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Originally Posted by anapko
And there are reports to abuse of women in their circles. Branham did not hold women in the highest regard. I knew a preacher that was a close friend of his...he stated that Branham regarded women as "garbage cans" for man's waste. He personally taught that women should be respected and treated good, but where I live, I have seen women in the Branham camp treated lower than children by their husbands. A case of the disciples over-interpreting their master's teaching.
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That's funny, I remember hearing the same "garbage can" statement years ago. There was a small Branhamite thing going around here back in the 60's. Some folks in the "mainstream" Apostolic churches in this area were either a part of that or had family that was. I never heard anything where women were treated particularly cruel - I just remember the "garbage can" remark being repeated and the sad shakes of the heard from those who heard the story.
It seems odd that if God had a single "prophet" for this "age" that "God" would kill that prophet in an automobile accident out in the Texas desert. And then, "God" didn't even kill him outright but allowed him to linger painfully in a morphine induced state for a couple of days before he finally died. It all sounds like a sad and tragic death, one that was all too common in the era before seat belts and crumple zones.
Of course, one his his "great prophecies" of the future involved automobiles. He said that they would be shaped "like an egg until the consummation."
Did he mean the "consummation of the age" or the "consummation of the egg?"