Topic: Prophets

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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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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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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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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...

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Why is John the Baptist called the greatest prophet when he never performed a miracle?

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Isn’t that beautiful? Jesus Christ saying, “Now, you all believe John; he was a prophet; he just preached away. You all went and believed him, and you know he was a prophet.” Though he never done one miracle. But he was the greatest prophet that ever lived (Jesus said so), until his time. Said, “Nev...

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What is the difference between the gift of prophecy and a prophet?

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Now, there’s a difference between prophecy, a gift of prophecy, and a prophet. Did you know that? There’s where you brethren in the latter rain went off at. Everybody…Somebody make a prophecy, you called them a prophet. That’s wrong. The next time, you’ve seen an error. A gift of prophecy and a prop...

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Which Bible figures were appointed prophets before they were born?

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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...

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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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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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What is the difference between the gift of prophecy and a prophet?

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And if you’ll excuse it, and please don’t think I say wrong here, that’s where in the little break-up that come amongst the Pentecostal people recently, called Latter Rain, that’s where they got off the line, right there. For a when a gift of prophecy come to a man, they declared him to be a prophet...

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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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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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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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Does God reveal everything to His prophets?

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He said, “Saddle this mule and go forward,” to the servant, and “don’t you stop, ’less I bid you.” I like that. “Go forward; don’t stop.” She an alternative. So when the prophet came out, seen her coming, he said to Gehazi, his servant. He said, “Here comes that Shunammite.” Said, “She’s grieved in...

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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...