“Baby to Be Resurrected” Prophecy
In a sermon that William Branham preached on May 13, 1953 in the Bible Hour Tabernacle in Jonesboro, Arkansas, he claimed to have seen the following “prophetic vision” of a “little baby” with a “little white shock of hair” being raised from the dead,
“There’s going to somewhere, I don’t know. There’s a little baby, got a little white shock of hair, set in front of its head here, just about eight, ten months old, something like that. I…very poor judge of age. It’s going to die. Something is in its throat or chest that’ll kill it. It’ll be carried out on a canvas stretcher, colored green, to an undertaker wagon to take it away. I will be coming by at that time, and will recognize the vision. God will give the baby back its life. It’ll go back into the house again, and be well. Now, just see if that isn’t true.
I’m watching for a little boy, red-headed. His mother will have one of those things that women wear around their heads, what is…scarfs, you know. And she’s tall thin woman, the little boy is about so high with polio, very badly crippled. He’s going to be made instantly whole. When I see him, I will know him, the vision. Now, he…And see…You’ll watch, and you’ll see those things that’ll come to pass.”[1]
“God's Provided Way” (53-0513).
After making the above prophecy, William Branham never mentioned or referred to it again in any of his other recorded sermons and he never established how and when it was fulfilled.
Had the prophecy come to pass and such a miracle happened, it would have been one of the highlights of his ministry and he would have been sure to talk about it, as he was prone to do with his more notable “miracles.” In addition, the news of such an extraordinary event would have traveled quickly around the world and been widely known.
However, there never has been any news or account of a “little baby with a white shock of hair” being raised from the dead and such an event remains completely unheard of and unknown. What's more, there is no documented evidence or eye-witness testimony anywhere that demonstrates that such extraordinary miracle had occurred.
Before William Branham died in 1965, the “prophetic vision” still had not been fulfilled and therefore remains a failed prophecy. Consequently, it is not possible for God to have shown it to him or for any of his claims below to be true about his visions never failing,
“Now, what is it? It’s the Word of the Lord made manifest. When…Those visions are perfectly true; they are sent from God. Now, compare that…To any stranger in the gate, I wish you to compare…?…Go to my hometown, get my books, trace down any testimony, ask any time, if ever one time that a visions failed, and how these things are.” “Do You Now Believe?” (54-0307E).
“I don’t know what I’m saying under the vision. But then, the boys here with the recorders take it, take it right back and we got every meeting we’ve had for years and years, say exactly. And not one time has it ever failed. And it never will. I’ve saw visions for forty something years, and never has it failed.” “What Visions Are” (56-0421).
“Now, I have saw visions since I was just a little baby boy. And not one time has any ever failed.” “We Would See Jesus” (57-0516).
“Now, tonight the Lord Jesus comes, and He shows visions as my brethren know that foretells things. Oh, my. There could be an encyclopedia wrote of it, of what He done. And not one time has it ever failed anywhere. Ask anyone. Not one time…”
“And Then Jesus Came” (57-1213).
“If God would come today and show me a vision that George Washington is going to be raised from the presidential graveyard, I’d invite the world to come, watch it done. That’s exactly right. It’ll happen, if God said so. How can it fail. I’m forty-eight years old; I’ve seen visions since I was just a little boy of two, and never one time has It failed. To me It’s God.” “The Great Commission” (58-0301B).
“Now, if it comes, and after me preaching the Gospel, as a minister of the Gospel, right clearly from the Bi—Bible…Year after year, I’m forty-nine years old; I saw visions since I was just a baby boy, not over two years old. Not one time has one ever failed out of the millions. Won’t fail now, ’cause it’s God, can’t fail.” “The Queen Of The South” (58-0620).
“A vision has never failed. Now I'm going to tell you, Jean, it's THUS SAITH THE LORD! See?” “The Evening Messenger” (63-0116).
“I'm forty-five years old, seen visions since I was a baby, and have never seen one time or challenge anybody to mention one time that it never spoke in that way, that it did not come to pass just exactly the way He said it. That's right. Just ask anywhere; take any recordings you want to and find out. When you hear Him speak out like that, it's not exactly exactly that way.” “Divine Healing” (54-0620E).
William Branham's failed prophecy of the “little baby with a white shock of hair” being raised from the dead is also a significant upshot to his ministry because he portrayed himself to be a prophet of God. For him to have been a “true prophet of the Lord”, his prophecies would have needed to come to pass.
As Jeremiah 28:9 states,
“The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the Lord hath truly sent him.”
Deuteronomy 18:22 also states,
“When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”
Footnote:
[1] Note: William Branham's prophecy of a “little, red-headed, crippled boy” being instantly made whole apparently also was never fulfilled, as there is no evidence or eye-witness testimony to substantiate that event, as well.