Topic: Prophets

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How does a seer see a vision?

Answer

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?

Answer

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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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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Does God reveal everything to His prophets?

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And watch that same prophet, after getting down to Dothan, did not see the…The Angel of the Lord never showed him about Syrians coming out and covering the city over, for God had another way for that. God don’t show His servants all things, but He shows His servants just the Word of knowledge as muc...

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

Answer

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

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And he might—and here might be one tonight with the prayer of faith, that would pray a prayer of faith that would heal someone. That gift of healing might be on them tonight. It might be upon this lady here tomorrow night, and upon this man over here the next night. It might come back to her. It’s i...

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What did Brother Branham say would prove him a false prophet?

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I wish you’d be reverent while I’m praying. It’s not a excitable matter. It’s reverent, and we must approach God with a true sincere heart, and just as reverent as you can be. And obey—when I ask you to bow your head, I want you to do it, now that is while I’m praying. I respect that anywhere. And t...

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

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Now, that isn’t true. That isn’t true. Gifts and callings are without repentance. There is spirits that’s in the Church. That’s true, such as gifts of prophecy, healing, and so forth. But they’re in the entire body. They may fall upon one person tonight, a prophecy, and It might not never fall on th...

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What is the hardest thing God has ever had to do with His people?

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And then when he became the age of forty years, God called him for His purpose. And he thought, surely, that—that the people of Israel would understand what he was sent for. But the people misunderstood Moses. Now, get this close, friends. The hardest thing that God has ever had to deal with His peo...

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Why did God send His Angel through Moses instead of having the Angel come alone?

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Now, notice. Then at the time of the promise drew nigh, there raised up a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph, and they put burdens upon the people. And the people were so burdened that they could not make the—the bricks and things that they were supposed to. And then, would you think that God would pla...

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Why did the people fail to recognize Moses as the deliverer God sent them?

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That’s true. Was it God or Moses that delivered the people? It was God in Moses. See? They cried for the deliverer. And when God sent the deliverer to them, they failed to see it, because it was by a man, but it wasn’t the man, it was God in the man. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]