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Video available here: http://youtu.be/HKiCkCbGR6c Right before he died, William Branham made his final stand, setting himself up to be a cult leader. In a sermon entitled Leadership, Branham gave the people a choice: follow him or die. He spoke against those who thought they had the Holy Spirit in their hearts who did not believe him to be the final messenger, with one of the worst heresies in the history of his sermons: Many of you think, "I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, I'm going to Heaven." That don't mean one thing that you're going to Heaven. No, sir. You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life, and still be lost and go to hell. The Bible says so. Uh-huh, that's exactly right. 65-1207 LEADERSHIP Later in the sermon, he also says this: When your spirit's anointed, you can... It's the real, genuine Holy Ghost, and you could still be a devil. Most of you who read your bibles know that these statements are false, and the Bible does NOT say what Branham claims. But looking back on the sermon, we find that this statement is setting up the choice that comes later in the sermon. Branham goes through examples in the Old Testament where some sort of Exodus, catching away, or destruction comes, describing how the great men of old were the last chance of the people and they were, for the most part. Those that did not follow Moses out of Egypt would have remained slaves, and those who did not enter the Ark were taken by the Great Flood. But during the course of the sermon, Branham starts giving false examples. He claims that Enoch walked five hundred years before God, when this is a false teaching from the Gnostic book of Enoch. The True Bible says that Enoch was translated after three hundred and sixty five years. Branham lifts himself up on a pedestal, comparing himself to these great men of old. And in each example given, he explains how the people who did not follow their great leader died, even though God was the True Leader. But he discounts the work that Jesus did on the cross! He discounts the Holy Spirit! Throughout the entire sermon, Branham does not point to the Holy Spirit that the Bible says is to be our guide, every reference to Leadership is placed upon his own shoulders! John 14 says,

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I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. This is the very verse that William Branham added to to promote his Oneness Theology. When Branham quoted this verse, he added the words, Even In You, when Jesus said, I will be with you. Yet the Bible says that the Holy Spirit is the Helper that is within us, and Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father. At the same time, it says that the Holy Spirit guides us! The Holy Spirit is our Leader, not William Branham or cult leaders like him. He goes through all of the choices in life, telling how God made us free moral agents to choose as we please, but then describes who the wrong choice is life or death! And in the examples he gives, many times, he is correct. But the full intent of the sermon is choose me [William Branham], or die. Not choose Christ, and let the Holy Spirit dwell within your hearts or perish! He said that it did not matter if you had the Holy Spirit if you did not choose him, you would still die! In the closing arguments of his sermon, he gives the people a choice: What do you look like? What are you following? What have we done? You must choose your leader. Choose today. You choose Life or death. Your choice will determine your Eternal destination, what you choose. Remember, Jesus said, "Follow Me." And you're invited tonight to do so. But entangled in this web of deceit is the theology that his message, the cult, is the only way. He wanted to be our Moses, the one who would lead the people out. He did not care if he had to add to the scriptures to do it. He did not care if he had to choose Gnostic scrolls, like the book of Enoch to do it. He did not even care if he had to deny the Holy Spirit to do it and he did! In his mind, there was one true power, and he had harnessed it. This reminds me of Jeremiah 28, the story of Hananiah: In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord's house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. I will also bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of

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Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the Lord, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. Cant you just hear Hananiah now? In two more years, it will be 1977, and well all be going home! and God had already spoke through Jeremiah, saying that King Nebuchadnezzar was appointed owner of the land for three generations! Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord, and the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the exiles. Yet hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people. The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the Lord has truly sent the prophet. Think of this! The prophet Jeremiah, Gods servant, was fooled by this false prophet Hananiah! He was also looking for the peace that would come, and thought that God was speaking through Hananiah! Even more strange is that Jeremiah 27 tells how God put yokes upon their necks as a reminder that king Nebuchadnezzar would reign as king, along with his son and his grandson! The false prophet was so convincing that they even forgot the reason the yokes were upon their necks! Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke them. And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years. But Jeremiah the prophet went his way. The false prophet stood before Jeremiah, the very man that God spoke to about the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar, and removed the yoke from his neck. And he prophesied that in two years later not enough time for a grandsons rule God was going to break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar that bound the people to his kingdom. God was not pleased: Sometime after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: Go, tell Hananiah, Thus says the Lord: You have broken wooden bars, but you have made in their place bars of iron. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field. Jeremiah, instructed by God, rebuked Hananiah. Hananiah was speaking on his own behalf not God speaking through him. No doubt he had prophecy, but he was not a prophet of God.

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And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, Listen, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie. Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the Lord. Jeremiah had been fooled, just as the thousands have been fooled by William Branhams false prophecy. Hananiah had made the people believe in a lie, but his rebellion was not against the people it was against God: In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hananiah died. Christians, ask yourselves: When you see William Branham adding to the word of God, when the Bible says that whosoever adds to or takes away from will have his part taken from the book of Life, why do you still follow him? When you see his prophecies unraveling, presumptuous speaking on every account, why do you still follow a false prophet? When you see his many doctrines not lining up with the Word of God, when we should have NO doctrine but Christ, why do you listen to his false teaching? When you see him rebelling against God, and denying the Holy Spirit that was sent to Gods children, and even watch him die the very same month, what more does it take for you to wake up and follow Christ? Who is your leader? This false prophet? Or the Holy Spirit that was sent to us after Jesus Christ dies on the cross for our sins? Which Jesus do you follow? The one Branham taught, who died as just a man, or the Great Creator of the heavens and the earth, who stands as our interceder before the Father, and who sent His Holy Spirit to be our Leader? Like Branham said, it is a choice. But not between you and man. It is a choice between you and God.

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