The church seems to have misplaced the anointing that was on William Branham. I want to find it again.
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The church is afraid of the anointing that was on William Branham.
Brother Branham decided to become a teacher although he was neither called nor equipped for that role. He taught some amazingly heretical things because of this. Gordon Lindsay spoke to him about this. Kenneth Hagin received a prophetic word that the Lord was going to take him home if he did not repent. Brother Branham died the following year, hit by a drunk driver.
In his son’s account of that accident, Brother Branham was conscious at the accident scene. His wife was not breathing and appeared to his son to be dead. Brother Branham prayed for her and she recovered. He never prayed for himself.
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Because of the heresy that he did indeed teach, much of the church has discounted the true anointing that was on him. The lesson here is that God will use imperfect individuals in amazing ways, but He will not tolerate our foolishness forever. Branham got into trouble because he decided to take on a role that God had not given him. I think that is called presumption.
The other area where Branham got into trouble was the fact that his followers began to idolize him. Shortly before his death he spoke of this to Paul Cain, and told Brother Cain that if his followers continued to do that, the Lord was going to take him home.
The church has good reason to fear the level of anointing that people like William Branham and AA Allen walked in. We are so immature and our character so carnal that we stand in danger of the anointing destroying us. We have adopted the world’s superstar mentality and treat anointed brothers and sisters in a worldly way, and we stand in great danger of committing the sin of idolatry every time the Lord puts His anointing on an individual life.
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I am convinced that, despite Branham’s error, there is much to be learned from his life… including such error. The fruit of his ministry was amazing, if you ever read about his South African trip alone it staggers the mind in regards to the number of conversions to Christ that accompanied the testimony of healing in Jesus’ name.
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January 25th, 2009 at 3:03 am
God’s Prophets make NO mistakes.
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January 26th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
What about when Elijah complained to God that he was the only one left? God corrected him. Sorry Robert, you have to have a high view of Scriptures to get what people are talking about here.
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February 7th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Sorry.. but some times, they do, sir!
“He often puts his treasure..in earthen vessels!”
Branham told me personally,(at the end of a crusade, here in
Phx, Az, just before he went to be with the Lord)..
“THAT GOD WAS THROUGH WITH HIM! HE HAD BEEN USED OF GOD
(AS MANY OTHER MEN..HE MENTIONED WILLIAM FREEMEN,JACK COE,
A A ALLEN…AND THE VOICE OF HEALING MINISTERS)..IN A GREAT
SEASON, OF HEALING REVIVALS..WORLD WIDE! HOWEVER, THE CHURCH
WAS ENTERING INTO A “NEW” SEASON..OF SUPERNATURAL TEACHING
AND REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST! HE SAID; “WHEN THAT SEASON
WAS OVER, ANOTHER OUTPOURING OF THE TRUE MINISTRIES OF
APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, WOULD COME TO THE FOREFRONT AND THE
WORLD WOULD WITNESS THE SUPERNATURAL POWER AND CREATIVE
MIRACLES, LIKE THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN!
IF THAT WAS TRUE…(I BELIEVE IT WAS), THEN HE WAS NOT
“GOD’S LAST PROPHET, TO AMERICA”…BECAUSE EVEN HE (AS
WELL AS THE WORD) DECLARED THIS MINISTRY OF THE APOSTLES
AND PROPHETS(NOT JUST SOME BODY WITH A GIFT OF PROPHECY,
OR PROPHETIC PREACHING INSIGHTS)..WOULD COME FORTH IN
THE ENDTIME, MIGHTLY..BEFORE CHRIST RETURN!”(THAT IS
HAPPENING NOW!
MEN BEGAN TO IDOLIZE HIM..AND STILL DO TODAY..JUST AS
THE DID ALLEN, COE AND OTHERS. I KNEW THEM PERSONALLY
AND WORKED WITH MOST OF THEM AS A CRUSADE ORGANIST.
“THEY HATED THAT IDOLATRY SPIRIT..BUT EVEN THOUGH THEY
TRIED TO POINT THE GLORY TO JESUS..MEN STILL TRY TO
MAKE GODS, OUT OF MEN!
NOT ONE PERSON, OUT OF THE BRANHAM MOVEMENT,(TO MY KNOWLEDGE)
HAS BEEN USED OF GOD EVEN IN A NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL
HEALING MINISTRY, LET ALONE ..THE GIFT OF THE WORD OF
KNOWLEDGE OR DISCERNING OF SPIRITS…THAT HELP BRING BRANHAM
TO THE FOREFRONT! THEY HAVE NOT REACHED OUT TO THE WORLD…
EVEN FOR SOULS..BUT JUST BECOME ANOTHER RELIGIOUS CLUB,
LIVING ON BRANHAMS TAPES..AND A DEAD MESSAGE!
GOD HAS A TRUE PEOPLE OUT OF A PEOPLE! A NATION OUT OF
A NATION! A CHURCH COMING OUT OF A CHURCH! THAT’S THE
GLORIOUS CHURCH..(BODY OF CHRIST) THAT HE’S COMING
AFTER, WHO WILL DO GREAT AND MIGHTY EXPLOITS THROUGH
AND THE NATIONS WILL BECOME THE NATIONS…OF OUR LORD
AND “HIS CHRIST!” GET READY..THIS PLANET EARTH WILL
ROCK AND ROLL..WITH THE POWER OF GOD!!”
BUFORDDOWELL@GMAIL.COM
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I know a great preacher locally that is evidently trying to pick up (doctrinally) where Branham left off. Sad, because he is a great preacher in his own right…without the Branham heresy.
May we learn to pick the good fruit and leave the heresy behind!
Let’s go after God!
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I really believe that Paul Cain has the same anointing as William Branham. Same supernatural beginnings, Same type of gift, same level of gift, and same degree impact to the church in their heydeys.
The clip you are showing is from the early branham days. In the later years it seems the gift is still there, but the intensity is not. So as I suggested this post http://churchrevolution.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/return-of-the-thunder/ Cain may yet have a role to play in reigniting a new revival. I think he’d need to be reformed/rehabilitated a bit more, but I believe it could happen because I know for a fact that he longs for the old days even more than the rest of us because he lived it. What is missing is not the man it’s the wine skin. Where will God pour out this kind of fire?
When the Charismatics got a little bit, they started barking like dogs, and when the AG got a little bit they turned it into a denominational event. What will we do?
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I have seen Paul Cain operate in that level of accuracy, but that was before he decided to crash and burn.
I have heard him minister since his restoration and I am generally very pleased with what I have seen in him as far as the genuine fruits of repentance. There is a humility in the man that is refreshing.
Rick Joyner has always maintained that we have not seen Paul Cain walk in the fullness of what God has for him. I hope that he will soon enter into that.
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I agree with everyone else here. We need to reject the error but embrace the gift. We don’t reject Samson or David, we glorify God for what He did through these people and try not to make the same mistakes they did.
btw. Did Paul Cain ever walk in the healing anointing that Branham did? Signs have to point to something. What excited me about this particular clip was the lack of fanfare regarding the healing. The fact that Branham had the words of knowledge were proof that “Jesus the Healer” was present and that the woman was healed.
That level of anointing is amazing. Thats what I long for the church to walk in. Thats what I long to walk in.
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February 7th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
PAUL CAIN IS A GOOD FRIEND..FOR MANY YEARS. I ALSO WORKED WITH
AND KNEW BRO. BRANHAM, BOTH MIGHTY MEN OF GOD!
WHILE IN PAULS CRUSADE IN THE MOORE THEATER IN SEATTLE, HE HAD
A DREAM 3 NIGHTS IN A ROW..”THAT HE WAS PREACHING IN MASS
CRUSADES, IN EUROPE..AND THE MIRACLES WE’RE GREATER THAN
HE HAD EVER SEAN!”
“THEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, HE GOT A PHONE CALL ..A VOICE
SAID; “PAUL…THIS IS WILLIAM BRANHAM!”
PAUL SAID; “OH! BRO. BRANHAM..HOW DID YOU GET MY NUMBER?”
HE ANSWERED; “PAUL..THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME TO ME…AND
GAVE ME YOUR PHONE NUMBER… AND SAID FOR ME TO TELL YOU THIS!
I HAVE 15 CRUSADES SET UP IN GREAT STADIUMS AND ARENAS, IN
EUROPE! HOWEVER, GOD SAID; “FOR YOU TO GO IN MY PLACE!”
PAUL STARTED WEAPING..AND SAID” BRO. BRANHAM..FOR 3 NIGHTS
I’VE DREAMED..THAT I WAS PREACHING THEE GREATEST CRUSADES
OF MY LIFE..IN EUROPE!” “BUT I JUST BEGAN THIS CRUSADE..
AND HAVEN’T BEEN GIVEN A LOVE OFFERING YET..AND I DON’T
HAVE MONEY FOR A PLANE TICKET.”
BRO. BRANHAM SAID; “PAUL…THERE IS A MAN SITTING BY ME..
THAT HAS YOUR TICKET BOOKED..AND PAID FOR!”
BRO. CAIN, WENT AND OBEYED GOD..AND HAD SOME OF THE MOST
POWERFUL HEALING CRUSADES ..EVER IN EUROPE! PTL!!
I WORKED WITH BOTH ..AND LOVED THEIR HEALING MINISTRIES..
BUT I MUST SAY (GIVING THE GLORY TO GOD) THAT I’VE SEEN
PAUL CAIN USED IN THE DECERNMENT GIFTS AND HEALING,
GREATER THAN ANY MAN OF MY GENERATION!
THE GOOD NEWS.. IS GOD RAISED THEM UP (AND OTHERS) TO SHOW
THE CHURCH (THAT YOU AND ME)..”THAT WE TOO..CAN DO WHAT
JESUS DID.. IF WE’LL ONLY BELIEVE AND BE OBEDIENT TO GOD!!”
THE NATIONS WILL SOON ROCK AND ROLL..UNDER GOD’S MIGHTY
POWER!! AMEN!!
BUFORDDOWELL@GMAIL.COM
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Short answer about Cain is yes. One of the most dramatic testimonies I’ve ever heard was about when he was in a meeting at the height of the Jesus People movement and there was a guy there in a wheelchair who had lost not only his physical faculties but also his mental capacity. He was basically a vegetable. During the meeting Cain called him out and said “Brian, God gives you a new Brain” He leapt out of the chair, came down front, and started playing the piano (he had been a classical pianist before the accident). Many many others have been healed of other things like cancer, heart conditions, etc.
Branham and Cain are obiously different men ministering in a different time now, but in terms of level and type of anointing, I personally see them as the same. Because of the fallout from the Latter Rain, Cain hasn’t been welcomed among the Pentecostals like Branham was for a time, and so he generally hangs out with the Charismatics, often in flighty settings. He uses his gift sporadically and chats a lot. I’d love to see him in a context with a more serious crowd, and using his gift “full on”
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February 7th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
GOOD..BUT SPEAKING OF THE LATTER RAIN MOVEMENT, WHEN IT WAS
FIRST BIRTHED, AT THE SHARRON BIBLE SCHOOL, IN CANADA…
BRANHAM ONLY VISITED THERE AND RECEIVED PERSONAL PROPHECIES..
ABOUT HIS COMING MINISTRY.
HE WAS NEVER AN ACTIVE PART OF THE CORE OF THE LATTER RAIN
MOVEMENT! (KINGDOM MESSAGE) ..THOUGH OFTEN INCLUDED IN
IT.
HOWEVER, THE BEGINNING OF THAT MOVEMENT…SPREAD THROUGH
SEATTLE, PORTLAND, OAKLAND, LA, SAN DIEGO(TO MY FATHER AND
UNCLES CHURCHES)..THEN ON TO HOUSTON, DALLAS, DETROIT AND
NY! IT WAS VERY REAL AND POWERFUL!
BUT AS WITH MANY MOVES OF GOD..MAN ETHER TRIES TO BOX IT IN..
PUT A LABEL ON IT AND MAKE ANOTHER DENOMINATION OR ORG. OUT
OF IT,… OR IT BECOMES ANOTHER FLESH POT! SO IT BURT OUT.
HOWEVER..THERE WE’RE MANY PRECIOUS TRUTHS AND OPERATIONS
IN WORSHIP AND MINISTRY..THAT ARE STILL COMING FORTH IN
THE TRUE BODY OF CHRIST.. AND WILL BUILD THE KINGDOM
OF GOD..THROUGHOUT THE NATIONS!
BUFORDDOWELL@GMAIL.COM
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The Anointing is still there my friends just play any tape and beleave it and you will get the same response from God as any one else did when he was here. 1st you got to beleave that he is God’s sent Prophet for this day or you will go nowhere my frinds Malachi 4 promised us a God sent Prophet for this day and just like in the days of Moses God backed Moses up and so did God back up Bro Branham with flawless deserment 100% accurate every time and no where else has this ever happened in our day Malachi 3/6 I am the Lord thy God I change NOT.
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January 27th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Ken, 100% true!
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WILLIAM BRANHAM, WAS A MIGHTILY USED MAN OF GOD!
I FIRST WENT TO HIS CRUSADE, IN DOWNY, CALIF(LA), IN ABOUT 1950, WITH MY PARENTS. I WAS ONLY 10 YRS OLD. THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, BLOCKED ME FROM SEEING ANYTHING AT THE PLATFORM…UNTIL MY FATHER LET ME STAND ON A CHAIR.
THEN I SAW A SMALL..VERY HUMBLE LOOKING MAN, STANDING AT A MICROPHONE, TALKING ABOUT JESUS HEALING POWER!
I SAW A GREAT LIGHT…AROUND HIS HEAD!
I FELT THE PRESENCE OF GOD..LIKE I’D NEVER KNOW! I KNEW IT WAS GOD!!
LATER YRS, I WAS AN ORGANIST AND CRUSADE ADVANCEMAN, FOR MANY HEALING
EVANGELIST.(A A ALLEN, JACK COE, R W SHAMBACH, MORRIS CERULLO, JOHN H
OSTEEN, AND WILLIAM BRANHAM! (AND MANY OTHERS)
I KNEW AND TALKED AT LENGTH WITH BRO. BRANHAM, SEVERAL TIMES.
HE WAS A VERY HUMBLE MAN, AND HAD A GREAT GIFT OF FAITH, HEALING AND
DISCERNMENT!
HE HOWEVER WAS NOT WHAT I CALL..A GREAT PREACHER…NOR TO I BELIEVE
HE WAS A PROPHET,… BUT A MAN WITH SOME PROPHETIC INSITE! (HIS FOLLOWERS
NOT ONLY NAMED HIM A PROPHET..BUT SAID; ” HE WAS GOD’S LAST PROPHET..
TO AMERICA!” I DON’T RECEIVE THAT..GOD STILL HAS TRUE PROPHETS IN
THE BODY OF CHRIST, TODAY!!”
WHILE SOME OF HIS TEACHING, WE’RE IN ERROR… HE HAD MANY TRUTHS..
AND EVEN PROPHESIED TO ME PERSONALLY..HIS SOON PASSING ON TO BE
WITH THE LORD.(HE DIED 6 MONTHS LATER)
“GOD SENT WILLIAM BRANHAM.. NOT BECAUSE OF HIS MESSAGE, BUT SO THAT
HE COULD SHOW THE BODY OF CHRIST..THAT “WE TO ..COULD DO WHAT JESUS DID!”
-T.L. OSBORN
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BUFORDDOWELL@GMAIL.COM
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February 7th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
A man that Jesus spoke of personally in the Bible had false teaching?? Are you joking?? The greatest miracle revival that ever came to the earth, vindicated by God & YOU think that God let him err in his teachings? Blasphemy. You should know your Bible better than that. Malachi 4:5 Luke 17:30 Revelation 10:7 and many others. I’ve been listening to this last day Prophet Bro. Branham for over 41 years and I’ve never heard even ONE mistake.
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BROTHER…THEIR IS A VAST DIFFERANCE, IN A MAN WHO PREACHES OR
TEACHES..WITH “PROPHETIC ENSIGHT”… OR OPERATES IN “THE GIFT
OF PROPHECY (1 OF THE 9 GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT,PAUL SAID I WOULD
THAT YOU ALL PROPHECY)..AND THE TRUE PROPHET ANOINTING!
(AN OFFICE, CHOSEN BY GOD ALMIGHTY..ONE OF THE 5 FOLD MINISTRIES
OF THE CH, AND FOUNDS HIS CHURCH..ON THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS!
I TRAVELED WITH BRANHAM..AND HE NEVER CALLED HIMSELF A PROPHET!
PEOPLE DID! THAT ONE REASON GOD TOOK HIM HOME..AT AN EARLY
AGE(I THINK 50).. WAS BECAUSE HIS DOGMATIC TEACHING ERRORS AND
THAT HE MOSTLY REFUSED TO PRAY FOR THE SICK..IN HIS LAST
MEETINGS…JUST PREACHES HIS RELIGIOUS DOCTORNE!
HE WAS TILL USED OF GOD MIGHTLY…AND WE MUST EAT THE CHICKEN..
AND LEAVE THE BONES, AS WILL ALL MEN..TO WHOM GOD PUTS HIS
TREASURE IN EARTHAN VESSELS! AMEN!
BUFORDDOWELL@GMAIL.COM
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Robert,
1. Buford Dowell personally knew William Branham. They worked and ministered together.
2. William Branham was not the end time prophet as his followers would have you believe. He himself did not even believe that.
3. I don’t allow commentors to argue or insult other commentors. Please read the comment policy before commenting again.
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MY FRIENDS… I’M TRULY SORRY ..IF I’VE OFFENDED ANYONE, WHO
IS A BRANHAM FOLLOWER!
I ONLY WANT TO OFFEND THE DEVIL!
I BELIEVE WHAT I’VE SHARED ABOUT BRO. BRANHAM..TO BE THE
TRUTH1 IF NOT, GOD WILL DEAL WITH ME.
PERHAPS A GOOD STEP FOR ANYONE WHO IS QUESTION..IT SO
TAKE THE PHONE OFF THE HOOK, SHUT DOWN THE PD, RIDE UP
TO THE TALLEST MOUNTAN YOU CAN FIND…ASK GOD TO VISIT
YOU OR LET YOU DIE!…LAY ALL YOUR IDEAS,NOCTURNES..
AND LIFE, ON THE “ALTER OF GOD”..AND ONLY PICK UP,
WHAT GOD GIVES BACK TO YOU!
BE BLESSED-
BUFORDDOWELL@GMAIL.COM
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