Questions & Answers
Questions 376 & 377 (COD Page 1145)
376. Will the Bride, those that believe this Message, go out west, eventually gather there, I mean?
377. And is (Now, just a minute, this is...bring...Just a second. Oh! No, it ain’t, it’s got “R-e-v.” I thought...It’s Revelation chapter, and look like “Rev. Capps,” and I–I–I was just a little–a little confused about it. It’s...If you can see, it sure does look like it. See? It was “Rev. Capps” and then it went ahead here...No, it’s all right.) Revelation chapter 12, speaking of the Bride?
11 No! “Now, will the Bride eventually go out west, eventually?” Not as I know of; the Bride is universal, all over the world. Now, everybody understands that say, “Amen!” [Congregation replies, “Amen!”–Ed.] No matter where you are, where you die, whatever it is, if you die in Christ, God will bring you with Him. No matter if you’re burned up, eat up, destroyed, however it is, God will bring you with Christ when He comes. You don’t have to gather west or anywhere. Wherever the Lord leads you...
12 However, if you feel like you want to go west, let me makethat just real plain now, before I go. Now, so...(Are they taping this message? They are? All right.) Don’t let me tell you where to go. And if you feel like you want to come out west, come out west. If you feel like you want to go east, north, west, south, you go where the Lord leads you. Everybody understand that say, “Amen!” [Congregation replies, “Amen!”–Ed.]
13 I’m not trying to tell anyone where not to go. And if you come out to Tucson, Arizona, where I’m living temporarily at this time...As I told you this morning, I’m homesick without a home to go to. I wished I had someone, someplace that I could call a home and go. If, tonight, if I had ten thousand dollars and could give the place for...and give it freely for somewhere that I could say, “This is the place I want to call home,” I’d give it freely. I have no place. Brother Fleeman, I just...you’ve knowed me since I was a boy; I–I–I’m a rambler. Don’t never become a rambler; find some place you love and settle down; wait for the Lord Jesus.
14 But if you want to come out west to Tucson, Arizona, where I’m living, welcome; I’d be glad to have you. You’re my brother, sister. I’d do anything in the world to help. And–and all of you that has come out there, I’ve tried the best I could to make you welcome, and show you everything that I knowed, and take you around, do everything I can. And you’re always welcome.
15 But if you’re coming out under these conditions, thinking that the Bride or something is going to go up from Tucson, Arizona, and there only, you’re mistaken. Don’t come out for that, don’t come for that, because that’s an error. That isn’t right.
16 Now, Revelation 12th chapter...But just one thing the Lord reveals to me or speaks to me like...I’m just from them visions (you see?), and it’s kind of hard to keep it away. See? But He seems to speak to me again to say again more about this going out west.
17 Now, as I have said before, I’m not out there just to be out there, I’m out there because I am led to be out there. But to stay out there, make it my home, I think that’s wrong. No, I think it won’t be but just a little short time until the purpose that God has sent me there for will be achieved. I cannot tell you here why I’m going, but I wouldn’t be going just to be going.
18 It was asked in a question the other day: “We know why you first went to Arizona, was them Angels appeared. Why did you return the second time?” You remember that question read?
19 How many remembers when I come back after that and was setting there before Dr. Lee Vayle (I believe he’s in the building somewhere) and my wife? And I was talking about Arizona and about us staying here, and there come a hand on the wall and light and wrote with letters, “Return back to Arizona.” How many remembers that? That’s why I’m back there. Not knowing why I went back, and when I got there, then He revealed what I should go back for. And if I tell it, then Satan will block it. But he don’t know my heart. He’s not the Word, so he doesn’t know my heart. But if I speak it, then he hears it. So now, remember that.
20 Now, when I said the other day, I kinda made it...Kinda maybe you might get the wrong impression; I said, “Don’t come to Arizona.” See? I didn’t mean it, “Don’t come!” What I meant was: If you’re led to come, you go ahead and do it, if you’re led to California, Arizona, wherever you are. But if you’re going there, say, “Brother Branham, I’m going there, because I believe you’re going to stay there and preach the Word,” I believe you’re wrong there. See? Where my preaching is, is right here at this tabernacle; here’s the place.
21 I don’t have one service in Arizona. And I’m not in Arizona but just a few hours at a time. I haven’t got...I’ve got a Business Men’s meeting after Christmas, the first of the year, at Phoenix. That’s all I got; I promised that, nothing else.
22 My next meeting, as far as I know, is right here at 8th and Penn Street at the Branham Tabernacle. I’ve got thirty or forty subjects that I know would take a week or two at a time to run them through, that I have on my heart to preach here at the Branham Tabernacle, right here at Jeffersonville, Indiana.
23 And now, if you’re really wanting to go somewhere to stay with the Word, where our Message...And our Message is no different, it’s the same Message you’ve heard all your life, only something more been revealed to It. This Message is the same Message that Luther preached, same Message that Wesley preached, the same Message that Pentecostals preached, only something added to It. What it is, is the revealing of the
Seals, what them reformers left off (see?), that’s been made known in this day could not be known then. The Pentecostal message could not be known in the days of Luther or Wesley; it had to wait till the Pentecostal age. But the Pentecostal age is nothing but just a farther advanced Lutheran age. Just like corn maturing or anything else, so has the church.
24 If I would’ve preached tonight, I was going to preach on the subject, marked out here in the Bible, “The Vine that had been transferred from Egypt into Palestine.” How many of you ever knowed that God had said Israel was His vine? Then I refer back from that to Jesus being the Vine. And the Church now has been transferred to the world, is not set down into dirt, but set down into Christ, which has got to bear forth fruit. See?
And that was to be my message for tonight if I was to preach. But I thought I’d better get these questions, so I just omitted that. I’ll get that maybe when I come back.
25 Revelation chapter 12 does not pertain to the Bride. Revelation chapter 12 (I haven’t looked it up but I know it), it’s the woman standing in the sun with the moon under her feet. The moon represented the law; the woman represented Israel, the church; and the twelve stars in her forehead was those twelve apostles, twelve church ages, and so forth, which just passed. See? And the sun was at her head. Which you see, the moon is a shadow of the sun, which the law was a shadow of good things to come. And that woman is Israel, not the Bride. Now I won’t spend too much time, ’cause I’ve got to get them done.