Topic: Prophecy & end times

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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…

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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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Also, I have heard there is a teaching out, that a book you wrote several years ago about the bread of life…They interpret it that we must all be with you or miss the Rapture.

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Well, the book is wrong. The book of The Bread of Life, I remember that now. That was feed the church universally, everywhere. See, the trouble of it is…Now, now, you people, you’re solid yourself, but you’ve got to have that. That follows every meeting. The—the… I was reading about Martin Luther he...

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Also about these families that have sold out and moved to Sierra Vista, Arizona, where they have interpreted from one of your tapes titled (just a minute) Little Bethlehem—Little Bethlehem, the Rapture will take place in Arizona. Did you advise them to go there?

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I certainly did not. When they wrote a letter about that, somebody up here in Connecticut or something, I answered the letter back and said, “You’re making the worst move you ever made in your life. Don’t you do a thing like that.” See, you can’t…Well, you just remember, you people…Now, you all know...

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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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According to the opening of the Fifth—Fifth Seal, Moses and Elijah have—have to die. What about Enoch?

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I don’t know. See? I—I…If I don’t know, I’m just going to tell you I don’t know. See? I—I don’t—I don’t know all the answers, folks. I—I don’t know. And if I don’t know, I’m going to tell you I don’t know. If I do know…I won’t tell you till I do know, see. But I—I don’t know. I’ve often wondered ab...

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What does “see thou hurt not the oil and the wine” mean, in Revelation 6:6?

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It’s the Holy Spirit. See? We just got through that. Probably somebody, you know, come in a little late for the Message, they…well, for the other tapes, you see. “Hurt not the oil and the wine.” What does the oil and wine mean? The Oil, as we took it in symbol, means the Holy Spirit. See? Wine is t...

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Is the Elijah, who comes to preach to the Jews, the real man who lived on the earth, or will he be the spirit of Elijah in some other man? Now, that’s, I—I’m afraid to say. I don’t know. See? Let me read that again. Is the Elijah, who comes to preach to the Jews (oh, yes), the real man who lived on earth, or will he be spirit of Elijah in some other man?

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Now, if I could answer that correctly, I could tell you about Enoch, see. But I—I can’t do it, see. Only thing I know is, just, the Scripture says what it will be. And now it might be that the…Now, I—I’m kind of inclined…Now let me say it this way. And I hope the tape, the brethren on the tapes, wil...

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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.

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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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Is hell, and the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, the same?

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No. Hell, translation in the Bible, I believe…Now, there is scholars sitting here, and I want to honor that. Our Brother Iverson sitting here, and Brother Vayle, and many of these brethren who are really theologians. The word translated, hades, means the “grave.” Is that right? The Greek word for th...

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If not, is the Lake of Fire, and hell, Eternal?

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No, sir. No, sir. Anything that was created is not Eternal. No. Anything that’s created…That’s the reason there cannot be an Eternal hell. If anybody ever tells you that you’re going to burn in an Eternal hell, I want the Scripture for it. See? There’s no such a thing as that. Hell was created for...

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Brother Branham, does the first horse rider, First Seal, fulfill Second Thessalonians, “the revelation of the man of sin”?

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Yes. That’s right. That does. That’s easy. That does. That’s the man of sin. The same man just keeps, in stages, riding on till he gets on a pale horse that’s called “Death.” Christ comes on down through, justification, sanctification, to the white horse, and that’s that Life, you see.

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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?

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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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Brother Branham, is the seventh angel, with the spirit of Elijah, the same man as the Elijah sent to the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews during the three and a half years after the Rapture? Some of us are mixed up, in this.

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No. He isn’t the same. See, it’s two different men. The Elisha that come in the form of Elijah was not Elijah. And the spirit of Elijah who came upon a man called John the Baptist was not Elijah. And the man of the seventh angel messenger, at the end of the Laodicean Age, will not be the literal Eli...

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When was the covenant, of Daniel 9:27, confirmed for a week?

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One half of it was confirmed, the covenant, when Jesus Christ was on earth preaching to the Jews. He never went to the Gentiles, at all. And He told His disciples, “Don’t go to the Gentiles.” That was to the Jews, alone. See? And He preached for three and a half years. That’s half of the seventieth...

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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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In Revelation, verse 5:9, who are these found sing—singing when the Lamb takes the Book out of the—out of the…takes the Book? Are—are these the raptured saints?

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No. Revelation 6…5:9, rather. No. If you notice, these are not the saints. They had…He has never claimed His property yet. See? This is not the saints. If you notice, they’re the elders and the Beasts, and they sing. Let’s read it, so that person…And then I’m going to try…I’ve got about half a doze...

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Could you (c-o-n-t-r-o-…) control those given…? Well, control “those given white robes,” of Revelation 6:11, with “those who washed their robes in the Blood of the Lamb?”

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Now let’s see, Revelation 6. I just can’t hurry on this, folks, like this here, see, because it’s going…I’m going to answer something wrong. Now, He didn’t want—He didn’t want me to do that. That’s the truth, so help me. The Holy Spirit of God knows that’s the truth. See? I just…There is something j...

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Brother Branham, if all of the godly was taken up in the Rapture, where will the Elijah and Moses come from? Will they be Jews? Or will our Elijah, given to us, be—be with them?

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No. The—the Gentile that’ll be anointed with this spirit, to call out the Gentiles, will be taken away. Cause, you see, the whole Church, all, has been taken up. And these two prophets, of—of the 11th chapter, is brought down. And the day of grace is ended with the Gentile, and been sent to the Jews...

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Does the what and wine, or wheat and wine, what does the…of Revelation 6:6? Let’s see what it is, when I get down here now, this here. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts saying, A measure of wheat for a penny, and a measure of barley for a penny;…see that thou hurt not the wine and…oil.

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I guess that’s meaning “the wheat and the wine.” That was one, to the other. Rather, is a symbol, the wine taken at the communion table, of Rev-…of First Corinthians 11:24? “Does the wine—the wine…?” No. One of them is a spiritual symbol, see. And the other one is actually the—the revelation of the...

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Could it be that the reason many are sick, because we did not discern the Lord’s Body? (Correct!) …but now revealed by the opening of the Sixth Seal?

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Now, let’s see. Let me just see if I can get that now. It’s not you; it’s me. You didn’t…You wrote it all right; it’s just me. Could it be that the reason many are sick, because we do not discern the Lord’s Body? (That’s got a question mark, the end of that.) Well, the Scripture says, that, “Many a...