<TITLE>13. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 There you are. He went and got his old daddy. His daddy come down. He was a reader, whatever it is in, a head, one of the big men in the Jehovah Witness. And he came down and said, "Oh," he said, "I'm telling you." Said, "I want to go fishing with you in the morning." I never met him before. He said, "Well, I'll tell you, the Jehovah's Witness say that you're a false prophet."
I said, "Well, they got the right to say whatever they want to." I said, "But I want to know what God says about it." So when we started down the road, I saw a vision. I said, "Now, Mr. Wood, I've got THUS SAITH THE LORD."
Said, "What do you mean?"
I said, "Every stream of water we pass over, this hundred and sixty miles to this place, is going to be muddy. But when we come to the stream to Dale Hollow where we're going to fish, there that stream will be perfectly blue. And it'll come to pass that... I never caught a catfish in that water yet. But I'm going to catch a whole string of catfish, and you're only going to catch one. Mr. Wood is going to catch one. Then I'm going to catch another fish. I didn't see just what it was. It's an outstanding fish, but it will be a scale fish. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD." He looked over to his boy and winked, went on.

L-38 Every stream we passed was just... Storms had come through, just as muddy as they could be. And when we peeked up over the hill to look into Dale Hollow, it just as blue as it could be. We got down there and begin to fish for crappie, and blue gill, and bass, and so forth, not a one struck. I put on a cat bait and threw out, and caught a great big cat, just a few moments. I caught two on one line, two hooks. One weighed five pounds and one weighed three pounds both on that, and had a whole string. He caught one through that day and that night. And his boy caught a little one about that long. Other boy didn't catch anything.
And the next morning, I said, "There's another fish coming. That'll be the last one we catch." And when I threw in, I caught what we call red-belly there. I don't know what you call them here. It's something on the order of a pan fish, a brim. And it almost weighed a pound, one of the biggest one I ever seen in my life. And that settled it. We fished all the rest of that day and that night till midnight, without even having one strike.

L-39 I said, "Now, Mr. Wood, Mr. Russell said that Christ would come in 1914. He set a time. Which, God said, 'No man knows the minute or hour.' But he spiritualized it, and said He come to His spiritual office for a hundred and forty-four thousand.' He came on the day of Pentecost in that office." And I went ahead and give the different prophesies. I said, "Not a one of them is true. Now, what do you think?"
He said, "If a man can see fish before he catches them, I'll believe that God tells him about it," he said. And there he accepted God.
Now, a guy come from Africa, was standing... Well, we won't have time to go into--to it maybe, but just like that.


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