Period of Tribulation (3 ½ years)

Quotes from the collection of messages preached by Rev. William

Marrion Branham, since 1947.

Seventy weeks of Daniel´s Prophecy

DANIEL 9:21-27

21 Yea, whiles I [was] speaking in prayer, even

the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision
at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly,
touched me about the time of the evening
oblation.

22 And he informed [me], and talked with me,

and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give
thee skill and understanding.

23 At the beginning of thy supplications the

commandment came forth, and I am come to
shew [thee]; for thou [art] greatly beloved:
therefore understand the matter, and consider
the vision.

24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy

people and upon thy holy city, to finish the
transgression, and to make an end of sins, and
to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring
in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the
vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most
Holy.

25 Know therefore and understand, [that] from

the going forth of the commandment to restore
and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the
Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore
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and two weeks: the street shall be built again,

and the wall, even in troublous times.

26 And after threescore and two weeks shall

Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the
people of the prince that shall come shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end
thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end
of the war desolations are determined.

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many

for one week: and in the midst of the week he
shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to
cease, and for the overspreading of
abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even
until the consummation, and that determined
shall be poured upon the desolate.

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REVELATION 11:1-3

1 And there was given me a reed like unto a

rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and
measure the temple of God, and the altar, and
them that worship therein.

2 But the court which is without the temple

leave out, and measure it not; for it is given
unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they
tread under foot forty [and] two months.

3 And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses,

and they shall prophesy a thousand two
hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in
sackcloth.

REVELATION 12:1-9
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1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a

woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under
her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth,

and pained to be delivered.

3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven;

and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of

heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the
dragon stood before the woman which was ready to
be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was
born.

5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule

all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was
caught up unto God, and [to] his throne.

6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she

hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed
her there a thousand two hundred [and] threescore
days.

7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his

angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon
fought and his angels,

8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found

any more in heaven.

9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old

serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth
the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and
his angels were cast out with him.
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REVELATION 13:1-5

1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a

beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and
ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon
his heads the name of blasphemy.

2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard,

and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his
mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave
him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to

death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the
world wondered after the beast.

4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power

unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast,
saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to
make war with him?

5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking

great things and blasphemies; and power was given
unto him to continue forty [and] two months.

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E-26 Now, then oft in these visions He showed him just

where the nations would be standing. He showed them
how that there were so many years depended yet on the
Jews. He said the Messiah shall come. He will prophesy in
the seventieth week, which is three and a half years, and
in the midst of it He will be cut off, which is seven years.
Seventy weeks is determined for Thy people, seven years
approximately to the Jews. He said, "And Messiah, the
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Prince shall come and prophesy in the midst of the seven

weeks, seven days, will he be cut off. In the abomination
maketh desolations will stand in its place, and they'll tread
down the walls of Jerusalem, Gentiles, for a time, time,
and dividing of time."

Now, when Messiah come, Jesus, He preached exactly

three and a half years and was cut off for a sacrifice. The
daily obligation was taken away and the desolate, the
abomination that maketh desolation, the Mosque of Omar
was stood today in the place of the holy temple. The
Mosque of Omar stands exactly where the temple stood.
And He said that they would tread down the walls of
Jerusalem, over Jerusalem, until the Gent--Gentile
dispensation be finished. But at the end of the Gentiles,
there would still be three and a half years yet to the Jews.

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E-9 Now, many times, people say, "Brother Branham, you

feature Divine healing." No, that is wrong. I feature Jesus
Christ. See? Divine healing is a minor, and you can never
major with a minor. And Christ is our main subject, then
we believe that Christ, Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that
He died for our sins, and rose again the third day,
according to the Scripture, and now sets at the right hand
of the majesty of God, being a High Priest, to make
intercessions upon our professions.

We--we're waiting, expecting Him to leave glory someday

to return to the earth, to resurrect the dead and to
translate those that are living into a glorified body to be
raptured in the sky, to live with Him for the space of three
and a half years, during the time of the tribulation period,
and to return back to a purified earth to live a thousand
years here on earth with His Church, and forever be with
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Him, when He sets on the throne of David. Now, we're

looking--looking for that great time.

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108 What did he do? To seal up the vision and the

prophecy. Daniel had prophesied these things. He had saw
it in a vision, and the Angel come down to seal the vision
and to seal the prophecy; they can read it, but can't
understand it until the end time. The end time, what is the
end time? The end of the seventieth week, when that
prince, antichrist, will be revealed, at this time, making
himself God. How do we know this is sealed up to the
time? Daniel just got through... This is the last chapter of
Daniel.
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160 A man come to me not long ago, said, "Oh, Sister

McPherson taught that the church would go through the
tribulation, 'cause we'll be shining lights in that time." It's
Israel then, not the Gentiles. The Gentiles has done gone,
the Church. They have to go through no tribulation. The
dragon spurted water from his mouth (the 17th chapter)
and made war with the remnant, the sleeping virgins, not
the... The real Church has gone on. She's done at the
wedding supper for these--the space of time where the
wedding supper will be going on the last week. And that's
when the tribulation sets in, when the locusts and the
persecutions rise upon the churches of things like that.
Then at the end, in the 19th chapter here She comes with
Her Bridegroom (Hallelujah.), King of king and Lord of lord,
vesture dipped in blood, and the heavenly host riding on
white horses coming with Him. There she comes to take
her place for the Millennium. Amen. Oh.

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94 Now, my Pentecostal brethren, now my Jehovah

Witness brethren, do you realize... Do you know where the
144,000 appeared? Do you know where all the great
miracles of Revelation appeared? Over in the Jewish age,
not in ours. There's nothing recorded in it, just the church
getting ready and going out. Sure, with the power of God
we can do--work miracles and exploits; we know that. But
the real thing was over here to the Jews; I mean, the real
working power, miracle working.
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The 144,000 don't appear there. They're over... They

appear, not in the 3rd chapter; they're on over in the
Scriptures farther. And now, we see that all this stuff was
to take place was over in this time of the seventieth week,
the last week. Now, if they've already had sixty-nine
weeks and lived it exactly the way God said they did, and
it happened exactly the way God said it would do, then
there's one more week promised to the Jews. Now,
brethren, just get ready. See, see? Listen how close we
are. Last week seven--the seventh years...

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118 Now, Pentecostal brethren, how can you apply it all

over here in the Laodicean church age? They're--they're
sleeping through every one of these ages, waiting. "And
we which are alive (the little remaining bunch over here),
remain alive until the coming of the Lord will not hinder
those which are asleep; for the trumpet of God shall
sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; and we shall
be caught up together with them (Amen.)--with them
(here we are, meeting right here) to go to meet the Lord
in the air. Amen, and there you are. Where we at? Right
here. Where did the Messiah get cut off? Exactly where
the Word said. Where will that seventieth week begin?
Exactly after this church is cut off. Then God returns to the
Jews.

Don't you remember that as soon as the church goes--the

church goes, then the Jews take hold, come in. But first,
the next thing in order is not a mighty nation on a national
revival amongst the Gentiles. The next thing in order is
the coming of the Kingdom of God, the coming of Christ.
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167 Now, you Protestants say, "Well, now that's it." But
just a minute. We find out that the Protestants has an
organization, and makes a confederation of churches--a
image to the beast, and go right with them. And we find
out here that the Jews are called in on this confederation.
Yes, sir. And they agree. And the Bible said they did.

And he makes a covenant with them, and in the midst of

the seventieth week, he breaks--the antichrist breaks his
covenant with the Jews, "thy people." Why? Now, when
you read in Revelations 11 that, "I'll send..." (That's 11;
you're coming over towards 19 now)--that He will send His
two prophets, and they'll prophesy in that time. And then
they'll get angry with these prophets and actually kill
them. Is that right? And their dead bodies shall lay in the
spiritual street called Sodom and Gomorrah where our
Lord was crucified: Jerusalem. Is that right? And they'll lay
there for three days and nights. And after three days and
nights, the spirit of life will come into them, and they'll be
raised up and go into glory. A tenth part of the city fell at
that time. Is that right? See? What is that? In the middle of
this last seventy years.

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171 Now, these two prophets, what will they do? It's
Moses and Elijah. They'll rise on the scene. They'll tell
those Jews their mistake. And out of that Jewish bunch
that's there now to be the 144,000, God will call with
these prophets... What is it? The Spirit of Elijah off of this
Gentile church will just continue right on into that Jewish
church, go right on in and call Moses with him. Hallelujah.
You see it? And he'll preach the same message of
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Pentecost to those Jews, that they rejected the Messiah.

Amen. You see it? It'll be the same Pentecostal message
that these Jews will preach right over to them. And they'll
hate those Jews so bad till they'll kill them. And they were
hated by all nations, and in the midst of the week...
Because that they'd raised up a great powerful 144,000...
They had the Holy Ghost, and brother, you talk about
doing miracles; they did them. They stopped the heavens,
and it didn't rain in the days of their prophecy, smote the
earth with plagues as oft they wanted to. They give
plagues and everything else. They'll give them Romans a
hard way to go. But finally they'll be killed. Our God is a
terrible God when He's angry. But remember, that's over
in the seventieth week, and the church in glory. Amen.
The wedding supper's going on. Yes.

Now, notice. That's where we seen her coming back to the

millennial temple over here at the end of the Jewish age--
the anointed. Here He come riding on a white horse; those
followed Him on white horses (horse, powers), dressed in
white, blood--or vesture dipped in blood, wrote on Him,
"The Word of God." He cometh, the mighty Conqueror
(Yes, sir.) to set up the millennium--coming to the temple.
Glory. There He meets that 144,000.

173 Now, after that seventieth week here--the seventieth

week... This goes on during this seventieth week. And the
three in the middle of it, he breaks it, because he kills
those two Pentecostal prophets (Yes, sir.) that smites the
earth. And boy, He curses that church, and He burns her
with fire. And, why, she... We find it out that even the
shipmates standing out for the last laugh, "That great
immortal city of Rome, she come to her end in one hour."
She was blowed to pieces. God knows how to do things.
And one of the Angels looked over and said, "Why, the
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blood of every martyr of Christ was found in her," for her

deceiving, going out here and organizing, and making all
this other kind of stuff, and polluting the church, and
brought them things in there, and martyred the very ones
that tried to uphold it and tried to bring them out. Glory.
Oh, I--I don't know. I--I--I feel like traveling on. See?

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189 Now, if the sixty-nine weeks hit perfect, and the Jews
are in their homeland now, and the Gentile church age
has hit exactly to the end time, to the Nicolaitane time--or
to the Laodicean time, how close is the coming of the
Lord, the end of all things, the end of this age, and the
rapture? The moment He starts that seventieth week or
seven years, the church is gone. Can you see it, friends?
Raise up your hand if you can see it.

See, now let's not be children. Let's not be playful

anymore. We're at the end time. Something's fixing to
happen. We're at the end. Here we are.

191 These sixty-nine weeks hit perfect; the going away of

the Jews hit perfect; the church age hit perfect. We're at
the end time, the end time, the Laodicean church age, the
end of it. The star messengers all has preached their
message. It's gone out; we're just coasting. The Jews has
been coming back for forty years. They're in their
homeland. What's to happen next? The coming of the
Stone. There we are. What time will it happen? I don't
know. But, brother, that--for me, I want to be ready. I want
to have my clothes all ready.

Now, we just got just a--just a very few minutes, and I

wish you'd listen quietly now just for a minute. The
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moment He starts the seventieth week, or seven years,

the church is gone. Now, listen. I'm quoting again,
requoting, so you won't forget. This is what the Holy Spirit
put upon my pen while I was writing. We are in the
Laodicean age. The Christ is being rejected by His own
church. The star of this age, the Message has gone forth,
and Israel is in her land. You see where we're at? We're at
the end. Now just one or two more comments.

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212 Now, then after that, I turned and looked, and I saw
this United States burning like a smolder; rocks had been
blowed up. And it was burning like a--a heap of fire in logs
or something that just set it afire; and looked as far as I
could see and she'd been blown up. And then the vision
left me. Five out of the three has happened--five out of the
seven, rather, has happened.

And here comes around and shows, and then I predicted...

I never said the Lord told me that, but standing that
morning in the church, I said, "The way progress..." I got
back to one end of the wall and run to the other end of the
wall, and I said, "The way progress is going on, I'll predict
that the time (I don't know why I'm saying it.)--but I
predict that that'll all happen between right now, 1933,
and 1977. And not knowing it, God knows my heart, I
never knowed it until yesterday, that 1977 is the jubilee,
and exactly the same amount of time run out that He give
with Israel and everything at the end. So we're at... And
here we are at the end of the age, at the coming in of the
seventieth week. We don't know what time that the
church will be gone. Oh, my. What can we do, friends?
Where are we at?
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214 Do you see where we are now? Do you understand

Daniel's seventieth week now? See now, when we go on
into these Seals and things, breaking these Seals, the first
one comes forth a white horse rider, he's got a bow in his
hand. Watch who that guy is. Watch that pale horse ride
after him. See? Watch who it is, and look how he come in.
Watch those 144,000 come in. Watch that sleeping virgin
when she comes up. Then watch all these things take
place, the pouring out of the Vials, the Woes, the three
unclean spirits like frogs; watch those things how they fit
right in those plagues and exactly when they're poured
out. Every time a Seal opened, a plague pours out and a
destruction comes. And watch what takes place right now
at the end.

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132 Notice, if the Gentile church has to be taken away

first, for the Jews, then the end of the Seventy weeks of
Daniel takes place. The three and a half years Messiah
prophesied, and then He was cut off, the Prince, in the
middle of the seventieth week. And, then, there's three
and a half weeks left yet. And we find out two prophets of
Revelation (He never changes His coat again.), of
Revelations 11, comes down and prophesies to the Jews.
Now, the Church will be taken away at that time.

And we see Israel, the first time for several hundreds of

years, almost over two thousand years is now become a
nation; her own army, her own money. Israel is in the
homeland; her own nation, own flag, belonging to the
United Nations. She is a nation. Why, it's one of the
greatest signs that we could think of right now: Israel in
her homeland. And Jesus said, "This generation that sees
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Israel go back to her homeland shall not pass until all has
been fulfilled." See, He spoke of this day.

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149-1 {214} Now, look, Malachi 4. He's a prophet and

restores the original faith of the fathers. At the end time,
when the tribulation period comes... Now, here's a little
thing; we're going to reverse back a minute, where the
three and a half years or Daniel's seventy weeks (the last
half of Daniel's seventy weeks which is three and one-half
years.)... Now, we... How many remembers that from the
church ages? Sure, you see? There's seventy weeks
determined: look how perfect it was; said, "Messiah will
come, and He'll be cut off for a Sacrifice in the midst of
the week, and the obligation will cease."

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150-2 {225} Now, just seventy weeks was determined,

perfectly, as Daniel said that Messiah would come and
would be cut off in the midst of the week. And Jesus
prophesied three and a half years. Now, in the middle of
this three and a half years of Daniel, in the middle of it He
was cut off. And now the last part is the tribulation period
where the Gentile church is... Oh, this is great. Now,
don't...?... The Bride goes in with the Groom, then after
the millennium, walks out upon the ashes of the wicked.

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152-1 {232} During the tribulation period... Here's what I

want you to notice now, a little thing I dropped in here.
During this tribulation period, after the Bride has been
called out, and the church goes through the tribulation
period, the hundred and forty-four thousand is called by
the two witnesses of Revelations 11. Now, look, they'll
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prophesy one thousand two hundred and threescore days

clothed in sackcloth.

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370-3 {297} Now, notice. These Jews... I have to do this

in order to--to let you see the revelation of this Seal, see
what it is, these souls under the altar and who they are.

Now, notice. In the time of Daniel, now, the second half of

the seventieth week... Now, remember, Messiah was to be
cut off in the midst. That's the middle. Well, what's half of
seven? Three and a half. How long did Christ preach?
[Congregation answers: "Three and a half."--Ed.] That's
right. Now. But there's determined yet to the people what?
Another three and a half year.

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420-1 {196} Oh, my. Do you see that? In there--Not the

Bride, isn't going to be out here laboring in the vineyards.
No, sir. She's the Bride. She's the Queen to the King. It's
the others that labor out there, the nation, not the Bride.
Amen.

All right, notice these messengers now... These

messengers of the Revelations 12, these two prophets,
they're going to preach, "The Kingdom is at hand." See?
The Kingdom of heaven's to be set up. The time, last three
and one-half years of Daniel's seventieth week promised
to the Jews, His people...

Remember now, that to prove that, that this is Daniel's

last part of the seventieth week... I got a question on that
for tomorrow. See? Now, seventy weeks was promised,
which was seven years. And in the midst of the seven
weeks, the Messiah was to be cut off to be made a
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Sacrifice. He would prophesy three and one-half years,

and then He'd be cut off for a sacrifice for the people, and
there is still a determination, that three and one-half years
is still determined for Israel.

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422-3 {210} Notice now, we find out that the time lasts, I
said three and one-half years of Daniel's seventy weeks.
Let me explain that a little closer now, 'cause I see
somebody here that's always watched that now; I want to
try to make myself clear: a teacher. Notice, when the
seventy weeks come in... When Daniel seen the vision of
the time coming and the ending up of the Jews... But he
said there was determined seventy weeks (That's seven
years), in the midst of it, why the Messiah would be here--
or--and would be cut off for a sacrifice.

Now, that's exactly what taken place. Then God dealt with
the Gentiles till He took out a people for His Name. As
soon as the Gentile church is taken out, He taken up the
Church. And when He did, the sleeping virgin, the church
itself (The Bride went up.), and the church itself was put
into outer darkness, where there's weeping and wailing
and gnashing of teeth, and the same time the tribulation
falls upon that people.

422-5 {215} And while the tribulation's falling, in there

comes these two prophets of Revelations 11 to preach the
Gospel to them. And they preach a thousand, one hundred
and three score days. See? Well, that's exactly, with thirty
days in the month, like the real calendar has, is exactly
three and one-half years. That's Daniel's seventieth part--
last part of the seventieth week.

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424-2 {227} The tribulation period's right at hand,

standing right here, and the Seals being opened, the
Church ready to take her flight in the air, and the
tribulation set in. Then God comes down and pulls the
hundred and forty-four thousand out of there. Amen.
There...

Oh, it's perfect. You see where the Seals bring it out now
(See?), open it up. Now, this is the last three and a half
years to the people. Also, if you notice, it's the time that
God will call that one hundred and forty-four thousand
Jews in this last three and a half years.

See, He hasn't dealt with them at all. They haven't had a

prophet. They won't believe nothing else but a prophet.
You ain't fooling them. So they're going to hear a prophet
(Yes, sir.); and that's all. The God told them that in the
beginning, and they stay right with it.
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492-5 {224} 18. When was the covenant of Daniel

9:27 confirmed for a week?

One half of it was confirmed, the covenant, when Jesus

Christ was on earth preaching to the Jews. He never went
to the Gentiles at all. And He told His disciples, "Don't go
to the Gentiles"; that was to the Jews alone. See? And He
preached for three and a half years--that's half of the
seventy week, now, as Daniel said He would do.

Now remember, He was firmly a-vindicated to the Jews,

but their eyes were blinded to bring in this space of the
Gentiles. Can't you see the whole program? See? And He
proved Himself a prophet, done just exactly what the
prophet would do, showed them a sign of prophet; which
your own Word said, "If a man says he's spiritual or a
prophet, watch what he says; and if it comes to pass (just
keep on coming to pass, what He said, continually)...

493-2 {227} Like you look in the Bible, it says, "Knock,

and it'll be opened, seek, find, ask, be given." Now, if
you'll notice, it's knocketh, just constantly knock [To
illustrate, Brother Branham repeatedly knocks upon the
pulpit--Ed.], stay right there like the unjust judge wouldn't
answer the woman, he just kept knocking on her door.
Saying, "I'm on your hand." Not seek, say, "Lord, I'd like to
have this. Amen." That's not it; stay right there till you get
it. You know it's going to come. So He promised it, so just
stay right there till you hold onto it. See?

Now, now, in the last part, the seventieth week, the last
part of it will be during the time of the tribulation period,
after the rapture of the Church. Then there is the three
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and a half years here that it will be confirmed to them

again by prophets (See?), Moses and Elijah: Revelations
11.
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518-3 {368} 46 Brother Branham, you said that

Rome would take the government of the Jews at the
last three and a half years. That is going... The--the
first three and one-half years of the tribulation or
will it be the last three and a half years? Is this
correct?

It will be the last three and one-half years (That's right.),

not the first, 'cause it's already passed. (Got one more
after this one.)

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536-6 {81} Now, now, we're going to speak here now on

this 7th chapter just a minute to--to kinda bridge it in
between Sixth and Seventh Seal, because that's the only
material that we have to go on right now, is the Sixth--
between the Sixth and Seventh Seal, is the calling out of
Israel.

Now, I have many fine Jehovah Witness friends sitting

here. It's all... Or have been. Maybe some of them's still
Jehovah Witness. But they've always applied (Mr. Russell
did.) this hundred and forty-four thousand to be in the
supernatural Bride of Christ. See? They... It's not. It has
nothing to do in the church age at all. They're absolutely
Israel. (Now, we're going to read in a few minutes.) Now,
this interval between the sixth--the Seals is a calling and
sealing of the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews called
in the tribulation period after the Church is gone. See? It
has nothing to do with the church age at all. Oh, called in
perfectly in harmony with the Scripture, Daniel's last three
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and one half weeks allotted to Daniel's people. See? Not

the Gentiles, to Daniel's people, and Daniel was a Jew.

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952-Q-247 247 Brother Branham, here is a question that's

been sort of puzzling to several of us here. One on--on
(pardon me) on some tapes you speak only of the Jews
being saved after the Bride is raptured. (And it's a line
across.) Please explain fully about the Gentiles that don't
go in the rapture. I thought you said that the Gentiles that
were left went through the tribulation and gave their lives
for a testimony of Jesus. When He returns from the
Gentiles to the Jews--when He turns from the Gentiles to
the Jews, then there isn't any more chance for the
Gentiles being saved, just the Gentiles who have been
saved, but not received their last day truth will go in the
tribulation period and then be saved in the end. Is this
right? Please explain, because you said that there would
be just a small number go in the rapture. What about the
people that believed in the Lord--believes in the Lord now
and the way--and don't believe the way you preach for
this end-time-day Message? Will they be saved? And then
the sister signed her name.

Now, very good question. Now, the first place, the

confusion is, is what I have said about the Gentile's days
be done when the tribulation--in the tribulation. Now, I do
not see the Gentiles in the Bible... The Gentile Bride,
Bride, not the Gentile church now, the Gentile church will
go through the tribulation period (See?), but not for their...
See, the Bride is the elected; they go through nothing but
the rapture. They're just changed and taken out of the
world. See? Now, I'll explain that in a further question
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here, bringing it from Luther up, and you'll see then what
it means; it's the maturing of the body. See?

Now notice. Now, the Jews that's left is the one who will be
preached to by the two prophets, Elijah and Moses.

952-147 Now, this is my own thoughts, minister brethren,

in my own way that I feel the Holy Spirit has revealed to
me.

Now, the next thing is to happen is the Jewish--or the

Gentile elected Bride to be caught up with the rest of the
Gentile elected Bride that's been down through the ages--
be caught up in the Presence of Christ in the heavens. The
dead raises; the ones that's alive and remain is changed;
and they're caught up together in the air to meet the Lord.
Then, because...

After the wedding ceremony in glory, Jesus--after that has

caught up into the skies, Jesus returns onto the earth and
makes Hisself known to His people in the type of like
Joseph made hisself known to his brothers. And his wife,
no Gentile was present, nobody but Joseph alone, when he
made hisself known to his brethren. All understand that
now?

953-150 He sent... Even his wife was in the palace, the

type that the Bride will be in the palace in glory at that
time. Then Jesus makes Hisself known to the Jews (See?)
after the wedding ceremony, the 3 1/2 years, and--and--
and Jacob's trouble, that 3 1/2 years, the end of the
seventieth week of Daniel. The Messiah's to be cut off in
the midst of the... And He prophesied 3 1/2 years and was
cut off. Then there's 3 1/2 years left yet for the prophets
Moses and Elijah, and then at the end of their seventy
days as yet determined upon the people, as Daniel said;
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then at the end of that seventy days, Jesus is to make

Hisself known to them. He's that Prince that should come
to the Jews. See?

953-151 Now, and then at that time... See, the Gentile

Bride is in heaven, and the sleeping virgin, the Gentile
virgin, is not to be saved during that time; she's already
been saved, but has been rejected in the Bride. And she
only goes through the tribulation period for the time of
purification, because she has rejected Christ, the Word, for
her purification. Then she has to suffer for her deeds, but
the Bride who has become the Word, a complete
atonement was made of Christ, 'cause He is the Word.
That body was rended, and when that body was rended,
the Bride was in that body, because It's all the Word.
Amen. You see it?

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1160-Q-392 392. Ah... The church age ending and has

blacked out, the Bride is called, we have already entered
into the tribulation period?

No, no, no, you're... I wished that I could just have more
time on that. See, see? The Bride, when she's taken from
the church, then the church age will cease. Laodicea goes
into chaos; the Bride goes to glory; and the tribulation
period sets in upon the sleeping virgin for three and a half
years while Israel is getting its prophecy; then tribulation
sets in upon Israel; and then comes the battle of
Armageddon which destroys all things. And then, the
Bride returns back with the Groom for a thousand years,
the millennium reign; after that comes the white throne
judgment; after that comes the new heavens and new
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earth and the new city coming down from God out of
heaven. Eternity and time blends together.

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167 Now, dear God, surely we're not a bunch of hybrid

Christians, we shouldn't be somebody that has to be
petted and babied. You don't have that kind, Lord. You
have rugged believers. The very Presence of God sets a
man's heart on fire. Like Abraham, he believed God. You
made Yourself known to him, then You appeared to him
and performed a sign, and he believed You. You turned his
body back to a young man, and also his wife, which, his
wife was part of his own body. Then come forth the new
child, the promised son.

168 God, You promised that it'd be the same thing in this
day. I pray that You'll confirm this Word. And we'll deal
right on that one promise there, that it will be like it was in
Sodom, just before Sodom was burnt and judgment struck
Sodom, the Gentile world. So judgment is fixing to strike
the Gentile world, and the Jews got three and a half more
years through the period of Tribulation, Jacob's trouble,
the continuing of the seventy weeks of Daniel. But the
Gentiles' are numbered, it's time to go. And You give that
sign, and You said it would be again. Grant it, God. Their...
we're in Your hands, do with us as You see fit. In Jesus
Christ's Name. Amen.

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Now where will the Gentile Church be while Jesus is

making Himself known to His brethren? Remember that
the bride of Joseph with the two children were in the
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palace, for Joseph had commanded, "Let everyone leave

me; put them all out from before me." So the Gentile bride
was hidden in the palace of Joseph. Where will the Gentile
Church go in the rapture? Into the palace. The bride will
be taken off the earth. She will be caught up before the
great tribulation to meet her Lord in the air. For three and
one-half years while the retributive wrath of God is poured
out, she will be in the great Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Then will He return, leaving His bride in "His Father's
house," while he makes Himself known to His brethren. At
this very time, the antichrist covenant that the Jews have
made with Rome will be broken. Rome and her allies then
send their troops to destroy all the God-fearing, Word-
abiding Jews. But as they come against the city to destroy
it, there will appear in the heavens the sign of the coming
of the Son of Man with His mighty armies to destroy them
who have been destroying the earth. With the enemy
repulsed, Jesus then comes and presents Himself to the
144,000. Having seen His mighty acts of salvation, they
have come to know His power. But also seeing His wounds
and knowing that they had rejected Him even to that
moment, causes them to cry out in the agony of terror
and fear, even as did their brethren of old when they
stood before Joseph, being sore afraid that they would be
killed. But as Joseph said, "Don't be angry with yourselves.
It is all right. God was in it all. He did it to preserve life."
Even so will Jesus speak peace and love to them.