Episode 311: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 277

Episode Summary:

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. (Psalm 116:15)

42 My own mother just passed away recently. When I stood by her side, and she said, “Billy…” All of our children was—her children was standing there, what was living: Two of us was gone out of ten. And the girl… She looked at me, and she said… First she looked at Delores. She said, “My last, and my first.” And mother was a gracious Christian, and I’d led her to Christ and baptized her many years ago.

And she said, “Delores, you’ve been good to me. You’ve helped me. You have—you have done many a washing for me when I’ve gotten old and can’t wash. You’ve come down to clean up my house. You’d do these things.” She said, “I love you, honey.”

And Delores, a young Christian, standing there choking, looking down, and she said, “Mother, it was so little.”

She said, “Billy, you seen that I didn’t go hungry.”

And I said, “Mama, how many times have you walked away from the table so I could have something to eat, when we were—had nothing to eat?” And I said, “It was just a duty, mother.”

And she said, “Then you’ve kind of been a spiritual guide to me, Billy. You baptized me. You’ve told me the way of life.”

Said, “Mama, you know our background is Catholic.” And I said, “Then I—I went to the church, but they said, ‘This is the church,’ and it was contrary to the Word. I went from church to church, and I found out it was so contrary. So I stayed with the Word, Mother.” And I said, “I’ve tried to tell you what was right and lead you to Christ.” And the dear old saint went away to meet God. And then I committed her soul back to God.

43 Delores called me, and she said, “Billy, I—I just can’t get over it.” She said, “Mother…”

I Said, “Delores, look out across the road from where you live. Isn’t there a large oak tree standing there?”

She said, “Yes.” This was just a few days before Mother died. And she said, “Yes.”

I said, “It’s coming fall now.” I said, “About a month ago those leaves were real pretty and green.”

“Yes,” she said, “Bill.”

Said, “When was… What does it look like now?”

And she said, “Well, they’re yellow, and brown, and green, red.”

And I said, “Delores, what makes them turn yellow, brown, green, and red?”

She said, “They are dying.”

I said, “When was the tree its prettiest?”

She said, “Now.”

I said, “The Bible said, ‘Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.’” See? That’s when the time comes. I said, “The life is going back. Life is a tree. We are all hanging on a Tree of Life. That is right.”

62-0621b – “The Path Of Life”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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