<TITLE>09. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 One night while in prayer, away, there was a Man come walking to me on the floor. And I seen Him; this was not a vision. It was the Man. I'd heard His voice many times, saw Him when I baptized at the river, and I was first ordained a Baptist minister. Had my revival, baptized five hundred, my converts, after a two weeks meeting at the foot of Spring Street. And right there all the local papers packed the article of it: "Mystic Light Hangs Over Minister While Baptizing." And It can't... It was like a Pillar of Fire. And It hung down there and they...
And then, the people asked me about It, and they got me scared, and told me It was the devil. And one night while I was in prayer... Many years later, just before coming to the Full Gospel people, I was praying, "God, take this thing away from me." I said, "Lord, You know I love You, and I don't want It no more, please." I went to pray all night about it. And I heard someone walking. I looked coming over to this side; there come a tall Man, big, long hair. Now, it didn't look like the picture of Jesus. I believe, I say this reverently. I believe, by vision, I seen Jesus twice. I--I--I... It was a little Man, but it doesn't look much like the artist paints Him. But I--I fainted when He--looked at Him, so I... it was... He was standing off to my side.

L-30 But now, in--in the world of visions, this Man was not a vision. He walked up to me. I heard His feet as He walked. He walked up and spoke to me. And I was shaking like this, and He said, "Do not fear." And when He said that. That was the same voice I'd heard since I'd been a baby, the same Man. But He was a Man now. I'd seen Him in a Cloud, in a Pillar, in a... And I'd seen Him in... I heard Him in a whirlwind in a bush, talking to me. And--but I'd never seen Him as a Man. But here He was as a Man. He said, "I'm sent from the Presence of Almighty God to tell you, that your peculiar life and birth was for you're to go to the world and pray for the sick people." said, "Your ministry will scatter all over the world and in this, will bring a--the Gospel and the power which will bring the second coming of Christ."

L-31 So then, when He stood by me talking, well, He was a... had... I looked at Him. And I said, "Well, Sir, I'm uneducated, and I only have a grammar school education. People wouldn't..."
He said, "That as the--Moses was given two signs of vindication of his ministry, so will it be given you, two signs." One would be, take a person by the hand, and just stand there, and you know what was wrong with them. The next was to know the very secrets of their heart. And I questioned that. And He referred back to Jesus of Nazareth, and the same thing. Then I said I would go, and then the Light that was above the--the Being, He went up in the Light and went away.
And then I started. And it's been ever since. Then the picture was taken, authentically, many times, by a newspaper reporter. You'll perhaps see it, right here at the platform 'fore the meeting's over. And It's a--It's a Light.

L-32 And here, not long ago in Houston, Texas, It was taken in a debate, where a Baptist minister came and said that I was a religious fanatic and ought to be run out of the city; he should do it. And I wouldn't fuss with him. But Mr. Bosworth, taken the challenge, and that night where thousands of people gathered in the Sam Houston Coliseum, they--they discussed it. And of course, he never even got started. Mr. Bosworth just asked him one question; that settled it. That... Said, "Was the redemptive Names of Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes or no?"
If He wasn't Jehovah-jireh, He wasn't the Lord's Provided Sacrifice, He wasn't Jesus Christ, the Son of God, so we're still in sin. And if He was Jehovah-jireh, He's Jehovah-rapha also 'cause they--them compound names is inseparable, Jesus Christ the Healer, the same yesterday, today, and forever. So that--that just settled it forever, for once.


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