Thursday, December 26, 2013

You meant Josephine, didn't you?" I said, "No, I meant Joseph

Wife was with me at this meeting and little Joseph. That's been about three years ago. And all of you know the story, or perhaps have read about Joseph. I was taking the life of Joseph... And the doctor had told us we could have no more children after Rebekah was born, because she was a caesarean, and the wife could not have another child.
And I went into a little closet at Minneapolis, and was weeping there before the Lord. And a vision come down and said, "You will have a son, and you shall call his name Joseph." And so, I begin to announce it to all the people. And so, then waited four years.
Everybody said, "What about that prophecy about Joseph?"
I said, "He will be along. Don't worry."
And then we knew wife was going to be mother again. And so when it was born, it was a girl, Sarah, and everybody got to laughing at me. Said, "I... You meant Josephine, didn't you?"
I said, "No, I meant Joseph."
The doctors said, "Mr. Branham," said, "we had better do a little operation here, because your wife cannot, no wise, stand another child."
I said, "Doctor, don't you dare to touch her. We're going to have a son, and his name's Joseph." He just scratched his head, and done like that, and walked away.
 
 And four more years passed. And one day we found out that she was to be mother again. Some of them said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know." But I said, "I don't know. But Joseph's coming, 'cause God never told me nothing but what was true."
And so, I went out to the hospital and kissed her as she went up into the room, the delivery room.
A few minutes, the nurse came down. She said, "Who is Reverend Branham?"
And I said, "Me."
And she said, "You have a fine seven-pound boy."
I said, "Joseph, honey, you've been a long time getting here. Daddy's kind of glad to see you."
And she said, "You called him Joseph."
I said, "That's his name."
 
 62-0629, Be Not Afraid, It Is I, National Guard Armory, Santa Maria, CA, 97 min

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