Episode 185: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 151

Episode Summary:

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 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. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:1-3)

109 I’ve never believed that Heaven was a place where there’s a bunch of buildings, where there’s a bunch of houses up There, made with mortar, daubed up with paper, paint on the wall. I’ve never believed that a supernatural Being would have to live in a literal house. I believe, when Jesus spoke in Gen-…John 14 said, “In my Father’s house is many mansions,” He meant, “a body, a dwelling place.”

110 For, the Scriptures verify the same thing, and say, “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.” You see it?

111 Mortal beings is the only one who lives in mortal habitations. Immortal beings live in immortal habitations. Then, the place that we go into, until we return back, is not a place of brick, and mortar, and clay, or precious stones, or jewels. It’s a place of condition, that we move out of this dimension that we live into, into another dimension. And it’s a house, a tabernacle, a dwelling place.

112 Jesus said, “Destroy this temple, and I’ll raise it up in three days.” And they thought He was speaking of the Solomon’s temple, but He was speaking of His Own body.

113 And He has gone to prepare a place for every believer, that the very moment we step out of these mortal regions, we don’t go out into myth or some supernatural spirit, but we go into a tabernacle, a dwelling place. And that might be right here in this building this morning, in a place that no other radio activity, or nothing could touch. It’s there solely fixed by God alone.

114 Listen. Moses had been dead for eight hundred years. Elijah had been translated for around six or seven hundred years. And there they stood on Mount Transfiguration, both of them, in their mortal looks, talking to Jesus just before He went to Calvary. See what I mean?

115 Then what am I trying to say, that we are looking at some mythical something, a way off, out yonder, a hundred million years?

116 I got a revelation the other day, standing up there on Mount Palomar, at the observatory, and seeing the time, the space, over to Mars, and to the last continents and so forth, and light traveling at so many thousands miles per second.

117 If an Angel started from the farthest star, and coming here, it would take It billions times billions times billions of years to get here. If he started from Mars and come here, flying at the speed of—of light—of light space, or light speed. It would take Him billions of years to get here.

118 I cannot believe that there is a house way out yonder. But, I believe that that house that God was speaking of is right present here now. That, that’s the place where the mortal beings, when we cease to be mortal here, we step into immorality yonder, into a place.

119 And I believe that’s where Jesus is today, the resurrected Lord Jesus; not out yonder somewhere, a million miles away, but right here present with us now.

55-0403 – “Fellowship By Redemption”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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