<TITLE>13. Par 43-46</TITLE>L-43 Delores called me, and she said, "Billy, I--I just can't get over it." She said, "Mother..."
I Said, "Delores, look out across the road from where you live. Isn't there a large oak tree standing there?"
She said, "Yes." This was just a few days before Mother died. And she said, "Yes."
I said, "It's coming fall now." I said, "About a month ago those leaves were real pretty and green."
"Yes," she said, "Bill."
Said, "When was... What does it look like now?"
And she said, "Well, they're yellow, and brown, and green, red."
And I said, "Delores, what makes them turn yellow, brown, green, and red?"
She said, "They are dying."
I said, "When was the tree its prettiest?"
She said, "Now."
I said, "The Bible said, 'Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.'" See? That's when the time comes. I said, "The life is going back. Life is a tree. We are all hanging on a Tree of Life. That is right."

L-44 Mr. Wood, who's a book salesman in the meeting, he was a Jehovah Witness. And he was--had a boy, that's with him also; his leg drawed up like this with polio. And he'd been in Louisville in one of the meetings, and he noticed that discernment. And he said, "Now, that seems right to me."
And so he went to Houston, Texas, when I was there with Brother Kidson and them, when the picture of the Angel of the Lord was taken. And, well, it's been taken in several times, and just recently taken again. It was taken in Germany, and many times.

L-45 So and--and Brother Wood had brought his boy, and was up at one of the meetings. And they were setting way back, oh, almost a half a city block, or farther away. One night standing on the platform, never heard of him in my life, just standing there looking around. I noticed a vision in front of me, and I said, "There's a man. He's setting way back in the back, him and his wife. And they're from the state of Kentucky, way down to a place called LaGrange, Kentucky. His name is Wood. He is a carpenter. He's got a boy that has a polio damage that's pulled his leg up. 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, the boy's healed,'" and just started on like that. And his wife was a Methodist, so--or I believe the Church of God, Anderson Church of God. So...
Said, "Did you hear that, Ruby?" And so, he said, "David, stand up." His leg was just as perfect as the other. He's in the meeting. And then that Jehovah Witness gave hisself to Christ.

L-46 And then, from that come his brother down to... Oh, they, you know how they--the Jehovah Witness feel. They come down to turn his brother out from their fellowship. He said, "You listening to such a thing as that?" Said, "These false things going around like that? You've been...?" His father's a reader in the Jehovah Witness. He said, "You know better than such a thing as that." He said, "If I ever see that man, I'll give him a piece of my mind." Said, "I know teaching my daddy's give me."
Said, "That's him mowing grass out there."
And I come in with an old flop-down hat, you know, and set down and talked to him. He said, "Well," he said, "I'll tell you, Mr. Branham," he said, "we were raised Jehovah Witness."
I said, "That's very fine." I said, "I'd rather be a Russellite than no light at all," and just went on like that, not disregarding anything that he--he had said, and talked to him the best that I could. And I said, "I see that you are a married man, and you have two children." And I said, "But you've separated from your wife."


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