<TITLE>10. Par 36-38</TITLE>L-36 And I said, "Yes, sir." And I was eating on that apple, you know, and I said, "That's a good apple."
Said, "Oh, yeah." Said, "She's a dandy. We can off it every year."
I said, "How old is that tree?"
"Oh," he said, "we... I planted that tree there myself about fifty years ago, something like that." He was seventy-six, I think it was.
I said, "Yes, uh-huh." I said, "I want to ask you a question."
And he said, "Yes, sir." He'd just got through saying, "If that preacher ever comes back here, seemed like he had something on the ball." He said, "I'm going to ask him how did he know that woman was in that shape, and how did he know she was going to be made well?"
And I said, "You say you planted that tree there so long ago?"
"Yes."
I said, "I want to ask you a question. It's just about the middle of August; we haven't even had a cool night. Why is those leaves dropping off the tree?"
"Oh," he said, "the life has left them."
"Oh," I said. "Is that right? Well, what happened to the life?"
"Oh," he says, "it went down into the roots of the tree."
I said, "Why did it go down there?"
He said, "Well, if it doesn't, it'll die. The winter will kill it. The germ of life can't stay up in this tree here."
I said, "Oh. Well," I said, "what causes it to go down before there's any cold spell?"
"Well," he said, "it just goes down."
And I said, "Well, now..."
He said, "It's just nature. It just actually goes down."

L-37 I said, "Well, if I get a bucket of water and set it out here on that locust stump, will when fall of the year comes along, will that water go out of the bucket right down to the bottom of the stump, and next spring come back up, bringing up another bucket of water?"
He said, "No."
I said, "Then there's bound to be some Intelligence. That tree has no intelligence. It's a--it's a tree, a plant. There's got to be some kind of Intelligence to cause it to go down to hide its life, and then come back up to bring you another bunch of apples."
He said, "Well, you know what?" he said, "I hadn't thought of it just that way."
And I said, "I tell you, you think of that. And whenever you can find out the Intelligence that says to that tree, 'Drop your leaf. Hurry back down into the roots, and stay there, and next spring come back again.' When you find what Intelligence that directed that tree to do that, I'll tell you what Intelligence that told me that woman was dying with a cancer, and put the handkerchief on her. She'd be healed."
He said, "You're not that preacher?"
I said, "Yes, sir, I am. I'm Brother Branham."
He said, "That's the name."

L-38 That old man become a Christian, gave his heart to Christ. Last year Brother Wood and I were down there, and I drove over to see the old man. And his wife was setting on the back porch peeling apples off of the same tree. And I come up and talked to her. And she said, "Brother Branham, that simple little story led the old brother to Christ. He died in Christian faith a year ago."
Now, what was it? He found God's provided way. By looking the way He could provide a way of escape of death of that tree, he found a provided way that God had provided for him to live again.


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