<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>53-0800, The Twentieth-Century Prophet , Branham Home & Unknown, Jeffersonville, IN & Chicago, IL, no tape
L-1 May I present my wife? Honey, this is Brother Leroy and Paul Kopp of Los Angeles, California.
[Sister Branham says, "Delighted to have you in our home, Brother Kopp."--Ed.]
[Brother Kopp says, "Brother Branham, in your two great campaigns at Los Angeles, at Calvary Temple, we noticed that the Lord Jesus Christ worked with you in a very special manner with these marvelous gifts: discerning of the spirits of men's hearts as well as the sicknesses of their body, and the signs of healing and miracles that were wrought. We thought it was wonderful--Ed.]
[Brother Kopp says, "We're interested, Brother Branham, in hearing more about this unique ministry that God has given you."--Ed.]

L-2 Very well, Brother Kopp. Let's go back to the beginning. I was born in eastern Kentucky, in a little log cabin near Burkesville, Kentucky. The morning of my birth, I'm told of my parents, that there was a Light came into the room and hung over me.
My people was not a religious people. They did not go to any church. Of course, this caused quite a stir among them. It's followed me all the days of my life. Recently, they took a picture of It in the scientific world as shown here. You're probably familiar with this picture. It was proven by science that it was the only supernatural Being that was ever scientifically photographed.
To my opinion, It's the same Angel of God that followed the children of Israel from Egypt unto Palestine. You know as a scholar yourself, that was the Angel of the Covenant, none other than our Lord Jesus Christ. And when here on earth, manifested in flesh, He did not claim to be a great Person. He said, "The Son can do nothing, just as the Father shows him." He...

L-3 In Saint John the 5th chapter, perhaps you're acquainted with it, the Scripture, Jesus passed through this famous pool of Bethesda. He find many crippled people there, blind, halt, lame, waiting for the moving of the water. It was strange that He just ministered to one, but if you'll notice, He knew where that person was. The Father had showed Him. He healed this one. Perhaps he--he wasn't crippled. He was just laying on a pallet, but Jesus healed him.
And then farther in the chapter, we find about the 19th verse, that He was questioned by the Jews. Perhaps, it would be questionable today why God would pass through a place where all those people were lame and halt and blind, and would not heal them all. But here I'll quote His Words. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do: this doeth the Son likewise."

L-4 Then according to His Own Words, His ministry was based upon visions from His Father. Would not be strange then that His ministry should be carried on as He promised His disciples, "The things that I do, shall you do also. Greater than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." He said, "A little while and the world seeth me no more, yet ye shall see me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."
I believe it's a confirmation in this last days of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, living among His people, performing the same signs and wonders that He did when He was here on earth.
At the age of seven, we moved from Kentucky to Indiana, up the road a bit from where we live now. We packed our water then from a well, some city block (I suppose) behind the old country home. One beautiful September afternoon, while coming from the pump with some water, there was a stately poplar tree stood about halfway between the pump and the home.


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