The Seven Prophetic Visions of Reverend William Branham Before the Second Coming of Christ

Good afternoon, ministers gathered there in Villahermosa, Rev. Andrés Cruz Gallegos and other ministers; and also everyone who is gathered in different nations, ministers, and congregations; and also those who are gathered on this occasion here in Cali, Colombia, ministers, and collaborating brothers and collaborating sisters who work in the Work of the Lord.

May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me, and may He open the Scriptures to us on this occasion and our understanding so that we understand them, and may He help us to put them into practice at this end time. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

For this occasion, let’s read in Malachi chapter 4, which is a very important passage for this end time. Malachi chapter 4; and Zechariah chapter 4 as well. Malachi chapter 4 says the following:

“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

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.

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

And Zechariah chapter 4, verses 8 and on, says… 8 to 14 of Zechariah chapter 4, says:

“Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.

For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”

And Revelation chapter 11, verses 3 and on, says:

“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.”

God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

“THE SEVEN PROPHETIC VISIONS OF REVEREND WILLIAM BRANHAM BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.”

As it has been for all times, there are prophecies that must be fulfilled in each dispensation and in each age pertaining to the dispensation that they are granted; and there must be a people for each dispensation who live on the planet Earth.

What God will be doing is fulfilling what He has promised, what He has prophesied through His different messengers, His different prophets. “For the Word of the Lord is quick, and powerful, and more piercing than any two-edged sword; and is a discerner of the soul, the thoughts of the heart.”¹

Therefore, the things that have happened throughout the different stages of the human race have been the fulfillment of the prophetic Word given by God through His different prophets, whether human beings have understood it or whether they have not understood it.

For example, we have the different empires pertaining to the Gentile kingdom, which have already passed, and now we are in the stage of the feet of iron and clay.

Many human beings don’t know what has happened according to what is prophesied. They have seen all those things about the different empires of the Gentile kingdom take place, but they have not known that it is a prophecy that had to be fulfilled. And the one that pertains to our time, the feet of iron and clay, must also be fulfilled, because that is the last stage of the kingdom of the Gentiles.

Now, let’s see what Rev. William Branham says regarding the visions that he was shown by the Lord in 1933, which he made known on a Sunday morning service. He says [An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages, pg. 321-322]:

“The Laodicean Age began around the turn of the Twentieth Century, perhaps 1906. How long will it last? As a servant of God who has had multitudes of visions, of which NONE has ever failed, let me predict (I did not say prophesy, but predict) that this age will end around 1977. If you will pardon a personal note here, I base this prediction on seven major continuous visions that came to me one Sunday morning in June, 1933. The Lord Jesus spoke to me and said that the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh, but that before He came, seven major events would transpire. I wrote them all down and that morning I gave forth the revelation of the Lord. The first vision was that Mussolini would invade Ethiopia and that nation would ‘fall at his steps.’ That vision surely did cause some repercussions, and some were very angry when I said it and would not believe it. But it happened that way. He just walked in there with his modern arms and took over. The natives didn’t have a chance. But the vision also said that Mussolini would come to a horrible end with his own people turning on him. That came to pass just exactly as it was said.

The next vision foretold that an Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.

The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be three great ISMS, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third. The voice admonished, ‘WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North.’

The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves.

The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. (Women were granted the right to vote in political elections in the United States of America in the year 1919—Editor.) Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men’s clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world.

Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.

The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America.”

Those seven visions have each been fulfilled in their due time; and the sixth vision, of a woman rising in North America, has a double fulfillment: one is the Catholic church rising in North America; and the other interpretation it may have is a woman rising as president of North America by political vote; therefore, let’s let God’s Program go on and be fulfilled; and the way it is fulfilled, that is the way it had to be.

If we see a woman rising in North America as president, with the characteristics that were given, that is that part of the interpretation, in addition to the other interpretation; it may have double fulfillment.

For example: “[I] called my son out of Egypt,”² that was when God called Israel out of bondage in Egypt, and then when He called Jesus out of Egypt, where He was, because the king of Israel wanted to kill Him. Herod wanted to kill Jesus, and therefore, God commanded him to go to Egypt: Joseph, with Mary and the child; and when Herod died then the Angel told him: “The one who sought the young child’s life died already, return to Israel.” And he returned, not to Bethlehem, rather he returned to Nazareth, where the child Jesus was brought up.³

We don’t know how old He was when he returned to the land of Israel; therefore, if He already returned, let’s say, at seven years old, He would have learned the language of the Egyptians, and He also knew the language of the Hebrews. But let’s leave that, and if… whoever wants to know, can ask the Lord when we see Him. He could know all the languages. Remember that He also spoke in other languages on some occasions,⁴ and they didn’t understand Him when He was speaking in another language.

Now, remember that Scriptures have double and even triple fulfillments. “[I] called my son out of Egypt,” for our time is also Christ calling His children out of the kingdom of the Gentiles, the kingdom of darkness; calling them out of the earthly systems, and putting them in His mystical Body of believers, which is His Kingdom, which is in the spiritual realm.

Now, these seven visions, Rev. William Branham says that they were given to him and he was told: “Before the Coming of the Lord, these visions will be fulfilled.” Therefore, we can say: Before the Seventh Seal (which is the Coming of the Lord) is completely fulfilled, these visions must be fulfilled; before Christ comes for His Bride-Church with the dead in Christ resurrected and He transforms the living.

There are things that God doesn’t reveal until the time comes, so that impersonators don’t arise trying to imitate and interrupt the Divine Program.

Remember that when Christ came, Theudas and Judas had gotten ahead.⁵ Surely he is where Judas Iscariot went, an impersonator, or two impersonators: Theudas and Judas, imitating the Coming of the Lord; so there will always be impersonators.

When Moses appeared there were also impersonators, trying to take the position of Moses and also trying to take the position of Aaron. That is inevitable. But the important thing is whose side you are on.

Seven visions which must be fulfilled.

Now, for the end time we have the promise of the order of the Coming of the Lord shown on Mount Transfiguration, in Saint Matthew chapter 17, verse 1 to 13, which was promised in Saint Matthew chapter 16, verses 26 to 28, that “there will be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming with power and glory in His Kingdom.” And coming with whom? With His Angels.

And when It was shown to them on Mount Transfiguration, what they saw was Jesus glorified, Jesus with Moses on one side and Elijah on the other side.

Rev. William Branham says that is the order of the Coming of the Lord. First they will see Elijah and then they will see Moses.⁶ I will owe you that explanation, so that when we are in the total fulfillment of the Tent Vision, it can be made known. All of that is connected to the Coming of the Lord.

That is why, so that you keep some information about this order of the Coming of the Lord, let’s read in the book of The Ages, page 36, of Rev. William Branham. The last paragraph says:

“Now, when is the Gospel returning to the Jews? When the day of the Gentiles is finished. The Gospel is ready to go back to the Jews. Oh, if I could just tell you something that is about to happen right in this our day. This great thing that is about to happen will carry over to Revelation 11 and pick up those two witnesses, those two prophets, Moses and Elijah, turning the Gospel back to the Jews.”

Who will take the Gospel to the Jews? Moses and Elijah, the ministries that appeared on Mount Transfiguration; because those are the ministries that were shown to be manifested at the time of the Coming of the Lord. He comes with the Two Olive Trees.

“… those two witnesses, those two prophets, Moses and Elijah, turning the Gospel back to the Jews. We’re ready for it. Everything is in order. As the Jews brought the message to the Gentiles, even so the Gentiles will take it right back to the Jews, and the Rapture will come.”

He puts the Two Olive Trees where? Inside the mystical Body of Christ. Where were they shown by Zechariah or to Zechariah? Inside the temple. And the Temple of the New Testament is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is a part where he says: “Just as Peter and Paul, or Paul and Peter brought the Gospel to the Gentiles, the Gentiles will take It to the Jews.”

Now notice how the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah, were reflected in Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Members of the mystical Body of Christ brought the Gospel, and Moses and Elijah will take It back to the Jews.

Where do we find Elijah in his fourth manifestation? Inside the mystical Body of Christ, in the stage of the Holy Place. Where will the ministries of Moses and Elijah be found at the Last Day to take the Gospel to the Jews? Inside the mystical Body of Christ; not in the seventh age anymore; in the Age of the Cornerstone.

Those are the only ministries that will be able to deal with the Hebrew people, or God will be able to deal with the Hebrew people through those ministries. The Jews are waiting for Elijah, they are waiting for Elijah proclaiming the everlasting peace, the permanent peace; and the only one who will have that revelation will be Elijah.

Therefore, they are right, they are waiting for the one who has to get to them to speak the Word to them and restore them. Remember that Elijah restored the ten tribes of Israel in the showdown there on Mount Carmel.⁷ The ministry of Elijah, notice, restores, it restores the people to God’s Word, to God’s Program.

And now, in Revelation chapter 11, it is also promised that the ministries of the Two Anointed Ones, the Two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah, will be on Earth.

And what does Rev. William Branham tell us about these two ministries that will be on Earth at the Last Day? On page 433 of the book of The Seals, he says… Correction, 533, he says… starting with paragraph 173 of 533, he says:

“173 This time was between the Sixth and Seventh Seal, that He calls these people, spoken of by Jesus in Matthew the 24th chapter and the 31st verse (…).” (In other words, “He will send His Angels with a Great Sound of a Trumpet and will gather together His elect.” Let’s see who those elect are and who the One that sounds the Trumpet is.) “When the trumpet sounds, is the trumpet of the two witnesses of the age of grace for the Jews,” (in other words, the Trumpet of Moses and Elijah, the Message of Moses and Elijah sounding the Last Message to the Jews). “One trumpet sound, you notice, one trumpet sound. He said He’d sound the trumpet. Now notice over here, 31st.

And he shall send forth his angels (not one, see; there’s two of them) with a great sound of a trumpet,…

174 What is it? When God gets ready to speak, there’s a sound of a trumpet,” (meaning, it is God speaking through the Two Olive Trees). “That’s always His Voice. It’s calling to battle, see. God speaks. These angels,” (now he says that they are angels, messengers), “will come forth with the sounding of the trumpet.

175 And did you notice, at the last angel’s Message, the trumpet sounds. The first angel’s message, a trumpet sound; second angel’s, a trumpet sounded, when He sent it out. Notice, but when the Seals were announced, they were all in one great, Divine thing, to call out a group of people; there was one trumpet sound, and Seven Seals were broke.

176 Notice, ‘Gather His elected Jews from the four parts of the heavens.’”

With that Trumpet that sounds, the Great Voice of Trumpet, with which He will call the elect, He says that seven Seals open; in other words, something great is going to happen at this end time.

The Seals open when Christ completes His Church, and therefore, completes His Work of Intercession in Heaven, leaves the Father’s Throne, the Throne of Intercession, and becomes the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and takes the Book out of the right hand of the One sitting on the Throne, and opens It in Heaven; and in chapters 6 and on [Revelation], the Seals are opened, and the history contained under each of those mysterious Seals appears.

Then, in Revelation, chapter 8, when the Seventh Seal was opened, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour. Rev. William Branham says that is His Coming, the Seventh Seal is His Coming.

Therefore, that is the greatest mystery there is in Heaven: the Coming of the Lord. It is the greatest mystery there is in the Seals: the Seventh Seal, which will be opened to give God’s elect of the Last Day, of the end time, the faith to be changed and raptured. Because the Thunders of Revelation chapter 10 are the Voice of Christ coming with the little Book open in His hand, coming to His Church, to give It to His Church.

He will give It to His Church as He did from age to age, He gave His Church the Message pertaining to each age when He gave It to the messenger of each age and the messenger spoke It. And thus, He gave It to the messenger first, and then—through the messenger—He gave It to His Church. That is one of the great mysteries relevant to the Seventh Seal; and this way, It will give them the faith, the revelation, of the Seventh Seal, to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

We watch for the seven visions; and above all, we watch for what God is promised to carry out in the midst of His Church. The Mighty Angel who has come down from Heaven is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, with the little Book open in His hand, to bring It to His Church, in order to be restored to Eternal Life with eternal and glorified bodies; those who died by being raised in glorified bodies, and we who are alive by being changed; and we will all be just like Jesus Christ, in His image and likeness, like Jesus Christ our Savior; and young for all eternity.

We will be in the bloom of youth. It’s because we have come from eternity and we have been going through this temporary stage, but we will physically return to eternity, just as we have returned to eternity in our soul, we have spiritually returned to eternity; now we just need the physical adoption, which is our transformation, which is very close. That is why we persevere steadfast in the promised Word for our time, waiting for our transformation; and Israel waiting for the Coming of Elijah and Moses; and the Church waiting for the Coming of the Lord with His Angels.

First He will give them the Coming of the Lord with His Angels in the midst of His Church, and then with the Hebrew people. As simple as that.

Therefore, onward persevering and working in the Work of the Lord. He who waits for the Coming of the Lord will always be like the faithful and wise servant: working in the Work of the Lord. He always desires to have done the work that pertains to him in the Work of the Lord. And the slothful and unfaithful servant, who hid the talent: he stood around with his arms folded waiting for the Coming of the Lord to give Him the talent.

Those are two different types of people. Which do you belong to? To those represented in the slothful servant or to those represented in the faithful and wise servant? In the faithful and wise servant, of course. We don’t work to then be represented in an irresponsible person, but in those faithful and wise servants who will reign with Christ for the Millennium and for all eternity; who lay up treasures in Heaven; who love the Lord, and therefore, they work in favor of the Work of the Lord in the midst of the mystical Body of Christ.

Therefore, onward, faithful and wise ministers, working in the Divine Program relevant to this end time, which is the most important time of all times; watching for the Coming of the Lord.

That is what He says we must do. That is in Saint Luke chapter 21, verse 34 and on, which says:

“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Watch,” (Watch for what? For the Coming of the Lord), “ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”

Let’s watch for the Coming of the Lord. We all want to give a good account to the Lord in His Coming. Therefore, let’s be watchful of the signs that precede the Coming of the Lord, knowing that our Lord is still as Intercessor.

Through Rev. William Branham, He gave us a preview of the things that would be happening before the Coming of the Lord, but still… he said: “He is still High Priest in Heaven, making Intercession.”⁸ He said: “This is a Seal foretold,”⁹ in other words, as he explained It, that is how It would be when It was fulfilled.

Therefore, onward working in the Work of the Lord with Love Divine, love for Christ, love for God and love for His Church; and may God use you greatly in His Work at this end time, in the whole Divine Program pertaining to this end time. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

And tomorrow, God willing, we will see each other in the morning service, where we expect great blessings from God; remembering that what happens in an age (in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh age), is then repeated consecutively in a perfect age: in the Age of the Cornerstone.

As it was in the days of Jesus. In the days of Jesus everything was in Jesus; what had been reflected through the different messenger-prophets of God. Likewise, everything that has been done and reflected in the Church ages will have another run but consecutively, God speaking consecutively; and those are the Seven Thunders of Revelation, which will give the Church the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

If in the first age He worked through a man, to whom He gave the revelation and through him spoke to the people; and He did it in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh ages; He must do it at this end time.

There you have the key of how God will work at this end time. And I can’t speak beyond that; it’s best to not keep speaking so that there is no imitation. But in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, we will speak more openly there.

May God bless you and keep you, and use you greatly in His Work at this end time; and may everyone give a good account to Christ when He asks us to give an account of our labor, our work in His Work; an account in every sense, in the spiritual sense and in the physical sense as well, of how we have labored and worked with what God has provided us to work in this end time. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

“THE SEVEN PROPHETIC VISIONS OF REVEREND WILLIAM BRANHAM BEING FULFILLED BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.”