Now, I never forget; trouble started when…My father took sick, died on my arm just a little bit after that. My brother was riding on the side of a car, fifteen years old. The man that he was hitchhiking and picked him up, was drinking, hit his head up side of a post, broke his neck, turned his liver over, and he died in my other brother’s arms. And I was standing in the platform preaching when it happened. They come and told me. There, I tell you, the way of a transgressor’s hard. Don’t you pay any attention to what anybody in the world tells you; you do what God says do, no matter what it…I don’t care if it’s… One person come to me not long ago and said, “Brother Branham, I have THUS SAITH THE LORD; I know the Lord wants you to quit doing this and quit doing that.” I said, “Now, my brother, I love you with all my heart, but don’t come to me with that.” I said, “Because that’s not Scriptural.” She said, “But I’m a prophet also.” I said, “If God…I’m on speaking terms with Him, if He wants me to know anything He will tell me.” That’s right. I said, “Well, there was one time there was two—two prophets. One of them went down, and he was young prophet, and he prophesied against the alt…I believe it’s First Kings 13, and he prophesied against the altar and healed the kings arm after he’d been paralyzed. And another prophet said, “The Lord said for you to come by my way,” after the Lord told him to do something else. And two prophets, you remember that? No matter who it’s a prophet, or who it is, when God tells you do anything, you do what God says do. Let everything else go (See?); you just mind God.

Life Story, 1951-07-22, Toledo, OH, §69