<TITLE>05. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 And then, I jumped right in behind Billy Graham, and I started the same thing. Oh, my, they bitterly opposed it. And then when they wrote against me, and then give that write up against Billy, then the Catholics come around said, "See, they're both no good." So that... Oh, if people could only get their head right or their heart right, one. So then when they did they went up in Germany, and when we was to come up to Karlsruhe, Germany, they wrote up there to the state church and told them not to receive me because I was an impostor. So the church and state's together there. What the church says, the state has to do.
So they... After they after they had their big cathedral that would seat thousands of people had to build it, 'cause they wouldn't rent no place to them. Then the authorities told them they couldn't have it.
Doctor Guggenbuhl, a very smart lawyer (That's one of our sponsors there.), he didn't take "no" for an answer. He went right on down to the Major in the United States Army; he said, "Tell Brother Branham to come on. If the rest of them can come, he can too." So it give me a chance to come into Germany.

L-18 The first night they had to mill around me to keep the Communists from taking a shot at me somewhere. And come pretty near to getting Billy my boy. But the Lord was with us, and they just kept walking around so in the dark they couldn't take a shot you know, 'cause they was firm...
And on the second night, God gave sight to a total blind girl, eight years old. Then the state church and their pastors and all got together and wanted to have a meeting with me; they wanted to ask me some questions. We went to a breakfast. And at the breakfast they taken a big German camera and set it up like this up in the day, plenty of light. They needed no flash or nothing. They were taking a pictures of the breakfast.

L-19 And so when they did, they was a... They'd taken several pictures, and they said, "Now, Brother Branham, we believe that God is with you, but them visions, we can't understand it--can't understand it."
"Why," I said, "I couldn't explain it, because it's God; and you can't explain God; you've got to believe God. God's not known by--by scientific; God's known by--by faith."
Well, they couldn't see that at all, you know. And just at the time (the sovereignty of God right when the strain was on) I said, "Just a moment, here He is now." And I said, "He's coming now."
Well, that German camera, they just moved it right on me, and that German thought he'd try a few shots, so he--he took the picture, and when it did the Holy Spirit come down.
I said, "The man standing right here to my left, he's a stranger among us all this morning." I said, "He's not a German; neither is a French." I was at Luzanne at the time. I said, "He's not a French, German or a..." I said, "He's an Italian, and he's been the leader of thirty-two thousand communists." And the boy started crying out. And I said, "Now, he's picked up a Bible. His background was Catholic, and he picked up a Bible one day and was reading where Jesus died for his sins, and he accepted Christ. Now, he's persecuted. He's run a little orphanage up in the mountains. He can't eat his breakfast this morning; that's why he pushed his table--the plate back from his table--from the table because he has an ulcer in his stomach."
The boy raised his hand, said, "Every word of that's the truth," then he said.
I looked at him... He's still... He was gray headed and eating a good square meal." I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD; eat your meal, because Jesus Christ has made you well." He set right down and started eating.


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