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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The flashing red light of the sign of His coming
63-0623E §119
Now, just a moment. Now, if you have not been baptized in water by immersing in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, just only the titles, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, there was never a person in all the Bible, not one person was ever baptized in the Bible in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in that title. No person was ever baptized in the church in history for the first three hundred years this side; every one was baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ until the Nicene Council at Nicaea, Rome, where...
The flashing red light of the sign of His coming
63-0623E §115
That would be a wonderful baptism, but Paul said, "It's no good now." He commanded them they'd have to be re-baptized again in the name of Jesus Christ, Acts 19:5. And Paul said, "If an angel comes down from heaven and preaches any other gospel than this that I have preached, let him be accursed." Galatians 1:8. Then he repeated it again, said, "As I have said, so say I again, though an angel (let alone a minister, bishop, pope, or whatever it might be)--- if an angel come down from heaven, a cherubim, out of the h...
Going beyond the camp
64-0719E §9
There's not one scripture in the Bible where anybody was ever baptized in any other way but in the name of Jesus Christ. The commission of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is only, "Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost." Not in the ... not call this title over them, but baptize them in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. Everybody in the Bible was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and the Bible said, that whosoever shall ta...
The greatest battle ever fought
62-0311 §208
[Brother Branham continues to pray for the sick.] Heal my brother... Lord. I pray that You'll heal... Heal my brother... in the Name of Jesus... In the Name of Jesus Christ... O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, O God, You know what's in her heart. You know all... I pray for her... In the Jesus Christ I... In the Name of Jesus Christ I anoint you... and I pray that... In the Name of Jesus Christ I... God be with my sister, Lord. We know years begin to creep... nothing but the great Holy Ghost. Now, in the Nam...
Seals 9: Questions and Answers on the Seals
63-0324M §193
[Brother Branham and the ministers pray for the sick--Ed.] In the Name of the Lord Jesus... I lay my hands, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, on my brother. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, I lay my hands... God, grant it to my sister, Rosella, in Jesus' Name. In the Name of Jesus Christ... In the Name of Jesus Christ, I lay hands... [Brother Branham speaks to someone, "You stay, watch that till the line ends."--Ed.] In the Name of the Lord Jesus... Remember, He's humble. Humbly come. [Brother Branham's words are not al...