Topic: The gift of prophecy

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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.

Answer

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…?

Answer

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

Answer

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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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.)

Answer

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?

Answer

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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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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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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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 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...