Branhamites

Originally Posted by Old Paths

Branham or Allen?

Branham!

When I was a child in Lubbock Texas my family was not saved, we went to one of Allan tent meetings. We took my brother to be healed. I remember my father and mother talking afterward of the whisky breath on Allan.

[Sister Alvear]

His doctrine is all over Brazil...many homes and lives have been destroyed by it...

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Branham's beleifs were spread so far and wide due to the miracles accompanying his ministry. Imagine what could happen if we with the truth had miracles like that! The book of Acts said the people CROWDED the teachings of the apostles due to the miraculous.

Miracles do not prove a ministry is correct, but they did accompany the apostles' ministries in the early church. We simply flat-out need more of the power of God working today as well!

I am believing God for it.

I came across some Branhamites once and asked my former pastor about them.
D L Welch used to preach with WB until he became so engrossed with himself that Bro Welch decided to step away.
WB believed that he was a modern day Elijah. It went so far that when he died (I've been told) that they did not bury him for several days because they believed that he would rise again.
I am not sure where he is buried, but I understand there is something of a monument to him.

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

His doctrine is all over Brazil...many homes and lives have been destroyed by it...

I saw the same thing in Guyana

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by NobodyImportant

I came across some Branhamites once and asked my former pastor about them.
D L Welch used to preach with WB until he became so engrossed with himself that Bro Welch decided to step away.
WB believed that he was a modern day Elijah. It went so far that when he died (I've been told) that they did not bury him for several days because they believed that he would rise again.
I am not sure where he is buried, but I understand there is something of a monument to him.

He died on Dec. 24 and they buried him at Easter. The monument is on 8th St,.in Jeffersonville, in.

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

He died on Dec. 24 and they buried him at Easter. The monument is on 8th St,.in Jeffersonville, in.

Well, I didn't realize that they held his body for that long. That is totally gross!
You would have thought that they would realize that he was just a man after all. Yet, his messages are still listened to today.
I know that he had a miraculous ministry , especially at first.
If I am not mistaken, the decption started when they photographed the "heavenly light" as it was called over his head. I understand that it was soon after that he believed that he was "somebody".

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Originally Posted by NobodyImportant

Well, I didn't realize that they held his body for that long. That is totally gross!

The law had to step in since the Branhamites were holding his body in faith Branham was going to resurrect from the dead. I think they believed he was one of the two witnesses in Rev 11. I know they thought he was the seventh angel of the book of Revelation, which he claimed was the seventh messenger of the seven church ages.

[Sister Alvear]

So sad that happens to so many people once they become "popular"...fame has a way of destroying good people.