Tree of Death
William Branham's "Tree of Death" teaching was a misogynistic extension of his Serpent's Seed doctrine, recasting the Genesis account so that original sin was not disobedience to God's command but a sexual act between Eve and the serpent, while portraying the female gender itself as a lower, Satan-designed "perversion," an incubator rather than a true bearer of life, and the symbolic tree through which death entered the world; in this system, women became central to Branham's theology of corruption, impurity, and spiritual danger, reinforcing cultic control over gender, sexuality, marriage, and female behavior within his Message movement.
In William Branham's version of the Christian Identity Doctrine, which he called "Serpent's Seed", the "Tree of Death" was the female gender. Branham taught that the Original Sin in the Garden of Eden was a sexual union between Eve and the Serpent. Branham strongly disagreed with Genesis1:27, teaching that the female was not in the original creation[1] designed by Satan[2] for unclean living.[3] According to his version of the theology, because the female human was designed to be lower females of any other species,[4] the Serpent "ate from" the woman (Eve), and the result was death. While most Christians believe the original sin to be disobeying God's command not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, members of Branham's cult following are trained to believe the Original Sin was the "eating" of Eve.
If a man eats of the woman…And look, through the birth of…by the woman, we all die; ’cause we’re subject to death (is that right?) through a birth of the woman. Through the birth of the man, we all live forever. The woman is a tree of death, the man is a tree of life; for the woman doesn’t even bear life in her. That’s exactly right. The—the life germ comes out of the man, correctly. Goes into the woman, and the woman’s nothing but an incubator; and the baby’s not connected, only the navel cord. Not one speck of the mother’s blood is in the baby; borned in her blood, but not one speck in the baby. Go find…or read the doctor book, or ask your doctor, you’ll see. It’s not there, no, sir, not one speck of it at all. She’s just the egg, that’s all. And the life comes from the man.
Branham, William. 1957, September 25. Questions And Answers On Hebrews #1 (57-0925).
Because they did not obey his cult rules, Branham claimed that women of his era were misbehaving. According to Branham, this was a result of the "tree of death", which he believed to be the female gender. In his theology, females were a "perversion".
He was the Tree, the Tree of Life from the garden of Eden, which, the woman was the tree of death, the perversion. That's what makes them act the way they do today.
Branham, William. 1962, June 29. Be Not Afraid It Is I. (62-0629).