Destruction of Los Angeles: Difference between revisions

'''On April 29, 1965''' William Branham stood behind the podium at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, and preached a sermon called "Choosing of a Bride".  During this sermon, William Branham prophecied that the city of Los Angeles would one day slide into the ocean, and a new coastline would form at the Salton Sea.

:<mp3player>File:H-65-0429e-losangeles.mp3‎</mp3player><br>

:''"Oh, Capernaum," said Jesus, "thou who exalted into heaven, will be brought down into hell. For, if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it'd have been standing to this day." And Sodom, Gomorrah lays in the bottom of the Dead Sea. And Capernaum is in the bottom of the sea.''

[[Image:Saltonseaphotomerge.jpg|thumb|780px|A Panorama of the Salton Sea]]

If L.A. ever sinks, it may not be clear whether it is the result of William Branham's prophecy, Joe Brandt's prophecy, or the result of the scientific findings published in Time and elsewhere.   

[[File:800px-Capernaum ruins by David Shankbone.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Capernaum - And it's not under water]]  

Why does William Branham compare the sinking of Los Angeles to the sinking of Capernaum when, in fact Capernaum did not sink?  Rather, it was simply abandoned, and its ruins are on the shore of the sea of Galilee to this day.

On December 25, 1965 a man named Joe Brandt gave a stack of old papers containing a prophecy he claimed to have written 1937 to Jessica Madigan, who published the series of dreams in a book called "Prophecies of Tomorrow" in 1966.  Living Waters magazine then reproduced this prophecy in June 1969.[http://www.tucsontabernacle.com/images/stories/pdf/tracts/1937-california-earthquake-dream-of-joe-brandt.pdf]  William Branham would therefore have been unaware of this earlier prophecy, which is much more specific in its details.   

The risk of LA sinking was well known and discussed in scientific and popular culture, as evidenced by the April 1, 1957 issue of Time Magazine[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867597,00.html] that reported on the the partial sinking of Long Beach in the 1950s.  This sinking was blamed on the excessive drilling in the area.  It is also well known that Los Angeles lies on the 'ocean-side' of the San Andreas Fault. In this regard, the sinking of Los Angeles may still happen, as the instabililty of the land was well know and documented before William Branham's prophecy.  

Pearry Green wrote the following on page 119 of his book "Acts Of The Prophet", with regards to a statement William Branham made to his son, Billy Paul: ''"Billy, I may not be here but you won't be an old man until sharks will swim right where we are standing."''  While Billy Paul is alive today, his birthday is September 13, 1935 (i.e., he will turn 80 years old in 2015).   

[[Image:Signal Hill.jpg|350px|thumb|Signal Hill, May 1, 1923: Oil extraction honeycombing the oilsands]]

One problem with subsistence (the sinking of land) is that it can create megatsunamis if they occur near water. History records the following megatsunamis created by landslides:

{| style="width:750px; padding: 0.3em; float:center; margin-left:15px;border: 1px solid #B8C7D9;"