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:''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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:''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> | :''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> | |||
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: | ||
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