William Marrion Branham was an American Christian minister and faith healer who initiated the post–World War II healing revival. Branham claimed to have received an angelic visitation on May 7, 1946, commissioning his worldwide ministry and launching his campaigning career in mid-1946. His fame spread rapidly as crowds were drawn to his stories of angelic visitations and reports of miracles happening at his meetings. His ministry spawned many emulators and set in motion the broader healing revival that later became the modern Charismatic movement.
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William Marrion Branham was an American Christian minister and faith healer who initiated the post–World War II healing revival. Branham claimed to have received an angelic visitation on May 7, 1946, commissioning his worldwide ministry and launching his campaigning career in mid-1946. His fame spread rapidly as crowds were drawn to his stories of angelic visitations and reports of miracles happening at his meetings. His ministry spawned many emulators and set in motion the broader healing revival that later became the modern Charismatic movement. By 1960, Branham transitioned into a teaching ministry. He died following a car accident in 1965. His teachings continue to be promoted through the William Branham Evangelistic Association, who reported in 2018 that about 2 million people receive their material. He was the son of Charles and Ella Harvey Branham, the oldest of ten children. He claimed that at his birth, a light come whirling through the window, about the size of a pillow, and circled around where I was, and went down on the bed. He told his publicist that he had mystical experiences from an early age; and that at age three he heard a voice speaking to him from a tree telling him \”he would live near a city called New Albany\”. Branham also said that when he was seven years old, God told him to avoid smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages, but that he never violated the command. He called his childhood a ‘terrible life’ Branham’s father was an alcoholic, and he grew up in ‘deep poverty’ as a child.
At 19, he left home seeking a better life. He traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked for two years on a ranch and began a successful in boxing. He said the first time he was no with religion as a career was when he almost killed himself while working for the Public Service Company of Indiana. He later converted to Christianity and was ordained as an Independent Baptist minister. At six months of age, he heard the voice of a voice leading him to begin seeking God. At the time, he was a member of the First Pentecostal Baptist Church of Jeffersonville, Indiana. Six months later he heard that he could hold a tent revival in which he could obtain a small group of followers, which he later helped obtain a tent of his own. He is recognized as the \”principal architect of restorationist thought\” for Charismatics by some Christian historians. His early ministry was animpressive success; he attracted a small number of followers who helped him to obtain a Tent of God. In 1963, he preached a sermon inwhich he indicated he was a prophet with the anointing of Elijah, who had come to herald Christ’s second coming. In 1964, he said he had made over one million converts during his career. His followers accepted his sermons as oral scripture and refer to his teachings as The Message. In his final years, some followers of his teachings placed him at the center of a cult of personality during his final year.
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