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'''Q: Can you help me with the three holy words Bro Branham uses when healing as told him by the angel. He narrated in the message ''Experience''.''' | '''Q: Can you help me with the three holy words Bro Branham uses when healing as told him by the angel. He narrated in the message ''Experience''.''' | ||
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:''Now, here's what it is. There's '''<u>three words that I have to repeat at that time</u>'''. See? And it's the '''<u>three high words of the Bible. No mortal on earth know it.</u>''' See? And when I ask that, and then I feel that drop, then it comes shakes back to a place in return of that spirit. Then the...?... healed. That's the reason you hear me say that. See? That's what takes place.'' Experiences, Phoenix, AZ, 48-0302 (emphasis added) | :''Now, here's what it is. There's '''<u>three words that I have to repeat at that time</u>'''. See? And it's the '''<u>three high words of the Bible. No mortal on earth know it.</u>''' See? And when I ask that, and then I feel that drop, then it comes shakes back to a place in return of that spirit. Then the...?... healed. That's the reason you hear me say that. See? That's what takes place.'' Experiences, Phoenix, AZ, 48-0302 (emphasis added) | ||
=Speaking in Tongues?= | |||
Was William Branham referring to speaking in tongues? | Was William Branham referring to speaking in tongues? | ||
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However, it does not appear that he is speaking in tounges as he states that these three words were "the three high words of the '''Bible'''". | However, it does not appear that he is speaking in tounges as he states that these three words were "the three high words of the '''Bible'''". | ||
=So what are the secret words?= | |||
William Branham states that '''" No mortal on earth know it".''' | William Branham states that '''" No mortal on earth know it".''' | ||
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:''But see what they have made of the mass! In the first place they have hidden these words of the testament and have taught that they are not to be spoken to the laity, that these are secret words to be spoken in the mass only by the priest. '' | :''But see what they have made of the mass! In the first place they have hidden these words of the testament and have taught that they are not to be spoken to the laity, that these are secret words to be spoken in the mass only by the priest. '' | ||
=== | We have heard [http://seekyethetruth.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=117&hilit=gnostic people claim that William Branham read gnostic texts and that some of his teachings came from gnostic sources]. This should make us all take a very close look at what he taught to ensure it matches with the Bible. Those teachings that do not (or are gnostic) should be rejected. | ||
Isn't it completely out of character for Jesus to behave as outlined in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas? Jesus freely gave His wisdom to all who would listen and hoped that they in turn would pass on the lessons to others. | Isn't it completely out of character for Jesus to behave as outlined in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas? Jesus freely gave His wisdom to all who would listen and hoped that they in turn would pass on the lessons to others. | ||
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That seems pretty plain. Jesus did not teach secret words. | That seems pretty plain. Jesus did not teach secret words. | ||
=What does this all mean?= | |||
So what is William Branham referring to? He seems to give an answer in 1961 and 1963 when he is talking about being challenged by witchdoctors in Germany. | |||
:''If Brother Arganbright is setting near, he could tell you the story; I was thinking how fifteen witch doctors on one side and fifteen on the other one, called up a storm to blow away the tent in Switzerland, or I believe it was France—Germany. Going to blow away the tent. Told us they was going to do it. And set there and cut those feathers and started going through maneuvers, "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost…?… Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, three high words," they said. All like that, and here come the storm up.'' (William Branham, February 11, 1961) | |||
:''It's happened in Germany, when them fifteen witch doctors, on each side of me, said… Because Billy and Brother Arganbright wouldn't let them—them see me, they said, "Well, we'll cause that tent to blow away." And they set down there, with their enchantments, and called on their god, the devil, and here he come with a storm. About thirty thousand, forty thousand Germans out there, and that tent just raising up-and-down like this. Them, and then cut, took a scissor and cut a feather, and pointed it back like that. And saying their, going through all their enchantments, and saying the three holy words they say, "The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost; lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu! The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost; lu-lu-lu!" 204 Going like that, and actually the storm come up. Sure. "He's the prince of the powers of the air," Satan. And they called the storm. And, now, even that great big tent setting out like that, oh my, it'd cover about a city block; and it built up, built out of two-by-four's, and just canvas tacked over it. The wind got under there and just raised it, like that. And that wind, and lightning flying like that, I just continually preached. 205 And, oh, they was just going into a big enchantment, going on and on like that, saying those little holy words they said, "The three high holy words: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost," on both sides like that.'' (William Branham, November 10, 1963) | |||
It seems that these witchdoctors were repeating three high holy words, just like William Branham said he did in 1948. | |||
=General References= | |||
Guelich, R. A. 1998. Mark 1–8:26. Word Biblical Commentary. Vol. 34A (xxi). Word, Incorporated: Dallas | *Tozer, A. W. 1995. Of God and men (99). WingSpread: Camp Hill, PA | ||
*Cross, F. L., & Livingstone, E. A. 2005. The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed. rev.) (1136). Oxford University Press: Oxford; New York | |||
*Daniels, J. B. 1992. Matthias, Traditions of. In D. N. Freedman (Ed.), The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (D. N. Freedman, Ed.). Vol. 4 (644). Doubleday: New York | |||
*Luther, M. 1999. Luther's works, vol. 35: Word and Sacrament I (J. J. Pelikan, H. C. Oswald & H. T. Lehmann, Ed.). Vol. 35 (90). Fortress Press: Philadelphia | |||
*Guelich, R. A. 1998. Mark 1–8:26. Word Biblical Commentary. Vol. 34A (xxi). Word, Incorporated: Dallas | |||
*LaHaye, T. 2009. Jesus. David C. Cook: Colorado Springs, CO | |||
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