Topic: Prophets & visions

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Did Elijah act on his own when he called down fire on Mount Carmel?

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Then let’s just stop on that Scripture, which we could take it through the Bible, through the prophets, through the ages. And there never was any person did anything without God first showing. The prophet Elijah on Mount Carmel, looked like he just went up there and got angry with the people and cal...

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Does God speak to people through dreams?

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How many in here ever dreamed a dream? Let’s see your hands? Dreamed a dream? Well, there’s at least two-thirds of you. Now, you say, “Well, they all…” No, sir, there’s some people that doesn’t dream at all. Is that right? Some people never dreams a dream. Now, what is dreaming? Let’s take it, in th...

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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...

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Why did Jesus pass by the multitude at the pool of Bethesda and heal only one man?

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You say why don’t I heal that little girl? If it was me, I would. See? Why’d He leave…Why’d He pass by that little spastic child, and those crippled, and lame, and halt, there at the pool of Bethesda, and moved right on by them, passed up, many of them standing there, the Bible said halt, lame, blin...

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If a man says God sent him to heal the sick, how can people know whether that is true?

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Now, if I come here and tell you that God told me to come down and to—and to heal the sick, and to open the eyes of the blind, to unstop the deaf ears, and…Well, that’s good. You…“Well, all right now, Brother Branham. If God told you to do that, I’ll—I’m going to look at your meetings. If He told yo...

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Did Jesus know Lazarus would die when He left Lazarus' home?

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Then I can see back there in them days, when Jesus went forth and demons screaming, signs a following, it got just about the time where our text begins now, and I want you to notice Him. There He was, and He went away from the home of Lazarus. And as soon as He left the home, sorrows and troubles co...

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When God takes a prophet off the earth, what happens to the Spirit that was on him?

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See, always remember this, God takes His man off the earth, but never takes His Spirit; His Spirit comes right back down this way: It come upon Elijah; went off of Elijah onto Elisha; off of Elisha, and come on John the Baptist; off of John the Baptist, is predicted to come again in the last days; t...

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Why was Jesus asleep in the boat during the storm?

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There’s no need of me trying to explain these things friends. No matter how much I would try to explain them; I could never explain them to you. So you just try to understand (See?), and just believe me, that it’s—it’s something that just takes the life right out of you. One time I wondered how that...

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What should you do when someone, even a prophet, says the Lord wants something other than what God told you?

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Now, I never forget; trouble started when…My father took sick, died on my arm just a little bit after that. My brother was riding on the side of a car, fifteen years old. The man that he was hitchhiking and picked him up, was drinking, hit his head up side of a post, broke his neck, turned his liver...

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Why did Jesus heal a man with a thirty-eight-year infirmity but not the withered and afflicted?

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Instead of that, going to a man that was just sick, and had lived an ordinary life with an infirmity for thirty-eight years. That looks strange, doesn’t it? You couldn’t hardly understand that. Now, I want you to remember that word, “couldn’t understand it…” if the Scriptures didn’t declare it later...

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When God takes a man from the earth, does He also take the Spirit that was on him?

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Now, if I come to you tonight…Listen closely. If I come to you tonight and said that I had the spirit of—of a criminal, John Dillinger, that John Dillinger’s spirit was upon me, you’d expect me to have big guns and be an outlaw like he was. If I had his spirit, that’s what I would do. You know, God...

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Can an angel or a vision be seen by some people and not by others?

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Last night I was wondering how there could be anyone left in the building that wasn’t healed. Now, it may not be visible. Angels of God and visions appear before people, and sometime it’s not for everybody. Is that right? Look at the Magis. They were the only ones that seen that Star. It passed by e...

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What did Jesus mean in John 5:19 when He said the Son can do nothing of Himself?

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Now, the Jews questioned Him. He said, “Verily, verily…” Listen close now. Give me your attention. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself: but whatsoever things He sees the Father doing; that doeth the Son likewise. For what the Father does, He shows the Son.” Is that rig...

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Why did Elijah pray to die after bringing fire down from heaven?

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And I thought of Elijah, who went out there and set by the brook Cherith, and was fed by the ravens. And he closed the heavens that it wouldn’t rain. Then he opened up the heavens and brought down water, brought fire out of heaven the same day, and then when the inspiration left him (by the threat o...

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Why did Jesus not come when He was sent for to pray for Lazarus?

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Did you notice when Lazarus had died? Jesus, they sent for Him to come pray for Lazarus, He didn’t come, He just went on. Wonder why. He had a vision that Lazarus had to die. So when He went on, if you’ll notice the Scriptures close, He goes on, they sent again, He never came, and on. Then after He…...

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When God takes His man from the earth, does He take His Spirit too?

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And now, everyone listen as close as you can, and—and believe with all your heart. Now, I’m not a speaker, and I don’t aim to preach. That’s right. But I just want to speak a few words so that your faith will not fail you now. Now, we’ll talk for a moment about gifts. The gifts of God has always bee...

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Why did Jesus pass by crippled people without healing them?

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Jesus passed by the cripples and left them lay there. He said, “I can do nothing except the Father shows Me first.” Is that right? Saint John 5:19. “Verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing.” See? It has to be showed first. Balaam, when he tried to c...