That is why the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said: “I’d be surprised if out of such or such a city or state, a certain number are raptured or go in the rapture.” And I won’t say the number, but search in the messages of our Brother Branham, search in the book of quotes (those who have the book of quotes) and also in other messages, and you will see the small number [of people] that our Brother Branham mentioned there.

And do you know that even at that moment, when he was speaking…? If the resurrection of the dead took place at that moment and the transformation of the living had to take place, do you know that no one would be changed at that moment, and none of those who were alive would be able to go in the Rapture? And why is this? Because the Thunders are the Ones that give the rapturing faith. And what the Thunders reveal is the Second Coming of Christ in Its fulfillment; and all of that was in the future; it was not to be fulfilled in the seventh Gentile Church age.

That is why the resurrection of the dead didn’t take place in any of the seven Gentile Church ages, and the rapture couldn't take place in any of the seven Gentile Church ages, and the transformation of the living couldn’t take place in any of the seven Gentile Church ages: because the faith for
the rapture was needed, the Rapturing Faith, which is in the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work. And it’s for the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, that this mystery is revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And anyone without the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ at the Last Day, anyone without this revelation of the Second Coming of Christ at the Last Day, cannot be changed and raptured; because the Rapturing Faith is contained in the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work.
19970817 THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION