<TITLE>06. Par 53-67</TITLE>L-53   I didn't know he was a Mormon. And I was a very... I know, being it in Utah, it probably was, but I... 'cause most the people up there are Mormon, around Salt Lake City. This wasn't Salt Lake City, however. So I thought, "Well, I've had some fine Mormon friends, been in the prayer lines, fine people."

L-54 And I said, "I have met some very fine man who are--are Mormons." And he said, well, he said... I said, "I don't know their teaching on that, and I wouldn't want to say something contrary to their teaching, because that's what you are, and I respect that highly." And I said, "Well, and you believe that?"
He said, "Yes, sir, I do. But," said, "I don't live to it."

L-55 I said, "Well, I believe that the Bible teaches that God knew that baby, millions of years ago, before the foundation of the world." I said, "God told Jeremiah, 'Before you was ever conceived in your mother's womb, before you ever was come forth from the belly, I knew you, sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations.'" I said, "That's how much He knew about it, see."
He said, "Well," he said, "thank you."

L-56 He started walking down the hill. And then he met with this other fellow, and he said, "Why didn't you tell me that guy was a preacher?" And so we... He talked to him a little bit and begin to tell him about the meetings.

L-57   Now, Mormons believe prophecy. I don't... might not be any here, but they--but they do believe in--in prophecy. But, so, maybe I'm talking out of school, but I... Yeah. Yeah. But, however, they believe.

L-58 And he say, he come back to me, said, "I understand that you are a prophet."

L-59 I said, "No, sir." I said, "I... The Lord has showed me a few things to happen."

L-60 And he took off, right away, said, "Let's go in." And he got in his car, and went down to the... There was a little city from where he lived. In a few moments, he was missing. We was fixing the dogs, to take another hunt right after lunch. And when we did, why, he took off in a car.

L-61 In a few moments, a fine-looking young man come back, about seventeen years old, a real saintly-looking Christian gentleman. He said, "This is my brother." Said, "He is not a Jack Mormon. He is a real Mormon."
I said, "How do you do, son?"

L-62 And he said, "I understand, that my brother tells me, that you are a prophet."

L-63 I said, "No, sir." I said, "It isn't that I am a prophet." I said, "The Lord has showed me things to come to pass."

L-64 He said, "I have a shot in my arm right now, I'm supposed to be on the operating table." He said, "But my brother told me this. And I said, 'If that's so, I don't need the operation.'" He looked me right straight in the eye, an honest, true, sincere look, said, "You lay your hands upon me. If these things are so, I won't need the operation." He went home well.

L-65   This brother, Christian friend of mine, was hunting with me, from Phoenix. He said to me, he said... Some of these boys are sitting right here now. One of them I know is here present. We went home. He said, "Brother Branham, if the Lord would show you a vision and let you tell them Mormons just what's going to happen, that will do it, because they are looking for it."

L-66 So, I prayed and I prayed. And on my road back home, I was coming up, on the following Monday, Sunday, about ten o'clock, I was standing in the room, after church that morning, and was looking out.

L-67 And I saw flashlights flashing, or some kind of a light flashing. And I saw a lion that was in a tree, and--and it was too small for me to shoot. I didn't want it. And there was someone else shot it, and, when they did, they shot it with too big a gun. It blowed the lion up. I didn't appreciate the--the--the way it was done.


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