Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program, and to see on this occasion: “THE MYSTERY OF THE HALF HOUR OF SILENCE IN HEAVEN,” contained here in Revelation chapter 8, verse 1, where it says:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand the mystery contained in this Seventh Seal.
This Book of the Seven Seals of Revelation chapter 5, verse 1 and on, is the Book of Redemption, it is the Book that contains the names of all of God’s elect that would be redeemed; this is the Title Deed of all creation.
This Title Deed was on Earth in Adam’s hands; but when Adam fell, we find that It went back to God, who is Its original owner; and for thousands of years It has been in the right hand of God. But there is a time when that Book must be taken and opened by Christ, so that Christ may make His claim over everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood in His Work of Redemption.
In Revelation chapter 5, verse 1 and on, it says:
“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.”
Now, notice here, in this passage, how this little Book is in the right hand of Him that sits upon the Throne, meaning, of God, who is sitting on His Throne there in Heaven; and the time comes when this Book must be taken and opened in Heaven so that the claim over everything Christ redeemed with His precious Blood can be made.
This Book would be fulfilled from age to age, and the Work of Redemption of God’s elect would be carried out from age to age; and in the different ages, the pages of this Book would be fulfilled.
And now, when the time comes in which this Book must be opened, a Strong Angel proclaims 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.”
John wept much, why? Because no one was found worthy to open that Book. And if that Book was not opened, all of creation would go back to what it was before creation; in other words, it would go back to nothing, it would go back to what it was before God had carried out creation.
The time had come… and like in a court: when the time comes for someone to make his claim, and for a person to make his claim over a property that is being disputed, and which he says belongs to him: the time comes for that trial, and if no one comes forward to make that claim, what happens? The people who have—or the person who has that property illegally, keeps that property. If, when starting the process to request that the property go to the hands of the rightful owner, if once that whole process is done, and then everything is done so that the person who claims that property as their own can come forward… he is given the date, he is given the time of that trial, and if he doesn’t come forward, and the other person comes forward, that trial and claim may be dismissed; and the other person keeps the property.
And you know something? The devil took the property, the Divine Inheritance, this Earth and everything it contains, away from Adam.
And that is why the Earth, along with everything it contains, has been in the devil’s hands; illegally, of course. Why? Because of a deception in the garden of Eden; he took the inheritance of the Earth from Adam’s hands. But the Title Deed went to God’s right hand.
And it doesn’t matter for how long the devil has had this Earth under his dominion (about six thousand years), this Earth and everything it contains will return to its original Owner and to its original owners: it will return to God’s sons and daughters, and our Representative is Jesus Christ; He is our elder Brother.
And notice, our names are there, in that Title Deed, as heirs to all of God’s inheritance and joint-heirs with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And remember that in a deed, when the claim over an inheritance, over a property, is made, that property belongs to those who have their names written (where?) in that book, and who appear there in that book as the heirs to that inheritance they have been granted.
Now notice why in the Old Testament, God established the year of jubilee for the Hebrew people: every person who lost his property, his inheritance, for some reason (because of a debt or because he sold it), the Scripture says the land could not be sold forever.
And when a property was sold, they counted the years left until the year of jubilee; and if there were forty-nine or fifty years left until the year of jubilee, that property would be worth a lot, because the person who bought it would have forty-nine years to profit from it; but if there was only one year left until the year of jubilee, well, the person who bought that property would only have one year to profit from that property; in other words, he would buy that property, he would sow that year and he could reap, and after the harvest ended, he had to return that property to its original owner. That was a law established by God among the Hebrew people.
Now, if they sold the property to them when there were only about six months or three months left, what could be sown there to benefit and thus profit from what was invested? They would have to sow sweet peppers or spicy peppers (something that could grow and be harvested quickly), something like that, because otherwise they would lose the investment.
Now notice, the person didn’t have to pay a cent when the year of jubilee came around, he didn’t have to pay a cent (to do what?) to get that property back.
It was the same with the children who were taken from or sold by the head of a household because of a debt: we find that they would go free on the year of jubilee.
And slaves or servants also went free on the year of jubilee. But if they didn’t want to go free, because they might have said: “I’m doing well here with my master, he treats me very well; I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at night they even give me some tea; so I’m doing very well here. I sleep very well. I want to continue serving my lord.” They would take that servant or that slave, they would take him to a post and bore his ear through with an awl, and they would put what? An earring in there, or what? Or a circular earring.1 That meant that person had heard the trumpet of the year of jubilee, the trumpet of deliverance, of liberation, to be set free, and he didn’t want to; he preferred to continue as a slave. Even if that person lived fifty more years, and on the next year of jubilee he heard the trumpet of jubilee year, he wouldn’t have another opportunity; because he only had the right once in his life to hear the trumpet of jubilee year and go free.
Properties also went free without paying a cent; slaves went free without paying a cent. And notice what the Scripture says, in Leviticus chapter 25 (let’s see where we find it around here)… Leviticus chapter 25, verse 8 and on, says:
“And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession,” (in other words, to his inheritance), “and ye shall return every man unto his family.”
In other words, those who had been sold or taken because of a debt: they returned free to their families; and their parents didn’t have to pay anything for that child’s return; and that is also how it was for slaves; because they would take those people as slaves to profit from them and gain three times or a hundred times as much money as they had lent or paid when they hadn’t been able to reimburse or pay.
And now, notice, likewise, if a person had a relative who could pay the debt for that inheritance, that property, to be restored; and if that relative had money, he could say: “Here is the money for my kinsman’s property; here is the money, and I want it.” He could (what?) redeem it. But if no one came forward, it would go free on the year of jubilee.2
Now notice what it goes on to say here:
“A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession,” (in other words, every man will return to his inheritance).
That is why among the Hebrew people, God forbade the Hebrew people from selling the inheritance that God had given the Hebrew people forever; in other words, the inheritance was passed down from the father to the son, from the son to the grandson, from the grandson to the great-grandson, and so forth. God said: “It shall not be sold forever, for the land is Mine;”3 and God had granted it to His children as an inheritance.
And now, notice how all of that was reflected in the Hebrew people, because that is a type and figure of what God would be doing with the inheritance of God’s sons and daughters.
God, notice, has given the human being this Earth, along with everything it contains; that is what He did there in the garden of Eden, but Adam lost the rights to have this Earth because of his fall with Eve there in the garden of Eden.
And in order for the human being to obtain this Earth again, in order for God’s sons and daughters to obtain this Earth again as an inheritance, (as Christ said: “The meek shall inherit,” what? “the Earth,” or, “they shall be given the Earth as an inheritance”),4 for that to happen, then the present-day fulfillment of the Year of Jubilee must come: in order to obtain the inheritance that the human being lost in the fall.
And now, notice, so that we have a clear understanding of all this: in the feasts that God gave the Hebrew people, He reflected the Work that He would carry out.
For example, we have the Feast of Passover, where the Passover lamb was sacrificed on the eve of Passover; which was fulfilled in whom? In our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
The Passover lamb that the Hebrew people sacrificed, as they also did in Egypt when they were going to come out of Egypt… They were going to leave in the morning, but in the evening, before the exodus, God would pass through the land of Egypt, and the destroying angel would enter all the houses, and the firstborn of every family would die.
But the Hebrew people, God told them to sacrifice a lamb of the first year on the eve [of Passover], and to apply the blood of that lamb on the lintel of the door and on the doorposts (meaning, on the doorframe, including the top part and the doorposts); and for everyone in that family to be inside; and for the lamb to be roasted, prepared with fire or in the fire (not boiled or fried in lard or oil, but roasted in the fire), and eaten at night, while God passed through Egypt and the firstborn of every house was smitten. But wherever the blood was applied on the lintel and the doorposts, the destroyer would not enter there, God wouldn’t let him enter; and the firstborn of that family would be safe there.5
But notice, the Egyptians didn’t know anything about these Divine Mysteries, and they didn’t have the blood of a one-year-old lamb applied on the lintel of their doors; and when God passed by, He let the angel of death come in, and he entered the houses of the Egyptians; and it says there was not a person in the houses of the Egyptians who was not crying.6 Why? Because there was mourning in all the Egyptian houses, there was crying and mourning, due to the death of the firstborn of each of those families.
But in the houses of the Hebrew people, which had the blood applied on the lintel and the doors and the doorposts of those houses—on the lintel and doorposts of those houses: death did not enter; the firstborn who were there were eating the lamb’s roasted flesh, and they were safe, because they had the blood applied on the lintel and the posts of the door.
Now, notice how something so simple: the application of the blood of an animal, of a one-year-old lamb on the lintel and posts of the front door, delivered the firstborn who were in that house. And why is that? Because that was a type and figure, in other words, the shadow of Christ dying as the Paschal Lamb, to wash away our sins with His Blood, and so that death wouldn’t touch God’s elect, God’s firstborn. Why? Because by having the Blood of Christ applied, our sins would be taken away.
And if our sins are taken away, there is no way for spiritual death to smite our souls. Why? Because the only cause of death is sin, for the wages of sin is (what?) death; but if there is no sin, then there is no death.
Now notice how Christ dying on Calvary’s Cross has shed His Blood as the Lamb of God, the Paschal Lamb; and now, by us believing in Christ as our Savior, and applying His Blood on the lintel and doorposts of our soul, of our heart: there, our soul (which is inside this earthly house, this earthly body), our soul is safe.
Spiritual death cannot harm us, the devil cannot kill our soul with spiritual death; therefore, when one of God’s sons or daughters dies in terms of his physical body, he doesn’t have to go to hell, instead, he goes to Paradise; and at the Last Day, he will rise in an eternal body.
He will rise in an eternal body at the time of the present-day fulfillment of the Year of Jubilee, at the time in which the Year of Jubilee will be fulfilled in its present-day form, and the Trumpet of Jubilee Year will be sounding.
And now, notice how this Divine Program reflected in the feasts that God gave the Hebrew people—they are being fulfilled as time passes.
We also have the sacrifice of the goat, which was carried out once a year, on the tenth day of the seventh month; and the priest—the high priest would take some of that blood of the sacrificed goat and go into the holy of holies, and apply some of that blood upon the mercy seat, for the Hebrew people’s reconciliation to God. And the Scripture says that every person had to afflict himself, and whoever did not afflict himself would be cut off from among the people.7
Here in Leviticus chapter 23, verse 26 and on, it says:
“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.”
See? For their reconciliation to God, the Hebrew people had to offer the goat on the day of atonement; they had to carry out that sacrifice, and its blood had to be applied on the mercy seat that was on the ark of the covenant there in the holy of holies, where God was manifested in that Pillar of Fire, between the two cherubims of gold.
Now, it goes on to say:
“For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.”
By being cut off from among his people, he loses the right to Eternal Life, and thus, he loses the right to be part of the people of God.
“And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.”
And now, notice how this has been happening from age to age, until—at the Last Day—we come to the Year of Jubilee.
And on the year of jubilee, exactly on the tenth day of atonement, in the seventh month, is when the trumpet of the year of jubilee sounds and liberty is proclaimed throughout all the land.
To reach the fiftieth year, forty-nine years passed first; and during those forty-nine years, we find that every seven years, the seventh year was a sabbath or sabbatical year, it was a year of rest for all the land; and in a period of forty-nine years, there are seven years of rest for all the land, seven sabbath years. And after the forty-ninth year ended (which is the seventh feast year, sabbath year, or year of rest for the land), the fiftieth year would start; and that fiftieth year is the year of jubilee.
Now, we have had seven Gentile Church ages. And after the seven Gentile Church ages, once the seventh age of the Gentile Church ends, the Year of Jubilee begins: the present-day fulfillment of the Jubilee Year in the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, in that Divine Cycle is when the Hebrew people will be reconciled to God, and when God’s sons and daughters among the Gentiles, of the mystical Body of Christ, will obtain total reconciliation to God.
When I say “total reconciliation to God” that is because in our souls and in our spirits, we are already reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, who is the Paschal Lamb and who is also the Goat of the Sin Offering, of the Day of Atonement, for our reconciliation to God.
But we still need our body’s reconciliation to God, so that our body has Eternal Life too; and for that to happen, we need to reach the Year of Jubilee in its present-day fulfillment, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, the age which pertains to the eighth feast year, which comes after the seventh feast year; and the seventh feast year is also the forty-ninth year, and the eighth feast year is the fiftieth year.
And now, notice how in that Divine Program that God gave the Hebrew people to keep in these feasts, that was reflecting the Divine Program which He would carry out for us to go back to Eternal Life.
And now, notice how the Year of Jubilee will be fulfilled for the Hebrew people. Here in Revelation 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.”
They “shall wail,” as they did when there was mourning on the day of atonement, which was the tenth day of the seventh month of every year.
In Zechariah chapter 12, verse 10, it also tells us about this, and it shows us what will happen among the Hebrew people. Notice what it tells us here. Let’s see… Which chapter did I tell you? Chapter 12, verse 10; it says:
“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.”
And this will be the Day of Atonement being fulfilled in its present-day form for the Hebrew people.
The Hebrew people have not been able to have the sacrifice of the goat since their temple was destroyed in the year 70 by the Roman general Titus. And notice why the Hebrew people have had serious problems before God: because they have not been reconciled to God.
Because the Hebrew people’s reconciliation came through the sacrifice of the goat carried out on the tenth day of the seventh month, and its blood taken to the holy of holies, and applied on the mercy seat that was on the ark of the covenant; but because they do not have the temple, nor do they have all these things that are required to carry out that sacrifice and to apply the blood of the sin offering on the mercy seat, we find that the Hebrew people have been in serious problems before the Presence of God. God has been seeing their sins, why? Because they have not had the blood of the goat nor the Passover lamb; they have not had the blood of those sacrifices they used to carry out to cover sin before the Presence of God.
And we have the Lamb of God, and also the Goat, which is Christ, who died on Calvary’s Cross, and the Atonement was carried out there.
Since the Hebrew people have not received Christ as their Savior, the Blood of Christ has not washed away their sins; therefore, the Divine Judgment has been upon the Hebrew people; because the wages of sin is death.8
Hitler nearly exterminated the Hebrew people. Death, notice, has been manifested upon the Hebrew people; they have been persecuted, they have been reproached, they have also been killed by the millions.
But God has a promise for the Hebrew people: and it’s that at the end time, they will be restored, they will be reconciled to God; and for that to happen, what took place on the day of atonement must be manifested among the Hebrew people. And the Atonement has already been carried out: the Goat of the Sin Offering died two thousand years ago there on Calvary’s Cross.
And now, notice, Christ has been in Heaven, on the Throne of the Temple which is in Heaven, there on the Mercy Seat, making intercession for each of those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life; He has been making intercession for the heavenly Israel.
And at the Last Day, we find that Christ will also work in favor of the Hebrew people; and the Hebrew people, represented in one hundred and forty-four thousand Hebrews, will receive Christ; and thus, the Hebrew people will be reconciled to God; there is no other way.
But first, the elect from among the Gentiles, which are the members of the mystical Body of Christ, are reconciled to God, until they obtain a total reconciliation at the end of time, in all fullness, being filled with the Spirit of God, and their bodies being changed, and thus, becoming in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. This is for the Year of Jubilee in its present-day fulfillment, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
Now, we can see all these things that are appointed here in the Scripture.
And when all of this is fulfilled, the mystery of the Seventh Seal will be fulfilled; which, when It was opened in Heaven, caused the silence of all the heavenly hosts.
And now, in order for that mystery to be opened in Heaven, first that mystery is fulfilled on Earth.
That mystery, notice, is fulfilled in a simple way; and after carrying out all the work pertaining to the Seventh Seal…
The Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel who was very different from the rest of the angels who were there in that constellation of angels that appeared to Rev. William Branham on February 28, 1963, there in Arizona.
He was caught up to that constellation of angels by the Angel who was very different from the rest; and there, Christ was crowned King of kings and Lord of lords by those angels. He was crowned because the Angel who was very different from the rest was there, who is Christ, the Son of man, who has the Seventh Seal; He is the Seventh Seal.
And in order for the Seventh Seal to be fulfilled here on Earth, that Angel has to come; just as the other angel-messengers of the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church came; they came manifested in human flesh.
Now, notice, the Spirit of Christ was manifested in those seven angel-messengers of the seven ages of the Gentile Church, who are shown here in this diagram that Rev. William Branham used in the preaching of the message “The Stature Of A Perfect Man,” and he made reference to this diagram in other messages too.
And now, notice how this mystery is to be revealed here in the Age of the Cornerstone, to be manifested, to be fulfilled, so that the fulfillment of this mystery may then be known by all those who have not obtained the knowledge of it yet.
Now, first this mystery is revealed to God’s elect, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. No one else will be able to understand this mystery except for those who will be there, hearing the Voice of Christ through His Angel-Messenger, in whom Jesus Christ will be manifested as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming work; He will be there as Son of man and Son of David.
Jesus Christ will be there, the Mighty Angel, the Angel who comes down from Heaven with the little Book open in His hand. That is where He will be at the Last Day, speaking to us all these things which must shortly come to pass, and thus, revealing to us the greatest mystery of all mysteries, which is the mystery of the Seventh Seal, 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 Claiming Work, coming (to whom?) to His Church.
He came to His Church from age to age manifested in the messenger of each age, but in the portion pertaining to that age.
And just as He came in each age, notice, He is coming up, and He comes to the Age of the Cornerstone; He comes there as Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords. That is where He makes the overlap: that is where He changes from Lamb to Lion.
That is where this overlap from Lamb to Lion takes place, and the overlap from the Dispensation of Grace to the Dispensation of the Kingdom takes place, and the overlap from one messenger to another messenger takes place. And that is where the people of God go from one dispensation to another dispensation: from the Dispensation of Grace to the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And that is why the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ—both we who are alive and those who have departed in the past—will be in the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ, because they go to the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
The glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ will be under the Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is the seventh dispensation, with the Messenger of the seventh dispensation, who is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; that is the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, a major prophet. And he is the last prophet God will have. From that point on, He will not have any more prophets, because with that last one we will all return to the House of our Heavenly Father, and we will return with an eternal body, with Eternal Life, in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; that is how we will obtain a glorified body like the body of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, notice that this mystery of the Seventh Seal that caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour, or almost half an hour… When it says: “about the space of half an hour,” that means it isn’t exactly half an hour, it could be a little less or a little more.
It’s like when they say in Latin America and the Caribbean: “Well…” If you ask someone who is going to go to another city: “So, how many minutes does it take from here to such a city?” The person may say: “That’s about half an hour; you’ll get there in about half an hour.” And what does that mean? That means it will be half an hour, more or less; and so the person has to know that it won’t take an hour, although it may almost reach one hour, but it won’t take an hour. The person can go out to the city and reach the city, and look at his watch, and say: “It took me three-quarters of an hour.” See? That’s almost, that’s more or less half an hour; in other words, it can be a little less or a little more, but it won’t take the whole hour. Anything that is less than an hour is about half an hour; and when one says “about half an hour,” you aren’t saying it will be exactly thirty minutes, but “more or less.”
And now, this half hour in Heaven, how many minutes will it be? These will be minutes in Heaven, for one day before the Lord is like a thousand years to human beings.9
And now, how many minutes will it be before God? Let’s wait for the whole Divine Program to be completed, and then we will look at the time correctly and we will see how many minutes it was before God, and then we will figure out how many of our years it was, and then we will know how many of our years that half hour of silence lasted for us.
Now, remember that during that half hour of silence (where?) in Heaven, great things of the Divine Program take place on Earth.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, speaking in the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, preached in the year 1963, says on page 95:
“205 John,” (this is what the elder told him), “John was weeping. Where is it all—all at? What’s going to happen?
206 Said, ‘Don’t weep, John,’ said the elder. ‘Here comes the Lion. He was the One prevailed.’ When he looked, here come a Lamb, bloody, that had been slain.
207 Anything that’s killed is bloody. You know, it’s been killed. Its neck has been chopped open,” (if it’s a bird), “or something. The blood is all over it.
208 Here come a Lamb, been slain. And He came forth, oh, my, (what?) to make His claims on His redemption. Amen. Oh! Oh! I…Don’t you just feel like just going over in a corner, sit down and cry a while? Here come a Lamb, still bloody. John…There wasn’t nothing there; all the celebrity was standing around, but there was none of them could do it. So, here come the Lamb, now. His intercessory days is over, the mediatorial days.
209 That’s when this Angel is going to stand there. You wait till we get in the Seals. ‘And time shall be no more.’ That’s right. That ‘half hour of silence.’ Watch what takes place in that half hour of silence, when that Seventh Seal, next Sunday night, the Lord willing.”
In other words, many things take place during the Seventh Seal here on Earth. But notice, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour.
And here on Earth we are living in the greatest and most glorious time of all times: the time in which the Seventh Seal must be fulfilled, which is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, manifested in human flesh at the Last Day in His Claiming Work.
But notice that there is an overlap from Lamb to Lion, and there is an overlap that takes place in order for Christ to make His claim there and bring the dead in Christ raised in eternal bodies, and to give us who are alive the eternal and glorified body He has promised for us; and thus, we will all be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.
Now, notice, the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour, is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ; and this is for the Year of Jubilee in its present-day fulfillment, so that each son and daughter of God, all of God’s firstborn, may return to their inheritance and to their family.
We will return to our heavenly Family, and we will return with the inheritance that God has given us, but that the devil had taken; but that inheritance will be restored to all of God’s sons and daughters. And we are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ Jesus; that is why Christ makes the claim in favor of us all.
And now, notice how in the Year of Jubilee in its present-day fulfillment, which pertains to the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, this whole Program of the Year of Jubilee must be fulfilled, and all of God’s elect must go free; all of God’s sons and daughters must go free, with Eternal Life and with an eternal body and with God’s inheritance.
We all have to be adopted at this end time, at this Last Day, in the seventh millennium, which is the Lord’s Day or Day of the Lord or seventh millennium, where Christ will establish His Kingdom; and we will reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity.
Now, everything related to the Seventh Seal must be fulfilled; and then Christ takes the Book, opens It, makes the claim, the dead in Christ rise, and we who are alive will be changed.
All the elect of the Last Day who will be in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom must be called and gathered through the Divine Revelation of the mystery of the Seventh Seal, in other words, 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 Claiming Work.
And when the very last elect written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life has come in (by hearing the Voice of God and responding to the call of Christ, and being placed in the mystical Body of Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone), when the very last one has come in: the resurrection of the dead, and the transformation of us who are alive, will come.
Christ will leave the Throne of Intercession, and Christ will then bring all His redeemed in eternal bodies.
Now, what does the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ say is the Coming of Christ, of the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19? Referring to the white-horse Rider, he says… while praying here, he says [The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, page 318]:
“391 …May the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider, while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”
The white-horse Rider of Revelation 19 is the Holy Spirit, meaning, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit must come at the Last Day, in the Age of Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. And how must He come? Notice, in the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, page 154, it says:
“302 Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, we’ll crown Him King of kings,” (and Lord of lords).
See? The Holy Spirit, which is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, must come incarnate. And how will that happen? On page 295 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says:
“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.”
What will the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19 be? It will be the Coming of the Word, of the Holy Spirit, incarnate in a Man; and for that, a new age and a new dispensation must come; and that new age is the Age of the Cornerstone; and the new dispensation is the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And a new messenger must come, and that new Messenger is: the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the Prophet-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, in whom Christ in Holy Spirit comes manifested at the Last Day, in the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, in the fulfillment of the mystery that caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour.
And now, notice how this mystery would be revealed to God’s sons and daughters at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, to give us the faith to be changed and raptured; to give us the faith, 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.
Now, notice how Christ comes at this Last Day: it is the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger; and that is the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19.
And where must He come from? Well, from the West; because the West is where the Work of Christ for the Last Day is promised to be manifested, as the lightning comes out of the East. And where does it shine? In the West; and the West is the land of the Americas.
The land of the Americas or the continent of the Americas has three parts—or four parts that are very important: the first part is North America; the second is Central America; the third is the Caribbean; and the fourth is South America; but we can include the Caribbean along with Central America; and furthermore: we can take Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, and call it Latin America and the Caribbean.
In North America, the Coming of Christ in His seventh angel-messenger, in the portion pertaining to the seventh Gentile Church age, was already fulfilled; He had His manifestation in him; a partial manifestation, while he was alive here on Earth in his earthly body.
And after North America, just as Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit went from age to age… He went from the land of Israel to the land of Asia Minor, and He was there manifested in Saint Paul; and from Asia Minor, He went to Europe, where He was manifested in five ages through the messengers of those five ages; and after Europe, He went to North America, where He was manifested in Rev. William Branham, calling and gathering His elect of that seventh stage; just like He called and gathered the elect of the previous stages through the ministry He manifested in each one of those angel-messengers.
And at the Last Day, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit goes from the seventh age of the Gentile Church, and He goes from the territory where that age was fulfilled, He goes from North America to Latin America and the Caribbean to fulfill the Age of the Cornerstone, and to call and gather His elect from among the Latin American and Caribbean people through the ministry of Jesus Christ through His Angel-Messenger.
Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel-Messenger, operating the ministries of Moses for the second time, Elijah for the fifth time, and Jesus for the second time, at the Last Day, in Latin America and the Caribbean: fulfills His Program of and for the Age of the Cornerstone, to complete His Church, His mystical Body of believers, with Latin American and Caribbean people.
Who would have imagined that God would complete His mystical Body of believers with Latin American and Caribbean people? Who would have imagined that Latin American and Caribbean people would be the last elect of God who would come into the mystical Body of Christ? No one would have imagined that, because all of that was under the Seventh Seal; it was a mystery hidden under the Seventh Seal, and therefore, it was a mystery hidden under the Second Coming of Christ, which no one knew either.
No one knew that it would be Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, who has been in each of these churches, manifested in the angel-messenger of each age, coming to the Age of the Cornerstone and manifesting Himself in His Angel-Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone, who is the Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; and through that messenger, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit would speak to us all these things which must shortly come to pass, and He would prepare us to thus be changed and raptured at this Last Day.
And when we are changed and raptured, and the dead in Christ are raised and raptured, and we go the Marriage Supper of the Lamb: we will see our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who was here on Earth in His physical body, who died, rose, and ascended to Heaven; we will see Him there at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. But until that time when we are changed, we will be seeing Christ manifested through His Angel-Messenger, just like in each age Christ was seen manifested through the angel-messenger of each age.
Now, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only His messenger and His instrument, so that through him, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit may manifest Himself as Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, and fulfill His Program promised for His Coming, the Coming of Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel-Messenger at the Last Day.
And that is why the promise of Revelation chapter 4, verse 1, which says: “Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter…” Christ fulfills them in Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, through His Angel-Messenger, when the Scripture says:
“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,” in other words, the things which must shortly come to pass.
Through whom are these things made known? Through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit speaking to His Church all these things which must shortly be done.
He will speak, the Angel will speak all these things, because Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will put all those words in his mouth and in his heart, to speak them to His Church at this Last Day; therefore, it will be the Voice of Christ through His Angel-Messenger making known to us all these things which must shortly be done; making them known, where? In the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, in the Latin American and Caribbean territory; so that the whole Divine Program of the Seventh Seal, of the Second Coming of Christ, may be progressively fulfilled; so that the whole Divine Program that causes silence in Heaven for about half an hour may be fulfilled.
We have seen this mystery of “THE HALF HOUR OF SILENCE IN HEAVEN,” in Revelation chapter 8, verse 1.
And now, so that we have more information about this great event… this was represented in the dream Nebuchadnezzar had, which the Prophet Daniel interpreted for him, when he saw the Stone cut out without hands that came out of the mountain and smote the feet of iron and clay, which is the Gentile empire in the stage of the feet of iron and clay at the Last Day.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, in the message “There Is A Man Here That Can Turn On The Light,” pages 24 to 25, says… or narrates to us a dream that his son Billy Paul had; he says… on pages 24 to 25, paragraphs 138 to 141, he says:
“138 My son, Billy Paul, he talks in his sleep, but he doesn’t have dreams very often. He had one the other night that shook him up. Said he dreamed he was in a church, and—and they…I hadn’t come in yet.
Said, when I come in, fire was flying out of the eyes, and I said, ‘The time is here. It’s over.’
And everybody begin screaming, ‘I can’t! My children!’” (That was what the people were saying there in that dream.)
“139 And even my wife said, ‘I can’t get Sarah to ask the blessing at the table,’ and so forth. And I said…
He said, ‘I’ve got to go get Loyce,’” (that’s his wife), “‘and—and the baby.’
140 I said, ‘Loyce can’t come now. The baby is too young to know. Billy, the hour is here. We must go.’ I said, ‘It’s midnight now. Before daylight, Jesus will be here. If it isn’t, then I’m a false witness of Christ.’
And somebody spoke up, said,” (this is in the dream, what Billy Paul is seeing in the dream), “‘No man knows the minute or hour.’”
“141 ‘I never said minute or hour. I said, “Sometime between now and daylight.’’’ And I said, ‘Let’s—let’s go.’…?…I said, ‘But we’re at the time. Let’s go.’
And we got in the car, and started, and we started up the mountain. And when we did, it was looked like the light was coming in the skies, but dark upon the earth. He said I pulled off the side of the road, and held my hands over like this, fire,” (light or fire), “still flying from the eyes. And he said I said, ‘Lord, I have did this at Your command. I have did this just because that You told me to do it this way. I have did these things according to what You’ve told me.’
And I motioned to a big granite mountain; and a—a Light, without hands, cut a Stone out of the mountain, weighing hundreds of tons, and here It come. I said, ‘Turn your heads; don’t look. It’ll all be over just in a few minutes.’ Said, then a great holy hush come everywhere, as this Stone come towards the place.”
Notice, there you have the silence. There you have the silence for about half an hour; there you have the Coming of the Stone cut out without hands; there you have the Mountain, which is the Mount of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; the Mountain of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Where is this Stone cut out of? Up here: in the Age of the Cornerstone; that is where the Cornerstone is cut out of, the Stone that the builders rejected, the Cornerstone, which is Christ at the Last Day in His Second Coming; the Stone that will smite the feet of iron and clay in the fourth stage—or the second stage of the fourth stage of the Gentile kingdom, where the antichrist will be manifested and will be ruling that Gentile empire.
Now, notice how that Stone cut out without hands, which is the Second Coming of Christ, was shown in this dream that God gave the son of our Brother Branham.
And notice how fire came out of Brother Branham’s eyes in that dream. Why? Because the Second Coming of Christ is being reflected in him; he is reflecting… Remember that it is a reflection; it’s not that It is being fulfilled, but that the Coming of Christ is being reflected in this dream, just as the Coming of the Lord was reflected in the life of God’s prophets of the Old Testament and the New Testament.
In the Old Testament prophets, the First Coming of Christ and also the Second Coming of Christ was reflected. In the New Testament prophets, the Second Coming of Christ is reflected.
And now, notice in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 12 and on, it says:
“And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire.”
There you have the Son of man’s eyes as a flame of fire. And what else does it say?
“…His eyes were as a flame of fire;
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”
And now, notice the Coming of the Son of man shown here, shining with His countenance or face as the sun when it shines…
Now, notice, when the sun rises and shines, notice: it’s daytime, a new day has already begun. Malachi chapter 4, verse 2, says:
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing,” (healing or salvation), “in his wings.”
And on Mount Transfiguration, Jesus Christ was transfigured before His disciples, in Saint Matthew chapter 17; and also Saint Luke chapter 9; and also in Saint Mark chapter 9. And we find that the Lord’s face shone as the Sun. Saint Luke chapter 9, verse 29, also says: “And His countenance was altered.”
And now, notice that this speaks of the Second Coming of Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords, because the sun represents Christ as King; because the sun is the king of the stars, and Jesus Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords.
And notice, the Coming of Christ at the Last Day in His Angel-Messenger is in a new age, the Age of the Cornerstone; and in a new dispensation: the Dispensation of the Kingdom; and on a new Millennial Day.
And on that new Millennial Day, we find that the sun rises, which is the Second Coming of Christ, for what? To shine and fill us with the knowledge of all these things which must shortly come to pass, and thus, to enlighten our soul and our understanding, so that we may understand all these things which must come to pass at this end time, in the Divine Program.
And now, Christ coming at the Last Day, in other words, in the seventh millennium, at the beginning of the seventh millennium…
The seventh millennium is the Last Day before the Lord; the seventh millennium is the Lord’s Day or Day of the Lord.
Since the seventh millennium is the Lord’s Day, the Day of the Lord, or the Last Day… with the Coming of Jesus Christ in His Angel-Messenger, the Sun of Righteousness gradually starts to rise, it starts getting bright, the daylight begins, the dawn starts to break, and the Light starts enlightening the soul and the understanding of God’s sons and daughters, and It starts to spread more and more; and the Light of the Sun of Righteousness starts to grow gradually as the minutes pass before the Presence of God. And gradually, the Sun increases Its Light, and It shines more and more, It enlightens us more and more, and It makes known to us more and more all these things which must shortly come to pass.
And with the Light of the Sun of Righteousness on a new dispensational Day, on the new dispensational Day of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and the new Day, the new Millennial Day, the seventh millennium, notice, all the things we didn’t understand before, we will be seeing them clearly through the Light of Jesus Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, enlightening us in His manifestation through His Angel-Messenger.
When Christ was on Earth He said: “I am the Light of the world, and he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.”10 This is so because the sun represents Christ in His First Coming and in His Second Coming, to enlighten all of God’s sons and daughters. “And the people which sat in darkness saw great Light,” it says in Saint Matthew chapter 4, and also Isaiah chapter 9. “The land of Zebulun and Naphtali, beyond Jordan.” It says they saw great Light. Who? “Them which sat in darkness and shadow of death, Light shined upon them.”11
And that was when Christ in His First Coming was there in Zebulun and Naphtali; because since He is the Light of the world, Light was shining when Christ was among them preaching and doing the works that the Father gave Him to do.
Notice the way that the Light of God, which is Christ, shines and enlightens human beings; and It enlightens peoples, nations, and tongues.
And now, notice how the Light of the World—Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested at the Last Day through His Angel-Messenger—will be shining as the Sun of Righteousness, and will be enlightening our understanding and our soul, and we will be understanding all these things promised for this Last Day; and thus, we will be prepared to be changed and raptured at this Last Day, at this end time.
Notice the mystery of His face as the Sun and His eyes as a flame of fire: it is the Coming of Christ manifesting His ministries at this Last Day: the ministries of Moses and Elijah, which are the Two Eyes as a flame of fire. Because whenever prophets are mentioned, they are always represented in eagles, they are also represented in the Lord’s eyes.
And when the mouth of God is mentioned, that is also referring to God’s prophets, who are the mouth of God in each age and dispensation in which God sends them.
And when reference is made to the Sword coming out of God’s mouth, that is referring to the Word of God coming out of God’s messenger, God’s prophet sent for that time.
Now, notice that all these things we have seen in the Book of Revelation are the symbols of the things Jesus Christ would be manifesting at this end time; those are the attributes He would be manifesting at the Last Day.
When reference is made to the Sword of God, that is referring to the Word of God.
And now, notice the time in which we have all been given to live.
At the Last Day, to see the ministries of Moses and Elijah being manifested by Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger is to see the eyes as a flame of fire of our Lord Jesus Christ. It’s not that Jesus Christ literally has His eyes as flames of fire, no; that represents the ministries of Jesus Christ manifesting the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah; that is what Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifests as the Son of man’s eyes as a flame of fire.
And we could continue listing each one of these—each one of these attributes of the Son of man, and showing the meaning of each of them.
Now we have seen what the eyes of the Son of man as a flame of fire represent in Revelation chapter 1, and also in chapter 10 and chapter 19 of Revelation, where it tells us about the Coming of the Son of man; and it shows Him with His face as the sun; in other words, He comes as King of kings and Lord of lords in His last manifestation through His veil of flesh of the Last Day; and that will be the Word incarnate in a Man, the Holy Spirit incarnate in a Man, in His Angel-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and of the Age of the Cornerstone, at the Last Day.
We have seen this mystery of the half hour of silence in Heaven, but all the things that cause that silence in Heaven will be happening on this Earth; and we have briefly, quickly, seen the most outstanding things that cause silence in Heaven for about half an hour.
And the people who would be seeing the manifestation of the Seventh Seal on Earth, the manifestation of the Coming of the Angel who was very different from the rest, the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger, where would they be? Here we are: in Latin America and the Caribbean, seeing His face as the Sun, seeing His hair white like wool, seeing His eyes as a flame of fire, seeing a Sword coming out of His mouth (the two-edged Sword, the Word of God), seeing His feet like brass, like fine brass; and so on, all the other things that are seen in the Book of Revelation, and which are the attributes that He will be manifesting in His Coming.
In His Coming, Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger will be manifesting those attributes at this Last Day; and thus, what causes silence in Heaven for about half an hour will be in fulfillment on Earth.
It has been a great privilege to be with you tonight, testifying to you about: “THE MYSTERY OF THE HALF HOUR OF SILENCE IN HEAVEN.”
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and also upon me. And soon, may we all be changed and raptured at this Last Day.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, and have a good night everyone.
I will leave Rev. Carlos Olivas with us again to continue and conclude as planned.
May God bless you and keep you all. And onward, with our eyes wide open, seeing all these attributes of the Son of man manifested at this Last Day.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE HALF HOUR OF SILENCE IN HEAVEN.”
1 Deuteronomy 15:16-17
2 Leviticus 25:25-28
3 Leviticus 25:23
4 Psalm 37:11; Matthew 5:5
5 Exodus 12:1-13
6 Exodus 12:29-30
7 Leviticus 23:29
8 Romans 6:23
9 Psalm 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8
10 John 8:12
11 Matthew 4:15-16; Isaiah 9:1-2