Topic: Rapture

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What did Brother Branham believe would happen when the Lord finishes with the Gentiles?

Answer

If I was God, if they couldn’t take my word for it, that would settle it. But people still don’t take the Word, then signs and wonders are added into the Church, as Jesus Christ promised to do. And to my honest belief, I believe He’s finishing up right now with the Gentiles, and will turn to the Jew...

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Do you believe that sometimes the little living Bride will gather somewhere together and have all things in common, as did the first Bride, perhaps just before the coming of the Lord Jesus in the clouds?

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Now, they asked me did I believe it. I can’t prove it by the Scriptures, but perhaps there will come a time, maybe, I don’t know. There may be just…You see? If it would, it would give identification of His closeness at hand, being so…He said, “But He comes like a thief in the night.” See? He comes t...

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Will anyone who has a true and genuine baptism of the Holy Ghost in this hour not be in the Rapture of the Bride? Would you explain? Tell us what we can do for you in any way to help lighten the load. Now, isn’t that sweet? See?

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No, there’s nothing you can do right now. Yes, genuine believers that’s baptized in the Holy Ghost will be in the Bride. Of course, they’re selected and called out. The sleeping virgin didn’t have any oil. Those that had oil went in, but the… “What can we do to lighten the load?” Yes, brother, sis...

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Please explain the mystery of the translation of the Bride.

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Just a change, see, our bodies. Now, let’s say our. You know what I mean when I say that? I don’t mean to be sacrilegious. I don’t mean to say ours; I don’t mean to say this church; I mean to say every believer. Abraham, he was looking for a promised son, that was promised him. Is that right? And t...

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Brother Branham, when you gave the message on the seventy church weeks…seventy weeks (Pardon me.) of Daniel, I believe that you mentioned that the full—the full last week or last seven years will begin when the Bride was taken in the Rapture.

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No, no, no, no, no, nah, nah, nah! You got that wrong (see?), not the full seven weeks. The—the week started when Jesus came on earth. He said, “The Messiah, Prince, shall come and prophesy, and in the midst of the seven weeks, He’ll be cut off.” And Jesus preached exactly three and a half years, wh...

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Question: Brother Branham, where will the Bride be when the earth explodes and burns up? Will It be in a place like the children of Israel were in Goshen when the plagues fell? Will the Bride be on earth while this takes place? If so, where? And will the Bride all be in one place at the time of the Rapture?

Answer

The Bride, when the earth explodes…The time of the Rapture will be the awakening of the dead and the get-togethering of the living, for…with the living, for the Rapture to take place. Now, but the Bride…Now, see, one of them is a Rapture way back here before the Millennium. And when the earth burns...

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After the Bride is raptured will any of the foolish virgin be saved or will they all be lost?

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No! See, everything will be finished for the Gentile church when the Bride is taken from the earth. The Spirit of God leaves the earth: “He that’s filthy is filthy still; he that’s righteous is righteous still; he that’s holy is holy still.” In other words the sanctuary becomes smoky, where the—the...

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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?

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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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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?

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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...

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Will all borned again believers go in the Rapture?

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No, just the remnant, just the remnant, not all born again believers. The Bible said, “And the rest of the dead lived not for a thousand years,” and then they was raised and separated, the sheep from the goats. Not all borned again will go in the…according to Scripture.

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Will the Bride be gathered together in one place at the Rapture, and will it be in the West?

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Nope, it don’t have to be there. Yeah, the Bride will be gathered together in one place. That is true, but not until the resurrection. See? “For we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord…” Ephesians, or, Second Thessalonians the 5th chapter, I believe it is. “We which are alive and r...

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…this the Third Pull and is speaking the Word. It seems entirely possible for you to speak the word and one would be completely and fully restored, placed entirely ready for the Rapture in the resurrection, the Son of man. This is so, or is it not? And you would do this if properly pressed upon, would you not? “Escape all these things (it’s got a ditto there)—escape all these things and stand before the Son of man”? (Luke 21:36)

Answer

Now, my—my dear friend. See? Now, I think here that you—you—you got a—you got a good statement. Yes, sir! Yes, sir! Now, that would be so. You said, “Brother Branham…” In other words, here’s what I’m…I don’t think that it’s…I can…I believe I…Not polishing up what you said, but I believe I can make i...

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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, 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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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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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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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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Will Ezekiel 38 and 39 come to pass before the Rapture?

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Now if you will notice, Ezekiel 38 and 39 deals with Gog and Magog, which is Russia, the north country. Now, I do not say that this is correct, but to my way of teaching it, that, it comes to pass after the Rapture, after the Church is taken up. And God deals with Gog and Magog when they come down b...

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The Lord has told us through prophecy to witness unto others of the things which we have heard and seen here, such as the nearness of the Coming, baptism in the Name, in Jesus’ Name, and such things. We have told these things to some who seem to be Christians, yet they don’t seem to believe. What do you think will happen to those people? Will they go in the Rapture?

Answer

Now, I’m glad you said it that way, “What do you think?” Which that wouldn’t make it right because I would think it. I believe that no man can walk in the Light of God until God reveals It to him. And I don’t believe that any man that…All these hidden things are hid from the people, and no man can s...