Good morning, beloved brethren and friends present, and those who are connected through the internet or other means of communication. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
For this reason, let’s read in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, where it says:
“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.
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
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 let’s also read Revelation chapter 8, verse 1, where it says:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour (there was silence in Heaven about the space of half an hour).”
Our subject is: “THE CONTENT OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
The content of the Seventh Seal, since the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord at the end time, the Coming of the Lord contains the entire Program of God relevant to this end time; which Jesus Christ, the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, will carry out.
This Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven is Christ in His heavenly body; it is Christ, who is also called the Pillar of Fire in the Old Testament, and is also called the Angel of the Lord or Angel of the Covenant.
Now, just like Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, was veiling and revealing Himself through different men in the Old Testament, later on He came and veiled and revealed Himself in all His fullness in Jesus of Nazareth, who was born in Bethlehem of Judea, but grew up in Nazareth. That is why the Scripture says that God dwelled in Jesus in all His fullness.
Notice what Saint Paul tells us, in Colossians, chapter 1, verse 15 and on; it says:
“Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell (all the fullness of God dwelt, abided, in Jesus Christ our Savior);
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled…”
And in chapter 2, verses 9, it says [Colossians]:
“For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.”
And in Romans [Colossians], notice, he told us here:
“For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”
That is why through Jesus Christ, God carried out the Work of Reconciliation; God, being in Christ, was reconciling the human being, the human race, to Himself.
In chapter 5 of Romans, it also tells us, verse 8 and on:
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.”
And now, through Jesus, God brought the human being’s atonement or reconciliation. That is why Jesus came, and took our sins and died on Calvary’s Cross: to take away our sins and reconcile us to God, and to restore us to Eternal Life, which the human being fell from in the Garden of Eden.
Given that God put the human being on Earth and gave him a Program to carry out… and therefore, Adam had the Title Deed, which is the Book of the Seven Seals, and all the names of all of God’s sons and daughters who would be manifested and would be adopted are written there.
Now, this Book is an eternal Book; this Book existed before Creation. That is why our names have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the creation of the world, before the creation of the universe, before all of Creation.
And now, when God put Adam on Earth, Adam was called to go through that stage of trial to be adopted and to manifest (first in heavenly bodies and then in physical bodies) all those people who are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, in other words, all the people who are written in the Book of the Seven Seals, which is the Lamb’s Book of Life.
And thus, Adam would bring God’s sons and daughters who come from eternity, he would bring them in eternal bodies; just like they would also first be manifested in the sixth dimension, and then in the earthly dimension, but with Eternal Life. But by Adam and Eve sinning, they fell from Eternal Life, and they lost all right to live eternally in physical bodies; that is why they became mortal; but they weren’t mortal before.
Now, we find that before the human being was put on Earth, a race existed, which was similar to the human being. That is the race that we find in archeological excavations, where bones appear of people who lived ten thousand years ago or one hundred thousand years ago, or some millions of years ago; because science believes that the human being used to be that way; but they don’t know that is an animal race, a race that didn’t have a soul, although its body was similar to the human being’s, all it needed to be a human being was a soul.
That is the same race that and to which the serpent belongs, which the devil went inside of and beguiled Eve.1
Now, that is the race that and in which Lucifer was, as its head; in other words, Lucifer was in charge of that race; but because of his rebellion, he made that race perish.
But then, when God brought the planet Earth back to light, and brought the seeds (in other words, the seeds that were there from another past generation), they sprouted, and then there were trees again, and animals. And since the only thing missing in the old creation of the planet Earth and its inhabitants, the only thing it lacked was the head of creation, which was the human being, now, when God carries out that re-creation in six days before God (which are six thousand years to the human being), in the year – on the sixth day, which is the sixth millennium, God brings Adam into existence and later Eve.
We find that He first brought them into existence in the sixth dimension, the dimension of the invisible world;2 for things which are seen (visible things), were made of things which do not appear (meaning, of the invisible world).3 That is the Divine order so that things that are manifested, coming from the sixth dimension, are eternal, have Eternal Life.
Now, we find that the human being is very young; notice, the human being is only a few thousand years old.
Now, we find that, because the first Adam sinned, then he lost the right to bring forth sons and daughters of God with Eternal Life; the right to eat of the Tree of Life was taken away from him. Therefore, the human being —who would be born through Adam and Eve— would be mortal, corruptible, and temporary. But that season here on Earth would give him the opportunity to seek God and to position himself in God’s Program for the time, age, and dispensation that each person would be given to live in, to thus be sealed in God’s Program and have the right to live eternally again in the Kingdom of God; because by being born on Earth, the human being is born into the kingdom of darkness, which is the kingdom of the devil.
That is why, just as Christ He delivered the Hebrew people from bondage in Egypt and from the power of Pharaoh, Christ has delivered all those who are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, He has delivered them from the kingdom of darkness and the power of the devil, who is the prince of darkness. That is why Saint Paul, in Colossians chapter 1, verse 12 and on, says:
“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.”
And now, just as a paschal lamb was sacrificed in Egypt, and the blood of that paschal lamb was applied on the lintel and doorposts (meaning, on the door frames) of the Hebrew homes, for the preservation of the life of the firstborn… to then go out the next morning towards – free and towards the promised land4…
And now, they would go free, and now not with a king like the one of Egypt, not with Pharaoh as king, but with God as King, manifested through the prophet Moses; and they were taken towards the promised land.
On Mount Sinai they were given two tables of the Law, where the Divine commandments were written by God; and God formed, created, a people, and those people would be a people of priests. That is in Exodus, chapter 19, where it tells us (God tells Moses and Moses tells the people)… verse 3 and on:
“And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.”
And now notice how God tells the Hebrew people through the prophet Moses, that if they keep the Divine Covenant and hear His Voice, they will be God’s peculiar treasure, and they will be a people, a kingdom of priests.
And now, the Hebrew people had this blessing in their hands. But we find that during their trajectory through the wilderness, the Hebrew people were always rising up against Moses, and therefore, that counted against them as rising up against God, because God was in Moses; Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, was in the prophet Moses.
And now, we find that those people of priests would be the Hebrew people. But now, we find that, in the earthly Israel, only the descendants of Levi had the right to be priests5; therefore, not all the people were priests, but a priestly order was among those people.
But the heavenly Priestly Order, which is the Priestly Order of Melchizedek, all the elect of God, sons and daughters of God, which belong to the heavenly Israel, are all priests of God, and they are kings and judges as well.
Now, in Matthew chapter 21, verse 41 and on, Jesus says… there He told or narrated a parable, of… the parable of the householder; and then, there on verse 37, He says:
“But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son (meaning, God sending His Son Jesus Christ, sending Him to the Hebrew people).
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him (that was what they were going to do with Jesus: they were going to kill Him; Christ is already telling them that they are going to kill Him).
When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons (that is what the Jews said, answering Jesus’ question).
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures,
The stone which the builders rejected,
the same is become the head of the corner:
this is the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”
In other words, whoever falls on this Stone, which is Christ, whoever falls surrendered at the Feet of Christ: is brokenhearted, is afflicted in his heart because he sinned before God, and he asks God for the forgiveness of his sins; because he repents of his sins by falling on the Stone, Christ, surrendered at the Feet of Christ, and he obtains the mercy of God and salvation.
But on whomever that Stone falls: It will grind him to powder. And It will fall on the feet of iron and clay of the kingdom of the Gentiles, which began with the head of gold: the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar; it continued with the chest and arms of silver, which was the Medo-Persian kingdom; and then it continued with the belly and thighs of brass, which was the Greek kingdom; and then it continued with the legs of iron and the feet of iron and of clay, which is the Roman empire. And it is in the stage of the feet of iron and clay that Christ, in His Second Coming, will break to pieces those feet of iron and clay, which is the kingdom of the antichrist.
Now, we find that all of this is in the Biblical prophecy6. Notice, the Coming of the Lord is prophesied from Genesis, both the First and the Second Coming of Christ; It is prophesied in types and figures.
And notice, the First and the Second Coming of Christ are typified there in Joseph; therefore, the Seventh Seal is being reflected in Joseph.
The Seventh Seal being reflected from Genesis, and not only in Joseph, but also in Jacob; in Isaac as the promised son, because Christ in His First Coming and in His Second Coming is the Promised Son, He is the Seed of Abraham.
Therefore, the Seventh Seal has been announced from Genesis to what? To Revelation. In other words, the Second Coming of Christ has been announced in the different prophecies, in types and figures, in the reflections; God reflecting through His prophets, reflecting the Coming of the Lord, which has two parts: It has the First and the Second Coming of Christ.
The Coming of the Lord was reflected in Adam, because Christ is the Second Adam; therefore, Christ was reflected in Adam.
And so on, we find that Christ, both in His First Coming and in His Second Coming, is reflected in the different prophets of the Old Testament, and also in the different sacrifices carried out in the Old Testament.
Therefore, from Genesis to now, throughout the Bible, the Seventh Seal is being shown; because throughout the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, the Second Coming of Christ, the Second Coming of the Angel of the Lord, of the Angel of the Covenant, is announced.
And now, the Seventh Seal, being the Second Coming of Christ, what the Seventh Seal contains is the Second Coming of Christ; and when It was opened, in chapter 8 of Revelation, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour.
And why would a Seal as important as that one, upon being opened in Heaven, cause silence? Now, let’s see why. Reverend William Branham says that the reason was so that the devil wouldn’t become aware of, wouldn’t know the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ.7
Why was it best that the devil not become aware of, not know that mystery? Because the devil is an impersonator, and he would be imitating the Seventh Seal: imitating the Second Coming of Christ. But since he doesn’t know this mystery, he won’t be able to make a perfect impersonation; therefore, by not knowing that mystery, no matter how much he tries, he won’t be able to imitate.
Notice, when something is going to be manifested, let’s say, some construction, or when they’re going to prepare a work of art, or they’re going to prepare a song, or some country is going to manufacture coins (whether they are bills or metal coins): if no one knows, if no one is aware of how they’re going to do it, and no one manages to see or manages to obtain the blueprint and the tools to make an imitation: well, we find that the work they’re going to do is successfully carried out, without anyone managing to make an imitation before whatever they are doing is launched; whether it’s coins, bills, or whether it’s a work of art, or whether it’s a song, or whether it’s a project; whatever it may be. See?
Now, we find that, when throughout Biblical prophecy, from Genesis and on, It was announced (from Genesis to Malachi), the Coming of the Lord was announced, we find that the devil was trying to imitate the First Coming of Christ. And that is why when Jesus Christ appeared, He said: “Those who came before Me are thieves and robbers, they are deceivers; but the sheep did not listen to them.”8 See? Impersonators had come.
That is why they also said that before Jesus, Theudas and Judas had come, and drew away many disciples after them; but when they died, everything fell apart. And then… Gamaliel was the one who said that, and he said: “So leave these men alone; because if this work is of men, the same thing will happen; but if this Work is of God, no one will be able to destroy it; lest we find ourselves resisting God.”9
Because when people fight against the Work of God, whether they understand it or not, when they fight, it’s almost always because they don’t understand that that is the Work of God, and they are blind to the Work of God; and even though they say that they love God, they are acting against God, they are fighting against God.
And now, we find that people have to be careful and always pray a lot to God, so that they never find themselves fighting against the Work of God, because that is fighting against God Himself.
And the Work of God, we find that from age to age and from dispensation to dispensation, has been carried out by God Himself through His prophet-messengers. Saint Paul says, in Hebrews, chapter 1… in Hebrews, chapter 1, the great apostle Saint Paul says: “God…” chapter 1, verse 1 and on:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets.”
How did God speak in the Old Testament? Through the prophets that He sent, through whom the Angel of Lord veiled Himself in them and revealed Himself through them.
All revelation must come through a prophet; because the Word comes to the prophets of God for each age and for each dispensation. “Surely the Lord God will do nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants His prophets,” says Amos chapter 3, verse 7.
And “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”10
And how has the Word of God come forth for the people? It has come forth through the prophets, because the prophets are the mouth of God for the time in which God sends them; and that is why God puts His Word in the mouth of His prophets.
God told Moses: “I will put My Word in your mouth, and you will speak what I tell you, what I show you.”11
Also in Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse 15, it says:
“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken…”
Then, on verse 18 and on, it says… of this same 18th chapter of Deuteronomy:
“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”
Where does God put His Word? In the mouth of the prophet that He sends. And what does that prophet speak? The Word that God has put in the mouth of that prophet. God speaks to that prophet, to his soul, to his spirit; and that prophet hears the Voice of God, because he has both consciouses together to be able to hear the Voice of God in another dimension through the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant.
Because God doesn’t do anything, nor speak anything, unless it’s through His Angel, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, which is Christ in His heavenly body; through Christ in His heavenly body, which is the Word that was with God and was God, and through whom He created all things, and who was later made flesh and dwelt among the Hebrew people.
Notice, through Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Word that was with God, God created all things, He spoke them into existence. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”12 God speaking through the Angel of the Lord, the Word, which is Jesus Christ in His heavenly body; that was how God created all things.
And now, God speaks through His Angel, the Angel of the Lord; and to communicate everything to the human race, well, he always uses a prophet, a man with both consciouses together, who hears the Voice of God through the Angel of the Lord, through Christ in His heavenly body.
And now, we find that this is why God has always sent prophets to His people.
Some people think that, because Christ said: “The prophets and the Law prophesied until John,”13 they think that God doesn’t have prophets anymore; but that doesn’t mean that God isn’t going to have prophets, but rather than the prophets of the Law went as far as John.
But, what about the prophets of the Dispensation of Grace? And what about the prophet of the dispensation of the Kingdom? See? There are prophets of ages and there are dispensational prophets.
What about the Two Olive Trees of Revelation 11? The Two Anointed Ones standing before the presence of God, the Two Olive Trees are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, who will be in the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God in Revelation chapter 7.
The Seal of the living God is the Holy Spirit, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant; therefore Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, will come manifested in the Angel coming and ascending from the East.
Through that Angel, Christ will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people, and will call and gather 144,000 Hebrews, 12,000 of each tribe. The ministries of the Two Olive Trees and of the Two Candlesticks standing before the presence of God will be manifested in him; therefore, the Word of God will be put in the mouth of the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God; and he comes with both ministries: the ministries of Moses and Elijah.
Now, it says [Deuteronomy 18:19]:
“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
God will require it of every person who doesn’t hear the Voice of God, through the prophet that He sends for each time.
Every person is called to hear the Voice of God through the prophet that God sends for the time in which the person is living. That is the Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God for the people, for that age or for that dispensation; and that is the Word of Eternal Life for the people, and that is the vindicated Word for the people. Through that messenger comes the Message of God for that age or for that dispensation.
Now, let’s look at Zechariah chapter 7, verse 11 to 12, where it says:
“But they refused to hearken (meaning, the Hebrew people), and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.”
Now, how is it that God spoke to the Hebrew people and the Hebrew people didn’t want to hear the Voice of God? God spoke in His Spirit by the prophets.
In other words, God through the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, spoke through the prophets; the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, veiled Himself and revealed Himself through each prophet; and that was God veiled and revealed through each prophet that He sent in the Old Testament; and that is also how it is with the messengers that He has sent in the New Testament.
That is how it was with Jesus as well, in whom dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; therefore, in Jesus was the Father and the Holy Spirit, everything was in Jesus, the fullness of the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, all in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth.
If the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, weren’t in Jesus, then the fullness of the Deity, of the Godhead, wasn’t dwelling in a body of flesh. But we know that Jesus said: “The Father that dwells in Me, He does the works; and what I hear from the Father, that is what I speak; and as the Father works, that is how I work, and My Father works hitherto, and I work.”14 And He also said: “I speak nothing of Myself, but what I hear the Father speak, that is what I speak.”
And when John the Baptist baptized Jesus, John saw the Holy Spirit coming upon Jesus, and It remained upon Him.15
Also Jesus Himself, quoting Isaiah chapter 61… He quotes it in chapter 4 of Saint Luke. Notice what He says, chapter 4, verse 16 and on, says:
“And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me…”
Was the Holy Spirit in Jesus or not? Of course It was! The Spirit of God was in Jesus.
“…because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were (fixed) on him.
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
Now, we can see how Christ testifies that the Spirit of God is upon Him.
Also, when He speaks of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, He says that the Comforter is with them,16 because It is where? It is in Jesus, because in Jesus is God with His heavenly body, called the Angel of the Lord, It is inside the veil of flesh called Jesus.
Now, notice how Christ, speaking about His sheep that the Father gave Him, notice what He tells us here: in chapter 10 of Saint John, verses 27… 25 and on, Jesus says… 24, He says:
“Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.”
There are people who want to know the Truth, who want to know who the person in God’s Program is; if he is a messenger of God, who he is; if he is a prophet of God, or what he is; but they don’t want to know it to believe, but rather to criticize him, reject him, and try to destroy him.
“If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.”
And although that is a hard word, it was the truth, about those people who didn’t believe in Christ and were always trying to get Christ to tell them that He was the Christ, that He was the Messiah, what for? To condemn Him, to accuse Him before the Sanhedrin and before the Council of the Hebrew religion (which is the Sanhedrin), and before the high priest, to declare Him a blasphemer, a man who was blaspheming, and a man who was a false prophet, and who was a madman, according to them.
Therefore, that is what they wanted to do with Jesus, for Him to speak about who He was, to then accuse Him and say that He was a false prophet.
Notice, when they crucified Him and put Him in the tomb, in Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb, they then placed a large stone on the entrance, the opening of the cave… because Joseph’s tomb, which was new, was a cave.
And if you ever go to Israel sometime, try to see the tombs where the prophets like Zechariah and other prophets are, and to see those tombs, you have to enter into a cave, you have to go down, and then you walk along an underground path, and on either side you will find openings, and those are the tombs where there are prophets buried there, according to them, because in the resurrection, the Old Testament saints already resurrected.17 But notice, they still think they are there, but… what was there was the body, but they are already with Christ, with God.
Now, we find that they put a big stone at the opening of the entrance of the cave, of the tomb where Jesus was buried, and they later asked that some guards be put to watch over it; they said: “For that deceiver said He would rise on the third day.”18
Notice, they called Him a deceiver. That is how they treated the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant made flesh; that is how they treated the Word that was with God and was God, who was made flesh and dwelt among the Hebrew people.19 But Christ called them: “Blind leaders of the blind.”20
And when a person is spiritually blind, he can’t see what God is fulfilling according to what He promised in His Word, according to the Biblical prophecies, he can’t see the fulfillment of those Biblical prophecies, and he can’t see the man promised for that time. Why? Because if the person is spiritually blind, he can’t see the messenger of God, whether it is a messenger of an age or a messenger of a dispensation. God always sends a messenger, through whom He calls and gathers His elect in each age.
Now, we find that in the Old Testament, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, was manifesting Himself from stage to stage, from age to age, through the messengers that He sent for each occasion, and was speaking through them; and after John the Baptist, we find that Jesus appeared: He was the Word that was with God and was God, the Angel of the Lord, made flesh among the Hebrew people.
And now, I told you that He was the Angel of the Lord, and notice where that is, in Malachi chapter 3, verse 1, it says:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”
Who would come? The Lord, whom the Hebrew people sought; the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, whom the Hebrew people delighted in. And how would He come? He would come in human flesh; and He would be the Messiah, who would establish a New Covenant for every human being, including the Hebrew people and also the Gentiles; because Hebrews and also Gentiles can enter into this New Covenant.
And with the entire Divine Program of the New Covenant, Hebrews and Gentiles enter into that New Covenant, and they make up the people of God, the heavenly people of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the heavenly Israel; and which are the people of priests, a people of priests, a Kingdom of priests.
Now, we have seen this mystery of the First Coming of Christ. It was none other than the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, who would manifest Himself through the prophets; He also appeared to different prophets and different people in the form of a Light, the Pillar of Fire; and He also appeared in the form of a Man: an Angel from another dimension.
We find that He later became flesh and dwelt among the human race, and was known by the name of Jesus. After He died, resurrected, and ascended to Heaven victorious in a glorified body: He was glorified and sat on the Throne of God in Heaven, and He has been in Heaven making intercession with His own Blood for all the people whose names are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Therefore, since the Lamb’s Book of Life is the Book of the Seven Seals, the Book of the Seven Seals began to manifest Itself from the time Christ died, resurrected, and ascended to Heaven, and came down in the form of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost; from that point on, the Book of the Seven Seals is being manifested.
On the Day of Pentecost there was a sound, a strong thunder; a mighty wind; it filled all the house in which those who awaited the promise of Christ were sitting. Chapter 2, verse 1 and on, says, of the book of Acts:
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and (all) the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.”
There are always mockers when God is blessing His people, but the mockers are under a curse; because they mock, they can’t receive God’s blessings; therefore, God’s curses are upon those people.
Now, after that thunder, what happened? Everyone was in doubt or perplexed. Verse 14 goes on to say:
“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day (meaning, it was between 8:00 and 9:00 in the morning).
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Then in the same 2nd chapter, verse 34 and on, it says: “For David is not ascended into the heavens…” 32 and on:
“This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.”
Now notice, although there were mockers there, there were also serious people. Because a mocker can’t be considered a serious person; but a person who takes the things of God seriously is recognized by God as a serious person, whether he is elderly, whether he is an adult, whether he is a young person, or whether he is a child; it doesn’t matter how old he is. Whoever takes the things of God seriously, God considers him a serious person.
He who mocks the things of God, and instead of helping the Work of God and the Program of God, what he does is hinder It, becomes a person who, before God and to God, is not a serious person, because he hasn’t taken the things of God seriously; therefore, the curse of God comes upon that person: that person loses the opportunity to live eternally in the Kingdom of Christ.
Now, there are serious people, but the important thing is for us to be serious to God; because a person can be very serious, humanly speaking, but if he doesn’t take the things of God seriously, then he isn’t serious to God. In other words, we must understand how God sees us; and God judges the heart.21
Therefore, what people speak comes from where? Out of the heart. So, no one should mock the things of God, but instead help the things of God, the Program of God, the Church, so that God’s blessings come upon people, and thus, God opens the windows of Heaven and blesses everyone.
Now, we see that on the Day of Pentecost there was a thunder and the Book of the Seals was opened, in terms of the content of the Book of the Seven Seals starting to be fulfilled. The Program contained in the Book of the Seven Seals is opened, although the Book remained or has remained closed in the right hand of God, but Christ has been fulfilling the program contained in the Book of the Seven Seals, for the sons and daughters of God whose names are written in the Book of the Seven Seals, which is the Book of Redemption, the Lamb’s Book of Life.
And since the Day of Pentecost, we find that, with a thunder, It opened in terms of Its fulfillment, and the Book of the Seals started to be fulfilled. The First Seal starts to open there, and God starts to fulfill, Christ starts to fulfill the content of that Book – of that Seal contained in the Book of the Seven Seals, and Christ starts to carry out the Work of God contained in that First Seal.
Although under that First Seal as well, the devil also moves to fight against the Work of God, and that is why in the First Seal, a rider on a white horse appears, who is the devil, the antichrist.22
Now, we find that with the beginning of the Dispensation of Grace, the Book of the Seven Seals —in terms of Its fulfillment— starts to be fulfilled, the fulfillment of the Book of the Seven Seals starts to open.
And in the first three Seals, we find the time from the Day of Pentecost until the end of the seventh age of the Church among the Gentiles; that is, until the seventh age of the Church.
Then we find that in the Work of God under those Seals, Christ has been working in the Program of God, and He has been calling and gathering His elect from age to age. Where has He been gathering them? In His Mystical Body of believers, which is His Church; Christ in the apostles, and Christ in each angel-messenger. And that is how Christ veiled and revealed Himself, from age to age, in human flesh, in the messenger of each age; and through the messenger of each age, Christ called and gathered His elect of each age.
Reverend William Branham, speaking to us about how God worked through the messengers of each age, says on page 265 of the book of The Ages [p. 241 in Eng.]:
“As we have already stated, Jesus identifies Himself with the messengers of each age. They receive from Him the revelation on the Word for each period. This Word revelation brings the elect of God out of the world and into full union with Jesus Christ. These messengers are called stars because they shine with a borrowed or reflected light of the Son, even Jesus. They are also called stars because they are ‘holders of light’ at night. Thus in the darkness of sin, they bring the light of God to His people.”
And now, notice how all the elect of God, from age to age, are called and brought into full union with Christ, into the Mystical Body of Christ. It is Christ in Holy Spirit veiled and revealed in each angel-messenger, calling and gathering His elect. He said: “And other sheep I have, which are not of this Fold, which I must also bring, and they shall hear My Voice; and there shall be one Fold, and one Shepherd.” Saint John chapter 10, verses 14 to 16.
It’s through each messenger that Christ speaks and the sheep of Christ hear His Voice. Just as God spoke through the prophets in the Old Testament.
And now, from the Day of Pentecost and on, we find that with that Thunder, the Book of the Seals was opened in terms of Its fulfillment, the Book of the Seals started to be fulfilled, but the Book of the Seals in Itself has remained in the right hand of God, because It is the Title Deed.
But Christ has to fulfill what is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, the Book of the Seven Seals: He has to call and gather all those people whose names are written there, He has to call and gather all those souls whose names are written there.
Now, the name written there in the Lamb’s Book of Life isn’t the name that the person received from their parents, but the name that God gave the person before the foundation of the world. In other words, before your parents gave you a name, God had already given us our name, because He is our Father, and as our Father, He would name His children.
And just like parents plan how many children they will have, God planned how many children He would have. And just like parents search for the name that they will give their children before having their children, God, before His sons and daughters were manifested on Earth, God already wrote in the Lamb’s Book of Life (which is the Book of the Seven Seals) the name that each of His children will have.
That is why those are the sheep that the Father has given to Christ, and they will hear the Voice of Christ at the time in which they are given to live, because it is Christ calling them by name, calling them by the name of each sheep. Christ says of this, in chapter 10… chapter 10 of Saint John, He says… verse 1 and on:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
And a stranger will they not follow, but (rather) will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.”
And now, notice how Christ Himself says that He calls them by their name.
Now, we can see that when God calls every person whose name is written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, He is calling them here in their soul, because when God has given a person a name: He has given the person’s soul a name; and then that name will be manifested when we have the new and glorified body.
So, we can see that there is a new name; but the new name is the name that God wrote in the Lamb’s Book of Life for each of you and also for me. Therefore, the new name is an eternal name that He put for each of His children; and every child comes in the name of (whom?) his father. So, there is a great mystery there; but when we have the new body, that is when we will understand that mystery very well.
Now, notice, that is also why it says in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 12:
“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more (out of it)… he shall go no more out: 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.”
He puts that Name upon an Overcomer; that Overcomer must be a son.
Now, let’s leave that alone, because it’s the same as when he receives the White Stone with a New Name, which no man understands but he who receives It; the one who receives that New Name is the one who understands It.23
And in Revelation chapter 19, the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19, who is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, comes with a name that no man understands but He Himself; and His Name is called the Word of God, the Word of God in His return; that is the Seventh Seal. Now, He comes with a New Name.
And now, of the seven angels that appeared to Reverend William Branham… he says there were seven Angels; and he was caught up and placed with them in that cloud (when he was in that cloud formed by angels); then there were already eight angels there. The thing is that when he says that he saw seven angels and they came to him, well, he is counting those seven angels, but he is not counting himself.
But if you’re the one who counts all the angels, when Reverend William Branham is already there with those angels in that constellation, in that cloud… because they were in heavenly bodies, as was Reverend William Branham: he came out of his physical body, he was in his heavenly body, and he was caught up by the Angel who was different from the rest (He was the One who took him), and he was placed with all those Angels.
The seven angels of the seven ages were there, starting with Saint Paul and ending with Reverend William Branham; but the Angel who was different from the rest and who took him, Reverend William Branham says, is the Angel… the most notable Angel, and the Angel who was different from the rest, and who was more important to him.
Let’s read it here on page 469, the first paragraph, says [The Seals] [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 545 in Eng.]:
“275 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, 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.’]
276 Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I’ve wondered all my life.”
And now, the Seventh Seal is connected to an Angel, who appeared with six angels in addition to Reverend William Branham. And when He caught up Reverend William Branham and placed him in a heavenly body, together with those other angels, then the one who was the seventh, by another angel being placed… which, the new one who was placed, who was lifted up and put there, was Reverend William Branham, who is the seventh angel of the seventh age.
Therefore, the one who was considered the seventh angel, the Angel who was different from the rest, is now the eighth angel. Because the seventh angel who was lifted up: the angel of the seventh age, was lifted up; and counting the seven angels of the Church, then the other Angel (who was different from the rest) is the eighth angel-messenger.
For an eighth Age of the Church, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, that angel-messenger who has the Seventh Seal must be manifested. Meaning that the mystery of the Seventh Seal is connected to the Angel who caught up Reverend William Branham, and who was the leader of all the angels of the seven ages.
Now, this is the mystery that revolves around the Seventh Seal. This mystery contained in the Seventh Seal, notice, is connected to an Angel who is different from the rest, it is connected to the Coming of the Lord. And now, this mystery is so great that it caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour. This is the mystery that, in its manifestation, corresponds to the Fourth Seal.
The mystery of the Seventh Seal is manifested under the Fourth Seal; just as the mystery of the angel-messengers of the seven ages has been manifested in the first three Seals; and in the first three Seals, the Work that Christ has made through the apostles and the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages, is gathered.
These messengers were messengers anointed with the Holy Spirit, they were messengers anointed by Christ, the Angel of the Lord, Angel of the Covenant; they were the messengers in whom Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, veiled and revealed Himself, in Holy Spirit.
After the seven ages and the seven angel-messengers, what is left for the Church of Jesus Christ? What is left is for the Fourth Seal to be fulfilled. And under the fulfillment of the Fourth Seal, that is when Christ does the Work relevant to this end time; and that is also when the devil rises against the Church of Jesus Christ: the devil in the antichrist, the man of sin, in the ride of the antichrist on the fourth horse, the pale horse of Revelation, chapter 6; where the Scripture says… chapter 6, verse 7 to 8, says:
“And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.”
Remember that the fourth beast is the one that has the face of an eagle.24 The first beast who spoke to John, telling him: “Come and see,” was the one that had the face of a lion.25 The second beast who spoke to John to see the Second Seal, was the one that had the face of a calf;26 and the third one that spoke to John, the third beast that spoke to John, was the one that had the face of a man; the third one had a face like a man.27 And the fourth one that spoke to John to see what was in the Fourth Seal, had the face of an eagle.
Now, remember that:
• The face of an eagle: speaks to us of the time of prophets.
• The face of a man: is the time of the reformers.
• The face of an ox: is the time of sacrifice, where Christianity was going through a stage under the Dark Ages, a very terrible stage.
• And the face of a lion: is the face back then of the apostles: of Saint Paul… which was in the stage of the face of a lion; where Christ sent His Lion power to counter the enemy of God, the devil.
These powers are four powers: the face of a lion, the face of an ox, the face of a man and the face of an eagle.
Now, Christ sends His power of the face of an eagle to counter the pale-horse rider; just as each power, represented in each face, fought against the antichrist in his ride on each of the previous horses.
And now, we are in the stage of the face of an eagle; which also speaks to us of a stage of prophets; because prophets are represented in eagles, and God is also represented in eagles, and God represents His people in eagles as well. That’s why when referring to Israel, He says He brought them unto Himself as the eagle bears its eaglets.28
Now, under the Fourth Seal is when the Seventh Seal is manifested.
Now, when we search the history of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ during the time of the apostles, and during the time of the seven ages and the seven angel-messengers, we find that the first three Seals of the Book of the Seven Seals were fulfilled; and the Fifth Seal was also fulfilled at that time, and only part of the Fifth Seal was left to be fulfilled under the Sixth Seal.
In the Fifth Seal appear the souls of those who had been beheaded, killed for the Word of God, which are the Hebrews who were martyred in past times, in the Inquisition and also by Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and other dictators.
And now notice, here in the Fifth Seal, it says, chapter 6, verse 9 to 11, says [Revelation]:
“And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.”
Here John sees the souls of those who had been slain for the Word of God and for the testimony which they held; those are the Hebrews who were martyred.
Now, let’s see, they are under the altar; and because they don’t have theophanic bodies of that dimension… because the body that every human being receives is of the fifth dimension, the spiritual body that he receives at birth is of the fifth dimension: the spirit of the world; and since they are not believers in Christ, thus they didn’t obtain the new birth to have a heavenly body and to be in Paradise with a heavenly body of that heavenly dimension. Therefore, what John sees are the souls, not the spirits but the souls; but notice, those souls are crying out.
“And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?”
They are asking for vengeance; and Christ is the Avenger of blood. Christ said: “Avenge not yourselves.”29
God, in Deuteronomy and in the book of Numbers, says that He will avenge the blood of His servants. Let’s see here: Deuteronomy, chapter 32, verse 43 and on, says:
“Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Therefore, the nations that have persecuted the Hebrew people and have martyred them, will face serious problems at this end time; because God will avenge the blood of His servants, the blood of the Hebrew people.
The Hebrew people have a blessing that says: “He who blesses you will be blessed, and he who curses you will be cursed.”30 Therefore, those who have cursed the Hebrew people, and those who have persecuted them and have massacred them: God’s curses will fall upon those individuals, nations, peoples and tongues. That is why many nations will disappear off the face of the Earth; because God will avenge from those nations the blood of the Hebrew people.
Also in Numbers, chapter 35, verse 33, it says:
“So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.”
The nations that have shed the blood of the Hebrews and also the blood of the Christians, of the Church of Jesus Christ, will face serious problems before God on the day of vengeance of our God, according to Isaiah, chapter 61.
Therefore, in the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, the day of vengeance of our God and what will happen on the day of vengeance of our God will be revealed, and it will even be possible to identify nations by their names as well as the Divine judgment that will come upon those nations; because they have persecuted the Hebrew people and also the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Paul, speaking of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and of every believer in Christ, says that the Church is the Temple of the Lord, of God; and he also says that we are temples of the Holy Spirit, we are temples of God; and he says that whoever destroys the Temple of God, him shall God destroy.31
Therefore, those that have been destroying the Temple of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, and the people who are a temple of the Holy Spirit: God will destroy them.
Anyone may say: “But they already died.” Those people are in hell and will be cast into the lake of fire; they will be judged and cast into the lake of fire. And the nations: well, the nations still exist, therefore, God will judge the nations based on how they have acted towards the Hebrew people and towards the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Saint Matthew, chapter 25, it tells us something there. Remember that if… a person who gives a cup of cold water to one of these little ones, will not lose his reward; the reward is Eternal Life.32
Now, those who do something against, or do nothing in favor… notice, because every person has the opportunity to do something in favor of the Church of Jesus Christ and of every child of God.
Notice, chapter 25, verse 31 and on, says [Matthew]:
“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory (that is the Throne of David):
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and (brought) thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
And now, these people who as individuals will enter into Eternal Life (apart from the children of God, apart from God’s elect) are people who have helped the children of God. It says: “Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren;” the least of these brethren of Christ are the members of the Church of Jesus Christ.
Anyone who does a favor, who helps a child of God, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ: will not lose his reward; and the reward is Eternal Life, entering into the Kingdom of God.
“Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.”
And now, why is He going to cast those other people into hell?:
“For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”
It is very important for every human being to help the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and every member of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in good faith, because there will always be some need so that there is an opportunity like that for people to do something in favor of God’s sons and daughters.
But whoever looks the other way and doesn’t want to do anything in favor of the Church of Jesus Christ will be cast where? Into the fire of hell, prepared for the devil and his angels.
So, we can see here that the people who won’t do anything in favor of the Church in the time in which they are living, have no reward in that judgment that Christ will carry out.
This is also true for the nations. Therefore, nations that have persecuted the Church of Jesus Christ and the Hebrew people, are put in the position of those that will be cast into the fire; and thus, those nations will face serious problems, and atomic fire will come upon them. It says in Malachi, chapter 4:
“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.”
So, we can see what is coming upon the nations; and that is the Divine judgment. There will be nations that won’t be able to enter into the Millennial Kingdom of Christ; and there are many that will not be able to enter.
Therefore, all those things that will be happening, and the Divine judgments falling upon the Earth, will be under the Fourth Seal. Under the Fourth Seal, the antichrist will rise against Christ and His Church; the antichrist with the tares (the children of darkness, the children of the wicked one) will rise against Christ and His Church.
The antichrist, with the nations that will give him their power and strength, which are ten (with ten kings), will make war against Christ, the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 17, verse 14 and on, and Revelation chapter 19, verses 11 to 21. But the Scripture says that they will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings.
Now, all of that is under the Fourth Seal. And under the Fourth Seal, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will also reach Its perfection; and a squeeze will come (that is when the squeeze will come), and there will be the coming of the… the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completed, and Christ will rise from the Father’s Throne, resurrect the dead believers in Him, and transform us.
There will be a full manifestation of the power of Christ in His Church. And what we saw partially manifested in the different stages of the Church through powerful men such as the apostles and the seven angel-messengers, will be manifested in all Its fullness under the Fourth Seal; because it’s under the Fourth Seal that the Seventh Seal has Its fulfillment.
Under the Fourth Seal, the Seventh Seal is opened in Its fulfillment; but in Heaven, the Seventh Seal opens when Christ finishes His Work of Intercession in Heaven. But the Seventh Seal, Reverend William Branham says that when It starts…; so, It will have a beginning; and he also says It will have an end.33 That is in terms of the Work that the Seventh Seal will be doing, the Work that Christ will be doing in the midst of His Church.
Let’s see on page two hundred and… – 472 of the book of The Seals… Remember that this is the greatest mystery in the Heavens and on Earth; and I can’t speak to you too clearly about this mystery.
You already heard what I told you many min-… some minutes ago, that the mystery wasn’t allowed to be opened, made known; there was silence in Heaven so that the devil couldn’t know that mystery and couldn’t imitate it. That is why the Seventh Seal can’t be interrupted, but will instead be completely fulfilled.
Page 472, says [p. 549 in Eng.]:
“[304] You notice. Notice now, for the end-of-time Message…”
A little before that, it says:
“304 That shows It’s from God, for, see, It fits exactly in the promises of God, from the end of the—the Message. You notice. Notice now, for the end-of-time Message, this Seal.”
Which is the end-of-time Message? This Seal.
How can a Seal be the end-of-time Message? Because the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord; and the Divine revelation of that Seventh Seal is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Seventh Seal, around the Second Coming of Christ.
Just as the mystery of the First Coming of Christ was opened to the public through the Message of the Gospel of Grace: the mystery of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God, dying on Calvary’s Cross and taking away the sin of the human being.
And now, with the preaching of the Gospel of Grace, we obtain the knowledge of the mystery of the First Coming of Christ; with the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom we obtain the knowledge of the Second Coming of Christ, we obtain the knowledge of the Seventh Seal.
And now, with the preaching of the Gospel of Grace on the Day of Pentecost (which began), the mystery of the First Coming of Christ started to be opened to the public; there was a thunder there on the Day of Pentecost, and then came the Message, the Trumpet: the Trumpet of the Gospel of Grace, being sounded by the apostle Saint Peter, who had the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.
And now notice, for the opening of the Seals that are fulfilled during the Church ages, there was a thunder and there was a Trumpet: the Trumpet of the Gospel, sounded by Saint Peter: preaching the Gospel of Grace on the Day of Pentecost; and from that point on, the Trumpet of the Gospel of Grace continued to sound; and then each angel-messenger sounded It in his age.
And now, Reverend William Branham says: “If the Book of the Seals opened like that back then, on the Day of Pentecost (for that is when the Book of the Seals started to be fulfilled; and now, he says), now, won’t it open the same way for this Seventh Seal and these Seven Thunders?”34 A consecutive thunder, sounding seven consecutive times: those are the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10. The Seven Thunders is the Voice of Christ speaking consecutively; just like for the seven ages, notice, He spoke through each angel-messenger in each age with the Trumpet of the Gospel of Grace.
But now, the Voice of Christ speaking consecutively, this is: Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, in Holy Spirit, in the midst of His Church, speaking to His Church consecutively, and thus sounding the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and revealing to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, which is the Angel of the Lord, Christ in His heavenly body.
Now, we find that that is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who has been confirming His Covenant, His New Covenant, to His Church age after age. And at the Last Day, He will be confirming His Covenant to His Church and then to the Hebrew people, confirming the New Covenant to the Hebrew people. He will not be confirming to them the Old Covenant of the Law, but the New Covenant that He promised for His people: the Hebrew people, and for His heavenly people: His Church.
He will be using an instrument at the Last Day, through whom Christ will be speaking consecutively; and that will be the Voice of Christ as Lion of the tribe of Judah; It will be Christ speaking consecutively and revealing to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal.
First He reveals it to His Church, and then that same mystery is revealed to the Hebrew people. The Hebrew people will see that mystery revealed, manifested, in the midst of His Church, and then they will say: “This is what we are waiting for.”
On page 22 and 23 of the book of Quotations, let’s see what Reverend William Branham tells us here; he says…at the beginning and at the end of this paragraph, he says35:
176 – “[729] And there’s them two witnesses.
730 And when they tormented the church, or the world, by their preaching; and receiving back the Jews, and bringing them back to repentance, bringing them back to believe on…When they see Jesus coming for the Bride, they’ll say, ‘Lo, this is our God Who we waited on. That’s Him!’ But He’s not coming for them; He come for His Bride.”
Further down it says the same thing as well; it says:
176 – “734 When the Lord Jesus shall come for His Bride, and they see Him, they’ll say, ‘That’s the One we’ve waited on, there He is!’ He’ll rise with healing in His wings.”
And in the book of The Seals, page 57… Reverend William Branham says in the book of The Seals, page 57; he says [“The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals,” p. 70 in Eng.]:
“[29] …I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow…upon his head,…
30 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:
31 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, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, comes for His Church at this end time; and the Hebrew people will see Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, coming for His Church at this end time. Although He is a Messenger to the Hebrew people, but He comes for His Church first; because we have reached the end time, and His Church has to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
I left out something very important here. It says, page 472… it says [The Seals] [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 549 in Eng.]:
“[304] Notice now, for the end-of-time Message, this Seal. After all, He—He has revealed all the six Seals, but He don’t say nothing about the Seventh. And the end-time Seal, when It starts, will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible.”
In other words, the end-time Seal, the Seventh Seal, when It starts (when It is opened and the process of Its fulfillment begins, when It starts to be fulfilled), It will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible.
Like the case of the First Coming of Christ: which, although He was born in Bethlehem of Judea, the mystery of the First Coming of Christ was a secret for nearly 30 years. The First Coming of Christ was fulfilled there, but it was a secret for 99% of mankind; only Mary and Joseph knew of that secret; and, surely, Elizabeth and Zacharias the priest knew about this secret, but they kept quiet; also Simeon and Anna, and the shepherds and the wise men. Notice, few people, compared to the millions of people that there were in Israel and in the entire… on the entire planet Earth.
Now, that mystery was open in terms of its fulfillment, but not open to the public, not made known to all mankind.
Notice, when Herod learned about the birth of the Messiah, he wanted to seek Him to kill Him.36 See? See why God kept that secret of the First Coming of Christ as a secret for nearly thirty years, even though He was already there, even though He was in the midst of the Hebrew people and He was raised as one of the Hebrew people?
Now, when the mystery of the Coming of the Lord started back then, for 29 or so years… 30 years, let’s say, as a secret. But when the time came to manifest Himself to the public, notice, He went where John the Baptist was preaching, He was baptized by John; and He appears as a disciple of John, but then continues alone.
And the One whose way John was preparing was a disciple of John; the Messiah, the man for whom John was preparing the way, was a believer in the Message of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ. There we have the connection between the one forerun and the forerunner; they have to connect – he has to connect to the Message of the forerunner. Who? The one forerun.
And now, John identified Him as the One who would come after him; although all the disciples of John didn’t believe in Jesus while Jesus was on Earth, only a small group, the rest continued with John.
Now, we find that there was a time period of approximately 30 years of the secret of the mystery of the First Coming of the Messiah, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant manifested in human flesh.
Now, Reverend William Branham tells us here that when It starts, when the Seventh Seal starts, It will be absolutely a total secret, that is, completely [The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 549]:
“[304] And the end-time Seal, when It starts, will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible, before knowing That. And remember, Revelation 10:1-7, 1 to 7, chapter 10:1 to 7, ‘At the end of the seventh angel’s Message, all the mysteries of God would be known.’ We’re at the end time, the opening of the Seventh Seal.”
And now, notice, he tells us:
“[304] We’re at the end time, the opening of the Seventh Seal.”
When is the opening of the Seventh Seal? At the end time.
Now, with the coming of the seven angels, did the opening of the Seventh Seal begin? Did the mystery of the Seventh Seal start to be manifested on Earth? Or was it in the decade of the seventies? Because Reverend Branham says that the “Laodicean Age will end around the year 1977”37 Or did it start around the year ‘74 to ‘77? Or did that mystery start in this new century that began? Or has that mystery not started yet?
Remember that this mystery of the Seventh Seal is the mystery that gives us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; it gives us the faith to be physically transformed, just like the mystery of the First Coming of Christ gives us the faith to be internally transformed.
Through the preaching of the Gospel of Grace we obtain the faith, the revelation of the mystery of the First Coming of Christ. Through the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom we obtain the faith, the revelation of the Seventh Seal. And the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom is the Voice of Christ, just like the preaching of the Gospel of Grace is the Voice of Christ in the seven ages, in the time of the apostles and the seven ages, Christ speaking through His messengers.
And now, Christ spoke during the seven ages, in the time of the apostles and in the seven ages, He spoke through different messengers.
In the end time, for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom will be spoken consecutively through one messenger, who is called the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the prophet-messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, the last dispensational prophet-messenger.
And now, given that the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom is the Voice of Christ crying as when a lion roars and seven thunders uttering their voices, they reveal… – and revealing the mystery of the Seventh Seal, so that we all have the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Notice, in Philippians, chapter 3, verse 20 and on, it says:
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”
What is the Second Coming of Christ for? Why does Christ come from Heaven? To change our vile body; to change this physical body, and so that we have a glorified body just like the glorified body of Jesus Christ. In His Second Coming, He comes for our transformation and the resurrection of the dead in Christ.
Therefore, all the people who will be transformed will have the knowledge of the Seventh Seal, the knowledge of the Second Coming of Christ.
It can’t be possible that Christ comes to change the believers in Him, and the believers don’t recognize Him. The believers who will be transformed will recognize Him, they will recognize the manifestation of the Angel of the Lord, of the Angel of the Covenant, of Jesus Christ, at the Last Day.
Now, we find that there is a great mystery there. Notice, page 128 tells us [The Seals] [“The First Seal,” p. 148 in Eng.]:
“[258] Oh, my! Seven Thunders, of Revelation, may He show the Bride how to prepare for the great translation faith!
Notice, without those Seven Thunders (which is the Voice of Christ) there is no rapturing faith; and the Thunders give the rapturing faith; and what the Thunders reveal is the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ.
Now, we find that everything will be prepared so that we then reach the stage with the Hebrew people of the three and a half years, which is a Messianic, prophetic, ministry, where the Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached so that 144,000 Hebrews enter into the Kingdom of Christ.
Now, the mystery of the Seventh Seal will be kept a secret that way, but the elect will see and understand, because the wise will understand.38
Now, Reverend William Branham was told not to say anything; because when he spoke of the First and Second Pull, many impersonators arose. He said to him (the Angel said to him): “But don’t say anything about the Third Pull.”39 It’s because the Third Pull corresponds to the Seventh Seal.
He goes on to say: “Last Sunday, a week ago today…” I’m on page 472 [The Seals] [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 549 in Eng.]:
“305 Now, how did I know? The other day, last Sunday, a week ago today, when I was preaching on ‘Be humble! Be humble! Remember, God deals in little things.’ I didn’t realize what it really was talking about. And now I see it. It is in such a humble way! You would think that something like that would be revealed to the Vatican or…But It comes just like John the Baptist. It comes like the birth of our Lord, in a stable. Glory to God! So help me, the hour is at hand! Amen! We’re here. Oh, my!”
And now, It comes just like John the Baptist, how did John the Baptist come? In the spirit and power of Elijah, preparing the way of the Lord. And It comes like the birth of Jesus back then in a stable; therefore, that mystery is so great that it is connected to a birth, to a ministry like the ministry of Jesus: the birth and ministry of Jesus; and it is also connected to John the Baptist, the third Elijah.
Now, It must come like John the Baptist. John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah; therefore, the Seventh Seal must also come like John the Baptist: in the spirit and power of Elijah.
Therefore, He comes with His Angels, He comes with the Two Olive Trees: with Elijah for the fifth time and with Moses for the second time; but if we count Jesus as the Second Moses, then it would be with Moses for the third time.
Now, notice everything there is within or under the Seventh Seal; and that is connected to an Angel who has the Seventh Seal.
And it also says on pages 464 to 465 [The Seals] [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 540 in Eng.]:
“231 We must remember that this Seventh Seal is the end of time, of all things. That’s right. The things written in the Seven-Seal Book, sealed up, of the plan of redemption from before the foundation of the world, it every bit ends. It is the end; it is the end of the struggling world. It’s the end of struggling nature. It’s the end of everything. In there, it’s the end of the Trumpets. It’s the end of the Vials. It’s the end of the earth. It’s the…It’s even the end of time.
232 Time runs out. (…) ‘Time will be no more.’”
The time of the Gentiles will be no more, and the time of the Gentile Church will also be no more; because the time of the Gentiles runs out, and it runs out… – and it’s the time of the end of the Gentile Kingdom.
“[232] …‘Time will be no more,’ when that, in the days of this great thing to happen.
233 Everything runs out, in this time, the end of the—of the…at the end of this Seventh Seal. Notice. It’s the end of the church age.”
“At the end…” Notice, on page 472 he said: “When the Seventh Seal starts, the beginning of the Seventh Seal will be a total secret.” But now here he tells us: “At the end of the Seventh Seal…”
“[233] … at the end of this Seventh Seal. Notice. It’s the end of the church age. It’s the—the end of the Seventh Seal. It’s the end of the Trumpets. It’s the end of the Vials, and even end the ushering in of the Millennium. That’s on the Seventh Seal.” (Pages 464 and 465 [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 540 in Eng.].)
Further on it says [p. 541]:
“[235] Everything just ended up on that Seventh Seal.
236 Now, how is He going to do it? That’s what we don’t know. Isn’t it? We don’t know.
237 It’s even the time for all these things, and the ushering in of the Millennium.
238 Notice, the breaking of this Seal was so great, that, Heaven was hushed by It, ‘in silence, for the space of a half hour.’”
And now, here on pages 474 and 475, it says [The Seals] [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 552 in Eng.]:
“[326] I don’t know who is going to…what’s going to take place. I do not know. I just know that those Seven Thunders holds that mystery. The Heavens was quiet.”
See? The Seven Thunders contain the secret, the mystery, for which there was silence in Heaven for half an hour. Now, he says:
“[326] I don’t know who is going to…what’s going to take place. (…) It may be time, it may be the hour now, that this great person that we’re expecting to rise on the scene may arise on the scene.
327 Maybe this ministry, that I have tried to take people back to the Word, has laid a foundation; and if it has, I’ll be leaving you, for good. There won’t be two of us here the same time. See?”
In other words, he is referring to someone else. If the forerunner is a person, the one forerun must be a person as well. If back then the forerunner was John the Baptist and he was a person, the one forerun was also a person; and He was a disciple of John the Baptist.
“[327] If it is, he’ll increase; I’ll decrease. I don’t know.
328 But I have been privileged, by God, to look and see what It was, see, see unfold to that much.”
On page 481, it says [The Seals] [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 560 in Eng.]:
“391 Now, now, do you notice? On the opening of this Seventh Seal, it’s also in a threefold mystery. This one, I have…will speak and have spoke, that it is the mystery of the Seven Thunders. The Seven Thunders in Heaven will unfold this mystery. It’ll be right at the Coming of Christ, because Christ said no one knew when He would return.”
And further down says [pp. 560-561]:
“[392] You see, they hushed; nothing take place then. Angels don’t know It. Nobody knows when He is coming.
393 But there’ll be a—there’ll be a—a Seven Voices, of these Thunders, that will reveal the great revelation at that time.”
Then… it says [The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” pp. 561-562]:
“[398] …He omitted the revelation of this Seventh Seal.
399 And here, when the Seventh Seal, when He opened It, He also omitted It again, see. So we see that It is a complete mystery, therefore the hour is not yet for the mystery to be known. Therefore, we’re this far, and the rest of It will be known right around about the time that Jesus appears on earth again, for His Bride, or whatever takes place at that time.”
And now, on page… That was page 482 and 483. And now, in closing already, page 484 says [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 563 in Eng.]:
“[406] And the Angels took me into that pyramid of Themselves, the mysteries of God known only to Them. And, now, Them was the Messengers had come to interpret that pyramid, or that Message of the secret of these Seven Seals which lays withinside the pyramid.
407 Now, the Angel, was to my left, would really be the last, or seventh Angel, if we would count Them from left to right. Because, He was on my left; me looking to Him, towards the west, Him coming towards the east, would be on the left side. So, that would be the last angel’s Message, very notable.”
He is the Message of the last Angel, and He has the Seventh Seal; the Message of the last Angel is the Message of the Seventh Seal. That is the Message of the time of the end.
“[407] … would be on the left side. So, that would be the last angel’s Message, very notable. Remember how I said He had His, got His head back; and His great, sharp wings; and how He flew right to me. Now, that is this Seventh Seal.”
What is this Seventh Seal? The Angel who was different from the rest. That is this Seventh Seal.
“[407] It still is a notable thing. And we are…We don’t know what It is, as yet, because It’s not permitted to be broken.”
From what you have heard I believe that you have enough to understand that something is happening in God’s Program, that God has not left His people unprotected; God is with His people, with His Church, and He is giving us the spiritual Food, and He is calling and gathering His elect at this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Now, remember that when each Seal is opened in terms of Its fulfillment, that doesn’t mean that It has been opened in Heaven, because God still has that Book of the Seven Seals in His right hand; but the content of those Seals is fulfilled on Earth from stage to stage.
Notice, the First, Second and Third Seal have already been fulfilled, they have already been opened in terms of their fulfillment, and yet, in Heaven the Title Deed is still in the right hand of God.
But when Christ finishes calling and gathering His elect (which He does under the Fourth Seal and under the mystery of the Seventh Seal), the elect of His Church… and then, under the mystery of the Sixth Seal, He calls and gathers His elect of the Hebrew people, which are 144,000 Hebrews. And He does that with and under the ministry of the Last Day, which is the ministry in which the ministries of Moses and Elijah and the ministry of Jesus are manifested; those three great ministries are connected to the Seventh Seal.
On page 128 of the book of Quotations, paragraph 1143, it says40:
1143 – “[155] Under the Seventh Trumpet, is to Israel the same as the Seventh Seal was to the Church.”
The same thing that the Seventh Seal is to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is the Seventh Trumpet to the Hebrew people; and the Seventh Trumpet to the Hebrew people is blown, is sounded by Moses and Elijah, which is the Angel of the Seventh Trumpet of Revelation, chapter 11, verse 15.
And now, on page 129, paragraph 1150, it says [Quotations]41:
1150 – “[270] …Now, as soon as this Church (the Bride) is drawed together, She is taken up; and that mystery of the Seventh Seal, or the Seventh Seal, the mystery of going. And the Jews is called by the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet, which is two prophets, Elijah and Moses.”
Now, we have seen that the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet is Moses and Elijah; and the mystery of the Seventh Seal is the mystery of Christ, the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven.
And now, on page 130, paragraph 1164, it says [Quotations]42:
1164 – “[158] Remember, that, ‘They which are alive and remain shall not hinder those which are sleeping, for the Trump of God, that last Trumpet…’ The sixth one has just sounded. And that last Trumpet, like the last Seal, will be the Coming of the Lord. ‘It shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.’”
Notice, the Seventh Trumpet and the Seventh Seal is the same thing: the Coming of the Lord.
And now, we have seen… It says [Quotations, p. 130: 64-0726M – “Recognizing Your Day And Its Message,” p. 43]:
1162 – “[233] What are we waiting for?
When that Trumpet…(the last one)…the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no…
(Done broke into Eternity, ‘In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye.’).”
Now, when It is sounded to the Hebrew people…; because It is not being sounded to the Hebrew people yet, but It will be sounded to the Hebrew people. But before It is sounded to the Hebrew people, the equivalent to the Seventh Trumpet, and to the Sixth Seal, is the Seventh Seal. Therefore, the Seventh Seal is to the Church of Jesus Christ first; and then to the Hebrew people the Seventh Trumpet, which is the same thing as the Seventh Seal: the Coming of the Lord.
And now, this mystery is so great that I can’t give you more information than what I have given you so far. I have actually given you what our brother Branham told us, and a few more things, so that you can understand much more clearly that something is happening in the Divine Program. And although we don’t see… we don’t see movement like in past ages, something is happening. Something is happening, and what is happening in the Divine Program is very great.
Now, we don’t know how much more time we have left in these mortal bodies, but I suspect that we have very little time left.
From 1963 to now… Well, for the Coming of the Lord, I’ll tell you how much time is not left: from the First Coming of the Lord to the present, 2002 years have passed, counting from His birth and on, according to the Gregorian calendar; well, look, there aren’t 2200 years left until the Second Coming of Christ, since the First Coming; in other words, 2200 years have already passed; in other words, there are 1200 years less that are left compared to the years that were left in the time of the apostles. But we don’t know what year the entire Program of the Lord will be fulfilled, will be completed.
But that mystery is promised to be manifested secretly. All of that has to do with the silence in Heaven for about half an hour.
Now, we expect Christ to soon complete His Church and stand up from the Father’s Throne, stand up from the Throne of Intercession, finish His Work of Intercession as High Priest, and take the Book of the Seven Seals from the right hand of God and open It in Heaven, and carry out His Claiming Work, and raise the dead believers in Him and transform us who are alive.
There will be a period of time for all of that, because the seven angel-messengers, as well as the apostles, will have to be judged (as Reverend William Branham was told); they have to appear before the Judgement Seat of Christ before they are resurrected in glorified bodies. What will that be like? He was told that the Lord will pass through the sixth dimension, through Paradise, and they will be judged there.43
Now, let’s leave that alone, because that is something like when Jesus passed through Paradise, for the resurrection of the saints that were in Paradise.
Now, the important thing is that we be prepared, ready, all the days of our life, waiting for our transformation. Therefore, before Christ judges you: judge yourself and confess your faults, mistakes and any sin to Christ, and wash away your sins in the Blood of Christ (the Blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin);44 and this way you will be free of all sin and free of all judgment.
That way, He will not find in you, nor in me, any reason for which He cannot transform us; and then we will be transformed, and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Of course, before we leave, once we are transformed, there will be a full manifestation of the power of Jesus Christ in His Church, and that is what the Hebrew people will see in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ before we leave this Earth; we will already be adopted in those days. At least one will be adopted; and if one is adopted, then the rest will be adopted.
So, we trust that Christ will be the One who works and carries out the physical adoption, which is our transformation; because the spiritual adoption is the inner transformation, where Christ, by giving us His Holy Spirit, brings forth the new birth in us and we obtain a heavenly body of the sixth dimension. And the physical adoption will give us a glorified physical body just like the glorified body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, all of that is contained where? It is contained within the Seventh Seal. All the things which must shortly come to pass, after the things that have happened in the seven ages, all of that is contained within the Seventh Seal; and the Seventh Seal is manifested in the Fourth Seal; in that stage of the Fourth Seal is when the Seventh Seal is manifested.
Now, we have seen the glorious time in God’s Program that we have been given to live in. We are living in the greatest and most glorious time; and although there is, perhaps, like a silence, where we don’t see great physical miracles, the way they were seen in the different ages, it’s because God has kept His entire Program pertaining to this end time reserved.
And now, the great mystery is the mystery of Christ in His Angel. It’s the same thing, the same subject: the mystery of the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is the same thing as the mystery of Christ in His Angel.
But it is such a great mystery that it has not been completely opened yet; but it’s going to be gradually opened, so that you and I can understand the mystery that is in that Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, sent to testify these things in the churches.45
I need to receive more knowledge from Christ, more revelation, of the mystery of that Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and to pass all of that knowledge along to all of you at this end time.
Well, where are those who would be hearing and seeing the content of the Seventh Seal? Well, here we are, hearing and receiving the knowledge of the content of the Seventh Seal.
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about: “THE CONTENT OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
Well, may God continue to bless you all, may God keep you. And with us now our brother and friend José Benjamín Pérez, to continue on this occasion.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“THE CONTENT OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
1 Genesis 3:1-13
2 Genesis 1:26-27
3 Hebrews 11:3
4 Exodus 12:1-28
5 Numbers 18:1-6
6 Daniel 2:31-45
7 The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” pp. 542-543, paras. 249-254
8 John 10:8
9 Acts 5:34-39
10 Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4
11 Exodus 4:12
12 Genesis 1:1
13 Matthew 11:13, Luke 16:16
14 John 5:17-20, 8:28, 12:49-50, 14:10
15 Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22
16 John 14:16-17
17 Matthew 27:51-53
18 Matthew 27:62-66
19 John 1:1-14
20 Matthew 15:14
21 1 Samuel 16:7, Proverbs 21:2, Jeremiah 17:10
22 Revelation 6:1-2
23 Revelation 2:17
24 Revelation 4:6-7
25 Revelation 6:1
26 Revelation 6:3
27 Revelation 6:5
28 Exodus 19:3-4, Deuteronomy 32:11
29 Romans 12:19
30 Genesis 12:3
31 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
32 Matthew 10:42, Mark 9:41
33 The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 540, para. 233
34 62-1230E – “Is This The Sign Of The End, Sir?” p. 44, paras. 345-349
35 57-1006 – “Questions And Answers On Hebrews #3,” p. 26, paras. 729-735
36 Matthew 2:7-18
37 The Ages, “The Laodicean Church Age,” pp. 321-322
38 Daniel 12:10
39 The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 548, para. 299
40 64-0719M – “The Feast Of The Trumpets,” pp. 20-21, 23, paras. 155, 158-160, 162, 173
41 64-0719M – “The Feast Of The Trumpets,” p. 35, paras. 270-272
42 64-0726E – “Broken Cisterns,” p. 30, para. 158
43 The Seals, “The Fifth Seal,” p. 368, paras. 400-409
44 1 John 1:7
45 Revelation 22:16