Questions & Answers
Questions 47 (COD Page 198)
Will the prophecy of Ezekiel 38 and 39 be fulfilled before the Rapture?
312 I think not. I think the next thing we look for is the Rapture of the Church. And then that, “when Gog and Magog comes down,” is the Russian armies who comes in at the...
313 Look, Mr. Bohanon used to be the superintendent here of the Public Service Company, a very fine Christian man. And he talked to me one day, he said, “Billy, I tried to read, and I tried to ask my pastor to explain Revelation.” Said, “We got over there and we got It all mixed up.” Said, “John must have been eating some-something that night and had a dream.”
I said, “Mr. Bohanon, shame on you.” I said...
He said, “Well, no one can understand That.”
314 I said, “Not no natural man, but the Holy Spirit can reveal It.”
315 He said, “Well, looky here, Billy.” He said, “The Bride was standing on Mount Sinai. And here was the water spurted out of the mouth of the dragon, to make war-war with the Bride. And the Bride was in Heaven at the same time. Figure that out!”
316 I said, “Mr. Bohanon, the only thing that you got, you’ve got three different things mixed up, calling it the ‘Bride.’ You are calling the hundred and forty-four thousand, who stood with the Lamb on Mount Sinai, the ‘Bride.’ They were not. You’re calling (the one spurted the water out of his mouth, to make war with) the remnant of the woman’s Seed, which was not the Bride; that was what was left. The Bride was in Heaven; the hundred and forty-four thousand there; and the nominal Christian going here through the persecution. And that’s right.”
317 Read, brother, now if you have it. [Brother Neville reads First Corinthians 15:29-Ed.]:
Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
318 Now, now, brethren, there’s one-one people that believe that, they baptize for the dead, that’s the Mormon. And I been in their temples, many time, they’re a very fine people. And you may be a Mormon, now. I am not trying to hurt your feeling. But, my dear friend, you can’t be baptized for your father; that’s the act he had to do. “The way the tree leans, that’s the way it falls.”
Paul, speaking here, was talking of “the dead,” Jesus Christ, “if the dead rise not, why are you baptized in Jesus Christ’s Name then if the dead rise not?” See what I mean?
Then you’re... He said, “Let us eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die, if the dead raise not.” But he goes ahead and glorifies God for the resurrection of the dead. And we are baptized to Jesus Christ, unto His death, burial, and resurrection. That’s why we’re baptized unto “the dead.” All right. I believe, now, this is just about one more after this one.