William Branham's Cloud Vision

A SIGN OF GOD CALLING HIM HOME

The appearance of this cloud in the sky over Arizona was a sign from God to the people on the Earth that He was about to do something. Great signs in the sky were one of the things God said would be seen at the time of the end. William Branham took the appearance of this cloud and his angelic vision in Arizona as a sign for him to return and preach on the seven seals, but God was actually showing him something else.

The Tent vision of 1955, the covered wagon vision of 1956, the first vision he received in his house about the blast and the angels carrying him away in 1962, the second vision about the blast and the angels carrying him to the east from Arizona that occurred in 1963 and the accident that was instrumental in removing him from the scene in 1965, all tie together and were all orchestrated by God for the removal of William Branham from the scene.

Particular attention needs to be given to the Tent vision, as it shows us a sequence of events that takes place for the "Third Pull Ministry", which precedes the return of Christ, to begin.

I believe this interpretation of these events has been revealed to me
by the Holy Spirit

Lets first start at the scene of the accident that took our Brother's physical life. As Billy Paul Branham related to us, William Branham allowed his son, Joseph, to get in the car with Billy Paul, which was a rare thing for him to do and it wouldn't have happened unless it was the will of God. There is no doubt that our Brother knew something was going to happen and didn't want Joseph to be involved in it. After the accident occurred and when Billy Paul returned to his Dad's side at the scene, William Branham was startled by the voice of Joseph screaming for him. This time Joseph was present just like in the first vision our Brother had in December of 1962.

Back in December of 1962, when he had the vision of the blast in his home, he thought that God was showing him of his death, but thought it couldn't be since in the vision Joseph was present and he felt that God wouldn't take Joseph with him. Well it turned out that he was right. On the day of the accident, before it occurred, God showed him that the time was near and William Branham had Joseph get into Billy Paul's car instead of continuing the trip with him in his car. This ties in with the second vision of the blast and the angels on the mountain in Arizona, at that time in the vision, Joseph was not present when the blast occurred.

During both visions that William Branham had, the angels picked him up and carried him from the west back to the east. God was showing William Branham that after his death, the angels would carry him back to the east to Jeffersonville Indiana.

Now why did William Branham go out west in the first place? When he told the church in Jeffersonville that they were moving out west he said that he wasn't sure why God was telling him to go. One of the things he told the church was: "Don't look to me. I am your brother. Don't pay no attention to me, because I am just a mortal. I have to die like everybody else". (Was this prophetic?) Certainly it was. William Branham had always wanted to live out west and it was God's will for him to go, it was part of God's plan that He began to set in motion about the year of 1955, when he first gave him the Tent vision, then the covered Wagon vision.

But then why did William Branham say that the vision on the mountain in Arizona was a sign that he was to return to Jeffersonville to preach on the seals. Long before William Branham left for Arizona, he had these seals on his mind and fully intended to return very soon to preach on them. So naturally he took the vision on the mountain as a sign to return and preach on them. God permitted Brother Branham to believe this for He had a message for William Branham to deliver to the church before he took him away and he delivered it during the sermon on the seventh seal. The message was, that the church was to look for a messenger that was to come after him and wind up all the loose ends of scriptural misinterpretation that still existed. But God was not ready for this message to get out to the World while Brother Branham was still on the scene, so he kept this portion of the seventh seal message hid until after our Brother had passed on. During his message on the seals, William Branham said: "my real ministry is on divine healing, but I'm here for these seals...A little later you'll understand why I had to do this".

Part of God's plan for the removal of Brother Branham was the giving of the vision concerning the covered wagon. God told our Brother that when he saw some construction begin to take place on Ewing lane in Jeffersonville, where he lived, he was to move out west. This vision was given to William Branham about March of 1956 and he witnessed the sign God had given to him to leave for the west late in 1962.

Now we come to the recount of the Tent vision that God gave to him in December of 1955. This was about the time that God's plan for removing Him from the scene began. As to why God set this in motion at this time we won't go into. It’s not important for us to know why God decides when to close down Brother Branham’s ministry. In the tent vision it’s important to recognize that our Brother said: "Then He took me away and I felt myself go way up high" (He was carried away by an angel into Heaven) Then he said: "the light that is always in my meetings left me". Note that he said the light left him right before the start of the "3rd pull ministry".

The third phase of William Branham's ministry begins after the light leaves him and this phase of his ministry starts after he has been taken up. Well, he has been taken up; now watch for the light to leave him. When it does, prepare for the end time ministry of the Bride. The ministry of the third pull that will prepare the way for Christ's return.

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