Topic: Visions

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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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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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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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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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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 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...

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What could the Lord do for a sick person if He were standing here?

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Now, if our Lord was here I…You perhaps are a sick person. I—I do not know. I can’t tell you that. But if you was a sick person and our Lord was standing here…Now, He…What could He do for you? Nothing but just talk to you. He might lay His hand upon you. Or He would—He would be empowered with a visi...

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Did every healing in Jesus' ministry come through a vision?

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Now, there’s many people healed. Some blind men one time, run after Him through the street. And they come into the house, and He didn’t pay any attention to them. Then He touched their eyes saying, “According to (What?) your faith, be it unto you,” no vision. A woman touched the hem of His garment;...

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Did Elijah call down fire from heaven on his own initiative?

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One time, it happened to be one of my managers, not Brother Baxter, but it was a man who was with us, one of the field managers. And a newspaper had made a very critical statement that was absolutely untrue. I can expect friendly criticism; but the criticism wasn’t due because it was untrue. As long...

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Why did Jesus delay going to Lazarus when He was sent for?

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Now look, Jesus claimed that He done nothing except the Father showed Him by vision. Now, now remember, look at the resurrection of Lazarus: He went away when He knowed Lazarus was going to die, He went away. Course they criticized that. And they sent for Him, He didn’t come. They sent again, He jus...

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Why did Jesus heal only one man at the pool of Bethesda when so many sick were lying there?

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Let this soak in real deep now, so you get it outside too. Listen. Jesus Christ said, “I can do nothing except My Father shows Me first what to do.” Jesus saw visions. How many believes that say “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Now look, at the pool of Bethesda He went through all the crippl...

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What does John 5:19 mean by 'the Son can do nothing of Himself'?

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He did—did not do a thing within Himself until God showed Him a vision of what was being done. That’s His own Word, Saint John 5:19. “Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise. And He will show you greater things...

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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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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...