In the past weeks and month' much has happened, more than many have expected. The West coast of the U.S.A. did quake again. The world listened attentively to the news about the earthquakes, as the mass media reported about them. In the Holy Scriptures among many other things earthquakes are predicted. Brother Branham repeatedly spoke about the judgment that will come by an earthquake. He predicted that the United States, namely the West coast, will be struck heavily. Wherever the Lord did special things and offered Grace and Mercy, which was spurned, there the judgments followed upon those who did not believe Him. The following quotes of Brother Branham concerning this subject are very clear:

"Look at the earthquakes over here in California. I predict, before the coining of the Lord Jesus, that God will sink that place. I believe that Hollywood and Los Angeles, and them filthy places over there, that God Almighty will sink them. They'll go beneath the bottom of the sea" (Who do you say this is?, 27^th December 1964).

"Thou city, who claims to be the city of the Angels, who has exalted yourself into Heaven and sent all the dirty filthy things of fashions and things, til even the foreign countries come here to pick up our filth and send it away, with your fine churches and steeples, and so forth the way you do – remember, one day, you will be laying in the bottom of this sea! Your great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He will hold this sandbar hanging over that, when that ocean out yonder a mile deep will slide in there plumb back to the Salton Sea. It will be worse than the last day of Pompeii. Repent, Los Angeles! Repent the rest of you and turn to God! The hour of His wrath is upon the earth. Flee while there is time to flee and come into Christ" (Choosing a Bride, 29^th April 1965).

"They said, 'God bless America, it's a nation, it's a Christian country.' It's a million miles from being a Christian country! I don't even pray for it. How can I pray for it, and it won't repent under the mighty powers of God demonstrated before it, and denying, and closing the doors to it, and walking away? I commit it to God. And she's going further away, and now she's going to sink. Just watch what happens." (Doing God a Service Without His Will, 18^th July 1965).

"As Jesus cried, 'Blind Pharisees,' the Holy Spirit in my own heart tonight cries, 'Blind Laodicea, how often God would've give you a revival, but now your time has come. It's too late now. How did you laugh and make fun of the people that God sent to you? But now your time has come. Oh, United States, United States, how that God would've hovered you as a hen does its brood, but you would not.' Now, this Voice is going from coast to coast, from North to South, and East to West. How God would've hovered you, but you would not. Now your time has come. Nations are breaking; the world is falling apart. Fifteen hundred miles chunk of it, three or four hundred miles wide, will sink maybe forty miles down into that great fault out yonder one of these days, and waves will shoot plumb out to the state of Kentucky. And when it does, it'll shake the world so hard that everything on top of it will shake down!" (A Thinking Man's Filter, 22^nd August 1965).

Brother Branham did not only pronounce the judgment upon the West coast of America through the mighty earthquake, he clearly stated that the United States as a whole have missed the hour of the merciful visitation of the Lord. He said that he even didn't pray for his country any more. One can imagine what it means if the Spirit of God in a prophet must go to that extend. That should open our eyes and make us to examine ourselves.

We never gave room to the thought he expressed. But if we wish to give honor to the truth, then we have to admit with deep pain in our hearts that all the wrong interpretations and false doctrines within the message have their origin in the U.S.A. and were exported into all the world. If the American brethren would have stayed in the U.S.A., as it should have happened, because not one of them can point to a day he was called or commissioned to the ministry, then in all of Europe and the rest of the world it would look differently within the ranks of the called-out believers.

Of course those who have plenty of dollars at their disposal had an easy going exercising influence. As the scribes in the days of our Lord set themselves on the seat of Moses, so they have placed themselves into the seat of the prophet sent and vindicated by God. They themselves did not comprehend what it is all about. Everyone more or less works for the furtherance of his own cause, for his own message, and God's people are divided into various camps. These same gentlemen prevent that the truth is preached in their own churches through the God ordained ministry of the Word. But be comforted – the Lord Himself will have the last word and bring all this chaos to an end, and as the shepherd He will take care of His own sheep who will not listen to any other voice except to His, and for ever His own Voice is His own Word.

In the past weeks and month' much has happened, more than many have expected. The West coast of the U.S.A. did quake again. The world listened attentively to the news about the earthquakes, as the mass media reported about them. In the Holy Scriptures among many other things earthquakes are predicted. Brother Branham repeatedly spoke about the judgment that will come by an earthquake. He predicted that the United States, namely the West coast, will be struck heavily. Wherever the Lord did special things and offered Grace and Mercy, which was spurned, there the judgments followed upon those who did not believe Him. The following quotes of Brother Branham concerning this subject are very clear:

"Look at the earthquakes over here in California. I predict, before the coining of the Lord Jesus, that God will sink that place. I believe that Hollywood and Los Angeles, and them filthy places over there, that God Almighty will sink them. They'll go beneath the bottom of the sea" (Who do you say this is?, 27th December 1964).

"Thou city, who claims to be the city of the Angels, who has exalted yourself into Heaven and sent all the dirty filthy things of fashions and things, til even the foreign countries come here to pick up our filth and send it away, with your fine churches and steeples, and so forth the way you do – remember, one day, you will be laying in the bottom of this sea! Your great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He will hold this sandbar hanging over that, when that ocean out yonder a mile deep will slide in there plumb back to the Salton Sea. It will be worse than the last day of Pompeii. Repent, Los Angeles! Repent the rest of you and turn to God! The hour of His wrath is upon the earth. Flee while there is time to flee and come into Christ" (Choosing a Bride, 29th April 1965).

"They said, 'God bless America, it's a nation, it's a Christian country.' It's a million miles from being a Christian country! I don't even pray for it. How can I pray for it, and it won't repent under the mighty powers of God demonstrated before it, and denying, and closing the doors to it, and walking away? I commit it to God. And she's going further away, and now she's going to sink. Just watch what happens." (Doing God a Service Without His Will, 18th July 1965).

"As Jesus cried, 'Blind Pharisees,' the Holy Spirit in my own heart tonight cries, 'Blind Laodicea, how often God would've give you a revival, but now your time has come. It's too late now. How did you laugh and make fun of the people that God sent to you? But now your time has come. Oh, United States, United States, how that God would've hovered you as a hen does its brood, but you would not.' Now, this Voice is going from coast to coast, from North to South, and East to West. How God would've hovered you, but you would not. Now your time has come. Nations are breaking; the world is falling apart. Fifteen hundred miles chunk of it, three or four hundred miles wide, will sink maybe forty miles down into that great fault out yonder one of these days, and waves will shoot plumb out to the state of Kentucky. And when it does, it'll shake the world so hard that everything on top of it will shake down!" (A Thinking Man's Filter, 22nd August 1965).

Brother Branham did not only pronounce the judgment upon the West coast of America through the mighty earthquake, he clearly stated that the United States as a whole have missed the hour of the merciful visitation of the Lord. He said that he even didn't pray for his country any more. One can imagine what it means if the Spirit of God in a prophet must go to that extend. That should open our eyes and make us to examine ourselves.

We never gave room to the thought he expressed. But if we wish to give honor to the truth, then we have to admit with deep pain in our hearts that all the wrong interpretations and false doctrines within the message have their origin in the U.S.A. and were exported into all the world. If the American brethren would have stayed in the U.S.A., as it should have happened, because not one of them can point to a day he was called or commissioned to the ministry, then in all of Europe and the rest of the world it would look differently within the ranks of the called-out believers.

Of course those who have plenty of dollars at their disposal had an easy going exercising influence. As the scribes in the days of our Lord set themselves on the seat of Moses, so they have placed themselves into the seat of the prophet sent and vindicated by God. They themselves did not comprehend what it is all about. Everyone more or less works for the furtherance of his own cause, for his own message, and God's people are divided into various camps. These same gentlemen prevent that the truth is preached in their own churches through the God ordained ministry of the Word. But be comforted – the Lord Himself will have the last word and bring all this chaos to an end, and as the shepherd He will take care of His own sheep who will not listen to any other voice except to His, and for ever His own Voice is His own Word.