Good evening or good afternoon, friends, brethren. It is a great blessing to be with you on this occasion to share some moments of fellowship with you around the subject: “THE POWER OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
For which we will read in Revelation, chapter 24, verses 30 to 31, and chapter 8, verse 1 to 5, of Revelation, where it also says regarding the Seventh Seal, where it tells us about the Seventh Seal. First let us read Matthew 24, verse 30 to 31, where it 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.”
And Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1 to 5, says:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
What is the mystery contained in this Seventh Seal, that caused silence for about half an hour when It was opened in Heaven? The mystery contained in this Seventh Seal is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ.
And now, this mystery of the Second Coming of Christ for the end time will be the mystery that Christ will be fulfilling in the midst of His Church, carrying out, fulfilling His Coming.
And to understand what His Coming will be at the Last Day, first we have to understand what His Coming was two thousand years ago; for which, first we will read in Malachi, chapter 3, where the prophet Malachi tells us what the Coming of the Messiah in the midst of the Hebrew people would be; chapter 3 of Malachi says:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me (Who is speaking here? God is speaking here, the Angel of the Covenant is speaking here. He says): And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple (And who will come? After He has sent His messenger preparing the way before Him, which was John the Baptist, then, the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will come), even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in.”
That Angel of the Covenant, who appeared to the prophet Moses in that pillar of fire and told him1: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,” He is the One who will come according to this prophecy:
“Behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”
Who? “The Angel of the Covenant, whom you seek.”
“Behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”
And now, how would the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, come in the midst of the Hebrew people?… For which, first He would send a forerunner, a person, a prophet preparing the way for Him, who was John the Baptist, who came in the spirit and power of Elijah, according to the Archangel Gabriel’s words to his father Zechariah, Zechariah the priest.
That man who would come in the spirit and power of Elijah would be born of Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth, and he would be a prophet of God, and he would be the one who would forerun the First Coming of Christ, he would be the one who would come crying out in the wilderness and preparing the way of the Lord.
Then, when he was on Earth, Jesus spoke of him in chapter 11 of Matthew, verses 9 and on, saying:
“But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.”
Who is the Elijah which was to come preparing the way of the Lord? It is John the Baptist preparing the way for Christ in His First Coming.
And now, in chapter 17 of Matthew, when Jesus came down from Mount Transfiguration with Peter, James and John, from verses 10 to 13, we find the disciples speaking to Jesus about the coming of Elijah; and they asked Him why the scribes say that Elijah must first come, because they had seen Elijah and also Moses on Mount Transfiguration.
And now, when they come down from Mount Transfiguration, they ask Jesus (chapter 17, verses 10 to 13):
“And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things (that is referring to Elijah coming at the end of time).
But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.”
Now, notice how Jesus speaks here about the Elijah who must come at that time, and He applies this (to whom?) to John the Baptist. John the Baptist was that Elijah which was to come at that time, preparing the way of the Lord.
John the Baptist was the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ. That is why when they ask John who he is, he testifies who he is. Notice, in John, chapter 1, verse 1 to 15, it says:
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
The Word was made flesh; and the Word was with God and the Word was God; it was God made man, made flesh among the Hebrew people. That was God’s manifestation in Jesus Christ: the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, coming clothed in human flesh.
“John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man (in other words, he was announcing that a man would come after him), which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.”
Now, notice everything that happened in those days, and notice how John the Baptist was forerunning the coming of a man, a man who would come after him, who would be the one to baptize them with Holy Spirit and Fire.
John came baptizing in water, but announcing another man who would come after him, which would be (whom?) the Word, the Word made flesh, the Word incarnate in a man; in other words, the Angel of the Covenant incarnate in a man of that time, who would be born among the Hebrew people, but the Word, the Word incarnate at that time would be in that man; in other words, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would be manifested in human flesh: in that veil of flesh called Jesus of Nazareth. God dressed in human flesh.
Just as each one of you is dressed in human flesh. If your body of flesh is taken away, you disappear from this earthly dimension; you go on to live in Paradise, but you do not live here any longer; you will no longer be living in this dimension if your veil of flesh is taken away.
And now, notice, God came to live in the midst of the human beings not only in Spirit, but also in flesh, in the veil of flesh named Jesus.
He was manifested from age to age and from dispensation to dispensation in each messenger He sent; and that was the temporary veil of flesh God used, the Angel of the Covenant used in His manifestation in each age; but when He came manifested in human flesh in the person of Jesus, He came manifested in all His fullness; that is why He was able to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross. He came in a body without sin, and that is why He was able to offer that body of His as a living sacrifice for the salvation of all the sons and daughters of God.
No other body could be offered to God as a sacrifice to solve the problem of sin. That is why none of the prophets who came before Jesus could be sacrificed on Calvary’s Cross to take away our sins, because that same person, each one of the messengers before Jesus, came in mortal, corruptible, temporary bodies contaminated with sin, because they all came in a body that came through the union of a man and a woman.
That is why the Scripture says that Jesus then came to Earth, but notice, how did He come? In a body created by God in Mary’s womb; the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary and that is when the miracle of the creation of that body took place, by creating a cell of life in Mary’s womb, which multiplied cell after cell.
And now, notice, Levi was in the loins (of whom?) of Abraham when Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek2. And how was he in Abraham’s loins? Well, he was in Abraham’s loins in the form of a gene, of a sperm cell; it is not that his whole body was there, like it was on Earth later on, rather, he was there in genes or sperm cells that would bring forth…, that would multiply and produce that body; but remember that everything is there, just microscopically.
And likewise, notice, we were in God since before the foundation of the world. Then, when God created that theophanic body of the sixth dimension for Himself, our theophanic body was there in that theophanic body; and not just our theophanic body, but all of the Creation was in that body.
That is why the Scripture says that in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth; but Saint Paul gives more details and so does Saint John. Saint John, for example, goes into detail about the Creation, and in chapter 1, verse 1 and on, he says:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
And in verse 14 (of John chapter 1) says:
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”
And now, notice, who was the one that created all things? Who was the Creator of the entire Creation? The Word that was with God, and was (whom?) God; and then, He was made flesh. And the Word that was with God and was God, later, in the New Testament, is whom? Jesus Christ.
The Word made flesh is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. That is why He could say3: “Before Abraham was, I am.” He could say: “Abraham desired to see My day, and he saw it, and was glad.” They tell Him: “You are not yet fifty years old, and You say that You have seen Abraham?” He says: “Before Abraham was, I am.”
And John the Baptist says: “He that comes after me is preferred before me (that is, he is before me)”; and not only is He before John the Baptist, but He is also before Abraham; and He is not only before Abraham, but before Adam as well. Why? Because He is the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, because He is the Almighty God, who was in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension creating all things, and then He came to Earth in human flesh, in a veil of flesh named Jesus of Nazareth.
And that is why you find that He has authority over the entire Creation. When there was a need for bread and fish for those who were hungry and were hearing His Word, and they had already been listening to Jesus for three days (in other words, they had a three-day campaign, they had already been at that campaign for three days), the food ran out, and the disciples tell Jesus: “It is best that all these people go before it gets dark, because the day is wearing away, the sun is setting.”
In other words, it was already 3:00 in the afternoon; from that point on, you can see that the day, the sun begins to set, and the sun starts to go down further and further until it gets dark; and to go out at night…, especially in those times, when they did not have the resources we have today; and donkeys do not have headlights to light the way; and so it is not good to be traveling in that condition.
And now, Jesus tells His disciples…, they tell Him: “It is best that they leave, go into the towns, and buy food for themselves (in other words, that they cover their own expenses, that they go and buy food).”
Jesus tells them: “They do not need to leave; give them to eat.” What a situation for the disciples. They say: “We do not have anything here; and even if we went to buy bread, (they mentioned a certain number) such a quantity would not be enough for so many people.”
On one occasion, there were about five thousand people4 and on another occasion there were four thousand people5, and that is without counting the children and women; and there are children who eat more than their elders and women, too.
So men are not the ones who eat a lot, many times it’s women. Sometimes they say: “No…”, and will only eat a little bit… but what about the rest of the day when they have been at home? They are the ones with the keys to the kitchen. So whenever they want to eat, they are there in the kitchen and they prepare whatever they want to eat. Although later, when it is time to eat, they eat a little bit; but what about everything they ate before that?
So sometimes the one who eats the least is the husband, because he is too busy working; and it is the same for children. But that is good; it is good that they eat, but not excessively, making their husbands spend more than usual, because that is not beneficial either.
Later on, it will always reflect in excess weight and all these things, most of the time. Others, well, gain weight without eating much; but we need to work around it, find a way and find the solution to problems; and for some people, those are problems. If it is not a problem for the wife, she has to see if it is a problem for the husband; because whether or not it is a problem for the wife, but if the husband does not like her too much that way, well, she has to figure out what to do to keep her husband happy.
And now, we can see that Jesus tells them: “They do not need to leave; give them to eat.” What a problem for the disciples; and they say…, and Jesus asks them:
—What do you have?
—We do not have anything. There is just a lad, or a boy, around here —they had already asked around— who has some bread and some small fishes.
We do not know whose child this was and we do not know what the disciples were going to do to get what this child had, if Jesus had demanded it.
Now, they thought: “Well, by telling Him that the one who has this here is a boy… Maybe he is a family member, or if not, maybe he is selling these breads and these small fishes. If we say this to Jesus, He will say: ‘Well, you are right. Go yourselves – or let them leave, we will send them away; let them go buy in the towns, and they can leave from there in peace.’” But Jesus says: “Bring those breads and small fishes here.”
And the boy, well, they had to pay him if he was selling them; or if he was a family member, or if he was the child of one of the disciples, then they had to ask him to give it to Jesus, to give it to them to take to Jesus.
And Jesus says: “Now (they have already brought what they have), now ask the people to sit on the grass, by fifties.”
And why in groups of fifty? Fifty is a very important number. Notice, fifty means Pentecost; and Pentecost, on the Day of Pentecost, we find that God poured out His Holy Spirit; and then came the Water springing up into everlasting life, flowing out of the belly, from within every son and daughter of God; Water of everlasting life came6.
And, notice, the fiftieth year is the Year of Jubilee, when the transformation of our body will come. When the fiftieth year is updated, that is the divine cycle in which the dead in Christ will resurrect in eternal bodies and we which are alive will be changed.
So notice how Christ uses that number fifty.
During the Dispensation of Grace, we have been living under the divine cycle of the Day of Pentecost; and for the Last Day, it intertwines with the Year of Pentecost, when, in addition to receiving the Holy Spirit…, which was poured out on the Day of Pentecost (two thousand years ago) and has continued to be poured out upon all flesh who believes in Jesus Christ as his Savior; and thus, we have obtained the new birth after believing in Christ as our Savior and washing our sins away in the Blood of Christ, and we have received the theophanic body of the sixth dimension. For the Last Day, on updated Year of Jubilee, we will receive the physical and eternal body He has promised us.
Notice, that is the double portion of the Spirit. First, with the firstfruits of the Spirit, we receive the theophanic body, and with the double portion of the Spirit we will receive (what?) the physical and eternal body He has promised each one of us. Under the Day of Pentecost, we receive the firstfruits, the theophanic body, and under the Year of Pentecost, under the Year of Jubilee, we receive the physical and eternal body He has promised all of us.
We find that Christ multiplied the bread and fishes on two occasions, and notice, on one occasion there were five thousand people (not counting children and women) and on the other occasion there were four thousand people (not counting children and women).
If we count the children and the women, and if we do the math based on those who are here…; if we count the men, the men who are here, and then we count the women, we will probably find that there are more women than men. And if that is how it was in those days, if there were five thousand people, five thousand men (among the youth and adults and children) without counting the women, and if at that time there were more women (like this, at services) than men, then the congregation being fed there with the bread and fishes exceeded ten thousand people; but since the Bible does not explain to us how many people of the female sex there were on those two occasions, we leave that alone. And all those who want to know the exact number of women who were there during these two miracles, well, let us wait until we are in the Millennium and there we will see what the number is, because we will know everything there; so there is no problem.
Look, for example, when we talk about a certain number of men, well, that’s fine, but when we say “not counting children and women,” that is unlimited; in other words, it is better for women that there is no limit and that all those who wish to enter, be allowed to enter.
Now, this is a great blessing for the sons and daughters of God. We know that there is a number of elect; and now, we do not know if there are more women than men in that number of elect. Now, we are also going to see that in the Millennium, to avoid struggling with these numbers for now.
Let us make better use of our time seeing THE POWER OF THE SEVENTH SEAL, which is the power of Christ in His Second Coming.
In His First Coming, He came as the Lamb of God to die on Calvary’s Cross and carry out the Work of Redemption, by taking our sins, placing our sins in that immortal body; He said: “No man takes my life; but I lay it down of myself to take it again.” But for that body to become mortal, He had to take our sins; because the wages of sin is (what?) death; therefore, by taking our sins and placing them on Jesus, His physical body became mortal and He died on Calvary’s Cross.
Perhaps the devil was very happy and said: “I have made Him mortal, I have managed to kill Him,” and yet the devil did not realize that this was the devil’s own defeat. What the devil believed was the defeat of Jesus, was actually the defeat of the devil; because the devil is like the bee: it stings and it loses its stinger.
I do not know what you call a stinger here; over there we call it (I do not know if that means something different here) the “ponzoña”7, that little sting like this that stings and when it leaves, that is the death of the bee. It would have been better not to sting anyone, because the day it stings a person, that is when its days come to an end. And then, the person squeezes (presses) and removes that stinger, and the person continues to live; and even if he leaves the stinger in there, that is not a problem, since if he has arthritis or rheumatism or something like that, they say bee stings are very good for that.
So when the devil placed his stinger on Christ, he lost all his power, a power he had stolen; and now, he lost all his power, he lost all his power over death and hell. And now, notice, it has served as medicine.
Now, the problem of the human race, of illnesses and everything, what happens? With the death of Christ on Calvary’s Cross and by the devil burying his stinger there, notice, Christ took our illnesses; and now He delivers us (Christ) from all power of the enemy, because Christ took the power of the devil, He took it away from him; when he buried the power of death, that is when he lost his power.
It is like the bee, that stings and buries that stinger, and then loses its power (why?) because it lost its stinger. And when Christ received that deadly wound there, the devil lost his stinger; and the devil is the one who lost his power, the power he had stolen.
And now, Christ has the keys of hell and death; and Christ is the one who will resurrect all the believers in Him who have departed, and we who are alive (if we remain alive until the dead in Christ are resurrected) will be changed.
Now, Paradise is very beautiful, and there, you do not work, nor get tired, nor eat, no one has to cook there. For those who do not like to cook, Paradise is a good place; and for those who do not like to work, Paradise is a good place; but remember that Paradise is for the believers in Christ, who are hardworking people, and who work here first to then rest there if their days here on Earth come to an end.
Now, how many would like to be resting in Paradise? Very few people would like to be resting in Paradise when there is so much work here; and those who go on to rest in Paradise, their work ends there, they cannot continue working in the Work of God here (why?) because they have already gone to Paradise; and there, they do not work, nor get tired, nor eat, nor sleep, instead they are waiting for their resurrection in eternal bodies.
And they told our brother Branham when he went there for a visit on one occasion8: “We don’t work here, we don’t eat here, neither do we sleep, but we will go back to Earth; we will take up bodies and return to Earth, then we will eat.” So they have already extended us an invitation to invite them to eat when they come back; they have told us that they can eat.
Just like Jesus, when He resurrected. They did not believe it was Jesus, and what did Jesus tell them? “Do you have something to eat?” They gave Him a honeycomb, or a piece of honeycomb, and a piece of fish, and He ate before them; because in the theophanic body, notice, there in Paradise, they do not eat nor sleep, they do not get tired, they do not get sleepy, and they do not work either; they are very joyous, very happy there, but they are eager to come back to Earth; but not in the same body, because in the same body, they would have the same problems they had when they were here, instead, they know it will be in a new body, an eternal body; and they told our brother Branham when He wanted to see Jesus, they told him: “You can’t see Him now. He is still higher,” in other words, He is in the seventh dimension9.
They were there, in the sixth dimension, and Jesus was still higher, in the seventh dimension, making intercession there on the Throne of the Father, but they said to him:
—Don’t worry, He will come to you and He will judge you.
—Huh?, what? —He asked for an explanation— What do you mean He’ll judge me?
—Yes, you will be judged; and if you are accepted, then we will enter with you.
Because all of them were the converts under the ministry of brother Branham, they were directly or indirectly tied to the ministry of Jesus Christ through our brother Branham; the people of his time were there.
That is why later on, when he came back to Earth in the physical body, he even told those who were present there, who were listening to him on some occasions, he said to them: “I saw you there, too.”
What does that mean? That the majority of those who were still living in those days and were under the ministry of our brother Branham and would hear him preach in those days, most of them would go to Paradise; when our brother Branham would be there, he would also see them there, because he saw them when he visited that place.
And how can it be that he saw them before it was even time yet? Because our theophanic body is from the sixth dimension; and even, notice, even our brother Branham could see the first people from his age and he could also see the last people from his age.
And now, notice, didn’t John the apostle see the Angel of Jesus Christ in his theophanic body and receive the revelation from the Angel of Jesus Christ? John was transported to the Day of the Lord, to the seventh millennium, by that same Angel and he showed him all those things. Because in the dimension of the theophany, in the sixth dimension, there are no time constraints; you can go to a different time, and notice, there is no problem.
That is the kind of body we have, the theophanic body, which we will have throughout eternity in the physical and glorified body we will have. So we have the most modern means of transportation anyone can have for thousands or millions of years to come; we will not have transportation problems.
If John was transported from the 90s decade of the first century to this Last Day, to the Day of the Lord, without a problem, and for two years he was receiving the apocalyptic revelation; in other words, during those two years (let us say that in our own words) he may have said to John: “Well, John, let’s go, I am going to show you other things that I have not shown you yet,” and transported him, his spirit.
By being in the spirit, one can travel to the past as far as one wishes to go, one can travel to the future as far as one wishes to go, and one can be in the present, seeing everything in the present.
Our brother Branham, while he was in the theophanic body, when he was taken to where the believers of his age were, he says that while he was in his body, he felt his head and he had all his hair again; he said: “Now this is strange, I see that I am in another body, and I have all my hair again, in this body; and I look down and see my body lying there on the bed,” a body that is already fifty-something years old; it is strange. And he says that everyone there, in that dimension, they were all young, and so was he, and he had all his hair again; he says: “Could it be a dream? Let me see if it is a dream.” He bit his finger and he felt it, in other words, he had the sense of touch; and he says: “It is not a dream, so I am in a real body, and these people are in real bodies.”
Notice, the theophanic body is where the saints who depart from this Earth will live. The body in which he left when he departed from this Earth, that is the body which he is in.
And he was told: “You’ll be judged first, He’ll come to you first and you’ll be judged; and if you are accepted, we will enter with you”; in other words, if the messenger does not enter, no one from that age enters; because he is the messenger, the leader of that age. That is why the messenger has to be watchful, and he is always watching his age, to make sure that everything goes well.
And those who did not agree with Saint Paul, well, they will not belong to the age of Saint Paul; and likewise, those who did not agree with the messenger of each age, well, they will not belong to that age or to that messenger. God will only recognize those who have been in line with the Message and the messenger of each age, because the people who have agreed with that messenger are the ones who belong to that age and that messenger.
And that is how it is at the Last Day: those who will be in line with the Word of God in the age in which it pertains to us to live, in the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, in the Coming of the Bridegroom, are the ones who will go in with Him to the Marriage; and the door will be shut. And then, those who will come knocking later on, notice, they did not agree with Him, because they did not enter with Him and they were not waiting for Him the way they were supposed to wait for Him; and then, when they returned, it does not even say if they had the oil they went to look for or not, and they wanted to go in with Him, with the Bridegroom to the Marriage; they wanted to be united with the Bridegroom and have an eternal body, and be in the image and likeness of Christ; but that is not possible for anyone except the elect of God, who from age to age have agreed with Christ and His manifestation through the messenger of each age.
The rest pertains to the rest of the people who are in the other section of the Book of Life, who will die and resurrect after (after the Millennial Kingdom, after the Millennium) to be judged and enter into eternal life, those whose names have remained written in the Book of Life; and those who have not remained, well, they will not live eternally, rather, they will be judged and cast into the lake of fire.
That is what Revelation says in chapter 20, verse 14 and 15, says:
“And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire (because he has no part in eternal life; if he is not written there, then, he cannot go there).”
Now, notice how in the Divine Program all these things for this end time will be clarified in our age, and it will be the age with the most light, why?
Because what has more light? A house at night, lit by the moonlight or a house in the day, lit by the sunlight? If the house has good windows, you do not even have to turn on the lights inside; and if the roof has a skylight, then the house is well lit on the inside and you do not even need to turn on the electricity.
And now, notice, the House of God, which is the Church of Jesus Christ, has a good skylight; it is a diamond: the Age of the Cornerstone; and there, the Light of the day…
During the seven ages, she was being lit by the Moon of the night, and the Light of the Sun was also being reflected in the messengers and in the Moon, and from there, He gave Light to the world; but now, the Age of the Cornerstone is where she receives the Light directly from the Sun. Because Christ is the Sun of Righteousness, and He —as the Seventh Seal— He will be shining like the sun in His Coming; because “To those who fear my Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise,” and here, the Light of the Sun, the Light of His Coming, in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age that is a diamond.
If you shine a light, going from one side to the other, on a cornerstone made out of diamond, what happens? The prism of…, the rainbow, you can see the seven colors of the rainbow; and that is what will be seen at this end time in the Age of the Cornerstone, as it is seen in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, where we find the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.”
See? There is the Light of the Sun, and there is no rainbow without light; and now, with the Light of the Sun there, the rainbow appears.
And now, we can also see that that the Age of the Cornerstone is where Christ comes shining as the Sun of Righteousness, and that is where the seven colors of the rainbow, which is the Divine Covenant, will be manifested in all Its fullness.
In each age of the gentile Church, only one color of the rainbow was reflected, and only half of the circle of that color, which is an arch, but not the full circle. The only stage or age of the Church of Jesus Christ in which the entire rainbow is manifested, the full circle, with the seven colors of the rainbow, is the Age of the Cornerstone; that is the age where the Light of the Sun of Righteousness strikes, coming and shining, and the prism of the seven colors of the rainbow is made, the full circle is manifested and there, the Divine Covenant manifests Itself in all Its fullness to all the sons and daughters of God.
And under the Covenant of God for His Church and for the Hebrew people, we find that Christ (under that Covenant) will be restoring His Church in eternal bodies and He will be restoring the Hebrew people as a nation.
Now, we can see that during the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, not even half of all the revelation of God was spoken, but in the Age of the Cornerstone, all the revelation of Jesus Christ will be made known; what was already spoken and what was not spoken will also be revealed.
What was spoken is how much? Of everything that has to be revealed to the Church of Jesus Christ… Notice, throughout the entire seven ages, it was only said (how much?) half; half, because the rest is the other part of the circle, and the entire seven ages are only half of it. The other half is in the Age of the Cornerstone. And in the Age of the Cornerstone, since it is a whole circle, everything that was already spoken in the seven ages is spoken, in addition to what was not spoken in the seven ages; and that completes the whole circle.
Now, in each age, there was only one-fourteenth of what would be revealed to the Church of Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone; in other words, the portion relevant to each age was one-seventh of half a circle, so that is how much of a whole circle? One-fourteenth.
And now, in our age, we will have fourteen times as much as what they had in each age; and what they had in all the ages, now we will have double as much. For them it was seven times throughout the entire seven ages, and now, for us it will be fourteen times what they had, plus what they did not have, which was for us.
And now, this is in the Coming of the Son of Man with power and glory, with His Angels, coming as Christ said in Matthew, chapter 16, verses 27 to 28, when He spoke to us there, saying:
“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.”
How will He come? In the glory of His Father. What for? To reward every man according to his works.
Those who have not acted correctly, and have not served God and have not taken advantage of the opportunity of salvation, will receive their reward; and to summarize, the reward will be the great tribulation if they are alive, for those who are alive at this time; and those who have departed will receive their reward in the Final Judgment.
And now, for the elect of God, it will be the resurrection of the dead in Christ (if they have already departed) and for us who are alive, it will be the transformation of our bodies; for which He gives us His Message and He prepares us, and He reveals to us all the mysteries we must know and above all, the mystery of His Coming as the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven and as the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, which is the Word incarnate in a man; and He gives us the faith to be changed and raptured, which is the faith, the revelation of His Coming at the Last Day.
That is the revelation, the faith that the Church would be waiting for at the Last Day; because the Bride-Church of Jesus Christ will be waiting for the faith, the rapturing revelation, which is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work. That is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Mighty Angel, the Coming of the Word, the Word incarnate in a man at the Last Day, manifesting those great promises that He has promised for the end time, for the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom, when all the elect of God will be called and gathered together in order to be prepared to be changed and raptured at this end time.
Notice that the Seventh Seal in His power, calls and gathers together all His elect with the Great Voice of Trumpet, manifests the ministries of Moses and Elijah and Jesus as well.
The Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of Christ with His Angels, notice, will be manifesting the ministry of Elijah, Moses and Jesus in His power, and with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, He will be calling and gathering together all of the elect of God in the Age of the Cornerstone.
It is not a human work, but the Work of this Angel who is here, who is the Angel that descends from Heaven clothed with a cloud (here He is clothed with this cloud formed by angels). And He Himself is part of that cloud and He is the one who carries out the Work of the Last Day in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Just as the other seven angels had to be manifested in human flesh in order to have their ministries, likewise, the Angel who is different from the rest must also be manifested in human flesh in the Angel of Jesus Christ in order to have His ministry, and thus, to call and gather together His elect with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and thus, place us in the Age of the Cornerstone; and thus, also give us the revelation, the faith to be changed and raptured, which is the revelation of the Coming of this Angel who was different from the rest, coming to Earth in human flesh. And that is the Coming of the Word, the Word in human flesh, the Coming of the Word incarnate in a man, in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, manifesting Himself and calling and gathering together all of His elect in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Notice all the things that the Seventh Seal does.
Remember, the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, and He has an endless number of things to carry out in the Divine Project at this end time; and at the Last Day, He will be carrying out all of those things, each one at the right time before God. In other words, He will not put at the beginning what He has to do at the end; each thing must be done at the time appointed by God. And when the very last thing is fulfilled, we will be changed, after the dead in Christ are resurrected. And then, He will also fulfill the rest of the things He has to fulfill in His Coming.
And we will be with Him here on Earth for thirty or forty days in the eternal body, and then we will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; we will be with Him in that great feast for three and a half years. And there, we will see Christ in His body, we will see Him in His glorified body.
That is the time (once we are changed) when we will be able to see Jesus Christ in His body; before that, we have seen Him throughout the ages, manifested in the body of each angel messenger, and also in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the body of the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ; but then, we will see Him in His glorified body, when we also have our glorified body; and we will be with Him in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
Then we will return to Earth already as kings and priests, with the new body, and with, and already in the position of kings and priests for the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And all of that is in THE POWER OF THE SEVENTH SEAL, in the power of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work.
Now we have seen all the things that the Seventh Seal (which is the Lord in His Second Coming as the King of kings and Lord of lords) will be doing in the manifestation of His power; and we are the result of that manifestation of the Seventh Seal, being called and gathered together at this end time with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and we are being prepared to be changed and raptured at this end time.
We have seen this briefly, because it would take a long time to show this with all the details there are in this subject: “THE POWER OF THE SEVENTH SEAL”</strong>; but notice, with the power of the Seventh Seal, all the things promised by God to be fulfilled at this end time will be fulfilled; because it is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who was made flesh two thousand years ago, coming again at the Last Day in human flesh. That is the Coming of the Word incarnate in a man, coming in the power of the pure Word; that is, coming on the white horse, on the power of the pure Word; because in the Bible, a horse, a beast represents a power, and He is coming in the power of the pure Word at the Last Day.
And how is He coming? He is coming as the Word, the Word incarnate (where?) in a man; because the Word has to be incarnate in a man.
And now, that man has to be a man of this end time. Just as the ministry of Moses and Elijah will be manifested in human flesh in a man, it must be in a man of this end time.
And the ministry of Jesus will be manifested in human flesh at this end time, and it must be in a man of this end time, in the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels; and He comes in THE POWER OF THE SEVENTH SEAL, He comes in the power of the Word, and He comes to fulfill everything He has promised for His Church for this end time.
It has been a great privilege to be with you, speaking to you about THE POWER OF THE SEVENTH SEAL. Everything God will do at this end time, He will do it in the power of the Seventh Seal.
He has called us in and with the power of the Seventh Seal, He has opened a new age with the power of the Seventh Seal, He has opened a new dispensation with the power of the Seventh Seal; He has given us a dispensational Message, the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, with the power of the Seventh Seal; He has given us a Message for a new age, the Age of the Cornerstone, with the power of the Seventh Seal; and He will resurrect the dead in Christ and change those who are alive with the power of the Seventh Seal. For all power is given unto Him in Heaven and in Earth, Christ said so: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.10”
And just as He has been manifesting His power from age to age, at the Last Day, He will manifest all His power in all His fullness and He will bring forth, He will fulfill everything He has promised for this end time, both in favor of the elect of God and the Hebrew people; as well as what relates to the gentile kingdom, the kingdom of the beast, the feet of iron and clay. It will all be by the power of the Seventh Seal and in the power of the Seventh Seal.
We have seen our subject: “THE POWER OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
With that power, everything God has promised at this end time will be carried out. And we thank God that we have been called and gathered together… and those who are yet to be called and gathered will also be called and gathered with the power of the Seventh Seal, by the mystery of the Seventh Seal being revealed, the mystery of His Coming, the Coming of the Word incarnate in a man.
That is the only Message through which all the elect of God among the gentiles are called and gathered together. And 144,000 Hebrews will also be called and gathered together; no other Message will be able to call and gather them.
Notice, powerful messengers like Saint Paul and other powerful messengers tried to call and gather those 144,000 Hebrews and they couldn’t, because that is for the end time, to be called and gathered together with the power of the Seventh Seal, revealing to the Hebrew people the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, through the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
There is no other Message for the Hebrew people to be called and gathered together, and there is no other Message for the elect of God of the Last Day to be called and gathered together. That is the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom calling and gathering together all the elect of God in the power of the Seventh Seal.
The power of the Seventh Seal is the power of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Second Coming, that power being manifested.
It has been a great privilege to be with you this evening, testifying to you about THE POWER OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.
May God bless you, may God keep you all; and soon, with the power of the Seventh Seal, may the dead in Christ be resurrected and we who are alive be changed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven; because we who are alive are the ones who will see the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels in the power of the Seventh Seal; and that is what we are seeing at this Last Day.
That is why, with the power and in the power of the Seventh Seal, we have been called and gathered together, and in the power of the Seventh Seal, we will be changed at this end time. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
We are going to ask Miguel to come up here, since we have a commitment in a few minutes; we are going to have Miguel here now to continue and conclude our participation this evening.
We have not reached an hour yet, have we Miguel? Time flew by, and I did not even read many Scriptures, and I hardly read any… (how much did I read from brother Branham’s Message, Miguel?) I do not remember how many passages I read, but if I did read, I read very little, since we have little time on this occasion.
But notice, 1 hour and 5 minutes went by (and we are a few seconds into another minute), and we could stay here until dawn and we could stay here all week, and we would still not finish making known everything Christ will do with the power of the Seventh Seal, with the power of His Coming as Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the King of kings and Lord of lords, at this Last Day, in the fulfillment of His Coming as the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, verse 11 to 21, and as the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven in Revelation, chapter 10.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and upon myself as well, and may you all have a good evening. With us now, Miguel Bermudez Marin.
“THE POWER OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
1 Exodus 3:1-6
2 Hebrews 7:9-10
3 John 8:53-58
4 five thousand: Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, Luke 9:10-17 and John 6:1-14
5 four thousand: Matthew 15:32-39, Mark 8:1-10
6 John 4:14, 7:38
7 venom, poison
8 The Fifth Seal – March 22, 1963 – www.branham.org
9 The Fifth Seal; “The Rejected King”, page 22 – May 15, 1960
10 Matthew 28:18