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[[Image: | [[Image:Marriage License-Branham.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Branham/Brumbach - click to enlarge]] | ||
What was William Branham's actual birthday? We have four different possibilities... | What was William Branham's actual birthday? We have four different possibilities... | ||
=April 8, 1908= | |||
The Marriage Certificate of Willliam Branham and Hope Brumbach lists April 8, 1908 as the date of birth of William Branham (click on the picture at the right to enlarge it). This is the earliest recorded official document that we have that indicated his birthday. | |||
=April 6, 1909= | =April 6, 1909= | ||
[[Image:Meda WMB marriage cert.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Branham/Broy - click to enlarge]] | |||
According to his Marriage Certificate with Meda Broy, William Branham wrote April 6, 1909 as his date of birth. Note that this is an official government document and William Branham would have no reason to lie as to the date (click on the picture at the right to enlarge it). | According to his Marriage Certificate with Meda Broy, William Branham wrote April 6, 1909 as his date of birth. Note that this is an official government document and William Branham would have no reason to lie as to the date (click on the picture at the right to enlarge it). | ||
According to a sermon he preached in 1960, William Branham was born at 5:00 AM on April 6, 1909: | According to a sermon he preached in 1960, William Branham was born at 5:00 AM on April 6, 1909: | ||
:''That Light, that you see on that picture was hanging over my cradle when I was born. Born on a little straw tick with a shuck pillow. My mother was fifteen years old; my dad was eighteen. Five o'clock in the morning, they didn't have a window in the house, had a little door. I don't know whether you seen… How many of you ever seen one of them little—like supposed to be like a window, but it's just a little door you opened up. 98 And—and that Angel of God, at five o'clock in the morning, '''April 6, 1909''', at five o'clock in the morning, come right in and stood over that little bed where I was laying. They didn't know what… My people before me were Catholic. And so there was no Catholic churches up there, and so they taken me over to a little Baptist church. And there I made my first visit to a church. The Baptist church is called "Opossum Kingdom Baptist Church. Opossum Kingdom Baptist Church." There's where I made my first visit to a church. <ref>William Branham, 60-0805 - Lamb And Dove, para. 97-98</ref> | :''That Light, that you see on that picture was hanging over my cradle when I was born. Born on a little straw tick with a shuck pillow. My mother was fifteen years old; my dad was eighteen. Five o'clock in the morning, they didn't have a window in the house, had a little door. I don't know whether you seen… How many of you ever seen one of them little—like supposed to be like a window, but it's just a little door you opened up. 98 And—and that Angel of God, at five o'clock in the morning, '''April 6, 1909''', at five o'clock in the morning, come right in and stood over that little bed where I was laying. They didn't know what… My people before me were Catholic. And so there was no Catholic churches up there, and so they taken me over to a little Baptist church. And there I made my first visit to a church. The Baptist church is called "Opossum Kingdom Baptist Church. Opossum Kingdom Baptist Church." There's where I made my first visit to a church. <ref>William Branham, 60-0805 - Lamb And Dove, para. 97-98</ref> | ||
:''I am forty eight years old in April the sixth.<ref>William Branham, 57-0516 - We Would See Jesus, para. 34</ref> | :''I am forty eight years old in April the sixth.<ref>William Branham, 57-0516 - We Would See Jesus, para. 34</ref> | ||
==Why did William Branham change his date of birth?== | ==Why did William Branham change his date of birth?== | ||
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William Branham appears to have believed a spiritualist astronomer over the birthdate that his parents had told him. | William Branham appears to have believed a spiritualist astronomer over the birthdate that his parents had told him. | ||
=Prior to April 15, 1907= | =Prior to April 15, 1907= | ||