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John examines John Paul Jackson's warnings about California and places them inside a much longer history of repeated end-times predictions. Tracing the theme from Azusa Street through William Branham, Joe Brandt, Edgar Cayce, and the Kansas City prophetic movement, he argues that many modern prophetic claims are recycled versions of older failed warnings.
The episode also explores the real-world damage caused by repeated doomsday rhetoric, including fear, anxiety, instability, and major life decisions shaped by predictions that never came to pass. Rather than treating the California prophecy as an isolated claim, John shows how it became part of a larger Pentecostal and charismatic pattern that continued into the New Apostolic Reformation.
00:00 Introduction
05:26 John Paul Jackson, IHOPKC, And The California Prophecy
11:02 Azusa Street, San Francisco, And Early West Coast Destruction Themes
16:17 Failed Prophecies, Kansas City Fellowship, And The Perfect Storm
22:30 The Human Cost Of Repeated Doomsday Predictions
27:05 Joe Brandt, William Branham, And Recycled External Confirmations
35:10 Edgar Cayce, Kentucky Connections, And Branham's California Warning
42:31 Billy Paul, Failed Timelines, And Cognitive Dissonance
46:28 IHOPKC, Bob Jones, Rick Joyner, And Delayed Judgment
51:03 Why Doomsday Rhetoric Damages Faith And Mental Stability
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The episode also explores the real-world damage caused by repeated doomsday rhetoric, including fear, anxiety, instability, and major life decisions shaped by predictions that never came to pass. Rather than treating the California prophecy as an isolated claim, John shows how it became part of a larger Pentecostal and charismatic pattern that continued into the New Apostolic Reformation.
00:00 Introduction
05:26 John Paul Jackson, IHOPKC, And The California Prophecy
11:02 Azusa Street, San Francisco, And Early West Coast Destruction Themes
16:17 Failed Prophecies, Kansas City Fellowship, And The Perfect Storm
22:30 The Human Cost Of Repeated Doomsday Predictions
27:05 Joe Brandt, William Branham, And Recycled External Confirmations
35:10 Edgar Cayce, Kentucky Connections, And Branham's California Warning
42:31 Billy Paul, Failed Timelines, And Cognitive Dissonance
46:28 IHOPKC, Bob Jones, Rick Joyner, And Delayed Judgment
51:03 Why Doomsday Rhetoric Damages Faith And Mental Stability
______________________
Weaponized Religion: From Christian Identity to the NAR:
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735160962
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCGGZX3K
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– Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham
– Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSpezVG15TVG-lOYMRXuyQ
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00:31Hello, 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.
00:49Today, I'm diving into John Paul Jackson and the concept of recycled prophecy, which I think
00:57is something that not many historians think through.
01:01They will often talk about a person who has claimed a prophecy over a certain aspect of
01:08life, whether it's a futuristic prophecy or God speaking directly to an event that's
01:13happening currently.
01:14And they'll point out all of the details that went wrong with this prophecy.
01:18But seldom do people go through and talk systematically of how a prophecy comes to be, is recycled,
01:27recycled again, reused by another person, claimed by another person.
01:31And usually they're in the same theological line of history.
01:37John Paul Jackson is one of these figures.
01:40His lineage of history can be traced all the way back to some of the research that we've
01:45talked about, all the way back to Azusa Street, if you want to go there.
01:50And interestingly, that is where I'm going to go today.
01:53John Paul Jackson was an author, teacher, conference speaker.
01:58He founded the Streams Ministries International.
02:03And he is well known for his talks about supernatural, the dreams, the visions, the dream interpretations.
02:12And he developed a number of these prophetic training courses on that subject.
02:18He hosted the Dreams and Mysteries with John Paul Jackson that was on Daystar and a recurring
02:24guest on many of the different programs that you'll find on TV with all of the televangelists
02:31talking about the doom and the gloom and the things to come.
02:34And that's where this prophecy that I'm looking at today comes into play.
02:40I honestly did not know until I heard it first from, I think it was Brantley Smith, that the
02:48Kansas City prophets believed in a prophecy that I grew up with.
02:52And that is a prophecy about the utter destruction of California.
02:58And I had studied it to some extent.
03:01I knew William Branham made this prophecy in 1965 that Los Angeles would sink beneath the
03:07ocean.
03:07And there were key details that he got dramatically wrong in the prophecy.
03:13And I'll get into that in a little bit.
03:16But I had studied the prophecy as it related to William Branham and traced it all the way
03:22back to Azusa Street, which I'll talk about that in a minute.
03:25But there were other weird things that I found as I began to research this.
03:31It wasn't unique to Azusa Street.
03:32It wasn't unique to William Branham.
03:34There were just a lot of people claiming that Los Angeles is going to be destroyed.
03:40And why?
03:41So I wanted to know more about that.
03:43And then when Brantley mentioned it, I started to dig into the Kansas City Fellowship, the
03:49International House of Prayer, and their spin on this so-called prophecy.
03:56And what I've come to understand is a lot of these people will reinvent a prophecy and make
04:03it sound more appealing.
04:04But it's just taking the existing prophecy and putting a twist on it so that it's more
04:12appealing to the itching ears.
04:13And it appears that John Paul Jackson is one who did this kind of thing.
04:18I have investigated John Paul Jackson for another reason.
04:22I was looking at Paul Kane and some of the things that were said with regards to the stock
04:28markets.
04:29And I think John Paul Jackson is most notoriously known for his failed prediction of the stock
04:35market, which that's another podcast for another day.
04:39But I was clued into the fact that he was another person who was claiming prophecy on things that
04:45either he was not prophesying from God or he was just simply making it up as he went.
04:53When I discovered the California prophecy, my opinion leaned more towards
04:58the he's making it up as he went kind of thing, because as I'll get into in this podcast,
05:04this is something that just keeps it's a theme that keeps repeating and repeating and repeating.
05:09And there's no way that all of these people in these histories are unaware that the previous
05:16guy made the same prediction.
05:18There's just simply no way there are.
05:20There are too many of them.
05:22So I wanted to get into that history a bit.
05:24And before I do that, I'll mention that John Paul Jackson was critical in the development
05:30of what would eventually become IHOP-KC.
05:34And because of that, he is critical to what would really become the New Apostolic Reformation
05:40as we see it today.
05:42He was part of one of the many networks that comprised the NAR, but he was in one of the
05:48one of the most important and significant ones.
05:51So with that, I'll get into the California prophecy.
05:56One of the shows that hosted John Paul Jackson was the Jim Baker show.
06:00And on this show, John Paul Jackson prophesied of a major storm before a major earthquake in
06:07California.
06:09And you can read about it.
06:11I'll throw the link up onto the screen.
06:12But the important takeaways from this are listed.
06:16It says, an ominous prophecy about California being fulfilled right in front of our eyes
06:21with a question mark, which I want to talk about that in a minute.
06:25Over the past couple of weeks, a parade of cyclones have been absolutely hammering the
06:30state.
06:30And then at the bottom of it, it says, the following is a rough transcript of John Paul
06:35Jackson's remarks, quote, there is an earthquake that has been predicted to devastate California,
06:41meaning that skyscrapers are going to fall, that the shape of the United States will change
06:45after the earthquake.
06:47That won't happen until after there's a storm.
06:49A major storm is coming to California.
06:51It's either a hurricane or incredible force, or it is a storm of incredible force.
06:57But a great, great hurricane or an incredible force is going to come into California, and the
07:04earthquake that destroys it will not happen until after that takes place.
07:07As I mentioned, I first heard about the New Apostolic Reformation's version of this through
07:13Brantley.
07:13But interestingly, I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about John Paul Jackson, but instead
07:19about a prophecy given by Bob Jones.
07:21Bob Jones also had a similar prophecy, apparently.
07:25Bob Jones is just one of many in the prophetic movement who have failed prophecies, and he's
07:32one of the California doomsday predictors.
07:35And there are quite a few of them, if you go through this, not only in the Pentecostal
07:40charismatic movement, but also outside of the movement.
07:43And I think there are some reasons why, but we'll get into that in just a little bit.
07:48But it is such a widespread problem, this idea that these ministers can prophesy over things
07:55that did not come to pass, and then the following will continue to believe they are a prophet,
08:01which defies many Bible verses.
08:04You cannot be a prophet of God and have failed prophecy, because the way the Bible describes
08:11prophecy, the person who is speaking the prophecy is being used as just simply a mouse piece
08:18by God.
08:19And so you'll find articles like, there's a section here, and I'll throw this one on the
08:23screen as well.
08:24How do charismatics rationalize fallible prophecy?
08:29And in this article, it goes through all of the different reasons why people should just
08:34run screaming from these false prophets.
08:37But in this, it starts talking about the major earthquake that was going to devastate the
08:44East Coast before the year 2000.
08:46It says, in the 1990s, Kansas City prophets Bob Jones and Rick Joyner, similar, and I think
08:54they mean similarly, predicted that California would soon be swallowed by the Pacific Ocean
08:59after a major earthquake.
09:01More recently, Pat Robertson predicted that the United States would experience a horrific
09:07terror attack in the second half of 2007.
09:09And what this article is trying to say in no uncertain terms is that many of these charismatic
09:15leaders who are claiming to be prophets or part of the prophetic movement all have these
09:21prophecies about some utter destruction that is about to happen, and then it doesn't happen.
09:27And after it doesn't happen, there are people who believe them so much that regardless of
09:34whether their prophecy came true or not, they will still continue to believe that this person
09:38is a prophet.
09:40I'm a true example of this.
09:41I was in a movement by a leader who was dead and gone for prophecies that some of them had
09:48to include his being alive whenever it was fulfilled, and yet I still believed it was
09:55a prophet because I was trained and manipulated to do so.
09:58From birth, I was trained like this.
10:01After I left, I realized, well, wait a minute.
10:03If the guy's dead and he was supposed to be alive whenever the prophecies happen, he either
10:08has to rise from the grave, which, interestingly, some of the people, including me, believed,
10:13or something else is wrong.
10:16And I just never really clued in on the fact that, wait, something else was wrong.
10:22Now that I can critically think and I look at this movement, this is a widespread problem.
10:27People do not critically think about the prophets because they have been trained that you cannot
10:33question the prophets, regardless of whether the Bible says to question the prophets.
10:38They will say, touch not God's anointed.
10:41And when they say this, they mean, if you question my failed prophecy, I'm going to come down
10:47upon you with the wrath of God.
10:49That's literally what they're saying.
10:51But then the prophecy is also the wrath of God.
10:54So either way that you take the prophecy or the prophet, you're going to get wrath in
11:00this movement, and this is a key characteristic of not just the charismatic movement, but as
11:06I've mentioned in the podcast that I have done about Azusa Street, this goes all the way back
11:12to 1906, when the Azusa Street Revival began, there were similar things happening.
11:18In fact, one of the things happening was this destruction that was coming to the West Coast.
11:26Now, for the Azusa Street Revival, as I mentioned in that podcast, it came on the heels of the
11:33great earthquake of San Francisco.
11:35So the people really did fear that something bad was about to happen, and they were seeing
11:41the biblical wars and rumors of wars.
11:44They were right on the cusp of what would become World War I, and they saw this great destruction
11:53in San Francisco during the height of the Azusa Street Revival, and it just broke out into
11:59spiritual fervor.
12:00One of the reasons why is because everybody was fearing suddenly the end is coming, and
12:06their prophecies started matching that theme.
12:08And you can imagine the fear that it would have caused at the Azusa Street Revival, having
12:13just witnessed the San Francisco earthquake and the burning and destruction of San Francisco,
12:19but also all of the many aftershocks that were coming.
12:22This was a massive, massive earthquake.
12:26The Richter scale had not yet been conceived, but the belief is that it was about a 7.9, possibly
12:338.3 on the Richter scale.
12:35And there were approximately between 227,000 and 300,000 people that were left homeless out
12:44of a population of only 410,000.
12:47Most of those were evacuated.
12:49The death toll was approximately, the range is between 700 and 3,000 people, because some
12:57of the people who lived in Chinatown apparently weren't counted.
13:01But this was a massive, massive earthquake.
13:03And the aftershocks continued not just at the San Andreas Fault, but it cascaded to other
13:10faults, such as the Hayward Fault.
13:11And aftershocks were felt until October 28, I believe, is the last one that they felt.
13:17So from the Azusa Street Revival all the way to October, they're feeling all of these aftershocks
13:23while there's fear and there's revival.
13:25And the mixture of fear and revival is a deadly cocktail for destruction.
13:31That's why it led to prophecies of destruction.
13:34Newspaper reporters who were at the Azusa Street Revival in September, while these aftershocks
13:40and tremors were still occurring, said that weird prophecies concerning the destruction
13:45of Los Angeles were shouted by several of the ranters, and dire calamity was foretold by
13:51the fanatics who professed only to see destruction for this city for many days.
13:56So, as you can see from even the accounts within the Azusa Street Revival, destruction was a
14:03theme that was beginning, and it was destruction that was happening on the West Coast.
14:08This is nothing new.
14:10Whenever you hear John Paul Jackson or Bob Jones or any of these people talking about this,
14:15they're talking about something that was predicted long ago.
14:18It's just a recurring prediction that continues to fail.
14:22Well, the interesting part, if you look at the interview with John Paul Jackson, is that
14:28every time there is a major storm, earthquake, or something that can spark the fear and excite
14:35the people, they will always go back to this California prophecy.
14:40Honestly, whenever Brantley mentioned it to me, that's exactly the thought that went through
14:45my head.
14:45I grew up living in fear of every single geological event that happened to California.
14:52In fact, I can remember several sermons where I would be sitting in the pews and the minister
14:59would raise up a newspaper from behind the pulpit and say, look, see, California just had this storm or
15:05this earthquake or the hurricane, whatever it is that it had.
15:09They would hold it up and they would scare us to death that America was fixing to engage in this
15:15geological warfare with God.
15:18And it's all because of this recurring theme, basically this rebranding of prophecy that
15:24continues all the way from Azusa Street until today.
15:28But as it relates to John Paul Jackson, the question that I would ask is, is it really prophecy?
15:34Where did this come from?
15:36Was it from God?
15:37If it is false prophecy, which God did it come from?
15:41But the question that I'm going to simply ask is, was it prophecy at all?
15:46One of the problems that we have whenever we start to investigate one of the so-called prophets
15:52in either the Pentecostal movement, the latter reign, the charismatic movement, new apostolic
15:57reformation, if that person is dead, you'll find people in the comment feeds who will say,
16:03why are you asking this now after this person is dead?
16:07Why did nobody ask this person when they were alive?
16:10But the interesting fact is that many people did, not just with John Paul Jackson, but with
16:17many of the others that we've examined who've been branded as false prophets.
16:21In fact, in 1990, John Paul Jackson was accused of multiple false prophecies, and it was written
16:30down in a widely distributed 233-page paper that was entitled, Documentation of the Aberrant
16:38Practices and Teachings of Kansas City Fellowship, published by Reverend Ernie Gruen.
16:43And during this investigation that was published by Gruen, it was determined that Mike Bickel,
16:51the head of the Kansas City Fellowship and later International House of Prayer, Mike Bickel
16:56had apparently determined that John Paul Jackson's false prophecies were so bad that he was eventually
17:02transferred to Anaheim for a, quote, period of instruction, which meant basically the people
17:08are starting to recognize that these prophecies aren't true.
17:11We don't want you in this part of this movement.
17:14But yet, John Paul Jackson was a key part of the so-called prophetic history.
17:21In 1990, there were a few false prophecies, and in fact, there were multiple, according
17:27to Ernie Gruen.
17:28The biggest one, as I mentioned, was the 1987 prophecy that there's going to be an immediate
17:33fall of the stock market.
17:35And he gave the date, if I remember correctly, 1988 would be the most severe year for the
17:42stock market.
17:43So when John Paul Jackson predicted this, and the stock market did not come to a utter collapse,
17:49then people began to realize there's something wrong with his prophecies.
17:54Either A, they're not from God.
17:56B, he's making it up.
17:58Or C, it came from a different God altogether, because the God of the Bible, according to
18:03the Bible, can't have false details in the prophecies.
18:07But as it relates to the California prophecies and predictions, John Paul Jackson turned this
18:12into an entire marketing scheme.
18:14He was branding, or I should say rebranding, the California prophecy as the, quote, coming
18:22perfect storm.
18:23And Jackson declared as a revelation from God, which he released in a statement in 2008
18:30called the coming perfect storm.
18:32And in the statement, he spoke of the time coming to America and in the world which economic,
18:38military, religious, political, and geophysical issues and events would occur.
18:44And this was supposed to be in a relatively small time period.
18:48So, in other words, we have an imminent destruction that is coming.
18:52And it came, again, after the failed prediction of the stock market.
18:57So, this was, from all appearances, this was an attempt to basically rebrand the failed prediction
19:04into a broader scheme of predictions.
19:07And that branding was the, you know, the coming of the perfect storm.
19:12So, in the summer of 2009, Jackson went viral with all of this information, as viral as
19:18you could, in 2009.
19:20He was a guest on Sid Roth's It's Supernatural radio and television show, which that was broadcast
19:27on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the Inspiration Network, God TV, Daystar, and other stations.
19:35And Jackson went into detail describing the events that were related to this coming destruction.
19:42And in this, in those statements, he put a date on it.
19:46He said, I saw the year 2010 was going to be really difficult, especially when you get
19:52further into 2010.
19:54And he said, I kept hearing an angel saying in a deep, loud voice, the woes of 2012, the
20:02woes of 2012, the woes of 2012.
20:06And he went on, on Sid Roth's show, he said, I don't know what those woes are, Sid, but
20:11the angel did not tell me about those woes.
20:13But there was more emphasis on those woes than anything else that was given.
20:17And if you'll remember, the year 2012 was significant all across the globe because people
20:24were looking to the Mayan calendar.
20:26December 21st, 2012 marked the completion of the 13th Bakhtun, which is a 394-year circle
20:35in the long count calendar of the Mayan calendar.
20:39And Mayan scholars viewed this as a transition to a new cycle.
20:43But there were many people around the globe, not just in the Christian or pseudo-Christian
20:48communities, but were declaring that because the Mayan calendar has a reset, this must be
20:54the end of days.
20:56And so end of days surrounding 2012 was a very popular theme.
21:00So if you consider the Pentecostal history and its relationship to the destruction of
21:05California and the hype around the 2012 Mayan calendar event, it appears that John Paul Jackson
21:14was actually borrowing from multiple sources when he started doing these predictions, which
21:19is fascinating if you think about the implications of that.
21:22Now, we can't go back and ask John Paul Jackson how he got these ideas, where they came from,
21:28would he be truthful if we even asked him, but you can make some assumptions based off of
21:34the fact that this is a repeating and recurring theme over and over and over, not just with
21:40John Paul Jackson, but with many of the different characters involved with this.
21:44But as it relates to the perfect storm, as he had branded it, he developed this entire resource
21:52kit to assist with preparing for this.
21:55So it turned into a good way to make money.
21:59He separated the perfect storm into five different elements, and he started referencing spiritual
22:06and practical materials that you can do to be prepared.
22:10And basically, he became a self-made portal to news articles that supported his prophecies
22:17that were, again, first spoken in 2008, but was going to have a 2010 to 2012 timestamp.
22:26Now, the point I want to make regarding all of this, whether you're looking at the Pentecostals
22:31doomsday destruction that was imminent in 1906, or whether it's John Paul Jackson's imminent
22:37destruction in the year 2010 to 2012, is the impact that it has on the mindset of the people.
22:46I've mentioned this on the podcast a few times, but I took a business trip while I was in the
22:51cult following William Branham, who had a similar prediction about Los Angeles, and the business
22:56trip took me to Los Angeles.
22:58So when I step off of the plane, the anxiety was through the roof.
23:02My heart stopped, my feet were wobbling, as I stepped off and walked down the stairs to
23:10get into the airport.
23:12I was shaking so heavily that I thought I was going to fall down, and people were going to
23:17have to pick me back up.
23:18And that's just the fear of being in California.
23:23People ask me, whenever I first mentioned that scene in my life, they said, well, what does
23:29it matter?
23:29What does it matter if you believe that California is going to sink under the ocean?
23:35Because according to that mindset, it is.
23:38We don't know when it's going to happen.
23:39It might happen.
23:40It might happen soon.
23:41Every single prophet has declared it will happen soon.
23:45So therefore, it must happen soon.
23:47What does it matter if you believe it anyway?
23:49Well, think of the people whose lives are destroyed because of it.
23:53I also know families who were in California who had established themselves well, had a good
24:00family business going, were living really good in terms of their financial well-being,
24:09who came across this California doomsday destruction.
24:12And in one case, an entire church transplanted into Louisiana to get away from this imminent
24:19destruction.
24:20And those families that were transplanted pretty much lost everything.
24:24They had to start over from scratch.
24:26The point I'm trying to make is that whenever a so-called prophet continues to have false predictions
24:33about destruction and they continue to repeat them, it has a very negative impact on the
24:40lives of different people.
24:42Right down to the children in the movement.
24:44Picture the children who are hearing all of these fears of destruction and coming dread
24:50and gloom and doom.
24:52These are the types of people who grow up with psychological issues because they have no
24:57security whatsoever.
24:58And these false prophets are bringing this insecurity to the minds of the children.
25:03It's such a destructive theology that even the adults, as I've mentioned, will transplant
25:10themselves just to get away from this.
25:12And all for nothing, whenever you realize that this is a prophecy that just keeps repeating
25:17over and over and over again, California is going to be destroyed.
25:22Whenever it doesn't happen, the next guy carries the torch.
25:26California is going to be destroyed.
25:28And in the end, you've got multiple lifespans of people who could have lived happy, healthy
25:32lives.
25:33So when people ask me, why does this matter?
25:36Whenever somebody is making these predictions, what does it hurt if it's not imminent?
25:40I always go back to the fact that whenever you're destroying the current lives and you've
25:46got this history of repeating false prophecies and false predictions about destruction, you're
25:52actually doing more harm to the mental stability of the people than the destruction itself.
25:57Have you ever wondered how the Pentecostal movement started, or how the progression of
26:03modern Pentecostalism transitioned through the latter reign, charismatic, and other fringe
26:08movements into the new apostolic reformation?
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26:24Charles Paisley, Stephen Montgomery, John McKinnon, and others, with links to the paper,
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26:57I mentioned earlier that John Paul Jackson and the Pentecostal prophets of Azusa Street
27:04and the Lateran prophets who are all predicting this destruction of California are not the only
27:10ones predicting the destruction of California.
27:13And some of those sources come from outside of the religious realm.
27:17One of the most interesting of those is Joe Brandt.
27:20Joe Brandt was a 17-year-old who had been riding on a horse and fell and got a concussion.
27:28And while he was suffering from a brain injury in a Fresno hospital, he started having these
27:34weird hallucinations and predictions of a very grim future for Los Angeles and parts of California.
27:41And he started claiming that there was this shift in changes in the earth that would cause parts of Los
27:50Angeles
27:50and California to just sink into the ocean.
27:54And that text, that prophecy became somewhat famous in the cult following of William Branham
28:01because it was published the year after William Branham made his doomsday for Los Angeles prediction.
28:08In fact, Perry Green from the Tucson Tabernacle in Tucson, Arizona, affiliated with the message
28:15following of William Branham, he took Joe Brandt's prophecy and claimed that it was an external source
28:22supporting William Branham's own prophecy.
28:25And he published and reprinted, which I'll throw this on the screen.
28:28You can read through it.
28:30But it is the text of the prophecy as given by Joe Brandt.
28:36In the preface of his republication of Joe Brandt's prophecy, he said,
28:41that for a number of years, the Lord has laid it on our heart, the warnings to be sent out
28:46concerning the coming earthquake catastrophe in California.
28:50It has not been a popular message, nor one that is easy to publish.
28:55Confirmations have been received from over the whole earth.
28:58We feel that this one about to be read could be the last one that we will print.
29:03It is taken from Prophecies of Tomorrow, copyrighted by Jessica Madigan.
29:08Now, the prophecy of Joe Brandt was initially given in 1937, according to Jessica Madigan.
29:18Joe Brandt's prophecy was never initially published whenever it was apparently given in 1937,
29:25but instead spread from word of mouth, and he eventually wrote it down.
29:29And he apparently handed the papers that he had written to Jessica Madigan in 1965,
29:35which she published in her 1966 book, The Prophecies of Tomorrow.
29:41If you follow the message, cult following of William Branham, the history,
29:46the dates seem a little bit suspect.
29:48And the fact that you can almost only find these prophecies given on a message-related website,
29:56such as Perry Green's, it's even more suspect.
29:59But 1965, William Branham has the prophecy.
30:041965, Joe Brandt hands these papers, which had never been published to Jessica Madigan.
30:11And she published it in 1966 after William Branham died.
30:15Message leaders started using this as confirmation of William Branham's prophecy.
30:20And then it kind of died out.
30:23There were people, as I mentioned, who transplanted their entire churches out of California.
30:28But over time, it began to fade away until William Branham's most famous doomsday prediction of 1977.
30:39The prophecy from Joe Brandt was again published in Paul James's California Superquake,
30:441975 to 1977, and then it was circulated again in prophetic magazines, pamphlets, etc.,
30:54usually distributed with the intent for end-of-days revival or spreading through end-of-days revival networks.
31:03And if you read through the text of what Joe Brandt apparently or allegedly wrote,
31:08it sounds eerily similar to what you would hear if you were in a Branham memorial service.
31:13In fact, he writes, at the very beginning, he says,
31:17in the day of the earthquake, he said,
31:19I woke up in the hospital with a terrific headache as if the whole world was revolving inside my brain.
31:25I remember vaguely the fall from my horse, Blackie.
31:29As I lay there, the pictures began to form in my mind,
31:32pictures that moved with the speed of lightning, pictures that stood still.
31:36I seemed to be in another world.
31:38Whether it was the future or whether it was some ancient land, I could not say.
31:41Then so slowly, like the silver screen of the talkies, but with the color and smell and sound,
31:48I seemed to find myself in Los Angeles.
31:51It was Los Angeles.
31:52It was bigger, much bigger, and buses and odd-shaped cars crowded the city streets.
31:59When I read this, the odd-shaped cars is what tipped me off that this might not be real.
32:05This might be somebody who is supportive of William Branham's ministry,
32:09who just happened to hand it in, 1965, whenever William Branham made the prediction,
32:15as a supportive text for Branham's prophetic doomsday vision.
32:20Because in William Branham's version of doomsday, there was going to be this earthquake.
32:25There was going to be the catastrophic sinking of California.
32:29But he also had plagiarized a few prophecies about the different shape of cars
32:37that would happen right before the end of day's destruction.
32:41We've talked about that in our Weaponized Religion series and in our Revival History series.
32:48But William Branham was apparently getting information from different scientific magazines
32:54and from the World's Fair about the evolution of the automobile as it related to aerodynamics.
33:02And after seeing this egg-shaped car in the 1933 World's Fair,
33:08after seeing it, Branham started claiming that he predicted in 1933 that cars would be shaped like an egg,
33:15which is not that much of a prediction if you saw the car that was supposed to be shaped like
33:20an egg.
33:21Interestingly, they have proven this did not work.
33:24Even the car that was at the 1933 World's Fair, because the egg is so top-heavy, it flipped over
33:31and burned.
33:32And this idea never really caught on.
33:35So Branham's egg-shaped car prophecy transformed into something entirely different later.
33:40But as it relates to Joe Brandt and the message movement in general,
33:45they still believe the egg-shaped car prophecy in that version
33:49and still continue to look for a car to be shaped like an egg, even though it doesn't work.
33:55It has been proven that it doesn't work.
33:58So the fact that it's mentioned in Joe Brandt's prophecy, that's a little bit suspect.
34:03But then later, this prophecy was republished in Paul James' California Superquake, 1975 to 1977,
34:11which also raises the suspicions, because William Branham's most famous doomsday prediction
34:17out of the several doomsday dates that he had given was 1977.
34:23And there were many people who were in the Branham movement that believed 1977 was the end of the world,
34:29we must sell all that we have because we're going up into the rapture, and people did this.
34:34A lot of them actually gave all of their possessions to whatever minister or evangelist they were following,
34:41which turned into a disaster for them and very good for the minister who received everything that they had.
34:48But the fact that this was circulated in 1977 raises even more suspicion.
34:54So I look at this prophecy as not really a good external source,
34:59because it might be something that was put out as propaganda.
35:03But Joe Brandt is not the only one who had this type of prediction.
35:08And the other source that I'll go to, and there are various sources that have this type of prediction for
35:13California.
35:14But the biggest one of all, I think, is the prediction that was made by Edgar Cayce.
35:20Cayce was an American clairvoyant who reportedly had the ability to diagnose diseases
35:26and recommend treatments for different ailments while being asleep.
35:31And during thousands of transcribed sessions, Cayce answered questions on everything from healing to reincarnation,
35:38dreams, the afterlife, past lives, nutrition, Atlantis, and future events.
35:44He basically was of the early 1900s and late 1800s.
35:50He was the John Paul Jackson of the clairvoyant scene.
35:55One of the things that Cayce predicted was the destruction and the reshaping of the North American continent,
36:03where it gets really interesting as it relates to William Branham and Branham's version of the California destruction.
36:11Cayce was born in Kentucky, the same state that William Branham was born,
36:15in Christian County, Kentucky, to be specific,
36:18but later moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and eventually he moved to Louisville, Kentucky.
36:24So right across the river from William Branham's Branham Tabernacle was Edward Cayce in Louisville, Kentucky.
36:31And though he would later move to Bowling Green, he attended business college in Kentucky.
36:36So whenever Cayce became widely known throughout the United States,
36:41people in Kentucky and the southern Indiana area could claim some of his fame.
36:46So William Branham grew up in an era whenever Edward Cayce would have been known in Kentucky, southern Indiana.
36:54And Edward Cayce, as I mentioned, was one who predicted the destruction of California.
36:59In fact, and if you're watching the YouTube version of this, I'll put it up on the screen,
37:04but Cayce described the map of the United States, what it would look like after the coming destruction.
37:09And his map is eerily similar to what was described by William Branham in the Latter Rain Revivals.
37:16Cayce and other Doomsday Prophet enthusiasts have created this map called the Future Map of North America.
37:24And as you can see from the map, there's a large section of Los Angeles and parts of California
37:30that are now under the ocean in this futuristic map.
37:33Also interesting is the spreading of the Mississippi River into this wide swath of land that has been just inundated
37:43by the flood that came in from the Gulf, which is another part of William Branham's weird Doomsday Predictions.
37:49So there's evidence that William Branham got some of his Doomsday Predictions from Edward Cayce.
37:55However, Branham did not immediately run with this idea, Cayce having this prediction back in the late 1930s,
38:02and Branham having his in 1965.
38:05It wasn't until William Branham was watching a television program that was discussing the instability of Los Angeles
38:13until Branham decided he would go public with his version of the California sinking prophecy.
38:19In the program, Branham mentions that a scientist was interviewed that stated that Los Angeles would sink within five years.
38:28So in true Doomsday Prophet form, William Branham, having been to Los Angeles and not had the huge impact that
38:37he thought he was going to have,
38:40he started condemning the entire city.
38:42This is the city that held the Azusa Street Revival.
38:45Now Pentecostalism was fading, and his message was not well received.
38:50I'll just put it like that.
38:52But he declared this, he said,
38:54That is solemn warning.
38:56We don't know what time, and you don't know what time,
38:59that this city one day is going to be laying out here in the bottom of the ocean.
39:04O Capernaum, said Jesus,
39:07Thou who exalted into heaven will be brought down into hell.
39:10For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah,
39:14it had been standing to this day.
39:17And Sodom and Gomorrah lays at the bottom of the Dead Sea,
39:20and Capernaum is in the bottom of the sea.
39:22Thou city who claims to be the city of angels,
39:26who has exalted yourself into heaven,
39:28and sent all the dirty, filthy things, and fashion and things,
39:32till even some of the foreign countries come here to pick up our filth,
39:36and send it away to your fine churches and steeples and so forth,
39:41the way that you do.
39:42Remember one day you'll be laying at the bottom of the sea,
39:46your great honeycomb under you right now.
39:48So a couple things.
39:50This is Branum claiming that God is speaking through him at that moment,
39:55and claiming that Jesus is saying these things about Los Angeles,
39:59how you'll be under the ocean,
40:00just as Capernaum is under the sea.
40:03There's a couple problems here.
40:05Number one, he does mention the honeycomb under it.
40:08So he is referring to the television program that he's just watched,
40:12where the broadcaster is saying that they have five years left.
40:16And that was in 1965, so that would put the destruction of Los Angeles at 1970.
40:23So in 1965, William Branum is predicting that by 1970,
40:28according to the newspaper accounts or the new television reports,
40:32Los Angeles is going to be sunk under the ocean,
40:34and at minimum by 1977,
40:37because that was the ultimatum of his doomsday prediction.
40:42But the other thing to mention, which was kind of a shock to me,
40:45I grew up hearing this prophecy over and over and over,
40:49believing that Los Angeles was going to sink,
40:52fearing for my life when I was out there.
40:55When God spoke through him and said that Capernaum was under the sea,
40:59God was apparently lying to William Branum.
41:03And that was really hard for me to deal with whenever I found out,
41:07because I believed it.
41:09I believed it hook, line, and sinker.
41:10But I was watching a National Geographic program one day,
41:16and they were walking through different areas in the Middle East.
41:19One of the places that they went was Capernaum.
41:23And they were showing the digs that they had,
41:26finding all of the different pottery, etc.
41:28And they were talking about how the city had been through multiple iterations,
41:35where the city was destroyed,
41:37and then was built on top of the destruction.
41:40Then that was destroyed.
41:41And they could show the evidence of each layer of city,
41:45none of which included being under the sea.
41:48Capernaum has never been under the sea.
41:50There is no record of this.
41:51So this God that was allegedly speaking through William Branum was speaking untruths.
41:58And how do I reconcile this?
42:00So part of my waking up is to critically think about every detail whenever somebody says,
42:08I am prophesying to you.
42:09Are all the details correct?
42:11Because if God is speaking through their mouth,
42:14every single detail must be correct,
42:17or otherwise it's not God.
42:19At minimum, it's a false God.
42:21And you don't want to follow prophecies by a false God,
42:24especially whenever they're doomsday predictions.
42:27That can destroy lives.
42:29So I grew up listening to this,
42:31hearing all of this doomsday rhetoric,
42:34and then come to find out he got it from a television station
42:37and could not even get the details correct of what God is saying through him
42:42when he apparently made this up.
42:45The other thing that I'll mention,
42:46William Branum's eldest son went on tour with this doomsday prediction.
42:53And I remember going to multiple meetings,
42:55listening to him talk about his father's prediction of Los Angeles.
43:00And he would get real quiet whenever he started to tell it
43:03and talk about the things that William Branum told him in private about this conversation.
43:09And he would say things like,
43:11whenever we were walking through Los Angeles downtown,
43:15he said,
43:16Daddy looked at me and he said,
43:17Billy Paul,
43:18you won't be an old man until sharks are swimming right here where you're standing.
43:23And that is another prediction that got published by Perry Green,
43:27who published the Joe Brandt prophecy.
43:29But I heard it over and over and over from Branum's own son,
43:34from other leaders in the message,
43:36including my grandfather,
43:37who was the head pastor at Branum's Branum Tabernacle for 50 years.
43:41Over and over,
43:42we would hear that before Billy Paul was an old man,
43:46California,
43:47Los Angeles was going to sink under the ocean.
43:49And there would be sharks swimming specifically at the May Company.
43:53I visited the May Company when I was in California the last time.
43:57And I stood where sharks are supposed to be swimming.
44:01William Branum's son,
44:02who was supposed to have been a young man whenever California sank,
44:07is now dead.
44:08He's no longer alive.
44:10And one day back in 2000,
44:14I think it was 13 or 14,
44:16I mapped out the life expectancy of what was considered to be an old man in 1965.
44:22The life expectancy for the male half of the population
44:26was 72.2 years approximately in the year 1965,
44:33which places Billy Paul Branum's old man status at the year 2008.
44:38Now,
44:39he did live longer than this.
44:40He continued to tell this prophecy after reaching old man status,
44:45but eventually he died,
44:47and California still has not fallen under the ocean.
44:51What this tells me is two things.
44:53Number one,
44:54this prophecy could not have come from God.
44:56God would have known that Capernaum has never been under the ocean,
44:59and God would have surely been able to foresee that William Branum's son would live past the old man's status.
45:08So,
45:08for me,
45:09the prophecy sits off into the false prophecy category.
45:13But the bigger thing that it tells me,
45:15there are people still today that believe this prophecy to be true,
45:19even though the sun is dead,
45:21even though Capernaum has never been under the sea.
45:24They are aware of these critical facts,
45:26but because of the manipulation by the cult mindset,
45:30they will still believe it until their death.
45:33And so they will go to their graves believing that California is truly going to sink because this man in
45:39Kentucky,
45:39who apparently got some information from Edward Casey and others,
45:44predicted that Los Angeles would sink.
45:46They will believe it till their dying day.
45:49It tells me that there is a deep level of cognitive dissonance within the movement,
45:55and you can see the pattern of this as it continues through time.
45:58Again,
45:59this began with the Azusa street revival.
46:03I believe I,
46:04if I remember correctly,
46:06I came across similar predictions before this,
46:10but definitely the Azusa street revival.
46:12It continued through time through various sources,
46:15some religious,
46:16some not all the way up to 1965.
46:19People were predicting this.
46:21Now,
46:22fast forward,
46:23you have people who are devoted to William Branum,
46:26who are still predicting it as though it's fractional.
46:28New prophecy.
46:30John Paul Jackson is not the only one who did this.
46:34Whenever I heard Brantley tell me that the same exact prophecy came from Bob Jones of the Kansas City Fellowship,
46:41IHOP KC prophetic history.
46:44I began to realize that IHOP KC was basically Branumism 2.0.
46:50Many of the same things that they were taught to fear,
46:53believe,
46:54and understand about the Bible and the end of days prophecies.
46:58Many of those things were copied and lifted directly from William Branum.
47:02Some of them did change,
47:04such as the rapture theology,
47:05et cetera.
47:06But the core foundation,
47:08much of it was exactly the same.
47:10And interestingly,
47:12Bob Jones is one who proclaimed that the angel of God that William Branum had in his latter rain ministry
47:20was also coming down into the ministries of himself and Todd Bentley,
47:25others.
47:25And the angel was named Emma.
47:27So he basically took the angel theme that Branum had reinvented.
47:32He took the prophetic visions of the doomsday that is going to include Los Angeles.
47:37He took those and rebranded them.
47:40This new branding became part of the DNA for what would become the International House of Prayer in Kansas City
47:47and eventually the DNA that would be spread throughout the revival movement.
47:51You can listen to people like Bill Johnson talking about how Branum is such a God's general that people like
47:59Chris Vallotton are trying to get Branum's alleged mantle or commission or whatever is the thing that Chris Vallotton is
48:06trying to get.
48:07They're trying to basically recreate ministries.
48:11So this evolution of ministries from Pentecostal through Charismania through the New Apostolic Reformation, it's not really something new they're
48:19selling you.
48:20They're just taking something that is old, something that failed, and they're trying to rebrand it as something new, continuing
48:28to believe that if they can rebrand it as something new, maybe it won't fail this time.
48:32And the definition of insanity, if you keep trying the same thing over and over and over again with the
48:39same result, it's probably insanity.
48:42And I have to look at just this one Los Angeles prophecy alone.
48:48The fact that it continues through time and people keep saying the same exact things, for me it is insanity.
48:55Even if it's going to happen in the future, if you're losing, if you're destroying lives to predict it in
49:02today, knowing that you got it wrong the time before, the time before that, all the way back for decades
49:09of time you have gotten it incorrect, it really doesn't do any good to keep saying the same thing over
49:15and over and over again.
49:17But most interesting of all is the fact that some of these people know that what they're saying is not
49:23going to happen.
49:25And people like Rick Joyner, they start giving prophetic words in the opposite direction.
49:30They take advantage of the fact that the prophecy continues to fail and give prophetic words that they can, quote,
49:38delay judgment in Los Angeles.
49:40So I'll throw the article up on the screen, but you've got Lou Engel and Rick Joyner who are talking
49:48about the same predictions, but saying that we're going to delay this just a bit.
49:52So everybody who believes the prophecy and then is expecting it to happen, it doesn't happen.
49:57Well, it's just delayed.
50:00We're not seeing the thing happen.
50:02But I can guarantee you the next person who comes along, who sells this idea, they're going to get book
50:08sales, conventions.
50:10They're probably going to have interviews on national television, radio.
50:15They're going to gain quite a following until it fails.
50:18And then some other guy steps up and said, well, we're going to delay it just a bit more.
50:23It's going to continue time and time and time again.
50:26That was the life that I grew up in.
50:28I believed that California was going to sink.
50:31And every single natural occurrence, whether it was a tornado, a hurricane, earthquake, we used to keep – this is
50:42sad.
50:43I'm admitting something I probably shouldn't.
50:45We used to keep the geological stats on earthquakes up on our screens.
50:52I did this when I was at work in IT because we could watch whenever there was a big concentration
50:58of earthquakes, the big one is coming.
51:00California is about to sink.
51:02We're about to witness the destruction.
51:04And the really sad part about this is if you're a Christian and you're in this mindset, your focus is
51:11on doom.
51:12Your focus is not on the gospel.
51:14So you're constantly thinking of the destruction and what's going to play out.
51:19And there's this element of fear.
51:20Well, what happens when the destruction occurs?
51:23Will I be lifted up?
51:24Will I be going up into a rapture?
51:26Will I be here?
51:28How hard is life going to be when it's here?
51:30And I'm here to tell you, life is hard enough as it is.
51:34Without all of this doomsday rhetoric that's being pushed by this movement, life is hard enough.
51:39You don't really need that in your life.
51:41In fact, it will make you go crazy.
51:44It almost did me.
51:45And there are other people that I know of who actually they are having to deal with some severe stress
51:51and trauma because of the doomsday rhetoric that was in their lives.
51:55So my advice is eliminate all of this thought of doomsday rhetoric, all of these predictions that they keep making
52:03the same prediction over and over, and it continues to fail.
52:07In the end, what does any of that really matter?
52:10And if you're a Christian, it shouldn't matter at all because you're supposed to feel safety and security, and the
52:16gospel should be enough for you.
52:17The problem is, as the Apostle Paul wrote, people have itching ears, and they want something that's just a little
52:24bit more entertaining.
52:25And for me, that's what this California prophecy is.
52:28It's nothing more than entertainment.
52:30It's really a bad form of entertainment.
52:33It's not what I would choose to be entertained by.
52:36But unfortunately, I was for 37 years of my life.
52:40So hopefully you can flee this.
52:42You can run from it screaming.
52:43You don't have to put up with it anymore because this is not something that Christians should have to deal
52:49with.
52:50If you've enjoyed our show and you want more information, you can check us out on the web.
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