Topic: Heaven

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What led Abraham to seek a city whose Builder and Maker was God?

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I think of when the Abraham left the city of Ur…Era…Ur and the land of Chaldean, he was seeking a city whose Builder and Maker was God. Now, there was something in Abraham that he could see that great city of Ur, and he knew that that very thing that made people colonize together, there was bound to...

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Brother Branham…(There’s another one, different altogether.) Brother Branham, some understood you to say in your message of The Future Home of the Bride and Groom was to be (No, this is different.), be fifteen hundred miles from the tabernacle, square, seven hundred each way (In other words, the tabernacle setting right in the middle would be seven hundred each way, be fifteen hundred miles. Oh!), each way. Is this true? I live outside of this area; should I move into it? (Oh!)

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No, honey, don’t you do that. Look! Now, you see how easy it is for people? How many was here when I preached that message? I said that when I was measuring the New Jerusalem, that it would be fifteen hundred miles square. I said it would reach approximately from Maine to Florida, and six hundred mi...

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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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Is there more than one heaven?

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Yes. In First—in Second Corinthians 12:3 Paul said he knew a man that was caught up into the third Heaven. And over in Revelation and so forth, there’s more than that. I’m just going to have to hurry, ’cause it’s—it’s right now past time for me to close. Would it be all right if I’d just read the re...

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What do the stones in the…represent in Revelation 21:19 and 20?

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If you wish to take the time to open your Bibles, which we haven’t too much time now, but I’ll try to answer them quickly. Revelation twenty-…I believe it’s 21:19 and 20. Yes. All right, in there you’ll find out that he was talking of the stones that was in the building. And the stones were foundat...

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Who are the twenty and four elders? All right, I believe that would be on the—the…Who are the twenty-four elders?

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Now that’s just simple, we could get to it. The twenty-four elders was setting before the Throne. That’s in the…I believe it’s in verse 4, is where it’s found. “And there went out another…” I’ve got to…Let’s see, I’ve…4:10. All right, the Revelation, the 4th chapter, and the 10th verse. That’s righ...

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Now. Does man at death go to Heaven or—or to hell immediately, or do they wait for the judgment?

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That’s a very good question. And it does…would due a lot of good consideration, because every man is interested, what is he going to be after this life is over? Every man is interested. Well now, I, for my part, I—I wouldn’t know. I have to answer from the Bible. I guess a woman run up a fifty doll...

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Is the land of Canaan a type of heaven?

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Now, a lot of people apply Canaan, to being over in the promise land, to being the type of heaven. No, it couldn’t type heaven. It’s the stages of the journey of the Church. They had wars and everything over in Canaan. There’s no wars in heaven, you know. So they had dying, and murders, and everythi...

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Will we be able to remember in heaven?

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Even I believe in hell, there was a remembrance, Jesus said. He said, to the rich man, “Remember, son, in thy lifetime.” about Lazarus and so forth. So if there is a remembrance in hell, surely there is in heaven. So, I—I believe that God will—will let us remember. As Fanny Crosby, when she was…Some...

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Will there be room for all the saints who rise in the resurrection?

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Some fellow, very critical on the second coming of Christ, said, “Do you mean to tell me all the Christians that ever died in Christ will rise, them, what you call, born again people? Well,” said, “you couldn’t place them on this earth like cordwood.” I said, “Who said they’d be here on earth like c...

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Will those who have grown old in Christ be made young again?

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We here who are getting along past, when a man, woman passes twenty-five years old, you might as well face it, see, your youthful days are finished. And to think, that glorious promise, as we’re facing the setting of the sun. What is it? Is life finished? Oh, no. Life just hasn’t begun yet. Oh, we’r...

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What does Brother Branham suggest is happening when a dying Christian sees loved ones who have already died?

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I was standing by the side of a man here a few years ago; I just…He’d been a Christian for a long time, and he said, talked to me, he said, “Billy…” I said, “Is everything all right, Mr. Bledsoe?” He was about eighty years old. Said, “Oh, everything’s okay, Billy.” Said, “I want to see my Lord so ba...

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Do dying people see their loved ones who have gone on before?

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I went to a man here some time ago, killed in an accident. He was just dying. Come out of the accident, like manner. I seen many of them going that way. And I just wonder, that if when we’re coming…Even death is hard. Jesus fought against it: “Is it possible this cup should pass?” But when we’re com...

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What age will we be in heaven?

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I teach that there won’t be little bitty babies like that in heaven. We’ll all be one age and one size, immortal. You have to always be that way. We’ll just be…There’ll be no real old people and no real little bitty babies; we’ll be just one age, the youth forever. And she said, “Don’t you remember...

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What age will people be in the resurrection?

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See, I don’t believe there’ll be little babies in heaven. If they’re resurrected little babies, they’ll always be little babies. If they’re real old people that resurrects on a cane or crutch, it’d be that way immortality don’t know. We’ll be one age, one thing forever. We’ll be of one age, I believ...