Topic: The second coming

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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, 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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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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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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Brother Branham, I would like to know about the Millennium. Is it after the Marriage Supper, or—or is it on earth? All about it. I do—don’t understand about it.

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Well, Brother or Sister, it’s hard for me to understand it, myself. But only thing I can say is this: that the Marriage Supper comes before the Millennium. Now, see, somebody, I know somewhere in here has got a question on that, that said, “Brother Branham, you’re—you’re wrong on the seventy weeks...

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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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Brother Branham, here is a question that’s been sort of puzzling to several of us here. One—on—on (pardon me) on some tapes you speak only of the Jews being saved after the Bride is raptured. (And it’s a line across.) Please explain fully about the Gentiles that don’t go in the Rapture. I thought you said that the Gentiles that were left went through the Tribulation and gave their lives for a testimony of Jesus. When He returns from the Gentiles to the Jews…when He turns from the Gentiles to the Jews, then there isn’t any more chance for the Gentiles being saved, just the Gentiles who have been saved, but not received their last day Truth will go in the Tribulation Period and then be saved in the end. Is this right? Please explain, because you said that there would be just a small number go in the Rapture. What about the people that believed in the Lord—believes in the Lord now and the way…and don’t believe the way you preach for this end-time-day Message? Will they be saved? And then the sister signed her name.

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Now, very good question. Now, the first place, the confusion is, is what I have said about the Gentile’s days be done when the Tribulation…in the Tribulation. Now, I do not see the Gentiles in the Bible…The Gentile Bride, Bride, not the Gentile church now, the Gentile church will go through the Trib...

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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)

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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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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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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.

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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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What happened to the born-again believers who are in the various denominations but not in the Bride of Christ? What happens to them?

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Well, I think we explained that, a while ago. See? They go into the Tribulation. They are martyred in the Tribulation. Come up in the last, after the Millennium, for their judgment. See? Because, the Bible said that the rest of the living…“The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years was...

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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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Brother Branham, greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Please explain who the man, in Matthew 22:11, the man that didn’t have on a wedding garment, wedding garment on. I know this man could—couldn’t get into Heaven without the wedding garment on. This was a guest, I know, not the Bride.

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Yes, that’s right. He would be a…Yeah, he just slipped in. See? Now look. Now, I…It could take a whole sermon on that. Now I got ten minutes, to pray for the sick and finish this up. And I’ve got one half of them done, I guess. Notice. But I’m—I’m going to hurry, right, sure enough, after this one....

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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?

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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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Would you please explain about Satan being bound a thousand years, and being loosed for the battle of—battle of Revelation 20:8? What relationship does this have with the Battle of Armageddon as mentioned in the Fourth Seal? Will Gog and Magog be gathered from the people of the new earth?

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Well, this is a long one, and I—I’ll just have to hit the spot of it, see. Now, the first thing, “Will…?” Now, maybe I can’t explain it. I’ll do my best. Will you please explain how Satan is bound a thousand years, being loosed again for the battle of Revelation 20:8? That is not the Battle of Arma...