San Antonio, Texas.

In early 1947, as Brother Branham began to move amongst the Pentecostal people, he found himself walking out across the platform on his first night of ministering at a cathedral in San Antonio, Texas, when a man in the gallery gave a message in tongues so emphatic that it was like it was being fired from a gun.  Another man who was a stranger to the first, gave the interpretation and said;
 

 "Thus saith the Lord. The man that's walking to the platform is going forward with a ministry that was ordained of Almighty God and as John the Baptist was sent as the forerunner of the first coming of Jesus Christ, so he carries a message that will bring about the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ."

 

Santa Rosa, California

Later in 1947, he encountered a further confirmation of the calling on his life when he met a man and his wife who were evangelists with the Assemblies of God Church and who had earlier received gifts of the Spirit to speak in unknown tongues and also give the interpretation.  In 1925 they had been in prayer when one was moved upon to give a message, whereupon the other had given the interpretation.  They wrote down the interpretation which read;

"Thus saith the Lord, in the last days before the coming of the Lord, I'll send My servant, William Branham, up the West Coast praying for the sick bearing a gift of Divine healing."

They had been in the habit of storing their prophecies in a suitcase in their attic and it was not until 1947, that the husband had come home before dinner and happened to read a newspaper article which reported on William Branham's campaign in nearby Santa Rosa.  The ministers name somehow seemed familiar and after dinner he retrieved the old suitcase and found the piece of paper on which the prophecy had been written.

Determined to be certain, they made their way to the campaign meetings in Santa Rosa where in the hope of getting to talk to the minister, the husband created somewhat of a stir by attempting three times to join the prayer line which was reserved only for sick people.   When the disturbance came to William Branham's attention, he asked the man what he wanted. 

"How do you spell your last name?" was the response. 

"B-R-A-N-H-A-M"

Excitedly the man exclaimed "Mother, that's it. That's it!" 

A lady came forward and they produced the piece of paper, yellowed with age, on which their prophecy had been written and which confirmed that the spelling was the same as they had been given 22 years before.

Houston Texas

Also in 1947, Brother Branham told of an earlier meeting in Houston where one morning a lady had run into the back of the meeting and stopped the service.  She had her neighbors baby with her which had legs crippled from infantile paralysis.  The baby's grandfather had been dead twenty years but while alive, he had been an old Methodist preacher who often said that before the ending of the Gentile dispensation, God would give the Gift of healing to the Gentile Church, the same as He had given to the Jews.  Three times that morning, the child's mother had dreamed of a black cloud that had rolled back from which her father had stepped forward and told her to;

'Rise and take the child and go to the Houston Gospel Tabernacle.

The gift of Divine healing is there."

She was so weak with sickness herself that after she had discovered that the address was real, she had a neighbor take the child to the meeting, whereupon the child was healed.

Camden, Arkansas

Brother Branham followed the story  that he told in Houston, TX., above with an account of an old grey headed colored man who in desperation, had earlier stopped him as he was leaving a meeting at Camden, Arkansas.  The old man had had his eyes destroyed by an explosion twelve years before.  However, just two nights before the meeting, he had seen his mother in a dream, even although she had been dead some twenty years.  She was a Christian and in the dream she told him that;

"God had sent His gift of Divine healing, and it was at Camden, Arkansas,"
and "not to let the 'Reverend' go by." 
 

After a word of prayer from Brother Branham, the old man with tears rolling down his cheeks, began to bat his eyes,  saying to his wife; 

"Honey, ain't that an automobile setting right there?"

Tulsa, Oklahoma

In June, 1947, as Brother Branham was holding a Divine Healing campaign in the city, a message in tongues was again interpreted, this time by a Sister Anna Schrader, stating that,
 

“As John the Baptist was sent as a forerunner of the Lord’s first coming,

so was He sending forth William Branham and others like him to

move the people and prepare them for His second coming.”

Mormon Word of God - Seattle

 

Brother Branham reported in 1951 that one night in Seattle, he had been met by a man who gave him a book called the "Mormon Word of God," while telling him;

"Your in the wrong Church." 

 

Brother Branham said that the book contained a very old prophecy which stated;

"In the last days Germany would adopt Nazism etc,"

and then went on,
 

"In that day, let William Branham be called and
set aside in humility for the service that I have called him to."

Mormon Word of God - Brigham Young University, Utah

 

Dawson Riley was a guide who went game hunting with Brother Branham, and had a Mormon friend named Val.  Val attended Brigham Young University in Utah and Dawson reported that while Val was reading in a secured part of the University library, he came across a book called the "Mormon Word of God".  On page 55, a prophecy was recorded by a man who had been rejected as a heretic. It read;
 

"In the last days my servant William Branham will come down the west coast healing, preaching, and doing miracles in My Name."

Los Angeles, California, (Clifton's Cafeteria)

As William Braham was concluding a sermon to a Christian Business Men's Fellowship Breakfast on the morning of February 11, 1961, a young Baptist man by the name of  Danny Henry (a cousin to the actress Jane Russell) was moved upon by the Holy Ghost to put his arms around Brother Branham and say;

Whereupon, Miss Marianne Buess, a French Mademoiselle from Lausanne, Switzerland, declared the message through Danny Henry to be;

"clear and beautiful French." 

Victor Le Doux, a Frenchman and French interpreter to the United Nations was also present and affirmed,

"Certainly, I'm a Frenchman, and that was perfect French."

The Gentiles have now experienced (and largely ignored) a prophetic ministry the likes of which has not been seen before while against the odds, the Jewish nation is in her homeland after an absence of 1900 years, just as their prophets foretold millennia ago.  Even now, devout Jews are looking for their Mashiach (the Jewish Messiah) to appear and are desiring to establish the Temple worship again.

Bible readers know that there is little prophecy left to be fulfilled before God turns His attention back to the Jews and judgment falls upon the Gentile nations that spurned the Gospel in their day.

 "Brother Branham, I hope this don't sound sacrilegious, but that could be made the 23rd chapter of Revelations."  

No sooner had he had said this and despite knowing nothing of the supernatural, he started speaking in a language unknown to him.

Immediately Annette Long, a French woman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana stood to her feet and said;

"That doesn't need any interpretation. That is clearly French." 

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"He carries a message that will bring about the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ."

"In the last days before the coming of the Lord, I'll send My servant, William Branham, up the West Coast praying for the sick bearing a gift of Divine healing."

"'Rise and take the child and go to the Houston Gospel Tabernacle. The gift of Divine healing is there." 

"God had sent His gift of Divine healing, and it was at Camden, Arkansas,"

"In that day, let William Branham be called and
set aside in humility for the service that I have called him to."

"In the last days my servant William Branham will come down the west coast healing, preaching, and doing miracles in My Name."

Against all the odds, the Jewish nation is back in her homeland after an absence of 1900 years, just as their own prophets foretold millennia ago.

William Branham had the two women hold their peace and write down what they had heard while Victor Le Doux volunteered his own transcription. All three statements were in perfect agreement, even down to the punctuation.  This is what was said;

 "Because thou hast chosen the narrow path, the harder way,

(thou hast walked in your own choosing), Thou hast picked the correct and precise decision and it is My way. Because of this momentous decision, a huge portion of heaven awaits thee. What a glorious decision thou has made. This in itself is that which will give and make come to pass the tremendous victory in the love Divine."