The Ministry of William Branham from 1959-1965
January
11, 1963
The Sword of the King
On January 4, 1963, the time finally came for Brother Branham to move to Arizona – the place that
he had loved so much since his boyhood. Nevertheless, this was different. In 1927, as an eighteenyear-old, Brother Branham had gone to Arizona to fulfill a personal dream and to escape from
the squalor and poverty of his home. It seems that he was also trying to run away from God. But
35 years later, he went according to a vision. Together with his family, he went to fulfill the will
of God. Later on, almost at the end of his life, Brother Branham told us that he often wondered
why he had to go to the “backside of the desert,” as he called it. But Brother Branham found an
answer in the lives of Moses and the Apostle Paul. Both were led into the desert to meet God and
receive a deeper revelation of God’s Word and will. In the desert, Brother Branham received “the
Sword of the King.”
“And I had my hands out, and all at once something hit my hand. I don’t know. I can’t say. Did
I go to sleep? I don’t know. Did I go into a trance? I don’t know. Was it a vision? I can’t tell you.
Only thing I can say is when I ... Just the same thing like them Angels was. And it struck my
hand, and I looked, and it was a sword, and it had pearl handles, real pretty; and had a guard
over it with gold, and the blade looked like, something like a chrome, like silver, only it was real
shiny. And it was so feather-edge sharp. Oh, my. And I thought, ‘Isn’t that the prettiest thing?’
just fit my hand.
I thought, ‘That’s awful pretty.’ But I said, ‘Hey, I’m always ‘fraid of them things’–a sword. And I
thought, ‘What will I do with that?’ And just then a voice shook down through there that rocked
the rocks, said, ‘It’s the Sword of the King.’ And then I come out of it. ‘The Sword of the King
...’Now, if it said, ‘a Sword of a King ...’ but it said, ‘The Sword of the King,’ and there’s only one
‘the King,’ and that’s God.
And He has one Sword; that’s His Word, what I live by. That, so help me, God, standing over His
holy desk here with this holy Word laying here, It’s the Word. Amen.”
The Seventh Seal, March 24, 1963
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