<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 Wife was with me at this meeting and little Joseph. That's been about three years ago. And all of you know the story, or perhaps have read about Joseph. I was taking the life of Joseph... And the doctor had told us we could have no more children after Rebekah was born, because she was a caesarean, and the wife could not have another child.
And I went into a little closet at Minneapolis, and was weeping there before the Lord. And a vision come down and said, "You will have a son, and you shall call his name Joseph." And so, I begin to announce it to all the people. And so, then waited four years.
Everybody said, "What about that prophecy about Joseph?"
I said, "He will be along. Don't worry."
And then we knew wife was going to be mother again. And so when it was born, it was a girl, Sarah, and everybody got to laughing at me. Said, "I... You meant Josephine, didn't you?"
I said, "No, I meant Joseph."
The doctors said, "Mr. Branham," said, "we had better do a little operation here, because your wife cannot, no wise, stand another child."
I said, "Doctor, don't you dare to touch her. We're going to have a son, and his name's Joseph." He just scratched his head, and done like that, and walked away.

L-27 And four more years passed. And one day we found out that she was to be mother again. Some of them said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know." But I said, "I don't know. But Joseph's coming, 'cause God never told me nothing but what was true."
And so, I went out to the hospital and kissed her as she went up into the room, the delivery room.
A few minutes, the nurse came down. She said, "Who is Reverend Branham?"
And I said, "Me."
And she said, "You have a fine seven-pound boy."
I said, "Joseph, honey, you've been a long time getting here. Daddy's kind of glad to see you."
And she said, "You called him Joseph."
I said, "That's his name."

L-28 And so, we were at--up at Philadelphia. And that morning I raised up, and I was looking in the room. I said, "Honey, the man that we're to meet this morning has violated the law." I said, "He's been fishing, and he caught a sack full of fish too many. And I seen him hide them two or three times from the game warden." And you know I used to be a game warden for several years.
And I said, "I seen him hiding them fish from the game warden." I said, "My, that was a wonderful place he was fishing in, and so--so many fish."
So just then little Joseph raised up and come over to me, about four years old, and he said, "Daddy, Da-da (which he meant David) is going to have an accident on a motorcycle."
I said, "What do you mean?"

L-29 He'd already told me a vision. He said, "I was riding on my little tricycle out to watch for my little sister, Sarah, come up the street." And he said, "Daddy, has God got a hand?"
And I said, "Yes."
Said, "I seen a hand just like yours, like that with a cuff." And said, "It was holding right up over me, to keep me from off the street while I was waiting for my sister." Why, we never noticed it, you know, just living the way we do, and hear them talk about visions, so I thought maybe the little fellow, you know how...


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