Topic: Marriage & family

Question

How should young people treat their father and mother?

Answer

And young people, remember. If you’re fortunate enough today to have a daddy and a mother living, love them, honor them. The hour will come when you’ll think they’re the greatest people in the world, if you don’t now. And don’t never, little fellows, don’t never give this slandering word, “old man,”...

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Brother Branham, what achievement should we let our pre-teenage children participate in? (I beg your pardon, it’s…) What activities should our preteen children anticipate, participate in. Also, how should we go about helping them select their associates?

Answer

Keep them in Christian company as long as you possibly can. Keep them with…If it’s a girl, keep her with Christian girls; Christian boys, vice versa. If she’s old enough to go with a boy, see that she keeps with the right kind of a boy. Discourage her to any boy otherwise, or boy to a girl. If she’s...

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Remember hearing you tell of seeing a pitiful sight of an angel…of a eagle beating its wings in a cage, struggle to get free. I have a precious mother in that position. She has not been allowed to have her three married children come home for three years, because they won’t be subject to their dad’s doctrine. He’s a denominational preacher. Mother wants to hear this end time Message, and I can’t even get a letter through to her. To what degree is she to be subject to? Is there anything I can do besides pray?

Answer

That would be the only thing I would know. Her husband, being a minister, won’t let her hear the Word. She wants to hear It, but he won’t permit her to hear It, and just pray for her. I believe the woman is—is saved, of course.

Question

What…Would you endorse birth control?

Answer

No, I can’t endorse it. No, sir. See?

Question

Brother Branham, the Bible tells us that a—a wife should obey her husband. I am a Christian and my husband is a sinner. He persecutes me in every way that he can, and for me not to go to church, and read my Bible, and—and denies the Word. What should I do?

Answer

What should you do? Now, listen, you’re supposed to obey your husband; that’s the Word. Now, if he tells you and refuses you to read the Bible, go to church, or something like that, you don’t have to obey that, because, “He that will—won’t forsake his father, mother, husband, wife, or whatever it is...

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Brother Branham, how am I supposed to show my wife that I really care for her and yet play…or stay with the Word (That’s)—stay—stay with the Word, but still having a question like this said: “Why don’t you practice what you preach or believe?”

Answer

Well then, if the wife, if the wife is saying this to you when she’s…has a right to say it, you better get right. See, see? Then if she—if she is saying it just to be evil, remember, the Bible said, “It was better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea than eve...

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We—we were married twenty-one years ago by the justice of the peace. Was—was it wrong?

Answer

Yes, it was wrong for you to do that. Marriage belongs in the house of God. But being that you are married, here’s when you are really married: you’re married when you vow one to the other, when you promise one another that you’re…that you’ll take one another. The justice of peace could give you lic...

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My husband and I don’t see alike on the Bible, the Truths, like this Truth that you preach. He doesn’t understand. Should I go with him to churches when I don’t believe their teaching? I’m very troubled about this.

Answer

Yes! If you are a wife to this husband, and he don’t condemn you, you don’t—you mustn’t condemn him (see?), because the husband is sanctified by the wife. See? And I believe, if he goes to some denominational church or something like that, he wants you to go down there with him…You see? If you don’t...

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Brother Branham, please explain First Corinthians—First Corinthians 11—11, and verse 4 through 6. Does not this mean a (s-e-…) separate—separate (c-o-…) covering from the hair, or is the long hair the only covering we need?

Answer

Get me First Corinthians 11. Let’s see, First Corinthians 11:4. It says, “When praying…” Oh, yeah, he…They got it here. They say, “In praying or prophesying, can we take our hair—can we…” Let’s see, they got a line drawed through something here. When prophesying—when prophesying, can we take our hai...

Question

How do you feel about birth control?

Answer

I had some of that on the interviews this morning. I’d rather talk personally with—with you on those things (see?), on those things there, ’cause there’s words and things that I have to say, that I…I’d rather say it if the husband and wife… And there is a possibility of it being done in the right w...

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I have two daughters married to man in the d-e-a-v-…and they believe this Message. They…denominations, (That’s right.), and they believe this Message and have taken a stand for It, and have received…What should they do? They have received opposition. What shall we do?

Answer

Hold your stand! Absolutely. Show your colors. That’s it; don’t give into them. No, sir! I don’t say, don’t go among them, fellowship, or something like that, as long as you can fellowship; but when they come to changing the diet, you know, a dove can’t eat with a buzzard.

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Very urgent. Brother Branham, knowing that time is ending and eternity setting in, what would be your advice for a couple planning marriage?

Answer

Go right ahead and get married. See? Go right on just like if you was going to live for another hundred years here on earth. Just go right on; keep your heart set on Christ, not your hearts on these things of the world, but on Christ. See? Go right on; get married, children. God bless you in your we...

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Brother Branham…(Did I finish that? Did I get about the baptism of the Holy…Yes, that was about it, wasn’t it? All right. Excuse me, if I don’t get it, just forgive me. I…These are such wonderful questions. You could just stay one whole night just on one question, brother, and then not even touch it.) I appreciate you as a servant of God, the believe…and I believe the Message of Truth. My wife won’t hear me…says anything…say anything about this Message, and will not listen to any tape. I am in nervous trouble on my job also. I want my wife to believe too and pray for my children. Brother Branham, I want to be friend of God’s…I want to be found in God’s will for my life. I want to be His servant. (And the person signs “over.” Wait a minute.) When I was small, I told everyone that I wanted to be a preacher. I don’t know what God wants me to do. I’m willing to do anything for the Lord. Yours in the Lord.

Answer

Now, a good question. And the man is sincere. His wife, his companion that’s a part of him…May I add something here to that? My brethren, I say this in the Name of the Lord. One of these days, the Lord willing, I think I’ll just go ahead and make that tape on Marriage and Divorce (see?), bring it ri...

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Also, Brother Branham, I believe a woman should be subject to her husband. But if a Christian woman has a sinner husband who does not even to one of your services…come to one of your services and won’t…and wants his wife to be doing things, cutting her hair, wearing shorts, and going to ungodly places, is this woman supposed to be subject to this man in this way? Please explain this more clearly, as this is a question that is asked often.

Answer

No, Sister, you are not subject to such a person. No indeedy. For this cause you’ll leave everything and cleave to God. Now, the thing…If you want…that man wants to live with you, and you be…stay a Christian…But if he’s going to make you wear shorts, cut your hair, and do all these other things, and...

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Brother Branham, is it (Let’s see.)…for a person who has a—who has a living, divorced mate who remarry before coming unto the Message to minister?

Answer

Well, in First Timothy 3:2, if you want to put that down, and Titus 1 to 6 (I wrote that one down), I want you to read that for this question. See? If a man—if a man desires the office of a bishop or a preacher (something another in church), he’s got to have just one wife. That’s right! A minister....

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Brother Branham, are women allowed to work in public affairs when they have a healthy husband and children? I am asking this question for someone else.

Answer

Well, I—I—I—I don’t know about that. I can’t say. But I—I just have this feeling. Let me say this: I believe, if I was a—a woman and I knowed that my husband was healthy and had a good job, working, I believe it would be a—a great pleasure to me to stay home, take care of my children and make the…an...

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Dear Brother Branham, if a baby is born of a…out of wedlock, can this child ever be saved or go in the Rapture?

Answer

Saved? Why sure, I believe the child could be…The child can’t help what’s been done. That is true. But I…About going in the Rapture…Saved, I’d say, “Yes.” But in the Rapture it’s a predestinated seed that goes in the Rapture. And I can’t believe that adultery was a predestinated seed. You understand...

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Should a saved wife refuse herself to her husband if he is a sinner?

Answer

No, sir! No, sir! That’s your husband. You’ll drive him farther away from God than ever by doing that. See? That’s right, Brother, Sister. You married him; he’s yours, and you’re his.

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Brother Branham, what is the meaning of a annulment? Are people free to marry or is this just another word for divorce? I would like some information on this.

Answer

Sure they’re married. As long as they take that vow, they’re married. Just like a boy, if a boy promises a girl to marry her under good faith, he’s obligated to that girl. He’s just as good as married her. The only thing the law does, is give you a—a bill of rights to live together to keep from bein...

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Brother Branham, if a man has been married and divorced (Isn’t that awful, see, so many? Now, I’m not saying nothing against the people; just that’s on the people’s mind. Sure, they’re troubled. The Rapture, people used not to think so much about that; it wasn’t so much of it. But now, it’s just plastered the world. And the people read these things in the Scripture. And people, Elected, out there is coming in to look at it. And they see it, and they’re sincere. They want to know. That’s the reason I want to answer it just as with much sense to it as I can give it you.)—has been married and divorced and then remarried of a woman who has also been married and divorced and then married to him, and these two can—can…married in God’s sight…are they married in God’s sight? How can both or one of them be in the Rapture?

Answer

How? I don’t know. I couldn’t tell you. The question is, “Can they be in the Rapture?” Divorced, each one of them divorced, each one of them has a living companion, then they married again, both of them married again. And now, one that…This woman has a living husband; this man has a living wife. And...