<TITLE>33. Par 130-133</TITLE>L-130 We don't believe in death of Christians. You can't prove to me that a Christian dies. The Blood of Jesus Christ takes away sin; it doesn't cover it. The believer goes in the Presence of God now.
Now, I said, "Honey, if I'm asleep that day, if--if I'm awake, you'll come first, for they which are dead in Christ shall rise first." I said, "You run quickly up to the side of the City gate." And I said, "When you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and them coming," I said, "you start screaming then, my name, to the top of your voice, 'Bill, Bill,' as loud as you can." And I said, "I'll get Sharon and Billy and get them together, and I'll meet you there at the gate before we go in."
She took a hold of my hand; she squeezed it. I raised down, and kissed her good-bye. She... Them angel eyes looked up at me again as she was taking away, she said, "I'll be waiting for you at the gate."
God took her precious soul to glory. There I stood, looking down. What could I do, my sweetheart gone, the very part of my heart pulled away? I went out of there to go home, took her body down to the undertakers establishment. She was embalmed. And I went home, tried to go to sleep; I couldn't do it.
After while, a man knocked on my door, said, "Billy?"
I said, "Yes."
Said, "I hate to tell you this."
I said, "But Brother Frank, I was right out there when she died."
He said, "That's not it." Said, "Your baby's dying also."
I said, "Who, Billy?"
Said, "No, Sharon."
I said, "Surely not."

L-131 Said, "Dr. Adair has just come, got her, and took her to the hospital. And she has tubercular meningitis. There's not a chance. They say she'll be dead in a little bit."
She was perfectly healthy. I rushed, just as fast as I could. They had to hold me, set me in a old Chevrolet truck, he and his boy. I just couldn't hold myself together; my heart was breaking.
Away to the hospital I went, went in. There set a nurse, said, "Now Rev. Branham, you can't go down in there. We got her in a isolated ward." Said, "You'll give Billy Paul the same thing. Said, "You can't go."
I said, "I must see my baby."

L-132 She said, "You can't go, Rev. Branham; it's tubercular meningitis. She's picked it up from her mother. It's in the spine and she's dying now." And said, "If you go in there," said, "it's dangerous of taking it to the bi--your boy." And said, "You cannot go in." And she said, "Go in the room."
And I went to the room. When she shut the door, I went right out behind the door and went right on down to where it was. Very poor hospital, I looked there, and they'd put a little rag over the sides, little mosquitoes bars they call it. Flies had got in its eyes. It was down in the basement in a isolated ward. I walked in and looked at my baby. There she laid, my sweetheart, her little teeny baby blue eyes looking up at me, her little leg, little fat leg laying there with her little corners on, you know. And she was.. Her little leg was moving up-and-down like a little spasm, her little hand like it was a waving to me. I said, "Sharon, you know daddy?"

L-133 And her little lips started quivering. And she was suffering so hard till one of those little blue eyes crossed over like that. Oh, my. When I think of it... I can't stand to see a cross-eyed child. You know, sometimes God has to take a flower to crush it, to bring the perfume out. I... Every time I see a cross-eyed child, I think of that. I never seen one yet but what God healed.
Then I noticed that little eye moving over like that. I thought, "O God." I fell down on my face; I said, "God, please don't take her. O God, are You going to..." I said, "Take me first. Let me die. I'm the one that's trespassed." But God knows just how to get into your heart...?... Yes, He does.


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