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William Branham told a story of how he prophesied that the Ohio River would flood Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana, and that the water would rise 22 feet over Spring Street.
Problems with the prophecy
The first time that William Branham mentioned this prophecy was on July 17, 1951 many years after the flood took place. There is no independent evidence that he prophesied this flood in advance of it happening.
It is interesting that he mentions the 1937 Ohio River flood on several occasions in 1950 and 1951 prior to his claiming to have predicted the flood. Given the import of this so-called prediction, we find this failure to mention the prophecy quite telling.
Photographs of the Ohio river flood of 1937:
 Jeffersonville, Indiana - Citizens Trust Co. |
 New Albany, Indiana - East Spring Street  New Albany, Indiana - West Spring Street  Cincinnati, Ohio - Coney Island |
 Frankfort, Kentucky - Bridge Street |
 Cincinnati, Ohio - Ohio Pattern Works |
 Railroad tracks - landslide |
Quotes
- And now, after a bit, It... When I got converted, It got more than ever. It predicted the 1937 flood, when hundreds of men stood there, and laughed, and turned their heads; and I predicted twenty-two feet of water over the streets. Why, I stood there and seen it in a vision. They said, "The boy's gone crazy." And just a few weeks after that, twenty-two feet of water went over the Spring Street in Jeffersonville, Indiana. See?[1]
- I seen the '37 flood coming. I remember, I stood right on Fall's City Transfer Company; many you all acquainted with Jeffersonville, knows where that's at. I stood there and was preaching. I'd become a minister then. Many other things happened along the line, oh, it's numerous. How It would tell me to watch at a certain place, do a certain thing.[2]
- Predicting that flood would come, I said, "I seen them measure twenty-two feet over Spring Street down here."
- Old Brother Jim Wisehart and them laughed at me. You remember that, Brother George? He said, "Oh, Billy, in '84 it only was about six inches on Spring Street."
- I said, "I seen a man come down from the skies, and take a measure stick, and stick it there on Spring Street, said twenty-two feet."
- He said, "You're just excited."
- I said, "I'm not excited. It's THUS SAITH THE LORD."
- Ask them how many feet was over Spring Street: twenty-two feet to the inch. Exactly. And that old Bible where I had been preaching on that night... She started raining, the floods breaking through and so forth, and this old church... The seats went right straight up to the ceiling, the Bible went right straight up to the ceiling, washing through here with all that water raising it up. The pulpit went right straight up. They come right down; and every seat set right back in the same place, and the Bible laid right back in the same place, and all that water, and still opened up, the same chapter at the same place. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away."[3]
References
- ↑ THE.MANIFESTATION.OF.THE.SPIRIT_ TOLEDO.OH TUESDAY_ 51-0717
- ↑ EARLY.SPIRITUAL.EXPERIENCES_ HAMMOND.IN SUNDAY_ 52-0713A
- ↑ REVELATION.CHAPTER.FOUR.3 JEFF.IN 61-0108
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