<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Then the ark itself stood as a testimony to Noah's witnessing, for Noah went into the ark when the rain started, or before the rain started Noah was found safely in the ark, for he witnessed to it. And he not only witnessed to it, but after he had witnessed, God by grace took him in the ark, and secured him, and shut the door behind him. You see it?
God not willing--not willing that any should perish, but certainly would take care of His witness who had heard His Word, and believed His Word, and moved with fear and prepared a way. A beautiful type of those today that are witnessing of the coming of the Lord and the rapture of the Church.
Someone say, "Brother Branham, how is those bodies that's been dead for thousands of years laying yonder in the dust of the earth, how are they going to take life again?"
I don't know, but there's one thing: I'm a witness tonight that there is a God. I witness tonight that He lives, and I know that He's true and He keeps His promise. How thankful we should be to have this privilege of being a witness.

L-13 Daniel, the prophet, in the lion's den, he was a witness after he had went through this great ordeal. He truly gave a witness to those pagans, that there was a God Who could deliver. And he firmly took his stand as God's witness. For Daniel was a prophet, and he knew that there was a living God. And they told him, "Don't you pray to any other god but to this great image," said the king, and all the proclamation was signed that they should never pray to any other god for a certain amount of time, but to the king's god.
And Daniel knowing that it was just an image and a make-belief, Daniel was God's true, outstanding witness that there was a real God Who could deliver. And when it come to the showdown he was thrown into a lion's den, because he was God's true witness.

L-14 Every... Here it is. Every true witness of God sometimes will be put to the showdown (Amen), will be put to a showdown to prove. Oh, how God loves to do it when He can find a real witness, and it proves God. Like Job of old, when he proved that he was genuine.
And when the lions came to destroy the prophet, after he had been a true witness that there was a living God, an Angel perhaps of fire, unfolded the veil from the beast's eyes, and when they rushed to the prophet, they backed away, because God is a consuming Fire and animals are afraid of fire.
When God appears, He usually appears in Fire. And as he--they rushed to the prophet to consume him, hungry lions, they saw the Fire around the prophet, and they stood their distance. And then Daniel in his trueness of the witness of the living God gave testimony the next morning, that there is a real true and living God Who can deliver from the lion's den. He testified to it, and God gave him the opportunity, and he proved out a hundred percent.

L-15 The Hebrew children was a witness that God could deliver from the fire. When the furnace had been het seven times its heat... And had been thrown into the fire because they refused to give glory to any other god but the unseen God... God wants us to take Him at His Word. And they refused to bow down to the image, and they went into the fiery furnace; and God made their testimony to a witness that He can deliver from fire.
As science said that there was a certain explosion in the air at that time that taken a certain atom (always trying to disprove it), that it was a certain explosion that happened by the solar system, and just so happened to be that at that time a certain element, that came into the air that was over Babylon at that morning, that caused all the heat to go out of the fire...
I said to the man that told me that, "I believe that you are right, but the God of heaven was there to take the atom out of whatever it was to vindicate His witness. God's able to do all things.


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