<TITLE>02. Par 7-17</TITLE>L-7 And I was laying on the bed, and I'd been a little tired. This valley... Sooner or later I'll have to leave this valley, because it's just breaking my throat to such a place I just can't hardly stand it. I can be away and be back... We come the other day, Leo and I, within forty miles, after being in the swamps in Florida throat all cleared up, and within forty miles of Louisville it stopped again. Brother Banks Wood ought to be here somewhere this morning. And the other day coming in from Kingston and--and Puerto Rico, where my throat had just been perfect... And I got off the airplane, still all right; and before we could get to Jeffersonville, it closed up again. See, it's the valley here. It's the bacteria in the air, or either it's God, one, trying to get me away. So I--I don't understand it. I've prayed and asked so many times...

L-8 But, however, I'd just woke up, it was about three o'clock in the morning. And my wife and little boy was asleep. And I raised up on the side of the bed, and I seen a great number of people had gathered at a large place, and I said to Billy Paul, "You go in there and give those people prayer cards."
And he said, "Okay, dad." In a few minutes he returned and said, "You can't give prayer cards to those people." He said, "You see this man standing here?"
I said, "Yes."
He said, "He was over here, and I said, 'Everybody wants a prayer card, hold up your hands.'" And said, "I went to give him a prayer card, he went somewhere else. And then I went over there, and he was over somewhere else. Now, here he is way back over here." Said, "I can't even give out one prayer card."

L-11 I said, "Well, Billy, you won't have to give out prayer cards, because there's such a great space here till everybody can..." Prayer cards is to keep a riot (You see?), and keep them in order. I said, "Oh, I can take everybody there, no more than what there is in the space I've got, and line them up and pray for them one by one."
And he said, "All right." And he turned to the right and went away from me. And I turned around this way as he went off that way, was watching him.
And I--I heard a Voice come down from heaven and said, "But at this time I will begin to magnify thee." And I looked, and I never seen such a crowd of people, they were swarming from everywhere.

L-14 And Brother Roberts' name was called, said, "Now, Brother Oral Roberts is coming to see you."
And I said, "How shall I greet Brother Roberts?"
Said, "Just the same way he greets you."
Well, I seen Brother Roberts coming with a black suit on and a little hat like Bing Crosby wears, them little turned it up and pull down, a little black hat. And I was standing kind of up, and he looked up and said, "Hello, Brother Branham."
And I said, "Hello, Brother Roberts," shook his hand. Said, "You got a nice crowd."
I said, "Quite a crowd, Brother Roberts." And he turned and went off the way Billy did, to the right.

L-17 And I thought, "Where am I going to speak to them from?" And I tried on everywhere to find a place to speak. I was in such a situation, something down, that I couldn't see where to--to speak to them from. And somebody said, "Well, come over here."
I said, "Well, you couldn't see no better there." And I started across the place. And I remembered this, then I said, "The main thing for me to do is keep humble in my heart always before God and His children."
And I come out of the vision. And I thought, "What does that mean? Maybe it means we're going to have such... Or where is it, where's he going to be at?" You see, sometimes, in visions He don't tell you just where; He--He just speaks and you just... It's in parable, like. And I'm sure you that read the Bible understand that.


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