Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present; it is a great blessing to be with you on this occasion, to share with you some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
Let us read in Matthew, chapter 24, verses 30 to 31, where it says:
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
And in Matthew 24, verse 3, it says:
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
A NOTABLE SIGN. A notable sign, where? IN HEAVEN. “A NOTABLE SIGN IN HEAVEN.”
A notable sign in heaven was announced by our beloved Lord Jesus Christ for this end time in which the human race would live; and in heaven, a sign would be seen regarding what was prophesied for the end time.
Now, today marks 39 years since a very notable sign appeared in heaven. It appeared on February 28, 1963, and it was published in LIFEmagazine and SCIENCEmagazine as a mysterious cloud1.
Now, this was a sign in heaven that means something very important in the Program of God.
We find in Matthew, chapter 3… let us see chapter 2, verse 1 and on, it says:
“Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.
And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.”
Now, in this passage we have read, a mysterious star, a mysterious sign was seen in heaven. The wise men were in the East and they looked from Chaldea, from the area of Babylon, towards the land of Israel, and saw that sign in heaven; they were scholars of the stars.
And in ancient times, all those who studied the stars knew that whenever an important event is going to happen on Earth, the sign of that important event that is going to happen appears in heaven.
And these wise men, upon seeing this sign in heaven that was so important to them, understood that among the Hebrew people, the Coming of the Messiah promised to the Hebrew people was being fulfilled.
Remember that the Messiah, Christ, is the bright and Morning Star; therefore, a sign called the Star of Bethlehem appeared in heaven (it is called a star in the Scripture), which the wise men saw; and they knew the Scriptures and they knew this would happen in heaven according to Numbers, chapter 24, verse 17, where it says:
“I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel.”
Here it shows us a star that shall rise out of Israel; and since the Messiah is that star, the First Coming of Christ was reflected in heaven.
Therefore, the wise men went to the land of Israel, they reached Jerusalem, they asked for the Messiah; because, since the Throne of David was in Jerusalem, they thought the Messiah had to be in Jerusalem because that is the city of the King.
But they did not understand that other Scriptures had to be fulfilled and that according to the prophecy, the Messiah had to be born in Bethlehem of Judea, because He would be a descendant of king David, and therefore, He had to be born in Bethlehem of Judea because this governor that would rule Israel, the people of God, would come out of Bethlehem of Judea.
And there was also the prophecy in Isaiah, chapter 7, that a virgin would conceive and bear a son, she would give birth and that son would be called Emmanuel, which translated is: God with us. Therefore, this virgin had to be a descendant of king David; and Mary was a descendant of king David.
Now, in order to be born in Bethlehem of Judea, something had to happen, because Mary lived in Nazareth and Joseph also lived in Nazareth, who was betrothed to Mary, he was engaged to Mary, although they were not living together yet; they had not married, rather, they were betrothed, engaged, they were to be married.
And now, a census was ordered by the king, and that resulted in each person going to the city he belonged to and carrying out the census there, enrolling in that census, registering in that census. And that is how it was for the birth of Jesus: Joseph and Mary had to go to Bethlehem of Judea, because they were descendants of king David and they were from the city of Bethlehem of Judea.
And when they were there, they did not find a place in the inn, which would be the guesthouse or the hotel to stay in; and then, the time came for Mary to give birth, and they had to go to a manger, where animals were, where animals ate; and there, she gave birth to her son (Jesus) in that place, and she placed Him in that manger, and thus, the promise was fulfilled that the Messiah, the Ruler of Israel, the Governor of Israel, would be born in Bethlehem of Judea.
But we find that in heaven, for about two years, a very notable sign was appearing in heaven, and it was a mysterious star, which indicated, according to the wise men, that the Messiah had to be among the Hebrew people.
When the wise men reached the house where the Messiah was…, see? He was no longer in the manger, but in a house, and He was already about two years old.
Now, this sign in heaven announced that God was carrying out a very important program on Earth: the Program of the Coming of the Messiah, who was being born in Bethlehem of Judea; and that sign remained in the sky for about two years, and the wise men saw it, the ones who looked for heavenly signs in the sky in order to then look for the fulfillment on Earth of what that sign was showing.
Now, Reverend William Branham says that God always shows in heaven what He is going to do on Earth. Therefore, in the sign that was seen on February 28, 1963, God shows there in heaven what He is going to do on Earth.
It is a sign that was a cloud, which was formed by angels: the angels of the seven Church ages and another Angel who was different that the rest of the angels; that Angel was different, He was different from the seven angels of the seven Church ages.
And now, by Christ showing in heaven what He is going to do on Earth, we find that those angels who are herein this cloud, as the seven angel messengers of the seven ages and another Angel who was different from the rest, we find that the seven ages of the Church with their seven angel messengers were represented here and the Age of the Cornerstone is represented in the Angel who is different from the rest of the angel messengers.
The Angel who is different from the rest, Reverend William Branham says in the book of The Seals, page 469, that He is… Let us see, let us read it directly. Page 469 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, says2:
“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.’ You remember that? [‘Amen.’]
Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I’ve wondered all my life….”
And now, the Angel who is different from the rest, who is here, when Reverend William Branham was showing the picture of the cloud formed by angels, when he was showing it likethis, the Holy Spirit told him to rotate it clockwise; and when he did, that was when the face of Jesus was seen as it is in Hofmann’s painting, andherewe have the face, the beard and the white hair, the white wig, like in Revelation, chapter 1; chapter 1 shows Christ with His hair white like wool.
Now, let us see Revelation, chapter 1, verses 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.”
And now, let us see what Reverend William Branham tells us about the Son of Man with His hairs white like wool. On page 48 of the book of The Ages, Reverend William Branham say:
“…BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD IS COMING. Yes, it is. It is just that at this time of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, John was taken up by the Spirit and transported by the Spirit to that Great Day that is coming. The Lord’s Day is when the days of man are over. The kingdoms of this world will then become the kingdoms of our God. The day of the Lord is when the judgments fall, and after that comes the millennium. Right now the world does what it wants to do with the Christian. They call him all manner of evil names, making fun of him. But there is coming that great and notable day when they will wail and howl, for the Lamb is coming in wrath to judge the world. That is when the righteous will have their day with the Lord, for the wicked shall burn and the righteous will walk over their ashes into the millennium. Malachi 4:3:
‘And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.’”
And now, John finds himself transported to the Day of the Lord, and we find Christ there with His hair white like wool.
Now, this is a mystery because Christ with His hair white like wool cannot be possible, because He has a glorified body that does not grow old.
Now, Reverend William Branham says: “Since on the Lord’s Day Christ changes from Lamb and High Priest to King and Judge of all the Earth…” Just as judges in ancient times and even now in England and other nations, wear a white wig, we see Christ here with a white wig. It is not the hair of the Lord, but a white wig that He has on His Head.
Now, this is a mystery: Christ with His white hair; and we do not grow old in the glorified body, therefore, this mystery of this white wig is the mystery of Christ as the Judge of all the Earth on the Day of the Lord.
Let us search somewhere about – here in the book of The Ages, about Christ with the white wig, His hair white like wool, since that is how He appears in this cloud, the…, it is not the literal face of the Lord, rather, it is a cloud formed by angels who form the face of the Lord.
And now, this has a very great meaning, because Christ is presented as the Judge here; in other words, here the sign of the Second Coming of Christ as the Judge of all the Earth is being shown in heaven; that is why He appears with white hair, which means He has the maturity and the wisdom to righteously judge all the Earth, all of humanity.
Now, Christ with white hair, how can we understand this? And if it is a white wig like the one judges wore in England and in other countries, how and where did He get that white wig? It is very important, because if a white wig is what He is wearing there, then it has a very important meaning.
Now, let us see how this white wig of the Lord is formed, and let us see what that white wig of the Lord is.
Remember that this entire description given in Revelation, chapter 1, about Christ, the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to His feet; with a golden girdle about the paps; His head and His hairs white like wool; His eyes 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 two-edged sword; and His countenance was as the sun shines in its strength3.
The seven stars in His right hand are the seven angel messengers. Each one of these – these things that we see in the Son of Man, has a meaning: His white head, His eyes as a flame of fire, His voice as the sound of many waters, His feet like unto fine brass, and the seven stars in His right hand, and the sharp sword that comes out of His mouth, all of this has a meaning.
The sharp sword that comes out of His mouth is the Word, His creative Word.
Now, let us see what this white wig of the Lord is and also His beard. Reverend William Branham says in the message “Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will,” preached in North America on November 27, 1965, a month before his departure, he says on page 23… a bit before that… when he was showing the picture from LIFEmagazine, which is thisone, and the Lord tells him to turn it clockwise, that is what we are going to see here, what we are going to listen to here, and then everything he says about this picture. Let us see:
“Something said to me, ‘Turn it right (in other words, to the right).’
I thought: ‘I think I’m looking at it right.(meaning that he was looking at it the right way, thisway, but he was told: ‘Turn it right.’).’
‘Said, ‘Turn it right.’ See?
I thought: ‘Maybe that Voice means turn it to the right.’”
Remember that the Angel who always spoke to him is the one who was telling him to turn the picture to the right, while he was showing it to the congregation.
“And when I did, you see what it is: Hofmann’s Head of Christ(in other words, the photo – the painting that Hofmann the painter painted of the face of Jesus Christ)… ‘Hofmann’s Head of Christ,’ at thirty-three. Here, look in here, see His black beard, His face, His eyes, His nose, and everything else. See the part in His hair here coming up. And He’s wigged with that white Angel wig.”
The white Angel who was different from the rest is the one who forms this wig of the Lord, the white wig, which in Revelation, chapter 4, the Son of Man appears with His white hair.
“And He’s wigged with that white Angel wig to show that the Message of Him being God is the Truth. He is the Supreme Judge of the universe, Supreme Judge of Heaven and earth. He is God.”
Now, notice, let us continue reading:
“And nothing else but God. He is God expressed in human form called the Son of God, which the Son was the Man (that is, the veil of flesh).”
Here we have a clear description of what happened in heaven on February 28, 1963, when this mysterious and notable sign appeared, which was formed by angels of God: the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Angel who was different from the rest.
And now, we find that this white wig is formed by the Angel who was different from the rest; and also, notice, the beard is formed by the seven angel messengers of the seven ages.
And now, since everything in Revelation, chapter 1, that is seen in the Son of Man typifies certain things that Christ was going to carry out, then in Christ, the Son of Man, we find the entire Program that He would carry out with His Church; that is why He also has the seven stars in His right hand, which are the seven angel messengers of the seven ages.
Now, we have seen a notable sign there in heaven, on February 28, 1963, which tells us about what God will be doing on Earth in the Coming of the Son of Man as Judge of all the Earth.
When He finishes His Work of Intercession in Heaven, He rises from the Throne of the Father, takes the Title Deed, opens It in Heaven and makes His Reclaiming Work, and resurrects the dead believers in Him in glorified bodies and changes us who are alive, and then, we will all have glorified bodies.
And now, since this is a notable sign in heaven, we have seen that it has a meaning in the Program that Christ will be carrying out among His Church in this end time.
And now, at this end time, after Christ takes the Title Deed, opens It in Heaven, opens all the Seals, including the Seventh Seal: in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, He descends from Heaven with the little Book open in His hand:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”
Then, John wanted to write what the Thunders spoke and he was told not to write them. The content in those Seals is the divine revelation of the Seventh Seal, the divine revelation of the Second Coming of Christ; a mystery that is contained in the Seventh Seal. And in order to know that mystery, the Seventh Seal must be opened, and the Thunders are the ones that have that mystery, that contain the revelation of that mystery, for the Thunders are the Voice of Christ crying out as when a lion roars, because He is the Lion of tribe of Judah.
And now, here in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 8 and on, we find that the little Book that no one in Heaven could open or read or even look at, now in Revelation, chapter 5, Christ takes It and opens It; and in chapter 10 of Revelation, He descends to Earth with the little Book open in His hand; and the little Book that no human being could even look at or open or read, would now be given to a man for him to eat It. It says:
“And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”
And in the next chapter, which is chapter 11, the prophetic ministry of the Two Olive Trees begins, which prophesy before many peoples, nations, tongues and kings. Therefore, the one who will eat that little Book that is open is the one who will have the ministries of Moses and Elijah to prophesy before many peoples, nations, tongues and kings.
And now, let us see what Reverend William Branham says on page 83, 84 and 85 of the message “Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will”:
“Christ is our Ark, the Word. They want their denomination. He cannot, notice, cannot be carried on the new carts of the denomination(in other words, just as king David and his generals tried to carry the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem in a new cart, which is against the way it is ordained by God, because the way was for the ark to be carried on the shoulders of the priests), His Message cannot go on the cart of a new denomination when It’s supposed to be bore and come on the heart of a prophet.”
How is the Message of God supposed to come? In the heart of a prophet. The Message of God for each age has come in the heart of an angel messenger sent by Christ to each age; those messengers are the seven stars in the right hand of the Son of Man; and they are the seven spirits of God, the seven lamps of fire that are before the Throne; and they are seven spirits of God and they are the seven eyes on the seven horns of the Lamb in Revelation, chapter 5, verse 6.
And now, we have seen how the Word, the Ark of the Covenant, Christ, must come, and It has been coming to the Church, which is a spiritual Temple, from age to age through the messenger of each age, because It has come in the heart of the messenger who has spoken that Word.
And Christ, the Ark of the Covenant, the Word, has been entering the spiritual Temple of Christ from age to age: He has passed through the Outer Court in the prophets of the Old Testament, He has passed through the Holy Place in the angel messengers of the seven ages, and He must enter the Most Holy Place. And in order to enter the Most Holy Place, Christ must send a prophet to bring to the Most Holy Place, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, to bring the Word, the Ark of the Covenant, Christ, Christ the Ark of the Covenant.
Now, how does this all happen? On page 85 of this message “Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will,” in the last paragraphs, he says: “There’s only one Ark…”Now, let us read a bit before that, he says:
“They got a Methodist ark, a Baptist ark, a Presbyterian ark, everybody’s going into this ark for the great tribulation coming; ‘Glory to God! (in other words, they say)I was baptized in the Methodist ark, the Presbyterian, the Pentecostal ark.’ (Now notice what he says)There’s only one Ark, that’s Jesus Christ, and He is the Word!”
Remember:“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made (all things were created) by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
That is John, chapter 1, verse 1 to 4. And chapter 1, verse 14, says:
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
And now, let us see how the Ark of the Covenant comes at this end time to the Church of Jesus Christ, to the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple; in other words, to the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, because the Church is a spiritual Temple.
“Notice, God told the prophet, said, ‘Eat the scroll,’ in the Old Testament(He said that to Ezekiel; Jeremiah also ate the Word of God). The prophet of the New Testament, He said, ‘Eat the little book.’ Why? That the prophet and the Word would be one! See? That’s the Ark, the Word of God.”
And now, the prophet of the Last Day eats the little Book of the Seven Seals that Christ gives him so that the Word is made flesh in him; and thus, he enters with the Word, with the revelation contained in the Seals (including the Seventh Seal, which was not revealed, but is revealed to the Church at this time), with that Word, he enters the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, and he puts Christ, the Word, the Ark of the Covenant in the Most Holy Place.
In the Old Testament, Moses put the tablets of the Law inside the ark of the covenant, as well as the manna in a golden pot (a certain amount of manna) and also the rod of Aaron, all of that was put in the ark of the covenant.
And now, where did Moses put the ark of the covenant? He put it in the most holy place of the tabernacle he built.
Then, in the tabernacle, we find that God came in the cloud, the Pillar of Fire, when Moses dedicated the tabernacle to God, and He entered the tabernacle and went all the way to the most holy place and positioned Himself above the mercy seat, above the ark of the covenant, on the mercy seat, which is the cover of the ark of the covenant between the two cherubim of gold, and from there, He would speak to Moses.
In Exodus, chapter 25, God tells Moses, verse 21 to 22:
“And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.”
From the mercy seat, between the two cherubim of gold, God would tell Moses everything Moses had to say to the Hebrew people.
And now, from where will God speak to the Hebrew people at this end time? From the mercy seat, God will tell Moses and Elijah everything these ministries have to make known to the Hebrew people. Therefore, the Ark of the Covenant, Christ, the Word, must be in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ. Otherwise, the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ cannot be dedicated to God so that God may dwell there in all His fullness.
And now, at this time, Christ is building His Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, and He is putting the Ark of the Covenant, the Word, in the Most Holy Place, in other words, in the Age of the Cornerstone, just as He had put His Word in each age; and from age to age, He has been putting His Word and passing His Word from age to age, until reaching the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.
And now, with living Stones, with human beings, He is building His Most Holy Place: the Age of the Cornerstone, and where is He putting His Word? In the Most Holy Place.
The Ark of the Covenant, notice, is being put (where?) in the Most Holy Place. And when the number of God’s elect in the Mystical Body of Christ is completed, when the Age of the Cornerstone is completed, when the very last elect comes into the Age of the Cornerstone, then the construction of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ will be finished, and therefore, that entire spiritual Temple with the Ark of the Covenant in the Most Holy Place will be finished; and God will manifest Himself in that spiritual Temple in all His fullness, He will raise His believers who have died and He will change us, and then we will all have glorified bodies; and thus, God will glorify His House, His Church at this end time, and the Ark of the Covenant will be there in the Most Holy Place: the Age of the Cornerstone.
And from the Most Holy Place, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, Christ will speak to the Hebrew people, He will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people; and through the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, the Message for the Hebrew people will come out of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ, and what Reverend William Branham said will be fulfilled: “As the Jews brought the message to the gentiles, even so the gentiles will take it right back to the Jews.”
And the ones who take the Gospel to the Hebrew people are Moses and Elijah, the Two Olive Trees, which are the Two Anointed Ones that stand before the presence of God; and 144.000 Hebrews (12.000 from each tribe), will be called and gathered together, because out of the spiritual Temple of Christ, out of the Most Holy Place, will come the ministry of the Two Olive Trees, as well as the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom to be given to the Hebrew people.
The Angel of Revelation, chapter 7, verse 2 and on, who comes with the Seal of the Living God, will call, gather together and seal 144.000 Hebrews (12.000 from each tribe).
Notice, only one Angel appears there, but that Angel comes with the Seal of the Living God, with the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit will be operating the ministries of Moses and Elijah in that Angel sent to call and gather together 144.000 Hebrews.
And that Angel is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom Christ says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
That Angel has a ministry to be operated among the gentiles in the Church of Jesus Christ, and then in the midst of the Hebrew people.
That Angel is a dispensational prophet who Christ sends to His Church at this end time; and under the ministry of this Angel in the midst the Church of Jesus Christ, both Rains fall at the same time: the latter Rain and the former Rain, as it is promised in the Scripture. And the former and latter Rain is none other than the preaching of the Gospel of Grace and the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
With the teaching of the Gospel of Grace, we obtain the faith, the revelation to obtain the forgiveness of our sins, by receiving Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in His Blood, being baptized in water in His Name and receiving the Holy Spirit, and thus, obtaining the new birth and obtaining a heavenly theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
And now, with that former rain of the teaching of the Gospel of Grace, notice what a great blessing we obtain.
Without the preaching of the Gospel of Grace no person can obtain the faith, the revelation, to obtain the forgiveness of his sins, and to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and receive the Holy Spirit. The revelation contained in the Gospel of Grace gives us that knowledge, that divine revelation to obtain these benefits.
And in order to obtain the new, eternal, immortal, incorruptible and glorified body, the physical body that Christ has promised for us, we must have the revelation of the Seventh Seal, which is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Because the Second Coming of Christ is to change us and to resurrect the dead in Christ in glorified bodies; that is what the Second Coming of Christ is for.
And in order to be changed, we have to have faith, rapturing faith, says Reverend William Branham; that rapturing faith, that rapturing revelation, that revelation to be changed and obtain the eternal and glorified body, and to go with Christ in the rapture, in the catching away of the saints, and go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to the House of our heavenly Father.
And now, the faith to be changed and raptured, in other words, the rapturing faith, revolves around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords and the Judge of all the Earth.
And now we can see that everything that will be happening at this end time is reflected here in thisnotable sign in heaven; everything is symbolized, everything is reflected in thismysterious cloud.
And now, we have seen that the Son of Man sends His Angels with a Great Voice of Trumpet to call and gather together His elect at this end time. First, the elect among the gentiles of the Mystical Body of Christ are called and gathered together, and when the number of the elect, the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ is completed in the Age of the Cornerstone, then our adoption will come, which is the transformation of our bodies.
And then, God will turn to the Hebrew people; and through the ministries of the Two Anointed Ones: Moses and Elijah, being manifested in the Angel of Jesus Christ, God will call and gather together 144.000 Hebrews; and the Hebrew people will be awakened, they will receive the greatest revival the Hebrew people have ever received; and the eyes of the Hebrew people will be opened. And having repented for sinning against God by rejecting Jesus Christ, their Messiah, and asking for His crucifixion, the Hebrew people, having repented of their sins will obtain God’s mercy; and what Zechariah said in chapter 12, verse 10 and on, will be fulfilled, where 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.”
And now, we can see that all of that is already planned in the Divine Program and one of these days, it will be fulfilled.
Also, in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 7, it says:
“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.”
Therefore, the Hebrew people will wail and obtain God’s mercy, and God will spiritually deal with the Hebrew people again and 144.000 Hebrews will be called and gathered together.
Now, this will all come to pass when the fullness of the gentiles has come in, says Saint Paul in Romans, chapter 11, verses 25 and on; and we are going to read chapter 11, verse 25 and on:
“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in…”
When the fullness of the Church of Jesus Christ has come in, when the Church of Jesus Christ has been completed, that is when the blindness of the Hebrew people will be taken away, Christ will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people, and then notice what will happen:
“…And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:4
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.”5
Now notice, God is going to take away the sins of the Hebrew people, for He is going to reveal Himself to them, and then they will understand.
This was also prophesied in Isaiah, chapter 59, verses 17 to 22… chapter 59, verse 17 to 21, this is what Saint Paul quoted in the Old Testament when he said:“As it is written…”, it was written in Isaiah, chapter 59.
In Revelation, we find the way in which the Hebrew people will be awakened, and they will have the greatest revival in the whole history of the Hebrew people.
It is through the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, the same Trumpet that calls and gathers together the elect of the Church at the Last Day. The same Trumpet that gathers all the sons and daughters of God in the Mystical Body of Christ at the Last Day is the one that will call and gather together 144.000 Hebrews (12.000 from each tribe, 12.000 from each tribe of the sons of Israel).
Now, this is very close to being fulfilled, when? When the Church of Jesus Christ is completed and the dead in Christ are resurrected in glorified bodies and we are changed; then, the Church will be completed and she will be glorified, because we will all be glorified, we will have eternal bodies; and there will be a full manifestation of the power of Jesus Christ in His Church, and the Hebrew people will see that manifestation of Christ in His Church; and they will say: “This is the one we have waited on.” And then, the Hebrew people will awaken according to how it is promised, and they will receive the Spirit of God and the Hebrew people will live spiritually as well.
So, we can see where we stand, and we can see this notable sign in heaven manifested on February 28, 1963.
And now, we have seen the white wig and who forms that white wig: it is formed by the Angel who was different from the rest, and in order for it to be formed, for what was shown in heaven to be materialized, He must manifest Himself among the Church of Jesus Christ at this end time; and the mystery of the Seventh Seal will be there, because the Angel who was different from the rest has the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which is the Angel who forms the white wig of Christ as the Judge of all the Earth.
That is why the Angel of Jesus Christ is the one who will receive power over the nations, as Christ has promised. And the Angel is the one who will sit with Christ on His Throne; the same thing the Father did with Jesus Christ, His Son, when He ascended to Heaven victorious: He sat Him on His Throne with Him; and now Christ will do the same thing with the Overcomer of the Last Day. In Revelation, chapter 3, verse 21, it 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 other words, what Christ will do with the Overcomer is parallel to what God did with Jesus; Jesus will work the same way. God sat Jesus on His Throne (on the heavenly Throne) with Him, and now Jesus Christ, on His earthly Throne, which is the Throne of David, will sit the Overcomer of the Last Day with Him, which is the Angel of Jesus Christ and a dispensational prophet: the prophet of the seventh dispensation, the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And in Revelation 2, verse 26 to 27, it says:
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.”
See? Just as Christ received authority and power from the heavenly Father and sat on the Throne of God. And then said to His disciples, after He had resurrected: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”6
And now, Christ will work the same way with the Overcomer who will be keeping the works of Christ until the end: He will give him power over the nations, He will sit him on His Throne with Him, and he will have a very important place in the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ; and that is the faithful and wise servant, whom, when his Lord comes and finds him doing so: giving the spiritual food in due season to the children of God in this time, in the Age of the Cornerstone, it says: “Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”7
He will be an administrator in the Millennial Kingdom, the administrator of Christ, of the goods of Christ. In plain words, he will be like a vice king in the glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ our Savior; because Christ is the King, but we are all kings and priests with Christ.
Therefore, he is also a King in that Millennial Kingdom. But since Christ sits him on His Throne with Him, he is the vice king of the Millennial Kingdom. Just as the apostles will also be on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Since it will be a theocratic Kingdom, then the same method will be used as what God used with the judges back in the Old Testament, of which Samuel was the last of the judges; and the theocracy and monarchy of David will be merged in that Millennial Kingdom of Christ, and God will be King over all the Earth on that Millennial Day. “In that day the Lord will be one and one his name.”8And the Lord will be King of all the Earth, He will rule over the Hebrew people and over all the nations.
Now, we can see that this strange sign in heaven has a greater meaning than what we see at first glance; it is a notable sign in heaven that contains everything God will do in the Second Coming of Christ.
On one occasion, in the message “Shalom,” Reverend William Branham said that there, in that sign in heaven, the Name of God was reflected; in other words, that sign in heaven has a very great meaning: the four consonants of the Name of God are contained there in that sign that was shown in heaven, in that cloud that was shown in heaven.
And if the Name of God is there, then one of those angels who were there must have it. And if the Angel with the Seventh Seal, who was different from the rest, was there, then He is the one with the Name, which Reverend William Branham says was displayed there.
Now, we can see that this sign in heaven has a greater meaning than what people can see at first glance. God is reflecting in heaven, in this sign, what He will do in the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Lord as the King of kings and Lord of lords, the root and the offspring of David, the bright and Morning Star and the Judge of all the Earth.
Therefore, the Name that the Angel of the Lord gave Moses in the form of YHWH is here, which is the Name of God, which was in the Angel of the Lord.
And if God placed It in His Angel in the Old Testament, and then His Angel became flesh and dwelt among the Hebrew people and was called Jesus Christ. See? The Name of God was in Jesus Christ; and therefore, the Name of God for Redemption was in Jesus Christ. And now, Jesus Christ says:
“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out, He will not go out of that place anymore, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”
Few people know that Jesus Christ has a new name, but it is there in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 12, it is mentioned there; and also in Revelation 2, verse 17, it says:
“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone (in it), a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
Someone will receive the little white stone and someone will receive the new name that is in that little white stone; and he will be the only one who will know the mystery of that new name of the little white stone, which is the New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ; because the little white stone is the stone cut out without hands that the prophet Daniel and king Nebuchadnezzar saw in chapter 2 of the book of Daniel, the stone cut out without hands that came and smote the image on the feet of iron and clay, which is the Coming of the Lord, it is the Second Coming of Christ with a New Name, which no man knows except he that receives It.
Therefore, this notable sign in heaven displays the Eternal Name of God and the New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, we can see that Christ said He would write It upon the Overcomer. So the Angel that has the Seventh Seal must therefore also have the Eternal Name of God, of the City of our God and the New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. That Angel is also the one who forms the white hair, the white wig of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Judge of all the Earth.
Well, since today we are celebrating, commemorating 39 years since this mysterious sign was seen in heaven, we have been seeing today everything contained in that mysterious sign in heaven which God appointed to be fulfilled on Earth.
Whenever God is going to do something on Earth, first He reflects it in heaven. That is why it is so important to understand the signs that happen in heaven, because they testify the things that will be happening on Earth; such as flying saucers: angels of God appearing in heaven, signs in heaven.
Notice, in the time of Abraham, God’s Angels visited the Earth and ate with Abraham: Elohim and the Archangels Gabriel and Michael. But then, the next day, came the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
First comes the blessing for the children of God who are of the faith of Abraham, and then God’s judgment for the human race will come.
These flying saucers are related to the rapture, the catching away of all the sons and daughters of God. So, the transformation and rapture, all of that is also tied to flying saucers.
When Christ resurrected, weren’t there angels there? When Christ ascended to Heaven, weren’t there angels there as well? When Elijah was caught up to Heaven, weren’t there angels, too? Everything related to the catching away, the rapture to leave this dimension and go to God, has to do with angels.
Even when God’s sons and daughters die, God’s angels take them to Paradise, as they did to the beggar: the angels carried him to Abraham’s bosom. Everything related to other dimensions is under the direction of God’s angels.
Well, let us leave this all alone now, because we would need more time to continue talking about all these mysteries of God’s angels and the rapture, flying saucers, chariots of fire, all these things, which are biblical things, that we find in the Bible.
Many books have been made about flying saucers, but the book that has and narrates the most scenes is the Bible; therefore, it is the only reliable book.
Now, we have seen that we are seeing in photos the great sign that was manifested in heaven, because Christ said there would be signs in heaven.
Now, that was a notable sign, it was published in two major magazines in North America, but they were not to know what happened. But Reverend William Branham said what happened when that cloud appeared in heaven: that cloud was formed by angels of God: the seven angel messengers and the Angel who was different from the rest; and that was a notable sign in heaven.
“A NOTABLE SIGN IN HEAVEN.”That has been our subject.
Thank you very much for your kind attention and for… and also for being understanding, seeing as my throat is a little affected; but I have been faithful to you and I have given you the message I had to give you, although with some difficulty.
May God continue to bless you all; and soon, may the number of the elect of God in the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ be completed, and soon may we will all be changed, may the dead in Christ be resurrected in glorified bodies, and may we all be taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
Well, may God continue to bless you all, may God keep you; and I will leave the young Jose Benjamin Perez with you again, to finalize our participation (he is the one who does Miguel’s part when Miguel is not here), and he will leave you with the right person to continue.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“A NOTABLE SIGN IN HEAVEN.”
1The photograph of the “mysterious cloud” that appeared in the skies of Arizona, U.S.A. on February 28, 1963 was published inLIFEmagazine on May 17, 1963; and SCIENCEmagazine on April 19, 1963, Vol. 140, No. 3564