The Branham Hoax Continues

By Pastor G. Reckart

There exist several pictures that are used to prove William Branham was a prophet of God.

The most famous is his halo picture where a streak of light appears over his head in the slant of a halo.  Branhamites claim this is the only valid photograph of an angelic being.  Because an FBI photo expert said the picture and negative were not altered, they believe this is proof the streak of light is an angel.  Angels flying at 45 degrees is not exactly what I think is the normal posture. Pictures such as this one are used to frighten people to believe what he preached and taught.  If a person doubts this halo and refuses to accept it, the cursing of their soul begins.  They are told the first sign a person is of the elect is they will believe William Branham is the last messenger whose work is to usher in the second coming of Jesus.  Now a person's salvation depends upon believing in William Branham. What is the streak of light?  If you look close you will see it is not over his head.  It exist further back in the background so that it appears to be over his head.  Halos are of a satanic origin in the first place.  They are not found anywhere in the Bible.

This is Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana where most of his revelations were preached. Interesting that when other men were naming their Churches after Jesus, such as Church of Jesus Christ, Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ, Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ.  Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, Branham named his Church AFTER HIMSELF!  Yep, called it Branham Tabernacle.  The Tabernacle is supposed to be the dwelling place of a God.  Branham named it Branham Tabernacle, otherwise House of Branham.  Is it any wonder many Branhamites claimed he was God manifest in the flesh again?

Here is the mystery cloud of 2/28/1963 that appeared overhead in Flagstaff, Arizona with Branham's face imposed upon it.  Obviously it is designed to make a person believe he was a man the angels came to ordain as the last messenger to the Church age.  The cloud in this picture is an altered one of the original. Was this mystery cloud the result of seven angels visiting Branham in Sabino Canyon on 2/28/1963?  No, Branham lied about this cloud.  He claimed it ascended from over him, 40 miles northeast of Tucson and went higher and higher, growing bigger and bigger until it went right into the stratosphere 30 miles above the earth.  Fact is, this is the results of a Thor rocket launched at Vandenberg, California that had been exploded because it malfunctioned. It was exploded at the 140,000-147,000 elevation.  The winds at that elevation were blowing west to east at 130mph.  It exploded at around 2pm PST and 3pm MST.  It moved 510 miles across the desert to about 45 miles from Flagstaff 6:30pm MST.  There were no winds at any elevation blowing from Tucson in the south to Flagstaff in the north that day.  There is no other effects of the Thor rocket explosion other than this cloud.  The explosion was tremendous at the 140,000 elevation.  Some claim vapor can not rise from the earth to that height, and so this is a miracle cloud.  Wait, hold the phone: who said it was a vapor cloud that made this ascent on high?  If a rocket exploded at this elevation, then the cloud is a mixture of smoke and vaporize rocket fuel.  It is said by some witnesses that the cloud had some strange colors in it about like the look of an oil sheen on the surface of water.  Such colors do not naturally ascend to the clouds through the evaporation process. The colors in this mystery circle were sent up to that elevation by a man-made device.  Branham said he saw this cloud on Thursday 2/28/1963 but yet on the next monday night in Houston, Texas on 3/4/1963 he does not mention this cloud, the alleged visitation by seven angels.  He mentions an angelic visit in Jeffersonville on 3/17/1963 but he does not mention the cloud. It is not until after Life magazine ran an article on this cloud that Branham picked it up and used to to reinforce his claim that he was visited by seven angels.  He made this claim in April 1965 and was killed in an accident eight months later on Christmas eve.  He was on his way back to Jeffersonville to give his final revelations which his son Billy claimed God had recently given him.  He never made it to the Branham Tabernacle to deliver these last revelations.  No one has ever questioned why if God gave him some new revelations he allowed him to be killed before he could make them known. To this day no one knows what that final revelation was.  And, if it was so important, why has God witholden it from the world? Branham lied about this mystery cloud.

This picture shows a round ball of light to the left of Branham as he stands in the pulpit.  It is claimed this is the pillar of fire that Branham claimed followed his ministry and was the source of his anointing.  The white spot is nothing but the reflection of the photographer's flash going off.  Yet Branhamites reject this and claim it is another supernatural proof Branham was God's last and final prophet to the Church.  Branham predicted the rapture would be in 1977 according to an article published in the Arizona Republic on 4/26/1967 entitled "The Strange Cloud" by Dave Davies.  Here is the quote of reporter Davies: "Using these seven visions as a base, Mr. Branham predicted Christ would return to earth around 1977 to claim his bride, that is, the elect or hard core of Christian believers."  This information was supplied to the reporter by members of the Branhamite Church.  This article ran 10 years before the predicted return.  Of course 1977 is 33 years past and Jesus has not come back yet.  If Branham had lived he would be 97 years old.  I believe he would have been long dead by 2003.  In any case, his death ended his brag to be the last prophet to the Church age. The Church age has not ended and we have done quite well without him and his doctrines and teachings.  More Truth has been taken to the nations since Branham's death that he had nothing to do with.  And many thousands of souls have come in the harvest without any need of Branham or his message.

To the left is a picture of Branham exhorting.  Notice the background and the wall.  This is important to compare with the next picture I am going to post. The plant in the foreground is unimportant except to verify Branham is at the same location he is in the next picture. Why am I showing this picture?  Because the next picture the Branhamites place side by side with this one they claim has the pillar of fire in it.  Meaning Branham had the presence of Almighty God with him just as Almighty God was with the Israelites when he was among them in the pillar of fire.

Branhamites claim the redish glow in front of Branham is the pillar of fire, meaning the visible presence of Almighty God.  They claim the first picture above is just before this second picture below. Notice first the wall behind Branham is nothing like the wall behind him in picture #1.  Notice that Branham is seated in a chair in the lower left corner and is also standing behind the pulpit.  Both people are Branham and there is no denying it.  How did this happen except a double or triple exposure.  Look over the head of the seated Branham and you will see some blue sky with clouds and the corner of a building.  Look carefully at the wall and you will see the outline of a gable end of a building.  The red hew between Branham seated and Branham standing looks like florescent lights of some kind. Notice that the standing Branham does not even have legs and appears as a ghost in mid air.  This picture is NOT A PICTURE IN SEQUENCE TO THE FIRST ONE!  This picture is not even taken by the same camera.  The films are different.  The color balance is different.  This picture is not a fraud, meaning someone purposely altered the original.  This picture is a double or triple exposure and the alleged pillar of God is nothing but the result of the different exposures. Anyone to claim these two pictures came from the same camera in sequence is lying.  Anyone who takes this second picture with a seated Branham and a standing Branham and claims it is not a double or triple exposure is lying.  Anyone who claims this picture shows the pillar of God is lying.

Here is a picture of Branham with two trinitarians G. Lindsey and L. Moore.  They are standing at the tomb of John Westly.   Branham was a railer against any Oneness or Jesus name person who did not follow him.  He would denounce Jesus Name people and then run around with trinitarians and preach in Baptist, Foursquare, and Nazarene Churches.  He would claim these were saved and then turn against Jesus name people in Oneness organizations and claim they were members of a lodge of Rome.  He believed the UPC and other Jesus name groups were lodges of the devil. This from a man who said it was not a sin to belong to the Masonic Lodge!  Go figure that! William Branham could not make up his mind if he was Oneness or a Trinity.  He preached Oneness but then fellowshipped Trinity more then he did Oneness.

Here is Branham with that ole Trinitarian T. L. Osborn.  Osborn never came to the Truth and became one of the strangest rascles walking upon the earth. I saw pictures of him in later years and he looked like a sourdough prospector who had been in the bush for fifty years. Osborn was known as a flim-flam man who did everything he knew how to raise money.  But here he is a Brother lodge member with Billy.

My, my, my, lookie here!  Here is Billy with Oral Roberts that ole trinitarian Pentecostal who turned Methodist and claimed God was going to kill him if he couldn't raise millions of dollars.  Branham praised Oral and called him Brother.  But he would not call many Jesus name Ministers Brother when they refused to follow his false doctrines.  I am not sure who all these men are but looking at them I do not see one Apostolic Jesus Name among them.  Birds of a feather have flocked together for his historic mug shot.

Now what do we have here?  This is Branham at a Full Gospel Businessmen's Association meeting. Branham was good friends with Demos Shakarian the Trinitarian founder.  Oh how he could spend hours cohorting with Trinitarians but would not fellowship the strong Jesus Name Ministers of that time.

This is Branham's holiness family.  The girls with skirts above the knees.  With bobbed hair and trimmed bangs and sleeveless tops.  And look at little Billy Junior in his shorts.  There is Sister Branham with her dress right at her knees.  And Branham is there in his short sleeves.  This is the holiness he preached.  This is the holiness he believed in.  If a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he rule the house of God? One of the reasons Branham would not accept many other Jesus Name Churches is because their standard of holiness was to holy for Branham.  He did not believe in that holiness.  He believed in Baptist, Nazarene, and Methodist holiness. What I could never understand is how so many good people follow this man but will not allow their children to dress like Branham allowed his kids to dress.  These reject Branham's liberalism and still claim he was a man of God.

This is really a sad picture.  This is the car wreck in which Branham was injured and died a few days later.  The car is nearly torn in half just in front of the driver's seat.  Is it possible God allowed this crash to be so horrible as a sign to all that he had already crashed spiritually and was already dead?  If Branham was indeed already spiritually dead as far as God was concerned, then this picture shows God did not hold back judgment.  This picture shows the judgment of God to me.  When I look at it and see the enormous ugliness I shake my head in disbelief. Would a God who visited this man just eight months before in a pillar of fire let his last prophet die as a result of this tangled mess?

Branham's coffin surrounded by many hundreds of devotees.  For several months many went to his grave site and called on his name.  They cried, they wept, they were in misery, their prophet was dead.  They prophesied to one another that he would rise from the grave.  As days passed into weeks and weeks into months fewer and fewer came to the grave believing he would resurrect himself.  Some believe he was really a second appearing of Jesus himself.  They went so far as to baptize in Branham's name for the remission of sins and removed the name of Jesus Christ from their baptismal formula.  Today, the Branhamites continue to claim he was God's last prophet to the Church. Anyone who questions Branham or his doctrine, they prophesy will die a sudden death at the judgments of God.

This is the Masonic tomb stone of William Branham.  Notice the pagan Egyptian pyramid.  Notice the gold eagle on top, the symbol of ancient Rome. Branham praised the Freemasons and denounced anyone who said membership in this lodge was not open to Christians.  Branham defended the Masons and said it was not harm for a Christian to be a member.  It was from these remarks and the symbol of the tombstone on his grave that many believed he was a member of the Masonic Lodge.  I can assure you of this, I know of no true Man of God who died since 1955 who has a pagan Egyptian pyramid on his grave as his memorial. All the signs have always been there to prove William Branham was a false prophet.  All the information has always been there that would show he and others manipulated everything they could to elevate him among the people above all other Men of God of the past 50 years.

If you are a Branhamite, you must come out of that cult.  You must open your eyes and see that this man used every possible scheme and trick to make himself a prophet greater then anyone then living.  He elevated himself above all men.  His doctrines were a mess of truth and error mixed.  He preached a lot of false doctrine.  His serpent seed doctrine is a heresy in itself.  His pre-trib rapture doctrine shows he did not hear from God.  Many of his other doctrines were so far off the mark no one could be saved following them.

When you read this page you may get angry.  You may want to pronounce your curses and damnations. You may get so steamed you want to call me and cuss me out.  I pray you get your right mind back so you can be useful in the Kingdom of God.  I pray you can get free from the falsehood that Branham was a holy man, when he did not live a holiness life.

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Peace unto you.

Pastor Reckart