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:''People, we’re living in the end time. How many of you people heard years ago down here when they was going to have me arrested down here for preaching on that “mark of the beast”?  
:''People, we’re living in the end time. How many of you people heard years ago down here when they was going to have me arrested down here for preaching on that “mark of the beast”?  


::(1) ''When I said that Mussolini, when he first come in power twenty-some-odd years ago, I said, “If Mussolini ever goes towards Ethiopia, mark this down, there will never be peace till Jesus Christ comes.” And I said,  
::(1) ''When I said that Mussolini, when he first come in power twenty-some-odd years ago, I said, '''“If Mussolini ever goes towards Ethiopia, mark this down, there will never be peace till Jesus Christ comes.”''' And I said,  


::(2) ''“There’ll be three great isms, Communism, Fascism, and Nazism.” And I said, “They’ll wind up in one ism, and that one ism will dominate the world and will burn the Vatican City.” You remember me saying that years and years and years ago. And just exactly that way! I said,  
::(2) ''“There’ll be '''three great isms, Communism, Fascism, and Nazism'''.” And I said, “They’ll '''wind up in one ism''', and that '''one ism will dominate the world and will burn the Vatican City'''.” You remember me saying that years and years and years ago. And just exactly that way! I said,  


::(3) ''“Just before that time comes, that automobiles…” Which was built that old straight back, twenty years ago or twenty-five years ago. You can remember twenty years anyhow. And I said, “They’ll look like an egg. They’ll be shaped. That’s a vision. Be something on the shape of something like that.”  
::(3) ''“Just before that time comes, that automobiles…” Which was built that old straight back, twenty years ago or twenty-five years ago. You can remember twenty years anyhow. And I said, “'''They’ll look like an egg'''. They’ll be shaped. That’s a vision. '''Be something on the shape of something like that''.”  


:''And that’s the way they’ll be just before the Rapture.<ref>William Branham, 53-0326 - Israel And The Church #2, para. 41-42</ref>
:''And that’s the way they’ll be just before the Rapture.<ref>William Branham, 53-0326 - Israel And The Church #2, para. 41-42</ref>


They are mentioned again in a sermon in May 1955.  William Branham does not state that there were seven visions.  He only mentions three and he states that it was either in 1932 or 1933 (emphasis and numbers added):
They are mentioned again in a sermon in May 1955.  William Branham does not state that there were seven visions.  He only mentions three and he states that it was either in 1932 or 1933 (emphasis and numbers added):


:''I believe that God is permitting communism to hit the land. I believe I can sensibly prove that by the Bible, that God promised that up into those isms, as communism years ago, when they first got out that N.R.A. I… Now, you remember that.  And when Mussolini had first come in power, one morning by a vision… Now, it’s written on old paper, laying at the house today, dated way back in '''1933—’32 or ’33.''' Going to Sunday school one morning, I was caught away in a vision. And I said, “Now…” Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, I said, ''
:''I believe that God is permitting communism to hit the land. I believe I can sensibly prove that by the Bible, that God promised that up into those isms, as communism years ago, when they first got out that N.R.A. I… Now, you remember that.  And when Mussolini had first come in power, one morning by a vision… Now, '''it’s written on old paper, laying at the house today''', dated way back in '''1933—’32 or ’33.''' Going to Sunday school one morning, I was caught away in a vision. And I said, “Now…” Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, I said, ''


::(1) ''“Now, there’s going to be '''three great isms.''' Which is now in existence. One of them is in Rome, which is—is Fascism, and one of them is in Germany which is Nazi—Nazism. And the other one is in Russia, which is communism.” I said, “Those three great isms is the unclean spirits that went out of the mouth of the false prophet, and the dragons, and so forth that will unite themselves together, speaking things that they should not, and they’ll all beat at one another, until they’ll finally wind up in one ism. And I predict that that will be communism. And communism will burn the Vatican city. And I said, “Just before the end time comes…” Now remember, I still say this: “Before the end time comes…” Wrote twenty-three years ago.''  
::(1) ''“Now, there’s going to be '''three great isms.''' Which is now in existence. One of them is in Rome, which is—is Fascism, and one of them is in Germany which is Nazi—Nazism. And the other one is in Russia, which is communism.” I said, “Those three great isms is the unclean spirits that went out of the mouth of the false prophet, and the dragons, and so forth that will unite themselves together, speaking things that they should not, and they’ll all beat at one another, until they’ll finally wind up in one ism. And I predict that that will be communism. And communism will burn the Vatican city. And I said, “Just before the end time comes…” Now remember, I still say this: “Before the end time comes…” Wrote twenty-three years ago.''  
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:''We’re nearer the end time; we are.''<ref>William Branham, 55-0501E - The Faith That Was Once Delivered To The Saints, para. 16-17</ref>
:''We’re nearer the end time; we are.''<ref>William Branham, 55-0501E - The Faith That Was Once Delivered To The Saints, para. 16-17</ref>


About one year later, he states that one of the visions was that a woman would be president before the end (emphasis added):
About one year later, he states that one of the visions was that a woman would be president before the end (emphasis added):
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:''I didn’t mean that to do any harm, women; I don’t mean you Christian women. But just to see women coming into politics and everything, it’s a disgrace; it’s a breaking of the American morale. And remember, this is… America will… A—a woman… I—I better leave it alone. But just remember this.  I predict this: that a woman will be president before we’re annihilated. That’s right. I said that in 1933 by a vision. Sure, it’s a woman’s world. Where did it start from? Hollywood. All your dirty, filthy dressing and things, that’s what’s crept into our homes and things like that. And now comes through television, everything else. It’s a disgrace.'<ref>William Branham, 56-0428 - God's Covenant With Abraham, para. 44</ref>
:''I didn’t mean that to do any harm, women; I don’t mean you Christian women. But just to see women coming into politics and everything, it’s a disgrace; it’s a breaking of the American morale. And remember, this is… America will… A—a woman… I—I better leave it alone. But just remember this.  I predict this: that a woman will be president before we’re annihilated. That’s right. I said that in 1933 by a vision. Sure, it’s a woman’s world. Where did it start from? Hollywood. All your dirty, filthy dressing and things, that’s what’s crept into our homes and things like that. And now comes through television, everything else. It’s a disgrace.'<ref>William Branham, 56-0428 - God's Covenant With Abraham, para. 44</ref>
    
    
A couple of weeks after this in May 1956, he mentions four prophesies from 1933 and admits that there was no one left who had heard the original prophecies (emphasis and numbers added):
A couple of weeks after this in May 1956, he mentions four prophesies from 1933 and admits that there was no one left who had heard the original prophecies (emphasis and numbers added):


:''America! Now you remember, if you haven’t got this wrote down, put it down. This is my prediction. See? In 1933, when we were having services down here where the old, I believe the Church of Christ is there now, it used to be the old…It’s right over here, Brother Neville, right straight down. Charlie Kern used to live there. What’s it…Orphan’s home over here on Meigs Avenue. In 1933, I just got a 1933 Ford, and I dedicated it that morning to the Lord. And, before leaving home, I saw a vision. '''I’ve got it wrote, old yellow paper still waiting in a Bible.''' I saw the end time coming.  
:''America! Now you remember, if you haven’t got this wrote down, put it down. This is my prediction. See? In 1933, when we were having services down here where the old, I believe the Church of Christ is there now, it used to be the old…It’s right over here, Brother Neville, right straight down. Charlie Kern used to live there. What’s it… Orphan’s home over here on Meigs Avenue. In 1933, I just got a 1933 Ford, and I dedicated it that morning to the Lord. And, before leaving home, I saw a vision. '''I’ve got it wrote, old yellow paper still waiting in a Bible.''' I saw the end time coming.  


:''And, you, how many can remember what a ’33 car looked like back there? Oh, it was kind of run out like this, and way up in the back, and chopped down for the spare tire to hang on. I saw a vision, that:
:''And, you, how many can remember what a ’33 car looked like back there? Oh, it was kind of run out like this, and way up in the back, and chopped down for the spare tire to hang on. I saw a vision, that:
::(1) ''“Before the Coming of the Lord, that '''cars would look like an egg.'''” How many remembers that prediction? '''Is there anybody left in here? Brother Seward is gone. And I guess…''' It was 1933 when we were having services over here. I guess just about all of them is gone now, since then.  
::(1) ''“Before the Coming of the Lord, that '''cars would look like an egg.'''” How many remembers that prediction? '''Is there anybody left in here? Brother Seward is gone. And I guess…''' It was 1933 when we were having services over here. I guess just about all of them is gone now, since then.  


::(2) ''And I predicted, that, “'''America, their number-one god would be women.'''” That’s what it is. Everything is fashioned after Hollywood. I have things on records from the FBI file that would shock you to pieces just to tell you right where. And the scandal on these movie stars, there isn’t a one of them, hardly, but what’s prostitutes. And the FBI exposed it just recently. I have it from their own file. And so all of them living out, even these movie stars, where he proved, they went in and picked them up, living with men, twenty-five and fifty dollars a night, a man, all up and down, in Hollywood and everywhere, had private homes and men back in there where they would send them out to these people. And that’s what we look to, television, and—and out here on these screens and things, and let our children call that an idol. And then call that mother? That’s a long ways from being mother. That’s filth. That’s exactly. And yet they set the pace of the day. Well, let them, the kind of clothes they wear, watch the American women dress right up just like them, and everything. Sure. And America’s god is a woman. Not Jehovah; they’ve turned away from That. Not to mother now, now lay that aside, that’s a sacred thing we’re going to talk about; but I mean woman.
::(2) ''And I predicted, that, “'''America, their number-one god would be women.'''” That’s what it is. Everything is fashioned after Hollywood. I have things on records from the FBI file that would shock you to pieces just to tell you right where. And the scandal on these movie stars, there isn’t a one of them, hardly, but what’s prostitutes. And the FBI exposed it just recently. I have it from their own file. And so all of them living out, even these movie stars, where he proved, they went in and picked them up, living with men, twenty-five and fifty dollars a night, a man, all up and down, in Hollywood and everywhere, had private homes and men back in there where they would send them out to these people. And that’s what we look to, television, and—and out here on these screens and things, and let our children call that an idol. And then call that mother? That’s a long ways from being mother. That’s filth. That’s exactly. And yet they set the pace of the day. Well, let them, the kind of clothes they wear, watch the American women dress right up just like them, and everything. Sure. And America’s god is a woman. Not Jehovah; they’ve turned away from That. Not to mother now, now lay that aside, that’s a sacred thing we’re going to talk about; but I mean woman.
   
   
::(3) ''And, remember, I predict that before the great total annihilation, which I don’t say the Lord told me this, but I believe there will be something happen either between now or at that time in ’77. It may come at this hour. But between now and ’77, I predict that either '''a great destruction or a total annihilation of the entire earth, between now and ’77,''' I predicted it in 1933. I predicted that women would keep demoralizing and the nation would keep falling, and they’d keep hanging to mother, or like mother like that, till they become, a woman become an idol.  
::(3) ''And, remember, I predict that before the great total annihilation, which '''I don’t say the Lord told me this''', but I believe there will be something happen either between now or at that time in ’77. It may come at this hour. But between now and ’77, I predict that either '''a great destruction or a total annihilation of the entire earth, between now and ’77,''' I predicted it in 1933. I predicted that women would keep demoralizing and the nation would keep falling, and they’d keep hanging to mother, or like mother like that, till they become, a woman become an idol.  


::(4) ''And after a while, that, “'''America would be ruled by a woman.'''” Mark it and see if it’s not right. A woman will take the place of a President or something, of great, some high power in America.<ref>William Branham,  56-0513 - Teaching On Moses, para. 18-21</ref>
::(4) ''And after a while, that, “'''America would be ruled by a woman.'''” Mark it and see if it’s not right. A woman will take the place of a President or something, of great, some high power in America.<ref>William Branham,  56-0513 - Teaching On Moses, para. 18-21</ref>