<TITLE>10. Par 33-35</TITLE>L-33 But you write to him and ask him about it. He's a specialist. I called up Dr. Adair and asked him if he would go down and see Mr. Hall. He said, "I will go read the x-rays at the hospital." He went out. Called me back, said, "Yes, Billy. He's got cancer."
"I tell you, is there anywhere you can send him?"
Said, "You might send him over to Able's Clinic in Louisville, let it be examined." Took him over there and got a--a ambulance out. He was nearly dead then. Took him over there, and they wouldn't give them the diagnosis. Called back Dr. Adair. And he called me up; he said, "Billy,"
"Yep."
Said, "Your preacher friend is going to jump overboard in four days."
I said, "He is going to die, doctor?"
He said, "Yep."
I said, "My. Ain't nothing you can do?"
He said, "Billy, you can't take his liver out and him live." He said, "There's nothing can be done. The man's dying." Said, "He is a preacher. He ought to be ready."
I said, "Oh, he is ready. But he is a young man." I said, "He ain't over fifty-five years old. Plenty of work yet he could do for the Lord." I said, "Why God's a taking him, I don't know."
He said, "Well, Bill, that's hard for anybody to understand. We just have to accept it."
I said, "That's right." So that was a hard thing to go tell my Sister Hall.

L-34 But I went down that night, and I said, "Sister Hall, the doctor said in four days Mr. Hall will be gone. He's going to die in four days." And she started crying. I said, "Now, Sister Hall, you must remember; he's a Christian. He's ready to go. And if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting." See? I said, "He'd be far better off. 'Course, you will be lonesome. At your age now, no children," I said, "you'll be lonesome, of course. But you must remember, God knows what is best and working what's best."
She said, "Brother Branham, has God ever said one word to you about it?"
I said, "Sister Hall, He hasn't said a thing to me." I said, "I prayed all my heart. Maybe He's just going to let him die."
Said, "Do you think he's going to die?"
I said, "Yes, I believe he is. I believe he is going to die. 'Cause all evidence, everything is against him, Sister Hall." And I said, "All... And as far as I know, there's nothing can be done. It must be the will of the Lord." I said, "I couldn't say."
So she started crying, poor old thing. And he was just barely living. He could just make out now and then. He was subconscious, most of the time.

L-35 The next day, I had one day off. And I--I like to squirrel hunt. But so, I had little old .22 rifle there. I was going to go squirrel hunting out in the woods to get some rest. I usually go out and set down under a tree and go to sleep and sleep the rest of the day. 'Cause I'm--just get away from the crowds for a little while, because you know what it is around the house up there.
The next morning, real early, we got through with the crowd in the house about twelve or one o'clock. And I set the clock to alarm at three. I got up real early, and got my little old squirrel rifle and my old hat, and started off to go squirrel hunting. I looked out on the runway. There was nobody out there, so I... And when I started through the room. And when I went into the hall, there hung there in the room a little bitty old apple about that big around, and green, knotty, worm-eaten. And I thought, "What did my wife put that on the wall for? That was the horriblest looking thing." You've seen them little old apples, like's off of a tree that hasn't been sprayed, you know, just real knotty and a hard looking thing.
And so I said, "What'd she put that on the wall for?" And I started on through, and I looked again. And it wasn't on the wall; it was hanging right in the middle of the air. And I realized that there was something to it. I knelt down. I said, "What will my Heavenly Father have His servant know?"


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