Satan’s Eden no 15
Questions and Answers
African Ministers Meeting - French
Saturday November 13, 2021
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
Question 1. What is the third pull,
the first time I heard Brother Branham talk about it, is in Sabino Canyon, what
is he trying to tell us?
Answer 1. First of all
if you will notice there are several examples brother Branham mentions
concerning the third pull. So let’s review each one of them.
First we have the Kings Sword appearing in his Hand, and he
tells us the Sword represents the Word of God.
What
is the attraction? 65-0725E P:62 I went up in the canyon, climbed plumb up where the
eagles was flying around. I was watching some deer standing there. I knelt down
to pray, and raised up my hands, and a Sword struck my hand. I looked around, I
thought, "What's that? I'm not beside myself. Here's that Sword in my
hand, bright, shiny, glistening in the sun." I said, "Now, there's
not people in miles of me way up here in this canyon. Where could that come
from?"I heard a Voice, said, "That's the King's Sword."I
said, "A king knights a man with a sword."He, the Voice come back,
said, "Not a king's sword, but 'THE King's Sword,' the Word of the Lord."
Said, Fear not, it's only the Third Pull. It's the vindication of
your ministry."
Hebrews 4:12 “For the
word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged
sword, it penetrates even to dividing
soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it
judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
Ephesians 6:17 Take the helmet of
salvation and the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God.
So number one the Third pull is the Word of God. Not “has to do with the Word
of God.” But the third pull is the Word of God and it is alive and active and
made manifest in a living situation.
Anointed
ones at end time 65-0725M P:189 Notice the very day when this messenger, not when he
starts on the, but when he begins to declare his Message. See? The First
Pull, healing; Second Pull, prophesying; Third Pull, the opening of the Word, the mysteries
revealed. No more... There's no more higher order to reveal the Word than
prophets. But the only way the prophet can be a-vindicated is by the Word. And remember
the Third Pull was the opening of them Seven Seals to reveal the hidden Truth
that's been sealed in the Word. Do you see it? It is then, in that day when
this thing is to take place that Jannes and Jambres, the impersonators, will
appear again, just like they did when Moses appeared with the original Word to
say it; they appear to impersonate it. Just exactly right. Now, you see what Matthew
24:24 is? See? Anointed ones.
He said the Third pull was the opening and revealing of the seven Seals.
He called it the opening of the Word and the revealing of the mysteries, and it
shows how it is the Word of God in an active and living situation. The Word revelation
means the manifestation of Divine Truth.
Now, the next quotation William Branham was asked if the third pull would
be used to change our bodies, and I want you to list carefully to his answer.
Questions
and answers COD 64-0823M P:86 248... 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)
Now, that was not brother Branham thoughts, that was just Br. Branham
reading a person’s question. But listen carefully to his answer because the
answer tells us exactly what it is.
Now, my dear
friend. See? Now, I think here that 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, Not polishing
up what you said, but I believe I can make it a little clearer to people.
See? You are believing, because of the Spoken Words and things like that
that He said about. And all of you here witnessed the squirrels and
all these other things that’s been done. But did you notice, that was
Sovereignly given. I never asked Him, “Lord, let me do this, speak
these things in like that, do these things there.” I never asked Him that.
He by His own Divine will came to me and said, “You go do this.” See? I
wasn’t asking one thing about it. Moses never asked to go down in
Egypt, but was God that sent him down to Egypt. See?
So before we go one more second with talking about the third
pull, get it out of your head that at the time of the squeeze the bride will
have the third pull and she will do this or that. She can only do what God
wills and does and then we step into what he is showing us to will and do.
Philippians 2:13 “For it is God working
in you both to will and to do His good pleasure.” Not you good pleasure.
So just get it out of your mind any thought of how you are
going to have the power of the spoken word to do whatever you want to happen,
God has never worked that way.
Next we see the time when the third pull was used to bring
Hattie Wrights boys to repentance and give them eternal Life.
Unveiling of God 64-0614M
P:35 Look at that Syrophenician woman run to Him and said, “Thou Son of
David, have mercy on me.” He never as much as raised His head. She had no
claims on Him as Son of David; she was a Gentile. No more than my daughter has
claims on me as husband, or my wife as daughter. Yet, she is my daughter and my
wife; she’s my daughter in the Gospel. But earthly she has no rights to call me
a father. See? Now, notice, this Gentile woman had no claims on Him as Son of
David. But blind Bartimaeus did (See?); he was a Jew. Now, He came as Son of
man. You have to know these words and these things. Look at Hattie Wright
that time when this third pull... You remember it. Of all the
everything, that woman said the right thing. You’ve got to say
that right word, the right thing to God.
Now, the
illustration here with sister Hattie Wright is that he was talking about a few
instances in Scripture when the right words were spoken to Jesus which created
the right atmosphere for him to speak the Word of Life to the person who had
created that right atmosphere by their words spoken. So their speaking the
right words created the atmosphere for the third pull to work. And I believe
that is what brother Branham is talking about when he speaks of the squeeze and
the third pull.
Look away to Jesus 63-1229E
P:16 So now, I am going to say something to you now, that I haven’t said all
along. And that is, the thing that we have looked forward to for so long,
or at least many years, four or five years or maybe longer, the third pull has
now been vindicated, and I’m sure you all know what it is. Now, remember, there’ll
never be any impersonation of that, ‘cause it can’t be. It cannot be. Now, it’s
in existence, and I am warned of this, that soon, right at this time now,
it’s just happened, so it could identify its presence among you. See? But it will not be used in a great
way, until
this council begins to tighten up. And when it does, when that
does... The Pentecostals and so forth can almost impersonate anything could be
done, but when that time comes, when the squeeze comes
down, then you’ll see what you have seen temporarily, be manifested
in the fullness of its power. See?
So it does not
say anything about the third pull being in the bride, it just says when the
time comes and the time will be identified by the council tightening and the
squeeze coming down. Now, get it out of y9our head that the bride will have the
third pull, because he does not ever say that. This is the third pull of His
ministry. That is what the angel told him. But it will be for the bride.
Look away to Jesus 63-1229E P:17 Now, I must continue in evangelism, just
as I was commissioned first; I must continue on. Therefore, you’ve had
the Word, and you know what to look for, how to
stand. I must continue on in evangelism. And friends of mine, keep
still and just keep moving on, for the hour is approaching swiftly
(See?), that when something is going to be done. Now, you might see some little
odd things happen from me, nothing sinful, I don’t mean that, but I mean
something odd to what the regular trend, because what I have reached to now in
the ministry, I’m dropping back here, watching that spot and waiting
for the time to use it. But it’s going to be used. And
everyone knows that for as certain as the first was identified, so has the
second been identified; and if you’ll think real closely, you who are
spiritual (as the Bible said, “Here’s to him who has wisdom.”) the third is properly
identified. See? We know where it is. So the third pull is here.
So before we read on, notice he was told his
ministry was made up of three pulls. The first one was identified, the outward
sign in the hand, the second was identified the thought of the heart would be
made known. And he said the third has been identified as well. Now, where I
disagree with most all in this Message is that I do not believe the third pull
has anything to do with the bride speaking the Word and imparting life, or
creating anything. That was his ministry. But it is for us in that it will be
used for us, for our benefit when it is used by him.
Brother
Branham continues here so lets listen carefully to what he says,
18 It
is so sacred that I mustn’t not say much about it, as He told me in the
beginning. Said, “This,
say nothing of it.” You remember that years ago? It speaks for
Itself. See? But I’ve tried to explain the others, and I made a
mistake. This will be the thing that, to my opinion (I don’t say the Lord tells
me this.), this will be the thing that will start the rapturing faith for
the going away. See, see? Now, and that... I must lay quiet for just
a little while. Now, remember (and who’s listening to this tape) you
might see such a change in my ministry right away, dropping back... Not going
up, dropping back... We’re right at the age now, and it can’t go any
further. We have to wait here just a minute until this happens over here to
catch up, then
the time comes. But it’s thoroughly identified.
Now, he tells us what has to happen first in his next statement.
19 There’s coming a time upon, in this nation, to where this nation is going to exercise all the power that the beast had before (which was pagan Rome, when it become papal Rome. See?) that this nation will do that. Revelations 13 plainly explains it. The lamb came up out of the earth. The other beast came up out of water, thickness and multitudes of people. This lamb came up where there was no people. A lamb represents religion—the Lamb of God. And remember, it spoke like a lamb; it was a lamb, and then after while it received power and spoke like a dragon, and exercised all the power the—the dragon—power the dragon had before him; and the dragon is Rome always. So don’t you see, Roman denomination, a marked Protestant denomination, an image unto the beast, making a power that’ll force all Protestants like a union. You’ll have to be into this council of churches, or you won’t be able to have fellowship or to... Well, it’s practically that way now. You can’t go to a church and preach, ‘less you have a fellowship card or some identification.
Hmmmm!!! And what is a fellowship card? It’s a
card that allows you to fellowship, or some identification he said.” I ask
the question, could that be the “vaccine passport”? Have we already seen
this take place? Is it later than we think?
Notice he says
what we are waiting on to happen is for the USA to take its role in Revelation
13 and speak for the Dragon which is Rome. So it won’t be Rome speaking, but
the image of the beast which is the USA. Again we must go back to what brother
Branham said in Jezebel Religion to see that they can’t get it done through
religion, so they must turn to politics and there they will get it done, and to
bring on the boycott and the mark of the beast.
And notice he
says that is what we are waiting on to happen before the Third pull will be
used in it’s power. And we are there my friends, so the only thing we need to
be looking for is the resurrection so our prophet and his third pull may become
manifested in its full power. Its not you and me using the third pull, it his
third pull. You and I have not even had the first two pulls much less a third
pull. Its his ministry, not our but it will be for us.
20 And now, on persons
like ourselves, we’re going to be cut out of all that altogether.
That’s exactly, because they won’t be able to do it. It’s tightening;
and then when that time comes, and the press comes to a place to where you’re
pressed out, then watch (what I am fixing to tell you in a
few minutes) watch
the third pull then. It’ll be absolutely to the total lost,
but it will be for
the Bride and the church. Now, we’re closer than it seems to be.
I don’t know when, but it’s real, real, close. I may be building a
platform for somebody else to step on. I may be taken before that time. I
don’t know. And that time may be this coming week that the Holy Spirit will
come with, and bring Christ Jesus. He may come this next week. He may come yet
tonight. I don’t know when He will come. He doesn’t tell us that. But I do
believe that we are so close, that I would never die with old age. Yet at
fifty-four years old, I’d never die with old age until He’s here. See? Unless I
am shot, killed, or something, or other, some way killed; just old age
wouldn’t kill me, until He’s come. And I believe that... And I want to say
this; I have never said it before, but according to Scripture, according
to what He said thirty years ago, thirty-three years ago on the river down
there (in 1933, rather), what He said, everything has happened just exactly. I
may not do it, but this message will introduce Jesus Christ to the world.
“For as John the Baptist
was sent to forerun the first coming, so is the message to forerun the second
coming.” And John said, “Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the
sin of the world.” See? So it paralleled it in every way, and
I know it will. The message will go on.
Now, brothers,
Jesus Christ the Word made manifested to us , the Son of Man has appeared.
Remember there is the appearing before the coming, and we have already witnessed
the appearing of the Lord which is the Parousia of Christ and of the 84 signs
and events which constitute that appearing we have already witnessed 79 of
them, so it is later than you think.
Souls in prison now 63-1110M P:160 Tape people, that’s you
that’s listening to this tape, I wish you could look at this congregation
at this time. I hope you’re feeling the same way. What if it is? Look at the
Scriptures piled in here. Could it be? Is the Third Pull to preach to the
eternal doomed that’s rejected the message of salvation? “Why,” you
say, “the church is going...”Yeah, they will. They’ll go right on just the
same. But remember, all this time Noah was in the Ark. The Bride is
sealed in with Christ. The last member has been redeemed. Sixth Seal
has produced itself. The Seventh Seal brings Him back to earth. The Lamb come
and took the Book out of the right hand of Him and set down and claimed what He
owned, what He had redeemed. That right? It’s always been that Third Pull.
Now, he asks
the question, to the Tape people,. Those listening to the tapes. Is the
preaching on those tapes to the totally lost? Remember, in Matthew 25 the
foolish virgin listened to the midnight cry, they hear the invitation come out
of he my people, and they came out of the denominational system along with the
bride, but when they came out to meet the bride Groom they were looking in the
wrong dimension, and so they looked and did not see the appearing before the
coming, and so they missed the Parousia of Christ and went to seek the Holy
Ghost to be able to see the coming of the bride Groom who is the Word but they
looked for the flesh man and they missed the invitation. The Invitation was “Behold he is Here
come out to meet Him.” And instead of looking for the Word they
looked for the physical body and therefore because they looked for the vessel
and did not see that God is Spirit and He is here just as real as He was when
he was in the body of His Son, they missed it and went to them that sell.
Audio letter to Lee Vayle 64-0500
P:68 And so when I was setting there, all at once, a voice begin to speak to
me. Said, “Well, where do you think that your visions come from?” See? “Were
they included by the atonement?” See? And I begin to answer back, not thinking.
And all at once, I kinda come to myself that I was talking to Somebody there in
the woods. And there was nobody around me. And I thought, “What was that?”And
then just a few minutes I thought, “Well, I’m not sure. I’m not beside myself.”In
a few minutes, here it was again, talking to me. It said, “You have been given
power for this.” See? And Lee, you don’t have to put this. It was leading up
to the third pull. You see? So you know what I mean. So but, It said, “You’ve
been given power for this. This is bringing the third pull.”And I said, “Well,
there’s no sick people here.” See? And so He said, “But you’re hunting, and you’re
in need of squirrels.” He said, “Just say where they’ll be, and which a way
they’ll come, and they’ll be there.”So I thought, “My.” I studied a little
bit.
Now, this story here is of when He was told to speak
the squirrels. He wasn’t asking God for them, but God told him
In this next
quote we get another indicator of when the third pull will be used, he says
when the hour of persecution begins.
Shalom 64-0112 P:116 And we all know
that the identification, we know what the third pull is, we all—we all
understand that. Now, you’ll have the tape. You see? And it’s... Now, I
think it’ll just lay dormant for a little while, until the great hour of
persecution comes on. That’s when It’ll speak. It’ll be manifested. Just like
the five straight signs without failure, perfectly.
From his
sermon Shalom 64-0112 P:76 brother
Branham lets us know that the third pull will follow after John 14:12. It will
be the greater works that Jesus speaks of in John 14:12. “Then one time He said about the Third Pull, how
it would come by this one way, then by knowing the heart, and then the
spoken Word. Jesus said, "Greater
things than this will you do; for I go to My Father." John 14, "The works that I
do, shall you do also; greater than this, for I go unto My Father." Just as I said awhile ago, when Mary tried to
identify Him as Joseph's son, He corrected her. His Words cannot fail.
He said so, "Heavens and earth will
fail, but My Words will not."When we
hear the sympathy beating, changing, fixing to change, it's a junction time.
We notice as He begin to beat, and we seen, "The works that I do, shall you do also, and greater shall you
do." "Greater," He
promised it. We wondered how it could be.
Now, her e it is very plain that brother Branham is referring
the third pull to the greater works. Son would have you to believe that is the
sign of Messiah is the greater works, but the greater works was creating by the
spoken word the squirrels, and by the spoken word the Life coming back into the
fish, just like Jesus Third pull was by the Spoken Word calling Lazarus from
the grave having been dead for four days and corruption has already set in.
Therefore outside
of the Seals being revealed which he said was by the third pull, and the Sword
which represented the Word we see there
were three manifestations of the third pull given to us,.
1) The most famous is the three squirrels spoken into existence
2) The dead fish given life
3) Hattie Wrights boys given life
Notice that all three things involve the Spoken Word and the other
ting they have in common is upon the spoken Word there was an imparting of
life. He also spoke to us about the tent ministry and the little box, where the
angel said watch the resurrection in there.
Now, we have already looked at the signs or indicators for the
season it will be used, and we know the third pull will come into its full
effect at the time when the council of churches begins to tighten and at the
time when the Squeeze is on, and the time when the persecution begins, and also
at the time when the USA takes over doing the dirty work for Rome as he pointed
out that the beast in Revelations
13 will execute the plan for the beast of Revelations 17. So this confirms the quote from Jezebel Religion.
Now in The
Seventh seal 63-0324E P:98 Brother Branham tells us
the place where the third pull will be manifested in its fullness. “And just then He
picked me up. And He took me up and set me way up high to where a meeting
was going on, looked like a tent or a cathedral of some sort. And I
looked, and there was a little box-like, little place over in the side.
And I seen that Light was talking to somebody above me, that Light that you see
there on the picture. It whirled away from me, like that, and went over to
that tent, and said, "I'll meet you
there." And said, "This will be the third pull, and you won't tell it to nobody."And
in Sabino Canyon, He said, "This is the
third pull." And there's three
great things that goes with it, and one unfolded today, or yesterday,
the other one unfolded today, and there's one thing that I cannot interpret,
because it's in an unknown language. But I was standing right there and looked
right straight at it, and this is the third pull coming up. And the Holy
Spirit of God... Oh, my. That's the reason all heaven was silent.
And we read
also from his sermon Why are people so tossed about
56-0101 P:18 Then He taken me from there, and I seen a great huge tent.
I never seen such a tent. And it was packed and lined everywhere with
people. And I walked out to the... Looked like I was standing above the
people, looking down, where I'd just made an altar call; and hundreds and
hundreds of people were weeping and rejoicing after they had accepted the Lord
Jesus as their Saviour. And I looked, and then heard a man get up and say,
"Call the prayer line." And people begin to line up over on this
side, the left from where I was looking down towards the platform, and they
lined all the way up and down the street for a prayer line. I noticed to my
left, which would've been to my right if I was on the platform, a little
wooden building. And I seen that Light, that they have the picture of, you
know, that's always in the meetings; I seen that Light leave me, and go to
that building, and go in that building; and a Voice said to me,
"I'll meet you in there; that'll be the
third pull."I said, "Why?"He
said, "Well, it won't be a public show like they had it." And
I came to.
So
my brethren, we have a lot to look forward to, but just remember, this is his
third pull of his ministry nut t will be for the bride. So do not try to rush
God, just be patient and wait until all these factors are in place, which we
can see them setting up now, so be patient, and pray that you will be a
partaker of that when the resurrection meetings take place.
The second question
we have this morning is: What is the
link between the coming 7 angels, the 7th seal and this 3rd pull?
Answer no
2: I just explained that.
3. Who was this angel with the pointed wings and bulging
breasts who most attracted Brother Branham's attention?
Answer to Question 3) I
do not know
Question
number 4. Can I have quotes from the prophet, saying
that one should confess his sins in the waters of baptism before being
baptized, in other words, if the sinner is to name his sins of lying, adultery,
killing, etc… at the river before being baptized?
Answer no Four. I
cannot give you any quotes because as far as O know there are none. The person
is not to wait until they are in the water to do so, they come to the water
having already repented, and made right what they needed to make right. Then
they ask to be baptized. Your sins are not to be mentioned in public. I know
many preachers like to hold over a person their old sins, but brother Branham
said that if you have covered your sins under the blood, then whoever takes
them out from under the blood is guilty of that sin. So the answer is no, my
brother you do not wait until you are in the water to confess all. The Bible
tells us in secret make your
Matthew 18:15“Moreover if
thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone:
if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.”
We see in the Epistle of James 5:14-16 “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the
church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the
Lord: 15 And the prayer of
faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be
forgiven him. And
then he says, 16 Confess your faults one
to another, and pray one for another,
that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much.”
Now, no where
does this tells us to confess our sins openly. That is a wrong teaching and
leads to adultery and much worse. I knew a church back in the 70’s who taught
open confession at their communion services, and insisters in the church would
confess a lust for a brother and visa versa, and all that did was lead to
adultery. And wife swapping.
Now, that is
not just second hand. Three times I had a sister in that church come to me and
confess they had lusted after me, one time in the vestibule of my church as I
was walking out, a sister asked me to pray for her, and I turned around to see
who it was and she had a baby strapped to her back and her husband was standing
right behind her, and I said, “yes sister, what do you want me to pray for you
about? And she said, “I have been lusting after you.”
Wheew, I
couldn’t get out of that place any faster than my feet would take me.
After that I had a Tailor take out the seams in my
pants to make my pants as baggy as I could wear them, and I cut my hair real
short to make myself as un attractive as possible. I was just a single guy, and I didn’t know
what else to do. But three times, from sisters in that church, and it was not
my own church but a sister church to ours. I am just so glad to be removed from
that kind of atmosphere.
Matthew 6:6 But
thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy
door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in
secret shall reward thee openly.
Matthew 6:4 That
thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall
reward thee openly.
Ephesians 5:12 For it
is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Question number 5. Is
there a risk that a spouse, being vaccinated against Covid19, can infect his partner?
Answer number 5.
Absolutely they can, so don’t get the jab and don’t let your wife get it
either. There is more people being hospitalized having had both jabs than there
are people who have had none. Stay away from that jab, it is a death jab. If
your wife will lose her job then its better to hunt for another job than to try
to get another life. Because they are playing Russian roulette with the COVID
death jabs they call a vaccine. But it is not a vaccine, it is filled with many
things which should never be in a vaccine.
There is Graphene found in it, Luciferin, and the mRNA over writes your
own DNA and causes it to produce the Spike proteins which is what made people
with the COVIDSAR-II virus sick in the first place. That is what is tearing up
the lining of their brain, and lungs, and heart and uterus and pancreas, and
liver and kidneys. And each of those organs are now producing the spike
proteins so the body’s immune system
wants to attack its own organs as an invader and this is causing autoimmune
problems. Its deadly and you just need
to teach the people to stay as far away from it as you can. Don’t walk in fear
because that is what they want you to do. But just be smart and say no to
drugs. And these injections are not vaccines they are experimental drugs.
Question number 6. Luke 1.35 The angel answered him,
The Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will
overshadow thee. That is why the holy child who will be born from thee, will be
called the Son of God.
And Jesus confirms it in John 10:36 He that the Father has
sanctified and sent into the world, you say to him: You blaspheme! And this
because I said: I am the Son of God.
Now, the prophet said
in the Seven
Church Ages, that down through the ages God has acted as
the Son of God in the form of the Holy Ghost. I think the term "Son of God"
applies to Jesus, as the Man of flesh Can you make it more clear to us ?
Answer no 6. Many
times it sounds like William Branham is talking like A Trinitarian when he says,
“He was Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” But never forget what Jesus Himself said in John 5:19 and 5:30
John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of
himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth,
these also doeth the Son likewise. 20 For the Father loveth
the Son, and sheweth him all things that
himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may
marvel.
John 5:30 I can of mine own self
do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not
mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Notice how the Father acted out in the vision for the son to
follow his example. So what the Father was doing was show the son how to act his
role as a son.
Questions number 7. The Prophet says in the Seven Church Ages, that we will be
changed or transformed in our bodies, even in atoms. So what would happen to
our loved ones in this Message, who have bodily infirmities, will they have
them on the other side?
Answer number 7) No
they will not have infirmities in their glorified bodies. They will be made whole, complete, no more infirmities, back
to youth, young, not old, not broken, “God is the healer of all our diseases.” That settles it. God did not make them with infirmities,
the devil did that, and God will correct all the errors. I cannot believe
anyone could think that they will have infirmities for an eternity, what kind
of a loving God would do that. Not my God.
Question
no 8. Will the Bride witness the Persecution and
the Tribulation?
Answer no 8: We have a promise from Jesus in John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and
believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into the
judgment; but is passed from death unto life.
Have not I sent thee 62-0124 P:24 And tonight we're safely, completely
resting in the atonement that our Lord made for us, knowing this, that when the
judgment comes, that we'll float above the judgment. We'll be taken out of the
world and will not have to stand the judgment, for our Lord promised
us in St. John 5:24, "He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has
Eternal Life, and shall not come into the judgment; but has passed from death
unto Life."Not a wandering soul when we die; we're in
the Presence of God. Not a wandering through a endless eternity, lost, to know
we have to return back and be judged according to the deeds done in the body,
but, Father, tonight we have settled that at the altar, and our sins has gone
on before us, and been justified by the Blood of Jesus Christ, with the
proof of it, God poured back the Holy Spirit upon us, and we're sealed now unto
our eternal destination.
Questions and answers COD
64-0823M P:154 276. Brother Branham, will the Bride go through the
persecution as the early apostolic church did?No, I just explained that a few
minutes ago. No,
next thing is a rapture now..
Feast of the trumpets
64-0719M P:75 Well, what has it done? In the cunningness, as He
said, he'd come in like flatteries. And what has he done? He's bringing the
Protestant ecumenical council of the world churches, the spirit of antichrist,
upon both of them, bringing them to the slaughter, just like they did the
other in a hour to call the Bride. How? Loosed in the ecclesiastical
church, spirit. Loosed upon what? Not upon the denominations, upon the
Bride. But here you'd get it; the Bride will not go through that time. The Bible says
not. The church
will, but not the Bride. Can't you see? Ministers, can't you see
that, brethren? You say the Church has to go through the persecution for the
perfection of it. The
Blood of Jesus Christ perfects the Bride. A man who chooses a
wife don't put her through a lot of punishment; he's already found grace with
her; she's found grace with him. He engages to her. And if there's anything,
he'll keep her from every place to turn her hand. His grace is so great upon
them, and so will it be upon the Bride, and so is it on the Bride.
Questions and answers COD
64-0830M P:168 374. If the church is saved even though she does not go
in the rapture, as I believe you taught, she must go through the tribulation
for purifying. But what about these that are dead, how will they be purified? All
right. Those that have that... The Bride don't need no purification; She's already purified.
And those that are dead back there, these that go through... See? They never
received the Light that these church up here has received; they lived under
their justification, sanctification, so forth like that. They lived to the
Light that they had. Maybe in a way that they suffered, and whatever they went
through with, and their persecutions... But now, in this rapturing time like
this (See?), there will have to come a time now that this bride will--that
rejects the Head's part of the Bride--will have to suffer for her rejection,
because the Gospel wasn't made plain to them back there, like it's made
plain to you today. See? You see it so plain. You done had all of those
years and examples, the Seals opened, the church's age laid out, and everything
like that. It's just so plain you can't miss it. See? And then, if
you fully reject it, there's only one thing do, suffer for it.
Questions and answers COD
54-0103E P:26 Now, there'll be... The first that'll take place
will be the--the coming of the Bride. There will be people in the world... You
might different a little with this, but listen close. Just because that you
accepted Christ as personal Saviour, that doesn't mean that you're going in the
rapture. That's for the elect, that'll go in the rapture. There'll
be a remnant left here on earth that'll go through the persecution and the
great tribulation.
Seventy weeks of Daniel
61-0806 P:54 Remember, in this great time of persecution, there's
millions of Gentiles will die in that, that rejected bride, that--that remnant
of the woman's seed, sleeping virgin. She goes right through that. It's--it's
just as clear as this seventy of weeks, just as clear. And they will go through
it. So if you haven't got the Holy Spirit, you'd better get to It as quick as
you can. We're at the end time.Now, notice, seven church ages... Now, I won't
have to go through them, because we've got them on tape; and they're being put
in books and everything, that that was the time that... God never said there'd
be so many days, so many hours, or so many years; He never said anything; He
said, "Until the Gentile dispensation be finished," until... The
walls will be trod down, until God quit dealing with the Gentiles.
Question no 9. What shall we do, to be a good father?
Answer no 9. Love
the Lord Jesus Christ with all your soul, strength and mind, and teach your
children to love him the same. Of course there are the earthly things of
providing their needs, but the bible says “train up a child in the way
they must go and when they are old they shall not depart”
That is the best thing you can do to be a good father of your children.
Question
no 10. Is it wrong to let the Prophet's tape play
all night long in our homes?
Answer no 10. Is it
wrong to lay in the presence of God’s Voice to this generation? Is it wrong to
lay in bed and listen to God’s Voice? NO!!! I encourage you to
play His voice all night long and you will find your children will become more
in line with the Word and they will love the atmosphere that Word presents to
them. You say, aren’t you afraid that they might fall asleep listening? And I
say so what would you rather put you to sleep? God’s Voice or satan’s 4th
dimension? God’s Word is like a lullaby to me and if I fall asleep listening I
continue to hear that voice in my sleep and learn from it.
“Sleep
spindles,” have been linked to the
benefits of sleep for memory in previous research, so we wanted to investigate
whether these brain waves mediate reactivation.” “If they support memory
reactivation, we further reasoned that it could be possible to decipher memory
signals at the time that these spindles took place.”To test their hypotheses,
Cairney and his colleagues asked 46 participants “to learn associations between
words and pictures of objects or scenes before a nap.” Afterward, some of the
participants took a 90-minute nap, whereas others stayed awake. To those who
napped, “Half of the words were […] replayed during the nap to trigger the
reactivation of the newly learned picture memories,” explains Cairney. “When
the participants woke after a good period of sleep,” he says, “we presented
them again with the words and asked them to recall the object and scene
pictures.”
“We found that their memory was better for
the pictures that were connected to the words that were presented in sleep,
compared to those words that weren’t,” Cairney reports.
Using an EEG machine, the researchers were
also able to see that playing the
associated words to reactivate memories triggered sleep spindles in the
participants’ brains. More specifically, the EEG sleep spindle patterns
“told” the researchers whether the participants were processing memories
related to objects or memories related to scenes.
So, yes, speak the Word when they are awake and when they are asleep.
You want to be a good father, read Deuteronomy 6:6-9 NIV
Impress them on your children. Talk of them when
you sit in your home and when
you walk along the road, when
you lie down and when you get up.
Amplified Translation “And
these words which I am commanding you this day shall be first in your mind and your heart; then you shall whet and sharpen them, so to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the minds and hearts of your children, and
shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when
you lie down and when you rise up."
And so we see that to do so they were to
place pictures and Scriptures and all sorts of reminders for the children why
we are here for a temporarily time of testing, and the children will actually
see with their eyes and when they see with their eyes it will have an influence
in their minds and in their hearts.
Question
number 11. When the prophet says that these “tapes
are an international ministry,” what does he mean?
Answer number 11.
That simply means they are not just for his Branham Tabernacle church, but for
the entire world of all who will believe.
It’s just like my own ministry is not just for those in Ohio
who come weekly to support the ministry, but my ministry goes into 196
countries and are translated into 14 languages, and are streamed into on
average 12 countries and 202 homes per week and growing.
Question number 12. Do women have a role in the Church? If so, which one?
Answer number 12. Yes
they do but not in a leadership capacity. They can do all the activities in a
church but they cannot teach, preach, or usurp authority over the man. You ask
what are their roles? Singing, praying, comforting
those who are down. raising their children up to be outstanding members of the
family of God, Feeding physical foods to
the brethren, cleaning and taking care of the house of God. There are just
about too many to mention here. Just remember they can do anything the man can
do with the exception of teaching, preaching and usurping authority over the
man.
Question
number 13. The prophet spoke about Matthew 18, handing someone over to Satan or considering someone as a
pagan, what is the difference between these two practices? During his lifetime,
did he apply them himself in his church? This is to help the pastors.
The Apostle Paul told us how to use this church discipline in 2 Corinthians 5
1
Corinthians 5: 1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication
among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the
Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye
are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed
might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but
present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my
spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To
deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the
spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying is
not good. Know ye not that a little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge
out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is
sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with
old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread
of sincerity and truth. 9 I
wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of
this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then
must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But
now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a
brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a
drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge them also
that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
There was only one time that William Branham
had to take church discipline on anyone and that was Fred Sothman who was
teaching others that William Branham was God. He was given a certain amount of
time to make that right and ask forgiveness or he would be put out of the
church. See brother Branham’s sermon “Bruised Serpent.”
Question number 14. When the prophet consecrated his son Joseph, he said under
inspiration: "Joseph,
my son, you are a prophet"; can you
please make it plain to us? Is the salvation of the whole Bride on earth,
depends on that ministry?
NO…Brother
Branham. Joseph Branham can be a prophet but only a Five Fold prophet and not a
Word Messenger prophet, and you will find he agrees with that. He doesn’t claim
to be a messenger prophet although a lot of fanatics claim him to be. But just
because they say it doesn’t make it right. There is no 8th messenger
the 7th is the last one. Period.
Question
number 15. What do you think about foolish virgins, are
they among those who are listening tapes?
Answer no 15. Of course if you read Matthew 25
correctly, These are they who listened to the midnight cry which is the
Message, and when they went to meet the One who was in their midst they
rejected the Parousia presence which is the appearing before the coming, and
because they looked for a vessel they rejected the Holy Spirit and when the
wise virgin went in with the Invisible God to the wedding supper the foolish
went to them that sell. Now, as far as I
am aware there is only one Group that selling what is necessary to get the oil
or Holy Ghost and that is the Voice of God Recordings who sell the Tapes where
the oil is had. Does that make them an
accomplice to them who turned down the appearing before the coming? No, they are just a ministry that sells the Word for the hour. Making it
available to everyone. But each person is responsible for their own acceptance
or rejecting of the Parousia of Christ.
Question
number 16. Can you help ministers to know how to balance
scriptures and quotes, each time they are studying or bringing the Word to them
people?
Answer number 16. Just remember one thing, a word prophet does not come with
his own words, but as William Branham said you must take everything and run it
from Genesis to Revelations. If you can’t do that it is because you yourself do
not see it in the scriptures.
Remember 2 Timothy 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman who
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Let
us pray