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<div style="font-size:162%; text-align:center; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">Welcome to [[BelieveTheSign:About|BelieveTheSign]]</div>
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<div style="text-align:center; top:+0.2em; font-size:95%;">The comprehensive encyclopedia on the [[William Branham|life]] and [[The Message|message]] of William Branham.</div>
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|'''''In the days of his prominence, the 1950's, what Spirit-filled believer did not know [William Branham's] name?<br>Yet today, we may wonder, what believer does?'''''<br>Robert Price in Douglas Weaver's ''The Healer-Prophet: William Marrion Branham''
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[[Image:Branham28.jpg|right|William Branham]]
[[Image:Branham28.jpg|right|William Branham]]
'''William Marrion Branham's''' healing ministry skyrocketed him from a rural pastor to an international evangelist in the late 1940's.  However, his visions and doctrine became increasingly controversial until '''his death 50 years ago''' on December 24, 1965.
'''Who was William Marrion Branham?''' In the late 1940's, his healing ministry skyrocketed him from a pastor in a small church outside Louisville, Kentucky to an international evangelist.  However, as his ministry progressed his visions and doctrine became increasingly controversial until '''his death'''on December 24, 1965.


Views on William Branham's legacy can be grouped into the following main categories:
Views on William Branham's legacy can be grouped into the following main categories:
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The purpose of this website is to provide [[Condensed List of Issues with the Message|independent, objective, comprehensive information on William Branham]] and to ask questions about the facts that we have discovered.  At one time this website was not objective in our approach and for that [[Humble Pie|we humbly apologize to our readers]].  Click on the links below to go to our detailed articles on a variety of subjects related to his life and ministry, his claims, the beliefs of his followers, and the criticisms of his detractors.   
The purpose of this website is to provide [[Condensed List of Issues with the Message|independent, objective, comprehensive information on William Branham]] and to ask questions about the facts that we have discovered.  At one time this website was not objective in our approach and for that [[Humble Pie|we humbly apologize to our readers]].  Click on the links below to go to our detailed articles on a variety of subjects related to his life and ministry, his claims, the beliefs of his followers, and the criticisms of his detractors.   


We do not ask you to trust the evidence that we have presented BUT, we have tried to provide footnotes and reference sources from where we obtained the evidence so that it can be '''confirmed independently'''.  Look at the evidence, verify it, and try to answer the questions that we have raised.   
We believe that all of the evidence presented on this website is trustworthy.  However, we have tried to provide all of the necessary footnotes and references from where we obtained this evidence so that you, our readers, can '''confirm it independently on your own'''.  Look at the evidence, verify it, and try to answer the questions that we have raised.   


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=Resources=
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*Our podcast - [http://offtheshelf.life/ Off The Shelf] - interviews with ex-message followers and discussions of important topics relating to William Branham
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/believethesign Our Youtube channel] containing a number of videos relating to William Branham
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/believethesign Our Youtube channel] containing a number of videos relating to William Branham
*[[List of Issues with the Message|Our full list of concerns regarding William Branham and his message]]
*[[List of Issues with the Message|Our full list of concerns regarding William Branham and his message]]
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