And we’ve lived down through the time of the preaching, and teaching, and so forth. And we’ve got into a place now to where the church is so broke up, till God is just bringing in again, the supernatural to serve a people. Now, man can come and claim anything. See, a man can say anything that he wishes to. But for him to say it is one thing, and for God to confirm that is another thing. And then when God confirms that it is the truth, then we should believe it, oughtn’t we? Amen. Now, that’s just as plain as I know to make it. So when you hear somebody say that Brother Branham was a spiritualist, you tell them that was wrong. I’m a Christian. I’m saved by the grace of Jesus Christ, by His atoning Blood at Calvary. And tell me whenever you’ve seen a spiritualist healing the sick and doing… You say, “Well, Brother Branham, that looks a whole like it.” Sure. Then it looked a whole lot like it when Jesus was here. And they called Him a spiritualist. How about when the—Jesse lost some mules and he sent his sons to hunt them. And they said, “If we had some money, we’d go down and see the seer, Samuel, and he’d tell us where the mules was.” Sounds pretty funny there, doesn’t it? Does it? And they met… Samuel, met him on the street and said, “Go on back home, ’cause the mules has already went home. I’m going home with you.”

The Angel of the Lord, 1951-04-14, Phoenix, AZ, §15