<TITLE>06. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 Now, the man there, I thought, "That poor fellow, he wouldn't kill me. That's the devil making him do that. He may be a married man and have children. What's he got against me; he never seem me in his life." Come to find out, he was out of an insane institution. He'd hit a minister out on the street and broke his jaw and his collar bone. He just had a mania to kill preachers.
And he started walking there, and about couple a hundred preachers scattered off the platform right quick when they seen him. And so, there he stood. He stood up there; he said, "Tonight I'm going to knock you all the way out in the middle of that audience and break every bone in you body." Now, he was plenty physically able to do it. He weighed about two sixty, and I weighed about a hundred eighteen. So there--he stood there. And I looked around; I thought, "Well, poor fellow, now look, there's the devil got that great big fine specie of a man all bound like that. Isn't that pitiful?"

L-17 And I turned around. I--I--I didn't say one thing, just kept still. And I heard myself tell him (See?), that was the Spirit. The Spirit told him. You ought to see it in the jungles in Africa and like that, how it works. You see it here amongst Americans, but see it out there where you come before witch doctors. And--and It said, "Because you have challenged the Spirit of God, tonight you'll fall over my feet."
He said, "I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over, you impostor, you snake in the grass, you hypocrite." He walked up and went [Brother Branham makes spitting sound--Ed.] spit in my face. I never said one word, just stood and looked at him. He got right up close to me; he drew back his great big arm like that, and his teeth set together, and his eyes just glistening; he raised back to hit me, and I said, "Satan, come out of the man." He went "Whoo, whoo, whoo." Begin to turn around and around like that, and fell down, pinned my feet to the floor, like that. There both spirits had challenged one another. You see? He had challenged, and the Spirit of God accepted it. See? And there he fell on my feet. And them little police run out and said, "Is he dead?"
I said, "No, sir, he isn't dead."
"Well, is he healed?"
I said, "No sir, he worships that spirit; he--he's not healed." I said, "I wish you'd roll him off of my feet," because (See?), he just kinda had me pinned down there.

L-18 Tommy Osborn seen that, or his wife saw it and brought him down the next day. And he nailed hisself in a room for three days. When I went home off that trip, there he was out in the front, little Tommy with his couple little--his little baby and then the little--little boy. He was two or three times around the car, so nervous you know, he said, "Brother Branham, Brother Branham, you think I got a gift of healing?"
I said, "Look, Tommy, after this revival starting like this, they'll be so many Divine healers in the land." I said, "It'll be pitiful; it'll be so the people won't even won't have a meeting unless you got a Divine healing." See, Divine healing is a minor, you could never major with the minor. See? Salvation is the main thing to the soul. Divine healing's just a minor thing. But I said, "It'll come to pass, because when the phenomenon's done there's always a mixed multitude like there was in the days of Moses, like always."
Luther, I was retaking the history of Luther here not long ago, and said, "The phenomenon of Martin Luther wasn't that he could protest the Catholic church and get by with it, but hold his head above all the fanaticism that followed his revival." So that's right. So I said, "It'll follow the same here. You see?"


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