<TITLE>22. Par 83-85</TITLE>L-83 You all know about little Joseph. Six years before he come I saw him in a vision. The doctor said my wife could never have another child. I said, "Oh, yes."
So when the next child was borned, it was a girl. They said, "Uh-huh. You meant, Josephine."
I said, "I meant Joseph. God never tells lies."
And so about four years later, she... We knowed she was going to be mother again. They said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know."
The doctor said, "She can't have it, Brother Branham."
I said, "She'll have that one."
So when the nurse came down, I was walking the carpet off on the floor, you know. And come down, and said, "Reverend Branham?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am?"
He said, "You have a fine boy, seven pounds and three ounces."
And I said, "Joseph, you've been a long time getting here. Daddy's glad to see you."
And so, she said, "You called him Joseph."
I said, "That's his name."

L-84 And Joseph was with me there, four years old: been two years ago. No, three years old. He's five now, and he sees visions. And when he got up that morning, he said setting on the side of the bed... He and I sleep together in one another's arms, and we're real buddies. And he said, "Daddy," he said, "David is going to get hurt on a motorcycle. He's going to skin his leg on that side."
I said, "Did you dream that?"
He said, "No, Daddy. I saw it right there."
We just marked it down on a book. And when we got home, David, the little boy next door to us, two days after we was home, rode down the lane on the motorcycle and skinned his side up, just exactly what he said.
I'm going one of these days, friends. I'm going to leave the world. I pray that God will take the Spirit that He's let me have, and put a double portion upon my son, Joseph, to shine the Light while I'm gone.
And so then... I expected Billy... Billy's one of the finest boys the world could... He wasn't called in the ministry. Now, I don't want to leave without having somebody to represent, take my place when I'm gone.

L-85 And I started to move, and I seen Brother Welch Evans... I oughtn't to say this, Sister Evans. Will you forgive me? He caught too many fish, and he was hiding them from the game warden. And I seen him up there in a vision; they had them in a sack; and he hid them two or three times. And I said, "I wonder if that's that same man? They tell me he likes to fish down in Florida."
So I went over there that morning. When I walked in... Brother Mercier back there and I, we walked in together. And I said, "That's the man. That's him."
So after he introduced me to him, I said, "Mr. Evans?" and I talked to him. I said... After we talked a little while, got ready to leave, I said, "Brother Evans, do you love me?"
He said, "Sure."
I said, "Here not long ago you was fishing in some kind of a bayou. You had a sack full of fish you was trying to hide them from the game warden."
He said, "Oh, my, my."
I said, "Just one thing I'm going to ask you. Take me fishing there."
He said, "All right."


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