TORAH TREASURE TROVE
NAZARENE ISRAEL FAITH, TORAH TREASURE TROVE
LONDON
United Kingdom
REV. WILLIAM M. BRANHAM
A MAN SENT FROM GOD
THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH OF WILLIAM BRANHAM WAS TAKEN BY THE DOUGLAS STUDIOS OF HOUSTON TEXAS IN JANUARY 1950. THE PHOTOGRAPHERS , MR JAMES AYERS AND MR THEODORE KIPPERMAN WERE HIRED BY A CLERGYMAN WHO OPPOSED THE MINISTRY OF WM. BRANHAM, IN AN ATTEMPT TO EXPOSE HIM AS A FRAUD. WHEN THE PICTURE WAS DEVELOPED THEY WERE AMAZED TO FIND THE EVIDENCE OF A LIGHT ABOVE THE HEAD OF REV. BRANHAM. NEVER HAD THEY SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE AND NONE OF THEM COULD UNDERSTAND THE PRESENCE OF THIS HALO. THE FOLLOWING DAY THEY CONTACTED BROTHER BRANHAM TO INFORM HIM ABOUT IT.
THE NEGATIVE WAS TAKEN TO AN FBI EMPLOYEE, MR GEORGE LACY, EXAMINER OF QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS, IN ORDER TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER OR NOT THE LIGHT OVER THE HEAD OF BROTHER BRANHAM COULD BE THE RESULT OF IMPROPER EXPOSURE, DEVELOPING OR RETOUCHING. AFTER EXAMINATION OF THE PHOTOGRAPH, MR LACY MET WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHERS AND MR BRANHAM.
MR LACY SAID.....
“REV. BRANHAM, YOU WILL DIE LIKE ALL OTHER MORTALS BUT AS LONG AS THERE IS A CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION, YOUR PICTURE WILL LIVE ON.”
BELOW IS A PHOTOCOPY OF GEORGE LACY`S OFFICIAL STATEMENT REGARDING THE PHOTOGRAPH WITH THE SUPERNATURAL HALO ABOVE REV. BRANHAMS HEAD
(THE FULL SCRIPT OF THE ABOVE LETTER IS FOUND AT FOOT OF THIS PAGE)
THE AMAZING LIFE STORY OF WILLIAM MARRION BRANHAM COULD HARDLY BE BELIEVED OR IMAGINED IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE HUNDREDS, AND IN FACT, THOUSANDS OF EYE WITNESSES AND DOCUMENTED EVIDENCES OF THE SPECTACULAR AND SUPERNATURAL EVENTS THAT OCCURRED THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE ESPECIALLY AFTER HIS ENTRY INTO THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.
WILLIAM M BRANHAM WAS BORN INTO A DEEPLY POVERTY STRUCK FAMILY IN THE KENTUCKY BACKWOODS AT 5.00am., ON THE 06TH. APRIL, 1909. HIS MOTHER, ELLA, WHO WAS PART CHEROKEE INDIAN AND 15 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME, GAVE BIRTH TO THIS `SUPERNATURAL` CHILD IN A LOG CABIN WHILST HIS FATHER, 18 YEARS OLD, LIQUOR-LOVING, CHARLES BRANHAM, (WHO COULD ONLY HOLD-DOWN LOW PAYING JOBS BECAUSE OF ILLITERACY), DISTILLED WHISKY IN HIS ILLEGAL STILL IN THE WOODS. CONSEQUENTLY, BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR HIS HOME-BREWS, CHARLES BRANHAM WEAKENED HIS HEALTH PREMATURELY, AND AT AN EARLY AGE THE JOB OF FAMILY PROVIDER FELL ON YOUNG BILLY BRANHAM, THE OLDEST OF THE TEN BRANHAM CHILDREN.
Photo: Bro. Branham`s Mother
THE FIRST DAY OF HIS LIFE, SOMETHING VERY UNUSUAL HAPPENED. AFTER THE FAMILY MIDWIFE HAD WASHED HIM AND PLACED HIM IN THE BOSOM OF HIS MOTHER, SHE WENT TO A WINDOW TO OPEN THE SHUTTER. THERE WAS NO GLASS IN THE WINDOWS IN THE BRANHAM HOUSE IN THOSE DAYS AND THE AIR AND LIGHT WAS REGULATED BY THE OPENING AND CLOSING OF THE WOODEN SHUTTERS. DAWN WAS JUST BREAKING OVER THE FIELDS, SENDING A FEW RAYS OF LIGHT INTO THE ROOM.
WITH THIS LIGHT CAME A SMALL CIRCULAR HALO ABOUT A FOOT IN DIAMETER WHICH SHONE WITH BRIGHTNESS ABOVE THE HEAD OF THE NEW-BORN BABY IN THE SEMI-DARK ROOM.
WHEN THE MIDWIFE CALLED THE FATHER TO COME IN, THE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN ALL THE ILLEGAL SHENANIGANS THAT THE BRANHAM FAMILY WERE INVOLVED IN, WERE ASTONISHED TO SEE THIS BRIGHT CIRCLE OF LIGHT HOVERING OVER THE CHILD, THEY WERE AFRAID AND BEGAN TO CRY BECAUSE THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IT ALL MEANT.
YOUNG BILLY BRANHAM WAS AN EXTREMELY NERVOUS CHILD WHO FOUND IT AN ORDEAL TO KEEP COMPANY WITH CHILDREN HIS OWN AGE. UNUSUAL THINGS KEPT HAPPENING TO HIM, MYSTIFYING AND SPIRITUAL THINGS THAT MADE HIM QUITE EDGY AND CONFUSED. HIS MOTHER, ELLA, WOULD TELL HIM ABOUT THE STRANGE LIGHT THAT HOVERED OVER HIM AT BIRTH BUT THIS ONLY MADE HIM MORE CONFUSED AND HE OFTEN WONDERED WHAT IT ALL MEANT.
FROM A VERY EARLY AGE WILLIAM BRANHAM OFTEN TROUBLED HIS FAMILY WITH STORIES OF VISIONS AND VOICES WHICH HE APPEARED TO CONTINU-ALLY HAVE ALTHOUGH NOT KNOWING WHAT THESE THINGS MEANT.
IN ONE CASE WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG BOY HE RAN HOME IN A QUITE TROUBLED STATE AND TOLD HIS MOTHER THAT HE SAW MEN BUILDING A BRIDGE OVER THE OHIO RIVER AND THAT 16 MEN FELL OFF THE BRIDGE.
OF COURSE, HIS MOTHER THOUGHT HIS IMAGINATION, WAS WORKING OVERTIME, AND WOULD SEND HIM TO BED TO CALM HIM DOWN. STRANGELY, 22 YEARS LATER, THE MUNICIPAL BRIDGE WAS BUILT OVER THE SAME SPOT ON THE OHIO RIVER AND 16 MEN DIED DURING THE BUILDING OF THE BRIDGE.
HE OFTEN TOLD THE STORY OF WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG LAD AND WAS OUT, ON THE ORDERS OF HIS FATHER, FETCHING WATER FROM THE WELL TO FEED HIS FATHER`S ILLEGAL WHISKY STILL, AND ON PASSING A LARGE POPLAR TREE NEAR WHERE HE LIVED HE HEARD A GREAT WHOOSING, WHOOSING SOUND. WHEN HE WENT TO INVESTIGATE, HE DISCOVERED THE SOUND WAS COMING FROM THE TREE.
APPROACHING THE TREE HE SAW THAT THERE SEEMED TO BE A MINI-WHIRLWIND IN THE MIDST OF THE TREE SHAKING THE BRANCHES AND LEAVES, AND AS HE LOOKED ON A VOICE SPOKE TO HIM OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE TREE AND TOLD HIM “DON`T EVER DRINK ALCOHOL, SMOKE CIGARETTES OR DEFILE YOUR BODY IN ANY WAY FOR I HAVE A WORK FOR YOU TO DO WHEN YOU GET OLDER.`
WITH GREAT FRIGHT THE YOUNG BRANHAM DROPPED THE BUCKET OF WATER HE WAS CARRYING AND RAN HOME SCREAMING, TELLING HIS MOTHER A MAN SPOKE TO HIM OUT OF A TREE. OF COURSE, SHE JUST THOUGHT IT WAS HIS OVER-IMAGINATIVE MIND, AND TRIED HER BEST TO CALM HIM DOWN.
ONCE HE WAS ON A FISHING TRIP DOWN THE RIVER WITH HIS FATHER AND ONE OF HIS FATHER`S FRIENDS. THE FRIEND TOOK A BOTTLE OF WHISKY FROM HIS SACK AND AFTER HIS FATHER AND THE FRIEND HAD EACH TAKEN A SWIG FROM THE BOTTLE, THE FRIEND OFFERED SOME TO YOUNG WILLIAM BRANHAM, BUT HE POLITELY REFUSED. THE FAMILY FRIEND REMARKED THAT HE WAS “QUITE SURPRISED AT A BRANHAM, AND AN IRISHMAN AT THAT, REFUSING A DRINK OF WHISKY” AND THE LAD`S FATHER REPLIED, “YES, I`VE RAISED A FEW BRANHAMS AND ONE OF THEM IS A SISSY`
YOUNG WILLIAM BRANHAM WAS SO SHOCKED TO HEAR HIS DADDY SPEAK OF HIM IN THIS WAY AND REACHING OUT, GRABBED THE BOTTLE SAYING, “I`LL SHOW YOU I CAN DRINK”. NO SOONER HAD HE PUT THE BOTTLE TO HIS LIPS THAN HE HEARD THE SAME GREAT WHOOSING SOUND AND A VOICE SPEAKING IN HIS EAR REMINDING HIM OF THE WORK HE HAD TO DO WHEN HE GOT OLDER. HE DROPPED THE BOTTLE WITH GREAT SHOCK, AND RAN HOME AS FAST AS HE COULD.
INSTANCES LIKE THESE WERE TO PLAGUE THE YOUNG VISIONARY THROUGHOUT HIS TEENAGE AS WELL AS HIS CHILDHOOD YEARS, AND SINCE HE HAD NO RELIGIOUS UPBRINGING , ALTHOUGH HIS FAMILY ON HIS FATHER`S SIDE WERE CATHOLICS OF IRISH DESCENT HE HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING WHAT THEY MEANT AND IT ALL CAUSED HIM QUITE A BIT OF PERPLEXITY.
WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER HE LEFT HOME TO FIND WORK, AND IN THE PROCESS OF TIME TRAINED AS A YOUNG BOXER. DURING HIS TIME AWAY FROM HOME ONE OF HIS BROTHERS, EDWARD, DIED AND THIS NATURALLY HAD A GREAT EFFECT ON HIM AND CAUSED HIM TO THINK LONG AND HARD AT THE QUESTIONS OF LIFE AND DEATH, AND HE OFTEN WONDERED IF HIS BROTHER WAS READY TO MEET GOD AT HIS DEATH.
DESPITE ALL THE STRANGE HAPPENINGS AND THE EARLY DEATH OF HIS YOUNG BROTHER, WILLIAM BRANHAM DID NOT GIVE HEED TO SPIRITUAL THINGS UNTIL 1931 WHEN HE ALMOST DIED AFTER AN OPERATION TO REMOVE HIS APPENDIX. AS HIS HEART BEAT SLOWER AND SLOWER, THE HOSPITAL BLURRED AND DISAPPEARED… SUDDENLY HE FOUND HIMSELF ON A PATH BENEATH A LARGE POPLAR TREE. IT WAS THE SAME SPOT WHERE A VOICE FROM A WHIRLWIND HAD TERRIFIED HIM WHEN HE WAS A SMALL BOY. NOW HE SAW THE SAME WHIRLWIND SWIRLING IN THE BRANCHES; BUT THIS TIME A VOICE FROM THE WHIRLWIND SAID ,
“DON `T EVER DRINK, OR SMOKE, OR DEFILE YOUR BODY IN ANY WAY-- I CALLED YOU AND YOU WOULD NOT GO.”
FRANTICALLY, BILLY ASKED,
“WHO CALLED? WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?”
THE VOICE MERELY REPEATED,
“I CALLED YOU AND YOU WOULD NOT GO.”
3 TIMES THE VOICE SPOKE IN THIS MANNER. BILLY CRIED OUT,
“JESUS, IF THIS IS YOU, LET ME GO BACK AGAIN TO EARTH AND I PROMISE I WILL PREACH YOUR GOSPEL FROM THE HOUSETOPS AND STREET CORNERS. I WILL TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT.”
SUDDENLY HE WAS BACK IN HIS HOSPITAL ROOM.
MIRACULOUSLY HE SURVIVED.
YOUNG WILLIAM BRANHAM SET OUT IN EARNEST TO FIND GOD, AND WENT FROM CHURCH TO CHURCH FOR MANY MONTHS TRYING TO FIND SALVATION. IN DESPERATION OF SOUL HE KNELT DOWN TO PRAY IN THE SHED BEHIND HIS PARENT`S HOME, CONFESSING HIS SIN AND HIS GREAT NEED OF SALVATION, AND THERE FOUND PEACE AND SALVATION IN THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST.
SHORTLY AFTER THIS EXPERIENCE HE MET AMELIA HOPE BRUMBACH, WHO INVITED HIM TO THE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH IN JEFFERSONEVILLE. BILLY BEGAN ATTENDING REGULARLY.
THE PASTOR, DR ROY DAVIS, WAS IMPRESSED BY THE YOUNG MAN`S SINCERITY AND ZEAL. AFTER WATCHING HIM FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, DR DAVIS SUGGESTED THAT WILLIAM BRANHAM SHOULD ENTER THE MINISTRY. BILLY HADN`T FORGOTTEN THE PROMISE MADE AT DEATH`S DOOR AND ACCEPTED JOYFULLY THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRAIN TO BE A PREACHER.
DURING HIS FIRST FALTERING, STUMBLING ATTEMPT AT PREACHING THE GOSPEL, HIS MOTHER ELLA SAT IN THE CONGREGATION, AND AT THE CONCLUSION OF HIS SERMON, ELLA BRANHAM AT THE AGE OF 39 GAVE HER HEART TO THE LORD JESUS. YOUNG WILLIAM BRANHAM, OVERFLOWING WITH JOY BAPTISED HIS MOTHER IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
DURING HIS YOUNG YEARS AS A BAPTIST MINISTER, THE VISIONS AND DREAMS WERE NEVER FAR AWAY AND OFTEN DEEPLY TROUBLED HIM. SOME WELL-MEANING CHRISTIAN FRIENDS TOLD HIM THAT HIS SUPERNATURAL EXPERIENCES `WERE OF THE DEVIL` AND THIS TROUBLED THE YOUNG BRANHAM EVEN MORE AS HIS SOLE DESIRE WAS TO SERVE THE LORD AND ANY THOUGHT OF DEMONIC ACTIVITY OF THIS SORT IN HIS LIFE WAS OF A GREAT CONSTERNATION TO HIM.
HIS SUPERVISOR IN THE MINISTRY, DR. DAVIS AND ANOTHER MINISTER, REV. MCKINNEY TOLD HIM THAT "THE EARLY APOSTLES DID HAVE SUCH SUPERNATURAL THINGS HAPPEN IN THEIR TIME, BUT THAT THESE GIFTS ARE NO LONGER WITH THE CHURCH AND THAT THE DEVIL CAUSES THESE THINGS TO HAPPEN TO DECEIVE US."
WELL, OF COURSE, THE YOUNG PASTOR BRANHAM WAS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED TO THINK THAT THE DEVIL WAS GIVING HIM ALL THESE STRANGE HAPPENINGS AND SO HE ASKED THESE 2 SERVANTS OF GOD WHOM HE DEEPLY RESPECTED AND LOVED, TO PRAY FOR HIM THAT THESE VISIONS AND VOICES WOULD STOP. SO THE 3 OF THEM KNELT DOWN AND PRAYED TO THE LORD ASKING GOD TO TAKE AWAY THESE `AWFUL THINGS ` FROM HIM.
BUT, INSTEAD OF GOING AWAY, THEY APPEARED TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY.
WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF HIS CONVERSION WILLIAM BRANHAM WAS HAVING TENT MEETINGS AND APPROXIMATELY 3.000 ATTENDED EACH SERVICE. THIS WAS VERY UNUSUAL, EVEN FOR OUTSTANDING MINISTERS AND THIS WAS ONLY HIS FIRST CAMPAIGN. HUNDREDS WERE CONVERTED AND AT THE BAPTISMS OF THE CONVERTS A SHORT TIME LATER OVER 130 CANDIDATES WERE BAPTISED.
A VERY STRANGE AND UNUSUAL THING OCCURRED AS HE WAS BAPTISING THE 17TH. CANDIDATE. A LIGHT DESCENDED FROM THE HEAVENS AND CAME DOWN AND DURING THE BAPTISMAL SERVICE HOVERED OVER THE HEAD OF THE YOUNG BAPTIST PREACHER. THIS STRANGE SIGHT WAS WITNESSED BY HUNDREDS OF BELIEVERS AND SCOFFERS ALIKE, AND IT WAS REPORTED THE FOLLOWING DAY IN THE NEWSPAPERS.
YOUNG WILLIAM BRANHAM AND HOPE BRUMBACH FELL IN LOVE AND MARRIED IN 1934, AND IN THE NEXT 2 YEARS BILLY PAUL BRANHAM AND LITTLE SHARON ROSE BRANHAM WERE BORN.
IN JANUARY 1937, A GREAT TRAGEDY CAME TO YOUNG WILLIAM BRANHAM. HEAVY DOWNPOURINGS OF RAIN CAUSED THE OHIO RIVER TO OVERFLOW, FLOODING ALL THE REGION AND WILLIAM BRANHAM`S LITTLE HOME WAS FLOODED AND HIS WIFE AND LITTLE BABY SHARON ROSE, LOST THEIR LIVES DUE TO THE TRAGIC FLOODING. YOUNG BILLY BRANHAM GOT TO HIS WIFE JUST BEFORE SHE DIED AND SHE MADE HIM PROMISE THAT HE WOULD REMARRY SO THAT THE CHILDREN WOULD HAVE A MOTHER TO CARE FOR THEM. AFTER SHE PASSED AWAY, BROTHER BRANHAM WAS BEYOND HIMSELF WITH GRIEF AND TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE BUT GOD INTERVENED, AND MIRACULOUSLY PREVENTED HIM FROM SUCCEEDING.
AFTER SOME TIME HE MARRIED A CHRISTIAN GIRL WHOM HE HAD COME TO KNOW, MEDA BROY;
ONE DAY BEING DEEPLY TROUBLED AT THE STRANGE THINGS IN HIS LIFE, HE DECIDED TO SETTLE THE QUESTION ONCE AND FOR ALL, AND SO TELLING HIS YOUNG WIFE HE WAS GOING AWAY FOR A FEW DAYS, HE SET OFF INTO THE WOODS TO FIND A PLACE TO PRAY AND SEEK GOD IN ORDER THAT HIS HEART CRY MAY BE HEARD AND THAT HE WOULD BE DELIVERED FROM THESE VEXATIONS HE ENDURED.
IN HIS QUEST IN THE WOODS HE CAME UPON A VERY SECLUDED DEN AND ENTERING IN HE BEGAN TO SEEK THE LORD IN TRAVAILING PRAYER FOR HIS MINISTRY AND FOR HIS DELIVERANCE FROM THESE TROUBLING VISIONS AND DREAMS.
SOMETIME, THROUGH THE NIGHT IN THE DARKENED CAVE, HE SAW A LIGHT BEGIN TO SHINE AROUND THE FLOOR IN FRONT OF HIM; THEN HEARING THE HEAVY SOUNDS OF FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING WHERE HE WAS IN THE DARKNESS THE YOUNG BRANHAM BECAME TERRIFIED AND GAZED AT THE SIGHT BEFORE HIM. THERE STOOD A MAN , TALL AND STRONGLY BUILT AND WITH HIS ARMS FOLDED. WITH DEEP VOICE, HE SAID TO THE YOUNG SEEKER,
“ FEAR NOT I HAVE BEEN SENT FROM THE PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR PECULIAR BIRTH AND MISUNDERSTOOD LIFE HAS BEEN TO INDICATE THAT YOU ARE TO TAKE A GIFT OF DIVINE HEALING TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. IF YOU WILL BE SINCERE WHEN YOU PRAY AND CAN GET THE PEOPLE TO BELIEVE YOU, NOTHING SHALL STAND BEFORE YOUR PRAYER, NOT EVEN CANCER. YOU WILL GO INTO MANY PARTS OF THE EARTH AND WILL PRAY FOR KINGS AND RULERS AND POTENTATES. YOU WILL PREACH TO MULTITUDES THE WORLD OVER AND THOUSANDS WILL COME TO YOU FOR COUNSEL. YOU MUST TELL THEM THAT THEIR THOUGHTS SPEAK LOUDER IN HEAVEN THAN THEIR WORDS.”
WITH THIS THE VISION OF THE ANGEL FADED AWAY AND WILLIAM BRANHAM NOW REALIZED WHY ALL THESE THINGS HAD HAPPENED TO HIM. HE RUSHED HOME TO TELL HIS WIFE, MEDA, OF THE VISION OF THE ANGEL AND THE MESSAGE HE HAD RECEIVED.
WILLIAM MARRION BRANHAM WAS NEVER THE SAME AGAIN.
Photo Below:
Brother Branham`s Cave .
DOUBT, FEAR AND PERPLEXITY WERE GONE AND IN THEIR PLACE WAS A DEEP, STRONG CONFIDENCE THAT GOD HAD INDEED MET WITH HIM AND SETTLED THESE LIFE-LONG PERPLEXITIES.
WILLIAM BRANHAM CIRCLED THE GLOBE 7 TIMES IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS.
ASTOUNDING MIRACLES OCCURRED IN EVERY SERVICE.
IN AFRICA, SEVERAL TRUCKLOADS OF CRUTCHES, LEG-BRACES, WHEELCHAIRS ETC WERE CARRIED TO THE CITY DUMPS AFTER A MULTITUDE OF MIRACLES HAPPENED DURING A CAMPAIGN THERE,
South African Ministerial Sponsors Of Bro. Branham`s Meetings There
IN INDIA, TENS OF THOUSANDS SAW HIM PUBLICLY CHALLENGE A GROUP OF HINDU AND MOSLEM PRIESTS TO COME AND PRAY FOR THE HEALING OF A MAN WHO WAS TOTALLY BLIND AFTER SITTING LOOKING AT THE MIDDAY SUN IN AN ACT OF WORSHIP. (THE DAY BEFORE, THESE PRIESTS HAD IN A PRIVATE MEETING MOCKED AND SCOFFED AT BROTHER BRANHAM.) WHEN NONE OF THEM MOVED AN INCH, HE DECLARED;
“IF THE GOD I WORSHIP, JESUS CHRIST, HEALS THIS TOTALLY BLIND MAN NOW, EVERY ONE OF YOU OUGHT TO GIVE YOUR HEARTS TO CHRIST.”
TURNING TO THE BLIND MAN HE DECLARED,
“JESUS CHRIST HEALS YOU NOW”
IMMEDIATELY, THE MAN SCREAMED WITH JOY, SHOUTING...
“I CAN SEE, I CAN SEE.”
THOUSANDS OF HINDUS IMMEDIATELY BEGAN RUBBING OFF THE SAFFRON MARK ON THEIR FOREHEADS WHICH WAS A SIGN OF DEVOTION TO THEIR GODS AND EMBRACED THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOUR.
THE LATE KING, GEORGE VI, FATHER OF OUR PRESENT QUEEN, ELIZABETH , CALLED HIM TO ENGLAND FOR PRAYER. HE ARRIVED IN 1950 AND WAS TAKEN TO THE PALACE AND PRAYED FOR AN AFFLICTION WHICH THE KING HAD AND THE KING RECEIVED IMMEDIATE HEALING.
His Majesty King George VI
NOT ONLY WAS HE USED IN THE GIFTS OF MIRACLES AND HEALINGS BUT ALSO THE WORD OF KNOWLEDGE WAS MANIFESTED IN HIS MINISTRY WHEREVER HE WENT.
HE WOULD TELL THE NAMES ADDRESSES AND AFFLICTIONS AND HAPPENINGS IN THE LIVES OF MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHOM HE HAD NEVER MET BEFORE AS THEY STOOD IN FRONT OF HIM IN HEALING SERVICES.
HE COULD TELL 100% ACCURATELY THE DISEASES, INFIRMITIES AND SICKNESSES THE PEOPLE HAD WITHOUT THEM REVEALING IT FIRST.
AND ALTHOUGH HE HAD MANY CRITICS AND MOCKERS THEY COULD NEVER PROVE HIM WRONG EVEN ONCE IN HIS WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE.
DONALD GEE, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE BRITISH ASSEMBLIES OF GOD FELLOWSHIP SPOKE OF HIS MINISTRY AS BEING SO UNUSUAL AND SUPERNATURAL AND ACCURATE IN ITS MANIFESTATION THAT THERE COULD BE NO DOUBT BUT THAT IT WAS OF GOD.
Donald Gee, A Pioneer Founder Of The British Assemblies Of God
THE MIRACLES AND HEALINGS RECORDED IN HIS MINISTRY ARE SO MANY THAT IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO DETAIL THEM ALL, BUT TO GIVE AN IDEA OF THE TYPE OF HEALINGS, WE CAN LOOK AT ONE THAT HAPPENED IN THE SEGRAGATED DEEP AMERICAN SOUTH.
BROTHER BRANHAM WAS INVITED TO SOME PREACHING ENGAGEMENTS, IN CAMDEN, ARKANSAS, AND AS HE WAS WALKING FROM HIS CAR TO THE CHURCH, THOUSANDS OF WHITE PEOPLE WERE SURROUNDING HIM. HE HEARD THE VOICE OF SOMEONE SHOUTING OUT LOUDLY, SEVERAL TIMES,
“PARSON BRANHAM, HAVE MERCY, PARSON BRANHAM HAVE MERCY”…
HE MADE TO CONTINUE ON BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT SPOKE TO HIM TO GO TO WHERE THE VOICE WAS COMING FROM. AFTER LEAVING THE CROWDS HE MADE HIS WAY TO WHERE 2 ELDERLY BLACK PEOPLE WERE STANDING, AWAY FROM THE WHITE PEOPLE. ONE OF THE POLICEMEN THERE SAID TO HIM NOT TO GO AS IT WAS THE SOUTH AND SEGREGATION WAS THE LAW. BROTHER BRANHAM SAID THAT HE HAD TO OBEY GOD. WHEN HE ARRIVED AT WHERE THE COUPLE WERE, THE OLD MAN SAID,
“IS THAT YOU, PARSON BRANHAM, I `VE BEEN DRAWING THE `BLIND PENSION` FOR OVER TEN YEARS NOW. I LIVE ABOUT 200 HUNDRED MILES FROM HERE. I NEVER HEARD OF YOU IN MY LIFE ` TIL THIS MORNING. ABOUT THREE O`CLOCK I WOKE UP IN THE ROOM - OF COURSE I CAN`T SEE NOTHING - BUT STANDING RIGHT BEFORE ME I COULD SEE MY OLD MAMMA, WHO NEVAH TOLD ME A LIE IN HER LIFE AND HAD HEART-FELT RELIGION LIKE YOU, AND WHO HAS BEEN DEAD FOR MANY YEARS, AND SHE SAID TO ME “HONEY, CHILD, RISE UP, PUT ON YOUR CLOTHES AND GO OVER TO CAMDEN ARKANSAS AND ASK FOR PARSON BRANHAM, THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR SIGHT,".. AND NOW, WIFE AND I HAVE COME HUNDREDS OF MILES, PARSON BRANHAM”.
BROTHER BRANHAM WAS DEEPLY TOUCHED AND AMAZED BY THE MAN`S TESTIMONY AND BOWED HIS HEAD AND PRAYED, AND INSTANTLY THE OLD MAN`S BLIND EYES WERE OPENED AND HE BEGAN CRYING OUT THAT HE COULD SEE!!
THERE ARE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF BOOKS AND OVER A THOUSAND RECORDINGS OF HIS MESSAGES AND MANY DETAILING THE LIFE-STORY, MIRACLES, HEALINGS AND SUPERNATURAL EVENTS OF THE LIFE OF THIS HUMBLE SERVANT OF GOD. MANY THINGS ARE SAID OF HIM WHICH ARE UNTRUE, SUCH AS , THAT HE CLAIMED TO BE THE MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT OR THE PROPHET SPOKEN OF BY MOSES AND EVEN ELIJAH THE PROPHET. BUT NONE OF THESE ACCUSATIONS ARE TRUE. NOWHERE, AT ANY TIME IN HIS LIFE DID WILLIAM BRANHAM EVER CLAIM TO BE THE FULFILLMENT OF THESE PROPHETS SPOKEN OF BY THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
EVERYONE WHO EVER MET HIM, EVEN HIS MOST SEVERE CRITICS SAID THAT THE MOST OUTSTANDING THING ABOUT HIM WAS HIS ABSOLUTE HUMILITY.
WILLIAM BRANHAM DIED AS THE RESULT OF A DRUNK DRIVER SMASHING INTO HIS CAR, HEAD ON, ON THE 18TH. DECEMBER 1965.
HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO ARIZONA, WITH HIS WIFE MEDA IN THE CAR WITH HIM. JUST AHEAD OF HIM IN ANOTHER CAR WAS THEIR SON BILLY PAUL. IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THE CRASH, BILLY PAUL RAN BACK TO HIS PARENT`S CAR. HIS MOTHER MEDA HAD BEEN KILLED OUTRIGHT. BROTHER BRANHAM ASKED BILLY PAUL HOW HIS MOTHER WAS; BILLY PAUL SAID, “DADDY, MOTHER HAS GONE.”
BROTHER BRANHAM WHO COULD NOT MOVE REPLIED, “BILLY PAUL, LAY MY HAND ON YOUR MOTHER” AFTER HIS HAND WAS LAID ON HIS DEAD WIFE, BROTHER BRANHAM ASKED THE LORD TO RESTORE HER TO LIFE, AND SHE REVIVED. SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, THE MEDICS ARRIVED AND THE FAMILY WERE RUSHED TO A HOSPITAL IN AMARILLO, TEXAS, WHERE A TRACHEOTOMY WAS PEFORMED ON BROTHER BRANHAM.
SADLY, 6 DAYS AFTER THE ACCIDENT, BROTHER WILLIAM BRANHAM PASSED AWAY ON CHRISTMAS EVE 1965. STRANGELY, EXACTLY ONE YEAR BEFORE HIS DEATH, BROTHER BRANHAM HAD PLEADED WITH THE LORD TO ALLOW HIM AT LEAST ONE MORE YEAR OF MINISTRY.
MEDA WAS SO BADLY INJURED IN THE ACCIDENT THAT SHE WAS UNABLE TO GET ABOUT FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AND SO THE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR BROTHER BRANHAM WAS POSTPONED UNTIL SHE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO ATTEND.
JUST AFTER EASTER OF 1966, MEDA BRANHAM AND THE FAMILY FELT THAT SHE WAS WELL ENOUGH TO ATTEND TO THE BURIAL OF HER DEAR HUSBAND.
THE REV. WILLIAM MARRION BRANHAM, PROPHET AND SERVANT OF GOD, WAS LAID TO REST IN JEFFERSONVILLE CEMETERY, INDIANA, ON APRIL 11TH. 1966, TO AWAIT THE GREAT RESURRECTION MORNING AT THE COMING OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
____Brother Branham`s Grave______
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Date: Friday, March 19 @ 21:46:48 EST
Topic: WMB1
Photostat of George Lacy's statement concerning the photo with a supernatural light. An exact reproduction of the letter from Mr. Lacy. authenticating the phenomena.
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George J. Lacy Examiner of Questioned Documents,
Building Houston, Texas
January 29, 1950
R E P O R T A N D O P I N I O N
Re: Questioned Negative
On January 28, 1950 at the request of Reverand Gordon Lindsay, who was representing Reverand William Branham of Jeffersonville, Indiana, I received from the Douglas Studios of 1610 Rusk Avenue in this city, a 4x5 inch exposed and developed photographic film. This film was purported to have been made by the Douglas Studios of Reverand William Branham at the Sam Houston Coliseum in this city. during his visit here the latter part of Jan uary. 1950.
R E Q U E S T
Reverand Lindsay requested that I make a scientific examination of the aforesaid negative. He requested that I determine, if possible, whether or not in my opinion the negative had been re-touched or "doctored" in any way, subsequent to the developing of the film, that would cause a streak of light to appear in the position of a halo above the head of Reverand Branham.
E X A M I N A T I O N
A macroscopic and microscopic examination and study was made of the entire surface of both sides of the film, which was Eastman Kodak Safety film. Both sides of the dim were examined under filtered ultra-violet light and infra-red photographs were made of the film.
Report and Opinion - Page 2 - January 29, 1950
The microscopic examination failed to reveal retouch ing of the film at any place whatsoever by any of the process es used in commercial retouching. Also, the microscopic examination tailed to reveal any disturbance of the emulsion in or around the light streak in question.
The ultra-violet light examination tailed to reveal any foreign matter, or the result of any chemical reaction on either side of the negative, which might have caused the light streak, subsequent to the processing of the negative.
The infra-red photograph also failed to disclose any thing that would indicate that any retouching had been done to the film.
The examination also tailed to reveal anything that would indicate that the negative in question was a composite negative or a double exposed negative.
There was nothing found which would indicate that the light streak in question had been made during the process ot development. Neither was there anything found which would indicate that it was not developed In a regular and recognized procedure. There was nothing found in the comparative densi ties ot the highlights that was not in harmony.
O P I N I O N
Based upon the above described examination and study I am of the definite opinion that the negative submitted (or examination, was not retouched nor was it a composite or double exposed negative.
Further, I am of the definite opinion that the light streak appearing above the head in a halo position was caused by light striking the negative.
Respectfully submitted
George J. Lacy
GJL/U
MEMBER AMERICAN SOCIETY OF QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINERS
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REV. WILLIAM M. BRANHAM
NAZARENE ISRAEL FAITH, TORAH TREASURE TROVE
LONDON
United Kingdom