William Branham's full accounts of Billy Paul seeing the Angel of the Lord:

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17 I went to the hotel that night, my brother Donny and my little son, Billy. They went in the hotel. It was about two o'clock in the morning. And I was lying down sleeping, had just went to sleep, which I don't sleep very much at night, always in prayer.
Nighttime, when all demon powers shut down towards morning. When they're not roaming, that's the time the Holy Spirit moves in and talks to me. Go early if you want to pray; rise up early. Most all the... workers is gone... demons... demons... And places are closing up. That causes strange things... You know what I mean by that.

18 Notice. And I was laying there. I--I was woke--wakened up all at once. And I looked, and I thought, "My, it's daylight already." I said, "Looky there. It's daylight there in the..." Looked out and I thought, "Wait a minute. The window's back here. That's the side of the wall."
And I looked again; it was a white cloud, milling like this. I said, "Oh, I see." It was the Angel of the Lord coming in the room.
Many times demons has followed me in the room. I've felt their flesh rubbing me, and bells and things, when haunt at me half the night nearly.

19 Then I--I got out of the bed, and I knelt down. I knowed It was a Spirit, but I had to find out just what It was first. And I kept waiting. I felt It come around the bed. It come; you could feeled It. I say I'm talking to you from my heart. It's just like...
Now, I--I do not feel It now. Sometimes I feel It, and It's standing right over here; I can tell it; if It's standing right down here, you can tell it. It's just like a pressure in the air that's against you, like that. You just... You feel it.
Then when It comes close, when a patient comes up to be prayed for, you can feel Him going... [Brother Branham illustrates.] Flows down over you. Then you don't talk yourself; you just be still. It does the talking, talks Itself. Then It'll [Brother Branham illustrates.] let up. And then maybe you stop; and you feel It coming back again.

20 Then watch, and I see a patient standing here; and right in there, looks like above them, and I can see the things you hear Him tell. You've heard it been told of everything they done in their life. Is that right? Heard Him even repeat the prayer over that they said to God. Isn't that right? And all kinds of sins and things that they've done, revealed, it's been perfect every time. Is that right? Never fails...
What does that? I just talking just exactly what I'm seeing taking place. Just what I see, that's what I say. Sometimes I look out over the audience; I can feel something pulling. I'll watch real close. Then it cuts off; it's somebody else on the other side is healed. Maybe this way and that way. Maybe I can be real quiet, and single out a certain person, where it is. First thing, if I can get that channel, look like I get the rest of them somewhere else, not... To look, you know, looking on, then it--it'll start... You can see a vision rise up then and start like that. Then...

21 Now, when I looked and seen that, I got down on the floor and started praying. And as It got closer, I knew It was--It was the Angel of God. And I could feel what It was.
And I said, "What does the Lord want me to do?" Never said a thing. Just--just long time was standing right near the foot of the bed, and I was kneeling like this. And I said, "O heavenly Father, what have You sent Your Angel to Your servant for?" And I said, "Your servant is listening." And I waited.
I knew It was still there, but I didn't know why... Waited I guess five minutes passed. I felt It moving closer to me. And when It did, I just heard that Voice sound like way back. I could not impersonate the Voice if I had to. But I heard It just as plain and audible as my voice is to you. Said, "You're confining too much of that gift of healing to perform miracles. It will come to pass that people will not believe you unless there's a miracle performed."
I said, "I shall never do that again, so help me, God." Went out of the room...

22 I raised up. I laid down on the bed, and there It was, just above the bed, milling around, like a whole lot of colors in a rainbow, milling around. And I looked at It, and I laid there a little while. I felt relief, felt that my sin was forgiven me.
And I said, "Does my Lord care if my little boy see You?"
Nothing made any noise. We had just twin bed. We had to... every place was taken up for miles around, and my... on... And we had twin beds in the room. And my brother and my little boy was sleeping on the bed next to me, the twin bed. And I said, "Billy, Billy." He didn't answer. I said, "Donny." He didn't answer. And I took my pillow, watching that. And I knew, by not answering, I knew it was all right. Never said yes. And I threw my pillow like that, and it hit my brother, Donny. And I said, "Donny."
He said, "Yes."
And I said, "Call Billy."
Billy said... Or Donny said, "Billy, your dad wants you."
Just then the... I said, "Billy, look."
He looked, said, "What do you want, Daddy?"
About that time, Donny jumped out of the bed screaming, "Oh."
Billy said, "Oh, daddy, daddy, daddy." He jumped out of the bed, and jumped over, said, "Don't let that get me. Don't let that get me."
And I said, "Honey, that won't hurt you."

23 I said many times... I was single five years. And I been father and mother both to him, and just pack his little bottles of milk in my pocket, and at nighttime lay it under my head to keep it warm, so I could give it to him at night. His mother died when he's only eighteen months old. And I just had to raise him, been both father and mother. I said many times when I'm going be, specially flying, he said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid you're going to go away and never come back to me again."
I said, "No, honey, I'll--I'll be back."
And I said, "Now, honey, that's the reason daddy goes. That's the Angel of the Lord that leads daddy. He was just in the room talking to me, and I asked Him if you could see, so you won't worry about daddy, and know that that's the Angel that leads daddy. That's where that Pillar..." Was about like that, mingling with colors... and... went on.
Donny, he didn't know hardly what to think, my other brother.
And then It milled around like that, went, whew [Brother Branham illustrates]... Then He told...

24 And I want you to get to you people something here, that I believe that you people in Cleveland know this... You know, many of you gets the wrong conception of Divine healing. Now, this is not a gift to perform miracles. Miracles is a separate and different gift from healing. Did you know that? The Bible said, "Do all have the gift of healing? Do all have the gift of miracles?" See? But miracles are performed. That's right. It's a miracle every time somebody, a--a vision that happens and tells people what's wrong with them. That's a miracle. It's Supernatural. That's a miracle. But healing...

“The Angel And The Commission” (50-0821).

 

 

I never will forget the first time the boy ever seen the Angel of the Lord at Vandalia, Illinois. And I’d had a meeting, and I made a challenge to the people, “Just bring me anybody you want to, and let me have enough time with them. They’ll--they’ll be healed.” And they brought me a blind boy, was born blind. And I stayed with that boy about an hour and forty minutes. And he walked off the platform with his sight.

And he came back, and he picked up my tie so speak. . . He said, “Mother, is that what you. . .What color you call that?” And the boy was born blind. And he was just so enthused, and the people screaming and going on.

E-10 And when I went home that night, we was in the hotel. And I was been praying, and I was almost asleep. And I woke up, and I knew He was in the room. I couldn’t tell from where He was coming. 

But I waited a few minutes, and I knew It was coming over this a way, coming across towards the bed. 

I got out of the bed. My brother and my little boy was next to me in another bed. And I felt It coming, and I got out, and I knelt down in the floor, and started praying. He got real close. I never heard no voice nor nothing. I waited a little bit. It got closer. And I kept speaking, “What would the Lord have me to know?”

And a voice begin to speak in the room and told me not to do that, not to do that. And just . . . My commission was to pray for the sick, and not to do that. And then when I opened my eyes, there He was, just above the bed whirling around and around.

And I said, “Do--do You mind if my brother and little son could see You?”

And He never made any answer back. It was done leaving me, the anointing. I seen It right off from me. And I kept my eye on Him, and He never answered me, so I thought maybe He didn’t care.

I picked up a pillow, and threw it over on the bed, and it woke up my brother. He said, “What do you want?”

I said, “Wake up Billy.”

And he said, “Billy, your dad wants you.”

And as soon as he looked back, he let out a scream. He saw It.

He begin screaming. And my little boy jumped over in the bed with me, and begin hugging me around the neck, saying, “Daddy, daddy, don’t let that get me. Don’t let that get me.”

I said, “Why, honey, that ain’t what . . . That won’t hurt you.”

I said, “That’s the Angel of the Lord that leads daddy.”

E-11 Billy’s an orphan. His mother died when he was just about eighteen months old. And he’s a little orphan child. And I been daddy and mother both to him. And sometimes in going away, the little fellow used to stand at the airport and cry and go on.

He said, “Daddy, don’t leave me.” Said, “What have I got on earth but you?”

Said, “Mother’s gone and everything.” And said, “If--if something happens to you, what will happen to me?”

So that’s not easy to leave your children like that. But Jesus said, “Whosoever will not forsake his^everything and follow Me, not worthy to be called My disciple.” No matter what we do, we’ll never be worthy to be that. But we like to do our part. 

… So after that night, the little boy was consoled then when he got to see the Angel of the Lord for the first time. He never worried no more when I left.

“Expectation” (51-0714).

 

 

75  Now watch when I put the lady's hand on here, watch what takes place. See what I mean?

Now, you remember that night in Vandalia, Illinois, when you were laying, sleeping on the bed? And the Angel of the Lord was standing over me there. And I throwed a pillow over, and woke you up, and said, “Look.” And you come, screaming, running over to me. That's the same Angel of God that's testifying here. It's the same Angel of God. That is the first time Billy ever seen it.

All right, now lay your hand back. I want to hold your hand there just a moment. And I want you to see, sister, it's not positionally, see. Now see it? I want you to watch it just a moment. Now there they come in a wave, see, see here. Little white, like little white warts. You can see it from the audience. Watch them. Now here they come, there they come. See them running over there. Now watch, there they go away. Here they come again. There they are. Now what is that? That's the life of that cancer. Excited, the spirit of it.

“The Church Of The Living God” (51-0727)