<TITLE>26. Par 288-303</TITLE>L-288   He said, "Well, it's because if it don't, if it don't go down in the root," he said, "the winter will kill the tree. The germ of life is in the--in the--the sap that's in the tree, and it goes down at the root." And what a beautiful testimony there, see, of death, burial, and resurrection, again. See?
I said, "Then, what happens then? Does it stay down there?"
Said, "No. No."

L-289 I said, "Comes back the next spring and brings you another bunch of apples."
"Yeah."   
"And you set here and eat them."
"Yeah."
"And then you say you never seen God."
He said, "Well, that's just nature."
I said, "That right?"
"Yes, sir."

L-290 I said, "I want to ask you something. If it's just nature, tell me what intelligence that warns that tree, that sap in the tree? It has no intelligence of its own. But what intelligence runs that sap down at the root, say, 'Get down here and hide in the depths of the earth now, till all the troubles past, then I'll bring you back up again'? See? Tell me. The life that was in the leaf, just the body died. The leaf dropped off. The life itself went down, coming back with a new leaf. See?" I said, "The life hid, went down in the ground."

L-291   Job, as I said last night, "Oh, hide me in the grave, see, till Thy wrath be past." He seen the tribulation coming, of course. See? Notice, he said, "Hide me."
He said, "Well, that's just nature."

L-292 And I said, "Mister," I said, "if I put a bucket of water out here on the post, and then every August that water run down at the bottom the post, and then in spring of the year it'll come back up in a bucket again?"
He said, "Oh, oh, no. It don't have any life."

L-293 I said, "There you are. Now you got it. See, it's life." I said, "See, that's God."
He said, "You know, I never thought of that."
I said, "Tell me what does that?"

L-294 He said, "I don't know. I don't know what does it. I said, 'It's nature.'"
I said, "Well, Who controls nature? Is nature an intelligence? No."
He said, "Well, I never had thought of it just like that."

L-295   I said, "I'll tell you, I'm going out here, squirrel hunting, if it's all right."
Said, "Help yourself."

L-296 I said, "When I come back, when I come back... You study real hard now. And when I come back, you tell me what Intelligence that tells that life in that tree to go down in the root and come back next spring, and I'll tell you What, the same Thing that told me that woman was going to live up there, that had the cancer."
Said, "Told you?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Are you that preacher?"
I said, "Yes, sir. I'm Brother Branham."

L-297 And there under that tree, that afternoon, by a simple little thing like that, I led him to Christ, tears running down his cheeks.

L-298 A year later, I went down. I pulled my truck up in the yard. They had moved away. He was gone. He'd died. And when I come back, the lady was standing there, to give me a bawling out, for hunting on posted ground. He had told me, hunt any time I wanted to. She wasn't... didn't hear him say that.

L-299 So I come up, I said, "I--I'm sorry." Said, "I come here early this morning, and parked the car here where you could see it."
Said, "Them Indiana license on there?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am." I said, "Your husband..."

L-300 Said, "My husband has been dead almost a year." She set, peeling apples on the back porch, off that same tree. I said, "Well, he told me before he died."
Said, "I don't believe it."

L-301 I said, "I was setting right out there one day." And I said, "I come up and I was talking to him. They said he was an infidel."

L-302 She dropped that apple and looked around at me. Said, "Are you Brother Branham?"
Said, "Yes, ma'am."

L-303 She said, "Forgive me." She said, "Forgive me." She said, "He died, shouting, both hands up in the air, praising God; knowing, as that leaf come back, he'd come back again."
See, a paradox, unexplainable.


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