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<div style="border-bottaom:2px #B87333 solid; text-align:left; padding:1px; margin:1px;"><font color='#800000' size='+1'>'''Was William Branham Honest? (Part 2)'''</font>  </div>
<div style="border-bottaom:2px #B87333 solid; text-align:left; padding:1px; margin:1px;"><font color='#800000' size='+1'>'''Was William Branham Honest? (Part 2)'''</font>  </div>


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William Branham relates a story about a man who came into the prayer line at meetings in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.  He was there not to get healed but to expose William Branham as a fraud.  He 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 condemned the man to suffer from the sicknesses that he had written on the card.
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.  Unfortunately, the story radically changes over time; eliminating the forgiveness that the man found and replacing it with judgment, illness and death.
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.


There are numerous ways that the story changed 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.


==How did William Branham know the man was not being truthful?==
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William Branham indicated that he knew of the man's deception because:
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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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*There were no vibrations to indicate he had a disease (1950).
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]]?
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with a man in a red suit and a woman in a green dress (1953)
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with another man and woman in a "dotted" dress. (1954)
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with another man in the balcony with a blue suit and woman sitting in a corner. (1956)
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with another man in the balcony with a blue suit. (1956)
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with another man in a grey suit and a woman standing looking down on the 2 men. (1957)
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with another man in a grey suit and a blonde woman sitting with them. (1957)
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with another man in the balcony wearing a gray suit and his wife.  (1958)
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with another man in audience and his wife. (1958)
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with another man in the balcony wearing a gray suit. (1961)
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with another man in the balcony wearing a black suit and both their wives. (1962)
*He had a vision which showed the man planning his deception with another man in the balcony wearing a blue suit and both their wives. (1963)
 
==What happened to the man?==
 
According to William Branham, the result of the man's deception was as follows:


*The man fell down screaming and asked for forgiveness (1950)
Why would William Branham need to exaggerate the story to such a degree if it was really God who revealed the deception?
*A man in the audience screamed and the diseases on the prayer card came on the man in the prayer line. (1953)
*The diseases on the prayer card came on the man and he was assumed to be dead. (1954)
*The diseases on the prayer card came on the man and the man remained bedridden to that time. (1956)
*The diseases on the prayer card came on the man and he ran screaming from the building.  William Branham indicated he never heard what happened to the man subsequently. (1956)
*The diseases on the prayer card came on the man and he died a year later. (1957)
*The diseases on the prayer card came on the man and William Branham received a letter from some people that the man was in serious condition. (1957)
*The diseases on the prayer card came on the man and the man died 6 months later from cancer.  (1958)
*The diseases on the prayer card came on the man. They carried him out paralyzed and he remained paralyzed until that time. (1958)
*The diseases on the prayer card came on the man and the man died about 6 weeks later. (1961)
*The diseases on the prayer card came on the man and the man died about 6 weeks later. (1962)
*The diseases on the prayer card came on the man. (1963)


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]]?
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?
 
Why would William Branham need to exagerate the story to such a degree if it was really God who performed the miracle?


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Can we really believe anything that he had to say?
Can we really believe anything that he had to say?


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