Questions & Answers
Questions 140 (COD Page 607)
140. Now, were the five of the virgins lost?
56 I presume that they are asking the question’s, “the five virgins,” the five wise and the five foolish. Now, if you were with us in the last teachings in Revelation, you find out there that those virgins, the–the five foolish virgins were not lost; but they were not permitted to go into the Wedding Supper, but they suffered persecution and was martyred, and raised again at the general resurrection in the last day. Those are the people
where He separated the sheep from the goats, see, they stood before Judgment.
57 You say, “Well, Brother Branham, don’t we stand, the Church?” No, sir! We do not stand before the Judgment.
58 We are now standing before the judgment, God put our sins upon Christ, and we... “He that heareth My Word” Saint John 5:24 “and believeth on Him that sent Me has Eternal Life, and shall not come into the Judgment but has passed from death unto Life.” No more judgment for the Church. It’s took up in the Rapture, and comes back to pass judgment upon the people who did not receive the Holy Spirit. Does not Paul say that he dares any of us to take a–a matter to the court, to the unjust magistrate, when, “know ye not that the Saints shall judge the earth?” We will sit with Christ and judge kings and priests, and judge these people that we preached to and told them about the baptism of the Holy Ghost and they refused to receive It. Think of it!
59 No, they were not lost, but they will never be in the Bride. They were come in the second resurrection, but never be in the Bride, and be judged according to the way they treated the Light that they received. Now, that part will be up to Christ. They were not lost, though.