Topic: Bride

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The church age ending and has blacked out, the Bride is called, we have already entered into the tribulation period?

Answer

No, no, no, you’re…I wished that I could just have more time on that. See, see? The Bride, when She’s taken from the church, then the church age will cease. Laodicea goes into chaos; the Bride goes to Glory; and the tribulation period sets in upon the sleeping virgin for three and a half years while...

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The Holy Spirit has told you that the Trumpets have nothing to do with the Bride. Do the Seven Vials have anything at all to do with us?

Answer

I’ll wait and see if the Holy Spirit reveals it in that manner. I don’t know yet.

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Do you believe that sometimes the little living Bride will gather somewhere together and have all things in common, as did the first Bride, perhaps just before the coming of the Lord Jesus in the clouds?

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Now, they asked me did I believe it. I can’t prove it by the Scriptures, but perhaps there will come a time, maybe, I don’t know. There may be just…You see? If it would, it would give identification of His closeness at hand, being so…He said, “But He comes like a thief in the night.” See? He comes t...

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Will anyone who has a true and genuine baptism of the Holy Ghost in this hour not be in the Rapture of the Bride? Would you explain? Tell us what we can do for you in any way to help lighten the load. Now, isn’t that sweet? See?

Answer

No, there’s nothing you can do right now. Yes, genuine believers that’s baptized in the Holy Ghost will be in the Bride. Of course, they’re selected and called out. The sleeping virgin didn’t have any oil. Those that had oil went in, but the… “What can we do to lighten the load?” Yes, brother, sis...

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Will there be, or is there now a place for the Bride to gather together to live, like when Moses led the children of Israel?

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I’m going to answer that question for you; it was just revealed to me. I’m going to tell you the truth. Yes, sir! There’s a place for all the Bride to gather. You want to know where it’s at? In Christ. Correct. Just gather in there; we’re all together.

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Brother Branham, what are the preachers going to preach on—going to preach on that don’t go in the Bride? Their message now, the Holy Ghost, water baptism, and salvation, what will they preach on if they don’t go in the Bride?

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Well, they’ll…You know what will probably happen? I say this, now. I can’t prove this, but I…They’ll simply go right on preaching just like they have now, and people going on thinking they’re getting saved; and the Bride will done be gone.

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When and where will the people of God gather for the last Word?

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In Christ. Yep! For the last day, they’ll gather in Christ. Don’t forget that now. We got a gathering place; we got it just exactly.

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Do all who go in the Bride have to live within the fifteen hundred miles of the tabernacle (I believe I had that again last Sunday. I’ll just have to pick them up and use them as I can.)—fifteen hundred miles of the tabernacle, as it sounds like on tape number two of the “Future Home of the Bride”? I always thought that the Bride would come out of all parts of the world at the time of the Rapture. Am I wrong?

Answer

No, my dear friend, you are not wrong, you’re right. Now, if I said anything under the tape that would lead you to believe… Now, I haven’t…These are all new to me now, I’ve never looked in—in these here. You see? These are new bunch that I got the other Sunday, and put them back in this envelope, an...

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Please explain the mystery of the translation of the Bride.

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Just a change, see, our bodies. Now, let’s say our. You know what I mean when I say that? I don’t mean to be sacrilegious. I don’t mean to say ours; I don’t mean to say this church; I mean to say every believer. Abraham, he was looking for a promised son, that was promised him. Is that right? And t...

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Question: Brother Branham, where will the Bride be when the earth explodes and burns up? Will It be in a place like the children of Israel were in Goshen when the plagues fell? Will the Bride be on earth while this takes place? If so, where? And will the Bride all be in one place at the time of the Rapture?

Answer

The Bride, when the earth explodes…The time of the Rapture will be the awakening of the dead and the get-togethering of the living, for…with the living, for the Rapture to take place. Now, but the Bride…Now, see, one of them is a Rapture way back here before the Millennium. And when the earth burns...

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Will all borned again believers go in the Rapture?

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No, just the remnant, just the remnant, not all born again believers. The Bible said, “And the rest of the dead lived not for a thousand years,” and then they was raised and separated, the sheep from the goats. Not all borned again will go in the…according to Scripture.

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Will the Bride be gathered together in one place at the Rapture, and will it be in the West?

Answer

Nope, it don’t have to be there. Yeah, the Bride will be gathered together in one place. That is true, but not until the resurrection. See? “For we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord…” Ephesians, or, Second Thessalonians the 5th chapter, I believe it is. “We which are alive and r...

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Will the Bride—will the Bride before Jesus comes, will She have all power of Holy Ghost to perform miracles, raise dead, and so on as in the latter rain—or is this the latter rain for the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews? Will all ministers have this, are we, or, are we just waiting for the coming?

Answer

Yes. See, friend, I—I—I am not a theologian. I am not a theologian; therefore, I have to teach all that I know about the Bible from shadows and types. You kind of call me a typologist. But if I can look on that wall, and I’ve never seen myself; and I look, and I can see that I got a head, and ears,...

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Could you please explain who the group of Revelation 20:4 is? Are they the part of the Bride of the past or in the future?

Answer

They are the Bride completely, both past and now. They are the Bride complete, because they are living in the Millennium. All right.

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Could you please…(Well, it’s exactly the same question.)…Revelation 20:4, are they souls of the beheaded for the witness of Christ who would not worship the beast nor receive his mark in the (Oh, I see what they’re getting to now. This was just give to me, just handed to me.)…since it says they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years? So it’s puzzling, because the persecution of the Bride, but who else could they be and reign with Christ a thousand years? Would they—they…would they be the hundred and forty-four thousand? No, no! They are the Bride. Now, remember, remember, they…

Answer

You said, “While they’re beheaded for the witness…” Now, you say, “For the…worship not the beast…” Sure! You say, “The beast is yet to come.” The beast has been all the time; the beast was the one that fed them back there in them lions’ dens, fed them back there in that arena there in Rome. That wa...

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What happened to the born-again believers who are in the various denominations but not in the Bride of Christ? What happens to them?

Answer

Well, I think we explained that, a while ago. See? They go into the Tribulation. They are martyred in the Tribulation. Come up in the last, after the Millennium, for their judgment. See? Because, the Bible said that the rest of the living…“The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years was...

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Is the Bride of Christ, and the Body of Christ, the same?

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Yes, sir! See? Now, here, now see, I don’t want to get started on it, ’cause I get a se-…preach a sermon on it, see. But I won’t do that. But I want to show you. When God gave Adam his bride, from his side, he said, “She is flesh of my flesh, and bone of my bone.” Is that right? When God gave Chris...

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Would the Bride of Christ have…? Would the Bride of Christ have a ministry before the Rapture?

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Sure. That’s what’s going on right now, see, the Bride of Christ. Certainly. It is the Message of the hour, see, the Bride of Christ. Sure. She is consist of apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. Is that right? That’s the Bride of Christ. Sure. She’s got a ministry, great ministry,...

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Will you please explain the “Body of Christ” in First Corinthians 12:27 and the “Bride of Christ” in Revelation 2:9—9. Is the new Jerusalem spiritual here in—spiritual here in Revelation? It—it—is this the spiritual discernment of the Church?

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No! Now, let’s see if I get this first now, First Corinthians, right quick, First Corinthians the 12th chapter, all right, and the 27th verse. And ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And then, where was the next Scripture? Revelation 2—21:9, Revelation in the 21st chapter and the...

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Last night you spoke of “the great multitude that no man could number, from every tribe, nation,” that are—are mentioned in the 7th chapter of Revelation. Did I understand you, correctly, to say that “They are the Bride of Christ”? Yes, you understood me. They are the Bride.

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Now if you’ll notice, just exactly in Revelation 7, he saw the hundred and forty-four thousand. Now, I’m not accusing you of this, my brother, but the hundred…Usually a Jehovah Witness is the one that believes that hundred and forty-four thousand will be the Bride. And that’s an error! John knowed e...