B. 5g,§6(8)10
Boek Openbaring §6,(8,)10, Zegels in het algemeen, Zeven hemelse Engelen (3): Impossible Explosion, Cloud, Etc.
Shalom!
^ William Marrion Branham would be one of the candidates to be the prophet Elijah sent by God in the end times of the churches. He loved to be in the wilderness like many prophets of the Old Testament. On his mother's side, he had a Native American Indian background. As a young child he learned to earn money by catching animals, because his family was the poorest of the poor. As a young husband he spent for his work a lot of time in the woods. And he has always been a hunter.
On the other hand, the leaders of many churches and of all kinds of spiritual groups have their ready judgments. For example, that Branham got lost at the end of his life and that it was never meant for him to become a teacher.
^ With the Internet you can find both harsh attacks on his words and incredible healing miracles in his ministry. Though all happened by 1965, when brother Branham died; back then there was not yet internet. Therefore, gradually personal testimonies are disappearing, because every year you have to pay to keep your internet pages up. And Google does not easily lead to such pages.
^ In my turn I have to say that it was only through brother Branham‘s teachings/preachings that I learned the contents of the seals and the explanations of the entire Book of Revelation. A better explanation I have not found. If so, I would be interested to hear of it.
Prayer of them who think of themselves with sober judgment (Rm. 12:3), Bert
¤ In January 1963, brother Branham and his family had moved to the city of Tucson, Arizona.
February 28, 1963, shortly before sunset, a strikingly beautiful and mysterious cloud lingered in the northwest direction over Arizona. The cloud was at an impossibly high place where no clouds can appear, not to mention its special shape and its enormous size.
¤ About hundred photographs and two hundred reports were gathered of the cloud that bBranham later referred to. But around it has been a lot of uncertainty. In the beginning it took almost a month before it was reported on March 26, 1963 in the region’s (Phoenix city) ‘Arizona Republic’ newspaper.
At that time, few people had a camera, let alone the painstaking development of the film into photographs. Among other things, that's why it had taken so long.
¤ Something was seemingly shown to the whole world, or more precisely to all interested people. God and his angels would be ready all the time. But, for example, the hunting season for javelina hogs from March 1-10 had not started. Therefore, bBranham's usual hunting in that area had not yet been possible. As well as there had been an important meeting 1963.03.04 more than 1000 miles away from the city of Tucson.
Then from March 6-9 he was with two spiritual brothers northeast of Tucson hunting javelina hogs. Suddenly there was a tremendous blast like a jet plane breaking the sound barrier, only much louder, see for example,
https://www.endtimemessage.org/images/stories/asorted_pdf/midnight_cry/high_cloud_mystery.pdf
[if necessary, copy/type the whole link to your web browser and press ‘Enter’.]
¤ At the beginning of the document (The Cloud) is said that Jesus Christ had more success through William Branham's ministry than through His own. However, about such a remark bBranham himself had said that no greater works than Jesus did, can be done (e.g. 63-0627, #258, John 14:12).
Of the cloud is among others one picture shown and explained, which, turned to the right, shows the Face of the Lord Jesus, how the painter Heinrich Hofmann had painted Him at the age of 33. [In this way He looks to the earth and us humans.] In the past bBranham had previously referred to this painting. Many biblical and other details are given in this document.
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¤ There are enough questions. Did the angels which he had previously seen in a vision and about whom he had spoken, belong to that cloud? It remains for each believer to ponder (5e and 5f§6(8)10).
Divine miracles could be noticed. Who could build in advance such an entity among many believers and the world? God's way of appearing to bBranham as angels would be in the context of the Book of Revelation, where is talked a lot about angels. In that way, the Lord Jesus could have been one of the angels (5d§6(8)10, Rev. 10:1-2).
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¤ In the 24th chapter of the Gospel by Matthew, Jesus Christ answered three questions of His disciples, of which the two last answers touched on our end-time {Mat. 24:3 (6h§6(8)10)}.
In addition, two times He spoke in particular of the coming of the Son of man (and His sign in heaven), read Mat. 24:27 and 30.
7S,6S: As regards the second answer, belongs the cloud picture to the hunting event (?), is no hundred percent sure connection. Also because God had not wanted to make the cloud a public matter, according to bBranham. It means that every believer must alone solve this possibility till the moment of Jesus’ Presence, when in the air He will take ready believers up into heaven {Mat. 24:27(-28) (1c§1-3)}.
And as regards the third answer, as regards the sign of the consummation of our era, as regards the end of the sixth seal, the cloud could be an additional answer {Mat. 24:30 (7e§67₁14)}.
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