<TITLE>05. Par 16-17</TITLE>L-16 Recently I was in a place where there was to--Stewart Hamilton, a few great outstanding fundamental preachers, which probably would not like for me to call their name here before this mixed audience. And this one minister walked up to me, and he said, "Brother Branham, as a man I admire you." He said, "But your doctrine of Divine healing is all wrong."
I said, "Well, then the Bible's all wrong."
And he said, "Oh, you can't... Do you preach Divine healing by the Bible, by the atonement?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Brother Branham," 'course he knowed I didn't have any education. And he said, "Brother Branham, if I will prove to you that you're wrong by the Bible, will you accept it?"
I said, "Yes, brother. Certainly, anybody can show me wrong by the Scripture, then I will--I will accept it. I don't want to be wrong."
And he said, "All right. And you preach Divine healing by the atonement?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Isaiah's prophecy there about..."
I said, "Yes, sir."
And I... He said, "Brother Branham, if Divine healing..." Now listen close everyone, he said, "If Divine healing was in the atonement, there wouldn't be any more pain. A man couldn't even have a pain if Divine healing's in the atonement, 'cause the atonement makes it so covered, that there wouldn't be even pain."
I said, "Brother, do you believe there is salvation in the atonement for the soul?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Is there temptation?"
And he said, "You apply it to Isaiah?"
I said, "Yes, sir." 'Course, without education, I have to depend on the Holy Spirit for His wisdom.
He said, "Don't take no thought what you will say, it'll be given to you at that minute."
I've been twisted around, crossed the world three times now, and He's never failed yet. He won't.

L-17 He said, "Well, Rev. Branham, I want to ask you something." He said, "If I will prove to you by the Bible that Isaiah's prophecy has already been fulfilled and done away with, according to... He said, "Took our infirmities and so forth and bruised for our iniquities..."
And I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "All right, Matthew 8 said, that when evening was come, they brought to Him the multitudes of people, that He might heal them, and He healed them all, which was to fulfill which Isaiah the prophet said, "Himself took our infirmities.'"
I said... He said, "You see Brother Branham, that proved that it was fulfilled right there, because the Bible said that it was fulfilled."
I said, "Brother, would you mean to say that you believe that--that Isaiah's prophecy, 'He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for iniquities,' and so forth, 'and with His stripes we're healed,' the healing taken place there that fulfilled it?"
He said, "That's what the Bible said."
I said, "Then the atonement had more power before it was made, than after it was made, after it come in effect, 'cause that was a year and six months before Jesus even died. The atonement hadn't even been made. So how could it be?"
And he said, "Then..."
18      "Well," I said, "I want to ask you something, brother." He got to using great big words, and I said, "Now, don't go to speaking in unknown tongues to me, because I can't understand it. See? I said, "You just talk plain every day English, just like used here in the King James version," and I said, "we'll understand each other." And I said, "I want to ask you something. Will you admit that Divine healing is in the Word? In the Word?" I just wanted him to say that. See, be it knowed.
He said, "Yes, it's in the Word, but the atonement is over the Word. See?" And he said, "Cause I... In Mark 11, some of them said, "Mark 16, is not inspired," but Mark 11:24 said, "Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive it." See? Whatsoever!
He said, "Yes, it's in the Word, but it's not in the atonement."
I said, "You mean God put it in the Word, without putting it in the atonement?"
Said, "The atonement is over the Word; that's where you make your failure, Brother Branham."


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