<TITLE>18. Par 167-177</TITLE>L-167 So a couple of nights after that, they was playing with him. And, "Wah," away he went again, you know, started crying. Away she went real quick, and hid, hid him real quick like that. And downstairs, way down in back, in the wall, Amram had fixed a little place where he could hide the baby.
And then first thing you know, they heard something upstairs go... [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] "Whew. gone." Everybody scattered over to one place, said, "That's them. That's them old witches." Them old long-fingered, painted fingernails. And the old witches looked down there. And looked out the window, said, "Yeah, that's them. They're standing there."
[Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] "Open up!"
Old Amram walked out, opened the door, said, "What do you want?"
Said, "You got a baby in here, and we know it. And we're going to take it."
"We ain't got no baby to give to you." (They didn't.)

L-171 "We're coming and look anyhow. We are police women. See our badges!" And that's a... Ain't that something for a woman to be? But, "We're police women. We got our rights from the authority." You know, we have them here now. And so--so then they checked down, goes in. They go in and turn over the sofa, and open up all the drawers and throw everything out in the floor, and take all the bedclothes and shake them out, and go upstairs and find where daddy had a little secret place. Looked everywhere, but they couldn't find the baby.

L-172 Couldn't find the baby, so they walked up to the woman there...?... poor Jochebed standing there, her face was white. They walked up, said, "Looky here. We know that you're a--a mother. We can tell by the looks of you. We know you're a nursing woman, and we know that baby's here. We'll be back. We'll get it." Out the door they went. Whammed the door, and out they went.
She said, "Oh, oh, what can we do? What can we do?"
So Amram said, "Pray." Is that the thing to do? Is that the thing? "Pray. Let's pray."
"Oh, oh, oh. I don't know what--what to do. Oh."
So he said, "Now, look, you quieten down, and you go nurse the baby again. I'm going upstairs and pray."

L-175 So he goes upstairs, he prays. He said, "Jehovah, You got ears. Jehovah, You got eyes. Jehovah, You can hear. You can answer prayer. You gave us this baby; You gave us Your promise. And You will keep Your promise, and You'll keep that baby. And I'm confident."
After praying, getting real tired, and he--he just fell over like this, went to sleep. He was so tired, worked all day, and praying all night. He was tired. And then you know what happened? He went to sleep, and he dreamed a dream.

L-177 You know, God speaks in dreams too. Doesn't He? Sure, He does. Yes, He does. He can. See? And He speaks in dreams.
Oh, he woke up, and said, [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] "That's it. I ought to have thought about that. That's what I ought to do. I just won't say nothing about it."
Downstairs he goes. He said, "Jochebed."
"Yes, dear? Oh, I'm so weary. I can't sleep."
"Oh, go to sleep. Go to sleep. It's all over."
"How do you know?"
"Oh, I just know. I just have confidence."


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