<TITLE>12. Par 47-50</TITLE>L-47 Next day, a beautiful, clear, warm day... Just about time it come for me to go, it come a blizzard through there like to froze everybody to death. I said, "I told you." See? I said, "Tomorrow night we'll have an earthquake, perhaps."
And they said, "Well, you mean we'll have an earthquake?"
I--I said, "I don't know whether you're going to have an earthquake, but we're out of the will of the Lord."
And that night while we was in prayer in there... They said, "Permissive will then, wonder if God will permit us?"
And little Billy Paul come in; he said, "Daddy, don't you listen to them preachers. You do what God tells you to do."

L-48 And so I went on in there. We went... And he said, "Well, you pray with now." I went in and we prayed till about two o'clock and three o'clock. Billy done went to sleep. And I standing in the room and I seen that Light. Here It come whirling across in the room, and I knew He was near. He got right up close to where I was at, and He said, "Go on with them, but you're going to pay for it." Said, "Go ahead." He said, "But go wake up your boy and tell him THUS SAITH THE LORD." He respected Billy, 'cause Billy stood for what was right. He said, "Go, wake up your boy and tell him THUS SAITH THE LORD." Said, "Then you tell the rest of them." Said, "Tomorrow morning it's going to be clear again and warm." It'll be on Sunday morning, of course, that was Saturday night. He said, "On Sunday morning they're going to come to you, and they're going to send Billy after you, and he's going to bring a young man. He will pick up another young man dressed in black. On the road down there's going to be a native in a safari suit standing by the side of a eucalyptus tree near a bridge, striking another one over the head with a stick." Said, "By that you'll know that I've given you the permission to go on, but remember, you're going to pay for it."

L-49 And the next morning everything happened just exactly the way He said. And when I got to Durban, I got ameba, liked to died. Come home, landed up here. I was just about gone; that's all. I couldn't hardly live; I was in such a fix. I went home; they was going to throw me in the pest house, so they... with ameba. God just turned His back on me. You don't mind God, you're in for trouble, I don't care who you are. See?
And so, I prayed and I prayed. They sent me over to Louisville to a doctor and he examined me; he said, "Oh, brother," said, "humm, you stay right in your home." Said, "Don't let that African ameba get scattered."
So then I... He said, "I got some stuff here I want you to take." And it's an army affair." Well, they give me all they had of it. Never a bit of good. Give me, said, "I got one, two or three more things." They give all that; nothing would happen. Kept more amebas all the time, all the time, parasites, you know, worse and worse. And I just fell off about sixty pounds of weight, and I couldn't--I just couldn't live hardly, I just was in such a fix.

L-50 And so, then I went back and he said, "Well, I..." He give me some kind of arsenic or something that turned me real yellow, said, "I can't give you no more, it'd kill you." He said, "Reverend Branham, you go home now." There's perhaps doctor's setting here doctors the same thing. He said, "That ameba will get... It's done went through the mucus gland into the blood stream. And it'll either go into the heart or to the brain or to the liver." Said, "If it goes into the liver, your side will swell out, we can operate and take the amebas out, you'll probably get over it. If it goes to the brain or anything," said, "you're going live ten hours," and said, "that's all."


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