<TITLE>04. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 "And tonight, 'long towards dark, Mr. Banks Wood here is going to catch a small fish, catfish, and I'm going to catch a whole string of them. You're going to use the same bait right beside of me, and I'm going to have a whole string. And then, we're going in about eleven o'clock. The next morning we're coming out, and I'm going to catch a large fish with scales on it. I can't see just what kind it is, but it's going to be a large fish. There won't be no more caught the rest of the day."
I seen Mr. Wood, Grandpa Wood, look around like that, as if to say, "Oh, yes. We'll see how that comes out."
So on the road down we told... and Banks had told him about how the visions... And being out, Brother Banks and I live together, sleep together. We just brothers. And how that he'd seen up on the river... And Lyle was with him. How I... Catching a fish one afternoon, I said, "Something's fixing to happen. There's going to be a resurrection of life."

L-15 And the next morning we were catching bluegills to put on fishing lines, and Mr. Lyle, Bank's brother, caught one, swallowed the hook way down. He didn't flip it fast enough, and jerk it out of the water. And just pulled the entrails, and gills out of its throat. Throwed it out on the water, said, "Little fellow, you shot your last wad." And it wiggled a little bit, laid there and stiffened out, little small fish, to what you call here a bream, I guess. And it floated around on the water for about a half hour, and floated back into the--the--the pond lilies and things.

L-16 And I was standing there fishing, over the side of the boat like that. All at once Something come down through those trees, roaring around. They heard It, but they didn't see It. Was that Light circling around over there. Said, "Stand up. Speak to that little fish, and he shall have his life back."
I called attention to the brethren. I said, "Little fishy, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I give you your life." That little fish turned over, swam right out through the river as hard as he could go, like that, and... That seems mythical, but here's God's Word, and God's my Judge. And--and so Brother Lyle just fell off, over in the boat. He said, "That meant for me, Brother Branham?" He'd just been saved and filled with the Holy Ghost just a little while. He said, "That meant me." Said, "That's all there is to it." Said, "Because I said to that little fish, 'You shot your last wad.'"
I said, "No. It was just His Presence."
Brother Banks, back there, raised up and said, "It's good to be here. Let us build three tabernacles."

L-17 Oh, and that day after... Just exactly what was told Grandpa Wood, it happened just exactly: the same way, the same fish, just exactly the same number. The next day when we left, I said, "What do you think, Mr. Wood?"
He said, "Well, it's pretty good when a man can see fish before he catches them."
So I said, "What about it?" Now, I led him to Christ, baptized him and his wife. His whole family now is baptized into the Lord, and filled with the Holy Ghost, and living a victorious life. That is amazing grace. Brother Wood, are you here? Where are you at Brother Wood, Sister Wood? Are you in the building? Stand up, if you are. There--I can't see them. Anybody looking back can see them. Oh, yes. Right back at the back. All right, Brother Wood. That's fine.


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