<TITLE>06. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 The--the light from the hallway was just showing in a little; I could see it hanging there. And I thought, "Well, what? And I happened to look and it wasn't hanging on a wall. It was hanging right in the air. Well, then I knew that that was coming was from home. So I slipped my rifle in the corner and threw my hat down the corner, and knelt down; I said, "What would You have Your servant know, Lord?" And I noticed, and down come another little one just like it, and another one, and another one until five of them hung there. And then down came a great big apple, approximately that big around, that was yellow with red streaks in it, beautiful looking healthy apple. And it just made a great grab, like that, and swallowed one of them up, then two, then three, then four, then five. And the apple went away; and above it, hanging right where the apple was, was this here hanging there. It was going, "'Whew." [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] I just kept real quiet. I said, "What would You have Your servant do, Lord?"
And He said, "Rise and go tell Brother Hall, that THUS SAITH THE LORD, he'll not die but live." No squirrel hunting that day.
I jerked off my overalls, went and woke my wife up. She's setting in here somewhere. I said, "Honey, I have just saw a vision. Brother Hall's going to live."
And she said, "Is he?"
I said, "He's going to live. He's...?... nothing can stop it."

L-17 So, I put on my other clothes and went down. And they was just rubbing his hands, and he was crying and--and everything. And I said, "Well..."
I went in. Miss Hall said, "Oh, Brother Billy, he's fixing to go." Said, "He--we've been looking for him to go all night.
And I said, "You think he would know me?"
She said, "Oh, I think he will."
And I went in. I said, "Gather all the people in out of the yard," where they's setting up with him. I said, "Bring them in the house, for I have THUS SAITH THE LORD."
She said, "Is it good?"
 I said, "Yes," and the poor old thing started screaming and falling on her knees. I said, "Come now and stand near." I said, "Brother Hall, can you hear me?"
And he kept saying, "Mattie, Mattie." That's his wife.
And she said, "It's Brother Bill talking to you."
So I said, "Brother Hall, do you hear me?" I was shaking him.
He turned over and his weary eyes, he said, "Oh, Brother Bill, I thought I'd done gone over." Said, "I haven't gone yet?"
And I said, "And you're not going, Brother Hall, now." I said, "Awhile ago, I was starting to go hunting..." And I repeated the vision to him. I said, "Brother Hall, how long you been sick?"
He said, "Mattie, how long have I been sick?"
She said, "Now, let's see. You taken sick in a certain month. It was just exactly five months."
I said, "That's what I thought: them five little old knotty apples. But, "THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, you're going to live."

L-18 So the judge of the city, the ex-judge, his sister married Mr. Hall's brother, so she was there. And she said, "How's the man going to live with a cancer in him like that?"
I said, "I don't know, but God said he was going to live and that satisfies. When He says it, it's going to be."
She said, "Do you mean that he's going to live?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am." And I turned around, just so happy, walked out, Brother Cox and all of us, and we went out and got in the car. And poor Brother Hall was just--with his feeble hands, and them holding them up like that; he was saying, "Thank You, dear Jesus. I'll preach as long as You give me breath to preach," and giving God praise before it ever happened, 'fore anything took place. But God had already said so.


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