<TITLE>02. Par 9-13</TITLE>L-9 I went to announcing it. About four years passed. No Joseph. Finally, we knew we were going to have a baby. Some of them said, "Is that Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know, but Joseph is coming."
And when it was borned, it was a girl. Well, then, did everybody razz me. "I thought ever what the Lord said was right."
I said, "It is."
I said, "Joseph is coming."
Said, "You meant, Josephine."
I said, "No, this is Sarah." Sarah and Rebekah is setting here now. So then, about four more years passed. Well, we knew we was going to have another baby. The doctor said it would be impossible. But I said, "She'll have another one."
He said, "Billy, I've never doubted your word." But said, "I'm sure doubting that."

L-10 Four more years passed, and the wife was going to have another baby. We were real tore up. She was very sick and nervous. And the nurse that was healed, one of Mayo's nurses, dying with cancer, on the dead list, Louisville, Kentucky, been on the dead list for about ten years now. She's nursing at the Clark County Memorial Hospital, healthy, well woman. Only weighed about forty pounds when she was healed. But the cancer society's got her dead. Call them and find out. But she's alive, and very much alive. She's been with each of my children when they were born.

L-11 And Sister Margie was away on a case, and couldn't be there at that time. And she and Meda, my wife, were just bosom friends. And there had been a lady, you know how it is, prophesying, and said that the Lord sent her to lead me. And she got real provoked because I said, "No, the Lord leads me."
So she made a statement, and said, "Well, the Lord was going to let me fall when--when I was going down south in an airplane." But it never happened; I went right on just the same.
She said again that I was out on a hunting trip. She sent all through the country and said that I'd fell off of a mountain, broke my right arm, and hunters was out looking for me everywhere. Wasn't a word of it so.
And so then she told the wife, or sent word up there, told the people that the Lord was going to get even with me for not obeying her. Wife was going to die this time in child birth. And it got to her, the poor little fellow. If there's any credit to be given to the Branham family, give it to my darling wife. She stands between me and the public, thirty-eight years old, white-gray headed. She's really fought a real battle. God bless her soul.

L-12 And so, I took off up to Green's Mill, my little secret place where I go to pray to settle the differences. I just going around the bend. I don't believe the FBI could ever find me back there, back in the cave. And I seen that Light hanging under a bush, moving around. And said, "Turn and go back to your car. Your Bible will be laying open." And when I come back to my Bible and picked it up, it was Nathan talking to David, said, "Do all that's in your heart, for God is with you."
And then--then the Lord appeared to Nathan that night and said, "Go, tell David, my servant, didn't I take him from the sheep coat, from following those few sheep?...?... Give him a name like great men of the earth? Have not I cut off his enemy before him wherever he went? Have not I been with him?"

L-13 I just started weeping. I got in the car, drove home, and she was going out to empty the garbage, poor little fellow, could just barely walk. She was weeping, all nervous. I put my arm around her. I said, "Honey, don't worry; it's all right now." That settled it.
The next morning, the baby was born. When I was setting in the room with some more anxious, waiting fathers. The nurse came down, she said, "Reverend Branham?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am?"
She said, "You got a fine, seven pound and three ounce boy."
I looked at him and I said, "Joseph, you've been a long time getting here. Daddy's glad to see you here."
She said, "You called his name Joseph?"
I said, "That is his name."


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