22-1209A_THE RAPTURE (EVENTS LEADING TO RAPTURE)
Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Rev 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Rev 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Rev 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Rev 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
Rev 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
Rev 21:13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
Rev 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Rev 21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
Rev 21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Rev 21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Rev 21:18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
Rev 21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
Rev 21:20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
Rev 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Rev 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Rev 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
Rev 21:26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
Rev 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Mat 27:50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
Mat 27:51 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 rent;
Mat 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Mat 27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Mat 27:54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
FUTURE HOME
73 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.
53-0328 - Israel And The
Church #4 Rev. William Marrion Branham
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.
53-0907A - Lord, Show Us The Father And It Sufficeth Us Rev. William Marrion Branham
65 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.
66 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.
65-1204 - The Rapture Rev. William Marrion Branham
See? Watch. Now, to the Life in the Body, is a vindication of the Rapture is at
hand. When you
see the Headship and the Body becoming One,
and the fullness of the measure of His
manifestation, shows that the Body is about
ready to be received to the Headship.
Nations are breaking,
Israel is awakening.
538 See what I mean? He has
begin to give Life unto His Body, (why?) the One that He has redeemed. The
mediatorial work is done, He’s bringing His Life to Body, in a vindication for
the Rapture. Remember, now, in the last day…
63-0728 - Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed Rev. William Marrion Branham
…And Jesus said,
“As it was in the days of Sodom,” now watch close, “in
the days of Sodom, so will
it be at the coming of the Son of man, when the Son of man is being
revealed.” Not no more as a church, see, not no more; the Bride is called,
see. “In that day the Son of man will be revealed.” What? To join the
Church to the Head, unite, the marriage of the Bride. The
Bridegroom call will come right through this, when the Son of man will come
down and come in human flesh to unite the two together. The Church
has to be the Word, He is the Word, and the two unites together, and, to
do that, it’ll take the manifestation of the revealing of the Son of
man. Not a clergyman. I—I don’t know, I…Do you see what I mean? See,
it’s Son of man, Jesus Christ, will come down in human flesh among
us, and will make His Word so real that it’ll unite the Church and Him as
one, the Bride, and then She’ll go Home to the Wedding Supper. Amen. She’s already united, see, we go to the Wedding
Supper, not to the marriage. “…fill
your flesh…self, of all the flesh of mighty men, ’cause the marriage of the
Lamb has come.” But, the Rapture, is going to the Wedding Supper. When, the Word here unites with the person, and
they two become one. And then what does it do then? It manifests the Son
of man again, not the church theologians. The Son of man! The Word and the
Church becomes one. Whatever the Son of man done, He was the Word, the
Church does the same thing.
64-0816 - Proving His Word Rev. William Marrion Branham
25 Therefore, we know that we’re at the end time. We’re here. I
don’t know how far away, I—I…He’ll never let us know that, because His
Coming will be “as a thief in the night.” My friends, my
brother, sister, let’s just be ready, regardless. Let’s just chaste
ourself. See? Because, the world will go right on. They’ll never
even know it’s happened. When the doors of mercy is
closed, preachers will be preaching salvation, be—be causing people to
repent, going right on just like it always did. It did in other ages, and
it did in…It will in this age.
And the Rapture will be so sudden
and so quick, that the world will never even miss
them, that they’re gone. Right. They’ll know nothing
about it. He comes and slips Her away. It’ll be gone,
they’ll know nothing about it.
So, be in prayer. Pray for me. I’ll pray
for you. We don’t know when that hour will be,
but we believe it’ll be soon. Stay away from shiny things. Stay
with the Gospel, see, stay right there now, and pray.
63-1110E - He That Is In You Rev. William Marrion Branham
128 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:…
129 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 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.
65-1204 - The Rapture Rev. William Marrion Branham
141 The
first thing comes, when He starts descending from the Heaven, there’s a
shout. What is it? Is a Message, to get
the people together. A Message comes forth, first. Now, lamp-trimming
time, “Rise
and trim your lamps.” What watch was that? The seventh, not the sixth. The
seventh, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh. Rise and trim your lamps.” And
they did. Some of them found they didn’t even have any Oil in their lamp.
See? But it’s lamp-trimming time.
65-1204 - The Rapture Rev. William Marrion Branham
152 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.
153 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?
154 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.
155 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?
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