Topic: The second coming

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

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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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Will the prophet of Malachi 4 be the one to call out the Gentile remnant of Revelation 7:9, even though they go through the tribulation period?

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No, no! After the—the Revelation 7, is where he seen the hundred and forty-four thousand sealed, and after that he saw coming up, coming back was that great number which no man could number which was the Bride. It will have…The…Malachi 4 will be finished and the Bride taken up, and the…then the…this...

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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?

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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When you use the expression that if we do not believe the Word, we will be eternally separated from Christ, do you mean the foolish virgin will live eternally, but they will be separated from the New Jerusalem where Christ will dwell with the Bride? Here are those who do not have the Holy Spirit, born again as the Scripture speaks of being born again. If the natural birth requires water, blood, and spirit, does not the spiritual birth require all three stages of grace before the person is truly born again?

Answer

Absolutely, I just explained that this morning, the same, on the same thing. You’ve got to have all stages. You’re begotten of the Spirit, just like a baby is begotten, and in the womb of a mother, but not born until they receive the Holy Ghost. That’s right. You’re born then. You’re not converted,...

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When the Millennium starts, how will the unbelievers be taken off of the earth?

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The unbelievers will go down in the tribulation period with the sleeping virgin, and all those others (unbelievers, and sleeping virgin), and the remnant of Israel that’s to be taken out.

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Where are the foolish virgins during the Millennium?

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In the Millennium they’re in the grave. “The rest of the dead lived not for a thousand years.”

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Will the Millennium reign be one thousand years or just a count of time?

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I got that one even this morning. See? It’s one thousand years. All right. Brother Branham, the problem of what… Yeah, I got that. The wheat and the tares, you remember we got that. I believe we’re coming right down now. I may have throwed a bunch of these back. Let’s see. Same thing. Brother Branha...

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Now: If time ceases when the Seals were opened, then is…If time ceased (pardon me) when the Seals were opened, then the Millennium is also—then the Millennium is also finished, is it not?

Answer

No, no! Time didn’t cease when the Seals were opened. Misunderstood it. What happened, the mysteries was revealed, not time ceased. See? Just look. Watch real close now, and will play your tape if you got it from a tape. See? Time never ceased until the…This must be a postmillennialist or something...

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Does the Millennium have to do with the one thousand years? Could it not be a generation?

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No! A generation allotted in the Bible is forty years. But the Bible said, “And they lived and reign with Christ one thousand years.” It will be one thousand years upon the earth, ’cause one thousand years upon the earth is only counted a time, for parable like to God, as one day. One thousand years...

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When will the church who…When will the church who did…who (d-i-…) died during the tribulation and res-…be resurrected? Will they also wait until the resurrection of the ungodly? Will they live again during the Millennium?

Answer

Now, that’s a good question. Deserves more than the time I could give it, but just so I can get…See? I haven’t…I’ve got at least two-thirds of what I started with this morning, been two hours. Just so many you just can’t get to them. You see? And I just want to get as many as I can, just not seeing...

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Why will—why will Satan be loosed a little season after the thousand years of Revelation 20 and 3, and Revelation 20:27?

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Why will he be loosed? Is to go to gather up his people on the second resurrection, ’cause Satan has to stand the—the judgment also. See? He has to be condemned. Oh my, this is a—a book full of them. I don’t believe…And here’s another letter full of them. Let me get some real, real, quick here now.

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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, would you please explain Mark 13:27? Also, Brother Branham, what about the people in Revelation 20:7 and 9, what…that make war against the saints? Where do they come from? Will there be a carrying over as with—the Noah’s family?

Answer

Revelation 13 or…No. Mark 13:27, Brother Neville. Revelation 20. You got your Bible there, Brother Capps? Revelation 20, and it looks like 7 and 9. I think I, while they’re getting it…Here, he’s got it right here. Revelation, what was it now? Mark 13:27, 13:27. And then shall he send his angels, and...

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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.

Answer

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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Very urgent. Brother Branham, knowing that time is ending and eternity setting in, what would be your advice for a couple planning marriage?

Answer

Go right ahead and get married. See? Go right on just like if you was going to live for another hundred years here on earth. Just go right on; keep your heart set on Christ, not your hearts on these things of the world, but on Christ. See? Go right on; get married, children. God bless you in your we...

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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...