DAY 36 – DURBAN
January 4th, 2018
We prepare ourselves for the great Feast with God, which starts tomorrow, and look into different messages, where the prophet testifies a lot about his experiences in Durban… in Messages from the early 50s, like Early spiritual experiences, Expectations and Faith Africa Trip Report and in so many more, even in the 60s. Here is one of the testimonies that always has impacted me and for sure, every believer at one point heard about this true report. Yet, in all of this great experiences, Brother Branham even comments on the people who labored in the background; showing that God sees all things, and nothing is unnoticed.
Trial a – 64-0405
3. I don’t know who this little policeman is out here, standing out there in all that rain just bare headed, trying to direct that traffic. If anybody knows him, thank him personally for me, will you? I tell you, he’s done a real good job. I want to thank the men who come in here and cleaned out this place and fixed it for this–so this meeting could be here today. I’ll tell you; the community owes a great tribute to men of that courage that’ll do that. I owe a great tribute to you for a people that’ll come out on a day like this; most people would stayed home. I–I appreciate your courage. And you standing here in the midst of all this difficult, setting under this roof, can hardly hear what’s going on, but yet determined to stay anyhow. That’s–that’s the courage. I–I like that. I always think of that song. Must I be carried home to heaven On a flowerly bed of ease, While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas; 4. Yes, difficult. I preached sometimes not long in South Africa where it was raining so hard in the time of the monsoon, until women just setting everywhere, and their hair streaking down: been setting there all day in that rain. I never seen such a meeting of healing in my life. In Mexico not long ago I remember standing down there preaching when it’d been raining like this out in that bull ring there all day, and them people was there at nine o’clock that morning, setting in the rain. And a woman with a dead baby in her arms.
The baby had died the night before, and that little baby laying stiff in her arms… A fellow give out the prayer cards and done give them all out. There was no more prayer cards. They let me down on a rope back behind the ring to get into the ring like this. And Billy come running to me; he said, “Daddy, I don’t know what I’m going to do.” He said, “I’ve got three hundred ushers standing there. 5. And how many knows Jack Moore? Most all of you knows Jack Moore, here I guess. He was with me. And there’s a little woman out there he said has got a baby that’s dead, died this morning, and that was about nine o’clock that night: died that morning in the doctors office.And said, “She wants that dead baby brought into the line.” Said, “I haven’t got no more cards, and I got the line lined up.” said, “I don’t know.” And it was pouring rain just as hard. I was standing there in it, cold rain. Look out there, and them little Mexican women, their hair hanging down, just drenched, wet under them lights, and you couldn’t hardly see out through, it was raining so hard. Well, I said… Well, he said, “I can’t hold her.” Said, “We got–we got three hundred ushers.” Said, “She climbs right over the top of them, and she got this dead baby.” I said, “Well, Brother Moore, why don’t you go down and pray for her.” And I’d been preaching about ten minutes, I guess, something. And I said, “Why don’t you go pray for her?” I said, “Because she wouldn’t know who I am, or nobody, been several speakers.” I said, “She don’t know who I; you go pray for the baby and that’ll satisfy her.” He said, “All right, Brother Branham.” 6. He started to go off the platform. And there was a rick of old clothes that high, all the way for, oh, maybe twenty or thirty yards. A blind man had received his sight the night before. And so they were really interested: ninety percent Catholic.So then I started to preach; I said, “As I was saying, faith is the substance…” I looked, standing before me and there was a little Mexican baby, a little black face, little gums, no teeth, just shining, the gums, like that. And I thought, “That must be that baby.” I said, “Wait a minute, Brother Moore. Tell the little lady to bring the baby here.” So they opened up the rule. No–no prayer card, she wasn’t really supposed to get in, but she was persistent. That’s–that’s what you want. 7. So she brought the baby up; I said, “Heavenly Father…” ‘Course they don’t interpret the prayer. I said, “I don’t know whether this is the baby or not; I just seen the little baby. But if it is, it’s Your respect to that woman making this sacrifice.” I laid my hands over on that little blue blanket and that little stiff frame about that long hanging out the woman’s arms. And the baby let out a scream and begin to kick himself as–just screaming just as hard as it could. The baby was… Now, the little lady fell down and started to holler, “Padre, Padre…” means “Father,” you know, had this beads in her hand. And I said, “That’s not necessary.” 8. And I said to Brother Espinosa, a Pentecostal preacher… Many, I guess–I guess you know him, yeah: Brother Espinosa. I said, “Now, don’t you write that baby was dead. I don’t know. The only thing I seen was that there–that vision.” I said, “You follow a–a runner after that woman and let her go and let the doctor sign a statement to it.” And the Christian Business Men’s “Voice” just recently packed the statement: the doctor give testimony, the baby died with double pneumonia in his office that morning at a quarter till nine o’clock. And that was ten o’clock that night; the Lord Jesus give it back its life again, because of a sacrifice. Now, that is so true, God in heaven knows that’s right: doctor’s certified statement. The statement now is in the hands of the Christian Business Men, which Demon Shakarian is that international director. He has the statement signed by the doctor: the baby died with double pneumonia that morning, and at ten o’clock that night the baby was made live because of a faith of a mother that was persistent to do it. That’s all.