<TITLE>12. Par 36-38</TITLE>L-36 Now, we see them going up. Just one step from going into the fiery furnace. Looked like that they were completely defeated.
It may be down... I've seen cancer cases come to almost their last breath. A brother laying with arthritis recently had his hands laying like this. The Holy Spirit told him, said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, you're healed." He went home and got worse. He said, "I can't help it. That man didn't know me. He never seen me in his life." Lived in Phoenix. He said, "He never seen me in his life. How could he tell me who I was? I know by the man's talk he's no educator. I know that there was something supernatural. And I... Something happened." They couldn't even move the pillow. When they moved the pillow for his hands, he'd say, "Oh, wife, wife, be careful." Oh, just screaming.
And she said, "Honey, aren't you afraid you're bringing a reproach upon the very religion that we believe?"
He said, "I cannot. I believe it in my heart that it'll happen." And it got so bad. He laid back, and his little girl was trying to put a wet rag on his face. He felt fainty. And he looked up there, and he said he seen Christ come before him on the cross. And said... When He bowed his head to die... He thought his breath was going, he couldn't breathe no more. The arthritis was all through him. And when he bowed his head to die, he seen Christ bow his head there. All of a sudden he give a big leap, and out of the chair, and around and around and around the place he went...?... why? He possessed the gate when He went to the cross. But first, you must possess. You must take the trial.

L-37 The Hebrew children was at that place. Sometimes we think it's real dark. But remember, it's in the darkest of hour when Jesus comes by. It was Mary and Martha, the little sisters of Lazarus, Christian family had left their synagogue to believe on the Lord Jesus, and it was their darkest hour. They'd come out of their church. They couldn't go back no more. Ever who professed to be a follower of Jesus was excommunicated from the church because he was a--a radical, somebody going around tearing up their churches. And they didn't want that, so they said, "Anybody that tries to follow him, why, we will throw you out of the fellowship." So they were out of the fellowship. And they couldn't return back to church. They would--become heretics.
And then, the very man that they come out for, the Lord Jesus--very man they come out for, they sent for Him to come pray for their brother when he was laying dying with hemorrhages. And they... He refused to come. They sent the second time, and He refused to come. Oh, how dark the hour was then. Finally, the midnight hour come, struck, and the boy died. They put him in the grave. He was there four days. Corruption had already set in his body. Skin worms was in him. Bugs from the ground was crawling into his flesh. The darkest hour they ever seen. It was at that time when Jesus came by, just at that dark hour.

L-38 Oh, a woman that--said not long ago, said, "Brother Branham..." I was talking about raising Lazarus. Said, "You don't mean to te... You brag too much about Jesus being Divine."
I said, "He was Divine. Yes."
She said, "Well, I will prove to you by your Bible He wasn't."
I said, "Go to it."
And she said, "Well, the 11th chapter of Saint John said He went to the grave of Lazarus, He wept."
I said, "That didn't--that didn't have nothing to do with it. He was both man and God." I said, "He was a man truly, when He was weeping. But when He stood by the side of a man's grave that'd been dead four days, and his nose already fell in, the bugs eating in his body, said 'Lazarus, come forth,' that took more than a man." Yes, sir.


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