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When William Branham preached his sermon on Marriage and Divorce, he told his congregation that God gave specific vindication that confirmed that his revelation on the subject was true. | When William Branham preached his sermon on Marriage and Divorce, he told his congregation that God gave specific vindication that confirmed that his revelation on the subject was true. | ||
= | =Is this what really happened?= | ||
The vindication that | The vindication that William Branham referred to was an amber cloud moving up and down on the mountain as school children watched. However, there is no reporting of this in any newspapers or other independent sources. | ||
Here is what | Here is what William Branham said: | ||
:''This is to my church only--not my church, the little flock that believes me and follows me; this is to them. | :''This is to my church only--not my church, the little flock that believes me and follows me; this is to them. | ||
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:''Now, I'm speaking to our followers only, who's following me and this Message only, not the outside. Bear me record of this before God: just to this group only.<ref>MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 SUNDAY_ 65-0221M</ref> | :''Now, I'm speaking to our followers only, who's following me and this Message only, not the outside. Bear me record of this before God: just to this group only.<ref>MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 SUNDAY_ 65-0221M</ref> | ||
From this statement it appears as though William Branham went up the mountain to get a Word from the Lord. | From this statement it appears as though William Branham went up the mountain to get a Word from the Lord and that this amber cloud appeared as a vindication that what he was going to speak was "Thus saith the Lord." | ||
But we also need to look at what | ==Or was it all in a dream?== | ||
But we also need to look at what William Branham said later on the same day, but in the evening service: | |||
:''If it happens to be that my good friend Brother Roy Roberson is listening in at Tucson, Roy, you remember the other day '''the vision you seen''' when we were out standing upon the mountain? You come up to me, and that cloud was over the top? Come walking down, you know what He told you, I told you at the house the other day? That's it, Roy. Don't worry no more, son; it's over.<ref>WHO.IS.THIS.MELCHISEDEC_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0221E</ref> | :''If it happens to be that my good friend Brother Roy Roberson is listening in at Tucson, Roy, you remember the other day '''the vision you seen''' when we were out standing upon the mountain? You come up to me, and that cloud was over the top? Come walking down, you know what He told you, I told you at the house the other day? That's it, Roy. Don't worry no more, son; it's over.<ref>WHO.IS.THIS.MELCHISEDEC_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0221E</ref> | ||
So, | So, by William Branham's statement it looks as if Roy Roberson was with Williamr Branham on the mountain, '''but it was in a vision'''. | ||
=What happened in the dream?= | |||
The following is what actually happened, based on the account as told by Roy Roberson: | |||
:''"That summer after Brother Branham left for Jeffersonville, I got real homesick. And it was during this time that I had a dream, or I should say a 'vision' because that is what Brother Branham called it. | :''"That summer after Brother Branham left for Jeffersonville, I got real homesick. And it was during this time that I had a dream, or I should say a 'vision' because that is what Brother Branham called it. | ||
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:''The following February, seven months later, Brother Branham preached, "Marriage and Divorce" on Sunday morning, the twenty-first. We were listening to the services in Tucson, via a telephone hook-up, and that evening, just before he preached Who Is This Melchisedec?, he was commenting on the morning service. I heard him say, "If it happens to be that my good friend Brother Roy Roberson is listening in at Tucson, Roy, you remember the other day the vision you seen when we were out standing upon the mountain? You come up to me, and that cloud was over the top?" <ref>Only Believe Magazine, Issue 8, Volume 3, Number 2, Believers International Inc., 1990</ref> | :''The following February, seven months later, Brother Branham preached, "Marriage and Divorce" on Sunday morning, the twenty-first. We were listening to the services in Tucson, via a telephone hook-up, and that evening, just before he preached Who Is This Melchisedec?, he was commenting on the morning service. I heard him say, "If it happens to be that my good friend Brother Roy Roberson is listening in at Tucson, Roy, you remember the other day the vision you seen when we were out standing upon the mountain? You come up to me, and that cloud was over the top?" <ref>Only Believe Magazine, Issue 8, Volume 3, Number 2, Believers International Inc., 1990</ref> | ||
The | =The questions that must be asked= | ||
The questions that must be asked are as follows: | |||
:1. Did an amber cloud actually descend, or did Roy Roberson's dream simply make its way into William Braham's story? | |||
:2. Were there any independent confirmation of what William Branham says was witnessed by the public or was he simply making it up from Roy Roberson's dream? | |||
:3. '''Was the "Marriage and Divorce" really "Thus Saith the Lord" or just "Thus saith William Branham"?''' | |||
'''You decide.''' | '''You decide.''' | ||