Good afternoon, kind friends and brethren present here in Puebla, in Mexican Republic. It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion to testify to you about “THE ANGEL WITH THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD,” who appears in Revelation, chapter 7; and let’s read that passage, where it says, chapter 7 of Revelation:
“And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.”
And it continues to enumerate 12.000 sealed from each tribe, mentioning each tribe.
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
In this passage, we find the Angel Messenger who will take the Message to the Hebrew people, the Angel Messenger who will call and gather together 144.000 Hebrews; this Angel appears here and the group of 144.000 Hebrews also appear here, who will be called and gathered together at the Last Day.
And in chapter 14 of Revelation, verse 1 and on, they already appear called, gathered and sealed in their foreheads; chapter 14, verse 1 and on, says:
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his (name) Father’s name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.”
May God help us and allow us to understand this whole mystery of this Angel.
This is the Angel, notice, who calls this group of 144.000; and in Revelation, chapter 14, we find the group of 144.000 already called, gathered and sealed in their foreheads with the Seal of the living God. And it says they had His Name and His Father’s Name written in their foreheads, because under the ministry of this Angel with the Seal of the living God, 144.000 Hebrews are called and gathered from the Hebrew people; but before that, this Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God…
Notice, which is the Seal of the living God? The Seal of the living God is the Holy Spirit; for God says through Saint Paul in chapter 4 of Ephesians [verse 30]:
“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
For which day? The Day of Redemption; sealed with the Holy Spirit in order to be changed, and thus, to obtain the eternal body at the Last Day, and for those who have departed in Christ to be resurrected in eternal bodies; and this is for the Day of Redemption, because it is for the day, for the time we will obtain the return to eternal life with an eternal body (this is for every son and daughter of God).
And at that time, God’s sons and daughters will be manifested in all their fullness in eternal bodies, with eternal life; and the glorious manifestation of the children of God will be there, which the whole Creation cries out for, according to Romans, chapter 8; Saint Paul says, verse 19 and on, says:
“For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
Notice, waiting for what? The redemption, the adoption of our body; because in the divine cycle of the present-day Year of Jubilee, which is the divine cycle relevant to the Age of the Cornerstone, where the dead in Christ will resurrect at the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium, and we who are alive will be changed at this end time, which is the Last Day, when the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled; because the Age of the Cornerstone is eternal, but notice, in the Age of the Cornerstone, there will be a resurrection of the dead in Christ and a transformation of us who are alive.
And now, let’s see what the Scripture tells us here, referring to the Angels He sends… And referring to that mystery of the seventh millennium He teaches us that the seventh millennium is when the resurrection of the dead in Christ will occur and we who are alive will be changed. When Christ speaks in John, chapter 6, verses 39 to 40, He says:
“And I will raise him up at the last day.”
This is so because for the Last Day (which is the seventh millennium) Christ will be carrying out the resurrection of the saints who have departed, and He will be bringing forth, what will He be bringing forth? He will be bringing forth the transformation of us who are alive at this end time.
Now, that mystery of the resurrection of the dead in Christ, notice, is for the end time in which we are living.
Now, according to the divine promise, there will be a Great Voice of Trumpet calling and gathering together the elect of God; that is the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom calling and gathering together all the elect of God. It is the Voice of Christ through this Angel who was different from the rest; that is, the Angel who was different from the rest through the Angel Messenger of Christ, who is this Angel of Revelation 7, who comes (with what?) with the Seal of the living God, he comes with the Holy Spirit. In other words, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, comes manifested in His Angel Messenger and He comes bringing forth the ministry relevant to the Last Day, the ministry relevant to the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
Notice how, through that Angel Messenger, Christ will call and gather together His elect and bring forth that new race in eternal bodies, at the Last Day, through the Work that Christ will be doing at the Last Day.
Through His Coming two thousand years ago, He has already brought forth the new theophanic body, and now, the Second Coming of Christ —the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord at the Last Day— will bring the blessing of the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive.
And now, Christ manifested in His Angel Messenger will be calling and gathering together all His elect among the gentiles first and then among the Hebrew people. That is why, at the end time, Christ will bring the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive.
That is why it tells us, (let’s see) on page 149 of the book of Quotations, it tells us what will be taking place, and also on page 146. Let’s look at page 146, verse 1303, it says1:
“Just like, in the beginning, it was not God’s perfect will for children to be born on the earth through sex (that is, by sex). No, sir. God created man out of the dust of the earth (in other words, God created the human being, man, out of the dust of the earth), breathed the breath of life into him, and he become a living soul. He took from that man a helpmate, and made a wife to him. That was God’s first and original will. But when sin come in and did the thing that it did, then He permitted man to marry a wife, legally, and have children by her. ‘Multiply and replenish the earth, then, if that’s the way you’re going to do it.’ But, you see, it never was His perfect will. Therefore, all these things that had a beginning has to have an end. All sin has to come to annihilation. All sin has to be done away with. Therefore, in the great Millennium when the resurrection comes…”
When?
“…in the great Millennium when the resurrection comes, we will not have to be reborn again by our fathers and mothers (meaning, by our earthly parents), but God like He did in the beginning will call man from the dust of the earth, and his helpmate with him. That’s right. That’s the way He did it at the beginning.”
Such will be the resurrection of the dead in Christ, obtaining a new body, an eternal and glorified body; and it will also be that way for us who are alive, because Christ will change our body and thus, He will give us an eternal body and we will live in it throughout eternity. And this is promised for the Last Day, according to the words of Jesus: “…and I will raise him up (when?) at the last day.”
And now, the Last Day is when Christ sends His Angel Messenger. This is the same Angel… Notice, He comes with the Seal of the living God to call and gather together 144.000 Hebrews, but first, He comes to His Church, to the Church of Jesus Christ, because the Church has come to an end.
Notice, in the message of The Seals in Spanish, on page 57, it says the following (and let’s read that page, which is very important); it says2:
“‘…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. See? All right.
‘…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, See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church.”
Now, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord who was made flesh two thousand years ago and was known by the name of Jesus, notice, He comes at the end time; the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord comes again for the Hebrew people in His Second Coming.
And since the Church of Jesus Christ has come to an end —the seventh age of the gentile Church has finished, it has ended, and only the group of elect of the Last Day remain—, then He comes for His gentile Church, calls and gathers together His elect of the Last Day, places them in the Age of the Cornerstone, calls them with His Message, His Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is the Message for the Hebrew people; but since He also comes to His gentile Church, He comes with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom (which is the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet), which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ.
That is the Message that the Hebrew people will receive, but first, the Church of Jesus Christ receives It, because at this end time, the Church of Jesus Christ has finished; and therefore, the Messenger who will call the Hebrew people comes, he comes to His gentile Church first, to call and gather together the elect of the Last Day.
That is why, notice, on page 30 of the book of The Ages, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ tells us3:
“Now, when is the Gospel returning to the Jews? When the day of the Gentiles is finished (in other words, when the Dispensation of Grace 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.”
Moses and Elijah, the Two Olive Trees, are the ones who take the Gospel back to the Hebrew people, just as the Hebrews brought It to the gentiles through the ministry of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. He says:
“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.”
In other words, before the rapture of the elect takes place, the Hebrew people will already be hearing and receiving the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and this will be through the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, through the ministries of Moses and Elijah, which will be manifested in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God.
In order for the gentiles to take the Gospel to the Hebrews, the gentiles must first have the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is the Message that the Hebrew people will receive; because during these two thousand years that have passed, the gentile Church has tried to take the Gospel to the Hebrews and they have not received It. Why? Because she has been taking them the Gospel of Grace, the Gospel that revolves around the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God. And the Hebrew people have not accepted the First Coming of Christ, they have not received Him as the Lamb of God; therefore, the gentile Church has not been able to take the Message of the Gospel of Grace to the Hebrew people and have It accepted by the Hebrew people as a nation.
But at the Last Day, the Church of Jesus Christ will be in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone and she will have come into the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and then, she will have the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is the Message that revolves around the Second Coming of Christ; and that is the Message that the Hebrew people will receive.
And now, this will return to the Hebrew people, the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom will go to the Hebrew people, through the ministries of Moses and Elijah, through the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, which are the ministries that will be in the Angel who appears in Revelation, chapter 7 with the Seal of the living God.
That Angel is in the midst of the gentile Church first, where the Dispensation of the Kingdom intertwines with the Dispensation of Grace, and where the Age of the Cornerstone intertwines with the seventh gentile Church age, and the Gospel of the Kingdom intertwines with the Gospel of Grace; and then, a new dispensation is established that is in effect before God; and then, God shuts the door of the second dispensation, the door of the Dispensation of Grace, and no one else will be able to enter through that door, because God will shut it. And where will it be shut? At this end time.
When? It says… Let’s see about this door that will be shut; in Luke, it tells us about that door that will be shut, and also in Mark and in Matthew.
Now, let’s look very closely at that door that will be shut so that we can understand it; we want to understand all these divine mysteries. In Luke, chapter 13, verse 25, it tells us about that door… let’s see that door.
Christ said, referring to the sheep and the Fold, He said4: “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.”
And now, let’s see this door that will be shut at the end time. In Luke, chapter 13, verse 22 and on, it says:
“And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.”
That strait gate is the door, which Christ says is Him.
And now, in Matthew, chapter 7, verse 13 and on, we also have that door; it says:
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
And now, notice, it is the same door; and that door is Christ.
And now, it says [Luke 13:25]:
“When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.”
Now, notice how this door of mercy, of grace, which is Christ the Door of the Dispensation of Grace, will be shut; and no one else will be able to enter through that door of grace into the Dispensation of Grace because that door will have already been shut, and the time to enter through that door will be no more; and Christ will have already left the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, and the Blood of Christ will no longer be there making intercession; therefore, God will see the human beings with their sins, those who have not washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and thus, the divine judgment will fall upon the human race.
That is when the words are fulfilled: “He which is filthy, let him be filthy still,” that is, the one who is unclean (as the Scripture teaches us); and this is so because there will no longer be an opportunity to wash away one’s sins in the Blood of Christ, because He will have already left the Throne of Intercession. Chapter 22, verse 11 of Revelation, says:
“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.”
Now notice, the moment will come when no one else can be washed by the Blood of the Lamb because He will no longer be on the Throne of Intercession in Heaven; and He will have already left and claimed His Inheritance, His Church, everyone He has redeemed with His precious Blood; and He will have resurrected them and they will be in eternal bodies, and we who are alive will be changed and we will have the eternal body; but there will be no more mercy for humanity because the door will have already been shut.
Now, notice how by God’s mercy, in Latin America and the Caribbean, God is still extending His mercy in the Age of the Cornerstone (which pertains to Latin America and the Caribbean), and He is calling and gathering together all His elect, whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. And there are people whose names are written in the other section and they also receive a blessing from God: they help God’s elect, they are a blessing and help to God’s elect, and they shall not lose their reward in the Kingdom of God.
Now, God’s mercy is manifested on Earth for the last time through the ministry of the Angel who was (here)… through the ministry of the Angel who was different from the rest, manifested in human flesh in the Angel Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, notice how God’s mercy at the Last Day will be manifested for the last time under the ministry of Moses and Elijah. In the book of The Seals in Spanish it says… (let’s see)…, on page 369, it says5:
“Notice the last verse of the Sixth Seal, opened. Those who had laughed at the preaching of the Word, of the vindicated Word of the living God; when them prophets had stood there and performed miracles, closed the sun, and everything else, and all down through the age. See, ‘They cried for the rocks and the mountains to hide them,’ see, to hide them from the Word that they had laughed at, ’cause they seen Him come. ‘Hide us from the wrath of the Lamb.’ He is the Word. See? They had laughed at the Word. And here the Word was, incarnate. And they had made fun of It; laughed at them, made fun of them. And the incarnate Word had dropped forth! Why didn’t they repent? They couldn’t. It was too far, then. So, they knowed that, the punishment. They hear It. They had sat in meetings like this and knowed about It. And they knowed that the things of those prophets, had predicted, was looking them right in the face, the thing that they had rejected. They had spurned mercy for the last time. And when you spurn mercy, there is nothing left but judgment. When you spurn mercy; just think of it.
(Now, it says):
And there they was. They had no place to go, no retreat. And the Bible said here, ‘They called for the…Cried to the rocks and the mountains, to, “Fall on us, and hide us from the—from the face of the…and the wrath of the Lamb.”’ They tried to repent, but the Lamb had come to claim His Own, see. And they cried to the rocks and the mountain. Prayed, but the prayers were too late.”
Now we can see under whose ministry God’s mercy is manifested for the last time: under the ministry of Moses and Elijah, under the ministry of the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God, in whom the ministry of Moses is manifested for the second time and the ministry of Elijah is manifested for the fifth time.
We have seen that these are the ministries promised for the end time, along with the ministry of Jesus.
When God speaks in His Word and promises to send a prophet He already sent in the past, when he appears again: the ministry of that prophet appears in a man of the present time, of the time when God fulfills that promise.
For example, we have Elijah the Tishbite. Then, Elisha asked for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah and it came upon Elisha, when Elijah was taken to Heaven in a chariot of fire or flying saucer, and then, Elisha came with the double portion of the ministering spirit that was in Elijah; and that was the second manifestation of the ministry of Elijah on this planet Earth.
Then, God had also promised to send Elijah to forerun the First Coming of Christ; and when He sent him, the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Zechariah the priest and told him that he would have a son who would be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb, and he would come in the spirit and with the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children; and notice, he told him6: “And you will name him John,” and he said that he would come with the spirit and power of Elijah. He was the Elijah who was to come at that time, in the third coming of Elijah.
And when Elijah comes, he always comes in a new veil of flesh:
The second coming of Elijah was the second coming of the ministry of Elijah in a new man, who was Elisha.
The third coming of Elijah was in a new man, in a new veil of flesh named John the Baptist.
The fourth coming of Elijah was in a new man, named William Marrion Branham.
And the fifth coming of Elijah is in that Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God to call and gather together 144.000 Hebrews; and that Angel is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ sent at the Last Day to the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, referring to the Elijah who would come to preach to the Hebrew people, answered who it would be and how that promise would be fulfilled when he was asked question number 11 on page 399 of the book The Seals, where it says… that eleventh question says the following7:
“‘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. Because, see, he says, when Elijah was caught up and Elisha encountered the sons of the prophets, they said: ‘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.”
What was the coming of Elijah for the second time? It was the ministry of Elijah in Elisha, because Elisha had done just like Elijah did.
And now, what will be the coming of the Elijah who will preach to the Hebrew people at the Last Day, in the fifth manifestation of Elijah, in the fifth coming of Elijah? It will be a man of this time anointed with that spirit, anointed with that ministering spirit of Elijah in its fifth manifestation. That will be the fifth coming of Elijah to Earth; it is the ministry of Elijah coming to Earth for the fifth time.
That ministry is always operated by whom? The Holy Spirit, who operated it in Elijah the Tishbite, in Elisha, in John the Baptist, in Reverend William Marrion Branham, and at the Last Day, He will be operating it in the Angel who ascends with the Seal of the living God, who is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that is the Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and Angel Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
Now we can see this mystery of the coming of Elijah for the fifth time.
Also, when telling us about Moses, notice, the forerunner says the following… he identifies for us who Moses will be. On page 326 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, he says8:
“Moses will be the same person. Now, and we find out, in Revelation 22:8, the same thing.”
And what do we find in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 8? He says Moses will be the same person: “Now, and we find out, in Revelation 22:8, the same thing”</em>; Who are we finding there? Moses. And now, let’s see who Moses will be according to the book of Revelation; it says:
“And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.”
Who is this Angel? He is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, sent to testify all these things which must shortly be done; this is the Angel who brings the revelation of Jesus Christ. And at the Last Day, Christ will be revealed in him and through him, because Christ will be veiled and revealed through His Angel Messenger, and He will be doing the things He said He would do at this end time.
People will be seeing a man, a prophet who will be doing all these things; but if they look at who will be behind that man, they will realize that the one who will be behind that man will be Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger at this Last Day; and he will be calling and gathering His elect from among the gentiles first and then from among the Hebrew people.
Now we can see that this Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is a prophet; he comes making known the things which must shortly be done.
And that is what God’s prophets have done in the Old Testament and also in the New Testament when God has sent them: He has sent them testifying the things which must be done; because they come prophesying the things that must come to pass. And here we have the Angel Messenger who brought the prophetic Message to John the apostle, the Message of the prophecy of all these things which must shortly be done.
And now, notice how that prophetic Message —of the Angel of Jesus Christ given to John the apostle— is being fulfilled throughout these two thousand years that have passed; and what is left to be fulfilled will be fulfilled in the seventh millennium, in other words, at the Last Day, in which we are already living if we add to the calendar the years it is behind.
This is the only Angel Messenger who is different from the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church. The seven messengers of the seven ages were messengers of ages, but this Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God is a dispensational prophet; and God only has seven prophets of that kind, seven dispensational prophets; because God only has seven dispensations.
And now, those seven dispensational prophets are:
Adam for the Dispensation of Innocence;
Seth for the Dispensation of Conscience;
Noah for the third dispensation, the Dispensation of Human Government;
Abraham for the Dispensation of the Promise, which is the fourth dispensation;
Moses for the fifth dispensation, the Dispensation of the Law;
Jesus for the Dispensation of Grace, which is the sixth dispensation;
and the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is the seventh dispensation.
Notice how each one of those messengers came with the Holy Spirit, with the Spirit of God manifested in them; and by speaking through those prophets, the Holy Spirit came among the human beings, and He came revealing the things that were going to take place. That is how, from dispensation to dispensation, the revelation for each dispensation has come through the dispensational messenger God has sent.
And now, at the Last Day, God sends His Angel Messenger, the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God, in whom Jesus Christ comes manifested in Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel who was different from the rest; who appeared in heaven with the seven angel messengers of the seven ages, here in this cloud that was captured in pictures, this cloud that appeared on February 28, 1963, 26 miles high, with a width, measuring 30 miles wide; it was a giant cloud; and no cloud can appear at that height because there is no moisture at a height of 26 miles.
It was none other than God’s angels: the angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church, and the Angel who was different from the rest, which is Christ, the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven, clothed with a cloud; and He was seen there, clothed with that cloud formed by angels, and we find Him manifested there in the sky, in the air, with those angels; and that is the sign in heaven, of the Coming of the Son of Man.
When the sign of the Coming of the Son of Man was in heaven two thousand years ago, the wise men looked and saw the Star of Bethlehem, or the sign called the Star of Bethlehem, and they reached the land of Israel, asking9: “Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east.” When the sign was seen in heaven, the wise men understood that the Messiah was on Earth. That sign had been in heaven for two years already, therefore, the Messiah had to be approximately two years old, and He must have been born somewhere.
They did not know which place, which city it would be; but when king Herod called the doctors of the Law (he called the scribes, he called these people and the chief priests) and asked them where the Christ, the Messiah, was to be born, they said10: “In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet”; that is, the prophet Micah, in chapter 5, verse 2, he talks about the birth of the Messiah, the birth of the Prince who will rule the Hebrew people.
Where would the Ruler or King of the Hebrew people be born? In Bethlehem of Judea, where David had been born; and since He is a descendant of David, where must He come? In Bethlehem of Judea.
Bethlehem means ‘the House of God’s Bread’; and since Christ is the House of God’s Bread…, for Peter said11: “You have the words of Eternal Life.” “Man shall not live by literal bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”12
And since Christ is the House of Bread of Eternal Life, since Christ is the House of the Word of God (which was manifested there in human flesh) notice, He had to be born in the place that represented Him: Bethlehem, which means ‘the House of God’s Bread.’
And now, we can see that the Messiah came in a humble way. They expected the Coming of the Messiah according to their interpretations, the great wise religious people, the theologians of that time; but God fulfilled that promise in such a humble way that they could not even perceive that it was already fulfilled among them; and then, when He began His ministry, notice, they did not even realize that He was the one who had been born in Bethlehem of Judea but He was raised (where?) in Nazareth.
Notice how God blinds the wise. When God took the child Jesus from the land of Bethlehem of Judea to the land of Egypt, and then, from the land of Egypt He called Him to go back to the land of Israel —and they went back to the land of Israel, but they did not return to Bethlehem of Judea, instead, they went to Nazareth—, by God doing that, by Mary, Joseph, and the child Jesus going to live in Nazareth, that is how He hid the Messiah from the eyes of the wise and prudent; and from the king who came after king Herod (who sought the children to kill them when he was in search of the Messiah), then, the other king who came after that king who killed the children, we find that this other king was not able to find the Messiah either13</a>; He was already being raised, where? In Nazareth.
And now, notice, He remained hidden from the Roman Government and from the type of government the Hebrew people may have had, and also from the Hebrew religion and its great religious leaders.
They could say: “The Messiah has to come from Bethlehem of Judea.” But why weren’t they there when He was born? When the wise men arrived in the land of Israel, in Jerusalem, asking for the Messiah, why didn’t they go with the wise men to look for the Messiah in Bethlehem of Judea?
And now, when the Messiah began His ministry, some said: “Jesus cannot be the Messiah because He is from Nazareth,” but they did not know He had been born in Bethlehem of Judea; because the time for them to see and know the birth of the Messiah in Bethlehem of Judea had been when Jesus was in Bethlehem of Judea.
And now, notice, some people may say, for example, some of you may say: “I am from…” Let’s say this, some may say: “I am from Monterrey,” and yet, where are you? In Puebla. Anyone may say: “No, I’m waiting for someone coming from Monterrey, and you are in Puebla. You can’t be the person I’m expecting”; however, someone who knows you may say: “He is that person, it’s just that he was born in Monterrey, he was there in Monterrey for some time, but then he moved to Puebla; but he is from Monterrey.” If we look for his birth certificate, it says he was born, where? In Monterrey, even though he is living in Puebla.
And now, notice, when Nathanael went and got Philip, or rather, Philip went and got Nathanael, and he tells him: “Look, we have found the one Moses spoke of,” immediately, Nathanael asks: “Where is He from?” Philip tells him: “From Nazareth. We have found Jesus of Nazareth.” And Nathanael says: “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”14
Just like sometimes, well, we make comments about some cities or some places, in countries. We say: “Can anything good come out of such a place? (If an important person has never come from there) Can anyone important come from that place?” And if it is announced that the most important person is coming, well, some may even doubt it and say: “But nothing good has ever come out of there (!). How can he come from there?”
For example, they can try to look for someone to be a presidential candidate; and if they get him from a place where no good politician has ever come from and no president has ever come from that place, people may say: “And can anything good come out of that place? No good politician has ever come from there; no one from that place has even managed to be a senator.” But notice, now the person who will become president is coming from that place; and many may even doubt that he can attain the position of president, because a good politician has never come from that place, who’s reached a very high position.
And that is what happened with Jesus of Nazareth: nothing good had come out of Nazareth; in other words, no great religious leader had ever come from there, and it seems like no political leader either, no important people had come out of that territory; but now, to say the Messiah was coming out of there when a prophet had never come out of Nazareth, and now, the greatest prophet was coming out of there, well, that surprised people, and they doubted that the Prophet Messiah of the Hebrew people could come out of that place; and they said: “But doesn’t the Scripture say He has to be from Bethlehem of Judea?” But that had already been fulfilled.
Now, notice how this great blessing of the First Coming of Christ was hidden by God, and they stumbled over the veil of flesh in whom the First Coming of Christ was being fulfilled. They stumbled where people always stumble: in the veil of flesh; because they do not understand that when God promises something great, it is great in terms of God’s manifestation, but in terms of the veil of flesh through which this great event is fulfilled, the veil of flesh is a simple person.
Notice, the First Coming of Christ: the greatest event promised to be fulfilled at that time in the midst of the Hebrew people, and yet, the veil of flesh in whom such a great promise was being fulfilled was a simple construction worker; the Hebrew people were expecting a king and the one who came was a construction worker, a carpenter. It seems like that does not match the greatness that the Hebrew people were expecting, because they did not understand that the great part, the greatness is what was inside that construction worker named Jesus of Nazareth.
God does it that way so that no one depends on their human wisdom and no one seeks human greatness to glorify the human part, but instead, so that everyone seeks the divine greatness, the divine part manifested in that human simplicity; so that this way, the human part is not glorified, but instead, the divine part: so that God is glorified.
Now, notice how simple everything was in the First Coming of Christ.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says it will also be that way for the Second Coming of Christ, the Mighty Angel, the Angel who descends from Heaven clothed in that cloud, he says it will also be that way: he says that His Coming will be in a simple way.
And now, when we speak of a “simple way,” that is referring to the human part, and when we speak of “the glorious part,” that is referring to the divine part.
For example, in the cherubim that were in the most holy place of the temple Solomon built, when we speak about or refer to the human part that will be manifested in the fulfilment of those two cherubim, well, we are referring to the olive wood: the Two Olive Trees; as it says in Revelation, chapter 11, verse 3 and on, and Zechariah, chapter 4.
And when we speak of the divine part, of the Divinity manifested in that human part, when we speak of Divinity, of the divine part that will be manifested there, in the ministry of Moses and Elijah, in the ministry of the Two Olive Trees, well, what are we referring to? The gold that overlaid the two cherubim of gold, of wood and gold, that king Solomon built.
Now, we can see that God always works the great things He has promised in simplicity; and people stumble over the veil of flesh, which is always simple, and sometimes they cannot believe that something as great as what God has promised is being fulfilled in a simple person from the time in which people are living.
And that is what happened in the First Coming of Christ: they were expecting a very important character, a great character, and a young carpenter, a construction worker came preaching and revealing to the people that the Coming of the Messiah was fulfilled in Him; and they stumbled over that veil of flesh.
But Christ said15: “And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me”; because they always stumble over the veil of flesh where God fulfills His promises. Where God fulfills the Coming of the Messiah, notice, was where the big religious leaders of that time stumbled: they stumbled over the Cornerstone, the stumbling Stone16.
Now, for the Last Day, notice, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels will be fulfilled; and the great and glorious part will be the divine manifestation there will be at that time, fulfilling the Coming of the Son of Man (manifesting the ministry of Jesus) and the Coming of the Angels (which is the Coming of the ministries of Moses and Elijah); and all of that coming manifested in a man of this end time, which is the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God in Revelation, chapter 7, he is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that Angel is not Jesus Christ, he is not Moses and he is not Elijah either, but Jesus Christ will be manifesting the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus in that Angel.
That is the mystery of the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ and that is the mystery of the Seventh Seal and that is the mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels; and that mystery is revealed to the Church of Jesus Christ at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and in the Latin American and Caribbean territory.
Notice what a great blessing we have been given in the Latin American and Caribbean territory according to God’s Program relevant to this end time.
And now, we have seen that the coming of Moses is not literally Moses coming, but the ministry of Moses being placed in a man of this end time, who is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and the coming of Elijah for the fifth time is the coming of the ministry of Elijah in a man of this end time; and the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Mighty Angel, Jesus Christ coming in Holy Spirit, manifested in His Angel Messenger, operating the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus.
Now, let’s see what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said referring to the Angel who was different from the rest, where he says: on page 469 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, he says17:
“And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’ He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them. You remember that? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here (he is referring to this cloud, of angels), 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…”
And the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit coming at the Last Day and manifesting Himself in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
Now, notice what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says; on page 134 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, he says18:
“Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, we’ll crown Him King of kings and Lord of lords.”
And also on page 277 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says, while praying19:
“…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.”
And now, we have seen who is the white horse Rider of Revelation 19: It is the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit.
And now, on page 256 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, notice, according to what was said, that the Holy Spirit will come in human flesh, now let’s see how He will come20:
“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.”
If we find that man, we will find the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, manifested in human flesh at this Last Day.
It will be the Word incarnate in a man of this end time; just as the ministry of Elijah will be the ministry of Elijah in a man of this end time, and the same for the ministry of Moses.
And now, the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, notice, is the Seventh Seal; it is Jesus Christ, it is the Holy Spirit, it is the Angel of the Covenant coming at the Last Day in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
If we find that veil of flesh, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will find the manifestation of the Seventh Seal, the manifestation of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, in human flesh, in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; we will find the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus being manifested in human flesh in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and we will find him calling and gathering together all the elect of God at the Last Day, in Latin America and the Caribbean; because that white horse Rider of Revelation 19 comes from the West.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says on page 166 of the book of Quotations, verse 1485 (which is an excerpt of the message “God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship,” page 2), says21:
“Now, there’s… I was… getting pretty old, and I thought, ‘Will I… Will there be another revival, I’ll see another time?’ And just remember, from the west will come a white horse rider. We’ll ride this trail again. That’s right. Soon as we get ready. It’s a promise, you see.”
If it is a promise, it has to be in the Bible. That is the promise of Revelation 19, verse 11 and on: the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, which is the Coming of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who two thousand years ago came incarnate in a man of that time named Jesus.
And for the Last Day, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, will come again in human flesh in a man of this end time, which is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the Angel of Revelation, chapter 7, who comes with the Seal of the living God, he comes with the Holy Spirit, he comes with the Angel of the Covenant manifested in him, he comes with the Word incarnate at the Last Day.
The Word is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, in other words, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, and He comes manifested in human flesh at the Last Day in His Angel Messenger.
That is why John the apostle tried to worship him on two occasions: in Revelation, chapter 19, verses 9 to 10, and Revelation, chapter 22, verses 6 to 9; and the Angel told him: “See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren. Worship God.”
And now, notice how this Angel Messenger positions himself correctly: he does not allow worship; because only God must be worshipped; and this Angel is only the prophet messenger of Jesus Christ, through whom Christ in the Holy Spirit manifests Himself at the Last Day and operates the ministries of Jesus, Moses and Elijah; those ministries promised to be manifested on Earth in human flesh at the Last Day. In other words, these three great ministries are manifested in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, in one man alone, because God does not have two major prophets at the same time.
And now, we have seen who is THE ANGEL WITH THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD. The Seal of the living God is the Holy Spirit, It is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, in other words, It is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit; and now, this Angel with the Seal of the living God comes at the Last Day.
He is the Angel who comes with the Holy Spirit incarnate in him to testify all these things unto all the churches and all the human beings and all the nations, and to call and gather together all the elect of God —from among the gentiles first—, and thus, for the number of God’s elect of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to be completed; and then, he will call and gather together 144.000 Hebrews from the people of Israel.
We have seen the mystery of THE ANGEL WITH THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD. That is the Angel Messenger who comes with the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet.
The Message of this Angel Messenger is the Voice of the Archangel, and It is the Trumpet of God; because with the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, he testifies all these things which must shortly be done at this end time, and he identifies the things that have already been fulfilled.
It has been a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about THE ANGEL WITH THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD of Revelation, chapter 7, verse 2 and on.
He is the Angel Messenger for the Church of Jesus Christ at this end time and he is also the Angel Messenger for the Hebrew people at this end time. He is the prophet messenger of the 21st century and of all the rest of the centuries to follow, and he is also the prophet messenger of the seventh millennium and for all eternity as well.
This is the Angel Messenger who comes with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom preaching at the Last Day; and in Revelation, chapter 14, verse 6, it says:
“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.”
That is the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ, with the Eternal Gospel, because his Message will be for the Millennium and then, for all eternity. With that Message, all the mysteries of God will be revealed to God’s sons and daughters during the seventh millennium and throughout eternity.
This Angel Messenger was represented in the seven angel messengers of the seven gentile Church ages. That is why we will find that there were things in those messengers that later become fully fulfilled in the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God.
The seven angel messengers along with the seven ages of the gentile Church are represented in that Angel and our age as well; because it is the age of the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God.
He is the only Angel Messenger —sent by Christ— who will be able to take 144.000 Hebrews and place them in his age. That is why later on they appear in Revelation 14 being placed (where?) on Mount Zion, with the Lamb, because they are placed in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age of the top of Mount Zion; they are placed in that age where that Angel Messenger who comes with the Seal of the living God is found.
All the other messengers wished to call and gather together that group of 144.000 Hebrews. And where do you think Saint Paul would have put them? Well, in the first age. And where would the second angel messenger of the second age of the gentile Church have put them? Well, he would have put them in the second age. And where would Martin have put them? In the third age, which was his age. And where would Columba have put them? Well, in the fourth age. And where would Luther have put them? Well, in the fifth age. And where would Wesley have put them? Well, in the sixth age. And where would William Branham have placed them? In the seventh age of the gentile Church; because each angel messenger calls and gathers together God’s elect in the age in which and to which God has sent him.
And now, where will the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God, gather the 144.000 Hebrews? He will gather them in the Age of the Cornerstone and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom. And where will he gather the elect from among the gentiles? Well, in the Age of the Cornerstone as well and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
We have seen the mystery of THE ANGEL WITH THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD, we have seen who that Angel is: he is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the last dispensational prophet messenger and also the messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the Angel with the Seal of the living God from Revelation, chapter 7, verse 2 and on.
It has been a privilege to testify to you about THE ANGEL WITH THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD, and to show you that this Angel will be in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ at the Last Day, and from there, he will go to the Hebrew people. He will be in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ in the West, in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the territory where Christ fulfills the Age of the Cornerstone.
In God’s manifestation in that Angel Messenger, the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, the Holy Spirit comes incarnate in that Angel Messenger; and that Rider on that white horse comes from the West, as the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says in the passage I read you, on page 166 of the book of Quotations, where it says: “From the west will come a white horse rider. We’ll ride this trail, this path, again. It’s a promise.” It’s the promise of the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19.
And now, the forerunner identifies the territory: the West. And now, in these last days, God has identified the territory of the West where this promise will be fulfilled. After the forerunner said that Rider on the white horse would come from the West…, and the West is the territory or American continent, which consists of North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean; and the seventh age of the gentile Church was already fulfilled in North America, and now, the Age of the Cornerstone pertains to the rest of the American continent, in other words, it pertains to Latin America and the Caribbean.
In a veil of flesh from the Latin American and Caribbean territory, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, will come manifested at the Last Day, the Angel of the Covenant manifested in human flesh; and that will be the Word incarnate in a man; and that will be the ministry of Moses in a man of this time, a man anointed with that ministry; and that will be the ministry of Elijah in a man of this end time, a man anointed with that ministry at this end time; and that will also be a man anointed with the ministry of Jesus in this end time.
That will be a man, a man anointed with the Holy Spirit at the end time. That will be a man in whom the Angel of the Covenant will be, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel who was different from the rest, who appeared in that cloud, coming manifested in human flesh and carrying out His Program pertaining to this end time, carrying it out through a man of this end time.
People will see a man, but the elect will see Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant manifested through a man of this end time, and therefore, they will see the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus; they will be seeing the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels at this end time.
But that man is not Jesus Christ, he is not Moses and he is not Elijah either. He is only the prophet messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, preaching It at this end time. And that human part will be the simple part, and the great part will be the Divine part that will be manifested through that man. And that man is THE ANGEL WITH THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD</strong>; that is the Angel who comes with the Seventh Seal manifested in him.
Now we have seen how the Seventh Seal will be fulfilled, manifested at this end time, in the midst of His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone; a stage that pertains to the Latin American and Caribbean people. That is why the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said that the Thunders uttered their voices in another language, in a language unknown to him22.
Well, let’s leave that alone for another occasion when we talk about the Thunders and what the Thunders reveal; because the Thunders give the rapturing faith to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, they give her the faith, the revelation for the rapture, which is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ with His Angels at this end time.
It has been a great blessing to be with you here in the city of Puebla, in the Mexican Republic, testifying to you about: “THE ANGEL WITH THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD.”
May the blessings of Jesus Christ promised for this end time be upon each one you and also upon me, and soon, may we all be changed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, and may you all have a wonderful afternoon.
I leave Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin with us to continue and conclude our participation on this occasion, and then we will continue for and in the next services we will have here, in the city of Puebla.
Miguel will announce to you those next activities we will have here, so we still have time until the next services. Therefore, I will leave Miguel with us to let you know about the next services for today.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“THE ANGEL WITH THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD.”
1 Does God Ever Change His Mind About His Word?, page 19 – April 18, 1965
2 The Seals in English, page 70
3 The Ages in English, page 36
4 John 10:9
5 The Seals in English, page 435
6 Luke 1:13
7 The Seals in English, page 471
8 The Seals in English, page 384
9 Matthew 2:2
10 Matthew 2:5
11 John 6:68
12 Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4
13 Matthew 2:22-23
14 John 1:45-46
15 Matthew 11:6
16 Romans 9:32-33; First Peter 2:7-8
17 The Seals in English, page 558
18 The Seals in English, page 158
19 The Seals in English, page 327
20 The Seals in English, page 303
21 God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship, page 1 – November 28, 1965
22 The Seals in English, page 562, paragraph 300