QUESTION:
What in 1933 did God commission Willaim Branham to do?
ANSWER:
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” [Malachi 4:5-6]
“One day at the river, I was baptizing five hundred people at the river, when all of a sudden this same Light that come in when I was a little boy... And I'd told the people I'd been seeing It. They said I was dreaming and it was some kind of a mental conception that I had. But before better than five thousand people, at two o'clock in the afternoon in 1933, out of the skies come this Cloud coming down, speaking these Words, "As John the Baptist was commissioned to forerun the first coming of Christ, your ministry will forerun the Second Coming of Christ," where thousands times thousands of people heard it, and newspapers give witness of it.? [The Trial, Tampa FL 64-0419]
“One day at the river, I was baptizing five hundred people at the river, when all of a sudden this same Light that come in when I was a little boy... And I'd told the people I'd been seeing It. They said I was dreaming and it was some kind of a mental conception that I had. But before better than five thousand people, at two o'clock in the afternoon in 1933, out of the skies come this Cloud coming down, speaking these Words, "As John the Baptist was commissioned to forerun the first coming of Christ, your ministry will forerun the Second Coming of Christ," where thousands times thousands of people heard it, and newspapers give witness of it.? [The Trial, Tampa FL 64-0419]
“Then consider. Now, I ask you at this hour, you people here at Jeffersonville, in 1933 the supernatural Light that fell down yonder on the river that day when I was baptizing five hundred in the Name of Jesus Christ (I was about a twenty-year-old boy.), what did It say, Jeffersonville? What was it at the foot of Spring Street there, when the "Courier Journal" (I think it was the "Louisville Herald") packed the article, and it went plumb across the Associated Press, plumb into Canada. Dr. Lee Vayle cut it out of the paper way up in Canada in 1933. When I was baptizing my seventeenth person under this Witness (and you know the rest of the story), and when I was standing there baptizing that seventeenth person, A Light come down from Heaven, a shining down above there like a Star falling from Heaven. a Voice said, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, your Message shall forerun His Second Coming into all the world." This day this Scripture is fulfilled. Thank You, Lord.” [This Day This Scripture Is Fulfilled, Jeffersonville IN 65-0219]
“I wish, this morning, that I had just--much time to--to spend upon these phenomenas, that's beyond any shadow of doubt been proven for the past thirty years--or thirty-five years right here at this church, since down on the river when that same Light came down here in Jeffersonville in 1933 and spoke those Words: "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, your Message will forerun the Second." We're at the end time. And we see it. We wonder sometimes why it hasn't spread over the earth; maybe sometime we'll have a chance to explain that, if God willing.” IIt Is The Rising Of. The. Sun, Jeffersonville IN 65-0418m]
Bible References: Malachi 4:5-6
[Answer provided by Bro. Ken Andes, Minister, Lynden, Washington, USA]