Questions & Answers
Questions 255 (COD Page 964)
Brother Branham, would the Lord permit you to instruct us on the marriage and divorce question at this time? Question: Can a man marry a woman and be divorced by her and then marry another? If both of them marry another, are they both committing adultery? You mentioned it would tie into serpent’s seed. How so?
200 Now, here–here is one of the most treacherous questions that we have in these bunches, and it’s the most questioned in the–in the–in the world today. Now, hear me, and I have a reason for this. If I really brought to this church and on this tape this morning, the correct thing about marriage and divorce, it’d break up every church in the country, if they listened to it. See? That’s right.
201 Now, so help me, here lays the Bible before me, I have on that question, THUS SAITH THE LORD! And both sides that are arguing are wrong. Both those who remarry the married and so forth, they’re both wrong on what they’re doing, but in between it is the Truth, the middle of the road. I don’t want to...I’m going to make a tape whether if something happens to me, then the brethren can play it after I’m gone (see?) to the churches. But I–I want to make a tape on it and just show you where it’s at; but until I feel led of the Lord, I will not say anything about it. But I feel that on these things that I must be led of the Lord; if I don’t, I’ll do more damage than I do good. See?
202 Now, I want you to notice this. Question: “Can a man marry a woman and be divorced by her and then marry another; and if both of them marry another, are they both committing adultery?” Now, my friend, I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but that’s the Truth. Jesus said, “Whosoever marries her that is put away commits adultery.” See? I–I just don’t want to say it, but it’s the Truth.
203 “You mentioned this would tie into the serpent’s seed.” See? I don’t remember mentioning that, but I probably did somewhere, said something about it.
204 Like the other day, I got something mixed up, I happened to hear it, and it’s...I caught it right there; and it’s on the tape, and I–I’ll probably hear from it. When I was talking about the Seven Trumpets, I said it was seven trumpets. I was referring to the Pentecostal feast. From the Pentecostal feast until the seven–until the–the Trumpets, there was seven Sabbaths. Seven Sabbaths was between the Feast of Passover to Pentecost (you see?), which made the fifty days. See? But what I was referring to, being that, I said, “That means the Seven Church Ages.”
205 On that tape (if you happen to get it or anything)–on that tape it should be, that the seventh month after that brought in the–the Feast of the Trumpets, which meant the Seven Church Ages–seven months, not seven Sabbaths. Seven Sabbaths went to...I did explain it on there. I said the seven Sabbaths, like that, but then I carried that same thought on over, when it’s the seventh month after the Feast of the Passover–or at the Feast of–of Pentecost, then come the feast after the sheaf was brought in, waved. You see then–then...Remember there, the sheaf turns into a loaf of bread after that time. See? When the–the sheaf of–one sheaf, then all goes into one loaf. Oh, it’s a great teaching there; I didn’t touch the edge of it. But if you happen to catch that on your tape, remember, look in the Bible. You see, it’s seven months after that. Count off seven months: January, February, March, April, May, June, and July–it’d be July, seven months, which represents the full Seven Church Ages. Some minister might pick that up, and then you’d have it, you see, there. All right.
206 Now, on this here, let–let–let’s just kind of...You... Here’s what I say. Let me say this, not the Lord, let me say it. If you are married at this time, and you both are saved, and you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, and you love one another, and you’ve got little children (now, remember this is me, not the Lord. See?), go ahead and live together; be happy; ’cause you couldn’t live with your first wife or you wouldn’t have married her. Then if you leave this and go back to your first one, you’re doing worse than you did in the first place. See? So you see, you’re all messed up; there’s no way of getting out of it. There’d only be one way truly that I can say from the Bible: both of you live single. See?
207 Now, but...That’s the only way I could say right now, but there is another thing in there, that I–I can’t tell you now, and the reason I say, “Not I, but the Lord, continue on.” If you’ll ever bring that to a tape, and someday, if I ever bring it, you remember the way I said that. If you were wise, you could’ve picked it up (see?), on how I said that then, and then you would know.