Good morning, beloved brethren and friends present, and those who are in different countries, ministers and their congregations; and also those who are there in Quito, Ecuador; warm greetings to missionary, Dr. Miguel Bermúdez Marín, and the minister there, Dr. Francisco Martinez, and the congregation there: Corporación La Voz de la Piedra Angular; and all the ministers gathered there and also their congregations in Quito, Ecuador.
May God bless you and keep you, and may God open the Scriptures to us today and our understanding so that we understand.
I also extend my condolences to the family of Miguel Azocar, minister there in Venezuela who passed away recently; and I also reiterate my condolences to the family of Minister Rigoberto Gomez, there in Ciudad del Carmen, for his recent departure.
May God comfort your hearts for the departure of your loved ones who have gone to dwell with the Lord in recent days in this new year 2017. They will return as witnesses of the resurrection in young bodies from 18 to 21 years of age, in glorified bodies, in immortal bodies, and then they will be able to eat with us if we invite them, as Jesus ate with His disciples when He resurrected.1
We are waiting for them to welcome them among us. When we see them, we will be changed, and about 30 to 40 days later we will go (after the resurrection), we will then go with the Lord in the catching away of His Church to the House of our heavenly Father, where there is a gathering prepared for the enduement of the Lord and His Church. Therefore, something great is prepared in Heaven waiting for us.
And they will come to be with us at the time of the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, where the Third Pull will be fulfilled, and where God will be revealing the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which is the greatest mystery of all the mysteries in the Bible; because the Seventh Seal is the mystery of the Coming of the Lord to His Church.
Let’s read in Saint Matthew, chapter 17 and chapter 16 as well. Verses 27 to 28 of chapter 16 of Saint Matthew; and chapter 17, from 1 to 8; and chapter 24, verses 30 to 31. The Word of the Lord says the following in chapter 16, verses 27 to 28:
“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”
Let’s continue with chapter 17, verse 1, let’s continue:
“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.
And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.”
And Saint Matthew 24, verses 30 to 31, says:
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
“THE ANGELS BRINGING THE REVELATION OF THE SEVEN SEALS.”
That is the subject of our Bible school in the Bible Study for today, Sunday, February 26, 2017, here and from here, from Cayey, Puerto Rico.
“THE ANGELS BRINGING THE REVELATION OF THE SEVEN SEALS.”
That was shown in the words of Christ, where He said He would send His Angels with a Great Sound of a Trumpet and gather together His elect from one end of Heaven to the other. That was also what He spoke about in chapter 16 regarding the Coming of the Son of man in glory, coming in His Kingdom.
The greatest mystery of all the mysteries in the Bible is the Coming of the Lord at this end time; in other words, what is known in Christianity under the subject: the Second Coming of Christ.
He came two thousand years ago as Lamb to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross and to pay the price of redemption with His Life by shedding His Blood on Calvary’s Cross, whereby every person who approaches Christ and asks Him for forgiveness and receives Him as his only and sufficient Savior is cleansed from all sin.
Because Christ is in Heaven as High Priest, at the right hand of God, interceding for all those who are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Those are the ones who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those are the ones who would be born again, the ones who would be born in the Kingdom of God, first in the spiritual realm and then in the physical, in the resurrection of the dead in Christ, and in the transformation of those who are alive at the end time.
It is because just as there was an Adam and an Eve under that Divine Program of Paradise, where the reproduction-multiplication of the human being would be decided, the human being chose to multiply by sex, and that is what has been happening from generation to generation; which is a method where what a person obtains is temporary life, and when a person is born on this Earth he obtains a spirit of the world.
In the new Creation, of which Christ is the Second Adam and His Church is the Second Eve, birth is in the spiritual first, where they receive—everyone who receives Christ as their Savior in the age in which they live, receive Christ, are baptized in water in His Name, and then Christ baptizes them with the Holy Spirit and fire, and brings forth the new birth in them.
In this way, they have already entered into the Kingdom of God with Eternal Life upon being born of the Water and of the Spirit, as Christ said to Nicodemus in chapter 3, verse 1 to 6, of Saint John: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee: Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”
In the Kingdom of God, we enter into Eternal Life in that manner established by Christ Himself and the apostles, through whom the Holy Spirit spoke, taught, and guided how the Program of Redemption should be carried out in order to be born in the Kingdom of God with Life and unto Eternal Life.
That spiritual part is already coming to an end, because at this time, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completed, the last ones who are left, written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, will be redeemed; and when the number is completed, the door is then closed, as the parable says in chapter 13 of Saint Luke: “When the Master of the House has risen up, and shut the door…”
When He closes the door, also in Saint Matthew chapter 25, verse 1 to 13, the Door of the Dispensation of Grace is shut, and from that point on, no one else can obtain salvation as it was obtained during the different stages of the Church, because that Dispensation of Grace will have already ended, and the Dispensation of the Kingdom will be opening, which will be the dispensation in which the Kingdom of God will be literally established on Earth, and David’s Throne and David’s Kingdom will be restored on Earth, with Jerusalem as its capital.
All of that is for the time of God’s Millennial Kingdom on the Earth under the Monarchy of David, of the House of David, with a Jewish King, with a King who is a descendant of King David. He will be called the Son of David, the David, the Beloved One.
We are near that time in which God will again deal with Israel, the Hebrew people, at this end time. That will begin very soon.
When you see the Jews seeking the Coming of the Messiah, remember, it’s because the time has come. And this year 5777 of the Jewish calendar is a very important year, in which they are waiting for Him.
When we see them, whether it be in videos, documentaries, or whatever it may be, you will see them very restless, looking for the Jewish Messiah. Because they know that if they are waiting for a King, they are waiting for Him as an adult, not a baby. He must have been born, and be somewhere without revealing himself as King. Because that pertains to the Feast of the Trumpets, where God works with, deals with, the Hebrew people again. In the meantime, He will be with the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of Christianity, and from there, the One who will sit on David’s Throne will emerge.
Just like when Moses was born; Pharaoh, the Egyptian empire, was throwing the male children into the river, to the crocodiles, because he knew that the deliverer of the Jews would be born at that time.2 But notice, God directed everything so that he could make it to the palace, so that he could arrive at the Egyptian court, and be raised by Pharaoh’s daughter.3 In other words, He hid him in the same place from which they were seeking him and all the children to kill him.
The cause of death of all those children was because they were looking for one of them, and since they didn’t know which one it was, they were killing all the boys to prevent the Messiah, God’s Anointed One, from appearing for the deliverance of the Hebrew people in Egypt.
Remember that Messiah means ‘Anointed One,’ the Messiah means the Anointed Man. Anointed with what? With the Spirit of God, through whom God carries out His Program relevant to that time. “Surely the Lord God will do nothing without first revealing His secrets unto His servants His prophets.” (Amos chapter 3, verse 7.)
And when the title Son of man is used, that is the title of a prophet. That is why as a prophet, Jesus spoke of Him, of Himself, as the Son of man, as the Prophet of God; a prophet like Moses, in whom God’s fullness was manifested, fulfilling the Divine Program for that time.
In order to fulfill the Divine Program, God in Holy Spirit had to veil Himself in human flesh to fulfill the Divine Program for that time; and that is why by God being veiled in human flesh, in a prophet, it was the Son of man; because a Son of man is a prophet anointed with the Holy Spirit.
And Christ was anointed with the Holy Spirit in all His fullness; which means that Moses, Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, were in Jesus Christ, because the same Holy Spirit who operated those ministries in those other people was in Him. The portion He operated in each one of them, later, when He was in Christ in all His fullness, all the ministries that had been manifested in other men, in other prophets, were there.
That is why when they spoke of Jesus, they thought He was Elijah, others thought He was Moses, others thought He was Jeremiah, and so on;4 but He was the One anointed with the fullness of God. He was the Anointed One, the Prince Messiah promised for that time to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, and through that work to purchase the whole world for the sake of the elect of God; for the sake of Israel and for the sake of His Church, He bought the whole world.
In the parable, it says that a rich man discovered a treasure that was lost, and for joy he came and bought it and hid it.5 That lost treasure is the one hundred and forty-four thousand Hebrews who will be called in this end time, which represent the twelve tribes of Israel.
Therefore, the lost treasure is the… Correction: the ten northern tribes, of the northern kingdom, which are led by the tribe of Ephraim, which we find has the greatest blessing; because Ephraim received the Birthright Blessing,6 which is a double-portion blessing.
Without the northern tribes, the ten tribes, without that treasure, there won’t be a restoration of God’s Kingdom on Earth. There won’t be a restoration of the Kingdom of David, and there won’t be a global Government ruled by the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Son of David, the One anointed with all the fullness at the Last Day, in whom every promise relevant to this end time will be fulfilled. And that is how it will be in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Son of man with His Angels.
On Mount Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus, talking with Him. Talking with Him about what? About His departure to Jerusalem.7
Elijah is a prophet for all the nations, and Moses is a prophet exclusively for Israel. Therefore, those are the ministries with which God will call and gather the elect, the one hundred and forty-four thousand Hebrews, twelve thousand of each tribe. And the twelve tribes will be together there, the ten northern tribes and the two southern tribes; the tribes of the South, the two southern tribes, led by the tribe of Judah.
The question, for the Jews at this time or of the Jews at this time, and of Christianity, is: Where is the One who will sit on David’s Throne as the Son of David or where is He supposed to be? Where is the manifestation of the Son of man on Earth with His angels calling and gathering His elect from one end of Heaven to the other or where is it supposed to be? (Where the elect of Christianity, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, who have been written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, before the foundation of the world, will also be gathered or will have been gathered.)
In the year 1963, on February 28th, in Tucson, Arizona, seven angels appeared to Rev. William Branham. They lifted him up with them. One of the angels, the One who was different from the rest, lifted him up with Him and he became part of the group of the angels that were in that cloud of glory.8 And Rev. William Branham says that there were seven angels but one of them was different from the rest.9
Those were the seven angels of the seven Church ages, of which Rev. William Branham was the seventh angel of the Church; and one of them… because he says that he is standing, looking towards the West, in front of him, and the angels are coming from the West to the East. And he says that one of the angels was very different from the rest, He was very strange, He was not one of the seven angels of the Church, but an eighth angel, counting Rev. William Branham as number seven then.
They are coming from the West to the East, and Rev. William Branham is looking from the East to the West, facing them like that. He says: “He was the One with the Seventh Seal, that Angel who was different from the rest.” And the Seventh Seal is what? The Coming of the Lord.
One day, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will know that Angel, and therefore, they will know the mystery of the Coming of the Lord to His Church at the Last Day. And then, Israel will recognize Him and say: “Why with a group among Christianity?” Because such is God’s Program. God’s Program was not made by a man, but made by God.
Therefore, we pray to God that we all have the privilege of seeing what Rev. William Branham saw when the angels came to him on February 28, 1963; and may God allow us to see the Angel who was different from the rest, and thus receive the blessings He has from God for the mystical Body of Christ, and then, for the Jews.
In Him, in that manifestation of Him, the second part of the Coming of the Son of man to judge as the Judge will be fulfilled. The first part was fulfilled in grace in Rev. William Branham; and in all His fullness, two thousand years ago, it was fulfilled in Jesus Christ; and before that it was partially fulfilled in a portion in each prophet who was sent by God to His people.
Everything is in simplicity, Rev. William Branham says.10
Therefore, the greatest event in Biblical history pertains to this end time, and soon it will be revealed, and He will bring the faith to His Church to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and He will connect with the Jews, for God to deal with the Jews again at this end time. But first, the Church is the One to have Him and to recognize Him and to receive the Message, the revelation of that mystery, to receive the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
This is a very important year for Christianity and for the Jews as well. Therefore, be prepared, and draw closer to God by praying, we want everyone to receive God’s blessings; and may we all be prepared to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
“THE ANGELS BRINGING THE REVELATION OF THE SEVEN SEALS.”
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, in this Bible school for today, Sunday, Bible school day, in which we have had this short study of: “THE ANGELS BRINGING THE REVELATION OF THE SEVEN SEALS.”
In baptism, the death, the burial, and the resurrection of the individual with Christ is represented, because we were in Christ eternally; just like physically, our physical body was in our earthly father; just as Levi was in Abraham and… he was in the loins of Abraham, the Bible says, Hebrews says, Saint Paul says this in Hebrews [chapter 7]; and likewise we were in the loins of our earthly father.
But in the spiritual, now under the New Covenant in the midst of Christianity, the birth in the Kingdom of God is in the spiritual first, where one obtains a spirit of Heaven, from God; and in the resurrection one will receive a new, eternal, immortal, incorruptible, and glorified and young body like the glorified body that Christ our Savior has, who is as young as when He left to Heaven.
In other words, a new Creation is being carried out by the Second Adam, Jesus Christ, and the Second Eve, through the different stages of the Church. That is Abraham’s family. That is Abraham’s seed. That is why from the seed of Abraham will rise the Messiah the Prince, who will sit on the Throne of David; a Jew who will sit on the Throne of David.
First, He will be in the midst of the Church. When He is coming for His Church, that is when they will see him and say: “This is the One we are waiting for.”
May God bless you and keep you.
And next Sunday and next Friday, we will continue with the Bible studies. I will be broadcasting to you from the place where I am. Whenever I travel, I will always broadcast to you from the place where I am on Fridays and Sundays.
May God bless you and keep you; and continue having a joyful afternoon filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
I would appreciate that you pray a lot for me, because there is a lot of work to do this year.
God bless you and keep you, and continue having a joyful afternoon filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
“THE ANGELS BRINGING THE REVELATION OF THE SEVEN SEALS.”
1 Luke 24:36-43; John 21:4-13
2 Exodus 1:15-22
3 Exodus 2:1-10
4 Matthew 16:13-14; Mark 8:27-28; Luke 9:18-19
5 Matthew 13:44
6 Genesis 48:11-20
7 Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-8; Luke 9:28-36
8 The appearance of this cloud was photographed and published in two magazines:
Science magazine: published 19 April 1963, Vol 140, Issue 3564. Author: James E. McDonald, https://www.science.org/toc/science/140/3564
Life magazine: published 17 May 1963. Article title: “…And a High Cloud – Ring of Mystery,” https://bit.ly/3ureXyD
9 The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” pages 545-546, paragraphs 275-282
10 The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” page 549, paragraph 305