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    '''[[William Branham]] had just finished preaching''' a series of meetings in Los Angeles in April 1965, when he was asked by the Full Gospel Business Men who organized the meetings to preach just one more service for themSo, on April 29, William Branham stood behind the podium at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, and preached a sermon called "Choosing of a Bride".
    '''On April 29, 1965''' William Branham was preaching in Los Angeles and prophesied that the city of Los Angeles would one day slide into the sea, just like Capernaum, and that a new coastline would form at the Salton SeaHowever, Capernaum never sank into the Sea of Galilee, but remains in ruins on its shoreline.


    Two notable things occurred during this service:
    In the book "Acts of the Prophet" by [[Pearry Green]], William Branham told his son [[Billy Paul Branham|Billy Paul]] that sharks would swim in downtown Los Angeles before he was an old man.  Billy Paul was born in 1935 and should be considered a man in his senior years by now.
    #There was a steady stream of people leaving the building during the service who could not handle the severity of the preaching.  These included the same people who had attended (and engaged in)  William Branham's sermons in LA since April the 24th. 
    #During this sermon, William Branham prophecied that the city of Los Angeles would one day slide into the ocean, and a new coastline would form at the Salton Sea.  


    ==Problems with the prophecy==


    [[Image:Saltonseaphotomerge.jpg|thumb|780px|A Panorama of the Salton Sea]]
    ===Capernaum never sank===
    <youtube>https://youtu.be/Wmq9Zx1uFVE</youtube>


    <div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; text-align:center; font-size:140%; padding:1px; margin:1px;">The Prophecy</div>
    Why does William Branham compare the sinking of Los Angeles to the sinking of Capernaum when, in fact Capernaum did not sink?  In actuality, Capernaum was simply abandoned, and its ruins are on the shore of the sea of Galilee to this day. We know because we've been to Capernaum. The ruins are still there.
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    :''Thou city, who claims to be the city of the Angels, who's 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 fine churches and steeples, and so forth the way you do; remember, one day you'll be laying in the bottom of this sea. You're great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He'll hold this sandbar hanging over that, when that ocean out yonder a mile deep will slide in there plumb back to the Salton Sea. '''It'll 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's time to flee and come into Christ." '' ([http://www.thefreeword.com/books/2265-L.pdf Sermon: The Choosing of a Bride, Los Angeles, California, April 29, 1965])


    :''And, of course, the Salton Sea is about two hundred feet below sea level, and if that big churning, that earth swallowing in like that, with hundreds of square miles, hundreds and hundreds of square miles sinking into the earth, that'll throw a tidal wave plumb to Arizona. '' ([http://www.thefreeword.com/books/2465-L.pdf Sermon:Ashamed of Him, Jeffersonville, Indiana, July 11, 1965])
    ===Los Angeles was to sink '''in a few days''' from now===


    In 1965, while relating a story about the Alaska earthquake, William Branham stated that Los Angeles would sink shortly thereafter - '''''In a few days a great earthquake's going to strike on the west. And it won't stop. California, Los Angeles will sink. It's going down.'''''


    [[Image:800px-Saltonseamap.jpg]]
    Note that this certainly seems like a failed prophesy. He said that the Alaska earthquake in 1964 was going to be the start of a series of earthquakes culminating with Los Angeles sinking.  But nothing of significance followed the Alaskan earthquake in the United States. Why?


    ===Pearry Green's Testimony===


    <div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; text-align:center; font-size:140%; padding:1px; margin:1px;">Recent Significant L.A. Earthquakes</div>
    Pearry Green wrote the following on page 119 of his book "Acts Of The Prophet", with regards to a statement William Branham made to his son, Billy Paul:''' ''"Billy, I may not be here but you won't be an old man until sharks will swim right where we are standing."'''''  While Billy Paul is alive today, his birthday is September 13, 1935 (i.e., he turned 80 years old in 2015).


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    ===Documented cases of land sinking in L.A. prior to 1965===
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    [[Image:Signal Hill.jpg|250px|thumb|Signal Hill, May 1, 1923: Unregulated oil extraction honeycombing the oilsands under Signal Hill.]]
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    The concept of a great earthquake in California and part of it sliding into the ocean was not a new concept initiated by Brother Branham.  The risk of LA sinking was well known and discussed in scientific and popular culture, as evidenced by the '''April 1, 1957 issue of Time Magazine<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867597,00.html Time Magazine - April 1, 1957]</ref> that reported a partial sinking of Long Beach.  This sinking was blamed on the excessive oil drilling in the area.''' It is also well known that Los Angeles lies on the 'ocean-side' of the San Andreas Fault. In this regard, the sinking of Los Angeles may still happen, as the instability of the land was well know and documented before William Branham's prophecy.
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    Los Angeles is one of the largest cities in the world.  It is also one of the only cities in the world with significant active oil extraction within city limits.  The sediment in the Los Angeles basin is up to 6 miles (10 km) deep, and includes the following oil fields:
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    *Wilmington Oil Field (3rd largest oil field in the U.S.)
    |March 16, 2010
    *Huntington Beach Oil Field
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    *Torrance Oil Field
    |January 17, 1994
    *Beverly Hills Oil Field
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    |October 1, 1987
    Combined with the danger of existing fault lines that Los Angeles sits on, the potential for a devastating natural disaster is scientifically plausible. 
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    |February 9, 1971
    Since the 1950's, oil producers have been pumping water into the earth to replace the oil they extract in order to stop the land from sinking.  The only problem with this process is that water has different properties than oil, as residents of Daisetta, Texas learned in 2008 when the walls of an underground salt-cave (from which oil brine had been extracted) dissolved, creating a sink-hole 900 feet wide by 260 feet deep.[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354501,00.html]  Between 1932 and 1960 iodine was harvested from oil brine extracted in the Los Angeles basin - raising the question of whether the water being pumped into the earth is currently dissolving structural minerals under Los Angeles.
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    |March 10, 1933
    ==Joe Brandt's Prophecy==
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    Pearry Green's Church also distributes the prophecy of Joe Brandt as proof that California will soon sink.  We looked into this and found that a man named Joe Brandt gave a stack of old papers containing a prophecy he claimed to have written 1937 to Jessica Madigan on December 25, 1965, the date of William Branham's death.  Jessica Madigan published a series of dreams and visions in a book called "Prophecies of Tomorrow" in 1966.  Living Waters magazine then reproduced this prophecy in June 1969.[http://www.tucsontabernacle.com/images/stories/pdf/tracts/1937-california-earthquake-dream-of-joe-brandt.pdf]  William Branham would therefore have been unaware of this prophecy, which is much more specific in its details. 
     
    What is interesting is that this 'prophecy' did not appear in 1937 when it was supposedly written.  If you had a vision of catastrophic proportions, wouldn't you try to warn someone as soon as possible rather than waiting 30 years?


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    ==Significant L.A. Earthquakes since 1933==
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    |Pico Rivera (10 miles SE)
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    |Reseda (20 miles NW)
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    |January 17, 1994||Reseda (20 miles NW)||6.7
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    |October 1, 1987||Rosemead (8 miles E)||5.9
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    |March 10, 1933||Long Beach (20 Miles S)||6.4
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    ==William Branham's Prophecy==
    [[Image:Biltmore.JPEG|thumb|right|250px|The Biltmore Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles, where William Branham prophecied that Los Angeles would roll into the sea.]]
    :''"Oh, Capernaum," said Jesus, "thou who exalted into heaven, will be brought down into hell. For, if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it'd have been standing to this day." And Sodom, Gomorrah lays in 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's 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 fine churches and steeples, and so forth the way you do; remember, '''one day you'll be laying in the bottom of this sea. You're great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He'll hold this sandbar hanging over that, when that ocean out yonder a mile deep will slide in there plumb back to the Salton Sea.''' It'll 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's time to flee and come into Christ." ''<ref>The Choosing of a Bride, Los Angeles, California, April 29, 1965</ref>




    <div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; text-align:center; font-size:140%; padding:1px; margin:1px;">The Honeycomb and the Sandbar</div>
    :''We find ourselves at this Christmas, just about like they did the first Christmas though.  The world's just about to fall apart, as I preached on once somewhere, about a Christmas message, "The World Falling Apart." And the world again is just about to come to pieces. Look at the earthquakes over here in California. I predict 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 them. They'll go beneath the bottom of the sea. And it's so much sin (You see?), it's the barrier. Civilization has traveled with the sun, from... And it started in the east going west. And now it's at the west coast. If it goes any further, it'll be back east again. So that's the barrier. And sin has traveled with  civilization, and it becomes the cesspool of all ages. Things they do that--that human beings in any other age wouldn't have thought of such a thing. Women has throwed theirself to such a filth, till no woman in any age would've ever thought of such a thing as we do today. And then still call ourselves Christians. What a disgrace."<ref>WHO_DO_YOU_SAY_THIS_IS PHOENIX_AZ 12-27-64</ref>


    [[Image:Signal Hill.jpg|350px|thumb|Signal Hill, May 1, 1923: Oil extraction honeycombing the oilsands]]


    Los Angeles is one of the largest cities in the world.  It is also one of the only cities in the world with significant active oil extraction within city limits.  The sediment in the Los Angeles basin is up to 6 miles (10 km) deep, and includes the following oil fields:
    :'''''Since that earthquake, there is a two or three-inch crack that come in the earth, starting in Alaska, goes around through the Aleutian Islands, comes out about a hundred and fifty or two hundred miles in the sea, comes back up at San Diego; takes in California, or Los Angeles''', and comes out again just below the northern part of California there, a little place called San Jose, just below there. And this scientist was speaking, being on a interview. We was watching on television. And he said, "Beneath that is just a churning lava." And he said this; he said, "That is... A chunk will break loose," and said, "and it will..." And this inter--man on--scientist interviewing this chief scientist, said to him, said, "Well, that could then all sink?" He said, "Could? It's got to." Said, "Well, 'course, will probably be many, many years from now."  He said, "It can be in five minutes from now, or it can be in five years from now." He just 'lotted five years. But just as I surely was standing there under that Inspiration, put judgment on that west coast, and then followed it right up here with the sinking of Los Angeles; she's gone! That's right.''


    *Long Beach Oil Field
    :''And, of course, the Salton Sea is about two hundred feet below sea level, and if that big churning, that earth swallowing in like that, with hundreds of square miles, hundreds and hundreds of square miles sinking into the earth, that'll throw a tidal wave plumb to Arizona.''<ref>Ashamed of Him, Jeffersonville, Indiana, July 11, 1965</ref>
    *Los Angeles City Oil Field
    *Wilmington Oil Field (3rd largest oil field in the U.S.)
    *Huntington Beach Oil Field
    *Torrance Oil Field
    *Beverly Hills Oil Field


    Combined with the danger of existing fault lines that Los Angeles sits on, the potential for a devestating natural disaster is scientifically plausible. 


    Time Magazine[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867597,00.html] recorded the partial sinking of Long Beach in the 1950s, blaming the cause on excessive drilling in the area. Since that time, oil producers have been pumping water into the earth to replace the oil they extract. The only problem with this process is that water has different properties than oil, as residents of Daisetta, Texas learned in 2008 when the walls of an underground salt-cave (from which oil brine had been extracted) disolved, creating a sink-hole 900 feet wide by 260 feet deep.[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354501,00.html]  Between 1932 and 1960 iodine was harvested from oil brine extracted in the Los Angeles basin - raising the question of whether the water being pumped into the earth is currently disolving structural minarals under Los Angeles.
    :''Everybody running, and trying to get under trucks and everything else. It went back up again and clapped like a great thunder, went back up in the skies again, and come down again, and done that three times. And when it was all over, they come over and asked, "What did it mean?" I said, "I don't want to tell you, it was a judgment sign. '''In a few days a great earthquake's going to strike on the west'''. '''And it won't stop. California, Los Angeles will sink. It's going down. It'll slide right into the ocean.'''" And two days after that, the Alaskan earthquake shook Alaska. And then, the last meeting I had in California, while speaking, and didn't know nothing happened till I got on the street, It told California, said--said, "Capernaum, Capernaum, the city that's called by the name of the angels (that's Los Angeles), you've exalted yourself into heaven, but you'll be brought down into hell. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom that's been done in you, it would've been standing till this day." Now, the last few days, the great roaring and popping.''<ref>WORKS_IS_FAITH_EXPRESSED SHREVEPORT_LA 11-26-65</ref>


    One problem with subsistence (the sinking of land) is that it can create megatsunamis if they occur near water. History records the following megatsunamis created by landslides:


    *365 AD - 100ft waves hit Alexandria after an earthquake off Crete.
    :''Look here! Do you know what the Lord says about Los Angeles and these places here? "She's gone!" You remember what I told you, about two years ago, how that earthquake would come in Canada up here, Alaska? I also tell you that "Hollywood and Los Angeles is sliding into the ocean. California, you're doomed! Not only California; but you, world, you're doomed! Church, unless you get right with God, you're doomed!" THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT!''
    *1792 AD - 330ft waves killed 15,000 villagers when parts of Mount Unzen, Japan slid into the sea.  
    *1958 AD - 1,720ft waves destroyed Lituya Bay, Alaska, after an earthquake caused a landslide.


    :''Have you ever heard me use that Name unless it come to pass? Ask you! You've known me twenty years. Did I ever tell you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass? If everything I've ever told you would happen, happened, say "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen!"--Ed.] See? I tell you, now is the hour, you better be getting right, all of us.''<ref>LEADERSHIP COVINA.CA 65-1207</ref>


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    On April 29, 1965 William Branham was preaching in Los Angeles and prophesied that the city of Los Angeles would one day slide into the sea, just like Capernaum, and that a new coastline would form at the Salton Sea. However, Capernaum never sank into the Sea of Galilee, but remains in ruins on its shoreline.

    In the book "Acts of the Prophet" by Pearry Green, William Branham told his son Billy Paul that sharks would swim in downtown Los Angeles before he was an old man. Billy Paul was born in 1935 and should be considered a man in his senior years by now.

    Problems with the prophecy

    Capernaum never sank

    Why does William Branham compare the sinking of Los Angeles to the sinking of Capernaum when, in fact Capernaum did not sink? In actuality, Capernaum was simply abandoned, and its ruins are on the shore of the sea of Galilee to this day. We know because we've been to Capernaum. The ruins are still there.

    Los Angeles was to sink in a few days from now

    In 1965, while relating a story about the Alaska earthquake, William Branham stated that Los Angeles would sink shortly thereafter - In a few days a great earthquake's going to strike on the west. And it won't stop. California, Los Angeles will sink. It's going down.

    Note that this certainly seems like a failed prophesy. He said that the Alaska earthquake in 1964 was going to be the start of a series of earthquakes culminating with Los Angeles sinking. But nothing of significance followed the Alaskan earthquake in the United States. Why?

    Pearry Green's Testimony

    Pearry Green wrote the following on page 119 of his book "Acts Of The Prophet", with regards to a statement William Branham made to his son, Billy Paul: "Billy, I may not be here but you won't be an old man until sharks will swim right where we are standing." While Billy Paul is alive today, his birthday is September 13, 1935 (i.e., he turned 80 years old in 2015).

    Documented cases of land sinking in L.A. prior to 1965

    Signal Hill, May 1, 1923: Unregulated oil extraction honeycombing the oilsands under Signal Hill.

    The concept of a great earthquake in California and part of it sliding into the ocean was not a new concept initiated by Brother Branham. The risk of LA sinking was well known and discussed in scientific and popular culture, as evidenced by the April 1, 1957 issue of Time Magazine[1] that reported a partial sinking of Long Beach. This sinking was blamed on the excessive oil drilling in the area. It is also well known that Los Angeles lies on the 'ocean-side' of the San Andreas Fault. In this regard, the sinking of Los Angeles may still happen, as the instability of the land was well know and documented before William Branham's prophecy.

    Los Angeles is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also one of the only cities in the world with significant active oil extraction within city limits. The sediment in the Los Angeles basin is up to 6 miles (10 km) deep, and includes the following oil fields:

    • Long Beach Oil Field
    • Los Angeles City Oil Field
    • Wilmington Oil Field (3rd largest oil field in the U.S.)
    • Huntington Beach Oil Field
    • Torrance Oil Field
    • Beverly Hills Oil Field

    Combined with the danger of existing fault lines that Los Angeles sits on, the potential for a devastating natural disaster is scientifically plausible.

    Since the 1950's, oil producers have been pumping water into the earth to replace the oil they extract in order to stop the land from sinking. The only problem with this process is that water has different properties than oil, as residents of Daisetta, Texas learned in 2008 when the walls of an underground salt-cave (from which oil brine had been extracted) dissolved, creating a sink-hole 900 feet wide by 260 feet deep.[1] Between 1932 and 1960 iodine was harvested from oil brine extracted in the Los Angeles basin - raising the question of whether the water being pumped into the earth is currently dissolving structural minerals under Los Angeles.

    Joe Brandt's Prophecy

    Pearry Green's Church also distributes the prophecy of Joe Brandt as proof that California will soon sink. We looked into this and found that a man named Joe Brandt gave a stack of old papers containing a prophecy he claimed to have written 1937 to Jessica Madigan on December 25, 1965, the date of William Branham's death. Jessica Madigan published a series of dreams and visions in a book called "Prophecies of Tomorrow" in 1966. Living Waters magazine then reproduced this prophecy in June 1969.[2] William Branham would therefore have been unaware of this prophecy, which is much more specific in its details.

    What is interesting is that this 'prophecy' did not appear in 1937 when it was supposedly written. If you had a vision of catastrophic proportions, wouldn't you try to warn someone as soon as possible rather than waiting 30 years?

    Significant L.A. Earthquakes since 1933

    Date Epicenter Strength
    March 16, 2010 Pico Rivera (10 miles SE) 4.4
    January 17, 1994 Reseda (20 miles NW) 6.7
    October 1, 1987 Rosemead (8 miles E) 5.9
    February 9, 1971 Sylmar (24 miles NW) 6.6
    March 10, 1933 Long Beach (20 Miles S) 6.4

    William Branham's Prophecy

    The Biltmore Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles, where William Branham prophecied that Los Angeles would roll into the sea.
    "Oh, Capernaum," said Jesus, "thou who exalted into heaven, will be brought down into hell. For, if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it'd have been standing to this day." And Sodom, Gomorrah lays in 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's 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 fine churches and steeples, and so forth the way you do; remember, one day you'll be laying in the bottom of this sea. You're great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He'll hold this sandbar hanging over that, when that ocean out yonder a mile deep will slide in there plumb back to the Salton Sea. It'll 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's time to flee and come into Christ." [2]


    We find ourselves at this Christmas, just about like they did the first Christmas though. The world's just about to fall apart, as I preached on once somewhere, about a Christmas message, "The World Falling Apart." And the world again is just about to come to pieces. Look at the earthquakes over here in California. I predict 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 them. They'll go beneath the bottom of the sea. And it's so much sin (You see?), it's the barrier. Civilization has traveled with the sun, from... And it started in the east going west. And now it's at the west coast. If it goes any further, it'll be back east again. So that's the barrier. And sin has traveled with civilization, and it becomes the cesspool of all ages. Things they do that--that human beings in any other age wouldn't have thought of such a thing. Women has throwed theirself to such a filth, till no woman in any age would've ever thought of such a thing as we do today. And then still call ourselves Christians. What a disgrace."[3]


    Since that earthquake, there is a two or three-inch crack that come in the earth, starting in Alaska, goes around through the Aleutian Islands, comes out about a hundred and fifty or two hundred miles in the sea, comes back up at San Diego; takes in California, or Los Angeles, and comes out again just below the northern part of California there, a little place called San Jose, just below there. And this scientist was speaking, being on a interview. We was watching on television. And he said, "Beneath that is just a churning lava." And he said this; he said, "That is... A chunk will break loose," and said, "and it will..." And this inter--man on--scientist interviewing this chief scientist, said to him, said, "Well, that could then all sink?" He said, "Could? It's got to." Said, "Well, 'course, will probably be many, many years from now." He said, "It can be in five minutes from now, or it can be in five years from now." He just 'lotted five years. But just as I surely was standing there under that Inspiration, put judgment on that west coast, and then followed it right up here with the sinking of Los Angeles; she's gone! That's right.
    And, of course, the Salton Sea is about two hundred feet below sea level, and if that big churning, that earth swallowing in like that, with hundreds of square miles, hundreds and hundreds of square miles sinking into the earth, that'll throw a tidal wave plumb to Arizona.[4]


    Everybody running, and trying to get under trucks and everything else. It went back up again and clapped like a great thunder, went back up in the skies again, and come down again, and done that three times. And when it was all over, they come over and asked, "What did it mean?" I said, "I don't want to tell you, it was a judgment sign. In a few days a great earthquake's going to strike on the west. And it won't stop. California, Los Angeles will sink. It's going down. It'll slide right into the ocean." And two days after that, the Alaskan earthquake shook Alaska. And then, the last meeting I had in California, while speaking, and didn't know nothing happened till I got on the street, It told California, said--said, "Capernaum, Capernaum, the city that's called by the name of the angels (that's Los Angeles), you've exalted yourself into heaven, but you'll be brought down into hell. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom that's been done in you, it would've been standing till this day." Now, the last few days, the great roaring and popping.[5]


    Look here! Do you know what the Lord says about Los Angeles and these places here? "She's gone!" You remember what I told you, about two years ago, how that earthquake would come in Canada up here, Alaska? I also tell you that "Hollywood and Los Angeles is sliding into the ocean. California, you're doomed! Not only California; but you, world, you're doomed! Church, unless you get right with God, you're doomed!" THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT!
    Have you ever heard me use that Name unless it come to pass? Ask you! You've known me twenty years. Did I ever tell you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass? If everything I've ever told you would happen, happened, say "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen!"--Ed.] See? I tell you, now is the hour, you better be getting right, all of us.[6]


    Footnotes

    1. Time Magazine - April 1, 1957
    2. The Choosing of a Bride, Los Angeles, California, April 29, 1965
    3. WHO_DO_YOU_SAY_THIS_IS PHOENIX_AZ 12-27-64
    4. Ashamed of Him, Jeffersonville, Indiana, July 11, 1965
    5. WORKS_IS_FAITH_EXPRESSED SHREVEPORT_LA 11-26-65
    6. LEADERSHIP COVINA.CA 65-1207


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