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Was William Branham's prophecy relating to his trip to India fulfilled? | Was William Branham's prophecy relating to his trip to India fulfilled? | ||
== The Prophecy== | ==The Prophecy== | ||
William Branham prophesied of a great campaign in India, saying: | William Branham prophesied of a great campaign in India, saying: | ||
:''Mark my word; write it in the pages of your Bible, for it's '''THUS SAITH THE LORD''', "Remember, when we land in India, you're going to hear of tens of thousands times thousands being saved." The Holy Spirit has said it; I've wrote it here in my Bible; it's wrote in tens of thousands of Bibles right here, like the resurrection of the little boy. By a vision that He said, "There's three hundred thousand of them in there." And you see if that isn't right. There's how the Gospel's going to be preached just overnight. She'll just sweep like that from place to place.<ref>Questions and Answers, May 15, 1954 (tape #54-0515)</ref> | :''Mark my word; write it in the pages of your Bible, for it's '''THUS SAITH THE LORD''', "Remember, when we land in India, you're going to hear of tens of thousands times thousands being saved." The Holy Spirit has said it; I've wrote it here in my Bible; it's wrote in tens of thousands of Bibles right here, like the resurrection of the little boy. By a vision that He said, "There's three hundred thousand of them in there." And you see if that isn't right. There's how the Gospel's going to be preached just overnight. She'll just sweep like that from place to place.<ref>Questions and Answers, May 15, 1954 (tape #54-0515)</ref> | ||
It appears that William Branham first thought that [[The Vision of the Meetings in South Africa|his prophecy about a trip to South Africa]] was initially about India but he later admitted that the vision had not been fulfilled. He died with the vision unfulfilled. | |||
==Was it fulfilled?== | ==Was it fulfilled?== | ||
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William Branham placed the blame for his lack of success in India on himself : | William Branham placed the blame for his lack of success in India on himself : | ||
:''And when... I had been very much constrained to go to--to India. And yet, as many of you might know, the Indian trip wasn't the success that it should've been, because I failed to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, and never recognized it after He give me a vision to go to Africa first and then to India. | :''And when... I had been very much constrained to go to--to India. And yet, as many of you might know, the Indian trip wasn't the success that it should've been, because I failed to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, and never recognized it after He give me a vision to go to Africa first and then to India.<ref>INDIA.TRIP.REPORT_ LIMA.OH SATURDAY_ 57-0126B</ref> | ||
===William Branham's exaggerations=== | |||
William Branham admitted that he usually exaggerated the number of people attending his meetings: | |||
:''I’m not very good at making…?…or estimating crowds, because I usually exaggerate on it.<ref>59-0301M — Strait Is The Gate, para. 25</ref> | |||
India | William Branham's numbers relating to India were all over the map. He said there were 250,000" | ||
:''I did it before a half a million. God did it, rather, let me say, in Bombay, India, before two hundred and fifty thousand.<ref>63-0604 — Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever, para. 233 </ref> | |||
When speaking of how many were actually saved in his India campaign, he said: | When speaking of how many were actually saved in his India campaign, he said: | ||
And yet, in the midst of five hundred thousand people that I was speaking to at Bombay, the Lord Jesus Christ and Christianity triumphed over everyone of them and put every witch doctor and holy man and everything else to shame. And there's no way of telling how many came to the Lord Jesus. We had no cooperation amongst the churches and just dropped in for three days, and there was no way of telling how many was saved. | :''And yet, in the midst of five hundred thousand people that I was speaking to at Bombay, the Lord Jesus Christ and Christianity triumphed over everyone of them and put every witch doctor and holy man and everything else to shame. And there's no way of telling how many came to the Lord Jesus. We had no cooperation amongst the churches and just dropped in for three days, and there was no way of telling how many was saved.<ref>Be not Afraid, It is I, July 20, 1960 (tape #60-0720)</ref> | ||
Be not Afraid, It is I, July 20, 1960 (tape #60-0720) | |||
Mr. Branham never achieved the results in India that were prophesied when he said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'Remember, when we land in India, you're going to hear of tens of thousands times thousands being saved.' The Holy Spirit has said it . . . " | Mr. Branham never achieved the results in India that were prophesied when he said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'Remember, when we land in India, you're going to hear of tens of thousands times thousands being saved.' The Holy Spirit has said it . . . " | ||
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