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Male and female swimsuits in the United States, circa 1916.

William Branham told about a series of eight prophetic visions he experienced in June 1933. In the sixth vision, William Branham saw women cutting their hair, acting and dressing like men, and finally almost completely abandoning their garments.

1964 retelling of 1933 prophesy

The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men's clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world. (Church Age Book, Chapter 9, by William Branham)

Problems with the prophecy

In the Laodicean Church Age book, William Branham says, “Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?” Almost 80 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of these prophecies.

1933 vs 1964

William Branham mentions that these visions that he received in 1933 were “Thus Saith the Lord”. The prophecy was written down, so each retelling of it should have been consistent. However, William Branham only mentions this part of the 1993 vision in 1964, when he refers to an article published in Life Magazine that included a photograph of a woman in a transparent gown with a small lower covering.

The fig leaf covering

The morals of the human race have never been that great, and Americans are no different. The fig-leaf analogy is sensational, but people have been wearing immoral clothing of this type since, well, Adam and Eve. The bikini itself was invented by fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946, and was popularized in America long before William Branham mentioned the immorality of American clothing as part of the 1933 prophecy.

Changes in the story

The Church Age Book includes "women cutting their hair" as part of this prophecy - which is absent from the recorded sermons.

pre-1964: Nothing.
1964: Women would wear fig-leaf type transparent skirts, and garments like a man. ^[1]
1964: Women would wear man’s garments, and put on fig leaves. ^[2]
1964: Women will never go completely nude, but will wear underneath clothes and something like a fig leaf. ^[3]
Church Age Book: Women everywhere would cut their hair, adopt men’s clothing, and undress down to a fig-leaf style apron. ^[4]

Footnotes

↑ Did you see the new bathing suits they brought out? Do you know my prediction that women would finally come to fig leaves, thirty-three years ago? And now they got them that's dressed in fig leaves, transparent skirts. The Word of the Lord never fails. See? And that was to take place just before the end time, come to a fig leaf again. I was reading it in Life magazine. That was said thirty-three years ago, before women took their fall. It was told how they would do it in this day, and here they are. How they'd wear garments like man, and how they'll... The immorals of the woman would drop in this nation.(July 19, 1964, Jeffersonville, Indiana)
↑ Look at 1933, how it say the women would act in this last days…And how that women would wear garments and look like man, even like their underneath clothes; and would finally come to putting fig leaves, like, on them. How the immoral act, how they would act in this day. Look what they've done. And it's right before you, then… And I said, "Then the morals of our women is going to fall in such a degraded things, till they're going to be a disgrace to all nations. They're going to wear man's clothes. They're going to keep taking off their clothes till actually they come down like they got their underneath clothes on, that's all. And, finally, they'll come to wearing just a fig leaf." And if you notice, in last month's Life magazine, they had the woman with the fig leaves on. And that's the new evening frock, or gown, what they wear of the evening; transparent, can see through it, only the fig leaves just hides a certain spot of her body; with strapless, or strap, unstrapped bathing suits, the top of it, exposed body. And how that those things has happened! (July 26, 1964, Jeffersonville, Indiana)
↑ Yes, that's... That's right, sister. Yes, sir. The women... I said the women would become so immoral in the last... Now, you know thirty years ago how they dressed. Said they'd become so immoral, till they'd walk down the street with--till like--just like their underneath clothes on. And I said, "Then will come to pass, that they'll even be so disgraceful, till they'll wear something look like a fig leaf." I saw it, and they've got it; and they're wearing it. (August 23, 1964, Jeffersonville, Indiana)
↑ The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men's clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world. (Church Age Book)

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[1] Did you see the new bathing suits they brought out? Do you know my prediction that women would finally come to fig leaves, thirty-three years ago? And now they got them that's dressed in fig leaves, transparent skirts. The Word of the Lord never fails. See? And that was to take place just before the end time, come to a fig leaf again. I was reading it in Life magazine. That was said thirty-three years ago, before women took their fall. It was told how they would do it in this day, and here they are. How they'd wear garments like man, and how they'll... The immorals of the woman would drop in this nation.(July 19, 1964, Jeffersonville, Indiana)

[2] Look at 1933, how it say the women would act in this last days…And how that women would wear garments and look like man, even like their underneath clothes; and would finally come to putting fig leaves, like, on them. How the immoral act, how they would act in this day. Look what they've done. And it's right before you, then… And I said, "Then the morals of our women is going to fall in such a degraded things, till they're going to be a disgrace to all nations. They're going to wear man's clothes. They're going to keep taking off their clothes till actually they come down like they got their underneath clothes on, that's all. And, finally, they'll come to wearing just a fig leaf." And if you notice, in last month's Life magazine, they had the woman with the fig leaves on. And that's the new evening frock, or gown, what they wear of the evening; transparent, can see through it, only the fig leaves just hides a certain spot of her body; with strapless, or strap, unstrapped bathing suits, the top of it, exposed body. And how that those things has happened! (July 26, 1964, Jeffersonville, Indiana)

[3] Yes, that's... That's right, sister. Yes, sir. The women... I said the women would become so immoral in the last... Now, you know thirty years ago how they dressed. Said they'd become so immoral, till they'd walk down the street with--till like--just like their underneath clothes on. And I said, "Then will come to pass, that they'll even be so disgraceful, till they'll wear something look like a fig leaf." I saw it, and they've got it; and they're wearing it. (August 23, 1964, Jeffersonville, Indiana)

[4] The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men's clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world. (Church Age Book)

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 *Church Age Book: Women everywhere would cut their hair, adopt men’s clothing, and undress down to a fig-leaf style apron.  <ref>The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men's clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world. (Church Age Book)</ref>
-==Moral Decay of the Modern Woman==
-The cigarette advertisement of the 1970's “You’ve come a long way, Baby” suggests that women have gained greater freedom and liberty than that posessed by their grandmothers.  Being chaste and modest were seen as positive character traits at the start of the 20th century, while the young 21st century woman is typically independant and sexually active.  Women have indeed come a long way - but not necessarily in the right direction.
-==1930's: The great depression==
-[[Image:278px-Moden1936.jpg|right|120px]]
-During the depression of the 1930's, most skirts were fashioned to the ankles.
-In Hollywood, the self-regulating Hays Office began censoring movies so that content-controlling federal laws would not be implemented.  Hollywood's influence continued to impact fashion (in 1932 Macy's in New York sold 500,000 replicas of the dress Joan Crawford wore in the movie "Letty Lynton"), and photographs of actresses Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn in trousers helped make pants acceptable for women.  New fabrics were developed during this time, and women's underwear changed from corsets and bindings, to form-fitting garments.  These garments and designs would become the fasionable outwear of later generations.
-==World War II==
-As war raged across the world, women were encouraged to help their country by working full-time in the factories.  With this change of lifestyle, many children were sent to daycares, and trousers for women (promoted by Hollywood in the 1930s) were integrated into the working woman's wardrobe.
-Pin-ups became popular for enlisted men, showing an overall acceptance by the male population of the glorification of the female body.
-==1950s==
-The typical 1950s American girl wore a wide mid-calf length skirt, and a modest top.  In 1957, Brigitte Bardot (who attempted suicide numerous times) wore a bikini in the movie "And God Created Woman" and created a market for the bikini as swimwear in the United States.  The popularity of wide skirts continued, while the same women now wore bikinis on the beach.  Meanwhile, Hollywood introduced the miniskirt in cinemas (Anne Francis, 1956, Forbidden Planet).
-==1960s & 1970s==
-The 1950s had produced a comfortable living for many families, and some of children grew up to hate the materialistic ways of their parents.  The popular response to the Vietnam War, with protests and draft-dodging, marked a widespread rebellion of the youth from the "call of duty" that their parents had.  Music became the largest influence in the pop culture, with John Lennon saying that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus".
-All taboos and restraints of the past were erased, and another sexual revolution began that stretched the moral fibers of America with free sex, drugs, and Rock'n'roll.
-*In 1965 miniskirts became popular.
-*In 1970 abortion was legalized.
-*In 1972, as a result of Eisenstadt v. Baird, (Supereme Court)<ref name="Body Project"> The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls" by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, 1997 Random House Inc., New York </ref>, minor girls now had the right to seek birth control and anything else that related to their bodies without their parents' consent.
-Germaine Greer, a prominent and provocative feminist, wrote in 1969 that ''The women kept on dancing while their long skirts crept up, and their girdles dissolved...and their clothes withered away to the mere wisps and ghosts of draperies to adorn and glorify...'' <ref name="Greer">Germaine Greer in Oz, February 1969</ref>
-=1980s - 1990s=
-Girls of the 80s and 90s tended to know more about sex than even their mothers. "At this moment in our history, young women develop physically earlier than ever before, but they do so within a society that does not protect or nurture them in ways that were once a hallmark of American life." <ref name="Body Project"> The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls" by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, 1997 Random House Inc., New York </ref>
-As capitalism and the economy were doing well, many parents had little time for their families as they pursued the elusive dream of wealth and prestige.
-*Celebrity-obsessed magazines showed society's pre-occupation with the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
-*Multiple partners were considered normal for teenage girls.
-*Birth control was widely used and easily available.
-In 1992 an Appeals court in the state of New York ruled that women have the same right as men to go topless.
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-A Muslim father comments on his daughter's tank top:
-:'''Father''': ''You look like a Protestant.''
-:'''Daughter''': ''Don't you mean prostitute?''
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-Scene from '''Little Mosque on the Prairie''', a 2007 Canadian sitcom by Zarqa Nawaz.
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-==21st Century==
-America has become desensitized to sex and exposure, and nothing seems to shock.  Hemline tattoos are popular for young women, along with low-rise jeans, vulgar slogans, body piercings and self-mutilation.  Virginity is seen as a sign of weakness, and homosexuality is accepted among teenagers.
-:''In the past centuries, Christian peoples were often noted for their modesty, and heathen peoples for their immodesty. Today, the line between the professing Christian and the savage tribesman has become increasingly blurred, as more and more "Christian" people resort not only to the pagan practice of scarification, tattoos and body mutilation, but have thrown off the "restraints of modest dress in favor of the trendy and the physically revealing.'' <ref name="Pollard"> "Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America" by Jeff Pollard, 2005, the Vision Forum, Inc., San Antonio, Texas </ref>
-In 2007 a woman was awarded a $29,000 settlement from the City of New York for being arrested (and being subject to 12 hours in custody and a psychiatric evaluation) after walking topless in New York City in 2005. <ref name="Topless"> http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/18/topless.settlement.ap/index.html </ref> In 2008, Oprah Winfrey introducted the world to Thomas Beatie and his wife.  "Mr." Beatie, formerly a Hawaiian model named Ms. Tracy Lagondin, was artificially inseminated through an anonymous donor, and gave birth naturally to a baby girl.  If Biblical language were used to discribe this situation, it would be a mix of "sodomy" and "prostitution".  However, this new-age family was presented as the new "normal" by the media. <ref name="Man"> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7488894.stm (Caution strongly advised)</ref>
-You wouldn't expect a child raised in the area around Chernobyl (Russia) to grow into a healthy adult, free from the side effects of nuclear radiation.  Likewise, you wouldn't expect a child raised in front of an American television to grow into a mentally healthy adult, free from the side effects of murder, lust and lies.  The "inconvenient truth" of the 21st century is the fallout from the moral pollution of America.
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