<TITLE>06. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 I said, "Korah had that idea one day and told Moses that. But the earth opened up and swallowed him down." I said, "I don't know what He's told you; I can't judge that; I know what He's told me."
Well, he said, "He told us to make that itinerary."
I said, "He told me not to take it." Well now, you... "If He told you to make the itinerary, go ahead. But He told me not to do it."
Well, the arguments got worse and worse. Finally Brother Baxter come over. Brother Baxter said, "Brother Branham, we're kinda in a spot here." He said, "I wish that--that you would not say about going up on that hunting trip."

L-25 Said, but... Now, Brother Baxter is a sensible sound man. And he's looking at it from a sensible standpoint, as it could be. He said, "Look, if you keep saying, 'Going hunting,' those ministers are thinking that you come down here to go hunting, and half of them down here don't even believe in, in going hunting." And said, "Thousands of people laying yonder, sick, ready to die, and you talk about going hunting."
I said, "Brother Baxter, if I never fire another gun in my life, if I never walk into the a--a field again in my life," I said, "that's not pro or con to me." I said, "I am only doing what God said do." See? I said that...?... "And I'm just following out orders." And I said, "You've been with me enough, Brother Baxter, to know, that when I tell you what God is going to do, in the Name of the Lord, and tell you it's a vision..."
He said, "Brother Branham, is that truly a vision from God?"
I said, "Yes, Brother Baxter."
He said, "Then from hence forth, I take my hands away from it." Said, "I--I won't have no more to do with it," said, "it's a vision from God." Said, "We're plugged up here," but said, "now you make your move; I'll stand by you."
Said, "All right, Brother Baxter."
Well, I fussed with them after while, "No." Well, finally, it getting one o'clock, people's waiting. And when we went down to the little... I'm mispronouncing it, I'm sure. Klerksdorp, or something on that order, close enough that you know what it was.

L-26 But when we got down there, there was enough people, the city was swamped, and there was no place in the city, there was nothing. Beautiful day, they taken me out to a ministers house, a Brother Fourie, a very fine Christian brother. As soon as we set down at the table by his wife, the Lord told me what was wrong with his wife, and how she suffered, and healed her right then, and she's never been bothered since. See, see? God, in His sovereignty, yet, me out of His will, God will bless. "Gifts and callings are without repentance." See? And so then we stayed there a little bit.

L-27 And that night, they got the meeting already to go, and when it come time to take me to the meeting, there come a tropical storm, like to have drowned the whole bunch. And at ten o'clock in the night, they couldn't even get me near the place, just... You haven't seen a storm yet, till you see one of the tropical storms: Lightning, it just as light as this room almost, with the constant flashes of lightning and roaring. And there it was. All right. No service that night.
Well, the brethren... I come back; I said, "I told you. The Lord said don't come down here. I'm out of His will. I've got to go back to Johannesburg."
"Well, we just can't do it, not when we promised brother--these brothers, that we're going down here. We got to do it."


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