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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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The Serpent's Seed
58-0928E §129
Now, we're not saying leave the Baptist church, leave the Methodist church. We don't say... You go right back to your church. But if you haven't been baptized according to the Scripture in the Name of the Lord Jesus, not in the Name of Jesus only, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ (That's the Scriptures.), you're baptized wrong. I don't want no trouble when I come to the river. I want everything as clear as I know how when I'm holding that ticket (See?), ' cause I want to get aboard at that time. I'd advise you...
Show us the Father and it will satisfy us
59-0419E §80
We just don't know what's fixing to take place, but I do feel that something's fixing to happen. In the name of Jesus Christ, Lord, I pray that You'll heal her. In the name of Jesus Christ, Lord, I pray that You'll heal her. God bless you, brother. In the name of Jesus Christ, heal our brother, Lord. God, in the name of our Lord Jesus, heal the brother. In the name of Jesus Christ, heal our brother, Lord. Come, sister. In the name of Jesus Christ, Lord, heal this our sister. God, heal my brother, in the name of Jes...
The Rapture
65-1204 §16
Now today, speaking on this subject... And now, some of you may differ, the avenues that I take, but how many here believes that the Bible teaches there will be a rapture of the church? Yes, sir! That's right! A catching away of the church. Whether you're a Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or whoever you are, Pentecostal, there will be a catching away. And I think that in speaking I just don't try to get up here to say something that I think would please the people. I've never been guilty of that. I want to get up...
The Way back
62-1123 §117
Heavenly Father, grant the desire of... in Jesus Christ's Name. Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ, grant our sister... In Jesus Christ's Name, grant this to... In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I ask for healing, Father. In the Name of Jesus Christ, heal our brother. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Lord, heal our brother. In the Name of Jesus Christ, we ask a victory... In the Name of Jesus Christ, grant the healing of our brother. In the Name of Jesus Christ, grant the healing of our brother. Heal our...
The flashing red light of the sign of His coming
63-0623E §120
If there's a historian, a minister, any other person on air, in tape, that can produce one Scripture or one speck of history where anybody was ever baptized any other way than in the name of Jesus Christ till the Roman Catholic Church at Nicaea, Rome. You're duty bound to bring it to me, let me apologize. There's no such thing. No! And every person that was baptized by immersing, that was not baptized in the name of Jesus Christ was commanded before they could enter glory to come back and be re-baptized again. Now,...