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William Branham relates a story about a man (possibly [[Ernest Fandler]]) who came into the prayer line at meetings in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. | William Branham relates a story about a man (possibly [[Ernest Fandler]]) who came into the prayer line at meetings in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. According to Branham, the man was not in the prayer line to be prayer for but rather to expose William Branham as a fraud. As the story is told, the man had written several illnesses on his card which he did not have, hoping that William Branham would refer to the illnesses that he had on the card, thus demonstrating his gift to be fraudulent. As William Branham tells it, he knew by his gift of healing that there was nothing wrong with the man. He then condemned the man to suffer from the sicknesses that he had written on the card. | ||
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|'''[[L’homme de Windsor]]''' <br> En Francais. | |'''[[L’homme de Windsor]]''' <br> En Francais. | ||
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=Problems with the Story= | =Problems with the Story= | ||
The first time that William Branham relates the story on tape was in 1950. in telling the story he states that the man asked for forgiveness and found it. He repeats the story 11 times from | The first time that William Branham relates the story on tape was in 1950. in telling the story he states that the man asked for forgiveness and found it. He repeats the story another 11 times from 1953 to 1963 but the story changes over time; eliminating the forgiveness that the man found and replacing it with judgment, illness, paralysis and death. | ||
Here is the way the story evolved over time | Here is the way the story evolved over time highlighting what William Branham said was revealed to him regarding the man's deception and his punishment. If you would like to read the full version of each story, they are below in full. | ||
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! style="width: 20%"|Date | |||
! style="width: 35%"|The Deception | |||
! style="width: 35%"|The Punishment | |||
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|January 10, 1950 | |||
|''And I took a hold of his hand. There was no vibrations.'' | |||
|''"…is there '''forgiveness''' for me?" There was.'' | |||
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|May 8, 1953 | |||
|''I seen a vision break… seen him setting at a table with a green scarf hanging over it, with a man with …a blue suit …a woman … with a green dress…'' | |||
|''"The disease that you put on that prayer card will be on you the rest of your life." And it is.'' | |||
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|September 2, 1954 | |||
|''…seen him setting at a table with another man... And a woman was standing there with a dotted dress…'' | |||
|''"Now, the things …on your prayer card, is on you. You have it now…" Far as I know, the man's in eternity today, '''dead'''.'' | |||
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|March 7, 1956 | |||
|''…man setting up there in the balcony with the red tie on, blue suit? You and him set together last night a table, had a green cover over it. And a woman set over in the corner.'' | |||
|''And the man's laying '''bedfast to this day'''.'' | |||
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|December 9, 1956 | |||
|''… you set with your wife and a man that's in this building tonight with a red tie on and a blue suit…'' | |||
|''”What you put on your prayer card, you have." And '''screaming, he run from the building'''. …I '''don't know what ever happened'''.'' | |||
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|December 7, 1957 | |||
|''…a woman standing, looking down on two men. One of them went on a gray suit with a red tie.'' | |||
|''”The thing that you put on your prayer card…, is on you now.” The man '''died about a year later'''. '' | |||
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|June 30, 1957 | |||
|''"You're a Church of Christ minister… You're the one exposed." And just then the man setting up there; he said, "Mr. Branham, I'm the guy that was with him." Said, "That's my wife setting right here, was with him."'' | |||
|''"The things that you put on your card, you have. Both cancer and TB." …But the last time I heard him, '''I never heard no more, just a letter from some of the people, that he was in a serious condition'''. '' | |||
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|February 8, 1958 | |||
|''"You're a preacher, and that man setting right there with that gray suit on in the balcony is the one that was with you last night. …and you told your wife …That fellow raised up there and said, "Brother Branham, that's the truth. I was right there with him."'' | |||
|''"Now, what was on your prayer card you have." He '''died about six months later''' with a cancer. '' | |||
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|March 30, 1958 | |||
|''”You're a certain denominational church." Called who he was, and I said, "Last night you set with your wife, and that man there with the red tie on…'' | |||
|''And I said, "Now, what you put on your prayer card, you have." …They took him out '''paralyzed''', and he's still paralyzed.'' | |||
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|February 12, 1961 | |||
|''That man setting right yonder in the balcony with the red tie on and the gray suit, you was in his house the other night…'' | |||
| ''And I said, "Because that you have said, and put that on your prayer card, now you have it." And he '''died about six weeks afterwards'''.'' | |||
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|January 24, 1962 | |||
|''You belong to a certain church. Last night you set with that man right up there with a red suit on--with a red tie and black suit. And that's his wife setting right over on this corner, and your wife.'' | |||
| ''I said, "The things that you got on your card is upon you." He '''died about six weeks after that'''.'' | |||
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|November 24, 1963 | |||
|''You're a church of Christ preacher. You belong to the church of Christ… And that man setting up there with that blue suit on, and your wife and his wife setting there… | |||
|''I said, "Sir, you put ''''TB and cancer'''' on that card, and '''now you have it'''. It's yours now." | |||
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If the story was true, wouldn't you assume that the closest story to the truth would be the first time the story was told, similar to that of the story relating to [[Congressman Upshaw]]? | |||
Why would William Branham need to exaggerate the story to such a degree if it was really God who revealed the deception? | |||
Was the point of William Branham telling the story to instill fear in the people? Was he trying to place himself on the same level by paralleling with the apostle Peter in Acts 5? | |||
=Quotes= | =Quotes= |