He claimed reports of the baptismal story were carried in newspapers across the United States and Canada. [169] Gordon Lindsay's eulogy stated that Branham's death was the will of God and privately he accepted the interpretation of Kenneth E. Hagin, who claimed to have prophesied Branham's death two years before it happened. [253][139], Branham was the "initiator of the post-World War II healing revival"[63] and, along with Oral Roberts, was one of its most revered leaders. [82][83] In 1948, Branham and Lindsay founded Voice of Healing magazine, which was originally aimed at reporting Branham's healing campaigns. Branham claimed that he had converted over one million people during his career. He explained that the allegations eroded the trust of the crowds who attended the healing services. [9], Annihilationism, the doctrine that the damned will be totally destroyed after the final judgment so as to not exist, was introduced to Pentecostalism in the teachings of Charles Fox Parham (18731929). [161] The bad feelings and breakdown of cooperation between the leaders of the movement contributed to the end of the healing revival. Voyez rapidement qui est destin le mmorial et quand . Branham claimed that he had received an angelic visitation on May 7, 1946, commissioning his worldwide ministry and launching his campaigning career in mid-1946. [25] Branham accused Eve of producing a "hybrid" race, and he provided a way to trace the hybrid line of the Serpent's Seed to Africans and Jews through Ham the biblical progenitor of the African peoples, King Ahab, and Judas Iscariot. [159] He continued expecting something greater, which he said "nobody will be able to imitate". He began speaking on the controversial doctrinal issues he had avoided for most of the revival. Branham's prediction of the end of the world by 1977 was widely circulated and well known. [167] Harrell attributed the decline to the increasing number of evangelists crowding the field and straining the financial resources of the Pentecostal denominations. Carl Dyck wrote, "Those who have come out of this group give solemn evidence of the devastating effect that Branhamism had on them, both emotionally and psychologically.