The Floating Pulpit Trick - William Branham Stage Persona
When William Branham reinvented his stage persona to include the 1937 flood as the focal point for his “awakening” to the Pentecostal movement, there are many fictional elements that he created. He claimed that he was uninvolved and unfamiliar with Pentecostals until God shook him by smiting his wife and daughter during the flood — though he owned and operated a Pentecostal Church in Jeffersonville and had been holding Pentecostal Revivals with his mentor, Roy E. Davis, and Klan supreme religious chaplain Caleb A. Ridley. He claimed that he had listened to his mother-in-law and prevented his wife Hope from becoming Pentecostal, though she was also a leader in Roy Davis’ Pentecostal sect and also a member of the Billie Branham Pentecostal Tabernacle.
There were some elements of the stage persona’s history that were not created by Wiliam Branham and were fully unrelated to his history. An example of this is the “Floating pulpit” story. William Branham claimed that the pulpit in his church was lifted to the ceiling by flood waters during the 1937 Ohio River flood and returned to the floor with the Bible still open where he preached his last sermon prior to the flood. This, believe it or not, was a true story — but it did not happen at Branham’s Pentecostal Church. The pews and pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church in Jeffersonville were spared from damage during the 1937 flood when the floor rose to ride the crest. Jeffersonville newspapers said that it was a good story for Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
You can learn this and more on william-branham.org
Floating Pulpit:
https://william-branham.org/si....te/research/topics/f
Hope Branham:
https://william-branham.org/si....te/research/people/h
Pentecostal Baptist Church of God Sect:
https://william-branham.org/si....te/research/topics/p
Roy Davis:
https://william-branham.org/si....te/research/people/r
Caleb A. Ridley
https://william-branham.org/si....te/research/people/c
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