Destruction of Los Angeles: Difference between revisions

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

[[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.  We know because we've been to Capernaum.  The ruins are still there.

In 1965, while relating a story about the Alaska earthquake, William Branham stated that Los Angeles would sink shortly thereafter - '''''In a few days a great earthquake's going to strike on the west. And it won't stop. California, Los Angeles will sink. It's going down.'''''

Note that this certainly seems like a failed prophesy.  He said that the Alaska earthquake in 1964 was going to be the start of a series of earthquakes culminating with Los Angeles sinking.  But nothing of significance followed the Alaskan earthquake in the United States. Why?

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: Unregulated oil extraction honeycombing the oilsands under Signal Hill.]]

The concept of a great earthquake in California and part of it sliding into the ocean was not a new concept initiated by Brother Branham.  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<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867597,00.html Time Magazine - April 1, 1957]</ref> that reported a partial sinking of Long Beach.  This sinking was blamed on the excessive oil 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 instability of the land was well know and documented before William Branham's prophecy.  

What is interesting is that this 'prophecy' did not appear in 1937 when it was supposedly written.  If you had a vision of catastrophic proportions, wouldn't you try to warn someone as soon as possible rather than waiting 30 years?

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[[Image:Biltmore.JPEG|thumb|right|300px|The Biltmore Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles, where William Branham prophecied that Los Angeles would roll into the sea.]]

:''"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.''

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