THE HISTORY AND ROOTS
OF GANISM -
JUNIOR
CHAPTER ONE
“Apostle” Richard Gan. “Chief
Apostle” Raymond Jackson.
The author of
Ganism is “apostle” Richard Gan of
He built his apostolic ministry upon dreams and
spiritual experiences and not the Word of God. He has perverted the message in every form and fashion, trying to show
where the prophet was wrong in many of his teachings. He, no doubt, claims a
higher office by trying to correct the messenger of the age on the Word of God.
His heresies are based upon the erroneous teaching that
the seven thunders of Revelation 10, which were not
revealed in 1963 by Brother Branham, must now be revealed by seven chosen men
(apostles) in the end time; and, not only that, but these seven men are the seven thunders themselves,
who will utter a revelation to give the Bride of Christ rapturing faith. This
teaching, he illustrated on the diagrams below taken from one of his books.
[VOICES OF HERESIES] [FACELESS HERETICS]
Gan further stated that the seven spirits of
Revelation 1, (whom the prophet of God, by divine inspiration, interpreted as
being the one Spirit of God manifesting Itself through seven church ages
messengers at seven different periods of time) came as the seven angels at the
seals, and will assume the role of the seven thunders, each of them having a
voice, and will identify themselves with these seven anointed men, through whom
they will utter their seven voices.
BASIS OF MESSAGE PERVERSION
As a
result of claiming an apostolic ministry to reveal the thunders and mysteries
that the prophet did not reveal; Gan propagated a detrimental heresy which states:
“Amos 3:7,
where one prophet received the revelation for the age, applies only to the Old
Testament and not the New. New Testament order is to bring the Word by a group
of apostles to the church, which came progressively over a period of time by
several apostles, evident by the twenty-six epistles written in the New
Testament by the apostles. As a result of this new order, gifted apostles can add to the message of the hour. They
can also add to the written Word of
God, because the written Word of God is the letter, but revelation that is coming
from God is in the Spirit and it comes straight from the Logos, Christ, who is
now upon the face of the earth personified.”
This delusion was the foundation and the basis by which Gan propagated his own doctrines
in opposition to the message and the prophet, and perverted almost every major
teaching of the prophet, and the Bible. His multitudes of heretical teachings
are as follows:
HERESIES EXPOSED PREVIOUSLY
- The
apostolic ministry is placed above
that of the prophetic ministry. The Word now comes to the apostles.
- A new order had been established. In the Old Testament time the prophets were
God’s spokesmen. They revealed and interpreted God’s Word. However, in the
New Testament, the apostles were the ones who revealed and interpreted
God’s Word and not a one man prophet.
3.
The seven spirits assume a total of seven different roles:
i) Seven stars. ii) Seven lamps. iii)
Seven seals
on the backside of the sealed-book. iv) Seven horns and seven eyes on the Lamb. v)
The seven
thunders. vi) Seven trumpets and vii) seven vials
of God’s wrath.
4.
The seven Spirits of God came in a
constellation of seven
angels, and revealed the seals to W.M.B.
5.
The seals were not opened in 1963, but rather in AD
96.
6.
The seventh seal cannot be an unopened seal because the
Apostle John had witnessed the opening of the seventh seal in AD 96.
7.
There is no literal mercy seat in heaven where the Lamb is laying.
8.
God’s mercy will be over only after the Millennial
reign of Christ.
9.
The words “sea”
and “land” in Revelation 10, connote “Gentiles” and “Jews” respectively.
10. The
phrase “as when a lion
roareth” in Revelation 10, does not indicate that the mighty Angel descended as
the Lion of the tribe of
11. The
“mystery of God” in Revelation 10:7, is the period of time which God had allocated
for the grafting of the Gentiles into His promised Word.
12. The
voice of an archangel is
the five-fold ministry.
13. The Word-Groom and His Bride entered into the spiritual marriage during the period 1963 to 1965.
14. The Word-groom and His bride entered into the spiritual nuptial chamber
of the Word of God since
around 1966.
15. The
Bride is capped by her
“theophany.”
- We don’t need an outward revival in this hour.
- There existed prehistoric man. Perhaps the serpent was like prehistoric man,
maybe better looking, who existed long before modern man. The present
Adamic race was created some 6,000 years ago.
18. The
church is built upon twelve foundations. (I Corinthians 3:11, Ephesians 2:20).
- “We don’t even need the Branhamites to help us build for they
are also our adversaries.”
- Adam was not created to be a tiller of the ground. A son of God is not created to
toil.
- According to Mendel’s Law, Cain, the son of the serpent, inherited a part
of Eve’s nature, the nature of the Spirit of God which was in Adam.”
- The two trees are two laws which governed the sexual reproductive organ
which is found in the middle part of the human body (the garden).
23. It was
the intention of God that they would bring
forth “seeds after their kind” by physical union. Sexual union was intended
that the two shall be one flesh.
24.
Brother
Branham is not a prophet; he was only addressed as one.
25.
After the
fall, polygamy was introduced by Lamech (a serpent seed) and not by God or
His children, but God allowed it.
- A covenant of polygamy was not introduced after the fall. The covenant
that was made was that the man would rule the woman (Genesis
- The prophets of the Old Testament each had one wife.
- A woman could remarry if her husband divorces her for sexual
uncleanness. (Deuteronomy.24:1-2), but if she was illegally put away and
remarries, she would be guilty of adultery.
- In Christ Jesus, there is no preference of the man over the woman, therefore, not only
the man could remarry,
- If a woman’s unbelieving husband departs, she can remarry according to I
Corinthians 7:15.
31. Mixed
marriage is not a sin,
nor is it unscriptural. It can be practiced amongst believers.
32. God
never ordained polygamy;
Jesus did not sanction polygamy, neither did he condemn it, but discouraged it.
Paul never encouraged it.
- The serpent was a household servant to Adam, and he was to do the tilling.
- The serpent and the seed of the serpent were tillers of the ground.
Adam’s linage was mainly shepherds.
- Noah’s wife was either a Cainite or a hybrid, therefore Noah had to go
through the tribulation of the flood because he was unequally yoked in
marriage.
- Seth and Japheth possessed serpentine traits which they inherited
genetically from their mother.
- The tree of Life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
were two laws that governed sexual relationship, either for pleasure or
reproduction.
- Genesis 4: 26 means that men began to profanely call upon the Name
of the Lord.
- All men today are traced back to Noah’s three sons for the inheritance of
their satanic traits.
- No literal and physical serpent seed exist today, for all died in the flood.
- The early church did not judge the teachings of the other
apostles by what Paul taught.
- All the mysteries were not revealed by Brother Branham.
- Zechariah 14: 6-7 does not refer to the condition of the Laodicean
age, but William Branham used it as a type. It applies to Christ’s third
coming in His corporal body as the evening light.
44. Culture,
customs, and traditions
of people are not necessarily against the Word of God.
- Believers are adding to the Word by putting the books and tapes of Brother
Branham side by side with the Word.
- There were no prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers in the upper
room.
- There were no pastors up to A.D. 46, only the other four office-gifts.
48. Paul
was in the office of an
Old Testament prophet before he was elevated to the office of an apostle and a
messenger.
NEW HERESIES EXPOSED
49. Church
order was only for the
Branham tabernacle.
50. An apostle does not feed the saints or answer
questions with quotes of William Branham.
51. Christian women in Asian Nations can wear trousers and pajamas. Trousers are not only man’s pants.
They are women’s garments also.
52. It is okay
for men who are message believers
from eastern nations to wear a “sarong” or “lungi” (Skirt-like garments), and
women to wear “samfoo” (Pants-like
garments) for those are their traditional wear and are very modest.
53. A divorced
woman can be re-married.
54. Christians can eat
blood.”
55.
56. God has left
America and has already taken the gospel
and moved westward across the
57. Abel had
dominion over the animals like Adam.
That is why he was a shepherd.
58. Genesis 4:
6-7: The sin that lieth at Cain’s
door was a sin offering.
59. The ground was cursed twice in Genesis.
60. The mark of
Cain was that God increased his size
and intellect, and he was a deceiver.
61. Genesis 4: 26 means that Cain’s race began to profanely call on the
Lord.
62. The Scribes and Pharisees had the mark of Cain upon them, and
they persecuted Jesus and the disciples. That was elect persecuting elect.
63. The mark of
the beast today is religions having
everything big and their intellectualism and deceptiveness.
64. The fiery stones of Ezekiel were cherubims.
65. There was a
recreation of the Heaven and Earth.
66. Angels were
created in the image of God.
67. The Garden spoke of in Genesis 2: 9B is not the Garden of Eden.
In the midst of the Garden is the midst of the human body.
68. People could
have nibbled at the tree of life but
not eat of it.
69. The Garden
of Eden is the
70. Brother Branham’s teaching on the New Jerusalem does not make sense.
71. New
Jerusalem is not literal.
72. The Garden
of Eden was both literal and
spiritual. Spiritually it was being in the presence of God.
73. The garden
of Eden holds the secret of the
mystery of New Jerusalem.
74. The New
Jerusalem is the people of God from
the time of Adam to the end of the White Throne Judgment.
75. The New Jerusalem is placed throughout the earth.
76. The New Jerusalem will not descend in
77. City lieth
foursquare means that the Bride is
from the four corners of the earth.
78. The natural
people in the earth do not have
supernatural bodies, so they cannot breathe at 1500 miles high.
79. The age of
regeneration is in the millennium.
80. Matthew
81. Gan’s
intellectual knowledge is spiritual
understanding of truth given by the Holy Spirit.
82. The renewing
of your mind is the renewing of your
intellect.
83. Paul was not
the chief apostle. The doctrine of a
chief apostle is erroneous.
84. Elders who held the office of bishops, were not part of the
five-fold ministry.
85. The
qualification for elders and bishops
are different from the qualification of five-fold ministers.
86. There are no qualifications laid down for the
five-fold ministry.
87. Only the
twelve apostles received the Holy
Ghost on the day of Pentecost.
88. There were more than 120 gathered in Acts
89. Where the 120 were gathered was in an open area and
not the upper room.
90. The outpouring
took place in a different place from
where the 120 were gathered for the choosing of Matthias.
91. The
evidence of the Holy
Ghost is that the Spirit will bear witness that we are the children of God.
92. Gan received
the Baptism of the Holy Ghost in
organization before coming to the message and afterwards backslid for two
years.
93. The
outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the
day of Pentecost is different from the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
94. The power
that comes at Pentecost is not the
power to do signs and wonders.
95. To teach that the New
Birth and the baptism of the Holy Ghost are not the same is a fallacy.
96. Brother Branham’s teaching that the Baptism of the
Holy Ghost is power for service and different from the new birth, is erroneous
and not true.
97. Gan’s
revelation is brighter (greater) than
the message of Malachi 4.
98. The
commandment to tarry in
99. The
Word ‘Theophany’ cannot
be used for anyone but God Himself.
100.
The theophany is
God appearing in the visible form of a man. Therefore, the Pillar of fire that
led
101.
The saints do not have a theophany body presently waiting in heaven as a separate
entity. Theophany bodies only come into existence when the saints die.
102.
A soul does not wait to catch a baby as soon as it is born.
103.
God did not
literally put Adam in a literal sleep and took a literal rib out of him to form
Eve.
104.
Moses and Elias
did not literally appear in their theophanies on
105.
The Angel
that brought the book of Revelation to
106.
The tent is
not natural but spiritual.
107.
The shout message of Brother Branham brought us into the tent, but we need to hear the
voice of the Chief Messenger in the little room.
108.
We must get into the little room because the translation will not be a public show.
The rapture is a secret.
109.
Only the eleven apostles witnessed the ascension of the Lord Jesus.
110.
The elect
are capped by the Word.”
Richard gan’s affiliates:
The teachings of Gan were exposed, in no uncertain terms, as heretical and antichrist, on
E.O.D.H. books 2, 4, 8 and 12, along with this present work. The results are
that several ministers and lay members from different parts of the world such
as
This detailed work is
with the purpose to warn message believers of such a heretic and his heresies, whose
work resembles that of a Jesuit in every respect; and with the hope that others
whom he has deceived may also find deliverance from such damnable heresies.
Some of Gan’s affiliates in the United States are:
David Curtman Sr. of Eagle Bride Assembly, Southwest
Missouri, who identifies himself with the teachings of both Gan and
Jackson, Ernest Hawtin of Oakland, California, David Sidhu of Sacramento,
California, David Piper of Omaha, Nebraska, Nan Khorn of Chicago, Illinois, Ken
Walker of Joliet, Illinois, Sam Spangler of Roanoke, Virginia, and Stephen
Martin of Tucson, Arizona.
Others are: Gusto Gadama-Lilongwe
Malawi, James M. Veremu-Seke- Chitunqwiza Zimbabwe, Moses A. Segite-Nyaru
Kenya, George M. Matthew-West Malaysia, Franco Togonon-Bulihan Silang cavite
Philippines, Osel B. Dumanon-Mahogany Butuan city Philippines, Ruben Lachica-Capitol
site Cebu city Philippines, Richard D’souza-Sankli St. Byculla Bombay M.S. India, Hubert D’souza-Colony
Borivli West Bombay India, S. Sunderaraj-Puthukudy Nagercoil-Kanyakumari India,
Chandula Abeywickrema-Dehiwala Sri Lanka, Peter Ochola-Kampala Uganda, Andrew
Phiri-Lusaka Zambia.
GAN’s AND JACKSON’S AFFILIATION
Gan was
once associated with Raymond
Jackson. Their former affiliation explains why their doctrines are so similar
with some exceptions. The fact that Gan preaches that “Church order is only for
the Branham Tabernacle”, a doctrine which originated with Jackson way back in
the early sixties, is evident proof that Gan got his seed from Jackson, his
spiritual father. Their propagation of the same heresies is reflected in their
similarity and are exposed as heretical articles numbers: 16, 381, 367, 371,
374, 376, 377, 385, 386, 387, 390, 392, 394, 399, 459, 461, 463, 468, 470, 471,
472, 473, 474, 475, 483, 599, 600, 601, 613, 614, 617, 621, 622, 629, 630, 643
and 644.
Quote
Richard Gan: …this minister could not bear to hear the
name of Raymond 'Junie' Jackson or Faith
Assembly Church…I have often wondered how many believers around the
world have heard him and his kind shoot down Raymond Jackson and those who
associate or fellowship with him…Now, some of you may say, “Brother Gan, you are defending him because
you associate with him.”
Let
me say this: I cannot sit on the fence and watch. And I am not ashamed to be identified with
Brother Branham, Brother Jackson or any minister or brother who stands on the
WORD. I will defend or take the side of any man of God who takes the side of
Christ, the Word of God. (Revelation truth and love).
Quote
Richard Gan: How
could it be possible that the Seven
Thunders be Seven Anointed Men of God? Is this not Bro. Junie Jackson's
teaching?
First
of all, let me say this: nobody has
the monopoly on the Word of God. Bro. Raymond (Junie)
Before
the Lord opened my eyes to the mystery of the Seven Thunders, my understanding was that they were related to
the Seven Spirits which are
before the Throne of God. What they are supposed to be was not revealed to me
then until some time in 1987. (Discrepancies & Branhamism).
Two chief “thunders” separated
Their association
continued until disputations, variations on doctrines and fightings to be the
chief thunders apostle or to hold the top position in the thunders ministry brought
about separation. Jackson claimed that he was the chief apostle, Joshua, Elisha
etc., to lead the Bride to the rapture, after the days of Malachi 4, while Gan
claims to hold the “first prize”, which he said is a top position in the
ministry, rejecting and denouncing the idea that Jackson is the chief apostle
after Brother Branham.
Quote
Apostle Jackson: “I met a man
in Singapore about 1978, Richard Gan, a good man…He has taken a lot of good
things to the world, but he preached everything as though he was right, and I
just happened to be wrong on some things.
…Revealing
Error …I wrote to Bro. Gan years ago. He wanted to come to our
convention that year. I had read many articles that he had printed…Some of the
articles I read were very good, but I could begin to see in him, what I had
seen in many other men, like, Well God has given us all a revelation.
…Things that
they preached on my platform, taking advantage as if I did not know any better,
but I respected them and did not create an ugly scene…However there has to be
an end to that kind of relationship as time is running out. That is why I said,
I sent word to Richard Gan, months and months ago, when he wanted to come back
to Faith Assembly, that it would not be right for him to come.” (The body of
Christ part 2).
Quote
Richard Gan: “After Bro. Branham passed away there have been many
false teachings going out from the
… Undoubtedly
this man is one of many around the world who believe that a certain minister in
… This
teaching that the Bride of Christ has a chief apostle to whom all other
apostles and ministers in the 5-Fold Ministry must subject themselves is a
heresy.
… For a
minister to make himself the NUMBER ONE APOSTLE over the whole world is
baloney.” (Who is the chief apostle today).
These two
men projected that the seven thunders
apostles are spoken of in Zechariah as the seven eyes upon one stone
(revelation), stating that these apostles would not differ on doctrine, but see
eye to eye on the revelation of God’s Word. Their separation and disputations are enough to expose them as
heretics, along with their heretical seven men are the seven thunders teachings
and all their other heretical claims.
Apostle Gan and Mr.
Jackson have indicated by their contentions for the first prize that they are
two of the seven thunders and voices. However, it is sad to say that one of the
chief thunders died.
“Chief Apostle” and
Pastor Raymond Jackson, regarded as an elder, by message believers, and popularly known as
Junior Jackson, gained great
popularity by his dreams, high commendation as a dreamer, and interpretations
of few of his dreams by the Prophet. This
dreamer disagreed with the prophet on the teachings of
church order, and those who belonged to the Branham Tabernacle, who also
disagreed, went down to fellowship at Junior’s church. He allowed people to
prophesy, speak in tongues and interpret in the open congregation, though the
prophet forbid it, placing all such gifts into a room, to be operated before
service, and their messages to be read at the pulpit.
Like Gan,
Some of the top men in this seven men/seven thunders
ministry are: apostle Strommen from Norway, James Allen
and Bud Thompson, the Pastors of Jackson’s “Faith Assembly” in Jeffersonville,
Indiana, USA, and apostle Amos
Segun Omoboriowo of Bible faith Tabernacle, Lagos, Nigeria, who claims
vindication of a ball of fire and photographs of the angel of the Lord
accompanying his preaching, and who preached and published that apostle Jackson
would not die but will be on earth until the rapture and there would no
successor to his ministry.
Quote “Apostle” Amos Segun Omoboriowo: “…his ministry
would be on ground till the rapture…… will take us right through to the
rapture… Wait and see!…I am aware there are people wishing Bro. Jackson were
dead. I am aware there are those , supposedly following his ministry, who have
been prophesying his death for them to take over. So they wish! Let me tell you
now: the sent one; he that is to come is here till the rapture. This is one
ministry you would have to contend with till the rapture. We shall see.
… he did not raise up a successor
to Joshua? Why…? It was because God’s mission was accomplished.” (He
that is to come).
However, “chief apostle” Raymond Jackson died less
than one year later, on
Mr. Jackson had said that Omoboriowo has a great
ministry. Omoboriowo corrected one of the thunders apostle whom he said began
propagating error, telling him that he ought to submit to the correction of
chief apostle Jackson. Presently he is at war
with the pastors of
Later in this work we will detail the present positions
of these chief men and thunders apostles, their separations, wranglings,
confusions and disputations, now that one of the thunders; and the chief one,
is dead.
We will now examine, by the Word of God and message of
Malachi 4: 5-6, new heresies of apostle Gan that came to our attention.