<TITLE>14. Par 138-149</TITLE>L-138   To my little story. This chaplain said he had been down in the hospital, and said so many boys laying in the tent, some... He had just come from the outside. He said he went out there, and some officer told him, said, "Chaplain, we want to ride out, to take a look at the fields out there." They had throwed this mustard and clorine gas, as they did in them days.

L-139 And said, "I got out there, Brother Branham," said, "there wasn't a bark on a tree, there wasn't a sprig of grass. It was on an Easter morning." He said, "There was some old wrecked tanks down there, the officer had to get record of them, and see if there was anything could be done for them, near the great Argonne Forest. Said, "When I was standing there by myself," said, "I looked up, said, 'O God, this is the way it's all coming to.'" That's right, it's all coming. It was all burnt up, no life nowhere at all, grass burnt off; the tree, by that gases, trees killed, everything was killed, twisted, hanging down, where bullets and things riddled it.

L-140   If that isn't a picture of the world today, where Satan is spraying his unbelief, his hybreeding, his science, his knowledge! Until, what it was at the beginning, when God put Adam and Eve in the garden, that beautiful paradise without death, without sickness, without sorrow, and everything perfect in order, look what Satan's DDT has done! She is a chaos. There is nothing left in it.

L-141 He said, "I started crying. I walked back, I was attracted to a rock." Said, "I just went over there and looked at the rock, pushed it over. Down beneath the rock was a little white flower growing, the only living thing left, because it had been sheltered by a rock."

L-142 God, my Rock, shelter us today, O God, when these poisons are flying everywhere in the name of science and education. Shelter us. Keep me until that day, O God, is my prayer. [Someone on the platform says, "Don't put any time limit, Brother Branham."--Ed.] Now I hope that we, each one, are under that Rock, Christ.

L-143   I just preached the other day, many of you heard it. I was going down through the woods, hunting, and I was attracted to turn around. And I looked, and there laid an empty cigarette carton or package, or what you call it. And it's the company, I don't feel I should call their name, but the tobacco company had, they have a slogan, "A thinking man's filter, a smoking man's taste."

L-144 I started walking on down a--a little further in the woods, and Something attracted me, "Go back to that cigarette pack."

L-145 I thought, "Heavenly Father, I'm going down here to that tree where those squirrels was spoke into existence by You, one morning. Why would You call me back?"

L-146 And Something said, "You've got a sermon coming for Sunday. Your text is wrote on it."
I thought, "On a cigarette pack?" I went back.

L-147 And I begin to think, "A thinking man's filter," what a deception that is! If a man was a thinking man, he wouldn't smoke at all. But, you see, people swallow that.

L-148   I believe it was two years ago, when I was in one of the conventions, I went up to the world's fair when it was on the West Coast. And they had Yul Brynner's picture and many of them there. And the scientists, many of them, was in the same hall, about the danger of smoking. How they pull that smoke across a marble, and took a little Q-tip and took up the nicotine off there and put it on a rat's back, and put him in a cage, in seven days he was so full of cancer he couldn't even walk. See? He said... Pulled it through water.
Said, "Filter!"

L-149 Said, "Filter? There is no such a thing." Said, "You... Now, this is science themselves. They said, "You cannot have smoke unless you got tar. Tar makes the smoke."


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