Topic: Visions and dreams

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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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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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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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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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What does Verily, verily mean in Saint John 5:19?

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Now, when the Jews questioned (the 19th verse), He said, “Verily, verily.” Now, you Catholic, in—in your translation, in the Douay translation, it says, “Amen, amen.” And the real translation in the King James, from the original Greek, it says—it says, “Verily, verily,” means, “Absolutely, absolutel...

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What does Saint John 5:19 say about how Jesus did His works?

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What if He was here tonight in a visible Person? Just as sure as He walked on the Sea of Galilee, He’s right here. He promised to be. And what did He do? What’d He say He would do after He raised from the dead? The Bible said He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that true? Well, if He’s t...

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Why do some people dream dreams while others never dream at all?

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But now, this man can’t help because that he dreams a dream. Now, there’s some of you here didn’t raise your hand, perhaps you never had dreams. Well now, that man, his subconscious is way away from him, way back like at the wall there. He never gets back to it. He sleeps sound. A man that dreams is...

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How much strength does seeing one vision take compared with preaching?

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And do you understand, now? Will you always understand if somebody’s said, “What makes Brother Branham take his time, and so easy, and” like this? And remember, one vision, seeing one vision will bring more—take more strength out of the human body, then to preach for two hours as hard as you can pre...

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What should be done with a vision or a message that contradicts the Bible?

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Now, the way that I have faith in God is first by His Word. And if any vision, or any person, would speak anything that was contrary to the Word, then don’t hear it. This is the fundamental foundation of all God has said to His Church. And every person’s faith must be built sovereignly upon the Bibl...

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According to Saint John 5:19, could Jesus do anything of Himself?

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Watch Jesus here when they questioned Him about all these things, and the man packing his bed and so forth, that’d been healed. He said, now listen, Saint John 5:19: “Verily, verily…” That’s absolutely, absolutely. “…I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doin...

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Why can a person still remember a dream from years ago?

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Now, the person who…Listen closely. The person who dreams a dream is not sleeping sound. A dream is your subconscious. Let’s see the normal man; here is his first conscious, and here is his subconscious. Now, when this one becomes inactive, this one is active. Now, you people that’s dreamed dream, y...

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What is a dream?

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How many in here ever dreamed a dream, let’s see your…Now see, there’s at least two-thirds of the people dream dreams. That’s about normally. About one-third out of a audience of this size, doesn’t dream dreams. There’s many people that’s never had a dream in their life. What is a dream? It’s your s...

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Does God still deal with people through dreams?

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And many of you people that dream dreams, remember things that you dreamed about years and years ago. Is that right? Well, you were somewhere. There was some part about you that was somewhere, or it wouldn’t be recorded in your memory. Is that right? Now, now, God does—God does deal in dreams, but i...

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

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Now, look at Saint John 5:19. Saint John 5, Jesus passed through the pool of Bethesda, where all those crippled, and twisted, and withered people were laying. He passed by every one of them, full of love and compassion for them, yet passed right by them healed a man laying on a pallet, had a retarde...

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What did Jesus mean when He said the Son does nothing of Himself?

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Walked right on over, and the man wasn’t too bad. He’d had maybe a prostate trouble or something, for about thirty-eight years. He was laying on a pallet. Jesus healed him. Then walked right on out of the building. Mmm. And they said He was full of love and compassion. His love wasn’t…It was to the...