2025, NOVEMBER 27
1933 Baptism: The Voice No One Heard
Dismantling William Branham’s famed 1933 Ohio River baptism story—showing that claims of a visible light, an audible commissioning voice, massive crowds, and nationwide newspaper coverage are contradicted by eyewitnesses, contemporary press records, and the documented history of his church and mentor, Roy E. Davis. It argues that the baptism narrative and the so-called 1933 prophecies were retrofitted into Branham’s biography as tools of authority, illustrating how myth-making and repetition, rather than verifiable evidence, became the foundation for prophetic belief in the Message movement.
