America destroyed
This is an essay analyzing William Branham's Seven Visions of 1933. It was written by a former message follower.
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An Introduction to the Analysis of the Seven Visions of 1933
What were the Seven Visions?
How many Visions?
Why were the Visions given?
Why did the Visions fail to change men’s religious ideas?
A Comparison of the 1960 Sermon and the Church Age Book
A Critique of each Vision
- Mussolini
- Hitler
- Three ISMs
- Scientific progress
- Women and morals
- Powerful Woman in America
- America destroyed
The Prediction
The sequence of the visions
Two views of the Seven Visions
Summary of the discussion
America destroyed
| Church Age Book statement of the vision |
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| The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America. |
The first mention of this vision was in 1960. As of 2019 it has not been fulfilled.
William Branham later said that the ‘destruction of America’ would be caused by a ‘bomb’. This would have to be a large number of nuclear bombs to achieve destruction ‘all over the land’. Women, given the right to vote, elected President-elect Kennedy--with the woman's vote, the wrong man, which will finally be to full control of the Catholic church in the United States; then the bomb comes that explodes her.
Since the Soviet Union developed its first atomic bombs in 1949 there has been a race to perfect ever more powerful weapons and ever better means of delivery. This arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States reached its zenith in 1960 when the doctrine of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ (MAD) was defined. MAD is the formulation of the idea that if a nation has the ability to respond to a comprehensive, pre-emptive nuclear strike from another nation, to the extent that the aggressor is itself totally destroyed then there can be no logical reason for an attack in the first place.
Both the Soviet Union and the United States have had the capacity to retaliate to a pre-emptive strike right up to the present time. Even after the ‘Cold War’, after the demise of the Soviet Union and the abandonment of Communism in that country, the offensive capabilities of both countries are still such that MAD applies.
The essence of MAD is that a country can absorb a first strike and still retaliate in force. The United States maintains a ‘Nuclear Deterrent Triad’ composed of land -based intercontinental missiles, the US Air Force Strategic Bombers and the US Navy’s Ohio Class nuclear missile submarines. For a country, say Russia, to imagine that they could forestall a US nuclear response by initiating a first strike they would have to be sure that they could nullify all of the elements of these three disparate capabilities. Technologically this has always been impossible and still is today.
For example, one Ohio-class submarine has enough nuclear firepower to devastate the whole of Russia (24 missiles each with 24 independently targetable warheads of 300 Kiloton capacity (the Hiroshima bomb had a yield of 15 Kiloton)). There are 14 Ohio submarines with intercontinental nuclear capability.
Of course, Russia is in a similar (but less capable) defensive position which confirms the efficacy of the MAD doctrine. It is therefore very unlikely that Russia would initiate a nuclear strike on the United States (unless their leader was mad!). Jihadists are mad but though they could obtain a nuclear weapon they certainly would not be able to devastate America.
So, again, from a technical perspective it is very unlikely that this vision would be fulfilled even in the medium term.
The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America. Church Age Book 1966 Then I seen it just like ashes, laying, where it come to the end. It was the end time…The Holy Spirit said to me. There it is on paper. You can't... It can't be denied. There it is on paper, as the Holy Spirit said. The revelation of Jesus Christ 4th December 1960
Women, given the right to vote, elected President-elect Kennedy--with the woman's vote, the wrong man, which will finally be to full control of the Catholic church in the United States; then the comes that explodes her. There's seven things predicted, and five of them has already happened. So you can judge yourself how far away we are. Condemnation by representation 13th November 1960
Then I turned to look and I seen the United States was a smoldering something had burned it up. And down beneath there I said, not in the trance, but, "I predict..." (remember this, I guess this is taped too), "I predict that these things will take place between now, 1933 and 1977." Conference 25th November 1960
"Then I looked again, and I saw the United States just blowed to pieces. There wasn't nothing left on it." And I predicted then. "Now this, that was THUS SAITH THE LORD." And think! Of five of those seven predictions, has already happened. The church to take a hold, the Catholic church. And the coming of the end time. And I said, "I seen, looked like there was stumps burning; rocks, blowed out; and the whole United States just looked bare, laying like that, as far as I could see where I was standing." And I said, "I predict, according to the way time is moving, it'll be sometime between this year '33 and '77." And it'll have to squeeze awful hard to get through there. And we're setting on a powder keg, friends. Everything's ready. The Thyatirean church age 8th December 1960
So then I seen the time of--of the end coming, and five things that the Lord let... Seven things I saw, five of them has already come to pass. I seen a powerful woman stand up to the United States. You can write this down if you do so--it's going to happen. I don't know... She's on her road now. Exactly. And she took over. And then I seen the United States just like something had burnt it over hit it, and just something, blowed up rocks and things. Why 28th January 1961
It's already in print and went out around the world. See? That was in 1933. And I predicted that there would be some great tragedy happen to this United States before or by the year of 1977. How many remembers me saying that? Look at the hands. Sure. The seventieth week of Daniel 6th August 1961
Now, then after that, I turned and looked, and I saw this United States burning like a smolder; rocks had been blowed up. And it was burning like a--a heap of fire in logs or something that just set it afire; and looked as far as I could see and she'd been blown up. And then the vision left me. Five out of the three has happened--five out of the seven, rather, has happened. And here comes around and shows, and then I predicted... I never said the Lord told me that, but standing that morning in the church, I said, "The way progress..." I got back to one end of the wall and run to the other end of the wall, and I said, "The way progress is going on, I'll predict that the time (I don't know why I'm saying it.)--but I predict that that'll all happen between right now, 1933, and 1977. The seventieth week of Daniel 6th August 1961