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[[Image:CadillacProphet.jpg|thumb|400px|William Branham accepts the keys to a free Cadillac in front of his free house.]] | [[Image:CadillacProphet.jpg|thumb|400px|William Branham accepts the keys to a free Cadillac in front of his free house.]] | ||
William Branham protrayed himself as growing up dirt poor and never having much money in his life. | William Branham protrayed himself as growing up dirt poor and never having much money in his life. As late as 1962, William Branham complained that he didn't have enough money to cover the expenses of his meetings. | ||
He clearly portrayed a picture of himself as never having had much money. | |||
But is this true? | |||
=William Branham's early years= | =William Branham's early years= | ||
When William Branham was about 17 years of age in 1926, he purchased a new Model T Ford. The price of this car, assuming that it was not special ordered, would have been somewhere between $366 - $580, depending on the exact model. This was not an insignificant amount of money in 1926 and certainly as significant amount for a 17 year old boy. | |||
Why did William Branham indicate that he was poor as a young man? | |||
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=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||
I remember our first experience here, '''we were very, very poor'''. That's the reason today that I, my choice... And I--I say this with reverence. '''My choice is to be a poor man. I could've been a multi-millionaire if I had wanted to be.''' One person brought me a check, FBI agent, for a million, five hundred thousand dollars, a bank draft, and I refused to look at it from the Mission Bell Winery in California.<ref>LIFE.STORY_ OWENSBORO.KY SUNDAY_ 53-1108A</ref> | |||
And I--what little money I get a hold of, why, I put it in foreign missions, all we don't just have to eat on, and we--'''we live poor'''. Come to my home and find out, or let the investigation find out anything you want to know. '''I come poor; I will return poor. My people are poor, and I--I'll desire to remain that way.'''<ref>DIVINE.HEALING_ DES.MOINES.IA SUNDAY_ 54-0620E</ref> | |||
''Oh, how everything was gone. I stood upon the hill up there when the baby laying on the mother's arms... I heard the preacher say, "Ashes to ashes and dust to dust." They buried my heart. When I seen that young wife of twenty-two years old, been married a little over two years. Holding little old Billy on my arms, and him looking, "Mama, mama," reaching for her, and his little sister laying on the mother's arms... An old turtledove set in the bush a cooing. I heard the clods drop. '''We were poor, had to bury her almost in a potter's field.'''<ref>LOVE_ SHREVEPORT.LA 56-0726</ref> | |||
And I said, "Well, value!" I said, "Could you..." I remember years ago when '''I got my first little T-model Ford. I was a sinner. About 1926'''... And I would just shine that little thing all day Sunday to make it shine, stay home, didn't go to church, and shined it. Now, what if today I tried to find one piece of that car? It's gone. You couldn't do it. It's finished.<ref>THE.WORKING.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT_ PRINCE.ALBERT.SK THURSDAY_ 56-0816</ref> | And I said, "Well, value!" I said, "Could you..." I remember years ago when '''I got my first little T-model Ford. I was a sinner. About 1926'''... And I would just shine that little thing all day Sunday to make it shine, stay home, didn't go to church, and shined it. Now, what if today I tried to find one piece of that car? It's gone. You couldn't do it. It's finished.<ref>THE.WORKING.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT_ PRINCE.ALBERT.SK THURSDAY_ 56-0816</ref> | ||
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''Why, these cars that we got today, couldn't run over these highways we used to have. My first trip west, it taken me sixteen days to go from Jeffersonville to Phoenix, Arizona, eighteen hundred miles. But, my, the most of--'''it was 1926''', they had nothing but just old rock roads. I was a little boy setting there, holding this '''spool-top Ford'''; I thought I was making good time. Would took a horse two or three months to do it, if my daddy would've come.<ref>A.SUPER.SIGN_ GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 141 SUNDAY_ 62-0708</ref> | ''Why, these cars that we got today, couldn't run over these highways we used to have. My first trip west, it taken me sixteen days to go from Jeffersonville to Phoenix, Arizona, eighteen hundred miles. But, my, the most of--'''it was 1926''', they had nothing but just old rock roads. I was a little boy setting there, holding this '''spool-top Ford'''; I thought I was making good time. Would took a horse two or three months to do it, if my daddy would've come.<ref>A.SUPER.SIGN_ GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 141 SUNDAY_ 62-0708</ref> | ||
''Out into the land where this Message is going, from the East Coast to the West, from California to New York, down into the South, up into the North, out into the missions, and wherever It's going, and in this tabernacle. '''We are poor.''' We don't have these great, big, flowerly things, and television casts. We're just trying to do the best we can.<ref>THE.ANOINTED.ONES.AT.THE.END.TIME_ JEFF.IN 65-0725M</ref> | |||
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