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APOSTATE OCCULT ONENESS PROPHETS:
THE EVIL OF WILLIAM BRANHAM & THE MANIFEST SONS OF GOD

Copyright © 1997-2002 Zenith Harris Merrill
Jeremiah 14:14: Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds."

Ezekiel 12:24: "For there will no longer be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel."

Ezekiel 13:6: "They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, 'The LORD declares,' when the LORD has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of [their] word.

Ezekiel 13:7: "Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said, 'The LORD declares,' but it is not I who have spoken?"'"

Ezekiel 13:23: "therefore, your women will no longer see false visions or practice divination, and I will deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will know that I am the LORD."


SATANIC MANIFESTATION OF OCCULTIC LIGHT
GREETED BIRTH OF WILLIAM MARION BRANHAM


"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ! And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. " (2 Corinthians 11:13-15)

William Branham, the "father" of the Manifest Sons of God" theology, and much of the Charismatic movement, which has inspired the Citi-Church, Universal DAWN movement and C. Peter Wagner's Spiritual Mapping of today, was empowered by Satan. C. Peter Wagner, in his book, Engaging the Enemy, attributes much of his information on "Territorial Spirits" to practising Witchdoctors and former Satanists, rather than God's Word.

William Branham was Baptist, until his wife died in childbirth, and he had "angelic" visitors who told him it was because he needed to be teaching and preaching "Oneness," instead of the Trinity. He then joined a Oneness Pentecostal church and taught nothing else for the rest of his life.
He believed in what the early Church Fathers called the error of Modalism, also known as Monarchianism and Sabellianism: that Jesus is all there ever was of God - He says that God "always had skin on him," but that Jesus sometimes functioned either as the Father or as the Holy Spirit, instead of Himself. Branham taught that God could only function as one at a time, much like an actor playing one role and then another.

Where did he ever get such an idea? Everything he believed was from "his" angel of light.


SIMON MAGUS OF ACTS 8:9-11 TAUGHT ONENESS
APOSTATE FIRST CENTURY MAGICIAN USED BY SATAN


Here's the Scripture that all the earliest Authors of Christian Apologetics point to - one individual, Simon Magus, the magician, who started the "Oneness" teachings in the Body of Christ, by going to Rome and claiming that he, himself was God, just a few years after Jesus ascended, and the church began at Pentecost; although he did so by being empowered by Satan, of course, who was the ultimate source. By "magician," in the Bible is meant not one who entertains with parlor tricks, but an enchanter, one who practices divination (fortune telling), puts spells on people and displays miracles, not from God, but from the evil "Angel of Light," whom Jesus called the "god of this world."

Acts: 8:9-11: "But there was a certain man, named Simon, who had before, in the same city, used magic, and astonished the nation of Samaria; pretending himself to be some extraordinary person: to whom they all paid regard, from the least to the greatest, saying, 'This man is the great power of God.' And they paid regard to him; because he had, for a long time, astonished them with his enchantments.

Acts 8:12-13: "But when they gave credit to Philip, declaring the glad tidings concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ; they were immersed, both men and women. And Simon himself also believed; and being immersed, he kept near to Philip, beholding, with amazement, the great and powerful miracles which were done."

Acts 8:14-17: "Now when the Apostles, who were at Jerusalem, heard, that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John; who, going down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit: (for he was not yet fallen on any of them; only, they were immersed into the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8:18-24: "Now when Simon saw, that the Holy Spirit was given by the imposition of the Apostles' hands, he offered them money, saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit. But Peter said to him, Let your money go with you to destruction, since you have thought that the free gift of God might be purchased with money. You have no part nor lot in this matter; for your heart is not upright in the sight of God. Reform, therefore, from this your wickedness; and beg of God, if, indeed, the thought of your heart may be forgiven you; for, I perceive, that you are in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity. And Simon answered and said, Make your supplications to the Lord on my behalf; that none of these things, which you have spoken, may come upon me."

That's all the Scriptures tell us about Simon Magus, but the early Church Fathers have a great deal to say about him, including quotes that say Simon Magus, at different times, claimed that he, himself, not Jesus was the Son of God; that he was the Supreme Father; and that he was "the power of God," which would be the Holy Spirit, thus claiming all three personages within the Godhead as being he, himself, alone - resulting in a teaching of "Oneness."

The following is from: "A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs: A Reference Guide to More than 700 Topics Discussed by the Early Church Fathers;" David W. Bercot, Editor

"There was a Samaritan, Simon, a native of the village called Gitto, who in the reign of Claudius Caesar, and in your royal city of Rome, did mighty acts of magic... He was considered a god, and as a god was honored by you with a statue. This statue was erected on the Tiber River, between the two bridges. It bore the following inscription in the language of Rome: "To Simon, the holy God." ...And almost all the Samaritans, and a few even of other nations worship him. They acknowledge him as the first god." Justin Martyr 160 A.D.

"The Samaritans, Simon and Menander, did many mighty works by magic and deceived many. They remain deceived. Even among yourself [i.e., the pagan Romans], as I said before, Simon was in the royal city of Rome in the reign of Claudius Caesar (from 41 A.D. to 54 A.D.). He so greatly astonished the sacred Senate and the Roman people that he was considered a god. He was honored with a statue, just like the others whom you honor as gods... I advise you to destroy that statue." Justin Martyr 160 A.D.

"When I communicated in writing with Caesar, I gave no thought to any of my people, that is, the Samaritans. Rather, I stated that they were in error to trust in the magician Simon of their own nation. They say that he is God above all power, authority, and might." Justin Martyr 160 A.D.

"Simon the Samaritan was the magician of whom Luke, the disciple and follower of the apostles, [writes]... He set himself eagerly to contend against the apostles, in order that he himself might seem to have been a supernatural being. So he applied himself with still greater zeal to the study of the entirety of magic arts, so he could bewilder and overpower multitudes of men. This was his method during the reign of Claudius Caesar, who honored Simon with a statue because of his magical power, according to what is said. This man, then, was glorified by many persons as if he were a god. And he taught that it was himself who appeared among the Jews as the Son... All sorts of heresies derive their origin from this Simon of Samaria. He formed his sect in the following manner: At Tyre, a city of Phoenicia, he redeemed from slavery a certain woman named Helena. He used to take her along with him. He declared that this woman was the first conception of his mind."
Irenaeus 180 A.D.

"God will also judge the vain speeches of the perverse Gnostics, by showing that they are the disciples of Simon Magus."
Irenaeus 180 A.D.

"You install Simon Magus in your Pantheon, giving him a statue and the title of holy God."
Tertullian 197 A.D.

"The doctrine of Simon's sorcery taught the worship of angels. It was itself actually reckoned among idolatries and condemned by the apostle Peter in Simon's own person."
Tertullian 197 A.D.

"From that point forward, Simon Magus, who had just become a believer, was cursed by the apostles and ejected from the faith. For he was still thinking somewhat of his juggling sect. That is, he wanted to buy even the gift of the Holy Spirit through imposition of hands, so that he could include it among the miracles of his profession."
Tertullian 200 A.D.

"There is the Simon of Samaria in the Acts of the Apostles, who bargained for the Holy Spirit. He had only a vain remorse that he and his money must perish together. After his condemnation of the truth, he applied his energies to the destruction of the truth, as if to console himself by revenge. In addition to the support with which his own magic arts furnished him, he had recourse to deception. He purchased a Tyrian woman of the name of Helen out of a brothel, with the same money that he had offered for the Holy Spirit - a transaction worthy of the wretched man. He actually pretended that he was the Supreme Father, and he further pretended that the woman was his own Primary Conception."
Tertullian 210 A.D.

"At this very time, even the heretical dupes of this same Simon are so much elated by the extravagant pretension of their art, that they try to bring up from Hades the souls of the prophets themselves."
Tertullian 210 A.D.

"The disciples, then, of this [Simon Magus] celebrate magical rites, and they resort to incantations. They transmit both love spells and charms... This Simon, deceiving many in Samaria by his sorceries, was reproved by the apostles, and he was put under a curse. All of this has been written in the Acts. But Simon afterwards renounced the faith.. And journeying as far as Rome, he came in conflict with the apostles. Peter offered repeated opposition to him, for Simon was deceiving many by his sorceries."
Hippolytus 225 A.D.

"We know that Simon Magus gave himself the title of the "Power of God." Origen 228 A.D.

"Celsus next pours down upon us a heap of names saying that he knows of the existence of certain Simonians, who worship Helen... as their teacher. They are called Helenians, However, it has escaped the notice of Celsus that the Simonians do not at all acknowledge Jesus to be the Son of God. Rather, they consider Simon to be the Power of God."
Origen 248 A.D.

"In order to gain many followers to himself, Simon protected his disciples from the danger of death [through martyrdom]... by teaching them to regard idolatry as a matter of indifference, So even at the beginning of their existence, the followers of Simon were not exposed to persecution. After all, the wicked demon who was conspiring against the teachings of Jesus was well aware that none of his own teachings would be weakened by the teachings of Simon."
Origen 248 A.D.

So, there you have one man "in the skin," in the lst century, within ten years of the beginning of the church at Pentecost, showing great miracles (but not from God) and wonders, and claiming that he, himself was the "holy" god, i.e., all three persons of the trinity, and apparently had some success... for the same unholy angels of light (who answer to Satan) who inspired his beliefs and actions have been telling his lies to other "chosen ones" down through the centuries.

William Marion Branham (1909-1965) was born to a fifteen year old mother and eighteen year old father on April 16, 1909, in a dirt floored cabin on a farm in the Kentucky mountains near Birksville. His father was a logger and the future self-professed prophet was the first-born of nine children.

According to Branham, in My Life Story, his birth was accompanied by a "supernatural" sign. His superstitious nonChristian family told him that immediately after his predawn birth, an unnatural light shone in the opening of the cabin's small window from the darkness outside. After placing him in his mother's arms for the first time, her midwife opened the window shutter. Their windows had no glass in them, and as dawn broke, a circular one foot diameter halo appeared above the baby William's head.

Branham's family believed he had supernatural visitations from "spiritual entities" beginning at the age of three. "The light which appeared above him as a halo immediately after his birth, continued to appear at times throughout his life and was seen by congregations while he was in the pulpit. Various photographs showing this halo or flame are still circulated today by his followers who believe he was God's final prophet, and have accepted this light or halo as proof of God's presence and approval.

Genesis tells us that Satan appeared to Eve disguised in a Snake and in the Hebrew is described as "shining" standing upright. John the Baptist was never described as having fire above his head, nor did Elijah or Moses or Isaiah or any of Jesus' apostles. Believing that supernatural manifestations are from God, unless substantiated by God's Word, is to fall prey to a "doctrine of demons."

The only time fire ever appeared over believer's heads was in the Upper Room, when the Body of Christ was officially formed through individual indwelling by God, the Holy Spirit.

If William Branham's family had been Bible believing Christians, or if Branham himself or his followers had only read the Scriptures, they would have recognized the manifestations surrounding William Branham as Satanic, and would have been able to cast out Satan in Jesus' name. Instead, they embraced a false gospel, and an unBiblical view of the triune God, thus endangering their eternal souls.

Branham has admitted that his parents were not Christians, and consequently were not following the Lord, did not go to church, were married out of the church and had "no religion at all." his parents lacked the necessary scriptural knowledge and spiritual discernment to be able to recognize the nonBiblical manifestations in Branham's childhood as demonic. He said that his father "was a typical mountain boy who drank all the time." (My Life Story)

"As a young child, according to Branham, while he was under a great white Poplar tree, he heard something making a strange noise, something going "Whoooosssh, whooooossssh." He looked around, and saw a little whirlwind, or a little cyclone and just a few feet out from under the branches of this big tree, it made a whirl sounding. About halfway up the tree was another whirlwind, moving the leaves."

He started up the lane again and a human voice said, "Don't you never drink, smoke, or defile your body in any way. There'll be a work for you to do when you get older." Branham then ran home screaming at the top of his voice."I was scared and never went near that tree again. I'd go down the other side of the garden, because I thought there was a man up in that tree and He was talking to me in a great deep voice."

At the age of 24, in 1933, He became an evangelist at revivals in Indiana, however, upon the death of his wife, he believed God was punishing him because he had rejected the deviant "oneness" doctrine. He started preaching in "Oneness" (Jesus only or Jesus is all) Pentecostal churches who deny the triune God of the Bible. He taught that Jesus is the only manifestation of God and that the biblically taught "Trinity" or "Triune God" of orthodox Christianity is a lie.

The Bible says that "God is Love." If God were not a triune God, but a singular one, i.e., without the plurality of the three personalities of the Godhood, during the eons in which God existed before He created the earth and mankind, this love would have been narcissism, or self-love, which the scriptures condemn, and because the Bible says that "God changes not," we know he is now as He has always been.

The Hebrew term Elohim is the most ancient name with which God describes Himself and is used in the first reference to Him in Genesis, He who is the creator of all things existing. Elohim is a plural noun, used consistently with a singular verb. This is a perfect word picture of the Trinity. God's attributes belong equally to three persons eternally coexisting, all associated with the creation, and all sharing Gods attributes, never more than three. It is impossible for any "Oneness" adherent to find otherwise! How can all three be attributed to being the creator, as God himself claims, if there is only one existing at a time? All three were responsible for creation.

The Father was involved in the creation; ( Eph. 3:14, Mal. 2:10)
The Son was involved in the creation ( Jn.1:3, Heb. 1:2 Col. 1:16 ) All things were made through him.
The Holy Spirit was involved in the creation ( Ps. 104:30, Job 26:13 "By his spirit he made the heavens Job 33:4.

Since all three were involved in creating and all other acts of God. They all are eternal, and are responsible for the same activities. Then all three are the one Elohim, three in unity, acting as the one God. This is denied by Oneness, Bernard, a oneness apologist, who states... "God was the Holy Spirit back at creation and used his role as spirit in creation (Gen.1:2) furthermore, God used his role as son-that is, he depended upon his plan for the future sonship-back at creation. (Heb.1:2)" (Oneness of God p.143) If the son is "only a plan that will unfold in the future," what we now have is a contradiction because all three are attributed in the same manner as being involved in the creation of the world and of mankind.

Bernard insists the Son is the humanness only and that it speaks of him in the future tense. If this is so why should we believe that the Father or Spirit were there too ? This attempt to deny the eternal Sonship of Jesus is to make of Him a liar when He said "Before Moses was, I AM" - eternally coexisting with the Father before the Creation of the Earth. The "Oneness" adherents have placed themselves under a Biblical curse, in twisting God's scriptures to make them fit their own beliefs. Because the Bible attributes eternality and participation to all three, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, then we should believe, and not call God a liar.

Satan always tries to produce an imitation of God's Word, God's Prophets, God's spiritual gifts, and of course, God's own Son, the Messiah. As we are told in the book of Hebrews, God spoke finally through Jesus, His Son, the Christ, and since his Revelation of the future was revealed to John, the beloved Disciple in approximately 96 A.D., the revelation has been closed. God has sent no more prophets, nor will He.

We are now in the final days when most of the church will be blinded to the truth of the Gospel, and will fall away, for Jesus said, "When I return, will I find faith upon the earth?" The revivals are false, the nonBiblical prophesying is false, for God, in His Holy Word, predicted and foretold that this would happen. False prophets such as William Branham were of Satan.

A picture of William Branham on the internet, in a trance state, standing behind a pulpit, being held up by two men, one at each side, immediately informs us that he was not speaking from God.

We are told clearly, in lst Corinthians that "the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet," whch means that the prophet is always in control of himself. Paul tells us in 1st Corinthians that it is only when they are "led away" by demons, as they were in the Mystery Religions, before they became followers of Jesus, that they are out of control, i.e. in an altered state of consciousness, for Satan loves puppets. If William Branham or his "followers" had only read the Scriptures, they would have realized that, and would have been able to cast out Satan in Jesus' name, rather than repeat his lies all these years.

Branham, like the founders of Islam and Mormonism, claimed that throughout his life he received guidance from an angel, whose first appearance to him was in a cave in Kentucky in 1946. Muhammed, the descendant of Ismail, the son of Abraham, who was founder of Islam, which now claims over 1,000,000,000 (one billion) members, had also claimed to be visited by an angel calling himself Gabriel, in a cave outside of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church also received his knowledge from a "shining angel" who called himself Moroni.

God, in His Holy Word warns us against being fooled by Satan's trick of appearing as an angel:

2 Corinthians 11:13-15: "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their deeds."

Galatians 1:8-9: "But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed."

Branham claimed to receive psychic powers from his angelic (demonic) visitor, enabling him to read other people's thoughts. In fact, he would not start a service until the angel was present, and even announced on occasion that he was waiting for "his angel." "The Father of the Charismatic movement," Kenneth Hagin, confirmed that Branham's prophecies and thought reading were completely accurate, and he too failed to exercise the Biblical spiritual discernment to understand this was an ungodly manifestation of Satan.

The "psychic" ability to know other's thoughts is a spiritist manifestation of familiar spirits

Christ, being God, could read thoughts, for Christ was Himself, the Living Logos, the Word of God, "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12.

The Apostles, on specific occasions, were sometimes given knowledge by the Holy Spirit as a temporary sign gift, before the completion of the New Testament, in order to glorify God within the body of Christ; however, occultic mystics like Edgar Cayce were given imitations of this ability by demonic powers commonly called "familiar spirits." Cayce spoke in a trance state, acting as a medium for demonic spirits. Satan has always created inferior imitations of God's abilities and gifts in the attempt to receive worship as though he were himself God or through the impowerment of one of his false prophets.

Branham's appealed to Pentecostals and Charismatics with his common country dress, and his admission of a humble background of poverty. He had on occasion refused local offerings saying he had no need for the funds. Branham was unique in this aspect, among faith healers. Branham's self-effacing humility about his background and lack of higher education, made him appear to be genuine to those who desperately sought a true worker of miracles.

Branham was far less than forthcoming about his unbiblical "Oneness" doctrine and his other strange doctrines regarding the sexual "seed of Satan" theory, and the Trinitarian Pentecostals embraced him. Because he was a crowd pleaser, the Full Gospel Business Men's International promoted him. Demos Shakarian, founder of the Business Men was "open minded," but after Branham's doctrines were finally revealed in their entirety, the only Pentecostal remaining to promote him was Kenneth Hagin. Hagin agreed with Branham's claim that he was a true Biblical prophet, for Branham completely lacked humility about proclaiming himself as a true prophet of God.

What did the False Prophet, William Branham,
"really" believe - in his Own Blasphemous Words?


William Branham was completely deluded, for the bible does not teach this! Not at all!

On the contrary, God's Word tells us in Col.2:18:

"Let no one cheat you out of your reward, taking delight in FALSE humility, and the worship, intruding in those things which he has seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind."

Branham said in Seven Church Ages that the Church is built on "The Rock of Revelation."

Jesus, however, taught in Matthew 7:24, that He was the sure foundation, and that there is no other. Paul said "The Rock is Christ" who was in the wilderness (I Cor.10:4). Peter says the foundation Rock is Christ (1 Peter.2:5-8).

As God's Word clearly tells us, there is no other foundation but Christ and there can never be any other foundation than Jesus Christ.

William Branham, False Prophet,
Believed That he was Elijah the Prophet


"It is all over.(speaking for Jesus) I am going to speak all right. Yes, I am 'here in the midst of the Church. The Amen of God, faithful and true will reveal Himself and it will BE BY MY PROPHET." Oh yes, that is so. Rev. 10:7 "And in the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished as He hath declared to His servants the prophets." .... He is sending a vindicated prophet. He is sending a prophet after almost two thousand years. He is sending someone who is so far from organization, education, and the world of religion that as John the Baptist and Elijah of old, He will hear only from God and he will have "thus saith the Lord" and speak for God. He will be God's mouthpiece and he, as it is declared in Malachi 4:6, WILL TURN THE HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN BACK TO THE FATHERS." (The Message To The Laodicean Age).

The completely False prophecies of William Branham were to continue:
" See, immediately after the coming of THIS Elijah, the earth will be cleansed by hate and the wicked burned to ashes. Of course, this did NOT happen at the time of John (the Elijah for his day.)… ." (The Message To The Laodicean Age).

Branham believed himself to be THIS Elijah, the earth was not cleansed nor the wicked burned.

"That this age will, end around 1977. …, I base this prediction on seven major continuous visions that came to me one Sunday morning in June, 1933. The Lord Jesus spoke to me and said that the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh, but that before He came, seven major events would transpire. (The Message To The Laodicean Age ).

I still maintain this prediction after thirty years because, Jesus DID NOT say no man could know the year, month, week or day in which His coming was to be completed. So I repeat, I sincerely believe and maintain as a private student of the Word, along with divine inspiration that 1977 ought to terminate the-World systems and usher in the millenium." (Seven Church Ages)

" The revival is over. America had her last chance in 1957. Now the tongues, are God's sign of impending disaster, even as they were when they appeared upon the wall at Belshazzar's feast….(The Message To The Laodicean Age)

He opened the 7 seals "And the Angels took me into that pyramid of themselves - the mysteries of God known only to them. And now, they were the messengers that come to interpret that pyramid or that Message of the secret of these Seven Seals which lays with inside the pyramid."

"We find out that during that time I saw seven Angels in a form of a pyramid that swept down and picked me up. And I was brought east to open the Seven Seals for God." (Commission By Seven Mighty Angels). It is Jesus who alone is worthy to open the 7 seals.

The famous Pillar of fire picture probably indicates demonic possession, and at a very minimum, strong demonic influence.

During his ministry the light was photographed many times. To question whether this was real or not may be redundant. It was the same Pillar of Fire which had been with Branham since the time of his birth. When praying for the sick he would watch the Pillar of fire move around the building from one person to another, revealing the "thoughts and intents" of the heart, the past, the present and the future. These were demonic manifestations and the work of "familiar spirits."

2 Cor.11:13-15 "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works." Light effects does not prove whether someone speaks from God at all. Joseph Smith, the false prophet who founded the major Cult, the Mormon Church, saw pillars of light and angels constantly. Being impressed by the supernatural is deceitful. Genesis tells us that Satan came disguised in the form of a Snake and in the Hebrew, he is described as "shining" standing upright. Eve and then Adam were bewitched and then betrayed.

John the Baptist had no fire above his head. The only ones who did were those in the upper room. It happened only once and only briefly then, for the purpose of demonstrating that God had sent the Holy Spirit to dwell within believers in Jesus, as He had promised them. This began the Church.

William Branham was seen with pictures of a light taken above his head, and this became the convincing proof to the Pentecostal followers, as is the stigmata, the blood coming from the hands and feet of the Catholic mystic to the Catholic as they are led into a false doctrine by the angel (of light). It is not the physical light that traveled with Branham, but the light of truth of Gods Holy Word which must be compared to the deception from Branham. To accept every person who comes with an experience and exhibits the supernatural is to believe that whoever exhibits spiritual power and names the name of Christ, speaks for Christ, even though they clearly contradict His written Word! To fail to practice spiritual discernment in this manner will indeed eliminate denominations just like Branham wanted, however; it will also lead us straight into the one world Church of the AntiChrist.

Branham taught that the Word of God was given in three forms, the Zodiac, the Egyptian pyramids, and the written scripture.(Al Dager, Vengeance is Ours, Sword).

The TRINITY, which is the fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith and is God's Biblical Self-description is attacked and denied by Branham:

"The Way of a True Prophet," Branham stated: "Why don't you examine your baptism of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and that false `trinity' it's so-called, which is nothing in the world but three offices of one God, titles. No, name of Father, there's no such a thing as name, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost—Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which is the Lord Jesus Christ." (In the Days of the Voice of the 7th Angel).

Branham claimed that because, "...not one place in the Bible is trinity ever mentioned...It's Catholic error and you Protestants bow to it" (Conduct, Order, Doctrine, Q and A).

In Branham's book "Conduct, Order, Doctrine of the Church: "the "First thing is to straighten out you on your 'trinity' Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. "God is like a three-foot rule... The first twelve inches was God, the Father; the second twelve inches, God, the Son, and the same God; the third twelve inches was God, the Holy Ghost, the same God,"

"How can three persons be in one God? Not only is there no Bible for it but it shows even a lack of intelligent reasoning. Three distinct persons, though identical substance, make three gods, or language has lost its meaning entirely. God - He has three offices or - a threefold manifestation - of the One Person, Jesus."

Now, we find, God all ages has had skin on It. See? (The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us) This denies the one incarnation fulfilled in the New Testament, if God "always was a man." He also Denied the personality of the Holy Spirit. 'The Holy Spirit is the 'Word-Manifested Thought'." (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages).

William Branham insisted that "believers baptized by a Trinitarian formula must be rebaptized in the name of Jesus only." (Burgess and McGee, Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements)

On the Son Jesus Christ, Branham taught "Oneness," an apostate viewpoint which denies the Biblical Triune God as He Scripturally Self-Defined Himself:

"See, He came in three names. He came as Son of man, which was prophet. .. He never said He was the Son of God; He said He was the Son of man. Now, today; He is the Son of God, which He returned back, and now He is in the form of the Holy Ghost, the unseen Person. but yet, God, the Son of God. In the Millennium: He sits upon His Father's Throne, which He'll be Son of David He revealed Himself first as Son of man, a prophet this age, through the church age, Son of man ... or Son of God; and in the other age, Son of David. Three sons!

"before the promised son showed up, God manifested Himself there at Sodom as a prophet, being a man, in flesh, God. Elohim, as I heard someone speak It a while ago, which the Godhead bodily was in Him. He was the fullness. Elohim is the fullness of the Godhead, bodily. (The Day This Scripture is Fulfilled)

"He never called Himself the Son of God. He referred to Himself, the - 'Son of man', because He had to come according to the Scripture."(The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us)

Branham is mistaken, for according to the Bible, in Luke 1:35: the angel says he will be called "the Son of God," and in John 10:36 Jesus said, "because I said I am the Son of God." Jn.5:25; Luke 22:70; Mt.27:43; Jn.19:7. In John 9:35 He (Jesus) said unto him, "Do you believe on the Son of God?"

"People talk about Jesus being the Eternal Son of God. Now isn't that a contradiction? Whoever heard of a Son being eternal? Sons have beginnings, but that which is eternal never had a beginning." ("An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages",p.21) Thus, there is no biblical understanding on the part of Branham. In a speech given October 2, 1957 the prophet said, "See, there cannot be an Eternal son, because a son had to have a beginning. And so Jesus had a beginning, God had no beginning," ("Conduct, Order, Doctrine of the Church).

"What is God? God is a great Eternal. At the beginning, way back before there was a beginning, he wasn't even God. Did you know that? A God is an object of worship, and there wasn't nothing to worship him; He lived alone. And in him was attributes. What is an attribute? A thought." (The Spoken Word).

"Jesus was created. When the Holy Ghost came upon Mary He created within her the cell that would multiply and become the body of our Lord. That cell was created. It was the beginning of the creation of God. That is who Jesus is."(An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages).

The Bible disagrees with Branham, in Matthew 1:23 the Virgin Mary, was told she would bear "Emmanuel" (Hebrew for "God with us"), " and John 1:3: "All things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made."

Colossions 1:16 speaks of the Son "And he is before all things, and in him all things consist," and John 1:1 states that the Word was "with God" and "the Word was God." Branham, however, denies God's Word, "In John 1, In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and was God. and the word was made flesh , and dwelt among us. Now, in the beginning was the Word. A word is thought expressed. In the beginning He wasn't even God." (The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us).

Branham is denying the Scripture he just read, apparently refusing to recognize that Jesus is being called "the Word." This is proof his so-called supernatural manifestations could NOT EVER have been from God, as he had no knowledge of God's very nature.

Branham continues: "So it tonight when we got the other part of the contract. When God tore His Son in two at Calvary, taken the body up for- a sacrifice, and sent the Spirit down to us, that once lived in' a man, Jesus (that same God is in veil tonight in the form of the Holy Ghost), those two pieces has to come together; then you are part of the contract. God did this to be better known to man, when He made Hisself man." (The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us).

"But on the day of Pentecost He changed Himself from being the Son of man to the Son of God. He came, not with the people, He came in the people." (The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us)

This is the occultic teachings of the "Manifest Sons of God," for no prophet of God could speak falsely in this manner and display such abusive theology on the nature of God and still have God do the so called mightiest miracles through him.

William Branham blaspheously claimed to be "God manifested in the flesh." He said: "When I told this to a man the other day, when this piece had come out about this man being healed, this same minister said, "They make a god out of you, Brother Branham."

Well, he was a critic,... I said, "Is that too far from the Scripture to be that?" See? I said, "No, it isn't." I said, "Because Jesus called prophets gods." See? That's right. God ... And they say, "Well, you people try to take the place of God."

"That's not too far out; that's exactly what it is. That's exactly! God manifested in flesh, just as He promised." (The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us)

"In them days it was God in a man, His Son, Jesus Christ. We believe that. Not just a prophet, not just an ordinary man, ordinary human, It was God In Christ, God, in a man, the fullness of the Godhead bodily In a man. God, in a man; now, it's God in men. See? The fullness of God in the Godhead bodily in His entire Church, manifesting Himself, fullfilling His Word." (The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us).

This is the Manifest Sons of God teaching on the Latter Rain. The Church is not God nor is it the fullness of God, for this denies the uniqueness of Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son because it attempts to place the Church in a state of equality with him as many sons with the same nature.

In a further distortion of the nature of God, Branham expounds, "Now, we find, God in all ages has had skin on It. See? God has been hid behind a veil. (The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us)

"And we find out here that God has always had skin on Him. When Moses seen Him, He had skin on Him; He looked like a man. When God was behind the curtains, He had skin on Him. And God, tonight, in His Church is veiled in His Church with skin on Him. He's still the same God tonight. We find that. But now, as ever, the skin veil is what catches the traditions. They just can't believe that that's God making them people act like that, See? It's because God's veiled in His Church, in skin-skin on It. That's right. He's hid from the unbeliever, and revealed to the believer. Yes, sir!

Now, when their tradition veil is--of-of traditions of the elders and the Word is broke through (oh, of course, today), then comes in plain view, we see Him, Deity again veiled in human flesh. Hebrews 1 said so, and also Genesis 18. You remember God was a man, standing there eating and talking with Abraham, and told what Sarah was doing in the tent behind It. And Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man," Deity veiled again in human flesh. (The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us)

William Branham claimed to have received verification from God on the Word Faith teaching while meditating on the Scripture, "If Ye say unto this mountain, be thou removed and cast into the sea..." He was thinking how he had never preached on that text, but thought also how is it in the Word.

Just as these thoughts went through his mind, a Voice spoke to him and said, "What do you want now? Say it and you can have it." The Voice repeated, "What do you want now? Say it and you can have it." he answered, "I'd like to have three squirrels."(August 1964, Branham to Pearry Green.

This is completely nonbiblical as our faith is toward God and faith means to believe and trust in Him, not our feelings or our own words.

Branham's Apostate Teaching on Those
Who Were The Serpent's Seed


Branham taught that Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3) was sexual sin. According to Branham, Eve was seduced into a sexual relationship with the serpent and became impregnated with her son Cain. He explained, "Here is what actually happened in the Garden of Eden. The Word says that Eve was beguiled by the serpent. She was actually seduced by the serpent. He was as close to being a human that his seed could, and did mingle with that of the woman and cause her to conceive." (The Original Sin, pp. 2, 3).

Since THREE sons were born from TWO acts of Adam, You know POSITIVELY that ONE of those three WAS NOT the son of Adam - - - The truth of the matter is that eve had two sons in her womb TWO sons (twins) from separate impregnation's. She was carrying twins, with Cain's conception sometime previous to that of Abel's." (Branham, An Exposition of The Seven Church Ages).

William Branham said that Eve's sin involved sexual relations with the serpent, but the "seed of God" were Branham's followers, otherwise known as "the Bride" or "the New Breed" (The Toronto Blessing, Stephen Sizer).

Branham taught that "the serpent's seed was Cain and all his descendants. They are predestined for Hell. The Godly seed is Seth and his descendants who have been revealed by their call to Branham's ministry. A third group, represented by those still in denominational churches have freewill to choose Heaven or Hell. The Godly seed are the Bride of Christ and will be raptured before Tribulation. Denominations are or eventually will be the Mark of the Beast and those who remain therein will go through the Tribulation." (Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements).

"Eve's eating was adultery with the serpent, Proverbs 30:20. Remember, he was not a snake at this point. That curse came after the act. ... It was not an apple that caused Adam and Eve to realize they were naked. But it was a sex act. ... The serpent was an upright handsome creature. He was, in fact, `the missing link' that science even in their unspiritual wisdom, can see is missing `between man and monkey.' ... Satan used this creature to get himself into the Human race." (Was it an Apple?)

The Bible says, "Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. (Ge.4:1) He did not say I have gotten a man from Satan, who would know Adam or Branham?

Branham' had a distorted view of woman because of his father which may have led him to misunderstand what occurred in the garden. About his fathers constant comraderie with young woman he stated, "I...This was my remark then, 'THEY'RE NOT WORTH A GOOD CLEAN BULLET TO KILL THEM WITH IT.' That's right. And I hated women. That's right. And I just have to watch every move now, to keep from still thinking the same thing." (William M. Branham, 'My Life Story').

This is not the fruit of the Spirit of God. Branham admits that he has to "watch every move now - to keep from thinking the same thing about women, i.e., that "they're not worth a good clean bullet to kill them with..." - and this man claimed to speak for God, to be a prophet of God. What an abomination to God such speech had to have been!

Branham's fifth vision also blamed the moral problem of our age on women. "God showed me that women began to be out 'of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair,"The lord never told believers to obey his law.
The Zodiac and Pyramids He thought "The streets of gold have been paved. The gates of gigantic pearls are raised and hinged. Like a pyramid she stands so fair and glorious."(the Last warning) Branham taught that the Word of God was given in three forms, the zodiac, the Egyptian pyramids, and the written scripture."(Al Dager, Vengeance is Ours, P. 59)

The idea that the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was constructed by Enoch as a memorial to God ( All Things Are Possible).

Kurt Koch wrote: "...Branharm's parents believed in fortune telling and he was burdened through occultism at an early age." Branham, has a pyramid shaped tombstone. So he was very much influenced by paganism.

Branham said the ZODIAC AND THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS were equal to the Scriptures in the revelation of God's word. he has a pyramid shaped tombstone in Indiana. (William M. Branham, Adoption (Jeffersonville, IN: Spoken Word Publications

The Zodiac was founded in Babylon by Nimrod, founder of the first false religious system after the flood, which was a forerunner to all the Mystery Religions of Antiquity, based on elitism, secret membership, secret inititations, belief in reincarnation and salvation through secret esoteric knowledge. God condemns the "Zodiac" repeatedly throughout Scripture. How could William Branham possibly not have known this?

The Egyptian Pyramids were used as elaborate burial chambers by Egyptian inheritors of the Babylonian Mystery Religions, who believed in Reincarnation and worshipped Ra, the Sun god, Horus, the god of the Dead, Isis, the fertility goddess, and many many other gods. This was idolatry, and yet, William Branham, a self professed Christian who claimed to be a prophet of God venerated the "Pyramids" as containing revelation from God equal to the Bible, His Holy Word. He was clearly deceived, and in being deceived, was allowing himself to serve Satan.

Branham claimed to be the 7th Prophet of God. These Prophets, he claimed, were each associated with one of the seven church ages of Revelation. He superimposed the names of the churches over the men's names in the following order: Ephesian-Paul; Smyrnea-Ireneaus ; Pergamean-Martin; Thyatirean-Columba; Sardisean-Luther; Philadelphia-Wesley; Laodicean-Branham (As a false prophet, Branham does indeed represent this last apostate church age, but never a a prophet of the Living God.)

William Branham believed in three bibles. In addition to the written bible ..., there are two others: "The first one, he put in the sky, the Zodiac…he made the next one in the pyramid, back in the days of Enoch…(Robert Livesay, Understanding Deception) These symbols are pure occultism and people involved in esoterism and theosophy have believed this long before Branham.

Satan - - awaits his 'time of eternal annihilation - We believe that he will absolutely be done completely away and annihilated. ---Is the lake of fire helI Eternal? No, sir. No, sir Anything that was created is not Eternal --- If anybody ever tells you that you're going to burn in an Eternal hell, I want the scripture for it -- it was created for that to destroy"

Now don't let anyone say that I don't believe in a lake of fire and in punishment. I do. I don't know how long it will last, but it will eventually be removed. In Rev.21:8, it says that at those sinners mentioned will have their part in the lake of fire. But the true interpretation of the word is not 'part' but it is 'time'." The Revelation of the Seven Seals, pp. 28, 48; An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages).

William Branham changes the words of the book of Revelation. A TRUE prophet of God would NEVER change the words of Scripture. He is wrong about the Greek word, "meros" which is: a part due or assigned to one lot, destiny a measure, to some degree, as respects a part, severally, individually. It has no time limit.

The Latter Rain movement of the late 1940's had given birth to numerous evil sub-movements and sub-teachings. The Manifest Sons of God was divided into two major sects. The Walk, and the Body of Christ. The Walk came out of the Latter Rain Movement under the "apostleship" of John Robert Stevens, who like Paul Cain and others was a William Branham disciple. His was the Church of the Living Word in Redondo Beach, California.

The current Charismatic Dominion Theology expressed in spiritual warfare, the spiritual mapping of C. Peter Wagner, and the current Vineyard Revivals - based on the occultic signs and wonders movement, is derived from the Manifested Sons of God doctrine. Manifest Sons teachings are Kingdom Now - Dominion Theology - Reconstructionism.

They believe in the restoration of the Church, restoration of the 5 fold ministry with the offices of apostles and prophets, having authority through its leaders by strong shepherding and discipleship. A perfection of the saints, immortalization, and the attainment of "being Christ" as we become just like Christ in nature and ability. The Manifest Sons of God doctrine has an eschatology of dominionism through the perfecting of the saints under the leadership guidance of the latter-day prophets and apostles. They mostly deny a rapture in the classic sense. Some replace it with individual raptures, a collective transformation to immortality on earth, or none at all.

This quote is representative of the teaching  "the doctrine of the Rapture was a great and effective ruse of the enemy to implant in the Church a retreat mentality ... already this yoke has been cast off by the majority in the advancing church, and it will soon be cast off by all." (Rick Joyner, THE HARVEST)

The Manifest Sons of God are dismissing the historical great and blessed hope of Jesus' return, and in its place are substituting a new pagan leadership for the Church, based on Satan's original lie to Eve that Godhood is attainable to individual men through elite secret knowledge.
The modern Spiritual warfare practice is an attachment to the signs and wonders movement which finds its roots in the Latter Rain Movement of the 1940's and William Branham's apostate idolatrous teachings which immediately preceded the modern Charismatic movement. They teach that revival will come by the Church being led by these "super" leaders or "latter day" prophets of God, in defeating demonic spirits through spiritual warfare, prayer, and fasting. The spiritual warfare is to be conducted through intense emotional worship and praise, including bizarre occultic "holy" laughter and animalistic manifestations, and by spiritual mapping, identifying strongholds, rebuking demonic powers and binding territorial spirits.

"God's people are going to start to exercise rule, and they're going to take dominion over the Power of Satan. They're going to bring diabolical princes down. The dark powers that hover over the Parliament buildings of the nations are going to be paralyzed by the corporate prayer of an authoritative community.

"As the rod of His strength goes out of Zion, He'll change legislation. He'll chase the devil off the face of God's earth, and God's people together, doing the will of God, will bring about God's purposes and God's reign. " (Ern Baxter, National Men's Shepherds Conference, Kansas City, Missouri,  1975

The apostles will rule the Church through establishing independent churches, unaffiliated with the corrupt denominations (William Branham's teaching). The exception which is currently underway, is that denominational churches would abandon  being separate, join the movement coming under their leadership. It is essential to the Latter Rain movement for the church to be unified as one, under a central leadership.  Otherwise Christ cannot be incarnated (manifested) in the Church and give his power to conquer the world for Christ.

That the world will be conquered through an elite group of overcomers who produce signs and wonders unlike anything ever seen, even in the early church by the apostles. This they believe will lead us to the greatest revival of history. An endtime harvest of billions of souls, where the majority of the world will be won to Christ and the kingdom would be established or ready to be received by Christ.

This harvest will be so great that no one will look back at the early church as a standard; all will be saying that the Lord has certainly saved His best wine for last. The early church was a firstfruits offering, truly this will be a harvest! It was said of the Apostle Paul that he was turning the world upside down; it will be said of the apostles soon to be anointed that they have turned an upside down world right side up. Nations will tremble at the mention of their name." (Rick Joyner, Restoration, May/June 1988, the Harvest)

What does Joyner mean they will turn the world rightside up? Are they going to undo the work of the Apostle Paul, or maybe he means a new thing altogether?

"Angelic appearances will be common to the saints and a visible glory of the Lord will appear upon some for extended periods of time as power flows through them. There will be no plague, disease, or physical condition, including lost limbs, AIDS, poison gas, or radiation, which will resist the healing and miracle gifts working in the saints during this time." (Rick Joyner, The Harvest)

The apostles and prophets would give blessings upon those whom bless, and curses upon those whom they curse. The power of their words would bring results. They will complete the conquest of the nations before Christ returns. The conquering will be done as "Joel's army " a group of immortal beings that will bring judgment upon the ungodly and all who do not accept the authority of the NEW Apostles and prophets. The tribulation is replaced with manifestations of power executing Gods judgement through Joels army to cleanse the earth of the evil and bring order to establish his kingdom.

Those who go further into the different levels will achieve a certain degree of holiness under the direction of the apostles and prophets. They will overcome death, and will become immortal.

The Manifestation of the Sons of God


Romans 8:19: "For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."

"The Earth and all of creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God, the time when they will come into their maturity and immortalization... When the Church receives its full inheritance and redemption then creation will be redeemed from its cursed condition of decay, change and death... the Church has a responsibility and ministry to the rest of creation. Earth and Its natural creation is anxiously waiting for the Church to reach full maturity and come to full sonship. When the Church realizes its full sonship, its bodily redemption will cause a redemptive chain reaction throughout all of creation(Bill Hamon, The Eternal Church)

This is what is called in the new age the paradigm shift, while biblical terms are used it is identical in its process and affect . "I see the great year of Jubilee, when we shall pass through the veil into the very Presence of the fullness of God, to be filled with this fullness and go forth proclaiming liberty to all of creation. Romans 8 calls this the "Manifestation of the Sons of God", and Says the whole creation is groaning and crying for this day. ...This is the ultimate anointing! This is the fullness of the Spirit! This is the Spirit without measure that Jesus had, spoken of in John 3:34, reserved until the end time for His Brethren!"'
(EAGLE SAINTS ARISE, Bill Britton)

The above distorted teaching is based on a misinterpretation of Romans 8:19-23 which speaks of the "Manifestation of the Sons of God." The belief is that some will obtain immortality by incarnating Christ before he returns. What is it that all creation is waiting for? According to orthodox Christianity, all creation awaits the removal of the "Curse of Futility", which sin placed upon it by God from the Fall of Adam. What they neglect is the context and the other passages that explain this event. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

Not only that, but we also who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body."

The adoption the redeeming of our body, when, how?

Phil. 3:20-21 "For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself."

1 Thess. 4:16-17 "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord."

1 Cor.15:51-54 "Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed - in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

After the Ascension, the angels told the Apostles who watched, Acts 1:11    " This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." The Holy Spirit was sent to earth shortly after Jesus ascended 2,000 years age, consequently there is no subsequent reason for an additional "sending of the spirit" for the Church, nor is there any other way for Christ to come back but the Scriptural way. He will return to earth in the same body in which He ascended, and not within the church as the corporate body. Anyone who disagrees is arguing with God's Word and inherently calling God a liar by denying his written Revelation to mankind.

Hebrews 9:28 "so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation." It is Christ who appears and changes us, not some event separate from this. We wait for him, we cannot accomplish this on our own. It his coming that is connected to this event, and whether one believes in a pre, mid, or post rapture does not change the connection of his coming for this to occur.

It has always been understood that Jesus Himself is the One Who would do the restoring of the kingdom. When he comes again at the second coming, the curse on the earth will be lifted, we would be changed and he would make null and void the affects of the curse on the earth, however, biblically it is not until after the millennium that the new heavens and earth replace the former and death will be no more(Rev.21:4).

But, the Manifested Sons of God doctrine is different from Scripture. Under a delusion from Satan, they choose to believe that all creation eagerly awaits the time when the "true sons" of God will finally become aware of "who they are in Christ," conquerors and overcomers, and will then come into their true Glory and Power as the Sons of God. They believe they will be the ones who will remove the curse, and overcome all of God's enemies, even death! The historic church has been waiting for God the Son in the second coming. The Manifested Sons of God teach that God is waiting for you and I.

Earl Paulk, a well known "Kingdom Now" proponent, explains his application of Romans 8:19 "The last enemy to be conquered is death. Who will conquer it? A mature Church will come forth with the kind of authority and power that will be able to stand in the very face of Satan. When the Church reaches that level of maturity, God will be able to say, 'This generation of the Church does not need to die. She has reached a place of maturity. I will translate her because her maturity pleases Me.'"

It is impossible, however, for us to begin to understand why God should choose to do this, as it plays no part in his prophecy in His Holy Word.

"Not only will they not have diseases, they will also not die. They will have the kind of imperishable bodies that are talked about in the 15th chapter of Corinthians ... this army is invincible. If you have intimacy with God, they can't kill you." ( Paul Cain, "Joel's Army," )

Jack Deere says, " they won't be able to kill this army." John Wimber has also said, "those in this army will have the 'kind of anointing ...his kind of power ... anyone who wants to harm them must die.

Bill Hamon writes, "The Church will gain victory over the last enemy, death. Victory speaks of a battle being fought. The last day saints will wage and win a warfare against death. The last generation saints will come to translating faith in preparation for participation in the translation." (The Eternal Church)

"Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty, and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them -- for this is the Day of Dominion!" (Kenneth Hagin, "Rejoice! This Is the Day Which the Lord Hath Made!" The Word of Faith, Sept. 1996)

"When the Sons of God are manifested. "The saints will take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever... the Sons of Yahweh, one like the Son of man - not the lonely and blessed Yahshua of Nazareth alone, but the complete body of sons - Yahweh's masterpiece of the ages, the body of Yahshua, the house not made with hands - My Father's house of many mansions, each one whether individually or collectively 'An habitation of Yahweh through the Spirit"...these sons of Yahweh are indeed the 'One like the Son of man."' (George Hawtin, New Beginnins)

Speaking on the feasts (Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles) ".... typify the whole Church Age, beginning with the death of Jesus on the cross, and consummating in "the manifestation of the Sons of God"-the "overcomers" who will become perfected and step into immortality in order to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. (George Warnock, The Feast of Tabernacles,  

So from the saints inheriting the kingdom when Christ comes and being servants (co-heirs) in His kingdom, who are adopted as sons (Rev.20:6), the Manifest Sons of God (MSOG) have completely departed. Their's is not a kingdom operated by humility but one of temporal power and force. These are organizations and individuals who emphasize "take it by force" teachings, and the pulling down of strongholds, who ignore what Jesus and his apostles taught because they would rather believe that this is what God is doing now. As they say, "Its new, its fresh!"

However,what they don't seem to comprehend is that it's also demonic doctrines which "tickle their ears."

The Central theme to Manifest Sons of God doctrine is the belief that sonship to God comes through higher revelation via apostles and prophets. In actuality, this is Gnosticism. It was in the Garden of Eden when Satan promised Eve that gaining "secret knowledge" would make her as god - and it still is. The Manifest Sons Of God teaches that the Christian life, like the ancient Mystery Religions and contemporary Freemasonry, is composed of progressive levels which one must pass through, to reach maturity. Their first level is that of servant of God, the next is that of friend of God, following this is to become a son of God and the realization of gods ourselves.(much like the new age potential in man theory, which is based on western occultism and eastern religious mysticism - the best that Satan can offer!).

The Scriptures teach that we are servants (Galatians 3:10), friends (John 15:14-15), and sons (I John 3:1). Contrary, to the Manifest Sons Of God's misguided theology however, there is no Scriptural support for their teaching that Paul who was the least of the apostles, or any other apostle ever went beyond servanthood attaining sonship. Many epistles begin with the salutation by an apostle as a servant of God. There is no teaching from Paul or any of the other apostles believing they would go beyond these "levels" to become gods themselves. This is blasphemy.

This teaching is disguised in the word faith sector of the church today, where they teach that we can speak things into existence just as God Himself did. (Rom. 4:17)

Christ comes into the Church before he comes for the Church

Some believe that the second coming of Jesus instead of being actually Jesus Himself, is to be "in the Church," before he comes for the Church because the Church, his body will actually become Christ on earth, glorious and triumphant. They believe they are to physically conquer all lands and then rule the nations with a rod of iron.

Others believe that after the Church has taken dominion over the nations, through their own actions, they will hasten the day Jesus will return to earth and they will proudly hand the nations over to Him.

This is certainly not a new idea, for Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses cult taught this over 100 years ago, but at that time the Church at large, Christ's Body was Biblically knowledgable enough to practise "spiritual discernment" and recognize such teachings as false doctrine.

"Our high calling is so great, so much above the comprehension of men, that they feel that we are guilty of blasphemy when we speak of being 'new creatures'- not any longer human, but 'partakers of the divine nature'." It is claiming that we are divine beings - hence all such are Gods. Thus we have a family of God .... Now we appear like men, and all die naturally like men, but in the resurrection we will rise in our true character as Gods ...then the whole family - head and body are addressed as one, as they will be under Christ, their head, saying: "Arise 0 God, judge (rule, bless) the earth: for thou shaft inherit all nations. The Mighty God, and Everlasting Father of the nations is Christ whose members in particular we are." (Watchtower, 10 & 11/1881, p. 10)

"Under him as our head constitute the whole body of Christ, the 'Mighty God' (El - powerful one) to rule and bless the nations - ... and therefore be members of that company which as a whole will be the Everlasting Father to the restored race." (Watchtower, 10 & 11 /1881, p. 10)

These teachings are obviously over 100 years old and from a group that is a cult now, just as they were then. Although the years may have changed the words or terms, the meaning has remained consistent. The Jehovah's Witness's believe in an anointed 144,000 that the earthly class must relate to in order to be able to receive the benefits of the new covenant, and this is exactly what the apostle prophet movement today is teaching. The Manifest Sons Of God believe and proclaim that all Christians must come under their leadership and become an army to be victorious in the last days, which is as cultic, in every way, as is the Jehovah's Witness's view. 

There are no Apostles today, as there were when the Lord handpicked the original 12 or when others became apostolic legates under them, because no one alive qualifies as an eye witness who either saw the risen Lord, or knew one of the eyewitnesses who did. Based on Acts 1, all of the claimed visions and dreams in our present time do not qualify anyone for apostleship. This has always been recognized within the orthodox believing Biblical Christian Church

In our present day however, because of the rapidly escalating great endtime "falling away" from the faith, or apostasy, a statement such as Warnock's manifesto declaring that "Christ should visit the saints in the last great Feast, and minister His life 'In secret 'before He is openly manifested! is received by many, and few Christians today are discerning enough to emulate the Bereans who are commended in Scripture, for checking everything religious teachers tried to teach them against God's Written Word, before accepting it as being from God.

Christians should all understand that Warnock's personal speculative comments are an abomination, and that Christ's second Coming is not open to Unscriptural speculation.BR>
Warnock continued: "When a Christian comes to that place where he really appreciates and understands and enjoys Spiritual things, then he can truly rejoice in the fact that Christ is coming back again "to be manifested within." (The Feast of Tabernacles, George Warnock, Bill Britton). When he speaks of Christ he means Christ is "the anointing," (the empowerment)which is the presence of the Holy Spirt, not the person of Jesus.

William Branham: "In them days it was God in a man, His Son, Jesus Christ. ...It was God In Christ, God, in a man, the fullness of the Godhead bodily In a man. God, in a man; now, it's God in men. See? The fullness of God in the Godhead bodily in His entire Church, manifesting Himself, fullfilling His Word." (The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us). Thus, the Manifest Sons of God teaching in embryo is Branham's misunderstanding of God, believing that He existed only within Christ and he then parallelled this to God existing physically within the Church. His stated reason for believing this is "that God has always had skin on Him."(The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us) Apparently, Branham chose to omit the Biblical teaching that God is spirit.

In actuality, the Church is not God nor the fullness of God, nor can it ever be, for although we are the "called out" ones of God, we are part of God's creation. To claim that human beings are, or ever could become God denies the uniqueness of Jesus Christ as the second person of the triune God, who has eternally coexisted with God, the Father and God, the Holy Spirit, and because it strives to place His Church, His Body of believers, on a standing of equality with Him, as many sons with the same nature, it is guilty of Satan's original lie, "You will be as God."

Branham expresses another mistaken belief which attempts to place "restrictions" on what God must do.

"When the Spirit of Christ comes into the physical world, He must enter through a physical body... When Christ first entered our world as a child, it was Mary whom God chose to give Christ birth. Mary's life symbolized the qualities the Church must possess to walk in the fullness of Christ ... [God is preparing us as He did Mary to give birth to the ministry of His Son. Even now, in the spiritual womb of the virgin church, the holy purpose of Christ is growing, awaiting maturity; ready to be born in power in the timing of God ... the virgin Church is "in labour and in pain to give birth" (Rev 12:1-2) ... even now, he trembles and the heavens watch in awe, for I say to you, once again, the virgin is with child. Before Jesus Himself returns, the last virgin Church shall become pregnant with the promise of God. Out of her travail, the Body of Christ shall come forth, raised to the full statute of its Head, the Lord Jesus. Corporately manifested in holiness, power and love, the Bride of Christ shall arise"(Francis Frangipane,'In the Presence of God" Now Wine Press, 1994.)

This is Manifest Sons of God doctrine, which Kenneth Hagin also believes, with only a slightly different angle. "We [the church] are Christ." (As Christ is -- So are we, (Tape #44H06) "Every man who has been born again is an incarnation and Christianity is a miracle. The believer is as much an incarnation as was Jesus of Nazareth." (Kenneth Hagin, "The Incarnation," The Word of Faith, p.13, Dec. 1980).

Kenneth Copeland, of course, blasphemously agrees with Kenneth Hagin, his mentor, "[Man] was created on terms of equality with God, and he could stand in God's presence without any consciousness of inferiority...God made us as much like Himself as possible...He made us the same class of being that He is Himself...Man lived in the realm of God. He lived on terms equal with God...[The] believer is called Christ...That's who we are; we're Christ" (Zoe: The God-Kind of Life, . pgs. 35-36, 41, 1989)

Copeland  states "Jesus is no longer the only begotten Son of God." (Now We Are In Christ Jesus,  p.24,1980) This means Christ was the pattern son, not unique, but only the first of a kind of many, many more

Morris Currello leading the unaware in a chant "Who are you? Come on, who are you? Come on, say it: ‘Sons of God!’ Come on, say it! And what does work inside us, brother, is that manifestation of the expression of all that God is and all that God has. And when we stand up here, brother, you’re not looking at Morris Cerullo; you’re looking at God. You’re looking at Jesus." (Morris Cerullo, The Endtime Manifestation of the Sons of God World Evangelism tape 1)

Benny Hinn, When you say, 'I am a Christian,' you are saying, 'I am mashiach,' in the Hebrew. I am a little messiah walking on earth, in other words. That is a shocking revelation. ...May I say it like this? You are a little god on earth running around" (Praise-a-Thon, TBN,  November 6,1990) "Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge....you are god." (Benny Hinn, "Our Position In Christ", tape  AO31190-1)

Hagin, Copeland, Hinn and almost everyone of the Word/Faith Movement all are saying basically the same thing. Why? Because they are coming from the same source, the Latter Rain teachings which are enjoying new growth as never before. The new demonic "anointing" that they are dispensing brings their followers to a "new knowledge" (through "doctrines of demons") of the Scriptures.

D.R. McConnell exposes those who teach this new revelation knowledge "When these truths really gain the ascendancy in us, they will make us spiritual supermen, masters of demons and disease. It will be the end of weakness and failure. In the presence of these tremendous realities, we arise and take our place. We go out and live as supermen indwelt by God." (A Different Gospel, P. 21, D.R. McConnell, 1988.)

Much of this has been birthed through the Vineyard Church via the signs and wonders movement, Bob Jones says, "the Church is in no condition for the Lord to come today ... He's going to come for a church that is mature in righteousness... progressively going in this righteousness until you take on THE VERY DIVINE NATURE OF CHRIST HIMSELF and you begin to see Christ in the Church. Christ won't come for the church until you see Christ in the Church - until the Church looks like Jesus. PAPA (God) planted Jesus, He sowed Him down here in this earth to have a whole nation of brothers and sisters that looked just like Jesus ... His Son was a ALPHA SON, your children are the OMEGA sons and daughters . . ." [Mike Bickle interjects here, "Jesus was the beginning, but our children and us, we're included in this ... we're the end of this thing." (quoted in Discernment newsletter)

To put sinners saved by grace on an equality with Christ shows how deficient these so called "anointed ones" are in biblical understanding. It is obvious that they are not listening to the Holy Spirit, but another spirit, NOT from God.

Today this movement, claiming to be the Church of the 21st century, comes in many names, the current and most popular cliché' is "the anointed," Christ, they say they are "anointed" Christ, exactly what Jesus warned about in Matthew 24. They claim that they can do exactly what he did, dispense the anointing and do miracles.

Their reprobate philosophy of "religion" in no way resembles the Christianity brought to earth by a humble, loving, yet righteous and just self-sacrificial Messiah, 2,000 years ago whose birth, life, death and resurrection fulfilled scores of Biblical promises which God had made through His prophets during the preceding centuries.

As all true Biblical believer/followers of Jesus Christ wait for His return in the Air to rapture them to Him, as He has promised, they have a responsibility, as we are told in the book of Jude to refute these apostate reprehensible teachings that deny "the doctrines handed down once for all to the Saints," and to prevent the spiritual destruction of those searching people who are in danger of being led away from the truth of God's Word by Satan's oldest lie - that we, ourselves can become "gods."

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