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"THE CLOUD"
I
had several pages typed out about what I learned but deleted some of it because
all of that information really wasn't necessary. But still let you know things
that I have questioned. I have read about the research that several former
Message believers did on this subject and checked everything out myself. So the
Cliff note version is…. -
According to the Arizona Game and Fish Department javelina season ran
from March 1 through 10 in 1963. -Bro.
Branham himself indicated that he did not go on this hunting trip until after
March 4, 1963. (See or listen to his sermon, Absolute, preached on March 4,
1963. Compare this to his sermon, Trying to do God a Service Without it Being
God’s Will, vol. 7, book 2, pages 8 and 9, preached November 27, 1965.). Absolute
(63-0304) E-50
I'm... My faith that I have in God, that's why I'm here tonight. That's why I
canceled out something else and got in here. And I got to drive hundreds of
miles tonight back to Tucson, Arizona, because I come to put my faith with
yours… This
quote is edited to shorten it without hopefully losing any context. You are more
than welcome to look it up and read the quote in its entirety. TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE_
SHP.LA V-7 N-2
SATURDAY_ 65-1127B
63 “
So then, and going back, I went up in the mountain and I went with Brother Fred
Sothmann…Brother Gene Norman… the second day setting there, the Angel of the
Lord came right down into the camp where we was at and begin to tell about their
children and things they were doing. I
left and went back on the hill. And I'd already got my javelina; I was trying to
chase one around to Brother Fred. So I found where they'd been eating on the
side of a hill, and I said, "Well, now, I'll tell you what I'll do, Brother
Fred." I said, "Now, you go over on that point in the morning."
We go up there at daylight, climb up over the mountain. "And go there at
daylight, I'll get over on the other side. Now, I won't shoot one, but if they
run this way, I'll shoot in front of them and turn them back. You pick out a big
one." "All
right," he said.
66 So
Brother Fred went over there. And Brother Gene Norman …he was on the other
side… And he went down a little below where the--them pigs, they just wasn't
there that morning. I could see Brother Fred, wave at him, he was about a mile
away from me. Well, I thought, "Where could they have went?" I went
down into a great ravine, and come down; I thought, "I'll see if I can find
where they're at." Started back up… the sun was just beginning coming up.
67 And
I went around a great big chasm, oh, my, hundreds and hundreds of feet, just
great rocks in the great canyon there, them big walls. …The sun was raising
up, about seven o'clock, I guess, or something like that. And I set down and I
was looking around; I happened to look down on my trouser leg and there was that
bull-header, burr. And I said, "You know, that seems strange. You know, the
Angel of the Lord told me I'd be about forty miles northeast of Tucson; I'd be
picking a bull-header off of my leg." You remember I seen it?… And I
said, "That's strange." I was holding it.
68
And just as I looked up, I seen about twenty hogs about five hundred
yards from me, come out eating this little phyllary and laid down. I said,
"Now, if I can just get Brother Fred and get him around to that point
there, he'll get his hog right there. But I know he's about a mile or two from
me now." So I said, "if I could cross over this little ridge without
them seeing me, up by this little juniper tree there," I said, "if I
get around this side, there's a deer trail comes down this side; I can run up
there and get out of the way. And hang a little piece of paper here where I know
which one of the fingers to go out on, on the canyon, and get Brother Fred there
just in time."
69
I throwed this little bull-header down, forgetting about that, and
started across the hill real easy and looked back, they didn't see me, and run
down and hit this deer trail. I had a great big black hat on. I started running
up through this canyon real fast, and it happened. The whole earth shook, everywhere. Rocks that size rolled down, dust flying like that. And I looked, and standing before me stood seven Angels, just exactly the way it was. I felt like I was standing way up off the ground. First, I thought somebody'd shot me, you know, with that black hat on; looked like a javelina hog, anyhow, you know, they're dark. I thought somebody'd shot me, such a... right close. And I seen then what it was. Well, as soon as... I got my commission, and the Scripture, "The Seven Seals which is the seven mysteries..." See?
71 Someone
said to me, said, "Now..." Oh, he said, "Well, now, someday the
Lord, probably you seeing visions, Brother Branham, will reveal to you what
these things are; we can all get closer to God and have more power than we get
in speaking in tongues and things." I
said, "It can't be that way." 'Cause,
see, I believe the Word to be the Truth. And the Bible said, "Whosoever
shall add one word or take one Word from It." It has to be in this Word.
See? It's the mysteries that the people's overlooked. Well, right there is where
come my Message of serpent seed and the true belief of the security of the
believer.” 74 I'm
not disgracing my Presbyterian brethren there, and some of you Baptist brethren
on the way you have security. I'm not saying this to be different, but you
didn't have it just right. See? That's right. See? But I had it wrong too. But
when an Angel stands from heaven and tells you, and here it is right in the
Scripture, that--that's true. See? That's right. See, He always speaks exact
with the Scripture. 75 In
there I watched it until that circle went up, started sweeping up, and they
turned into like a mystic light, like a fog. Just exactly the way... How many
seen the picture of It that was taken in Houston? Nearly all. See? Well, that's
just the way this was. It turned into the same thing, It kept going higher and
higher. I was running and
running, trying to find Brother Fred and them. After while, about a half hour
later, I could see him way down, waving his hands; and Brother Gene coming,
waving. They knowed something had happened. And so then I got with them. That's
Brother Fred setting right there. 77 As
it went up, I didn't know that the observatories and things, plumb into Mexico,
was taking that picture. "Life" magazine packed it as It went up. And
many of you... Here's "Life" magazine packing the picture of It. A
mysterious thing here, they said they don't know where it come from; it's too
high. It's above all the spheres and everything else to be... It's too high for
fog, because it's thirty miles high and twenty-seven miles across after it got
up that high. There's not even humidity nor nothing up there. You see? 78 And
they thought of a plane; so they checked all the places, no planes up that day.
See, they have to, on account of shaking windows and things. "There's no
planes up." Here it is right here in the magazine, will tell you the same
thing. And it went on and on. And today right in the... Here it is in
"Science" magazine, where they can't understand; they don't know what
It is. Tucson, at the
university, a friend of mine went over the other day and was talking to them
about it. Said, "We can't understand what..." I said, "Don't say
nothing, don't do no good. 'Cast not your pearls before swine.'" See? It's
to the church, to the elected, the called-out. See? 82 And
then each one was coming, saying, "Brother Branham, I see your picture
here. I see this. I..." You know how it is. But that long sweep as this
brother has on here where its... Excuse me…Here's the way It started up,
sweeping up. Actually this was on the right hand side. And you all remember I
said, "The noted Angel was the one that talked to me, was on the right hand
side," even before it happened. You remember? His wings pointed back like
that, that's exactly the wings of that Angel as it went up. See, as it... So
they started taking the pictures because it was so mysterious. But when the last
picture, when It formed Itself into the skies and so forth, this is it as
"Look" here packed it. You see how it rose up just as they begin to
see it. You see? And there comes the--the real main and last picture, when it
formed. 83 They
don't know where it come from or where it went; they don't know yet. Science is
completely stumped about it, don't know what happened. But we know; "there
shall be signs in the heaven above." We know it. See? And He promised these
things. See? And the only thing that this was permitted to be taken... -Now,
about the physical nature of the Cloud: It is true that it was located about 26
miles in altitude. It is not true that clouds do not form this high. However,
this cloud was not formed naturally or even supernaturally; it was man-made. A
series of test missiles were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base outside of
Los Angeles, California in 1963. Several of those launches left trails in the
sky similar to the one that appeared in the May 17, 1963 issue of LIFE magazine.
Trails at the altitude of the Cloud are not visible during daylight hours
because the sky is too bright for them to be seen, just as we cannot see stars
in the daytime. When the sky is dark, the cloud is so high that it is
illuminated by the sun which shines directly on it. This was a rare phenomenon
in 1963 because missile tests were uncommon. When the clouds formed by the
rockets began appearing, the public did not know what was causing them. The
formation of such clouds is now relatively commonplace. Just ask anyone living
near a rocket launch site. -Food
for thought… Article
from the "Smithsonian" -- November 2001, pgs. 20-22. "High Altitude Night Shining Clouds are Becoming More Common." "More than an hour after sunset a veil of glowing clouds appear low in the northern sky. Whirls and billows are visible as the sky shines. What is going on" Few Americans have witnessed this phenomena, which is known as NOCTILUCENT or night shining clouds (NLCs). That's because NLCs usually appear north of 50 degrees latitude which in North America lies just above the Canadian border. "Usually," but this may be changing." "NLCs form in a narrow region two miles thick, 50 miles above the earth’s surface, more than ten times higher than typical clouds, and over seven times higher than commercial airplanes fly. They probably are made of water ice crystals, and they are still in the sunlight when night has fallen on the earth below." So
if you say… what if it wasn’t the missile blowing up? It might have just
been a cloud seeing as they really can ‘scientifically’ exist at twice the
height B.B. said that they couldn’t. -February 28, 1963 Cloud that appeared in the May 17, 1963 issue of LIFE magazine. And javelina season hadn’t even started yet even though William Branham said himself that he had been hunting for several days already before this happened. And I can’t see an ex-game warden hunting out of season. -Quote
from one of the articles I read written by someone who researched this more in
depth than I have….. “I have written several
prominent leaders in the Message about what I have learned. Billy Paul Branham
(William Branham's oldest son), told me that, contrary to what I discovered, he
believed that the Cloud was formed while Bro. Branham was hunting on February
28, 1963. On the other hand, Bro. Branham’s oldest daughter, Rebekah
Branham-Smith, would write an article in her magazine, Only Believe (June,
1992), in which she confirmed my findings but reinterpreted the Cloud as a sign
that predicted that the seven angels would visit Bro. Branham sometime in the
future. Pearry Green has revised his book, The Acts of the Prophet (which
previously had said that the Cloud coincided with Bro. Branham's hunting trip on
February 28, 1963), to concur with Rebekah Branham-Smith's article. I
have read more accounts of people researching this and they all have come up
with the same thing. One received a fax from Rebekah Branham defending it by
saying that “her daddy lived in the past, present and future all of the
time and which caused them many problems in their family life.” -Information
regarding that Missile test: http://www.friends-partners.org/mwade/chrono/19631.htm#5672 -
1963 Feb 28 - -
21:48 GMT. Nation: USA. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch
Complex: LC75-3-5. Launch Vehicle: TA Thor Agena D. LV
Configuration: Thor 2C s/n 354 / Agena D s/n 1159 (No solids). FAILURE:
Destroyed by range safety officer, 100 seconds after launch. One strap-on
failed. · KH-4 9052 Payload: KH-4 s/n
9052. Mass: 1,500 kg. Class: Surveillance. Type: Military. Spacecraft:
KH-4. Agency: U.S. Air Force. COSPAR. KH-4.
Mission failed. References: 5 , 126 . · SRV 610 Spacecraft: KH-4.
COSPAR. References: 279 .
For those unfamiliar with the picture in question you can see it at............ One last thing that I would like to bring up is people have seen 'amazing' things in pictures for just about as long as camera's have been around. The latest example that I can think of is a picture taken on Spetember 11th. It is said that you can see the devil's head in the smoke billowing from the building. For more on this you can goto: http://9news.com/newsroom/13294.html |