<TITLE>03. Par 10-14</TITLE>L-10 So then the next day, the Dutch Reformed paper, which was... Oh, my. The Dutch Reformed church, now nothing against you Dutch Reform people here now. But that's the state church there, and they're really horribly against Divine healing. And so... But here their paper was, carrying articles of it, everything; front pages, and one, two pages of it.
And the next day, there was one Dutch Reform minister, who was for me. Another one said I was a spiritualist, a--a devil under disguisement as a Christian, and posing myself as a Christian man, working with the spirit of the devil, the reason I would know those things.
Well, it kind of stirred his buddy. So he went to see him. And he said, "You're wrong." Said, "This is the day of our visitation."
The other fellow said, the one was against me, said, "That man is of the devil." See? And he was...

L-11 This other one said, "I'm going down and pray for your lost soul." So he just turned around walked out in the yard. There was a little peach tree, and he knelt under the peach tree, and he said, "O God, I accept every word the man has said." Said, "I believe it's the truth. I know no one could do this, except it would be by You. And I believe it, and my friend in there is going to be lost." And said, "It's the day of our visitation. And have mercy on him." And he said, about that time, before he'd ever heard about It, here come that Pillar of Fire, moving down through that bush. And said, the Pillar of Fire opened up and the Angel of God stood there, and walked in and laid His hand on his shoulder, said, "Return, and tell him."

L-12 And he jumped up real quick, and he run through the door, all excited. He said, "The--the Angel of the Lord met me right there. And said, come tell you. And begin telling everybody about it. Said, "He put His hand on my back," and said, "it just almost burnt plumb through me." Said, "I--I--I--I tell you!" Just going on like that.
And this Dutch Reform minister happened to look around, and there was a scorched place, the size of a man's hand, laying right across his white shirt, right across there. I got the shirt.

L-13 There it was, the next day in the paper, headlines. And this Dutch Reformed minister's eyes bulged out like that, looked at the man back. And they took my hand, and put it on the man's back, and just exactly fit the fingers, run around exactly, of a--of a left hand where it used to be. See? Well, we had the favor of everything then.
And then, Mr. Baxter, my beloved brother, comes, tells me, said, "Brother Branham, we've got an itinerary, got way down to...?... Bloemfontein all the way down through that way, and back up, and then over to Durban."
Said, "It doesn't matter to me; we're over here for so long. Doesn't matter. All right."

L-14 That night when we went in, about two o'clock in the morning, the Angel of the Lord came to me, and said, "Tomorrow you're going to be down in the city, and you're going to see an odd-dressed native standing by the side of a place, dressed in purple. Call Mr. Schoeman's attention, and tomorrow morning, while you're sitting at the table, when you get up, tell... There's going to be something happen," and said, "then you tell your manager, Mr. Baxter, that he's going to point out to you a very odd-looking bird..." (See?) And said, "They're going to try to take you up here to a doctor that's got cancer, he thinks, cancer on his hip, but," said, "it is not cancer. The doctors just made a mistake and cut something loose there, and the man's going to die." Said, "And don't..." He said, "Now don't... And on your road up," said, "you'll see a native bead seller there's lots of them sitting along the road, but tomorrow, there'll only be one. And you all will turn and come to that native bead seller..." Then he went and said, "You'll know her," said, "she's a young girl about fourteen years old, she's got a big skinned place, way back in her scalp like that."


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