<TITLE>12. Par 134-144</TITLE>L-134 Well, just wait just a minute. Don't... Just hold on. This may hurt just a little bit, to legalist, but I--I want you to see this now just for a minute. Now we're just teaching like a Sunday school lesson on this. He turned them back to a young man and woman again, about twenty years old.

L-135   Abraham, now look, he is old. His whiskers hanging way down. His body as good as dead. His little, old flabby arms. Sarah, little shawl over her shoulder and a little bitty cap, a little grandma hobbling along on a stick.

L-136 I can see the next morning. Why, Abraham with a big hump in his back, white hair hanging down. And Sarah said, "Abraham, darling, why, your--your beard has turned black." "Why, Sarah, them pretty eyes is shining just like they always did. Your cheeks has got rose in them." Before the sun went down the next night, she was back to a young woman, and he was to a young man.
You say, "Nonsense, Brother Branham!"

L-137   Oh, yes, it was, too. See now a wonderful promise and type for the royal Seed of Abraham, immediately coming. Remember, is it a promise? Yes, we'll be changed. They were changed back to a young man and woman, just showing exactly what the Church, the royal Seed, is going to be done.
You say, "Is that a promise?"

L-138 First Thessalonians 4:17, "The trumpet of God shall sound, and we shall be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of a eye, be caught up together." Why? Her body, their bodies, had to be changed to receive the son. And our mortal, vile bodies will have to be changed, to receive the Son, 'cause we'll be caught up. We'll have to be a different body from this, for we'll be caught up in the air, to meet Him. Amen. Doesn't con-... Just right with the Scriptures, you see. They were changed. If we ever meet the Lord in the air, we can't meet Him with this kind of a body, 'cause we're earthbound. But we're going to receive one, hallelujah, that'll go up in the Rapture.

L-139   And the beauty part of it, is it's so close at hand. We see all the signs sitting right. Won't be long now, one of these mornings there will be a change. See?

L-140   But, remember, it'll only come to that royal Seed alone. The coming of Jesus will be so secret, the rest of the people will know nothing about it. Do you know, they probably won't be too many. "As it was in the days of Noah, wherein eight souls were saved by water, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way, but few they will be that find it." You say there will be millions there; all through the ages, redeemed, sure. But, that Rapturing place, where we're standing now!

L-141   What will take place one of these days? They're going to say, "Now, you know, here we are over in the Tribulation period. I thought that the Church was to be raptured up before the Tribulation period." That's the Truth. Not the church; the Bride. The church goes through the Tribulation period, but not the Bride. No, sir. She is redeemed. She has nothing to be purified by. She is already pure. The Holy Spirit has come into Her and purified Her, and took away all the filth and gaum of the world, and She believes that Word and become part of It. That's right. Without the Holy Spirit, nothing doing. It's the Bride comes out of the church. And there, she, that's called "the remnant of the woman's seed," is left to go through the Tribulation period.

L-142   You know, one time after all the Scriptures, Isaiah, Malachi 3, and Isaiah 40, prophesying of the coming of John the Baptist. John came just exactly in line with them Scriptures. And even the disciples come to Jesus and said, "Why say the Scribes, the Scriptures, that the Elias must first come?"

L-143 He said, "He has already come, and you didn't know it. He has come, and they did to him just exactly what it was supposed to do, and you didn't know it."

L-144 Now, that might be one of these days, you could say, "What about the Rapture?"


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