Topic: Prophets & visions

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Did Brother Branham consider himself a preacher or a prophet?

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Now, I’m not much of a preacher, as it comes to a preacher, because my education is limited. See? But I—I love the Lord. But now, He’s give me another thing to bring the Gospel to the people. That’s in this manner, as a prophet, as a seer that sees things before it comes to pass and what’s going to...

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Why did Jesus heal only one man at the pool of Bethesda?

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In Saint John the 5th chapter, perhaps you’re acquainted with it, the Scripture, Jesus passed through this famous pool of Bethesda. He find many crippled people there, blind, halt, lame, waiting for the moving of the water. It was strange that He just ministered to one, but if you’ll notice, He knew...

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Brother Branham, when you prophesy about: won’t eat eggs, don’t live in the valley, was that prophecy just for you or for the congregation? All right.

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Years ago, about thirty years ago, I gave a prophecy that it would come to pass that in the last days that there would be diseases amongst animals, amongst cattle, and eggs, even to eggs. It come to pass, that there’d be eggs that wouldn’t be fit to eat. Also, it would come to pass that people livin...

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Brother Branham, Brother (Just a minute. This is pertaining to one of the ministers here. Let me read it first. [Brother Branham pauses and reads the question to himself—Ed.] Hum! Just a minute. Well, I tell you. I’m going to read it anyhow.)—Brother Branham, Brother Neville told me through prophecy that THUS SAITH THE LORD that I would receive the Holy Ghost. Telling me with this assurance that I would receive the Holy Ghost, I have not as yet received the Holy Ghost. Should I continue…?

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Yes, indeedy! Do that. Continue on believing. Notice, I call…was standing at Brother Wood’s yesterday when a phone call came in from a man that’s in a wheelchair, that come here burdened for a brother or somebody that was—that was a alcoholic and been through the ’s-Anonymous and taken shots, in the...

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Question: Brother Branham, what shall we do? Something has settled over me that I cannot break through. Last fall, I dreamed I was lost in white sand. It was getting dark; I couldn’t find my way. This dream has stayed with me since last fall. Now, I am as one groping in darkness. My son (E-r-v-…), Ervin, and wife were included in my dream. Now, they are also in darkness. We are in desperate—we are in desperation. I believe God will show you what is—what is in our hearts now. (Mrs…Oh, all right.) If we are wrong or sinning places, tell us. We want to be right.

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I don’t know the lady, but I just feel if you’re here, lady, that here is your trouble. You have let something happen to you that’s made you nervous, because being in white sands represents “purity and righteous.” And you’re just letting Satan put one over on you. Your dream proved that there’s noth...

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Brother Branham, can Satan use the gift of tongues or prophecy in a person who has the Holy Ghost?

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That’s a good one, isn’t it? Yes, sir! If…It must be watched very, very close. If you’ll notice in First Corinthians 14:29, you who wants to put it down…See? The—the person who wrote this never signed their name; they just said, “God bless you.” See? In First Corinthians 14:29 we find out that any g...

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Brother Branham, if you have time please explain Matthew 10:41. I would like to know what is a prophet’s reward.

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Well now, Jesus said, “Whosoever receive a prophet in the name of a prophet, receives a prophet’s reward.” A prophet’s reward is to be a friend with the prophet. Whosoever receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, receives a righteous man’s reward. Is that right? And if they want to k...

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Matthew 24:28: (The person’s coming right down. They never signed it; yes they did. I beg your pardon. I won’t call these names, because it’s not necessary. See?) Matthew 24:28: “For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” Who is the carcase and who are the eagles?

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Now, that’s a good question, nothing wrong with that! What is the carcase? The carcase is what the eagles feed on. Now, a eagle is considered in the Bible, a prophet. A prophet is a eagle. God—God calls Himself a Eagle, and we’re “eaglets” then, the—the believers. You see? And what is the carcase th...

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Has the vision you had years ago of the great miracle to happen near Corydon, Indiana, ever come to pass?

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I looked in my book when I got this and put a question mark. Now, there was to be a time that I was…had to watch where those cedar trees…Just as you start down the hill there, on the other side, going down towards Corydon, after you get out top of the hill at New Albany, I was to watch at those ceda...

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All right, Dear Brother Branham, time after time the Lord shows me things in dreams. He has showed me things about my son in the navy, which my son told me were “secrets”. He has showed me of people’s deaths and of the secrets of people’s hearts. Is this a gift from God? When He shows me in dreams the hearts and minds of people, everything has always turned out like the dream shows me.

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Why, yes, my brother or sister, whoever it may be. The Lord bless you. That is, to my opinion, the gift of God. It’s a gift of God. Don’t you know the Bible speaks of dreams? Joseph, how he dreamed dreams and interpreted, and how others dreamed dreams. Those things are of God. Now, if it’s of God, i...

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In what order is tongues and prophecies to be used during the service (It is not to be used at all during the service! See?) to glorify God (Not at all!), and edify the church? I know the people say the spirit of the prophet—I know the—I—I know the…(p-…I guess that…No, I beg your pardon, it’s been “the Bible,” B-i-b-l-e. I started p-e-p-l-e or something like it. No.) the—the Bible says, “The spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophet.” (Exactly.)

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Spiritual speaking in tongues and prophesying is to edify the church, but it has its service of its own. See? It isn’t to bother as long as the prophet of the church is…the meeting’s in order. See? It’s never to interrupt the meeting. Now, see, “the spirits of the prophets.” We—we got another quest...

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Explain First Corinthians 14:5.

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Who has got it right quick? One of you got it? [Blank spot on tape. A brother reads First Corinthians 14:5—Ed.] […all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.]...

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In case we should have a prophecy or a message in tongues out of order, just how should we correct it?

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Now, that’s a good case of emergency, see. See? Now, bless you, deacon who mentioned this, ’cause this is a good thing. You want to handle it with rubber gloves. Now, if you give a…If someone comes in in our congregation here and gives a message or a prophecy out of order, there isn’t hardly anythin...

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Why should Christ appear to me as I was about to take the Sacraments?

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Well, no doubt your heart was just in tune and you was coming sacredly up to God to do it; and that’s why He appeared to you. See, that’d be the only reason I know. I couldn’t say no more than—than what that…Let’s see.

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Question: Why should a vision of God come before me when I was about to take the Communion at my church? Over. (Well, it’s just a lady’s name; yes, it’s a lady’s name,) A…Why should a vision of God come before me when I was about to take the Communion at my church?

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Well, I wouldn’t know, sister, unless it was this: If you seen Jesus Christ appear in a vision at your church when you were taking the Communion, He was letting you know this: that you were taking Him in a symbol. The Communion is to represent the body of Jesus Christ; and you were taking Him as a s...

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What is a person doing when he dreams a dream?

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Now, how many people in here ever dreamed a dream? Let’s see your hands. Well, at least eighty or ninety percent of you. For some of you, it’s—it’s right; some people never dreams a dream. Now, what are you doing when you’re dreaming? The doctors tell us and science, it’s your subconscious. Is that...

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How is a seer or prophet different from a person who dreams dreams?

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Now, what if I told you people that dream dreams, dream me a dream now. Well, you couldn’t do it if you had to. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Dreams, neither can that one help it because he doesn’t dream. But now, a seer, or a prophet, his subconscious is not back there, neither here; it’s right here. He...

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Why did Jesus walk past a crowd of sick people and heal only the man who had been afflicted thirty-eight years?

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The woman with the water-head baby, the twisted, the blind, the lame, the halt, and He went right through every one of them and never said one thing to any of them, went over there to a man laying on a pallet that had prostate trouble, or something like that, or…?…He’d had it thirty-eight years; it...

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How can you tell whether what a prophet or a seer says is from God?

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Now, God has spoken His Word to us. Just believe Him and watch what happens. Now, when He speaks something…This is His Word initially first, and any other word that’s contrary to This is not God’s Word, it has to come from this Bible. Now, this is His Word to the nations. Now, He sets after that, in...

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Has God ever been without a witness on the earth?

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God never changes. His power is just the same as it was in the—before the creation of time. God made and spoke, and in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. That’s in the beginning: the Word. The Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. The Word returned back...