The Mystery of What John Heard but Couldn’t Write

Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present, and television viewers. It is a great privilege and blessing to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program pertaining to this Last Day.

And for this reason, we will have the subject: “THE MYSTERY OF WHAT JOHN HEARD BUT COULDN’T WRITE,” in other words, the mystery of the Seven Thunders that John heard and couldn’t write what those Thunders spoke.

For this reason, I want to read in Revelation chapter 10, verse 1 and on, and it says the following:

“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:

And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”

May God bless our souls and allow us to understand His Word, may He open our understanding in our soul and in our mind so that we can understand His Word; and thus, be edified, and be prepared to be changed and raptured at this Last Day. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

“THE MYSTERY OF WHAT JOHN HEARD,” (meaning, the mystery of the Seven Thunders), “BUT COULDN’T WRITE.”

In order to understand what the Seven Thunders are and what the Seven Thunders spoke, which John couldn’t understand (because he was then forbidden to write all of that), we find that here in Revelation chapter 10, we have the content of the Word of prophecy of the Second Coming of Christ.

And we find in the Book of the Prophet Daniel, which shows us the same thing that John the Apostle saw, the Prophet Daniel shows us in his Book, which is the [Book of] Revelation of the Old Testament, he tells us in chapter 7, verses 13 to 14:

“I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”

The Prophet Daniel, notice, saw the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven here; and this is the same thing Christ said in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verse 30 to 31; while prophesying, He said:

“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.”

Here we also have the promise of the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds. We also have the promise here of seeing the sign of the Son of man in heaven at the end time.

In Revelation chapter 1, it also tells us about this; and it tells us in chapter 1, verse 7 and on, it says:

“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

Now, notice how in these Scriptures we can see the prophecies that speak of the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds. And in the clouds, this sign would be seen as the sign of the Son of man in heaven.

The entire Scripture speaks to us about the Second Coming of Christ, and It speaks more about the Second Coming of Christ than the First Coming of Christ.

And now, in order to have a clear understanding of what the Second Coming of Christ is, we find that in His First Coming, He appeared as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world, to take away the sin of every son and daughter of God; and for that to happen, there were countless prophecies that had to be fulfilled, to have on this Earth the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God dying on Calvary’s Cross.

But notice, there were countless prophecies related to the First Coming of Christ, where it was appointed that a virgin would conceive and bear a son, and it would be Emmanuel; that would be the sign that God would give the human race. “For the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and His Name shall be called (what?) Emmanuel (which being interpreted is: God with us)¹.”²

That prophecy is an extension of the prophecy of Genesis chapter 3, verse 15, where it tells us about the woman’s Seed; because the woman’s Seed would be the Messiah, the Christ, It would be God coming in human flesh as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world.

In Malachi chapter 3, verse 1 and on, it tells us that He will send His messenger before Him. It says:

“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me…”

Who is speaking here? The Lord is speaking, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, is speaking to the Prophet Malachi these things related to the First Coming of the Messiah and the forerunner He would send. That is why He says:

“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me…”

This prophet that He would send before the Coming of the Messiah would be whose messenger? He would be the messenger of the Messiah, the messenger sent by Christ to prepare His way.

And now, notice who is the One that will come after the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ. It says:

“…He shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple,” (who would come? The Lord would come, Elohim, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), “even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”

Who would come? The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the One who appeared to Abraham on different occasions. On one occasion, He appeared to him as Elohim, when God went to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, when He came down to Earth with the Archangels Gabriel and Michael; and they were speaking with Abraham and eating with Abraham a tender calf that Abraham prepared for them, and they ate cakes and they drank milk, and they ate of everything Abraham offered them.³

And after that, we find that they went to Sodom and Gomorrah, and there, the Archangels Gabriel and Michael appeared to Lot, that is, they appeared in the city of Sodom, where Lot was a very important person; for it is said that he was such an important person that he served as a political leader there, as (we would say) the mayor or governor and judge of that city.

And these Archangels appeared there; they were going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, they were going to stay in the street; but Lot found out about their presence there in the city and he took them to his house, he told them to stay in his house for the night and go on their way the next day;⁴ but Lot didn’t know what was going to happen because of the visit of the Archangels Gabriel and Michael to Earth, and they didn’t know Elohim was also there: God was also there on Earth, He was speaking with Abraham; because Elohim was speaking with Abraham while Gabriel and Michael were there in Sodom and Gomorrah.

Now, God is revealing to Abraham what He is going to do in Sodom and Gomorrah,⁵ cities which are a type and figure of the Gentile kingdom at the end time, they are a type and figure of the kingdom of the antichrist that will be established at the end time, and with the Coming of Elohim, the Angel of the Covenant, and His Archangels Gabriel and Michael, that Gentile kingdom will come to an end, and the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdoms of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

After the Great Tribulation that… which is typified in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and also in the destruction of Egypt (Pharaoh’s Gentile kingdom), by God’s manifestation through Moses; which is also a type and figure at the end time of the Gentile kingdom, where there will be the Pharaoh, the antichrist, who will rule over all the nations; but we find that Christ in His Coming will destroy the antichrist, the man of sin, and his kingdom, as it says in Revelation chapter 17, verse 14 and on. It says… let’s see what it says here… chapter 17, verse 12 and on, says:

“And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”

Now, we can see that at the Last Day there will be a showdown between Christ and the antichrist, between the beast and those ten kings against Christ; but the Lamb, Christ, will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings. In other words, by that time, the Lamb will stand as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, which represents Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords.

And that is why the Gentile kingdom, in the First Coming of Christ, killed Christ on Calvary’s Cross; for the Roman Empire, the Gentile kingdom in the stage of the legs of iron, were the ones who crucified Christ (at the request of the Hebrew people); and there, they made the fulfillment of the prophecy of the death of Christ on Calvary’s Cross possible.

And now, we have seen that the First Coming of Christ was in the stage of the legs of iron of the Gentile empire or kingdom, which was the stage of the Roman Empire of the Caesars.

And now, at the Last Day, in the stage of the feet of iron and clay of the Gentile kingdom, the Second Coming of Christ will take place, the Coming of the Stone cut out without hands, which the Prophet Daniel spoke about in chapter 2, when he interpreted King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream.

King Nebuchadnezzar saw what would be the beginning and end of the Gentile kingdom. The beginning was with the kingdom or empire of King Nebuchadnezzar, and the end is with the empire or kingdom of the antichrist, of the beast, of the man of sin, at the Last Day.

Now, notice what it says… It says here, let’s see… chapter 2, verse 31 and on. God says in the Book of the Prophet Daniel, the Prophet Daniel says:

“Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image,” (meaning, a statue). “This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

(…) Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.

And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold,” (meaning that the Babylonian kingdom was the head of gold, and its king was Nebuchadnezzar).

“And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.”

Now notice, the empire or kingdom that rose after the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar, represented in the chest and arms of silver, was the Medo-Persian Empire or kingdom; the kingdom of Medo-Persia (or Media and Persia) was the second Gentile empire or kingdom, or the second stage of the Gentile kingdom. And the third stage of that empire was the Greek Empire or Greek kingdom, whose leader was Alexander the Great.

“And the fourth kingdom,” (meaning, the fourth empire), “shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.”

This is the Roman Empire, which is the third empire or third stage of the Gentile kingdom, that Gentile kingdom represented in the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar saw. That was the empire that was present at the time of the Coming of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, which is the First Coming of Christ, as the Lamb of God.

And now, we can see that this Roman Empire, in that stage of the Gentile kingdom: the fourth stage of the Gentile kingdom, is to blame—together with the Hebrew people—for the death of the Lord Jesus Christ; because the one who plans a crime is just as guilty as the one who executes that crime.

And the death of Christ, that crime, notice, the Hebrew people were the ones who asked the Roman Empire for it, they asked for the death of Christ; and the Hebrew people said: “His Blood be on us, and on our children.”⁶

And we find that the Blood of Christ is being required of the Hebrew people since the time of the death of Christ. And that is why the Hebrew people, notice, received the destruction of their city, Jerusalem; they received the destruction of their temple, and the Mosque of Omar was put there; and they have received a great tribulation during these last two thousand years that have passed, because they asked for the death of Christ and asked that His Blood be on them and on their children; and God has been requiring the Blood of Christ at the hands of the Hebrew people, of all the Hebrew nation.

They have not had the temple there in Jerusalem anymore, and therefore, they have not had the daily sacrifice, nor have they had the sacrifice of the goat for the Hebrew people’s reconciliation to God, and therefore, they have been under the Divine Judgment.

And now, notice how the Hebrew people have had great difficulties in the last two thousand years that have passed.

But the Roman people, the Roman Empire, along with the Roman nation, is responsible for the death of Christ, because the Roman Empire was the one that crucified Jesus Christ. And notice, God will require the Blood of Christ from the Gentile empire, the Blood of Christ that was shed in the fourth stage of the Gentile empire, in the stage of the legs of iron.

And at the Last Day, in the stage of the feet of iron and clay, the Divine Judgment in all Its fullness will fall upon the Gentile empire, upon the Gentile kingdom, which will be led by the antichrist, the man of sin, the beast, which the Book of Revelation says, as well as Second Thessalonians chapter 2; and other prophecies, both in the New Testament and in the Old Testament.

And now, at the time of the feet of iron and clay is when ten kings, these ten kings that appear in Revelation chapter 17, will give their power and strength to the beast; and they will rule with it. And that will be the empire or kingdom of the beast, of the antichrist, the man of sin, in the stage of the feet of iron and clay, when the Second Coming of Christ will put an end to the Gentile empire and will establish the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and the prophecy of Revelation chapter 11, verse 15 and on, will be fulfilled, where it says:

“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”

Now, notice how the kingdoms of this world, meaning, the Gentile kingdoms, will all become the kingdoms of Jesus Christ; because Christ will remove the Gentile kingdom and remove the antichrist, and Christ will establish His Kingdom, and all the nations and all human beings will belong to the glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ; and Christ will sit on the Throne of David, there in Jerusalem, and reign over the Hebrew people and over all the nations.

And those redeemed by the Blood of Christ, who have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ upon believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit: we will reign with Him a thousand years and then for all eternity.

Revelation chapter 1, verse 5 and on, says:

“And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”

Now notice what Christ has done for us: He has washed us in His precious Blood and made us kings and priests unto our God, and we will reign with Christ.

Revelation chapter 5, verse 8 and on (8 to 10), says:

“And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

Now, notice here the Divine Promise for all the redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ: it says we will reign on the Earth.

And in Revelation chapter 20, verses 4 to 6, it says:

“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”

Now we can see the Divine Program that God has for those redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ. The Program is that we will reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity, as kings and priests, in that glorious Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and that is how the glorious Kingdom of God will be established on this Earth during the Millennial Kingdom and then for all eternity.

And those redeemed by the Blood of Christ, who have also received His Holy Spirit, are God’s firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, before the foundation of the world, who will reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity.

Now, while we are in these mortal bodies, perhaps we don’t have a high position in the Gentile kingdom, but in the Kingdom of God we will have the highest position that a human being can have: being kings and priests in the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ and for all eternity. And we will reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity.

So, those redeemed by the Blood of Christ will have the highest position a human being can have in the glorious Kingdom of God, where Christ will reign over the Hebrew people and over all the nations; and we will reign with Christ over the Hebrew people and over all the nations.

Now, we can see this Divine Program appointed for the Last Day, in other words, the seventh millennium, and for all eternity.

Now, we have seen that the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ depends on the First Coming of Christ and on the Second Coming of Christ.

In the First Coming of Christ, the Gentile kingdom in the fourth stage, which was the stage of the Roman Empire, represented in the legs of iron, crucified Christ; and therefore, the Gentile kingdom is sentenced by God, ordained by God to disappear, to make way for the glorious Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. And notice, these territories where those stages of the Gentile empire have been fulfilled, those territories are sentenced to the Divine Judgment at the Last Day.

And now, the mystery of the Seven Thunders, the mystery of what John heard and couldn’t write, is the mystery spoken, revealed by Christ, the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven clothed with a cloud, who speaks as a Lion (as a lion, as when a lion cries out, as when a lion roars), and seven thunders utter their voices; notice that it is the Voice of Christ, the Mighty Angel.

And the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ and angel-messenger of the seventh stage or age of the Gentile Church, Rev. William Branham, spoke of this.

In the message The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, in the part or conference titled “The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals,” he spoke about the Coming of this Mighty Angel. And we find it… we find what he spoke here, in this Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, on pages 69 to 70, where it says:

“[27] And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.”

That is Revelation chapter 5, verse 1 to 7.

Christ, the Lamb of God and also the Lion of the tribe of Judah, was the One who took the Book out of the hand of Him that sat upon the Throne in Revelation chapter 5, verse 1 to 7. It goes on to say:

“(…) 29 This Seven-Seal Book is revealed at the time of the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10, now, if you’re marking it down. Let’s turn to Revelation 10, just a moment, so you’ll get an understanding before we get into it. Now, this is at the end time. For, listen:

…I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow…upon his head,…

30 If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is 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:

31 You remember that Angel in Revelation 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 watch.

And he had in his hand a little book open:…

32 Now, here, It was closed here,” (meaning, in Revelation chapter 5, verse 1 to 7, It was what? It was closed), “and sealed; and here It’s open,” (now in Revelation chapter 10, It’s open in the hand of the Mighty Angel of Revelation chapter 10). “It’s been opened. Since that time of the sealing…”

And now, notice how this mystery of the Angel who comes down from Heaven is the mystery of the Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of man, the Coming of the Angel of the Lord or Angel of the Covenant, who was on this Earth two thousand years ago among the Hebrew people, manifested in human flesh in that veil of flesh called Jesus. In that simple young carpenter from Nazareth (inside that veil of flesh) was the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, also called the Word of God.

“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.”

This is in Saint John chapter 1, verse 1 to 18 (everything I am going to tell you). Then in verse 14 of that same 1st chapter of Saint John, it says: “And the Word was made flesh,” meaning, He became 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.”

This mystery, notice, of the incarnation of the Word, the incarnation of the Angel of the Lord, of the Angel of the Covenant, of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, notice, this mystery was fulfilled in the Person of Jesus, in that veil of flesh who was born of the virgin Mary.

No one could have imagined that in a young carpenter from Nazareth, the Coming of the Messiah, the Coming of the King of Israel, would be fulfilled; because when God promises something great, everyone is looking for something great humanly speaking, they are looking for an important person on Earth, humanly speaking, with great doctorates in theology, in religious matters, and a very important position among the human race; but when God promises something great, He fulfills it in a simple way, He fulfills it through a veil of flesh, through a simple man; and this is what happened in the time of the First Coming of Christ.

We also find that when God promised the coming of the Prophet Elijah, the coming of Elijah, when He fulfilled that promise at the time in which the Messiah would appear, notice, it was the Holy Spirit manifested in a man named John the Baptist, in whom He operated the ministry of the Prophet Elijah for the third time.

The Archangel Gabriel said that child who would be born to Zacharias the Priest and his wife Elisabeth (who were already well stricken in age) would be a prophet of God, and he would come with the Spirit and power, with the Spirit and power of Elijah, and would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children;⁷ in other words, the hearts of the fathers to the apostolic faith, to the faith of the apostles, to the faith of God’s children, to the faith of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and he would turn the faith, the hearts of the fathers, he would turn them to the Christian faith, to the faith in the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God.

And now, notice, also when our beloved Lord Jesus Christ spoke of John the Baptist, He said in Saint Matthew, chapter 11, verse 14:

“…This is Elias, which was for to come.”

Meaning that John the Baptist is that Elijah promised to prepare the way of the Lord in His First Coming: “If you will receive him, this is Elijah, which was to come.”

Then, when they ask Jesus, after Peter, James, and John come down Mount Transfiguration with Jesus, then: “The scribes are saying that the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ must come first, meaning, the Prophet Elijah must come first, and restore all things, for the Messiah to then come.” And they tell Jesus these things that the scribes are saying, and they ask Him: “What is this about Elijah having to come first to restore all things?” Jesus tells them, in chapter 17 of Saint Matthew, verse 10 and on, notice:

“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,” (He is talking about someone who will come in the future), “and restore all things,” (that’s for the end time, of course).

“But I say unto you, That Elias is come already…”

Now, at that time in which Jesus appeared, Elijah had to be on Earth as well, to forerun the First Coming of Christ, because Elijah would be the messenger who would prepare the way of the Lord, of the Messiah; but Jesus says:

“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.”

Because John the Baptist was the Elijah who would come at that time, preparing the way of the Lord.

And when he came, he wasn’t named Elijah, he was named John the Baptist; because the veil of flesh was called John the Baptist, but the ministry that was being manifested in John the Baptist by the Holy Spirit was the ministry of Elijah for the third time.

• It had already been manifested in Elijah the Tishbite.

• Then in Elisha. When the sons of the prophets saw that Elisha parted the Jordan with Elijah’s mantle, they said: “The Spirit of Elijah has rested on Elisha.”⁸ The ministry of Elijah had rested on the Prophet Elisha, because the Spirit that was in Elijah had rested on Elisha.

In other words, the Holy Spirit that was in Elijah went on to Elisha, and put a double ministerial portion in Elisha, the ministry of Elijah manifested in a double portion; and that was the second time that the ministry of Elijah was on Earth manifested in a man, whose name wasn’t Elijah, but Elisha.

• The third time was in John the Baptist.

• The fourth time was in Rev. William Branham, who was the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.

• And the fifth time that the ministry of Elijah would be manifested would be in one of the Two Olive Trees, or as one of the Two Olive Trees.

Remember that it’s always the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, manifested in a veil of flesh, in a man who doesn’t have to be named Elijah, rather, his name has to be the one his parents give him when he is born on Earth.

The ministry of Elijah was in Elisha, and the name of Elijah in his third manifestation was the name that Elisha’s parents gave him.

And the name of Elijah in his fourth manifestation was John the Baptist, that was the name his parents gave him when he was born and they registered him; for that was the name the Archangel Gabriel told them to call the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, the Elijah who had to come at that time.

And the name that Elijah had in his fourth manifestation was William Marrion Branham; that was the name of the veil of flesh, but the ministry was the ministry of Elijah in his fourth manifestation. And the Holy Spirit that was in Elijah the Tishbite, in Elisha, and in John the Baptist, is the One that was in Rev. William Branham, manifesting the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time.

And that same Holy Spirit which was in Elijah the Tishbite, in Elisha, in John the Baptist (and in Jesus), and in William Branham; and which was in Jesus in all His fullness; is the same Holy Spirit that has been in the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages of the Gentile Church: in Saint Paul, in Irenaeus, in Martin, in Columba, in Luther, in Wesley, and in Rev. William Marrion Branham; and at the Last Day, He will be manifested in human flesh again, operating, manifesting the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time, and the ministry of Moses for the second time, and the ministry of Jesus for the second time.

Remember that the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Word, the Logos, is the One who came in the past in the Old Testament prophets, in the portion pertaining to each stage or each age or each dispensation; and then in Jesus in all His fullness; then in the apostles and in the seven angel-messengers, in the portion relevant to each stage, to each age. It was Christ ministering in Holy Spirit through each of those messengers that He put in His Church.

And at the Last Day, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger, to testify to His Church, through His Angel-Messenger, all these things which must shortly come to pass, at this end time, at the Last Day.

And everyone will be hearing Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit speaking to His Church through His Angel-Messenger, where He will have the ministries of Moses for the second time, Jesus for the second time, and Elijah for the fifth time; because the only One who has ministries is the Holy Spirit.

The only One who has ministries is the Angel of the Covenant. He is the One who has operated them through human flesh in different ages and dispensations; and He is the One who, at the Last Day, will be operating these three great ministries through human flesh, through His Angel-Messenger, whom He sends to His Church at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

And now, notice how Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord… who in the Old Testament is known as the Lord or Angel of the Lord or Angel of the Covenant, and in the New Testament is known as the Lord Jesus Christ; who appeared in human flesh to the Hebrew people, in the veil of flesh called Jesus of Nazareth.

And then He appeared to Saint Paul in that Flame of Fire or Pillar of Fire, that Light brighter than the sun, and said to him: “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the pricks.”

And Saul, knowing that this Light that spoke to him was the same Light, the same Pillar of Fire that had appeared to Moses there on Mount Sinai, and had told him: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;”⁹ that Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who is the same Lord in His theophanic Body, now appears to Saul of Tarsus in chapter 9 of the Book of Acts, and tells him: “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”

Chapter 9 of the Book of Acts, verse 1 and on. Now, reading this passage, notice, it says:

“And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.”

Because believing in Christ, being a believer in Jesus Christ, being a member of the mystical Body of Christ, being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ, was called “the way of heresy,” it was a way of heresy to the Hebrew religion; but to God it was the way of Eternal Life.

On one occasion, Saul said: “After the way which they call heresy, I worship the God of my fathers.”¹⁰

Now, notice that to the Hebrew religion, Christianity: believing in Christ as our Savior, receiving the Holy Spirit, and being born again, and being a member of the mystical Body of Christ, was heresy; and as heretics, they were persecuted and killed, and others were punished, and they were also forced to blaspheme the way of Jesus Christ.

“And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:

And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.”

Now, notice how Jesus Christ appeared to him in that Pillar of Fire, in that theophany, which in the Old Testament—when He appeared in that Light, He was called the Angel of the Covenant or Angel of the Lord, which is the Lord Himself, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Christ had said: “I came forth from the Father and go to the Father; I came forth from God and go to God.”¹¹ He said:

“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven,”¹² (and He was on Earth).

And now, notice how while He was on Earth He was also in Heaven, because while He was on Earth He was also in other dimensions; because He is God incarnate, God manifested in human flesh in the Person of Jesus. He is the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, the Word that was made flesh and dwelt among human beings; and He was there as the Lamb of God, to offer His own Body as a living Sacrifice there on Calvary’s Cross.

And after He died, rose, and ascended to Heaven: He sat at the right hand of God, presented His Blood there in the Holy of Holies of the Temple which is in Heaven; and as High Priest taking His own Blood, we find that He has been making intercession for all those whose names have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, who were in God before the foundation of the world, meaning, eternally; because they are a Divine Thought, they are a Divine Attribute, they are a thought in God’s Mind; which had to be manifested here on Earth in human flesh, to come in contact with Christ and His Program of Eternal Life, at the time that and at the time when He would send them to Earth. And in Heaven, Christ would be making intercession for all those people whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

And that is why, through the manifestation of the Holy Spirit on Earth through His messengers who are sent from age to age… who come with the Word of God for their age, for the age in which Christ sends them; and the ministers ordained by God to work with that messenger unite with him, and united they all take the Message of Christ for that age or time; and God’s elect hear the Voice of Christ through the messenger of that age, through the Message of that age, which spreads throughout all the territory where that age is fulfilled.

And if there is someone who has gone to live in another continent, well, the Message reaches them in the place where they are; and they are called and gathered and put in the mystical Body of Christ upon hearing the Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Good Shepherd, who said in Saint John chapter 10: “I am the good shepherd…” In chapter 10, verse 14 and on, He said:

“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold,” (in other words, they are not of the Hebrew people, of the Hebrew Fold), “them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”

The sheep are the elect among the Gentiles; and the Voice of Christ that they will hear will be the Voice of Christ through His messengers in each age of His Church; and the Fold is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where they are called and gathered in the age in which they are given to live.

“These also must I bring…” And that is what Christ has been doing from stage to stage, during these ages that have passed, and in this age pertaining to the Last Day, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, where He is calling and gathering all His elect at this Last Day.

Now, each age has been fulfilled in the past in a certain territory and with a certain kind of people:

• The first age was fulfilled in Asia Minor, and its messenger was Saint Paul the Apostle.

• The second age was fulfilled in France, and its messenger was Irenaeus. From there, the

Message spread to other territories.

• The third age was also fulfilled in France and in Hungary, and its messenger was Martin.

• The *fourth age was fulfilled in Ireland and Scotland, and its messenger was Columba (that was the fourth age).

• The fifth age was fulfilled in Germany, and its messenger was Luther.

• The sixth age was fulfilled in England, and its messenger was John Wesley.

• The seventh age was fulfilled in North America, and its messenger was Rev. William Marrion Branham.

And notice, the Voice of Christ was calling and gathering His sheep; the Voice of Christ was manifested in each of those messengers, which appeared on Earth in their different territories; and many people didn’t understand that those were the messengers of Christ, where the Spirit of Christ was, and where the Spirit of Christ had those seven manifestations.

The seven eyes of the Lamb, the seven spirits of God that stand before the Presence of God, those seven manifestations were in those seven messengers of Christ; and the Work was carried out relevant to each age and to the territory where each age was fulfilled.

And now, after those stages have passed, the seven stages of the Gentile Church—and we find that the last one was in North America; and from North America, the Spirit of Christ, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, has flown to Latin America and the Caribbean for the fulfillment of the Age of the Cornerstone, the age represented in the number eight; the number eight represents infinity [∞] and also eternity.

And that Age of the Cornerstone pertains to the Latin American and Caribbean territory, where the Spirit of Christ sends His Angel-Messenger, anointed with the Holy Spirit, and where He operates the ministries of Elijah for the fifth time, Moses for the second time, and Jesus for the second time; and through whom He calls and gathers His elect with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Message of the Voice of Christ calling and gathering all His children in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; in other words, gathering His children in the stage of the Cornerstone Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at this end time is in the stage of the Cornerstone Age, just as the Gentile kingdom is in the stage of the feet of iron and clay.

The Gentile kingdom at the time of King Nebuchadnezzar, which was the time in which the Prophet Daniel lived, was in the stage of the head of gold of the Gentile kingdom; but notice, at this end time, the Gentile kingdom is in the stage of the feet of iron and clay.

But the Kingdom of God is in the stage of the Head of Gold, it is in the stage of the Cornerstone Age, which is the Head of Gold of the Kingdom of God.

This is the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where Christ would be manifested in Holy Spirit in His Angel-Messenger in the stage of the Cornerstone Age, the Golden Stage of the Church of Jesus Christ, calling and gathering His elect, and making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass; and thus, revealing to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, coming in human flesh manifested at the Last Day.

It is the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel-Messenger at the Last Day, making these things known to us all, and thus, preparing us to be changed and raptured.

It is the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit veiling Himself and revealing Himself in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger, and making known to us the mystery of His Coming in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.

And that is how Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who comes down from Heaven, clothed with a cloud, veils Himself in human flesh on Earth in His Angel-Messenger; and through His Angel-Messenger, He makes known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass.

And thus, we can be seeing and hearing Jesus Christ at the Last Day among His Gentile Church, speaking to us as when a lion roars and the Seven Thunders [are] speaking their Voices, uttering their Voices, and making known to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of His Second Coming, the mystery of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, veiled and revealed in His Angel-Messenger at this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, calling and gathering His elect in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; and thus, revealing to us all these things which must shortly come to pass, at the Last Day, and in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

And what John heard from the mouth of the Mighty Angel who came down from Heaven, when He cried as when a lion roars and the Seven Thunders uttered their Voices, and he couldn’t write those things that he heard: those are the things we would be hearing at this Last Day through the manifestation of Jesus Christ, the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, coming to Earth and coming to His Church at the Last Day, manifested in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger, and speaking to us through His Angel-Messenger all these things which must shortly come to pass.

And by hearing Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel-Messenger making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass, we would be hearing the Voice of the Mighty Angel that comes down from Heaven; and He sets His right foot upon the sea and his left foot on the Earth, and cries as when a lion roars and Seven Thunders utter their Voices.

At this Last Day is when we would be hearing the Voice of Christ that John heard as Seven Thunders thundering and speaking, but was forbidden to write.

The content of those Seven Thunders is none other than the mystery of the Seventh Seal being revealed. It is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, that mystery being revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Day.

That is why the rapturing faith for the elect to be changed and raptured is in the Thunders. And the revival, the awakening of God’s elect, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in and at the Last Day, is also in the Thunders.

Because through the revelation contained in the Seven Thunders, which is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work, the elect of God will receive the faith, the revelation, to be changed and raptured; they receive the revelation to be called and gathered in the Age of the Cornerstone; they receive the revelation to be able to understand all these things which must shortly come to pass, at this Last Day.

That is why it is so important to hear the Voice of Christ at this Last Day through His Angel-Messenger, making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass at the Last Day, at the end time, in which we are living.

Notice, the Voice of these Seven Thunders contains the mystery, the revelation of the mystery of the Seventh Seal, meaning, of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.

Now, John wanted to worship the Angel that showed him these things. Here in Revelation chapter 22, verses 7 to 9, we find that John tells us the following; let’s see:

“Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

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.”

Who showed him all these things from the Book of Revelation? The Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And John says:

“…I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.

Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.”

Why did John try to worship this Angel? Because he saw the manifestation of Christ in His Angel-Messenger.

Notice, in Revelation chapter 1, verses 10 to 11, John says:

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day…”

He was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day; in other words, not in his physical body, because his physical body was (where?) on the Isle of Patmos, but he was transported to the Lord’s Day in that apocalyptic vision. And the Lord’s Day is the seventh millennium, because “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day,” says Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8, and Psalm 90, verse 4.

And now, since the Lord’s Day, which is the Last Day, is the seventh millennium, he was transported to the seventh millennium in a vision. And he says:

“…And heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet…”

This Voice as of a Trumpet is the Voice of Christ speaking at the Last Day through His Angel-Messenger, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

And what did he hear? He says:

“…And heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.”

Who is the Alpha and Omega? Who is the first and the last? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. He is the One, who, at the Last Day, will be speaking with that Great Voice of Trumpet and will be making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass; but He will have an instrument here, a veil of flesh, and that is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In Revelation chapter 4, verse 1, it says:

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”

Now, it’s not that we literally have to go up to Heaven to hear the Voice of Christ; it’s that we have to come up to the age, to the stage where Jesus Christ will be speaking to His Church with that Great Voice of Trumpet at the Last Day.

If that stage were the stage of the time of Saint Paul, it would be the stage of the first Gentile Church age, and we would have to go up to that first age to hear the Voice of Christ through Saint Paul making all these things known to us. But the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church have already passed, where the children of God, in each of those stages, heard the Voice of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, speaking to His people, and calling and gathering His elect from each of those stages of the Gentile Church.

And now, at the Last Day, the Voice of Christ would be in the Age of the Cornerstone, the Voice of Christ would be speaking in the Age of the Cornerstone through the Angel-Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone, who is the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and that is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And through that Angel-Messenger, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be hearing all these things which must shortly come to pass.

And it won’t be a man, but Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in a man, in a prophet, speaking to His Church.

The veil of flesh is a man, a prophet, but the One who will be speaking through that veil of flesh, through that prophet, will be Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit at the Last Day.

It will be Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Pillar of Fire, the Shekinah, veiled and revealed in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger.

Because wherever the Word is, It will be veiled in human flesh.

And now let’s see what Revelation chapter 22, verse 6 tells us:

“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”

To show His servants (what?) the things which must shortly be done, which Christ, in Revelation chapter 4, verse 1, said He would make known to us; and now He makes them known to us through His Angel-Messenger; because Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested in His Angel-Messenger, speaking to His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

And since the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is Jesus Christ, is the Messenger to Israel, and He comes directly to the Hebrews… but since His Gentile Church is about to be raptured, because She is finished: He comes for His Church first, and then He will go to the Hebrew people in His manifestation of the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, through His instrument: the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

So that we can hear the Voice of Christ in each age, notice, Christ sent a messenger in each age, in whom He was manifested speaking to His people and calling and gathering His elect of each age.

And at the Last Day, so that we can understand all these things which must shortly be done, and so that we can understand the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, which is the opening of the Seventh Seal of Revelation chapter 8, verse 1, we find that we need to find the instrument of Jesus Christ, the Angel of Jesus Christ, so that through Him, we can see Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested, speaking to us all these things which must shortly be done, and revealing to us His Coming at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, veiled and revealed in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger.

No one will be able to understand this mystery and other mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven pertaining to the Last Day, except those who will find the Angel of Jesus Christ; and thus, they will find Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel-Messenger, making known to us through His Angel all these things which must shortly come to pass.

And that is how, with that Message revealed to His Church, with that revelation of Jesus Christ through His Angel-Messenger, all of God’s elect are called and gathered in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; and that age pertains to Latin America and the Caribbean.

In Latin America and the Caribbean is where this mystery of the Seventh Seal would be carried out, and would be revealed by Jesus Christ through His Angel-Messenger. And thus, the white-horse Rider of Revelation, who is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh through His Angel-Messenger, will be making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass, at the Last Day.

And now notice how, in the Divine Program, Latin America and the Caribbean have been given the most important part of the Divine Program in the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that is why Latin America and the Caribbean have God’s blessing nowadays.

That Divine Blessing that has been going from the Hebrew people to Asia Minor, for the first age of the Gentile Church; then it went to France in the second age; then it went to Hungary and France, or France and Hungary in the third age; and then it went to Ireland and Scotland in the fourth age; and then it went to Germany in the fifth age; and then it went to England in the sixth age; and then that blessing went to North America in the seventh age.

And now that blessing has gone to Latin America and the Caribbean, in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Eighth Age, the Eternal Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And now the Divine Program is being carried out in Latin America and the Caribbean; the Program of Jesus Christ pertaining to the last stage of His Gentile Church is being carried out, and He is calling and gathering His elect with the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet.

And now, notice how these things are happening at this end time, and only those who will be hearing the Voice of Christ through His Angel-Messenger will be able to understand the mystery of what John heard and was forbidden to write.

And now, notice how also the sign of the Son of man in heaven, where the Son of man is seen clothed with a cloud, we find that in Revelation chapter 10, verse 1; and we also find that [in] Revelation chapter 1, verse 7; and we also find that in Revelation chapter 14, verse 14 and on; and we find that in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 30 to 31; and in Daniel chapter 7, verses 13 to 14.

And now, the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds with power and glory, notice, Rev. William Branham, speaking to us about a mysterious cloud that appeared on February 28, 1963, which was captured in photographs,¹³ by different photographers from the state of Arizona and also from New Mexico, and this mysterious cloud was also published in Science magazine¹⁴ and in Life magazine;¹⁵ we find that when that cloud appeared, scientists didn’t find an explanation for it; because it appeared twenty-six miles high,¹⁶ and its size was approximately thirty miles across by fifty miles long.¹⁷ At that height, at twenty-six miles, there is no moisture to form clouds, and there are no airplanes flying around to form clouds.

Rev. William Marrion Branham says that the mystery of that cloud was the appearance of seven angels of God that appeared to him and took him away; and he was there with those angels, he was there in heaven; he was there in his theophanic body and those angels were also in their theophanic bodies.

Those angels who were there, notice, he says that seven angels came and caught him away; and since there were seven angels there, who took Rev. William Branham, then we find—including Rev. William Branham, we find eight angels there, eight messengers of God.

And now, notice what Rev. William Branham said on page 546 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals. Speaking about that cloud formed by those angels, he says:

“275 And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’ He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them. You remember that? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, ‘He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward’ (you remember) ‘like that.’ I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up…’”

Who was the One that picked him up and took him with them? It was the Angel who was very different from the rest.

“276 Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I’ve wondered all my life. Amen! Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don’t know what This has meant.”

Now, notice that the seventh Angel, of the seven that came, the seventh was very different from the rest; and that was the One with the Seventh Seal. And the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work.

That is the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, that is the Angel who is promised to come at the Last Day, but first He would be clothed with a cloud, or in the clouds, as it says in Revelation chapter 10, verse 1 and on, and Saint Matthew 24, verses 30 to 31. It is the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds, it is the sign of the Son of man in heaven, being seen on February 28, 1963.

Just like for the First Coming of Christ, a sign appeared in heaven, called the star of Bethlehem, and it was in the sky for about two years, appearing every night; and many people on Earth at that time couldn’t understand that this was the sign of the First Coming of the Messiah, of the Coming of the Son of man among the Hebrew people, who was born in Bethlehem of Judea.

And the sign that He was already on Earth was being seen in heaven or in the sky. And some wise men saw it, while they were living there in Babylon; and they saw that sign over the land of Israel, and they went to the land of Israel to look for the Messiah; they arrived in the city of Jerusalem and they didn’t find the Messiah there.

But King Herod asked where the Messiah should be born; and the scribes and chief priests, like the high priest, told him it was in Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it was written by the Prophet Micah in chapter 5, verse 2.

And Herod sent them to Bethlehem of Judea to look for the Messiah and worship Him, and then come back to King Herod and tell him where the Messiah was, supposedly to go worship Him; but the intentions were to go kill Him.

King Herod investigated with the wise men how long it had been since that star was appearing, and they made known to him that the star had already been appearing for two years; therefore, the Messiah was about two years old, approximately, when the wise men arrived in Bethlehem of Judea.¹⁸

And notice, when God is going to do something on Earth, He shows it in heaven. The sign in heaven of what God has promised to do on Earth must be seen. And when that sign is seen in heaven: people must be looking for what God has promised to do on Earth, because God must already be carrying out on Earth what He promised for that time.

Therefore, the Messiah was already on Earth; and when the wise men arrived in Bethlehem of Judea, the Messiah was already approximately two years old. Therefore, when the Messiah was visited by those wise men, He could already talk; so, surely He was able to talk to them, and they were able to talk to Him, and they rejoiced. They knew the Messiah when the Messiah was still approximately two years old.

And now, notice how all of this was fulfilled: the sign of the First Coming of the Son of man was seen, it was seen in heaven, and then, we find that the Son of man was on Earth when that sign was seen in heaven.

And we find that everything was being fulfilled among the Hebrew people, although the Work of Redemption of Christ in His First Coming was not being carried out yet; It would be carried out on Calvary’s Cross; and He would have a three-and-a-half-year ministry for that, during the first part of the seventieth week of Daniel’s prophecy.

And at the end of that first part of the seventieth week, in other words, in the middle of the seventieth week, three and a half years into that seventieth week, which consists of seven years, in the midst of that week, the Messiah would be cut off.¹⁹ And when it was the midst of that week, the Messiah’s life was cut off on Calvary’s Cross, by Christ dying for us there and taking away our sins there.

And now, we can see that before Christ was dying for us on Calvary’s Cross, in the middle of the seventieth week, we find that thirty-three years before that: the Messiah was already on Earth, being born in Bethlehem of Judea.

Now the question is: before the Claiming Work is carried out, and everyone is changed (we who are alive), and all the dead in Christ are raised, for how much time (how many days, months, or years) will the Mighty Angel be on Earth, the Son of man, who is first seen in heaven, clothed with a cloud, to then be seen on Earth, manifested in human flesh in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ?

For how long will the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Son of man, be on Earth, manifested in His Angel-Messenger, before the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive?

We don’t know for how many years He will be on Earth manifested in human flesh, speaking to His Church, and making known to Her all these things which must shortly come to pass, to give us the faith to be changed and raptured, and so that the Claiming Work may be carried out; and so that we may be restored to Eternal Life with an eternal body, for our mortal bodies to be redeemed, for us to be redeemed and obtain the transformation of our bodies (us who are alive), and for the dead in Christ to be raised in eternal bodies.

Now, the question is: for how many years will this Angel who appeared here, in this cloud, as the Angel who was very different from the rest, be present? (Which is the Angel with the Seventh Seal, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in His theophanic Body, there in that cloud in heaven, to be manifested in human flesh at the Last Day through His Angel-Messenger.)

Because at the Last Day, He will have a veil of flesh through which He will be manifested, veiled, and revealed, through His Angel-Messenger; and He will be speaking to His Church and making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass: He will be making known to us the mystery of His Coming, the mystery of the Coming of the Angel who was very different from the rest, in human flesh at the Last Day, through His Angel-Messenger.

Notice that the mystery of the First Coming of Christ was the mystery of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is the same Lord, which is the same Word that was made flesh and dwelt among human beings in that veil of flesh called Jesus of Nazareth.

That is the mystery of the First Coming of Christ, that is the mystery of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Coming of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That was the mystery, two thousand years ago, of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant in human flesh among the Hebrew people.

And the mystery of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit at the Last Day, is: the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel who was different from the rest (who is found in that cloud), coming in human flesh among His Gentile Church through His Angel-Messenger, and speaking to His Church all these things which must shortly come to pass; and thus, preparing us to be changed and raptured, and thus making known to us the mystery of His Coming in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger.

But His Angel-Messenger is not the Lord Jesus Christ. He is only His instrument, His veil of flesh, through whom Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, would come manifested in Holy Spirit at the Last Day, making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass, according to the prophecies of the Old Testament and of the New Testament.

“THE MYSTERY OF WHAT JOHN HEARD BUT COULDN’T WRITE.”

The mystery of what John heard is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, the mystery of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, veiled and revealed in His Angel-Messenger, making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass.

It is the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, it is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, veiled in human flesh and revealed through human flesh in His Angel-Messenger. That is the mystery of the Seventh Seal, that is the mystery that the Seven Thunders spoke and John was forbidden to write. That is the mystery that gives us the revelation, the faith, to be changed and raptured at this Last Day.

It has been a great privilege to be with you, testifying to you about WHAT JOHN HEARD BUT COULDN’T WRITE; testifying to you about the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, which John heard but couldn’t write. He couldn’t write what the Seven Thunders spoke, He couldn’t write what the Voice of Christ, crying as when a lion roars, spoke there at the Last Day, on the Lord’s Day.

But at the Last Day, on the Lord’s Day, we would hear the Voice of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, crying out as when a lion roars and the Seven Thunders uttering their Voices; in other words, the Voice of Christ speaking to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, speaking to us the mystery of His Second Coming, speaking to us the mystery of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, veiled and revealed in His Angel-Messenger in human flesh.

That is THE MYSTERY OF WHAT JOHN HEARD BUT COULDN’T WRITE.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, be upon each one of you and also upon me. And may He reveal to us all these mysteries contained in the Scripture and promised to be opened at this Last Day. And may He prepare us to be changed and raptured at this Last Day. And soon may we all be changed and raptured, and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In the Eternal Name of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

I will be with you again at 3:00 in the afternoon, God willing, to continue with this series of “THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN,” where we will be seeing: “THE MYSTERY OF THE BOOK THAT JOHN ATE.”

“THE MYSTERY OF THE BOOK THAT JOHN ATE,” that will be the subject for this afternoon, at 3:00 in the afternoon.

You are all invited to hear: “THE MYSTERY OF THE BOOK THAT JOHN ATE,” in order to see how all of us can also eat that Book at this Last Day; because that is the Book of Redemption, It is the Book where our names will be written, It is the Lamb’s Book of Life.

I will see you again in the afternoon, God willing, when we will be gathered to hear “THE MYSTERY OF THE BOOK THAT JOHN ATE.”

May God continue to bless you all, may God keep you, and see you at 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon, God willing, when we will be gathered to glorify God and hear His Word.

Thank you very much for your kind attention. And I will leave Félix Caro with us again to continue and conclude this service on this occasion.

May God bless you and keep you all.

“THE MYSTERY OF WHAT JOHN HEARD BUT COULDN’T WRITE.”