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Our New Name
The question was asked of me, “How could the complete revelation of the Seven Thunders be
revealed if we do not know our New Name?” This question was asked because Brother Branham
clearly says, “I don't know what it is now…” and the “new Name” was to be revealed by the
revealing of the seven thunder mysteries.
To the overcomers a “new name” is given, I believe both figuratively, (now) and literally, (our
new name at the translation.) Once quickened to Life by the Word, the Elected recognizes their
position in Christ, which was predestinated before the foundation of the world. We, as believers
become One with the Word, a chaste virgin to the Word, taking His Name, as our new Name, as a
Bride does her Bridegroom’s name. How does this happen? By One Spirit, we are baptized into
that Body. What is the Spirit? The Word. Once this happens, the bride never looks at another
suitor, she keeps herself pure from the world.
And the white rock? To me, that is the revelation of this Hour, the Message of this Laodicean
messenger. Remember it is he who is calling a Bride out from Babylon. ‘Come out of her my
people, and be SEPARATE.’
I believe Brother Branham’s Message is the fulfillment of Rev 10, the opening of the Seals, the
“finish” of the mysteries of God, and yes, the revelation of the seven thunders. This is how we
know the “New Name” . Figuratively it is the Bridegroom’s.
Is this our literal “new name,” which we receive once we are translated? No, we do not know
that, but it will be known when we get there. (‘there’ meaning: the other side) It is my humble
opinion this is not “two names.” Instead, one conjoined name. Just as a bride takes the surname
(or last name) of her Bridegroom, conjoined with our “first name” which we receive when we are
translated. This entire Name, is one that was written on the Lamb’s Book of Life, by His
foreknowledge, before the foundation of the world.
As Abram was given a new name, (a new name that was directly associated with that of Elohim)
so has the Bride been given a new Name, that of the Bridegroom’s.
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And to show him what He was going to do, He changed his name in the 17th chapter.
And He changed Sarah's name. That's right. Watch those names, mean something.
Why did He change Jacob's name to Israel? Why did He change Saul's name to Paul?
Why did He do all those things? After He overcome and entered into glory He said that
His Name was changed. In Revelations it's given a promise to those that overcome,
He would make known His new Name. That's right. Every time they overcome they
was given a new name.
Abraham, when he finally overcome, he was taken from the name of Abram, said, "You
shall not be called Abram any more, but shall be called Abraham." Give him part of His
Name, tacked His name onto it: Elo-him. H-i-m and h-a-m: Elohim. In other words, I am
the Father of all things. See? And I'm making you a father of nations, so I've changed
and give you part of My Name, father of nations, h-a-m. See? Elo-him, Abraham...
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Gen 17:5-7
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings
shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee
in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy
seed after thee.
Gen 17:15-16
15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her
name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she
shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
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God took Abraham out, and placed the adoption upon him, and changed his name
(Glory.) from Abram to Abraham. Abraham comes from the word of "Elohim," God's own
name. He associated his name with God's name. God is Elohim. How many knows
that? The great Jehovah, Elohim, the all-sufficient One, the self-existing One, Elohim.
And what did He do? He took the H-E-M off of His name and placed it onto Abraham's
name, because he was A-bra-ham. God is the Father of all, and Abraham is father of
nations. Glory. Elohim, Father of all: Abraham, father of nations. Placing positionally.
…Now, then in the same chapter He gives him a sign, gives the Pentecostal church a
sign of the end time. After Abraham had his name changed a few days, he was placed
then as Elohim, associated with God. (Oh! Oh, you know, isn't it good to be a holy
roller?) Placed him, associated him with God, give part of His name.
And what kind of a name does His church have? His name. Is that right? "I come in
My Father's name and you received Me not." Jesus' name. "If another will come in their
name, his name, organization name him you'll receive." But He associated Abraham
with His name, and His church has His name. Many fine women in this world, tonight,
but there's one Mrs. William Branham; she's the one goes with me. One church that lives
in the name of Jesus. "Whatsoever you do in word and deed, do it in the name of
Jesus."
Matt 12:21
21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
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The Bible does not call my name--my name, William Branham, or call your name
whoever it is, but we are in Him anyhow.
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IDENTIFICATION 64-0216
…it's a identifying age.
Now, all that it happens in the natural is only a type that's going on in the spiritual. We
also, the Christian church itself, which is of no denomination, but of a nature... It is the
mystical body of Christ, and it's identified also. It bears identification.
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In my heart the greatest thing that I could think of is to be like Jesus Christ, to be
identified with Him. There's why I baptize the people in the Name of Jesus Christ,
because He is our Identification. We pack the identification. "Whatsoever you do in
word or in deed do it in the Name of Jesus Christ, giving praise to God for it." And we are
identified with Him in baptism.
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…these few stood for the Word of God, and thereby honored the Lord. Now He would
honor them in return. For they shall walk with Him in white. They had identified
themselves with Him on earth and now He would identify Himself with them in the
New Jerusalem. And how marvelous will be that identification!
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And there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God's Life. Only one form of Eternal
Life: that was God. There to be a son of God, you had to be in Him always. The gene
of your life, spiritual life tonight, was in God the Father before there was even a
molecule. See? And you are nothing but the manifestation of the gene of life that
was in God as a son of God. Now, you're expressed, after His Word has come in you,
to light up this age. You are the--expressing God's Life in you, because you are a son or
a daughter of God. Therefore... You get what I mean? See? You are in--you are now
made... You're setting in this church tonight, because your duty is to express God to this
nation, and this people, and this neighborhood where you associate. Wherever you are,
God knew that you would be here, because you have to be one of His genes or His
attributes. You had to be. If you ever--if you've got Eternal Life, then it always was
Eternal Life. And God before there was a foundation of the world knew that you would be
here. And when the Word--or the water, the washing of the water of the Word fell upon
you, you was expressed in a being. Now, you have fellowship with your Father, God, just
as you have with you earthly father. See? You are citizens of the King, not citizens, but
you are children, sons and daughters of the Living God if it be that the Eternal Life dwells
in you. Now, then if it was, Jesus was the Fullness of God manifested.
He was the Fullness of the Godhead bodily; therefore, when He came to the earth and
was manifested in flesh, you were here in Him then, because He was the Word. In
the beginning was the Word,... the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the
Word was made flesh and dwelled among us,... The Word was made flesh; therefore,
you walked with Him, when... You were in Him when He was on earth. You suffered
with Him, and you died with Him; you was buried with Him, and now you're risen with
Him and manifested attributes of God, setting in heavenly places, already raised,
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resurrected to new life and setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Oh, that means so
much now-days, church. That means so much to us, to see ourself positionally
placed in Jesus Christ. Now, if we are those attributes of God, we cannot live by
creeds; we cannot live by denominationalism; we must live by the Word, because the
Bride is a part of the Bridegroom like any wife is a part of her husband; therefore, we
must be that Word Bride. And what is that Word Bride? The manifestation of this hour,
the Bride, not a creed or denomination, but a living Oracle of God, a living attribute of
God displaying to the world the attributes of God in the formation of the Bride
that's to be expressed in this hour that we're now living.
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Now, look. If a woman goes out here and is married to a man, and she goes out and
makes love with another man and has affairs with him, and come back to her husband,
he should kick her out. That right? She must be true to him, 'cause she's vowed to him.
And the Bride of Christ is vowed to Christ, and He is the Word. Not even wink at the
other side, a woman should not even wink at another man. She should make no signs,
no emotions at all towards him, for she is absolutely a bride to one bridegroom. We don't
want none of your mixed trees, your denominations. Be true to Christ, the Word. He'll
vindicate It to be true. No, sir! Not even any emotion of anything towards making love to
him, not join his ranks or anything else, or let him get you in his arms or in his care, or--or
talk to you over this way, that way, you listen to--only one Voice: "My sheep know My
voice; a stranger, they'll not..." What is His Voice? Any man's voice is his word, and this
is It, the Bible. Not one word to be added to It or taken from It, just stay right with that
Voice. A stranger they won't follow, a denomination. As She is part of the Groom, true
to Him in every point, waiting the Wedding, uniting, not at the ecumenical council, but
in the sky, the Wedding Supper. She has been given (this is for our own church) the...
She has been given and revealed to Her the Seven Sealed mysteries of the Bible.
She--she sees the folly of the deceiver, so very close to the Truth that almost deceive
the Elected; She sees it.
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"There comes the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!" The only safety
zone there is is in that Lamb of God. In Him alone is salvation, not in any church, any
creed, any people, any father, any mother, any holy man, or nothing, holy place; it's in
the Holy God, the Lord Jesus Christ, where God placed His Name on a human being
for redemption, Who paid the price for us sinners. That's the only place that there is
salvation. That's the Rock I stand on.
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… it's Jesus Christ, by the New Birth, believing that Bible. That's God's provided way,
and the only way that He has, is in Jesus Christ, His Son. And, in His Son, He placed His
Name. His! God's Name is Jesus, 'cause He came in His Father's Name. And so that
would be God's Name, because He was God.
Now, notice, when this great moving power of God comes into a son of God, it
quickens him, the Spirit of Life enters into him. Then what does it do? It seats them in
heavenly places, right now. Not they "will be." We are now. Now, we've already
resurrected, the dynamics and the mechanics is gone to work, quickened us, and we're
quickened up into the Presence of God, where His Spirit is. And now we are seated
together in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus; in Christ Jesus, sitting in there, that great
seat that's already fired up, been raised from the dead. We're a part of it. If you're a part
of the Bride, you are, because the Bride is part of the Groom, you know. So we find
out that it's the same thing, and She'll do just exactly what's predicted for Her to do in this
day. She won't be a Laodicea, not by no means a lukewarm. But She'll be on fire for
God, She'll be moving on in the Spirit of God.
Now, we're looking here now to find out. Now, let us, now at this same time that it does,
that this strikes us; and, when, we're once dead in sin and trespassing, trespasses,
rather, he... we been quickened together unto His Word of this age.
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"… a new name written in this rock that nobody knows but he himself." He knows who
he is, but he can't tell others. See, see? No one knows but himself. See? Peter knows he
had the keys, but you didn't hear him bragging about it. See? These guys who brag
about what they are is usually nothing. "A white rock, and in it a new name," not his own
name, but he's somebody else (see?) that only he himself knows (he that's got the rock,
the name).
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What is the--the name of the--that'll be on the people of Revelations 3:12?
I--I don't know. Yeah. He said give them a new name. I--I--I don't know what that is.
See? It'll be probably made known when we get there, but I--I don't know what it is
now. See? See, He is going to do that. See? He give them a new name that--that they
just knowed themselves. See?
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Why did He change Jacob to Israel? Not until he wrestled with the Lord, not until he
overcome. And when Jesus overcome death, hell and the grave, the Bible said, "He had
a new Name." And when Jacob overcome.
And if the Church can overcome, she will stop saying, "I am Methodist, Baptist, and
Presbyterian." When she can overcome her creeds and the world that's drawed her in
there, she'll come back to the Bride of Jesus Christ, Miss Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Now, that's what the church is also. It's in the same condition. She's a type. She has the
same precious virtues by Spirit given to her to preserve the Spirit and the Word and
never commit adultery with anything of the world or anything, stay virgin to the Word
as a woman is to stay virtuous to her husband. It's a sacred trust.
To honor her Lord's Word above every manmade creed, wisdom, denomination there is,
the church is given that trust. They say well, "My church..." I don't care what your church
believes in. If it's contrary to the Word of God, stay away from it.
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"And I will write my NEW Name upon him." My New Name. When ALL becomes new,
then He will take upon Him a new Name and that Name will be the Name of the bride
also. What that Name is, none dare conjecture. It would have to be a revelation of the
Spirit given so conclusively that none would dare deny it. But no doubt He will leave that
revelation to the day when He desires to give that Name forth.
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198-306 That's that great Person the Lord Jesus. He was Jehovah, God inveiled in
flesh. The Bible said, "Whatever you do in word and deed, do it all in His Name." The
Bible said the whole family in heaven is named Jesus, and the whole family on earth is
named Jesus. Let's pray in His Name, live in His Name, teach in His Name, die in His
Name, buried in His Name, baptized in His Name, resurrect in His Name, go to heaven
in His Name. That's His Name, and His Bride is named Mrs. Jesus. He'll take a
people out of the Gentiles for His Name's sake.
And I'm not a oneness. No, sir. You trinitarian people get that away from you. I am not a
oneness. No, sir. I'm not a oneness, neither a trinitarian. I believe what the Bible says.
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Listen, there's one woman setting... There's fine, nice looking, beautiful women setting in
this church this morning, young women, middle-aged women, old women; they're all
fine; they're somebody's wife, somebody's daughter, somebody's sweetheart, so forth.
They're every one... There's one Mrs. Branham setting here. You're every one women,
but there's one Mrs. William Branham. She's the one goes home with me. She's the
one's my sweetheart. She's the one that's raising my children.
There's many fine churches in the world today, but there's one Mrs. Jesus that's
bringing forth the real true borned again creatures of God. You know what I mean
don't you? Her name's not Methodist; Her name is not Baptist; Her name is Jesus, Mrs.
Jesus. Sure She is. She's bringing forth people, not members of the Methodist church,
she's not bringing forth Baptist church, or Presbyterian, or Catholic; She's bringing forth
them borned, rooted and grounded in Christ Jesus. There She is, that's Her. I'm so glad
that I'm with Her. She's a mystical Church. She don't have any denomination. She
carries none of these great big fancy names and big buildings. She meets wherever
there's members of the Body gathers together. They worship in Spirit and in Truth. They
were predestinated before the foundation of the world.
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And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God...
(Which is all the same: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus: the Bride married to Jesus, makes it
Mrs. Jesus, and so forth. See?) There's some mighty fine women in this building
tonight, mighty fine, but there's one of them that's mine; she's got my name. I hope you
got that. She's bearing my name; so will His Bride. All right:
I write upon him the name of my God,... which is the new Jerusalem, which cometh
down... or, the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down from
God... out from heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
I better leave that alone, hadn't I? All right. Notice, "him" there is singular. Now, if you'll
go back to Revelation 2:17 just a minute, just review it just a second:
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that
overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in
the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth save he that receives it.
ISAIAH 62:2-5
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt
be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in
the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be
termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the
LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the
bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
HEBREW LEXICON –
STRONG'S # 2657
Chephtsiy bahh {khef-tsee'baw} {from 2654}
Hephzi-bah = "my delight is in her"
2) a name for Jesusalem (figurative)
(Also from Brown Driver & Briggs Hebrew
Lexicon)
2654 chaphets -- 1) to delight
in, to take pleasure in, to desire, to be
pleased with
a) used of men
1) to take pleasure in, to delight in
2) to desire, to be pleased to do
b) used of God
1) to delight in, to have pleasure in
2) to be pleased to do
2) to move, to bend down
REVELATION 21:2-4
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall
be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things
are passed away.
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ISAIAH 62:12
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and
thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
REVELATION 3:12
12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he
shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the
name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of
heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
HEBREWS 12:22-24
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the
heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in
heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling,
that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
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That great church Jerusalem, the Jerusalem and which not here on earth, but we are
of the Jerusalem of above where the Word come from, from predestination (See?);
not old Jerusalem that perishes, the New Jerusalem that can't perish; not the old
Jerusalem built by man, but the New Jerusalem's built by God (See?); the Word up there
now being made manifest. "In My Father's house are many mansions; I'll go and prepare
them for you," the Creator making the streets of gold and so forth. That's the one that
doesn't perish.
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And I, John, saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, descending from God out of
heaven." There God will be with His true attribute sons and daughters, where He
can fellowship with them in holiness…
LUKE 17:21
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
HEBREWS 11:8-10
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after
receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling
in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is
God.
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JOHN 14:2
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I
go to prepare a place for you.
HEBREWS 13:14
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
REVELATION 2:17
17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To
him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a
white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving
he that receiveth it.
JOHN 6:48
48 I am that bread of life.
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Do you know you're the one the Bible speaks of? Do you know your position is in
Christ? If you're in Christ, you're a new creature. Do you know this Word is just
like everyday living to you. Why, sure. It's yours. You are an eagle; that's your
food.
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You say, "Why is it that the Message don't go out in these great big places, these big
crusades, like amongst the denominations?"
It's not their Food; it's not the church (so-called) Food. It's the Bride Food.
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Aren't we happy? We haven't got a thing to worry about, not a thing. We've anchored
in Christ, sitting in heavenly places, caught up in rapturing grace right now, sitting
in His presence in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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…the Spirit of God, which is the Word of God ("My Word is Spirit and Life will put the
Bride in her place, 'cause she'll recognize her position in the Word; then she's in
Christ.") will put her in her place
Our New Name
The question was asked of me, “How could the complete revelation of the Seven Thunders be
revealed if we do not know our New Name?” This question was asked because Brother Branham
clearly says, “I don't know what it is now…” and the “new Name” was to be revealed by the
revealing of the seven thunder mysteries.
To the overcomers a “new name” is given, I believe both figuratively, (now) and literally, (our
new name at the translation.) Once quickened to Life by the Word, the Elected recognizes their
position in Christ, which was predestinated before the foundation of the world. We, as believers
become One with the Word, a chaste virgin to the Word, taking His Name, as our new Name, as a
Bride does her Bridegroom’s name. How does this happen? By One Spirit, we are baptized into
that Body. What is the Spirit? The Word. Once this happens, the bride never looks at another
suitor, she keeps herself pure from the world.
And the white rock? To me, that is the revelation of this Hour, the Message of this Laodicean
messenger. Remember it is he who is calling a Bride out from Babylon. ‘Come out of her my
people, and be SEPARATE.’
I believe Brother Branham’s Message is the fulfillment of Rev 10, the opening of the Seals, the
“finish” of the mysteries of God, and yes, the revelation of the seven thunders. This is how we
know the “New Name” . Figuratively it is the Bridegroom’s.
Is this our literal “new name,” which we receive once we are translated? No, we do not know
that, but it will be known when we get there. (‘there’ meaning: the other side) It is my humble
opinion this is not “two names.” Instead, one conjoined name. Just as a bride takes the surname
(or last name) of her Bridegroom, conjoined with our “first name” which we receive when we are
translated. This entire Name, is one that was written on the Lamb’s Book of Life, by His
foreknowledge, before the foundation of the world.
As Abram was given a new name, (a new name that was directly associated with that of Elohim)
so has the Bride been given a new Name, that of the Bridegroom’s.
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And to show him what He was going to do, He changed his name in the 17th chapter.
And He changed Sarah's name. That's right. Watch those names, mean something.
Why did He change Jacob's name to Israel? Why did He change Saul's name to Paul?
Why did He do all those things? After He overcome and entered into glory He said that
His Name was changed. In Revelations it's given a promise to those that overcome,
He would make known His new Name. That's right. Every time they overcome they
was given a new name.
Abraham, when he finally overcome, he was taken from the name of Abram, said, "You
shall not be called Abram any more, but shall be called Abraham." Give him part of His
Name, tacked His name onto it: Elo-him. H-i-m and h-a-m: Elohim. In other words, I am
the Father of all things. See? And I'm making you a father of nations, so I've changed
and give you part of My Name, father of nations, h-a-m. See? Elo-him, Abraham...
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Gen 17:5-7
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings
shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee
in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy
seed after thee.
Gen 17:15-16
15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her
name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she
shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
ABRAHAM'S.GRACE.COVENANT MIDDLETOWN.OH 61-0317
God took Abraham out, and placed the adoption upon him, and changed his name
(Glory.) from Abram to Abraham. Abraham comes from the word of "Elohim," God's own
name. He associated his name with God's name. God is Elohim. How many knows
that? The great Jehovah, Elohim, the all-sufficient One, the self-existing One, Elohim.
And what did He do? He took the H-E-M off of His name and placed it onto Abraham's
name, because he was A-bra-ham. God is the Father of all, and Abraham is father of
nations. Glory. Elohim, Father of all: Abraham, father of nations. Placing positionally.
…Now, then in the same chapter He gives him a sign, gives the Pentecostal church a
sign of the end time. After Abraham had his name changed a few days, he was placed
then as Elohim, associated with God. (Oh! Oh, you know, isn't it good to be a holy
roller?) Placed him, associated him with God, give part of His name.
And what kind of a name does His church have? His name. Is that right? "I come in
My Father's name and you received Me not." Jesus' name. "If another will come in their
name, his name, organization name him you'll receive." But He associated Abraham
with His name, and His church has His name. Many fine women in this world, tonight,
but there's one Mrs. William Branham; she's the one goes with me. One church that lives
in the name of Jesus. "Whatsoever you do in word and deed, do it in the name of
Jesus."
Matt 12:21
21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS 64-0830M
The Bible does not call my name--my name, William Branham, or call your name
whoever it is, but we are in Him anyhow.
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IDENTIFICATION 64-0216
…it's a identifying age.
Now, all that it happens in the natural is only a type that's going on in the spiritual. We
also, the Christian church itself, which is of no denomination, but of a nature... It is the
mystical body of Christ, and it's identified also. It bears identification.
IDENTIFIED.WITH.CHRIST 59-1220E
In my heart the greatest thing that I could think of is to be like Jesus Christ, to be
identified with Him. There's why I baptize the people in the Name of Jesus Christ,
because He is our Identification. We pack the identification. "Whatsoever you do in
word or in deed do it in the Name of Jesus Christ, giving praise to God for it." And we are
identified with Him in baptism.
264-1 CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.7
…these few stood for the Word of God, and thereby honored the Lord. Now He would
honor them in return. For they shall walk with Him in white. They had identified
themselves with Him on earth and now He would identify Himself with them in the
New Jerusalem. And how marvelous will be that identification!
THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE RIALTO.CA V-4 N-6 65-1205
And there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God's Life. Only one form of Eternal
Life: that was God. There to be a son of God, you had to be in Him always. The gene
of your life, spiritual life tonight, was in God the Father before there was even a
molecule. See? And you are nothing but the manifestation of the gene of life that
was in God as a son of God. Now, you're expressed, after His Word has come in you,
to light up this age. You are the--expressing God's Life in you, because you are a son or
a daughter of God. Therefore... You get what I mean? See? You are in--you are now
made... You're setting in this church tonight, because your duty is to express God to this
nation, and this people, and this neighborhood where you associate. Wherever you are,
God knew that you would be here, because you have to be one of His genes or His
attributes. You had to be. If you ever--if you've got Eternal Life, then it always was
Eternal Life. And God before there was a foundation of the world knew that you would be
here. And when the Word--or the water, the washing of the water of the Word fell upon
you, you was expressed in a being. Now, you have fellowship with your Father, God, just
as you have with you earthly father. See? You are citizens of the King, not citizens, but
you are children, sons and daughters of the Living God if it be that the Eternal Life dwells
in you. Now, then if it was, Jesus was the Fullness of God manifested.
He was the Fullness of the Godhead bodily; therefore, when He came to the earth and
was manifested in flesh, you were here in Him then, because He was the Word. In
the beginning was the Word,... the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the
Word was made flesh and dwelled among us,... The Word was made flesh; therefore,
you walked with Him, when... You were in Him when He was on earth. You suffered
with Him, and you died with Him; you was buried with Him, and now you're risen with
Him and manifested attributes of God, setting in heavenly places, already raised,
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resurrected to new life and setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Oh, that means so
much now-days, church. That means so much to us, to see ourself positionally
placed in Jesus Christ. Now, if we are those attributes of God, we cannot live by
creeds; we cannot live by denominationalism; we must live by the Word, because the
Bride is a part of the Bridegroom like any wife is a part of her husband; therefore, we
must be that Word Bride. And what is that Word Bride? The manifestation of this hour,
the Bride, not a creed or denomination, but a living Oracle of God, a living attribute of
God displaying to the world the attributes of God in the formation of the Bride
that's to be expressed in this hour that we're now living.
GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 65-0801M
Now, look. If a woman goes out here and is married to a man, and she goes out and
makes love with another man and has affairs with him, and come back to her husband,
he should kick her out. That right? She must be true to him, 'cause she's vowed to him.
And the Bride of Christ is vowed to Christ, and He is the Word. Not even wink at the
other side, a woman should not even wink at another man. She should make no signs,
no emotions at all towards him, for she is absolutely a bride to one bridegroom. We don't
want none of your mixed trees, your denominations. Be true to Christ, the Word. He'll
vindicate It to be true. No, sir! Not even any emotion of anything towards making love to
him, not join his ranks or anything else, or let him get you in his arms or in his care, or--or
talk to you over this way, that way, you listen to--only one Voice: "My sheep know My
voice; a stranger, they'll not..." What is His Voice? Any man's voice is his word, and this
is It, the Bible. Not one word to be added to It or taken from It, just stay right with that
Voice. A stranger they won't follow, a denomination. As She is part of the Groom, true
to Him in every point, waiting the Wedding, uniting, not at the ecumenical council, but
in the sky, the Wedding Supper. She has been given (this is for our own church) the...
She has been given and revealed to Her the Seven Sealed mysteries of the Bible.
She--she sees the folly of the deceiver, so very close to the Truth that almost deceive
the Elected; She sees it.
GOD'S.CHOSEN.PLACE.WORSHIP JEFF.IN V-5 N-7 65-0220
"There comes the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!" The only safety
zone there is is in that Lamb of God. In Him alone is salvation, not in any church, any
creed, any people, any father, any mother, any holy man, or nothing, holy place; it's in
the Holy God, the Lord Jesus Christ, where God placed His Name on a human being
for redemption, Who paid the price for us sinners. That's the only place that there is
salvation. That's the Rock I stand on.
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GOD'S.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP LA.CA V-18 N-2 65-0425E
… it's Jesus Christ, by the New Birth, believing that Bible. That's God's provided way,
and the only way that He has, is in Jesus Christ, His Son. And, in His Son, He placed His
Name. His! God's Name is Jesus, 'cause He came in His Father's Name. And so that
would be God's Name, because He was God.
Now, notice, when this great moving power of God comes into a son of God, it
quickens him, the Spirit of Life enters into him. Then what does it do? It seats them in
heavenly places, right now. Not they "will be." We are now. Now, we've already
resurrected, the dynamics and the mechanics is gone to work, quickened us, and we're
quickened up into the Presence of God, where His Spirit is. And now we are seated
together in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus; in Christ Jesus, sitting in there, that great
seat that's already fired up, been raised from the dead. We're a part of it. If you're a part
of the Bride, you are, because the Bride is part of the Groom, you know. So we find
out that it's the same thing, and She'll do just exactly what's predicted for Her to do in this
day. She won't be a Laodicea, not by no means a lukewarm. But She'll be on fire for
God, She'll be moving on in the Spirit of God.
Now, we're looking here now to find out. Now, let us, now at this same time that it does,
that this strikes us; and, when, we're once dead in sin and trespassing, trespasses,
rather, he... we been quickened together unto His Word of this age.
PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE JEFF.IN ROJC 229-285 60-1207
"… a new name written in this rock that nobody knows but he himself." He knows who
he is, but he can't tell others. See, see? No one knows but himself. See? Peter knows he
had the keys, but you didn't hear him bragging about it. See? These guys who brag
about what they are is usually nothing. "A white rock, and in it a new name," not his own
name, but he's somebody else (see?) that only he himself knows (he that's got the rock,
the name).
QA.ON.THE.SEALS JEFF.IN 63-0324M
What is the--the name of the--that'll be on the people of Revelations 3:12?
I--I don't know. Yeah. He said give them a new name. I--I--I don't know what that is.
See? It'll be probably made known when we get there, but I--I don't know what it is
now. See? See, He is going to do that. See? He give them a new name that--that they
just knowed themselves. See?
ONCE.MORE CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-7 63-0804A
Why did He change Jacob to Israel? Not until he wrestled with the Lord, not until he
overcome. And when Jesus overcome death, hell and the grave, the Bible said, "He had
a new Name." And when Jacob overcome.
And if the Church can overcome, she will stop saying, "I am Methodist, Baptist, and
Presbyterian." When she can overcome her creeds and the world that's drawed her in
there, she'll come back to the Bride of Jesus Christ, Miss Jesus Christ. Amen.
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INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE SHP.LA V-2 N-15 65-1125
Now, that's what the church is also. It's in the same condition. She's a type. She has the
same precious virtues by Spirit given to her to preserve the Spirit and the Word and
never commit adultery with anything of the world or anything, stay virgin to the Word
as a woman is to stay virtuous to her husband. It's a sacred trust.
To honor her Lord's Word above every manmade creed, wisdom, denomination there is,
the church is given that trust. They say well, "My church..." I don't care what your church
believes in. If it's contrary to the Word of God, stay away from it.
318-1 PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.8
"And I will write my NEW Name upon him." My New Name. When ALL becomes new,
then He will take upon Him a new Name and that Name will be the Name of the bride
also. What that Name is, none dare conjecture. It would have to be a revelation of the
Spirit given so conclusively that none would dare deny it. But no doubt He will leave that
revelation to the day when He desires to give that Name forth.
QA.IMAGE.OF.THE.BEAST JEFF.IN 54-0515
198-306 That's that great Person the Lord Jesus. He was Jehovah, God inveiled in
flesh. The Bible said, "Whatever you do in word and deed, do it all in His Name." The
Bible said the whole family in heaven is named Jesus, and the whole family on earth is
named Jesus. Let's pray in His Name, live in His Name, teach in His Name, die in His
Name, buried in His Name, baptized in His Name, resurrect in His Name, go to heaven
in His Name. That's His Name, and His Bride is named Mrs. Jesus. He'll take a
people out of the Gentiles for His Name's sake.
And I'm not a oneness. No, sir. You trinitarian people get that away from you. I am not a
oneness. No, sir. I'm not a oneness, neither a trinitarian. I believe what the Bible says.
BAPTISM.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT JEFF V-5 N-2 58-0928M
Listen, there's one woman setting... There's fine, nice looking, beautiful women setting in
this church this morning, young women, middle-aged women, old women; they're all
fine; they're somebody's wife, somebody's daughter, somebody's sweetheart, so forth.
They're every one... There's one Mrs. Branham setting here. You're every one women,
but there's one Mrs. William Branham. She's the one goes home with me. She's the
one's my sweetheart. She's the one that's raising my children.
There's many fine churches in the world today, but there's one Mrs. Jesus that's
bringing forth the real true borned again creatures of God. You know what I mean
don't you? Her name's not Methodist; Her name is not Baptist; Her name is Jesus, Mrs.
Jesus. Sure She is. She's bringing forth people, not members of the Methodist church,
she's not bringing forth Baptist church, or Presbyterian, or Catholic; She's bringing forth
them borned, rooted and grounded in Christ Jesus. There She is, that's Her. I'm so glad
that I'm with Her. She's a mystical Church. She don't have any denomination. She
carries none of these great big fancy names and big buildings. She meets wherever
there's members of the Body gathers together. They worship in Spirit and in Truth. They
were predestinated before the foundation of the world.
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PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 60-1210
And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God...
(Which is all the same: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus: the Bride married to Jesus, makes it
Mrs. Jesus, and so forth. See?) There's some mighty fine women in this building
tonight, mighty fine, but there's one of them that's mine; she's got my name. I hope you
got that. She's bearing my name; so will His Bride. All right:
I write upon him the name of my God,... which is the new Jerusalem, which cometh
down... or, the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down from
God... out from heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
I better leave that alone, hadn't I? All right. Notice, "him" there is singular. Now, if you'll
go back to Revelation 2:17 just a minute, just review it just a second:
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that
overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in
the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth save he that receives it.
ISAIAH 62:2-5
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt
be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in
the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be
termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the
LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the
bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
HEBREW LEXICON –
STRONG'S # 2657
Chephtsiy bahh {khef-tsee'baw} {from 2654}
Hephzi-bah = "my delight is in her"
2) a name for Jesusalem (figurative)
(Also from Brown Driver & Briggs Hebrew
Lexicon)
2654 chaphets -- 1) to delight
in, to take pleasure in, to desire, to be
pleased with
a) used of men
1) to take pleasure in, to delight in
2) to desire, to be pleased to do
b) used of God
1) to delight in, to have pleasure in
2) to be pleased to do
2) to move, to bend down
REVELATION 21:2-4
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall
be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things
are passed away.
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ISAIAH 62:12
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and
thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
REVELATION 3:12
12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he
shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the
name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of
heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
HEBREWS 12:22-24
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the
heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in
heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling,
that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
ANOINTED.ONES.AT.END.TIME JEFF.IN V-5 N-3 65-0725M
That great church Jerusalem, the Jerusalem and which not here on earth, but we are
of the Jerusalem of above where the Word come from, from predestination (See?);
not old Jerusalem that perishes, the New Jerusalem that can't perish; not the old
Jerusalem built by man, but the New Jerusalem's built by God (See?); the Word up there
now being made manifest. "In My Father's house are many mansions; I'll go and prepare
them for you," the Creator making the streets of gold and so forth. That's the one that
doesn't perish.
SATAN'S.EDEN JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 65-0829
And I, John, saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, descending from God out of
heaven." There God will be with His true attribute sons and daughters, where He
can fellowship with them in holiness…
LUKE 17:21
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
HEBREWS 11:8-10
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after
receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling
in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is
God.
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JOHN 14:2
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I
go to prepare a place for you.
HEBREWS 13:14
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
REVELATION 2:17
17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To
him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a
white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving
he that receiveth it.
JOHN 6:48
48 I am that bread of life.
EASTER.SEAL PHOENIX.AZ V-2 N-6 65-0410
Do you know you're the one the Bible speaks of? Do you know your position is in
Christ? If you're in Christ, you're a new creature. Do you know this Word is just
like everyday living to you. Why, sure. It's yours. You are an eagle; that's your
food.
SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON JEFF.IN V-8 N-7 65-0718E
You say, "Why is it that the Message don't go out in these great big places, these big
crusades, like amongst the denominations?"
It's not their Food; it's not the church (so-called) Food. It's the Bride Food.
PERSEVERANCE PHOENIX.AZ 63-0113E
Aren't we happy? We haven't got a thing to worry about, not a thing. We've anchored
in Christ, sitting in heavenly places, caught up in rapturing grace right now, sitting
in His presence in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
RECOGNIZING.YOUR.DAY JEFF.IN V-5 N-1 64-0726M
…the Spirit of God, which is the Word of God ("My Word is Spirit and Life will put the
Bride in her place, 'cause she'll recognize her position in the Word; then she's in
Christ.") will put her in her place
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