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-|[[Image:Biltmore.JPEG|thumb|right|350px|The Biltmore Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles, where William Branham prophecied that Los Angeles would roll into the sea.]]
+|[[Image:Biltmore.JPEG|thumb|right|300px|The Biltmore Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles, where William Branham prophecied that Los Angeles would roll into the sea.]]
-'''[[William Branham]] had just finished preaching''' a series of meetings in Los Angeles in April 1965, when he was asked by the Full Gospel Business Men who organized the meetings to preach just one more service for them.  So, on April 29, William Branham stood behind the podium at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, and preached a sermon called "Choosing of a Bride".
+'''On April 29, 1965''' William Branham stood behind the podium at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, and preached a sermon called "Choosing of a Bride".  During this sermon, William Branham prophecied that the city of Los Angeles would one day slide into the ocean, and a new coastline would form at the Salton Sea.
-Two notable things occurred during this service:
-#There was a steady stream of people leaving the building during the service who could not handle the severity of the preaching.  These included the same people who had attended (and engaged in)  William Branham's sermons in LA since April the 24th.
+<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; text-align:center; font-size:140%; padding:1px; margin:1px;">The Prophecy</div>
-#During this sermon, William Branham prophecied that the city of Los Angeles would one day slide into the ocean, and a new coastline would form at the Salton Sea.
+:<playmp3>The Choosing of a Bride|H-65-0429e-losangeles.mp3‎|BelieveTheSign.org Predelay</playmp3>
+:''"Oh, Capernaum," said Jesus, "thou who exalted into heaven, will be brought down into hell. For, if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it'd have been standing to this day." And Sodom, Gomorrah lays in the bottom of the Dead Sea. And Capernaum is in the bottom of the sea.''
+:''Thou city, who claims to be the city of the Angels, who's exalted yourself into heaven and sent all the dirty filthy things of fashions and things, till even the foreign countries come here to pick up our filth and send it away, with your fine churches and steeples, and so forth the way you do; remember, '''one day you'll be laying in the bottom of this sea. You're great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He'll hold this sandbar hanging over that, when that ocean out yonder a mile deep will slide in there plumb back to the Salton Sea.''' It'll be worse than the last day of Pompeii. Repent, Los Angeles. Repent the rest of you and turn to God. The hour of His wrath is upon the earth. Flee while there's time to flee and come into Christ." '' ([http://www.thefreeword.com/books/2265-L.pdf Sermon: The Choosing of a Bride, Los Angeles, California, April 29, 1965])
 [[Image:Saltonseaphotomerge.jpg|thumb|780px|A Panorama of the Salton Sea]]
-<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; text-align:center; font-size:140%; padding:1px; margin:1px;">The Prophecy</div>
-:<playmp3>The Choosing of a Bride|H-65-0429e-losangeles.mp3‎|BelieveTheSign.org Predelay</playmp3>
+==Problems with the prophecy==
-:''Thou city, who claims to be the city of the Angels, who's exalted yourself into heaven and sent all the dirty filthy things of fashions and things, till even the foreign countries come here to pick up our filth and send it away, with your fine churches and steeples, and so forth the way you do; remember, one day you'll be laying in the bottom of this sea. You're great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He'll hold this sandbar hanging over that, when that ocean out yonder a mile deep will slide in there plumb back to the Salton Sea. '''It'll be worse than the last day of Pompeii. Repent, Los Angeles.''' Repent the rest of you and turn to God. The hour of His wrath is upon the earth. Flee while there's time to flee and come into Christ." '' ([http://www.thefreeword.com/books/2265-L.pdf Sermon: The Choosing of a Bride, Los Angeles, California, April 29, 1965])
+If L.A. ever sinks, it may not be clear whether it is the result of William Branham's prophecy, Joe Brandt's prophecy, or the result of the scientific findings published in Time and elsewhere.
+===Capernaum never sank===
+Why does William Branham compare the sinking of Los Angeles to the sinking of Capernaum when, in fact Capernaum did not sink?  Rather, it was simply abandoned, and its ruins are on the shore of the sea of Galilee to this day.
+===Another Prophecy===
+On December 25, 1965 a man named Joe Brandt gave a stack of old papers containing a prophecy he claimed to have written 1937 to Jessica Madigan, who published the series of dreams in a book called "Prophecies of Tomorrow" in 1966.  Living Waters magazine then reproduced this prophecy in June 1969.[http://www.tucsontabernacle.com/images/stories/pdf/tracts/1937-california-earthquake-dream-of-joe-brandt.pdf]  William Branham would therefore have been unaware of this earlier prophecy, which is much more specific in its details.
+===Documented cases of land sinking prior to 1965===
+The risk of LA sinking was well known and discussed in scientific and popular culture, as evidenced by the April 1, 1957 issue of Time Magazine[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867597,00.html] that reported on the the partial sinking of Long Beach in the 1950s.  This sinking was blamed on the excessive drilling in the area.  It is also well known that Los Angeles lies on the 'ocean-side' of the San Andreas Fault. In this regard, the sinking of Los Angeles may still happen, as the instabililty of the land was well know and documented before William Branham's prophecy.
+===Pearry Green's Testimony===
+Pearry Green wrote the following on page 119 of his book "Acts Of The Prophet", with regards to a statement William Branham made to his son, Billy Paul: ''"Billy, I may not be here but you won't be an old man until sharks will swim right where we are standing."''  While Billy Paul is alive today, his birthday is September 13, 1935 (i.e., he will turn 80 years old in 2015).
+<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; text-align:center; font-size:140%; padding:1px; margin:1px;">The Honeycomb and the Sandbar</div>
+[[Image:Signal Hill.jpg|350px|thumb|Signal Hill, May 1, 1923: Oil extraction honeycombing the oilsands]]
+Los Angeles is one of the largest cities in the world.  It is also one of the only cities in the world with significant active oil extraction within city limits.  The sediment in the Los Angeles basin is up to 6 miles (10 km) deep, and includes the following oil fields:
+*Long Beach Oil Field
+*Los Angeles City Oil Field
+*Wilmington Oil Field (3rd largest oil field in the U.S.)
+*Huntington Beach Oil Field
+*Torrance Oil Field
+*Beverly Hills Oil Field
+Combined with the danger of existing fault lines that Los Angeles sits on, the potential for a devestating natural disaster is scientifically plausible.
+Since the 1950's, oil producers have been pumping water into the earth to replace the oil they extract in order to stop the land from sinking.  The only problem with this process is that water has different properties than oil, as residents of Daisetta, Texas learned in 2008 when the walls of an underground salt-cave (from which oil brine had been extracted) disolved, creating a sink-hole 900 feet wide by 260 feet deep.[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354501,00.html]  Between 1932 and 1960 iodine was harvested from oil brine extracted in the Los Angeles basin - raising the question of whether the water being pumped into the earth is currently disolving structural minerals under Los Angeles.
+<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; text-align:center; font-size:140%; padding:1px; margin:1px;">The Tidal Wave</div>
+One problem with subsistence (the sinking of land) is that it can create megatsunamis if they occur near water. History records the following megatsunamis created by landslides:
+*365 AD - 100ft waves hit Alexandria after an earthquake off Crete.
+*1792 AD - 330ft waves killed 15,000 villagers when parts of Mount Unzen, Japan slid into the sea.
+*1958 AD - 1,720ft waves destroyed Lituya Bay, Alaska, after an earthquake caused a landslide.
+William Branham said:
+:''And, of course, the Salton Sea is about two hundred feet below sea level, and if that big churning, that earth swallowing in like that, with hundreds of square miles, hundreds and hundreds of square miles sinking into the earth, that'll throw a tidal wave plumb to Arizona. '' ([http://www.thefreeword.com/books/2465-L.pdf Sermon:Ashamed of Him, Jeffersonville, Indiana, July 11, 1965])
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-<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; text-align:center; font-size:140%; padding:1px; margin:1px;">The Honeycomb and the Sandbar</div>
-[[Image:Signal Hill.jpg|350px|thumb|Signal Hill, May 1, 1923: Oil extraction honeycombing the oilsands]]
-Los Angeles is one of the largest cities in the world.  It is also one of the only cities in the world with significant active oil extraction within city limits.  The sediment in the Los Angeles basin is up to 6 miles (10 km) deep, and includes the following oil fields:
-*Long Beach Oil Field
-*Los Angeles City Oil Field
-*Wilmington Oil Field (3rd largest oil field in the U.S.)
-*Huntington Beach Oil Field
-*Torrance Oil Field
-*Beverly Hills Oil Field
-Combined with the danger of existing fault lines that Los Angeles sits on, the potential for a devestating natural disaster is scientifically plausible.
-Time Magazine[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867597,00.html] recorded the partial sinking of Long Beach in the 1950s, blaming the cause on excessive drilling in the area.  Since that time, oil producers have been pumping water into the earth to replace the oil they extract.  The only problem with this process is that water has different properties than oil, as residents of Daisetta, Texas learned in 2008 when the walls of an underground salt-cave (from which oil brine had been extracted) disolved, creating a sink-hole 900 feet wide by 260 feet deep.[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354501,00.html]  Between 1932 and 1960 iodine was harvested from oil brine extracted in the Los Angeles basin - raising the question of whether the water being pumped into the earth is currently disolving structural minerals under Los Angeles.
-One problem with subsistence (the sinking of land) is that it can create megatsunamis if they occur near water. History records the following megatsunamis created by landslides:
-*365 AD - 100ft waves hit Alexandria after an earthquake off Crete.
-*1792 AD - 330ft waves killed 15,000 villagers when parts of Mount Unzen, Japan slid into the sea.
-*1958 AD - 1,720ft waves destroyed Lituya Bay, Alaska, after an earthquake caused a landslide.
-:''And, of course, the Salton Sea is about two hundred feet below sea level, and if that big churning, that earth swallowing in like that, with hundreds of square miles, hundreds and hundreds of square miles sinking into the earth, that'll throw a tidal wave plumb to Arizona. '' ([http://www.thefreeword.com/books/2465-L.pdf Sermon:Ashamed of Him, Jeffersonville, Indiana, July 11, 1965])