T. L. Osborn
Tommy Lee "T. L." Osborn was a Pentecostal evangelist, Voice of Healing editor, and Latter Rain revival figure whose ministry and business associations connected him closely to William Branham, Kenneth Hagin, Joseph Branham, and Billy Paul Branham. Osborn helped promote the healing revival network through the Voice of Healing publication and later joined Branhamite and Word of Faith figures in short-lived business entities such as Ordinary People National and Ordinary People International. His eulogy for Branham, in which he described Branham as "God in human flesh" and a foreordained "Jesus-man" prophet for the closing generation, together with his later involvement with Eldon Purvis and the Fort Lauderdale Five in the Holy Spirit Teaching Mission, places Osborn at an important intersection between Branham's Message, Latter Rain theology, Word of Faith networks, and the rise of the Shepherding Movement.
Tommy Lee "T.L." Osborn (1923-2013) was a Pentecostal evangelist, singer, author, and teacher, from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is well known for hosting the Good News Today program and his mass-miracle ministry to millions. In the late 1940s, Osborn was involved with the Latter Rain movement and Voice of Healing Revival.
Osborn was one of the editors for the Voice of Healing publication created to advertise William Branham's ministry and several other Latter Rain evangelists. Osborn was also a business partner with Joseph Branham, Billy Paul Branham, and Kenneth Hagin. In 1984, the group of men established "Ordinary People National" and "Ordinary People International" briefly and then dissolved the organization before filing proper financial documents.
In his eulogy, televangelist T. L. Osborn declared that William Branham was "God in human flesh" and the "prophet" foreordained "at this hour."
This was the closing generation. Something had to happen. It couldn't go as past generations had gone. This one is IT! Therefore, in God's divine mercy, somehow stepping beyond the bounds of ordinary measure, He had foreordained at this hour to send again this prophet. Some are going to think I am sacreligious or off doctrinally (and it doesn't really matter), but God came again in human flesh and said, "Apparently I must show them again. I must remind them again. They must see one more time. Once again they must know what God is like." And He stepped down and sent a little man, a prophet, but more than a prophet this time, A Jesus-man this time![1]
After Branham's death in 1965, Osborn began working with Christian Identity leader Eldon Purvis and the "Fort Lauderdale Five" (Don Basham, Bob Mumford, Derek Prince, Charles Simpson and Ern Baxter) to help establish the "Holy Spirit Teaching Mission," which would later become Christian Growth Ministries and eventually the Shepherding Movement.[2]