1948 Doomsday: Prophecy and Politics
After the birth of Latter Rain and the Latter Rain Revival, and as Branham's associates began to join into the Voice of Healing Revival, William Branham and his associate editors of the Voice of Healing Publication began promoting the idea that 1948 would be the year of destruction. A section of the publication entitled "The World In Prophecy" started informing readers of the "prophetic" and mathematic projections pointing to the End of Days using charts, graphs, numerologies, and specific passages from the Christian Bible without their surrounding Biblical context.
Voice of Healing
The Voice of Healing was created to position William Branham as leader of the "Voice of Healing Revival" by organizing numerous revivalists under the title "Branham Healing Campaigns". The April 1948 issue was subtitled "An Inter-Evangelical Publication of the Branham Healing Campaigns".[1] William Branham was the original publisher, and Branham's campaign manager Gordon Lindsay was the editor. Jack Moore and his wife Anna were also involved as associate editor and circulation editor.
Gordon Lindsay
James Gordon Lindsay was William Branham's campaign manager from 1947 until the mid-1950s. Branham and Lindsay published The Voice of Healing magazine and Lindsay was a key figure in the Voice of Healing Revival that merged with the Latter Rain movement. In 1953, Lindsay issued an ultimatum for Branham over doctrinal positions in white supremacy, which led to a heated battle between Joseph Mattsson-Boze's Herald of Faith and Voice of Healing.[1]
1952 Doomsday: Politics and Revelation
In June 1952, The Voice of Healing published Gordon Lindsay’s feature “The Coming Presidential Election and Prophecy,” claiming that a series of 666-day cycles drawn from Revelation 13 linked events from World War I through the New Deal to the upcoming U.S. presidential election, which it presented as a 1952
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