<TITLE>23. Par 263-286</TITLE>L-263   The doctor said, when he come up, he said, "Reverend, I'm going to tie those tubes now." Said, "I..."

L-264 I said, "Don't you do it!" I said...

L-265 He said, "Well, you might get married again and have that boy yet."

L-266 I said, "I'm going to have it by her! God said so!" I couldn't read it out of the Bible but it was wrote on my heart by revelation, by faith; God said so! Didn't want to stagger at the promise of God through unbelief.
Some of them said, "You meant 'Josephine.'"
I said, "I meant 'Joseph.'"
Doctor said, "She can't have another baby."
I said, "She will have another baby."

L-267 Four years passed, finally she was going to be mother again.

L-268   Then a woman, (a false prophecy sent forth across the country) writing words, said, "Now Meda's going to die, during this time, because I was sent to lead Bill." And it said that "He won't listen to me 'cause I'm a woman, and God's going to get even with him now by killing his wife."

L-269 I said, "God sent Jesus Christ to lead me." See? And I said, "I'm led by the Spirit."

L-270 Poor little Meda. We had a nurse that had been healed there in a meetings, you all know, Mrs. Morgan, (and one of Mayo's nurses, the worse cases). Well, she's on the record, "dead," about twenty years ago, with cancer, "sarcoma's cancer," in Louisville, right on the Baptist hospital record. She's nursing in--in Jeffersonville, in the hospital, now. She's been there for all these years, 'cause God said "She'd live."

L-271 And, so, Meda loved her, and she said, "I want Margie come with me, Bill, I don't feel like going to the hospital."

L-272   I said, "Don't make... We love Margie, but Margie's not our God, Margie's our sister." And I took off up to Green's Mill. She'd got me all tore up, course I love her, and I went up to Green's Mill. And I...

L-273 And she said, "Bill, do you think I'm going to die?"

L-274 And I said, "I don't know, but the baby is going to be born, anyhow. You're going to have a Joseph."

L-275 She said, "Is this him?"

L-276 I said, "I don't know, Honey. I can't say, but God said we're 'going to have Joseph,' and we're going to have Joseph. I don't care what anything says, we're going to have Joseph. For the same God that's told me all these revelations, told me that, He never failed on others and He won't fail on that."

L-277 I went up to the mill to pray. And started over there, seen that Light hang between two trees, said, "Go back to you're--were, to the book." I went back to this...

L-278   The Bible was... and laying in my car. And when I did, the wind had blowed it over to where Nathan was setting, and David; said, "Go tell My servant David; I took him from that sheepcote, from feeding those few sheep of his father's, and I made him a great name like the great man." (not all the--the greatest name, but just like great man; never made him a Billy Graham, but a... give him a name, you know) Said, "Well, I done that, but" said, "I can't let him build the temple, but his son..." And just as soon as It said, "His sons," oh, my, there it was.

L-279 I said, "Joseph?" That's right.

L-280 Right there, in the house I went. And there's the little fellow, so big she... she's a big ol' boy, she couldn't hardly walk, going out through the field. I run, throw my arms around her, and I said, "Honey! Joseph is coming. Joseph is on his road."

L-281   Anyone knows, with cesarean, you can't let the baby drop. That night the baby dropped, the water broke, everything else.

L-282 Next morning, at seven o'clock, we went over to the hospital, the doctor said, "Oh, mercy, goodness."

L-283 I kissed her good-bye, said, "Honey, it won't be long, Joseph will be here." Went up the steps, she went like that on the operating table.

L-284 A few minutes, the nurse come back, said, "Rev. Branham?"

L-285 I said, "Yes, ma'am."

L-286 She said, "You got a fine, seven pound, three ounce, boy."


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