Topic: Prophets and prophecy

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Did any Old Testament prophet describe automobiles and airplanes?

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When the prophet give, twenty-five hundred years ago, that missionaries would travel from place to place and go into the nations and wouldn’t leave a track behind them, coming by airplane. Twenty-five hundred years ago, before there was thought such a thing. Nahum, four thousand years ago, said that...

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Why are some people unable to get healed when they come to be prayed for?

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Usually it’s in a line of discernment. I never try to cast out a spirit, unless first I realize what I’m doing, ’cause that’s a dangerous thing. Did you know that? Very dangerous unless you understand what you’re doing. If you’ll notice on the platform after the anointing comes, you never hear me ch...

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How can a person tell a gift of God from the devil's counterfeit?

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The Urim and Thummim was something that the lights flashed on a—on a breastplate of Aaron here over the twelve stones as the Urim and Thummim was over it. Now, the devil went and got a crystal ball to look into. See? The devil’s got a pattern of everything God has got. The Bible says so. Yes, sir. S...

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Did anyone besides Jesus ever talk with God face to face?

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Now, in the 23rd chapter of Exodus, and beginning with the 20th verse. I wish to begin to read just a few verses. Now, this is Moses and God talking face-to-face. Now, there never was a man in all the earth, outside of Jesus Christ, that ever talked face-to- face with God but Moses. “If there be one...

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Can a person be made a prophet by the laying on of hands?

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But when the gift of prophecy is operating, it cannot be received unless two or three judge it, to see whether it’s right or not. But a prophet, singular, p-r-o-p-h-e-t is borned a prophet, comes up a prophet. Everything he says in the Name of the Lord is absolutely truth, if he’s prophesying. Now,...

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How can you tell whether a gift a man claims is really from God?

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Now, a gift has to first be recognized to be in the Bible. And then if it’s in the Bible, and the man claims it, then if God confirms that gift, that it’s the truth, then he ought to believe that the man is true. But if God—God doesn’t testify of that gift…Hebrews 11:2 said, “God testifies of His gi...

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Does having the gift of prophecy make someone a prophet?

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“God, in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, in this last days through His Son, Christ Jesus.” And the Body of Christ has nine spiritual gifts operating in it. And it might be on this woman tonight, prophecy, may never be the rest of her life. It may be on this...

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How can a dream or a prophecy be tested to know whether it is true?

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And when a prophet had give a prophecy, and they spoke, and wanted to see if that prophecy was true, they put it before the Urim and Thummim. And if the Voice of God throwed the lights on the Urim and Thummim, then it was absolute, the Truth. And if a man gives an interpretation, gives a dream, give...

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Does God reveal everything to His prophets?

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Now, God don’t reveal everything to His prophets; you know that. So Elijah was standing up there by his cave, and he looked, and he said to Gehazi; he said, “Here comes that Shunammite.” said, “She’s weeping. Something wrong with her. And God has hid it from me. I don’t know.” See, He don’t have to...

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How did Brother Branham come to be a seer?

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Now remember, I do not claim to heal the people, I pray for the people. God…By birth, not by desire, no, but by birth and by the sovereignty of God, the foreordination and wisdom of God, He made up my makeup as a seer. I can’t see what I want to, I see what He shows me, that’s all I know is what He...

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Did Jesus tell the woman at the well everything she ever did?

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Now, look. One time He seen a woman coming. He sent His disciples away. And He found a woman coming from a well, or to a well to get some water: Saint John the 4th chapter. And He seen this woman coming and she was a Samaritan. There’s a well there, near Samaria—Samari. So He…They all came to get wa...

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Why did Jesus ask the woman at the well for a drink?

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Now, if our Lord Jesus was here tonight in a body of flesh, wearing clothes like we wear, He would do just what the Father would show Him to do. God was in Him, made Him Emmanuel. And whatever God would speak or reveal to Him, that He’d know. But now, when it come to the people, when He begin to spe...

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Did Jesus read people's minds?

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Someone said the other day, said, “Brother Branham, do you say Jesus was a mind-reader?” Sure. He perceived their thoughts. Call it whatever you want to. I don’t mean one of these here, setting out here, or what the devil has made a pattern of setting out yonder, with her hand out, reading down alon...

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Why did the prophets of old want to be buried in Palestine?

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Now watch this. All of the prophets of old, not having any Scripture to go by, as we have, any Divine promise of God, only through the leadership of the Holy Spirit. “Men of old, as they was moved by the Holy Spirit, wrote the Word of God.” Each one of them, when they died, they specified they wante...

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Has anything Brother Branham spoke as 'THUS SAITH THE LORD' ever failed?

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Now, you take it anywhere you want to, and any person is at liberty that any time that they ever heard It say, “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” or “In the Name of the Lord,” a certain thing would take place, it’ll be just that way. See? Or you can trace back any of my footsteps across the nations and see if I...

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When a man of God is taken, what happens to the Spirit that was on him?

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How do you do, sister, you or the baby? Uh-huh. Why, it’s a sweet little thing. My, looks like it’s quite young to have something. Now, I want…’Course the baby can’t talk. I want you to look at me. I want to talk to you just a moment. What do you think about Jesus Christ? Yes, the only One that you...

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How does a seer see a vision?

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Then a seer is born in the world, and his whole makeup has come down here, that he does not go to sleep; he just breaks from one conscious to another, and God moves in on that conscious and shows a vision. Now, how many understands what I said and…Now there it is. Now, see, I can’t do it, God has go...

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What should you do if a pastor or prophet tells you something contrary to what God told you?

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Now, look. Some of these, this going on around…You always seek the face of God. And I don’t care who tells you anything contrary to what God tells you, don’t you believe it, and you obey God. Will you do it? I don’t care who he is, how righteous he is, how much of a pastor he is, how much of a preac...

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What happens to the Spirit that was on a prophet when the prophet dies?

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Come, lady. Don’t fear, have faith. God is going to do something for you, sister, the miraculous. Have faith. Believe me as His prophet. The same Spirit was upon the Hebrew prophets is the same Spirit here now. See? God takes His prophet, but never His Spirit. It moves on. When one dies, the Spirit...

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What happened to the prophet in 1 Kings 13 who obeyed another prophet instead of God?

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You remember one time where there was a—a prophet in the land, and another one went down and prophesied, and God told him what to do. And He said, “Don’t eat or drink, nor it…” First Kings 13. And this prophet sent and told him, “The Lord said to come back here.” And he minded the prophet in the ste...