It really happened, on February 28^th 1963, as William Branham was shown in a vision on December 22^nd 1962 and as he told his home church in advance on December 30^th 1962. He was shown in a vision that seven angels (cherubim) would come down covered in a cloud. In this vision he saw the area and the individual events.

Without suspecting when it would happen, he went with some friends on February 28^th into the wasteland of Tucson towards Flagstaff, Arizona, to hunt. His hunting friends went one way and he headed for the mountaintop as the Lord had ordained. Suddenly there was a crash as if there had been a tremendous detonation. When he looked up, he saw the seven angels and the cloud into which he was then taken. He counted the heavenly beings from right to left, facing him in the form of a pyramid. Their wings touched each other. The one on his extreme left, the last in the constellation, made a special impression on him and spoke to him. There on the mountain, from that cloud, the call went out to him: "Return to Jeffersonville from whence you came, for the time to open the seven seals has come." From 17-23 March 1963, he spoke on the seven seals of Revelation.

The light cloud that appeared there in the blue sky was visible to all. Dr. James McDonald from Arizona University in Tucson wrote several reports about it. For him, it was incomprehensible that a cloud at an altitude of 26 km could be there at all, still hovering in the sky 28 minutes after local sunset. On the one hand, he argued that cloud formation at this altitude was impossible, on the other hand, he could not bring himself to explain this phenomenon as a supernatural one. He stuck to the heading he had chosen for himself:

"… And a High Cloud Ring of Mystery".

The US magazine "Life" published a short report in the issue of 17 May 1963 on page 112 with four photos. The journal "Science" published a much more detailed report on page 292-293 already on 19 April 1963, even with the photo of the cloud on the front page.

As in all times, people have the same problem now, namely to recognise the supernatural work of God. Dr. James McDonald simply could not cope with this phenomenon and committed suicide a few years later. Why especially the Pentecostal preachers, who knew about it and whose congregations enjoyed the greatest growth through the mighty ministry of William Branham, kept silent about the gracious visitations of God and thus withheld from God's people what the Lord was doing in our time, remains incomprehensible.

Again and again I hear the same sentence: "Why has nothing ever been made known to the public about all these things?" The answer is very simple: the spiritual leaders have kept it from the people for different motives.

It really happened, on February 28th 1963, as William Branham was shown in a vision on December 22nd 1962 and as he told his home church in advance on December 30th 1962. He was shown in a vision that seven angels (cherubim) would come down covered in a cloud. In this vision he saw the area and the individual events.

Without suspecting when it would happen, he went with some friends on February 28th into the wasteland of Tucson towards Flagstaff, Arizona, to hunt. His hunting friends went one way and he headed for the mountaintop as the Lord had ordained. Suddenly there was a crash as if there had been a tremendous detonation. When he looked up, he saw the seven angels and the cloud into which he was then taken. He counted the heavenly beings from right to left, facing him in the form of a pyramid. Their wings touched each other. The one on his extreme left, the last in the constellation, made a special impression on him and spoke to him. There on the mountain, from that cloud, the call went out to him: "Return to Jeffersonville from whence you came, for the time to open the seven seals has come." From 17-23 March 1963, he spoke on the seven seals of Revelation.

The light cloud that appeared there in the blue sky was visible to all. Dr. James McDonald from Arizona University in Tucson wrote several reports about it. For him, it was incomprehensible that a cloud at an altitude of 26 km could be there at all, still hovering in the sky 28 minutes after local sunset. On the one hand, he argued that cloud formation at this altitude was impossible, on the other hand, he could not bring himself to explain this phenomenon as a supernatural one. He stuck to the heading he had chosen for himself:

"… And a High Cloud Ring of Mystery".

The US magazine "Life" published a short report in the issue of 17 May 1963 on page 112 with four photos. The journal "Science" published a much more detailed report on page 292-293 already on 19 April 1963, even with the photo of the cloud on the front page.

As in all times, people have the same problem now, namely to recognise the supernatural work of God. Dr. James McDonald simply could not cope with this phenomenon and committed suicide a few years later. Why especially the Pentecostal preachers, who knew about it and whose congregations enjoyed the greatest growth through the mighty ministry of William Branham, kept silent about the gracious visitations of God and thus withheld from God's people what the Lord was doing in our time, remains incomprehensible.

Again and again I hear the same sentence: "Why has nothing ever been made known to the public about all these things?" The answer is very simple: the spiritual leaders have kept it from the people for different motives.