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Does God permit a prophet to say, "''I did something wrong personally and that is why the vision did not come to pass''"? There is only one exception for a prophesy not to be fulfilled - this is the same exception that applied to Jonah's failed prophecy regarding Nineveh - Jeremiah 18:7-10 (see below). There are no other exceptions permitted or reasons mentioned in scripture that would otherwise allow for failed prophecies. | Does God permit a prophet to say, "''I did something wrong personally and that is why the vision did not come to pass''"? There is only one exception for a prophesy not to be fulfilled - this is the same exception that applied to Jonah's failed prophecy regarding Nineveh - Jeremiah 18:7-10 (see below). There are no other exceptions permitted or reasons mentioned in scripture that would otherwise allow for failed prophecies. | ||
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|''But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ — when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. '' | |''But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ — when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. '' | ||
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If it was acceptable for a prophet to say "''I am sorry, I made a personal mistake and therefore the vision was not fulfilled''", then wouldn't every prophet that had a failed vision say this in order to get out of being put to death? For this reason, the Word of God only permitted one explanation for a failed vision, one that could be clearly seen by all. | If it was acceptable for a prophet to say "''I am sorry, I made a personal mistake and therefore the vision was not fulfilled''", then wouldn't every prophet that had a failed vision say this in order to get out of being put to death? For this reason, the Word of God only permitted one explanation for a failed vision, one that could be clearly seen by all. | ||
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Jonah's prophesy was not fulfilled because of Jonah's disobedience. Rather the destruction of Nineveh did not come to pass because of God's mercy for a repentant people. | Jonah's prophesy was not fulfilled because of Jonah's disobedience. Rather the destruction of Nineveh did not come to pass because of God's mercy for a repentant people. | ||
Some have said that William Branham somehow failed the Lord in some way and that, as a direct result of this failure, he was like Jonah and the prophecy was not fulfilled. | |||
However, the exception given by Jeremiah does not apply to the disobedience of a prophet. So how could it apply to the brown bear vision or the other visions of William Branham that failed? | |||
However, the exception given by Jeremiah does not apply to the brown bear vision or the other visions of William Branham that failed | |||
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:''About two months ago, or hardly that long, I was woke up one morning. I believe, I'm not sure... I told it to most of the church. There's many here has heard me tell this before it come to pass. And in the--a vision I saw, that I'd saw a great animal, looked like a deer. And it had great high horns. And it was... I had to go around a side shale, like this, to get to it. And it was a very famous animal. It was a great trophy animal. And there was a man that I saw that had on a green checkered shirt. And then on the road, after I'd got the animal, I'd heard a--a voice say that, "Those horns are forty-two inches high." That's about this high. And it was a mammoth animal. And on the road back, I saw a great huge silver-tip grizzly bear. | :''About two months ago, or hardly that long, I was woke up one morning. I believe, I'm not sure... I told it to most of the church. There's many here has heard me tell this before it come to pass. And in the--a vision I saw, that I'd saw a great animal, looked like a deer. And it had great high horns. And it was... I had to go around a side shale, like this, to get to it. And it was a very famous animal. It was a great trophy animal. And there was a man that I saw that had on a green checkered shirt. And then on the road, after I'd got the animal, I'd heard a--a voice say that, "Those horns are forty-two inches high." That's about this high. And it was a mammoth animal. And on the road back, I saw a great huge silver-tip grizzly bear. | ||
:''Now, that's the famous bear. There's four in the grizzly family. One is the silver-tip, which is the famous. Next is called, the native name, kadish, which is a black with a round ear; the second. Third is the regular grizzly, which is between black and brown, a huge bear. And the next is the Kodiak, which is only found on Kodiak Island and--and western Alaska; he's great, mammoth, biggest of all bears, but he's a grizzly. But the silver-tip is black, and the white is on--the silver is on the end of the tip of the hair. He's the famous one, very high-strung, ill-tempered bear. | :''Now, that's the famous bear. There's four in the grizzly family. One is the silver-tip, which is the famous. Next is called, the native name, kadish, which is a black with a round ear; the second. Third is the regular grizzly, which is between black and brown, a huge bear. And the next is the Kodiak, which is only found on Kodiak Island and--and western Alaska; he's great, mammoth, biggest of all bears, but he's a grizzly. But the silver-tip is black, and the white is on--the silver is on the end of the tip of the hair. He's the famous one, very high-strung, ill-tempered bear. '''I shot the bear with a heart shot, killed him.''' | ||
'''I shot the bear with a heart shot, killed him.''' | |||
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