<TITLE>17. Par -</TITLE>L-324-716 Now, there's yet three and a half years promised. If you notice, these witnesses of Revelations 11 prophesy a thousand, two hundred and three score days, exactly three and a half years. Now... And they were in sackcloth. Now, watch their ministry, what they are. Now, these two witnesses are killed.
Now, the... They returned to the Jews after the rapture of the Gentile church. The Gentile church goes home for the wedding supper, and as Rebekah was taken into Abraham's place with Isaac and there was married... And Rebekah and Isaac come out with full possession of everything that Abraham had; it all went to Isaac. Absolutely. And it could not come to Isaac until first Isaac was married. Oh, hallelujah. There you are.

L-325-718 And Christ becomes... God dwells in that perfect...?... marred body completely forever and through eternity. When the Lamb and the Bride is married in heaven, she walks out in full possession. Absolutely. Isaac and Rebekah came forth in full possession.
And while this ceremony is going on in heaven of the Bride, the Gentile Bride being married to the Prince, God's Son, in glory... While they're being married, there's three and a half years that takes place while the--Moses and Elijah...
Which, Moses was never abso... No, his body was packed away. The Angels took him; he did not mortify; he did not corrupt. He was a perfect type of Christ. He died, and the Angels packed him away, and even the devil don't even know where he's buried, and tried to dispute with Michael the Archangel about his burial. That's what the Bible said. God took him up in the rapture.

L-325-721 And Elijah, when he was walking there, a prophet of God walked down to the Jordan, took off his mantle, and struck the waters, and she parted right and left. He walked up on the mountain. Elisha said... Said, "What are you following me for?"
He said, "I want a double portion of your Spirit."
Said, "You've asked a hard thing, but if you see me when I go..." He kept his eyes on him.
And after while, down from the heaven come a chariot of fire, and Angels of fire, horses of fire, and Elijah stepped on and went up into glory. He never tasted death; he was translated. He's got to die.
And if you'll watch these two prophets of Revelations 11, they do the very same thing that Moses and Elijah done. You say, "Brother Branham, do you mean to tell me that Elijah and Moses is still alive?" Absolutely.

L-325-726 Why, before Mount Transfiguration... At Mount Transfiguration, before Jesus went to Calvary, there stood both Moses and Elijah standing there talking to Him. Certainly, they did; they're not dead. And they've never died; they're mortals; they got to die. So they're just in a glorified state waiting for that time.
And then when they come back and preach exactly three and a half years under the anointing of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, while the blessings are taken from the Gentiles, and the church is taken up, and the cold, formal church is hunted down like dogs by the communist and Roman parties... And when they're hunted down and killed, they--they are killed... Then these prophets preach three and a half years, and the Bible said that they were killed in the great--in the street of called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord was crucified. That's back in Jerusalem (See?), back in Jerusalem, spiritually called.

L-326-728 And they laid on the street for three days and nights. And then at the end of the three and a half days, the spirit of life come into them and they rose up. They had to die like other mortals; they had to do it. And when they killed these two preachers...
They preached against wrong, and they brought fire out of heaven. Who did that? See? They brought plagues out of heaven, and smote the earth as quick as--any time they wanted to. And they brought fire out of heaven. And they stopped the heavens from raining, as long as they wanted to. Who was that? Exactly Moses and Elijah. And there's them two witnesses.


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