[samuelofisrael]

Originally Posted by Petrus50

The Serpentseed being a literal union is a very old doctrine, coming from the jewish kabalah.It's Eve the mother of humanty downgrading to an animal. It's occult through and through. Also learned by Blavatsky and believed by Adolf Hitler. All in different variables . In the message there also are a lot of different views. There are also a lot of signs of the occult in his ministry. The greens star he saw so many times ,the vibrating and hot hand, the masonic influence .....People are so focused on the miracles that they don't notice what's going on. Men that are much inspired by him have the same identical mysterious experiences and miracles, healings .... Like Paul Cain, Bob Jones, Tod Bentley, Benny Hinn.

I became acquainted with the Message Cult 44 years ago through a very good friend [now deceased] seeing the inner workings of the various splinter groups. I am not sure there actually were miracles in the degree or the number alleged. As for healings, that too is suspect. Not that healings did not occur but that thy were nowhere as many or as dramatic as claimed. It well may be that AA Allen or Jack Coe, Oral Roberts or others had as many claimed as the Branham party. What was simply taken as truth Pre Internet came to be intensely examined Post Internet and then the curtain was pulled back. The old saying, "don't believe everything you hear and only half of what [you think] you see." Sincereity does not always equate to truth.

The Message failed in no uncertain terms.

False predictions.
False alleged "thus saith the Lord."
False visions.
False discernments.
False expectations.
False doctrines.

One of Branham's chief advisors and confidante's confessed that William Branham "made a mess of it."

WMB was a Pentecostal evangelist who came to hammer the Pentecostals after the demise of the Post WW2 revival.

The church age "messengers" [angels] was borrowed from C. T. Russell, founder of the JW's.

The dates for the ages was lifted from the works of Clarence Larkin.

The "seals" and all was also drawn from both JW and Adventist literature.

The African and the India visits that were to be great revivals declared to be:

"Thus Saith the Lord."

.... never came to pass.

Several visions also claimed to be as "never failed" also fell to the ground.

The myth that William Branham will rise from the dead in the First Resurrection and then fulfill the remaining visions and utterances are the stuff of desperate men caught in the web of deceit. There they remain to this hour, spinning on their own pivot going nowhere in terms of their former expectations.

The Message Cult is characteristic of other cults that had a moment of excitement and expectation, false dreams, false prophecies, false prophets, false doctrines, then the real world entered the tea party and everyone was left high and dry. But like the other cults it swept in the deceived, the weak, the fearful, the ignorant and not last or least, the very clever "snake oil" salesman. The Message today is profitable, it is generating generous amounts of Yankee Green Back Dollar Bills. It will NOT be corrected. Those who rule do NOT wish for it to be corrected. It CANNOT be corrected having been given over to delusion and SIN. A few will exit the cult but the cult itself is here to stay to the consummation.

Shalom.