Questions & Answers
Questions 267 (COD Page 973)
Brother Branham, I have some questions I wish to ask–ask you. I have heard people say that you have advised people to sell all their...(Maybe I’d better leave that one alone too. Let’s see. Well, it’s already time to quit. We maybe get this after dinner, but I–I’ll answer this or try my best. I don’t know; it’s just handed to me. See? Billy brought me a handful just there–there at the door. See?) I have heard people say that you have advised people to sell all their homes and follow you to Arizona or–or they would not be in the rapture. Is this true?
234 That’s a lie. See? Uh-huh!
...or should we sell our homes, or did you even say this?
235 No, sir! I did not say it! If anything, I’ve advised people not to do it. Uh-huh! Remember, remember “Junie” Jackson’s dream that time when I went out there? “Junie” dreamed that he saw this...How many remembers the dream, and how the Lord gave the interpretation. That great mountain, we was standing upon it, and old washed-out letters there; and I was trying to interpret it, and I couldn’t do it. And I–I was interpreting it to them. After I got it all interpreted, all of it interpreted, then I reached over and got (in his dream now) a some kind of a–like a bar and just cut the top of the mountain off and looked in there, and it was all snow-white, like marble. But it wasn’t written on, and I said, “You all stay here and look in on this now, while I go yonder.”
236 And “Junie”...All of them went up and all the brothers and all looking in on it, another...They couldn’t understand; said, “Well, what do you know? It’s not even written here,” but yet he was reading the outside of it. “Why isn’t it written in here? We can’t understand.”
237 And Junior turned around and looked, and he seen me going towards the west, towards the setting of the sun, going over one mountain, another mountain, real fast, just getting...And then they turned around and looked and seen me gone; a whole big group of them took off that way, and they wanted to go this and do that, after I told them to stay there. Stay there, stay right here; this is the place.
238 And then, when I did that, then–and I went just exactly; and a little bit after that, the Angel of the Lord appeared to me, say, “Go out to Arizona yonder.” I heard that blast go off and went there, and what was it? That boy dreamed that dream just exactly right, and the Lord gave the right...Remember, I said, “There’s something I’m going there for.” And when I went there, it was the mystery of the Seven Seals, that was sealed up on the inside of that mountain of the Lord. Come right back with the opening of the Seven Seals. See?
239 No, you shouldn’t do that. If you want to go, that’s up to you. Course, I don’t...My, I don’t care where you go, but just to do that, think the Bride’s going to go from there, you’re mistaken.
240 “Also I have heard this...I have (Let me...I got it wrong somewhere here. Let’s see.)...the rapture. Is this true or should we sell our homes, or did you ever say this?” No, I never said it. I never...I’ve always advised people to stay where you are and keep on keeping on till Jesus comes. If I’ve told you many times, let this tape be a memorial; let this day be a memorial; let my word be a memorial; I have never, at one time, ever told anybody, ever proselyted, ever tried to get somebody to come to this church! I have never...As far as telling them to leave their own church and sell out their goods and things, God knows that I’ve always advised people to remain a Christian and stay where you are until God calls you. Everybody knows that. Stay right there! But now, to tell people...Somebody say, “Well, I want to go over here. I want to live over...” You go wherever you want to go; that’s all right. I don’t care where you go; that’s not my business for that.
241 But now, to think that...See, what does it? It starts a cult (see?), and then I get in trouble. They got a group out there now that’s going to be on charity pretty soon. And then what’s it going to be? “We come out here for the rapture of the Bride.” That’s just what the newspapers are waiting for! They’re waiting to get it when they fall on charity and can’t go back to their homes. Then what they going to do?
242 “Well, we followed Brother Branham out here. Supposed to be...” And I am just as innocent of it as I can be. The dear, sweet people, they–they know that I love them, and even in their error. And they...Why, the...They...I love them anyhow. See? I love them; they’re my children; but they just won’t listen to me, what I’m trying to tell them. I’m trying to work out something in the Name of the Lord, and they won’t let me do it. See? They’re actually going against me instead of for me. They’re doing...
243 Didn’t I tell you if ever a message was preached, it’d be right here at this tabernacle; anything I had to do, I’d come here and tell you first, right straight from this tabernacle? That’s my promise!