<TITLE>20. Par 64-66</TITLE>L-64 In the first place when the Lord begin to give visions when I was a little, bitty baby boy... And He begin to show those visions, my clergymen told me it was of the devil.
But one night, it was better than ten years ago at Green's Mill, Indiana, where I was there in the old camp, and the--my wife setting there, right there now, who was seen when the vision struck me that evening and I set there under it, and I said, "God, I don't want to be possessed with a devil." Why, certainly not. And I told her I didn't know when I would come back. And I took off to the place to pray. And that night by the grace of God...

L-65 About ten years before that, about--about fifteen, nearly ten or fifteen years before that, when I was just a young Baptist preacher, no more than a boy, baptizing out there in the river, hundreds of people that afternoon, my first revival; and that Light come down from heaven and stood there before thousands of people. They fainted and everything, years ago when I was baptizing. And a Voice spoke from there and said that I would take a message around the world, which would start a revival just like that it did in the days of John the Baptist before the second coming of Christ. I knowed a bit more about it than nothing. I wrote it down and kept it. They kept it. The newspapers had it, and everything. "Mystic Light Appears Over Local Baptist Boy, Pastor, While He's A Baptizing In The Water," and all about it.
And then after that time, when it come time, the Lord Jesus sent His Angel back again, and tried to tell me that night when I was there praying, "God, don't never let that happen to me again. You know I don't want to be possessed of the devil, and You know I love You. And my clergymen tell me..." And here come the Angel of the Lord, and told me it was His work, and He had ordained it, and to where He said it'll sweep around the world.

L-66 And when I went to the--the general overseer, one of the high Baptist men, frankly, the one that baptized me, Dr. Davis, into the Baptist fellowship. I went and told him about it; and he said, "Billy, you need a rest. You've had a nightmare."
I said, "I don't appreciate that. I'll resign the Baptist church right now."
Said, "You mean with your seventh grade education, and you're going to go around the world preaching the Gospel and thing."
I said, "That's what He said, and that's what I believe."
He said, "Don't take it that seriously, Billy. I think if you rest a few nights you'll feel better." I walked out.


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