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People in [[The Message|the message]] often talk about the Third Pull as something very important.  But what is the third pull?

[[Image:FishOK.jpg|right|thumb|The vision begins with a fishing lesson...]]

'''What is the point of fishing?'''  Isn't it to bring fish onto the shore (i.e. to bring the lost to Jesus)?   

The point of the third pull was to bring the hurting, sick and lonely to Jesus Christ.  Looking back into history, it should be apparent whether William Branham learned how to handle the healing and revealing gifts in order to set the hook for the "third pull".  The evidence should be fish on the shore, in line with the part of the vision in which "there were hundreds of people standing around the altar weeping because they had accepted the Lord Jesus. And they were just weeping out loud. And I said, ''"Oh, that's more like it,"''.

Even though the Angel asked William Branham not to explain his ministry, he began to try to explain this vision, starting with the sermon called "What is a Vision".  In 1962, immediately after retelling the Angel’s instruction not to explain the vision, William Branham said, ''“I feel duty bound, to my church, to say something. You draw your own conclusion.”''   

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In 1964 William Branham taught that the 3rd pull was the spoken word, which in his own ministry had calmed a storm, created squirrels, and caused the conversion of Hattie Mosier’s two sons (which happened in 1959).  The last example is the only time the spoken word brought a conversion, and in this instance it was the spoken word of a respectful Christian lady.  William Branham also said that the 3rd pull could not be mimicked.

The biggest problem with this vision is that William Branham continued to explain it, and his ministry, well into 1964. '''Why did he continue to do this in direct contravention to the instruction of the angel?'''

This is a very simple close to a very mysterious vision.  It seems that we can get the real meaning of this vision simply by reading and applying the scripture.   

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The danger with this expectation is that it forgets Jesus' first temptation in the wilderness: when the Devil tempted Jesus to use his supernatural powers to create bread from stones in order to satisfy his own hunger.  '''Sadly, this temptation is exactly what message believers are expecting to do in the future.  If the tempter came to a message believer with instructions to create bread or squirrels from stones, they would likely give in to the devil in a moment's time - because they would follow William Branham's example and not the example left to them by Jesus Christ, who alone had dominion over the devil's temptations.'''

There appear to be only 5 times that William Branham actually had what he referred to as the "third pull"

It is strange that there were only 5 incidences and none of them were witnessed by more than a few people (and some had no witnesses at all).

   

''And at that, the Angel of the Lord taken me out then, and He taken me to a real bright stream of water. It was the most beautiful blue water; and great fish were swimming around in it. He said, "I will make you a fisher." And He said, "Now, cast your lure into the water; and when you do, pull it slow, first time; and the next time, just give it a little jerk, not too hard; and the next time, set your hook for the catch."

''And in Sabino Canyon, He said, "This is the third pull." And there's three great things that goes with it, and one unfolded today, or yesterday, the other one unfolded today, and there's one thing that I cannot interpret, because it's in an unknown language. But I was standing right there and looked right straight at it, and this is the third pull coming up. And the Holy Spirit of God... Oh, my. That's the reason all heaven was silent.<ref>63-0324E  THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN</ref>

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