Questions & Answers
Questions 308 (COD Page 1035)
Dear Brother Branham, if a baby is born of a–out of wedlock, can this child ever be saved or go in the rapture?
186 Saved? Why sure, I believe the child could be...The child can’t help what’s been done. That is true. But I...About going in the rapture...Saved, I’d say, “Yes.” But in the rapture it’s a predestinated seed that goes in the rapture. And I can’t believe that adultery was a predestinated seed. You understand? See? I believe the people can–the baby can be saved; it has no–no rights of its own. It’s a awful act and things.
187 But now, in the Old Testament when a baby was born a bastard child, it could not even enter the congregation of the Lord for ten generations, four hundred and something years, that curse was so bad. Just think of that. A innocent baby, its great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren, just think, the baby’s great, great, great, ten great grandchildrens could not even come in the congregation of God. That’s right.
188 But you see, there was nothing there strong enough to forgive that sin. The blood of the Old Testament did not forgive sins; it covered sins. But the Blood of Jesus Christ divorces it. That’s different now. When the Blood of Jesus Christ comes in, it’s the different.