his prayers.
Claims of angelic visitations and supernatural signs
Branham's supporters claimed that supernatural signs were given to him in order to encourage people to believe. A physical sign appearing in his hand was said to indicate a disease or healing. Later on, they claimed, secret thoughts and needs of individuals would be revealed to him. The notion spread among them that Branham was a prophet fulfilling scriptural prophecies about the end times.
Branham's claims of experience with the supernatural went back to his childhood. As a young boy he was considered "nervous" because from an early age he spoke of "visions" and "a voice" that spoke to him out of a wind, saying, "Don't ever drink, or smoke, or defile your body in any way. There will be a work for you to do when you get older." Shortly after being ordained, he was baptized on June 11, 1933 in the Ohio River near Jeffersonville, and he reported that a bright fiery light suddenly appeared over his head and he heard a voice say, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Jesus Christ, so are you sent to forerun His second coming!" The next edition of the Jeffersonville Evening News reported the incident with the subheading, "Mysterious Star Appears Over Minister While Baptizing".
Branham asserted that as he prayed alone late one night during his search for personal meaning in 1946 or 1947, an angel of light appeared, saying:
:"Do not fear. I am sent from the presence of the Almighty God to tell you that your peculiar birth and misunderstood life has been to indicate that you are to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world. If you will be sincere when you pray and can get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even cancer. You will go into many parts of the earth and will pray for kings and rulers and potentates. You will preach to multitudes the world over and thousands will come to you for counsel." Branham later claimed that his successful career around the world and his meetings with world dignitaries was a fulfillment of this prophecy.
Branham's engagement with the supernatural included claims of miracles. He claimed that in 1948 God had shown him a vision of a boy being raised from the dead. He said that he related the details to his audiences and asked them to write those details down in the flyleaves of their bibles. image:Pillar of fire.jpg/thumb/right/150px/The alleged miracle photoHe later claimed the vision had been fulfilled two years later during a speaking trip to Helsinki, Finland in 1950 at the scene of a street accident near Kuopio, Finland. Branham reported that a boy on a bicycle had been struck by a car and had supposedly been killed. Branham's party had come upon the scene, Branham related, and he then asked that the sheet covering the boy's body be removed, because he recognized the boy as the one he had seen in his vision. He claimed that he then prayed over the child and the child was raised from the dead.
On the night of January 24, 1950, an unusual photograph was taken during a speaking engagement in the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, Texas. As Branham stood at the podium, an apparent halo of fire reportedly appeared above his head. A photograph of this phenomenon was produced, reported to be the only one of its film roll that developed an image. George J. Lacy, an investigator of questioned documents who claimed to have been consulted by the FBI in that capacity, subjected the negative to testing[http://www.messagequotes.8m.net/halophoto.htm] and declared at a news conference that, "To my knowledge, this is the first time in all the world's history that a supernatural being has been photographed and scientifically vindicated." The original of the photograph is in the archives of the Religious Department of the Smithsonian Institution.
Branham's doctrines and teachings
Branham preached thousands of sermons, of which 1100 were recorded and transcribed. His sermons dealt not only with the doctrines that would secure his place in modern religious history, but with staples of Pentecostalism such as personal prophecy. Branham contended he had received seven major prophecies between 1928 and1933, though he only recounted them thirty years after. When revealing them, he claimed the first five had already come true, and he expected (i.e., he personally predicted, as opposed to prophesied) that the last two would occur by 1977:
# "Franklin D. Roosevelt will run four terms and take America into a second world war.
# "The dictator that's now arising in Italy will come into power, Ethiopia will fall. He'll come to a shameful end.
# "The women has been permitted to vote. And in voting, someday they'll elect the wrong man.
# "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.
# "Science will progress in such a way until they will make a car that will not have to be guided by a steering wheel, and the cars will continue to be shaped like an egg until the consummation
# "I saw a great woman stand up, beautiful looking, dressed in real highly royals like purple, and I got little parenthesis down here, 'She was a great ruler in the United States, perhaps the Catholic church'
# "I saw this United States burning like a smolder; rocks had been blowed up. And it was burning like aa heap of fire in logs or something that just set it afire; and looked as far as I could see and she'd been blown up.[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/3703/branham.html]
Branham's sermons give insights into, among other things, his level of understanding of his contempory world, in passages such as:
:"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. The Germans built the Maginot Line, which there—any veteran here knows what she took there at the Maginot Line."
This is a somewhat anomalous statement, considering that in the world war 2/second world war Germany declared war on the USA, at which time America was already at war with Japan, and in essence the "whole world" was already at war. More specifically, it was not the Germans, but the France/French who built the Maginot Line, as a defense against Germany.
His last years
December 18, 1965 William Branham and his family (all except daughter Rebekah) were returning to Jeffersonville, Indiana for the Christmas Holidays. About three miles east of Friona, Texas (about 70 miles southwest of Amarillo on U.S. Route 60), just after dark a car traveling west in the eastbound lane, struck Brahams car head-on. The driver of the car was intoxicated and died at the scene as did the other front seat passenger. The other two passengers in back seat of the car were severely injured. Brahams wife was seriously injured and his daughter Sarah was lying in the back seat also injured. Branham's left arm was mangled and caught in the driver-side door, and his left leg was wrapped around the steering wheel. After about 45 minutes Braham was extricated from his car and transported to the hospital at Friona-then later transported to the hospital at Amarillo, Texas. He lived for six days after the crash, dying on December 24, 1965 at 5:49 PM. His body was returned to Jeffersonville, Indiana for burial.
Branham's Legacy and Influence
Branham's popularity continued through the last years of his life. In its February 1961 issue, the Full Gospel Men's Voice (now the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International) glowed: "In Bible Days, there were men of God who were Prophets and Seers. But in all the Sacred Records, none of these had a greater ministry than that of William Branham, a Prophet and Seer of God.... Branham has been used by God, in the Name of Jesus, to raise the dead!" Branham's teachings and notoriety had a profound influence on the pentecoastal/chasrasmatic movement. Though Branham has been dead since 1965, there are many followers of him throughout the Southwestern part of the United States. These followers (and several churches) play Branham's sermons and teachings on Sunday morning-via tape-because of their belief that he was a prophet-the last prophet before Christ's return. The succession of prophets according to Branham's followers are: The Apostle Paul, Irenaeus, Saint Martin, Columba, Martin Luther, John Wesley, and William Branham. It may be difficult to measure Branham's influence on other evangelists in his time period, but he certainly led the way in the pioneering of tent revivals, which would lead into the era of televangelism. Branham is often mentioned as the leader or first revivalist preacher of the second wave of Pentecost that swept the country after World War Two (the first wave being Parham, Seymour, and others). Among those who began around the same time of Branham and part of the Second Wave of Pentecostalism (late 1940s to the mid 1950s) were Jack Coe, Oral Roberts, A. A. Allen, and Billy Graham. It is interesting to note that Branham was one of the first "faith" preachers and evangelists who not only preached a latter day visitation of Gods Spirit, but also emphasized faith for healing, as did Coe, Roberts, and Allen.
External links
*http://www.biblebelievers.org/genindex.htm#wbmpage
*http://www.branham.org#wbmpage
*http://www.livingwordbrodcast.org
*http://www.livingwordbroadcast.org/Publications/VOH1.htm
http://www.williambranham.com
Tag: Charismatic and Pentecostal Topics/Branham, William M.
Branham was considered by many to have initiated the Nextel ringtones faith healing and charismatic Abbey Diaz Christian Cingular Ringtones revival movement that began in that carroll 1947. Several modern-day religious movements in the conventional professor Pentecostal and casually acquainted Charismatic church have at least a partial basis in Branham's teaching, including the Latter Rain Movement, slips can Manifest Sons of God, and time do Kingdom Now theology. His ministry had effects felt around the world, and it fostered a number of other ministers who became internationally known. One historian of the revival movement called Branham "a designer shops prophet to our generation."
Early life, conversion, and ordination
Branham was born in a beckett joyce log cabin in the helped but Kentucky hills, the first of nine children of Charles and Ella Branham, and was raised near overdose and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Branham's father was an illiterate alcoholic, and his upbringing was difficult and impoverished. Branham reported a conversion experience in protest surely 1931, and was ordained as a months lieberman Missionary Baptist Church minister in December his hourglass 1932. http://www.livingwordbroadcast.org/Publications/William_Branham_Biography_Books.htm.
Successful public ministry
Branham reported that in May hush the 1946 he broke from daily life to seek God and establish the meaning of his life. In worst smelling 1947 he began a public ministry that involved public other drugs evangelism and thompson it faith healing. From then through the end of his life, Branham, who explictly denied the orthodox view of the eyewitness greg Trinity, was well known in gospel meetings. His early work in faith healing attracted attention, and as stories began to spread of his healings, local pastors came to ask Branham to minister to their congregations and pray for the sick. When local churches could not accommodate the attendant crowds, Branham's meetings were moved to larger auditoriums or stadiums for united campaigns in major cities in North America.
Branham's lectured to ever larger groups. In June 1947, the ''Evening Sun'' newspaper of free department Jonesboro, Arkansas reported that "Residents of at least 25 States and are wavering Mexico have visited Jonesboro since Rev. Branham opened the camp meeting, June 1st. The total attendance for the services is likely to surpass the 20,000 mark." He soon began to speak in other countries, again with much success. According to a Pentecostal historian, "Branham filled the largest stadiums and meeting halls in the world." In own column Durban, South Africa in 1951 he addressed meetings sponsored by the Apostolic Faith Mission, the Assemblies of God, the Pentecostal Holiness movement/Holiness and the Full Gospel Church of God conducted in eleven cities, with a combined attendance of a half million people. On the final day of the Durban meetings, held at the Greyville Racecourse, an estimated 45,000 people attended and thousands more were turned away at the gates. As he travelled around the world he met many individuals of public influence, including U.S. William D. Upshaw/Congressman Upshaw and King George VI of England who were allegedly healed after his prayers.
Claims of angelic visitations and supernatural signs
Branham's supporters claimed that supernatural signs were given to him in order to encourage people to believe. A physical sign appearing in his hand was said to indicate a disease or healing. Later on, they claimed, secret thoughts and needs of individuals would be revealed to him. The notion spread among them that Branham was a prophet fulfilling scriptural prophecies about the end times.
Branham's claims of experience with the supernatural went back to his childhood. As a young boy he was considered "nervous" because from an early age he spoke of "visions" and "a voice" that spoke to him out of a wind, saying, "Don't ever drink, or smoke, or defile your body in any way. There will be a work for you to do when you get older." Shortly after being ordained, he was baptized on June 11, 1933 in the Ohio River near Jeffersonville, and he reported that a bright fiery light suddenly appeared over his head and he heard a voice say, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Jesus Christ, so are you sent to forerun His second coming!" The next edition of the Jeffersonville Evening News reported the incident with the subheading, "Mysterious Star Appears Over Minister While Baptizing".
Branham asserted that as he prayed alone late one night during his search for personal meaning in 1946 or 1947, an angel of light appeared, saying:
:"Do not fear. I am sent from the presence of the Almighty God to tell you that your peculiar birth and misunderstood life has been to indicate that you are to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world. If you will be sincere when you pray and can get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even cancer. You will go into many parts of the earth and will pray for kings and rulers and potentates. You will preach to multitudes the world over and thousands will come to you for counsel." Branham later claimed that his successful career around the world and his meetings with world dignitaries was a fulfillment of this prophecy.
Branham's engagement with the supernatural included claims of miracles. He claimed that in 1948 God had shown him a vision of a boy being raised from the dead. He said that he related the details to his audiences and asked them to write those details down in the flyleaves of their bibles. image:Pillar of fire.jpg/thumb/right/150px/The alleged miracle photoHe later claimed the vision had been fulfilled two years later during a speaking trip to Helsinki, Finland in 1950 at the scene of a street accident near Kuopio, Finland. Branham reported that a boy on a bicycle had been struck by a car and had supposedly been killed. Branham's party had come upon the scene, Branham related, and he then asked that the sheet covering the boy's body be removed, because he recognized the boy as the one he had seen in his vision. He claimed that he then prayed over the child and the child was raised from the dead.
On the night of January 24, 1950, an unusual photograph was taken during a speaking engagement in the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, Texas. As Branham stood at the podium, an apparent halo of fire reportedly appeared above his head. A photograph of this phenomenon was produced, reported to be the only one of its film roll that developed an image. George J. Lacy, an investigator of questioned documents who claimed to have been consulted by the FBI in that capacity, subjected the negative to testing[http://www.messagequotes.8m.net/halophoto.htm] and declared at a news conference that, "To my knowledge, this is the first time in all the world's history that a supernatural being has been photographed and scientifically vindicated." The original of the photograph is in the archives of the Religious Department of the Smithsonian Institution.
Branham's doctrines and teachings
Branham preached thousands of sermons, of which 1100 were recorded and transcribed. His sermons dealt not only with the doctrines that would secure his place in modern religious history, but with staples of Pentecostalism such as personal prophecy. Branham contended he had received seven major prophecies between 1928 and1933, though he only recounted them thirty years after. When revealing them, he claimed the first five had already come true, and he expected (i.e., he personally predicted, as opposed to prophesied) that the last two would occur by 1977:
# "Franklin D. Roosevelt will run four terms and take America into a second world war.
# "The dictator that's now arising in Italy will come into power, Ethiopia will fall. He'll come to a shameful end.
# "The women has been permitted to vote. And in voting, someday they'll elect the wrong man.
# "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.
# "Science will progress in such a way until they will make a car that will not have to be guided by a steering wheel, and the cars will continue to be shaped like an egg until the consummation
# "I saw a great woman stand up, beautiful looking, dressed in real highly royals like purple, and I got little parenthesis down here, 'She was a great ruler in the United States, perhaps the Catholic church'
# "I saw this United States burning like a smolder; rocks had been blowed up. And it was burning like aa heap of fire in logs or something that just set it afire; and looked as far as I could see and she'd been blown up.[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/3703/branham.html]
Branham's sermons give insights into, among other things, his level of understanding of his contempory world, in passages such as:
:"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. The Germans built the Maginot Line, which there—any veteran here knows what she took there at the Maginot Line."
This is a somewhat anomalous statement, considering that in the world war 2/second world war Germany declared war on the USA, at which time America was already at war with Japan, and in essence the "whole world" was already at war. More specifically, it was not the Germans, but the France/French who built the Maginot Line, as a defense against Germany.
His last years
December 18, 1965 William Branham and his family (all except daughter Rebekah) were returning to Jeffersonville, Indiana for the Christmas Holidays. About three miles east of Friona, Texas (about 70 miles southwest of Amarillo on U.S. Route 60), just after dark a car traveling west in the eastbound lane, struck Brahams car head-on. The driver of the car was intoxicated and died at the scene as did the other front seat passenger. The other two passengers in back seat of the car were severely injured. Brahams wife was seriously injured and his daughter Sarah was lying in the back seat also injured. Branham's left arm was mangled and caught in the driver-side door, and his left leg was wrapped around the steering wheel. After about 45 minutes Braham was extricated from his car and transported to the hospital at Friona-then later transported to the hospital at Amarillo, Texas. He lived for six days after the crash, dying on December 24, 1965 at 5:49 PM. His body was returned to Jeffersonville, Indiana for burial.
Branham's Legacy and Influence
Branham's popularity continued through the last years of his life. In its February 1961 issue, the Full Gospel Men's Voice (now the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International) glowed: "In Bible Days, there were men of God who were Prophets and Seers. But in all the Sacred Records, none of these had a greater ministry than that of William Branham, a Prophet and Seer of God.... Branham has been used by God, in the Name of Jesus, to raise the dead!" Branham's teachings and notoriety had a profound influence on the pentecoastal/chasrasmatic movement. Though Branham has been dead since 1965, there are many followers of him throughout the Southwestern part of the United States. These followers (and several churches) play Branham's sermons and teachings on Sunday morning-via tape-because of their belief that he was a prophet-the last prophet before Christ's return. The succession of prophets according to Branham's followers are: The Apostle Paul, Irenaeus, Saint Martin, Columba, Martin Luther, John Wesley, and William Branham. It may be difficult to measure Branham's influence on other evangelists in his time period, but he certainly led the way in the pioneering of tent revivals, which would lead into the era of televangelism. Branham is often mentioned as the leader or first revivalist preacher of the second wave of Pentecost that swept the country after World War Two (the first wave being Parham, Seymour, and others). Among those who began around the same time of Branham and part of the Second Wave of Pentecostalism (late 1940s to the mid 1950s) were Jack Coe, Oral Roberts, A. A. Allen, and Billy Graham. It is interesting to note that Branham was one of the first "faith" preachers and evangelists who not only preached a latter day visitation of Gods Spirit, but also emphasized faith for healing, as did Coe, Roberts, and Allen.
External links
*http://www.biblebelievers.org/genindex.htm#wbmpage
*http://www.branham.org#wbmpage
*http://www.livingwordbrodcast.org
*http://www.livingwordbroadcast.org/Publications/VOH1.htm
http://www.williambranham.com
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