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THE DEFINITIVE ‘WILLIAM BRANHAM STOREHOUSE COLLECT ION’

Carefully catalogued and available on five DVD’s for US$29.95, delivered to your door.

Christ shows Himself alive in our generation! Jesus Christ had more success through William Branham’s Ministry than He did through His own, such was the extent and the wonderment of the miraculous that accompanied this modern day prophetic ministry which even overshadowed the legendary Old Testament Seers of the Bible. William Branham single-handedly spearheaded the worldwide Healing Revival of the late 1940’s and early 50’s, from which came forth the major ministries of the day such as Oral Roberts, TL Osborn and AA Allen etc., and changed the direction of the full Gospel Christian Church forever. But to what purpose? A prophet to the Gentiles Before the Gospel had been rejected by the Jews and the Holy Ghost had turned to the Gentiles, and long before the Christian Church had lost the power of God that was so ably demonstrated by the early disciples, Jesus spoke of a future prophetic ministry to be sent to “restore all things” in readiness for His second coming, ie., a future forerunner. He went on to warn that generation that they had missed their day of visitation because John the Baptist (Christ’s first forerunner) had “come already and they knew him not.” (Mat 17:11-12). Could history have repeated? Might we also have missed our day of visitation? The most amazing true story ever William Branham’s life story is the most amazing true story of the supernatural you will ever read. It is your chance to update and build your faith to a new level. He left us a Gospel Message to restore God’s people to the original Apostolic faith and power, even to enter into rapturing faith. His Message is today fulfilling it’s purpose to encourage, sustain and transform believers into Christ’s likeness before His return. This vital insight, wisdom and spiritual counsel is for all Christian believers who are earnest in their desire to walk closer with Christ, coming as it does from a man who manifested the love, humility and power of Christ the likes of which has not been known since the Master Himself walked the shores of Galilee. Against the Odds The Jewish nation is back in her homeland after an absence of 1900 years just as their prophets foretold millennia ago. The devout Jews are looking for their Mashiach (Messiah) to return, world social and other conditions are deteriorating rapidly. Evil is taking hold at an alarming rate. The Gentile nations have experienced (and ignored) a God-given, vindicated prophetic ministry which demonstrated the works of Christ more than any has done before. Revival fires are burning low and storm clouds are gathering. What can be next? Bible readers know that at such a time, Jesus Christ promised to return to receive a people who had made themselves ready for His coming (the wise virgins). Christ has shown Himself alive in our day and if you have ears to hear, you should be in haste to prepare because the hour of His return is upon the world. The comprehensive William Branham Storehouse Collection contains;

1188 Anointed Audio ‘Message’ sermons plus transcri bed text. These can now be read or heard by simply clicking a link on an Index. Please note that through the generosity of the people who complied this material, this part of the collection is free of charge to you.

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A Powerful Searchable ‘Message Database’ program. Quickly and easily find all references to any topic, word or phrase that interests or concerns you in any Sermon or 20 other associated major Message Publication (including A Man Sent from God, A Prophet Visits South Africa, The Acts of the Prophet, etc.) and the complete text of the King James Version Bible. The William Branham Memorial Photograph Album This new self playing digital album has over 700 catalogued, timeless photos, including some never published before. It is an extensive record of people and places where notable events or miracles occurred. The photos allow you to understand William Branham’s ministry and the Divine Healing revival almost as if you had been there. Meet those who were healed and absorb the background information.

The ‘Tucson Years’ Photograph Album 1963-1965 The arrival of Brother Branham and his family in Tucson in January 1963, began a series of incredible events, the likes of which have no precedent. God visited His servant in amazing ways. Over 200 photos trace these happenings in detail and the photos are accompanied by extensive background information.

Multimedia Experience all of the William Branham film footage, see his unfailing gift of discernment in action, view Rebekah Branham-Smith’s insightful slideshow and marvel at an additional 90 hours of audio and 25 hours of spellbinding video testimony of the miracles and the supernatural from over 30 eyewitnesses, or simply be uplifted by listening to selections of some 400 minutes of anointed campaign singing. The ‘Evidence’ Consider the newspaper reports, the many magazine articles, photographs, documents and eyewitness accounts, the written personal testimonies of healing, the amazing and the miraculous. Be encouraged by the biographies of spiritual giants of bygone eras or study the extensive materials detailing more than twenty five separate significant ‘Places and Events’ associated with William Branham’s ministry. Review the Timeline of the major milestones in William Branham’s life and his seven major prophecies of world events, the first five of which have already been fulfilled in detail. Los Angeles Earthquake Review new information about the ‘Big One’ to come & the judgement prophesised by William Branham.

Inspired Spiritual Insights Over 500 pages of William Branham’s inspired insights have been compiled and catalogued so you can review what he told us to expect and to prepare for as the coming of the Lord draws near. Bonus Items These include over twenty five classic Christian books that are sure to strengthen and encourage, plus various Bible study tools and several premium computer software programs to ensure you can easily access, search and view all the information and to find answers to your questions. Discover what William Branham really taught and believed and how this contributed to his outstanding success.

Study in the privacy of your own home Experience and share the love, humility, faith and hope that so motivated William Branham’s life and permeated his character. The William Branham Storehouse Collection DVD series is a rich, inexhaustible treasure, laden with spiritual food and insights for the hungry soul. Prayerfully listen and study in the privacy of your own home away from other influences – just you and God alone. Draw near and allow Him to lead you into all Truth.

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And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in

demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. I CORINTHIANS 2:5

St Paul of Tarsus, a City in Cilicia

More successful than Christ's own Ministry! It has been said with good reason that Jesus Christ had more success through William Branham's Ministry than He did through His Own, such was the extent and the dynamic of the miraculous that was done in our day. Many thousands of diverse miracles in our day Several notable testimonies have been selected for their diversity and set out below as a minute example of what God has done to show Himself alive and that He answers prayer. We hope this will encourage you to explore the many similar happenings that are described within the William Branham Storehouse Collection and to ponder the meaning of this phenomenon in our times. Many thousands of such happenings took place throughout Brother Branham's life, whether he was ministering from the pulpit, in the company of friends and family or out fishing or game hunting. Why did it happen? A prophetic ministry having the love, humility and extraordinary power demonstrated in William Branham's life is not man's to choose but rather it is God's to give and neither is such a ministry sent in vain. What then was the purpose of his gifts and calling? We must resort to the Bible scriptures to find the answers. There it becomes apparent that God has only ever raised up a major prophetic ministry as a sign to a generation, to correct error, reveal truth and deliver God's people; but would God have need to send such a ministry to our Age? Consider Christendom today comprising over 1000 separate organizations where each group claims to have the ‘light’, yet each differs from all the others. How could a sincere person ever find God's truth within this context? Do we have all things in common like the early disciples or have we too departed from the faith that was once delivered to the saints? Are we lukewarm towards God? Consider also that the Bible speaks of our Age as being 'lukewarm' towards the things of God and that He promises to spue such out of His mouth. We are told that we are rich and increased with material goods, but spiritually naked and wretched and unaware that we are in such a state. (Rev. 3:14-22). A people in such depravity must be spiritually blind so we can conclude that if ever a generation needed the Divine leadership of a ministry that heard directly from God, it is now. However, would such a people welcome a God given, Bible based prophetic ministry? Truth is never popular We find that Jesus Christ was very popular when He healed the sick and fed the five thousand but when He began to teach that He and His Father were one, the organized religious leaders could not accept His doctrine because it differed with their understanding and eventually they crucified Him. Little surprise then that when William Branham took his gifts of healing to the people in the

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latter part of 1946, he was welcomed wherever he went, but as he began to tell his audiences how they should live to prepare for their Lord's return, the religious leaders wanted little more to do with him in preference to the more liberal preachers that arose in the wake of his ministry. The Bible is the ultimate measure Rejection did not invalidate the things that Jesus taught and neither does it necessarily invalidate the Message that William Braham delivered to us. There has only ever been one basis by which to judge a man's ministry and that is to see if it conforms to all of God's Word, the Bible, even if this disagrees with the religious traditions of the day. God confirms with signs Jesus told the people that they should believe that He was the Son of God because the very works He did, testified of who He was. (John 10;37-38). Indeed, when Nicodemus met secretly with Jesus, he admitted that the Pharisees knew He was a teacher from God, because "no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him." (John 3:2). Today a mighty prophet has risen up amongst us and has done the works of Christ more than any man before him. Can we not believe that there must be a Divine purpose to this and study the scriptures to see if this is so, especially when Jesus Himself said that a prophet in the spirit of Elias would be sent to restore all things before He returned? (Mat 17:11, Luke 17:30). Rejected but true The doctrine William Branham taught was entirely in accordance with the Bible scriptures but given that a major prophet is always sent for the purpose of correction and deliverance, what he taught unsurprisingly disagreed with a number of traditional views. Although God confirmed the ministry with signs and wonders on an unprecedented scale, the majority preferred to stay with their traditions and the new wine rent the old bottles of tradition asunder just as it had in the days of John the Baptist. As Bible readers know, whenever God sent a major prophet to Israel that they failed to heed, that prophet was withdrawn and a heavy judgment followed. While this may not describe the actions that modern man attributes to the God of his imagination, it fairly describes the attitude of the God of the Bible and there is no place in Scripture where He changed His mind toward sin and disobedience. In an Age of many voices and opinions, God's Message through William Branham has brought eye salve and deliverance to those who desire to return to live the original apostolic Gospel. However, the storm clouds are clearly amassing around the world that will soon bring judgment upon those who failed to heed God's warnings. Should you feel a mild urgency or even just some curiosity to know more of these things, or if you already have concern for your spiritual welfare or that of your loved ones, it is not too late to heed the prophets Message. It was not something apart from the Bible, but rather it unveiled the mysteries and truths that had been lost since the days of the Apostles and which have been restored now to bring God's power back to the Church to prepare a people for the second Coming of Christ. May God bless you abundantly, g{x `|wÇ|z{à VÜç

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CHRIST HAS SHOWN HIMSELF ALIVE,

THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER (Heb13:8)

Well Water Made Sweet

Roy Roberson was a veteran of WWII and first met William Branham in Jan 1950 in Houston TX. Later he built a new home in Jeffersonville, IN., the city where Branham Tabernacle was located. The house site was on the edge of town in an area without city water supplies. Roy and his wife dug for ground water but to their dismay, when the pump was commissioned, the water was very salty and it remained so. The impurities reacted with the copper pipes in the house so they couldn't use the water at all. Brother Branham came to visit and as soon as he tasted the water, he said to Roy that they would have to pray about the water because it was not fit to use and something had to be done. However, he left the matter at that and spoke no more about it before he left their home. A week or two later, Brother Branham went to Connersville, IN., to conduct a healing service and so Roy and his wife and all their friends from the Branham Tabernacle travelled there to attend the service. The meeting was able to be held in the open on a baseball field because it was summer time. Roy and his wife got seats in the bleachers about 500 yards from where Brother Branham was but they were able to listen to the service through a loudspeaker system. Brother Branham called Sister Roberson out under discernment and told her that the Light (the Pillar of Fire), was hanging over her head. He said that she was worried about the well that had been dug at the new house but then assured her, "Don't worry about that well, it'll be alright when you get back home." The Roberson's returned home to find the water had become, 'as sweet and pure as the water from any well there ever was'. Years later and long after the home had been sold, the new owners confirmed that the well water was still as sweet as ever. A neighbor's well that had only ever produced water with a heavy sulphur content was still the same and the water in the rest of the neighborhood remained bad too. The water at the Roberson's former home was the only natural sweet water in the area.

Roy Roberson, Tucson. AZ (Part Audio Testimony No 46 WBSC)

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Miracles performed. Unfaithfulness Exposed On Jan 23, 1950, Pearry Green, along with his parents and family, attended a gospel campaign service at the Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX. William Branham was to be the principal speaker. Pearry was just 16 years of age and the events of that night would change his life in a way he could never have expected. When Brother Branham came to the platform, his first words to the audience were, "Good evening friends." It was spoken in such a personal way that Pearry thought he was speaking directly to him. He raised from his seat eleven rows back and moved up near the pulpit, all the while expecting Brother Branham to have something to say to him personally. Instead, Brother Branham spoke briefly to the audience and then called the prayer line. The pulpit was on a platform some four feet above the auditorium floor and although there were about 100 sick people nearby on army cots and improvised wheelchairs, Pearry found himself in an ideal position to see all that took place on the platform. The patients lined up to Brother Branham's right and the first person to come across the platform was a seven year old boy who reportedly had been born blind. Brother Branham laid his hands on the boy and prayed, "Lord if you were here, you'd suffer little children and you'd pray for them and they'd be healed" and with that, the little boy began to look around as if he could see. A finger was held up and the boy followed it around. A handkerchief was offered to him and he reached out and took it. The microphone cord was raised and he stepped over the cord and Pearry began to think, 'Well, that's wonderful, but how do I know the boy was blind?' About that time, Brother Branham said "Run back to your Daddy now" and the little boy turned to face the audience of over 10,000 people. In the meantime, a man had come forward and was standing right beside Pearry as he called the boy's name. The boy ran off the platform and jumped into the man's arms. The man had on a red necktie and the boy began to play with it and tears began to fall from the man's eyes. Pearry thought, 'If the boy was not blind, then that man sure is a good actor.' By this time, the little boy had seen the tears and began to touch them with his fingers. Then he began to touch the man's face with his hands just like a little blind boy would do to identify his Daddy. Then he threw his arms around his fathers neck. His father started crying as the boy looked over his fathers shoulder right into Pearry's face! Pearry Green knew he had seen a miracle and it changed his life. He had gone to church from nine years of age and seen many sicknesses prayed for but this was the first miracle he had witnessed. It left him standing there in shock. The next patient was a young woman in her mid twenty's. She came holding a boy in her arms that had been born with club feet. He was only 6 years old and couldn't walk because he didn't have any feet. Brother Branham took the boy in his arms and asked the woman to remove the boy's stockings. Pearry could see he just had stubs for feet.

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Brother Branham asked the audience to bow their heads while he prayed. Pearry bowed his head too, but peered out from beneath his eyebrows to see what would happen. Evidently he was not the only one to do so because in the middle of his prayer, Brother Branham appeared to drop the child and a gasp went up from the audience. Pearry watched in awe as he saw two new feet created right in front of his eyes. He would never forget that moment as long as he lived. Another young woman came before Brother Branham who then turned and reminded the audience that he had told them that they should repent of their sins and confess them to God to put them under the Blood of Christ before they come to the platform because he would not be responsible for what was said under discernment. He then turned back to the woman and said "Young lady, you have been unfaithful to your husband!" The audience became deathly quiet except for one young man, about halfway back in the auditorium. He screamed and began to run to the platform. The ushers tried to stop him but Brother Branham said to them, "That's her husband, let him come." When the man got within 10 feet of the pulpit, Brother Branham said to him, "And what about you and your red headed secretary last Friday night in a motel room?" The young man stopped in his tracks. Brother Branham then told them, "You two have not sinned against God, you've sinned against each other. You have violated your marriage vows. What you need to do is go round behind that curtain there and apologize to each other; renew your vows and go home and be faithful to each other."

Pearry Green, Tucson Tabernacle, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. (Part Audio Testimony No 40 WBSC)

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Crippled girl healed

One evening at an early Branham campaign meeting in Calgary, AB., a little crippled girl came through the prayer line while Donny Branham (a younger brother to William Branham) was standing on the platform to assist the patients as they came forward for prayer. The little girls legs had been crippled by infantile paralysis and she had to use braces to get about. She had a little box under her arm and when she got to Brother Branham, he looked at her and said, "Darling, what have you got under your arm?" She said, "I've got a pair of shoes." He said, "You've got what honey?" She said, "I've got a pair of shoes. I've never been able to walk, but I believe that when you pray for me, God's going to heal me, and I'm going to put on these shoes and walk." Brother Branham said, "Sweetheart, you go over there to the side of the platform and get a chair and watch the Lord do wonders and as you do, let your little faith build up ….. and when it does sweetheart, then Brother Branham will pray for you and I believe Jesus will heal you." At this, Donny thought to himself, 'Now isn't that a way to get out of it! Bill don't want to pray for that little girl, she's so crippled up she can't get well, so he just set her off to one side!" In those days, many hundreds of people would be in the prayer line and nearly an hour into the line, Donny again thought to himself, 'You know what, Bill's forgotten all about that little girl and the peoples forgot all about her; that's how he's going to get out of it!' About that time, Brother Branham turned and said to him, "Oh no Donny, I ain't forgot her and neither has Jesus! Bring her here!" He asked, "Honey are you ready? She said, "I'm ready." He replied, "In the Name of Jesus Christ, give me those braces," and he took off the braces and pulled on her crippled legs and they became straight. She opened her box, put on the shoes and walked down through the auditorium.

Billy Paul Branham - Edmonton (Part Audio Testimony No 6 WBSC and others)

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Congressman Upshaw

William David Upshaw had not long given his heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ when at just 18 years of age, he fell onto the crosspiece of a hay wagon and fractured his spine, paralyzing the lower half of his body. He was a helpless cripple for the next seven years. From his bed of affliction, he began to write a regular column of poems and inspirational letters for a local newspaper. His writing revealed a strength of character that would someday make him a leader in his community, his state, and his country. He eventually regained a degree of mobility through the use of crutches and a wheelchair and in 1895, at twenty nine years of age, he entered Mercer University. In addition to his study, he became articulate champion of Christian values, good citizenship, and prohibition. In 1918, William Upshaw was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives on the Democratic ticket. He was re-elected in 1920, 1922, and 1924 and fought for the values that he had built his life upon. All his life, Congressman Upshaw had prayed for healing and had sought the prayers of the most well-known ministers of the day. Eventually he was told of a young man with a ministry unlike any others. The young man was William Branham. On May 2, 1951, Brother William Branham was preparing to call an evening prayer line to the pulpit at Calvary Temple in Los Angeles, California, when a vision broke before him and he told the audience, "I see a young man falling from a hay stack and breaking his back. A doctor with a white moustache and glasses that sit low on his nose, works on the young man, but to no avail. The youngster grows to become a famous person who writes books. People are applauding him." William D. Upshaw was in the audience and indicated he wanted to speak to Brother Branham. The statesman said from his wheelchair. "My son, how did you know that I fell and hurt myself when I was a boy?" "I can't tell you, sir," was the reply. "I can only say what I see." "God bless you, my boy," the elderly man responded. As the prayer line passed the pulpit, the audience sat riveted while the humble man of God told each patient of their ailments and offered prayer. Utterly exhausted, Brother Branham was being assisted from the platform, when once again, he saw William Upshaw by vision, but this time he was walking without the aid of his crutches! Brother LeRoy Kopp, the pastor of Calvary Temple, rushed to the pulpit and announced; "Brother Branham says, “The congressman is healed.” Instantly, a man who had not walked for sixty-six years rose and started towards the pulpit. William Upshaw retained the full use of his legs for the rest of his life, and traveled across the country testifying of his healing. He published his testimony in a tract which he sent to every

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Senator and member of the House of Representatives, President Truman, Winston Churchill, and King George of England.

The Healing of Congressman Upshaw by Rebekah Branham-Smith (WBSC “Events”)

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Georgie Carter

In the summer of 1941 Georgie turned twenty eight years of age, but had been bedridden for nearly all of the last nine years. She was so weak with tuberculosis, that she couldn't use a bedpan and had wasted away to become just skin and bones. However, she had been reading a booklet by William Branham entitled, "Jesus Christ, the Same, Yesterday, Today and Forever" and was desperate for him to come and pray for her. When Brother Branham first met Georgie, she weighed only 50 pounds and could barely whisper. He told her that if they prayed together and if she promised she would serve the Lord all her life, he believed she would get well. Two weeks later he was deep in prayer in the woods until after dark, when suddenly, an amber light shone down upon him and a deep voice resonated, "Go by the way of Carters and Georgie will be healed." He immediately made his way by car over the eight miles of dirt roads to Milltown, IN., where Georgie Carter lay at her parent's home. That day she had cried herself to state of complete exhaustion, all the while asking God to heal her. Her mother was deeply distressed, not only because her daughter lay near death, but because she thought William Branham was claiming to be something he was not and had got her daughter worked up and confused. Mrs. Carter was a God fearing woman and was in prayer as the evening came on when suddenly she noticed a man's shadow moving down the kitchen wall. As it moved nearer, it appeared to her to be the shadow of the Lord Jesus Christ. The shadow seemed to look toward the door and Mrs. Carter was startled to see the likeness of a man walk through the door. From his photo, she knew it was that imposter Branham. She ran to tell her daughter and as she did, a car pulled up outside and moments later, the real William Branham walked though her front door, Bible clutched to his chest. Mrs. Carter fainted to the floor. As Brother Branham had mounted the steps to the porch, his spirit strangely seemed to leave his body and he watched himself enter the house and move to Georgie Carters bedside. Then his spirit and body came together and he said to the pitiful young woman, "Sister Georgie, the Lord Jesus Christ whom you have loved and trusted, met me in the woods and told me you would be made well. Therefore, I take you by the hand in the Name of Jesus Christ. Stand to your feet and be made whole." Georgie screamed as a supernatural power coursed through her body and she leaped from her sick bed. Her younger sister ran into the room to investigate the commotion but the sight of Georgie dancing around the room was too much and she also screamed and ran through the open front door into the yard. Mr. Carter, hearing the outbursts, rushed from the barn fearing the worst but stopped in the doorway in utter amazement to find Georgie seated at the piano and beginning to play a hymn that she had learned as a little girl. Georgie Carter became the piano player for the local Milltown Baptist Church and lived until her eighty-fifth year, falling asleep in Christ on March 22, 1998.

Compiled from Brother Branham’s sermons (See WBSC)

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and Georgie Carter’s personal testimony (See WBSC) See also page 443-4 of the WMB Memorial Photo Album (See WBSC)

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The Supernatural Piano Player

In July 1949, as the Healing Revival was getting well underway, William Branham was ministering one night before an audience of perhaps 2 - 3,000 people at Redigar Tabernacle, Fort Wayne, IN. Many there were indifferent and starchy towards the things he had been saying. Finally he said to them, "I can't make you believe it," and called the prayer line. The usher brought the first case who was a little boy with crooked feet that had been crippled by polio. Brother Branham took him in his arms and began to pray. As he prayed, a light began to shine brightly into his face. The service was being held in a theatre building and he thought how ill mannered it was that someone had turned a light onto his face while praying. It got brighter and brighter and he looked up to see Pillar of Fire come whirling down until It hung close by. At that moment, he was not sure if the child fell or jumped from his arms but when the boy's feet hit the floor, they straightened and became quite normal. The boy's mother was sitting towards the front of the auditorium and she screamed and fainted at the sight. The little boy walked off the platform hollering to his uncomprehending mother. While this had been going on, an attractive young Nazarene girl had been playing hymns on the baby grand piano. She knew the family of the crippled boy well and when she looked up and saw the boy walking off the platform. She threw up her hands, turned white and jumped up from the piano. Her long blond hair fell down over her shoulders as she began screaming and shouting at the top of her voice before singing in an unknown tongue. Unaided, the ivory keys continued to play "The Great Physician Now is Near," through to the end of the hymn. Seven hundred people rushed to the altar to give their hearts to Christ while the Angel of the Lord was near.


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Maniac Falls across his feet

During November of 1947, a crowd of over 6000 gathered one evening in the great Municipal Auditorium of the City of Portland, Oregon to hear William Branham speak. The audience included several hundred ministers of the gospel seated on the platform as well as an unknown number of people waiting outside in the pouring rain. They were full of longing and hungering for more of God. This was during the period before the Healing Revival had gathered full momentum and there were no other ministries holding healing campaigns; Oral Roberts and the others to follow had not yet come on the scene. It was the third night he had spoken and the audience listened in rapt attention as William Branham ministered on the subject of faith. Suddenly far back in the building, a huge man began to take rapid strides towards the platform, all the while snorting and swinging his hands wildly back and forth. His tortured countenance declared his state of mind and it was learned later that he had already been jailed several times for breaking up religious services. He had escaped from an insane institution that same afternoon and had hit a preacher while he was standing on the street holding a street meeting, breaking his collar bone and jaw. A warrant was out for his arrest. He weighed about two-fifty or two-sixty pounds and stood nearly six foot ten inches tall. Given his reputation, the other ministers drew back as he charged up to the platform. It became so quiet you could have heard the proverbial pin drop. William Branham weighed barely 130 pounds and ordinarily would have been scared too, but something happened. Instead of becoming fearful, he felt a flood of genuine love for the man. He waved the two policemen back and told them this was not a flesh and blood affair. The maniac snarled, "You low-down hypocrite. You snake-in-the-grass. Up here posing yourself as a man of God. Tonight I'll break every bone in that measly little frame of yours. I'll knock you way out into the middle of the audience." Judging by his size, this was no idle threat. William Braham held his peace. The maniac stopped with hands on hips and roared, "You hypocrite. You snake in the grass. I'll show you how much man of God you are, you serpent." The Spirit of God then moved on his prophet who quietly told the maniac, "Because you have challenged God's Spirit, tonight you'll fall over my feet, in the Name of the Lord." The maniac spat in the preachers face, then drew his fist drawn back and rushed forward shouting, "I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over." William Branham spoke quietly again, "Satan, come out of the man in the Name of Jesus Christ." The maniac threw up his arms, and screamed as if fighting some unseen force. He groaned "Oh-uh-uh-uh-uh," and his eyes protruded and turned back. His mouth opened wide and he spun around slowly several times and fell across Brother Branham's feet, pinning him so he couldn't move. The police officers pulled the man clear and asked, "Is that man dead? Is he going to be all right?"

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William Branham replied, "No, sir. If he was willing to give that evil spirit up, it would leave him now. But he worships it; he will take it right back." With that, he walked back to the pulpit and still in a quiet tone, began telling the audience, "Our heavenly Father has all powers in heaven and earth …." At that statement, a sick man laying on a cot cried out, "Yes, He has! He healed me!" And up he got. Another man standing with crutches, threw his crutches across the floor, shouting, "He healed me, too!" And away he went. A man got out of a wheelchair, saying, "Me, also." The power of God moved through the building healing many and the next morning a large truck full of stretchers and wheelchairs passed slowly down the street followed by a group of people singing "Only Believe," as they walked behind the truck in testimony of what had happened the night before. In the auditorium balcony that wet November night, had been the young Pastor of a small Church who was mightily moved by what he had seen. God challenged him to believe that the scripture gave him authority to do the same things. His name was Tommy L Osborne who became an international evangelist, winning tens of thousands of souls to Christ.

Compiled from Brother Branham’s sermons (See WBSC) and the book ‘A Man Sent from God.’ (See WBSC ‘Message Publications’)

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Scandinavian boy raised from the Dead

During early 1948, William Branham was taking a train journey by night through Georgia on his way to Miami, Florida when a vision broke before him of a little boy laying dead beside a road in a countryside where there were a lot of evergreens amongst rocks. The boy had a strange looking haircut and great big brown eyes that had turned back. His foot was through his long stocking and his little body was just one great big mass of broken up bones. He was dead. An automobile was laying wrecked nearby and as Brother Branham thought, "Who is that?," the vision left.

William Branham repeated the vision from the pulpit across America. He told his audiences to write the vision on the flyleaf of their Bible to see if it doesn't happen. They were to look for a child, about eight years old, with dark brown hair, brown eyes, a funny haircut, and little short pantywaist pants. "He's going to be killed."

In April 1950, the Branham Party flew to Finland for evangelistic services. Between services, the party travelled north in three cars to Kuopio which is not far from the Arctic Circle. They visited the Puijo Observation mountain tower from where they could see the Russian territory. While there, Brother Branham felt the Lord drawing near and said to his campaign managers, "Something is going to happen," but could not elaborate further.

On the road down from the tower, they came upon an accident. Some twenty minutes earlier, a car had struck two young boys. The American made Ford V-8 had been traveling about sixty miles per hour and one boy had been knocked on his side and thrown up against a tree, crushing his head and his ribs. The other boy was rolled up under the car and thrown out behind the back wheel up into the air. They had him laid out with his coat over his face. A doctor had pronounced him to be dead and they were awaiting the arrival of his parents. A crowd of about 500 had gathered, including businessmen and the mayor of the nearby city. Several of these men would later confirm the events in writing before notary public.

As they stopped to render assistance, Brother Branham felt an unseen hand on his shoulder persuading him to look at the second boy. He remarked, "It seems like I have seen that boy somewhere. Let's look again." He turned back and noticed the foot protruding through the sock and recalled the boy he had seen in the vision back in America. He turned to his managers and told them to look on the fly leaf on their Bibles. They did so and then he exclaimed, "That's him!" Through his interpreter, Sister May Issacson, he told the crowd, "If that little boy isn't on his feet alive in five minutes, I'll leave Finland with a sign on my back, "False Prophet."

He knelt down just the way it was shown in the vision and prayed: "Lord God, in the homeland You did speak of this vision and I know in Your great predestinated will, it's already finished. So death give back this boy's life." The boy jumped up and began running around alive and normal with no idea what had happened. His name was Kari Holma. When last heard of, he was a Highway Patrolman in Kuopio, Finland

It was not until later that Brother Branham was made aware of the first little boy who had not been killed but by then, was dying in hospital. After his parents had committed their lives to Christ, Brother Branham was given a vision showing this little boy also being restored to health and so it was fulfilled.

When Rev. Pearry Green visited the Soviet Union in November 1977, he met a Russian soldier who had been on the Finish border and had seen Kari Holma raised from the dead

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Compiled from Brother Branham’s sermons (See WBSC), the book ‘A Prophet Visits South Africa.’ (See WBSC ‘Message Publications’)

and Pearry Green (Part Audio Testimony No 40 WBSC)

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A vision while driving his car

One day when Brother Branham was driving, he and I were talking as Billy Paul and Rebekah slept. All of a sudden, he was quiet. Out of the window all I could see was farmland on either side of us. He took out a piece of paper and a pencil from his pocket and laying the paper on the seat next to him, he started writing. I knew he was having a vision so I didn’t say a word. When he finished writing, Brother Branham rubbed his face with his hands, then he said to me, “I just saw something.” This all happened in 30 seconds or less, but during that time, his hands were not on the wheel and he was not looking at the road, but the car continued in a straight line.

Betty Collins Philips, New Albany, Indiana

p182, ‘Generations’ book, compiled by Angela Smith

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The Healing of Florence Nightingale

On January 24, 1950, Brother Fred Bosworth showed William Branham a picture of a Florence Nightingale of Durban, South Africa who was suffering from cancer at the entrance of the stomach which was causing her to slowly starve to death. She was a tall woman but now weighed only about fifty pounds and was a mere skeleton. She had written asking Brother Branham to come to South Africa to pray for her. It was learned that she was a distant relative of the Florence Nightingale that founded the Red Cross. That evening they prayed that God would make her completely well.

Eight weeks later, while on the way to Finland, the Branham party landed in England and as they entered the International airport, William Branham's name was paged over the public address system. Florence Nightingale had arrived at the airport just fifteen minutes before and those with her wanted Brother Branham to come to her quickly because she was dying.

When they met at her hotel, no one in the party had ever seen a woman in such pitiful condition. She was so thin that her skin stuck to her bones and even stuck back to back through the voids in her pelvis. Her pain and weakness were such that speech was nearly impossible.

She asked if she could shake Brother Branham's hand which required the nurse to raise her hand because it was little more than just bones. She pleaded that he pray that God would let her die. He asked her, "Are you a Christian?" and she whispered, "Yes."

Brother Branham then led those present in a simple prayer. As they knelt, he began, "Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of all good gifts..." As he reached this point, a dove flew in from the thick London fog and landed on the widow sill. It remained there cooing and pacing along the sill until the prayer concluded with "Amen." Then it flew back into the fog. A minister of the Church of England was amongst those present and asked, "Did you notice that dove?" and another minister advised "It wasn't a pet." As Brother Branham started to say he had thought it was a pet, the Spirit of God moved upon him and he saw a vision of Florence Nightingale walking down a street in perfect health. Immediately he declared; "Thus saith the Lord, sister, you will live and not die."

As they walked from the room, Brother Ern Baxter gasped "How could she live? God will have to create a new woman."

Eight months later, Brother Branham received another picture from Florence Nightingale, this time showing her to be a picture of health weighing 155 pounds. She had resumed her own nursing career.

In 1960, Brother Branham reported that a magazine in England had published an article stating that Florence Nightingale's testimony was false and so he arranged for a copy of the article to be sent to her in England where she was then living. Florence Nightingale went to the man who had written the article and challenged him with, "Who said this testimony wasn't right?" The man then wrote Brother Branham a letter of apology, advising that he had "taken somebody else's word for it."

(See WBSC ‘Events’)

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Pillar of Fire photographed – Houston, TX

In January 1950, William Branham held a campaign in Houston, TX. As the services continued, a Rev. W. E. Best, (pastor of the Houston Tabernacle Baptist Church), publicly opposed both Brother Branham and Divine Healing, claiming that the days of miracles were past. He challenged Brother Branham via the local newspapers to a public debate.

Brother Branham did not wish to argue with another minister of the gospel and certainly not in public, but he agreed that Rev. Fred. F. Bosworth could accept the challenge so long as he did not fuss with Rev. Best. Although in his 73rd year, Rev. Bosworth had taught the audience the scriptural basis upon which to receive their healing each day of the campaign. The debate was arranged to take place at the Sam Houston Coliseum on the evening of January 24th and was featured on the front page of the Houston newspapers and reported by Look, Life, Time, and Colliers magazines.

The sympathy of the vast audience, including large numbers of Rev. Best's own denomination, was almost entirely on the side of the visiting evangelists, and many stood to their feet to witness that they had in fact been healed by God during the campaign. Their opposition to Rev. Best's claims grew as the four hour debate continued before some 8000 people.

Rev. Bosworth offered to walk away and admit that he had been in error all his life if Rev. Best could find one scripture in the Bible that contradicted any of the 600 he had written out to show that Christ's attitude to healing was the same today as it ever had been. When Rev. Best refused this offer, he then asked Rev Best, "Were Jehovah's compound redemptive names applied to Jesus, yes, or no?" Rev. Best had no answer and became angry and demonstrative and demanded that they "Bring that Divine healer out. Let me see him perform!""

Rev. Bosworth responded, "Brother Best, that sounds like another case at Calvary, 'Come down off the Cross and we'll believe You'. If preaching Divine healing makes Brother Branham a Divine healer, preaching salvation makes you a Divine Savior. You know you're not a Savior."

Rev. Raymond T. Richey then stood to his feet and with regard to Rev. Best, questioned, "Is this the attitude of the Southern Baptist Convention?," to which they eventually replied, "He came on his own."

Rev Best had hired two photographers from the Douglas Studios to take six photographs of him during the debate. As instructed, Mr. James Ayers and Mr. Ted Kipperman took the pictures. However, against the specific instructions they had been given, they also took one further black and white of Rev Branham at the lectern after he had been called from the audience to close the meeting.

Mr. Ayers decided to develop the seven negatives the same night and two hours later, to his surprise discovered the first six were entirely blank. His surprise turned to shock when the photograph of Brother Branham at the lectern developed perfectly but with an unexplained bright light in the form of a halo above his head. It was learned later that a number of people in the audience had signed statements that they had actually seen the light that night.

When Brother Branham was told of the phenomenon he expressed no particular surprise because this was not the first time the Pillar of Fire had been photographed. However the circumstances under which this latest image had been captured were quite remarkable, especially arising as it did from Mr. Ayers involvement, as he had earlier made quite skeptical remarks against the campaign.

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The seventh negative was submitted to a Mr. George J. Lacy, considered the greatest authority on questioned documents in that area. After two days of exhaustive scientific testing, he certified that, "I am of the definite opinion the negative ….. was not retouched, nor was it a composite or double exposed negative. Further, I am of the definite opinion that the light streak appearing above the head in a halo position was caused by light striking the negative".

He personally informed Brother Branham that, "the mechanical eye of that camera will not take psychology. The light struck the negative." William Branham refused any commercial or pecuniary reward from the sales of the image which had been copyrighted by Douglas Studios. The original photograph is held in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., and can be viewed on the Internet at, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95512174/.

(See ‘Pillar of Fire’ WBSC)

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The Angel Keeps His Promise

William Branham had met the Angel face to face for the first time, in the cave where he had gone to pray in early March of 1946. The Angel had promised him that he would be given two signs to get the people to believe him. The first would be a visible physical manifestation on the surface of the back of his left hand that would only occur when contact was made with a person having a germ-caused disease. The next Sunday, Brother Branham told the congregation at Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN., about the visitation and the following day, Charlie McDowell, a member of the congregation, suffered arc-eye while welding and couldn't see properly. It normally takes more than a week to recover from the condition but he asked his Pastor for prayer and was immediately healed. He returned to work next day, much to the surprise of his boss, a Mr. William P. Morgan. Right at that time, Mr. Morgan's wife Margie, was dying in the Baptist Hospital in Louisville with cancer throughout her abdomen. She weighed only forty seven pounds and was little more than skin and bones. The surgeon that had started to operate on Margie Morgan just sewed her back up because it was clear that her case was terminal. He described the cancer as being, "like a mass of tree roots wrapped around inside her." The cancer so constricted her intestines, that her bowels could not be cleared with an enema. She had suffered numerous deep radium X-ray treatments to no avail until for much of the time she was no longer in her right mind. Although he knew she had but a few days to live, Mr. Morgan began to wonder if prayer might help his wife, so he went to ask Brother Branham. Brother Branham told him that the Angel had said to him, "If you can get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even cancer." He went on, "It's not for me to question it, I believe it. It's for you to question. Do you believe it?" Mr. Morgan did believe and God was shortly to perform a miracle. It was to be the first cancer case William Branham encountered with the gift that the Angel had promised him. Mr. Morgan had played golf with Margie's surgeon and being acquainted with him, got permission for her to be taken to Branham Tabernacle, not that the surgeon thought it would do any good, but rather so she could see her beloved Ohio River again before she died. On Wednesday evening, Margie was carried semiconscious into the Church on a stretcher, accompanied by her husband and nurses. When Brother Branham saw her pitiful condition, her sunken face and eyes, he was moved with compassion. He took hold of Margie's hand with his left, and immediately his hand turned an angry red and puffed up a little. A pattern of vibrating small white lumps appeared across the back of his hand and he could feel the vibrations moving strongly up his arm. Later he would learn that this particular vibration was typical of this type of cancer. He asked the congregation to bow their heads and began to pray. As he prayed, a vision broke before him showing Margie strong and healthy and back nursing again. He felt the vibrations abruptly cease and looking down, he saw his hand had become perfectly normal. The Holy Spirit moved upon him and spoke, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, You'll live and not die."

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When he looked up, he found William Morgan staring intently at him and so he reassured him, "Sir, don't you fear. Your wife will live." Mr. Morgan asked to speak to Brother Branham privately outside and then questioned if he knew the names of several of the doctors that had been on his wife's case. Brother Branham confirmed that he knew them and Mr. Morgan explained how serious they had said his wife's condition was. Brother Branham said, "I don't care what she's got. That Man that gave me the promise in the cave, told me to say whatever I saw in a vision and it would be so and I believe it." A few days later, Margie was able to do her own washing and was quickly gaining strength. She eventually returned to nursing at the Clark County Memorial Hospital, in perfect health and weighing about a hundred and fifty-five pounds. She became a life-long personal friend of Brother Branham's wife, Meda Branham. When Mr. Jim Tom Robinson, an attorney in Louisville, heard about the case, he went to the Baptist Hospital to check and see if it was true. His father was a trustee on the Board of the Hospital and they looked up the case to find that years earlier, Margie Morgan had indeed been sent home supposedly to die. Jim told his father that Margie was back nursing and offered to take him to meet her. As a result of this discovery, Jim Tom Robinson committed his life to Christ.


Documents

William Branham - The Supernatural (New)