Topic: The final state

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Does the Bible anywhere say that a Christian dies?

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There’s no such a thing as death to a Christian. There’s not one Scripture in the Bible that tells you a Christian dies. Very much contrary, we’re all alive. Jesus said, “He—he that believeth on Me has Everlasting Life.” Is that right? How can it have an end if it’s got everlasting. See? “He that he...

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Is the land of Canaan a type of heaven?

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Now, a lot of people apply Canaan, to being over in the promise land, to being the type of heaven. No, it couldn’t type heaven. It’s the stages of the journey of the Church. They had wars and everything over in Canaan. There’s no wars in heaven, you know. So they had dying, and murders, and everythi...

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How could the witch of Endor call up Samuel, and can someone who has died in Christ be called back now?

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Now this…Brother, I tell you; sometimes we need to be skinned down and rubbed a little bit to see where we’re standing. Don’t you think so? Make right, right. Any person…If those saints…Now, I’m not condemning Catholic saints. But look. The reason that the witch of Endor could call the spirit of Sam...

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Do people become angels when they die?

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Look and you see how God patterns it all around. The whole…Over in India and different things, they worship and say when we die, we become angels and fly away. God never did make me an angel, and I never will be an angel, and neither will you. He made me a man, and I’ll always be a man. I’ll resurre...

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Does God do anything to warn the world before judgment comes?

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Now, Jesus in His birth, He was marvelous, but when He came to the world, He came here with a illegitimate background hanging over Him, because they said that His—His father was Joseph, and the child was—the mother was to be with a child before they were really legally married. So that begin with Hi...

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What holds back the wrath of God from a sinful world?

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And then while I was standing there looking at that, I was criticizing that woman. I was criticizing the officer in my heart. But I had never taken a seat yet at the table. And then just seemed like Something said to me, “Step over here to one side. I want to talk to you.” That was my Boss. And when...

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Will we be able to remember in heaven?

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Even I believe in hell, there was a remembrance, Jesus said. He said, to the rich man, “Remember, son, in thy lifetime.” about Lazarus and so forth. So if there is a remembrance in hell, surely there is in heaven. So, I—I believe that God will—will let us remember. As Fanny Crosby, when she was…Some...

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Will there be room for all the saints who rise in the resurrection?

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Some fellow, very critical on the second coming of Christ, said, “Do you mean to tell me all the Christians that ever died in Christ will rise, them, what you call, born again people? Well,” said, “you couldn’t place them on this earth like cordwood.” I said, “Who said they’d be here on earth like c...

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Will God spare America because of what its forefathers did?

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And the first sign of God’s goodness to them, they just scream out for victory, and they see it, receive it right then. Thousands are saved, no—no way to make—hard to make an altar call. You just—just ask how many wants to receive, and every sinner will accept Christ right then: ready to be baptized...

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Does God send people to hell?

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Now, tonight when you come about Divine healing, you say, “I don’t believe it.” Why, you couldn’t get healed…There’s no hope for you. See? But you already judged yourself. And when you—when you reject Jesus Christ the Saviour and God, you don’t have to be judged, you’re already judged. Your attitude...

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Could what the witch of En-dor did in calling up Samuel be done today?

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Now, this witch of En-dor, she called up the spirit of Samuel. And Saul talked to Samuel. Now, you might wonder how that could be done. It cannot be done today. No, sir. Because, the blood of bulls and goats was only a waiting for the time of fulfillment. When a man died in them days…Preachers, back...

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What can death do to a believer?

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Don’t you fear. “I’ll fear no evil, for Thou art with me.” “Death is all swallowed up in victory.” There is…Death can’t do nothing. One writer said, that, “The only thing that God had did to death, He put it to a buggy and harnessed it, and set it in the buggy shafts. And the only thing death can do...

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Will those who have grown old in Christ be made young again?

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We here who are getting along past, when a man, woman passes twenty-five years old, you might as well face it, see, your youthful days are finished. And to think, that glorious promise, as we’re facing the setting of the sun. What is it? Is life finished? Oh, no. Life just hasn’t begun yet. Oh, we’r...

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Do people become angels in heaven?

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I used to think, Mom used to tell me (excuse me, Mom, that was before you knew better, too) that we’d have wings and fly around up there, you know. And, why, I like to eat, drink, shake hands with people, fellowship. I thought, “Oh, my, that’ll be finished then.” Oh, no. I found out God never did ma...

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If God already counts every sinner as forgiven, why would anyone be condemned?

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Now, to you on the outside, and in the basement, and you who are not able at this time to see in…The Lord Jesus Christ at His vicarious suffering and death at Calvary, purchased healing for every mortal in the world, ever will be in the world. Jesus has already paid the price, and in the sight of Go...

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Does a Christian die?

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We don’t believe in death of Christians. You can’t prove to me that a Christian dies. The Blood of Jesus Christ takes away sin; it doesn’t cover it. The believer goes in the Presence of God now.

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What does a person go to hell for?

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Here not long ago, I was preaching in a Methodist church, one night, and I thought the Lord was firing me up good. And I was just a preaching away, and I said, “You don’t go to hell because you get drunk. You don’t go to hell because you commit adultery. You don’t go to hell because you smoke cigare...

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Does God send people to hell because they are sinners?

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Now, then if He should take me as His servant. And now, He never spoke this directly to you, but it’s just the same as directly to you. But He never said, “Mrs. So-and-so at a certain age and a certain time…?…” But then, He has a prophetic gift that He sent into to His Church in these last days to s...

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What happens to a Christian at death?

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Christians do not die. There’s no Scripture in the Bible that says Christians—Christians die. A man that…A person that lives in pleasure is dead while they’re living. Death means separation, separation from God. And sinners are not se…Sinners are separated from God, but Christians never separate fro...

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What does Brother Branham suggest is happening when a dying Christian sees loved ones who have already died?

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I was standing by the side of a man here a few years ago; I just…He’d been a Christian for a long time, and he said, talked to me, he said, “Billy…” I said, “Is everything all right, Mr. Bledsoe?” He was about eighty years old. Said, “Oh, everything’s okay, Billy.” Said, “I want to see my Lord so ba...