Notes used in the Message
07-0204pm - Faith Pt 28 The
Rapture - Samuel Dale
I THESSALONIANS 4:13
13 ¶ But I would not have you to be
ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even
as others which have no hope.
I THESSALONIANS 4:14
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God
bring with him.
I THESSALONIANS 4:15
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the
Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall
not prevent them which are asleep.
I THESSALONIANS 4:16
16 For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and
with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
I THESSALONIANS 4:17
17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and
so shall we ever be with the Lord.
ANGEL.OF.GOD_ PHOENIX.AZ THURSDAY_
48-0304
E-39 And you young people, or you old, who's out of Christ... Oh, God help you, friends. Now's the time. This is the hour. If you haven't got the
Holy Ghost, receive It now. For those that are in
Christ will God bring with Him, the rest of them will go under the judgment. If
you're not in Christ tonight, hear my word; for only those that are in Christ will go in the
rapture.
Tonight, if you're not ready, be prepared. And if you come into
the prayer line a sinner, you can't... You say, "Can a sinner come?"
Yes, sir. A sinner can come. But when God touches your body, if you don't then,
come into Christ, look for a worse thing than that to
follow you right away.
MOSES.COMMISSION_ HOUSTON.TX TUESDAY_
50-0110
E-46 Now, the only thing that is for you is to
stimulate faith of the people, that they might see God's willingness to heal
the people. Now, as far as it comes to healing, it's your faith in God. Your
pastor can anoint you with oil at your own church. And you have faith in God;
it'll bring the same results. That's right.
God's the Healer. No man's a healer; God's the Healer. These gifts
are only to show what God's attitude towards the people, to
get you people back to believe in God. 'Cause if you haven't got faith enough to believe for your sick
body, how you going to have faith enough for the rapture? See? The people's got...
HEALING.WHAT.SICKNESS.IS_ CLEVELAND.OH TUESDAY_
50-0808
E-11 Now, there may be things that God has added
to the church, which stimulate faith. But now, when I'm gone, healing isn't
gone. Healing ought to be more than it was 'fore we come here. See, see? That's
the purpose, is to get the people in their mind in the spirit of the latter
days...
We're in the latter day. You believe that? We are. The world is in
the spirit of the latter days. But the church is not in the latter day Spirit
yet. See? In other words, we may be in a...?... But God wants His church so in
the Spirit, till they'll fit in just anywhere God were to lead them to.
The latter days or rending of the world... My,
my. Look at the places: eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage,
and all the immorals there is in the world. The devil
sent down his troops in the latter day spirit.
But we ministers haven't got the church yet in that
Spirit. And we must be in that condition in order to be caught away in the
rapture when He come back...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
GOD'S.WAY.MADE.FOR.US_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-3
52-0900
164 I can see him start out like that, and all
of them. They get to the side of the mountain yonder, they can't even get
through, 'cause, "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way, but few there
will be that'll find it." Yes, sir.
I can see one old guy packing up; he was making hisself light, "'Cause I'm packing up, to go to
heaven."
Brother, I'm not packing up to go to
heaven. I'm unpacking to go to Heaven. Hallelujah. There's a rapture; cut loose everything.
The Bible said, "Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so
easily beset us, that we might run this race with patience."
ISRAEL.AT.KADESH.BARNEA_ JEFF.IN IC 97-128
SATURDAY_ 53-0328
79 And I believe we're on the borderland
tonight. I was wondering about all my meetings and things, how I had to cancel
them out. I truly believe, before the church can have the
rapture, it's got to have rapturing faith.
We can't even have faith for Divine
healing, let alone rapturing faith. Got to have a faith that'll change and quicken this body, and be
taken away. I believe there's a church on its road tonight, a power of
the living God, that men will speak the Word here and
there, and it'll flash like lightning. And a church is coming out, not a
psychologist, not some of this put-on, make-belief; but a real, true, genuine,
anointed Holy Ghost, called-out church. Amen.
DEMONOLOGY.2.RELIGIOUS_ CONNERSVILLE.IN DE 41-78
TUESDAY_ 53-0609
118 What they did at Pentecost, what they had
in the early Testament, we got today. And
as soon as God can get the thing ironed out, and the church get together, the
rapture will come. But we can't even get faith for Divine
healing let alone the rapture, because we're all twisted up, one this
way and one that way, and "Doctor So-and-so said it was this. Well, my
preacher said He was This."
Awhile ago a woman said, "He's just a faker."
Said, "My priest told me so." I wish her priest would come down here
once; we'd see who was the faker. Yeah. We'll see
who's a faker. Come, try it.
SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.IT'LL.SATISFY_ CONNERSVILLE.IN WEDNESDAY_
53-0610
E-52 Brother, the same Holy Ghost that give
me Eternal Life will heal me when I'm sick. It'll take me in a
rapture. Hallelujah. God's just as much in His Word on Divine healing as He is on salvation. If the world's mocking
at Divine healing, what do you care? They mock at the
Holy Ghost whom you know you got it. God's in His Word.
Sure, He's in His Word.
SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_ CHICAGO.IL MONDAY_
53-0907A
E-85 What you have to do with the tree, you take
the tree and you plant it in the ground, and then you have to water it; and as
you water it, it doesn't do nothing but drink, drink,
drink. It has to drink more that its portion. And more it drinks the bigger it
swells up. It just pushes out limbs. Then it pushes out leaves. Then it pushes
out blossoms. Then it pushes out apples. Is that right?
And that's the way a Christian is. We are planted together in
Christ Jesus, Who is the inexhaustible Fountain of Life. We're planted in Christ, and we just drink, and drink, and drink,
and push out; and everything we have need of for the earthly journey: Divine
healing, the power of God, and all these other things is in every individual in
here that's received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, for you're planted in
Christ. Hallelujah. The Holy Ghost baptism, yes,
sir, and everything you have need of for this life's journey, even the rapture
is right in you then..
SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_ CHICAGO.IL MONDAY_
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E-86 Don't resent that? That's the truth. The rapture is in us
now. I will prove it by the Gospel. "Those who He called He justified, and
those who He justified, He hath glorified." Hallelujah. Then in heaven today we're a glorified in the Presence of
God right now. I'm just pushing out to it. Amen. Glory. God's in His Word. You
believe it? All right.
Got to hurry now. Many things we could say there, but
God is in His Word. Every Word of God is a Seed. You get it? And you just have
to hold on to it.
Now, many people look at their symptoms. They say, "Oh,
Brother Branham, my hand is no better. I still have this pain." That don't
have nothing to do with it. It's what mental attitude
you got towards God and His promise.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD
SUNDAY_ 54-0103E
114-52 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... I... 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. The church will be caught up in the rapture.
QA.IMAGE.OF.THE.BEAST_ JEFF.IN SATURDAY_
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192-Q-40 40. Will
only those who have the baptism of the Holy Ghost be in the rapture of the
church, or will all believers be indicated?
We ain't... We haven't got time to
justify that. But, brother, only the Holy Ghost Bride will be in the
rapture. See? The Bible strictly--the others won't be lost.
Look. Who's going to judge the earth? Saints.
Daniel said, "I saw Him come to the Ancient of time, and--and He came with
ten thousands times ten thousands of His Saints." Is that right? The rapture,
the church had gone on. Then they come down, and the judgment was set, and the
Books were opened. Is that right? And another Book was opened which was the
Book of Life (the sanctified believer that hadn't received the
Holy Ghost).
GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY.OF.HEALING_ CHICAGO.IL MONDAY_
54-0719A
E-44 But look, friend, the time is coming, that
when there is rising up a church. If we can't have faith for Divine healing, how are we going to have for the rapture?
We've got to
move out, friend. We've got to get out of this old, slow, church condition that
we're in. Step out. Launch out. Cut the shorelines, and get out into somewhere,
where you lose all senses of fear and doubt, out there where all things are
possible, brother, just as free as it can be. You've got your sail
set towards heaven, and nothing can stir you no way. You're gone that way;
that's all. Nothing can harm you.
Now, that's the kind of a church it's going to be, one of
these days, according to the Bible. Where the Angel poured our His wrath and
diseases broke out, and men even rotted in their flesh where they were
standing. And the fowl of the air come down and eat off of the shoulders, and
eat the flesh of chief-captains, and great mans, and presidents, and warriors,
and diplomats, and potentates, and everything. Eat... But the Angel was given
charge, "Don't you come near anyone that's got the seal of God in their
forehead." It's going to be a... One of these days Divine
healing's going to be a great thing among the people.
So let's get in condition. God wants us...
You say, "Well, Brother Branham, you say, 'Let us.'" That's what
God's a waiting on. God... We're waiting on Jesus to return, and Jesus is
waiting on us. You say, "Well, how--what can we do about it."
The Bible said the hour has come, and His Bride has made
herself ready (Hallelujah.), made herself ready.
GOD'S.COVENANT.WITH.ABRAHAM_ SIOUX.FALLS.SD THURSDAY_
56-0223
E-73 You'll stumble as sure as the world. Let
your eyes be set straight on
And when the chariot of fire come down and picked him up, Elijah
took off his mantle and throwed it back,
and Elisha took that same mantle and done a double portion with it. Elijah done eight, and he done sixteen (Hallelujah.), a very type
of Christ.
He said, "These things that I do, greater than this shall you
do, or more than this shall you do, for I go to My Father."
And when God made the covenant with Christ, Christ made
it with the Church, and the same Holy Ghost was on Christ will have to be in the Church,
or It won't go in the rapture.
FAITH_ PRINCE.ALBERT.SK WEDNESDAY_
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E-63 And brother, the only way in
the world that the covenant will ever be keeped, or
be kept, is when you and I receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost that God tore
Christ apart and sent the Holy Ghost down for you and I. The only way we'll be
able to go up in the rapture is when that body comes to receive the Spirit
again, the raptured people that's in the covenant.
And the covenant is the circumcision by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that's
Abraham's seed. Amen. Whew. I feel like shouting myself. My.
God made the promise, and He tore Christ apart at
Oh, my. Friends, when I think of it to see how perfect it is that
the Scripture lays on it. You may think I'm excited, but I'm not excited. If
you felt like I did, you'd do the same and act the same.
QA.ON.THE.SEALS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_
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485-5 {182} 13. Brother
Branham, if this question is not--is not fit--does not fit in the... do not
answer. (That's nice. I appreciate it.) What children--what children go in the
rapture, if any small ones? Thank you.
They never signed no name. Now, if you
don't, it's not necessary. But look, when God puts a name on the
Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world, there's not nothing in
the world can rub it out, because it's wrote with the ink of the Blood of
Christ. Be it this big, that big, or that big, or whatever it
might be, it goes just the same. See?
QA.ON.THE.SEALS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_
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515-3 {347} 41. Brother
Branham, when this rapture takes place... When the rapture takes place, will
the young children that do not know right from wrong go in the rapture?
If
their names are on the Book. Yes. That's right. See? All right.
QA.ON.THE.SEALS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_
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494-4 {232} 22. Would
the Bride of Christ have... Would the Bride of Christ
have a ministry before the rapture?
Sure. That's what's going on right now. See? The Bride of
Christ... Certainly. It is the Message of the hour
(See?), the Bride of Christ. Sure, She's consist of
apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. Is that right? That's
the Bride of Christ. Sure, She's got a
ministry, great ministry; it's the ministry of the hour; it'll be so humble...