Not since Bible days has the world witnessed anything that can be compared to the ministry of Brother Branham. When he appeared on the national scene in 1946, it produced a spark that ignited a period of great healing revivals that swept across America and around the world.

To this day, he is acknowledged by Christian historians as the “father” and “pacesetter” of the 1950s healing revival that transformed the Pentecostals and ultimately gave rise to the Charismatic movement, which today influences nearly every Protestant denomination.*

For twenty years, and before millions of people, William Branham demonstrated the Gift of Discernment and the Word of Knowledge (knowing the secrets of a person’s heart) with an unerring accuracy that had never before been seen, and has never since been duplicated. His healing ministry was legendary, yet in the opinion of many, he wasted the great gift that God had given him by trying to preach. Few church leaders were able to see past his lack of education and recognize the purpose of the gift, which was not to attract attention to the man, but to the Word that was being restored. The promise of Matthew 17:11 was being fulfilled: “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.”