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William Branham told about a series of eight prophetic visions he experienced in June 1933.  In the first vision, Franklin D. Roosevelt picks on the Germans and leads the world into the Second World War.  William Branham stopped telling this part of the prophecy in 1961, but still maintained that there were seven major parts to the 1933 vision that were "Thus Saith The Lord".   
William Branham claimed he had a series of eight prophetic visions in June 1933.  In the first vision, Franklin D. Roosevelt picked on the Germans and started the Second World War.  William Branham stopped telling this part of the prophecy in 1961, but still maintained that there were seven other major parts to the 1933 vision that were "Thus Saith The Lord".   


[[Image:FDROK.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933]]
[[Image:FDROK.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933]]


=1960 retelling of the 1933 prophecy=
==1960 retelling of the 1933 prophecy==
'' I'd like to read you a prophecy that was given... This one first.  I speak this in the Name of the Lord.  The president which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago.) will cause the whole world to go to war. (Now, look what happened now.) In...President Franklin D. Roosevelt took America to England's tea party. That's right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them, throwed the whole world into a war, to cause a world war.'' (Condemnation by Representation, November 13, 1960)  
'' I'd like to read you a prophecy that was given... This one first.  I speak this in the Name of the Lord.  The president which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago.) will cause the whole world to go to war. (Now, look what happened now.) In...President Franklin D. Roosevelt took America to England's tea party. That's right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them, throwed the whole world into a war, to cause a world war.'' (Condemnation by Representation, November 13, 1960)  


==Problems with the prophecy==
In the Laodicean Church Age book, William Branham says, “Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?”  Over 80 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of these prophecies.


=Problems with the prophecy=
===He Ignored Pearl Harbour===
In the Laodicean Church Age book, William Branham says, “Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?”  Almost 70 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of these prophecies.
 
===Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour===
The USA did not lead the world into WWII, as William Branham prophecied.  In fact, the United States stayed out of the conflict until 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.  It is not clear how William Branham omitted this fact, as he preached about Pearl Harbour a number of times, condemning the soldiers for their revelry.
The USA did not lead the world into WWII, as William Branham prophecied.  In fact, the United States stayed out of the conflict until 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.  It is not clear how William Branham omitted this fact, as he preached about Pearl Harbour a number of times, condemning the soldiers for their revelry.


There are some that say, "Oh but FDR wanted to go to war with the Germans.  He knew that the Pearl Harbor attack was coming and wanted it to happen, so that the US could go to war."  The problem with this reasoning is that the US '''did not enter the war until after the attack on Pearl Harbor.'''  Even if it was true (which only a few historians believe), the fact is that William Branham prophecied that the US would lead the world into World War 2, something that clearly did not happen.
William Branham must have realized his error, because when the Church Ages Book was published in 1965 it included the statement that ''"an Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war."'' <ref> Laodicean Church Age, Chapter 9</ref>


===William Branham didn't like FDR===
===William Branham didn't like FDR===
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*1961: FDR would be President in four terms, and the world would go to war. <ref>''...said, "The President that now is (I copied this off of the old Scripture--old thing yesterday)--that the President that we now have, which was (how many remembers whose it was?) Franklin D. Roosevelt..." I said, "The President we have in now will run even in the fourth term (He's on his first then.)--will run into the fourth term, and we will be taken to a second world war." '' (The Seventieth Week of Daniel, August 6, 1961)</ref>
*1961: FDR would be President in four terms, and the world would go to war. <ref>''...said, "The President that now is (I copied this off of the old Scripture--old thing yesterday)--that the President that we now have, which was (how many remembers whose it was?) Franklin D. Roosevelt..." I said, "The President we have in now will run even in the fourth term (He's on his first then.)--will run into the fourth term, and we will be taken to a second world war." '' (The Seventieth Week of Daniel, August 6, 1961)</ref>


=The explanation for the failed vision=
==The explanation for the failed vision==
 
[[Cognitive Dissonance|Cognitive dissonance]] requires that those that believe William Branham to be a prophet explain clearly why the vision was not fulfilled.
 
We have received several comments that refer to secret Polish documents that purport to prove that President Roosevelt was secretly campaigning to incite war in Europe.  As proof, they point to a website that contains an article detailing the sordid details of Roosevelt's plot.  The problem is that the website that they refer to is well known as an antisemitic pseudo-scholarly body with links to neo-Nazi organizations.  Its primary purpose is to disseminate views denying key facts of Nazism.  It has been described as the "world's leading Holocaust denial organization."  This is evident by an article on the front page of the website in support of Rudolph Hess, a convicted war criminal.
We have received several comments that refer to secret Polish documents that purport to prove that President Roosevelt was secretly campaigning to incite war in Europe.  As proof, they point to a website that contains an article detailing the sordid details of Roosevelt's plot.  The problem is that the website that they refer to is well known as an antisemitic pseudo-scholarly body with links to neo-Nazi organizations.  Its primary purpose is to disseminate views denying key facts of Nazism.  It has been described as the "world's leading Holocaust denial organization."  This is evident by an article on the front page of the website in support of Rudolph Hess, a convicted war criminal.


The fact is that this information is completely unprofen and totally at odds with the work of reputable historical scholars. But dissonance reduction requires an explanation, so some followers of William Branham resort to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory conspiracy theory] to explain some of the failed prophecies.
The fact is that this information is not only completely unproven, but also totally at odds with the work of reputable historical scholars.
 
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Why do we receive comments like this?  The reason is that people who believe that William Branham was a prophet become frustrated when confronted with a false statement by their beloved prophet.  This is known as [[Cognitive Dissonance|cognitive dissonance]], and often results in Message Believers grasping at straws, or conspiracy theories, in order to keep the status quo of their lives.  It is disturbing to think you are "a special elect" one minute, only to realize that you are deceived.  As a result, it is mentally and emotionally easier to cling to anything that would support William Branham as a true prophet.
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