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1. THE RAPTURE — 1965-12-04

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• ¶28–¶30 Now, we believe that there will be a Rapture. All Christians believe that, that’s Bible readers, believes that there will be a Rapture. And now to read for some background, we read the 25th Psalm. I mean…I beg your pardon. The 27th Psalm, 1 to 5 verses. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, come upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumble and fell. Though the host should encamp about me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this I will be confident. One thing have I desired of the LORD, that I will seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to require in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in the pavilion: and in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up on a rock. May the Lord add His blessings to that reading of His Word. Now, today, speaking on this subject, and now some of you may different, the—the avenues that I take. But how many in here believes that the Bible teaches there will be a Rapture of the Church? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Yes, sir. That’s right, exactly, a catching away of the Church. Whether you’re a Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or whoever you are, Pentecostal, there will be a catching away.

• ¶65–¶68 But, to the Church, the Bride, the Rapture is a revelation to Her. It’s revealed to Her. That, the revelation, the true Bride of Christ will be waiting for that revelation of the Rapture. Now, it is a revelation, for the revelation is faith. You cannot have a revelation without it being faith. Faith is a revelation, because it’s something that’s revealed to you. Faith is a revelation. Faith is something that has been revealed to you, like it was to Abraham, that could call anything contrary to what had been revealed to him, as though it wasn’t so. Now, faith, that’s what faith is, is the revelation of God. The Church is built upon a revelation, the whole entire Body. Here a few weeks ago, I was talking to a fine Baptist minister. He come up to discuss with me. He said, “I like you as a man, but,” said, “you’re all mixed up.” I said, “Then, I pray you help me get straightened out,” (he said…) “with the Scripture.” He said, “We’ll never be able, Brother Branham, to get the things together till we get every Word upon Word, upon Word, exactly with the Greek, and so forth.” I said, “Oh, sir, you know better than that.” I said, “Even in the Nicaea Council, way back as far as that, three hundred years from the death of Christ, they were still debating which Greek scholar was right. You can know. It’s a revelation, the whole thing. Is re-…” He said, “I cannot accept revelation.” I said, “Then how can you accept Christ?” He said, “Why, the Bible said, ‘He that believeth is…on Jesus Christ, has everlasting Life.’”

• ¶127b–¶129 “For the trumpet of the Lord shall sound.” On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise, And the glory of His resurrection share; When His chosen ones shall gather to their homes beyond the sky, When the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there. The word rapture, in the Bible, is not even used at all. We just put that word there. The Bible says, “caught up; being caught up.” We read here in Second Thessalonians…Or, First Thessalonians, it is the order of this great Rapture that will take place in the last days. Listen to this here. We’re going to begin here with 13th verse: …I would not have you…ignorant, brethren, concerning those which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others that have no hope. For if we believe…Christ died and rose again, even so them… which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For we say this unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall not prevent…(That word prevent means to “hinder.”)…those that are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend… Now listen close: …the Lord himself shall descend from the heavens with a shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and…the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:… Now I want you to notice a great thing taking place here now. Don’t miss this. See? Now notice. The Word says here, in Second Thessalonians, that there is three things. Notice. From the 13th to the 16th verse, there is three things that has to happen before the Lord Himself appears. Quickly now, so we can close. See? The first thing happens…Notice: a shout, a voice, a trumpet. Let’s read It now and see if that’s right. See? For the Lord himself (16th verse) shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and…the trump of God:…

• ¶130–¶134 Three things happens: A voice…A shout, a voice, a trumpet, has to happen before Jesus appears. Now, a shout…Jesus does all three of them when He’s—He’s—He’s—He’s descending. A shout, what is the shout? It’s the Message going forth, first, the living Bread of Life bringing forth the Bride. Now, God has a way of doing things. And He never changes His policy. He never changes His po-…He’s the unchanging God. In Amos 3:7, He said He would do nothing on the earth until first He revealed it to His servants the prophets. And just as certain as He promised it, He’ll do it. Now, we’ve come through the church ages. But we’re promised in the last days, according to Malachi 4, that there would be a return again, a prophet in the land. That’s right. Notice his nature, what he would be like. He’s alway… God uses that spirit five times: once in Elijah; in Elisha; in John the Baptist; call out the Church; and the remnant of the Jews. Five times, “grace,” J-e-s-u-s, f-a-i-t-h, and it’s the number of grace. See? All right. Now, remember, the Message is promised. And when all these mysteries has been all so bundled up by a bunch of ecclesiasties, it will take a—a direct prophet from God to reveal It. And that’s exactly what He promised to do. See? Now, remember, “The Word of the Lord comes to the prophet,” not the theologian. The prophet, he is a reflector of God’s Word. He can’t say nothing; he can’t say his own thoughts. He can only speak what God reveals. Even to the prophet Balaam when he was tried to be sold, sell his right, he said, “How can any prophet say anything but what God puts in his mouth?” It’s a thing that God does, that you can’t say nothing else. And you’re born that way. No more than you could…

• ¶152–¶156 Now, it’s the first thing, is the sounding. The first thing is a trumpet and a…or a voice…A shout; and then a voice; and then a trumpet. Shout: a messenger getting the people ready. The second is a voice of the resurrection: the same voice, that, a loud voice in Saint John 11:38-44, that called Lazarus from the grave. Getting the Bride together; and then the resurrection of the dead, see; to be caught up with It. Now watch the three things takes place. The next is what? Was a trumpet. A voice…A shout; a voice; a trumpet. Now, the third thing, is a trumpet, which, always, at the Feast of Trumpets, is calling the people to the feast. And that’ll be the Bride’s Supper, the Lamb’s Supper with the Bride, in the sky. See? The first thing comes forth is His Message, calling the Bride together. The next thing is a resurrection of the sleeping Bride; the— the ones died, back in the other ages, they’re caught together. And the trumpet, the Feast in the heavens, in the sky. Why, that’s the thing that takes place, friends. We’re right there, ready now. The only thing, the Church coming out, has got to lay before the Son, to ripen. The great combine will come by, after while. The wheat will be burned, the stalks, but the grain will be gathered into Its garner. See? You’re not blind people. You’re—you’re sensible people. And if I stood here and said those things for prejudice? I say It because It’s Life, because I’m responsible to God for saying It. And I must say It. And my Message…All the time knowing, back there under healing and so forth like that was just to catch the people’s attention, knowing the Message would come. And here It is. And them Seven Seals opened, those mysteries, and showing those things is what’s happened. I didn’t know it.

• ¶162–¶165 “You forgive me? I never done it. What you forgiving me about?” See? But if I’m guilty, then I can be forgiven; but I’m still not just, because I did it. But the word justified is “though you never done it, at all.” Justified! And then the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us so from sin, till it’s put in the Book of God’s forgetfulness. He’s the only One can do it. We can’t. We can forgive but not forget. I could forgive you, but I always remember you done these evil things. Then, you’re not just; you’re forgiven. But, in the sight of God, the Bride is justified. She never done it, in the first place. Amen. Standing there, married to the virtuous Son of God; never sinned, in the first place. Why? She was foreordained. She was trapped into this. And now when She heard the Truth and come forth, the Blood cleansed Her. And She stands there, virtuous. See? She, no sin on Her, at all. Therefore, the Message calls the Bride together, see, the shout. And the trumpet… The same One, He, with a loud voice, He screamed out with that shout and a voice, and woke Lazarus. With a loud voice He cried, “Lazarus, come forth.” See? And the voice wakes up—wakes up the sleeping Bride, the sleeping dead. And the trumpet, “with the sound of a trumpet.” And, when it does, it calls. Always, a trumpet called Israel to the Feast of the Trumpets. See? Which, was a pentecostal Feast, the great Feast in the sky; and the Feast of the Trumpets. And, now, a trumpet do announce a calling together, “Come to the Feast.” And now that is the—the Lamb’s Supper in the sky. Now watch: The assembling together; and the Bride; the Feast of the Trumpets; the Wedding Supper. We have seen it in types. Now watch just a moment before we close. Notice. We seen it in types.

• ¶168b–¶171a The rest said,…let us see whether Elias will come and save him. Jesus, when he had cried…with a loud voice, yielded up… “A loud voice.” Loud voice! Watch. When Jesus, dying, screamed with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks did rent; And the graves were opened; and many of the bodies…the saints that slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. One rapture is passed. Three has happened in the Old Testament, of them prepared, who the Word of the Lord came to. See? The Word of the Lord came to Enoch. The Word of the Lord came to Elijah, His prophet. See? The Word of the Lord was Jesus. See? Watch in the Old Testament, them Old Testament saints now, when this rapture first taken place. Notice verse 50. His loud voice awakened the Old Testament saints just exactly like the loud voice wakened Jesus…or wakened Lazarus. See? The loud voice awakened. And the second is fulfilled in Second Thessalonians, the 4th chapter. Let’s just take a read, read it. We just read, a few minutes ago. See? …I would not have you…ignorant, brethren, concerning those…asleep, that you sorrow not, even… That’s First Thessalonians 4:12 to 18. That, that will be the second Rapture. The second Rapture will be the catching away of the Bride. The Old Testament saints has gone into His Presence, paradise done away. And the Old Testament saints ascended up, at His loud voice, when He screamed and give up the ghost; because (why?) the Sacrifice, the propitiation of their sins, that they had waited on, believing that perfect Lamb was coming. They had offered the Sacrifice, the Lamb. And when He died and yielded up the ghost, He screamed with a loud voice, and the Old Testament saints awoke. Watch the shout and the voice over here, the same thing at His Coming. See? “Yielded up the ghost.” And when He did, the Sacrifice was perfect, and paradise emptied out.

• ¶171b–¶177a And the Old Testament saints came to the earth again, walked around on earth, and entered in with Him, at His rapture. David said, over there, “Lift up, ye everlasting gates; and be ye lifted up.” “He led captive captive, give gifts unto men,” and the Old Testament saints went in with Him. They said, “Who is this King of righteousness?” “The Lord of Glory, mighty in host.” Mighty host, here they come in, marching. “Jesus led captivity captive,” and here He comes, with the Old Testament saints. And went in the new gates up There, and said, “Lift up, ye everlasting gates; and be ye lifted up; and let the King of Glory come in.” The voice come from the inside, said, “Who is the King of Glory?” “The Lord mighty in battle.” The gates flew open. “And Jesus, a Conqueror, led captive captive,” them that had believed on Him, and the Word had come to them. There, the Old Testament saints laying in there, waiting, “He led captive captive; ascended on High,” took the Old Testament saints and went in. There is one Rapture, already passed. The next Rapture takes place is (Second Thessalonians) for the Church, the Bride to be resurrected, to be raptured into Glory. “We which are alive and remain,” that’s the bodies left on earth, “will not prevent or hinder them which are asleep. For the trumpet of God shall sound first, and the dead in Christ shall rise.” See? “And we which alive and remain shall caught up together with them.” Other day, I was standing on the street corner. And I—I was standing on—I was standing on the street corner and watching the Armistice Day parade. And when it went up, going up the street, I stood there with my little son, Joseph. There come, the first, was the old first war tanks come by, little old tanks. After that come the great Sherman tanks of the new war, and a great cannons with their muzzle blast, a—a muzzle brake on them, so forth. After there, come the soldiers; the—the—the Gold Star mothers.

• ¶204–¶206 Wonder, could it be already past? Could the Bride already be called? Is that what we’re going through today? She has to be molded and made into the image of Christ, and Christ is the Word. That’s the only thing. See? It’s in There, in the Word. It’s ju-…See? There cannot be one thing added. It can’t be a—a woman with a one hand like a man, and the other hand with a paw like a dog. It’s got to be exactly the Word of the Lord, like He is the Word. The Bride is a part of the Bridegroom. The woman is a part of her husband, ’cause she’s taken out of the husband. Eve was a part of Adam from his side. And so is the Bride, not taken from a denomination, but taken from the bosom of the Word of God for this day. The Rapture! The trumpet of the Lord shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise, And the glory of His resurrection share; When the chosen ones shall gather to their Home beyond the sky. When the roll is called up yonder, let’s all try to be There, friends. God bless you. It’s been spoken, it has to come to pass, it will come to pass. And little…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.] People, no one wants to die. No one wants to—to be lost. Let me tell you. Whatever you do…I don’t care how well you go to church, and how loyal you are to church. That’s fine; nothing against that. You should go to church. You do that. Keep on going to church. But, whatever, just throw away your traditions, and move right on up into Christ. Cause, it’s going to sound one of these days, and you’re going to be caught with the mark of the beast on you, and not know what it is until it’s too late. That’s exactly right.

2. BLASPHEMOUS NAMES — 1962-11-04

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• ¶40–¶42 And we hope to get the church up, so I can get these Church Ages in, before—before the winter sets in, if possible. If I don’t, or when I have to come back from over there, if the Lord Jesus tarries. I was listening yesterday when I was taking, believe it was day before yesterday, of a tape. I thought I heard it playing out here this morning. Some little Southern brother had…His mother had come into the meeting. She had a malignancy on her breast, and she was shadowed to death. And the Holy Spirit, in one of the recent meetings, at the Southern Pines, I believe it was, or somewhere, told her, said about her malignancy, and who she was, and where she come from. And said she had a boy that was a backslider, and he was going to have an accident, and be for manslaughter. And a whole lot of things like that. And this fellow… It all happened just the way. And her malignant cancer, or malignant growth, rather, left her. Which is, malignant growth is a cancer, you know. So then it—it left her. And the boy was up for manslaughter, and everything just the way the Holy Spirit said it. And he was led to Christ, back again. And he made a tape of it, and I—I heard it playing. Did you enjoy that little, old Southern talk? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Said, “Down here in North Carolin’er,” he said. Oh, I just love that, them old Southern people. And he had…The Lord just blessed him on. He said, “I know you say you don’t preach doctrine, Brother Branham; only to your congregation.” Said, “We’re part of your congregation.” So that was right cute in him, to say that.

• ¶298–¶302 Directly, I noticed the people begin to get like they was physically hungry. And so they had enough spiritual, so they started walking away. And some of them [Brother Branham yawns—Ed.] started walking away. I thought, “What’s the matter with everybody?” And—and I looked, and here some young couples going along, to my side. I thought…I said, “Just a minute, friend! Just a minute! You’ll be back again when the evening shadows fall.” See? I said, “You’ll be back again. But let me give you this first climax. Where does all these things come from, that I’ve showed you? Where are they from?” I said, “Here they are. They are in the Word of God. They are THUS SAITH THE LORD, His promise. Cause,” I said, “all of you bear me record, witness this, that my commission is, ‘Stay with the Word.’” I said, “What’s the matter with all of you? Can’t you understand the Word? You must understand It.” And some of them said, “Man, I’d like to have some biscuits,” and so like that. Well, I just thought, “Well, glory to God! If they want biscuits, let them go get them.” So I—I turned around. I thought, “Oh, but, you know what? The shadows is going to fall, after while, right away.” I said, “Then, tonight, when that congregation gathers in again, I’ll put the climax to them, and told them that the things that they have seen me do is found in the Word of God, not in some mythical book or some organization. It’s found in the Word. See? Every bit of it, in the Word, ’cause I’m commissioned to That.”

3. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶236–¶238 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. 361. Brother Branham, please explain Acts 9 verse 7 and Acts 20… Acts 22nd verse. (Would you get it for me, Brother Neville.) Please explain Acts 9 verse 7. Now, while he’s getting that, I’ll see if I can get another one right quick. Are you getting tired? I know you are. Please explain the mystery of the translation of the Bride. How it will take place and where, the place, the Bride goes. Isn’t them lovely questions? That’s really nice. I’d just stand here all day… Just a minute now, verse…Acts 9 verse 7. Thank you, Brother Neville. 9 verse 7: And the man which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, and seeing no man. Now, I know where you’re going. See? Now, the next place said that they…vice versa. Now, I—I don’t know what taken place there. I just can’t tell you, ’cause the next place they heard. One, they didn’t see it, and the next place, they seen it and didn’t hear it. How many has ever seen that before in the Bible? I have, and I can’t explain it. See? I…The Lord will have to reveal it to me. I—I told you a while ago, I’d have to be honest with you. See? I don’t know. I’m sorry. If I—if I can’t explain it, I’ll be honest enough to tell you I can’t. But I—I won’t tackle it when—when I don’t know.

• ¶239–¶243 I can’t explain that, for one place it said they saw the Light and never heard the Voice, or something like that; and the next place, they saw the…heard the Voice and never saw the Light. I can’t explain it. See? I—I don’t know what happened, and I won’t know until the Lord reveals it to me; no more than I could tell you about marriage and divorce. I didn’t know until He revealed it to me. And even this morning, the Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth knows this to be the truth, this morning He finished up the whole thing, telling me about marriage and divorce. That’s right. That’s the reason I say, let me get it all together. Search… When one of those things like the serpent’s seed, when it was presented to me, I—I couldn’t see it, nothing; but I just kept following that, and the first thing you know…Then have to get way away to yourself, and then the Holy Spirit begins to open it up. Now, I want somebody try to condemn it now. See? Can’t do it. 362. Please explain the mystery of the translation of the Bride. 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 the Church is looking for a promised Son. The Bride (is that right?), the Bride is looking for the promised Son.

4. THE ONCOMING STORM — 1960-02-29

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• ¶176–¶180 God bless you, Sister…?…[Brother Branham prays with the people at the altar, many of his words are indiscernible—Ed.]…?… Oh, nevermore… Won’t you just raise up, and come down with these others standing around the altar here? Come. It’s coming to judgment now. Won’t you come? Come now, your sins confess now, you won’t have to go to the judgment. God bless this couple that just come. God bless you, sir. That’s good. God bless you, young lady. Come right on down. Come, sir. I’ve wandered far… Come on, my Spanish brother. …away from God, Now I’m coming… Won’t you raise up now, and come down here? Let’s pray. Come to the Shelter. …of sin too long I’ve trod, O Lord, I’m coming home. May I say this, just while the organ is continually playing. The Message, tonight, is a Message of love, grace, and warning. Tomorrow night, this Message may be in your ears somewhere else, a Message of condemnation and judgment. While It has mercy in It, come and receive It. Won’t you, friends? I’ve got to meet you with This, what I’ve said tonight, someday. Won’t you come? Let It speak for mercy, for you. While we sing once more, “Now I’m Coming Home,” won’t you do it? Just stay right here, sister, dear. You all stay right here if you will, just a moment. We want to have prayer with these at the altar. Just let them stay right where they are. Once more now. I’ve wandered far… Rise up, come. Won’t you? I invite you. Now I’m coming home; The path of sin too long I’ve trod, Lord, I’m coming home. Christians, pray now. Coming home…

5. AT THY WORD, LORD — 1954-02-21

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• ¶18b–¶20a Took one step, and put…?…hand and she straightened up and started walking on the platform like that, no prayer, or nothing, walked off of there, and everybody begin screaming. Along towards daylight that morning, prayed all night…And about daylight, the next morning, I noticed, and I just pass them. You didn’t have to tell them nothing no more, just—just put your hands on them, that’s all they wanted you to do. So the next morning when they, it was getting along towards daylight, Brother Brown came up and said, “Brother Branham, you’re about to faint now,” said, “I’ve got to take you out.” I said, “Well, try to get the most of them through.” I said, “What,” I said to the interpreter, “what’s worrying you? What’s them people so wet for?” Their wet plumb up around the waist here. Said, “Well, at first they thought it was false,” but said, “now,” said, “they—they’re going out into the deserts and bringing their loved ones in,” and said, “they’re not going twenty miles down here to the ford they’re just wading right across the Gila Bend River, right there coming across that way, wading the water.” And there was a—a next patient was an old man, and they had him on a board, not a stretcher like they bring patients here; it was a board, it had two limbs across it. And they had an old man laying there, gray, his legs across one limb, his arms across the other one like that, and he was shaking like that. And here stood a big fellow packing him like that. He was next in line, so he was standing packing him; he was shivering like that, and lips was real blue. And I said, “You speak English?” He said, “Leetle.” And I said, “Aren’t you afraid you’ll take pneumonia, wet like that?” Said, “Jesus Christ will take of me; I brought my daddy.” I said, “Well, that’s very sweet.” I said, “That your daddy?” “Yep.” And I said, “Do you believe if I ask Jesus to heal him…” “Yep.” I said, “Well, come on by.” The other fellow behind him passed by. No, I believe it was a woman packing, maybe his sister behind him, man and a woman.

6. THE UNCERTAIN SOUND — 1960-12-18

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• ¶483–¶486 How many has ever seen the discernment, raise your hand. All right, all of you. That’s right, so you know what it is. Now do you believe, this morning, that you’ve heard the Voice of God? Now I’m going to ask for Brother Wood, Brother Fred Sothmann, and some of the trustees, to come here just a moment. Some of you trustee brothers, or deacons, or whatever, come here just a moment. Now it’s going to be rather congested here, and I want you to help. Now to you, you people on this, my right side, that’s going to be prayed for, I want you to come on this side here. And brother, Brother Collins, stand right down in there, if you will. And come right down here, so they can come by and be prayed for. I’m going to ask you little children on this side of the altar, if you’ll go over on this side just for a few minutes, for Brother Branham; not for me, but for the Lord Jesus. Now you brethren stand here so that the people can come right through, and then—then we’ll take all on this other side. Now from this first row right here…Brother Charlie, I wonder if you brethren, David and you, if you want to come up here, or move kind of back towards the back? All right. Now the first ones here in this row, just raise up like that; just start from that side, over and against the wall, as we pray, now, when we get ready to start. Now, not yet. Then when this side over here, we’ll have you all to go back to this side; and then, and then come on out to that side, and then come down. Now the trustees and them will get you in the right position.

7. A PARADOX — 1964-04-18

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• ¶309–¶312 Said, “I went and got the prescription, filled it, brought it back.” Said, “Brother Branham, when I went to hand it out,” he said, “I looked. I put it in the hands of the Lord Jesus.” He said, “I rubbed my eyes. I looked again.” Said, “He was the One reached out and got that prescription.” Said, “Do you think I’m beside myself, Brother Branham?” I said, “No, no. ‘Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these My little ones, you have done it unto Me.’ A paradox, sure, it was. It fulfilled the Word.” There’s many, big paradox we could talk about. But, dear friends, as we close, let’s think of this. There’s one great one coming, the Rapture. Let’s all be ready for that one there. Let’s condition our souls now before God, that when that time comes, that we’ll go. When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more, The morning breaks Eternal, bright and fair; And when our chosen ones are gathered to their Home beyond the sky, When the roll is called up yonder, let’s all be there. I set at this table this morning, looking at you. You know, we may never eat another breakfast together. You know that? This may be the last time we’ll ever eat breakfast together. But there’s one thing sure, by the grace of God, we’re going to be at supper together, one of these days. I’ll look across the table there and see you. I’ll say, “Remember when we was down at Tampa?” “Yeah. That’s—that’s when I made my full surrender.” My!

• ¶325–¶328 I pray, Lord, if they’ve never been baptized with Christian baptism, that they’ll do that. Then they’ll be filled with the Holy Ghost, the Life that will guide them. For it’s in the Name of Jesus Christ we ask this. Amen. Thank you, for your kindness, way over time. And I feel that I’m responsible. If there’s any difference to be paid than what there was for the hall this morning, I’ll pay it myself. We’ll will make it right. I love Him, (Him!) I love Him Because He first loved me And purchased my salvation On Calvary’s… Notice the form of the Rapture, how it will be. We meet one another before we meet Him, ’cause, He knowed that when we got there, I’d be wondering if you were there, you wondering if I were there. “But,” the Bible said, “we which are alive and remain to the Coming of the Lord shall not prevent or hinder those which asleep. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which alive and remain shall be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, and be caught up together with them.” Oh, what a worship it’ll be that time. Now, “Caught up together with them.” Now, we become part of that before that time comes, catching up into the Rapture. Let’s just shake hands, just for a moment. Then we be dismissed, officially, just in a moment. While we sing I Love Him, let’s just shake hands with one another, say, “God bless you, brother. God bless you, sister.” I…(God bless you.)…Him… (God bless you, brother. While they are dismissing, I’ll follow, you know, keep from getting caught in the crowd, you understand.) Because…(Why, God bless you, brother…?…) He first loved me And purchased my salvation On…(God bless you, brother.)

8. SPIRIT OF TRUTH — 1963-01-18

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• ¶65–¶67 “When He, the Holy Ghost is come, He will reveal these things that I’ve talked to you about.” Now, there’s no need of trying to figure it out, any other way. He is the Author. He surely ought to know what He wrote. See? The Bible said He wrote It. “Even men of old, moved by the Holy Ghost, wrote the Word.” And if the Holy Ghost is the Author of the Word, surely He knows how to interpret It better than we do. Let Him do the interpreting of It. And you know how, the way He interprets It? Now, don’t miss these things if you’re coming to a healing service. Look. Don’t miss this. How does He interpret It? By this, by vindicating It, see, making It so. That’s what Jesus said. “Search the Scriptures. In Them you think you have Eternal Life; and They are the Ones that says Who I am. They are the Ones that speak of Me. And who can condemn Me? Who can accuse Me of sin?” Sin is “unbelief.” “If I don’t do the works that was written of Me, then don’t believe Me. But if I do the works, and you can’t believe Me, then believe the works, because the—the Word spoke of it.” See? That’s just common, everyday sense. Now, God, “Gifts and callings are without repentance.” We know the Bible says that. They do it. It’s been about, almost two years now. I was…One morning I was walking in the—the house, and had set down in a chair. Now, this seems very strange, that God would include an animal. Like some precious brother, on that vision of Heaven, of that little carrying-up I had; I believe I told you about it, once, or some meeting. He wrote me a letter the other day, and said…Business Men’s Voice packed it. Said, “It was…your vision was all right, Brother Branham, your translation. But, listen, it was all right till you said your horse, that you once rode, come put his head on your shoulder.” He said, “There is no horses in Heaven, Brother Branham. Heaven was made for human beings, not horses.” Well, I thought…

9. THIRSTING FOR LIFE — 1957-07-28

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• ¶47–¶48a Someone else would say, “Remember me, Brother Branham, in prayer. God, I’m a—I want to accept You just now, accept Your Son as my personal Saviour.” Would you put up your hand, someone else on the bottom floor? God bless you back there, my brother. Somebody… God bless you over here, my brother. God bless you down here, brother. God bless you back there, brother. That’s good. Back over to my right, the Lord bless you, back here. Somebody else now would raise your hand and say, “Brother Branham, remember me in prayer just now”? As we’re just about to close the service, say, “Remember me, I want to here accept Christ as my personal Saviour.” Would you raise your hand, saying, “Remember me, Brother Branham”? That’s right. God bless you, sister. God bless you, sister. I know there’s plenty of them in here. Would you just put up your hand? You can do that much. On the bottom floor now, will you do it before we go to the balconies? Been about fifteen. God bless you back there. I see your hand. God bless you. God bless you, my brother back there. That’s good. “Oh, Brother Branham, I know I go to church, but I—I…” God bless you, sister here. God bless you here, lady. “I go to church, but I—I know—I know I’m not right. And I want to be right. God knows I want to be right.” Will you put up your hand? The balconies to my right, someone up there say, “Brother Branham, remember me”? God bless you, young man. God bless you, lady. Someone else say…God—God bless you, lady. That’s good. “Remember me, Brother Branham, just now in prayer, as you go to prayer. I believe in you.” God bless you, brother. I now want to raise my hand and say, “I believe in Jesus Christ, and, Brother Branham, remember me in prayer. Just before you leave this building tonight, won’t you do it?” Put up your hand, and I’ll certainly do it, that God will see you. Won’t you do it? Up here’s the balcony to the right. Just one more time across. God bless you, sir, right here. I see your hand.

10. O LORD, JUST ONCE MORE — 1963-06-28

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• ¶202–¶209 And judgment is fixing to strike. I’ll say, as my friend Jack Moore said; if God lets America get by with the things it’s doing now, He’ll be morally obligated to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to it, for burning her up. Right! Judgment is next. God, take all the world out of me. Give me faith, O Lord, for a Rapture. For, there will be two in the bed, and one will be taken, one left. Two will be in the—in the automobile seat, and one will be taken and the other one be left. It’s going to happen in a moment. You say, “Brother Branham, when will it be?” You might criticize this. (If it’s all right to say it?) [A brother says, “Go ahead and say it, brother.”—Ed.] Let me drop a little something here. One day you’re going to find out! You’re going to say there, “Oh, I been taught that there is this, that, and the other, going to happen before the Lord comes. There will be a great tribulation period, and we’ll go through it.” See? See? You know, one time Jesus was asked a question. He said, “Why does the scribes say that Elias must first come?” And Jesus said, “I say unto you, he has already come, and you didn’t know it.” One of these days you’re going to say, “Well, I thought the Church was going, had to do this, that, and the other. I thought there would be a Rapture. I thought…” See, it’ll be a secret catching away. If He took one here in Hot Springs, and one somewhere else, and one down there, and one there, will make up literally millions of those that come up out of the ground. And there is at least five hundred people, every day, missed in the world, and we don’t even know where they went to. See, the Rapture is going to make up of all those who sleep in the dust of the earth, that’s right with God. They’ll say, “Well, I thought a Rapture was to take place.” “It’s already passed, and you knew it not. You are left.” See? “Well, everything is going…” Yes, sir.

11. CONDEMNATION BY REPRESENTATION — 1960-11-13

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• ¶306–¶310 And the shouts and praises will raise up, from all over the city, around different places where these people will go. “You know, I once had stomach trouble, but it’s gone. I once had so-and-so, certain diseases, but it’s gone. I just heard that Message that morning, ‘Breeding back to the Word,’ and I come back to the Word. And I believe the Word, and now I’m well.” Grant it, Father. I commit them to You, in Jesus Christ’s Name. Now with our heads bowed. I want the elder to go forward. Let the… Teddy, if you will. Some of you sing Only Believe, just as you can now. And let the ones, has passed, right to their seat, as we anoint and pray for them!…?… In the Name of Jesus Christ, I now…?… Father in Heaven, as I lay my hands upon this woman, with anointing oil still on her…

12. THE KINSMAN REDEEMER — 1960-10-02

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• ¶1–¶2 Thank you, Brother Neville. The Lord bless you. So good to be back again, this morning, back in the house of the Lord. I believe it was said, one time, “I was happy when they said unto me, ‘Let us go into the house of the Lord.’” Charlie, come out behind that post, and come up here and get you a chair. Come on up here. Sister, is there a chair back in there, somewhere, we could squeeze in? Here’s a place right up here, lady. Come right up here. Here, Charlie, come here and sit down by Banks up here, so you won’t have to stand up. Every time that boy comes from way down in Kentucky, gets up here, he stands up every morning. And we’ll get him right up here. Here’s a place here, on the end of the seat here, for someone else. [Brother Neville says, “There’s a lady back here, too.”—Ed.] There’s a lady standing up in the back, back there. Come right up here. Here’s a seat right here, sister, right up close. Come right ahead. And I suppose somebody is in the wheel chair there. Are they? [A sister says, “Brother Branham?”] Yes. [“There’s a seat right here.”] There’s another seat right over here. If someone wants one, back there in the back, right here is a seat right here. [A brother says, “And here is one, Brother Branham.”] Here’s one right up here, also, just suit yourself. [“Another one, over here.”] Yes. You can have one right here. Now, come right on, take your seats. And just feel real…

13. GOD HIDING HIMSELF IN SIMPLICITY — 1963-04-12

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• ¶302–¶307 Something happened the other day. You read, or heard the tape, “the seven thunders,” What Time Is It, Sir? See? It happened the other day. You know these things. The time is at hand, church. The time is at hand. Don’t, don’t, don’t wait any longer. See? How do you know the Rapture is not going on all the time? First thing you know, it’ll be past, one disappearing here and there. It’ll be gone, the first thing you know. And you’ll…Judgment will strike the world. You say, “Well, I—I thought this.” “It’s too late now.” Remember, they didn’t know it until the day they entered into the ark, and then it was too late. The foolish virgin didn’t know until she come back and found the wise virgin gone, then she was left for the Tribulation period. No good teacher believes that the Church, the Bride…The church goes through the Tribulation, but not the Bride. The church goes through, for purification, sure, under the sixth seal. Right. Israel does the same thing, for the hundred and forty-four thousand, but not the Bride. There’s… The Bride is forgiven. She goes straight to Glory, in a Rapture. That’s right. She, my opinion, the last member will be caught up, one of these days. It might come, and you wouldn’t know nothing about it. Remember, it’s a secret, secret catching away. “He’ll come in an hour that you think not.” You won’t know nothing about it. She’ll be gone; be too late then. You say, “I wish I would have stood.” If you ever intended to make a stand, let this meeting, at Albuquerque, let this be the time that you made the stand.

14. THE UNCERTAIN SOUND — 1961-04-15

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• ¶37–¶42 [A sister speaks in tongues, a brother interprets, “Yea, would I send My prophet weeping? Yea, would I send him seeking, lest it was for thee? Yea, I say unto thee, tonight, my people, it is I, God, that standeth before thee. Yea, would you not follow Me? Yea, was I not the—the One that loved thee? Yea, was I not He that bore thine iniquities? Yea, was I not He that suffered? Yea, wilt thou let Me cry? Yea, wilt thou let Me weep for thee? Yea, I say unto thee, tonight, fear not, for I am standing, yea, I am standing ready to receive. Wilt thou come? Saith the Lord.”—Ed.] Praise the Lord! Listen to that. Just a moment. “How long will you halt between two opinions?” You know what I did? Now, watch the story as it goes on. I walked out to the woman, standing out there. I said, “Father, forgive me.” I walked out to her, I said, “Could I set down?” She said, “Oh, hello.” She said, “I—I got company.” I said, “Lady, I didn’t mean it in that way.” I said, “I would just like to set here just a moment, until your friends return.” I seen she was drinking. And she said, “Very well.” And I told her the story that was told me by the vision. She said, “I know who you are,” she said, “You’re that Mr. Branham that’s down here in that armory building.” I said, “Yes, ma’am, I am.” She said, “I passed by your meeting the other night, I couldn’t get in.” She said, “Mr. Branham, I’m beyond hopes.” She said, “My father was a Methodist preacher, I got two daughters that’s Methodist Sunday school teachers.” I said, “What happened?” She told me the story. She said, “There’s not a hope for me.”

15. GOD HIDING HIMSELF IN SIMPLICITY, THEN REVEALING HIMSELF IN THE SAME — 1963-03-17

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• ¶370–¶375 Jesus said, “He’s already come, and you didn’t know it. But he done just what the Scriptures said he would do. He restored them, you all that received Me and believed on Me. He done exactly what the Scriptures said he’d do. And they did to him what the Scriptures said they would do. He has already come, and you didn’t know it.” Are you ready? I want to shock you a little bit. The Rapture will be the same way. It’ll be so simple, no doubt it’ll be likewise, till the Rapture will come one of these days and nobody will know nothing about it. Now, don’t, don’t, don’t get up now, but study just a minute. I’m sure enough closing. The Rapture will come in such a simple way till the judgments will fall, and they’ll see the Son of man, and they’ll say, “Wasn’t we supposed to have such-and-such? And wasn’t there supposed to be Elias sent to us? And wasn’t there supposed to be a Rapture?” Jesus will say, “It’s already happened, and you didn’t know it.” God in simplicity. See? Now, this week we’re going to get in some awful deep teaching on the Word. Now, notice, the Rapture, will be so few go in that Bride! It’ll not be… Now see how the teachers has got it? They got charts, and they go, show ten million people coming up here; all the Methodists, if it’s a Methodist preacher; if it’s a Pentecostal, all the Pentecostals coming. It will never touch it. It’ll be, maybe one leave Jeffersonville, just somebody come up missing. They’ll say, “Well, you never…” The rest of them won’t know. There’ll be one leave Georgia. See? There’ll be one leave in Africa. And let’s say there would be five hundred people, living, will go in the translation. Now, that ain’t—that ain’t the church body. This is the Bride. That ain’t the church. This is the Bride. See?

16. THE REJECTED KING — 1960-05-15

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• ¶238–¶241 Lord Jesus,…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…five little stones, f-a-i- t-h, and the slingshot of prayer. And I’m bringing back my sister from the clutches of that nervousness…?…yonder. I’m bringing her back to peace and shady green pastures and still water. I do this in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. [A sister speaks with Brother Branham—Ed.] Father God, this little girl, we’re so glad that it wasn’t muscular dystrophy. But regardless of what it is, it’s still in Your reach, Lord. And I come with the little sling of faith, and this stone. And I press this stone with all the strength that I can throw it. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may it hit the mark. May our sister be well. I do this in the Name of Jesus Christ. [A sister speaks with Brother Branham—Ed.] As this young mother, and her little offspring, a little one that she wants to meet over yonder, on the other side, in that glorious Land that I just spoke of, and they…The mother won’t live to the…raise the little fellow, and neither can the little fellow live long without Your help. But I’m coming with the sling, with all that the strength and the aim that I can take at the enemy. And in the Name of Jesus Christ, I sling this at him. They shall be well, for the glory of God. In the Name of Jesus. Amen. [A sister speaks with Brother Branham—Ed.] Oh, that’s so nice. I’m glad. Well, that ministry, then, was the greatest ministry of pointing people out. It pointed to works…?…

17. RETURN AND JUBILEE — 1962-11-22

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• ¶76b–¶79 They’re not of the world, they’re out of the world, they’re different from the world, that’s what makes them what they are. Their life is dead and they’re hid in Christ and dead in Christ and hidden by, sealed by the Holy Ghost, they’re away from the things of the world. The bondslave, from generation to generation: One woman said, “Well, I’m a Lutheran.” All right. [Brother Branham clears his throat—Ed.] (Pardon me.) “A Lutheran, my mother was a Lutheran, my grandfather was a Lutheran.” All right, bondslave from one to the other one, handed right on down, just will remain that way. You’ll never go free in the jubilee. You could preach the Word, you could see the Holy Ghost heal the sick, open the eyes of the blind, speak in tongues, interpretate it exactly what the Bible says, but you don’t know the sound of the Trumpet. Right! That’s the truth. They don’t know the sound of the Trumpet, they’ve sold out, they put their Inheritance back yonder in some walled-in city. Our Pentecostal church has done the same thing, exactly, put it right back into a roped-in city, they don’t hear the Word of God. They say, “If they don’t come this way, it don’t come to our bunch, well then it’s not the right thing, but your name’s not on our books, you can’t go in the Rapture.” Your name’s on the Lamb’s Book of Life, and it was put there before the foundation of the world, and there’s nothing can rub it out. “My sheep know My Voice, a stranger they’ll not follow.” Yes, sir.

18. THE MARK OF THE BEAST — 1956-07-15

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• ¶209–¶211 And now, upon the sovereign grace of God, upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, and upon the vindication of a worldwide ministry that You have granted to Your unprofitable servant, as an unworthy person, and one who is unable, but a believer, I now challenge this mute spirit in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And with a sincere heart, I say, come out of the man. For I adjure thee, by the living God, that you depart from him that he’ll be well. In Christ’s Name, I challenge thee to come out of the man, through the Blood of the Lord Jesus. Every eye closed, every head bowed. [Brother Branham claps his hands—Ed.] Hear me? Hear me? You hear me? He’s hearing. Now just keep your head bowed. Say, “Praise God.” [The brother says, “Praise God.”—Ed.] Say, “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Praise God.” [“Praise God.”] Now, you can raise your head. [The brother says, “Raise head.”—Ed.] Raise your head now. “Praise the Lord.” [The brother says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Hallelujah!” [“Hallelujah!”] Let us say, “Praise the Lord.” [Congregation says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] Let’s give God praise. Let’s stand up to our feet just a minute. Almighty God, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this children. I pray that You’ll anoint them. Give them the desire of their hearts by filling them with the Holy Ghost. Great signs and wonders might be done for the glory of God, through Jesus’ Name. Amen. Now, you be seated. He—he says, through the microphone, he can hear me a little through the microphone.

19. BALM IN GILEAD — 1961-02-18

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• ¶135–¶137 Hadn’t been but a little while, I went out and got some more orders and come up. And I had a place up there where somebody had went up and pushed the wires on a meter, and just running it without that, and somebody in there ironing. Why, if they had cut a wire across it, twenty-three hundred had come through there, it would kill a woman dead with a iron in her hand. So I had to go up and cut them nips off, so they couldn’t put it in straight like that. So, I just cutting it off like that, come down, and Doctor Brown was coming down the street. He said, “Hello, Billy!” And I said, “Hello there, Dr. Brown.” My, he’s a mighty fine man, Methodist preacher. And he said, “How you doing this morning?” I said, “Fine, fine.” He said, “You Baptists are really having a time up there, aren’t you?” I said, “Oh, yes, sir. We just having…” He said, “How you get that there crowd you have up there every Sunday night, Billy?” I said, “I give them pills.” And he said, “What kind of pills?” I said, “Gos-pills.” Uh-huh. And he said, and so, “Oh,” he said, “you haven’t lost any of your southern idea.” I said, “Nope, nope, that’s right.” He said, “You know what, Billy?” He said, “The other day…I’ve got five hundred members to that church down there,” and he said, “I’ve sent out five hundred cards to get those people to pledge that they would come six months out of the year to Sunday school. Within the year they would register six times in—in…they would register six months in the year, they would come.” And said, “You know how many answered?”

20. THE PILLAR OF FIRE — 1953-05-09

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• ¶51–¶52 You remember the little song? And so, I was going along humming that little song. I thought, “Now, I just about got it.” I thought: They were gathered in the upper room, All praying in His Name, They were baptized with the Holy Ghost, And power for service came; What He did for them that day, He will do for you the same, I’m so glad that I can say I’m one of them. I had my letters in my hand, and I was just a stepping down the street. I started across the street, and when I did, Something said, “Stop.” I started…“Stop.” It was Him. I thought, “Well… [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] And I walked and I walked. I was going to ask somebody where the post office was. And I just kept walking, walked right on by the hotel. I just—I just kept walking. I didn’t know where I was going, just kept on walking, walking, walking, walking. After while, I come plumb back out into a colored district. Why, the sun was way up. The plane was going to leave about eight o’clock. So I knowed I was late, and I kept looking at my watch. He just kept saying, “Walk on.” I just kept walking, and I kept on till I come way down in some little place near the river or something another. There was a lot of colored shacks along there, where colored people lived in shacks, rather. And I was going along there. And there was a beautiful…It was early in spring. The—the sun was just shining down. The sweet smell of roses around the door, you know, was blooming up. And I was walking along there and I was singing, and humming in my heart going, [Brother Branham hums “Only Believe”—Ed.] Only believe, all things are possible. I said, “Lord, my plane’s going to leave. Only believe. Only believe, only believe… And just walk on. And I thought, All things are possible, Only believe. I thought, “Where does He want me to go?” [Brother Branham hums the song] I’d been walking for, oh, fifteen, twenty minutes. And I just kept on walking. Only believe…?…

21. ESCAPE HITHER, COME QUICKLY — 1958-02-02

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• ¶8–¶10a And that was the first time that I ever heard that come. And then the other night, standing right on this platform, when I heard it, when I was praying. And now, I got one more Message, that’s tonight, before I leave the city. And I want to say this—this. I do believe that shortly, that next step in my ministry is coming up right now, which will be far beyond this now. How…Is there anybody here that remembers the first beginning of my ministry when I put my hand on somebody? You remember that? All right. How many remembers that the Lord promised right then if I’d be sincere I would know the secrets of their heart? How many knows it was said back there? See it happen? Now, there’s something else coming right now. It’s coming right away now. And it’s going to be still greater, and I think will be the last. It may not this…All of it works together just the same. But now, this afternoon I would like to call your attention to some Scripture, just for a few moments that we would speak, God willing, upon a—a subject here that we hope that the Lord will bless. And that will be found in Saint Luke, for a Scripture reading, Saint Luke and the 17th chapter and the 20th verse. I wish to read this as to get a context. [Brother Branham reads St. Luke 17:26-29—Ed.] And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat,…drink, and married wives, and they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the floods came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot, they did…(Now, watch what they did.) …they did eat,…drink, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built, And the…day—the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone—fire and brimstone…, and destroyed them all. Now, over in Genesis, the—in the Book of Genesis and in the, I believe it’s the 19th chapter and the 22nd verse, I wish to get a text.

22. THIRST — 1965-09-19

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• ¶255–¶256 [Brother Branham hums Jesus, the Light of the World—Ed.] Worship God with everything you have. When the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Oh, when they crown Him Lord of all, When they crown Him Lord of all, Lord, I want to be in that number When they crown Him Lord of all. Oh, when the sun refuse to shine, When the sun refuse to shine, Lord, I want to be in that number When the sun refuse to shine. Do you love that? Now I wonder if you got your feet converted, you don’t dance anymore, out there for the world? See? Let’s pat our feet, to the Lord, to the Lord. You, is your hands converted, you don’t steal anymore? Your lips are converted, you don’t lie anymore? Just don’t get religion in your head, get it all over you. That’s it. It takes the whole man. That’s right. Now let’s pat our feet. When the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Oh, when the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Now let’s just raise our hands. When the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, O Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. When they crown Him Lord of all, When they crown Him Lord of all, Lord, I want to be in that number When they crown Him Lord of all.

23. THE SUDDEN, SECRET GOING AWAY OF THE CHURCH — 1958-10-12

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• ¶107–¶111a You can’t expect your pastor to do it all. You can’t expect your trustee board to do it all, or your deacon board. You’ve got to make yourself ready. It’s an individual affair. And, remember, His Coming is so sudden, that the Church will go in a twinkling of an eye. And if we see sin on every hand, and judgment pending, and the battleships of God’s wrath coming, how we escape this? Signs are appearing. Jesus is coming. And great wonders are being done. Every milepost is pointing towards His soon appearing, and it’ll happen in a moment. How are we standing, this morning, as we take inventory? If we should be spoke to, this morning, and the Lord Jesus should descend from the heavens, this morning, with the Shout and the Trump of God, would we be found ready, as a church body? Would we be found ready, as an individual, to join with those who are raised from the dead, who have proven themselves ready? No matter whether we are ready or not, the Lord Jesus will come just the same, at the appointed time. We must be ready, and we must do it now. It is no time to wait. We must redeem the time and be ready. Some time ago, a story (just before closing) that struck me, as I heard it, many, many years ago. This secret Coming of the Lord; sudden, secret going of the Church. Watch! “There’ll be two in the field; I’ll take one and leave one. There’ll be two in the bed; I’ll take one and leave one.” Showing that the Coming of the Lord will not be just at any certain corner, but will be universal. “One will be in the field, working,” daytime. “The other one in a bed, sleeping,” on the other side of the world. It’ll be a universal Rapture, and will come with the Shout, with the Voice of the Archangel, and the Trump of God shall sound. And the dead in Christ shall rise. And She’ll be caught away, secretly. Oh, I love that! The great Bridegroom coming, and the Bride got Herself ready, waiting for that secret moment that She doesn’t even know, Herself.

24. THE EVENING MESSENGER — 1963-01-16

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• ¶26–¶29 Now, Father, laying upon the cots here tonight, that cannot sit up and enjoy the meeting, are those who have not this privilege. And they’ve been packed in here some way, tonight. O God, have mercy! I think, “What if that was my wife or my brother, or somebody that was a relative, that I knew real well?” It’s somebody’s, and I pray, Father, that the grace of God, with His power, will reach down in Divine deliverance for them tonight, and deliver them from these cots. May they not be in these cots any longer than this meeting tonight. May, when they leave, the cots be left behind. May the power, that raised up Jesus from the dead, quicken their bodies to new health and strength again. Grant it, our Father. Now, we know that You promised to do it. Therefore, it is written in the Scriptures, “These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.” Now, Father, that there may not be nobody in their reach, while others can reach each other, I’ll walk down in commemoration of this commandment. And, God, I’m going to expect to have a letter from them, that it was done, for I go in the Name of Jesus Christ. [Brother Branham leaves the platform for three and a half minutes to pray for those on cots, his words are not heard—Ed.] Lord, I believe, O Lord, I believe, All things are possible, Lord, I believe; Lord, I believe, Lord, I believe, All things are possible, Lord, I believe.

25. THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES — 1954-05-12

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• ¶136–¶141 Say, “Well, I don’t believe it, brother.” Well, you, it ain’t what you say, or what I think. It’s what God’s Word says. That’s what settles it. That’s the final Word. Yes, sir. He said, “If you love the world, or the things of the world, love of God is not even in you.” That’s right. And you remember that little, ol’ woman taught her daughter to tap dance, and things like that, and went down there and danced before the king, and required the head of John the Baptist; seventy of her children died as prostitutes and on gallows. You can see what it does like that. Moses’ mother stayed home, and kept him, and taught him the Word of the Lord, you see what happened to him and his. Through him come out…Abraham, and so forth, and on down. All right, just depends on what you want to do, you’re—you’re a free moral agent. You act on whatever you desire to act upon. Right. God has put before man, like the garden of Eden, the Tree of Life or the tree of death. You make your choice. See? Whatever your soul is charmed for, that’s what you’ll eat. Notice now. And they were… I want to read this again now. He was in the Spirit. The Spirit come upon him. He begin to see things. Now watch. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard… I got in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great voice,…of a trumpet,… “Trumpet.” Trumpet is an “announcement.” Gabriel, at the Coming of the Lord, shall sound the trump of God. This was God’s trumpet blowing. In other words, He is fixing to announce the Eternal destination of the world. A trumpet, what is it? “Get ready. I’m going to give you the Revelation of Jesus Christ, to give to the Church. I’ll speak to you, what will be the destination of the world, for those who receive and those who reject.”

26. IS THE ORIGINAL SEED 1 — 1962-03-18

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• ¶405b–¶411 Brother Branham tells it, ‘They all got to building little walls of partition between one another, and they can’t have a revival.’ That’s right. He’s right about that.”—Ed.] That’s just it. Brother Ed, that’s what it did. Oh, isn’t that wonderful? I like that little testimony, brother. Now the car radio is hooked up, is what they say in here, this part here. Everybody feeling good now? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Well, now, we’ll start right in now until midnight, then we’ll… [“Amen.”] We are so happy that the Lord has helped us and blessed us. Now, before we start again, let’s just have a little word of prayer to the One Who we’re talking to now. Gracious Heavenly Father, You hear the testimony of this godly, saintly, old man. Down through the age, him and his little wife, working together, and how that she had to hold onto You, and beg You to make a preacher out of her husband, and here he is. And then when he was laying there, dying, the best doctors in the country saying, that, “He’s gone. He can’t live but a few hours. It’s done. His body is eat up with cancer. He could never walk another step. The infection in his ankles, and so forth, has done took him away.” Here he is, years later, still Now we pray, Father, that You’ll let us lay out the Words this afternoon, from Thy Word. It is Thy Word, and we want to lay It out just the way It is. And then You water It, Lord, with the Spirit. We ask, as we commit ourselves, with the Message, to You, that You use us, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

27. GOD KEEPS HIS WORD 2 — 1957-03-07

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• ¶51–¶52a Up in the balconies to my right, would you raise up your hand up there? God bless you, young man. God bless you. God bless you, young fellow. I’m so glad to see them. Everybody put their hand up. But it’s them young folks, setting here listening at this Word tonight, they’re men of tomorrow, if there is a tomorrow. Put your hands up, will you? Say, “Christ remember me. Brother Branham pray for me. I now want to say to Christ, I believe You, Lord. I believe You, and I accept You.” The balcony to my rear, would you put your hand up, anyone up there? God bless you. God bless you, lady. God bless you. That’s good. God bless you over here, little lady, in the corner. That’s very fine. Would you…someone else say, “Remember me, Brother Branham, I am now…Christ is speaking in my heart, through His Word.” The balconies to my left, would you put up your hands, anyone? God bless you, lady. That’s a real…God bless you, lady. God bless you, mister. The Lord be with you. Someone else? The balconies back there in the rear, anywhere back in there? Put up your hands, say, “Christ, remember me as Brother Branham pray for me. I now want to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.” God bless you, sir. Now the balc-…Beneath the balconies on the left, on my left side. God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. That’s very fine. All along the row there, is there anyone? Put up your hand. Down in there on my left. God bless you, sir, the Spanish man. The other man setting out there in front, God bless you, my brother. Now, would someone else say, “Remember me, God, I now, here, raise my hand to Christ. I believe Him as the Son of God. I now want to accept Him, and I want a Bible experience.” God bless you. God bless you, lady. God bless you, little boy. Someone else in the entire building? God bless you there, young lady, the Spanish girl. I see you, and God sees you, surely. He even sees the sparrow.

28. WHAT DOES THOU HERE? — 1959-03-01

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• ¶134–¶137 And help this church, Lord, that they shall wait upon You, and renew their faith, and renew their strength, mount up like wings of eagles. May they be listening, Lord, not for the noise, not for the shout, but be listening for the still small Voice. Lord, in a few days, I’m climbing into a cave yonder, to wait. O God, help me, Lord. Blind me, and deafen my ears, from the things of the world, for popularity, or for fame, or for any vain thing that this world could offer. Let me stay there, Lord, till I hear that still small Voice. Then let Your servant come forth, Lord, mounting up, on the wings of an Eagle. Grant it, Lord. Bless this little church. Bless our Brother Neville. Take that sickness from his stomach, Lord, and cast it away from him. Put him in the harness, Lord, and let him come back here, renewed. “They shall renew their strength.” Grant it, Lord. Forgive us of our sins. We’re coming to the Communion table now, Lord. You said, “He that eateth and drinketh this unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.” Help us, Lord, to search out our souls, our hearts. And try us and see if there’s any unclean thing about us. If there is, forgive us, O God, as we wait humbly upon Thee. We ask it in Jesus’ Name, Thy Son. Amen. Teach me, Lord, to wait, down on my knees, And in Your Own good time You’ll answer my pleas; (That’s right.) Teach me not to rely on what others do, But wait in prayer for an answer from You.

29. HEAR YE HIM — 1956-09-30

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• ¶46–¶47a I pray today, Lord, that You’ll inspire this group today to pick up that which You have given them, if it’s no more than a voice to testify, if it’s no more…Maybe You put some sickness, or caused Satan to do it, let him put a sickness upon them to be healed. May they rise with a testimony. O God, maybe they’re healthy and they need salvation for their souls. May they rise and take salvation and fight with it with everything that they had. May they help scatter the enemy as we see that great gallant display of the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s broke. I pray, Father, that You will grant this blessing today, in Christ’s Name, to everyone. And with our heads bowed, I wonder if someone in presence now would raise your hand, say, “Brother Branham…” We can’t make an altar call here. There’s no way to do it at this time. But would you raise your hand and say, “Brother Branham, by this I appreciate…When I hear that Arnold von Winkelried…No wonder the Swiss feel of him like they do. And when I hear that Jesus broke the bands of death. He broke the bonds of bondage for me. He signed the Emancipation of the Proclamation with His own Blood. He went to death at Calvary for me. I want to, today, crucify all flesh and live anew for Him, and take what He gives me, and fight as best as I can in this great rank army of God until Jesus comes.” Will you raise your hand, say, “By this, God, I give You my sign.” God bless you, young man. God bless you, young lady. God bless you, and you, and you, and you. Oh, that’s wonderful. God bless you, sir. God bless you. Up in the balcony, is there one up there? God bless you, young lady. God bless you, sister. Yes, that’s very fine. Now, the Lord knows. Oh, when He sees that gallant display, when He sees you…Is there another before we ask prayer? Would there another? God bless you. That’s fine. That’s good. God bless you, young lady. God bless you back there, lady. God bless you, sir. Someone else, say “I’m by this…” God bless you, sister.

30. REDEMPTION BY POWER — 1954-03-29

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• ¶106–¶112 That’s good. Just march on. Don’t get scared about nothing. If you’ve accepted Christ as your Saviour, go on. “Brother Branham, I want the baptism of the Holy Ghost.” Just keep moving. Don’t fear. You say, “I’m sick now, Brother Branham. I can’t go much farther.” Don’t weary. Just keep moving on; see the salvation of our Lord! Accept it. Just move on. “How is it going to be? The doctor turned me down.” Now, the fellow done the best he could, but God hasn’t done His best yet. That’s right. Just a moment, listen at him now. All right. …the LORD, which he will show unto you to day: for the Egyptians (the assayers, the truth-…the troublemaker)… Say, “Brother Branham, if I could just quit smoking! If I could just lay down drinking! If I could just quit my stealing! If I could just quit my doing this, that, and the other.” Don’t weary. Just walk on. God will take care of the rest of it. “If I knowed I could do it, Brother Branham, I’d accept Christ right now.” Don’t you worry. Move on. Just go on. You’ll see the salvation of the Lord! …for the Egyptians who you have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. (Amen. It’s going to be settled, after a while.) The LORD shall fight for you, and you shall be a…hold your peace. And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward: (I like that.)

31. IT IS THE RISING OF THE SUN — 1965-04-18

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• ¶291–¶295 “If this Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He’ll also quicken your mortal body.” Notice, quickly now. You say, “Oh, I wish I lived back…” You live in a better time. Now if you all… I see you putting down some Scriptures. All right, put down First Thessalonians 4:16. Notice how beautiful, see. In the…“The saints, them that sleep in Christ, will God bring with Him,” see, saints in the grave, resting. Like Elijah was; some like Elisha was; see, some of them be quickened, some will be taken, some will be in the grave. They will go with Him. “The Trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. And we which alive and remaining shall be caught up together with them, to meet the Lord in the air.” The quickening Power on the living; the quicken Power on the dead. See? That same quickening Power of God presented in both of these prophets. Look at their names, are almost the same, Elisha, Elijah. See the Bride and the Groom? One of them is Mr. Jesus; the other one is Mrs. Jesus. You see, almost the same, just—just between the—the He and She. See? Elijah, and look how it’s represented here. Now, Elisha…Was taken up in the rapture, represents the Church, all right, Elijah; and Elisha rested until the resurrection. See? It’s just like a bird, needs two wings to balance hisself. See? The Church was represented right there in those two prophets. “For we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord, shall not hinder them which are asleep; for the Trumpet of God shall sound,” both wings shall come together, and we’ll fly away, hallelujah, fly away. Cause, (what?) in the living, or dead, that quickening Power still lives.

32. THE CHOOSING OF A BRIDE — 1965-04-29

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• ¶206–¶211 And as I stood there, looking, she passed on by. And you can imagine the back part of her, with nothing on, holding this in front of her as she went shimmying by, like that, to this twist, throwing her limbs out like that. And, her, oh, it was vulgar, how she was carrying on, her body shaking around like that. Now I… You say, “What does it mean, Brother Branham?” I don’t know. I’m just telling you what I seen. And when she passed by like that, I looked at her. Oh, I just got real faint. I just turned around. I thought, “God, I’m condemned. There— there’s no need of me trying any now. Just might as well quit.” Mrs. Carl Williams, if you’re setting here, and that dream that you told me about, a while ago, that you had the other night, that’s been bothering you, there it is. The steering wheel is taken from my hand. Then, I just thought, “I—I just might as well forget it.” I was gone. Then, all at once, I heard It coming again. And coming up on this side come the same Bride that went around this a way. Here come them little ladies again, and each one of them was dressed in their national garb from where they come from, like Switzerland, Germany, and so forth, each one wearing that kind of garb, all long hair, just exactly like the one at the first. And here they was coming, walking. “Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war.” And when they all passed by the preview stand where we were standing, just all at once, every eye went that way. And then they turned back, and on they went, marching.

33. THE UNITING TIME AND SIGN — 1963-08-18

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• ¶98–¶100 Jesus said, “If ye abide in Me and My Word in you, then ask what you will, it shall be done unto you.” Uniting the Bride back with the Word, which is God. The Church and the Word, not Church and the creed, Church and the Word; the Bride and the Word united together. Oh, my! What a…Restore back what? The Faith of the original pentecostal fathers, see, that had been scattered by Luther’s group. Not Luther himself; not Luther, not Wesley, not those great founders. But after their going away, there was a church raised up, and they…what they did with that then, they made a organization out of it. They accepted creeds and so forth, and away they went. And look at them today, now they’ve come into that World Council of Churches. Now, you see, but in the last days, you see, we see things happening now that has never happened before. See, it’s God’s sign, and all this uniting is the time sign. Now, we want to look at that carefully and be real sure that we get it. Leaving…they leave the true Word for denominations; to accept creed and opinions of different men instead of taking the Word. Revelation 10 said, “The seventh angel’s Message.” Now remember, that’s right at the Seven Trumpets, and there’s seven angels blow Seven Trumpets. That’s what we’re coming to next. But remember where, very specifically It said, “The angel’s…,” not the seventh angel’s Trumpet, but the “seventh angel’s Message.” See, not the Trumpet angel, the Message angel! See, the angel only sounded the trumpet, that seventh angel, the Trumpet angel. But this says, “In the days of the Message of the seventh angel,” see, when his Message is finished. See, that’s the church age Message. In this time, then he would…the Message, not the Trumpet, and “the mystery of God (that’s written in the Word) should be finished.”

34. THIRSTING FOR LIFE — 1959-04-14

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• ¶113–¶116 I’m waiting, holding off just a little while longer. Well, who would raise up their hand, say, “Brother Branham, I know I’m wrong, pray for me to have courage enough to come”? We don’t believe in going back and getting people now, I don’t do that. If the Holy Spirit can’t convince you enough that you’re wrong, to come down here and be right… Now, what if just now, you would feel something moving, this temple would go to falling in, or an earthquake had struck this city, or a bomb had struck somewhere, it’s just turning to powder, you’re going to be gone? What would you do? Are you all ready to go? God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. That’s right. God bless you. Yeah, whole family coming. That’s good. Come. That’s right. God bless you, lady. Come right on down now to the altar. Listen, it’s the most gallant thing that you ever done, was to come to Christ. If you’re not sure you’re right with God, don’t wait too long. There’s going to be a resurrection one of these days, and Jesus is coming. I… You say, “I’ve heard that for a long time, Brother Branham.” But this may be the last time you ever hear it. Remember, this may be the end of the time for you tonight, you may never have an opportunity. Before morning, you may be pressing a dying pillow, and the veins cooling off in your arms. Come. That’s right. That’s right. Come right out. That’s good.

35. THE INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST — 1965-11-25

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• ¶350–¶354 Will you come? Now there’s people kneeling around the altar here. Why don’t you get up and come? You’ve wanted to do it. You’ve tried it. Just think of Brother Lyle Palmer, our good, precious brother. He was setting in the yard, so I understand, looking at his little girl playing croquet out there, or something, and he pitched over in the chair and was dead before he could even make a move. You don’t know what time you’re going to leave here. You just don’t know what time that you’re going. It may be yet, tonight, so why not come and settle it now? Come on, people. Can’t you feel Something tugging at you? I—I know there’s many of you here that should be right here at the altar, and just this six or seven people here is not what is setting in here. Now, if you believe me and watch here at the platform, things happening, you believe me now. One day my voice will be stilled. You won’t hear it no more. You might wish you would have come. You say, “But, Brother Branham, I been a church member.” That don’t make any difference what you’ve been. So had—so had Nicodemus been a church member. So had John, Peter, James, Paul, all the rest of them been church members. Paul was a church member until something happened one night, or one day it was, and he come. He was a changed church member then, to a son of God. Won’t you come? Oh, he was trained. He was intellectual. He knowed he was trained, one of the greatest-trained schools there was, Gamaliel, one of the finest teachers there was in the land. But he knowed he needed something.

36. GOD KEEPS HIS WORD — 1957-01-15

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• ¶24–¶27 So we…This was—this was dinnertime for us. And so we went out there, and they had a great, oh, a beautiful place, hundreds of acres where the students could work their way through and so forth, pay their tuition. And he had seventy-something students setting there. And we, after we had our dinner, he said, “I want to ask you a question, Mr. Branham.” I said, “Yes, sir?” And I thought, “Oh, my, here it comes now, Lutheran dean.” He said, “I’ve been down to the Pentecostals, and see them kick the furniture around, and everything like that.” Said, “I want to ask you, is anything to it?” I said, “Yes, sir, there is.” I said, “It’s like a little kid, when he gets a toy, he just falls.” And I said, “Like Ezekiel said, there’s a valley full of dry bones. He said, ‘Can these live?’ He said, ‘Thou knowest.’ So he said, ‘Prophesy to the dry bones.’ And when the bones come together, there was a rattling and a shaking, lot of noise. But then, when the skin come on them, the meat come on them, there wasn’t much noise. He said, ‘Prophesy to the spirit now.’ See? I think that’s what’s going on. See?” So I said, “They…I see them make a lot of noise.” I said, “I think the bones are coming together.” And so, he said, “We’re hungering and thirsting for God.” I said, “That’s fine.” Said, “And we want you to tell us how to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.” He said, “Now,” said, “we believe that—that in, we receive the Holy Ghost when we believe.” And I said, “Well, did you ever read Acts 19?” And he said, “Yes.”

37. THE WATER BAPTISM — 1961-01-20

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• ¶135–¶137 The Spirit of God, like a dove, descended, and a Voice from Heaven, which was above Him, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell.” Really, the right translation (They got the verb before the adverb, like all the foreigner.) is, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell in.” Or, “Whom I am pleased to dwell.” “In Whom I am pleased to dwell.” That was God coming into Jesus, and in Him was the Fulness of the Godhead bodily. And there is your Father, Son and Holy Ghost: in the Name of Jesus Christ. Sure. Do you get it? There is no—there is no place in the Bible, speaks of three, it being three gods. There’s no such a thing. It’s absolutely pagan. It come from pagan. [A sister says, “Well, that does away with that trinity.”—Ed.] Yes. Well, surely, it…there…they… it’s just as—it’s just as bottomless as hell is. See? There’s no such a thing. [A sister says, “Billy Graham needs that.”] What say? [“Billy Graham needs that.”] Well, he wouldn’t…?…it. [A sister says, “I needed it too…?…”] Look, listen. It’s revealed to those who God calls and is predestinated by His foreknowledge. “All My sheep hear My Voice.” See? Look at them Jews standing there, just as scholarly as they could be, and Jesus showing them He was Messiah by Messianic sign. They said, “He’s Beelzebub.” How could…? They were blinded. Yeah, and a little ragged shepherd or a—or a fisherman down on the river, said, well, they knowed Him. See? He just…God has a way of doing things and we just have to cope with His way. I…Just be thankful that your eyes could be open to see truth.

38. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE SEALS — 1963-03-24

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• ¶337–¶339 Now, there will be a carry-over time, of course, one Message carrying to the other one. It has to come right in like this, you see, as I explained that, see; like Paul to the Gentiles, and so forth. All right. 207. After the Rapture has been taken place, will any of the church be saved in the end, who was not taken in the Rapture? 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, not after the Church is gone. 208. Brother Branham, I noticed you, your referring to Daniel’s seventy weeks on the First Seal Message. I understand, on Daniel, on the tape of Daniel, when the Gospel returns to the Jews, the seventy weeks will begin. Is there a one seventy… one week, seven years, left for the Jews? Or, yet, is there only one half week, one three-and-a-half years left for them? Only one half week. Jesus prophesied, the first half week, as was predicted. Only one half week left for them. ON THE SEALS 51 Brother Branham, since you didn’t pray for the sick during the week, will you…? (That’s just a request for that.) Brother Branham, will you see me after the ser-…? (That’s a request, see, there.) 209. 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?

39. IMAGES OF CHRIST — 1959-05-25

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• ¶189–¶191 Now, I wish you would, just as soon as it’s dismissed, as quick as you can, to…out of the building. We got about a half hour’s of rehearsal here to take place. And some of the men are working. And we’re going to bow our heads. And I believe I heard Brother Junie Jackson back in the audience. Brother Junior, are you here tonight? The brother from New Albany, Methodist church. All right. Brother Jackson will you dismiss us in a word of prayer? [Brother Jackson begins praying. Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…?… to be in the wedding, come forward right quick now. The Lord bless you. We’ll see you tomorrow night. Child of sorrow and of woe; It will joy and comfort give you. (…?…)