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Nothing very new today. Just tribute to Perry Green's book as we remember his life.
This is an excerpt from the book Bro. Perry Green put out called "The Acts Of The Prophet". Bro. Perry Green passed on last week. Didn't know much about his personal life; but his work, wisdom, and inspiring testimonies have impacted countless
people worldwide. We will miss our noble brother, and look forward to
seeing him on the other Side. Ok, here we go, let's remind ourselves about California. This is direct copy paste of part of the book; about the West Coast prophecy. Enjoy:
It was in February, 1964, that Brother Branham’s ministry reached into
the literal shaking of the earth. He and several other brothers had
again gathered to hunt Javelina. The locale was the same general area as
where the angels had descended and the cloud had appeared. Because of
the memory of that event just the year before, one might have expected
other outstanding events to emanate from this spot; yet this day, as
Brother Branham and a close friend, Brother Banks Woods, returned to
camp, there was no hint of anything unusual. We know now that, at that
very moment, megatons of rock must have lain poised for movement deep in
the bowels of the earth.
As Brother
Branham and Brother Woods walked along that day, suddenly the Spirit of
the Lord spoke to him and told him to pick up a stone and cast it into
the air. Obediently, he did as he was told. As the stone struck the
earth, a small whirlwind came down with it, and he simply spoke the
words, “Thus saith the Lord.” He turned to Brother Woods and said, “You
watch, there will be something happen. You must do something to cause
things to happen. This is the way that things are started.”
The next day
the hunting party was prepared to break camp. The members of the party
were engaged in various activities, such as preparing their game, and
Brother Branham, true to the outdoorsman’s code, was carefully ensuring
that the fire was out. Suddenly he turned to Brother Roy Roberson,
standing near him, and quickly told him to take cover. Something was
about to happen. One of the brothers was taking motion pictures of
Brother Branham at the time and, just as his camera ran out of film,
over the bluff from the north came a powerful whirlwind right above the
prophet’s head. The violent force of this whirlwind was so great that it
cut part of this bluff out and threw rocks the size of a man’s fist for
over one hundred yards. Like a blast, it cut the tops out of the
mesquite trees; the sound of its fury filled the air. Naturally the
brothers with him took cover. Some dived under the trucks or scrambled
beneath the bushes, but Brother Branham stood firm. The whirlwind rose,
as if retreating, only to return again with unquenched violence. This
fearful show of power and might was repeated a total of three times.
God’s prophet stood through it all, hat in hand, looking up into th
emidst of the whirling force. As it lifted the last time and returned in
the direction from whence it had come, he set his hat back on his head
and spoke deliberately, “God spoke to Job in a whirlwind.” Continuing he
pronounced the awful news, “The judgment of God shall strike the west
coast of America.” Indeed the whirlwind had retreated in the
northwesterly direction, toward that coast.
Before we
learn of the extent of this impending judgment, let us return a few
years back to where the prophet of God first spoke of such things. (We
must remember that God sends prophets to pronounce judgment against
those who will not listen, as well as for the edification of those who
are eager for the word of God. To the one, the words of the prophet
bring life; to the other they bring death and destruction.) The first
mention of earthquake judgment by Brother Branham was in the 1950’s in a
sermon entitled Supernatural Gospel. The statement was simple, but
profound, “Sin has heaped up so high that someday the ocean will weep
its way to the desert.”
The second
mention of impending earthquake disaster in America was made in his
sermon The Second Coming Of Christ, preached on April 17, 1957. Here he
said, “The other day over in Oakland, California, when it was our
privilege to be there in a meeting, and it was the first time that my
wife had ever been in an earthquake, I was sitting in a barber shop and
the room shoot just a little and the radio quickly announced an
earthquake was on. Said they were looking for another one in about five
minutes and I thought, ‘Oh Lord. What if it is the last one!'” At that
time not many people perceived that a prophet of God was fulfilling
Scripture by referring to the last earthquake.
On December
27, 1964, in his message Who Do You Say This Is? he said, “Look at the
earthquakes over here in California. I predict that, before the coming
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 her. It’ll go beneath the bottom of the sea.” Though
many of us followed his message and believed him to be the prophet of
God to this generation, yet, even at that hour, we did not perceive the
prediction of judgment upon the west coast of America.
On April 29,
1965, the next link in the chain of prophecy was forged while Brother
Branham was preaching in Los Angeles itself. Just before his message
that morning, a very dear friend, Sister Florence Shakarian, had just
sung a song in her inimitable style. (Sister Florence had been sick for a
long time and a few months previous, Brother Demos Shakarian had asked
Brother Branham to pray for his sister, who was dying of cancer. At that
time Brother Branham had been given a word from the Lord concerning
Sister Florence. He told Demos that she would not die then, but that she
would die before the coming of the Lord, that it would happen between 2
and 3 o’clock some morning, and that he had seen her lying in state.)
Sister Florence’s song that morning carried a special anointing, for she
could sing like a nightingale. The song was a tremendous blessing, and
the congregation was deeply moved. At the end of her song, Brother
Branham, sitting on the platform next to Brother Carl Williams, nudged
Brother Carl and said, “Do you hear that?” Brother Carl asked him what
he meant, and Brother Branham replied, “She’s walking up the Golden
Stairs, can’t you hear her?”
At about this
same time a man rose up and brought one of those powerful, spine
tingling messages in tongues that are often given in Pentecostal
congregations. You could almost feel the anointing from the words this
man brought; so forceful, and with such authority it was given. The
interpretation came immediately from the other side of the auditorium:
“Oh daughter of Zion, thou shalt not fear, thou shalt not worry, for
thou shalt live to see the coming of the Lord.” Brother Billy Paul, in
the audience that day, was deeply disturbed, for he knew that this
message contradicted that which Brother Branham had received from the
Lord. The message had come with such force and such anointing; yet he
knew that the Angel of the Lord had never failed Brother Branham.
No explanation
was forthcoming at this time and Brother Branham went on to deliver his
message Choosing Of A Bride. The next prophetic link was forged as he
said to the people of Los Angeles, “You don’t know what time that this
city one day is going to be lying out there at the bottom of this ocean. ‘Oh Capernaum,’ said Jesus, ‘thou who art exalted into heaven will be
brought down into hell, for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom
and Gomorrah, it would have been standing until this day,’ and Sodom and
Gomorrah lay at the bottom of the Dead Sea, and Capernaum is in the
bottom of the sea. 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, till even the foreign countries come here
to pick up our filth and send it away, with your find churches and
steeples, and so forth, the way you do, remember, one day you’ll be
lying 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 slode 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. Let us pray.”
This was the
great moment for those of us who believed that Brother Branham was the
prophet of God with the spirit of Elijah, when the realization swept
over us that the tapes we had heard, the books we had read, and what we
had heard this great man of God say, all pointed to a tremendous
prophecy of doom for the west coast. Now we realized that he was
prophesying. Knowing him to be a Word prophet, we knew that he spoke
nothing unless it could be found in the Scriptures. Now we began to pay
attention.
On June 22,
1965, Brother Branham speaking on a coast-to-coast, border-to-border
telephone hookup, in his sermon Thinking Man’s Filter clearly pronounced
judgment upon America: “The Holy Spirit in my heart tonight cries,
‘Blind Laodicea, how oft God would have give you a revival, but now your
time has come, too late now. How did you laugh and make fun of the
people God sent to you. But now your time has come. Oh United States!
United States! How God would have hovered over you as a hen does her
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 have hovered you,
but you would not. . .now your time has come. Nations are breaking. The
world is falling apart, fifteen hundred mile chunk of it, three to four
hundred miles wide, will sink maybe forty miles down into that great
fault out yonder. One of these days them waves will shoot plumb out to
the state of Kentucky and when it does, it will shake the world so hard
that everything on top of it will shake down.”
What a
parallel between the words of God’s prophet concerning the United States
and Jesus’ words when He said, “Oh Jerusalem! If you had only known the
day of your visitation. . .” If the United States and the people who
call themselves the people of God, even claiming the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, the gifts of the Spirit, the divine healing, had only known
their day when God visited this generation in the life of a prophet!
The whirlwind
had descended three times on that day in February 1964. The first
answering judgment struck on Good Friday of that year in the form of an
earthquake which nearly tore the coast out of Alaska. No one who
experienced the terror of that day, or who has since examined the record
of the destruction and loss of life, could ever forget what it is like
to experienfce the heavy hand of God in judgment.
The next time
earthquake judgment struck was one year later, on April 29, 1965, again
on Good Friday. Less severe than the first, nevertheless, this quake
reached 7.0 on the Richter scale. Centered as it was in Puget Sound,
fifteen miles south of Seattle, the quake accounted for much less loss
in property and lives, but was judgment just the same – significantly
right down the western coast from the first strike in Alaska.
On July 18,
1965, in his message entitled Doing God A Service Without His Will,
Brother Branham said, “I don’t even pray for America. She’s going
further away and is going to sink! Nearly one-tenth of the earth is
ready to fall in.” Why do I
include all the direct quotations from Brother Branham’s own sermons? It
is simply because I wish to clarify what he actually said in the face
of much that is attributed to him that he did not say. Remember, he
never set dates. He never said when it would happen, except as he
predicted that it would happen before the coming of the Lord.
Preaching on
July 25, 1965, Anointed Ones At The End Time, he said, “But we have been
told by the Lord Jesus that when these things that we see now begin to
come to pass then we are to lift up our heads for our redemption is
drawing nigh. What ‘drawing nigh’ means, I do not know. Maybe it means
as the scientist said the other day, speaking of the great cracks in the
earth thousands of miles long, that the earth is going to sink. How
many of you saw on television how they followed this crack in the earth
with radar? It went up along the coast, broke in below San Jose, went
across over into Alaska, out through the Aleutian Islands, then went
about two hundred miles out into the sea, came back down into San Diego,
and went around behind Los Angeles, forming a great pocket. All the
earthquakes we’ve been having are from volcanic action hitting this
great hollow dipper, however. When this shakes it causes these
earthquakes we’ve been having for years on the west coast. Now the earth
is cracked all the way around.”
That night,
July 25, 1965, when he preached What Is The Attraction On The Mountain,
he said, “Listen close. (At this he goes to the Scripture, proving that
he is a Word prophet, and quotes Zechariah who is prophesying of the
coming of Christ in the last days.)
Zecharaiah 14:4,5:
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is
before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in
the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall
be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the
north, and a half of it toward the south.
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the
mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled
from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: . . .
Another
earthquake splitting open the earth. If you want to follow through on
Scripture, notice in the fifth verse it applies that the cleaving of the
mount of Olives is due to an earthquake. This is confirmed by Isaiah
29:6: Thou shall be visited of the Lord of Hosts with thunder, and with
earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of
devouring fire.
And Revelation
16, verse 17 and 18. Exactly what does all this mean? The prophet who
spoke of His first coming also saw His second coming. Notice, ‘As in the
days of the earthquake…’ See what the earthquakes are doing? See the
predictions of them? … Do you see where we are at? ‘Nations are
breaking, Israel’s awakening; The signs that our prophets fortold.’ The
earthquake to the Gentiles in the last day!”
On December 6,
1965, at San Bernardino, speaking his sermon entitled Modern Events
Made Clear By Prophecy, he said that he did not think that he would have
ever been back to California again and he made this statement, “Watch her slide into the sea.” — His last visit to California.
He was
approached by the various brothers who lived in California, asking him
what they should do. He said to one group, while on a hunting trip,
“People will make fun of the destruction of the earthquake that we have
said would happen, ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ on the west coast of America,
but I want you brothers to know this, that if you have any friends or
relation in Los Angeles, if I were you, I’d get then out as quickly as
possible.” Then he told the story of how the Angel of the Lord had told
him that his wife, Meda, would give birth to a little boy and that he
would name him Joseph. He said, “The same Angel of the Lord that told me
that Los Angeles would sink and slide into the Pacific Ocean as the
result of an earthquake.”
To return now
to the state of unrest that Brother Billy Paul found himself in
concerning the conflicting prophecy over Sister Shakarian on that day
when the message in tongues had gone forth and Brother Branham had
preached Choosing Of A Bride. As the prophet and his son were walking
back to their hotel, he perceived that something was troubling Billy and
he said, “Paul, what’s wrong?”
“Oh, nothing Dad,” Billy replied.
After a few steps, Brother Branham asked again, “What’s troubling you, Paul?”
“Well, Daddy,” said Billy, “You heard that message of tongues and interpretation there.”
“So what?” said the prophet.
“But Dad, you know that you said that the Angel of the Lord told you that she would die between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning.”
Notice Brother
Branham’s reply — so typical of him — where he answers and yet does not
speak against the tongues and interpretation: “Well, all I can say is,
Paul, that the Lord has not told me any different.”
On September
11, 1965, Brother Branham was in Phoenix, preaching a message entitled
God’s Power To Transform. It was at this time that I personally
witnessed the solution to the question troubling Brother Billy Paul. We
were at the Ramada Inn when Brother Carl Williams received a long
distance call from Los Angeles informing him that Sister Florence had
died the night before. Brother Branham was given the message and he
immediately asked Brother Williams to find out the time of her death. I
was there when the call went through and the answer was given us that
she had died at 2:45 a.m.
Now, were the
tongues and interpretation from God, or were they a result of someone’s
own zealousness? The Angel of God had told the prophet of God that she
would die between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning. The message in tongues
and interpretation said she would not die, but our sister does sleep in
Christ and it happened exactly when the Angel of the Lord said that it
would — another vindication of the prophet of God in the face of strong
opposition.
Though the
evidence overwhelmingly points to Brother Branham being the prophet of
God for this hour, yet there are those who tread critical and dangerous
pathways. In the matter of the prophesied destruction of the west coast,
their unbelief finds fertile ground, causing them to scoff against the
very warning that God has given this generation. For example, there is
the claim that Brother Branham predicted the destruction of Los Angeles
would occur before another international convention of the Full Gospel
Businessmen could be held in that city. Those who make the claim dare to
deride the words of the prophet by saying that the 1968 convention was
held in Los Angeles. I challenge this claim — first of all on the basis
that I do not believe he made the statement. The man who claims he has
it on tape will not permit me to hear the tape. His claim is that
Brother Branham did not make the statement publically, but whispered it
to someone next to him on the platform and that his microphone picked up
Brother Branham’s voice. Strangely enough, the man will not allow any
of us to hear this whisper attributed to Brother Branham.
Now supposing
that he did made the statement — is it in contrast to the true events as
they occurred? In other words, did the Full Gospel Businessmen have
their convention in Los Angeles? The answer is no. The convention was
not held in Los Angeles, but rather in the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.
For their sakes, I would not like to see them schedule one in Los
Angeles if the prophet of God did make this statement.
For myself, I
wait for that day, for I believe that it is the day that shall bring
forth the resurrection of those who sleep in Christ Jesus.
One
world-renowned denominational Pentecostal leader plunges blindly ahead
in a letter which states, “No wonder that God had to take William
Branham off the scene. Anybody that would predict the destruction of Los
Angeles, with four hundred and twenty thousand Holy Ghost filled
believers in the city — God would certainly condemn a man for making
such a judgment.” This man is obviously ignorant of the Scriptures and
is also ignorant of the moving of God among His people this day. His
action is childish, the reflection of an immature judgment and
understanding. I won’t name him, but I sincerely hope that he reads this
book because he must be made to understand that he stands in dire need
of repentance. Blasphemously, he goes on to say, “William Branham spoke
about having an Angel of God with him all the time; that Angel must have
been taking his Christmas vacation on th enight of December 18, 1965.”
This is blasphemy, in every sense of the word. It is making fun of the
Spirit of God. In love I say that I hope he repents and retracts these
words, lest he face them on Judgment Day. He does not know the God whom
he claims to serve. If he did, he would tremble with fear at the God who
caused twenty-eight thousand men to be killed in one day simple because
one man sinned among the children of Israel. This is the God of the
Bible; not the God of men’s imaginations.
There is
another internationally-known evangelist who writes in his paper
concerning these predictions of earthquakes that he didn’t find such
things in the Scripture and that he believed that these were just occurrences which would continue, but which have absolutely no
significance to the people of God. This man also proves himself ignorant
of the Scriptures, because he does not recall Daniel 12:1 which said
that the great archangel shall stand upon the earth and that there shall
be destruction such as never been known since there was a nation, but
they are
“Not to fear in that hour whose names are written in the Book
of Life.”
He must also be ignorant of Revelation 6:12 which states that
at the opening of the Sixth Seal there shall be a great earthquake. John
the Revelator said, “I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and,
lo, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became as black as
sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.” You have but to read
Brother Branham’s Revelation Of The Seven Seals to see that the Sixth
Seal happens to the Jews when Christ reveals Himself to His brethren,
but the Gentile Bride is taken away at that time.
The earthquake
becomes, then, a pivot point around which the words of the prophet
sweep in telling the Bride to come out and make herself ready; but that
same Bride must also see that what delivers the people of God will also
bring judgment upon the ungodly.
On one
occasion I was reading to Brother Branham from chapter 14 in the book of
Revelation on through the 18th chapter.
Revelation 18:4 says “… Come
out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye
receive not of her plagues.”
As I read these words, the full
realization struck me that this was Brother Branham’s message. It was
him that said, “Come out of her,” speaking of coming out of the systems,
the denominations, the Roman plague, the daughters of the harlot, and
everything else that would blind the eyes. Then, I knew that he not only
fulfilled Malachi 4, Luke 17:30, and Revelation 10:7, but he was also
fulfilling the 18th chapter of the Book of Revelation. As I read that
day to verse 8, which speaks of this great city Babylon, that sits on
seven hills (per the description in Revelation 17), saying, “… she shall
be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth
her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and
lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when
they shall see the smoke of her burning. Standing afar off for the fear
of her torment… (When I read this portion, Brother Branham said, “atomic
power.”) Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in
one hour is thy judgment come.” If this were ordinary fire, they would
try to put it out. Brother Branham had predicted this atomic holocaust
in 1959 in a message entitled The Great Harlot when he said, “Thus saith
the Lord, someday Russia will drop an atomic bomb on the Vatican and in
one hour she will be destroyed!” Here, in the Scriptures, it is proved
(to those who have eyes to see) that it is so. A prophet of God had to
stand on this earth and say, “Thus saith the Lord,” in order that it
might fulfill the Scipture. Likewise he had to stand on the earth and
say, “Thus saith the Lord,” California will sink, in order that it would
sink. The Word of the Lord has to be spoken before God will bring it to
pass.
Revelation
18:20 says, “Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles, and
prophets; for God hath avenged you on her …” God is saying, “Rejoice, I
have avenged you of the Roman system, it’s gone, it’s destroyed by
fire.” Then I read verse 21: “And a mighty angel took up a stone like a
great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence
shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more
at all.”
At this the prophet said quietly to me, “Notice, Brother
Green, the two Babylons.” This was in August 1964, before his prediction
of the destruction of Los Angeles. Therefore, at that time, I did not
perceive what he meant by two Babylons — one being destroyed by fire and
one being cast into the ocean. Notice the Scripture he applied to what
would happen to Los Angeles: “And the voice of harpers, and musicians,
and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee;
and no craftsmen, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in
thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in
thee; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and
the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at
all in thee; for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by
their sorceries were all nations deceived.” (You can’t light a candle
underwater.)
Return now to
that day when Brother Branham turned to Brother Billy Paul and said,
“Billy, all I can say is that God has told me no different (about Sister
Florence).”
After making this statement, he turned to his son and said, “Billy, where are you standing?”
“Downtown Los Angeles,” Billy Paul replied.
“Where are you standing?” queried the prophet.
“In front of the May Company, downtown Los Angeles,” replied Billy.
At this
Brother Branham made a prophetic statement: “Billy,” he said, “I may not
be here, but you won’t be an old man until sharks will swim right where
we are standing.”
Brother
Branham preached his last message in California on December 7, 1965, in
Covina. In his message Leadership, he said that he didn’t know that he
would ever be back to California again. That night when he finished his
sermon, he did something that none of us who followed him closely had
ever seen or heard him do before. Usually as he left his church in
Jeffersonville, he would sing the song Till We Meet. That night in
Covina, California, he closed his portion of the service for the first
time outside his church in Jeffersonville with the song Till We Meet.
“Till we meet, till we meet, at Jesus’ feet…” I was sitting at the head
table with Brother Carl Williams. I saw him as he walked off the edge of
the platform with Billy, pull away from Billy, step back on the
platform, and while they sang the song, he waved good-bye. This is
something that I had never seen him do before and never saw him do
again.
As I witnessed this, I nudged Brother Carl Williams and said, “Brother Carl, is he telling California good-bye?”
He never went back again.
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