<TITLE>04. Par 10-14</TITLE>L-10 Now, here, and I'll go back to my point. Excuse me for leaving it. But we're going to a carnival. And there's a great big--or a circus, there's a big board fence around it. And we--we don't know how to get over it. So we want to see what was on the inside.
And there's no man in the world but what wants to know where he come from, what he is, and where he's going. There's only one Book that can tell you, and that's This; what, who you are, where you come from, and where you're going. But every human being likes to look a past the curtain to see what's on the other side. But we're going to do that now for a parable.
And now, we go along, and I look at this brother. And I'm a stronger, great strong looking man, and me, a little skinny fellow. Well, I think that maybe he can do his part towards getting in to see the--the--the show, what's on the inside. Well, how am I going to do it.

L-11 The first thing you know, I happen to spy a knothole a way up high. Now, he can't reach up there (See?), but I can. So but to do it, I have to reach down and jump real high, and I get a hold just with my fingers and pull myself up and look through that knothole, like to nearly take the life out of me. And I drop down. "What did you see, Brother Branham?"
"A giraffe."
"Oh, you did? What else did you see?" That's all I had time to see. Like to kill me.
"Look and see if you can see something else."
Now, you don't realize it, but that's you on the platform and that's you setting out there. You're the one that knocks the strength out of me. Last night, someone was coming that... almost fell four or five times getting out. And you don't... People don't realize that. If you read the Bible...

L-12 Do you know the poets, or prophets, or so forth, they go into inspiration, sometimes they don't even know where they're at. Did you ever read of Stephen Foster, wrote, "Old Kentucky Home," "Way Down Upon the Swanee River," gave America its best folk songs. He was considered a neurotic. Every time he'd write a song, inspiration, then he would go out and get on a drunk. One time when he wrote, he come out, he'd just come out then he got a razor called a servant, and committed suicide, cut his throat.
Did you ever hear of William Cowper? Certainly you have. I stood by his grave recently and cried. He--he was considered in England a--a goofy guy, crazy. Anybody that's real spiritual is, science says, is just one stage away from insanity from the world. So it's the human mind trying to cope with that mind there (You see?), you don't realize. No one will ever know on this side of eternity what it means.

L-13 So then William Cowper, finally the day... You remember when he tried to even get in a cab and go commit suicide. Come back, got a rope and tried to hang himself, and--and went down and tried to drowned in the river then wrote that famous song.
There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
Where sinners plunge beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stain.

L-14 Look at the prophet Jonah. As soon as he come out of the belly of the whale and went and gave his prophecy, and long as he--the inspiration was on him, giving his prophecy he was fine. But when the inspiration left him, he set on top of a mountain and prayed for God to take his life.
The prophet Elijah under a--a vision of the Lord, fixed it and called fire out of heaven, called rain out of the heavens, the same thing, and killed four hundred priests himself. And then, when the inspiration left him, run at the threat of a woman and was forty days and nights out in the wilderness not even knowing where he was at, wondering around. And God found him pulled back in a cave. Now, is that Scripture?


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