NEW GANISM HERESIES:
BAPTISM OF THE HOLY
GHOST & DAY OF PENTECOST
CHAPTER FIVE
Heretical
Article No. 635: “Only the twelve
apostles received the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost.”
Quote
Richard Gan: Back in the 1980s, I was given a tract
that questioned the evidence of the number of disciples that actually received
the baptism of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.
…
"they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance"…Who are the "they"…(Lk.1:3) could only
have referred to the Apostles…the "they"
could not have referred to the entire assembly of the 120 plus the women. (The
True Evidence Of The Holy Spirit Baptism).
E.O.D.H.
Answer: This is a
heretical assumption that Gan cannot substantiate by the scriptures nor the
message. This heretic is not only trying to correct the prophet and his
message, but he is trying to correct the
Word of God. This was the work of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, which
was anointed and possessed by Lucifer himself. Mr. Gan is therefore guided,
anointed and possessed by an evil spirit of the same nature.
The scripture is very clear on this
subject. Acts 1: 15 said that 120 were gathered. Acts 2: 1 said that they were
all in one accord and they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost. The prophet of God confirmed the same.
Quote
W.M.B.: E-32 While they
were assembled in a little place no bigger than this here, about a hundred and
twenty people, all of a sudden there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty
wind, and it filled all the house where they were setting. (Conference With God
60-0108).
Quote:
E-53 When God, on the day
of Pentecost, poured out the blessings of the people... They were all locked up
in a little room, a hundred and twenty, the women and men together, praying.
And suddenly, there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, filled
all the house where they were setting. Cloven tongues set upon them. They were
filled with the Holy Spirit. Out into the streets they went, giving testimony
and praises of God. (The Ministry Of Christ 53-0607a).
Heretical
Article No. 636: “There
were more than 120 gathered in Acts
Quote
Richard Gan: In the Scripture, when a number of persons
is mentioned, the number reflects only the men; the women and children are not
included. (See Matt.14:21;
E.O.D.H. Answer: Mr. Gan is perverting the scriptures to
suite his insanity. We believe the Bible and the message of William Branham
ONE
HUNDRED AND TWENTY: WOMEN AND MEN
Quote
W.M.B.: E-53 When God, on
the day of Pentecost, poured out the blessings of the people... They
were all locked up in a little room, a hundred and twenty, the
women and men together, praying. (The Ministry Of Christ 53-0607a).
Quote:
418-49 He said, "Go
up to
Quote: E-32 While these people went up to the
upper room, one hundred and twenty, with Mary, and Simon Peter, and rest of
them, went up into an upper room…And while they were gathered in one place and
one accord… about a hundred and twenty people, all of a sudden there came a sound
from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they
were setting. (Conference With God 60-0108).
Heretical Article No. 637: “Where the
120 were gathered was in an open area and not the upper room.”
Quote Richard Gan: …15: And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and
said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
This
particular verse has been taken at face value by many Christians to imply that about 120 believers were
gathered together with the womenfolk in the upper room to "wait for the
promise of the Father" for some 10 days. The average upper room of a
Jewish house could not have housed that many people unless they were packed
like sardines in a tin…to imply that all
of them were together in an upper room at any one time is an exaggeration… the
large group of believers, both men and women, could have only gathered in an
open courtyard, perhaps beneath the upper chamber of that apartment or that of
some other apartments. (The True Evidence Of The Holy Spirit Baptism).
E.O.D.H. Answer: Mr. Gan, in direct
contradiction, has two separate teachings on this subject.
Quote Richard Gan: He did not
show me the meaning until
This is evidence that this apostle changes his doctrines. A true apostle,
Brother Paul, said that his revelation was unchangeable, not even by he or an
angel from heaven. (Galatians 1: 8-9).
Mr. Gan is a dead unbeliever in the
written Word and the revealed Word of the hour. Again the scripture is very
clear on this subject. Acts
Quote
W.M.B.: 418-49 Now,
notice. He said, “Go up to
… Outside the temple, we are told, there
was a stairway that led up to a little room way along: go up, and up, and up,
till you get up to a little room up there, like a storage room in the top of
the temple, some kind of a little room, an upper room. And the Bible said that
they were in there and the doors was shut, because they were afraid of the
Jews… and they were waiting. (Questions And Answers On The Holy Ghost 59-1219).
Quote: E-53 A hundred and twenty people went in an upper room
one time, under a persecution. I can imagine hearing those people come by, say,
“You know what? That bunch of holy-rollers is up there for ten days. What’re
they doing for eating?”
“They’re fasting.”
“I don’t see the grocery boy going up there.” Oh, no.
They were fasting. They were waiting. And said, “What do you know, they’re up
there, Why? Why, they got the doors all barred. A fellow couldn’t get in there.”
Go up this little old steps up here at the top of the temple--just about one man
at a time can go up to that room. And we get up there, why, you can't get in...
“Just might as well let them stay up there, I guess, and starve to death if
they want to.” (Hearing Receiving And Acting
60-0607).
Quote: E-32 While these people went up to the
upper room, one hundred and twenty, with Mary, and Simon Peter, and rest of
them, went up into an upper room, a little stairway leading on the outside of
the temple, to an old storage room... While they were assembled in a little
place no bigger than this here, about a hundred and twenty people, all of a
sudden there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled
all the house where they were setting. (Conference With God 60-0108).
Adding to
this, Acts 2: 1 said that they were with one accord in one place. After the
outpouring came, Acts
Heretical
Article No. 638: “The
outpouring took place in a different place from where the 120 were gathered for
the choosing of Matthias.”
Quote
Richard Gan: …The place mentioned in Acts 2:1 could not
have been the same place (the courtyard) where the choosing of an apostle to
replace Judas Iscariot took place. The Scripture states that "they
were all with one accord in one place" and this "one place" is
not mentioned as the "upper room" where they abode. (The True
Evidence Of The Holy Spirit Baptism).
E.O.D.H.
Answer: The exposition of
the three previous heresies is sufficient to prove that this heresy has no
scriptural foundation and is not supported by the Word nor the message of
Malachi 4. Mr. Gan is very self-opinionated. We admonish his followers to save
themselves from such a heretic and his heresies. Such teachings are unscriptural and Satanic.
Heretical
Article No. 639: “The
evidence of the Holy Ghost is that the Spirit will bear witness that we are the
children of God.”
Quote
Richard Gan: What Then Is The [Initial] Evidence of The
Holy Spirit baptism?
How
does one know that he is born again, that he has the Holy Spirit?
This is the evidence: "The
Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of
God" (Rom
E.O.D.H.
Answer: The scriptures
said that the Holy Ghost will guide us into all truth. (John 16: 13). Mr. Gan
claims that the witnessing of the Spirit is the evidence that he is a child of
God. Gan is not abiding in the truth. His witness is Satanic.
Jesus said, <Ye are of your father the
devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his
own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.> (John
In the light of Gan’s perversion of the
Word and message, and his refusal to turn from the error of his ways when
corrected by the Word of God through the instrumentality of E.O.D.H., is sufficient proof that he is a bastard
and not a son. A heretic doesn’t know God and cannot teach about the evidence
of the Holy Ghost Baptism, as he is out of the Spirit.
Hebrews 12: 8 <But if ye be without
chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
>
Quote
W.M.B.: 27 Today’s so
confused about the evidence of the Holy Ghost and so forth. Satan can
impersonate any kind of a gift that God's got, but he cannot bring that Word,
word by word. That's where he failed in the garden of Eden; that's where he's
always failed. (Christ Is Revealed In His Own Word 65-0822m).
Quote:
272-2 … a person that is
truly baptized by the Holy Ghost into the body of Christ receiving the fullness
of the Spirit will be in the WORD ALL THE WAY. That is the evidence of being
baptized with the Holy Ghost. Judas failed. Multitudes fail right there. And
when they fail to go on in that Word, their names are taken off the Book of
Life. (
Heretical
Article No. 640: “Gan received the
Baptism of the Holy Ghost in organization before coming to the message and
afterwards backslid for two years.”
Richard Gan: I remember the day I gave my life to the Lord…I gave my
heart to the Lord Jesus… I had an experience right there and then. I had
a witness in my spirit that I was a child of God… when I entered Secondary
(High) School, I began to backslide. For about two years I stayed away
from church… the Lord used a sinner to get me back to church… in an Assembly of
God church… I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I spoke in
tongues. I prophesied. But I was baptized in the triune title of
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
If you ask me as to whether I really
have the Holy Spirit baptism even though I was not baptized right accordingly
to Acts 2:38, my answer is YES. I had the witness of God's Spirit that I
am His child, even at that time when I first gave my heart to Him. Like
Cornelius who received the baptism of the Holy Spirit before he was baptized in
the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I did too, only much later when the Message
of the
E.O.D.H.
Answer: Ephesians
It’s
amazing that Mr. Gan received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost before he heard the
Word of truth (message of Malachi 4). E.O.D.H. is again proving that Mr. Gan does not believe the Word
or the message. He is an unbeliever and a grievous wolf that has crept in
unawares to pervert the message.
Quote
W.M.B.: 363-3
About the turn of the century the hunger for God that was generated in the
Philadelphian Age brought a cry for the Spirit of God. And when the cry was
answered by God sending forth manifestation in tongues, interpretation and
prophecy, a group immediately, and most contrary to the Word, drew up a
doctrine that tongues was the evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Tongues were far from evidence. They were manifestation, but not evidence. The
falsity of the doctrine can not only be seen by a lack of Scripture to
substantiate it, but those who subscribed to the doctrine immediately organized
on the basis of the doctrine, proving that they were not in the truth as they
would have people believe. Oh, it looked good. It looked like the return of
Pentecost. But it proved it wasn't.
It could not be, for it organized. (
Quote: 377-2 This age started just after
the turn of the twentieth century. As it was to be the age in which the true
church would return to being the bride she was at Pentecost, we know that there
must of necessity be a return of dynamic power. The believers sensed this in
their spirits and began crying to God for a new outpouring such as was in the
first century. What seemed to be the answer came as many began to speak in
tongues and manifest gifts of the Spirit. It was then believed that this was
indeed the long awaited RESTORATION. It
was not, for the latter rain can come only after the former rain which is
the spring or TEACHING rain. The latter rain, then, is the HARVEST rain. How
could this be the real thing when the Teaching Rain had not come? The
Prophet-Messenger who was to be sent to TEACH the people and turn the hearts of
the children back to the Pentecostal fathers had not yet come. Thus what was
thought to be the restoration and the final quickening unto the rapture had not
come. (Resume Of The Ages - Church Age Book Cpt.10).
The prophet is
clearly stating that what so-called Pentecost received back there was not the
genuine article, because he, the messenger had not yet come with the seed Word
of truth. So what Mr. Gan received before he came to the message was not the
genuine seal of God/baptism of the Holy Ghost. Mr. Gan is anointed of the
devil, which he mistook for the true baptism of the Holy Ghost. He can only
pass on what he received.
If that is the baptism
that Mr. Gan has imparted to you, his followers, it is not the real thing. And
if you are relying on that to take you in the rapture, you are bound for the
tribulation.
Quote W.M.B.: 41 … men take one
another's spirit. Be careful that you don't get some man's spirit instead of
the Spirit of the Lord. Go into a church watch the way the pastor acts, and
you'll see the way the people act. See? (Unpardonable sin 54-1024).
Quote: E-52 … a lot of times people get
one another's ghost, instead of the Holy Ghost. (Law Having A Shadow 56-0621).
Heretical
Article No. 641: “The outpouring of
the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost is different from the baptism of the
Holy Ghost.”
Quote Richard Gan: The pouring out of the Spirit of God upon all flesh on the
Day of Pentecost is not to be
equated to the baptism of the Holy Spirit. (The True Evidence Of The Holy
Spirit Baptism).
E.O.D.H. Answer: Utter nonsense, Mr.
Gan. You need to have your head examined. Jesus told the disciples that they
would be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
Acts 1: 5 <For John truly baptized with
water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.>
Quote W.M.B.: E-41
…a real heart full of the original baptism of the Holy Ghost that fell on the
day of Pentecost is real for the church tonight. (Believest Thou This 51-1003).
Quote: E-30 What a beautiful type of
the Holy Spirit, on the day of Pentecost. As God led the Church, natural,
through the wilderness, now God's leading His Church, spiritual. And our manna,
our life-sustaining resource comes by the Holy Spirit. And as soon as the
apostles had crossed out all the fear and doubt, and gathered in the upper
room, God gave them the baptism of the Holy Spirit. (I Am The Resurrection And
The Life 52-0810a).
Quote: E-58 Oh, brother. What we need
today is an old stirring of the Holy Spirit again…We need another rushing, mighty wind sent. (That's right,) as it did on the
day of Pentecost. They were all religious and followers of Jesus, but they had to
go and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. (The Faith That Was Once
Delivered To The Saints 53-1129a).
Quote: 257-3
…the Sardisean Age… missed sanctification and the Baptism with the Holy Ghost…
That is what they had at Pentecost. (
Heretical
Article No. 642: “The power that came
at Pentecost was not the power to do signs and wonders.”
Richard Gan: Acts 1:8: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you…The Greek word
for "power" is "dunamis", meaning force or miraculous
power.
…But… The
miraculous power given is not to cause the believer to speak in tongues,
prophesy or perform signs and wonders. It is essentially a power to
quicken and miraculously transform a believer to become a son of God.
Amen… John 1:12: (The True Evidence Of The Holy
Spirit Baptism).
E.O.D.H.
Answer:
Quote
W.M.B.: 67-2 What the
church had at Pentecost is her inalienable right. Originally, she had the pure
Word of God. She had the power of the Spirit manifested in divers signs and
wonders and gifts of the Holy Ghost.
Hebrews 2:1-4… God also bearing them
witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of
the Holy Ghost, according to His own will?" (
Quote: E-69 See, I don't want to blame you people;
it's the pulpits where it started. No wonder that's the damnation of the
country, when Satan got in the pulpit. It's the truth. Failing to preach the
unadulterated Word of God, and the Word of God will produce just exactly what
It said It would do. But we explain it all away. "It's all away. It's for
some other day."
…Holy Ghost had power at Pentecost through
the first age, second age, and on down. What about this age? He's the same Holy
Ghost today. The same power, the same signs, the same wonders, the same
miracles, if He can get the same kind of faith amongst the people. God doesn't
change. (The Resurrection 53-1205).
Satan is using you in the pulpit, Mr.
Gan, to try to take away what rightfully belongs to the
Heretical
Article No. 643: “To teach that the
New Birth and the baptism of the Holy Ghost are not the same is a fallacy.”
Quote
Richard Gan: One
cannot be born again without the baptism of the Spirit and without the new
birth, one is not a child of God. Apostle Paul wrote:
Rom.8:9: But you are
not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. (NKJ)
Hence how then could any preacher
make this sweeping statement that's often heard: "To be born again is to
have salvation, eternal life, whereas to be Holy Spirit baptized is to receive
power for service." (Acts 1:8 and Luke 24:49 are often quoted to
show that when the Holy Spirit comes upon a believer, the believer is endued
with power for service.) To teach that being born again is not the same
as the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a fallacy. (The True Evidence Of The Holy
Spirit Baptism).
E.O.D.H.
Answer: That is wrong Mr.
Gan. The baptism of the Holy Ghost is different from the new birth. He that
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Peter made that confession
in Matthew 16 and was born again. He yet had to go up to Pentecost to receive
the baptism of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 1:5). You are trying to correct God, His
Word and William Branham in a subtle way like the serpent when he came to Eve.
Quote
W.M.B.: 37 And the new
birth, as people talks that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is the new birth.
Now, that's wrong. The baptism of the Holy Ghost is different from the new
birth. The new birth is when you're born again. But the Holy Ghost is when
power comes into that birth for service. That's exact. See? The Holy Ghost
is--baptized into the Holy Ghost.
The new birth, you have the new birth by
believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. See? By having faith and accepting Him as
your Saviour, that's birth (See?), because you've passed from death unto Life.
Now, if you want to back that up, take
Quote: 129 I never thought there was a
person believed that like me till this morning, I heard Charles Fuller as I was
going down. He believes too, that the new birth is not the baptism of the Holy
Ghost. The new birth is being born. The Holy Ghost is the baptism. See? Uh-huh.
All right. (Why I'm Against Organized Religion 62-1111e).
Heretical Article No. 644: “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.”
Richard Gan: … Let me highlight again this erroneous statement that's so often made:
"Being born again of the Spirit and the Word is not the same as being
baptized with the Holy Spirit, for to be born again is to have salvation,
eternal life, whereas to be Holy Spirit baptized is to receive power for
service." … A fact remains that Acts 1:8 and Luke 24:49 have
been stretched to extremes to indicate that a Holy Spirit baptized believer is
different from a born again believer because only the former has received power
to do service for God, to overcome sins, to perform miracles, and etc. (The
True Evidence Of The Holy Spirit Baptism).
E.O.D.H.
Answer: You heretic; your
attacks are upon the prophet and the message. Your folly will be made manifest
shortly.
Quote
W.M.B.: 37 …you have the
new birth by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ… And that same group had to go
to Pentecost to be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Exact.
Holy
Ghost is power for service.
So when talk like you got to be born again, and applying that to the Holy
Ghost, many of the Methodists and so forth are wrong there. It cannot. It just
won't cope to the Scripture here. You get the thing sideways. It's got to take
it the way the Scripture's got it placed out here. See? And the Holy Spirit is
a... "You shall receive the new birth after this"? What? No.
"You shall receive power (Acts 1:8) after this the Holy Ghost is come upon
you." See? And they'd already believed to Eternal Life, and so forth, but
they had to have the Holy Ghost for power. (Countdown 62-0909M).
Quote:
E-56 Then after you've
did that, then by one Spirit we're baptized into the Body of power and service.
He never said you'll receive new birth after the Holy Ghost come upon you.
Said, "You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost come upon you," a
different thing altogether: not new birth, but new power. You're borned again
by believing. You believe to Eternal Life. But you're baptized with the Holy
Ghost until power, power for service. (The Mark Of The Beast 56-0715).
Quote: 390-4 {469} And then in
obedience of their acceptance and obedience to their confession and to the
water, may You in return fill them with the Holy Ghost for power of service the
rest of their lives. (The Fifth Seal 63-0322)
Quote:
E-56 Then after you've
did that, then by one Spirit we're baptized into the Body of power and service. He never said you'll
receive new birth after the Holy Ghost come upon you. Said, "You shall
receive power after the Holy Ghost come upon you," a different thing
altogether: not new birth, but new power. You're borned again by believing. You
believe to Eternal Life. But you're baptized with the Holy Ghost until power,
power for service. (The Mark Of The Beast 56-0715).
Mr. Gan is foaming out his shame. He is
a shameless perverter of the Word and message. You do not believe this message
Mr. Gan. You are trying to destroy it. That makes you a tool of the Devil like
the serpent in the Garden of Eden. You said that the serpent was a household
servant. God would have more mercy on your soul if you do that job rather than
pervert the Word and message the way you have done.
Heretical Article No. 645: Gan’s revelation is brighter (greater)
than the message of Malachi 4.
Richard Gan: “The Word of God
for this hour is brighter than the message for Bro. Branham's hour, since the
Day Star has risen, and the seven evening stars have faded away.”
E.O.D.H. Answer: A heretic and his heresies cannot outshine Christ
and His message.
Quote
W.M.B.: 83-1 Thou hast tried them
that say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars." …These false apostles are the
grievous wolves that Paul spoke of. He said, "Once I am gone they will try
to come and claim equal revelation;
but their purpose is not to help you, but destroy you. (
The messenger already had the
Heretical
Article No. 646: “The commandment to
tarry in
Richard Gan: Now, the commandment was given to the Apostles that they
should not depart from the City of
E.O.D.H. Answer: Gan does not know his ABC’s and much less
his numerals. Let the following scripture prove it.
Luke 24:33-52
<And they rose up the same hour, and returned to
…And as they
thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace
be unto you.
… And he said
unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
…And, behold, I send the
promise of my Father upon you: but tarry
ye in the city of
And he led them
out as far as to
And it came to
pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into
heaven.
And they worshipped him, and returned to
Quote W.M.B.: E-40 When a hundred and
twenty people were gathered in the upper room, that Jesus had sent them
there... And He told them, "Tarry ye in the city of
Mr. Gan, any sincere person that
follows your heresies, by now, should plainly see that you are a dead
unbeliever. You don’t truly believe this message. Repent or perish!