Red Herring Arguments

There is no question that some of William Branham's prophecies failed. That is, they were never fulfilled.

Examples of this are many, but include, among others:

• The Municipal Bridge Vision
• The Vision of the Meetings in South Africa
• The Brown Bear Vision

Cognitive Dissonance forces message believers to deal with these. Some of the explanations are:

1. Jonah prophesied against Nineveh and it was not destroyed.

The problem with this explanation is that it is done without a knowledge of scripture.

God told Jeremiah:

At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it; if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it. Jeremiah 18:7–8 (NASB95)

So God has clearly outlined the conditions under which a "Thus Saith The Lord" prophecy will not come to pass. But those two conditions do not apply to ANY of William Branham's failed prophesies.

The real problem, the Biblical problem, with William Branham's unfulfilled visions is Deuteronomy 18:22

When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. Deut 18:22(NASB)

Even William Branham himself agreed with this being the Biblical standard.