<TITLE>12. Par 44-48</TITLE>L-44 Now, here just talking to you, and it's time to close. I've got quite a few Scriptures that I've written down here I'd like to refer to. I might not get to any of them. But for a bay--a way of context. Now, I won't be too long. Honest, I hope I'm not. But I'm just...
Want to read from the Book of Jeremiah, the 8th chapter, the 22nd verse. This is a question of three letters I'm going to ask the audience tonight.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? then why is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

L-45 Now, I'm going to ask the question like God did, "Why? W-h-y?" "Why is not the health of the daughter of My people recovered?" [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.] Pardon me. Now, that is quite a statement. But I believe that if God makes a way for anything, makes a way of escape, makes a way for it, and the people doesn't receive it, doesn't walk in it, then He has a right to ask why.

L-46 If you went and bought your boy a car... You say now, "Junior, I--I do not want you to--to go to any pool rooms. Your father and mother, we are Christian home. I don't want you smoking cigarettes. I don't want you going to dances with--these modern dances where they drink and things. We--we are Christians here, Junior, and you'll--you'll bring a reproach upon our home and upon the cause that we stand for. And I'll be real good to you, Junior. I'm... Daddy works hard. So I'm going to slave away till I save enough money to buy you a little car, 'cause you can go to school in it, you and sis, and--and just be nice. And I'll get you nice clothes." And then you find out that Junior is smoking, and drinking, and going to places. Then you've got a right to ask that boy, "Why," 'cause you made every way for him to have pleasure, and to take his little car, and go fishing, and--and so forth, and go out riding. And then you'd have a right as a father to ask him, "Why, why did you do it?" Isn't that right, brethren?

L-47 Then if God made a way for His people to escape and get away from the wrath that's fixing to come, and they don't receive it, then He's got a right to ask why didn't they do it.
I landed in Bombay, India, here sometime ago. I was reading a piece in the paper. I still have it, or... I beg your pardon. Tommy Nickels has it now; it's coming out in Christian Business Men's "Voice." And said, "The earthquake must be over." Now, India isn't rich people like they are in America. Now, the foreign people really think that as long as you're an American, you are rich. Well, that is right according to them. But according to the status they have to live in. But they--they have their fences where they pick up rocks like we did in early America, make their fences. Their... All their homes are built out of rock and mud.

L-48 But one day there come a strange thing happen. And all the little birds that lived in these rocks along the fences and in the big towers all flew away from their nest and left it, just evacuated their nest. And the cattle and sheep that... When the day got hot... They'd feed early of a morning and late in the evening. But instead of... And then in the heat of the day, they'd come and stand in the shadows of this fence to keep cool. But instead of that, they run right out in the middle of the field and all leaned against one another: cattle, sheep, animals.
And the people wondered, "What strange action this is." Two days it happened. All of a sudden a earthquake blowed the country; them walls fell in. The earthquake shot four or five different times for maybe two days. They had earthquake after earthquake. Finally the little birds begin to fly back into their nest, places that was left, the cattle come back around what walls was left. What was it? The same God that warned the birds and the animals to go into the ark for safety, shows He is the same God today. See? He warned His animals to flee and to get away from those great walls that was fixing to fall.


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