<TITLE>14. Par 39-40</TITLE>L-39 Two or three days later, the negative was flown to Washington D. C. that night, at eleven o'clock, and brought back. And George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI on fingerprint and documents was flown there to take a test of this picture, to see if it was something had been painted on there, a double exposure, or something wrong. After three days he called us in. There was about two hundred people, writers of magazines, different papers, and he stood up, and he said, "Whose name is Branham?"
I said, "Mine."
Said, "Come here." He's kind of red-headed...?... hair on his face, and he said, "Stand here."
Said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Mr. Branham, I've been one of your critics. I've said that that was psychology, but listen Reverend Branham, the mechanical eye of that camera won't take psychology. The Light struck the lens." He said, "You're going to... He said, "The light struck the lens." He said, "Someday, this picture will be sold on the ten cent stores (you know). But said, "Not while you're living, because God wouldn't permit that." But said, "After you're gone, the church will realize the day that they passed through." Said, "It's always been that way." He said, "Myself, I'm Catholic." He said, "But I remember the history of Joan of Arc, how that they--she saw visions, and my church burnt her to a stake as a witch. But after she was dead a long time, we found out that her--she was a saint. It was too late." He said, "It was the same thing down through the Scriptures." He said, "Someday you'll die."
I said, "Praise God, I'm ready."
And he said, "Forgive me for being your critic," and he handed me the negative.
I said, "It's not mine. It belongs to the studio."
He said, "Mr. Branham, that--that negative is worth tens of thousands of dollars." Said, "It's the only time that a supernatural Being was ever scientifically photographed."
Now, I said, "I would not take it. Upon your statement, if Jesus loved me enough to come down and have His picture taken with me for the first time in all the world's history, who am I to sell His picture to make money from it?"
But in the copyright so that no one can sell it, without your statement... He said, "I'll gladly write my statement." And he wrote it, signed it. The Douglas Studio's taken it.

L-40 Brethren and sisters, we're men and women, got to die, but the Spirit of God that's among us, is the same God that met Moses in the wilderness, was in Jesus Christ on earth, because the life of It proves It's the same Spirit. It's doing the same thing. It's a promise of Christ. Wha--oh, how... There's just no place to stop.
Look, there was two... There's only three na--nationalities of people in the world, three classes (Listen close, and I'll close.): Ham, Shem, and Japheth. The whole human race, this side of the flood, came from them. You believe that? The countries we lived in changed our colors, black, white, brown, yellow, whatever color. That has nothing to do with it. We come from them three children. That's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritans.
Did you notice Peter had the keys to the Kingdom? On the day of Pentecost he opened it to the Jews. Philip preached to the Samaritans. Only the Holy Ghost had come on none of them. He sent up and got Peter, laid his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came. At the house of Cornelius, the Gentile, Peter, while he yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them. And there It went. The three people, three races... There was two... The--the Samaritan, you know the history, they're half--half Jew and Gentile.


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