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=Early Life=

|'''Three Birthdays?''' <br> [http://en.believethesign.com/images/0/05/The_Simple_Truth_about_Birthdays.pdf Click here to learn more about William Branham's three birthdays.]

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:''My, I seen how they come when my daddy run that bootleg place. And I'd see women come there, young women, with somebody else's husband. And the way they would carry on…The only respect I had for any woman was my mother. And that's right. And I knowed she was a lady. I seen her set on the doorstep with the babies in her arms, and cry, and cry, and cry because she was locked out of the house.  When my dad, which was a real man when he was sober.''  (William Branham, July 20, 1952)

|'''Nazarite Controversy''' <br> [[The Nazarite Birth|Click to learn whether William Branham was under a Nazarite vow]].]   

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William Branham said that he received two visions as a young boy in Indiana. The first was when his father asked him to haul water for the moonshine operations.  William Branham said that a voice spoke to him out of a whirlwind in a tree and said, ''"Never drink, smoke, or defile your body in any way, for I have a work for you to do when you get older."'' <ref> William Branham, April 19, 1959 in a sermon called “My Life Story” </ref> By his own testimony, William Branham never drank alcohol in his life – other than in Church as part of communion.   

|'''Who Died on the Bridge?''' <br> [[The Municipal Bridge Vision|Click here to learn more about William Branham's first false prophecy.]]

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Charles Branham broke horses for Otto Wathen, and later became his private chauffer. <ref> William Branham, April 19, 1959 in a sermon called “Life Story” </ref>  Otto Wathen owned the R.E. Wathen Distillery as well as the Louisville Colonels baseball club.  William Branham said that their family lived on Wathen’s residence for a time.   

|'''When did Charles die?''' <br> [http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Was_William_Branham_Honest#The_Death_of_Charles_Branham Click to discover whether Charles died when William Branham was a child.]   

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William Branham said that he was overcome by fumes while checking meters at the Gas Works in New Albany in 1931.  When he went to a specialist, however, he was told that he had appendicitis and had to have an operation. Afraid, he requested a minister from the First Baptist Church to stand by him. During the time of the operation, he promised to preach the Gospel if God would restore his health. William Branham said that after this experience, he went into a field to pray, and saw a vision of a light that formed a cross. <ref>[[Life story by Julius Stadsklev]] and [[Life Story Tract]]</ref>  William Branham also said that he was converted in a Baptist Church <ref>William Branham, July 20, 1951, Sermon: The Angel of God</ref>, a coal shed <ref>William Branham, August 15, 1959, Sermon: As the Eagle Stirreth Her Nest</ref>, a saloon that had been converted into a colored Pentecostal church <ref>William Branham, July 31, 1963, Sermon: There Is Only One Way</ref>, and in a Jewish Hospital<ref>William Branham, March 28, 1954, Sermon: Sirs, We Would See Jesus</ref>.  

|'''Roy E. Davis & the K.K.K.''' <br>[[Roy Davis#Roy Davis and the KKK|Find out Roy E. Davis’ hidden secrets]].

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=Early Signs of a Supernatural Ministry=

|'''The Ohio River Baptism''' <br>[[1933 Ohio River Experience|Click to learn about the voice at the river.]]  

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William Branham said that in June 1933, he experienced a series of prophetic visions foretelling major events up until the end of the world.  William Branham describes these visions inconsistently, but in summary they are:

William Branham claimed to have started construction on the 'Pentecostal Tabernacle’ in Jeffersonville  in 1933 before he was married (this later became known as the 'Branham Tabernacle').<ref>William Branham, April 7, 1957 in a sermon “God keeps his Word”</ref>   

|'''A Baptist Minister?''' <br> Or a Pentecostal Minister?  [http://searchingforvindication.com/2013/06/20/Preaching-At-Pentecostal-Churches/ Click here to find out.]

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However, the last advertisement for Roy Davis church in the Jeffersonville Evening News was on February 10, 1934, <ref> [[Searching for Vindication]] Timeline - 2013/06/29 post re the History Of Roy Davis' Church</ref> and William Branham said he was the assistant pastor of Roy Davis’ church at the time it burned down. <ref> William Branham, April 27, 1964 in a sermon called “A Trial”, “And the Missionary Baptist Church burned down, which I was assistant pastor, at the time. And Mr. Davis come back to Texas.” </ref>    Roy Davis then moved back to Texas, and William Branham started construction on his own church.  The first advertisement for William Branham’s church, The Pentecostal Tabernacle, appeared in the Jeffersonville Evening News appeared on August 17, 1935.  <ref>[[Searching for Vindication]] Timeline - 2013/06/30 post re First Appearances Of The Pentecostal Tabernacle</ref>

|'''Is the Trinity OK?''' <br>[[Plum and Apple Trees|William Branham said it was, based on a vision.]]

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William Branham continued to work and preach, and married Hope Brumbach on June 22, 1934 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  <ref>[File:Marriage License-Branham.jpg]</ref>

|'''Mishawaka Christians''' <br>[[Roy Davis#Roy Davis' Pentecostal Baptist Church|Who did William Branham meet?]]       

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=Tragedy and Recovery=

|'''The Ohio Flood''' <br> [[Ohio River flood of 1937|What happened when the Ohio river flooded]]  

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