Will I Miss the Rapture If I Am Not Rebaptised in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ?
1) Direct answer
If you have seen from the Scripture that baptism must be in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and you refuse to obey it, yes—you are placing yourself outside the obedience of the Bride and will miss the rapture. The catching away is for those sealed with the Holy Ghost, walking in the revealed Word. True faith obeys the Word when light comes.
2) Scriptural explanation
- The command: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins” (Acts 2:38).
- The example of re-baptism: When disciples at Ephesus had an incomplete baptism, they were baptized again “in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Acts 19:1-5). That is the Bible pattern.
- The promise tied to obedience: “The Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him” (Acts 5:32).
- The seal for the rapture: “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his” (Romans 8:9). The rapture is for the sealed ones (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
- One way, not many: “One Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5). “Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Colossians 3:17). “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven… whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
- Matthew 28:19 says “in the name” (singular). The apostles obeyed that by baptizing in the Name of the Lord Jesus, because Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are titles of the one God; Jesus is the revealed Name.
The Bride is that blood-washed company who overcome and are gathered, as shown in Revelation 7:9-17, and those who reign with Christ as in Revelation 20:4. She takes the Bridegroom’s Name.
3) Simple clarifying logic
- The rapture requires the Holy Ghost seal. God gives the Holy Ghost to them that obey Him. Water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ is a commanded step of obedience tied to repentance and the promise.
- If believers in Acts were re-baptized when they learned more light, who are we to refuse re-baptism when the Scripture calls for the Name?
- Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not names; they are the ways the one God revealed Himself. The Scripture says do it in the Name. The Bride identifies with that Name.
- God has winked at ignorance, but now “commandeth all men every where to repent” (Acts 17:30). Once truth is shown, delay and refusal expose the heart. The Bride doesn’t argue with the Word—she moves with it.
4) Reinforcing statement
Now notice: water alone doesn’t rapture anyone—the Holy Ghost does. But the Holy Ghost leads into all truth and into obedience. If you see it, obey it. Be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, receive the Holy Ghost, and walk in the Word. That’s the safe road for the Bride to meet the Lord in the air.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 5:E-71
Thou Hast Not Denied My Faith In Acts 3:16 when Peter was asked how the mighty miracle had taken place upon the crippled one at the Gate Beautiful, he explained it on this wise, "And His (Jesus) Name through faith in His (Jesus) Name hath made this man (former cripple) strong, yea, the faith which is by (from) Him (Jesus) hath given him (the man) this perfect soundness in the presence of you all." See, there it is. Jesus' Name, and Jesus' Faith brought about the miracle. Peter did not claim it was his own human fai...
The Faith Of Abraham
59-0415E §100
Come, sister dear. Been crippled for a long time, but believe now. In the name of Jesus, may He heal you. Amen. God bless this woman and heal her. In the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Come, sister dear. In the name of Jesus Christ may she be made well. In the name of Christ I pray that You'll heal this woman while this great church is a-praying. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, heal this little boy, Lord, and make him well. In the name of the Lord Jesus I pray for the woman that You'll heal...
He cares. Do you care?
63-0721 §132
In Jesus' Name, heal this my sister, Lord. Heal my brother, in the Name... God, heal this my brother, and make him well... Heal our sister, Lord, in Jesus Christ... Heal my sister, in Jesus' Name. Heal my little brother, in the Name of Jesus Christ. God, heal this my brother, in the Name of Jesus Christ. God, in the Name of Jesus Christ, heal my brother. God, heal my sister. In the Name of Jesus, may she be healed. God, heal this my brother, may in the Name of Jesus Christ be... O Father, heal him, in Jesus Christ...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 8:E-33
But the Jews back there in the time of Jesus did not want to accept that sacrifice. The blood of bulls and goats made nothing perfect. It was once God's ordained method. But now Christ having appeared in the flesh, and by the shedding of His own blood has put away sin and by that offering of Himself has made us perfect. The Jews would not take that. But what about that Philadelphian Age, and, yes, the other ages, too? Did they really accept this reality in Christ? No sir. Even though Luther brought the truth of jus...
Jehovah of miracles
59-1126 §74
In the name of Jesus Christ, go and be made well. Come on, sister dear. In the name of Jesus Christ, may she be healed. Come, my brother. In the name of Jesus Christ, may he be healed. Grant it. This little boy, O Lord God, heal this little crippled boy and may he walk and be well. In Jesus Christ's name. Bless our sister and heal her, in the name of Jesus Christ. Heal my brother, Father, I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Come, sister. In the name of Jesus Christ, may she be healed. In the name of Jesus Christ, may my s...