<TITLE>22. Par 263-275</TITLE>L-263   I said, "Brother Best, I only tell what's Truth. And if I'm truthful, God's obligated to back up the Truth." I said, "If He isn't... If He won't back up the Truth, then He isn't God." And I said, "I do not heal people. I was born with a--with a gift to see things, see it happen." I said, "I know I'm misunderstood, but I can do no more than fulfill the conviction of my heart." I said, "I believe that Jesus Christ raised from the dead. And if the Spirit that comes and shows visions and so forth, if that's questioned, drop around and find out." I said, "That's all." But I said, "But for myself, I can do nothing of my own self." And I said, "If I tell the Truth, God's obligated to me, to witness that It is the Truth."

L-264 And about that time, Something went, "Whoooossssh!" Here He come, coming right down. And the American Photographer Association, the Douglas Studios in Houston, Texas, having the big camera set there (they're forbidden to take pictures), shot the picture.

L-265   When they was there to take pictures of Mr. Best, and he--he said, before I went down there, he said, "Wait a minute! I got six glossies coming here!" He said, "Here, shoot my picture now!" And he put his finger in that old saintly man's nose, like that, said, "Now take my picture!" And they did. Then he drawed his fist and put it up, said, "Now take my picture!" And they took it like that. Then he done like that, to pose for his picture. He said, "You'll see this in my magazine!" like that.

L-266 Brother Bosworth stood there and never said a thing. Then they just took the picture of This.

L-267   On the road home that night, (Catholic boy took it), he said to this other boy, he said, "What do you think about That?"

L-268 He said, "I know I criticized him. That goiter that left that woman's throat, I said he hypnotized her." Said, "I could have been wrong on that."
Said, "What do you think about that picture?"
"I don't know."

L-269 They put it in the acid. Here's his picture, you can ask him if you want to. They went home, he set there and smoked a cigarette. Went in and pulled out one of Brother Bosworth, it was negative. Pulled out two, three, four, five, six, and every one of them was blank. God would not permit the picture of His sainted old man standing there with that hypocrite, with his nose, or hand, fist shaking under his nose like that. He wouldn't permit it.

L-270 They pulled out the next one, and here It was. The man had a heart attack, they said, that night.

L-271 And they sent this negative to Washington, D.C. It was copyrighted, sent back.

L-272   And George J. Lacy, the head of the F.B.I. in fingerprinting and document, and so forth, one of the greatest there is in the whole world, was brought there and kept two days on it to test camera, lights, everything else. And when we come that afternoon, he said, "Reverend Branham, I've been a critic of yours, too." He said, "And I said it was psychology, somebody said they had seen them Lights and things like that." And said, "You know, the old hypocrite used to say that" (he meant the unbeliever) "'them pictures around, that halo around Christ, around the saints,' he said, 'that was just simply psychology.'" But said, "Reverend Branham, the mechanical eye of this camera won't take psychology! The Light struck the lens, or struck the negative, and there It was." And he said...

L-273 I submitted it over to them. He said, "Oh, mister, do you know what that's worth?"
And I said, "Not to me, brother, not to me." And so he said...

L-274 "Course, it'll never come in effect while you're living, but someday, if civilization moves on and Christianity remains, there'll be something happen about this."

L-275   So, friends, tonight, if this is our last meeting on this earth, you and I have set in the Presence of Almighty God. My testimony is true. Many, many things, it would take volumes of books to write it, but I want you to know.


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