C. L. Franklin and William Branham

Clarence LaVaughn Franklin was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. He was the pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, and nationally recognized among black and civil rights communities as the man with the "Million-Dollar Voice". His 1953 sermon, “The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest” was widely popular. He was fatally shot, two times point blank, on June 10, 1979.

William Branham attempted to both limit Franklin’s audience and grow his own by releasing a sermon with the same title and subject matter in July of 1957 — four years after Franklin’s popular sermon. It was one of the most fundamental sermons to his cult of personality — Branham built upon that doctrine to say that his cult following are like eagles. Branham incorrectly claimed that eagles do not eat carrion and that the Old Testament considered the bird to be holy. This, Branham said, was opposed to the buzzard, which was an unclean bird. Former cult members are often surprised when reading Leviticus 11:13, describing the eagle as an abomination to God because it is like the vulture and the buzzard.

And these you shall regard as an abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard ...
Leviticus 11:13

You can learn this and more, on william-branham.org.

C. L. Franklin
https://william-branham.org/site/admin/research/entry/c._l._franklin

As the Eagle Stirreth Her Nest:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/as_the_eagle_stirreth_her_nest

Eagle:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/eagle

Civil Rights:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/civil_rights