<TITLE>03. Par 20-32</TITLE>L-20 I always was afraid to die. Not afraid that I'd be lost, but I didn't want to be a spirit. I only... I want to be a human, a man. Cause, I always understood as a man, shake people's hands. I'd think, "What if I'd get there and I'd meet Brother Rose, and he'd be a little, white cloud or something? I know it was Brother Rose, by some other sense, but I couldn't shake his hand. I couldn't talk to him. Or..." I--I'd wonder, "Wouldn't that be awful?" But, I thought, "Then when I returned back, course, I'll have a resurrection."

L-21 That Scripture had never occurred to me before, that, "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting."

L-22   So that morning, I had gotten up. I was thinking, "Boy, you're fifty years old. If you're going to do anything for the Lord, you'd better hurry up. You're going to be too old, after while."

L-23 And all at once, I was caught up into this place, and could look back and see myself down here. Never had that experience. Many times I've had visions of seeing myself standing somewhere, and then... Oh, if you don't understand it, you'd think you'd lost your mind. You, you are here, watching yourself there. And then you leave here, and you're in yourself there. Uh-huh. It's maybe way back, years ahead, and so forth. It's hard to explain. You don't. You can't explain it.

L-24 You can't explain God. You got to believe Him. See? If you can explain it, then it's no more faith. You just have to believe it.

L-25   And after He had told me, seeing all these people, and they were... They had bodies. They... There couldn't be sin. The men and women... Those women were hugging me, and they were women. But there were no possibility of ever being sin again, because, see, the glands of our bodies will be changed there. We have... We're different sex now, because that's for reproducing the world, and our--and our marriage to bring children. But then there'll be no more need of that. There'll be no more children born. We won't have sex glands in the new world, see, not at all. But, yet, the woman will be woman, in stature. And so will men be men. But there will be no more male and female among them, in that way. And them glands won't be in, so there'll be no way at all for Satan to ever play another trick on them. So, in that, I noticed.

L-26   These women run up and throw their arms around me, and say, "Our precious brother, I am so happy that you are here." Now, it was amazing. All of them, young, all the most prettiest women, long hair, dresses long, you know, like robes, white silk-like robes. And how pretty they looked!

L-27 Then here come brethren, just... And the most handsome men I ever seen, looked like all of them about twenty years old. And their eyes, sparkly. They, oh, they just every ounce of man. And I wondered. And they were picking me up and hugging me and saying, "Our precious brother."

L-28   I wondered how. I looked back down and could see myself down here, yet, laying down. Well, now, thought, "That's strange." And then I asked.

L-29 There's a real lovely lady come up, threw her arms around me, said, "Oh, Brother Branham, we're so happy you're here, our precious brother."

L-30 I looked at her, as she went away. And that Voice that was talking to me, said, "Don't you recognize her?"
I said, "I--I do not."
Said, "She was past ninety when you led her to Christ."

L-31 And there she was, the most beautiful thing I had looked at, in the way of a woman. And I said, "No wonder she said 'Precious brother.'" See? Now she can never change no more. She's that way for Eternity.
I said, "I want to see Jesus."

L-32 Said, "He's higher than this. Someday He will come, and you'll be judged by the Gospel that you preached, 'cause you was the leader."
I said, "Well, will Paul have to be judged by his crowd?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "I preached the same Gospel he did. Just exactly the way he said It, that's the way I said It."


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