Episode 332: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 298

Episode Summary:

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. (1 Timothy 4:1-5)

21 And then in there, I tell you, when we went into India, and to see those poor people laying on the streets, and starving to death. And little mothers with their babies, and begging for something. And them dying, themself, from starvation, but don’t let their baby die. And for just little, quarter, pennies, or anything. If they can get that much food every three days, they can make it. They don’t have no home to go to. Just when they get sleepy, they lay on the street. And they…old razorback hog, maybe, don’t get over about that big, and his sides pulled together from starvation, walking around over the people. And old goat, and him about to reel to pieces, too, walking over the people. And they stink. And, oh, you never seen such a conglomeration as India is in! Course, it’s practically always been that way. It’s nothing new.

22 They just got their independence about six years ago, on bankruptcy from England, as you know. And they’re—they’re a very odd people.

23 I never seen a man in all India, with the millions that I got to see, that had limbs, up above anywhere in their thigh, up here, that big around; all real skinny, bony people. And at my window, it would break the heart of a man, as my son sitting back there, listening. And he sit at the window and watched as people sitting on the streets. When they found out where I was at, and lepers with no hands on, things like little stubs raising up in the air, begging for something to eat, or anything; and no feet, and white over with leprosy. And, oh, it’s, one couldn’t help the other one, hardly. And, oh, it’s the most pitiful sight you ever seen!

24 And I said to the missionaries, I said, “I just can’t stand it.” I give every penny I had, away, and everything, on the streets. And I—I—I thought, “They got just as much right to eat as my Sarah and Rebekah has.”

25 And—and—and you just don’t realize how blessed you are, people. Now, that’s right, you don’t realize it. You know, you ought to look up and see where it comes from. My! It come…And American people is like a hog under an apple tree. You know, he…all day long the apples will hit him on the head, and he’ll eat them, and never look up to see where they’re coming from. And that’s the way we are. We never give it the thought, I mean, in whole; I ain’t meaning you people here. You’re Christians. But I—I mean the people in whole, how they just…they don’t—they don’t realize how blessed and how well off they are.

54-1003m – “The Word Became Flesh (India Trip Report)”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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