“Georgie Carter”
William Branham made many claims about a young woman named Georgie Carter being completely healed in 1941 from tuberculosis (TB) and its effects.
According to him, she contracted TB when she was a little girl as a result of man raping her. He alleged that her condition was so serious that she was bedridden for “nine years and eight months” and weighed about “thirty-seven pounds”, as follows,
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“Georgie Carter, Milltown, Indiana. And she belonged to a church that did not believe in Divine healing. She was taking piano lessons when she was a little girl, and her Uncle was taking her to this—to a piano lesson. And when he did, this man, being a full grown man, and her a little girl, ravished the child. And when it did, it give her TB. And she’d been laying nine years and eight months on the flat of her back with TB of the female glands, all through her body and into her lungs. And she approximately weighed thirty-seven pounds.” “Faith Is The Sixth Sense” (60-0611E).
As is the case with William Branham's other stories, the ones he told of Georgie Carter changed significantly over time and contain many contradictory and untruthful aspects. (All of the stories that he told about her can be read here.)
William Branham's alleged “vision” of a “lamb hooked in the wilderness.”
In several of those stories, he claimed to have seen a “vision” of a “lamb hooked in the wilderness” before Georgie Carter was “healed” in her city of residence, Milltown, Indiana.
According to him, he was praying in his mother's house one night (long before his healing ministry was made known to him) when he saw a “vision” of a Light and himself “trying to get to a little lamb” that was tangled in a bush in the wilderness.[1]
He claimed he heard the lamb bleating going, “Baa, baa” and then heard it change to “a human voice” saying, “Milltown, Milltown, Milltown.” He said he never heard of “Milltown” before, but believed that the Lord wanted him to go there. He, in turn, was taken there the next Saturday by a man named George Wright who attended his church and lived in nearby DePauw, Indiana.[2]
William Branham claimed that he and Mr. Wright stopped at a church when they went to Milltown, which was formerly used by the Baptists. He alleged that he took over the church building and immediately began holding “revival” services there, but only a few people attended his meetings that week. (So few people attended the “revival” service the first night that he said, “you know what my congregation was? Mr. Wright, Mrs. Wright and their daughter.” On the second night, only one additional person joined the very small “congregation” and that was a man by the name of Bill Hall who allegedly “got saved” after walking into the meeting the night before. (In that regard, William Branham stated, “the next night, there wasn't nobody there but Bill Hall, Mr. Wright, and his--his family.”)[3]
After a week of the “revival” services, Bill Hall allegedly went to William Branham and said, "Brother Billy, there's a little girl lives over the hill here, named Georgie Carter. She's laid there nine years and eight months."[4]
William Branham stated that he then went to down to the house of Georgie Carter and prayed for her, but “she didn't get any better”, as follows,
“And I said, "Well, now I'll pray for you."
And she said, "Will you do like you did for the Nail girl?"
I said, "Sister, that was a vision. I can only do as God says do." And I prayed for her; she didn't get any better.” “Faith Is The Sixth Sense” (60-0611E).
“So, I said, "I will pray for you." So, I knelt down and prayed. Got up. And she wanted to know if something.... Why didn't something happen?
And she had read in the paper about the Nale girl that had been crippled. The papers packed it all over the country. And I said, "Well now, look, sister dear, that was a vision, see." I said, "I can only do that.... I can pray for you, but that was a vision and I didn't even know the girl." And the tears.... Where she got enough moisture to get tears, I don't know. But tears come running down the side of her face, looks just like a.... You know how all the meat's gone off the face, just a jaw sunk in. Poor little fellow.
And I said, “I will continue to pray for you, 'cause I know your father and mother don't want me to be here.”[5]
From those statements it is apparent that his alleged “vision” of a “lamb hooked in the wilderness” did not result in Georgie Carter being healed after he was led to and prayed for her. Thus, the “vision” (if it was true at all), served no purpose in “unhooking” or “detangling” her from the “bush” of sickness and affliction that she was in. Although he found “Milltown” and the “lamb” that needed help, it was insufficient for her cause, but instead resulted in him starting a new church and a small revival.
So insufficient was the “vision” for Georgie Carter's cause that he told her all he could do is “pray for her.” From the following statements of his in a sermon he preached on July 21, 1951, it is clear he believed that God needed to show him another “vision” to ensure that she was going to be healed,
“I went up there to have a baptismal service that afternoon. And little Georgie, I told her, I said, "Now, now, sister, I can pray for you. That's all I know."
She said, "Will can you do for me, like you did for that Nail girl?"
I said, "No, that was a vision, honey. I have to see the vision first."
I said, "If He ever sends me back, I'll come back. But I believe you're going to get well," encouraging her faith.” “Life of Demons and Visions” (51-0721).
By asserting that he needed to see a second vision for Georgie Carter to be healed and not uplifting her faith in God or any of the Holy Scriptures, William Branham unquestionably was not operating in the faith realm, but leading her to believe that her healing was fully dependent on him and not attainable through faith in God of her own.
William Branham's close friend and book author, Lee Vayle, recognized that William Branham was in error by leading Georgie Carter to believe her healing depended on him seeing a “vision” first, as is evident from these statements of his in his book, “The Twentieth Century Prophet”,
“At that time he did not understand as much as he does now about healing, but prayed for the people as he saw them healed by vision. So he told her about the Nale girl who had been healed, and suggested that she should pray that God would lead him through a vision to pray for her. (Later, he learned, of course, that all may be healed by believing God's Word, although God still reveals to him many healings by vision.)”[6]
Although Lee Vayle stated that William Branham later learned “all may be healed by believing God's Word”, William Branham continued to lead others to believe that the healing they sought depended on him seeing a “vision” first.
In 1950, he even made it known that he could say nothing until the Lord “showed him” first when only one of two boys he prayed for in Finland was revived after being struck by a car,
“But with sadness the other parents looked at me and said, "What about our boy? Is he going to live?" I replied that I could not say. But they answered, "You have told the other parents that their boy would live; can't you say something for our boy?" But I said that
I could say nothing until the Lord showed me. Then they began to weep.”[7]
In 1955, he went so far as to assert that every miracle that Jesus Christ performed depended on Him seeing a “vision” first,
“That was Jesus yesterday. That’s Jesus today. That’s Jesus forever. He can only do as God will show. He saw visions. Look at Him. Nowhere in the Bible did Jesus ever perform a miracle or do anything unless first God showed Him by a vision. That’s His own Word. Amen.” “Earnestly Contending For The Faith That Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints” (55-0815).
Not only did William Branham place greater emphasis on seeing “visions” than faith in God alone for divine healing, but he even claimed that he needed to get people to believe him for them to be healed and believing him is “what moves God”,
“I said, "Now, look, there was an Angel came down into the room and told me that way back, back ’fore I was born, was foreordained to have a gift of Divine healing. And He came and told me in the room one night that God had sent the gift, and it was a gift of Divine healing for the people. And if I could get the people to believe me (believe me), and would be sincere when I prayed, that nothing would stand before the prayer."
I said, "Therefore, speaking face to face with this supernatural Being, I believe it with all my heart. And if I can get you to believe me with all your heart, that’s what moves God, and then you’re healed. Your faith has saved you." You see what I mean? Your faith to believe has saved you. Not what you worked up and thought in your mind, but what you really know, the very evidence of things not seen. You see what I mean?” “Faith Is The Substance” (47-0412).
Footnotes:
[1] Source: “The Darkest Hour, Then Jesus Comes Along” (55-1114).
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Source: Vayle, Lee (1965). Twentieth Century Prophet. William Branham Evangelistic Association.
[7] See page M of the June 1950 "Special Branham Overseas Edition" of “The Voice of Healing” magazine here.
William Branham claimed he saw the “second vision” that was needed for Georgie Carter's healing, but contradicted his claims of what took place significantly.
On the last night of his “revival” services in Milltown, Indiana, William Branham allegedly was going to have dinner with the Wright family, but decided to go into the woods nearby to pray first. In that regard, he made the following contradictory statements of what he told Mr. Wright,
“It was the last night of the service; I was going to have dinner with Mr. Wright. And we were up. And I said, "Brother Wright, it seems to me that I must go to the woods to pray.
The Holy Spirit's leading me not to eat, but pray."
And I went up in the woods and I knelt down.” “Looking To The Unseen” (50-0816).
“So, I went up to Mr. Wright's to have dinner. And it's way in the country, in the hills. And so I said, "Something tells me to go over in the woods and pray."” “The Angel Of The Lord” (53-0604).
“I went with Brother Wright and them to eat supper. And mother Wright, she's a real cook. Way back up in the country is where they live. And I said, "I don't want supper right now." I said, "I'll go over here to pray. The Lord wants me to pray. There's something leaning heavy on my heart."” “Life of Demons and Visions” (51-0721).
William Branham also claimed that when he was praying in the woods, he saw a “light” and heard a “voice” tell him to “Go by way of Carter's”, as follows,
“And I had been praying over in a wilderness ... or, the woods. And Sister Wright rang the bell for us to come to supper. And I was just praying so, and our Lord Jesus' presence so close, till I didn't notice the bell ringing. And it begin to get towards dark. And I seen a light shining down through a dogwood bush, and said, "Go by the way of Carter's."” “Jubilee Year” (54-1003E).
As is evident in his other claims here, he claimed only to have seen “a light shining down through a dogwood bush.” He did not assert that he saw anything more than that. Consequently, his claim below that he “was in a vision” is questionable.
“Just about time I got into praying real good, I looked and out of a little dogwood bush... Anybody know what a dogwood is? Oh, sure, Ohio knows what dogwoods are. And a little dogwood bush there... That Light, that Angel of God Whose picture you got here; that Light was shining down out of that bush, said, "Rise to your feet."
I said, "Yes, my Lord."
Said, "Go by the way of Carter's." That's all He said.
Well, when I--I heard that bell ringing... And Mr. Wright told me, he said, "Now when that bell rings, mama's got supper on the table and you come on." an old country bell... Said, "You ring it. She--when she's ringing it, you come on." I heard it. But I was in the vision, and I couldn't go. You know God answers on both ends of the line. Don't you believe that?” “Faith Is The Sixth Sense” (60-0611E).
By making the above claim that the all that the “Light” said was, “Rise to your feet” and “Go by the way of Carter's”, William Branham's claims that follow of the “voice” telling him even more are discredited and rendered false,
“I happened to look through a little dogwood bush, and here was this same light, hanging up there in that dogwood bush. And a light shining down through it, and a voice said, "Go by the way of Carters, for 'thus saith the Lord,' she's going to be healed."” “The Angel Of The Lord” (53-0604).
“And little Georgie Carter down there, found out, was healed about twelve, fourteen years ago, laying on a bed for nine years and eight months, and never raised from that bed. And out one time…I had prayed for her a couple times. And went out one night, and was over in a place praying. And the Lord come down, a little Light shining through a dogwood bush, said, "Go by the way of Carter’s, for Georgie’s healing. She is going to be made well."” “Law Or Grace” (54-1006).
In all eight excerpts of his story here, it is clear that he made no assertion that the “voice” said anything more than “Rise up” and “Go by the way of Carter's.” (Thus, it is further apparent his claims above of the “voice” also declaring “thus saith the Lord” and “she's going to be healed” are unfounded and untrue.)
William Branham's claims that he “never saw” and “knowed nothing” about Georgie Carter are directly contradicted by his earlier claims.
In addition to claiming in that he never heard of “Milltown” before, William Branham also claimed that he never seen Georgie Carter and knew nothing about her before she was healed, as follows,
“One day there, where I never seen her, knowed nothing about her, and the Angel of the Lord come to me and said, “Go down to Milltown.” I didn’t even know where it was at.” “What Think Ye Of Christ?” (53-1213M).
“And she approximately weighed thirty-seven pounds. I think that, what they could weigh her… Now, you can just write her if you wish to. It’s your privilege if you want to. She’ll be glad to write back. And I knowed nothing of the girl. And I didn’t even know where Milltown was.” “Faith Is The Sixth Sense” (60-0611E).
However, both of those claims of his from 1953 and 1960 are directly contradicted by the following claims of his from 1947 in which he identified her as already belonging to his church, the Milltown Baptist Church, before she was healed,
“And I was at my church, the Milltown Baptist church, where I went to hold a revival. Many of you seen in the little book called, “Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday And Forever.”
A little girl in there that weighed forty-seven pounds, twenty-seven years old, weighed forty-seven pounds, by the name of Georgie Carter, with tubercular; and she belonged to this same church. And she said the people through the neighborhood said, “Let…” She’d been on her back now for nine years and six months. And said, “Let her get well and we’ll believe it.” But, my friends, she’s my piano player in the Milltown Baptist church tonight. But do they believe? No, even one raised from the dead, they don’t believe in it.” “Faith Is The Substance” (47-0412).
By claiming that she already belonged to his Milltown church when he held his revival, all of his later claims of the Wright family and Mr. Hall being the first and only people in his congregation when he began the revival meetings are contradicted and rendered false.
And by claiming that he went to the Milltown Baptist church “to hold a revival”, all of his later claims that he went to Milltown to find the “little lamb” in his “vision” are also contradicted and rendered false.
Note that the above statements of his from 1947 are the first ones he made about Georgie Carter in his recorded sermons. As is evident, they contain none of the embellished details and significant claims of God manifesting himself to him and Georgie Carter's mother in “visions” or of a spectacular “power striking” Georgie and her “jumping to her feet”, running around and screaming.
As time went on, William Branham added more and more details to his stories, but they contradict each other significantly and contain many untrue aspects, as demonstrated below.
William Branham's contradictory and untrue claims of Georgie Carter's mother.
In 1950, William Branham claimed that Georgie's mother saw a “vision” of Jesus walking down across her kitchen wall just “as clear as she ever seen in her life” and “He come through it” and said, “Touch not My anointed”, as follows,
Then the people begin to gather on the hills, said, “Let us go,” two men.
And the same time, her critical mother... Georgie was crying and praying because her mother had treated me the way she had. And so she went out in the kitchen and she knelt down to pray. She said, “O God,” said, “that reprobate that's come through the country here, called Branham,” said, “He's got my child all stirred up in there,” and said, “poor little thing laying there dying. And today,” said, “she just cried, and her little eyes are red.” Said, “He's got her all stirred up about a lot of psychology.” Said, “O God, put a curse on that man, or do something,” like that, going on, said, “Oh...” praying.
And when she begin to pray, she thought her daughter, which lived next door, was passing by. She seen the shadow on the wall. And she let... (Get her testimony concerning... when you write to her.) She said as clear as she ever seen in her life, come Jesus, walking right down across that wall. He come through it. “Touch not My anointed.”
Said, “Who's that a coming?” And he looked, and said she seen me coming. This same Bible, I had over my heart, like that. Said she seen my hair, thinning in the front. She said, “Well, that's that preacher.” And she jumped up. She said, “O God, please. Was I in a trance, or what's happening? I'm losing my mind.”
And she run into the room, said, “Georgie, you know what?”
And about that time the door closed. And here I come, just according to the way she seen the vision. Here I come walked with a Bible over my heart, and two men followed me. Oh, my. “Looking To The Unseen” (50-0816).
Then in 1951, he asserted that Georgie's mother “seen a shadow coming down the wall” and it was and looked like Jesus Christ who said, “Who's this?” to her. He also changed the story of what she saw in the “vision” by claiming she saw, “Brother Branham coming with two men following him” (unlike the previous version, which did not have two men following him),
“Her mother went in the kitchen; she knelt down, she said, "O dear God..." Sincerely now, just been taught wrong. Said, "O dear God," said, "have mercy on my poor little girl in there, poor little thing laying there, just a few days from death. And she's laying there. And that impostor come through this country here, claiming to be something." And said, "And he's got my child all tore up." Said, "God, have mercy." Started praying like that.
Now, here is her testimony. I don't know this; this is her words. She said, "She raised her head up like that; she was wiping the tears from her eyes. Her daughter lived next door. They was good people. And the sun was setting in the west, and was shining in like this against the wall." She said, "She seen a shadow coming down the wall." And she thought it was her daughter coming around the house. But when He got right up to her, she said, "It was the Lord Jesus Christ." Said, "He walked right up close like that.
He said, 'Who's this?'"
And said, they looked. And she was seeing me with this high forehead, and this Bible laying on my heart, coming, walking into the house. And she said, "Oh, mercy, I--I--I've went to... I'm asleep." She never seen a vision. She said, "I'm--I'm asleep."
And she run in and told Georgie, said, "Georgie, I was out there a few minutes ago, praying, and it looked like I seen a form on the wall, looked like Jesus. And I seen that Brother Branham coming," said, "with two men following him. He had a Bible over his heart." And about that time my door closed outside, and here come me and the two men.” “Life of Demons and Visions” (51-0721).
Two months later, he claimed that she saw “Jesus standing there, a shadow on the wall” and Jesus said, “Who's this coming?” and it was William Branham alone (not him with two other men as he claimed in his previous story),
“She'd laid there and set there by her daughter for nine years and eight months till she'd turned gray. And so she went in, was praying in the room and asking God what had happen, that I'd come through the country and made that statement to the girl, and—or the girl was all upset and so forth. And she claimed she seen a vision of somebody coming; she thought it was her daughter, next door, coming down.
She looked and it was Jesus standing there, a shadow on the wall. He said, “Who's this coming?” And she seen me get out of the car with this same Bible over my heart, and she could see all my hair being thin there, and knew it was me coming, said, “Who's this?” And she jumped up to run and to tell Georgie about it, and no sooner she got in the room, the door closed, and I was walking out into the car. God's works on both ends of the line. He's always on time.” “The Principles Of Divine Healing” (51-0923).
In 1953, William Branham changed the story again by claiming that Georgie's mother saw “someone with a robe on, with a beard hanging down” (not Jesus Christ himself) and that it was her who said, “Who's that coming?” (not Jesus Christ),
“Now, here's what she said. She opened her eyes while in prayer, and her daughter.... They live in a lovely big home there. And so, her daughter from the next door, she thought, was coming over. She seen a shadow: the sun coming through the window on the wall. And she thought it was her daughter, but when she looked, it wasn't. It was someone with a robe on, with beard hanging down.
She said, “Who's that coming?” And said she looked over here, and she seen me coming with my Bible over my heart, like this, the high forehead here, walking like that. And two men following me. And said, she said, “Oh, I must've went to sleep. I was dreaming.”
And she run in and said, “Georgie?”
She said, “What, mother?”
She said, “Something's happened.” She said, “I was out there praying, and I dreamed, or something. I thought I seen Jesus coming. He pointed me over to....”
And just about that time, she heard a door slam. And there I was getting out of the car (God works on both ends of the line.) Bible over the heart. Them two men, Mr. Wright and Mr. Hall ... or, Mr. Brace following me, coming up the steps. And the mother fainted. The little girl.... I don't know how I ever got in the door. Opened the door, walked over to where she was.” “The Angel Of The Lord” (53-0604).
In 1955, William Branham said that he could “only quote” Georgie's mother, but changed his story further by claiming that the shadow of Jesus Christ on the wall said, “Why are you weeping? Who's that coming?”
“And she knelt down and she said, “Dear Heavenly Father, we have served You in Your church for years. And there my poor little dying daughter, laying in there. And that impostor William Branham has come through here and got the people all stirred up. And the poor little thing laying in there.” Said, “God reward that hypocrite of his iniquity.”
And just going on praying like that. And she raised up, and she seen a shadow on the wall. And she thought it was her daughter coming. Now, here's her story. I can only quote her, see. She said it was a shadow of the Lord Jesus. She seen His beard. He said, “Why are you weeping? Who's that coming?” And she looked over, and she seen me with this Bible over my heart, coming in with two men following me.
And she said, “Oh, I.... How.... I ... I've been asleep.” She'd never seen a vision before. So, she said, “I ... I ... I've been asleep. Oh, something's wrong.” She said, “What happened? Have I ... have I lost my mind?” And she went into the room. She said, “Georgie, you know I....” And just then she heard a door slam. And here I was, come walking in. Me and two men, just like she'd seen. She said, “Oh!” And she fainted.
When I got to the door, I don't know who opened the door, but I got in.” “The Darkest Hour, Then Jesus Comes Along” (55-1114).
Although he led people to believe that the “vision” of Georgie's mother was real and he was part of its fulfillment, William Branham asserted in 1960 that he actually did not know if it was true, but only believed that it was, as follows,
“Now, this is her story. I can't say this is true, only I believe it is. She said she seen a shadow coming across the wall, and she thought it was her daughter who lived a few doors below her, coming to see her around the house. And when she looked up, she said it was the shadow of Jesus on the wall. She said, “Who is this?” and pointed her finger this way, and she seen, like a vision, seeing my high forehead here, coming in, packing a Bible over my heart. And she jumped up to run in to tell her daughter, and about that time I was coming in the door. God's always got you there just at time, if you'll just believe it.” “Is There Anything Too Hard For The Lord?” (60-0328).
Because William Branham told many divergent and ever-changing stories of what Georgie Carter's mother saw in her alleged “vision”, it is apparent that they cannot all be true. Consequently, his claims about her rightly can only be rejected as false and unfounded.
William Branham's contradictory and untrue claims about how he got inside the Carter's home.
William Branham led people to believe that he did not know who opened the door to the Carter's home or how he got inside when he arrived there to pray for Georgie a second time.
In 1951, he implied that he was having “an out of body experience” when he entered the Carter's home, as follows,
“And she run in and told Georgie, said, "Georgie, I was out there a few minutes ago, praying, and it looked like I seen a form on the wall, looked like Jesus. And I seen that Brother Branham coming," said, "with two men following him. He had a Bible over his heart." And about that time my door closed outside, and here come me and the two men.
I tell you. Oh, my, I feel good. Brother, you'll never know how it feels till you know just where you're standing. Then all Devils out of hell can't stop it; there's nothing can. You know where you're at then.
And walked up to the porch. I never... It seemed to me like that I felt myself come out of my body, and seen my body open that door and go in.” “Life of Demons and Visions” (51-0721).
In 1953, he also claimed that he did not know how he “ever got in the door”, as follows,
“And just about that time, she heard a door slam. And there I was getting out of the car (God works on both ends of the line.) Bible over the heart. Them two men, Mr. Wright and Mr. Hall ... or, Mr. Brace following me, coming up the steps. And the mother fainted. The little girl.... I don't know how I ever got in the door. Opened the door, walked over to where she was.” “The Angel Of The Lord” (53-0604).
Then in 1955, he also claimed that he did not know who opened the door, as follows,
“And she went into the room. She said, “Georgie, you know I....” And just then she heard a door slam. And here I was, come walking in. Me and two men, just like she'd seen. She said, “Oh!” And she fainted.
When I got to the door, I don't know who opened the door, but I got in.” “The Darkest Hour, Then Jesus Comes Along” (55-1114).
Notwithstanding all of his claims above, William Branham ultimately admitted that he simply opened the door and walked into the Carter's home, as follows,
“And she run in and she said, "Georgie, the funniest thing happened." She said, "I must have went to sleep. I dreamed a dream. I saw that preacher come in."
About that time, the door slammed on the car. I was getting out on the outside. Oh, God answers on both ends if you'll just let Him do it. There was Georgie there believing against all the unbelief. She was still holding on that God would make her well. If He could heal one girl, He could heal another. Yes. And she seen me. And I walked up under the anointing. I never even knocked at the door. I just opened the door. Her father was gone up to his barn to get some milk, that he'd just got through milking. And so I walked up, opened the door, walked in there, I... And this woman, the mother, just fainted and fell over in the floor. And Georgie was there, and she looked over at me.” “Faith Is The Sixth Sense” (60-0611E).
William Branham's contradictory claims of how Georgie Carter's healing would happen.
After seeing the alleged “light” in a “little dogwood bush” and hearing a voice that told him “Go by the way of Carter's”, William Branham allegedly told Brother Wright all of the following,
“I said, "We're not going to supper. But this is the night, SAITH THE LORD, Georgie Carter will be made every whit whole, just in a few moments."
He said, "Brother Branham, do you mean that?' He said, 'Is that coming from God, so this whole country will turn to God?"
I said, "THUS SAITH THE ANGEL OF GOD, Who's fed me since the days I was born on this earth, and has never lied to me, Georgie Carter will be a well woman in the next hour."” “Looking To The Unseen” (50-0816).
In 1951, he claimed he told Brother Wright, "Georgie Carter is going to be healed completely in the next few minutes." and "She's going to be normal and well in the next few minutes, soon as I can get there."
“And as I opened my eyes, shining right down though a little dogwood bush there, was a Light, kind of an emerald-green, yellowish Light, shining right down on me. And a Voice spoke like a great deep Voice, way back there in the woods, and said, "Go by the way of Carter's" That was enough. That had it. I jumped up and started screaming, I run down. They had search parties looking for me out in the woods. I jumped over the fence and down there in the field, and jumped right into Brother Wright's arms.
He said, "Brother Billy," he said, "mama's been waiting supper on you for a hour." He said, "They're out everywhere over hill here, hunting for you."
I said, "Well, Brother Wright, I'm not going to eat supper." I said, "Georgie Carter is going to be healed completely in the next few minutes." She was about eight miles away.
He said, "What?"
I said, "Yes, sir. THUS SAITH THE LORD."
He said, "You mean she's going to get up?"
I said, "She's going to be normal and well in the next few minutes, soon as I can get there."” “Life of Demons and Visions” (51-0721).
Two months later, he changed his story further by claiming that what he told George Wright and a man named Mr. Brace was, “She'll be healed in the next thirty minutes. If it isn't so, then brand me a false prophet and say I don't know what I'm talking about.”
“I just kept on praying and praying. I said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” And all at once, here come that Light, came right down through a dogwood bush, shined right down on me; and I heard a voice say, “Go by the way of Carters.” That was enough.
They had parties out hunting for me. And I jumped across the fence, running towards my car, and it—landed right in the arms of Mr. George Wright, standing there. And him and Mr. Brace, a man from Texas, had just come up. And his wife had been healed. They want.... They said, “Do you mean to tell me that Georgie Carter will be healed?” Why, her little limbs was like a broom stick, up here around her hips.
I said, “She'll be healed in the next thirty minutes. If it isn't so, then brand me a false prophet and say I don't know what I'm talking about.” “The Principles Of Divine Healing” (51-0923).
William Branham's contradictory claims of what he told Georgie Carter just before she was healed.
William Branham claimed that he said all of the following things to Georgie Carter just before she was healed,
“I walked right over to the bed and put my hands on her. I said, "Georgie, even Jesus Christ, Who gave me the vision of a lamb hung in the wilderness down here somewhere, has appeared to me today in the woods, and has sent me here that I might lay my hands upon you that you should be well."
I took her by the hand, and I said, "As the—the Lord God has said to me, 'In The Name of The Lord Jesus Christ, rise up and be whole."” “Looking To The Unseen” (50-0816).
“And I walked up to the bed where she was at. I said, "Sister Georgie, even the Lord Jesus, Who you love and trusted all this time, has met me in the woods, and said that I must come and you would be made well. Therefore, in obedience to the commission that was just given me some few moments ago in the woods, I take you by the hand, and say, 'In the Name of Jesus Christ, stand to your feet and be made well."” “Life of Demons and Visions” (51-0721).
“I walked into the room under the anointing of the Holy Spirit [unclear words] down there back yonder where the girl was, put my hands upon her. I said, "Georgie, even Jesus Christ who you love has appeared to me, back yonder, of—by Mr. Wright's, and told me, come lay hands on you and you'd be well. Rise up in the name of the Lord Jesus."”
“The Principles Of Divine Healing” (51-0923).
“I walked over to the bed. I said, “Sister Carter, the Lord Jesus, in whom you've trusted all these years, has sent His Angel out there in the woods, and has told me to come down and lay my hands upon you that you might be made well." I said, "Therefore, take no thought of how you shall do it, but in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, rise up."” “The Angel Of The Lord” (53-0604).
“And I said, "Sister Georgie, Jesus Christ, who you love and has trusted, has met me over yonder under a dogwood bush." Oh, I can still think of it and something happens. I said, "He met me. And He sent me that you might be healed. So, in the name of Jesus Christ, rise up from the bed."” “The Darkest Hour, Then Jesus Comes Along” (55-1114).
When I walked in there and laid her by the hand, I said, "Sister, the Lord Jesus appeared to me awhile ago over on the side of the hill there and said come here and lay my hands on you that you might be healed."” “Then Jesus Came” (57-0407E).