Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing to be with you on this occasion to share this subject with you: “THE VICTORY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
For which I want to read in Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1, and in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 11. It says:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.”
And in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 11 and on, it says:
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It on this occasion.
Our subject is: “THE VICTORY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
In order to be able to understand what is the victory of the Seventh Seal to be obtained at the Last Day, we must know what the Seventh Seal is.
The Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels for this end time, of which the prophets of the Old Testament spoke about and also the apostles of Jesus Christ, and the seven angel messengers of the seven gentile Church ages as well; and our beloved Lord Jesus Christ also spoke about the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day, of which He said in Matthew, chapter 16, verse 27 and on, He said: “For the Son of Man…” Chapter 16, verses 27 to 28, says:
“For the Son of man (this is in Matthew) shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”
Here Christ is prophesying about the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day, and He says that the Son of Man will come with whom? He will come with His Angels. Wherever the Son of Man is fulfilling His Coming, His Angels will also be there, which are Moses and Elijah, the Two Olive Trees; wherever the Son of Man is in the fulfillment of His Coming, Moses and Elijah will be there.
And now, what will be the Coming of Moses and Elijah at the Last Day? It is the Coming of the Spirit of Christ at the Last Day, coming and manifesting the ministries of Moses and Elijah.
In the book of The Seals, page 449, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, says1:
“Now, there is only one person could fulfill that, only one Spirit that’s ever been on the earth, that I know of. Would either be… It would have to be Elijah, in his time. And it was predicted that it would be(meaning the spirit of Elijah), which is nothing but the Spirit of Christ. When Christ come, He was the fullness. He was the Prophet. He was the God of the prophets.”
Now, what spirit was in the prophet Elijah? The Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit; and for the ministry of Elijah to return to Earth, we find that it must always be the Holy Spirit coming to Earth in a man, and manifesting that ministering spirit in that man, that ministry of the prophet Elijah.
When Elijah came the first time, it was the Spirit of Christ in whom? In Elijah the Tishbite, manifesting that ministry.
When Elijah’s ministry came to Earth for the second time, it was the Spirit of Christ in whom? In Elisha, manifesting the ministry of Elijah for the second time and manifesting it in a double ministerial portion; Elisha came with a double portion of the spirit and power (of whom?) of Elijah. That was Elisha’s request: “Let the spirit that is in you come upon me in a double portion. Let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.2”
And now, the third time that the ministry of Elijah was on Earth, the third time that Elijah came to Earth, what was it? It was the Coming of the Holy Spirit in John the Baptist, manifesting the ministry of Elijah for the third time and forerunning the First Coming of Christ.
Then, when Jesus appeared, the same Holy Spirit that had been in Elijah the Tishbite was there, in Elisha and in John the Baptist; now, where was He? He was in Jesus in all His fullness. He had been in those prophets in the portion relevant to the time in which they lived.
That same Holy Spirit that was in Elijah the Tishbite had also been in Moses; therefore, for the manifestation of the ministry of Elijah, what has been needed is the Coming of the same spirit that was in them, which is the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, manifesting that ministry of Elijah; and that is how it has happened on four previous occasions: in Elijah the Tishbite, Elisha, John the Baptist and Reverend William Branham, who came in the spirit and power of Elijah forerunning the Second Coming of Christ; it is because the Holy Spirit was in him, manifesting the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time.
And in order for Moses to come, what is needed is for the Holy Spirit that was in Moses to come, to come manifested in a man of this time and operate that ministry again, here on Earth; and that will be Moses on Earth. Because when God promises to send a prophet whom He has already sent in the past, what He sends is the ministry of that prophet in another man, in another prophet, being manifested by the Holy Spirit according to what He promised and fulfilling the things which that ministry has to fulfill at the time in which it appears.
Notice, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ came in the spirit and power of Elijah, and what did he do? He foreran the Second Coming of Christ; and now, the ministering spirit of Elijah came for the third time in John the Baptist, and what did he do? He foreran the First Coming of Christ.
And at the end time, the ministering spirit of Elijah will come for the fifth time; that will be the coming of Elijah in its fifth occasion. And what will that be? It will be the Holy Spirit coming in a man of this end time and operating that ministry of Elijah for the fifth time; of which the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said on pages 399 of the book of The Seals in Spanish…, and let us read that passage. He was asked question number 11 on this occasion when he was in a service where he was taking questions and giving the answers to those questions. Question 11 was3:
“Is the Elijah, who comes to preach to the Jews, the real man who lived on earth, in the days of Ahab, or will he be spirit of Elijah in some other man?
(The answer was):
I’m inclined to believe that it will be anointed men, of their spirit…”
A Man of which time? Of this time; not a man from the time of Elijah the Tishbite, or literally Elijah the Tishbite, nor Elisha, nor John the Baptist, nor Reverend William Branham, but a man of this time anointed with that spirit, anointed with the ministering spirit of Elijah manifested for the fifth time.
It was in Elijah the Tishbite for the first time, it was in Elisha for the second time, in John the Baptist for the third time and in Reverend William Branham for the fourth time forerunning the Second Coming of Christ; and there will be another man on Earth in whom the Spirit of Christ at the Last Day will be operating the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time; and that will be one of the Two Olive Trees (of Revelation, chapter 11, verse 13 and on, and Zechariah chapter 4), and that will be one of the ministries that will go to the Hebrew people and he will give the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom to the Hebrew people; and that will be the Holy Spirit in a man of this time operating the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time.
“I’m inclined to believe that it will be anointed men, of their spirit. Because, see, he says, ‘Does not… on Elisha? Does not the spirit of Elijah rest on Elisha?’ See, ‘the spirit of Elijah.’ And he done just like Elijah did, see.”
Where Elijah finished his ministry, which was by parting the Jordan and crossing over on dry ground, Elisha started his ministry when he returned with the mantle of Elijah. Once Elijah had gone up, Elisha stood in front of the Jordan, folded the mantle of Elijah as Elijah had done and smote the waters of the Jordan, saying: “Where is the God of Elijah?” And the waters parted just as they had parted when Elijah the Tishbite smote the waters with the mantle4.
And now, when the sons of the prophets see this, they say: “The spirit of Elijah has rested on Elisha5.” Well, yes, the spirit of Elijah had come, because Elisha said: “May a double portion of the spirit that is in you come upon me”; and he returned with a double portion there. Who was it? It was the Holy Spirit coming in Elisha, which had been in Elijah the Tishbite, and operating the ministry He had operated in Elijah, operating it in Elisha.
And when it came for the third time, notice, it was a man from the time in which it was manifested for the third time, named John the Baptist, and He operated the ministry of Elijah in that man. Who operated it? The Holy Spirit. The Archangel Gabriel said that John would be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb6</a>; therefore, that was the Elijah that was to come at that time forerunning the First Coming of Christ.
Jesus Himself says in Matthew, chapter 11, verse 14: “And if you will receive him (referring to John the Baptist), this is the Elijah which was to come.”
And in Matthew, chapter 17, verses 10 to 13, it says… This was when they came down from Mount Transfiguration, where Peter, James and John had seen Moses and Elijah, one on each side of Jesus, when Jesus was transfigured before His disciples and His face was seen as the shining sun, and His raiment was seen shining as the light. And now they find Moses and Elijah (one on each side of Jesus) talking about Jesus’ departure to Jerusalem; and when they come down from Mount Transfiguration, they talk to Jesus and ask Him (chapter 17, verse 10 and on, of Matthew):
“And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.”
Because John the Baptist was the Elijah that was to come in those days, preparing the way of the Lord; but He also said: “But I say to you that Elijah will come and restore all things,” referring to the end time; because after Elijah came for the third time —which was the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of God manifested in John the Baptist, operating the ministry of Elijah for the third time—, there were two more times left: his fourth manifestation in human flesh in a man, in a prophet, and his fifth manifestation in a man, in a prophet of this end time.
In other words, there was still the fourth manifestation or coming of Elijah and the fifth manifestation or coming of Elijah; and that has always been (what?) the Holy Spirit manifested in a man of the time in which that promise is fulfilled, operating the ministry of Elijah on each one of those occasions.
And it is also the same for the ministry of Moses: it is the Holy Spirit coming manifested in human flesh in a man, operating the ministry of Moses for the second time at the Last Day, as the second Olive Tree.
And the Coming of the Holy Spirit, who is the same one that was in the prophets of the Old Testament, and was manifested in Jesus in all His fullness in the fulfillment of the First Coming of the Messiah, and then was manifested in the apostles, and then was manifested in His seven angel messengers of the seven gentile Church ages; for the Last Day, the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord will come, He will come manifested in human flesh in a man of this end time, and He will be operating the ministry of Elijah for the fifth occasion, the ministry of Moses for the second occasion and the ministry of Jesus for the second occasion.
Because the only one who has ministries is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is the Holy Spirit; He is a man of the sixth dimension, He is the Word; He is the Word that was with God and was God, who was made flesh and dwelt among human beings, and was known by the name of Jesus; but He said: “Before Abraham was, I am. (And) Abraham desired to see my day, and he saw it, and was glad.7”
How was Abraham able to see His day, if Jesus was born hundreds or thousands of years after Abraham? Because before Jesus, before Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, came in human flesh in that veil of flesh called Jesus, He appeared to Abraham on different occasions: on one occasion He appeared to him as Melchizedek, without father, without mother8. And who might that be? God Himself, the Word, the eternal God; and He appeared to Abraham in a visible form, He appeared to him in His theophanic body.
Then, also the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, God appeared to him again, and He appeared with His Archangels Gabriel and Michael, and they appeared in a visible form; Abraham invited them to have lunch and they accepted the invitation, God accepted the invitation, and they ate with Abraham9.
And once they finished eating… let us say it was from 12:00 to 3:00 in the afternoon; and once they finished eating, in the afternoon, what happened? Gabriel and Michael and Elohim arose, and went walking towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham went with them; and suddenly, Gabriel and Michael continued on their own, and Elohim (who is God) stayed behind, He stopped and stayed with Abraham, and Elohim began to say: “Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?”
What was He going to do? He was going to see what was happening in Sodom and Gomorrah, because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah had reached all the way to Heaven, and that demanded divine judgment upon the Earth, but God came in a trial investigation with His Archangels in a visible form, in the form of men from that time, and He told Abraham what was going to happen, and Abraham tells Him: “Will You destroy the righteous with the wicked?” Notice, God already reveals to Abraham what He is going to do, and Abraham tells Him: “May the Judge of all the Earth not do such a thing,” because God is Judge of all the Earth.
Notice that He is there as the Judge of all the Earth, and He is with His Archangels, and now He is going to pronounce judgment over Sodom and Gomorrah, according to what is happening there in Sodom and Gomorrah10.
And Abraham says to Him: “If in Sodom there are 50 righteous, will You destroy the righteous there with the wicked?” God tells him: “If there are 50 righteous there, I will spare all the city.”
Abraham says to Him: “And if there shall lack 5 of the 50 righteous?” God tells him: “I will spare the city for the sake of those 45 righteous.”
Abraham says to Him: “And if there are only 40?” — “Well, I will spare the city for the sake of those 40.”
And he tells Him: “And if there are only 30 righteous?”…
Abraham is thinking about his nephew Lot and his family, but we do not know if they were using contraceptives and they had not multiplied enough, or if their daughters had waited too long to get married and their daughters had not multiplied; in other words, Lot did not have grandchildren and he only had two daughters.
And now, Abraham is thinking about Lot, Lot’s wife and the children Lot may have, so he continues interceding, and says: “And if there are only 30 righteous there?” God tells him: “I will spare the city for the sake of those 30 righteous.”
And Abraham sees that God is merciful, because God is great in mercy and He is slow to anger11. Therefore, notice, God has a lot of patience and He loves the righteous so much that out of love for them He forgives a sinful city, out of love of the righteous. A city that deserves to disappear from the face of the Earth, out of love of 50 righteous or 40 righteous or 30 righteous, God spares the entire city.
And he tells Him: “And if there are 30?” —“Well, I will spare all the city for the sake of the 30 righteous.”
—And if there are only 20 righteous?
—I will spare all the city for the sake of those 20 righteous.
This is found in Genesis, chapter 18; you can read that entire scene there and you can read from… You can read it later at home, you can read from verse 1 to verse 33.
Now notice, at the end, the last thing Abraham tells Him: he says: “And he said again…” Verse 31 and on of Genesis, chapter 18, says:
“And he said (Abraham), Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. (What does God say?) And he said, I will not destroy it for (whose sake?)twenty’s sake.
And he said (Abraham), Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. (What does God say?)And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.”
There was nothing more to say. And why not? Why didn’t Abraham continue lowering the number? Because he couldn’t, because God destroyed the antediluvian world and there were 8 people: Noah, his wife: 2; the 3 sons of Noah: 5; and the wives of Noah’s 3 sons: 8 people; and with 8 righteous people…
One says righteousnot because they were all good, but because they offered animal sacrifices to cover their sins; and if the sin is covered, then God sees the person as righteous, God sees the person without sin, because the sin is covered by the blood of those animals.
That is why when it also talks about the Hebrew people in the time of Balaam and Balak, Balaam prophesied saying that God did not see a fault in His people12. A people like the Hebrew people, who tried to stone Moses ten times, and who were always rising up against the prophet Moses, a problematic people at that time; and now the prophet Balaam says that God does not see a fault in them. Why? Because they were under the blood of the sacrifices that were offered for the sin of the people.
And if a person has the Blood of Jesus Christ applied to his soul, he has believed in Christ as his Savior, washed his sins in the Blood of Christ and received His Spirit, God does not see faults, God does not see sins in him, because they have all been blotted out by the Blood of Christ. And if he commits an error or a sin, he quickly confesses it to God and it is also blotted out, because it is not the desire of God’s sons and daughters to sin. Sometimes they commit errors, faults or sins, but not voluntarily, and right away, they confess it to God and those sins are blotted out, because the Blood of Christ cleanses us from (what?) all sin13.
And now, notice, Abraham could not continue telling God: “And if there are 5 people there, will You destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?” Why couldn’t he? Because despite the 8 people there were in the time of Noah, God destroyed the antediluvian world, so he could only go as far as 10 people.
If God, having only Lot, his wife and his two daughters (which are four people), had not destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, what would happen? Then He would have to resurrect the antediluvian world, because He had destroyed it when there were more righteous people than in Sodom and Gomorrah.
And now, Sodom and Gomorrah and the antediluvian world represent, typify, this world; and for this end time, the divine judgment of the great tribulation will fall upon this world.
And now, God’s elect, who have been washed in the precious Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, are in this world; but since God cannot destroy the righteous with the wicked, what will He do? He will resurrect the dead in Christ in eternal bodies and He will change all His elect who live on this Earth, and He will take us to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, He will get us out of here; and then the judgment will fall upon Earth, because the righteous will already be (where?) in Heaven, in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and there will no longer be Blood on the Throne of Intercession, that is, the seat of mercy there in Heaven, therefore, God will look to Earth and see the sins of the people (and the wages of sin is death14</a>); therefore, the divine judgment will come upon the human race, as it came upon the antediluvian world and as it came upon the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah.
But “fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom15,” it pleased the Father to prepare a great feast in Heaven, called the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and we have been invited to be there.
We are the ones invited to attend the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, which is the celebration of the Great Marriage, the Marriage Feast. The feast that takes place, the Wedding reception, it is the Great Supper, the Great Supper of the Lamb, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, in other words, the reception of the Marriage of the Lamb.
And now, the reception will be in Heaven, and the Earth will be going through a time of tribulations, of divine judgments upon it; but the elect, the Church of Jesus Christ, will be married to the Son of God, and will be celebrating the great reception, called the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, where she will be receiving many gifts, in other words, many rewards.
Remember that the reception is where they always bring gifts to the married couple. And who is the one that mainly receives gifts? The bride is the one who receives more gifts, when she becomes a wife.
And now, we can see that God will reward each one according to his works, God will give a reward to every son and daughter of God who has lived on Earth and has carried out the work that pertains to him or her in the Mystical Body of Christ; and notice, that feast will be full of rewards for all of you and also for me, and for all the angel messengers of the different gentile Church ages, and for all the members of the Mystical Body from the different ages of the gentile Church.
So we can see there is a great feast to be carried out in Heaven, which will last three and a half years, called the feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; that is the reception of the union of Christ and His Bride.
The union of Christ and His Bride, notice, takes place here, but the feast is in Heaven. We will go dressed in the garment that pertains to that great feast: we will go dressed in a new body, an eternal body, because in this body, we cannot be raptured and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; we must go in that new body, which is the outer garment we need to wear, just as we will be wearing an inner garment, which is the theophanic body, that Spirit of Christ that we received when we believed in Him as our Savior and washed our sins in the Blood of Christ, and received His Holy Spirit. Upon receiving His Holy Spirit, we obtain a theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
And now, at the Last Day, additionally, we will obtain a glorified and eternal physical body to live young throughout eternity, always resembling 18 to 21 years of age, and to go in that body and with that body to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
And when we obtain that body, the great victory in Divine Love will be completely fulfilled, that great victory will be fulfilled in all its fullness; because the last enemy who will be defeated… Let us see what the apostle Saint Paul says, or who he says is the last enemy; in First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 49 and on, he says:
“And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Now we can see here that the last enemy that will be defeated is whom? Death. Death will be the last enemy to be defeated by Jesus Christ when He changes our mortal bodies and when He resurrects the dead in Christ in eternal bodies, and thus, death will be swallowed up in victory.
And now, to obtain that total victory we have the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels at the Last Day, the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, verses 11 to 21.
Just as Christ overcame in His First Coming, He will also overcome in His Second Coming. That is why at the Last Day, just as He came two thousand years ago after the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under the Law…; in other words, He came in the Age of the Cornerstone, where a new dispensation intertwined with the Dispensation of the Law: the Dispensation of Grace intertwined with the Dispensation of the Law there; and Jesus Christ was there, the Word was manifested there in human flesh in that young construction worker named Jesus of Nazareth; and He obtained the victory there on Calvary’s Cross.
He died bearing our sins, He paid for our sins: He shed His Blood, He cleansed us from our sins; and then He rose victorious, and then ascended to Heaven forty days after He had resurrected, and victoriously He sat on the Throne that is in Heaven, the Throne of God He sat at the right hand of God victorious.
And now, notice how He obtained the victory. In Revelation, chapter 3, it says that He obtained the victory, and then He sat on the Throne of God in Heaven. Revelation, chapter 3, verse 21, says:
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
In order to sit on the Father’s Throne, He had to overcome; and thus, by overcoming, He obtained the victory, the victory in Divine Love, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” It was the victory in Divine Love, the divine love manifested in Jesus Christ; that was the victory He obtained, and He ascended to Heaven victorious and sat on the Throne of God.
“…as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father,(where?)In his throne.”
This is what Christ says He will do with the overcomer.
For the Last Day, we will have the great victory in Divine Love, and at that time, the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ, the faithful and wise servant will be on Earth, in the House of God, feeding the children of God with the Word of God, the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; just as the seven angel messengers of the seven ages fed the House of God, the children of God in the different ages, in the seven ages of the gentile Church, with the Message of the Gospel of Grace, calling and gathering together the elect of each age.
Likewise, in the Age of the Cornerstone, the Angel of Jesus Christ will call and gather together the elect of the Age of the Cornerstone with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom and he will feed them the pure Word of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ, the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work; and he will be the one to obtain the victory in Divine Love at the Last Day, because the Spirit of Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Word, the Word incarnate will be in him, to obtain the great victory in Divine Love.
That is why the Age of the Cornerstone is the Age of the Divine Love, and it is the age where divine love will be manifested at the Last Day, and where Jesus Christ will be manifested as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords, speaking to us with that Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom and revealing to us the mystery of His Coming.
He will be speaking to us with that Voice as when a lion roars (from Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on) and the seven thunders uttering their voices, which is the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church at the Last Day through His Angel Messenger and making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass at this end time, making known to us the greatest mystery of all the mysteries of the Kingdom of God (which is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah), making known to us the mystery of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Mighty Angel, making known to us the mystery of the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, who appeared on February 28 inthis cloud, where the seven angel messengers of the seven gentile Church ages appeared in their theophanic bodies and thisother Angel who was different from the rest, who is Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, who had delivered the Hebrew people and now appears again herein this cloud.
How did Jesus Christ say the Son of Man would appear? He said the sign of the Son of Man would be seen in heaven, and then they would see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Thisis the fulfillment of that promise.
Matthew, let us see, verse 30 and 31 says [chapter 24]:
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
And there is the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who appears in that cloud. All theseangels, these eight angels, including the Angel who was different from the rest, are there in their theophanic bodies; and each one of them had to come in a body of flesh in order to have their ministry here on Earth, in the age in which they were given to live.
And now, there is a meeting here, it is a summit meeting between the seven angel messengers and the Angel who was different from the rest. And just as each one of those seven angels had to come in human flesh in order to have their ministries, the Angel who was different from the rest, who is the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ, must come in human flesh at the Last Day in order to have His ministry: the ministry of the Seventh Seal, the ministry of His Coming relevant to the end time, to the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
That Angel who was different from the rest is the one with the Seventh Seal; and the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ, in other words, the Second Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, veiled in human flesh and revealed through human flesh in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant at the Last Day, first for the gentile people, to the Church of Jesus Christ, and then for the Hebrew people.
And now, what will the Coming of this Angel at the Last Day be? The Coming of this Angel at the Last Day is the Coming of the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven and He is the Messenger to Israel. Let us see…, He is the Angel of Revelation, chapter 10. And let us see what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said is the Coming of the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven in Revelation, chapter 10. On page 57 of the book The Seals in Spanish, says16:
“‘…I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow…upon his head,…’
If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished (Who is He coming to? The Jews):
‘…And his face…as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:’
You remember that Angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel.”
Who is the Messenger to Israel? The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is Jesus Christ Himself in Holy Spirit.
When Jesus Christ was on Earth, who was He? He was the Angel of the Covenant clothed in human flesh; that is why He was able to say: “Before Abraham was, I am. Abraham desired to see my day, and he saw it, and was glad.”
John the Baptist said, referring to the one who would come after him, he said he did not know Him, but the One who sent him to baptize told him: “Upon whom you see the Holy Spirit descending like a dove upon Him, that is Him.” He said: “And I saw Him. And I knew Him not.” And he said: “This is He whom I said would come after me. He is preferred before me, (in other words, ‘He is before me.’)” And how was He before him, when He came after? Because John the Baptist was born first and Jesus was born after, John the Baptist began his ministry first and then Jesus did.
And now, he who comes first is not first; he who comes first speaks about the one who comes after him, and says: “He is before me”; but He came after John.
And now, notice, the forerunner comes first, preparing the way of the Lord and telling people to believe in the One who will come after him; that is what John the Baptist said as the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ.
In the book of Acts, chapter 19, the apostle Saint Paul says (verse 1 and on, says):
“And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
And he (Paul)said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.”
They were disciples of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ. On one occasion, the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ said: “I indeed baptize you with water, but He that comes after me will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire”; and when he saw Him, he said: “This is He of whom I said: After me will come a man who is preferred before me, who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire.”
And now, who would receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire? Who would receive the firstfruits of the Spirit? The followers of John the Baptist, the forerunner; or the followers of the one forerun (Jesus)? John the Baptist said it would be for whom? For the followers of the one forerun, the one who would come after him; because the one who would come baptizing with Holy Spirit and Fire would not be the forerunner, but the one who would come after him: Jesus of Nazareth. That is why later on, He said: “I will send from the Father, the Holy Spirit. I will come to you, and I will be with you and in you.17”
And now, with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, people receive the theophanic body of the sixth dimension; and for the Last Day, we have the promise to be filled with the fullness of the Holy Spirit, wherein we will obtain the new body, the eternal and glorified physical body.
And who will be the ones to receive it? Who will be the ones to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit? The followers of the forerunner or the followers of the one forerun?
The followers of the one forerun will be the followers of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19; they are the followers of the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven in Revelation, chapter 10; they are the followers of the Angel who was different from the rest, who will be on Earth at the Last Day in human flesh to carry out His ministry, and thus, to call and gather together His elect, and for the entire Divine Program of the Age of the Cornerstone to be fulfilled in the territory that is relevant to it, which is Latin America and the Caribbean, and then the dead in Christ will come resurrected in eternal bodies, and we who are alive will be changed, and we will have the eternal body.
And thus have the double portion of the Spirit of God: we will have the theophanic body and we will have the eternal physical body; both eternal bodies: the body of the sixth dimension (which is the theophanic body, an eternal body) and the body we will be in: the physical body, which will be eternal, which will be glorified, and which we will receive at this Last Day.
In other words, we will have both bodies: we receive the first one when we receive Christ as our Savior and we wash our sins in the Blood of Christ and we receive His Holy Spirit; and the other body, the second body, which is the eternal and physical and glorified body, we will receive it at the Last Day, in the Second Coming of Christ, in the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, by that Angel coming and calling and gathering together His elect, and preparing us to be changed and raptured at this Last Day, according to His promise.
The followers of the Angel who was different from the rest are the ones who will receive the transformation of their bodies.
And now, how will that Angel come? Let us see what Saint Paul says here, to conclude; he says [verse 4]:
“Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”
And the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, notice, also baptized with water and he said to believe in the one who would come after him. He announced the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation, chapter 19, which is the Coming of the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven clothed with a cloud in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on; he announced the Coming of this Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven, who is this Angel that appeared on February 28, 1963 in this cloudformed by angels in their theophanic bodies: the seven angel messengers of the seven ages and that Angel who was different from the rest.
And now, this Angel who was different from the rest, who is the Angel from Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on; and who is the Son of Man from Matthew, chapter 24, verse 30; is also the Rider of Revelation, chapter 19, verse 11 and on, He is the Rider of that white horse.
And now, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says on page (let us see) 277 of the book The Sealsin Spanish, he says (while he is praying):
“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.”
Who is the white horse Rider of Revelation 19? The Holy Spirit, which is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant.
And now, how will He come? On page 256 of the bookThe Sealsin Spanish, he says18:
“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 if we find that man, then we will have found the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven incarnate in a man; we will be finding the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 incarnate in a man, we will be finding the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel who was different from the rest, coming in human flesh in a man of this end time; and thus, we will be finding the one who was forerun by Reverend William Branham, who he said would come after him.
On page 474 of the book The Sealsand 469… Let us see; 469 says19:
“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? 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…’
Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal.”
Who is the one with the Seventh Seal? The Angel who was different from the rest, this Angel that appears herein this cloud, who forms the white hair of the Lord.
And now, that Angel must come in human flesh at the Last Day for the Coming of the Lord to be fulfilled; because that is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in His theophanic body; and He has to come in human flesh at the Last Day in order to manifest His ministry for the second time, and in order to manifest the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time and the ministry of Moses for the second time.
And He must come in a man of this end time: and that is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, that is the Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, through whom Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested in human flesh at this end time; and that will be the Word incarnate in a man, the Word coming in human flesh.
Two thousand years ago the Word was made flesh and dwelt among human beings, and was known by the name Jesus of Nazareth; and for the Last Day, the Word comes in human flesh and He comes with a New Name that only He knows, in other words, that only He understands and knows; the Word comes in human flesh at the Last Day, and He comes manifesting the ministries of Jesus, Moses and Elijah, manifesting them through that veil of flesh.
Some people will see a man, but the elect of God will see the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel who descends from Heaven clothed with a cloud, the Angel who was different from the rest manifested in human flesh.
Now, the veil of flesh is not the Lord Jesus Christ, the veil of flesh is only the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ to testify these things which must shortly come to pass.
That Angel Messenger is the one who receives Christ, who receives the Angel of the Covenant, and through him, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel who was different from the rest, is manifested; the Seventh Seal, the Angel who was different from the rest is manifested through him, and fulfills what has been promised regarding what was said through the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ about what the Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Seventh Seal would be.
The fulfillment of the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Word, the Word incarnate in a man, carrying out the Work relevant to this end time in the Divine Program, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; and through that work that he will be carrying out, he will obtain the great victory in Divine Love.
And then, in the great victory of Divine Love, we who are alive will obtain the new body, the eternal body, the dead in Christ will obtain the resurrection in eternal bodies; and then, we will go from here to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, because after that, at any moment the great tribulation will begin, and the divine judgments will be upon the Earth; and we will not be able to remain here on Earth, because there is an important feast in Heaven, called the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, which we have been invited to; and along with Christ, we are the main part in that great feast. It is the feast that celebrates the union of Christ and His Church.
And now, we have seen the great victory of Divine Love that Christ will obtain in His Second Coming, the great victory of Divine Love that the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord will obtain by coming at the Last Day as the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal in the Word incarnate in a man.
It is the Word; the Word is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is Jesus Christ in His theophanic body, who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in His theophanic body, who will come manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger at the Last Day to obtain the great victory of Divine Love under the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal.
That is why it will be THE VICTORY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL. And we are the ones who will obtain the benefit of the great victory of the Seventh Seal at this Last Day.
It has been a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about THE VICTORY OF THE SEVENTH SEALpromised to be fulfilled at this Last Day.
Now we have seen how the Seventh Seal will be manifested on Earth. The Seventh Seal is the Angel who was different from the rest, it is Christ in His Coming coming at the Last Day manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger. That is the Word incarnate in a man to obtain the great victory in Divine Love.
It has been a great blessing to share with you these blessings contained in the Word of God, so that we may all be prepared to be changed and raptured at this end time.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ our Savior, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel who was different from the rest coming at this Last Day in human flesh, be upon each one of you and upon myself as well; and soon, may all of God’s elect be called and gathered together, and may the number of all the elect of God of the Mystical Body of Christ be completed; and may we be changed, and the dead in Christ be resurrected in eternal bodies, and then may we go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
We have seen the mystery of “THE VICTORY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
Remember, the Angel of Jesus Christ is not Jesus Christ, the Angel of Jesus Christ is not the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven, the Angel of Jesus Christ is not the white horse Rider of Revelation 19; because the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, it is the Holy Spirit.
The Angel who descends from Heaven is Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant; but that Angel of the Covenant will be in the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ, that Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven will be manifested in human flesh fulfilling His Program relevant to His Coming, and He will be operating the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus.
At first, some will say: “He is Elijah,” others will say: “No, he is Moses,” others will say: “No, he is Jesus.” That is because some will be seeing the ministry of Elijah, others will be seeing the ministry of Moses and others will be seeing the ministry of Jesus being repeated, those ministries being repeated here on Earth through the Angel of Jesus Christ.
But I say to you: he is not Jesus, he is not Elijah and he is not Moses either. He is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, will be manifested at this end time; and the works that will be done will not be done by him, but by the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit, through that veil of flesh, because the Word, Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant will be in him, manifested in human flesh.
It will be the Word incarnate in a man, in His Angel Messenger; not in any man, but in His Angel Messenger, who is the Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and of the Dispensation of the Kingdom too, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; because the Word must come (to whom?) to God’s prophet relevant to the time in which that Word comes, and all revelation must come to that prophet and through that prophet, that revelation must be communicated to the people of God.
We have seen that God has an order; it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of him to whom God shows mercy20and sends the instrument relevant to each age and each dispensation.
Well, it has been a great blessing to be sharing this Word of Christ with you that is relevant to this end time; and may that Word prepare us all to be ready soon to be changed and raptured at this end time. That is the Word that prepares us for our transformation.
Remember, an eagle always represents a prophet of God sent by God; and that Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ is an eagle, a prophet of God; the one from the Dispensation (of what?) the Kingdom.
And now, notice, I want to share this with you. Remember the time when brother Branham rested on a rock? He was hunting, he was sweating, he was very hot; he took his shirt off and he was sweating copiously. And the Angel tells him to pray to God, to rest against that rock and pray to God; and he rested against the rock and he was praying to God.
And then He tells him: “What are you leaning against, over your heart?” And when he raised back, he saw that it was written White Eagle. He says that he was so excited that he went home, and the next day, he came with a camera and took pictures of that rock where it saidWhite Eagle (in English)21. And those pictures have been taken and have been shared so that the believers may see what happened to that rock.
After that, many people went and saw that rock, and surely, you know, those who consider themselves collectors…, they take their piece of metal and their hammer and they start to chip away; and surely they did that and they have erased what God had written there, but it remains recorded in photos, and it has been recorded where? In our hearts, in our souls.
But remember, that is Him, that is God showing what will be happening at the Last Day, which the Church of Jesus Christ and each member of the Church of Jesus Christ will lean their hearts against. That is where the White Eagleand the Son of Man will be coming at the Last Day, which is the Coming of the Word incarnate in a man: that White Eagle, at the Last Day for the Church of Jesus Christ.
Just as God sent different eagles, different prophets: the seventh angel messenger, and also Saint Paul and others from the seven gentile Church ages…, who were also prophets, they were eagles; but the last Eagle is the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ, in whom the Word will be incarnate in a man. And now, that is the eagle who revealed to John the book of Revelation.
And notice what it says in the message “On the Wings of a Snow-White Dove,” here in this book of Quotations, page 14-A, verse 144, says:
“…So let us do what we can while it’s day, and someday there’ll be a…the wings of a white Eagle will come down, He’ll bear us away.”
“The wings of a white Eagle…”
In Malachi, chapter 4, verse 2, it says:
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.”
There, in those wings, comes the blessing for the elect of God.
The Sun of Righteousness is Christ in His Coming, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord; His wings are the ministries of Moses and Elijah; and He comes manifested in human flesh. Therefore, that White Eagle is the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, it is the Coming of the Mighty Angel, the Angel who was different from the rest, the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit, the Word incarnate in a man; and in His wings —the ministries of Moses and Elijah— comes a great blessing for the elect of God.
That is the White Eagle that will come down “…and He’ll bear us away.”
It is Christ manifested in His Angel Messenger at the Last Day, the White Eagle, who will come to seek His Church, to take us in the rapture.
He is coming for His Church. And to do what? To take Her to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. That is the reason for that manifestation of Christ, the Word, through His Angel Messenger: to call and gather together all of the elect of God, and prepare us to be changed and raptured, and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
That is the manifestation of that White Eagle, that is the manifestation of the Seventh Seal, the White Eagle, to obtain the victory of the Seventh Seal at the Last Day.
Let us leave that there. I wanted to share that verse of that Scripture. Later on, in the message The Seals, look for pages 301 and 302, and on page 326 as well, and also page 399 (of the book of The Seals), and also page 449, and also page 459. There are so many places that speak about Moses, Elijah and Jesus, and of the Coming of the Word in human flesh.
Why is that? Because brother Branham was the forerunner of the Word that would come incarnate in a man, where the Angels of the Son of Man, the mysteries of Moses and Elijah would be manifested, and where the ministry of Jesus would be manifested.
That is the Coming of the Eagle: Jesus Christ veiled and revealed through human flesh, seeking His elect to take them to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Well, it has been a great privilege to be with you this afternoon, sharing these blessings of Christ and thus, testifying to you about “THE VICTORY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
Notice, before a victory takes place, before obtaining a victory, well, there is a fight, there is a battle.
And now, in the Scripture, before obtaining that victory and having that fight to obtain the victory, God already says that we will be victorious, God has already said there will be a victory; in other words, victory is assured at this Last Day: we will obtain the great victory in Divine Love, Christ will obtain it for us.
Well, may God continue to bless all of you, may God keep you; and with us now Miguel Bermudez Marin.
“THE VICTORY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
1The Seventh Seal – March 24, 1963 – www.branham.org
3Questions and Answers on the Seals – March 24, 1963 – www.branham.org
8Genesis 14:17-20; Hebrews 7:1-3
11Numbers 14:18; Psalm 103:8, 145:8
16The Breach between the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals – March 17, 1963 – www.branham.org
18The Fourth Seal – March 21, 1963
19The Seventh Seal – March 24, 1963 – www.branham.org
21White Eagle. “On the Wings of a Snow-White Dove” – November 28, 1965