<TITLE>07. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 They live next door to me. His father, being a reader in the Jehovah Witness... Now, if there's any Jehovah Witness here, no reflection. But he's excommunicated his son from their fellowship, and then said he had gone off and gone mad. Then a few years, about two years passed, Mr. Wood living next door to me, a wonderful neighbor. One day I was out cutting some grass in the backyard for a little while. And then a car drove in at Brother Wood, and he called for me to come down.
He said, "Meet my brother Lyle."
Oh, I had a very cold handshake. Said, "Howdy." And just like that, walked on, great big, strong man.
And I said, "How do you do, Mr. Wood? I'm certainly happy to meet you. I am certainly a great friend to your brother here."
And he said, "Yes," and set down. And real dyed-in-the-wool Jehovah Witness... So just a little bit, he begin... Banks begin to tell him about the things he'd seen in this meeting. And he just turned his back to us.

L-19 Just then, by the grace of the Lord, to a lost sinner, unbeliever, said, "Mr. Wood, your wife is a black-headed woman, and you're running around with a red-headed women. You have two little boys."
He said, "I guess Banks told you that," Turned his back back to me.
But I said, "Last night when you was with her in the house, and there was a man beating at the window, and you sent her there. It's a good thing you didn't go; he would've shot your brains out.
He said, "Oh, God be merciful to me," and fell in the floor and gave his life to the Lord Jesus: Simplicity. Hundreds of sick children waiting for the vision...

L-20 Down on the river, we went fishing with his old daddy, come down, it alarmed his father. And his father said, "If anything like that, I could see it happen, I'd believe it." On the road, he said, "Will you go fishing with me?"
I said, "If I can get a chance to get my calls all up this afternoon, I will go in the morning." On the road down it'd been raining. I said, "Every (seeing a vision)," I said, "Every stream that we cross will be muddy, but when we come to the...?... Dock, it's going to be beautiful and blue." I said, "We're going to fish, and we're not going to catch anything until the evening. I'm going to catch about twenty-five fish, weighing eight or ten pounds. You're going to catch one, and Mr. Wood, your son, is going to catch one. In the morning I'm going to catch a scale fish, large for its size. And by that you'll know that God lives and reigns."
He looked over, and winked at his son, and went on. Every word of it happened just exactly the way God said it would take place. What is it? Just simplicity, that God works in.

L-21 Two weeks later Mr. Lyle, and Mr. Banks, and I were back again. Some of my relatives own the dock. We had fished all night with our lines, and we'd caught several big fish. And the next morning we had nothing. That day we baited our lines, was staying away, was kind of getting just a little mental rest. I was catching sunfishes to put on the line. And all of a sudden, while setting on the side of the boat with the little fly line, pulling up the little sunfish for bait, the Spirit of the Lord came down. And I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD; it shall come to pass that there you'll see the glory of God, for there is a little animal somewhere that will be raised from the dead." And when I come to, I wondered what I had said.
Mr. Wood laid his line down, say, "Repeat that Brother Branham?"
I said, "What did it say?"
He said, "About the little animal."


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