Topic: The church & ministry

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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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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?

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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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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?

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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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Should a person pay tithes to an individual, or should a Christian work?

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Sure he should. He’s the one man that will work, is a Christian. “Pay tithes to an individual?” It depends on who the individual is. See? That’s right. In Hebrews 7, the first time tithings was talked about in—in a stand that we…Wait a minute, I believe, number two question. No! Uh-uh. No! For Brot...

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Brother Branham, is—is it too late to preach to sinners anymore?

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No! No! Don’t get that in your mind, brother. Keep on building on the house. Keep doing everything you can. Just keep on going till you’re called away. See?

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Question number two. Should the saved separate themselves from sinners in worship? Should the saved separate from sinners to worship?

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I don’t know exactly what you mean by that. If you mean sinners like out in the…You worship God everywhere. But I think if we did, how we going to have church, ’cause the sinners come right into the church and set down by the side of the Christian. Don’t never separate yourself from anything but sin...

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Is it too late for jail services and such work for a testimony to try to save souls? Also should one sell all they have now, the Lord is coming so soon?

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Well, how—how do you…I hope I haven’t said anything that would cause you to believe such as that. Have I? If I have, forgive me! I don’t mean…See? Don’t just presume those things. Keep right on going, preaching, having jail service, getting everybody, and don’t… Looky here. The Seventh Day Adventis...

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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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Dear Brother Branham, my question is on baptism. When is a person saved? I have heard it was when a person believed. Some say that when you receive the Holy Ghost you are saved even though you haven’t been baptized in water, as in the case of Cornelius at Acts 10:47. Some say Paul was saved on the road to Damascus, but in Acts 22:16, says that he still had his sins three days later. Can a person be baptized in the Holy Spirit as Cornelius was and still have his sins, since he has not had water baptism, on, or is a person’s passage to Heaven not until he has had water baptism even though he has the Holy Spirit?

Answer

Now, my precious friend…Now, this brother signs his name, I don’t know him, but he signs his name. But I—I won’t call the names, because it’s not necessary, ’cause other people will be getting to them and say, “Well, I—I disagree with you on this and that.” See? And I just won’t call no names. Most...

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Will the Bride—will the Bride before Jesus comes, will She have all power of Holy Ghost to perform miracles, raise dead, and so on as in the latter rain—or is this the latter rain for the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews? Will all ministers have this, are we, or, are we just waiting for the coming?

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Yes. See, friend, I—I—I am not a theologian. I am not a theologian; therefore, I have to teach all that I know about the Bible from shadows and types. You kind of call me a typologist. But if I can look on that wall, and I’ve never seen myself; and I look, and I can see that I got a head, and ears,...

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Is “the Name of Jesus Christ” all right for baptism, or does it have to be in “the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ”?

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Either one. I take it Lord Jesus Christ, see, because I think He is our Lord. Now, just the Name of Jesus, like some of our brethren baptize, I—I different there, see, ’cause I know I’ve got a lot of friends named Jesus, a lot of—a lot of preacher friends in Mexico, and—and Italy, and so forth. They...

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Brother Branham, should we go to the other churches even when they disagree with you?

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Sure, yep! Jesus did when they disagreed with Him. Go ahead. We notice here, says, “Should we go to another church that disagrees with you?” Sure, I don’t…I’m not the only pebble on the beach, you know. There’s—there’s just other godly men everywhere; I hope I’m one of them. See? But don’t never get...

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Could you please explain who the group of Revelation 20:4 is? Are they the part of the Bride of the past or in the future?

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They are the Bride completely, both past and now. They are the Bride complete, because they are living in the Millennium. All right.

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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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How shall the church act towards calls for financial help of…for food and clothing? What—what act, what—what should the church do?

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Now we realize that the church is responsible for its own, for our members here of the church, we are totally responsible as far as we have needs to supply them with. We are responsible for our own, that’s, steady, constant members of the tabernacle that come here and worship with us. We are duty bo...

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Is it sufficient to say openly from the pulpit that tongues and interpretations should be done in a meeting before the service? That’s the second question on this slip of paper that I have here, which is a little card.

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Now, this would be pertaining to the pastor here, see. Because he—he, after all, over the spiritual part, he’s the head of that. Deacons are policemen in the church, to keep order and to take care of these things, and feeding the poor, and so forth. The trustees are over the finance and the building...

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Now, is there any better way to keep order in the church than to keep reminding the people with a—a repeat from the deacons accordingly? No, that, I just explained that. That’s question number three.

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The deacons, your duty is to keep order in the church, with kindness and friendliness. And then you are supposed to, if someone gets out of order in the church, or comes in here like a drunk, or somebody come in. Like they shot that minister out of the platform the other night up there. You heard a...

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Now, Brother Branham, what about the Sunday school? Brother Branham, about the Sunday school (all right), should it be before the preaching service?

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Yes, we’ve always had it that way. Have the Sunday school before the preaching service. And that gives a chance for the little fellows who attend Sunday school, to dismiss their classes. And if—and if they want…and the little fellows don’t understand it, and they have to set all the way through the...

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Should the teacher for the adult class be someone other than the pastor?

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If it’s so agreed. If the pastor wants to teach the Sunday school and then bring the message later, that’s fine and dandy if he wants to do the double service. But if he doesn’t, then have your adult Sunday school teacher, see, for your adult class. And then if—if the pastor has somebody else there...