A True Witness - Episode 5 (Soldier Boy) The Testimony of Ed Byskal

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06/20/24

A True Witness - Episode 5 (Soldier Boy) The Testimony of Ed Byskal

Suddenly Brother Branham saw one more vision. His voice cut through the melody, "What's the matter, soldier boy? You're not going to commit suicide." The audience hushed, listening. Bill continued, "The Devil is lying to you, boy. You've only got a phobia. He's lying to you. He'll drive you insane if you believe him. I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to renounce the Devil and accept Jesus Christ as your healer. You'll go back a real man."

Other than using the term "soldier," Bill did not identify the person to whom this discernment was directed. When he came out of the vision, he led the congregation in a few more songs, and then closed the service. An explanation would come two days later in a most unexpected way.

The Alaskan Highway begins at Dawson Creek and runs northwest through 1,500 miles of wilderness to Fairbanks, Alaska. It was built during World War II as a military supply route. Although it is called the Alaskan Highway, most of its length is in British Columbia. At five o'clock on Monday morning Ed Byskal, Chris Berg and William Branham headed northwest along the Alaskan Highway toward their hunting destination 400 miles away.

They drove about 40 miles and were approaching the small town of Fort St. John, when Bill said, "Friday night a woman in the prayer-line was praying for a man in Fort St. John." Ed Byskal said, "Brother Branham, that woman was a friend of my mother and father. I've known her since I was a little boy. Her name is Sister Klundt."

Their car was still about a quarter of a mile outside of Fort St. John, clipping along at 55 miles per hour. Bill pointed to a big white farmhouse on their right. "The man she is praying for lives in that house." Surprised, Ed Byskal could not answer, because he did not know. Having seen the pinpoint accuracy of Bill's discernment in Grande Prairie and Dawson Creek, he had no reason to doubt this further statement. It would be easy enough to verify later.

At noon they stopped to eat lunch in Fort Nelson, a tiny town carved out of the wilderness. They entered a café in a hotel. While they were waiting for their soup, they saw a 1938 Ford pickup truck park outside the café. Two men got out of the pickup—a tall, young man with dark hair, who was wearing the uniform of a United States Army private; and a shorter, older man with sandy-colored hair, who was wearing civilian clothes. They came in the café. The older man looked around, as if deciding where he should sit. When he spotted Bill, he smiled. While the soldier sat at a table near the door, the civilian strode over to Bill's table, stuck out his hand and said excitedly, "Hello, Brother Branham."

Startled, Bill shook the man's hand. "Do I know you?" "No, but I know you. I was in your meetings at Dawson Creek. Do you remember the night you singled out that soldier?" Puzzled, Bill looked across the table. "Brother Ed, do you remember that?" "Yes, I do. You said, 'You're not going to commit suicide, soldier boy. That's the devil talking to you.'"

"That's right," the sandy-haired man agreed. Jerking his thumb over his shoulder, he added, "There is the soldier. He has tried to commit suicide three times in the past 14 months. The army doctors don't know what is wrong with him. They put him in my custody and I drove all the way from Fairbanks to get him to your meetings, but he wasn't able to get into the prayer-line. Brother Branham, would you pray for him here?"

"Sure," Bill said, just as the waitress arrived with their food. "Perhaps you could wait until after we've eaten our lunch." "Certainly. We have to eat, too." The man returned to his table and ordered his meal.

When Bill finished eating, he walked over to the soldier's table and offered to pray for him outside. The soldier stood and both men left the café. They walked together along a wooden sidewalk to the edge of the hotel. Bill talked to the soldier a few minutes to contact his spirit. "Son, always remember that Jesus Christ died to save you from your sins." The soldier seemed both eager to listen, and yet at the same time strangely aloof. Soon Bill felt the angel of the Lord by his right side. Bill removed his battered cowboy hat and held it against his blue denim shirt. Immediately a vision pierced to the heart of the soldier's problem. Bill said, "I see you have a lovely Christian wife and two little children; but you've developed a crippling mental complex that has caused you to commit homosexual acts with young men." The soldier's face brightened into a smile. Thrusting his fist in the air three times, he cried, "I'm free! I'm free! I'm free!" They walked back to their vehicles, and the soldier said to the other men, "In all the world, only my wife knows everything this man told me. As soon as he revealed my secret, I knew I was free from my sins."

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