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Jésus-Christ est le même hier, aujourd'hui et éternellement" (Hèbreux 13:8)

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As the writer of this booklet I know many time witnesses who have experienced this unique ministry since its early phase right from its beginning. Not only once, but through the years they were witnesses of what God did in our generation. Among these are Rev. Gordon Lindsay, Demas Shakarian, David DuPlessis and many others of the North-American evangelists. To a number of them I served as an interpreter. Most certainly many who are still alive could be called upon. I decided to choose the world-renowned evangelist Rev. T. L. Osborn to give witness. What he said on January 26th, 1966, at the memorial service held after the going home of William Branham, follows.

“This was the closing generation. Something had to happen. It couldn’t go as past generations had gone. This one is IT! Therefore, in God’s divine mercy, somehow stepping beyond the bounds of ordinary measure, He had foreordained at this hour to send again this prophet.

Some are going to think I am sacrilegious or off doctrinally (and it doesn’t really matter), but God came again in human flesh and said, “Apparently I must show them again. I must remind them again. They must see one more time. Once again they must know what God is like.” And He stepped down and sent a little man, a prophet, but more than a prophet this time, A Jesus-man this time!

Elijah was not that. This is more than that which we have beheld! Moses was not that, for because of the different dispensation in which he lived, it couldn’t be what we have seen. More than that! A Jesus-man, a man full of God, but sent as a special sign to a generation — this generation. A supernatural sign, an extra-ordinary measure.

Why? It was done before, why do it again? To arouse this last generation! Once more to be the forerunner; once more, to be sure the record is clear , to be sure there is no excuse, and to be sure that God has demonstrated afresh; to be sure there can be no mistake, and to be sure that we are reminded afresh of what God is like, how Jesus was, and of what God does in the flesh. To be sure that this generation, charged with bringing back the King, would know without question what it must be like, what the work must be to do, and what the minister must be. So we would know what our mission is to perform, what our witness is, how we are to perform and execute it, what we are to do, and how we are to act. Once more to be without excuse, beyond measure. To be the forerunner of His second coming.

The first night I ever heard and saw Brother Branham minister, I didn’t hear a voice, I didn’t know that it had been said of him, and I didn’t know that the voice from heaven had spoken these words. I knew nothing of that. I had not been with any of the ministers that believed in him, for most of those that I was with did not believe in him. But like a voice, and yet not like a voice, I heard it. I knew it. It came to me! “As John the Baptist was sent as a forerunner of His first coming, William Branham is sent as a forerunner of His second coming.” I knew that.

I was an inexperienced young preacher. I was not a theologian. I did not know the Scripture. Why I knew this, I do not know; but I knew it. I said, “Thank God, he crossed my path. Thank God, I learned. Thank God, I caught on.” It did not take ten nights, only one night.

This generation seeks a sign, another sign, another one, and still another one! One is enough! One is ample!

God willing, to be sure, that we don’t fail in the knowledge of the immutability of His covenant, did it again in the twentieth century, the generation destined to bring Him back. This generation must know. This generation must be without excuse, for unto this generation is committed the task to do this. So, He sent forth a particular human vessel, surrounded by supernatural signs to attract attention and to make this wayward generation look up, ponder, search, and think.

Thus, the halo of light that appeared at his birth, the star, the angel, the discernment, the gifts — all of these were given for that purpose. For what? TO SHOW US GOD AGAIN! To repeat what He showed us in Jesus Christ, when He came in the form of flesh; and to remind us one final time. Like Jesus, Brother Branham redemonstrated the very thing which made men believe that the true Messiah had come.

He was a seer; he saw. He lived in both worlds, the seen and the unseen at the same time, and transcended both of them practically all the time. Jesus said, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. The Son can do nothing of Himself but what He seeth the Father do.”

Here comes Brother Branham along in the twentieth century and does exactly the same way. GOD IN THE FLESH, again crossing our paths; and many did not know. THEY WOULD NOT HavE KNOWN HIM IF THEY WOULD HavE BEEN HERE WHEN GOD CROSSED THEIR PATH IN THE BODY THEY CALLED JESUS CHRIST! People have not changed. Those who questioned then, would question now. Those who didn’t believe then, would not believe now. “The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father doing. For what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son and showeth Him all things.”

He saw the miracles before they happened. Jesus saw the crippled man who 38 times had been to the pool but never could get into the water. Jesus saw all this before He went in, stood there, and told him to stand up.

He saw Lazarus raised before it came to pass. He had already settled it with the Father. It had already been rehearsed.

He saw Nathanael before Philip ever called him, when he was over under the fig tree, before they were even converted.

He foretold exactly how the disciples would go down the streets and meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. He said that they should follow him and would find an ass tied there, and He also told them to bring him. He saw all this before it happened.

This was William Branham’s life. Precisely as we read it in the Scriptures . Then men hear Brother Branham say this, and they say, “It is wrong today;” but it isn’t. They don’t believe today; they would not have believed then. But God has come again, crossed our paths again, and showed us again what the God-man is like, what God is like, what He is like in the flesh, and what the new creation is like.

See what this is? This is the new creation at work. He was a discerner, as Jesus discerned the woman at the well and her life. And how many times have you sat and marveled? If we believe when we read the Scriptures of the few things that we heard that Jesus did, how can we be without excuse when we sat night after night and saw these things repeated, not once, but dozens of times in the same perfect manner in which Jesus did them? Exactly! How it has been that one could see this and not believe, is beyond me.

Brother Branham knew diseases. He knew them everywhere before anyone told him. The same God knows all things. It is God in man, demonstrating His knowledge — what He is, how that He transcends all natural barriers, and nothing is impossible with Him.

He knew when virtue had gone out of him. How many have sat and watched when Brother Branham whirled around and said, “There she is”, “There he is”? Only once in the Scriptures did the little woman see this. Of course we do have the fact that later everybody heard about it, and they all got it; but only one case is set forth in detail. But my eyes have beheld dozens of cases, and some of you have seen hundreds of cases! How can I not believe?

This does not bring doctrinal barriers to me. This simply tells me that what happened then is the same today. My God is unchanged.

By these signs it is witnessed in the Scriptures that the Gentiles were made obedient by word and deed through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God. Have we not looked on and seen the multitudes come to Christ as they beheld the wonders and repented of their sins, cried out for Salvation, and received eternal life, not only here, but abroad to the count of as many as 30,000 in a single day, standing to receive the life of Jesus Christ, because God crossed their path in human flesh and unveiled Himself?

Is this a mystery? This is not a mystery, this is the wonder of God! Is this a matter to dicker over doctrinally? This is a matter to give glory to our God, Who has come in the flesh again in our generation. He has come in the flesh in all of us, but in a particular way in this man who was His prophet for this generation, for He surrounded him with these supernatural signs which were to attract the attention of the world once again by a sign.” Here we end with the testimony of Rev. T. L. Osborn, who is respected world-wide as the most influential evangelist of the “first revival wave”.

We are certainly grateful for the excellent testimony of Rev. Osborn who was one of the first to directly experience the impact of God’s supernatural working . The same opportunity was given to me, as I also became an eye-witness of this extraordinary ministry. Since 1955, when Brother Branham came to Europe and preached in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, right until 1965, when he was taken to be with the Lord, I partook in a number of his national and international meetings. After the sermon, Brother Branham first prayed for those who accepted Christ as their personal Saviour, then he prayed for the sick. It was as Rev. T. L. Osborn testified. The man of God did not ask those who were sick what illness they had or what he should pray for. The supernatural light came down over the person he was praying for and it was shown to him in visions, as it was the case in the prophetic ministry of the Son of man (Jn. 5: 19-20). He told those in the prayer line what they suffered from and details from their lives. Many times he saw in a vision the name of the person, the city they came from, the street and even house number where they lived. Therefore he could truthfully say “Thus saith the Lord”. God is the only One Who knows every person. William Branham was a seer, as described in the Bible.

This ministry did not happen somewhere in a remote corner of the Earth, it took place in large meetings in various countries around the world. Even where Brother Branham did not speak the language, but used an interpreter, everything that was revealed about each person was correct and proved to be true. Millions became eye- and ear-witnesses throughout the world. Truly, it was Jesus Christ Who in our time manifested Himself as the Same through a man with the same sign of the Messiah. As it was with John the Baptist, we are once again not dealing with a man, but with a promised ministry ordained by God . The question therefore is not, “Which stand do we take towards Branham?” but rather, “How do we stand before God?”, Who used a natural vessel to perform the supernatural. The New Testament started with a promised ministry to prepare the way for the Lord, and the New Testament ends with a promised ministry to restore all things to the Bride.

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