<TITLE>10. Par 321-332</TITLE>L-321 I said, "Then why is it that the Bible said, that, 'He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Eternal Life, Eternal, and shall never come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life. All the Father has given Me will come to Me, and none of them is lost, I'll raise them up in the last days. No man can pluck them from My hand'? How does that divvy up with this? I just couldn't understand it, 'It's impossible for those who were once enlightened.'" I thought, "There is something wrong. I just can't get it."
And I went to a little Pentecostal meeting, years ago.

L-322   There's not a one left in the church, I guess, tonight, that remembers. Years ago, this was even just about time the tabernacle was built. Less, it'd be Brother Graham back there, or somebody. I don't know, you was here first, or not, brothers. Brother Mahoney, I think, was. Yeah, just before I was married.

L-323 That gift working, I was of afraid. They told me it was of the Devil. I didn't know till the Angel of the Lord told me.

L-324 I went to Mishawaka, and I set in that meeting, and I never heard so much shouting and crying and praising God. I thought, "Brother, this is Heaven." And, oh, how they would go up-and-down.

L-325   They had to have it in the North, on account of segregation. The colored and white were together. The P.A. of W. and the P.H.A.C. had really emerged and become the United Pentecostal. But what a revival they were having, there at Brother Rowe's tabernacle at Mishawaka. And I, a little curious fellow, setting on the back seat, was watching all of this. I had never seen these things before.

L-326 There was a man setting here... I've never told this in public before. There was a man setting on one side, and a man on the other, and one spoke in tongues, and the other interpret it. And they would tell different things was going to take place. Then, this one speak in tongues, and that one interpret. I thought, "My, isn't that wonderful!" I thought, "How glorious! Them must be Angels, come down in a form of men."

L-327   Well, I only had a dollar and seventy-five cents, to come home on, and I--I--I just could get a tank of gas. I slept in a cornfield that night. I've got part of it in a book, but not all of it, 'cause I didn't want to hurt their feeling. And so, that night, they said, "All preachers come to the platform." I was on the platform. I was the youngest preacher there then.

L-328 So, the next morning, they asked me to come to preach. I hid. You know, the colored man said, "Here he is." You remember the story of it, when he exposed me setting there.

L-329   And so after preaching that day, walking around, I thought "If I could only get to those two men." They led the meeting. One would raise and turn white in the face; he'd speak in tongue. And the other would interpret it, and give the words, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'There's a certain-certain person here, by the name of certain-certain, that should do this and certain-certain.'" Brother, it was the truth. And the other one would rise and speak in tongues, and he would interpret.

L-330 I thought, "Oh, my, isn't this wonderful!" So, that day, I thought, I went out and prayed. I thought, "Lord, you do that for me again." I didn't know what to call it, visions.

L-331   I went out and prayed, and asked the Lord to help me. I went around the building, and I happened to run into one of them. Now, the Lord give me a way of knowing things. I shook his hand. I said, "How do you do?"
He said, "How do you do? What's your name?"
And I said, "Branham."
"Oh," he said, "you're the young fellow that preached this morning."
I said, "Yes, sir."

L-332 While I got a conversation with him, I caught his spirit. And he was a genuine Christian, just a pure Christian, brother. I mean, he was a believer. I thought, "Oh, isn't this wonderful!"


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