Topic: Foundation & doctrine

Question

Can prayer change a death that God has already pronounced?

Answer

Now, many times it turns dark around the patient. I know death’s laying there. And I just say, “The Lord bless you.” Or, “I pray that God will heal you.” And—and send them on off the platform. For I don’t know what it will be. ’Cause sometimes God could pronounce death on a person, and then their pr...

Question

Was Jesus a prophet, or God?

Answer

And watch when the Jews questioned Him, when He went through all that big pool of people there that was lame, blind, halt, and withered, and all kind of conditions. And He—He said to the person, went to a man laying on a pallet. Just look, Saint John 5, how they was withered. Wouldn’t the critics to...

Question

According to Saint John 5:19, could Jesus do anything of Himself?

Answer

Watch Jesus here when they questioned Him about all these things, and the man packing his bed and so forth, that’d been healed. He said, now listen, Saint John 5:19: “Verily, verily…” That’s absolutely, absolutely. “…I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doin...

Question

Why can a person still remember a dream from years ago?

Answer

Now, the person who…Listen closely. The person who dreams a dream is not sleeping sound. A dream is your subconscious. Let’s see the normal man; here is his first conscious, and here is his subconscious. Now, when this one becomes inactive, this one is active. Now, you people that’s dreamed dream, y...

Question

Which Bible figures were appointed prophets before they were born?

Answer

Jesus Christ was the Son of God from the garden of Eden. Moses was born in the world a prophet, a right child. John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Isaiah saw him. God told Jeremiah, Jeremiah, 1:4, “Before you was even...

Question

Are the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost three separate Gods?

Answer

Watch. And then, when this Son of God died, then His Spirit came back into men, sinful men: that was a holy, virgin born, come back. And that makes God like a three-foot rule (See?): the first twelve inches God, the Father; second twelve inches God, the Son; third twelve inches God, the Holy Spirit....

Question

Why did Peter let the net down again after fishing all night and catching nothing?

Answer

Now, Peter was just not an ordinary fellow had fished one or two nights. He knowed all the signs of fishing; just how the moon’s supposed to be, just how the waters are. And they’d fished all night long, and had taken nothing. Now, just think, here it is, I want you to get it. See, they had fished a...

Question

Who does the Bible say controls the kingdoms and nations of this world?

Answer

Now, I’ll make this statement which seems very bitter to begin with. And I—I wanted it because it’s the truth. That every kingdom of this world is controlled by Satan. The Bible said so. Satan is the prince of the power of the air, and every nation is under his domination. The Scripture says that. S...

Question

Can a person be a pretty good Christian?

Answer

And people, today, as you see…you say, “Well, I—I guess I’m a pretty good Christian, Brother Branham.” You can’t be a pretty good Christian. There is no such a thing. You have to either be a Christian or you’re not a Christian; a grain of wheat or a stalk. The wheat can’t be a barley today and a—and...

Question

Do people become angels when they die?

Answer

Look and you see how God patterns it all around. The whole…Over in India and different things, they worship and say when we die, we become angels and fly away. God never did make me an angel, and I never will be an angel, and neither will you. He made me a man, and I’ll always be a man. I’ll resurre...

Question

Can anybody see God?

Answer

The old fellow was looking at the rainbow. He’d pulled his oars and clipped, pulled the oars and clipped. He was watching that rainbow. The little boy setting in the stern of the boat begin to notice tears running off of his white beard. He was looking at that rainbow and pulling. The little fellow...

Question

Does Brother Branham agree with the Oneness teaching that God is one like your finger is one?

Answer

Now, my parents and my both—before me were Catholic. But brother, you see there’s not much Catholic left in me as the triune beings. That’s right. Yes, sir. They believed in the Eternal Sonship, or there’s three actual individual being: God the Father, an old man with long white beard; God, the Son,...

Question

How many people did Jesus raise from the dead during His ministry?

Answer

Jesus Christ only raised three in His entire life, to show that a witness of three is to be established. Is that right? In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. Then God is living in His people today, because back there when Jesus came into Jerusalem, there was a great...

Question

Why does Brother Branham ask people not to move around while the prayer line is going on?

Answer

The disciples, when they seen Jesus doing His work, as He does tonight, he said, “We know now that no man needs to teach You for by this we believe that Thou art the Christ, the Son of God.” Do you believe tonight He is the Christ, the Son of God? Now, be real reverent. And would you come. Now, don’...

Question

What does Brother Branham say is the greatest evidence of a Christian?

Answer

And, Christian friends I’m as sincere as I know how to be before Him, because some of these people it’s somebody’s mother. Here perhaps stands someone’s mother now. What if that was my mother, and some man was praying for my mother? I’d sure want him to be sincere. I’d sure want him to do…And as I d...

Question

Is a person a Christian before they receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost?

Answer

Now, I don’t mean to say you’re not a Christian till you get the Holy Ghost, get that. I mean that you’re—the Holy Ghost is the seal of your faith. You see? God—Abraham believed God by faith, and then He give him the seal of a promise. You see? And you believe God by faith and you’re justified by fa...

Question

Does God do anything to warn the world before judgment comes?

Answer

Now, Jesus in His birth, He was marvelous, but when He came to the world, He came here with a illegitimate background hanging over Him, because they said that His—His father was Joseph, and the child was—the mother was to be with a child before they were really legally married. So that begin with Hi...

Question

How could Jesus be hungry Himself and still feed five thousand people?

Answer

He was a man when He come down off the mountain that night so hungry. He’s trying to find something to eat, looking all around the tree, trying to find something to eat. He was a man when He was hungered. That’s right, but when He took five biscuits, and two little fishes, and broke them, and fed fi...

Question

In what form does Jesus come back to His people after ascending to the Father?

Answer

When speaking in parables, they could not understand Him, but when they realized that God was showing Him things, they believed His testimony then that He come out from God. And now, I’m giving a testimony of the same Man tonight, that they crucified Him, and He had to die to take sin out of the wor...

Question

When Satan tempted Him, did Jesus use the power and gifts He had?

Answer

He’s one that doesn’t even have a prayer line. He just stands there with the Scriptures and explains It in such a way, till the people just have to see it. That’s all. And listen. That is the initial way of Divine healing. You know that? The Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere, any time, on any c...