1 Corinthians 15:51-53 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal* must* put on immortality.
The Rapture
65-1204 · Rev. William Marrion Branham
152 Now, it’s the first thing, is the sounding. The first thing is a trumpet and a…or a voice…A shout; and then a voice; and then a trumpet. Shout: a messenger getting the people ready. The second is a voice of the resurrection: the same voice, that, a loud voice in Saint John 11:38-44, that called Lazarus from the grave. Getting the Bride together; and then the resurrection of the dead, see; to be caught up with It. Now watch the three things takes place. The next is what? Was a trumpet. A voice…A shout; a voice; a trumpet.
153 Now, the third thing, is a trumpet. Which, always, at the Feast of Trumpets, is calling the people to the feast. And that’ll be the Bride’s Supper, the Lamb’s Supper with the Bride, in the sky. See?
154 The first thing comes forth is His Message, calling the Bride together. The next thing is a resurrection of the sleeping Bride; the—the ones died, back in the other ages, they’re caught together. And the trumpet, the Feast in the heavens, in the sky. Why, that’s the thing that takes place, friends.
155 We’re right there, ready now. The only thing, the Church coming out, has got to lay before the Son, to ripen. The great combine will come by, after while. The wheat will be burned, the stalks, but the grain will be gathered into Its garner. See?
The Feast of Trumpets
64-0719 · Rev. William Marrion Branham
“Now, as soon as this Church (the Bride) is drawed together, She is taken up; and that mystery of the Seventh Seal, or the Seventh Seal, the mystery of going. And the Jews is called by the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet, which is two prophets, Elijah and Moses, and they come back.”
The Feast of Trumpets
64-0719 · Rev. William Marrion Branham
“And between the Sixth Trumpet and the Seventh Trumpet, there is a prophet to appear before the Gentiles, to call the people back to the original pentecostal Doctrine; and the two witnesses of Revelation 11 appear to the Jews, to send them to Jesus, while the Church is being taken up. All of them, prophets! Amen! The Word of the Lord cannot be broken. It won’t be a denomination! Do you see it?”
The Revelation of Jesus Christ
60-1204 · Rev. William Marrion Branham
301 Now, when is the Gospel returning to the Jews? When the day of the Gentile is finished, the Gospel is ready, go to the Jews. Oh, I could, if I could just foretell you a little something that’s fixing to happen right here, see, right in this day. You see? It’s fixing to happen. We get it in the Church Age. And this great thing is fixing to happen, will carry over to Revelation 11 and pick up those two prophets, Elijah and the Moses returning back again for the Jews. We’re ready for it. Everything is setting in order, just ready. This Gentile Message, as the Jews brought it to the Gentiles, the Gentiles will take it right back to the Jews again. And the Rapture will come.
302 Now remember, this here coming, after the tribulation… The Church does not go through the Tribulation. We know that. The Bible says so. See? All right.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 (KJVS) Let no man deceive you by any means: for* that day shall not come*, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth* will let*, until he be taken out of the way. 8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9* Even him*, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Revelation 11:1-2
Daniel 9:27
Gabriel’s Instructions To Daniel
61-0730 · Rev. William Marrion Branham
94 I understand by Letters, of the prophets, that Israel will become a nation. They’ll re-establish the temple worship. God will go to dealing with her again when she comes to her homeland. Oh! Two prophets will rise in the last days, with them. I understand that. Just as the Gentile Church moves out, two prophets will arrive, Elisha and Moses, to Israel. We’ll get it as we go through.
The First Seal
63-0318 · Rev. William Marrion Branham
365 Remember back here in Thessalonians, “Sitting upon the temple of God, calling himself God, forgiving sins on earth.” And that’ll go on, “and iniquity shall abound,” and on. Cause, it won’t be known, yet, until his time to be revealed is called.
366 And then the Church will be caught away. And when It’s caught away, then he changes hisself from an antichrist now, oh, my, “the church, the great church and that,” now he becomes “the beast.” Uh-huh! I wish I could make people see that.
God of the Evil Age
65-0801 · Rev. William Marrion Branham
180 …And in the last days the god of this evil age would blind the eyes of the people, with his intellectual knowledge, on a mixed tree of good and evil, still giving it to the people. And here comes, that thing heading up, that denomination from way back in the Dark Ages, and before the Dark Ages, all heading up in a super man, Satan, who said, “I will exalt myself above the sons of God, and they will listen to me.” “And he as God will sit in the temple of God, and the sons of God will fall for it.”
The Sixfold Purpose of Gabriel’s Visit to Daniel
61-0730 · Rev. William Marrion Branham
140 A confederation of church will consolidate them together, and bring the Jews into this confederation, and bring them back to their own temple worship again, in the THUS SAITH THE LORD out of the Bible, and they will have their own church. [Brother Branham knocked on the pulpit several times—Ed.]
141 They are what now? I just caught it just now. It’s fresh. They are now a nation, recognized. Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] But they have not their temple worship yet. And when they establish the temple worship, the Church will be gone. God will be dealing with the Jews as a nation. And then when they are brought into this confederation, Rome will break it in the middle of the seventieth year, three and a half years, he’ll break that covenant with them, and cause the abomination that maketh desolation to spread to the consummation. Then he’ll take both Protestant, and Jew, and persecute them. In that time, these two prophets will stand up and curse the earth, that she’ll not rain in the days of their prophecy. And they’ll call fire out of heaven, and everything else. You just wait. We got a lot laying here, in store for us, to learn. [Brother Branham knocked on the pulpit three times.]