Dear Mrs. Jesus Christ,
How we love to hear our names called. Just to think, we are the Ones He is coming for. A Royal Bride to the Royal promised Son. His super Royal Seed of Abraham that has been true and faithful to every Word.
We have not committed adultery, or even flirted, with any other word; we have just kept ourselves pure and stayed with every Word.
There are many fine Christian women in the world today, loyal women; but there’s just One Mrs. Jesus Christ. We are the Ones that go Home with Him. We are His chosen Wife.
He told us in His Word that He would come once again, just the way He came before. And there He stood, revealing Himself in human flesh, reading the Word and saying to us, “This day this Scripture is fulfilled in your eyes,” and we recognized Him, and became His Mrs. Jesus Christ Bride.
It has been revealed to us that the same S-o-n of God that came in the east and vindicated Himself as God manifested in the flesh, is the same S-o-n of God in the western hemisphere, Who has identified Himself amongst His Bride. The evening Light of the Son has come.
And if I would ask a question about anything, there’s got to be a true answer. There can be something close to it; but there’s got to be a true, direct answer to every question. So, therefore, every question that comes up in our lives, there has got to be a true, correct answer.
In our day there are many questions and controversies among the people.
- How important is it to listen to the tapes of God’s prophet?
- How important is it to hear and believe every Word?
- What is our Absolute? Is It what he said on tape, or does the Holy Spirit lead every man to decide what is and isn’t the Word.
- Do we have to have a man, or group of men, break It down for us?
- Does the Word say after He sends Elijah the prophet, He will send a group of men which must explain It to you?
- Do we need someone to interpret the Word or break It down for us?
- Should we just only listen to the tapes in our homes, cars, and filling stations, and hear the ministry when we go to church?
- Should we play tapes in our churches?
- Is It the Voice of God for our day or not?
Now, if it is a Bible question, then it should have a Bible answer. It should not be able to come from a group of men, from any certain fellowship, or from some educator, or from some denomination. It should come straight from the Scripture...
So if we want to find the correct answer to our questions, we must go to the Scriptures. Next, we must decide, who is the Divine interpreter of the Scriptures. Does each man decide for himself?
A prophet means not only to speak the Word, but also to forthtell, and a Divine interpreter of the Word, Divine Word written.
So if the prophet is the Divine interpreter of the Scriptures, then what that prophet said is the Word of God to His Bride that has already been interpreted, PERIOD.
This does not take away from the ministry, or the position God has called them for. They have been called by God to keep that Word that was spoken by God’s prophet before their flock. They are to point their people to that messenger and the Message of the hour.
Every word they preach must be judged by the Words God’s prophet said on tape. They cannot change, nor can they even interpret, ONE WORD. God’s Scriptures are ONLY interpreted by His prophet.
Now, each one of them, course, you could see their idea, and I cannot blame them. Each one claims that they are the truth, they have the truth. And the people that belongs to those churches should believe that, because they have staked their—their destination, their Eternal destination, upon the teaching of that church. And they’re so much different, one from the other, till it makes nine hundred and something different questions.
If this Message spoken by God’s prophet is not your Absolute, but is what some man or men says is the Word, then your Eternal destination rests upon what THEY SAY.
My words seem to be totally against any and all ministries. I am not. I believe God has placed true men in His Church and over His flocks to keep this Message before them. I believe they preach and believe this Message. But why will they not place Brother Branham back in their pulpits as the most important Voice to hear? Why do they place their ministry equal to, and as important as, that Voice?
Malachi 3 said, “I’ll send My messenger before My face to prepare the way.” And the one that was sent to prepare the way, identified Him, the place. “That’s Him! There’s no mistake. That’s Him! I see the sign following Him. I know that that’s Him; a Light coming down from Heaven and going upon Him.” It was positive, that was Him.
Then, my brother, I want to ask you something, in closing. We might say this. In Malachi 4, aren’t we also promised another eagle, a Pillar of Light to be following, to show the erring church this day that He is Hebrews 13:8, “the same yesterday, today, and forever”? Aren’t we promised another one to come flying from the wilderness?
What are we to be following? That Pillar of Light. Who is that Pillar of Light? That eagle, Malachi 4. Who had the Pillar of Fire over his head to vindicate who he was? William Marrion Branham.
Each time we gather, we must keep that Voice before the people. We must place God’s Voice FIRST, not to worship that man, but to worship the God in that man.
That is the man God chose to lead His Bride. That man is the man God chose to interpret His Word. That man is the man who God chose to reveal all His mysteries to. That man is the one God said, “Get the people to BELIEVE YOU”, NOT SOMEONE ELSE OR WHAT SOMEONE ELSE SAYS, YOU, WILLIAM MARRION BRANHAM. That man is the one who will introduce us to Jesus Christ.
Any man or woman that puts anything to what I say, don’t believe what I say.
Come and become Mrs. Jesus Christ with us this Sunday at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time, as we hear God’s chosen mouthpiece speak and tell us: God's Chosen Place Of Worship 65-0220.
Bro. Joseph Branham
Scriptures to read before hearing the Message:
Deuteronomy 16:1-3
Exodus 12:3-6
Malachi 3rd & 4th Chapters
Luke 17:30
Romans 8:1
Revelation 4:7
Associated Services
Dear Royal Spiritual Seed Of Abraham,
What church can you go to and know, without a shadow of doubt, that every Word you are hearing is Thus Saith The Lord? Nowhere, unless you are hearing the Voice of God speaking to you on the tapes.
We are God’s eagles and will not compromise on one Word. We only want fresh Manna every service and It doesn’t come fresher than hearing It direct from God Himself. We fly higher and higher as we hear each Message. The higher we go, the more we can see. If there’s no Manna in this church, God’s eagles are raising a little higher till they find It.
How our hearts leap with joy when we hear God speaking to us and telling us that we are His genuine, born-again, Church of God, which believes every Word of God in the face of anything, regardless of what it is, because we are His unadulterated virgin Word Bride.
There is such turmoil amongst the people today. As it was in the days of Jesus, those so-called believers were taking the interpretation of what the priest said about the Scripture. They were believing man’s interpretation of the Word. That’s the reason they failed to see the Truth of God, because there were too many man-made interpretations of God’s Word. God don’t need nobody to interpret His Word. He is His Own Interpreter.
Do you believe if you had lived during Jesus’ time, you would have believed every Word He said, no matter what your priest said? Would you have told your priest that listening to Jesus is the most important thing you can do? Would you have told him Jesus’ Words need no interpretation? If they would have had tapes of Jesus preaching, would you have told your priest you want him to press play so you can hear exactly what Jesus said and how He said It?
Well, that wasn’t your age; this is your age, this is your time. The Bible said, He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. What you are doing and saying now is exactly what you would have done then.
We believe the same S-o-n of God that come in the east and vindicated Himself as God manifested in the flesh, is the same S-o-n of God in the western hemisphere that’s identifying Himself among us. We believe this day this Scripture is fulfilled before us.
I truly believe this is the acceptable year, the year of jubilee. If you desire to remain a slave and don’t believe this Message is Thus Saith The Lord; If this Message isn’t your Absolute; If you believe it takes a man to interpret the Message; If you believe it is wrong to play tapes in your church; Then you have to be taken and a hole will be bored in your ear with an awl, and then you have to serve that slave master the rest of your days.
But the real genuine Bride Church is believing the entire Word of God in Its fullness and in Its strength. We are the Elected Church that’s pulling out and set aside from those things, and the manifestation of God has attracted our attention. We are that Royal spiritual Seed of Abraham.
We’re grateful for you to be here to enjoy this fellowship with us, which we’re under anticipations that God is going to give us during this meeting.
So we invite you to join us Sunday at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time, as we hear 65-0219 This Day This Scripture Is Fulfilled. We are under great anticipation for what God is doing during these meetings. The evening Light of the Son has come.
Bro. Joseph Branham
Scriptures to read:
St. John 16th Chapter
Isaiah 61:1-2
St. Luke 4:16
Associated Services
Dear Virgin Word Bride,
We’re here. We have arrived. Time is at hand. The shuck has separated from the Seed. We have been laying in the Presence of the Son, ripening. We will stay in that Presence until our little group becomes so ripened to Christ, until we become bread on His table. Thanks be to God!
This Message has vindicated Malachi 4, vindicated Luke 17:30, vindicated Hebrews 13:8, vindicated Saint John 14:12, vindicated Revelation the 10th chapter, the opening of the Seven Seals, the mysteries of God, the serpent’s seed, marriage and divorce and all these other mysteries that’s been hid under the pillars for all these years.
We are virgins to the Word. We cannot and will not touch anything else. With each Message we hear, it is fresh and new; new Manna that’s just fell from Heaven.
But He warned us that in the end-time there would be two spirits that would be so close, it would deceive the very elect, if it were possible. Thus, we must be on the lookout for that spirit as it will seem to be the Bride itself.
Notice, see how close it looks. Matthew said, Saint Matthew 24:24, said, that, “The two spirits in the last days,” the church spirit of the church people, and the Bride Spirit of the Bride people, “would be so close together till it would deceive the very Elected if it was possible.” That’s how close.
He said the SPIRIT of the church people and the SPIRIT of the Bride people will be so close to each other. That would mean that the church people’s spirit would have to say they believe the Message of the hour to be THAT CLOSE.
That wouldn’t be Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or even Pentecostal; they are so far off the Word and even reject the Message. None of them has a spirit close to the Bride’s.
Satan has tried, and has been very successful, to be so deceiving. Even from the beginning, he simply said, “Surely,” thus telling Eve to use her reasoning and she should listen to him and not just the Word. There is only one thing she was commanded to do: stay with the Word.
Facts:
If you have a question, there has to be an answer. That is what the prophet told us. The answer must come from the Word. The Word only comes to a prophet. The prophet is the only interpreter of the Word. If any man or woman gives you an answer, it has to be what the prophet has already said. It cannot be their interpretation, idea or understanding. They have to back it up with the Word spoken by God’s vindicated prophet. It’s not the prophet’s word plus, it’s simply what the prophet said.
There are now two school of thoughts.
1: You must believe every Word on the tapes as It is the most important Messages you must hear.
2: You do not have to believe every Word on the tapes, and the ministry now has the most important messages you must hear.
There are many, many variations to the second thought: The Holy Spirit will lead me or my pastor to tell us what is and isn’t the Word. We need more than just what Brother Branham said on tape. You must have the ministry to explain or break down the Word. Without the ministry you cannot be Bride.
There are many more discrepancies, but it is impossible to list them all. But there is no variation or discrepancies to the first one. It’s simply, BELIEVE EVERY WORD.
As believers in this end-time Message, you must ask yourself these questions:
1: Do you believe what the prophet said on the tapes is your Absolute, or do you believe it is the Holy Spirit through you or your pastor?
2: Do you believe the fivefold ministry has the most important messages the Bride needs to hear, or is it the Message on the tapes?
If your pastor, preacher, teacher, evangelist or prophet isn’t telling you that listening to the tapes are THE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGES you must hear, he is FALSE, AND THE SPIRIT THAT THE PROPHET WARNED US WOULD COME.
If he says THEY ARE the most important Messages you can hear, but is still refusing to play the tapes in his church, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG. If he truly believes listening to the tapes is the most important thing you can do, then he would play the tapes FIRST, then preach if he feels lead.
Simple example:
If I told you, drinking pure water is the single most important thing you can do for your health, and there is only ONE certified and proven pure drinking water…but when you come to my house for supper, I don’t serve you that certified water. I tell you, “you can drink that water from your home but at my house, you must drink what I give you.”
If that water is the BEST THING I can give you for your health, which will give you life, then the first thing I’m going to give you when you enter my home is that pure drinking water.
Am I wrong by saying, “PLAY THE TAPES IN YOUR CHURCHES, it is the very best thing you can do for your people. It is Thus Saith the Lord.”
Or, are they wrong by saying, “It is wrong to play the tapes in church, Brother Branham never said to play tapes in your church. We tell the people play the tapes in their homes, in your cars, all the time, BUT at church they must hear ME.”
What Spirit is leading you? Do you say, “what is said on the tapes is my Absolute and the most important thing I can hear”? Or, do you say, “The tapes are not enough. It is not my Absolute and is not the most important thing to hear, the ministry is”?
Now it’s Seed time, or Bride time. The shucks are dead. The shucks are dried up. The virgin Word time, not touched. It’s a virgin, remember, a virgin Word time.
Come hear new Manna that’s just fell from Heaven this Sunday at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time, as we hear: 65-0218 The Seed Is Not Heir With The Shuck.
Bro. Joseph Branham
Associated Services
Dear Lord’s Lambs,
How our hearts yearn for this day each week when we can unite together from around the world to hear the Voice of God speak to us the Word of Eternal Life. There is nothing else that satisfies our soul and quenches our thirst but the Voice of God.
You told us, Father, that the great harvest field is white, ripe, and the grain is now ready for the great threshing time. The grain is now laying in the Presence of the Son and ripening to the Kingdom of God.
We stand, Father, to our conviction of what we know to be the Truth; Your Voice on tape is the ONLY Voice that will perfect us, Your Bride.
It is hard as we are so misunderstood by our brothers and sisters. We beg and plead with them not to run from His Presence, but to run into His Presence.
We know there are many anointed men You have chosen and placed to look over Your flocks, who love this Message with all their hearts, but Father, they fail to place Your vindicated Voice on tape before them. They fail to tell them that this is a one-man Message and that You chose the man to lead Your Bride. They fail to tell them that Your Voice is the ONLY Voice that will unite and perfect Your Bride.
I must “Cry out against it.” Cry out against everything, and everybody, that is against playing Your Tapes in their churches. Cry out against their work, cry out against their church, cry out against their prophets, cry out against their ministers, cry out against their priests. I must cry against the whole thing!
“Say, I come down to join up with you guys. You know, I believe I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ve got just a little thing here I believe I can make it a…bring us all together, and do this, that, or the other.”
I must cry out against it, as only Your Word, spoken by Your prophet, can bring US TOGETHER.
How can their preaching? They all disagree with each other and see things differently from one another, except one thing, they all agree on... NOT PLAYING TAPES IN THEIR CHURCHES. How can that be, Father?
You told us we must have ONE ABSOLUTE, which is Your Word. You told us Your Word comes to Your prophet, ONLY. You told us he is the ONLY one that can interpret Your Word. You told us that every minister, every lay member, every human, can ONLY SAY WHAT HE SAID. His Voice is the ONLY VOICE that is vindicated by Your Pillar Of Fire to be Thus Saith The Lord.
I’m not saying they are false or shouldn’t preach. Nor am I saying the Lord is not with them, or they aren’t anointed and called to preach, but I must cry out against them when they will not tell their people that listening to the tapes is the most important thing they can do.
To change one jot or one tittle is death. You have provided a way for Your Bride to hear Thus Saith The Lord with their own ears. How can they not preach to their people that It is the most important Message they must hear? It is the only Message I can say AMEN to every Word, as it isn’t a man’s Word, or man’s interpretation of Your Word, it is Your Pure Word.
You said the Message and the messenger are the same. Your prophet spoke It and You would bring It to pass. Your Word spoken by Your prophet needs NO interpretation as it is the Son of Man speaking directly to His Bride.
I must beg the people, come back to your first love. Come back to what you know is THUS SAITH THE LORD. If you’ve been wondering which way to go or what to do, come on, get on the ship with us tonight. We’re going down to Nineveh, to cry out. We’ve got a duty before God, that’s this Message on tape.
We believe that the Coming of the Lord is at hand, and He is going to have a Bride, and we’re getting ready. We don’t want nothing but the Pure Word of God spoken by His prophet. We’re going to Glory, come join in our ship.
If you believe this Message is the Truth, and worth living for, worth dying for, come join us this Sunday at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time, as we hear a Message we believe is vital and urgent for us to hear: A Man Running From The Presence Of The Lord 65-0217.
You’re my lambs. How is that? You’re the Lord’s lambs that He has let me feed.
Bro. Joseph Branham
Scriptures to read:
Jonah 1:1-3
Malachi 4
St John 14:12
Luke 17:30
Associated Services
Dear Brother Joseph,
1. I have heard you say that you believe EVERY WORD of this Message is THUS SAITH THE LORD.
From the depths on my heart and with every fiber of my being I BELIEVE THAT. It is the very Voice of God speaking lip to ear to His Bride.
God spoke through His prophet and said:
So say I, in the Name of Jesus Christ! Don't you add one thing. Don't take, put your own ideas in It. You just say what is said on those tapes. You just do exactly what the Lord God has commanded to do. Don't add to It.
If you claim you believe this end-time Message, you too must believe EVERY WORD in order to be His Bride. Satan tries to white wash It through the ministry and says, “When Brother Branham was telling hunting stories or saying ‘you have the best cook in the country’, or ‘I don’t have Scripture for that, but I’ll tell you what I think;’ You don’t have to believe that part. The Holy Spirit is here to lead us to understand what is and isn’t the Word.” THAT IS THE SAME DEVIL THAT SPOKE TO EVE AND SAID, SURELY.... HE DIDN’T MEAN EVERY WORD. Sound familiar?
They are doing exactly what he COMMANDED them not to do. He said SAY WHAT IS SAID on the tapes, not put your ideas or understanding to It. He didn’t say, “everything EXCEPT this part and that part, and your pastor will tell you when it was the Holy Spirit talking and when It was just me. I’m just one little pebble on the beach among these big stones.”
2. Do you think Brother Branham and/or his tapes are the absolute?
Brother Branham is not my Absolute but the Message he spoke on tape is absolutely my Absolute.
Many people say that is incorrect, the Bible is the Absolute. My friend, the Bible and the Message on tape are the same thing. That is the very essence of the Message. The Message on the tapes is the interpretation of the Bible. They are one and the same.
The simple fact is, 1: The Bible is the Word. 2: The Word comes to the prophet. 3: The prophet is the ONLY divine interpreter of the Word. 4: Our prophet, William Marrion Branham, is the manifested Word for our day and was sent to interpret the Word. 5: God’s Word needs no interpretation. What He speaks through His prophet on tape IS THE INTERPRETATION OF HIS WORD.
The Bible tells us that He was coming again and living in flesh just like He did with Abraham and Jesus Christ. He said He had many things yet to tell us. He said He would reveal all these great mysteries which are hidden in His Word. He said it needed no interpretation. He never said He’d send a group to lead and unite His people, HE HIMSELF WOULD LEAD THE PEOPLE BY HIS PROPHET LIKE HE HAS ALWAYS DONE. HIS WORD CAN NOT CHANGE.
3. Do you believe pastors should play the tapes in their churches?
Every pastor must do as he feels led of the Lord to do, as each church is sovereign. I do believe, and have said it many times over the pulpit, that pastors should put Brother Branham back in their pulpits by playing the tapes. I have never said they must quit preaching, just play tapes. But they use every excuse imaginable not to play the Voice of God in their churches.
I’ll let the prophet say how I feel about pastors that will not play that Voice in their churches.
Now, Brother Junior Jackson had a right to disagree with that. He wants his church…The people all want to speak with tongues and things in the audience. That’s Brother Junior’s troubles; that’s—that’s up to him. But Junior Jackson believes this Message the same as the...any of the rest of us does. He’s one of us.
4. Do you believe ministers should stop preaching?
No, I have never said that nor do I believe that. The Word tells us, and Brother Branham has been quite clear on these Q & A Messages, for the ministers to continue on.
I just feel led, for my church, to do a quick introduction; or by letter for now, and then press play and hear God’s ONLY vindicated Voice for today. I have said many times that I have the greatest ministry in the world, I get to introduce the Voice of God to my church every Sunday.
5. People are saying you feel if you don’t stream Branham Tabernacle services you are not the Bride?
I have NEVER said that or even thought that, my brothers and sisters. Anyone that would say such a thing is wrong. As the pastor of the Branham Tabernacle, I feel led to play the tapes of Brother Branham. I believe that Voice is the only thing that will unite the Bride.
As I said earlier, I believe everything on the tapes is Thus Saith the Lord and needs no interpretation. I can say amen to every Word I hear. I believe William Marrion Branham was sent to call out a Bride. My place in the five-fold ministry is to point the people to that messenger and then press play. There is nothing greater than to hear that Voice. The greatest anointing is on the tapes, so why would I want to give my church anything else?
Every Sunday I invite the world to listen to the Message the Lord has placed on my heart to play to my church. Everyone is welcome to listen at the same time.
I use as my guide what Brother Branham said on the tapes.
And we got this telephone system now, which is very, very fine. The people can set right in their homes or their…gather in their places, their churches, and so forth, and hear the service. I appreciate that.
Now, pastor, I want you to know that, that, this is only to my congregation I speak these things. And I have a right to do that, because I been set by the Holy Spirit to watch over these sheep.
This Message, and all other of the Messages that I speak on, is directed to my congregation. It’s not for your congregation unless they want to receive It. But It’s directed to this people here.
And that's the world around. And people get up at midnight in the night, in old countries, they keep that prayer chain at the same time. Literally, tens of thousands and thousands of thousands are praying at the same time. God's bound to hear; you're just—you're just storming Heaven with prayer, you see, so He's got to hear.
6. Is it wrong to go to church?
I have never said that or believed that. If I believed that why would I have a church? At the Branham Tabernacle we had 3 services per week until it became just too hard for me to have that many services each week and do the work at VGR. We then had 2 services per week at the Tabernacle until it was just not able to hold the people. So we moved to our building we used for our young people, which was a gymnasium.
The Lord had placed on my heart to make a statement one Sunday morning. I said even if they closed these church doors one day, we would not miss a beat as our pastor could speak to us wherever we were. A month later, we had COVID which closed the churches around the world.
I felt led that during that time, it would be a good opportunity to remodel the gym, as we needed a sanctuary. Thus, we have been happy in our homes, united and listening to God’s prophet on tape with a portion of the Bride around the world, while the church is being remodeled.
We are just now finishing the building, but just like when Brother Branham was here at the Branham Tabernacle, we have already outgrown the additional parking we built. We’ll just have to pray and see how the Lord leads.
I know there are many, many more questions on the peoples’ hearts. There are many things I have said that have been misunderstood. If Brother Branham was misunderstood, how much more will I be?
I could be wrong in what I’ve said. I could have said them better or have been more clear in the way I presented them. But there is one thing I KNOW is right, THIS MESSAGE IS PERFECT. You don’t have to listen to me or what I say, but you MUST PRESS PLAY AND BELIEVE EVERY WORD.
Once again, I invite you to join the Branham Tabernacle this Sunday at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time, as we hear: Questions And Answers #4 64-0830E.
Bro. Joseph Branham