Billion Soul Harvest: How Revival Became Psychological Warfare

Music Hello and welcome to another episode of the William Brandham Historical Research Podcast. I'm your host, John Collins, the author and founder of William Brandham Historical Research at William-brandham.org, where history proves that truth, or at least their version of it, is truly stranger than fiction.

And today I'm talking about the Billion Soul Harvest, which many people believe is a concept that originated in the New Apostolic Reformation, and even if you do Google searches on this and the AI gives you responses, they'll say, this is a New Apostolic Reformation theology and doctrine.

And they'll trace its lineage, people can go read that, and that part is truly accurate. But it actually began much earlier than this, and I don't think that there's enough information out there that really details where this doctrine came from, because if this information were made public, many people would simply run screaming. And honestly, if you really understand what the doctrine means, there are many people who are in the New Apostolic Reformation who believe in this Billion Soul Harvest doctrine, and they don't yet understand the concepts of it, otherwise they too would just kind of scratch their heads and say, what in the world is this?

This is not Christianity, this is something else. So for those who are unfamiliar with the Billion Soul Harvest, like I said, this is a common New Apostolic Reformation theme. You can find all kinds of revivals and events and preachers preaching about it, we need this Billion Soul Harvest, we have this agenda to capture a Billion Soul, to convert a Billion Soul, however it's framed.

There are a few things that you have to understand to recognize what this is and why this is, and the first is that this is a leader-driven revival. Unlike other revivals that many other Christian denominations have, where it's more of a renewal, people are coming joining together, getting excited about the Spirit, and in Pentecostal flavor churches, you're inviting people to become filled with the Holy Spirit. The Billion Soul Harvest is actually believed to be initiated and led by an elite group of contemporary apostles and prophets.

In other words, these are the leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation, these are the self-proclaimed apostles and prophets, and they're the ones who are going to lead the revival, bring down heaven, whatever is the catchphrase.

they use. And if you study mysticism and understand spiritualism, how that works, it's basically a summoning. We're going to gather this big outcry of people and we're going to summon the return of Jesus Christ, which is not quite a Christian idea, but let's go a bit deeper.

There are eschatologies mixed in with this that are, I guess you'd call it victorious eschatology. It's basically rooted in the belief that we will claim victory, we will gain dominion over the earth's institutions, and we will initially take control before the second coming of Christ.

So we're going to be the ones in power. That's something to understand about this. It is a, it's not just a conversion to Christ. It's a dominating for Christ type doctrine. The end time revival is seen as a big step towards this goal because this billion-so-harvest is essentially taking control of a billion people. And if we get a billion people, we can summon God and God will return. So it's really dangerous theology. The other thing is if you study the history that does exist, even simple searches online or reading books about it, they'll tell you

that has very controversial origins. They point to specific NAR profits and prophecies, such as Bob Jones of the Kansas City Fellowship, International House of Prayer fame. Jones apparently linked this revival to a Super Bowl victory by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 90s, which is really weird if you think about it. And basically convinced people that this great revival that would break out in the in the chief stadium, Kansas City, the Arrowhead stadium, that it would signal the rise of the apostolic chiefs. I guess that's the phrase you use. He used some word that basically said, the leaders, the generals of this movement will suddenly rise

into power at this revival. And there were various NAR leaders, New Apostolic Reformation leaders, who publicly reaffirmed this connection. Whenever the chiefs won in 2023, he said, this is it, this is the revival. They have won now we're moving in. But the thing to understand here is it actually originated long before Jones. This was something that was being pushed in a history that I'm about to give you. The other thing to understand is many mainstream Christian scholars who study this, they will point out the false doctrines associated with it, and they will point to specific passages in the Bible that reject this idea. I'm not a theologian,

so I'm not going to go into those, but you can do Google searches and you can find numerous people talking about this billion so harvest and just how anti-scriptural it is. But here's the key to understand.

Even though these people, many people are just crying out, don't do this. This is anti-biblical, don't go down this pathway. The people who are in it are programmed to believe that it doesn't matter if it's against the Bible.

New leaders are saying. In other words, our doctrine is superior to the text of the Bible. And that is a theme that I grew up with in the Brannum religion, which also ties into this.

I'm going to talk a little bit about that later. But the key point to understand is, this is a doctrine that is anti-scriptural, anti-biblical. Many themes come from esoteric religion, from spiritualism, from mysticism.

And it's this mystery gospel idea that we are going to create the billion so harvest by taking over the world. We are going to gain dominion. And no matter how it spawn, no matter how many leaders in the movement try to reject this idea, you'll find that the people who are considered the sources for this doctrine, they are very militant in their speeches.

We've had Jed Hartley talk about this. We've had Bob Scott talk about this. The IHOPKC doctrine from its inception, when they're talking, they're basically considered by many sources to be the origins of this.

It was a very militant, very physically militant type doctrine. They would talk about how there will be blood. And you can actually read, if you type in that phrase, there will be blood and type in Mike Bickel.

You can find the places where he's mentioned that this is going to turn into a war, a physical war where there will be bloodshed. So whenever Steve McGumry and I in our converging apostasy series talk about the sacred purge, that theme that comes from mysticism, this is an idea that became adopted by leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation.

They have no hesitation to say that this is going to turn into blood. There will be a sacred purge, but the purge is good because if we can dominate the world, if we can have this billion soul harvest, we can basically summon God.

So it's the precursor to a summoning and Jesus will return whenever this weird event happens. So for those who are unfamiliar, that is the background to it. But like I said, this came from a much more sinister history if you understand where this actually came from.

The other thing you have to understand is I mentioned that when people are in this doctrinal belief, They will often accept the doctrine over the text of the Bible. Even if it is a flat-out rejection by biblical texts, they will accept the leader and his version of what the in-time scenario will be.

Over even the words of Christ in the New Testament, how the in-time scenario will be, you can look at the Seven Mountains mandate, for example, the charge that we're going to conquer, the Seven Mountains of Society.

We're going to take control and we're going to establish the Kingdom on Earth. That is an outright rejection of Jesus who said, my kingdom is not of this world. We've talked about that quite a few times in the podcast.

And people ask, well, how can this be? How can people outright reject Bible text, claim to be Christian, and claim that their Bible is their ultimate authority on doctrine and truth, and it is what is shaping their worldview?

How can they also reject that which is shaping their worldview? To understand that, you have to first understand mind control. And this is a subject that I won't go too deeply in here. I recommend if you are curious about mind control, you can go to freedomofmind.org and you can read through some of the publications and listen to the podcast by Dr. Stephen Hassan.

But whenever I came in contact with this idea of mind control, this reality of mind control, after having left the Brannum religion, it was a weird journey to have to go through. Because on the one hand, I had heard of mind control.

I knew what it was, but I had heard about it from movies that I had seen and books that I had read, and television shows that I had watched. Usually, science fiction or fantasy would talk about the mind control.

And whenever I first came in contact with a reality, the concept of a real mind control, I thought, no, man, there's no way. This can't be real. And I was asked, I was actually asked by Dr. Stephen Hassan.

We had to go on a mission to help somebody who was under the mind control of the William Brannum cult. And even as I'm traveling there with him and the cars were making our way, I did not believe that this thing was real, but at the same time, I wanted to help the individual who was trapped.

I was thinking, here's a guy who believes in mind control. It's a bunch of Huey. It's science fiction. And yes, I agree with what he's trying to do. Let's go help this trapped individual.

So I used the word trapped. I didn't use the word mind control. I never really thought about what that meant to be trapped. And honestly, it took... me even after all of the crash course that I went through with Dr. Stephen Hassan, I still did not fully accept it until later after working in the support groups and understanding that the trapped, my version of what is trapped was really his version of what is mind control.

I was understanding that people could come in contact with the truth and the truth could outright reject their fundamental worldview. And when faced with, in my situation, I was working with people who had escaped the random cult and working with people who were some of them who were still trapped in it. When a person was trapped in it, I could show them clearly, here's what William Brannum said. And here are the doctrines associated with that that are fundamental to your worldview and your belief system. And then show them, here are other doctrines that William Brannum also

taught that fully rejected the other one that I just said. In other words, these two doctrines cannot coexist and yet they're part of the worldview that was created by William Brannum. And then I could also show them, here's the Bible which rejects both of those. I remember and I will never forget this. I was working with an elderly man and we were talking through this and he says, I don't understand it, but I believe every word the prophet said. And I was sitting there thinking whenever he said this, there's no way that you cannot understand this. These are polar opposite

things that he said, both of which are tied to his spiritual, I hate to use the word, but spiritual divinity. He was a self-proclaimed Christ. William Brannum was a self-proclaimed Christ and it took me a while to accept that as well. But he was coming as a false Christ. He had doctrines that were in conflict with each other. Towards the end of his life, he, after convincing his cult following that he was Elijah, he would say the Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. So he had literally convinced this man that he was Jesus Christ or some variation, there's different ways in

which they reconcile this. But in the end, his doctrines cannot even be coherent because they're fully against each other. I came to understand later that that was mind control and how does mind control exist, why does mind control exist? And that ties into our story of the billion soul harvest because this billion soul harvest idea is actually the result of a operation to maybe not as destructive as they have used it, but an operation to fight a battle in the minds and it developed into ways in which mind control were employed. So I want to get there. Let's

dive in a little bit deeper to understand that because I know that there are people listening who thinking, no man, that's a bunch of hui. Just like I did, that's a bunch of hui. There's no way that mind control exists in the way that you're saying it, Dr. Stephen Hassan is saying it. But let's take this a step further. After the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, there were many people in the United States in high ranking positions who recognized what had actually just happened. To the American people, the World War II was simply that. It was a war. There was nothing unusual. People were

fighting battles. Many people died. Many people lost loved ones. And they just saw it as a war. And one of the many wars of history, only this was a big one because there were many countries involved. They saw it as nothing more than a battle. The United States government, however, saw this as much more sinister because what had actually happened in Nazi Germany, there was a single man, Hitler, who had actually employed techniques of mind control enough so that he convinced an entire nation of people to believe that it was okay to eradicate human life. So they were controlled to the extent that they could defy normal human compassion.

And the government wanted to know how this worked. They had a weapon. They were weaponizing mind control in Germany. How did they do it? What did they do? How did they achieve this? If they have a weapon that we don't have, what other countries have this weapon? Does China have the weapon?

Does Korea have the weapon? And they began to understand that if the other countries have this weapon, we too need this weapon in the United States. And there were a series of different tests, some of them government tests, some of them just scientists who were curious. And one of the most famous of this is the Milgram experiments. So what are the Milgram experiments and how do they relate to what I'm talking about today with the Billion Soul Harvest? Stanley Milgram's experiments were a series of psychological studies on obedience to authority. It was conducted at Yale University

in the early 1960s. And these became the most famous and yet the most controversial of the experiments in social psychology. And they were about one of many that had been conducted. Like I said, the government got involved. They also wanted to know there were various experiments that we probably will never even know about. But Milgram is the one who popularized the idea because this was so horrific what he was able to prove. Milgram wanted to understand why ordinary people obey authority figures, even when asked to do and perform actions that really conflicted with their conscience. And this...

Again, this all was a result of the World War II and the Holocaust. He wanted to explore whether Nazi officers were simply following orders or whether people could be controlled in their minds to do horrific things.

And the way that he set this up, he would have ordinary people who were recruited through newspaper ads and they were told that they were just simply taking part in a learning experiment. And each session that was conducted had a teacher who was the, this was the real participant and they would be paired with a learner which was simply an actor and this actor was part of the test that would be conducted against the person who was the real participant.

What would happen is the teacher would read word pairs to test the learner's memory and each time the learner gave a wrong answer, the teacher, the person who was the subject of the actual experiment was instructed by a experimental or in a lab coat to press a button and I think it was either a button or a switch that would deliver an electric shock to the victim and each time that the answer was wrong, they were told to increase the voltage.

Now in the experiment, the shocks were not real but the person who is shocking the other human being across in the room next door, they were not aware that the shocks were not real and each time they would either press the button or flip the switch, whichever it was, the person in the other room who was an actor would cry out protest and as the voltage got higher and higher, they kept shocking this person or you know, fake shocking this person, eventually the person would fall silent.

In other words, to the person who is in the experiment, they would think they just simply passed out. The shocking part of all of this, the real shocking part of all of this is that 65% of the people in the test, obeyed the orders up to the maximum voltage which was 450 volts.

Even when the learner seemed to be unconscious, they would still deliver the shock to the person who is either unconscious or dead in the other room. The people who were in this experiment would show visibly you could see on their face, they would be sweating, trembling, they might even be pleading to stop but they would continue to shock the person in the other room and the experimenter would say something to the effect that the experiment requires that you continue.

For all of this weird test, Milgram was able to understand that the pressure from authorities could actually override the conscience of each individual in the test and again 65% would shock a person up into the point in which they died.

passed out. So this experiment basically proved that people will tend to obey commands from legitimate authority figures, especially when the responsibility for harm is perceived to rest upon that specific authority. In other words, the person in the lab coat, that is the person who's responsible for harming the individual that they're shocking. This whole experiment was their idea. So because they're an authority in this situation, I will shock the person in the other room, even if he is dead or passed out. That's as horrific as that sounds. That is what Milgram was able to prove. And this, as you can imagine, sparked

all kinds of ethical issues. There were participants who experienced psychological distress after this, as you can imagine, because some of them really thought that they had killed another person. And they were deceived about the true nature of the experiment. So they began to cry out, this is not right what you did to our heads, we who are participate, we who actually press the button or flip the switch to shock the person in the other room.

So this test is what set the standards for the higher stricter ethical standards for human subject research. And it was all the result, as I said, of trying to understand what happened in Germany, whenever the people were killing the Jews, was it their fault, was it Hitler's fault, were they acting willingly, was it mind control? And where this comes into play, there is a history that is tied to after the war, tied to the evangelical community, which takes this thought, this idea that people will submit to the authority of their leaders.

It takes it to a whole new and scary level. So I'm certain you're asking, how do these experiments tie back to the new apostolic reformation? And to better explain that, I probably need to talk a little bit about my own history. And the history of brannemism for those who are unfamiliar. So as I said, no grams experiment was a test to see whether individuals would submit to the authority of their leaders. And it wasn't until maybe 2013, we had escaped the brannem cult for about a year before I began to realize that the techniques of mind control

that I watched and not just the milligram experiments, but all of the other things that were being tested and techniques that were being used during this crash course in mind control that I went through with Dr. Stephen Hassan. It wasn't until after, you know, long after this, I began to realize that those techniques were also used on my head. In other words, they're trying to, through these tests, understand how it was weaponized, how was my control weaponized in Nazi Germany, and that same weapon was being used against my head for 37 years. So how do they tie together? Well, William Brannum had different techniques

in his sermons, many of which are still being used today. And some of these techniques, if you understand the concepts and the implications, it becomes a little bit scary. One of them is obviously information control, but Brannum's version of information control came with an authoritarian twist. He would strongly discourage any readers, any body listening to his sermons. He would discourage them from reading other religious materials or outside ministers by claiming that God only reveals his word to his prophet. God reveals his word only to his prophet, and he would say things like there's only one prophet per age. And so, to the

listener who's listening, whichever one of the prophets, and there were many in the latter reign post-World War II healing revival, they're hearing William Brannum say, well, God only reveals his word to his prophet, and he would also, he would combine other passages, a stranger they will not follow. And, you know, that phrase comes from my sheep, hear my voice, a stranger they will not follow. Many phrases that were intended to point to Jesus were pointing directly to the prophetic or apostolic leaders in the movement. And what this does is it creates an authoritarian bind in the heads of the people listening between the leadership and the rank and file member. So,

that connection you have to understand, how is that connection enforced? Brannum was one of many people who produced recordings that had these techniques which I'm about to go through in the recordings themselves. And they were distributed widely among the movement. People were listening to these recordings over and over and over. Growing up, I heard there were approximately 1500, if I remember correctly, sermons between 12 and 1500. We heard them over and over and over again.

Many members of the cult, like myself, would listen to them first thing in the morning, maybe as we're making coffee, you know, preparing breakfast. We would have cassette tapes, back then it was a cassette tape, not a CD. We would have them in our vehicles everywhere we're driving, we're listening to these things. When I was in school, I had a walkman, I would listen to them. So, literally, I'm, if you know the implications of this from watching some of the fantasy or sci-fi of what happens in North Korean concentration camps, I'm doing this to my head self-inflicted.

And we were taught that this was a good thing. Many ministers would praise this kind of thing. If you were brainwashing yourself, they would praise you for doing this. They would advocate for this.

Branum was one of many ministers that were doing this. He was not alone. And so again, he is in his sermon in the structure of his speech. He is trying to convince other listeners to believe that a single authoritarian figure has the word for this day.

And that is key to understand when you consider the word of faith movement. And all of the implications that lie within that, you have the written word, which is the Bible. Well, you must also combine this with the spoken word, or Kenneth Hagan would call it the Rema.

Branum called it the spoken word, and that's how his organizations were established with that name, the voice of God recordings, the spoken word publications. It was the idea that, yes, we had a Bible, but today we have something new.

It's a new word. It's a new spoken word. It's not written. It's spoken. And within that spoken word comes the idea that the leadership is the one that gives you this spoken word. This created basically an echo chamber where members could hear only the interpretation of the events of scripture as they presented it.

And it is a classic information control technique. It's used not only in Christian cults, but in other religious systems, in other close destructive religious systems. The other thing to understand is mystical manipulation. What is this?

This is basically manufactured authority through supernatural claims. If you go back to the voice of healing magazine, which was basically the premiere magazine for the whenever ladder rain revival converged with the post World War II healing revival, it became the main publication, and then they later split.

Then they split the voice of healing magazine as it was starting to produce promotions of all of these other ministers. What they were doing with the magazine itself was they were manufacturing authority. Mystical manipulation.

You can find numerous angelic visits. You can find numerous God spoke to me and said to tell you this or the world is about to end and we're about to see this. We would see all of these things.

So this was a technique that Brannum used within his stage persona. Many of these men who did this had stage personas. And now that we have access to the wealth of information, you'll find numerous revivalists who are in this movement who's called...

have been established and went destructive, and people within those cults, like myself, will examine the alleged supernatural experiences and find that they're completely fiction. They are not reality. If you go through the revival history series that Charles and I did, you'll find numerous examples of this, but Brannum claimed that God spoke from the heavens and all of the people heard as he was baptizing on the Ohio River, for example. We can't prove this. Even though Brannum said it would be in the newspapers, it was in the newspapers, and apparently he claimed it hit the Associated Press and was published nationwide. You can't find a single example of this

because quite honestly had God actually spoken from the heavens and right in the water between Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. This would have made international news, and you would find all kinds of articles and histories, documentaries. You would find all kinds of information about this because God spoke from the heavens. But what he was doing was this is a staged, unverifiable proven false supernatural claim to provide mystical manipulation for the minds.

The other thing, which is often used in mind control, is the demand for purity and fear of contamination. Brannum would constantly divide people, and he would say, we are the bride, they are the world, and there's different ways in which this is done in different cults. You can almost count on this among all of the cults that descended from Brannumism. They would say that the world doesn't see what we see. We're the true church versus the denominations. It's a binary worldview.

There is only right or wrong true or false, black or white, but more importantly us or them. And that is a technique of manipulation of mind control. And the list goes on and on and on.

I can go through several examples of this, but the idea for you to understand here is that as this movement was developing into what would eventually become the charismatic movement, and later the New Apostolic Reformation, many leaders within the movement were using techniques of mind control and distributing those techniques in their publications, their audio recordings, their printed material, etc. The mind control techniques were in the media that was given to the people who had joined into the movement. Have you ever wondered how the Pentecostal movement started or how the progression of modern Pentecostalism transitioned through the latter reign,

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Whenever I talk about the mind control that was taking place within these cult movements, there are many people who write in and they ask questions, which I'll never be able to answer. Usually, was the government involved?

Was the government behind the Brannum cult or the Laterine or the New Apostolic Reformation? And quite frankly, my clearance level is not high enough for me to answer that question. But what I can say, there are numerous studies done by people who are a lot more intelligent than myself, that talk about the ties between the government and the evangelical community.

And not just evangelical, but the studies that I have done, as it relates to Brannumism, they type to the evangelical side because Brannum was evangelical. There are books that you can read. A Jeff Charlotte, I think is his name, wrote a book on The Family, which is the Fellowship Foundation International.

Highly recommend that you at least study the concepts behind what is the fellowship and how does that tie to politics? How does it bind religion, evangelical religion to politics? Because I think people will be a little bit surprised whenever you study this, especially knowing that Brannum's campaign manager from the 1950s forward for a period of time was the Baron William T. Freire von Blumberg.

Von Blumberg was the adopted cousin of Hitler's Minister of Defense. And he was a, like I said, a key figure in the Fellowship Foundation. He was a director from Boston. And he is part of what became this worldwide revival concept that I'm going to get into in just a bit.

But the key thing to understand here is the revivals that were becoming worldwide international revivals were being led by a leader in The Family, which is also closely linked to the government. It is basically the bridge between the government institutions and the relationship.

fiducius institutions, the Fellowship Foundation. Again, you can read the book by Jeff Charlotte. There's also a Netflix documentary series called The Family. And you can see just how just disgusting this is. It's hard to believe that this actually exists and was allowed to continue.

I think it is being somewhat limited until recently. It kind of exploded. But William Brams campaigns were being led by this man, William T. Ferry von Blumberg, taking him into other countries, such as Germany, but essentially planting the revival movement in multiple countries around the globe.

So why did this happen? Why this bridge between the government? How is it tied to revival? And how does all of that link to the Billion Soul Harvest? Fortunately, through the Freedom of Information Act, we are now able to access declassified government history, which uncovers a wide variety of links between the established government and the established religious communities.

One of the declassified documents, which is available to the public, is the Operation Condor, which was a operation that was conducted basically a covert World War III by its own definition, if you read through some of the documents.

A World War III, covert World War III, against communism in South America. And this charge, if you understand the history and the implications of this, this was during the administration of President Nixon. It is linked to the Iran Contra affair.

There's a spider web of some conspiracy theory, some actual proven, now declassified history that links all of this together. I've covered a lot of that in my book, which is a weaponized religion from Latirane to Colonia Dignidad.

But the evangelical leaders were working with the government and through the, it was through a commission given by then Vice President Nixon, at one of these national prayer breakfasts. The family, if you read that history or watch the docu-series, they're tied to the national prayer breakfast as was the full gospel businessman.

And in this weird history, the military and the Chilean equivalent of our DIA, which is the military equivalent to the CIA, were training the people in Chile how to conduct espionage and torture against political dissentants.

And they were using a concentration camp that was actually a William Brenham message facility called Colonia Dignidad. And that history, you can go through it in this book. I won't go deep into it here, but they were teaching people within the country how to torture individuals and they were conducting experiments on how to effectively torture to the maximum extent that experimentation was done on children.

It's a horrific history, if you want to understand it, you can read through here. The United States government was knowingly cooperating with this and actually leading the charge as they were trying to overthrow Augusto Pinochet, the Pinochet regime.

So that history you can read in here, but the thing to understand is the Nixon time. Richard Nixon was the 37th president from 1969 to 1974, but before that he had served as vice president, the 36th vice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

And while Nixon is most famous for his Watergate scandal, that's usually what you think of when you think of Nixon, he is also in a strange way tied to all of this weird mess within the New Apostolic Reformation in that during the National Prayer Breakfast, which was sponsored by the Full Gospel Businessmen, led by Demesh Shakerian, who is largely responsible for funding and driving and spreading the charismatic movement.

Demesh Shakerian was also one of the strongest supporters of William Brannum and the organization he founded, the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International, was co-founded by a Brannumite, which lived not far from here. So at the National Prayer Breakfast in the year was 1954, I believe it was, Nixon explained to the evangelical community that communism was spreading rapidly throughout the United States, and the battleground had shifted from physical weapons to now it was a type of warfare that the United States had not yet experienced.

And that was a psychological warfare. It was a battle of the minds. And all of the community of evangelicals who are hearing this are hearing, oh my gosh, we are now seeing communism spread.

World War III is here in the United States and we didn't even recognize it. And they're taking over our minds with communism, communism was linked by many of the evangelicals to atheism and they were basically coming to the conclusion that we had suddenly entered into this war that we didn't even know about, psychological war in which it was literally atheism against Christian.

That is how it was presented and viewed. Nixon said that the greatest battle ever. thought was in the mind. He's starting to talk about the ways in which, if you understand what he's saying, the ways in which you combat this is you attack also in the mind. So many leaders of this movement, some of them government, some of them religious officials tried to find out, well, how do you combat this in the mind? What techniques do you do in order to achieve victory in this battle that's happening in the heads of the individuals?

The sad result of this, and I am not a fan of Communism, so don't take this in the wrong way, but what they did was just as bad as Communism. They were basically employing techniques of mind control to fight techniques of mind control. In other words, they're using the same exact type of strategies to combat what they believe to be this hidden threat in the United States. Whether it was a real threat or not, I don't know, but we do have Nixon's testimony saying that this is what the government believed to be the Communist threat. So what

happened was, not long after this speech that was taking place in Washington, D.C. to the Evangelicals, there was this sudden surge of ministers who were spreading propaganda of what was about to happen to the United States. Some of them, through literal fear of what was about to happen. They thought World War III had now come to the shores of the United States.

Many of the ministers, Brannum, included, started creating these prophecies that were declaring Doomsday of the United States as a result of Communism. And that fear spread through the movement, and the ministers sadly began to realize that the fear that they were issuing to the individuals was probably the most powerful thing that they had ever used to gain a convert to the movement. Now, again, this is a convert to the movement. It's not so much a convert to Christianity. They were noticing the numbers growing and growing. This revival was growing, taking, taking shape in the 1950s, mid 1950s. And it was being accelerated very quickly

through fear. Fear is one of the techniques that is used when in combination with other mind control techniques, it becomes one of the most powerful things. If you can train a member to fear, you literally can control his mind. And whether by government instruction or not, I personally do not believe the government instructed how to do mind control to the ministers.

I think that they actually figured out by watching the results of their fear techniques, they began to see that the people who were converting were not quickly de-converting. In other words, they come into the movement and they're trapped. We have them. And more to the point, they began to understand that if I combine any doctrine from the Bible with a technique of fear, people will adopt it more quickly.

And my doctrines can become established more quickly than this other revivalist who is my competitor. So it became this weird competition where one evangelist, his doctrines of fear are a direct competition of another evangelist doctrine of fear.

And it became a battle of the weird battle of the tents because many of these were even tent revivalists still in the 1950s. So as these tents and these convention halls were growing, one guy could pack out an auditorium because his version of fear was greater than the other guy's version of fear.

And all of this is spreading the fear of communism throughout the United States to the extent there are documentaries of how insidious the fear of communism became in the United States. The fear itself became a bigger threat than communism itself.

So this is developing and this is growing and this is a charge by President Nixon to instill fear into the hearts of your congregations. At the same time that all of this is happening, there's this other weird thread of history that is starting to converge.

And that is Christian identity. You can read through that, I've published it in my book, Weaponized Religion from Christian identity to the NAR. There's all of these spiderwebs that lead to the New Apostolic Reformation, most of which are not Christian movements that are combining into what Steve calls the converging apostasy.

But Christian identity had taken foot hold in many of the revivalists in the movement. William Brannum was no exception. He was teaching the core concept of Christian identity, which is the 2C doctrine. The idea that the original sin from the Garden of Eden was Eve mating with a serpent to produce two bloodlines.

One good, one evil, that was the core concept that was established in Christian identity. Gordon Lindsay, Brannum's campaign manager, up until the point when Baron William T. Ferryv on Bloomberg became the campaign manager.

Gordon Lindsay was a keynote speaker at identity conferences such as the Anglo-Saxon Federation and others. William Brannum's mentor, Roy Davis, the one who ordained Brannum, was the one who actually taught William Brannum the core concepts of Christian identity.

He was the second in command of the 1915 clan. He was an identity leader and he was teaching this thing that was not Christianity to Brannum, which Brannum would further develop. Well, within Christian identity was this idea which also appears to come in many ways from Germany, the idea that there was a Jewish plot to take over the world.

And the protocols of the learned Elders of Zion, which was anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic propaganda, was spreading through the fundamentalist leagues. Many members of those leagues connected directly to Brannum and the Revivalist to Davis. Davis was a head of the world director of the world fundamentalist league, if I remember correctly the name. Gerald Burton-Winrod, who you can look up the information on him, he was also spreading this propaganda. And it took hold. People believed that there was this plot. And as that shifted and the anti-Semitism started to fall away from many of the ministers who recognized that's just wrong, the anti-Semitism,

the doctrines that were established by that merging of Christian identity with the Revivalist, many of those doctrines stayed. One of those doctrines was the idea that there would suddenly be this one-world religion. And that was a concept that I think was largely borrowed from the protocols.

The idea that the rest of the world is going to become one-world religion. It's going to be this false Jew. And only the Alexi would remain separate from this one-world religion. And it takes different shapes and forms depending on which version of the movement that you're looking at.

Some call it the new world order, the new religious order, the one-world government, the one-world religion. There's all kinds of different ways in which they see this plot, this threat happening. But those core concepts, because they were so deeply embedded into the movement, especially in leaders like Orden Lindsay, they began to see this rise of communism. This battle of the mind is the threat for this new world order. And so what happened was they started pushing the notion that we need to conquer them. We need to take the battle to their front, not just fight the battle

here in the United States. We need to go overseas. We need to fight the battle of the minds on their side. So what happened right after Nixon's address to the full gospel businessmen, the national prayer breakfast, the gathering of evangelicals, not long after that speech of the battle for the minds, the leaders within the movement began to push the idea that we will take the battle to their shores through a billion souls crusade. And in January 1955, the voice of healing magazine started publishing for the first time in history. We will have a billion souls crusade.

We will mobilize to evangelize the Christless millions of people. And so essentially what the group had done, while they are proclaiming against a one-world religion, and the idea that atheists or communist or any of the other various religions might form this opposition to Christianity, we will instead form the one-world religion as we want it to be established. In other words, Christianity will be forced to the billions of people around the globe, and eventually we will take charge of this war, we will win this war, which is a battle for the minds, and we will have conquered the globe. That

was literally the idea that was being pushed by these ministers, and again, this is coming right on the heels of Nixon who is saying that we are fighting a battle of the minds. So these leaders of the movement saw themselves as generals in this battle of the minds that basically is a covert World War III that's happening in the heads of the individuals. We're now generals in this war. So when you think of phrases like God's Generals, you have to understand that there's a history behind the reason why they use that phrase. That phrase is not something that you're going to quickly find if you're reading the Bible. There is

no God's General in the Bible. But these leaders of the movement that would develop into the New Apostolic Reformation truly believed that they were generals in a war, and that the end justified the means. Yes, we're doing things that are probably not ethical. We're going to use techniques that are some of which are mind control, some of which are just being a little deceptive to show my supernatural authority. But there is an end that justifies these means. I can have a false prophecy about communism, whatever it is. I can later change it to a different prophecy as long as I'm taking the charge forward to conquer

this battle that is happening in the minds of the people. So fast forward until the formation of the Kansas City Fellowship, you had Bob Jones who was spreading Brannum doctrines and very sympathetic to Brannumism. You had Paul Cain who attended various churches in the Brannum cult of personality that I was in, who was Brannum's protégé, his proxy into Germany, who was there with the Baron William T. Ferry on Blumberg and Paul Schafer, the founder of the colony that would later be used to weaponize this and to for tortures over throwing regimes. He's there. He is also spreading Brannumism until the days of his death.

He was very favorable and teaching Brannum's ways to the people. The historians who look at this billion souls harvest of the New Apostolic Reformation point back to this event in Kansas City and say, this is the origins. Well, it's not so much an origin as it is a resurrect of the Billion Soul Revival drive that was happening through Branemism, through the Charge and Commission by Nexon, through all of this weird history that is just truly, truly unbelievable.

So hopefully this clears up some of the confusion and I would like to see if the historians could add the actual history of the origin story to all of their publications because this is much deeper and more sinister than even what they believe to be the history of this Billion Soul's harvest, Billion Soul's revival that was taking place. It is a strange and unusual history and as I said at the beginning of this, it is history that proves that truth or at least their version of it is really stranger than fiction. So if you have enjoyed the show and you want more information,

you can check us out on the web, you can find us at www.William-Branem.org. For more about the dark side of the new Apostolic Reformation, you can read Weaponized Religion from Christian Identity to the NAR, available on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible.