<TITLE>34. Par -</TITLE>L-971-Q-261 261. Call.. could you please (Well, it's exactly the same question.)... Revelations 20:4, are they souls of the beheaded for the witness of Christ who would not worship the beast nor receive his mark in the Bride? (Oh, I see what they're getting to now. This was just give to me, just handed to me.)... since it says they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years? So it's puzzling, because the persecution of the Bride, but who else could they be and reign with Christ a thousand years? Would they--they--would they be the 144,000?
No, no. They are the Bride. Now, remember, remember, they...
You said, "While they're beheaded for the witness..." Now, you say, "For the--worship not the beast." Sure. You say, "The beast is yet to come." The beast has been all the time; the beast was the one that fed them back there in them lions' dens, fed them back there in that arena there in Rome. That was the antichrist; that was the beast right there, set up a form of religion. Just exactly like--almost a pattern. The Roman church was taken right out of the Bible, and then... What they did that, they organized the thing and made a institution and made a--a universal church out of it, and all wouldn't bow down to it had to be destroyed. See? It was.
And them in the part of the Body that was then... Now, the body has grown just like a tree till it's coming to the Head. See? And all, both martyr, and persecuted, and so forth...
But Jesus has given us peace this side the river, just like He did the tribes that--there (See?) didn't cross over. Now.

L-971-Q-262 262. What can I do for him? Should I continue to (Oh!) care for dad on the farm? What can I do... make a--a living for...? And he signs his name.
Yes, my brother... It--it's wrote here. I don't know who... It says, "Brother Branham..." It just starts out, "What can I do for him?"
Now, probably some boy for his dad. Look, my dear brother, blessed are you when you will take care of your dad, for your dad took care of you when you could not take care for yourself. And the first commandment with promise, first commandment with promise: "Honor thy father and thy mother which may lengthen the days upon the earth that the Lord thy God giveth thee." See? Yeah, take care of dad any way that you can. See that he gets the very best.

L-972-Q-263 263. You said that Cain was of the serpent's seed. Why did Eve say, "I have gotten a man from the Lord"?
Here we go. I'd better wait till after dinner on this one. Yeah, I'll wait till after dinner on that. Oh, that's going to take about a little time to explain that. All right.

L-972-Q-264 264. Dear, Brother Branham: Would you explain this verse to me, Isaiah 2:2: "And it shall come to pass that in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord--in the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it."
Yes, I did, Sunday before last. See? The--the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and all nations shall flow into it. The big... If you haven't got the... If you've got the tape on the Bride and Groom's future home, it explains it just exactly that way.
Oh, my. I might as well quit right now, because my, oh, my, brother, we never get through all of these here. Whew.

L-972-Q-265 265. Brother Branham, is... (Let's see what this is.) Brother Branham, it is commonly believed by many that follow your message that you are the Messiah of this day. Is that so?
No, sir.
Plainly tell us, Brother Branham. You seem to hesitate in making yourself known, and we know that with such a ministry as God has given you, you should be identified in the Scriptures somewhere.


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