Many times Brother Branham refers to David du Plessis, of South Africa, as his co-worker and bosom friend. No doubt, Brother du Plessis, or “Mr. Pentecost,” as he was later called, became one of the most influential men of the charismatic movement. But here, the prophet warns him not to take Pentecost back to the World Council of Churches.

“The Council of Churches over there now, that’s meeting in Rome. This circular letter that my good friend, David duPlessis; when I set there and cried to him about it, at Fourteen-Mile Creek, not long ago; not realize he swung the church right into Babylon, when everybody saying, ‘Oh, all the churches is going to be one now.’

Yeah, I know that, see, just exactly what’s wrote on my book of prophecy in 1933, that would take place. Why, don’t you realize that’s Satan uniting together? The Bible says that. And just after a bit, just a little while, as soon as they become one, then the interdenominational is finished, see. There will be your mark of the beast, right. See?”

Souls That Are in Prison Now, November 10, 1963

> Find more information in the Appendix, page 215