{"id":110982,"date":"2021-08-14T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=110982"},"modified":"2023-01-06T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:24:22","slug":"the-impact-of-william-branhams-ufo-theology-on-peoples-temple","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=110982","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of William Branham\u2019s UFO Theology on Peoples Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"

(John Collins is a regular contributor to\u00a0<\/em>the jonestown report. His collections of articles for this site may be found\u00a0<\/em>here<\/em><\/a>. More information about Rev. William Branham prepared by John Collins may be found at the informational website,<\/em>\u00a0https:\/\/william-branham.org<\/em><\/a>. His latest book is\u00a0<\/em>Preacher Behind the White Hoods: A Critical Examination of William Branham and His Message<\/em><\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

In the spring of 1978, just a few months before the Jonestown Massacre, 14-year-old Jonestown resident Alfred March approached Rev. Jim Jones to discuss a subject that was troubling his mind: Unidentified Flying Objects.[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Alfred had recently heard information released by the United States Air Force describing the incredible speed and maneuverability of UFOs, and wanted to get Jones\u2019 spiritual insight.\u00a0 Another person joined in the conversation, expressing fears that the United States Government would soon develop a weapon in response.\u00a0 Instead of responding to the question, however, Jones suddenly felt a rise in blood pressure and changed the subject.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the first time that UFOs and thoughts of extraterrestrial beings had impacted Jones.\u00a0 During the early years of his ministry, Jim Jones was a recognized leader[3]<\/a> of a religious sect that was obsessed with the UFO phenomenon.\u00a0 After the public perception of UFOs turned from excited curiosity to fear of invasion from extraterrestrials, leaders of the sect seized the opportunity to push their agenda through fears of apocalypse.\u00a0 By 1961, Jones was so convinced of their doomsday predictions that he began claiming that extraterrestrials were warning him of attacks on Chicago and Indianapolis.[4]<\/a>\u00a0 Their sect became known as \u201cThe Message.\u201d[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Like the recent media frenzy created by the release of the National Intelligence report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena<\/em>,[6]<\/a> the 1950s saw Unidentified Flying Objects become a hot topic of discussion.\u00a0 Television, radio, newspapers, and magazines were publishing even the slightest bit of information \u2013 whether true or not \u2013 about \u201cflying saucers.\u201d\u00a0 Why? \u00a0The subject matter sold copies, and quickly!\u00a0 Even within the religious community, the mystery surrounding the phenomenon could be used to attract itching ears and wandering eyes with open purses for freewill offerings \u2013 if the End of Days was at hand, people had no use for money.\u00a0 Multiple issues[7]<\/a> of The Voice of Healing<\/em> publication (which advertised revivalist leaders in The Message) used the topic of flying saucers for fearmongering and to substantiate end-of-the-world doomsday prophecies.[8]<\/a><\/p>\n

In light of that fact, it should come as no surprise that the history of The Message sect aligns with the UFO phenomenon.\u00a0 The term \u201cflying saucer\u201d was coined in 1947 after Kenneth Arnold noticed flying objects moving \u201clike saucers skipping on water\u201d and newspapers mistakenly stated that he saw \u201csaucer-shaped\u201d objects.[9]<\/a>\u00a0 That same year, the leader of The Message sect, William Branham, changed his stage persona to include an \u201cangelic visitation\u201d as part of his \u201cfaith healing\u201d performances.[10]<\/a>\u00a0 In 1948, the excitement\u00a0 UFOs increased to a new level when Colonel William Nuckols admitted that the United States Air Force was investigating the \u201csaucers.[11]<\/a>\u00a0 That same year, the healing revivals led by William Branham[12]<\/a> merged with the \u201cLatter Rain\u201d[13]<\/a> sect to create the \u201cLatter Rain Revival\u201d of 1948.[14]<\/a>\u00a0 Over time, the \u201cLatter Rain Message\u201d became simply known as \u201cThe Message,\u201d which Jones later referred to in private letters.[15]<\/a> In the years leading up to Jones being ordained into the sect through Rev. Joseph Mattsson-Boze in Chicago,[16]<\/a> the Air Force testing greatly intensified the fear of invasion.\u00a0 Dummies with latex skin and aluminum bones were dropped across New Mexico to identify ways for pilots to survive falls from a plane \u2013 causing misinformation that aliens were falling from the skies in an unseen war with the military.[17]<\/a>\u00a0 Leaders of the sect began claiming that \u201cwee men\u201d were sent to the Church to test \u201cthe power of God.\u201d[18]<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jim Jones became a familiar face in The Message as early as 1951 when he started holding revivals of his own in Los Angeles, California hosted by the Rev. Orval Lee Jaggers. Jaggers was an editor for Branham\u2019s Voice of Healing<\/em> publication[19]<\/a> and shared the belief that UFOs were a \u201crevelation of God\u2019s power.\u201d[20]<\/a>\u00a0The Voice of Healing<\/em> publication thrilled its readers with doomsday countdowns,[21]<\/a> clouds that allegedly looked like Jesus descending in an \u201cimminent\u201d return,[22]<\/a> and \u201cspiritual\u201d explanations of the \u201cMystery of the Flying Saucers.\u201d[23]<\/a>\u00a0 Leaders of the sect claimed that UFOs were \u201ccelestial warnings of an impending Divine interruption of the course of world events\u201d[24]<\/a> \u2013 or in simple terms, Armageddon.[25]<\/a>\u00a0 These extraterrestrial \u201cwee men\u201d in \u201cflying saucers\u201d were not to be feared, but were sent to warn members of the sect that the End of Days was near.\u00a0 Those who did not heed their warning would be eternally doomed.[26]<\/a>\u00a0 Over time, the UFOs made their way into the sect\u2019s theology by interchanging the word \u201csign\u201d in the Bible with \u201cflying saucer\u201d when reading passages of apocalyptic prophecy.[27]<\/a>\u00a0 Gordon Lindsay, Branham\u2019s campaign manager and publisher of The Voice of Healing<\/em>, wrote several articles and books about UFOs to further promote the sect\u2019s doctrine of UFOs.[28]<\/a>\u00a0 Branham began to claim that humans were made of \u201ccosmic light\u201d which would transition to another dimension,[29]<\/a> and that dispensational \u201cages\u201d were led by a prophet of \u201clight.\u201d[30]<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In 1956, when it was announced that Jim Jones would host the international convention of ministers at the Cadle Tabernacle in Indianapolis,[31]<\/a> the sect began claiming that along with the UFO \u201csigns\u201d in the sky, God would soon be showing signs on the earth in the form of a tidal wave that would destroy Chicago,[32]<\/a> home of Joseph Mattsson-Boze\u2019s Philadelphia Church.\u00a0 According to William Branham, Chicago was the focal point of Nahum\u2019s prophecy[33]<\/a> [34]<\/a> in the Old Testament book of Nahum \u2013 instead of the city of Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire as described in the book itself.[35]<\/a>\u00a0 Chicago had already seen a \u201cfreak wave\u201d in 1954,[36]<\/a> and because of its unexplained nature, the sect claimed that God himself was coming to destroy Chicago in the form of a much larger tidal wave.\u00a0 Later that year after Government officials began to release the information about UFOs[37]<\/a> collected under code name Project Blue Book,[38]<\/a> leaders of the sect used the information as vindication of their UFO doctrine.[39]<\/a>\u00a0 They also began claiming that just as the UFO sightings had increased, the signs on the earth would increase in the form of tidal waves that would kill thousands of people.[40]<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Chicago was obviously never destroyed by tidal wave, but that did not lessen the impact that the doomsday predictions had on Jim Jones, or decrease the number of doomsday threats raised by the sect.\u00a0 Even though Peoples Temple had left The Message to join the Disciples of Christ in 1959,[41]<\/a> Jones apparently remained interested in the doomsday predictions of The Message.\u00a0 In 1961, William Branham informed sect members in Chicago that Chicagoans were \u201ccannon fodder\u201d \u2013 not worth saving \u2013 and that they would soon be destroyed by atomic bomb[42]<\/a>instead of <\/em>a tidal wave.\u00a0 That same year \u2013 and shortly before Jim Jones and his family fled the United States to South America[43]<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Jones confessed his belief of extraterrestrials and fear of the destruction of Chicago by atomic bomb to Archie Ijames, a leader in Peoples Temple.[44]<\/a>\u00a0 According to Jones, he had received this information from an \u201cextraterrestrial being.\u201d\u00a0 While the mystery of the UFOs may never be solved, answers to the mystery of who these \u201cextraterrestrial beings\u201d were may be found within the transcripts of recorded statements of Jones and Branham.<\/p>\n

The Message sect that strongly influenced Jones\u2019 theology during the 1950s claimed that humans had \u201clost [their] origin\u201d in the Garden of Eden and historically did not always assume the same form.\u00a0 Instead, they were vessels containing other beings and originally took the form of other animals.\u00a0 According to Branham, they may have taken the form of monkeys, apes, and even bears.[45]<\/a>\u00a0 Branham also taught that his own human vessel came from \u201canother dimension that the world knows nothing about.\u201d[46]<\/a>\u00a0 As late as 1972, Jones still taught Branham\u2019s theology of the evolution of man, from the animal to the extraterrestrial\/extra-dimensional.[47]<\/a>\u00a0 According to Branham\u2019s Manifested Sons of God Theology,[48]<\/a> humans were vessels for the manifestation of<\/em> God, some having more \u201cmanifestation\u201d and some less.\u00a0 Jones believed that both he and his son Stephan had a high level of \u201cmanifestation,\u201d evolved from the \u201cextra-dimensional\/extraterrestrial.\u201d[49]<\/a>\u00a0 Leaders in The Message taught that God Himself was in the \u201cseventh dimension,\u201d and humans were vessels made of \u201ccosmic light and petroleums [sic]\u201d in the present dimension.[50]<\/a><\/p>\n

Throughout his life, Jones continued to instruct Peoples Temple members in their journey into the \u201chigher dimensions of an extraterrestrial world.\u201d[51]<\/a> Like Branham,[52]<\/a> Jones claimed that his \u201chealing power\u201d came from another dimension (extraterrestrial),[53]<\/a> and that he had been visited by beings from those higher dimensions described by the Apostle Paul as \u201cthird heavens.\u201d[54]<\/a> Though Jones did not mention these beings by the names of their \u201cearthly vessels,\u201d he was describing theology introduced to him by William Branham.\u00a0 Branham frequently claimed to have had out-of-body-experiences in the \u201cthird heavens,\u201d[55]<\/a> and claimed that when he performed his healings on stage, he entered other dimensions[56]<\/a> and spoke with the \u201cvoice of God\u201d[57]<\/a> while teaching.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In February of 1963, while Jim Jones and his family were living in Brazil, a set of spectacular cloud formations in the shape of \u201cgiant smoke rings\u201d floated across the state of Arizona.\u00a0 The largest of the two was 26 miles high and 30 miles across \u2013 much larger than any cloud should be and at a much higher altitude.[58]<\/a>\u00a0UFO chaser[59]<\/a> James McDonald, researching the strange formation as professor of meteorology and climatology at the University of Arizona, was unaware that Vandenberg Air Force Base was testing intercontinental ballistic missiles[60]<\/a> [61]<\/a> on the day the cloud appeared.[62]<\/a> When McDonald calculated the cloud\u2019s altitude at 140,000 feet \u2013 40,000 feet higher than any cloud previously reported[63]<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 it set both the UFO and The Message communities ablaze.<\/p>\n

Though William Branham was in Houston, Texas at the time of the missile detonation,[64]<\/a> he began claiming that the \u201ccloud\u201d was really a \u201cpyramid\u201d of angels[65]<\/a> from the other dimension that came down to visit him after another unknown being allegedly gave him a physical \u201csword,\u201d[66]<\/a> and instructed him to open up the apocalyptic seven seals from the Book of Revelation in the Bible.[67]<\/a>\u00a0 Branham\u2019s UFO theology had become more strongly focused on doomsday events during Jones\u2019 time in South America, and he had begun claiming that UFOs were angels sent to investigate before the final destruction, similar to the angels that visited Abraham before the Biblical destruction of Sodom.[68]<\/a>\u00a0 Though it is evident that Branham believed himself symbolically to be the \u201cAbraham\u201d from the passage, [69]<\/a> it was also evident that Jim Jones did not.\u00a0 To Jones, it would have felt more like he <\/em>was the symbolic Abraham, and he needed to separate himself from the Biblical Lot (Branham) to leave for the \u201cpromised land,\u201d which would eventually become Jonestown, Guyana.<\/p>\n

Whether or not Jim Jones\u2019 decision to move Peoples Temple to Guyana was influenced by The Message, after his return to the United States, he did just that.\u00a0 The same year of Branham\u2019s alleged angelic visitation that formed the cloud rings, Jones returned with his family from Brazil to the United States. Two months later, Jones was ordained as a minister by the Disciples of Christ, and by July of 1965 Peoples Temple moved from Indianapolis, Indiana to Ukiah, California, far away from the blast radius of the \u201cdoomed\u201d Chicago.\u00a0 Branham had already moved his family away from Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1963.[70]<\/a><\/p>\n

Like Abraham parting with Lot in the Old Testament, Jim Jones did part with William Branham after learning that Branham allegedly did not believe the Bible.[71]<\/a>\u00a0 That does not necessarily mean that Jones fully abandoned Branham\u2019s unusual theology, however.\u00a0 Jones later admitted to agreeing with Branham, claiming that King James \u201cput lies in the Bible,\u201d and for the rest of his ministerial career Jones continued to teach Branham\u2019s doctrines on dispensationalism, which claimed that each \u201cdispensation\u201d must have a \u201cprophet\u201d[72]<\/a> to rightly divide the truth from the error.[73]<\/a>\u00a0In Jones\u2019 eyes, Branham\u2019s \u201cage,\u201d or \u201cdispensation\u201d ended with his death in 1965.\u00a0 Jones then assumed his position as \u201cprophet God of light\u201d for his \u201cage,\u201d which he referred to as the \u201crevolutionary age.\u201d[74]<\/a> It also does not mean that Jones had become atheist or non-Christian in the literal sense; Jones remained within the boundaries of Branham\u2019s theology concerning the \u201cprophet\u201d for a dispensation; He did abandon parts of the King James Bible, but the Bible itself was not necessary under the Manifested Sons of God theology.\u00a0 Jones was<\/em> the Bible, the Word of God \u2013 He was the fulfillment of the Word, or Bible, in what he believed to be his current dispensation in his current dimension.\u00a0 He believed others would rise after him, in another dispensation, possibly in another life, to be the Word of God to their people.<\/p>\n

Man must live by every word. They say, well, what is the Word of God then? How do I know? I just told you. I am the fulfillment of that in this dispensation. You can be the fulfillment in your dispensation.[75]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

REFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Q590 Transcript.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27475<\/a>.\u00a0 Alfred March<\/strong>: “Well, Dad, the thing I was going to say about television was already said, but Lew [Jones] asked me to say that they use it for propaganda, and that they said that they was going to get everybody having a television, even the poor people, and I had another thing I was going to say, they said that UFO\u2019s come, and you had said, they come in groups of four and sixteen, and the Air Force has tried to go out and catch up with them, but they went up to them, [but] they went fast or sometimes, they just went up higher, they just completely stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Q590 Transcript.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27475<\/a>.\u00a0 Another person<\/strong>: “I want to add on to what Alfred has said, in the UFO\u2019s. America already knows that there\u2019s UFOs, and they trying to find out if it\u2019s going to help capitalism or if it\u2019s going to destroy it. And if it ain\u2019t gone help them none, then they gone try and make some kind of weapon that could destroy them.” \u00a0Jones<\/strong>: “I don\u2019t know, I think I ought to have something to eat, probably, putting this stuff on, plus they ought to have the blood pressure pill there, as my blood pressure seems to be going up. I missed that. What was that, sweetie? I missed it.”<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1956, Oct 2.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/56-1002A<\/a>.\u201dHappy to see, today, is our host pastor, Brother James Jones, from Indianapolis, back there.\u201d<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Reiterman, Tim. 1982.\u00a0 Raven.\u00a0 \u201cIn October 1961, Jones apparently was \u2019hearing\u2019 what he had told Ijames were voices from extraterrestrial beings. One day as he strode into the house and started up the stairway, he had wheeled around suddenly, holding his eyes. He had seen a big flash of light, he told his people: a vision of a nuclear explosion in Chicago that burned down within miles of Indianapolis. Indianapolis too would come under attack. To religious people, this vision of apocalypse summoned up terrible images of hell on earth, of the judgment day, of fear. Coming from Jim Jones, one who had healed and revealed so expertly in the past, the warning assumed prophetic proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Collins, John.\u00a0 Duyzer, Peter. The Message Connection of Jim Jones and William Branham.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=65112<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cIn a handwritten note from Rev. Jim Jones to Earl Jackson, believed to be dated between 1957 and 1965, Jones refers to a movement that he describes \u2018the Message\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> 2021, Jun 25.\u00a0 Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/ODNI\/documents\/assessments\/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Lindsay, Gordon.\u00a0 1952, Oct.\u00a0 The Voice of Healing<\/em>.\u00a0 What is the Mystery of the Flying Saucers.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/resource?key=voh_1952_10_october.pdf&parent=voice_of_healing&voh=true<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cTWO YEARS ago we carried an article on THE PROPHETIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FLYING SAUCERS. {\u2026} THERE ARE FLYING SAUCERS!\u201d<\/p>\n

[8]<\/a> Ex: Lindsay, Gordon.\u00a0 1952, Oct.\u00a0 The Voice of Healing<\/em>.\u00a0 What is the Mystery of the Flying Saucers?\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/resource?key=voh_1952_10_october.pdf&parent=voice_of_healing&voh=true<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cThe Flying Saucers are a mystery that none of the learned of this world is able to explain.\u00a0 The explanation may be only found in the words of Jesus, \u2018Signs shall there be from heaven.\u2019\u00a0 What is the purpose of these signs? They are to warn men of the coming of judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n

[9]<\/a> History of UFOs.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/paranormal\/history-of-ufos<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cThe first well-known UFO sighting occurred in 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane. Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand miles per hour and said they moved ‘like saucers skipping on water.’ In the newspaper report that followed, it was mistakenly stated that the objects were saucer-shaped, hence the term flying saucer.\u201d<\/p>\n

[10]<\/a> Collins, John.\u00a0 2020.\u00a0 Preacher Behind the White Hoods: A Critical Examination of William Branham and his Message. \u00a0“By 1946, he [William Branham] was holding \u2018healing revivals\u2019 all across the United States.\u00a0 In the fall of 1946, W. E. Kidson launched a \u2018healing\u2019 campaign that would quickly change William Branham from a small-town preacher to an internationally recognized \u2018faith healer.\u2019<\/p>\n

“When I thought about the \u2018prophet\u2019s\u2019 early years as a \u2018faith healer\u2019, in the \u2018Message\u2019, I thought about late 1947 and 1948.\u00a0 We were told that an \u2018angel\u2019 gave him his \u2018gift of healing\u2019 in May of 1947.\u201d<\/p>\n

[11]<\/a> Checking Flying Saucers, Air Force Colonel Admits.\u00a0 1948, Jul 29.\u00a0 The Cincinnati Enquirer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[12]<\/a> Liardon, Roberts.\u00a0 2000.\u00a0 God\u2019s Generals.\u00a0 \u201cBranham became the leader in the Voice of Healing revival, which originated in the late forties.\u201d<\/p>\n

[13]<\/a> Crowder, John.\u00a0 2006.\u00a0 Miracle Workers, Reformers, and the New Mystics.\u00a0 \u201cKnown simply as the healing revival, Voice of Healing Revival, or Latter Rain Revival.\u201d<\/p>\n

[14]<\/a> The Latter Rain.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/latter-rain.com\/eschae\/latter.htm<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201ca sectarian movement that started in 1948.\u201d<\/p>\n

[15]<\/a> Jones, James.\u00a0 Note to Earl Jackson.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 10 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13782<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[16]<\/a> For more info see.\u00a0 The \u201cFull Gospel\u201d Origins of Peoples Temple: https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=92702<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[17]<\/a> History of UFOs.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/paranormal\/history-of-ufos<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cThe flames of conspiracy were further fanned in the 1950s, when dummies with latex \u2018skin\u2019 and aluminum \u2018bones\u2019 that looked eerily like aliens fell from the sky across New Mexico and were hurriedly picked up by military vehicles. To those who believed in the earlier Roswell sightings, this seemed like a government cover-up. For the Air Force, these \u2018dummy drops\u2019 were a way to test new ways for pilots to survive falls.\u201d<\/p>\n

[18]<\/a> Branham, William. 1955, Feb 23. Job.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/55-0223<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cAll these things coming up like little saucers\u2014flying saucers is going to come to the church, and little wee men coming through testing the power of God, all this fanaticism, stay in the Word. Said, \u201cStay right there.\u201d Don\u2019t you go from every tossed about here, and there. Stay right with the Word; believe the Word. All right.\u201d<\/p>\n

[19]<\/a> 1951, Jan. Associate Editors. Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/resource?key=voh_1951_01_january.pdf&parent=voice_of_healing&voh=true<\/a>.\u00a0 The Voice of Healing<\/em>. (Listed as O. L. Jaggers).<\/p>\n

[20]<\/a> The Universal World Church (Hawaii Fellowship). Accessed 2019, May 27 from http:\/\/www.letusreason.org\/Cults2.htm<\/a>.\u00a0 His belief in astrology was confirmed through occult teachings which included that UFO\u2019s were a revelation of God’s power.<\/p>\n

[21]<\/a> Ex: Lindsay, Gordon.\u00a0 November in Prophecy.\u00a0 1948, Nov.\u00a0 The Voice of Healing<\/em>.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/resource?key=voh_1948_11_november.pdf&parent=voice_of_healing&voh=true<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cThe cold war is on now \u2013 the hour approaches for World War III to break in its fury.\u201d<\/p>\n

[22]<\/a> Ex: Signs In Earth, Air and Sky Foretell Imminent Return of Christ.\u00a0 1951, Sept.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/resource?key=voh_1951_09_september.pdf&parent=voice_of_healing&voh=true<\/a>.\u00a0 The Voice of Healing<\/em>\u00a0 (Front Cover).<\/p>\n

[23]<\/a> What Is the Mystery of the Flying Saucers?\u00a0 1952, Oct.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/resource?key=voh_1952_10_october.pdf&parent=voice_of_healing&voh=true<\/a>.\u00a0 The Voice of Healing<\/em>\u00a0 (Cover photo).<\/p>\n

[24]<\/a> Lindsay, Gordon.\u00a0 What Is the Mystery of the Flying Saucers?\u00a0 1952, Oct. \u00a0The Voice of Healing<\/em>.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/resource?key=voh_1952_10_october.pdf&parent=voice_of_healing&voh=true<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[25]<\/a> Branham, William. 1953, Dec 1. God’s Provided Way.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/table.branham.org<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cflying saucers through the air and everything else. Jesus said, \u201cThere\u2019d be signs in the heaven above and in the earth below, pillars of fire and vapors of smoke; it shall come to pass before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall come.\u201d<\/p>\n

[26]<\/a> Branham, William. 1955, May 22. The Ark.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/55-0522<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cHe is in the world today, showing signs and wonders {\u2026} Signs! Signs of flying saucers through the air, where even the Pentagon and all don\u2019t know what to think of it, \u2018Signs in the heaven above. \u2018 \u2018And on earth,\u2019 the healing of the sick, the raising of the dead, the opening of the blinded eyes, the casting out of evil spirits, the Gospel being preached, signs before His Coming! \u201cNot willing that any should perish, but that all might humbly, sweetly bow to repentance.\u2019 But, those who reject Christ, have to walk blind.\u201d<\/p>\n

[27]<\/a> Ex: Branham, William. 1955, May 22. The Junction of Time.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/56-0115<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cAnd it shall come to pass,\u201d saith God, \u201cin the last days, I\u2019ll pour out My Spirit. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy,\u201d prophets promised. \u201cYour young men shall see visions. And I\u2019ll show wonders in the heavens above,\u201d flying saucers and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

[28]<\/a> Example Books: The Mystery of the Flying Saucers in the Light of the Bible, 1954.\u00a0 The Antichrists Have Come, 1958.\u00a0 The Signs of the Times in the Heavens, 1972.\u00a0 Example Voice of Healing<\/em> articles: Signs in the Heavens, 1953.\u00a0 The Mystery of the Flying Saucers, 1954. Further Developments on the Flying Saucers, 1954. Men in the Flying Saucers Identified, 1954. Flying Saucers, Atomic Bombs and the Second Coming of Christ, 1955.<\/p>\n

[29]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1955, Apr 3.\u00a0 Fellowship by Redemption.\u00a0 55-0403.\u00a0 After you go out of this body, out of cosmic light and petroleums, and what you\u2019re made up of, and you go into the fourth dimension; out of that, into the fifth dimension, then the sixth dimension. Then, God is in the seventh. You\u2019re right under His altar.\u201d<\/p>\n

[30]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1964, Mar 12.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/64-0312<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cMoses was the light of his age. Jeremiah was the light of his age. It was the God\u2019s light shining forth for the Word that was promised for that age. Every age has its promised Word. God sends His prophets and reveals that Word; vindicates His prophet, first, then reveals that Word and makes It live.\u201d<\/p>\n

[31]<\/a> Salvation-Healing Campaigns of the Voice of Healing Evangelists: William Branham.\u00a0 1956, Jun.\u00a0 The Voice of Healing<\/em>.\u00a0 \u201cHost pastor: Rev. James Jones.\u201d<\/p>\n

[32]<\/a> Branham, William. 1956, Apr 4. The Infallibility of God’s Spoken Word.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/56-0404<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cflying saucers and everything, all kinds of mystic signs in the heavens above. Signs on the earth below, there\u2019ll be sea a roaring, tidal waves breaking along Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

[33]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1956, Jan 29.\u00a0 The Supernatural.\u00a0 56-0129. \u00a0“See, Nahum called them broad ways. And then standing on the Outer Drive in Chicago I thought of that many time, how that a three and four abreast going each way, the broad ways.”<\/p>\n

[34]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1957, Jul 14.\u00a0 As The Eagle Stirreth Up Her Nest.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/57-0714<\/a>. \u00a0“That great eagle called Nahum, four thousand years ago, went up so high in the Spirit of God until he seen Outer Drive in Chicago, four thousand years later. Said, ‘The chariots shall rage in the broad ways: they shall run like lightning, they shall seem like torches, they\u2019ll justle one against another.’\u201d<\/p>\n

[35]<\/a> Nahum 1:1. \u201cA prophecy concerning Nineveh.\u201d<\/p>\n

[36]<\/a> Briscoe, Tony.\u00a0 Lake Michigan\u2019s deadly \u2018freak wave\u2019 of 1954 is Chicago folklore. Turns out it was a meteotsunami. And they happen pretty often.\u00a0 2019, Apr 25.\u00a0 Chicago Tribune<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[37]<\/a> Ruppelt, Edward Cap.\u00a0 1956.\u00a0 The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects.<\/p>\n

[38]<\/a> Project BLUE BOOK – Unidentified Flying Objects.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 10 from https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/military\/air-force\/ufos<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[39]<\/a> Branham, William. 1956, Nov 25. A Blushing Prophet.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/table.branham.org<\/a>. \u00a0“You seen it in the paper the other day where they\u2019re requiring science, the pentagon, to answer the flying saucers. It wasn\u2019t myth. It wasn\u2019t something it imagined. It was real. It was an intelligence. They flew in battle formation. They could stop. They could start. They could stop. They could tell. It was an intelligence. They know it. The people laughed. They said, ‘Flying saucers?’ made a fun out of it.”<\/p>\n

[40]<\/a> Branham, William. 1956, Dec 9. Jehovah Jireh.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/56-1209E<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cGreat sights in the air, fearful sights in the skies, flying saucers, all kinds of things in the air, man\u2019s heart failing\u2026 More heart trouble than anything else today, perplexed of time, The sea a roaring, great tidal waves breaking the banks of the seas that\u2019s never been known in history, killing thousands.\u201d<\/p>\n

[41]<\/a> 100 Events in History of Peoples Temple.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 10 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Timeline100.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[42]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1961, Apr 27.\u00a0 Only Believe.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from\u00a0 https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/61-0427<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cNow, Father, we\u2019re once more again in this great crossroads of the world here tonight, Chicago, Illinois. How people has longed to say, \u2018Oh, if it could be shook, if it could be shook\u2026\u2019 O God, that atomic fodder running out there on the street will never be shook. It\u2019ll be shook with an atomic bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

[43]<\/a> 100 Events in History of Peoples Temple.<\/p>\n

[44]<\/a> Reiterman, Tim. 1982.\u00a0 Raven.\u00a0 In October 1961, Jones apparently was \u201chearing\u201d what he had told Ijames were voices from extraterrestrial beings. One day as he strode into the house and started up the stairway, he had wheeled around suddenly, holding his eyes. He had seen a big flash of light, he told his people: a vision of a nuclear explosion in Chicago that burned down within miles of Indianapolis. Indianapolis too would come under attack. To religious people, this vision of apocalypse summoned up terrible images of hell on earth, of the judgment day, of fear. Coming from Jim Jones, one who had healed and revealed so expertly in the past, the warning assumed prophetic proportions.<\/p>\n

[45]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1949, Dec 25.\u00a0 The Deity of Christ. Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from\u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/49-1225<\/a>. \u00a0“But there was no man to till the soil, so God made man out of dust of the earth. And that man, He might have give him a hands like a monkey, He might have give him feet like a bear. Whatever He did, He just throwed it together and made a man. But this man, He put this immortal spirit, that never dies, into this man, and he become more than a brute; he became a man. Then this man here, that\u2019s what I think that atheists and some of them standing around, arguing. But the hour has come when God shed forth His Light, there is an hour here that when God is doing things. That\u2019s right. And so now when they argue, ‘Well, his feet look like a bear, and his hands look like a\u2014a ape or a\u2014a monkey, or so forth,’ and they try to say his origin come that. That has nothing to do with it. This is the body of flesh that he is just living in, like a house, it\u2019s going back to the dust of the earth. But the spirit is immortal; it comes from God. That\u2019s the image of God. God is a Spirit. That man lost his origin in the garden of Eden.\u201d<\/p>\n

[46]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1952, Jul 13.\u00a0 God Testifying of His Gifts. Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from\u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/52-0713E<\/a>. \u00a0“Now I\u2026 Now, your doctor, he can tell you about your\u2014your body, your anatomy, but I\u2019m here, I\u2026 My work is in the realm of spirits. That\u2019s where I live a big part of my life, is in another dimension, that the world knows nothing about. And I speak that in the Name of the Lord.”<\/p>\n

[47]<\/a> Jones, James.\u00a0 1972, Jun 12.\u00a0 Q1059-2 Transcript.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=63541<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cYou don\u2019t ever believe you had a tail, but it\u2019s right down there. You been talking about your tailbone long as you been living. (Mimics Disbeliever) I hurt mah tailbone. (Normal tone) Look at it on the skeleton. It\u2019s stickin\u2019 right out there. That\u2019s the beauty of it. We evolved from the little things, on up through the animal, the vegetable, the mineral, up to the human, and then the human to the extraterrestrial, the extra-dimensional, or God. There\u2019s no end to growth, there\u2019s no end to evolution, that\u2019s the beauty of life, that\u2019s what makes it so thrilling.\u201d<\/p>\n

[48]<\/a> For more info see Collins, John.\u00a0 Joel\u2019s Army: The Manifested Sons of God.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from\u00a0 https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=102213<\/a><\/p>\n

[49]<\/a> Jones, James.\u00a0 1972, Jun 12.\u00a0 Annotated Transcript Q1059-3.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=63560<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cI could live 150 years, if I didn\u2019t have to fool with church. See, I\u2019m a superman. That\u2019s not being egotistical, I\u2019m a superperson. I have just a certain evolution, a paranormal, a precognitive. I have just an extra-dimensional, extraterrestrial, some evolvement. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s responsible for it. My natural son [Stephan Jones] has the same instincts coming forth. I\u2019m gone teach my adopted ones [Jim Jones Jr., Lew Jones], too.\u201d<\/p>\n

[50]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1955, Apr 3.\u00a0 Fellowship by Redemption.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/55-0403<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cAfter you go out of this body, out of cosmic light and petroleums, and what you\u2019re made up of, and you go into the fourth dimension; out of that, into the fifth dimension, then the sixth dimension. Then, God is in the seventh. You\u2019re right under His altar. 236 Then when God let\u2019s your spirit loose, it picks up what? Comes out of the sixth dimension, into the fifth, cosmic light; come out of the light, into petroleums; out of petroleum, into the senses.\u201d<\/p>\n

[51]<\/a> Jones, James.\u00a0 1972, Jun 12.\u00a0 Annotated Transcript Q1059-4.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=63587<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cIf you seek that first heaven or that extra dimension, then they that will be worthy shall not enter into, will not give nor receive in marriage. Jesus did not say, those that get into heaven would not marry, he said, those that would be found worthy to enter into heaven would have laid that aside and separated themselves from that plane of consciousness, because marriage is a part of the propertied system in this stage of the revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

[52]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1953, Nov 3.\u00a0 53-1103.\u00a0 Taking God at His Word.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/table.branham.org<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cYou believe that I\u2019m able to do this through God? {\u2026} You heard, that was my voice. It was me speaking. It was my voice, but It wasn\u2019t me speaking.\u00a0Now, ever what it was, I don\u2019t know what it was cause it\u2019s another dimension, you see. It\u2019s another world.\u201d<\/p>\n

[53]<\/a> Jones, James.\u00a0 1973, July 21.\u00a0 Annotated Transcript Q1015.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=78014<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cBut I\u2019m telling you something that\u2019s been proven to me as a metaphysician that called up the woman that spit the cancer up in the aisle, and I told her things about her life, and healed her back, from their neck, where it had been broken in an accident. I can only tell you my experience level. My experience level is that there are some rare cases where people do not have any existence after their body passes. What little spark of extra-dimensional talent or extraterrestrial talent or heavenly aspect integrates with another body, and they never survive as a personality.\u201d<\/p>\n

[54]<\/a> Jones, James.\u00a0 1973, Sept 14.\u00a0 Q1023 Transcript.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 9 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27309<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cOur own point of view is that we have been visited from higher dimensions. Paul called them third heavens \u2013 he was carried away to the third heaven once in a vision \u2013 or we say extra planetary realms. We have been visited from time to time by saviors from outer space. We see all over the planet today mentioning of unidentified flying objects. It has even been said on the great body of scientific study, that the Ark of the Covenant was a monitoring device from some spaceship outside, because when people touched it, they died from some electronic power, and it would speak to the people, and the people worshipped it in Jeremiah\u2019s day (or in Joshua\u2019s day. They rent their clothes before that Ark of the Covenant. Then it disappeared, it was lifted, and Jeremiah said we will remember the Ark of the Covenant no more.\u201d<\/p>\n

[55]<\/a> Ex: Branham, William.\u00a0 1960, May 15.\u00a0 Adoption #1.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/60-0515E<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cI\u2019ll never forget what happened last Sunday morning, as a week. It has done something to me that\u2019s revolutionized my life. \u00a0{\u2026} God let me be caught up to see something, I would refer to the first Heavens. And then I believe, one in the Bible, by the name, I believe it was Paul, that was caught up into the third Heavens. {\u2026} I don\u2019t know whether was in this body or out of the body. Only thing, it was just as real as I\u2019m looking at you.\u201d<\/p>\n

[56]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1956, Feb. Contending for The Faith.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from \u00a0https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/56-0200<\/a>. “Where you\u2019re standing now, a real humble, sweet feeling is around you, (isn\u2019t that right?) like Something near. Not your brother; but Something supernatural. If that\u2019s right, raise your hand. See? It\u2019s the Angel of the Lord. See? I am living now in another dimension, see, in a spirit world.”<\/p>\n

[57]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1951, May 5.\u00a0 My Commission.\u00a0 https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/51-0505<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cI am God\u2019s Voice to you. See? I say that again. That time was under inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

[58]<\/a> And a High Cloud Ring of Mystery.\u00a0 1963, Apr 10. Life.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from http:\/\/en.believethesign.com\/index.php\/The_Cloud<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cthe cloud was at least 26 miles high and 30 miles across \u2013 \u2018a lot higher and bigger,\u2019 he says, \u2018than a cloud should be.\u2019\u00a0 The circle was too high to be made by a jet plane, and so far as Dr. McDonald can determine, there were no rockets, rocket planes, or bombs being tested nearby that day.\u201d<\/p>\n

[59]<\/a> UFO Buff Found Dead Near Tucson.\u00a0 1971, Jun 14.\u00a0 \u201cDr. James E. McDonald, well known for his controversial stands on unidentified flying objects and the supersonic transport planes.\u201d<\/p>\n

[60]<\/a> Letter to Chaplain George Greene.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 11 from http:\/\/people.delphiforums.com\/JohnK63\/CloudAirForceLetter1.jpg<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cIn any event, the sighting reported in Life was the result of a military operation, not divine intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n

[61]<\/a> Letter to Chaplain George Greene.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 11 from http:\/\/people.delphiforums.com\/JohnK63\/MeinelLetter.jpg<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cAden was involved with the launch of rockets from Vandenburg AFB, California, and immediately recognized the McDonald cloud as from an explosion of a rocket the afternoon of 28 February 1963.\u00a0 We told McDonald of the event.\u201d<\/p>\n

[62]<\/a> Vandenberg AFB Launch History.\u00a0 2021 May 23.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 10 from https:\/\/www.spacearchive.info\/vafblog.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

[63]<\/a> Rare Cloud.\u00a0 1963, May 9.\u00a0 Fresno Bee.\u00a0 \u201cDr. McDonald places its height at 140,000 feet.\u00a0 This is 40,000 feet higher than any cloud previously reported.\u201d<\/p>\n

[64]<\/a> George Smith.\u00a0 2018, Aug 31.\u00a0 Conviction (YouTube video).\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 10 from https:\/\/youtu.be\/uZh7nW8pxps?t=1123<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cLet\u2019s see February 28.\u00a0 What kind of a prophet do you have, he\u2019s out there out-of-season.\u00a0 That didn\u2019t match.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t compute.\u00a0 But then you go to the \u201cMessage\u201d itself, he\u2019s in Houston on March the 4th, then he goes hunting.\u00a0 He says, \u201cFirst I went to Houston, then this happened.\u00a0 So it\u2019s not a contradiction, it\u2019s just a clarification of the fact that he was not out there on February the 28th, but a week later and it was in another dimension.\u201d<\/p>\n

[65]<\/a> Branham, William. 1963, Jun 23.\u00a0 Standing in the Gap.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from \u00a0https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/63-0623M<\/a>. “And now, the ‘Life’ Magazine picked it up. And I have the-the article here this morning in the “Life” Magazine there, of the show\u2026 Now, here it is, the same time I was there. See the pyramid or the Cloud? I was standing just below this.”<\/p>\n

[66]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1963, Mar 17.\u00a0 The Breach Between the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/63-0317E<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cI was standing there, in prayer, and something happened. And, now, something fell in my hand. And I know, if you don\u2019t understand spiritual things, it may seem very strange. But something struck in my hand. And, when I looked, it was a sword.\u201d<\/p>\n

[67]<\/a> Branham, William. 1965, Apr 10. Easter Seal.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from \u00a0https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/65-0410<\/a>.\u00a0 “I saw seven angels come. Didn’t ‘Life’ Magazine pack it, just a fog of It floated across here twenty-seven miles high and thirty miles across. Is not Fred Sothmann and these others, Gene Norman and them setting back there, stood right there when them seven angels appeared right there on the hill? It shook the hills for miles around like that. There stood seven angels and throwed a sword in a hand and said, ‘Go home and open these Seven Seals that are given.'”<\/p>\n

[68]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1963, July 28.\u00a0 Christ Is the Mystery of God Revealed.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/63-0728<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cDid you notice the Angels that come down, investigated Sodom before Sodom was destroyed? You remember that? [Congregation says, \u201cAmen.\u201d\u2014Ed.] There was a bunch of them come down, three of them. One of them stayed with Abraham. You remember that? [\u201cAmen.\u201d] They were Lights from Heaven, that came down in the investigating judgment. One\u2019s\u2026\u00a0 Look where they\u2019re all found. Around the Pentagon, and things, they find them. That\u2019s the world judgment, Sodom. And there is One represented, will be represented amongst the churches, will be Christ Himself, vindicating Himself.”<\/p>\n

[69]<\/a> Branham, William. 1965, Nov 27. Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/65-1127<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cBut the Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is to come according to Matthew the seventeen-\u2026Luke 17:30, is, the Son of man is to reveal Himself among His people. Not a man, God! But it\u2019ll come through a prophet.\u201d<\/p>\n

[70]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1962, Dec 30.\u00a0 Is This the Sign of the End, Sir?\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/62-1230E<\/a>. \u201dI\u2019m going to Tucson, to establish my family in school.\u201d<\/p>\n

[71]<\/a> Jones, James.\u00a0 Q612 Transcript.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 10 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27492<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cBilly Graham came right to us \u2013 Ijames [Archie Ijames], Jack [Jack Arnold Beam], and me \u2013 in Claypool Hotel, said I don\u2019t believe a thing in that Bible hardly. But he said, it\u2019s the way to make a living. Billy Graham, who I prophesied his death, Billy Branham rather, I said he\u2019d lose his head. His head was cut off in Texas. [Author’s note: The reference is to William Branham, an evangelical preacher and acquaintance of Jim Jones during the Temple\u2019s Indianapolis days. Branham died in an automobile accident on Christmas Eve 1965 in Texas, but was not decapitated.] He said you can\u2019t preach the truth about that Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n

[72]<\/a> Branham, William.\u00a0 1964, Mar 12.\u00a0 When Their Eyes Were Opened, They Knew Him.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 12 from https:\/\/william-branham.org\/site\/transcript\/64-0312<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cGo back to the Scripture, search the Scripture, They\u2019ve got the Truth. We get It so twisted. \u201cHow do we know It\u2019s the Scripture?\u201d When it\u2019s a Scripture promised for that age. 57 Now, He didn\u2019t go back and say, \u2018You remember Moses, what he done?\u2019 See? He revealed to them the Scripture pertaining to Himself, for that age. He was the Light of that age. Moses was the light of his age. \u00a0Jeremiah was the light of his age. It was the God\u2019s light shining forth for the Word that was promised for that age. \u00a0Every age has its promised Word. God sends His prophets and reveals that Word; vindicates His prophet, first, then reveals that Word and makes It live.\u201d<\/p>\n

[73]<\/a> Jones, James.\u00a0 Q953 Transcript.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 10 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27625<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cOnly for practical reasons. But King James put lies in the Bible, and that\u2019s why you have to have a prophet in every dispensation, to teach you, to show you the truth from the error.<\/p>\n

[74]<\/a> Jones, James.\u00a0 1973, Oct 20.\u00a0 Annotated Transcript Q1059-4.\u00a0 Accessed 2021, Aug 10 from https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=63587<\/a>. “In the kingdom, in the revolutionary age, there will be those that are counted worthy to enter into the kingdom. Those that are counted worthy to evolve beyond this birth of the natural flesh and constantly be coming back into the earth plane. If you seek the higher dimensions of an extraterrestrial world, a perfect socialist world, the first heaven, if I might say, in the vernacular that would perhaps be closer to your relationships, if you seek that first heaven or that extra dimension, then they that will be worthy shall not enter into, will not give nor receive in marriage.”<\/p>\n

[75]<\/a>\u00a0 Jones, James.\u00a0 Q971 Transcript Accessed 2021, Aug 10 from\u00a0 https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=77981<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(John Collins is a regular contributor to\u00a0the jonestown report. His collections of articles for this site may be found\u00a0here. More information about Rev. William Branham prepared by John Collins may be found at the informational website,\u00a0https:\/\/william-branham.org. His latest book is\u00a0Preacher Behind the White Hoods: A Critical Examination of William Branham and His Message.) In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":111220,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110982","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110982"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120893,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110982\/revisions\/120893"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}