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=Problems with the prophecy=
=Problems with the prophecy=


In the Laodicea chapter in the Church Age Book, William Branham says, “Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?”  '''Almost 80 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of these prophecies and we find a number of problems''':
In the Laodicea chapter in the Church Age Book, William Branham says, “Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?”  Over 80 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of these prophecies and we find a number of problems:


#Facism, Nazisim and Communism did not unite into Communism
#Facism, Nazisim and Communism did not unite into Communism
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*’’ They'll all wind up out of Russia, in Communism." And it will destroy Catholicism. See if it don't!’’
*’’ They'll all wind up out of Russia, in Communism." And it will destroy Catholicism. See if it don't!’’


History, however, has shown that Catholicism was instrumental in the fall of communism.  Lech Wałęsa has said that “'''The pope started this chain of events that led to the end of communism'''” and Mikhail Gorbachev has said “'''The collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without John Paul II.'''”  
History, however, has shown that Catholicism was instrumental in the fall of communism.  Lech Wałęsa has said that “The pope started this chain of events that led to the end of communism” and Mikhail Gorbachev has said “The collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without John Paul II.”  


====Communism winding up in Catholicism====
====Communism winding up in Catholicism====
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*1964: Prophecy was written in a book that three isms would wind up in Communism, and destroy Catholicism. <ref>''In my book in there, that I keep wrote down. In 1933, one morning, fixing to go to Sunday school, a Baptist Sunday school where I was pastor, the Holy Spirit come and showed me down to the end time, and showed me seven things that would happen. I marked them down. It's on old yellow paper...And I said, "There is three isms; Communism, Facism, and Nazism. They'll all wind up out of Russia, in Communism." And it will destroy Catholicism. See if it don't!''</ref> (March 21, 1964, Denham Springs, Louisiana) </ref>
*1964: Prophecy was written in a book that three isms would wind up in Communism, and destroy Catholicism. <ref>''In my book in there, that I keep wrote down. In 1933, one morning, fixing to go to Sunday school, a Baptist Sunday school where I was pastor, the Holy Spirit come and showed me down to the end time, and showed me seven things that would happen. I marked them down. It's on old yellow paper...And I said, "There is three isms; Communism, Facism, and Nazism. They'll all wind up out of Russia, in Communism." And it will destroy Catholicism. See if it don't!''</ref> (March 21, 1964, Denham Springs, Louisiana) </ref>
*Church Age Book: Three isms would be swallowed up into Communism, and to watch Russia.  <ref>''The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be three great isms, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third. The voice admonished, "WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North." ''(Laodicean Church Age Book</ref>
*Church Age Book: Three isms would be swallowed up into Communism, and to watch Russia.  <ref>''The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be three great isms, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third. The voice admonished, "WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North." ''(Laodicean Church Age Book</ref>


=1955 and 1964 retelling of the 1933 prophecy=
=1955 and 1964 retelling of the 1933 prophecy=