Africa Trip Report
53-1114, Africa Trip Report, National Guard Armory, Owensboro, KY, 59 min








Now in the Word just for a few moments, I would like to read, and I promise you tonight that I would tell you about the vision that's going to take place pretty soon. And I--I trust that God will--will give to each one of you the... His blessing, while we're reading the Word and trying to explain it. And some of you want to put down the vision, of course, of what's going to take place, you're more than welcome. Anything that's ever been said concerning when it's THUS SAITH THE LORD tacked onto it, why you'll find out, I'll lay my life right to it. It'll be just that way. [I Corinthians 12:26]



After a long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, you should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have caused this harm and loss.
But now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there stood by me... (Beg your pardon? The 22nd verse)
And... I exhort you to be of a good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whose servant I am.
Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God has given unto thee all them that sail with thee.
Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. [Acts 27:21-25]
But now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there stood by me... (Beg your pardon? The 22nd verse)
And... I exhort you to be of a good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whose servant I am.
Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God has given unto thee all them that sail with thee.
Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. [Acts 27:21-25]
May the Lord add His blessing to His Word.




The great things of God is so great, and yet people try to imagine so much out in here somewhere in the supernatural of a hocus-pocus like, when it's right down here. [Acts 27:21-25]

What caused me to go to--to Africa on this trip? Just to... Brings up this vision. And I'm watching that clock there, but I'm way early, so I got plenty of time. It's only twenty-five minutes till four, so I--I suppose I have a whole lot of time. But you... Some of you brothers let me know about, when it's just about time to start the prayer line in about a half-hour.

Here sometime ago, there's a lady at the hospital at the city I live. The picture was setting on the table. The doctor had told here she couldn't get well. Now, this is her story. She said looking at... Not at her brother, but to the Angel of the Lord...
Now, if you'll notice, friends, that is a--a Pillar of Fire. George J. Lacy, you read what he said. Now, that's the best that we got in the United States on--on that kind of work, on research. And when he said that day, said, "If--if the old hypocrite (he meant the unbeliever) says that there can be... never could be scientifically proved that there was a supernatural Being," but said, "he can't say that now, because here's scientific proof that there is a supernatural Being." For you hear what he said. The Light struck the lens. See? And It was there. It was... He said, "The mechanical eye of this camera won't take psychology." Said, "It's not psychology." Said, "I've said it was psychology, Mister Branham, myself," but said, "mechanical eye of this camera won't take psychology. The Light struck the lens. And the--the Being was there."

Now, just think. He took a--a machine. You know, the human being is not made to lie. And if you're telling a lie, they can put you before a lie detector, and your nerves will react. And then they took this same thing and converted it to a way that they could tell whether it was truth or not, and put it on a person praying, and I think it taken, I forget how many thousand kilowatts to send a radio message around the world, and when this woman begin to pray at her death, there went out enough power from her till it registered over as far as the needle would go. Enough power leaving that woman, actually supernatural power that caught on this machine, some kind of a magnetic power of her prayer, that was powerful enough to send a radio message fifty-five times around the world. That's scientific.

Now, on this picture, Brother Bosworth brought me the picture of Florence Nightingale, and you... I'm sorry. We have no more of those books. They're out of print at the time. We wasn't financially able to... Was about ten thousand dollars, to cost about a dollar apiece to print them to put them back in print, and they won't print less than ten thousand. So we couldn't do it. But when they first went out, why then, we sold all them, and they were gone.

Now, It's His Being. And if we'll read the Scripture, we find out that it was a Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. That same Pillar of Fire, I believe, was over Jesus Christ. And I believe that He's raised--risen from the dead, showing the same signs that He showed when He was here on earth. And it's that same Pillar of Fire that's over the Church right now, the same Angel of God, that same Presence. [Exodus 13:21-22]

Now, in this case when we promise God... And I told you a few nights ago about the healing of Florence Nightingale. When we went down into Africa...
Now, my wife is setting somewhere in the building. I haven't spied where she's at yet, but anyhow, I guess she's got backed up in a corner. So anyhow, she's as bashful as I used to be. And so, anyhow, when--when we were... Knowed so much about the... I tell you how much geography we knowed. I told her. She said, "Where you going now, honey."

But when we landed in Johannesburg that afternoon, I guess there was many, many thousand people at the ramp. And so then, when we went out that night and got into Durban... Now, Brother Bosworth setting here, which was right present for every bit of it... And there was Mr. Baxter, and many of the others; my boy also was present. And when we landed, why then, they had to take me several miles out into the country where they had no place to put the people, and no park, no nothing in the city. Had to go way out into the country to where there's a big school, and place them out there. And I guess the police was guarding the roads up and down, just strings of people for miles. And there they was, all out in this place. It taking us, oh, I guess, twenty-five, thirty minutes to drive to where the place was.

But I was... Not only was she praying, that she'd been praying, I was praying. That's right. And I was very thankful that I had a heavenly Father Who was riding by my side to help me down.

And so, finally when we got in there, and got out to the place where the meeting was, I just got at the platform, tired, no sleep, you can imagine what it was, rocking and pitching in that air for all that time, and thousands of people, just like oceans of people were setting. And they were... I was strange. I thought Africans were all black people, but every one of these was white. And I said, "Are these Africans?"
"Yeah, they're all Afrikaans people."

And so, they... We went out to the people there, and just as soon as we got to the platform, I happened to notice coming across the top of the people, I guess, Brother Bosworth, I hadn't been there, oh, about five minutes, till a vision started, and I seen a--a bus moving like this over top the audience, and it was something blue, and I just kept watching it, till it got to me. I wasn't saying nothing, because I was tired, and didn't know just exactly where to make my first beginning, the closing to a vision, to close in with the individual to a vision. And I noticed the--the bus coming. It come right close to me real close, and I seen a sign on it said, "Durban." And the bus went out of my sight.

Now, there's something about New York City. Now, you watch. Remember, there's something about New York City. Don't forget that, you hear? All right. I had just left New York, New York. I said, "I'm so tired." And I watched that. Then I seen this boy again coming, walking across the audience, and he didn't have this crutch under his arm any more. He was just normal and well, with his leg just a normal size.

He said, "Yes, sir." Spoke English. "Yes, sir." He come from Durban.
I said, "Aren't one of your legs about six inches shorter?"
And he said, "That's me, exactly."
I said, "It isn't any more. You're healed." And here he come walking up there just as normal just as he could be. And the people begin screaming, and faith, oh, my, with one collapse.

"Yes."
And I said, "You was in a little green car, and the--the car slid sideways and then backed up like this and hit a tree."
She said, "That's right."
I said, "Your back is broke."
And her mother said, "Oh, she just can't move."
I looked out, and I seen the girl going real fast right down across the audience in a vision, going walking real fast. I said, "Stand up, in the Name of Jesus Christ, for THUS SAITH THE LORD, you're healed."

[Brother Bosworth says, "Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yes, sure. And the next night I saw this, her back was broke in three places. I saw her in the audience the next night, and waited till I got her eye, for her come up here. And she came up and set. I told her, 'Set on one of these seats back here till Brother Branham comes. I want to introduce you.' And so she set there, and as quick as I saw you come through that side door. 'Come quick, come quick!" And there they took the picture. We have the picture now."--Ed.] That's right. Thank you, brother.

Well, we would just... Oh, there's so many things happened there in about fifteen minutes, till I just collapsed almost. They taken me to the house. And on the road up, there was a man, Brother Schoeman, men many of you may know him. He was the chairman of the National Committee. And all the churches of Africa was co-operating. They... All but the Dutch Reform church, and that's really a hard church to get along with. If there's any here, I don't mean to say any word about the church, but they don't believe in water baptism; they don't--they don't believe anything hardly. And so, they are just a very formal, ritualistic, cold, indifferent church.

I said, "Yes, he is." But I knowed he wasn't believing that.

Said, "Yes, just very, very, very."

So, I was setting there eating, and after while the Holy Spirit come down and there broke a vision across the table while we was setting there. I said, "Brother Schoeman, your little girl here, isn't her name Andrea?"
He said, "Yes."
And I said, "About six months ago, you almost lost her, didn't you?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "It was something wrong in her throat."
Said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "She's had a hard time swallowing since then, hasn't she?"
Said, "Say, that's right."

He said, "Brother Branham, I told Brother Baxter before we come in." He said, "Brother Branham, I was just a little bit skeptic, but I want to reach my hand to you." It was clear then. He--he knew.
So the next... That day, we had a marvelous time. The next morning, Brother Baxter and all of us, we come in and he said, "Brother Branham," he said, "I got some news for you."
Said, "What?"

"Oh," I said, "that would be marvelous."
He said, "Do you know what? Brother duPlessis has come over and set up an itinerary, all of them, and we're going to take a great big itinerary hundreds of miles down through here."
I said, "Marvelous, marvelous, that's just fine."
So then, after the service that night, I went home, went in the room, went to bed, went to sleep, and about two o'clock in the morning I woke up, and I heard some kind of a little old bird out the window. And I slipped over and raised up and looked through those reeds to look where--where the birds was. And it was--it was chirping at night. And I thought, "That isn't a nightingale." And I looked at my watch, and it was about two o'clock. I come back and set down, turned on a little dim light and begin to--to read my Bible. And just then, I looked up and here He was standing before me, milling around.

He said, "Now, that you might know that this will come to pass," he said, "tomorrow morning," he said, "they're going to take you down to this city. And there's going to be a--a little garden like, and a--a native standing there with a purple shirt on." Said, "It's going to be a rare thing. You tell the men that they're going to take you down there." And said, "Then they're going to get a doctor, and they're going to work it around to another minister, and this doctor is going to be a thin man wearing glasses." And said, "The doctors tell him that he's got cancer and dying." But said, "It's an error. It's an error of the doctors. They cut the wrong thing in him, and he's dying because of that." And said, "Don't pray for him, for he's going to die."

Well, that settled it. So I went in and woke Brother Baxter up. I said, "Brother Baxter, we can't take that itinerary."
Said, "Well, you'll have to tell Brother Schoeman tomorrow."
I told Brother Schoeman. And, oh, if you have ever been in Africa, why, that's kinda hard to let them know that, you know.

I just... As the second night there--third night, it would've been that night, and here's what taken place. Now, this African man, this Boer, had never heard about the Angel of the Lord. Now we got the shirt, got everything to show, the papers and everything, headlines two or three pages in the Dutch Reform church which controls.
And the second morning, while we're there, I forget to tell you this. The first night I was there, and the first night I spoke and they seen the miracle, there happened to be a group of the Medical Association out there. And the next morning, the entire Medical Association of all South Africa called me to come to breakfast and give me the right-hand of fellowship, and said, "Brother Branham, that's genuine Divine healing."

And in a few moments, I'll get to the story of the conversion of some of them, and if I can hurry to get my time in now. All right. Now... Or get my story out before my time is up.

He said, "The man ain't nothing in the world but a polished up soothsayer."
And he said, "I'd go out and have prayer for your sinful soul, 'cause God might strike you dead." And he goes out in the kneels down there in a little--a little, I believe it was a peach tree, a little peach tree just about twenty yards from the house, raised up his hands, he... They wear a white shirt, and a white tie. And so, he raised up his hands, said, "God, have mercy on my friend in there. He's going to die and go to hell with such thoughts as that." And--and said, "The hour of visitation is here, and look at him in there. There he is setting there." Oh, he was just telling God all about it.
Now, here is the man's story. He said that a Pillar of Light, about two foot long, about eight inches, or ten inches high, of a Light came down, and the Light parted from side to side, and that man described that Angel to a dot. Said, a large Man, two hundred pounds, dark hair to His shoulder, walked down to him and laid His hand on his back. And he said, "When He laid his hand on his back, it felt like that fire had burnt plumb through his body." And he said, "Rise, and tell your friend that this is the hour of visitation, and not to condemn this man."

I got the shirt now. They called me down, the authorities, checked my hand with it, and every... And there the man's hand, just perfectly a man's hand scorched right through his shirt. We got the shirt. There it was in the African paper. Right away, my. And then, them...
They wanted me to leave. Why, I said, "No. The Lord told me stay here." He said for me to stay here.
And the next day, when we started out, everything the Lord had said would take place, took place just exactly that way. Even to the little bead salesman. And Brother Baxter trying to take our picture. I said, "Don't you remember that bead salesman I told you?"

I said, "It is."
Brother Schoeman said, "That's a wild peacock."
And I said, "Do you remember, Brother Baxter, what I told?"
He said, "Well, Brother Branham, it's exactly, isn't it?"
And I said, "Brother Schoeman, I can't take that itinerary." I said, "I'm sorry to have to interfere with you ministers, but He told me not to take it."
Said, "Brother Branham, we have to take it."
"Oh," I said, "but, you may have to take it, but--but not me." I said, "No, I don't have to take it, Brother Schoeman."

I said, "No, sir."
So here they was outside, and my suitcase wasn't packed, nothing. I said, "No. The Lord told me not to go."
Well, in come the ministers, and Brother Bosworth knows, we had a round of it. He said, "Well, the meetings are closed here."
And I said, "Ridiculous. Right where the Lord's give us the favor and everything, and telling us to stay here, and here's where we're to stay."

"Well, we promised Brother So-and-so we'd be here, Brother..."


Well, the minister said, "We promised our brethren that we'd bring you to their town."
I said, "What size city is this we're going to?"
"About three thousand."
"Why, there was ten, fifteen, twenty thousand people out there to go to the meeting. Where are you going to put them?"
"Don't know. But we promised brother we'd be there." There you are.
I said, "I--I appreciate that. I love our brethren, but God has said...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... miles away, and I knowed the whole crowd would be right over there."

I said, "Brother Schoeman, stop the car."
He said, "What's the matter, Brother Branham?"
I said, "Just stop."
And he stopped and said, "Well, what?" We way ahead of the rest of them, 'cause he drove like Jehu. So he pulled the brake up and he--and he said, "Well, what's the matter?"
I said, "I'm just not going any farther."
"Well," he said, "Brother Branham," said, "I don't care for you staying up there." Said... He's the chairman. Said, "That's my city. That's my district." He said, "But the brethren want you to go down there." He said, "They're not going to listen to that, Brother Branham."
I said, "Well, I'm going to listen to God, anyhow."

Well, I thought it was witch doctors and so forth. I thought, "Well, I know Who God is, and witch doctors ain't going to bother me." I didn't know it was among brethren. See? So sly was Satan.
And we stopped on the road. Up come Brother Bosworth and Brother Baxter, and all of them stopped, and all them... And Brother Schoeman went back there and said, "You'll have to go see him." Said, "He just refuses to go any farther."

I said, "As far as considering and being reverent to brothers, we should. But I should look to God first."
And he said, "Brother Branham, I--I just--just can't believe that it's exactly right."
And then, up comes Brother Bosworth. And Brother Bosworth setting here, now watch, right's right, and wrong... Brother Bosworth said, "Brother Branham, I believe you're mistaken."
And I said, "My old saintly dad that stood on the platform with me and watched the visions, and works, and wonders and so forth, and hear me say, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD'?"

I said, "Yes, Korah had the same idea at one time." I said, "But I don't know what."
He said, "God told us to make that itinerary."

So then, there we was all hugged together on the road. All right, stopped in the middle of the road, meeting waiting. And I... You remember it, Brother Bosworth. I said, "I'm not going to do it."
So, they went on and hum-hawed around. Said, Brother Baxter said, "Well, Brother Branham, I'd go on down to the city at least, and then pray for them people there, and we'll go home." Said, "I'm just through, and tired, and sick." And Brother Baxter's very nervous, you know. And--and he said, "I'm just through with the whole thing. I wash my hands of it." Said, "You can't listen to things like that." Said, "I--I'm through with the managing of it."
And I said, "Well, you can be that too." But I said, "I'm going to listen to God, regardless." And God, if I'd only hung with that. See?

We got down there in that little city, and there they was laying out there in the fields and hills, no place to go, no place to eat, nothing, laying out there, that great big place back there ready for us, just moved out of it.

About midnight, in come Brother Bosworth, drenched. Said, "Oh, my, we tried tonight."
I said, "Uh-huh."

And there, all of them liked to have drowned, sick people, and everything.
So then, the next morning it cleared off. Said, "Oh, this will be fine tonight." And then when it come night time, just about the time they got ready to take me, there come up a cold spell, and liked to froze them all to death. That's right.
About ten o'clock, come into the house, eleven o'clock, I said, "Uh-huh." I said, "Now, tomorrow night, we will have an earthquake." I said, "We're out of the will of God, brethren."

"We believe."
But the ministers, they wouldn't... "No. We got to go on. We're going on anyhow."

Brother Bosworth said to me, said, "Brother Branham, I believe now, if you'll go down through that way." They told him they had natives down there. But we didn't know the truth of it. The only place there wasn't any segregation was at Durban. And we didn't know it at the time.
Brother Bosworth was looking at it from the natural, ministerial stand point, like, if I'd happen to quit this meeting right here in the next ten minutes and walk away, somebody'd say, "Well, that guy's a hypocrite." You just don't understand. You have to do what the Holy Spirit says. I can't be like some of them sets their meetings up for two or three years ahead of time. I don't know even an hour from now what God's going to have me doing. But, now, whatever He tells me, I'm going to do it by His grace.

I said, "Brother Bosworth," I put my hand in his, I said, "As many battles as we've stood together, and I'm telling you in the Name of the Lord Jesus, that we're out of the will of God. And it's going to be nothing but trouble."
All the ministers begin to carry on. So they begin to talk about, along about two o'clock in the morning, the permissive will of God. God would permit it. It wouldn't be His perfect will, but being they had put up thousands of dollars for advertisement, rented great big auditoriums and things, big baseball parks and things down through there, why, it was no more than right we should go. Thousands of dollars, and natives was already piling in from everywhere, all down through there. I said, "God can sent then all up here." And we found out later, He--it would've right. But no, they wouldn't listen to that. Huh-uh. No, we had to go anyhow, because they'd promised the brothers.

I said, "I don't know what we'll have tomorrow night. It's hard to tell what we'll have." And I... Well, they asked the permissive will. I said, "God might permit it, but it'll never be His will."
So, I was crying again, so in the room we went. And my little old boy, I don't see him standing here anywhere, but he's in here somewhere in the building. When we walked out of the room, I was alone. He put his arm around me, come out with me. He said, "Daddy, don't you listen to those preachers." He said, "If nobody in the whole country will stand by you, I'll stay with you if we have to hitchhike back home."

And so I... Billy said, "Well, daddy, I'll stay with you."
I said, "Well, come on, let's pray, honey."
We went in the room, our room, and there was a great bunch of ministers. They went in their rooms and so forth, and they said, "Go ask the Lord if He will permit you to do it, being we've got everything set up like this. Well, I prayed. Billy went to bed, went to sleep after he got tired. He prayed a little bit, and kid-like, crawled up and went to sleep.

He said, "Go on with them. But you're going to pay for it if you go with them." Said, "You can go. And if you want to go, all right. But remember, you're going to pay for it." He said, "Tomorrow morning, go wake up your boy." He had respect to Billy. If Billy'd only submit his way to God, and believe in God, the ministry of mine would just be a little bitty thing. I know what's in the boy. But he's just in an adolescence age, and he just--he just don't know where he's standing. But I know that boy, setting here the other night, and he said, "Daddy, I was going down the road, and something...?..." He will say, "Daddy, you know... "We never been on this road before." Said, "Right along another place, there's going to be a barn setting at a certain place, and a certain..." Why sure. Be just exactly that way. See? And that gift is laying so close to him, if he'd just move over into it, it would be wonderful. But he's just at that frolic age, you know, and adolescence, and you know what I mean. And so, I pray that God will settle him down someday, and put him on a platform that'll give a ministry that'll just bring millions of souls to Christ. I do. You pray for him too. And so, he's got a lot up front, but I know what Billy is in the back. See?


And I went in, woke him up, woke up Brother Stadsklev, Brother Baxter, Brother Bosworth, and all of them, the ministers. I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, that God has told me that I could go, but I'd pay for it. And our meetings will not be like they should be. But if you're determined, I'm willing to take this, to whatever the--the whipping is to come, but we shouldn't do it." And I told them what exactly the morning would be, and it was still storming then. I said what it'd be. And the next morning, it happened just exactly (Is that right, Brother Bosworth?), just exactly the way the Lord said. Billy come after me the same way, them boys. And he just had his hand back like this. The boy started talking to me, and the boy motioned, my boy motioned his hand not to do that. And I was setting there praying, waiting till he got to the platform. And--and just then, Billy said, he was looking around behind the seat. The driving wheel's on the right hand side, and he was looking this way, had his arm across, and he was setting in the front, another boy, and I in the back. He said, "Daddy, looky there." And there was that native with that white suit on, standing at that eucalyptus tree, near the bridge, fixing to strike the other one. And I said, "What'd I tell you, Billy?" And the little fellow started crying. I said, "Daddy's headed for some trouble for himself, but here we are." I said, "The next time I ever come to this country, I'd better be straightened out 'fore I get here." And I said, "I won't--I won't come if it's not."

"No place could get it. And anyhow, we're going to have it in my church. The brethren promised me we can have it in our church."
Brother Bosworth said, "Well, ridiculous man." Said. "Look at the streets, they're packed full of people. The fields are standing full of people." Said, "You mean to tell me that you want it in your little old church there that'll seat about three or four hundred, and there around fifteen thousand or more people standing there?"
"The brethren told me I could have it in my church, and that's just where it's going to be."
And poor old Brother Bosworth, I never seen him out of humor in my life. But he come back up to the house, he said, "Let's take a walk."
We went walking. He said, "Brother Branham, did you ever hear of such? It's ridiculous."

Brother Bosworth said, "I just can't stand that preacher acting like that." And downtown he went on his own hook, went out there, and rented a great big stadium that seated them every one real nice, had the meeting. Went on down through Capetown, on the road coming back, coming out of Capetown, here the story starts. I got sick, started getting sicker. By the time I got to Durban about two weeks later, I was really sick. I couldn't even hold my head up.
And I got to Durban, and their meeting there consisted of a nearly a hundred thousand people, where thirty thousand converts in one day's time. And they said, "We promised Brother So-and-so." Two thousand miles farther up in Rhodesia I should go, after about two or three days meeting in Durban: walk off and leave a hundred thousand natives that had toiled for as many as a hundreds of miles, and packing their loved ones on reeds through the jungles to be healed. That's the exceedingly, abundantly.

So then, the rest of the meeting, I just barely lived to get home. And when I come home, come to find out, I had an African ameba dysentery, blood just poured just as hard as it could. Nothing would stop it. They was going to throw me the pesthouse when I got to America. They took me in to a doctor and examined me. He said, "It's the worst case I ever saw in my life." He put me in a place, and he give me sixty-days treatment. God just turned His back on me, said, "Go ahead, take it. You wanted it."

So then, and they're in little cones, and when you send medicine down, they just shut up and don't eat it. And I tell you, you never get over it hardly.
So then, I... There I was laying there dying. So then, he give me the that. And they give me examination after that. I had more ameba than I had in the first place.
Now he said, "Reverend Branham, I don't want to alarm you." Said, "You're a married man, got a couple children, three?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "You return home now. There's nothing we can do for you." Said, "There's nothing in the line of medicine that can be done." He said, "Now, if those amebas retire why they--you may go on all right, and have these breaks the rest of your life. He said, "If they go into the farther from the mucus gland into the blood stream, you'll start taking a real high fever. And if they gather on the liver, it'll push out a knot, and you'll get real heavy cramps here. And you let us know right at once, and we'll cut in there and drain that liver out. You'll get over it. But then, if it strikes the brain, or the heart, you'll live ten hours."

I walked up-and-down the floors. I've cried. I begged. I persuaded, back and forth, back and forth, got down to about a hundred and ten pounds, just walking back and forth, crying and praying, back and forth, and back and forth on the floor. Got so I couldn't rest at night. Just, every time, I thought I had a fever every five minutes. And--and I just knew the fever was coming. I was laying there, and the little girl and I was in one of the bedrooms sleeping. Wife and the other little girl was in the next bedroom. The hallway's between the bath, setting between the two beds. So in that room, I was laying there. I woke about two o'clock in the morning; I'd been sleeping about a half hour, and I put my hand back like this, and I said, "O God."
And I remembered Brother Bosworth when I left Africa. I put my arm around him when we got on the plane. I said, "Well, Brother Bosworth, I have fought a good fight. I've finished the course. I have kept my faith, or the faith." He said... I said, "I guess my days are over."
He said, "Well, you're just a brand new Branham." He said, "You're just a boy." Said, "I was your..."
I said, "Well, I'm forty-two years old."

So, I was thinking about what I told Brother Bosworth. I thought, "What if my future holds. I guess it won't be long now till I'll be gone." And I thought, "If fever strike me, ten hours, my wife will be here with two little children to raise, my boy. What will be the outcome of my life?" I was laying there, I started crying. And I'm... place to the vision. I started crying.
And I looked up, and I thought, "God, what must I do?" I heard something going, "Wooooo." First time for months and months, I knew He was in the room. I looked around, I seen that Light standing over there by a--a chifforobe, whirling around. I got out on the floor, and I said, "O God, have You come with pardon for Your servant, or have You come to take me away?"

I said, "Yes. I wonder what my future holds."
And I looked down on the floor, and something had been wrote on. And he took that typewriter paper like this, and he went... Threw it like that, and just one right after the other like that, and made a complete road up into heaven. And a great voice screamed from above that paper and said, "Your future is clear."

And I seen that time, when He come walking to me, I said, "Will I ever get over this fear, this..." Said, "I... Will I ever have it any more?"
He said, "Not at all."
And when He left that time, I begin to rejoice. And I thought, "Oh, if I'd only asked Him about my meetings. If I'd asked Him about my meetings then. Everybody is telling me, 'Brother Roberts prays for people faster than I do, and more people tends the meeting because more can get prayed for.'" I thought, "Well, what... If I'd just had asked Him that." And I thought, "The next time He does, maybe He's--He's... I know He loves me now. He's back talking to me again." And I said, "If He--if He'd tell me again, well then, ever come..." And just there, here He was again. And I said, "Lord, would--would my Lord let me know, it's always throwed up to me about how I pray for the people." I said, "Should... would You bless the people? You told me that--that the--the gift was to get the people to believe, and then if I be sincere when I prayed, do You want me to lay hands on the people, or just pray for the whole group like Brother Bosworth says, or just--or just one, just wherever I see the vision?"
He said, "Just as you're led."

Now, I talk slow, now, so the people can get it, and is writing. Faded towards the west... And just then I looked in front of me again this a way, only it was towards the south, and there was a new meeting, greater than the other one was. And there was beautiful people: Men and women with their hands up, a praising God. And I said, "Are all those white people?" And I looked, and I seen the Africans, the great dark race standing in there. And just then, I heard something going, just making a real humming noise, like a dynamo a running.

And I looked, and the Angel that stood just above me then, He was a great, mighty looking Fellow too. And He had this great light in His hand, oscillating. And He turned It on, and It went way back through the hills. And just as far as I could see, was nothing but a solid mass of people.
And then, the Angel that was standing near me, when I seen all of that turning that way, He said... I heard the number just as plain as you hear me. He said, "There's three hundred thousand of those in that Branham meeting."


Oh, I thought, "That's strange. My wife asking me to come in."
I said, "Yes."
She said, "I started in here three o'clock this morning." Now, she's very timid, but is very spiritual. This is the first time this ever happened in our home. She said, "There's Something told me not to go in there, there was a vision going on." And from three o'clock, this was six o'clock, it'd been three hours I was in that vision. And we went out and was talking of it, and I was telling her.

There you are. That's two witnesses. I went down to the bank in New Albany, the two boys are very well acquainted. And little Bob Dennison, I guess you know him at the bank, Union National Bank, and I want to pick up my checks to see if I had any income tax to pay. And when I went out, I noticed him weeping. And I went over to him, I said, "What's the matter, Bobby?"

I went home. I called up Dr. Lucus. I said, "Dr. Lucus, I want to come over examination."
He said, "What for?"
I said, "I'm... I haven't got any ameba."
He said, "Oh, yes. You got it, Reverend Branham." Lovely man, one of the best men that you'd want to meet, one of the nicest little doctors, him and Dr. Ryan...
And I said, "Well, Dr. Lucus, I'd like for you to examine me."
He said, "Well, I just examined you the other day, Bro--Brother Branham." Said, "You got ameba."
I said, "Huh-uh." Ha. I said, "Would you give me..."
"Oh," he said, "come on over."
And I went over, and as busy as he was, he said, "What about it, reverend?"
And I said, "I haven't got any ameba."
He said, "You just got--you just got a little relief." He said, "You're just..."

And he said, "Well."
And I said, "Will you take another examination?"
He said, "Climb up on the table." And he took the smear, went out into the laboratory. Come back, said, "Could I take that again?" I knowed what had happened. He goes down, takes it again, comes back, and he said, "Reverend, you haven't got any."
I said, "That's what I told you."
And he said, "Well, I have to examine you for three months," said, "'fore I can let you be free."
I said, "You can examine me every day, if you want to." I said, "It's all right."
And he said, "What happened?"
And I set down and told him. I said, "Do you believe that?"
Said, "How can I doubt it?" There he was, and I was healed. God called me to...
Now, what I've got to do... There's more with it, but I've close now. It's time to start praying for the sick.

And the archbishop of India come over here to find out a lot of Indians was converted and healed there. He come over to find out whether it was true, and he receive the Holy Ghost himself. He's going to be with me in the meeting.
Don Wells, the one that wrote me...?... received the Holy Ghost. Dr. Reedhead, the President...?... of the great Sudan Missions received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in my front room. See? Now, he said, "Brother Branham, the move is on."

I said, "What about it?" I said, "If he wants to travel in a ox cart, let him go on. We're in a jet plane. Let's move on. We're a different type of Baptist. Let's go on." The move is on. God is a moving among His people. And that's why here in America right now, we're trying to accumulate enough finance to put the road back to Africa again, India, and so forth.

The archbishop told me, said, "Brother Branham," said, "that's three hundred thousand conversions." He said, "Because I assure you, there'll be a million in your meetings." Said, "Everybody's looking for you."
I said, I had a little luncheon down there with--with E. Stanley Jones, many of you know him, Dr. Stanley Jones. He said, "Oh, it won't work in Africa," he said, "or in India." He said, "I tell you," said, "The--they--it just won't work," said, "They don't believe the Pentecostal message."
I said,"I don't say nothing about Pentecostal message. I was talking about what the Lord told me."
He said, "Well..."
I told the Archbishop, said, "What's he done? Got two or three little old, cold, formal churches sitting up there, with a dozen in each one." Said, "Come on Brother Branham, they're waiting for you."

Now, what does it do? Friends, no matter what it takes, by God's help, I promised God and many trials I've had since then to come in the test, I'll keep God's Word. When God tells me to do anything, I'll do it. I've learned my lesson. And you do the same. When God tells you anything, you go do what God tells you do, regardless of how foolish it seems to other people, you believe it with all your heart. Let's bow our heads.


I pray that You'll just do something special tonight Lord. It is Saturday night, road houses are packed out, the night clubs, the whisky places, beers, drinking. Sinful men and women, boys and girls carousing the streets. The tears dropping from Your own cheeks, looking down. But Lord, these who gathered here are not that way. They're sick, Lord. They're needing help. And I tried my best to tell them that You've already healed them, if they'll just accept it, and believe it. They're every one healed, was healed many, many years ago, when You died. May they renounce the Devil tonight, rise in the Name of the Lord Jesus and walk and be made well and healthy. And may for weeks and weeks to come, the people around through the community here will be seeing that the diseases has gone from them, maybe they don't even recognize it now. But in this great room here where the power of God has bottled down, Satan can no more stand where faith is than a person could exist where tear gas is falling; it'll have to go out.


All right, friends, I'm not a healer. I'm your brother. Please understand, I never come here to heal people, I come here to point them to One Who's already healed them, Jesus Christ. By Divine... but if He was here Hisself, He could not heal you, could He? He can't do what He's already done. If I put my hand on that Bible, you say, "Put your left hand on the Bible, Brother Branham." Th... I can't do it, I've already got it on there. If the requirements me to put my hand on the Bible, why, my hand's on the Bible.
You say, "Why, you put your hand on the Bible." I've already done it, see.
Well, that's what Jesus... He healed the people, and He saved the people. When you get saved, Jesus doesn't come down and save you then. You've been saved ever since Jesus died, but you just accepted your salvation. It'll never do you any good unless you accept it, that's right. But when He died, He took away every sin of the world. And as far as God is concerned, He can't see sin, because the Blood of Christ got it covered. But when you die, and you go beyond that Blood, then you're already judged. Cause, God's done said the day you eat thereof that day you die; so if you're... you didn't accept the Blood of Christ, you didn't accept your salvation from Christ, then you're just gone, that's all. If you did, then you're saved, and that--that settles it. [Isaiah 53:5]


And when He met the Devil, He had every power that God's got, was right in Him. But He never used a one of them. He said... Satan said, "If?" (That question mark.) "the Word of God's right. If, if Thou be the Son of God, do a miracle and let me see You do a miracle." Hmm? He still says the same thing. "If Thou be the Son of God, command these stones to be turned to bread and eat, 'cause you're hungry. You have need of it." See? [Matthew 4:3, 6], [Matthew 27:40], [Luke 4:3, 9], [Luke 23:37], [John 10:24]

Satan took Him up on the pinnacle and said, "If Thou be the Son of God..."
Jesus said, "It is written..."
He taken Him up on a man--mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, United States and all, said, "They're all mine." Jesus knowed that they were his. Said, "I do with them whatever I want to." You can see what he's doing with them, just whatever he wants to. He said, "They're mine. And I'll give them every one to You, if You'll fall down and worship me." [Matthew 4:8-10], [Luke 4:8-12]



Now, listen to this now, then we'll call the prayer line. Now, listen close now. The right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God, will bring it to pass. If you'll take the right mental attitude towards any promise in that Bible, it'll bring it to pass. But it's up to you, it's to each individual.
All right, ho--what prayer cards you give? A, one to a hundred. All right, who's got A-1? Prayer card A-1, look at your prayer card. A little card, on the back, got an A on it. Who's got prayer card A-1? This--this man here? All right, A-2, prayer card A-2, rise up. A-3, where's prayer card A-3? You have it, sister? A-4, who has prayer card A-4? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...


Now, probably there's about twenty people I guess, standing there in the line. Maybe they'd probably be twenty or thirty out there in the audience tonight will be healed; twenty or thirty visions and so forth, and when all those things. Now, what if you dream forty dreams tonight, and somebody ask you tomorrow, what'd you dream about, see. Now, that's just the way it is.

[Brother Branham speaks to someone on platform--Ed.] Is something wrong?...?... All right, ri--just something wrong with this speaking or something down there, they were fixing it. Now, don't watch them. Watch this a-way now, give me your attention. How many's praying for me out there?
Do you realize, course in a group of this type, there's critics sitting, without doubt, that's true. Many times... Here a few nights ago two real cold critics, one a woman and one a man, I started twice to say something to them. But sometimes when I do they get up and stomp out. Jesus said, "If you pull the wheat up, or the weeds up, the tares..." They got friends, they were from this very city.

I said, "You're an unbeliever and you're..."
Boy, he ducked his head down. He become angry and turned his whole congregation, and said, "That man ain't nothing but a spiritualist, you see." And course he's got friends, if I'd just kept still, kept it to myself, it'd been all right. But I called him out.
And he sent one of his district men in, and he was an unbeliever, sat in the back of the building in--in night after that. The Lord pointed him back out, that's been seven or eight years ago, and said, "You're an unbeliever, too." Sitting there, told him who he was and where he was from and all about it. Then that caused a great influence around the country.
I didn't mean to hurt the men, but they went right out and confessed. Sure they was unbelievers, that didn't believe in it. But see, it's best to let it alone, so in here you hit critics. It's best to let them alone, let God deal with that. It's up to God, whatever He says, don't you think so?

And she said, "Why, it's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealings."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to you'd ask Me for a drink."
And she said, "Well, the well's deep..." and the conversation went on.
Finally He went right straight to her spot and told her where her trouble was. She acknowledged that was the truth, and by that was converted and helped.
Now, if He's raised from the dead, now, what I think He was doing; my own way of thinking. He was contacting her spirit. We are both spirits, we know that brother, we're both spirits. And then if there's anything that God can help you to... [John 4:1-24]


Oh God, this poor, little lad standing here, Satan determined to harm and hurt this little thing. This, I pray for mercy. Bless this little boy, and may the power of Satan turn him loose. Lord Jesus, I pray that we find favor with You now, as everyone is in prayer. And we're in deep sincerity Lord, knowing that the great Spirit that's moving in this building now, knows all things and can do all things. And now Father, in commemoration of Thy Word, I lay my hands upon this little lad. Thinking of my own self, I lay hands over his little stomach. Now, I ask as Your servant to give me mercy. And Thou has said, "I'll give you power over devils, you'll tramp on the heads of scorpions, and nothing shall harm you." And You said, "In My Name they shall cast out devils." And I believe You Lord, and help now, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
And now Satan, you who bound this child, but you're going to lose. Christ has already won the victory over you. You cannot hold this child. Thou demon, turn this baby loose. Come out of it, in the Name of Jesus Christ. I adjure thee, as God's servant, that you'll go from this child, and leave it alone. I rebuke thee, Satan, leave the boy, through Jesus' Name. Amen. [Mark 16:17-18]
Come here just a minute, sonny boy. Let me have his hand. You believe with all your heart you're going get well, honey boy? Sure you...?... All right, God bless you. I want to hear from your boy in a little bit. Next few days, you write me a letter and tell me what's happened to the boy. God bless you, brother. Let's say, "Thanks be to God."

The little girl, has a deformity over the heart, which is ribs, about three missing ribs from over her heart. She has a mother also that's real sick, nervous sick. Was it true? Correct? You believe He will heal her now? Come here.
Lord, look at this little darling here; poor, little thing standing here. I'd--I'd just do anything Father, to see her well. And I pray that You'll heal her, and may she and her loved ones and all of them be made completely whole tonight. Grant it Lord.
And now I rebuke the Devil, that's bound this child. Leave the little fellow, come out of this, you sinful thing. Why, you're whipped by Calvary. Jesus Christ won the victory over you, and I adjure thee by the living God that you depart from this child, and she'll live to be a normal woman, in Jesus Christ's Name...?... God...?...
All right, God bless you, brother. You'll find your wife well. God bless you. Let's say, "Thanks be to God."
God, Who raised up His Son, Christ Jesus, can do all things exceedingly, abundantly. Do you believe? Are you praying out there?


I want you just believe me. Look this way, do you believe me to be His servant? You believe if God could reveal to me, your sickness and what's wrong with you, that you'd accept it? You believe with all your heart? I see a man, he must be your, it--it--it--it's your boy, your son. And it--he--he's gone wrong. And he's gone to drinking and--and--and you've tryng to persuade him to church, and he keeps shaking his head and going back from a--a church. And--I--your hu--th--your husband, you're--you're ho--you're talking lou--he's deaf, or something, hard of hearing, isn't that right? Go home, Jesus Christ is going to give you the desire of your heart. God bless you...?... in Jesus Name.

You believe, lady? Now, your sickness, if that's what it is, I couldn't heal it. I'm just a man. I'm your brother. But your life, you couldn't hide. You know that. Cause, you're--you're--you're knowing that you're in the presence of Something besides your brother. You're--you're ready for an operation and the operation is from the female. And that's a tumor in the female. Now, just a minute, there's something happened. I seen something... was that true what was said? Now, that was--that wasn't me, that was my voice, but it wasn't me, it was a vision. I never seen you in my life, but there was something taken place, and I didn't... Here it is. You have a--you have a child, a little girl about six or seven years old, that has some kind of a coughing, asthmatic is what it is. Your husband's kind of a thin man, he has the same thing and a bronchical condition. Kind of a--a, he's dressed, kind of a--he's kind of a thin-like man. Come here, just a minute, close to me. There they sit, stand up.
Our Heavenly Father, Who knows all things, and made all things by Jesus Christ, I pray that You'll bless this family, and may they be healed and made well for Your glory, in Jesus Name, I pray. Amen.


Lord, I--I pray God, that you'll grant to her the--the--her desires, may she go tonight and be made well. Grant it Lord, for Your glory, in Jesus Christ's Name I ask it. Amen. God bless you, lady. Don't doubt.


Was that little boy diabetes? Was that diabetes, honey you had? Wait a minute. Walk back this way, just again, will you honey? Stand th--just a minute. Look here at me jus... No, you, you're another one, is that right. I thought it got back on the child again, it wasn't, all right it's gone. Go--lea--go, with all your heart, God bless you.

You believe, with all your heart? You want to get over that female trouble? Believe that God will make you every whit well, and heart trouble, and things you been suffering with? You believe that God will make you well of it? Come here.
Lord, I bless her, and may she go now, and be made well, and may God bless her and may she be healed in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
Come lady. Do you believe? You want to get well? You believe if God would show me like He did His Son, Jesus? Straight to your trouble, and God would heal you. You believe that I'm able to do this through Christ, through a Divine gift? All right, you have ulcerated stomach, is that true? I see you refusing food and walking back. Now you're walking towards the table. Go ahead, and eat. God bless you, be made well.
Come lady. If God will reveal exactly what's wrong with you, will you accept it? You got heart trouble. You accept your healing? Go on your road, and be healed, I ask in Jesus Name. Amen.

You want to get over the sinus trouble, lady? You do? All right, stand up and accept your healing. God bless you. See them headaches, holding your head, especially when you get up of a morning. Holding your head across there. See it standing there yet, the vision's still moving. Holding your head, get real nervous too, don't you. Can't hardly hold yourself together, have faith now. Believe Him, you're going to get over it. God be with you.

Come lady. You believe? You want to get over the arthritis? Raise up your hands. You mind me as God's prophet? Stomp your feet up and down. Say, "The arthritis is gone." Is it? Jerk your hands up and down, feel perfectly normal, well? You'll always. God bless you. Go and be made well.
Come lady. You believe with all your heart? You believe that heart trouble left you while you was sitting there? All right, go then in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and be made well.
Arthritis too, with you, but God made you well standing there. Just go off the platform rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord Jesus." Do you believe? The Spirit of God is...
You have rheumatism, don't you lady? Back trouble in there, you want to get over it? You do? Raise up and accept your healing, say, "I accept my healing in the Name of Jesus Christ." And go home, get well. Amen.
Let's say, "Praise be to God." Have faith, don't doubt. Believe Him with all your heart.
Something wrong with your side, isn't there, lady? You like to get over it, accept Jesus Christ as your Healer, and be made well. You believe it with all your heart. Have faith in God. [Mark 11:22]

Stomach trouble, don't you sir? Your wife's sitting there by you, is--is a dia... has diabetes, stomach trouble. You believe Him with all your heart? Yes sir, with your cane hanging on you, you believe God's going to make you well?
Just a moment, you been in my meeting before. That was a great auditorium, it had a lot of machines sitting down taking recordings, in the bottom. In New York, that right? God bless you. Return and be made well.

You believe with all your heart? I'm all right, just a minute. All right, I want you to do something for me...?... How many sick peoples here? Now just keep your hands up, sick people. Now you who are sitting near those people with their hands up, lay your hands over on them. Lay your hands over on the sick, everywhere. Now bow your heads, will you? [Mark 16:18]

Why Satan, shame of you, for crippling up those people, and for making them have heart trouble and sickness, where they can't get around. God rebuke thee. You're a deceiver, and you're evil. As a servant of God, I rebuke thee, in the Name of Jesus Christ, that you leave every person here, come out of them. You can't hold them any longer. They believe. God has sent His Word. He sent His Spirit. He sent His signs and wonders. And you're defeated, and I claim it for them everyone; that there'll not be a feeble person, that the lame will get up from here and walk, that the deaf and dumb will go to speaking and hearing, that the blind will see, and all will be made well. Grant it Lord, in Jesus Name I rebuke all the devil power.