<TITLE>11. Par 43-46</TITLE>L-43 But, oh, my, those ministers had set a iron clad rule; we was going anyhow. You don't know foreigners. So we was going to go anyhow. So they come. And I didn't even have my suitcase packed. "We promised Brother So-and-so; we're going to go anyhow."
I say this not for a hard feelings with the preachers. But if you want to get in trouble, just fool with preachers. You sure get into it. They going to have their way about it. See? But you have to remember; God have His way about it. That's the right way. I said, "I can't go down."
Said, "Well, brother, we done made itinerary." And a group of ministers standing on the road, which Brother Baxter, Brother Bosworth, and all of them are witness. He said, "You got to go down." Said, "We done got thousands of dollars spent in the advertisement."
I said, "Brother, no, I can't go."
"Oh, yes, you got to." One of them walked up, said, "I guess you think God just speaks to you alone."
I said, "Korah thought that one time. I don't know whether He spoke..."
Said, "He told us to make this itinerary."
I said, "He told me not to keep it." I said, "That--that's all I can say, brethren."

L-44 So then we... They got me anyhow. I was going on down the road to a little place. And I said, "Well..." Brother Baxter said, he was in the cars behind. Bother Bosworth, Brother Schoeman and I were going on in front. I said, "Brother Schoeman, you got to stop this car; I just can't go on." I said, "The Lord don't want me to do it." Only one sticking with me, and that's my boy, Billy Paul. And I said, "I--I just can't do it; that's all. I've got to--got to stop now."
So he stopped and went back and told Brother Baxter and them, said, "Come up and see him." Said, "There he is; he says he's not going any farther."
So Brother Bosworth walked up, and he said, "Brother Branham, what's the matter?" Said, "I believe you're going to see the exceeding..."
I said, "Brother Bosworth, as many times as you stood with me on the platform and you heard me say, THUS SAITH THE LORD?"
He said, Brother Baxter said, "Is this that vision, Brother Branham?"
And I said, "Yes."

L-45 He said, "Then I'll take my hands off of it. I'll have no more to say about it."
And I said, "Sure, it's the vision. We cannot, supposed to go down here, we go--go back to Johannesburg." And I said, "We're supposed to go there." And I was the one broke and didn't have any money and I was in bad shape. Couldn't come home, so, and if I would I'd be doing what the Lord told me not to do. I was supposed to stay and wait for that.
So then, what happened, I... After, to keep them from fussing, I went and got some leaves and pulled off leaves and laid over their feet. I said, "Remember, THUS SAITH THE LORD, from this hour on we're out of the will of the Lord."

L-46 That night when we got down in that little bitty place, about two thousand people, a little bitty place down there, and about twenty-five thousand people in it, laying on the hills and everything. Said, "Oh, we're going to have a great meeting tonight." Had them every one up at Johannesburg, place where we could seat them all and everything.
Went on down there, and that night, just about the time it come time to take me to the platform, there come a tropical storm and liked to drown the whole bunch, never let up till round midnight. Oh, they said, "That happens all the time." Said, "We... It'll be all right tomorrow."


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