Topic: Foundation & doctrine

Question

Dear Brother Branham, my question is on baptism. When is a person saved? I have heard it was when a person believed. Some say that when you receive the Holy Ghost you are saved even though you haven’t been baptized in water, as in the case of Cornelius at Acts 10:47. Some say Paul was saved on the road to Damascus, but in Acts 22:16, says that he still had his sins three days later. Can a person be baptized in the Holy Spirit as Cornelius was and still have his sins, since he has not had water baptism, on, or is a person’s passage to Heaven not until he has had water baptism even though he has the Holy Spirit?

Answer

Now, my precious friend…Now, this brother signs his name, I don’t know him, but he signs his name. But I—I won’t call the names, because it’s not necessary, ’cause other people will be getting to them and say, “Well, I—I disagree with you on this and that.” See? And I just won’t call no names. Most...

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Dear Brother Branham, will all the sons and daughters of true, borned-again believers be saved?

Answer

No, brother; no, they sure won’t. See, as I—as I copied David du Plessis on this remark, “God don’t have grandchildren, see, just sons and daughters.” See, they’ll have to be born just exactly like their father and mother was born of the Spirit. See? That’s what makes a man a new person, is because...

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Brother Branham, you said on one of the tapes that Noah saved his household. Does this mean a mother can have the same faith for her household? And does it mean every one of the family will be saved if we believe it?

Answer

Now, that’s…yeah, that’s kind of a…You’d have to watch the way I answer this now. See? First, “You said…(Now, let me see that.) You said on one of your tapes that Noah saved his household.” Why? Because they believed. That’s it, because they believed his message. “Does this mean that a mother can h...

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Is “the Name of Jesus Christ” all right for baptism, or does it have to be in “the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ”?

Answer

Either one. I take it Lord Jesus Christ, see, because I think He is our Lord. Now, just the Name of Jesus, like some of our brethren baptize, I—I different there, see, ’cause I know I’ve got a lot of friends named Jesus, a lot of—a lot of preacher friends in Mexico, and—and Italy, and so forth. They...

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Brother Branham, would the Lord permit you to instruct us on the marriage and divorce question at this time? Question: Can a man marry a woman and be divorced by her and then marry another? If both of them marry another, are they both committing adultery? You mentioned it would tie into serpent’s seed. How so?

Answer

Now, here—here is one of the most treacherous questions that we have in these bunches, and it’s the most questioned in the—in the—in the world today. Now, hear me, and I have a reason for this. If I really brought to this church and on this tape this morning, the correct thing about marriage and div...

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Dear Brother Branham: My wife and I were separated, she is suing me for a divorce. She is not a Christian, and I believe the Message and want her to be saved (Isn’t that nice? That’s real Christian spirit. See?) and believe. What must I do? We also have two boys. (Signed their name.)

Answer

Brother, look, let me tell you, she’s going to sue you for a divorce. That’s Satan. See? You shouldn’t do that. But if you’re a Christian, and done nothing in the world to hinder that woman, then it’s Satan doing that. He’s only trying to tear you up. Now, if she is one of God’s elected, she will c...

Question

What is the—the name of the…that will be on the people of Revelation 3:12?

Answer

I—I don’t know. Yeah. He said, “Give them a new name.” I—I—I don’t know what that is, see. It’ll be probably made known when we get there, but I—I don’t know what it is now, see. See, He is going to do that. See? He give them a new name that—that they just knowed, themselves. See?

Question

Brother Branham, is the Lamb’s Book of Life, and the Book of Life, the same Book?

Answer

Sure, see, ’cause that’s where all redemption is wrote, in this Book. See? Their names were in…You say, “Well, our name is put the Lamb’s Book of Life, Brother Branham. I—I got it put on, the other night.” No, you didn’t. No, you didn’t. You just found out it was on there, the other night, that was…...

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Now, Brother Branham, is it true that—that every Jew, born since Christ came, will be saved? And who are the hundred and forty-four thousand? Are they the predestinated ones to be sealed with the Holy Ghost? And what is their mission?

Answer

There’s about three questions in one, there. But, here, first one: Is—is it true that every Jew born since Christ, that came into the world, is to be saved? No. Nothing will be saved, only those whose names were put on the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world, Jew or Gentile. See?...

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Brother Branham, would you please answer this one for me, about baptism? Matthew 28:19 teaches, “the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” And Peter, in Acts 2:38, “in the Name of the Lord Jesus.” When was this change come about in Acts of the Apostles? Now, I believe, “in the Lord Jesus.”

Answer

Well, brother or sister, ever who wrote it, there—there was no change come about, see. It…And Peter done exactly what Jesus said do. Now, if somebody come and say, “Use the titles of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,” they did what Peter said not do, but what God said not do. See? Now, Jesus said that…...

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After the Rapture has been taken place, will any of the church be saved in the end, who was not taken in the Rapture?

Answer

No. Huh-uh. Cause, the Blood has done left. You see, there be no intercession. The Gentile age is finished. There’ll be no one saved after the Rapture, or none of the church, huh-uh, the church. “Let him that’s filthy, be filthy still; him that’s holy, be holy still.” See? That won’t take place, see...

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Would you please explain about Satan being bound a thousand years, and being loosed for the battle of—battle of Revelation 20:8? What relationship does this have with the Battle of Armageddon as mentioned in the Fourth Seal? Will Gog and Magog be gathered from the people of the new earth?

Answer

Well, this is a long one, and I—I’ll just have to hit the spot of it, see. Now, the first thing, “Will…?” Now, maybe I can’t explain it. I’ll do my best. Will you please explain how Satan is bound a thousand years, being loosed again for the battle of Revelation 20:8? That is not the Battle of Arma...

Question

Will the dispensation of grace be over, after you open the Seventh Seal?

Answer

I hope not. No. No. Friends, don’t get that in your mind now, see. You just go right on. Dig the potatoes, and go to church, and right on. If it takes place in the morning, you be found doing just exactly what you’re supposed to be doing. Don’t—don’t start… See, when you do, you twist the very thin...

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“Adam knew his wife Eve; and” conjunction “she conceived, and bare Cain.” I believe all you teach, but how would I—how would I answer someone who—who says she didn’t conceive after Adam knew her, because of the conjunction and? “Adam knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain.”

Answer

Now, we adults know what knew means. Now, the question is concerning the conjunction. Now, if you’ll watch, friends, see, you—you just can’t make the Bible say one thing one place and something something else. It’s got to say the same thing all the time. And if you got It saying one thing here and s...

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We believe in being baptized…Acts 2:38, but how can we answer people concerning the other baptism? Are they saved or not? Also those that have gone on and never received the light?

Answer

Now, that is a—a good question. Now, let me say again (see?) on these questions, if you—if I don’t answer them according to your thoughts…I’m going to answer them just as close to the Scripture as I know how, to make them Scriptural. Now, the Scriptural way of water baptism is in the Name of the Lo...

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Would you please explain Hebrews 6:4 and 6, and also explain Hebrews 10:26-39? Please explain whether this refers to the Holy Ghost people or the sanctified people; please explain the difference.

Answer

Well, let’s see where the person’s referring to, Hebrews 6 and 4. I love Bible questions that just—it pulls out something in you that you get—you get something that you wouldn’t get otherwise. Because you—you got what the other people’s thinking, what’s on their heart (see?), and you know what they’...

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Brother Branham, as I went through the prayer line a short time ago, anointed hands were laid on me and prayer was made for my unsaved husband. I was slain by the power of the Lord! Is this a definite sign that he will be saved?

Answer

Well, a…It’s bound to be a woman. Sister, I wouldn’t—I wouldn’t think that it was a definite sign that he was to be saved, though I believe if—that God, it…I believe he will be saved, certainly, but to say…“Now, could you say that’s THUS SAITH THE LORD?” Be careful about that (see?), ’cause, see, it...

Question

Please explain the difference between the spirit and the soul.

Answer

Well now, that’s a hard one. But the first thing you are, a triune being, just like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is three titles going to one Person, which is Jesus Christ. And you’re soul, body, and spirit. But it takes those three to make you. With just one of them, you...

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How do you feel is the best way to find the Lord…How do you—how do you feel is the best way to find the Lord’s will in some important matters? Now, let…I don’t believe I…Let me see if I can get the continuity to it. “How do you feel is the best way (I see it should be a comma there, I suppose)…How do you feel is the best way to find the Lord’s will in some important matters?”

Answer

I tell you, dear friend, the best way to find the will of God in some important matters is prayer. See? Now, let me…Here’s a wonderful little thing here. If you—if—if you have a matter that’s very important…Now, here’s the way I do it. I take it before the Lord. And it’s always been my strength; I...

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Is it possible for a Holy Ghost filled person to be driven by the—driven by the—to do minor things…influenced to do minor—minor things that he doesn’t want to do?

Answer

Oh, yes! Yes, sir! Yeah, a Holy Ghost filled person…You’re right in the place then to be—to be drove by these things. You just put yourself up a target. When you’re down there serving the devil, he just lets you slouch around anyway you want to. But you once take a stand for Christ, you’ve got on th...