What were the Seven Visions?: Difference between revisions

It may seem peculiar that this section is headed, ëWhat were the visions?í rather than ëThe visions wereí but determining exactly what they were, turns out not to be problematical.

#William Branhamís book entitled ëAn Exposition of the Seven Church Agesí (the Church Age Book).

=The original written record=

*I've got it wrote, old yellow paper still waiting in a Bible. I saw the end time coming.<ref>''Teaching on Moses 1956''</ref>  

*Yeah, I know that, see, just exactly what's wrote on my book of prophecy in 1933, that would take place<ref>''Souls that are in prison now 1963''</ref>   

*I've got it wrote out here in the Bible. Just like laying yonder in the cornerstone, that what would take place in the last days; and everyone knows what that was; it's been just exactly the Word. It will be just this way<ref>''Israel and the Church 1953''</ref>   

Following William Branhamís death, none of these records were produced by the family or executors.

This means that the primary record of the content of the visions is missing and that secondary records need to be found to attempt a reconstruction.  

=Affidavits from the 1933 meeting=

=Copies of the original record=

=William Branhamís sermons=

Here is one example of his descriptions of the ëHitlerí or ëWorld War IIí vision:

::I'd like to read you a prophecy that was given... This one first. I speak this in the Name of the Lord. The president which now is, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Now remember, this is twenty-eight years ago.) will cause the whole world to go to war. (Now, look what happened now.) In...President Franklin D. Roosevelt took America to England's tea party. That's right. Germany never picked on us; we picked on them, throwed the whole world into a war, to cause a world war."<ref>''Condemnation by Representation 1960''</ref>  

::How many remembers that vision, here in the church? Sure. Said that, how Öeleven years beforehand, it said that "We'd go to war with Germany, and Germany would be fortified behind concrete," the Maginot Line. It happened just that way.<ref>''Ephesian Church Age 1960''</ref>   

::I seen it, thirty--1931. Seven things happened. I got it right on paper here with me, wrote it in 1931. How that I said, "This President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, he will cause all the world, help do it, send the world to war." Hadn't come to war yet, during times of depression. I said, "Another thing..." And my mother, a square-back Democrat, if she didn't look at me hard when I said that. I said, "I don't care if there's a Republican or if he was a Socialist or whatever he is, this is THUS SAITH THE LORD."<ref>''Jezebel Religion 1961''</ref>  

::1933, the Holy Spirit came one morning and told me seven things that would take place before this nation was destroyed. One of them is that. It's on old paper there at the church, many has looked at it. How that we would go to war with Hitler and they'd... How Germany would fortify and build a Maginot line, or the Siegfried line, I believe it was, eleven years before it was ever thought of. ÖMany, many years before it happened perfectly on the dot. And it's never failed, and it won't fail, because it's THUS SAITH THE LORD.<ref>''Once More 1963''</ref>   

::How that the Americas would go to war with Germany, they'd take an awful beating at a place called, a great line where there would be concrete fortified in there, I believe it's called the Siegfried line. And there's one called Maginot, I believe that was the French. Was that right? And the Siegfried line was the German line. And the Lord let me see that, eleven years before it was built. And they never would admit getting a beating on it, the Americans wouldn't, till they almost sunk the complete army. When they went in there, the Germans had their guns just trained right out on that fleet, and let it get right in there, and almost sunk it. And I seen that, eleven years before the line was ever--ever a foundation was ever poured for it, or anything, the Siegfried line.<ref>''Shalom 1964''</ref>  

=ëAn Exposition of the Seven Church Agesí ñ William Branhamís book=

| 1 Mussolini || The first vision was that Mussolini would invade Ethiopia and that nation would ìfall at his steps.î  But the vision also said that Mussolini would come to a horrible end with his own people turning on him.

| 2 Hitler|| An Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.  

| 3 Three ISMs || The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be three great ISMS, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third. The voice admonished, "WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North."  

| 4 Scientific Progress || The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves.

| 5 Women and morals  || The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men's clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world.  

| 6 Powerful woman in America || Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.  

| 7 America destroyed || The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America.