About The Open Vision

Most of us have had the same experience. Someone quotes Brother Branham in a conversation, and it doesn't sound quite like what you remember reading. You want to check it. But you're not sure which sermon it came from, and finding it means hunting through books for something you can only half remember.

We built this so that hunt takes a few seconds instead of a whole evening.

Brother Branham answered thousands of questions over the years — in question-and-answer services, in church meetings, and in the middle of preaching. Those answers are spread across hundreds of sermons. They are all in print somewhere, but "somewhere" isn't much help on a Saturday night when you're preparing for Sunday school.

Hebrews tells us to give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard. We take that seriously. If this is God's voice to our day, then getting the words right matters more than getting them quickly.

Every answer here is Brother Branham's own words, exactly as he spoke them.

We don't summarise. We don't explain what he meant. We don't tidy up a sentence that runs long or smooth over a repeated phrase. If he said it twice, it's here twice. What you read is what was said.

Under each answer you'll find where it came from: the sermon, the date, the place, and the paragraph number. You can take that reference straight to your own books and read the whole passage around it. We would rather you did.

That's really the whole idea. This site helps you find things. It doesn't stand between you and the sermons.

We're not trying to alarm anybody.

But there's a habit that gets into all of us. We mean to look something up, and we don't. We mean to study that subject properly, and the week goes by. Years can pass like that.

Brother Branham spoke constantly about being ready — trimming the lamp, watching, staying awake. Not in fear. In attention. A bride expecting her groom keeps one ear open.

So we tried to remove the excuses. It's free to read, you don't need an account, and it works on a phone. If you have five minutes on a break, that's long enough to look something up properly instead of guessing.

Checking something isn't doubting it.

"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." That was written to believers, not to skeptics. Searching out what was actually said is one of the ways we honour a thing.

Here's what people use this for:

• Making sure a quotation is right before repeating it
• Following a subject across different sermons and years
• Preparing for Sunday school, a Bible study, or a message
• Settling an honest question at home without it becoming an argument

One caution, and we mean it for ourselves as much as anyone. Reading is not the same as obeying. It's possible to know a great deal and be changed very little. Don't let a search box take the place of your prayer life.

This site isn't finished, and we don't pretend it is. It grows as we add to it.

Here's what we hold to:

• The words stay exactly as they were spoken
• Every answer carries a full reference you can check yourself
• Reading stays free
• When we get something wrong, we fix it

If you spot a mistake — a wrong date, a misheard word, a paragraph that doesn't match your book — please write to us at [email protected]. We would far rather be corrected than be wrong quietly.

God bless you as you study.