Dear Tape People,

How proud we are to be called “Tape People”. Our hearts race with excitement each week knowing we will be united together around the world by hearing the Voice of God speak to us.

We know, without a shadow of a single doubt, we are in God’s perfect Will by staying with His Word; listening to His Voice by way of His mighty seventh angel messenger.

The messenger He chose for our day is William Marrion Branham. He is God’s lamp to the world, reflecting God’s Light. He is calling out His chosen Pure Word Bride by His angel.

By careful study of His Word, He has revealed to us by His Holy Spirit that William Marrion Branham is the angel He chose to give His Revelation and Ministry to for our day. We see His angel, OUR STAR, in His right hand as He is granting him His power to reveal His Word and call out His Bride.

He has given us the full Revelation of Himself. The Holy Spirit identifying Himself to us through the life of His seventh angel messenger; the angel He chose to be His eyes for our day.

How our hearts burn within us as He tells us with each Message that it is His purpose to bring us forth unto Himself; that we are His Word Bride.

He loves to tell us over and over how He chose us before the foundation of the world IN HIM. How we were foreknown and beloved by Him.

How we love to hear Him speak and tell us we were redeemed by His Blood and can NEVER come into condemnation. We can never be in the judgment, because sin cannot be imputed unto us.

How we will set with Him as He takes His earthly throne of David, and we rule with Him; just like He did in heaven, with power and authority over all the earth. The test and trials of this life will seem like nothing then.

But He has also warned us how careful we must be. That throughout the ages the two vines grew side by side. How the enemy has always been so close; so deceiving. Even Judas was chosen of God, and instructed in truth. He shared knowledge of the mysteries. He had a ministry of power granted unto him and he healed the sick and cast out devils in Jesus’ Name. But he couldn’t go all the way.

You can’t go along with just part of the Word, you have to take ALL the Word. There are people who seem involved in the things of God almost one hundred percent, but they are not.

He said it wasn’t enough that He has associated Himself with the whole church, or even with the fivefold ministry of Ephesians four. He warned us that in each age the church goes astray, and it is not just the laity but the clergy group — shepherds are wrong as well as sheep.

So by the determined counsel of His own will, He brought Himself on the scene in our age as the Chief Shepherd in the ministry of His seventh angel messenger to lead His people back to the truth and the abundant power of that truth.

I want to have the fullness of God and follow His messenger. Thus, for us, the Branham Tabernacle, the only way to follow the messenger as he follows the Lord by His Word, is to PRESS PLAY and hear the Pure Voice of God speak to us the words of infallibility.

We don’t have to guess or check what we are hearing, we just have to Press Play and believe every Word we are hearing.

I heard Brother Branham say the following quote early one morning on the Voice radio. When I heard It, it came on my heart that this is exactly how I / we feel about saying:

WE JUST PRESS PLAY AND HEAR THE TAPES.

It sounded like a statement of our Faith to me.

Glory, he said it so PERFECT. All other ministries could be, because God can do what He wants to, with who He wants to, He’s God. But as long as I stay with His Word, His Voice, the Tapes, then I know that’s all right. I believe that.

I know many read my letters and misunderstand what I say and what I believe to be the Will of the Lord for our church. May I humbly say once again as the prophet said: “These letters are meant for my church only. The ones that desire to call the Branham Tabernacle their church. The ones that WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED AND CALLED TAPE PEOPLE”.

If you disagree with what I say and believe, that is 100% fine my brothers and sisters. My letters are not meant for you or against you or your churches. Your church is sovereign and you must do as you feel led to do, but according to the Word, so is ours, and this is what we believe is God’s provided way for us.

All are always welcome to unite with us each Sunday at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time. This week, God’s Star for our age, William Marrion Branham, will be bringing us the Message, 60-1209 The Sardisean Church Age.

Bro. Joseph Branham

Dear Bride-Church,

The Son of man has come and revealed Himself in human flesh to His Bride. He’s said It, we believe It, and He’s proved It. We are His Bride-Church that have made ourselves ready by listening and believing every Word that proceeded out of His mouth.

There will be a resurrection of the dead. He’ll prove it. There’ll be a Rapture of the Church. He’ll prove it. There’ll be a Millennium. He’ll prove it. There’ll be a new Heavens and a new earth. He’ll prove it, because His Word said so.

We will be the ones that will be There. He’ll prove it. We are the ones that have been made part of this Word. He predestinated US to be There. There’s going to be a Rapture by His foreknowledge and there’s nothing going to stop it, we’re going to be There!

Satan has tried for a long time to get the people to doubt just one Word that was spoken. Don’t you do that. Just believe every Word. You must believe every Word to be There. It’s not the prophet’s word, It’s God’s Word that has been recorded and stored on the Tapes.

You MUST believe every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. He has proved It is His Word on the Tapes. He has proved that William Marrion Branham is His seventh angel messenger; the Voice of God for our day. All who do not believe the Message and the messenger will perish.

He is the Word, and we were part of His Word. That’s the reason we are here, to confirm our place in life. To believe every Word. To stay with the Word. To point the Bride to every Word that is on the Tapes.

In our day, the Son of man has been revealed. He HAS joined the Church to the Head; united the marriage of the Bride. The Bridegroom call has come. The Son of man has come in human flesh to unite the two together. He is the Word. We are His Word, and the two unites together.

The manifestation of the Word will unite the Bride. It manifests the Son of man again, not the church theologians. The Son of man! The Word and the Church becomes one. Whatever the Son of man done was the Word. We, His Bride, will do the same thing.

We are united by the Holy Spirit, His Word, His Voice, and are fixing to go to the Wedding Supper. The Word has united us, and the two become ONE.

We say THE TAPES, THE TAPES, THE TAPES. You must play the Tapes in your homes, in your churches. We’re criticized for placing so much emphasis on playing the Tapes. Why do we say such? Who is speaking to US on the Tapes?

If you believe that the Son of man has been revealed in our day; God speaking through human lips, how could anyone not see the importance of placing that Voice as the MOST IMPORTANT VOICE YOU MUST HEAR?

I’m not criticizing others that don’t see and believe what we believe; they are our brothers and sisters, but I am SO SATISFIED, SO FULL, SO ASSURED this is God’s provided way for His Bride. I can do no other. For me and my house, Press Play is the ONLY WAY.

I once again invite the world to come and unite with us Sunday at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time, as we hear: Proving His Word 64-0816.

Bro. Joseph Branham

Scriptures to read before service:

St. Matthew 24:24
St. Mark 5:21-43 / 16:15
St. Luke 17:30 / 24:49
St. John 1:1 / 5:19 / 14:12
Romans 4:20-22
I Thessalonians 5:21
Hebrews 4:12-16 / 6:4-6 /13:8
I Kings 10:1-3
Joel 2:28
Isaiah 9:6
Malachi 4

Dear Children Of The Prophet,

We are the manifested Word, being energized by the Spirit, hearing the Voice of God, as He proclaims to us, we ARE HIS BRIDE.

Father has given His Church NINE gifts of the Spirit, and the FIVE-fold ministry, but Jesus said: In EVERY age I’ll address Myself to ONLY ONE person. Only ONE messenger for each age will receive what I have to say to that age. That ONE MESSENGER is the messenger to the true Church.

He speaks for God by revelation. The Message is then broadcast to all, but is only received by a certain qualified group in a certain way. Each individual of that group is one who has the ability to hear what the Spirit is saying by way of the messenger. Those who hear are not getting their own private revelation, nor is a group getting their collective revelation, BUT EACH PERSON IS HEARING AND RECEIVING WHAT THE MESSENGER HAS ALREADY RECEIVED FROM GOD.

There is ONE VOICE OF GOD and it doesn’t need to be proved like the NINE, nor filtered like the FIVE; JUST ONE PURE WORD VOICE!!

Can we listen to other ministers? Yes, but the key is to say ONLY what was spoken by the prophet. Others can, and should, exhort, teach and preach; but God has made a way today for us like NO OTHER DAY. We can hear exactly what God is saying to the Church.

He told us we have to be so careful. HE TOLD US, NOT ME, that they add here, or take away there, and soon the message is no longer pure. When listening to the tapes, It’s Word for Word, Thus Saith The Lord.

That is why we FOLLOW, and say, our pastor is the seventh angel messenger and we only want to hear what he has to say. To us, It is Hidden Manna.

The Revelation was poured out upon our angel messenger. The Revelation of the Word was given and addressed to HIM for our age. He has a little bigger Revelation of what Christ Is; a little higher calling, than all others. If we can’t live no higher than our pastor, then we want William Marrion Branham as our pastor.

We know others will not see what we see, and believe the things we believe, but they are still our brothers and sisters, and we will spend Eternity with them. But we must stay true to what we believe is the way God has shown us to worship and follow Him.

It’s so easy for others to say we place too much on the messenger, but in fact, we are just quoting him. You must take that up with the Lord. For it is the Voice of God saying these things.

Let’s open up our hearts and mind and read what the Spirit said to us through His angel:

Is he not calling himself the great angel of Light for this day? We know It is the Holy Spirit in him, but he said: He probably won’t know it, but he’ll be here some of these days. The Holy Spirit won’t know who He is? He won’t have to make himself known; God will make him known.

So he is saying, the prophet for our day is the great angel of Light that will lead us out and to Jesus Christ by way of the Holy Spirit through him. There is the Revelation for our day.

Who is going to introduce the Bride to the Lord? OUR PASTOR.

Knowing these truths, and having the FULL Revelation of Him in this day, we have become His Spirit-born, Spirit-filled Bride.

REJOICE BRIDE, THIS IS WHO WE ARE!

Now true harmony exists between the Groom and us, His Bride. He has shown us His Word of life, and we have received It. We’ll never doubt it. Therefore, nothing can harm us, not even death.

REJOICE BRIDE, THIS IS WHO WE ARE!

We have come to full harvest and are now serving His purpose. We can only do His will. No one can make us do otherwise. We have “Thus Saith The Lord,” or we keep still. We know that it is God in us, doing the works, fulfilling His own Word.

We rejoice, for the prophet saw us beyond the curtain of time as we all raised our voices and screamed out in harmony, “We are resting upon that!”

Come gather with us Sunday at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time, as we hear the Voice Of God bring us the mystery of: The Pergamean Church Age 60-1207.

Bro. Joseph Branham

Dear Rebekah Bride,

Father has sent His faithful servant, Eliezer, to hunt out His Rebekah Bride. We have recognized him, His seventh angel messenger, William Marrion Branham, whom He has commissioned to: Call, Gather, Lead and finally Introduce us, to Him.

He has given us a great outpouring of His Quickening Power and has brought us into recognition of our position, our place, and our responsibilities, being a called people, separated from the world, dedicated to God. He is guiding us and directing us in the things we do and say, bringing honor and glory to His Name.

There is nothing, nowhere, that can separate us from That, NOTHING. We are Eternally secured in the Kingdom of God. Father has stamped His Seal upon us to the end of our destination.

The devil punches at us day and night. He says everything to us, and accuses us, and tries to make us think that we’re not that Bride. He throws everything in our way to try to distract us, like sickness and sorrow, but we don’t listen to him. That Quickening Power is NOW in us and we are sealed and centered on that Word. We’re jumping off our camel, running to Him on our way to our great Wedding Supper.

We’re not ashamed in what we believe; on the contrary, we want the world to know, WE ARE TAPE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE EVERY WORD SPOKEN BY HIS FAITHFUL ELIEZER PROPHET whom He sent to call out and lead HIS REBEKAH BRIDE. We don’t add to or take away ONE Word. This Message is our Absolute.

How can a man who is filled with the Holy Ghost, full of the Power of God, and the love of God in his heart, talk to a man just a few minutes and not mention something about the Message he just heard on Tape?

When meeting people who claim to be believers in this end time Message, you can speak with them just a few minutes and can tell right where they stand on playing tapes. They are either Tape People or they are not.

It’s unimaginable that they consider it a shame, or even wrong, if you say you play tapes in your church or home. They feel it is anti-Word and not God’s provided Way. You’re looked down upon because you say you are a “Tape Person”.

Ministers who play tapes in their churches are criticized, and even called lazy. And if you listen to the same tape at the same time, well, you’re not even a minister, you’re a denomination, or a man worshipper.

I guess all those people before us that were on the telephone hook-up in their churches and homes, listening to Brother Branham all at the same time, they must have been a denomination too. They must have been out of the Program of God. They were not ashamed AND NEITHER ARE WE.

Just within a few minutes when you talk to people, they will let you know right away where they stand: Yes, we Press Play. Yes, we listen to the tapes on Sunday in our Church or homes. Yes, same tape, same time.

Why others say, “We go to church Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night. We have such a wonderful pastor; he makes it so clear and so plain for us to understand. He explains the Message so I can understand It. You must have a ministry to be Bride. Brother Branham never said play tapes in church.”

What are you saying then is the most important thing? What the preachers say, what Brother Joseph says, or what the very Voice of God says on Tape? What is your Absolute? What’s on Tape, or what someone else says?

The ministry is wonderful, and in the Word. We need them. But what is THE MOST IMPORTANT, preaching or Tapes?

If the Tapes are not the most important thing in your personal life, in your church life, then something’s wrong. You’re off God’s Perfect Will Program. GET BACK IN LINE.

In our day, that traditional veil has been rent apart. Here stands the Pillar of Fire, manifesting the Word for this day. Deity veiled in human flesh. The Shekinah Glory for our today. God standing and speaking before us, veiled in human flesh.

What a CHRISTmas we Rebekahs will be having this Sunday. All day long, at different times throughout the day. We will be hearing our Eliezer call out His Bride and we will be telling Him we are not Ashamed.

May the Lord give you a wonderful CHRISTmas, filled with “HIS PRESENCE.”

Bro. Joseph Branham

Dear Apple Of His Heart,

I have the greatest honor in the world. The Lord is allowing me to introduce Himself to you, so He can speak directly to you through the vessel He chose before the foundation of the world to speak and reveal all His Word to you.

It’s not just a man of God, It’s God Himself, the Pillar of Fire, the Holy Spirit speaking direct to you, lip to ear, and we have the honor and privilege to call His chosen prophet, OUR PASTOR.

Never wondering if what we are hearing is a man, his thought, his idea, or his interpretation of the Word. It’s God Himself speaking to us THUS SAITH THE LORD.

I know people simply choke on that, but we drink It in. For It is the only thing that quenches our thirst and satisfies our soul. It’s the Words of Eternal Life. To us, It’s God’s Voice. It’s the Message of the hour. Therefore, it’s the Word, the Voice, the Tapes, OR NOTHING!

We are united together under one Headship like Israel of old. One God, vindicated by a Pillar of Fire, and revealing Himself through His prophet to be the Word. The same God, same Pillar of Fire, same way today. God can never change His nature. His program can never change from what He started with, because He’s infinite and His program and His ideas are all perfect.

That’s why we’re under great expectation to hear what He is going to reveal to us on Sunday. He said that He has hit all around the ends of it, the inside and outside of it, and even showed it by the Scripture and the chronology of it, till we know that this Message is absolutely the Truth. There’s no mistake.

But Sunday, the Holy Spirit is going to catch the Message and place It where It’s at now. He will build It right where It started, and build It right up into the present time. Let’s just drink in a little of what God is going to tell and reveal to us through our pastor on Sunday:

You are the apple of my heart, the ones that’s been begotten to the Lord by the Spirit and by the Word of Truth. I just pray and ask the Lord to bless you and keep you closely knitted together by the bonds of the love of Christ.

The Lord had me store up Food for you; fine, healthy-looking vegetables, here in this tabernacle. And today, you’re going to receive a whole tape load. It will reveal Jesus Christ to you in the hour that we are living in. This Message will sustain and strengthen you. It will give you the spiritual strength for the task that lays ahead.

Let me tell you once again as I know you love to hear it: you are that selected, predestinated number, the only ones that will hear it. You are the chosen Bride that will not fall but will hold to that Word regardless of what all the rest of the world has to say about It. You are the Word Bride!

God has revealed to you this great mystery, and that’s a new Birth. Now He is getting you together where the revelation is in perfect harmony. God expressing it through His Word by the same actions, the same things that He did, making the Word manifested in you.

May you never forget, the Holy Ghost, alone, is the Revealer of the Divine revelation of Christ, and has been in all ages. Remember, all ages! Who did the Word of the Lord come to? Prophet, alone.

I realize I’m talking to thousands on tape, we’ve got a tape ministry around the world. And looks like that we can make a tape from here that’s ten times better than anywhere else. I just hope every man that hears this tape, and every woman, will understand.

Now it’s up to them if they want to listen to any tape, but I don’t want you to miss this. You tape people; out in the jungles and wherever you hear It, now listen.

We’ve got tapes on what we believe. We’ve got tapes on discipline in the church, how we behave ourself in the church of God, how we got to come here together and sit together in Heavenly places.

I hope everybody on the tape gets that. If you fail, come back to this tape again. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be with you. Remember, This is the Truth, of THUS SAITH THE LORD. It’s the Truth. It’s the Scripture.

The Headship and the Body has become one unit. It’s God manifested in you, His people. That’s the reason the husband and wife is no longer twain; they’re one. God and His Church is one, “Christ in you,” God’s great revelation.

It’s not my idea; it’s His Power, it’s His Word. He promised it; here it is. He said it would be here, and here it is. You are the sons of God. Not you will be; YOU ARE NOW!

Fill our cup Lord, we lift it up Lord, come and quench this thirsting of our soul. Bread of Heaven, feed us, till we want no more. Fill our cup, fill it up and make us whole.

What a time of revival we will be having around the world as we gather Sunday to hear: Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed 63-0728 at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time.

Bro. Joseph Branham

Dear New Branch,

It has happened; what all the saints before us have all been waiting for. The Original Tree has now put forth a new branch. We have arrived. We are that New Branch. The Holy Ghost has fell, and the Spirit of God is upon us. The Original, apostolic, Pentecostal Faith has been restored by His 7th angel. Now, His prophet is going from house to house, breaking bread with us. There are great signs, wonders, and Revelation upon Revelation being poured out upon us.

We are keeping our lamps trimmed and full of Oil. We are staying with the Original Word, as He told us to do. Others may want church, but we WANT NOTHING BUT THE ORIGINAL VOICE OF GOD.

Nothing can be revealed to the Bride; only by His prophet first. If there are any mysteries to be revealed, any new revelation, anything we have need of to be His Bride and make the rapture, It must first come to the prophet and then HE will reveal It to us, His Bride.

Reveal what? The Mystery of The Seven Thunders. What does that mean? It means one of two things. It is either already on tape and will be revealed when it is time to be revealed to us,

Or, when He sends His prophet back to earth to introduce us to Him, then His prophet will reveal to us the mystery of The Seven Thunders.

It will not be a group of men that reveals that mystery, it will be His 7th angel messenger, William Marrion Branham. That’s not because “I” said so; it’s because THE WORD SAYS SO!!

It says it all right there. The mysteries of God is the ministry of none other than the seventh angel. The Seven Thunders will get the Bride together and give us rapturing in faith.

If the Thunders is what will get the Bride together, and the mystery of the Thunders has to come from the 7th angel, then there is nothing more important for the Bride to do than PRESS PLAY. That is what will get the Bride together for the Rapture.

Stay with the Original Word on tape. PRESS PLAY.

Blessed be the Name of the Lord! Glory to God! We love that sweet feeling we get from hearing God’s Voice speak to us on the tapes. We just feel the Holy Spirit bathing all around us as we walk around with It. We take It home with us. We hold It on our pillow.

Come listen with us Sunday at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time, as the Holy Spirit comes rushing into our homes and reveals to us all we have need of, as we hear: The Second Seal 63-0319.

Bro. Joseph Branham

Dear One Of Them,

What were we doing last Sunday? We were gathered in our Tape Homes, all praying In His Name. We were baptized with the Holy Ghost, when the power of that Voice came. What He did for them that day, he did for us the same. We’re so glad we can say, WE’RE ONE OF THEM.

What a rest. What a peace. What an assurance His Bride has as we hear Him speak to us and tell us we are His Perfect Bride and are in His Perfect will. There is no other way, there is no other voice, no other message that can perfect His Bride except His Voice speaking through His vindicated messenger of the hour.

The unbelievers, that don’t have a full revelation, say, “You are placing too much on the man; give the glory to Jesus.” WE DO, for we believe it isn’t a man we’re listening to, nor are we giving the glory to that man, but it is Jesus Christ speaking through His vindicated messenger, and we are giving HIM all the glory. He has revealed to us it is HIM once again, speaking to His Bride through human lips as He promised He would.

When a man preaches and says, “you don’t have to believe every Word on them tapes, the prophet made mistakes, he said so himself, and we can show them to you. There is a difference when it was God speaking through him and his own thought or ideas”.

The same in every detail! Then some MAN is going to tell you there are mistakes in what he said, but by the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit through him, he will tell you what is and isn’t The Word? NOT TO ME HE ISN’T. The Angel of the Lord told His prophet, “Get the people to believe YOU.” And we do, every Word. He said,

When God speaks the Word, He doesn’t need any man or any woman, or no one else, to say what That means. God means just what He says He means. But they don’t want to lean to what the Word says, they want to lean to their own understanding. They want to lean upon what some minister says instead of upon what God said. The Scripture tells us that they were veiled.

The prophet told us that the Scriptures repeat themselves. As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so is it today. As it was in the days when Jesus was here on earth, so is it today. As it was in the days when His prophet was here, so is it today.

When Brother Branham had been in Tucson, Arizona, for three years, the ministers never invited him once to come preach behind their pulpit. Why? He said because they got-together and said, if any man had me in their pulpit, they would excommunicate that preacher.

Today, when you proudly say “We are a Tape Church. We invite His prophet to speak behind our pulpit every service,” that pastor, and that church, are excommunicated.

This is what we believe about The Voice that is on The Tapes:

So let us come together this Sunday at 1:00 P.M. Jeffersonville time to hear That Voice tell us: Lean Not Unto Thy Own Understanding 65-0120

Bro. Joseph Branham

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