The Lord has definitely led me to print this and later in the scroll my own visitation. The remarkable angelic visit received by William Branham has caused not little wonder among the people of God, as well as the unsaved. The overwhelming majority of people who attended the Branham meetings are completely convinced of the reality of the angelic visitation! - The Angel's message - The angel conversed with Brother Branham during the first visitation for perhaps half an hour. We are coming into Bible days again, and no doubt there will be more such supernatural revelations as time goes on! Concerning such visitations there is one point that is fundamental. An Angel of the Lord will never reveal anything but what agrees strictly with the Scriptures. Now we will let Brother Branham tell it in his own words, as taken from his book - "I must tell you of the angel and the coming of the Gift. I shall never forget the time, May 7, 1946, a very beautiful season of the year in Indiana, where I was still working as a game warden, (Bro. Branham also pastored a church, too) and while walking around the house under a maple tree, it seemed that the whole top of the tree let loose! It seemed that something came down through that tree like a great rushing wind. . . they ran to me . . . My wife came from the house frightened, and asked me what was wrong. Trying to get hold of myself, I sat down and told her that after all these twenty odd years of being conscious of this strange feeling, the time had come when I had to find out what it was all about. The crisis had come! I told her and my child good-bye, and warned her that if I did nor come back in a few days, perhaps I might never return! That afternoon I went away to a secret place to pray and read the Bible. I became deep in prayer; it seemed that my whole soul would tear from me. I cried before God . . .I laid my face to the ground. . . I looked up to God and cried, "If you will forgive me for the way that I have done, I'll try to do better. . . I'm sorry that I've been so neglectful all these years in doing the work you wanted me to do . . . Will you speak to me someway, God? If you don't help me, I can't go on." Then along in the night, at about the eleventh hour, 1 had quit praying and was sitting up when I noticed a light flickering in the room! Thinking someone was coming with a flashlight, I looked out of the window, but there was no one, and when I looked back, the light was spreading out on the floor, becoming wider! Now I know this seems very strange to you, as it did to me also. As the light was spreading, of course I became excited and started from the chair, but as 1 looked up, there hung that great star! However, it did not have five points like a star, but looked more like a "ball of fire or light shining down upon the floor"! Just then I heard someone walking across the floor, which startled me again, as I knew of no one who would be coming there besides myself. Now, coming through the light, I saw the feet of a man coming toward me, as naturally as you would walk to me. He appeared to be a man who, in human weight, would weigh about two hundred pounds, clothed in a white robe. He had a smooth face, no beard, dark hair down to his shoulders, rather dark-complexioned, with a very pleasant countenance, and coming closer, his eyes caught with mine seeing how fearful I was, he began to speak. "Fear not, I am sent from the presence of Almighty God to tell you that your peculiar life and your misunderstood ways have been to indicate that God has sent you to take a gift of divine healing to the peoples of the world! IF YOU WILL BE SINCERE, and get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even cancer!" Words cannot express how I felt. He told me many things which I do not have space to record here. He told me how I would be able to detect diseases by vibrations on my hand. He went away, but I have seen him several times since then. He has appeared to me perhaps once or twice within the space of six months and has spoken with me. A few times he has appeared visibly in the presence of others! I do not know who he is. I only know that he is the messenger of God to me. Due to space we must shorten this part and will add a remarkable vision he had. The Unity of The Church Elect - He says - As 1 was worshipping God, suddenly 1 felt the angel of the Lord in the room. 1 turned over in bed and was in a vision immediately! (1 saw that 1 was in the midst of a grove of trees and in the center where I was standing, was an aisle. The trees were planted in big green pots. On one side were apples and on the other side were great big plums. On the right and left were two pots with nothing in them.) I heard a voice out of heaven, which spoke, "The harvest is ripe, but the laborers are few." I asked, "Lord, what can I do?" Then as I looked again I noticed that the trees looked like pews, in the vision of my tabernacle. Down at the end of the row was a big tree standing and it was full of all manner of fruit. On either side of it were two
little trees with no fruit - and standing side by side, they seemed as three crosses. I questioned, "What does this mean and what about those pots with nothing in them?" He replied, "You are to plant in those." Then I stood in the breach, taking branches from both trees, and planted them in the pots. Suddenly, out of the pots came two large trees that grew till they reached the heavens. After that, a mighty rushing wind came and shook the trees! A voice spoke, "Hold out 'Your hands now, 'You have done well; reap the harvest." I held out my hands and the mighty wind shook into my right hand a great apple, and into my left hand a great plum. He said, "Eat the fruits; they are pleasant." I began eating the fruit, first a bite off of one, then a bite off of the other, and the fruit was deliciously sweet! I think this vision had to do with the bringing of the Elect churches together. In the vision, I was transplanted from one to the other to bring the same fruits out of both trees. (end) (I feel the Lord was using Brother Branham to bring together the people who baptized in different ways concerning the water, uniting them together according to the original way of Gods word, Today Brother Branham is still loved by all major men of God. (Bro. Oral Roberts and Bro. Coe both knew their ministry was no match for this prophet from God.) I myself was only beginning my ministry when Brother Branham was taken.) And we know Brother Branham was told and believed in baptizing in the original church way (Acts 2:38 - Acts 19:5).
