William Branham: Difference between revisions

|'''Nazarite Controversy''' <br> [http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/The_Nazarite_Birth Click to learn whether William Branham was under a Nazarite vow.]   

|'''Who Died on the Bridge?''' <br> [http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/The_Municipal_Bridge_Vision Click here to learn more about William Branham's first false prophecy.]

Roy Davis preached strongly about the Pentecostal revival, advertised regularly in the Jeffersonville Evening News, and wrote that William Branham received the Holy Spirit in his front room.  <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Roy_Davis#Letter_from_Roy_E._Davis  </ref> Even though William Branham said that he did not join a church, it was at this time that he became an elder in the First Pentecostal Baptist Church, and was president of the PBYPU (Pentecostal Baptist Young People) in March 1933. <ref>[[Searching for Vindication]] Timeline - June 22, 2013 post re The Common Peoples' Church </ref>

|'''The Ohio River Baptism''' <br> [http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/1933_Ohio_River_Experience Click to learn about the voice at the river.]  

In June 1933, William Branham had his first evangelistic tent meetings, in which 14 people were converted.  William Branham received front page news coverage for these meetings in the Jeffersonville Evening News. <ref>[[Searching for Vindication]] Timeline - June 24, 2013 post re What The Newspapers Said About the 1933 Baptism</ref>  William Branham distributed a tract saying that a light appeared in August 1933 when he was baptizing the 17th person on the Ohio River, while 3,000 people watched from the shore. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Life_Story_Tract </ref> [[Image:Bb1 v1.jpg|180px|thumb|William Branham at a baptism]]William Branham later said the newspapers reported that a light appeared while he was baptizing the 17th person on the Ohio River, while 10,000 people watched from the shore.  <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/1933_Ohio_River_Experience Sermon: August 13, 1950 </ref>  The population of Jeffersonville was only 12,000 people at the time. <ref> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonville,_Indiana#Demographics </ref>  

#[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Franklin_D._Roosevelt  Roosevelt would cause the whole world to go to war]

#[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Mussolini_invades_Ethiopia Mussolini’s last invasion would be into Ethiopia]

#[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Hitler_and_WWII  Hitler would rise to power, build the Seigfried line, and give the Americans a terrible beating.]  

#[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Russia_and_the_three_...isms Fascism and Nazism would be swallowed up into Communism, which would destroy the Vatican.]

#[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Driverless_Cars  Cars will be shaped like an egg.]

#[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Morality American women would begin to dress immodestly.]

#[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Rise_of_a_Woman_in_America A cruel woman will rule the United States.]

#[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/America_in_Ashes America will be ashes from coast to coast.]  

#[http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Don%27t_Eat_Eggs Don’t eat eggs or live in valleys.]

|'''Is the Trinity OK?''' <br> [http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Plum_and_Apple_Trees William Branham said it was, based on a vision.]

|'''Mishawaka Christians''' <br> [http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Roy_Davis#Roy_Davis.27_Pentecostal_Baptist_Church Who did William Branham meet?]       

In the fall of 1936, William Branham claimed to have a vision that the Ohio River would flood, and reach 22 feet over Spring Street in Jeffersonville. <ref>William Branham, July 17 ,1951 in a sermon called “The Manifestation of The Spirit” </ref> A daughter named Sharon Rose Branham was born to William and Hope Branham on October 27, 1936.  A month later, William Branham’s father Charles passed away for real on November 30, 1936.<ref>[[Searching for Vindication]] Timeline</ref>  William Branham later said that he had terrible grammar because of his father’s early death. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Was_William_Branham_Honest#Problems_with_William_Branham.27s_Credibility </ref>

William Branham tells how he lost contact with Hope during the flood, and found her dying in a hospital with a hole in her side to collapse her lungs.  Hope's nurse was also a personal friend of the Branham family, and William Branham identified her as Hilda Juanita Evelyn Louise Cook Hale. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Hope_Branham%27s_Nurse </ref> He ties the story of Hope’s death so closely to the flood, that he makes is sound as if she died in February of 1937.  <ref>William Branham,  April 15, 1951 in a sermon called “Life Story”</ref>  But Hope fought pneumonia for a number of months before passing away on July 21, 1937.  Sharon Rose Branham also passed away from disease a few days later on July 26, 1937. <ref>[[Searching for Vindication]] Timeline</ref> William Branham blamed the death of Hope and Sharon Rose on his decision to respect his mother-in-law’s request not to associate with Pentecostals.  <ref>[[Searching for Vindication]] Timeline -  2013/06/19 post re Where My Sorrow Started</ref>