NEW GANISM HERESIES:
THEOPHANIES &
TENT MINISTRY
CHAPTER SIX
Mr. Gan’s theophany heresies are a direct attack upon the message and messenger,
W. M. Branham. His cunning craftiness can be clearly seen in the fact of not
frequently including the prophet’s name but speaking in opposition to his
teachings in no uncertain terms. The serpent spoke and taught in opposition to
God, the first messenger and the message to Adam and Eve. He pretended to have
had more light on the message to make them wise. It was death to the human
race. Gan, like the serpent, is trying to show how wrong W. M. Branham was in
his doctrinal teachings. He is exalting himself as an apostle of greater light
after the messenger, bringing message believers back to the Word, correcting the
message and the messenger of the 7th church age. He has a lying
tongue like his father the devil and is leading good people to unbelief, sin
and death. He is arrogant like Cain who rebelled against God when he was
corrected by Him. He has produced sons in his own image in several parts of the
world. Mr. Franco Togonon of
Without much persuasion, all who
casually examine the theophany heresies of Gan and compare them to the Word and
doctrinal statements of W. M. Branham can understand the satanic motives and
objectives of that insane man named Gan, unless they have the same purpose of
Satan. They are as follows:
Heretical Article No. 647: “The Word ‘Theophany’ cannot be used for
anyone but God Himself.”
Quite Richard
Gan: … the word THEOPHANY is…from the Greek word THEOPHANEIA – THEO, meaning
GOD, and PHANEIA, TO APPEAR… If the word THEOPHANY means GOD APPEARS, how could
the word be used for anyone other than God Himself? (The theophany of
William Branham and his return ministry).
E.O.D.H. Answer:
WE WERE MADE IN
THE IMAGE OF GOD BEFORE THE FOUNDATION
OF THE WORLD
Quote
W.M.B.: 175-57 And so therefore, Melchisedec, the great Priest (like a man),
He had no beginning, and He has no end. And when we, through that Theophany that... We were made in the
image of God before the world was ever made. (Hebrews Chapter Five And Six 1 57-0908m).
Heretical Article No. 648: “The theophany is God appearing in the
visible form of a man. Therefore, the Pillar of fire that Led Israel in the
wilderness and the burning bush that Moses saw was not the theophany, but only
manifestations of God’s presence.”
Richard Gan: …
some theologians and preachers have misused the word even to apply it to such
things as the Burning Bush…and the Pillar of Fire which led the children of
E.O.D.H.
Answer:
Quote
W.M.B.: 25-149 …that was Jesus before
He had the human Name Jesus.
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." There
He is. Who was the I AM? A perpetual Name for all generations. That was that Pillar of Fire in the burning bush:
"I AM THAT I AM." There He was, that Theophany made here, called the Son of God, the I AM, the Jehovah.
(Hebrews Chapter One 57-0821).
Heretical
Article No. 649: “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.”
Richard Gan: …is this heavenly body (theophany, Word body) …the house
not made with hands of every born-again saint alive at this present moment as a
living entity in heaven? Is it waiting to catch the spirit-soul of its
specific saint when the spirit-soul leaves the natural body?... To a good many
Branhamites, they are… Yes, we have each a theophany…But it is not a separate
entity as yet... theophanies…come into existence only to each particular
saint when they pass from this earth to the other side. You and I have
ours waiting in God's Word. But they are not literal separate entities
existing outside of the WORD. (The theophany of
William Branham and his return ministry).
E.O.D.H. Answer: This insane man has no wisdom more than Paul the
apostle and messenger of the first church age nor W. M. Branham of the last
church age. Paul declared that we know that we have a body eternal in the
heaven if our earthly body is dissolved. Only Gan and those whom he bewitched
are ignorant of this glorious revelation. Who is this false apostle and
deceitful worker (II Corinthians
II Corinthians 5:1 <For we
know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a
building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.>
WE HAVE ONE
ALREADY WAITING, A THEOPHANY
Quote W.M.B.: E-12 The Logos that went out of God…And it was a body.
It was in the form of what we are now, which is called in the clergy way of
speaking it, a theophany. It's a body that doesn't have a spirit in it. It's a
body that's waiting for you Christians. As soon as the life leaves this, you go
into that body. When this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already
waiting, a theophany. (Thirsting For Life 57-0630).
THEOPHANY BODY
WAITING FOR US AS SOON AS WE LEAVE THIS ONE
Quote: 80-278 Theophany is a human body that's glorified, not
exactly with flesh and blood like it will be in its glorified stage, but it is
of a form of a human body that doesn't eat, neither does it drink, but it's a
body that's waiting for us as soon as we leave this one. Now, in there, we
enter into that body. And that's the kind of body that God was. For He said,
"Let Us make man in Our own image and in our likeness." (Hebrews
Chapter Two 3 57-0828).
THEOPHANY BODY
– WE HAVE ONE ALREADY WAITING
Quote: 21-129
… the Logos that went out from It was the Son of God. It was the only visible
form that this Spirit had. And It was a theophany, which means a body, and the
body was like a man.
Moses saw It when It passed through by the rock. And
he looked at It, said, "It looked like the hind part of a man." It's
the same type of body that we receive when we die here, "If this earthly
tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting." (Hebrews Chapter
One 57-0821).
HE MADE YOU A
THEOPHANY BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD
Quote: 342-841 …before the foundation of the world, when God
created you in His image, or created the man in His image, and created the
woman in the image of the man for the glory of the man, He made you a theophany
just like Hisself, when He said,…"let us make man in our own image, in our
likeness..." a theophany. God had never become flesh yet; He was in a
theophany. (Questions And Answers On Hebrews 3 57-1006).
WE WERE BACK IN
THE BEGINNING AS THEOPHANIES
Quote: 339-824 Now, if you take the theophany when you are
looking at that, that's a man... Now, that's where we were in the beginning.
Now, you do not understand it now, but you was back there in the beginning that
way. (Questions And Answers On Hebrews 3 57-1006).
Heretical Article No. 650: “A soul does not wait to catch a baby as
soon as it is born.”
Quote Richard Gan: …we
are aware of the expression that "a soul waits to catch the baby as soon
as it is born". But does this mean that there are souls literally
hanging around every pregnant woman who is about to give birth so that they can
catch the baby as they are born? What happens if a baby is born
dead? Does it mean that there is no soul for that baby? Or does it
mean that a soul has failed to catch it? Then again, what about those
that die in the womb, whether full term or just a few days to a few weeks old?
(The theophany of William Branham and his return ministry).
E.O.D.H. Answer: Yes, we as “Branhamites”, as you and the
Pentecostals (so-called) labeled us, are aware of the statement of the prophet
and do believe it. You are attacking him and his doctrine. It proves that you
are not a believer of Christ, His Word nor His prophet. You are an unbeliever.
You are using the name of the prophet and the message like the serpent to
deceive sincere people.
Gan’s three foolish questions
sound like the story of three foolish persons pushing a cow on top of a house
roof to eat grass that was growing there. Gan, God knows the end from beginning
and predestinated all things. Knowing that He foreordained the baby or the
fetus to die, He sent no soul.
<Wisdom is too high for a
fool.> (Proverbs 24: 7).
W. M. Branham lived in the
realms of God and was acquainted with spirits and souls of men more than any
human being. You are inspired from the regions of the lost, hell and demons to
oppose God’s major prophet. You are like Korah and company who withstood Moses
and were swallowed alive in a pit.
Quote W.M.B.: 112-42 Do you know when a baby is begotten
in this earth, before it’s delivered, it’s got life. But it hasn't been
delivered. And just as soon as that baby comes to--it--it begins to--is born...
It’s lungs are all closed up, and it’s dead. It’'s muscles are quivering and
jerking. But the first thing, just a little spank or two like that [Brother
Branham illustrates--Ed.], and he’ll [Brother Branham gasps--Ed.] catch his
breath. What’s the matter? As soon as that natural body is being formed in the
mother, there is a spiritual body waiting to receive it just as soon as that
baby’s born. (Questions & Answers #2 54-0103E).
Quote: E-12 Now, as it
is in the natural, so is it in the spiritual. When a woman brings forth a baby…
Then if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one waiting. See? Just as
sure as the natural body was coming forth, there's a spiritual body to receive
it when it dropped from its mother. (Hearing, Recognizing, acting on the Word
of God 60-0221).
Quote: 387-1{446} Watch when a baby... Did you ever notice your
wife before the little ones was born? She always, right along at the last,
becomes real kind, sweet. If she hasn't been all of her life, she will be
then…around that mother seems to be a sweet feeling. What is it? It's a little
spiritual body, spiritual life waiting to come into that little body as soon as
it's born. Now, it's only begotten; but when it's born, it's born. The
spiritual body unites with the natural body. (The Fifth Seal 63-0322).
Heretical Article No. 651: “God did not literally put Adam in a
literal sleep and took a literal rib out of him to form Eve.”
Quote Richard Gan: Are Bible believers to believe that 1) God put Adam into a
deep sleep – literally, 2) He broke a rib off Adam – literally, and 3) from the
rib He fashioned a woman – literally? Or are those words so expressed by
the Spirit of God for a purpose to hold a mystery? (The theophany of William
Branham and his return ministry).
E.O.D.H. Answer: We and Branham take the Word of God literally upon
the basis of Genesis 2: 21.
<And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof.>
Your heresy made it mysterious. You have no scripture
for your foolishness. The old Chinese man in the West will say "Chupid
man". That is what you are: a stupid man wearing a skirt.
Quote
W.M.B.: E-63 I believe that when God
woke Adam up to look at Eve, she was the most beautiful thing that eyes has
ever looked at. (My Life Story 50-0820A).
Quote: E-23 When Adam woke up that morning and seen there
that beautiful woman, flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone, he took her by
the arm and walked down through
Quote: E-18 Adam was a strong, fine, handsome looking man.
And Eve was one of the most beautiful women the earth's ever seen. I can see
them setting there after God woke him up, and see him setting there by her
side, her beautiful figure, her beautiful hair hanging down, her eyes as blue,
sparkled like the stars of heaven. (I Will Restore Unto You Saith The Lord
54-0809A).
Heretical Article No. 652: “Moses and Elias did not literally
appear in their theophanies on
Quote
Richard Gan: Peter, James and John did not see the real thing.
The whole event of the transfiguration was a VISION given by God… on the Mount
of Transfiguration…the three disciples had only a vision for when they came out
of it they saw their Master just as He was. He had no glorified
body…Unlike the disciples, some Branhamites look at the vision and speculate
that the disciples saw the theophanies of
Moses and Elijah. (The theophany of William Branham and his return
ministry).
E.O.D.H.
Answer: It is amazing that Gan, with as much education
as the serpent, cannot understand the difference between the words, “glorified”
from “transfigured”. Let the Branhamites teach you thou "chupid" man.
Jesus was changed on the mount into a different form for a short period but was
glorified after his resurrection.
In any event the apostles had to
be caught up into a dimension of visions to have seen what they saw. The Word
declares that Moses and Elias appeared
unto them talking with Him (Jesus) (Matthew 17: 1-9). Has Gan ever had a
vision from God? Has he ever been caught up to heaven by 7 angels? He knows
nothing about theophanies. Let’s hear a man who lived in the realms of God more
than the earthly realm.
MOSES AND ELIAS
IN THEIR THEOPHANIES
Quote
W.M.B.: 88 Eight hundred years
later, on
Heretical Article No. 653: “The Angel that brought the book of
Revelation to
Quote Richard Gan: The
angel was ministering to John just as we have angels ministering to us… the
angel was not an earthly being but a spirit being who was sent to be John's guide…That's
right. Hebrews
E.O.D.H. Answer: Proverbs 17: 28 <Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise…>,
but Gan is so vicious to put down Branham and Branhamites, that he denies the
scriptures. He is dead set against the message of God.
That angel sent to John declared who he was; “I am of thy
brethren and thy fellow servants the prophets.” We don’t need Gan’s heresy to
tell us differently. He doesn’t believe the Word nor the message. Thus he
twists it like the serpent.
That angel was not William Branham. We do not believe in a
resurrection doctrine nor a return heresy. But that angel was a man, a Jew and
a prophet. The prophet said that it could have been Elias or one of the
prophets. William Branham was not a Jew (John’s brethren)
THE
ANGEL WAS A PROPHET
Quote W.M.B.: 111 …signified this by His angel unto John. We do not know who the angel was. The
Bible doesn't say who the angel was. But we know that it was a prophet… it
might've been Elijah. It might've been one of the prophets.” (Revelation
Chapter One 60-1204m).
Heretical Article No. 654: “The tent is
not natural but spiritual. The last trump will utter in the little room of the
tent to give the Bride rapturing faith.”
Quote Richard Gan: The vision
was given to him for the believers to understand that the message calls for a
people of God to enter into a "little room" where awaits a
"revival" for all that enter in.
…There are 3 divisions in
Branham's TENT VISION – the people in the queue outside waiting to get into the
tent, those already in the tent and those waiting to get into the "little
room". It is in the "little room" that the "last
trump" to the elect… would be uttered to give her rapturing faith. (The
theophany of William Branham and his return ministry).
E.O.D.H.
Answer: Mr. Gan, the
prophet of God who had the vision of the tent, never taught us such. He taught
us that it will be a literal tent. How did you get your nose into it?
Quote
W.M.B.: I am here to get the trustees
together. I am kind of getting put out off all turning me down of places to
hold a meeting. When I'm feeling led to do it so I think I am going to ask them
if we can, if we just can't get out tent and put it up, and just stay there.
And you know get our there in the ball park, out on the park and move it from
place to place just as the Lord will lead. And I feel that, that's what he's
going to do. You know there's a vision concerning that. (Trying to do God a
Service - 1965).
TENT VISION-THE TIME IS JUST
NOW AT HAND
Quote: I want to get my own tent, like the Lord gave me a
vision to, and I believe the time is just now at hand… We'll rent the farm and
put it up. (Ashamed Of Him 65-0711).
You are not saying what the messenger said, therefore
you are false.
Heretical
Article No. 655: “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.”
Quote Richard Gan: …the
elect have to get into the TENT of God. "Oh, the message has brought
in so many!" … It's just not good enough to come into the TENT and
say, "We believe the message."… we need to GET IN to that "little
room". We need to hear the VOICE of the Chief Messenger and we need
to hear the Last TRUMP before the body change can take place. And it is all IN
THERE – the "little room". (The
theophany of William Branham and his return ministry).
E.O.D.H. Answer: Is Mr. Gan indicating that he is the one to be in that
little room with Christ in him as the chief messenger? He is propagating his
own doctrine. Mr. Gan, no where in the message of Malachi 4 could you show us
where he taught such heresy that the message brought us into the tent. And no
where did he say that the translation or body change takes place in the tent.
You don’t know what you are talking about. The tent never even came into
existence in the lifetime of the prophet. You have spiritualized the tent and
made the little room your ministry which all must follow to be translated for
the rapture. You are an idiot - a “chupid man”. Hear a wise man:
Quote
W.M.B.: I have never had but one
thing that he ever told me in my life that hasn't happened yet. That some sort
of a building or a tent, where there will be a little building setting. And I
have to go into that and pray for the sick. That hasn't happened yes, as far as
I know. That's the reason that by a vision the Lord has shown me to get this big
tent and stay from 4-6 weeks. (Unfailing Word of Promise - 1964).
Quote: And somehow or another Lord it maybe that you are
driving us to that tent to make that vision fulfill. So thy will be done.
(Ashamed of Him - 1965 page 18).
Quote: And I just can hardly wait to get into that tent and
it's going to be something wonderful, and I just know he's just going to do it
just before his coming. (Jehovah Jireh -
1956).
Heretical
Article No. 656: “We must
get into the little room because the translation will not be a public show. The
rapture is a secret.”
Quote Richard Gan: …we need to GET IN to
that "little room"…Why must the Lord meet the elect in there?
Certainly the translation of the Bride will not be a public show. The
"rapture" will be secret.
… Like the caterpillar
entering into its cocoon, a "little room", where it undergoes a
transformation, a metamorphosis, into a butterfly. Its' revival for a new
body is hidden away from prying eyes. It's a secret! Silence!
Rev.8:1. (The theophany of William Branham and his return ministry).
E.O.D.H. Answer: You are talking real
nonsense. If you have not spiritualized the little room and the body change
takes place in the little room of the tent, then that little room has to be big like the whole earth, because according
to the scripture and the prophet it is a universal
rapture, and therefore a universal body change. Brother Branham gave us the
size of the room to be about twelve feet across and twenty feet long. That’s
how big your ministry is. God is bringing it down. You don’t believe the
prophet nor his message. He that believeth not is condemned already.
Quote
W.M.B.: 17-5 …and in there behind
this canvas was a little square building about twelve foot across and twenty
foot long, something like that. (What Is A Vision 56-0408A).
Heretical
Article No. 657: “Only
the eleven apostles witnessed the ascension of the Lord Jesus.”
Quote Richard Gan: When
our Lord ascended into Heaven, His ascension was not staged publicly but only
to His 11 apostles. There might have been other people around the vicinity of
E.O.D.H. Answer: Rubbish Mr. Gan. An “apostle” like you
ought to know better than that. It shows that you are a false one. The
scriptures declare that more than the eleven apostles saw him ascend to heaven.
You don’t believe the Word.
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 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
Any sincere
follower of Mr. Gan, whom he has deceived, should clearly see that he does not
even understand the ABCs of the Bible. He don’t know what he is talking about.
Heretical
Article No. 658: “The
elect are capped by the Word.”
Quote Richard Gan: …
by the utterances of the Seven Thunders when they shall come and utter their
voices (which will cap the elect with the Word…). (The theophany of
William Branham and his return ministry).
E.O.D.H.
Answer: The elect are not capped by
the Word, Mr. Gan, neither are they capped by the heresies that you and the
rest of your five-fold and seven men/seven thunders are preaching. Jesus was
born the full Word of God, but thirty years later he was capped by the Spirit
when the Spirit descended upon Him in the shape of a dove. He delivered the
Word unto His apostles and disciples, and that same group had to go up to
Pentecost for the outpouring of the Spirit. You have the thing sideways and
upside down. This is further proof that God never called you to restore the
sure foundation of the Word in the Church, as you heretically claimed. You,
therefore, are a tool of the Devil, an apostle sent of SATAN TO TRY TO STOP
Christ from building His Church upon the true rock foundation here in the end
time. But you shall not prevail. Repent or perish.
The following chapters deal with the exposition of Gan
and his heresies, which were previously exposed and published on E.O.D.H. books
2, 4, 8, 10, 11 and 12.