<TITLE>12. Par -</TITLE>1L-009-73 If anything turned me the first time against my--made me ashamed of America, was... I was in Switzerland one day, and Brother Arganbright and I had found a good place way down by Lausanne where we'd get a big, fine steak, about so big around, weigh about three-quarters of a pound, I think, for around thirty cents in American money. Oh, we were living like kings. Every day we'd go down there. And all of them there drink wine, you know; their water's no good. And I wouldn't drink that wine, so I got me a little jug from the--a drug store that had distilled water. And I packed that jug wherever I went. I guess everybody thought, "That boy carries his own brand." So I--I had it in my hand. We went down there to this place where all the--selling these steaks, and one day Miss America drove up: About a '28 model Chevy, had a poodle dog setting on the lap and brought that in there, and she had enough... Them two women had enough ten cent store jewelry, great big, long things, and earrings, and hanging way down, and paint; and both of them fifty years old, as old as me. And you'd thought they wanted to be fifteen. But what are they trying to do? They're trying to drive life's road looking through a rear view mirror, looking back to what they used to be.

1L-010-74 Now, Christian don't do that. A Christian don't try to be what he used to be; he's not looking where he's been; he's looking where he's going. See, see? Don't pay no attention to what you was then; you've done lived that out. You'll never return to it; that's in the past. And any man that drives life's road looking through a rear view mirror will go to wreck; and so will you on this Christian road. Don't look back what you was; look what you're going to be. Paul said, "Forgetting those things which are in the past, I press towards the mark of the high calling."
Now, but it made you ashamed. They brought this little, old stinking dog in there and set it upon the table. Now, that would make anybody vomit. And fooling with that dog right there, setting it up there with their hands, and then going to eat with them same hands. And the waiter come over there, blabbed off something. Dr. Guggenbuhl was with me; he started laughing, and turned his head.
I said, "What's--what'd say?"
Said, "The waiter said, 'Take that off!'"
They said, "No, she's an American; let her alone." In other words, "She don't know any better." See?
When I come to Saint Angelo at Rome (Now, think of this.), at the Vatican in Rome, Italy, they had a sign up at Saint Angelo: "To the American women: Before entering this catacomb, please put on clothes to honor the dead!"--the Catholic church. See?

1L-010-Q-284 284. Question: Brother Branham, where will the Bride be when the earth explodes and burns up? Will it be in a place like the children of Israel were in Goshen when the plagues fell? Will the Bride be on earth while this takes place? If so, where? And will the Bride all be in one place at the time of the rapture?
The Bride, when the earth explodes... The time of the rapture will be the awakening of the dead and the get-togethering of the living, for--with the living, for the rapture to take place. Now, but the Bride... Now, see, one of them is a rapture way back here before the millennium. And when the earth burns up is back here after the millennium and after the white throne judgment. See? The Saints will be camped upon the breadth of the earth when Satan comes up around the beloved City and God rains fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them. All right. Now, that's Scripture.


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