What we believe.

We believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible Word of God — the whole counsel of God given for our doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness. 2 Timothy 3:16 It is not merely a book about God; it is God expressed. John 1:1 tells us, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God,” and we hold the same Word to be living and active still.

The Word is a Seed. When it is planted in an honest heart and watered by faith, it brings forth after its own kind — the very life of God in the believer. Hebrews 4:12

I believe that this Bible, this Word right here, the Bible, is God in print form. And I believe that the Bible is a seed. Those words are seeds. Bro. William Branham — Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever (1962)

Because it is God’s own Word, it cannot fail. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His Word will stand; and faith — the only thing that pleases Him — comes by hearing that Word.

For my word will fail, and every other man’s word will fail, but God’s Word cannot fail. And faith cometh by hearing, and hearing, the Word of God. Bro. William Branham — Faith (1956)

This is why we labor to stay with what is written. We do not measure the Word by our experience; we measure our experience by the Word.

We believe in one God. Deuteronomy 6:4 declares, “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.” That one God was manifest in the flesh in Jesus Christ — for in Him “dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” Colossians 2:9, and “great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.” 1 Timothy 3:16

God, expressed in Jesus Christ, Who was both Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, “the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Bro. William Branham — Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed (1963)

We do not believe in three gods, but in one God who has revealed Himself in three offices — as the Father above us, as the Son with us, and as the Holy Ghost in us.

It was God above us; God with us; God in us; the same God. That’s the reason it was called Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Not three Gods; three offices of one God. Bro. William Branham — The Stature Of A Perfect Man (1962)

We therefore worship not a divided Deity, but the one Lord revealed to us in the face of Jesus Christ.

We believe Jesus Christ is the Lord — true God and true man. The Word that was God was made flesh and dwelt among us. John 1:14 He is not merely a great teacher or a good man; He is Jehovah God revealed in a body, “God manifest in the flesh.” 1 Timothy 3:16

He was deity Himself, wrapped up in His own Tabernacle that He created, which was His Son, the flesh, Christ Jesus. Jehovah God revealed Himself through His Son, Christ Jesus. Bro. William Branham — God Perfecting His Church (1954)

In Him the supreme Deity took on flesh to dwell among us, to suffer for us, and to redeem us.

That’s the reason that I believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, that He was more than a man. He was God manifested in flesh. Bro. William Branham — Hear Ye Him (1962)

And He does not change. He is “the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” Hebrews 13:8 — the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending. Revelation 1:8 The same Jesus who healed, saved, and filled with the Spirit in the days of His flesh is the same Lord we serve today.

We believe that the blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross, is the one and only atonement for sin. His blood does not merely cover sin — it cleanses, and goes on cleansing, all who come to God through Him.

There is the Blood of Jesus Christ that makes an acception on the cross there, up in the Presence of God, that cleanses us constantly, day and night, from all sin. Bro. William Branham — Adoption (1960)

On the ground of that finished work, we believe a man must be born again. John 3:7 The New Birth is not joining a church, signing a creed, or turning over a new leaf — it is a genuine birth, a spiritual regeneration by the Spirit and the Word of God. 1 Peter 1:23

The new birth is a birth, just what it says it is. Some of the modern teachers teach the new birth is to walk up and take fellowship with the church; that’s the new birth. That’s wrong. Bro. William Branham — Balm In Gilead (1959)

The one who is born again becomes a new creature: “old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 This is the door into the Kingdom of God, and the Lord Jesus said plainly that without it no man can enter. John 3:5

We believe in water baptism by immersion, for those who have repented and believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the believer’s public confession that the old life is buried and a new life has begun.

We baptize in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, just as the apostolic church did. When Peter preached at Pentecost, the people asked what they must do, and his answer was plain: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.” Acts 2:38 Throughout the book of Acts, every recorded baptism was administered the same way. Acts 19:5

In the beginning the first baptism that was ever baptized after Pentecost was to be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And every baptism afterwards, was every one baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Bro. William Branham — Water Baptism (1959)

The titles Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Matthew 28:19 find their fulness in one saving name — the name of the Lord Jesus Christ — and it is in that name that we obey His command.

Upon the confession of your faith in the Son of God, I baptize thee, my beloved sister, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Bro. William Branham — Water Baptism (1959)

We believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost — the same experience the early church received at Pentecost, when they “were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” Acts 2:4 This is not an optional blessing for a few; it is the promised power for every believer, by which we are baptized into the body of Christ and sealed unto the day of redemption. Ephesians 1:13

I pray that You will baptize them into the body of the Lord Jesus by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Bro. William Branham — Divine Love (1957)

The same question Paul asked the believers at Ephesus, we still ask today: “Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?” Acts 19:2 The Lord promised, “Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” Acts 1:8

If you live in the Divine Presence of God, you’re baptized with the Holy Ghost and Fire. Bro. William Branham — Israel And The Church #3 (1953)

We believe this baptism is real, personal, and life-changing — the Spirit of God Himself coming to dwell within, to lead into all truth, and to conform us to the image of Christ.

We believe the Lord, who does nothing without first revealing it to His servants the prophets, promised to send the spirit of Elijah once more before the great and dreadful day of the Lord — to restore the faith of the children back to the faith of the apostolic fathers. Malachi 4:5-6 We believe that promise, together with the angel of Revelation 10:7 who finishes the mystery of God, was fulfilled in the ministry of Brother William Branham, the messenger to this seventh and final church age.

The same inspiration that said Elijah will come for the last part of the church age to restore the faith of the children back to the original faith of the fathers, the apostolic. Bro. William Branham — The Fifth Seal (1963)

This is not the worship of a man. Brother Branham was a man — but the message the Lord gave through him is the call of the hour, turning the Church back to the pure Word of God and preparing a people for the coming of the Lord.

The message of this great messenger that’ll come in this closing day in the Laodicean church age, the Pentecostal age, will be the one that’ll take the church to the rapture. Bro. William Branham — The Messiah (1961)

We hold his ministry to be a vindicated, Scriptural ministry that points always away from itself and back to Jesus Christ and the written Word.

We believe the Lord Jesus laid out the whole course of church history in the messages to the seven churches of Asia. Revelation 1:11 These were seven real congregations, but they also picture seven successive church ages — seven dispensations stretching from Pentecost to the Rapture.

To each age the Lord sent a star, a messenger, to carry His Word to the people of that hour. Revelation 1:20

These seven stars are the messengers to the seven successive church ages. They are not called by name. They are just set forth as seven, one to each age. Bro. William Branham — The Patmos Vision (Church Age Book)

From the burning first love of Ephesus Revelation 2:1 to the lukewarmness of Laodicea, Revelation 3:14 each age had its own light, its own struggle, and its own messenger.

Now, we know there’s seven church ages, and seven messengers to them church ages, according to Revelations. Bro. William Branham — Birth Pains (1965)

We believe we are living in the close of the last age, the Laodicean — and that the same Christ who walked in the midst of the seven candlesticks is calling out and perfecting His Church before He comes.

We believe that John saw, in the right hand of Him that sat upon the throne, a book sealed with seven seals Revelation 5:1 — and that no man in heaven or earth was worthy to open it, until the Lamb that was slain took the book and loosed the seals. Revelation 6:1

There come a Lamb up, that had been slain since the foundation of the world. And He was worthy. And He took the Book, and loosed the seals, and opened the Book. Bro. William Branham — Believest Thou This? (1960)

These seven seals hold the hidden mysteries of God’s redemptive plan, sealed up from the foundation of the world.

The whole thing here, the Seven Seals got the mysteries of God from the foundation of the world all sealed up in there, and revealed by Seven different Seals. Bro. William Branham — The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals (1963)

We believe, as the Scripture foretold, that this sealed book was to be opened at the sounding of the seventh angel’s message, when the mystery of God should be finished. Revelation 10:7 The time is at hand; the sayings of this prophecy are no longer sealed Revelation 22:10 — and the revealing of these mysteries is part of the food God promised His Church for the end-time.

We believe that the true Church is the Bride of Christ — the elect, called out and separated unto God from every age and every nation. The Apostle Paul said, “I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” 2 Corinthians 11:2

This Bride is not an organization or a denomination; she is the predestinated company the Holy Spirit has gathered and made ready.

There’s an Elected, a predestinated Bride of Jesus Christ, that the Holy Spirit has called out the Elect. It’s the Holy Spirit that’s built that Bride. Bro. William Branham — Blasphemous Names (1962)

Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it, that He might cleanse it by the washing of water by the Word and present it to Himself a glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle. Ephesians 5:25-27

He’s coming for the Bride without spot or wrinkle. He is coming for it, a Word-vindicated Bride. Bro. William Branham — The Harvest Time (1964)

The marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife has made herself ready. Revelation 19:7 And still the Spirit and the Bride say, “Come” Revelation 22:17 — the invitation stands open to whosoever will.

We believe in the personal, visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ. The same Jesus who was taken up into heaven shall so come in like manner as the disciples saw Him go. Acts 1:11 This is our blessed hope — “the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” Titus 2:13

We believe He first comes for His Bride in the Rapture: “The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout… and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

We will be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye and be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air, and forever be with the Lord. Bro. William Branham — Jehovah-Jireh (1961)

In that moment the mortal puts on immortality, and the corruptible puts on incorruption. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52

The trump of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise, and we shall be caught up with them in the air to meet the Lord, and forever be with the Lord. Bro. William Branham — The Sudden, Secret Going Away Of The Church (1958)

We watch and we wait, for as the lightning shines from the east to the west, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. Matthew 24:27