Topic: The church & ministry

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Does water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ forgive sins?

Answer

Neither do I believe that the baptism of Jesus Christ (in the Name of Jesus Christ) in water does forgive your sins. I do not believe that you…I believe you could be baptized all day long…Now, I know that there’s perhaps people sitting here who come from the Apostolic church, I mean, or the United P...

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Dear brother, would Jesus not accept worship in Revelation by John when he fell to…Why would not Jesus receive worship in Revelation by John when He—when He allowed worship before him? Why wouldn’t Jesus receive worship when John wanted to worship Him?

Answer

My dear brother or sister, whoever it is, it was not Jesus that would not receive worship. In Revelation 22:8, you’ll read it was the prophet, angel, who would not receive worship. When John fell down to worship the angel that had showed him these things, he said, “See that you do it not, for I am o...

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Brother Branham, what seems to be wrong in the day when we are living, of being a believer and following the Message and messenger of today, when you cannot seem to pray like you would like to? That’s a good question.

Answer

I believe brother, sister, ever who asked it, it’s a cause of the conditions of time. The revival is over. The revival has lasted some fifteen years, and never did last before over about three years. I believe it’s received its last revival. And I believe that’s why you can’t pray and feel in the Sp...

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The church age ending and has blacked out, the Bride is called, we have already entered into the tribulation period?

Answer

No, no, no, you’re…I wished that I could just have more time on that. See, see? The Bride, when She’s taken from the church, then the church age will cease. Laodicea goes into chaos; the Bride goes to Glory; and the tribulation period sets in upon the sleeping virgin for three and a half years while...

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The Holy Spirit has told you that the Trumpets have nothing to do with the Bride. Do the Seven Vials have anything at all to do with us?

Answer

I’ll wait and see if the Holy Spirit reveals it in that manner. I don’t know yet.

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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?

Answer

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?

Answer

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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It seems among the ministers of the Word, that we have little or no burden to pray, to preach, to fast, or for lost souls that might still be out there somewhere in the world. Would you please tell us what to do about this condition? Thank you very much, Brother Branham, for this. That must be a minister. He didn’t sign any name for these word.

Answer

Brother…I’ve had to answer them when I was tired, wore out, and kind of, you know, don’t feel too good, so I—I trust that it answer the questions. I—I thank you very much and I—I forgot what that I was going to answer him. Preachers, a minister, why we have these burden…don’t have burdens for lost...

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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.

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Will there be, or is there now a place for the Bride to gather together to live, like when Moses led the children of Israel?

Answer

I’m going to answer that question for you; it was just revealed to me. I’m going to tell you the truth. Yes, sir! There’s a place for all the Bride to gather. You want to know where it’s at? In Christ. Correct. Just gather in there; we’re all together.

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Since Acts 2:38 is the only way to be baptized, what about the multitude…? I got that.

Answer

They never knew it in their days; it’s just now revealed. After you know what to do, “To he that knoweth to do right and doeth it not, to him it’s sin.”

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I have a friend who I love very much. She has had some tapes and letters that I believe that have…never talked to her. Really, I guess I am afraid of destroying her and losing her as a friendship. What should I do?

Answer

Speak to her in love. I don’t…I believe I answered that, but I—I’d…Don’t—don’t try to push anything on anybody. Just be salty; they’ll long to be like you. Brother, sister, I believe I’ve answered these. Brother Branham, please explain about the five foolish virgins. I—I know I got that one. It’s wr...

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Brother Branham, what are the preachers going to preach on—going to preach on that don’t go in the Bride? Their message now, the Holy Ghost, water baptism, and salvation, what will they preach on if they don’t go in the Bride?

Answer

Well, they’ll…You know what will probably happen? I say this, now. I can’t prove this, but I…They’ll simply go right on preaching just like they have now, and people going on thinking they’re getting saved; and the Bride will done be gone.

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Would we still be on fire and preach the Gospel, or is the time over?

Answer

No, keep preaching just as hard as you can preach. Brother, stay with it; I’m right behind you.

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When and where will the people of God gather for the last Word?

Answer

In Christ. Yep! For the last day, they’ll gather in Christ. Don’t forget that now. We got a gathering place; we got it just exactly.

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Do all who go in the Bride have to live within the fifteen hundred miles of the tabernacle (I believe I had that again last Sunday. I’ll just have to pick them up and use them as I can.)—fifteen hundred miles of the tabernacle, as it sounds like on tape number two of the “Future Home of the Bride”? I always thought that the Bride would come out of all parts of the world at the time of the Rapture. Am I wrong?

Answer

No, my dear friend, you are not wrong, you’re right. Now, if I said anything under the tape that would lead you to believe… Now, I haven’t…These are all new to me now, I’ve never looked in—in these here. You see? These are new bunch that I got the other Sunday, and put them back in this envelope, an...

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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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Now. Brother Branham, is it true that no one should preach but you? We have seen your—we have seen you ordained men. We do—don’t believe you would do that if there were not…if they were not to preach.

Answer

Mercy! Brother, sister, ever who told you that nobody’s to preach but me, I’d sure be a poor subject to God with all that. No! Every man or…that feels a call of God upon his life, get into the ministry and start preaching; we need them. Men of God are anointed all over the world to preach the Gospe...

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Brother Branham (We got just ten minutes now.)—Brother Branham, we have no preacher where we live, but we have tape service on Sunday night only. Should we take our children to another church for Sunday school? Are the tape services sufficient?

Answer

Well, let that be according to the way your children are going. See? Now, if you get your children, they’re young, and you get them out into some kind of a group out there, that’ll just pound the stuff into them that they—that they—they shouldn’t know; I wouldn’t do it. If they—if they seem to learn...

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Dearly beloved: (Let’s see.) About the Scripture of Ephesians 4:11 through 13, do we all (Let’s see.)—do we get all the perfecting of saints through the tapes, or should we be here, where the gifts of the Spirit are operating and the different offices of the church, to help perfect us? Our hearts have believed all the Word of the Lord.

Answer

Now this person is from Oregon. Now, my dear…I believe I know who it is. See? It’s…Oh, yes, I do, I certainly do. Your—your boy…If the person’s here, I know you’re…If you’re not, it might’ve been last Sunday. See? This might’ve come in from last Sunday’s. But your—your son flies conservation, see, a...