The mystery of the Seventh Seal

Good morning, beloved friends and brethren here in Matamoros, Republic of Mexico. It is a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, to share a few moments of spiritual fellowship around: “THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL,” of Revelation, chapter 8 and 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.”

And Revelation, chapter 5, verse 1 onwards, tells us:

“And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

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.”

May God bless in our souls His Word, and bless our souls with His Word; and open His Word to us, and let us all understand His Word under this subject: “THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”

When the Seventh Seal was opened in Heaven, what happened? There was silence, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour.

Now see how important is this Seventh Seal and its opening. And what is the mystery of the Seventh Seal? What is the Seventh Seal? We have seen that it is one of the seven Seals of the Book of Revelation, or of the Book that was in the right hand of He who sits on the Throne; and this Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ.

That Seventh Seal is Christ in His Second Coming as Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.

Now, we can see the importance of that Seal and its opening in Heaven, and we can also see the importance of that Seal and its opening here on Earth.

Now, no one knew this mystery of the Seventh Seal, neither in Heaven nor on Earth. That is why when Christ was speaking of the signs in His prophetic Message, He, when the time came to reveal the mystery of the Seventh Seal, He spoke in parables about the Hebrew people, in other words, related to the Second Coming of Christ here on Earth.

And now, we can see that this Seventh Seal is found where? In the Book of Redemption, that Book which is sealed with seven seals that appears in Revelation, chapter 5, in the right hand (in the right hand or right hand) of He who sits on the Throne, in other words, in the right hand of God.

It is the Book of Redemption; it is the Title Deed of the Heavens and the Earth; it is the Lamb’s Book of Life, where the names of all God’s elect, of all God’s sheep, are written. It is the Book that contains the names of all those who will live (redeemed by the Blood of Christ, and who have received the Spirit of Christ and have been part of the Church of Jesus Christ), who will live, then, in the Millennium and throughout eternity, with eternal bodies.

And now, notice that Adam had this Title Deed before his fall in the Garden of Eden; but when he sinned, we find that he lost the right and the rights contained in this Book; and the Book returned to the right hand of God. And you see, all those thousands of years that have passed from Adam until now, after Adam’s fall, it has been in the right hand of God; because God is the original owner of that Book.

And now, in order for Adam to keep that Book and to obtain the benefits contained in that Book, he had to eat of the Tree of Life.

And now, for the sons and daughters of God to eat that Title Deed, they have to eat of Christ.

At each stage or age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ each person has eaten of Christ, in other words, he has eaten Christ; as Christ said: “He that eateth not my flesh and drinketh not my Blood, hath not life abiding in himself”¹; in other words, the person has believed in Christ as his Savior, and has washed his sins in the Blood of the Lamb, and has received His Holy Spirit: and thus he has been eating of Christ, each son and daughter of God, through the different stages or ages.

And at this time there would be those who would be eating of Christ; because He is the Word: “And man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”²

And now, see how, for the Last Day, a call is made in Heaven; because the time comes when the claim has to be made, and a person is asked to appear there in Heaven and take that Book; claim that Book, take it and open it in Heaven; because there are the rights to eternal life, to an eternal body, and to an eternal Kingdom and to all eternal things that God had granted to Adam if he remained faithful to God.

And since Adam lost the right to that Title Deed: he lost all the rights contained in that Book, and became mortal. And his body, you see, became corrupt when he died – he grew old and died, and then it became corrupt in the earth. And you see, he lasted many years: 930 years, but he died; for “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”³ And physically, you see, that body could not pass a thousand years, it had to die in that day; in other words (being a day before God) it had to die in a time span of a thousand years, it could not pass a thousand years since he sinned.

And now, spiritually, from the moment Adam sinned, he died spiritually; and the human race died also; although all the descendants of Adam had not yet arrived, but you see, since Adam died spiritually and then he would die physically also, that same sentence fell upon the descendants of Adam.

Just as when Abraham tithed to God, he tithed to Melchizedek, the Scripture says that Levi was also tithing to Melchizedek; and Levi was not born yet, and Jacob was not born yet, and Isaac was not born yet either. You see, Abraham had no children yet, least of all through Sarah, through whom God had promised him a son; and he was not yet born, and Levi is already tithing.⁴

Notice, Levi is Abraham’s great-grandson; Isaac is Abraham’s son; Jacob is Abraham’s grandson; and Levi (who is Jacob’s son) is Abraham’s great-grandson. See how the great-grandson was tithing, for he was in whose loins? Abraham’s.

And now, see how all the descendants of Adam had died when Adam sinned and died before God spiritually; and then that same fate would follow Adam’s descendants; and his physical body, you see, was sentenced to death also, and every physical body of Adam’s descendants as well.

But now, for the end time, the Title Deed that Adam had and that was confiscated (and all the rights were confiscated, the rights to eternal life and all eternal things), now we find that that Title Deed remains in the right hand of God; but for the Last Day, for the seventh millennium, it will be taken, it will be opened in Heaven, and it will be brought to Earth in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 to verse 11.

And who is it that takes that Book in Heaven, and opens it, and then brings it to Earth? It is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, as it appears in Revelation, chapter 5, which is the Lamb of God who died on Calvary’s Cross to pay the price of Redemption, to restore that Title Deed to all the sons and daughters of God, to all the descendants of the second Adam; and the second Adam is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

See that it is to the descendants of the second Adam to whom this Title Deed will be restored in the Last Day. And that is why the descendants of the second Adam, who are the members of the Mystical Body of Christ, for the Last Day will have the right to resurrect (if they are dead) and have an eternal body; and those of us who are alive obtain the right to an eternal body. And for that cause our mortal bodies will be transformed, and we will be clothed with immortality: we will have an immortal, incorruptible body, to live for all eternity with Christ, as kings and priests.

Now, for all this to happen, the opening of the Seventh Seal is required in Heaven, which is the opening of the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ being opened in Heaven, in the Book of Redemption; and for that it is required that Christ takes that Title Deed.

Now, this mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, Christ says that no one knew neither the hour nor the day when it would be fulfilled. That mystery was known to no one except God, because it was in the Mind of God, and God did not open that mystery. Although prophetically God spoke to His prophets, and through His prophets, about the Seventh Seal, that is, about the Second Coming of Christ; but that mystery, although it was prophesied in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, was closed, sealed, under the Seventh Seal.

But for the Last Day that mystery is appointed by God to be opened in Heaven; and it causes silence in Heaven, in Revelation, chapter 8, when it is opened there in Heaven; because neither the angels, Christ says: “Neither the angels,” nor even the Son knew when the Coming of the Lord would be. No one knew the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, not even the angels of Heaven; He says: “Neither does the Son know when it will be.”⁵

But notice, this mystery was opened in Heaven, and everyone in Heaven knew, understood, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ; and there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour. In other words, they all kept silent, and there were no songs, no praise, nothing; there was nothing in Heaven but silence.

A stage of silence in Heaven, where, you see, for millions of years there were praises, songs, rejoicing, joy…; now Revelation, chapter 8, tells us that there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour.

Half an hour in Heaven represents a certain number of our years, just as a day of Heaven or in Heaven represents a thousand years for us; because one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, it tells us in Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8; and Psalm 90 and verse 4, the prophet Moses in that Psalm speaks to us in that way.

And now, notice how in Heaven there was silence when the mystery of the Seventh Seal was opened (where?) in Heaven, when the Seventh Seal was opened in Heaven.

And why was there silence? Because it was required that all should be silent, because if the devil knew the mystery of the Seventh Seal, he would make many imitations, and would hinder the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal here on Earth; because before the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal came to Earth, the devil would have already gone ahead and done all things, imitating the Seventh Seal and its fulfillment; so that when the real fulfillment of the Seventh Seal came, it would already be ineffective, the Seventh Seal would be ineffective, because of the imitations that the devil would have done.

But the devil could not know the mystery of the Seventh Seal if Heaven was silent; he would not know when, he would not know where, he would not know how, he would not even know the name of the veil of flesh of the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ, he would not even know the secret of the New Name of the Lord, he would not even know the people who would be receiving the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ.

In other words, all those mysteries contained under the Seventh Seal, the devil would not know them if Heaven kept silent; and everything would be fulfilled in the midst of the human race in such a common and ordinary way that the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, for the world, would be like the passing of some preacher here and there on Earth, without the world realizing that it was the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal.

As for the First Coming of Christ, you see, the gentile world did not know that the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ was in the midst of the Hebrew people being a reality; and even more, the gentile world did not know about the Coming of the Messiah; that was a promise for the Hebrew people.

So see how the gentile world was in ignorance of what was happening in the midst of the Hebrew people in the First Coming of Christ, as the Lamb of God.

And now, the promise of the Second Coming of Christ is as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work; because He came as the Lamb in His First Coming, to carry out His Work of Redemption, and thus redeem all those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world; and so to carry out His Work of Redemption, and to redeem all the divine inheritance, to at the Last Day fulfill the second part of the Coming of the Lord, which is the Second Coming of Christ.

For the Coming of the Lord has two parts: His First: two thousand years ago it was fulfilled in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, a young carpenter in whom was fulfilled the Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world. And the second part of the Coming of God, or of Christ, or of the Angel of the Covenant, is as Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.

Now, notice that the one who always comes is who? The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which is the same Lord of the Old Testament, which is the Word. It says in John, chapter 1, verse 1 to 18:

“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.”

The Word is God Himself, as He tells us here:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

It is God Himself with His theophanic body, the body of the Word, the body of the sixth dimension; that is the body of the theophany, that is the body of the Word, that is the Word; and from there comes all Creation. “By Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made”: in Him was all Creation, there was life.

And when God, through His manifestation in that theophanic body, began to speak the universe into existence, you see, His origin was the Word; His origin was in that theophanic body of God, and God was inside that theophanic body; for that theophanic body was the first thing that God created for Himself, and there was all Creation, in that body; and that is why from that body God gives birth to all Creation, from there all Creation is born.

Just as, you see, from our parents we and our brothers and our sisters were born; but you see, the father of the family carried all those children (where?) in his loins.

Like Abraham, you see, he carried Isaac, he carried Jacob, he carried Levi also, and he carried all the Hebrew people, all the Hebrew nation, in his loins, in Abraham’s loins. And when he had Isaac, you see, there was the whole Hebrew nation too: there was Jacob, there were the patriarchs and the whole Hebrew nation. And then when Isaac had Jacob, the Hebrew nation went where? It passed to Jacob.

And so, you see, it is also in the Divine Program regarding the Word: in Him is all the Creation of God, and from Him is that all Creation comes, and from Him is that all this Program comes in which we find that Christ is the one who carries out all things, He creates all things:

“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”

“And by Him were all things made, created.”

And that is why our souls in God, then now, when God places all Creation in Christ, in His theophanic body, in His theophany: our theophanic body, where does it have to come from? From Christ.

From that theophanic body of Jesus Christ come all the theophanic bodies of all the sons and daughters of God; and that is why the new birth is required; so that the person, by believing in Christ as his Savior, obtains that theophanic body, receives the Spirit of Christ, and thus, notice, he has a body created by Jesus Christ, by the Word; that theophanic body comes from Christ; and then what we lack is the physical body, which will be created by Christ also.

Just as, notice, God created for Adam a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, and then created for him a physical body from the dust of the earth, in and of this earthly dimension. That is the order for the person to come and be here in a body with eternal life.

But since the human being fell: the human being, from the fall onwards, has not passed through the sixth dimension to obtain his theophanic body, which is from the theophanic body of Christ; and therefore, we are born on this Earth and we obtain a physical, mortal, corruptible and temporary body, and we obtain a spirit of the world, not of the sixth dimension, that is, of the fifth dimension; and therefore, we are condemned to death, our physical body and our spirit of the world.

But Christ says: “It is necessary to be born again,” to enter where? In the Kingdom of God. And upon entering the Kingdom of God, upon being born in the Kingdom of God, the person already has then a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, and is already in the order he had to be: coming from the seventh dimension (from God’s dimension), coming from God being a thought, an attribute of God; coming from God, manifested in and with a theophanic body; to then, in the Last Day, receive a physical, eternal and glorified body, to live for all eternity, and to be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

And see how the Program of the new birth, which is the Program of the creation of the theophanic body of each son and daughter of God, has been carried out for all these years.

See how from the Day of Pentecost until now this Program for the birth of millions of sons and daughters of God, of the firstborn of God written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, has been carried out.

Now, look at something very important, from Adam to Christ no one had been able to be born in the sixth dimension first, to later obtain an eternal body here on Earth, until Jesus Christ came; who, before being born on this Earth in a physical body, was in a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, wherein He had appeared to Abraham as Melchizedek, King of Salem,⁶ and He had also appeared to him as Elohim the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.⁷

That is why when the Pharisees and all those religious leaders are speaking, telling Jesus that they could not believe in Him, and they were trying to kill Jesus, Jesus Christ tells them: “If you were Abraham’s children, you would love me. Abraham did not do this,”⁸ in other words, what they were doing: persecuting Jesus and trying to kill Him, Abraham did not do that.

Jesus said about Abraham: “Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad.” He had also said to them: “Before Abraham was, I am.”⁹

You see, this conversation there, what does it show us? Abraham rejoiced to see the Lord Day, and he saw it when Abraham was eating with Elohim (or Elohim was eating with Abraham), where Abraham prepared him a tender calf, also bread under the ashes, on the fire, and milk also, butter, all these things he served Him in that dinner or meal or lunch that he gave Him, he offered to God and His Archangels Gabriel and Michael; and there Abraham rejoiced seeing the Lord’s Day, seeing the Coming of Christ, represented in the visit of Elohim to Abraham; because there Abraham was seeing in visible form his God, Elohim.

And now, see how the Coming of Christ, which has two parts, would be the Coming of Elohim in human flesh, in visible form. And there he was in visible form with Abraham, eating and drinking.

The people said to Jesus: “You are not even fifty years old, and you say that you have seen Abraham?” Jesus says to them: “Before Abraham was, I am. Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad.”

See how Christ while being in His theophanic body, then He became visible, He became tangible, and He ate and drank with Abraham, and the Archangels of God also.

See how Christ was in His theophanic body, then He became visible, He became tangible, and He ate and drank with Abraham, and the Archangels of God also.

And now, see how in the First Coming of Christ the Hebrew people had whom there? Elohim in human flesh, clothed in human flesh. It was the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Elohim, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Lord of the Old Testament, clothed in a human garment, clothed in human flesh; and on His garment He had this name written: Jesus, which is the name of Redemption, to carry out His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.

And for the Last Day there will be again Elohim, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, manifested in human flesh, according to the divine promise.

Now, notice that the manifestation of Elohim back then had two very important parts: the first part was when He was discerning the heart and the thoughts of the heart of Sarah; and notice, He saw that in her heart she laughed, when God told Abraham that he would have a son through her.

She thought that since she was already so advanced in age (89 years old, and Abraham was 99 years old), it was not possible for them to have a child, because it was impossible for her to conceive, since she no longer had any delight with her husband or intimate relations with her husband; and now what God is telling her could only be obtained by having intimate relations with her husband, and that no longer existed between Abraham and Sarah; and the custom of women had already ceased.

But she saw all that, which was humanly impossible, and she laughed in her heart, thinking about it and thinking: “Shall I have delights with my husband, when he is old, advanced in age, and I too, after I am old?” and she laughed in her heart.¹⁰

As they say…, or as we sometimes say, when they tell us: “You are going to be a multi-billionaire, and you are going to have a beautiful house, you are going to have a palace, and you are going to have this and that; and you are going to be a king,” or if it is a woman: “You are going to be a queen.” And you laugh in your heart, or even with your lips, and you laugh and say: “As poor as I am, to be able to buy the things I need, I have to work so much. And I am going to have all these comforts and a palace like this?” Which, you mean to say: “That is impossible!”; because for that you need (a lot of what?) a lot of money (or how do you say it?): a lot of money; we say: a lot of cash or a lot of money (we do like this); but you, well… or in some places, here in the Mexican Republic, they say it like this. And that means a lot of money, that they have a lot of money. And for us, well, we say it like this: “a lot of cash” or “a lot of money.”

Well, a person may think: “For that you need a lot of money or a lot of cash or a lot of money, to be able to have all those facilities and properties that you are telling me I will have, and that important position you are telling me I am going to have.”

Well, look, is there anything impossible for God? Do you want to see where that is?, because what I told you is also for each one of you and for me too. It is in Revelation, chapter 1: verses 4 onwards it says:

“John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

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.”

Are we or are we not kings and priests? The Scripture says it here. For we have believed in Christ as our Savior, and Christ has washed away our sins in His Blood, and has made us unto our God (what?) kings and priests. It is not you that has done it, but Jesus Christ has done it with you and for you, and for me also.

And in Revelation, chapter 5, verse 8 and on, it 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.”

Are we kings or are we not kings? And priests too. And shall we reign or shall we not reign? It says here that we shall reign. See? I have already given you two Scriptures where it says that we are kings and we are priests, and it says that we shall reign on Earth.

And in Revelation, chapter 20, verse 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.”

Shall we reign or shall we not reign? We will reign with Christ for a thousand years, and then what? And where is it that it will be for all eternity, not only for the Millennial Kingdom? That is in Daniel, chapter 7: verse 18 says:

“But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.”

Is it for all eternity or is it not for all eternity? Of course it is! See, verse 26 of this same chapter 7 of Daniel… And also chapter 7, verse 13 to 14… Chapter 7, verse 13 to 14, says:

“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.”

And in that Kingdom is that we are (what?) kings and priests; in that Kingdom is that we will be as kings and priests, reigning with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. This is an eternal Kingdom, a Kingdom that will never cease. His Kingdom is…:

“…his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”

And the same chapter 7, verse 26 to 27, says, of Daniel:

“But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, (To whom? To the beast) to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High…”

What is the people of the saints of the Most High? The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

“…whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, (this Kingdom is what? An Eternal what? Kingdom) and all dominions shall serve and obey him.”

Now, the question is: Are we or are we not kings and priests? Of course we are! God says so in His Word. And out of what was not seen will be made all that will be seen during the Millennial Kingdom; and we will see ourselves there as kings and priests; but we are already seeing it in the Word. In the Word, there is all that we will be, and that is already defined by God.

That is more certain than the life of a human being here in this earthly body; because the life of a human being here in this earthly body, you see, it is here today and tomorrow it may not be; but this that God says about His children: that we are kings and priests, and we will reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity, that is THUS SAYS THE LORD.

“The heavens and the earth shall pass, but my Word shall not pass,”¹¹ says the Lord. So see who we are in the Kingdom of God, see who we are in the Divine Program.

And now, our position in the Kingdom of God, in that glorious Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, will be given with the opening of this Seal. The resurrection of the dead in Christ, the transformation of us who are alive, our going to Paradise – or our going to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to receive the rewards for our labors in the Kingdom of Christ; and after the great tribulation we will return to Earth occupying our position of kings and priests in the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

In other words, the one who at present is a person (man or woman) who works in an office, doing one thing or another, or is a person who works in the field, in agriculture, or is a young woman or a lady who is doing housework, or is a man who works in construction, when we return with the new body, in the glorious Millennial Kingdom, what will we be? Kings and priests.

In other words, our position will change with the new body, with the change of the physical body and change of kingdom; because here on this Earth, being the kingdom of the gentiles at this time still, perhaps you may not have an important position in the kingdom of the gentiles, but in the glorious Kingdom of Christ, you and I also, we have the most important position: that of kings and priests with Christ! There is no better position than that in the coming Kingdom.

Now, do you see that you are kings and priests and so am I? Any person says or may think: “You are nuts. They cannot even afford to buy a house with cash, and they already say they are kings and priests.” What happens is that we can look through the Word of God who we are in the Divine Program, who we are according to what God says about us. And we with the heart believe it and with the mouth confess it. “For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, but with the mouth confession is made (for what?) unto salvation,”¹² so that this way what God has promised is fulfilled; because without faith it is impossible to please God.¹³

And now, how will you have faith if you do not hear what God says in His Word, how will you believe if you do not hear? For faith comes by hearing; and by hearing of what? Of the Word of God; not by hearing anything else, but by hearing from the Word of God. And how will they listen if there is no one to preach to them? And how will they preach if they are not sent?¹⁴

And now, you see, from age to age Christ has sent an angel messenger; and with that angel messenger He has sent many ministers to carry the Message everywhere. And those who are receiving the Message join those ministers and that messenger, and continue working to carry the Message to other people; so that the group of elect of each age is completed; which obtain their theophanic body when they believe in Christ as their Savior, and receive the Spirit of Christ. And then, at the Last Day, the dead in Christ will be resurrected, those who have already departed, and we who are alive will be transformed; and thus we will obtain the physical and eternal body, with which we will reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity.

That is, with these mortal bodies we cannot reign, but with the new body; for a king cannot reign in a kingdom clothed as a beggar; he must be clothed with the royal robes. And He has for us a new garment, a new body, with which we shall be as kings and priests reigning with Christ for all eternity.

You see, also kings and priests, according to whose order? Of Melchizedek, of that Order is that we are kings and priests.

A person may not be of the order of Aaron or Levi, but notice… In the midst of the Hebrew people, he could not be a priest; but now, for the priesthood corresponding to the Millennial Kingdom, one has to be of the order not of Levi, but of Melchizedek.

And to be kings, notice, one had to be of the order of David, and if…; and when the Kingdom of David passed away, then other people came and took the kingdom; and you will see how the kingdom then belonged to the one who conquered it.

But the promise, you see, to reign over the Hebrew people, belongs to the throne of David. Therefore, Christ coming through the tribe of Judah, and being born through a family descendant of Jesse, and therefore of David, being born through a virgin descendant of King David, now, you see, He has the right to the throne of David; and He was born in the land of Israel, in the city of Bethlehem, in that city or in that place.

And now, you see, He is the heir to the Throne of David; and He has passed His blessing —the blessing and the right to the Throne— for and to His Church also; because the king, having the right to the throne, to sit on the throne, we find that his wife becomes the queen, becomes the wife, the companion of that king, becomes the first lady of that kingdom, you see?

And now, notice how all this is moving among the gentiles: Christ looking for a wife, a companion, a queen. And for the Last Day that Queen will already obtain her theophanic body, every member of that Mystical Body of believers, and we will reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity.

Now, see why the Second Coming of Christ is so important: because He comes for His Queen, for His Bride. He claims her, for His Name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

He comes for His Church in this Last Day, where He changes from Lamb to Lion; and He is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord of the Old Testament, which came in human flesh, in the veil of flesh known by the name of Jesus. He came as the Lamb of God and carried out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross; and for the Last Day, this same Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, is promised to come again in human flesh, the Word coming in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 11 to 21.

And now, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ spoke to us of the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation; and on page 277 he tells us this when he was praying. Let’s read a part of his prayer, where he says [The Seals]:¹⁵

“^[391] …may the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider, (Who is the white horse Rider? The Holy Spirit. From the white horse of Revelation, chapter 19.) while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”

Who is the white horse Rider of Revelation? The Holy Spirit, which is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit. On page 256 of the book of The Seals our brother Branham tells us:¹⁶

“¹⁹⁶ 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.”

That is the Coming of the Rider [of the white horse] of Revelation, chapter 19, the Coming of the Word, the Word incarnate in a man. That is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.

And now, notice how the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ also says, on page 482 and 483 of the book of The Seals. He says:¹⁷

“^[399] So we see that It is a complete mystery, (speaking of the Seventh Seal) therefore the hour is not yet for the mystery to be known. 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,…”

When does it say that the mystery of the Seventh Seal will be made known? When Jesus appears again on Earth to take His Bride.

And “…when our Lord appears here on earth (says our Brother Branham), 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.” That is, when Jesus appears again upon Earth how? In a man, or in human flesh.

And now, on page 57 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, it says this:¹⁸

“^[29] ‘…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.”

How does He come? As the Messenger to Israel; because He is the Messenger to Israel, He is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord. But how does He come? And when our Lord appears on Earth to take His Bride, how does He come? He comes as the Word incarnate in a man, He comes as the white horse Rider of Revelation, chapter 19.

Now, he goes on saying:

“See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church.”

And here he told us… This is on page 57 of the book of The Seals. And on page 482 and 483 of the book of The Seals he had told us:

“³⁹⁹ 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 on page 256 of the book of The Seals, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ told us:

“¹⁹⁶ (And) 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.”

And on page 469 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, it tells us:¹⁹

“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.’ You remember that? [“Amen.”]

²⁷⁶ Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal…”

Who is the one who has the Seventh Seal, who is the one who has the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords? This Angel who was very different from the others. And to fulfill the mystery of the Seventh Seal, to fulfill the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, He has to come in human flesh:

“¹⁹⁶ …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.”

Just as every angel messenger of every age appears in his theophanic body, in this cloud formed by angels. For it is this cloud that he is referring to, and these angels that are here.

When he speaks of the Angel that was very different from the others: he is speaking of this Angel that is flying here, with his pointed wings; and when he speaks of the other angels, he is speaking of these that are here, which are the messenger angels of the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church.

And for those angel messengers to have their ministries…; here they are in their theophanic bodies, but to have their ministries here on Earth they had to have a veil of human flesh; and when they had that veil of human flesh, they had their ministries here on Earth in each of the ages of the gentile Church, where each one of them had their turn.

There… You see, here is Saint Paul, and here (in this cloud) is also Saint Paul, but in his theophanic body; but here (in each age) he was with his physical body, manifested in his physical body, carrying out the ministry that God placed in him.

And so on, we find that the seven angel messengers that are found here, had to be in their bodies of flesh, their physical bodies, to have their ministries here in the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ.

And for the Angel who was different from the others, to have His ministry in the midst of His Church, He has to be in human flesh, to be here in the Age of the Cornerstone and have His ministry through human flesh; and thus fulfilling the Word, the Coming of the Word, of the Word, of Christ, of the Angel of the Covenant, in human flesh; thus coming the white horse Rider of Revelation in human flesh.

“¹⁹⁶ …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.”

But when He was here, He was in His theophanic body here, Christ in His theophanic body; but to manifest Himself on Earth and to have His ministry, relevant to the ministry of the Son of Man as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, He has to take a veil of human flesh already redeemed; and that is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That is why the things that Christ said He would make known in Revelation, chapter 4, when He said: “Come up here (where are we going to come up to? To the Age of the Cornerstone), and I will show you the things which shall be hereafter.”

After those that have already happened here, there are things that have to happen in the Age of the Cornerstone; and those are the things that Christ has promised to make known to His Church through His Angel Messenger.

For the Last Day, we find that no one has anything to make known, but Christ through His Angel Messenger, in the Age of the Cornerstone; because what He had to make known in each age of the gentile Church, He already made known through each of these angel messengers; and they are already gone. Therefore, Christ no longer has anything to make known through them; for what He had to make known, He already made known in the age in which they lived.

But for the Age of the Cornerstone, what Christ has to make known to His Church, He makes known through His Angel Messenger: “Come up hither (to the Age of the Cornerstone), and I will show you the things that will come to pass after these.”

And in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6, it 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.”

How are all these things that must soon come to pass made known? Through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Because in His Angel Messenger Christ comes as Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, crying as when a lion roars and the seven thunders come uttering their voices.

And so comes the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet sounding, sounding the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and making known all these things to God’s elect. And thus are the elect of God called and gathered in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone, with the revelation of the mystery of the Seventh Seal, being made known in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone, to all the sons and daughters of God.

We have seen: “THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”

It is the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, veiling and revealing Himself in and through His Angel Messenger.

• What mystery does it contain?

– We have seen that it contains the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, the Seventh Seal.

– We have seen that it contains the mystery of the manifestation of Christ through His Angel Messenger.

– We have seen that it contains the mystery of the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom in the Dispensation of the Kingdom.

– We have seen that it contains the mystery of the Age of the Cornerstone and the preaching of the Word of God, the Gospel of the Kingdom, in the Age of the Cornerstone.

– We have seen that it contains the gathering of the wheat, that is, of God’s elect.

– We have seen that it contains the mystery of the territory where this event takes place and where the gathering of God’s elect takes place; in other words, it contains the mystery of the Latin American and Caribbean territory, as the territory where this mystery would be fulfilled at the Last Day.

– It contains the mystery of the Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah in His Reclaiming Work.

– It contains the mystery of the resurrection of the dead in Christ and of the transformation of us who live.

– It also contains the mystery of the ministry of the Angels of the Lord, that is, the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah.

– It contains the mystery of the ministries of Moses for the second time, of Elijah for the fifth time and of Jesus for the second time.

• When will this mystery be opened? At the Last Day, that is, the seventh millennium, in the Age of the Cornerstone; the age represented in the eight; and the eight represents eternity and also infinity [∞]. And in the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium.

That is, the answer to this question: When will this mystery be opened? Notice, in the Last Day, that is, seventh millennium; and in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

• And the territory? Latin America and the Caribbean.

• What understanding will he who knows it have? Well, the understanding of all these things that must shortly be done; so as to have the faith to be transformed and raptured at the Last Day.

• When revealed: By whom and where will it be made known?

Upon being revealed (question): • By whom? By Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger. • And where? Well, in Latin America and the Caribbean, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, which corresponds to Latin America and the Caribbean, and corresponds to the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.

• What is the relationship with the Seven Thunders of Revelation, chapter 10, verse 3 to 4? That what the Seven Thunders of Revelation, chapter 10, speak of is the content of the Seventh Seal. The Seven Thunders of Revelation, chapter 10, reveal the mystery of the Seventh Seal. The Seven Thunders of Revelation, chapter 10, reveal the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work, veiling and revealing Himself in and through His Angel Messenger, in Latin America and the Caribbean, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

See, we have seen these seven questions answered; and we have seen all the things that would be happening in the Last Day under THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.

See all the things which are under the Seventh Seal hidden there, to be revealed to the people of God, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this Last Day. And these things are already being revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Latin America and the Caribbean, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

This is the knowledge that the elect of God obtain in the Last Day through the Voice of Christ, that Great Voice of Trumpet; the Great Voice of Trumpet, the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom; being preached through the Holy Spirit, through Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger in the Last Day, in Latin America and the Caribbean.

It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, giving testimony of: “THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL,” giving testimony of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work, being veiled and revealed through His Angel Messenger.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Seventh Seal, be upon each one of you and upon me also; and may we all soon be transformed and raptured; and may we all go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, where we will be enjoying three and a half years of spiritual feast with Christ and with all who will be there. There will be there the saints, the elect of the past ages, of the seven ages, and there will also be there the Old Testament saints who resurrected with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

May the elect who are yet to come, to complete the number of the elect: may they soon come. And that they may soon come: may each one of you, and I also, come to them with the Message. And be called and gathered in this Last Day, and the number of God’s elect be completed; and soon we shall all be changed and raptured. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

May God bless you and keep you, and with us again Miguel Bermudez Marin. May God bless you.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”