<TITLE>12. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 Let me stop just a minute. A man come to me not long ago, come from overseas. The man was wrong. He had three or four children, and a wife, and he was running around with a woman over here. I don't say anything immorally, but it just didn't look right. You see, you have to watch what you're doing in the eyes of the public. You're written epistles.
And he said... I kind of called his hand on it. I said, "Sir, I hope you don't think I'm rude. But I'd just like to say something as a minister. Don't you think that the people here will think..."
"Oh," he said, "No, no. That's all right in my country."
I said, "But you're not in your country. See? You're over here. And if people will think something about that." He said...
I said, "Do you know the woman?"
"Yes."
I said, "Do you know her background?" (I did.)
He said. "Yes." Said, "Brother Branham, I know she's living right now with her fourth husband." Said, "And, Brother Branham, you know what? She's such a sweet woman." Said, "I went to the Lord, and I said, 'Lord, tell me what's the matter with this woman.' Said, 'Why would you bless her with the Holy Ghost, and everything, and living in adultery?'" He said, "Well," said, "you know, the Lord give me a dream." He said, "I seen my wife living immorally with another man." And I said... And said, "Then she come up to me, and fell down, and said, 'Will you forgive me?'" And said, "Sure." And said, "Then the Lord said, 'I forgive her.' Said, 'You see, no matter if she has done the way she's doing, I forgive her.'"
I said, "Sir, your vision, or your dream was sweet. But it don't line up with the Word of God. That's right. God can't say one thing, and take it back over here. He's got to say one thing, and stay with it till it accomplishes that which it was purposed for." Then you see the paradox.

L-54 So we find out. And Micaiah said, "Go on up, if you want to. But I seen Israel like sheep scattered, having no shepherd."
And then Zedekiah come up (which is the high bunch of the biggest, one of the prophets, or the most effectual one, the leader of them), come up and said--slapped him in the mouth, and said, "Which a way went the Spirit of God out of--when it went out of me?" He didn't have the Spirit of God.
He said, "I seen Israel scattered like sheep on a hill."
And so he said, "Take this man," the king did, "and put him in the prison. And feed him with bread and water of sorrow till I return in peace, like all my shepherds here say that I will. And you return in peace."

L-55 Now, if Ahab would've set down and listened... Remember, we know that Elijah was an a-vindicated prophet. A prophet's just not jumped up overnight. Prophets are born prophets. Sure. And he'd been a prophet since his childhood. And every word that he said, all of his doctrine was of God, because God vindicated him that he was a prophet. He did.
So then when he did that, he knowed then Micaiah saw the vision, and the vision was comparing with--with the vision of the prophet. Two prophets got together. And Elijah had told Ahab what was going to happen, that the dogs would lick the blood off of him. And how could Micaiah bless what God had cursed?

L-56 Now, let me stop a minute. How can God today bless what He's cursed? Can't do it. Lying, stealing, cheating, all this stuff is wrong, and many other things I could say. If it's wrong, it's wrong. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
What happened? We find out that was a paradox; that one man, one little ragged holy-roller, stood up here in the face of a whole seminary of prophets, and God vindicated his word because he was with the Word. That's right. It was a paradox.


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