<TITLE>18. Par 49-51</TITLE>L-49 I was covered over, not a one had stung me. And I thought, "Poor little creatures. Well, that's the only way you have of defense. God gave you that stinger. That's to defend yourself. You've got just as much right; you don't know that was my fence. It's just as much yours as it is mine. It don't belong to either one of us; it's God's. So you made your nest right there. I ought to have been looking out for you. And I'm sorry." But I said, "I'm the servant of the Lord. And I love you, little fellows."
Them just... [Brother Branham makes a sound of the bees humming--Ed.]
I said, "I--I--I..." Don't you try to bluff it. You better know what you're talking about. I said, "I love you, little creatures of God. I'm sorry; I apologize to you for--for waking you up." But I said, "I--I'm serving God's people. And I have to cut my grass. And I was in a hurry. I--I'm sorry I disturbed you. Now, in the Name of Jesus Christ, go back into that nest. I won't bother you any more. I'll go around it." And the--them still all around me. I... My mower--mower never stopped. I just turned loose the handle to raise up my hands to God. I took right a hold of the handles, and not a bit more scared of them hornets than nothing.
And God, my sovereign Judge, them hornets made a few rounds around me, and made a beeline just as straight back into that nest as they could go. What was it? The projecting of love of God brought down the sovereign grace of God. And somehow, how would I know, that with me speaking in English, they didn't hear down the interpretation, and they heard what I said. I can't tell you, but anyhow, they obeyed the very word I asked them in Christ's Name to do. Love, it conquers animals, conquers human beings. If God...

L-50 You read the opossum story, all of you did, I guess. Most of you... They're right here; the boys is right here tonight, Gene and Leo setting right over here. I was setting on the steps last July, I think it was, June or July. July? I believe it was July, last July. Mr. Wood had just been mowing my yard, a rake laying in the yard. And I was talking to these boys; I call them my students. And so they... I was talking to them about a colored girl. The day before (It was in the paper.) a young, beautiful young colored woman had had an illegitimate baby, and she wrapped it in a blanket, and smothered it to death. And she took it out by cab, and went out there, and throwed this blanket in the river, all wrapped up with wire. The cab driver got suspicious. He said, "What'd you throw in there?"
Said, "Oh, just some stuff I didn't want." The cab driver reported it to the police; the police reported it to the Coast Guard, they went and seine it out, and it was a baby. So there it was.

L-51 And I said, "She wasn't a mother." She was just a female. That's right. She wasn't a mother; a mother wouldn't act like that. I said, "She didn't have no mother love in her heart." I said, "She couldn't... And no more than I said it, coming in my gate... I'm the fourth person from a little woods, about, oh, a city block away, cross the highway and then down a lane. No one along there has a gate but me, and a fence. And here come into my gate, around ten o'clock in the morning, a opossum. And she was bleeding, like this. Well, anyone who knows what a opossum is, knows that a opossum don't travel in daytime; they're night prowlers. They hunt their prey at night, lay up in the day time. I've trapped them a many time, eat a many a one myself. So I know what opossums are. So I--I seen them coming in.
That's my study of wildlife. I studied the nature of them. You see God in wildlife. You see God in nature, everywhere. You see God in men. You see God in children. You see... God's all around you. I watch Him in the bird.


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