<TITLE>01. Par 1-12</TITLE>65-1204, The Rapture, Ramada Inn, Yuma, AZ, 101 min
L-1       The chapter here at--at Yuma, it's a grand privilege to have this invitation to come back again. We had a wonderful time, the last time here. And then when I understood I was to be back again, it made me feel real good, to hear the testimonies and these fine words from the people, and kind of boosts you up a little.

L-2   Billy told me that the brother from Las Vegas, that wanted a meeting there at the chapter, see him immediately after the service is over here. We have a time, he says, that we can slip in, right over in January, before the Phoenix meeting, see, to come to Las Vegas. And so we've always wanted to get there.
I believe Brother Art Wilson used to be there, a long time ago, or he may still be there. And he--he asked me come up, he and Sister Wilson. I didn't get the opportunity, so maybe this will be the time I could come.

L-3 You just see Billy Paul or Brother Roy Borders. I think he's here somewhere. Somebody said Brother Roy was in. Brother Pearry, Lee, or any of them, they'll be able to tell you. Just set the dates for us to come.

L-4   Now, I seen many ministers here, a while ago, to which I'm very happy to meet my brethren. Wish I had time, go home with you, 'cause I know you got the best cook there is in the country. That's fine.

L-5 And now, Brother Pearry really got two, tonight, on him. He got two marks against him now. One of them, cutting that microphone in, out there. When, you're--you're held guilty of that, Brother Pearry. I don't think you really were guilty. But you... Somebody was fixing to speak. That was a good one.

L-6 And so then, again, he went out there and was talking. He said, "Say!" Telling Brother Collins or some of them. Said, "The supper was good. But," said, "I'm telling you," said, "that man must be a Spaniard or something, or a Mexican. That was the hottest pepper I ever taste." Going on like that, and he was talking to the chef.
He said, "I'm the chef."

L-7 That's Texas, for you. We'll get him straightened out, over here in Arizona, after while, (won't we?), if he stay around us.

L-8 Really nice to be here! And I guess those don't sound like jokes, but sense of humor. Which, the Lord Hisself had a sense of humor, you know. He said, "'Herod,' go tell that fox, see, 'today I cast out--cast out devils; tomorrow I'm made perfect.'" So, He had a sense of humor. Well, it won't hurt us, I don't think, once in a while.

L-9   And now it's a little late. And, usually, I--I preach about four hours. So this, knowing the courtesy of the brother and sister here, the chapter, we'll cut that way down, tonight. And just... I told Terry. I said...
He said, "What's... Put on a two-hour tape?"

L-10 I said, "No, Terry. This is a--a banquet." I said, "Just about thirty or forty minutes, speak to the people of something." That, I'd try, though, each time, knowing that.

L-11   When I was a little boy, people used to come out to listen because I was a boy preacher, just a young fellow, a chap. And they'd say, "Well, Billy Branham, you know, just a kid, never went through school, and no education." And they'd come out to hear my broken words, my Kentucky English, and--and so they... my "hits, and hain'ts, and totes, and carry."
Like in one of the meetings here not long ago, they said, "We'll all stand up and sing the nation anthem."

L-12 I got up and said, "For my old Kentucky home far away." That was the only nation I knowed about, so it was national anthem, as far as I was concerned.


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