Questions & Answers
Questions 273 (COD Page 979)
Brother Branham...(There’s another one, different altogether.) Brother Branham, some understood you to say in your message of the “Future Home of the Bride and Groom” was to be (No, this is different.)–be fifteen hundred miles from the tabernacle–square–seven hundred each way (In other words, the tabernacle setting right in the middle would be seven hundred each way–be fifteen hundred miles. Oh!)–each way. Is this true? I live outside of this area; should I move into it?
261 No, Honey, don’t you do that. Look! Now, you see how easy it is for people? How many was here when I preached that message? I said that when I was measuring the New Jerusalem, that it would be fifteen hundred miles square. I said it would reach approximately from Maine to Florida, and six hundred miles west of the Mississippi; that would be fifteen hundred square miles. I said the City, to my opinion, will be setting right on the ground where prophet Abraham searched for that City, when there’ll be no more sea. The Bible said there’d be no more sea, which about three-fourths of the earth is in water. And there’ll be no more sea; so therefore, it won’t be too big a City setting in a place like that. I believe it’ll set in that little place where they fuss so much about, and God was born, there in Bethlehem. I believe it’d be right along in Palestine there, where it’ll raise up out of the earth right there and be that mountain.
262 But, dear friend, it has nothing to do with this tabernacle. See? Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Paul, all the saints, they died all over the world, was burnt up, drownded, eat by lions, and everything else; and they’ll come forth out of every crack, crevice, and corner of the world. I hope I’m there. I don’t know where I’ll be, but wherever it is, if I am in that group, there’s nothing can keep me from being there! See? And I don’t have to be any certain place. Only place I have to be is in Christ, for those that are in Christ will God bring with Him. I don’t care where it’s at, He’ll bring...Bury me in Jesus.
263 Look at those prophets back there. They knowed in the literal sense, now, that the first resurrection, the firstfruits, would be in Palestine. Abraham bought a place, and he–not–and he buried Sarah. And he begot Isaac. Isaac was buried by the side of his father and mother. Isaac begot Jacob; Jacob died down in Israel–in Egypt, brought back into Palestine. And then, Joseph also died down there. And they brought Joseph’s bones back, ’cause he said, “Make...” had Joseph to swear to it–Jacob, that he’d not bury him down there, but bring him back to the promised land. Joseph said, “Someday the Lord your God will visit you. Let me–my bones go and be buried with my father.” And they did, because, being prophets, they understood that the firstfruits of the resurrection would be in Palestine.
264 Now, the Bible. said...And if you call me a prophet, I don’t say I am; but if you call me that, remember, I’m saying to you in the name of a prophet (see?)–in the name of a prophet, the resurrection and rapture will be general all over the entire world! No matter where you’re at, when that hour comes, you’ll be caught up to meet Him! That’s all! There’s nothing going to stop you, no matter where you are. And I only hope that I’m there, one of them. I just only trust and hope in God that I’ll be one of them and each one of you will be in the–in the same. Now, do we have time for another? Then it’s going to be just (see?)–just almost one o’clock.