<TITLE>15. Par 187-203</TITLE>L-187   He raised up and took me by the hand. He said, "Brother Branham, my brother has never had a fit from that day to this." He said, "The God that could tell you of my brother, wouldn't lie to you."
I said, "Bud, he'll be there."
He said, "Where will he come from?"

L-188 I said, "I don't know." I said, "Bud, I'm fifty-two," then. And I said, "I've saw visions, since a child. And when I saw this caribou here, killed, and you see if his horns isn't forty-two inches. And then, the same vision, I on my road back down to where that company was, that I was with, I killed this silver-tip bear, grizzly."
He said, "Brother Branham, I can see for twenty miles."

L-189 He said, "God is going to have to pull him up out of the ground, or bring him down out of the skies, or something."
I said, "Don't you worry. He'll be there."

L-190   We went about another hundred yards. He was just about wore out too. This weigh about a hundred and fifty pound, this trophy. So, coming down the hill, and you set it down. He said, "Whew! I'm about give out."

L-191 I said, "Yep." We come into a little pygmy, pygmy spruce then, about that high. There was a few grouse flying around, and there was ptarmigan hens, and so I throwed some rocks at them like that.
So he said, "Did you ever eat any of them ptarmigans?"
I said, "No. I don't believe so."

L-192 He said, "They're fine. They're as good as grouse." He said, "Brother Branham?" Took off his big old black hat, fanned hisself. Said, "About time for that old bear to show up, ain't it, boy?"
And I said--I said, "Bud, you're doubting that."

L-193 He said, "No. I'm not. But, Brother Branham, I--I--I just can't understand."

L-194 I said, "Neither can I. It's not for me to understand. It's for me to believe." Amen. God in Heaven knows these things are true. Would I stand here and say this, it wasn't true?

L-195   Then I started to turn around, to give him the rifle, and me pick up the head. And as I turned, I said, "Bud, you got them glasses around your neck. What is that standing up there on the side of the hill?"

L-196 And he throwed the glasses up. He said, "Oh, help me," said, "if it ain't somebody's milk cow!" There ain't no such thing in the country. Said, "That's the biggest grizzly I ever seen in my life. And so help me, look at that yellow sun shining on him. He's a silver-tip." Said, "How far you say he is?"

L-197 I said, "He's about two mile up there." And we was about wore out. He said... I said, "What are we waiting on? Let's go."
And he said, "You sure of getting him?"
I said, "Sure I'm going to get him."
He said, "What's that gun you're using there?"

L-198 And I said, "Now, never mind about that." It was a little bitty gun some brother give me in a meeting one time, several years ago. I said, "A little, cheap.270." And I said, "All right. I got... I... It's going to be."

L-199   We kept going a little closer. And the closer we got, the bigger that bear looked hisself. Oh, he looked like a mammoth haystack setting up there on that moss, you know. Stand, great, big, mammoth thing, head about that wide, you know, and jaws sticking out, great big paws. And he was poking up these little blueberry branches, like that, you know, eating them. And so set, great big fellow! We got about, oh, about eight hundred yards of him.

L-200 He said, "Hey, Brother Branham, did--did you ever shoot a grizzly before?"

L-201 I said, "I've shot many bear, Bud, but I never did shoot a silver-tip grizzly before."

L-202 He said, "You know, the silver-tip is the biggest fighter of all of them."
I said, "Yeah, I understood that."
He said, "He don't know how to die."
And I said, "Well?"

L-203 He said, "Don't... How--how--how far you have? How close you have to get to him with that?"


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