This examines William Branham's series of "healing campaigns" that began in the fall of 1946 and lasted through 1948 throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada.<br /><br />Names discussed in this video:<br />• W. E. Kidson<br />• Roy E. Davis<br />• William D. Upshaw<br />• Jack Moore<br />• Walker Beck<br />• James Randi<br />• Rev. Mark Borror<br />• Rev. L. R. Mitchell<br />• Mary Bruce<br />• Mrs. Clyde Kidd<br />• Helen Gledhill<br /><br />Topics discussed in this video:<br />• William Branham's highly publicized 1946 "Healing Campaign" before he later started claiming an "angel" gave him the "gift of healing" in May 1947<br />• Only six recordings from 1947 available, though over a hundred meetings took place<br />• Newspaper reporters actively following the meetings, unable to find any "miracles"<br />• Many people pronounced "healed" arriving in ambulances and stretchers, and leaving in ambulances and stretchers<br />• Blind people "healed" still blind<br />• Only minor afflictions, such as stomach troubles healed<br />• Crippled people falling to the ground after being "healed", carried away<br />• Pentecostalism claiming "spiritual significance" on the revival, due to its birth 40 years after the 1907 Azusa Street Revival<br />• Interesting case of Walker Beck, well-known healing failure in Vandalia, IL<br />• Branham pronouncing healing on Walker Beck, and claiming success because the boy was both mute and deaf and could say "da da"<br />• Walker Beck leaving the meeting, unhealed<br />• Branham claiming that because the boy smoked a cigarette, his healing was not successful<br />• James Randi, former magician, noticing similarities between the "Prophet's" strategies and stage magicians<br />• James Randi's book, "The Faith Healers"<br />• People returning home, testifying of "healing", though reporters were not able to identify any healed<br />• Rev. Mark Borror returning with stories conflicting with newspaper reporters<br />• Reporters watching 1100 of 2500 people enter the prayer line without a single miracle<br />• Rev. L. R. Mitchell claiming his wife, Valra, healed of epilepsy<br />• Mary Bruce claiming healing, speaking and hearing better<br />• William Branham's Canadian tour<br />• Branham's revival filling all hotels in Calgary<br />• Mrs Clyde Kidd dying after claiming to be healed in Branham's Calgary meetings<br />• William Branham using words like "en masse" when denying having claimed Mrs. Kidd was healed, contrary to his later "Kentucky English"<br />• William Branham teaming up with "Little" David Walker, 13-yr-old preacher<br />• William Branham's marketing, advertising "signs and wonders"<br />• Majority of "healed" leave to be "healed later"<br />• William Branham telling reporters that healings were mostly of the "gradual type"<br />• Reporters learning that people were being "healed" in Branham's healing revivals multiple times for the same disease or affliction<br />• Helen Gledhill, crippled, healed twice of the same affliction<br />• Over 70 sermons examined, almost all of which no longer for sale<br /><br />https://william-branham.org/site/overview/the_message_part_25
