William Branham and the Master Race

While querying against William Branham's transcripts to find quotes a the chapter about the "Americanization Project" in the book to be released later this year, and I come across a quote that I had not seen before. William Branham was describing a "super race". It was quite shocking, considering current events including the recent killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia by Gregory and Travis McMichael. This theology is used by several white supremacy groups and breeds hate crime.

These last days, true Church-Bride comes to the Headstone, will be the super Church, a super Race,
62-0318 - The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Among white supremacy groups, the theme of a "master race" or "super race" is the foundation for all ideology. Hate groups built upon this foundation believe that their color of skin or that their attributes distinguishing them from other groups of people make them superior to other specific races, and sometimes all races. In Nazi Germany, this concept known as "The Master Race" (Herrenrasse, "master people") is attributed to Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg who believed that the Nordic race was descended from Proto-Aryans, which he believed had prehistorically dwelt on the North German Plain and ultimately originated on the lost continent of Atlantis. Members of this alleged master race were referred to as Herrenmenschen ("master humans").

American white supremacy groups such as the Ku Klux Klan which claim to be based upon "Christian" theology, integrate this theme of a "super race" into their ideology with the notion that the Christian Bible describes a superior race, and that the white American, (non-Jewish, non-Greek, and especially non-African-American) is that race. In an attempt to sway the masses towards conforming to their ideologies, ministers aligned with or members of white supremacy groups inject the notion of the "master race" or "super race" into their sermons. William Branham was no exception to this rule.

In some versions of his stage persona, before specific audiences, William Branham injected the notion of a super race into his sermons. Translators of his sermons further emphasized this notion, capitalizing the "R" in "Race" on specific sermon translations. According to Branham, when his "Manifest Sons of God" theology came to its climactic event, and the Malachi 4 Elijah Prophet became "not a man but God", "God made flesh", a "super race" would form.

These last days, true Church-Bride comes to the Headstone, will be the super Church, a super Race
Branham, William. 1962, March 18. The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed

This notion was accelerated during the climax of the Little Rock Nine incident in Civil Rights History, when William Branham introduced his Serpent's Seed (Christian Identity) doctrine. According to this doctrine, there were two bloodlines created: one bloodline which resulted from a sexual union from Adam and Eve, and a second bloodline created from a sexual union between Eve and the Serpent in the Garden of Eden.

Now remember, Satan's son was Cain. Now I think you all been through all the tapes, which, I see your libraries out here, of them. Now remember that Eve become pregnant by Satan, and in the same day…We got a case of it in Tucson now, that a woman, if she becomes…she lives with two man, she can have two different type of children.
Branham, William. 1965, Oct 31. Power Of Transformation

You see the big fuss in the paper here, I believe, in Tucson now, of that woman bringing forth a colored child and a white child, at the same time. She lived with her husband that morning, and the man that afternoon. And the man would take care, the white man said he'd take care of his own child, but the colored man would have to take care of his own. See? I know that, in breeding of dogs and so forth, it certainly will, if it's in a few hours afterwards. This proves it.
Branham, William. 1965, Sept 11. God's Power To Transform

In other versions of his stage persona, however, Branham attempted to separate himself from this ideology. Rejecting his own Serpent's Seed doctrine away from his home church in Grass Valley, California, for instance, Branham claimed that all bloodlines came from Adam and Eve.

We're just human beings. And they want a super race. Hitler said that Germany was the super race. Stalin said that—that Russians was a super race. Something wrong somewhere. They're all made off of one tree, so the Bible said, that, "God, by one man, one blood, made all nations; one man, Adam." From that Adam come all races, black, white, brown, yellow, red, whatever it is, God brought it from that one blood.
Branham, William. 1962, July 08. A Super Sign