Good evening, beloved brethren and friends present here in Centenario, Bogota, Colombia, and also those who are with us via telephone and internet.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and upon myself as well, and may He speak His Word to us tonight and allow us to understand It. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
We read in Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1, where it says:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”
“THE SEVENTH SEAL THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURE,” that is our subject on this occasion.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, Reverend William Branham from North America, says the following in the book of The Seals in Spanish, page 448:
“Now, the 8th chapter only reveals the scene of the—scene of the Seventh Seal (in other words, which we have read), where nothing else is revealed, now, nothing. Is not revealed in the Seventh Seal… now, has nothing to do with the 7th chapter of Revelation. Its revealing, of the Seventh Seal, is perfectly mute. And if I only had time… I’ll try a few places, to show you. All the way back, from Genesis, this Seventh chap-… or this Seventh Seal is spoke of. From the very beginning, in Genesis, this Seventh Se- (Since when? Since Genesis)… These Seals moved right up. Couldn’t you remember, this morning, bringing these things up? And watch, tonight, bringing them up. And you find out, when it gets to that Seventh Seal, she cuts off. Yes.
Jesus Christ, in speaking, Himself, told of the end time. And when He got… Told all six Seals. When He got to the Seventh, He stopped. There it is, see. It’s a great thing.
Now, now, we’re going to speak here now on this 7th chapter, just a minute, to—to kind of bridge it in, between Sixth and Seventh Seal. Because, that’s the only material that we have to go on, right now, is the Sixth… between the Sixth and Seventh Seal, is the calling out of Israel.”
Now, notice how our brother Branham, forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, tells us that this Seventh Seal is being shown, announced, since Genesis; this is so because the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ.
And in all the places of the Old Testament and the New Testament, where it prophetically announces or symbolically announces the Second Coming of Christ, which is a prophetic announcement, even if it is symbolic, that announcement is showing, proclaiming the Seventh Seal, because the mystery of the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ.
Tonight, we will be glancing over different Scriptures in the Old Testament and the New Testament where the Seventh Seal is shown or announced.
For example, we have Abel, who represents the Coming of the Lord, the First Coming of Christ, who, just as the Messiah would die in His First Coming, Abel died back then, in the beginning.
But notice how God restored a seed to Adam when he gave him another son named Seth; and there, in Seth, we have the Second Coming of Christ; and the First Coming of Christ when Christ resurrected and appeared again is also fulfilled in Seth, because there we see the Lord restored again; for when Abel died and then later on Seth was born, there we can see the restoration of Adam’s family or Adam’s seed.
Now, we can also see the Second Coming of Christ reflected, announced in other prophets; for when Christ spoke about the Coming of the Son of Man at the Last Day, He said it would be as the days of who? Noah, where there was a dispensational prophet with a dispensational Message, we can see there that the Second Coming of Christ is reflected in Noah.
We can see that the Hebrew people will also believe in the Second Coming of Christ, just as Noah’s family believed in Noah and his Message.
The flood represents the great tribulation that will come for the destruction of many nations and millions of human beings, like in the time of Noah. Since God said that He would not destroy mankind by water any more and set His bow in the sky as a covenant between God and the human race, and between God and planet Earth, all destruction for humanity must then come through fire; and that is why prophet Malachi says [4:1]:
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”
Notice how it is prophesied by Jesus Christ that it will be as the days of Noah; therefore, the Son of Man must be on Earth at the end time before the destruction, the great tribulation that will fall upon the human race.
It also says that it will be as the days of who? Lot; and in the days of Lot, there was a prophet messenger named Abraham, who had the Message of God for that time, and had the Message relevant to that time, the Message of the Promise, and he was living as the messenger of the Dispensation of the Promise; we find that the Second Coming of Christ for the end time is reflected there, the Coming of the Son of Man.
At that time, Elohim also appeared, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, veiled in that body through which He appeared before Abraham and ate with Abraham; and His Archangels Gabriel and Michael, were also with Him, making themselves visible to Abraham, and also eating with Abraham.
And as it was in the days of Lot… where we find God visiting Abraham with His Archangels; and then the Archangels went down to Sodom in the afternoon; and God remained with Abraham, speaking for a while longer about the destruction that would fall upon Sodom and Gomorrah.
And there was no mercy for Sodom and Gomorrah from behalf of God, for God told Abraham that if He found 50 righteous in Sodom and Gomorrah, He would not destroy them out of love for those 50 righteous; nor would He destroy them if He found 45; nor if He found 40; nor if He found 30; nor if He found 20; nor would He destroy them if He found 10; but those 10, the minimum, were not found, to avoid the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
And now, notice, God did not say that the judgment would come to where Abraham was, God did not say that He would destroy the place where Abraham was, but where Lot was, that would be the place where the divine judgment would fall upon.
It is very important to know this because, notice, since there were not even 10 righteous where Lot was, those places had to be destroyed; but where Abraham was, there were more than 10 righteous: Abraham was there with his family and his servants, and all those people served God according to Abraham’s Message, and they feared the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; notice, Abraham’s servant along with other servants, were the ones who prepared that tender calf for God.
Now, we can see that those people saw God with His Archangels in a visible form, eating with Abraham. Now, in Sodom and Gomorrah, we find that Gabriel and Michael appeared in the afternoon, and then, later on, God went to Sodom and Gomorrah.
And then, notice, Lot took the Archangels to his house, he prepared food for them, and they ate with Lot too; but notice the whole problem that emerged for Lot: the people from that city rose against Lot and they wanted to harm those Archangels; but notice, the Archangels told Lot: “Whatever you have, bring it out of this city: your family, your children, your sons-in-law, and everything, all your family members.” And notice, when Lot told the boyfriends or fiancés of his two daughters to leave Sodom and Gomorrah because God was going to destroy that place, they laughed thinking it was something Lot came up with, they did not think that what Lot said was true.
The Archangels took ahold of Lot (for whom Abraham had interceded before God) and they took him out, and they were telling him to hurry; but they were lingering, they had many interests there, they were rich people and perhaps they wanted to take everything they had; but in a moment like that, one cannot take anything but the clothes one is wearing and leave, running for one’s life because that land was going to be destroyed.
And at sunrise, in other words, when dawn was breaking, the Archangels took Lot and his family by the hands and brought them out; in other words, they left by force; they did not want to go, they kept delaying and delaying, when destruction was ahead, and the Archangels already were there, and they said to them: “The Lord hath sent us to destroy this city and these territories.”
The Hosts of Archangel Gabriel and Archangel Michael were also there, although they were not being seen, but the Archangels were there with their Hosts for the moment of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
They brought Lot and his family out, and said: “Run far away!”, and told them where to go. And Lot told them… he asked them for permission to go to the mountain that was nearby or to a nearby city; but they said to him: “Escape to the mountain,” the mountain was further away, but he said: “Let me flee with my family to this city that is near, it is small, do not destroy this city.” Then God heard Lot’s petition, and the Archangels told him that they had received a response from God and so that city would not be destroyed, notice, out of love of who? Lot and his family.
And he escaped to that city, and Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction came. And when Lot was escaping, that is, leaving hurriedly with his family, once the Angels left him, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah began; it was, let’s say, an atomic destruction: fire and brimstone were falling from heaven; and there was someone bringing down that fire and brimstone.
And notice how, when the sun was rising, Sodom and Gomorrah were being destroyed. It was the beginning of a very special day of divine judgment for Sodom and Gomorrah.
In the morning, Abraham looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah and what he saw was like the smoke of a furnace rising out of Sodom and Gomorrah; and Lot, notice, as he was hurrying, he was very afraid and his family too, but Lot’s wife turned back and became a statue of salt, says Scripture, and she had to stay there. Who is going to be carrying a statue of salt?
Now, notice, upon arriving to that city, which Lot asked for so that he could flee to it, when he arrived there, the sun was rising. That is in Genesis, around chapter 18 to 19; it says, let us read part of the story, verse 20 and on, says:
“Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.”
Notice, he went to the mountain after all, where the Archangels had told him to go, because he was afraid to stay in Zoar. You can imagine, the smoke and contamination of that destruction was able to or could have reached that place, Zoar, or he may have thought that at any moment Zoar would be destroyed too, so he went to the mountain where the Archangels had told him was a safe place.
We are living at a very important time in which the divine judgments will fall at this end time as they fell in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, in the time in which Abraham was living with his family and Lot was living with his family; and we are also living in a time like the time of Moses, when God destroyed Egypt, He destroyed the Pharaoh and his army and delivered the Hebrew people.
That is also why prophet Moses, who is the fifth dispensational prophet for the fifth dispensation, the Dispensation of the law, which came after the Dispensation of the Promise, of which Abraham was the prophet messenger, now Moses, the Second Coming of Christ is represented in Moses as well. Just as both the First Coming and the Second Coming of Christ have been represented or reflected, in Moses and in these prophets.
Now, Moses speaking the divine judgments upon Pharaoh and his kingdom, this reflects the Second Coming of Christ, and the divine judgments relevant to the Second Coming of Christ, for He comes as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work.
And Revelation, chapter 19, verse 11 to 21, speaks about His Coming as the white horse Rider of Revelation, chapter 19.
We also find that in other prophets, like Joshua taking the people to the promised land, that speaks of the First Coming of Christ: taking the people to the promised land of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the Second Coming of Christ taking the people to the promised land of the fullness of the Holy Spirit, wherein we will obtain the inheritance of the promised land of the new body and the promised land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
Because our Joshua is the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit coming at the Last Day, in the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ… Because, what was the First Coming of Christ? It was the Coming of the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, in human flesh; and in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 11 to 21, it is the Coming of the Word again. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. All things were made by him, (in other words, all things were created), and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
Now notice that He, the Word, was not only with God, but He was God: “The same was in the beginning with God.” And it also says… That is in John, chapter 1, verse 1 and on, to 4. And also in chapter 1, verse 14, of John, says: “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”
Now, the Word is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, He is God Himself in His theophanic body. And we find that God in His theophanic body is the Angel of the Lord. He is the Holy Spirit who appears on different occasions in the form of a man, an angel from the sixth dimension. He is the man clothed with fine linen with the writer’s inkhorn in his hand, of the prophecy in Ezekiel. And He is also that man who was upon the waters of the river in the book of Daniel, chapter 12, and also in other passages of the book of Daniel.
An on each side of the bank of the river, we find Gabriel on one side and the Archangel Michael on the other side; that is why the one who was upon the waters of the river cried out, in other words, He spoke with a mighty voice, and called out: “Gabriel, make this man (Daniel) to understand the vision.” In other words, to reveal that vision to prophet Daniel.
Now, we can see that the First Coming of Christ was the Coming of that Angel who was upon the waters of the river, which is the Holy Spirit, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is God Himself with His theophanic body.
And now, we can see how, the First Coming of the Lord being the coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is the Word that was made flesh and dwelled among human beings in that body called Jesus, for the Last Day, we have the promise of the Coming of the Word, of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Holy Spirit manifested in the midst His Church.
And now, in which veil of flesh will that manifestation come? Because that is the manifestation of the Seventh Seal.
Will He use the same veil of flesh that He used in His First Coming, which resurrected and was glorified, and sat at the right hand of God?, or will He use another veil of flesh, from one of God’s redeemed children who will be living in the Last Day? That is a good question, which you all have in your minds and in your hearts.
If He comes in the same veil of flesh in which He came two thousand years ago and already glorified… in which language did he speak to His disciples? Well, in the language they knew. And the question for all the human beings living among the gentiles at this time is: Do you speak the language that Jesus spoke two thousand years ago? If He comes in that same body, unfortunately, you will not understand what He will be saying.
Or will Jesus Christ come in Holy Spirit manifested in another veil of flesh from the present time, speaking our language? Well, if He comes in that manner, we will understand Him, we are going to understand what He speaks to us; and what He will be speaking to us will be the things that must take place at this end time, for He said: “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
Remember that the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant for the end time is the Coming of the Word which was made flesh two thousand years ago in that veil of flesh called Jesus; and the Word that was with God and was God will be made flesh again at this end time; and He will be manifested in His Church and He will prepare His Church to be changed and raptured at this end time.
He comes with that Great Voice of Trumpet, He comes with that Trumpet of God, as Saint Paul the prophet and apostle says in First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 13 and on; let us read that passage, which is very important for us:
“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.”
In other words, we will not precede them, we will not be changed first and leave without them resurrecting in eternal bodies first; in other words, we will not obtain our transformation and rapture before the dead in Christ resurrect, they must resurrect first.
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
Notice, after the dead in Christ resurrect and we are changed and raptured, then we will see Jesus Christ in the glorified body He had and resurrected in two thousand years ago; but before that, we will be seeing the Holy Spirit, who is Jesus Christ manifested in Holy Spirit, He was first through the apostles back then, two thousand years ago, then through the seven angel messengers: the first one Saint Paul, the second Irenaeus, the third Martin, the fourth Columba; the fifth Luther, the sixth Wesley, and the seventh Reverend William Marrion Branham; and after that, in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it is through His Angel Messenger that He says He will reveal all these things that must shortly come to pass.
For Jesus Christ will be manifested in that Angel Messenger in the Last Day, giving us the Message of the Last Day, the Message of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom. And with that Message, He opens the divine mysteries to us relevant to this end time, and thus, He opens the mystery of the Seventh Seal to us, the mystery 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 why that the seventh angel messenger, Reverend William Marrion Branham, was able to able to preach about the six seals; and he said: “Six seals have been opened but the Seventh Seal has not yet been opened.” And when did he said the Seventh Seal would be opened? Let us see when he said that the Seventh Seal would be opened: let us see in the book The Seals in Spanish, page 482 and 483, it says:
“Now, we have, in the completion here now, by the grace of God, all the mysteries of the six Seals that’s been sealed up, and we understand and know here that the Seventh Seal is not to be known to the public. Now, His Coming, at the hour of His Coming, when the destruction of the earth, you know. He said there, ‘What will be the sign of the coming of the end of the world?’ In Matthew 24, there where they asked Him that question. He went down to that. He told about Israel being gathered as a nation, in the 31st verse, of Matthew 24:31. But then He started off on parables, see. Then you see the… ‘Learn a parable of the fig tree. When you see it putting forth its buds, why, you know spring is nigh. And then when you see this coming to pass, then know the time is nigh.’”
At which time is the harvest carried out, the reaping? At summer time. When those signs and the sign of Israel (which is their return to their land, to the land of Israel), He said “When you see the fig tree (which is Israel) putting forth its buds, why, you know spring is nigh. And then when you see this coming to pass, then know the time is nigh.”
We have seen Israel, the fig tree, with tender branches, and putting forth leaves, she is already a free and sovereign nation; and this year 1998, it has been 50 years since 1948 when she was recognized by the United Nations; although she was established as a nation in 1946, but she was recognized by the United Nations and by mankind in 1948. And now, it has been 50 years, and 50 means jubilee, 50 means pentecost, in other words, the Hebrew nation is in pentecost, the fig tree has blossomed and is now at Pentecost!, which is 50, the fiftieth year, counting from 1948.
And now, notice, Christ said: “When you see these things, summer is nigh.” And if summer is nigh, what is nigh? The harvest from the parable of Jesus Christ, which He spoke about, saying to let both the wheat and the tares grow together until the end time or until the time of harvest, the time of reaping, and He said that the harvest is the end of what? The end of the world, and it is the end time.
Now notice, according to the gentile calendar, we are at the end of the 20th century, and Israel, the fig tree, is in its land, with its leaves which have blossomed and they are waiting for the Coming of the Messiah.
In Israel, we find that the souls of her inhabitants are revolutionized, awaiting the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah in the midst of the Hebrew people, the King of Israel, to sit on the Throne of David and to sit in the midst of the Hebrew people and over all nations.
Therefore, Israel is preparing itself for the great event, and throughout the world, the Hebrew people are waiting for the Coming of the Messiah; and all of them say and know that the Coming of the Messiah will be, what? The coming of a man in whom God will be manifesting Himself and he will be a prophet.
And now, what is the Hebrew people waiting for? Well, a man, a prophet, in this end time, anointed with the Spirit of God.
Now, notice how this is reflected in Joseph: when Joseph was rejected by his brothers and cast into an empty pit, which represents the death of Christ; and when he was taken out of there, it refers to the resurrection of Christ; and when he was placed on the throne in Egypt, as the second in command in Pharaoh’s throne and kingdom, that represents Christ sitting on the Throne of God, at the right hand of God in Heaven; and then… notice, that is among the gentiles, and carrying out the Work for the preservation of life, which Christ has been carrying out from the Throne in Heaven and He has been preserving life, the lives of His chosen ones among the gentiles.
And for this end time, He will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people. When they found him in Egypt the times that they saw him, and they did not recognize him, they did not know that he was their brother, Joseph. They saw him dressed as a gentile, they saw him wearing gentile clothing, with his hair styled like the gentiles, and without a beard; in other words, according to the style of the gentiles, of the Egyptians there; and they did not know that he was their brother, Joseph.
And everything they had heard Joseph tell them about the dreams he had… when that sheaf of wheat or barley that Joseph had prepared and placed as many people do, the wheat bundled together, upright, in Joseph’s dream; Joseph’s brothers, each placed a sheaf the same way, the sheaf they had gathered; and in the dream, Joseph said that he saw each of their sheaves of wheat or barley bowing before Joseph’s sheaf, and Joseph’s remained upright. And they understood what that meant: that they were going to bow before Joseph; and that bothered them, he was the second-to-last son, and He was the firstborn from Rachel, Jacob’s wife.
We also find that he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers and they were even more jealous and furious at him, full of envy; perhaps the dreams that the others had, maybe they dreamed about eating a goat or drinking wine, or doing whatever it may be, but Joseph’s dreams were different, they were prophetic dreams, because Joseph was prophet; therefore, he would receive revelations through dreams, because God speaks to his prophets through dreams, through visions, and to some, He speaks face to face, as He did with Moses.
Now, Joseph had another dream, and he said that the sun and the moon, and eleven stars bowed before him; it was the same dream but with more details, in which his mother Rachel and his father Israel also appeared.
All of that speaks of the Second Coming of Christ, all of that speaks of the Seventh Seal. It is for the Last Day under the time of the Seventh Seal, the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, that that will become a reality for Christ in His Second Coming and the Hebrew people.
Now, the Seventh Seal, which is the Second Coming of Christ, is the greatest mystery of the entire Bible, which has been in the mind of God since before the foundation of the world; and that is why we find it throughout the entire Scripture, from Genesis until Revelation.
Christ will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people; and the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says a number of things that will be taking place for the fulfillment of that prophecy. If Miguel can bring me the book of The Seven Ages, which is here in the briefcase, Miguel, I will read you something there.
Notice… let us see, that is around page 14 to 16 of the book of The Seven Ages. We are talking about the Seventh Seal, that is why we must include some of these details relevant to the Coming of the Lord. Page 14 of the book The Seven Ages, says:
“Notice that according to Jesus, Himself, Who wrote the Revelation, He is set down WITH the Father. The Spirit in Paul (Which Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, for That is the Spirit of Prophecy whereby the Word comes) says He is set down at the RIGHT HAND of God. But when John looked he saw only ‘ONE’ upon the throne. And it was not until Rev.5:6-8 (which follows Revelation 4:2-3 in sequence of time) that we see the ‘Lamb’ taking the book from “HIM” That sat on the throne, as indicated in Revelation 4:2-3 and 9-10. What is it? It is the mystery of ‘ONE GOD.’ He (Jesus), came out from God, became manifested in flesh, died and rose again, and returned to the ‘Bosom of the Father.’ As John said, ‘The only begotten Son Which is IN the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.’ John 1:18.
It was now time for God (Messiah) to come back to claim His bride and then present Himself (make Himself known) to Israel. Thus we see God again stepping forth to assume a physical relationship to man as the ‘Son of David, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and Bridegroom of the Gentile Bride.’ It is NOT ‘Two’ Gods, but simply ONE GOD manifesting His mighty triune offices and titles.
The people knew He was a Prophet. They knew the sign of the Messiah which could come only through the prophet. John 1:44-51.”
Here we can see what is indicated for the Coming of Christ. And now let us see another place where it tells us something here about His Coming, since this is very important for all of us. It says, page 30 of the book of The Ages, says:
“Now, when is the Gospel returning to the Jews? When the day of the Gentiles is finished. The Gospel is ready to go back to the Jews. Oh, if I could just tell you something that is about to happen right in this our day. This great thing that is about to happen will carry over to Revelation 11, (in other words, to the Two Olive Trees), and pick up those two witnesses, those two prophets, Moses and Elijah, turning the Gospel back to the Jews. We’re ready for it. Everything is in order. As the Jews brought the message to the Gentiles, even so the Gentiles will take it right back to the Jews, and the Rapture will come.”
Notice, he says that Moses and Elijah will be the ones to take the Gospel to the Hebrews; just as the Hebrews brought the Gospel to the gentiles, it says: “The gentiles will take it to the Jews.” Then, where will Moses and Elijah be, the Two Olive Trees, the Two Anointed Ones? Among the gentiles, to go from among the gentiles with the Gospel of the Kingdom to the Jews.
And now notice how this mystery of the Coming of the Lord, which is pointed out here, for the Hebrew people it will be the greatest and most desired event of the Hebrew people.
On page 57 of the book The Seals in Spanish, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says:
“‘I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow… upon his head,…’
If you notice that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament was called the Angel of the Covenant, and He’s directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished. See? All right.
‘… and his face… as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:’
You remember that Angel in Revelations 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel. See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church.”
Now notice, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of Revelation, chapter 10, is the messenger, to whom? To Israel. He is the Angel of the Covenant, the Word, who for the Last Day, just as He came two thousand years ago veiled in human flesh in the veil of flesh called Jesus, He will come veiled in human flesh again and he will be the messenger to Israel; because he is the messenger who will bring the Message for the Hebrew people, the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, to call and gather one hundred and forty-four thousand Hebrews.
And since the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has reached her end, she has reached the end time and is still here on Earth, then He comes for His Church, to take His Church in the rapture; for His Coming He will resurrect the dead in Christ from past ages and some of ours who have died, and He will change our bodies. That is in the program of the Seventh Seal, all of this is under the Seventh Seal, His Coming as the messenger to Israel, and as the Bridegroom of His Church at this end time.
Now, all these things are prophesied in the Old Testament and New Testament, but they could not be comprehended by the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ during past ages, because this mystery is to be opened to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this Last Day; that is the mystery of the Seventh Seal for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The mystery of the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ.
Now, let us look a bit more into this Seventh Seal. We stopped on page 482 when we talked about Israel and we had to travel to different places and get you this little piece of paper about Israel. And now, let us go back to what we were reading on page 482 of the book The Seals in Spanish, it says:
“See, Israel gathering in its own homeland.
‘So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.’
Matthew 24:32-33
(In other words, the Kingdom of God is at hand and the establishment of the Kingdom of God here on Earth and the Coming of the Son of Man in His Kingdom).
…See, Israel gathering in its own homeland. But, you notice, He omitted the revelation of this Seventh Seal. And here, when the Seventh Seal, when He opened It, He also omitted It again, see. So we see that It is a complete mystery, therefore the hour is not yet for the mystery to be known.”
That is what our brother Branham says about his time when he was preaching the Seven Seals; he said that the hour had not yet come for that mystery of the Seventh Seal to be made known, to be opened, nor had the time come for Elijah to go to Israel; because Elijah goes to Israel in his fifth manifestation, not in the fourth manifestation that was fulfilled in our beloved brother, Reverend William Branham. Now, he continues saying:
“Therefore, we’re this far, and the rest of It will be known right around about the time that Jesus appears on earth again, for His Bride, or whatever takes place at that time.”
And how does He come? How does Jesus Christ appear to take His Church, His Bride? He appears as the messenger to Israel; but He comes for His gentile Church, because she is still here and He has to take her; therefore, He must resurrect the dead in Christ and change those who are living; and for that, He must call them at this end time and gather them with the Great Voice of Trumpet. Who? The messenger to Israel, which is the Angel of the Covenant who descends from Heaven, and for that He will need a veil of flesh.
If He does not come in the veil of flesh He had two thousand years ago, which He resurrected and changed, in other words, that He resurrected glorified, then we find that He must have another veil of flesh from this end time, and he will have to be a redeemed by the Blood of Christ, therefore, he must be a member of the Mystical Body of Christ, in which Jesus Christ will manifest Himself in Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, and come like Revelation 19, the Word coming in human flesh on a snow white horse, in other words, upon the pure Word, and fulfill this promise.
What did the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ say regarding the Coming of Christ in Revelation 19 as the white horse Rider? He says on page 277, of the book The Seals, while praying, he says:
“…May the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider (Who is the white horse Rider of Revelation 19? The Holy Spirit), while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”
Who is the One who calls His Own? The Holy Spirit, the white horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19; he called His children, His elect, from age to age, through the messenger of each age; and in this Last Day, through His Angel Messenger, He will be calling His elect of the end time and He will be placing them in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And just as there was a territory for the fulfillment of each age, there is also a territory for the fulfillment of this Last Day, in which Christ will be calling and gathering His elect with the Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, with which He will be making known to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ; because the Gospel of the Kingdom revolves around, what? The Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, just as the Gospel of the Grace revolves around the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God dying on Calvary’s Cross in His Work of Redemption.
And now, let us see how the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 comes, how the Holy Spirit comes in the Last Day. It says on page 256 in Spanish, speaking of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, which is the Coming of the Lord for the Hebrew people and for the gentile Church. It says:
“But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.”
Find that man and you will find Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit manifested through that man. And that man has to be the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, because Jesus says: “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1. And Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6, shows us through whom Jesus Christ will be manifested, revealing all these things. Revelation 22, verse 6, says:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel (for what?), To shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
How will we recognize the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ? What identifies the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is that he comes revealing all these things that must soon come to pass. No one else will be able to reveal all these prophecies that correspond to this end time, and show their fulfillment as they are being fulfilled; and no one will be able to reveal, to make known the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, except the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the prophet messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and the Age of the Cornerstone.
Now, we can see that there is only one way that God can reveal His Word. Do you know what it is? Through a prophet and to a prophet. On page 448 of the book The Seals in Spanish it says:
“If you start putting a four or six, or-or something, besides just the mathematical words running in order. You’ll sure have in your scene, a cow picking grass on top of a tree, somewhere. You’ll certainly run out. Because, God does not… His whole Word does run completely in mathematics. Yes, sir. Perfect, the most perfect! There is no other literature written like It, like It, so perfect in math-mathematics. (In other words, it must also make sense mathematically).
Now, the-the 8th chapter only reveals the scene of the-scene of the Seventh Seal, where nothing else is revealed, now, nothing. Is not revealed in the Seventh Seal… now, has nothing to do with the 7th chapter of – of Revelation. Its revealing, of the Seventh Seal, is perfectly mute. And if I only had time… I’ll try a few places, to show you. All the way back, from Genesis, this Seventh chap-… or this Seventh Seal is spoke of. From the very beginning, in Genesis.”
And now, how does the Word of God come? It always comes through the prophets, because they are the Word of God for the time in which they are living. This Angel Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is he?
If our brother Branham was here on Earth, would you like to ask him who that very mysterious Angel Messenger is? Well look, there was someone who thought the same way as you, do you know who it was? Our brother Branham. And it says on page 301, halfway through of page 301 of the book of The Seals:
“Now, now, notice now. And then according to the–the time that God was going to deliver the antediluvian world, He sent the eagle.”
An eagle always represents a prophet, that is why he says that God took the Hebrew people on the wings of an eagle or the great eagle, when He delivered them.
“And the time He was going to deliver Israel, sent the eagle. (that is, Moses). Do you believe that the time, even on John, on the Isle of Patmos, this message was so perfect that He couldn’t trust it with an angel? You know, a angel is a messenger. But do you know the messenger was a prophet? You believe that? Let’s prove it. Revelation 22, let’s see if it was a eagle. Yeha. See, he was a… Sure, he was an angel, he’ the messenger, but it was a prophet that revealed this whole Book of Revelation to him.”
We now have the knowledge that this Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is a prophet. Now, which prophet? On page 326 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, it says towards the end or the last paragraph, (to not read too much). It says:
“Moses will be the same person (when he is speaking of the ministry of Moses as one of the olive trees, he says: Moses will be the same person). Now, and we find out in Revelations 22:8 the same thing. Now, or to settle it for those who… Those souls (Now, watch it.) under the altar of the breaking of this Seal…”
Now he says that Moses will be the same person and he says: “We find the same thing in Revelations 22:8.” Let us read Revelation 22, verse 8, and we will see Moses there. It says:
“And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.”
That angel is a prophet; and Moses, the one from Revelation, chapter 11, verse 3 and on, the Two Olive Trees, one of the Two Olive Trees and the Two Candlesticks, (and from Zachariah, chapter 4), is a prophet; and it says that he is this prophet, this Angel Messenger, who revealed all those things to John. And that is the prophet messenger relevant to the end time, for the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of Kingdom, in which Jesus Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit, making known all these things to His Church; but through this Angel Messenger, which He sent to John the apostle.
That is why Revelation, chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, says: “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.”
Now, we can see that the revelation of Jesus Christ, came through whom and through whom was it sent to John? Through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And He is the same One who will be bringing the revelation of Jesus Christ in His Second Coming to His Church at this end time.
Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, says: “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Notice how we also find the Seventh Seal in Revelation shown prophetically, to be manifested, fulfilled in the end time, in the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, veiled and revealed in the midst of His Church making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass through His Angel Messenger.
That will be the veil of flesh, the prophet of God whom Jesus Christ will use to veil and reveal Himself in and through him, and make known to us all these things, and thus fulfill the opening, the mystery of the Seventh Seal; and through that Angel, reveal to her the mystery of the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit veiled and revealed in and through His Angel Messenger making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass, for then Jesus Christ to reveal Himself in Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, to the Hebrew people. And what are the Hebrew people awaiting? They are waiting for a prophet of the present time.
And what did the prophet messenger of the seventh age of the gentile Church, Reverend William Marrion Branham, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ say? “When our Lord appears on Earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse, and He’ll be completely Emmanuel, the Word of God (that is, the Word, the Word of God) incarnate in a Man.”
What will they see humanely, the people of the Last Day, with natural sight? Well, they will be seeing the veil of flesh in which Jesus Christ will be in Holy Spirit, veiled and revealed, manifested in the midst of His gentile Church, making known to her all these things which must shortly come to pass; and then the Hebrew people will see the same thing.
Because the Seventh Trumpet of Revelation, chapter 9, and the Seventh Seal of Revelation, chapter 8, is the Coming of the Lord; and it will sound, and the dead in Christ will resurrect first, in incorruptible bodies, and then us who are alive will be changed, and then we will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to the House and into the House of our heavenly Father.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, on page 31 of the message “Broken cisterns,” says that the Seventh Seal and the Seventh Trumpet will be the Coming of the Lord. He says: “It shall sound,” because the Final Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, will sound, and the dead in Christ will, what? They will resurrect first… according to First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 49 to 55; and First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 14 to 17, which we read in the beginning. First Thessalonians 4:14 to 17.
And if we continue reading, we can find countless prophecies that speak of the Seventh Seal, in other words, the Second Coming of Christ. For example, Philippians, chapter 3, verses 20 to 21, says:
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”
You see that it is at His Coming, that the dead in Christ will be resurrected and we will be changed? It says: “Who shall change our vile body.” This body, in which we have gone through this stage of human humiliation; that being kings according to the Order of Melchizedek, descendants of Melchizedek, which is Jesus Christ, the Priest of the Temple that is in Heaven, we have gone through this Earth as simple people, mortals, humanly, and many poor and persecuted, and others of the middle class, and very few of the upper class; but when we are changed, then we will be as kings and priests; and will not have a poor king in the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
Therefore, do not worry about being poor during this time, because if you are poor now, that is temporary, but during the Millennium and throughout eternity, you will be one of the multi-millionaires, because you will be one of the kings and priests of the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
Therefore, it is better to be poor now and be rich throughout eternity; but there are people who want to be rich now and then they are poor throughout eternity, and they disappear, because they are cast into the lake of fire; like the rich man, who was rich here on Earth, but when his life on Earth ended, he didn’t even have anything to buy a glass of water; and he asked for Lazarus’ wet finger in water, for him to come with his finger wet in water and for him to put it in his tongue, and he didn’t even have money for that; he was begging for that favor and it was not granted to him either, because he lost all his rights. Because while being here on Earth is when the person takes ownership of the divine rights that belong to him; and if he does not take advantage here, while he is living here on Earth, and take hold of Christ and the eternal life, which is in Christ… because He said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
No one can go to eternal life without our Lord Jesus Christ; and whoever does not take a hold of Christ, well, he did not take a hold of Eternal Life, and he did not take a hold of the Resurrection and Life to be resurrected at the Last Day, in an eternal body, to live throughout eternity with Christ, as kings and priests.
Now, notice how all these things that correspond to this end time are under the Seventh Seal, to be fulfilled among the gentile Church and then among the Hebrew people.
We have briefly seen: “THE SEVENTH SEAL THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURE.”
Notice, through prophet Daniel, in the book of prophet Daniel, we see Him coming like the stone not cut by hands, we also see Him upon the waters of the river with one on each side, Gabriel on one side of the river bank, and Michael the Archangel on the other side of the river bank, because this is the Order of the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day.
The Coming of the Son of Man with Moses on one side and Elijah on the other side, with the ministries of Moses and Elijah; that is how the Son of Man comes at the Last Day, because “the Son of Man will come with His Angels, and then He shall reward every man according to his works.”
Now notice, where the Son of Man is manifested, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested, veiled and revealed, that is also where Moses and Elijah will be, the ministries of Moses and Elijah, because they come, with who? With the Son of Man, and wherever the Son of Man goes, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, Moses and Elijah will also be there, the ministries of Moses and Elijah; for the only one who has and gives and operates ministries, is who? The Holy Spirit; and He comes in the Last Day. And that is the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, manifested in the midst of His Church at this end time.
Now, the veil of flesh called the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is not the Lord Jesus Christ, but the Lord Jesus Christ will be manifested in him, revealing to His Church all these things that must soon come to pass.
It is through His Angel Messenger that Jesus Christ reveals Himself to His Church and reveals all these things to her at this end time, and He will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people through His Angel Messenger.
This is a mystery that was hidden since before the foundation of the world and it would be revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this end time, as the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said, He said it will be revealed, when? It will be revealed in the time when Jesus appears upon the Earth, he t says:
“Therefore, we’re this far, and the rest of It will be known right around about the time that Jesus appears on earth again, for His Bride.”
And how did he say that Jesus will appear on the Earth to take His Bride? He will come riding on a snow white horse, and He will completely be what? Emmanuel, the Word, who was made flesh two thousand years ago. The Word. The Word made flesh in, whom? In a man.
That is the mystery of the Seventh Seal: the Coming of the Word incarnated in a man in the Last Day, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, manifested at the end time, making known to us all these things through His Angel Messenger; but we have seen that His Angel Messenger is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is a prophet, the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and the Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the calling of the Great Voice of Trumpet or the Final Trumpet comes, calling and gathering the elect of God in the Mystical Body of Christ, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone; and then He will call and gather together one hundred and forty-four thousand Hebrews, from the twelve tribes of the twelve son of Israel.
But without all the elect being called and gathered, until the last of the elect enters, the Message cannot go to the Hebrew people. First, the group of the elect of God must be completed, of the Mystical Body of Christ, of the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, for the Mystical Body of Christ to be complete and for the dead in Christ to be resurrected, and for us who are alive to be changed.
We have seen THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL, we have seen THE SEVENTH SEAL THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURE. Because the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ.
We can look for other prophets of God in whom the Seventh Seal was reflected, in other words, the Second Coming of Christ, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and we can also find events that took place in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, which also reflect the Seventh Seal, which reflect the Second Coming of Christ, such as the case of Boaz and Ruth, but we are going to leave that alone for now.
This is the stage in which Ruth, who is the Church of Jesus Christ, will be rewarded; after the Work of Redemption is carried out and Christ leaves the Throne of Intercession, we will be rewarded with the transformation of our bodies to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Well, “THE SEVENTH SEAL THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURE.” In other words, the Second Coming of Christ throughout the entire Scripture. It is from Genesis to Revelation, to be fulfilled in the midst of His Church in this Last Day and then in the midst of the Hebrew people.
The Hebrew people are desperate, but we can only say: Patience, because there is still some elect who need to be called and gathered from the territory of Latin America and the Caribbean. Many have already been called and gathered, and they are in the Mystical Body of Christ of the Age of the Cornerstone, but some are left, someone has to be the last one; and when the last one arrives, then all the ones before the last one will have already arrived, and this is how the Mystical Body of Christ will be completing itself and will have completed itself in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Well, may God continue to bless all of you, may God keep you. Thank you very much for your kind attention. And continue having a time filled with the blessings of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
I leave with us our beloved brother Miguel Bermudez Marin to continue and conclude our part in this night, thanking Jesus Christ for His blessings and for this great blessing He has given us in Latin America and the Caribbean to be able to comprehend the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of His Coming.
And who are the ones who would see, understand and receive this mystery revealed? Well, here we already have a group of Latin American and Caribbean people. There are many sons and daughters of God here in Colombia, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, who would see the Seventh Seal revealed.
We are here thanking Christ for that blessing of divine election, for which all of us have appeared manifested in human flesh at this end time.
We already have Miguel here. May God continue blessing you, and we will see each other again in the rest of the activities, for those who will be in the other services in Fusa, and on Sunday at the “Polideportivo Kennedy.” How many of you know where it is? Then you know more than I do, because I do not know how to get there; so, we will see one another there next Sunday at 8:00 in the morning, for the first activity, and for the second activity at 2:00 p.m., in which we expect great blessings from our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
May God bless you and may you all have a good evening.
“THE SEVENTH SEAL THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURE.”