It has become accepted in life that spiritualism exists and is real. There are both good and bad spirits that exist in the World. The good Spirits that exist are those of God and the bad or evil spirits that exist are of the devil. The bible demonstrates that to us and must be the only source of knowledge we can depend upon.
There are many examples in the bible where it describes the evil spirit of the devil in operation. There in the Garden of Eden when the spirit of the devil spoke through the beast in order to tempt the first woman Eve. It spoke through a beast in the Garden who probably could not normally speak because he was a beast like the other animals in the Garden, but the devil was able to speak through him. Then there was the example of a possessed man in the land of the Gergesenes who the devil spoke through to Jesus when he encountered Him.
Now we see that the bible tells us that the Spirit of God also spoke through a dumb beast to the prophet Balaam after Balaam whipped him because he wouldn’t move. Then again on the day of Pentecost when the disciples spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. The Spirit of God spoke through them in languages they did not know. Another example is In the Book of Acts where the Holy Spirit gave instructions to certain ones present by speaking to them through the mouth of one of them present. So we have these biblical examples where it is possible for both the devil and God can use any vessel that is needed to speak through to the people.
I have myself actually witnesses this to occur in my life on one occasion when God spoke through the lips of someone in my presence and said words that the person denied ever saying. In other words, they were not aware that certain words came out of their mouth, but I was a witness that it did happen and can testify that it was from God because of what came out of this person’s mouth.
Now I want to present to you some examples of this that occurred during the ministry of William Branham starting with the visit of an angel that he testified to have encountered in the year of 1946.
He stated that the angel told him that he came from the presence of God, but the things that he told him were flawed. First this angel said that William Branham was being given two signs just like Moses was given. Two signs to help convince the people that God sent him with a gift of Divine Healing. It turns out that what this angel said was an untrue statement and did not agree with bible scripture, The scripture states that Moses was given three signs to use to prove to his people that he was sent to deliver the people out of Egypt and not just two.
The scripture in Exodus 4:1 through 4:9 tells about these three signs that God gave unto Moses. After this the scripture of Exodus 4:29 through 4:31 tells us that these signs were demonstrated in the presence of the people of Israel and the people believed all that Moses told them.
Later on, we were told by William Branham, in his own words that these signs would only work when this angel was present with him during his ministry services.
This angel also told him that he was being given a gift of divine healing, but this gift of healing wouldn’t work unless he could get the people to believe him. The people would have to believe that he had this God given gift of healing. It was based upon them believing his testimony by their faith in his testimony or they wouldn’t receive their healing. That doesn’t sound like a gift that could do anything without having a condition associated with it.
Then this angel concluded his message to William Branham by telling him that he (the angel) would be with him to help him in his ministry. This certainly was proven to be a fact and necessary because William Branham by his own words would stall during the start of a service just to wait until he knew this angel was present. Then when his angel’s presence was realized and he felt what he called an anointing come on him, he would proceed with the service. What I would question was this an anointing of God or was he being possessed by some other kind of spirit. The reason I say this is because the first words that would come out of his mouth was that he was taking control of everyone’s spirit in the audience. Looking at this testimony of William Branham, along with him telling about this light that flew around the meeting and hanging over certain people caused concern as to what kind of spirit was operating during these meetings.
The most disturbing thing that William Branham admitted to by his own words, was that he didn’t know what he was saying to the people because it wasn’t him speaking, it was this angel speaking through him calling out personal information about the people. What was very obvious about this was that according to his own words he would have to listen to the tapes after the services in order to find out what he said. If this is what took place during the discernment part of the service, could it have also happened during the preaching part? Also could it be that the teaching was not him speaking, but this angel speaking through him? If so, shouldn’t we question if what this angel said through him agreed with bible scripture?
I believe this was the case because of what happened after he concluded the message he preached on the opening of the seventh seal. After that service was over he found something on the tape that he didn’t want to get out and made plans to rectify it. Could it have been that this angel spoke something through him during this service that disturbed him? The morning after preaching on the seventh seal, he met with his tape boys in a motel room and had a portion of what he said during the service removed from the tape that was going to be distributed. It wasn’t until after William Branham’s funeral in 1966 that the powers that be of the Branham Tabernacle decided to release that portion of his message to the public.
How could all of this have happened? When this angel first appeared to him, he was convinced that this was an angel of God that had been speaking to him for years. Because of this conviction he submitted himself under the control of this angel which he believed was the anointing that he felt so often and he probably believed it was the Holy Spirit.
I believe that it was this angel or whoever sent him to William Branham, that orchestrated everything that occurred during the many years of his ministry for the purpose of achieving the end result of what we see now. That result was the acceptance of his bible interpretation, his revealed word of the hour that went against the true Word of God in the scriptures. Satan began distorting God’s Word in the beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden and is still doing it today with the distribution of his taped messages and through the ministries of the “message” preachers.
Now on a personal note I just want to just say this. For many years I accepted everything that William Branham said to be the truth of God’s Word because of the marvelous things that were told about what took place in his meetings. Then came a day when without any prompting from anyone, no other person and no other preacher, that I realized that what this Brother was preaching was in error according to the Holy scriptures. This was some 22 years ago when it was revealed to me that the things I had learned were not according to God’s Word and I had to do something about it. So I began my own study of the scriptures depending only on the leading of the Holy Spirit that was accepted by me to be my teacher.
But even after I started to reject his bible teaching, I still considered him to possibly be a Prophet of God with God given supernatural gifts. It was only after carefully examining what he said during his services did I realize that something more was wrong. What I discovered was that a lying angel who misquoted the scriptures had deceived him with little effort and took control of the ministry with William Branham’s cooperation and submission to its will, because he believed that God was in it.
Just thinking about it, there was no way that God would send His Word into all the World by way of the inspired bible scriptures and after that to send one man to explain to His people what the scriptures really meant. Was God unjust to have done this? The answer is absolutely not! So it was obvious that it was not God who orchestrated this, it was His adversary the devil.
Now there are probably millions of believers around the World who have been misled by false teaching of the Bible and is being continued by this “Voice of God” Recordings and those ‘Message preachers” who know nothing else but to continue their prophet’s work, acting like drones who have no mind of their own of which I have such empathy for because they have been taken in by the prince of this World.
Can they be helped? I doubt it because they are where they are because of the signs and wonders they have been told about. Signs and wonders which can be performed by the devil as well as God. The only way that you can tell who is behind these signs and wonders is by confirming them with the Word of God by using bible scripture and calling on the Holy Spirit to help them.
Here we have a group of people who can’t agree with each other on things concerning sound doctrine and will not bring themselves to look at real evidence when presented to them. They consider themselves to be bible believing Christians and accuse those who don’t believe what they do to be devils and many other descriptive things. I have in my own family those who have called me a devil possessed person and the antichrist because I don’t conform to their belief in the “Message of the Hour”.
No person on this Earth can help them to see the truth. God knows that I have put many people at odds with me including some in my family for attempting to present them with the facts that are so obvious. Only God can help them. If false signs and wonders have caused them to go the way they have gone, it might be that only God can intervene with a sign that can be undeniably from Him.
Well it appears that my search for the truth has concluded. Being a person, just like any of you, I choose to believe what the bible says and believe in the Gospel of Christ and not all the interpretations of man. The wise Paul the Apostle said that if any person or even an angel from Heaven preach any other gospel than what he has preached, let them be accursed. That sounds like good advice to me so I’ll stay with the gospel that he preached and the scriptures that he drew from.
People from around the World read my writings every day. Many of them tell me that they have too much invested in their present beliefs and they are comfortable with what they have come to believe and accept.
As for me, I too am comfortable in my belief because I know it is based upon the Word of God and not some man’s word. If you choose to ignore the facts that have been presented to you, it’s your God given choice.
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