Topic: Marriage & family

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Brother Branham, is it all right for a—a young child to wear slacks and shorts?

Answer

How young? Just let you be the judge of that; if you’re a Christian. A little girl or any little bitty kid, I imagine, I don’t know, I…Only thing I know, the Bible says it’s an abomination for a woman to wear a garment that’s—that pertains to a man. See? “A woman,” didn’t say, “a child.” But now, I...

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Brother Branham, I have accepted God’s Message of today, and also our son. And we both have been baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. My husband—my husband hasn’t accepted the Message and is fighting this Message. And he has influenced our son and is taking him to a Methodist church. He wants me to go with him to church when we are not in service here at the tabernacle. Would it be right for me to go with him or would it be better to stay out of that denomination?

Answer

Well now, dear sister…She never signed no name, but perhaps you’re listening to your question; if you don’t, you’ll hear it on tape. Go with your husband, but don’t be partakers of—of what they’re doing. See, you’re supposed to love your husband, and love is what does it. You just be real salty; he’...

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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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What can I do for him? Should I continue to (Oh!) care for Dad on the farm? What can I do…make a—a living for…? And he signs his name. Yes, my brother…It—it’s wrote here. I don’t know who…It says, “Brother Branham…” It just starts out, “What can I do for him?”

Answer

Now, probably some boy for his dad. Look, my dear brother, blessed are you when you will take care of your dad, for your dad took care of you when you could not take care for yourself. And the first commandment with promise, first commandment with promise: “Honor thy father and thy mother which may...

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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...

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Brother Branham, in respect to the order of the church, we have tried to go accordingly to the way we understand the orders given in the dedication of the new church. And by doing so, some have gotten mad and left the church. And others will not listen to anything we say, especially the children. We have talked to the parents about their children, and they won’t take care of them. Now, have we misunderstood? Or, are we going about it in the wrong way? Thanks. Now let me answer this as they come down. In respect to the order of the church, we have tried to go accordingly to the way we understood it given in the dedication of the new church.

Answer

Now, that’s correct, you’re doing right. Now, this is supposed to be deacons, I suppose, ’cause it’s right here, it’s a deacon’s job. All right. And by doing so, we have often…people has often gotten mad at us. They do at me, too! They’ll do at any man. See? A person that does that, there’s somethi...

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Now, Brother Branham, is there any Scripture permitting marriage after divorce? This is very important.

Answer

It says, “Important.” Well, that’s the reason…It wasn’t pertaining to this. As far as I can see, my brother, or sister, whoever it may be, there isn’t, unless your companion is dead. Because, the Bible said, “We’re bound to them as long as they live.” See? So, as—as far as being “any Scripture?” Th...

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Brother Branham, if this question is not—is not fit, does not fit in the…do not answer. (That’s nice. I appreciate it.) What children—what children go in the Rapture, if any small ones? Thank you. They never signed no name. Now, if you don’t, it’s not necessary.

Answer

But, look. When God puts a name on the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world, there’s not nothing in the world can rub it out, because it’s wrote with the ink of the Blood of Christ. Be it this big, that big, or that big, or whatever it might be, it goes just the same. See? All chil...

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Now. First Corinthians, 7th chapter, 15th verse. Now the question they asked: Brother Branham, does this mean a sister or a brother is free to remarry? No.

Answer

See, you don’t get his question there and what he’s saying. They’re not free. See, that would make a contradiction in the Scripture, and the Scriptures doesn’t contradict themselves at all. See? Now, let’s…You see, like you can make the Scripture (just by reading one verse) say anything you want it...

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Brother Branham, is it not Scriptural that women should not speak in the church?

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He’s got two questions here. That is true. That—that is true. It’s not right for women to be ministers and—and speak in the church. That is right, First Corinthians the 14th chapter. Of course all of the church here, you all know this. And this may be a stranger in here this morning; I don’t know....

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Brother Branham, I was married to a woman that had been married before. We divorced, and she has been married twice since. The Bible states that if we desire to marry—if we desire to marry, to turn to…first wife. Now, could I turn to her who has been married before or could I be free?

Answer

Well now, my brother, here’s the only way that you could do it. Now, this is a great subject, and someday I—I want to if—if the church ever gets organized and straightened up into the place where it should be or…I—I say this with reverence, I…There’s two factions of this marriage and divorce in the...

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Brother Bill, please say something about both children and adults being so noisy in morn-…moving about during the service. This tabernacle needs some lessons in reverence.

Answer

Amen! Children, do you not know how to obey yourself in the house of God? Do you not know this is the sanctuary of God? God is in His holy temple, let everybody keep quiet. It’s the place of God where people are coming, meditating, trying to find salvation to the soul; trying to find the problems of...

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The two children, aged six to eight years, were here at the altar this morning. How soon is it advisable to have them baptized?

Answer

Just as soon as you can. “Repent immediately and be baptized,” that’s, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, that’s question number one. I would advise that. But we find out in the Scriptures… You say, “Is that Scriptural?” When Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost, three thousand souls were saved a...

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Brother Branham, in the First Corinthians, Corinthian, chapter the 14th, verse 34th and 35th, says, “Let your women keep silent in churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak.” 35th, “For it is a shame for women to speak in church.” Now, if a woman with short hair speak—speaks in tongues in—in churches, in church, is it the Spirit of—of the Holy Ghost that speaks through her or is it a false spirit?

Answer

Now, you are…And this is a real hard question, and I can only answer it the best that I know how, see. Now, I could not judge, because I was not sent to judge. But I think there’s so many times…I got another question down here somewhere that goes right along with that. But if a person is speaking in...

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Deuteronomy, the 23rd chapter, the 2nd verse, doesn’t it teach that a person whom out of wedlock cannot be saved? It says that “God will visit the iniquity of the parents upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.” Explain what this means.

Answer

All right. Adultery was such a horrible thing in the time of the Bible until even if a man had a child by a woman that wasn’t his wife, that child, its children’s children’s children, for four generations, four hundred and something years, could not enter even into the congregation of the Lord, beca...

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Now, here’s one that’s really a sticker. Question (I think it’s the same person, ’cause it looks like the same handwrite): If a person must have the Holy Ghost to be—have the Holy Ghost to be converted and to go in the rapture, what will be the state of children that have died before the years of accountability? And when will they rise?

Answer

Now, my brother, sister, I cannot tell you that. There’s no Scripture on it in the Bible as I can find anywhere. But I can express my thoughts. Now, this’ll strengthen you that believes in grace of God. You see, the person wants to know (which is a very good question. See?) the person wants to know...

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Now, the next question is one I think that maybe someone was what I said the other night. Explain a wife being saved by bearing a child.

Answer

The wife isn’t saved by bearing a child. But let’s turn now to First Timothy 2:8 just a minute. And let’s just find out what the Bible says about the child. Now, I realize that’s a Catholic doctrine, that the Catholic says the woman is saved in childbearing, by bearing a child. But let’s not…I don’t...

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Matt-…(Let’s see.) Brother Bill, what is the difference between fornications and adultery, Matthew 19:9?

Answer

Jesus said in Matthew 19:9, “Whosoever putteth away his wife and marries another, except it be for the cause of fornications, commits adultery.” The difference between fornications and adultery, the word could be applied either way. But to make it clear what he was talking of there, that—a woman tha...

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Do you think it is right for women to do personal work outside the church?

Answer

Yes. That’s just a question, just a…not a scriptural question, but…Certainly, I do. Yes, sir, we’re all workers together. Women have their places, and certainly they do. Yes, sir. Just do all the personal work you can do, and God will bless you for it. All right, now let’s see:

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I have two boys (one, two; and one, five), and they have been sprinkled. Should they be baptized by immersing?

Answer

Well now sister or brother, whoever you are, that’s up to you. I’ve got a little girl…My little boy, Billy Paul, was sixteen years old, and I baptized him in the Name of the Lord Jesus right here. My little girl was eight years old. She come to me and got up on my lap, and she said, “Daddy, I want t...