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John explores the shocking hidden history of the “Billion Soul Harvest” movement, revealing how its roots stretch far deeper than the New Apostolic Reformation. Drawing from Cold War politics, postwar psychological experiments, and William Branham’s authoritarian theology, he traces how government fear tactics and revivalist propaganda merged into a global dominionist agenda. Along the way, he connects the dots between the Milgram obedience studies, Nixon’s “battle for the mind” speech, and the rise of prophetic generals who promised to win the world for Christ through control, not compassion. This episode exposes how the language of revival became the language of psychological warfare, transforming faith into a weapon.
00:00 Introduction and Overview of the Billion Soul Harvest
03:09–10:05 What the Doctrine Claims, Why It’s Problematic, and How Dominion and Mysticism Entered NAR Thinking
10:05–17:10 Mind Control, Cognitive Capture, and Personal Experience Leaving the Branham Movement
17:10–24:05 Post-War Psychology, Milgram Experiments, and How Obedience to Authority Shapes Religious Movements
24:05–31:18 How Revivalists Used Information Control, Repetition, Mystical Claims, and Purity Language to Build Authority
31:18–37:13 Political Networks, “The Family,” International Revival Campaigns, and the Hidden Support Behind Them
37:13–45:22 Operation Condor, U.S. Intelligence Links, Nixon’s “Battle for the Mind,” and the Weaponization of Fear
45:22–54:06 Christian Identity Doctrine, One-World Narratives, and the Birth of the Billion Souls Crusade in 1955
54:06–56:12 Kansas City Prophets, the Return of the Doctrine, and Why Historians Miss Its Real Origins
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00:00 Introduction and Overview of the Billion Soul Harvest
03:09–10:05 What the Doctrine Claims, Why It’s Problematic, and How Dominion and Mysticism Entered NAR Thinking
10:05–17:10 Mind Control, Cognitive Capture, and Personal Experience Leaving the Branham Movement
17:10–24:05 Post-War Psychology, Milgram Experiments, and How Obedience to Authority Shapes Religious Movements
24:05–31:18 How Revivalists Used Information Control, Repetition, Mystical Claims, and Purity Language to Build Authority
31:18–37:13 Political Networks, “The Family,” International Revival Campaigns, and the Hidden Support Behind Them
37:13–45:22 Operation Condor, U.S. Intelligence Links, Nixon’s “Battle for the Mind,” and the Weaponization of Fear
45:22–54:06 Christian Identity Doctrine, One-World Narratives, and the Birth of the Billion Souls Crusade in 1955
54:06–56:12 Kansas City Prophets, the Return of the Doctrine, and Why Historians Miss Its Real Origins
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Weaponized Religion: From Christian Identity to the NAR:
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Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCGGZX3K
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00:30Hello, and welcome to another episode of the William Branham Historical Research Podcast.
00:36I'm your host, John Collins, the author and founder of William Branham Historical Research
00:41at william-branham.org, where history proves that truth, or at least their version of it,
00:47is truly stranger than fiction. And today I'm talking about the Billion Soul Harvest,
00:52which many people believe is a concept that originated in the New Apostolic Reformation,
00:58and even if you do Google searches on this and the AI gives you responses, they'll say this is a
01:05New Apostolic Reformation theology and doctrine, and they'll trace its lineage. People can go
01:11read that, and that part is truly accurate. But it actually began much earlier than this,
01:18and I don't think that there's enough information out there that really details where this doctrine
01:23came from, because if this information were made public, many people would simply run screaming.
01:30And honestly, if you really understand what the doctrine means, there are many people who are in
01:37the New Apostolic Reformation who believe in this Billion Soul Harvest doctrine, and they don't yet
01:42understand the concepts of it. Otherwise, they too would just kind of scratch their heads and say,
01:47what in the world is this? This is not Christianity. This is something else.
01:52So for those who are unfamiliar with the Billion Soul Harvest, like I said, this is a common New
01:58Apostolic Reformation theme. You can find all kinds of revivals and events and preachers preaching about
02:06it. We need this Billion Soul Harvest. We have this agenda to capture a billion souls, to convert a billion
02:12souls, however it's framed. There are a few things that you have to understand to recognize what this is and why
02:18this is. And the first is that this is a leader-driven revival. Unlike other revivals that many other
02:27Christian denominations have, where it's more of a renewal, people are coming, joining together, getting
02:32excited about the Spirit, and in Pentecostal flavor churches, you're inviting people to become filled with the
02:39Holy Spirit. The Billion Soul Harvest is actually believed to be initiated and led by an elite
02:45group of contemporary apostles and prophets. In other words, these are the leaders of the New Apostolic
02:52Reformation. These are the self-proclaimed apostles and prophets, and they're the ones who is going to
02:59lead the revival, bring down heaven, whatever is the catchphrase they use. And if you study mysticism
03:08and understand spiritualism, how that works, it's basically a summoning. We're going to gather this
03:13big outcry of people and we're going to summon the return of Jesus Christ, which is not quite a Christian
03:20idea, but let's go a bit deeper. There are eschatologies mixed in with this that are, I guess you would
03:29call it victorious eschatology. It's basically rooted in the belief that we will claim victory, we will gain
03:37dominion over the earth's institutions, and we will initially take control before the second coming of
03:45Christ. So we're going to be the ones in power. That's something to understand about this. It is a, it's not
03:51just a conversion to Christ, it's a dominating for Christ type doctrine. The end-time revival is seen as a big
03:59step towards this goal because this billion soul harvest is essentially taking control of a billion
04:05people. And if we get a billion people, we can summon God and God will return. And so it's, it's really,
04:13it's really dangerous theology. The other thing is the, if you study the history that does exist,
04:21even simple searches online or reading books about it, they'll tell you that it has very controversial
04:27origins. They point to specific NAR prophets and prophecies such as Bob Jones of the Kansas City
04:35Fellowship International House of Prayer fame. Jones apparently linked this revival to a Super Bowl
04:42victory by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 90s, which is really weird if you think about it,
04:47and basically convinced people that this great revival that would break out in the, in the Chiefs
04:55Stadium, Kansas City Arrowhead Stadium, that it would signal the rise of the apostolic chiefs, or I guess
05:03that's the phrase he used. He used some word that basically said the leaders, the generals of this
05:08movement will suddenly rise into power at this revival. And there were various NAR leaders,
05:17New Apostolic Reformation leaders, who publicly reaffirmed this connection. Whenever the Chiefs won in
05:242023, they said, this is it. This is the revival. They have, they have won. Now we're moving in.
05:30But the thing to understand here is it actually originated long before Jones. This was something
05:37that was being pushed in a history that I'm about to give you. The other thing to understand is many
05:45mainstream Christian scholars who study this, they will point out the false doctrines associated with
05:54it, and they will point to specific passages in the Bible that reject this idea. I'm not a theologian,
06:01so I'm not going to go into those, but you can do Google searches and you can find numerous
06:06people talking about this billion-soul harvest and just how anti-scriptural it is.
06:12But here's the key to understand, even though these people, many people are just crying out,
06:20don't do this, this is anti-biblical, don't go down this pathway, the people who are in it
06:27are programmed to believe that it doesn't matter if it's against the Bible. This is what our new
06:32leaders are saying. In other words, our doctrine is superior to the text of the Bible.
06:38And that is a theme that I grew up with in the Branham religion, which also ties into this. I'm
06:43going to talk a little bit about that later. But the key point to understand is this is a doctrine
06:49that is anti-scriptural, anti-biblical. Many themes come from esoteric religion, from spiritualism,
06:57from mysticism. And it's this mystery gospel idea that we are going to create the billion-soul harvest
07:07by taking over the world. We are going to gain dominion. And no matter how it's spun, no matter
07:14how many leaders in the movement try to reject this idea, you'll find that the source, the people who
07:21are considered the sources for this doctrine, they are very militant in their speeches. We've had Jed
07:28Hartley talk about this. We've had Bob Scott talk about this. The IHOPKC doctrine from its inception,
07:35when they're talking, they're basically considered by many sources to be the origins of this. It was a
07:41very militant, very physically militant type doctrine. They would talk about how there will be blood,
07:49and you can actually read if you type in that phrase, there will be blood, and type in Mike
07:54Bickle. You can find the places where he's mentioned that this is going to turn into a war,
08:00a physical war, where there will be bloodshed. So whenever Steve Montgomery and I in our
08:07Converging Apostasy series talk about the sacred purge, that theme that comes from mysticism,
08:14this is an idea that became adopted by leaders of the new apostolic reformation.
08:19They have no hesitation to say that this is going to turn into blood, there will be a sacred purge,
08:26but the purge is good because if we can dominate the world, if we can have this billion soul harvest,
08:32we can basically summon God. So it's the precursor to a summoning, and Jesus will return whenever this
08:40weird event happens. So for those who are unfamiliar, that is the background to it.
08:45But like I said, this came from a much more sinister history, if you understand where this actually came
08:53from. The other thing you have to understand is, I mentioned that when people are in this doctrine,
09:02in this doctrinal belief, they will often accept the doctrine over the text of the Bible. Even if it is
09:10a flat-out rejection by biblical text, they will accept the leader and his version of what the end
09:18time scenario will be over even the words of Christ in the New Testament, how the end time scenario will be.
09:24You can look at the Seven Mountains mandate, for example, the charge that we're going to conquer
09:30these seven mountains of society. We're going to take control and we're going to establish the
09:35kingdom on earth. That is an outright rejection of Jesus who said, my kingdom is not of this world.
09:42We've talked about that quite a few times in the podcast. And people ask, well, how can this be?
09:48How can people outright reject Bible text, claim to be Christian, and claim that their Bible is their
09:55ultimate authority on doctrine and truth, and it is what is shaping their worldview? How can they also
10:02reject that which is shaping their worldview? To understand that, you have to first understand
10:08mind control. And this is a subject that I won't go too deeply in here. I recommend if you
10:15are curious about mind control, you can go to freedomofmind.org and you can read through some of
10:21the publications and listen to the podcast by Dr. Stephen Hassan. But whenever I came in contact
10:29with this idea of mind control, this reality of mind control, after having left the Branham religion,
10:38it was a, it was a weird journey to have to go through. Because on the one hand, I had heard of
10:45mind control. I knew what it was, but I had heard about it from movies that I had seen and books that
10:53I had read and television shows that I had watched. Usually science fiction or fantasy would talk about
10:59the mind control. And whenever I first came in contact with the reality, the concept of a real mind control,
11:08I thought, nah, man, there's, there is no way this can't be real. And I was asked, I was actually
11:16asked by Dr. Stephen Hassan, we had to go on a mission to help somebody who was under the mind control
11:22of the William Branham cult. And even as I'm, even as I'm traveling there with him and, and the cars were,
11:32you know, making our way, I did, I did not believe that this thing was real. But at the same time,
11:38I wanted to help the individual who was trapped. I was thinking, here's a guy who believes in mind
11:44control. It's a bunch of hooey. It's science fiction. And yes, I agree with what he's trying
11:50to do. Let's go help this trapped individual. So I use the word trapped. I didn't use the word mind
11:55control. I never really thought about what that meant to be trapped. And honestly, it took me even
12:05after all of the crash course that I went through with Dr. Stephen Hassan, I still did not fully
12:11accept it until later after working in the support groups and understanding that the trapped, my version
12:19of what is trapped was really his version of what is mind control. I was understanding that people
12:24could come in contact with the truth and the truth could outright reject their fundamental worldview.
12:33And when faced with, in my situation, I was working with people who had escaped the Branham cult
12:40and working with people who were some of them who were still trapped in it. When a person was trapped
12:46in it, I could show them clearly, here's what William Branham said. And here are the doctrines
12:52associated with that that are fundamental to your worldview and your belief system.
12:57And then show them, here are other doctrines that William Branham also taught that fully rejected
13:05the other one that I just said. In other words, these two doctrines cannot coexist. And yet they're part
13:10of the worldview that was created by William Branham. And then I could also show them, here's the Bible,
13:16which rejects both of those. I remember, and I will never forget this. I was working with a
13:24elderly man and we were talking through this and he says,
13:27I don't understand it, but I believe every word the prophet said. And I was sitting there thinking
13:34whenever he said this, there's no way that you cannot understand this. These are polar opposite
13:39things that he said, both of which are tied to his spiritual, I hate to use the word, but spiritual
13:47divinity. He was a self-proclaimed Christ. William Branham was a self-proclaimed Christ. And it took me
13:53a while to accept that as well. But he was coming as a false Christ. He had doctrines that were in
13:59conflict with each other. Towards the end of his life, he, after convincing his cult following that he
14:04was Elijah, he would say, the Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. So he had literally
14:11convinced this man that he was Jesus Christ or some variation. There's different ways in which they
14:17reconcile this. But in the end, his doctrines cannot even be coherent because they're fully against each
14:25other. I came to understand later that that was mind control. And how does mind control exist? Why
14:31does mind control exist? And that ties into our story of the billion soul harvest? Because
14:37this billion soul harvest idea is actually the result of a operation to, maybe not as destructive
14:47as they have used it, but an operation to fight a battle in the mines. And it developed into ways in
14:54which mind control were employed. So I want to get there. Let's dive in a little bit deeper to
15:01understand that. Because I know that there are people listening who are thinking, no, man,
15:05that's a bunch of hooey, just like I did. That's a bunch of hooey. There's no way that mind control
15:10exists in the way that you're saying it, Dr. Stephen Hassan is saying it. But let's take this a step
15:17further. After the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, there were many people in the United States in high
15:26ranking positions who recognized what had actually just happened. To the American people, the World
15:34War II was simply that. It was a war. There was nothing unusual. People were fighting battles. Many
15:39people died. Many people lost loved ones. And they just saw it as a war. And one of the many wars of
15:47history, only this was a big one because there were many countries involved. They saw it as nothing more
15:52than a battle. The United States government, however, saw this as much more sinister. Because
15:59what had actually happened in Nazi Germany, there was a single man, Hitler, who had actually employed
16:07techniques of mind control enough so that he convinced an entire nation of people to believe
16:13that it was okay to eradicate human life. So they were controlled to the extent that they could
16:21they could defy normal human compassion. And the government wanted to know how this worked.
16:28They had a weapon. They were they were weaponizing mind control in Germany. How did they do it? What did
16:34they do? How did they achieve this? If they have a weapon that we don't have, what other countries have
16:41this weapon? Does China have the weapon? Does Korea have the weapon? And they began to understand that
16:48if the other countries have this weapon, we too need this weapon in the United States. And there
16:53were a series of different tests, some of them government tests, some of them just scientists who
16:59are curious. And one of the most famous of this is the Milgram experiments. So what are the Milgram experiments
17:07and how do they relate to what I'm talking about today with the billion soul harvest? Stanley Milgram's
17:14experiments were a series of psychological studies on obedience to authority. It was conducted at Yale
17:21University in the early 1960s. And these became the most famous and yet the most controversial of the
17:28experiments in social psychology. And they were but one of many that had been conducted. Like I said,
17:35the government got involved. They also wanted to know there were various experiments that we probably
17:40will never even know about. But Milgram is the one who popularized the idea because this was so horrific
17:48what he was able to prove. Milgram wanted to understand why ordinary people obey authority figures,
17:55even when asked to do and perform actions that really conflicted with their conscience. And this,
18:04again, this all was a result of the World War II and the Holocaust. He wanted to explore whether Nazi
18:10officers were simply following orders or whether people could be controlled in their minds to do
18:17horrific things. And the way that he set this up, he would have ordinary people who were recruited
18:24through newspaper ads, and they were told that they were just simply taking part in a learning experiment.
18:30And each session that was conducted had a teacher who was the, this was the real participant.
18:37And they would be paired with a learner, which was simply an actor. And this actor was part of the
18:42test that would be conducted against the person who was the real participant. What would happen is the
18:49teacher would read word pairs to test the learner's memory. And each time the learner gave the wrong answer,
18:56the teacher, the teacher, the teacher, the teacher, the teacher, the person who was the subject of the
19:00actual experiment was instructed by a, um, experimenter in a lab coat to press a button.
19:09And I think it was either a button or a switch that would deliver an electric shock to the victim.
19:15And each time that the answer was wrong, they were told to increase the voltage.
19:20Now in the experiment, the shocks were not real, but the person who is shocking the other human being
19:27across in the room next door, they were not aware that the shocks were not real.
19:33And each time that they would either press the button or flip the switch, whichever it was,
19:38the person in the other room who was an actor would cry out protest. And as, as the voltage got
19:46higher and higher as they kept shocking this person or, you know, fake shocking this person,
19:51eventually the person would fall silent. In other words, the, to the person who is in the experiment,
19:57they would think they just simply passed out. The shocking part of all of this, the real shocking
20:03part of all of this is that 65% of the people in the test obeyed the orders up to the maximum voltage,
20:11which was 450 volts. Even when the learner seemed to be unconscious, they would still deliver the shock
20:19to the person who's either unconscious or dead in the other room. And the people who were in this
20:25experiments would show visibly, you could see on their face, they would be sweating, trembling.
20:31They, you know, might even be pleading to stop, but they would continue to shock the person in the
20:37other room. And the experimenter would say something to the effect that the experiment requires that you
20:43continue. So after all of this, this weird test, Milgram was able to understand that the pressure from
20:53authorities could actually override the conscience of each individual in the test. And again, 65% would
21:00shock a person up until the point in which they died or passed out. So this experiment basically
21:08proved that people will tend to obey commands from legitimate authority figures, especially when the
21:15responsibility for harm is perceived to rest upon that specific authority. In other words, the person in
21:22the lab coat, that is the response, the person who's responsible for harming the individual that they're
21:28shocking. This whole experiment was their idea. So because they're an authority in this situation,
21:33I will shock the person in the other room, even if he is dead or passed out. That's as horrific
21:41as that sounds. That is what Milgram was able to prove. And this, as you can imagine, sparked all kinds
21:47of ethical issues. There were participants who experienced psychological distress after this, as you can
21:55imagine, because some of them really thought that they had killed another person. And they were deceived
22:00about the true nature of the experiment. So they began to cry out, this, this is not right, what you did to
22:05our heads, we who are participate, we who actually press the button, or flip the switch to shock the person in
22:12the other room. So this test is what set the standards for the higher stricter ethical standards for human subject
22:22research. And it was all the result, as I said, of trying to understand what happened in Germany.
22:30Whenever the people were killing the Jews, was it their fault? Was it Hitler's fault? Were they acting
22:37willingly? Was it mind control? And where this comes into play, there is a history that is tied to,
22:45um, after the war, tied to the evangelical community, which takes this thought, this idea that people
22:55will submit to the authority of their leaders, it takes it to a whole new and scary level. So I'm
23:02certain you're asking, how do these experiments tie back to the new apostolic reformation? And to better
23:11explain that, I probably need to talk a little bit about my own history, and the history of Branhamism,
23:17for those who are unfamiliar. So as I said, Milgram's experiment was a test to see whether individuals
23:25would submit to the authority of their leaders. And it wasn't until maybe 2013, we had, we had escaped the
23:34Branham cult for about a year, before I began to realize that the techniques of mind control that I
23:41watched, and not just the Milgram experiments, but all of the other things that were being tested and
23:49techniques that were being used during this crash course in mind control that I went through with
23:55Dr. Stephen Hassan. It wasn't until after, you know, long after this, I began to realize that those
24:01techniques were also used on my head. In other words, they're trying to, through these tests, understand
24:09how it was weaponized, how was mind control weaponized in Nazi Germany. And that same weapon
24:15was being used against my head for 37 years. So how do they tie together? Well, William Branham had
24:24different techniques in his sermons, many of which are still being used today. And some of these techniques,
24:32if you understand the concepts and the implications, it becomes a little bit scary. One of them is
24:41obviously information control, but Branham's version of information control came with an authoritarian
24:49twist. He would strongly discourage any readers, anybody listening to his sermons,
24:56uh, he would discourage them from reading other religious materials or outside ministers
25:01by claiming that God only reveals his word to his prophet. God, God reveals his word only to his
25:08prophet. And he would say things like, there's only one prophet per age. And so to the listener who's
25:14listening, whichever one of the prophets, and there were many in the latter rain, post-World War II healing
25:20revival, they're hearing William Branham say, well, God only reveals his word to his prophet. And he would
25:26also use, he would combine other passages, a stranger they will not follow. And, you know,
25:32that phrase comes from my sheep, hear my voice, a stranger they will not follow. Many phrases that were
25:38intended to point to Jesus were pointing directly to the prophetic or apostolic leaders in the movement.
25:45movement. And what this does is it creates an authoritarian bind in the heads of the people
25:52listening between the leadership and the rank and file member. So that, that connection you have to
26:00understand. How is that connection enforced? Branham was one of many people who produced recordings that
26:08had these techniques, which I'm about to go through in the recordings themselves. And they were distributed widely
26:14among the movement. People were listening to these recordings over and over and over. Growing up,
26:22I heard there were approximately 1500, if I remember correctly, sermons between 12 and 1500. We heard
26:30them over and over and over again. Many members of the cult, like myself, would listen to them first
26:37thing in the morning, maybe as we're making coffee, you know, preparing breakfast. We would have cassette tapes
26:44back then it was a cassette tape, not a CD. We would have them in our vehicles. Everywhere we're driving,
26:50we're listening to these things. When I was in school, I had a Walkman, I would listen to them.
26:55So literally I'm, if you know the implications of this from watching some of the fantasy or sci-fi of
27:03what happens in North Korean concentration camps, I'm doing this to my head, self-inflicted.
27:11And we were taught that this was a good thing. Many ministers would praise this kind of thing. If
27:16you were brainwashing yourself, they would praise you for doing this. They would advocate for this.
27:22Branham was one of many ministers that were doing this. He was not alone. And so again, he is in his
27:30sermon, in the structure of his speech, he is trying to convince other listeners to believe that a
27:37single authoritarian feet figure has the word for this day. And that is key to understand when you
27:44consider the word of faith movement, and all of the implications that lie within that. You have the
27:50written word, which is the Bible. Well, you must also combine this with the spoken word, or Kenneth
27:57Hagen would call it the rhema. Branham called it the spoken word. And that's how the, you know, his
28:02organizations were established with that name, the voice of God recordings, the spoken word publications.
28:08It was the idea that, yes, we had a Bible, but today we have something new. It's a new word. It's a
28:14new spoken word. It's not written. It's spoken. And within that spoken word comes the idea that the
28:21leadership is the one that gives you this spoken word. This created basically an echo chamber where
28:27members could hear only the interpretation of the events of scripture as they presented it. And it
28:34is a classic information control technique. It's used not only in Christian cults, but in other religious
28:41systems and other closed, destructive religious systems. The other thing to understand is mystical
28:50manipulation. And what is this? This is basically manufactured authority through supernatural claims.
28:59If you go back to the voice of healing magazine, which was basically the premier magazine for the
29:07whenever latter rain revival could converge with the post-World War II healing revival, it became the
29:14main publication. And then they later split. When they split the voice of healing magazine, as it was
29:22starting to produce promotions of all of these other ministers, what they were doing with the magazine
29:27itself was they were manufacturing authority, mystical manipulation. You can find numerous angelic visits.
29:36You can find numerous, God spoke to me and said, to tell you this, or the world is about to end and
29:42we're about to see this. We would see all of these things. Well, this was a technique that Branham used within his
29:49stage persona. Many of these men who did this had stage personas. And now, now that we have access to the
29:57wealth of information, you'll find numerous revivalists who were in this movement whose cults have been
30:04established and went destructive. And people within those cults, like myself, will examine the
30:11alleged supernatural experiences and find that they're completely fiction. They're, they are not
30:18reality. If you go through the revival history series that Charles and I did, you'll find numerous
30:24examples of this, but Branham claimed that God spoke from the heavens and all of the people heard as he was
30:31baptizing on the Ohio, Ohio river, for example. Well, you can't prove this, even though Branham said it would be in
30:37the newspaper. It was in the newspapers. And apparently he claimed it had hit the Associated Press and was published
30:44nationwide. You can't find a single example of this because quite honestly, had God actually spoken from the
30:51heavens in right in the water between Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana, this would have made
30:57international news and you would find all kinds of articles in the history, histories, documentaries.
31:04You would find all kinds of information about this because God spoke from the heavens.
31:09But what he was doing was, this was, this is a staged, unverifiable,
31:15proven false supernatural claim to provide mystical manipulation for the minds.
31:21The other thing which is often used in mind control is the demand for purity and fear of contamination.
31:31Branham would constantly divide people and he would say, we, we are the bride, they are the world. And there's
31:38different ways in which this is done in different cults. You can almost count on this among all of the cults that
31:46descended from Branhamism. They would say that the world doesn't see what we see. We're the true church
31:52versus, versus the denominations. It's a binary worldview. There is, there is only right or wrong, true or false,
32:01black or white, but more importantly, us or them. And that is a technique of manipulation of mind control.
32:09And the list goes on and on and on. I can go through several examples of this,
32:14but the idea for you to understand here is that as this movement was developing into what would
32:20eventually become the charismatic movement and later the new apostolic reformation, many leaders
32:26within the movement were using techniques of mind control and distributing those techniques
32:32in their publications, their audio recordings, their printed material, etc. The mind control techniques
32:41were in the media that was given to the people who had joined into the movement.
32:46Have you ever wondered how the Pentecostal movement started, or how the progression of modern
32:52Pentecostalism transitioned through the latter reign, charismatic, and other fringe movements
32:58into the new apostolic reformation? You can learn this and more on William Branham historical research's
33:04website, william-branham.org. On the books page of the website, you can find the compiled research of
33:11John Collins, Charles Paisley, Stephen Montgomery, John McKinnon, and others, with links to the paper,
33:18audio and digital versions of each book. You can also find resources and documentation on various
33:25people and topics related to those movements. If you want to contribute to the cause, you can
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33:42Branham Historical Research, we want to thank you for your support. Whenever I talk about the mind
33:48control that was taking place within these cult movements, there are many people who write in and
33:55they ask questions, which I'll never be able to answer. Usually, was the government involved? Was the
34:01government behind the Branham cult or the latter reign or the new apostolic reformation? And quite frankly,
34:09my clearance level is not high enough for me to answer that question. But what I can say,
34:15there are numerous studies done by people who are a lot more intelligent than myself that talk about
34:25the ties between the government and the evangelical community. And not just evangelical, but the studies
34:32that I have done as it relates to Branhamism, they tie to the evangelical side because Branham was
34:38evangelical. There are books that you can read. Jeff Charlotte, I think is his name, wrote a book on
34:47the family, which is the Fellowship Foundation International. Highly recommend that you at least
34:55study the concepts behind what is the fellowship and how does that tie to politics? How does it bind
35:01religion, evangelical religion to politics? Because I think people will be a little bit surprised
35:07whenever you study this, especially knowing that William Branham's campaign manager from the
35:131950s forward for a period of time was the Baron William T. Frary von Blumberg. Von Blumberg was the
35:23adopted cousin of Hitler's minister of defense. And he was a, like I said, a key figure in the Fellowship
35:31Foundation. He was a director from Boston. And he is part of what became this worldwide revival concept
35:41that I'm going to get into in just a bit. But the key thing to understand here is the revivals that were
35:48becoming worldwide international revivals were being led by a leader in the family, which is also closely
35:57linked to the government. It is basically the bridge between the government institutions and the
36:03religious institutions, the Fellowship Foundation. Again, you can read the book by Jeff Charlotte.
36:09There's also a Netflix documentary series called The Family, and you can see just how
36:16just disgusting this is. It's hard to believe that this actually exists and was allowed to continue.
36:22I think it is being somewhat limited. Until recently, it kind of exploded. But William Branham's
36:29campaigns were being led by this man, William T. Frary von Blumberg, taking him into other countries,
36:35such as Germany, but essentially planting the revival movement in multiple countries around the globe.
36:43So why did this happen? Why this bridge between the government? How is it tied to revival? And how does all
36:50of that link to the Billion Soul Harvest? Fortunately, through the Freedom of Information Act, we are now
36:57able to access declassified government history, which uncovers a wide variety of links between the established
37:07government and the established religious communities. One of the declassified documents, which is available to
37:15the public, is the Operation Condor, which was an operation that was conducted basically a covert World War
37:23Three by its own definition, if you read through some of the documents, a World War Three, covert World War
37:31Three against communism in South America. And this charge, if you understand the history and the
37:41implications of this, this was during the administration of President Nixon. It is linked to the Iran Contra
37:47Affair. There's a spiderweb of some conspiracy theory, some actual proven now declassified history
37:56that links all of this together. I've covered a lot of that in my book, which is weaponized religion from
38:03colonia to from latter rain to colonia dignidad. But the evangelical leaders were working with the
38:13government. And it was through a commission given by then Vice President Nixon at one of these national
38:21prayer breakfasts. The family, if you read that history or watch the docu-series, they're tied to the
38:27national prayer breakfast, as was the full gospel businessmen. And in this weird history, the military
38:37and the Chilean equivalent of our DIA, which is the military equivalent to the CIA, were training the
38:47people in Chile how to conduct espionage and torture against political descendants. And they were using a
38:57concentration camp that was actually a William Branham message facility called Colonia Dignidad. And that
39:04history, you can go through it in this book, I won't go deep into it here. But they were teaching
39:10people within the country how to torture individuals. And they were conducting experiments on how to
39:17effectively torture to the maximum extent. That experimentation was done on children. It's a horrific history.
39:25If you want to understand it, you can read through here. The United States government was knowingly
39:31cooperating with this and actually leading the charge as they were trying to overthrow Augusto Pinochet,
39:38the Pinochet regime. So that history you can read in here. But the thing to understand is the Nixon
39:45tie. Richard Nixon was the 37th president from 1969 to 1974. But before that, he had served as vice president,
39:55the 36th vice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. And while Nixon is most famous for
40:05his Watergate scandal, that's usually what you think of when you think of Nixon, he is also in a strange
40:11way tied to all of this weird mess with the new apostolic reformation in that during the national prayer
40:19breakfast, which was sponsored by the full gospel businessmen led by Demas Shikarian, who is largely
40:27responsible for funding and driving and spreading the charismatic movement. Demas Shikarian was also
40:34one of the strongest supporters of William Branham. And the organization he founded, the full gospel
40:40businessmen's fellowship international was co-founded by a Branhamite, which live who lived not far from here.
40:48So at the national prayer breakfast in the year was 1954, I believe it was, Nixon explained to the
40:57evangelical community that communism was spreading rapidly throughout the United States. And the
41:04battleground had shifted from physical weapons to now it was a type of warfare that the United States
41:12had not yet experienced. And that was a psychological warfare. It was a battle of the minds. And all of
41:22the community of evangelicals who are hearing this are hearing, oh my gosh, we are now seeing communism
41:29spread. World War three is here in the United States, and we didn't even recognize it. And they're taking
41:36over our minds with communism. Communism was linked by many of the evangelicals to atheism. And they were
41:44basically coming to the conclusion that we had suddenly entered into this war that we didn't even
41:51know about. Psychological war in which it was literally atheism against Christian. That is how
41:58it was presented and viewed. Nixon said that the greatest battle ever fought was in the mind. He's
42:05starting to talk about the ways in which, if you understand what he's saying, the ways in which you
42:10combat this is you attack also in the mind. So many leaders of this movement, some of them government,
42:19some of them religious officials tried to find out, well, how do you combat this in the mind? What
42:24techniques do you do in order to achieve victory in this battle that's happening in the heads of the
42:30individuals? The sad result of this, and I am not a fan of communism. So don't take this in the wrong way.
42:38But what they did was just as bad as communism. They were basically employing techniques of mind
42:45control to fight techniques of mind control. In other words, they're using the same exact type
42:52of strategies to combat what they believe to be this hidden threat in the United States. Whether it
42:58was a real threat or not, I don't know. But we do have Nixon's testimony saying that this is what the
43:04government believed to be the communist threat. So what happened was not long after this speech that
43:13was taking place in Washington, D.C. to the evangelicals, there was this sudden surge of
43:20ministers who were spreading propaganda of what was about to happen to the United States. Some of them,
43:26through literal fear of what was about to happen, they thought World War III had now come to the
43:32shores of the United States. Many of the ministers, Branham included, started creating these prophecies
43:40that were declaring doomsday of the United States as a result of communism. And that fear spread through
43:48the movement. And the ministers sadly began to realize that the fear that they were issuing to the
43:55individuals was probably the most powerful thing that they had ever used to gain a convert to the movement.
44:03Now, again, this is a convert to the movement. It's not so much a convert to Christianity.
44:08They were noticing the numbers growing and growing. This revival was growing, taking shape in the 1950s,
44:15mid-1950s. And it was being accelerated very quickly through fear. Fear is one of the techniques that
44:25is used when in combination with other mind control techniques, it becomes one of the most powerful
44:30things. If you can train a member to fear, you literally can control his mind. And whether by
44:38government instruction or not, I personally do not believe the government instructed how to do mind
44:44control to the ministers. I think that they actually figured out by watching the results of their fear
44:51techniques, they began to see that the people who were converting were not quickly deconverting. In other
44:58words, they come into the movement and they're trapped. We have them. And more to the point, they began to
45:04understand that if I combine any doctrine from the Bible with a technique of fear, people will adopt it more
45:11quickly. And my doctrines can become established more quickly than this other revivalist who is my competitor. So it
45:19became this weird competition where one evangelist, his doctrines of fear are a direct competition of
45:27another evangelist doctrine of fear. And it became a battle of the, a weird battle of the tents because
45:34many of these were even tent revivalists still in the 1950s. So as the, as these tents and these convention
45:42halls were growing, one guy could pack out an auditorium because his version of fear was greater than the
45:49other guy's version of fear. And all of this is spreading the fear of communism throughout the
45:54United States to the extent there are documentaries of how, just how insidious the fear of communism
46:01became in the United States. The fear itself became a bigger threat than, than communism itself.
46:07So this is developing and this is growing, and this is a charge by President Nixon to instill fear into the
46:14hearts of your congregations. At the same time that all of this is happening, there's this other weird
46:21thread of history that is starting to converge. And that is Christian identity. You can read through
46:29that. I've published it in my book, Weaponized Religion from Christian Identity to the NAR. There's
46:34all of these spider webs that lead to the New Apostolic Reformation, most of which are not Christian
46:40movements that are combining into what Steve calls the converging apostasy. But Christian identity had
46:48taken foothold in many of the revivalists in the movement. William Branham was no exception. He was
46:55teaching the core concept of Christian identity, which is the two seed doctrine. The idea that the
47:02original sin from the Garden of Eden was Eve mating with a serpent to produce two bloodlines,
47:08one good, one evil. That was the core concept that was established in Christian identity.
47:15Gordon Lindsay, Branham's campaign manager, up until the point when Baron William T. Frary von
47:21Blomberg became the campaign manager. Gordon Lindsay was a keynote speaker at identity conferences,
47:27such as the Anglo-Saxon Federation and others. William Branham's mentor, Roy Davis, the one who ordained
47:34Branham, was the one who actually taught William Branham the core concepts of Christian identity.
47:40He was the second in command of the 1915 clan. He was an identity leader, and he was teaching this
47:47thing that was not Christianity to Branham, which Branham would further develop. Well, within Christian
47:53identity was this idea, which also appears to come in many ways from Germany. The idea that there was a
48:02Jewish plot to take over the world and the protocols of the learned elders of Zion, which was anti-Jewish,
48:11anti-Semitic propaganda, was spreading through the fundamentalist leagues. Many members of those
48:18leagues connected directly to Branham and the revivalists to Davis. Davis was a head of the world,
48:25director of the world. Um, fundamentalist league, if I remember correctly, the name, uh, Gerald Burton
48:32Winrod, who you can look up the information on him. He was also spreading this propaganda and it took,
48:38it took hold. People believed that there was this plot. And as that shifted and the anti-Semitism started to
48:48fall away from many of the ministers who recognize that's, that's just wrong. The anti-Semitism,
48:54the doctrines that were established by that merging of Christian identity with the revivalist,
49:00many of those doctrines stayed. One of those doctrines was the idea that there would suddenly
49:06be this one world religion. And that was a concept that I think was largely borrowed from the protocols.
49:12The idea that the rest of the world is going to become one world religion. It's going to be this false
49:19Jew and only the elect seed would remain separate from this one world religion. And it takes different
49:26shapes and forms depending on which version of the movement that you're looking at. Some call it the
49:32new world order, the new religious order, the one world government, the one world religion. There's all
49:39kinds of different ways in which they see this plot, this threat happening. But those core concepts,
49:48because they were so deeply embedded into the movement, especially in leaders like Gordon Lindsay,
49:54they began to see this rise of communism, this battle of the minds as the threat for this new world order.
50:00And so what happened was they started pushing the notion that we need to conquer them. We need to take the
50:07battle to their front, not, not just fight the battle here in the United States. We need to go overseas. We need to
50:14fight the battle of the minds on their side. So what happened right after Nixon's address to the
50:21full gospel businessmen's, the national prayer breakfast, the gathering of evangelicals. Not long
50:29after that speech of the battle for the minds, the leaders within the movement began to push the idea
50:36that we will take the battle to their shores through a billion souls crusade. And in January,
50:441955, the Voice of Healing magazine started publishing for the first time in history, we will have a
50:51billion souls crusade. We will mobilize to evangelize the Christless millions of people. And so essentially
51:00what the group had done, while they are proclaiming against a one world religion, and the idea that
51:07atheists or communists or any of the other various religions might form this opposition to Christianity,
51:16we will instead form the one world religion as we want it to be established. In other words,
51:21Christianity will be forced to the billions of people around the globe, and eventually we will
51:27take charge of this war, we will win this war, which is a battle for the minds, and we will have conquered
51:34the globe. That was literally the idea that was being pushed by these ministers. And again, this is
51:41coming right on the heels of Nixon, who is saying that we are fighting a battle of the minds. So these
51:49leaders of the movement saw themselves as generals in this battle of the minds that basically is a
51:55covert World War Three that's happening in the heads of the individuals. We're now generals in this war.
52:01So when you think of phrases like God's generals, you have to understand that there's a history behind
52:07the reason why they use that phrase. That phrase is not something that you're going to quickly find
52:12if you're reading the Bible. There is no God's general in the Bible. But these leaders of the
52:18movement that would develop into the New Apostolic Reformation truly believed that they were generals in
52:23a war and that the end justified the means. Yes, we're doing things that are probably not ethical.
52:35We're going to use techniques that are some of which are mind control, some of which are just
52:41being a little deceptive to show my supernatural authority. But there is an end that justifies
52:47these means. I can have a false prophecy about communism, whatever it is.
52:52I can later change it to a different prophecy as long as I'm taking the charge forward to conquer
52:59this battle that is happening in the minds of the people. So fast forward onto the formation of the
53:07Kansas City Fellowship. You had Bob Jones, who was spreading Branham doctrines and very sympathetic to
53:14Branhamism. You had Paul Kane, who attended various churches in the Branham cult of
53:21the personality that I was in, who was Branham's protege, his proxy into Germany, who was there with the
53:28baron William T. Freire, Yvonne Blumberg, and Paul Schaefer, the founder of the colony that would later be
53:35used to weaponize this for tortures, overthrowing regimes. He's there. He is also spreading Branhamism
53:44until the days of his death. He was very favorable in teaching Branham's ways to the people.
53:51The historians who look at this billion souls harvest of the new apostolic reformation point
53:57back to this event in Kansas City and say, this is the origins.
54:00Well, it's not so much an origin as it is a resurrection of the billion soul revival drive
54:07that was happening through Branhamism, through the charge and commission by Nixon, through all
54:12of this weird history that is just truly, truly unbelievable. So hopefully this clears up some of
54:21the confusion. And I would like to see if the historians could add the actual history of the origin story
54:28to all of their publications because this is much deeper and more sinister than even what they
54:35believe to be the history of this billion souls harvest, billion souls revival that was taking
54:42place. It is, it is a strange and unusual history. And as I said at the beginning of this, it is history
54:49that proves that truth or at least their version of it is really stranger than fiction. So if you've enjoyed
54:56the show and you want more information, you can check us out on the web. You can find us at
55:00william-branham.org. For more about the dark side of the new apostolic reformation,
55:05you can read Weaponized Religion from Christian Identity to the NAR. Available on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible.
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