Good evening, kind friends and brethren present. It is a great privilege to be with you here in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexican Republic, to share with you some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
For which I want to read in the book of Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1 and on; and Revelation, chapter 5, verse 1 to 6, where it says (we will first read Revelation, chapter 5, verse 1 to 6):
“And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.”
And in order to have a clearer picture, we continue reading on verse 8 and on, where it says:
“And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.”
And in chapter 8, verse 1, which is the last of the Seven Seals, the last Seal that is opened, it says (chapter 8, verse 1 to 5):
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our subject for this occasion is: “THE CULMINATION OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
In order to know what the culmination of the Seventh Seal is, we need to know what the Seventh Seal is.
The Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, as Christ said in Matthew, chapter 16, verse 27 to 28. Referring to the Coming of the Son of Man, notice what He said here; He says:
“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”
Here, Christ speaks to us about the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day, and He says that He comes with His Angels to pay to each one according to their works.
The Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day is the greatest promise that God has given to the human race, and above all, for all the sons and daughters of God, above all, for the Church of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
He showed on Mount Transfiguration what the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels coming to His Kingdom would be. It says in Matthew, chapter 17, verse 1 and on:
“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.
And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.
And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them (of whom?) of John the Baptist.”
Because John the Baptist was the Elijah who had to come in that time, preparing the way of the Lord, and that is what John the Baptist did by preaching the Gospel; and he came preparing the way for the Lord and he came baptizing the people who came to him repented, preparing the people and announcing that after him would come another man, a prophet, and teaching the people to believe in that prophet who would come after him, to whom he was preparing the way for.
That is why Saint Paul in chapter 19 of the book of Acts, says that John the Baptist came baptizing and came announcing, preaching, telling the people to believe in the one who would come after him, this is, in Jesus the Christ.
And now, notice what the First Coming of Christ was: It was none other than the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, dressed in human flesh, who created for Himself a body of flesh in Mary’s womb by creating a cell of life there, which multiplied cell after cell and formed the body of Jesus; He came by divine creation. And in that body dwelt the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, who was the one promised to come in the midst of the Hebrew people in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant.
Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1 and on, testifies that the one who would come after His forerunner would be none other than the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, that is, the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Lord God of the Hebrew people. Chapter 3, verse 1 and on, of Malachi, says:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me (And who was that messenger? Well, he was John the Baptist): 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, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Angel of the Covenant, that Angel of the Lord who delivered the Hebrew people there in Egypt and took them through the wilderness and placed them in the promised land, after a forty-year trajectory wherein God tested the Hebrew people; and He tested them making them go through different stages in those forty years, in order for the truth, in terms of their position with God, would come from the depth of the heart of the people, if they were going to serve God or not.
Some people say: “If God blesses me and I am good, I will serve God,” but God wants for us to serve Him in good times and also in the bad. He wants us to serve Him every day of our lives, no matter the circumstances that may surround us.
And now, we find that the Hebrew people went through different difficulties in the wilderness; and now, after these stages passed, notice what God says of all those stages and problems through which the Hebrew people went, notice here the reason for which God made them go through those stages. Chapter 8 of Deuteronomy says:
“All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.”
In other words, of every Word that comes out of the mouth of the Lord, of God; and that is the Word that comes from the messenger of God for each age, that is the spiritual food for the people of that age, that is the Word that feeds the soul of the people: the Message that comes from the messenger of God for each stage, for each age; because the mouth of God are His prophets. That is why we have the Word of God, and where has it come from? From the messengers of God, and here we have It written.
And now, notice that here is a reason for which we are also in our earthly trajectory as pilgrims here, going through an earthly life in an earthly body, wherein we go through different stages of sufferings, of problems, and also stages of joy, of happiness; but God is putting us through all those stages so that if we are going to serve Him or we are not going to serve Him in good times or in bad times as well, may come from the depths of our soul. That was the purpose for which God had the Hebrew people going through the wilderness for forty years.
That was a short journey, to go from Egypt to the land of Israel. Notice, when Jacob died, Joseph, from Egypt went all the way to the land of Israel and he buried Jacob there, his father Jacob; in other words, it was a short period of time from Egypt to the land of Israel. But in order for God to test His people, He had them in the wilderness for forty years. And since they did not act correctly, God said of those who rebelled against God and against Moses that they would not enter into the promised land, rather, they would die in the wilderness1.
Because the unbelievers will never enter the promised land; they did not enter into the literal promised land and they will not enter into the promised land of the new body, of the eternal body, and neither will they enter in the promised land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
And now, we have seen that this Angel, the Angel of the Lord, who was guiding the Hebrew people, notice, was the one who spoke all these things to prophet Moses; and prophet Moses was the one who spoke them to the Hebrew people, because the prophet Moses was the instrument of flesh of that Angel Messenger, of the Angel of the Lord, which is none other than the Lord Himself in His theophanic body.
That is why on some occasions we find that it says: “The Angel of the Lord appeared to such and such person,” and then we find that it says: “And God told such person, such and such thing.” Was it the Angel or was it God? It was God in His Angel, in His theophanic body called the Angel of the Lord.
Just like each messenger of each age: for each age, the angel of flesh and bones manifested on Earth in each age, has been the angel messenger of each age.
Saint Paul was the first one, that was the angel of God for the first age, he was the angel messenger of the first age, where Jesus Christ was manifested in the portion relevant to that time; the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, was manifested in Saint Paul.
Saint Paul said2: “I live yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Christ was living in Saint Paul and He was manifesting Himself in the portion relevant to that age; that was the veil of flesh that the Angel of the Covenant had for that time.
Then, when we reach the second age, the angel messenger was Irenaeus, the man of flesh called the angel of the second age of the gentile Church; and then later on Martin, then Columba, then Luther, then Wesley and then Reverend William Branham.
And for the Last Day, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is the Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and he is also the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom. It is the first time in which God sends a dispensational prophet to His Church, the first occasion; as it was also the first time, the Coming of Jesus, in which God (after prophet Moses) He sent a dispensational messenger to the Hebrew people, to the Hebrew Church under the Law; that was Jesus.
God always begins the program of a dispensation with a dispensational prophet; that is how He began the program under the Law, He started with the prophet Moses; and then when the end of that dispensation came, He sent another prophet: Jesus, to begin a new dispensation.
And for the Last Day, at the end of the Dispensation of the Grace, in order to start a new dispensation and intertwine with a new dispensation: the Dispensation of the Kingdom with the Dispensation of the Grace, He send His Angel Messenger, which is the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; and that is the veil of flesh in which the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, the Word, the Word will be manifested in human flesh at the Last Day, in the fulfillment of Revelation, chapter 19, which is the Coming of the Word, of the Holy Spirit coming in human flesh at the Last Day.
And just as prophets of God saw the Angel of the Covenant (which is God Himself manifested in His theophanic body), for the Last Day… just as we have seen the Angel of the Covenant, God in His theophanic body, also manifested with that theophanic body through a body of flesh in the prophets of the Old Testament, in Jesus in all His fullness, in the apostles of Jesus Christ, in Saint Paul and in the rest of the angel messengers of the seven ages: for the Last Day, we will also see Him in human flesh in His Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And that will be none other than the Coming of the Holy Spirit in human flesh manifested at the Last Day; and that will be none other than what has been promised by God through the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, referring to the white horse Rider of Revelation, chapter 19, where it says on page 256 of the book of The Seals3:
“But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.”
That man is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Age of the Cornerstone…, and the Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and Angel Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; the first time in which Jesus Christ sends a dispensational prophet to His Church.
That is why the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is Jesus Christ Himself in Holy Spirit will be in that dispensational prophet veiled and revealed at the Last Day; and that will be the Word incarnate in a man, and that man is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If we find that Angel Messenger, we will find the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger; and therefore, we will be seeing the Work that he will be carrying out at the Last Day.
That is the Work of the Seventh Seal: the Work of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
And now, this Angel of the Covenant, we find Him promised to come for the Last Day, it is in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, it is the Angel who descends from Heaven clothed with a cloud.
And now, let us see what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says about this Angel. On page 57 of the book of The Seals it says4:
“‘…I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow… upon his head,…’
If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished.”
He comes directly (to whom?) to the Jews, He comes for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is the Dispensation for the Hebrew people, in which the Hebrew people will enter the Program of God as a nation, where God will be calling and gathering together 144.000 Hebrews at the Last Day, that is, in the seventh millennium.
He continues:
“‘…and his face… as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:’
You remember that Angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel.”
He is the same Angel who delivered the Hebrew people, the same Angel who appeared to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; the same Angel, also, who spoke with Adam in the Garden of Eden; He is the same Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord who became flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people and dwelt in the midst of the Hebrew people and was known by the name of Jesus.
That is why He could say5: “Before Abraham was, I am; and Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.” He was before Abraham.
John said…, referring to Jesus, he said6: “This is he of whom I said after me comes a man. I knew him not; but He who sent me to baptize said to me: Upon whom you see the Holy Spirit descend in the form of a dove upon Him, that is Him. And I saw Him, and I testified that this is Him. I knew Him not…”
But now, what happened? What happened? Now, when he saw that manifestation of the Spirit of God in Him, he knew Him and said: “He is before me.” He was before John; and not only before John: He was before Abraham as well, and He was before Noah too and He was also before Adam.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” that is the Word; “and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us7”, and we knew Him by the name of Jesus. Throughout the biblical history, we have the name He used in His Coming in human flesh.
Now, in the Hebrew language we find…, and in the Hebrew language it would be Yoshua or Josué, but in the Greek language it is Jesús.
And now, notice, the pronunciation is according to the language, if you say Jesus’ name in English, it does not sound like Jesús, it sounds like “Yisus” [Jesus]. See? But it is the same man with the same name, and it is the same Angel of the Lord.
And do you know something? That He 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: 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 descends out of Heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my New Name.”
When Jesus Christ died, resurrected and ascended to Heaven victorious, and sat at the right hand of God in Heaven, He received a new Name; and that Name will be revealed for His Second Coming.
Now, let us see what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says, he says on page 131 of the book of The Seals in Spanish8:
“And, Jesus, His Name on earth was ‘Redeemer,’ Jesus. When He was on earth, He was the Redeemer, that’s true. But when He conquered death and hell, and overcome them, and ascended on High, He received a new Name. That’s the reason you holler the way they do, and they don’t get nothing. It’ll be revealed in the Thunders.
Uh-huh. See? Notice the mysteries. He is coming, riding… There’s got to be Something to change this Church. You know that. There’s got to be Something. Notice, ‘No man knowed, but Himself.’ Now, notice, ‘No man knowed, but Hisself.’
‘And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name was called The Word of God (but remember: ‘Word’ is no name).
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he tread the winepress of the fierceness and the wrath of Almighty God.
And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.’
Revelation 19:13-16
There comes the Messiah.”
That is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit veiled in human flesh at the Last Day; it is the Coming of the Word incarnate in a man.
“But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.” (Page 256, the book of The Seals).
And there, He comes as the Word of God and He comes with a name written on His thigh and on His vesture; that name is King of kings and Lord of lords. He comes with a name that one knows and is called the Word of God. In other words, He is called the Word of God: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made (that is, created) by Him.”
It is the Coming of the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is the Lord Himself, who came two thousand years ago in human flesh, He became flesh (the Word) and dwelt among the human beings and was known by the name of Jesus. And for the Last Day, the Word will return, the Word incarnate in a man according to Revelation, chapter 19. And no one understood that name that He brings, a name that no one understood but Himself, because that is the name of the Word of God for His Second Coming.
And now, notice the great blessing that Christ has for His Church for the Last Day. It continues saying on the same page 131 of the book of The Seals, says:
“But Christ has a Name! What is it? The Word of God. That’s what it is. ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word, made flesh.’”
It also says:
“…but Christ is called ‘The Word of God.’ That’s what He is. He is called that. Now He’s got a Name that no man knows; but He’s called, ‘The Word of God.’”
That New Name that Christ says He has: “… and I will write upon him my New Name.”
Now, His New Name is the Eternal Name of God, and that is the same Name of the City of our God. Or is there any other name better for the City of our God? If you have a city, what name would you give it? Well, you would give it your name, because if it is your city, well, you have to give it your name.
Now, we can see that that is a divine mystery, which is promised to be revealed at the Last Day, in the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels; that is a mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, since His Angels are the Two Olive Trees and Two Candlesticks, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah; and the Coming of the Son of Man is none other than the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord veiled in human flesh at the Last Day manifesting the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus on this planet Earth; that is the Coming of the Word incarnate in a man, that is the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19.
And just as it was two thousand years ago…, He had different stages; for example, who lived here in the midst of the human beings? The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord who had delivered the Hebrew people, now made Himself a body, He made a body of flesh for Himself, and He lived as a human being in the midst of human beings. For how many years? For 33 years; and not many knew who was that man named Jesus of Nazareth; but Jesus said: “Before Abraham was, I am. And Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.”
And for the Last Day, that same Angel of the Covenant returns, who has been manifested in the prophets of the Old Testament, in the portion pertaining to each time of the Old Testament, and then in Jesus in all His fullness to carry out the Work of Redemption, and then in the apostles, and then in the seven angel messengers of the seven gentile Church ages, in the portion pertaining to each stage, to each age; and at the Last Day, He comes in His Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Angel Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom as well (which is the same one); and He anoints that Angel Messenger with His Spirit, He manifests Himself through him and fulfills all the promises that He has made for the end time, for His Coming veiled in human flesh and revealed through human flesh.
But His Angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ, nor is he the prophet Elijah, nor is he the prophet Moses; but he is a man of this time anointed with the Holy Spirit, with the Seal of the living God, in whom the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, who is the only one who has ministries (because that is Jesus Christ), will be manifesting the ministries of Moses for a second time, Elijah for a fifth time and Jesus for a second time.
That is the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which had never before been revealed to human beings and which is being revealed at this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And our brother Branham says, the forerunner of the second Coming of Christ, speaking to us of this Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of the Lord, on page 469 [The Seals</em>] ; he says9:
“And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’”
Here, he is speaking about these angels who appear in this cloud that is formed by angels; these are the angels of the seven gentile Church ages and another Angel who was different from the rest, which is this one that is here.
Now, referring to this Angel who is here, who was different from the rest, which is the Angel of the Covenant, which is Jesus Christ in His theophanic body there (just as the rest of the angels of the seven ages were in their theophanic bodies as well); he says:
“And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’ He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them. You remember that? They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, ‘He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward’ (you remember) ‘like that.’ I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up.’”
He was raised from Earth, he was caught away to that cloud, he was taken to that cloud in his theophanic body, by whom? By the Angel who was different from the rest. In other words, the Angel who was different from the rest, which is the angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in His theophanic body, took our brother Branham, took him out of the physical body and took him in his thephanic body and placed him in that cloud. He says:
“…(you remember) ‘like that.’ I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up.’
Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I’ve wondered all my life. Amen! Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don’t know what This has meant, for one time in life!’”
Because the seventh is the Coming of the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven, which is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant at the Last Day. And now, the sign of the Son of Man appears in heaven, the sign of the Son of Man appears in heaven, the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in His theophanic body clothed with a cloud formed by angel messengers of the seven gentile Church ages, and He forms this part of this cloud (which, by turning the photo to the right, it is the white hair of the Lord or the white wig of the Lord).
And now, with the manifestation of this Angel in heaven with these other angels, we find that the sign of the Son of Man appears in heaven testifying that we have arrived at the time of the Coming of the Son of Man, to carry out the Work of the call, the gathering of all the elect of God: “And He shall send His Angels with a Great Voice of a Trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect.” Let us read Matthew, chapter 24, so that we have a clear picture of what was happening there on February 28, 1963.
By that time, I was at one of the mountains of Puerto Rico, of the city of Lares, in a spiritual retreat. It says… By that time I was about 22 years old, a young man, but the call of God and the responsibility of God for the ministry, God had already placed it upon my shoulders and I had to respond to that call; and I had seen that Moses, Elijah and Jesus separated themselves, in a retreat, for many days, and thus, that is how the Spirit of God took me to a spiritual retreat.
Now, the Scripture says in chapter 24, verse 30 to 31 of Matthew:
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
This is fulfilled here on February 28, 1963. There, the Son of Man, the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven, Jesus Christ the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, was seen coming in the clouds of heaven; clouds not formed by humidity, rather, clouds formed by angels of God, they are clouds of glory in the clouds where He appeared there.
“…and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
There we can see that from February 28, 1963 and on, the ministries of the Angels of the Son of Man, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, they had to begin at some point. And those ministries are the ministries that for the Last Day, the Angel of the Covenant would be operating, the Angel of the Lord, which is this Angel who is different from the rest, who appeared in this cloud</em>; and that is the Angel who has what? The Seventh Seal, the Angel who has and fulfills the Second Coming of Christ.
That is the Mighty Angel, the Angel who descends from Heaven; notice Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, that it is the same things of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 30 and on.
And now here, notice, in Matthew it says that He will send His Angels with a Great Voice of Trumpet; and now, let us see what He does here in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on; 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.”
How does He come? Crying out as when a lion roars, because He comes as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and seven thunders utter their voices. In the Coming of this Angel to Earth in human flesh, He will be crying out as when a lion roars, in other words that His Message, the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, is the Message of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Message of the King of kings and Lord of lords.
He also appears with His face as the sun, because the sun is the king star, and Christ comes as the King of kings and Lord of lords, and He is the Light of the world; therefore, notice, as King He comes to enlighten the world in the seventh millennium, in that glorious Millennial Kingdom.
And now, He comes crying out as when a lion roars and seven thunders utter their voices. The Voice of the Seven Thunders that reveal the mystery of the Seventh Seal, is heard at the Last Day through the manifestation of that Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven through human flesh, through His Angel Messenger, through whom He cries out as when a lion roars and seven thunders utter their voices and reveal to the Church of Jesus Christ the mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels.
It is through His manifestation, His Coming and manifestation in His Angel Messenger, that we hear the Voice of Christ, that Great Voice of Trumpet that John heard in the Day of the Lord in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11, where he tells us:
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.”
And the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, we all know that it is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Voice of Christ at the Last Day through His Angel Messenger speaking to His Church with that Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom and revealing to us all these mysteries that pertain to the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels.
And now, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said that the Seventh Seal would be revealed by the seven thunders of Revelation, chapter 10; because that is the Voice of Christ at the Last Day speaking to His Church all these things that God has promised to fulfill at this end time.
On page 475 of the book of The Seals it says10:
“One of the mystery of that Seal, the reason It wasn’t revealed, It was Seven Thunders that uttered Their voices. And there It is, perfectly. Because, nothing knows anything about It. It wasn’t even written. So, we’re at the end time.”
Then, on page 474 it says:
“And, by every one of Them, has identified Its place in the Bible. Now, what this great secret is that lays beneath this Seal, I do not know. I don’t know it. I couldn’t make it out. I couldn’t tell It, just what It said, but I know that It was them Seven Thunders uttering themselves right close together, just banging seven different times. And It unfolded into something else that I seen. Then, when I seen That, I looked for the interpretation. It flew across there, and I couldn’t make It out.”
He heard that Voice of the Seven Thunders, that is, the Voice of Christ thundering, but when he looked for the interpretation, he could not decipher what the Voice of Christ said. Let us see why: page 471 says:
“And in Sabino Canyon, He said, ‘This is the Third Pull.’ And there’s three great things that goes with It. And one unfolded today, or, yesterday; the other one unfolded today; and there’s one thing that I cannot interpret, because it’s in an unknown language (so it is not in English, rather, it is in another language). But I stand right there and looked right straight at It. And this is the Third Pull coming up. And the Holy Spirit of God…”
See? It is the Holy Spirit of God manifested at the Last Day, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, that is, the Coming of the Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit veiled in human flesh in His Angel Messenger speaking in another language that is not the English language.
If he would have heard English, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ would have understood, but he says that it was in an unknown language to him; and that is the language that the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ will have, who Jesus Christ will use speaking to His Church at the Last Day, just as He used the language of Saint Paul and just as He used the language that Irenaeus had and just as He used the language that each angel messenger of each age had, to speak through that angel messenger and call and gather together His elect in each age.
He also used German through Luther, He used English from England through Wesley and He used English from North America through the Reverend William Branham; and He would be using the language of the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, because God uses the language that the instrument He will be using in that time has.
And now, notice, the Thunders speak their voices and reveal the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, they reveal it in a language that is not English, nor German, nor any of those past languages, rather, in the language that the Angel Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ has; that will be the language that Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be using, the Angel of the Covenant in human flesh in His Angel Messenger and revealed through His Angel Messenger.
And now, let us see here page 474 and 475, it says, of the book of The Seals:
“I don’t know who is going to…”
In other words, it says: “I do not know who it will be,” referring to that Seventh Seal, referring to the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, speaking of the Coming of the Mighty Angel, speaking of the Coming of the Angel of the covenant, speaking of the Coming of Jesus Christ veiled in human flesh. It says:
“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.”
And if we hear those Seven Thunders speaking on Earth, which is the Voice of Christ speaking as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, well, we will be knowing that mystery for which there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour; and the Seventh Seal being opened in Heaven is the Second Coming of Christ.
That mystery being opened in Heaven caused silence for about half an hour, but no one could make known that mystery to the human beings, they kept quiet in Heaven; it says that there was silence for about half an hour, so that the Divine Program that would be carried out under the manifestation of that Seventh Seal would not be interrupted, under the manifestation of the Angel who was different from the rest, that Angel coming in human flesh in the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And now, we continue reading, it says:
“Everybody understand?
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. 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 (and he is gone, in nineteen what? 1965). There won’t be two of us here the same time.”
In other words, the forerunner and the foreran would not be present; but what would happen if they were? The same thing that happened in the time of John the Baptist the forerunner and Jesus the foreran.
When they came to John the Baptist, saying11: “Look, now the one of whom you bore witness, now more people follow Him than you and He baptizes more people than you” (they thought they would make John jealous), John tells these people: “He must increase, and I must decrease.” John was decreasing and Jesus was increasing in His ministry.
Then, John died and John’s ministry was not manifested among the disciples of John again; even though in the resurrection, he may have appeared to many of his disciples, but that ministry had already come to its end; he went to Paradise, and there he was preaching until Jesus went to Paradise.
And now, notice, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ departed, he went to Paradise, and he has been there in Paradise speaking with those who are there, and mainly with the group of his age; but if they have had any meeting with the other messengers, surely they have been talking about the entire Divine Program relevant to this end time and from over there, they have been looking over here at how all of the Program of God of this end time is unfolding.
Now, our brother Branham continues saying:
“There won’t be two of us here the same time. See? If it is, he’ll increase; I’ll decrease.”
In other words, the one who will increase will be the one who brother Branham says will come after him, for whom he is preparing the way. And for whom was he preparing the way? For this Angel who was different from the rest, who has the Seventh Seal, who has the Second Coming of Christ; because that Angel is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord. He is Jesus Christ in His theophanic body appearing here on February 28, 1963.
And now, that is the one for whom he is preparing the way; he is preparing the way for the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ, that Angel who is different from the rest, to come at the Last Day; and he says: “But when our Lord appears here on Earth…” Now, He already appeared above, here in heaven, in the fulfillment of the sign of the Son of Man in heaven clothed here with that Cloud or coming in the clouds.
But now He must come to Earth clothed in (what?) human flesh, He must come veiled in human flesh and revealed through human flesh; and there must be a veil of flesh on Earth for an age and a dispensation. It must be for a new age, it can no longer be for any of these seven ages because He already used these messengers of these seven ages; there must be a new age, and that is the Age of the Cornerstone; and there is a Messenger for that age, and he is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and there must be a new dispensation, and that is the Dispensation of the Kingdom; and there must be a dispensational prophet, and that is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Notice why John tried to worship the Angel of Jesus Christ on two occasions, he could see who this Angel was.
And now, notice how for the Last Day, all the divine revelation to be made known to the Church of Jesus Christ must come to a prophet, and through that prophet, it must be given to the people of God, to the Church of Jesus Christ; because all revelation comes to the prophets that God sends for each age and for each dispensation. If it is a revelation for a dispensation, then it must come to a (what?) a dispensational prophet and that is a dispensational Message.
And now, he tells us that if the two of them are here at the same time, He will increase and the forerunner will decrease. He says:
“I don’t know. But I have been privileged, by God, to look and see what It was (he did not know what it was, but he looked and saw, even though he did not understand many things), See, see unfold to that much.”
Then, on page 464 and on, he tells us:
“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. Time runs out. The Bible said so. Matthew, the 7th chapter… I mean, Revelation, the 7th cha-… 10th chapter and the… and 1 to the 7th verse. Time runs out. The Angel said, ‘Time will be no more,’ when that, in the days of this great thing to happen (in other words, when this Mighty Angel comes and speaks with that Voice as of a lion, cries out with that Voice as of a lion, and the Seven Thunders utter their voices).”
And He is the same one who proclaims that there should be time no longer, that time has come to an end; that is why He must be what? Veiled in human flesh and revealed through human flesh.
“…When that, in the days of this great thing to happen.
Everything runs out, in this time, the end of the… at the end of this Seventh Seal. Notice. It’s the end of the church age. It’s 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 (what?) Seventh Seal.”
We have seen that the Seventh Seal has a beginning here on Earth, it starts being fulfilled (that is its beginning) but it also has an end, and that is the end of the Seventh Seal when the Work of the Seventh Seal is fulfilled here on Earth. And since the Second Coming of Christ is the Seventh Seal being fulfilled on Earth, just as the First Coming of Christ had a beginning when He was born in Bethlehem of Judea and then it had an end, which was when He died on Calvary’s Cross…
At the end of the First Coming of Christ, He carried out the Work of Redemption by dying on Calvary’s Cross; the end of the First Coming of Christ was the culmination of His Coming; in other words, the most important part of the First Coming of Christ was the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.
And for the Last Day, the culmination of the Seventh Seal is at the end, because there at the end of the Seventh Seal, the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be changed; and that is the end. That is when the Angel will proclaim, Christ through His Angel Messenger will proclaim the end of all things; and after that, for a period of time of three and a half years or so, plus the thirty or forty days when we will be here already changed, after those three and a half years, plus thirty or forty more days, after that, the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ will be on Earth; because during the three and a half years of the great tribulation, the end of all the world systems will be manifested, and therefore, everything will be in that fading phase.
But notice what it says in Revelation, chapter 11, verse 15 and on:
“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.”
Now, we can see what will be happening at this end time.
Now, in the culmination of the Seventh Seal, in the culmination of the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest (which is the Coming of the Word, the Word incarnate in a man carrying out the ministry pertaining to the Last Day), the Angel of the Covenant will be carrying out the ministry that pertains to this Last Day in the midst of His Church, and then, He will turn to the Hebrew people to complete the seventieth week of Daniel’s prophecy; and the part of the seventieth week that remains is three and a half years long, because the first part of the three and a half years of that seventieth week was fulfilled by Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, in His First Coming in human flesh.
And now, we are living in the most glorious time of all times, in the time in which the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who has been in the prophets of the Old Testament and in Jesus in all His fullness, and in the apostles, and then, in the seven angel messengers in the part pertaining to each age, will be with us at the Last Day in the Age of the Cornerstone, also in human flesh, manifested through His Angel Messenger.
And just as He had a ministry in each age through the messenger of each age, He will also have a ministry: the ministry pertaining to the Last Day in the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom through His Angel Messenger, in whom He will manifest the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus.
And now, notice what this Seventh Seal is like:
“It’s just like firing a rocket into the air. And that rocket explodes here, and it goes up and then explodes again. It puts out five stars. One of those stars (in other words, those five stars, one of them, one of those stars) explode and blows out five stars from it; and then one of them stars explodes and blows out five stars from it. See, it fades on out. That’s, what, the Seventh Seal. It just ends the time for the world. It ends the time for this. It ends the time for that. It ends the time for this. It ends the time. Everything just ended up on that Seventh Seal. Now, how is He going to do it? That’s what we don’t know. Isn’t it? We don’t know. It’s even the time for all these things, and the ushering in of the Millennium.”
The time for the Seventh Seal is the end of all things and of the ushering in of the Millennium. Everything, notice, is under the Seventh Seal, which is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant who came two thousand years ago in human flesh, in the veil of flesh named Jesus.
And for the Last Day, that same Angel of the Covenant, the Angel who was different from the rest, who appears here in this cloud, will come in human flesh; that will be the Coming of the Word incarnate in a man, that will be the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 coming in human flesh at the Last Day.
“But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man (and that man is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ).”
In the book of The Seals, page 256, the forerunner said that the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 would be the Word of God incarnate in man.
And now, notice what the mystery of the Seventh Seal is and what the culmination of the Seventh Seal is. At the end of the Seventh Seal comes the culmination, in which the dead in Christ will resurrect in eternal bodies, we who are alive will be changed and then, we will be taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven; but when we are in the new body, all the elect of God of the Last Day and the Angel of Jesus Christ there will be a period of time of thirty to forty days in which we will still be here on Earth, and where things that are inconceivable to the human mind will be happening, which there is no need to speak much about, because that is for when we are already in the new body.
Now, we can see what the culmination of the Seventh Seal at the Last Day will be: it will be culmination of the ministry of the Angel of the Covenant through His Angel Messenger; and we have seen that the culmination of the Seventh Seal is at the end.
Some people who do not understand all these things that you already understand, may say: “I want to see the culmination of the Seventh Seal.” Well, they have to wait… they have to wait until the end of the Seventh Seal. But when we reach the end of the Seventh Seal and the dead in Christ are resurrected and we who are alive are changed, then the door of Grace, of mercy, will be shut; and even if they cry out and weep, there will be no more mercy, and there will not be Blood in Heaven, on the Throne of Intercession, in other words, on the seat of mercy, to wash away the sins of the people who come later on crying out, their prayers will be said too late.
This is the time when we can pray to God and ask God for mercy, but when we reach the end of the Seventh Seal, the door will be shut because the Bride-Church of Christ (who are the wise virgins), will have all gone in with Christ to the Marriage, and the door will be shut according to Matthew, chapter 25, verses 10 to 13, where Jesus Christ Himself says, He says:
“And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came (in other words, the foolish or sleeping virgins went to buy oil)<em>; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”
The Coming of the Son of Man is the Coming of the Bridegroom for the Marriage of Christ with His Church, for the union of Christ and His Church; and then, the door will be shut, when all the wise virgins have entered, which they enter in and to the Age of the Cornerstone, in the House of God; and when the number of God’s elect is completed, the door will be shut and not one more will come in, not even to say congratulations and his good wishes of happiness and prosperity to the Bridegroom and the Bride; they will all already be (where?) inside, with the Bridegroom.
And now, notice that it is very important to know this because it is promised to be fulfilled. In Revelation, chapter 19, the Angel of Jesus Christ, speaking to John… chapter 19, verse 7 to 10, says [Revelation]:
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
To go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, a person must be one of the wise virgins, he must be one of the people who goes in with Christ in His Second Coming, who goes into the Age of the Cornerstone before the door of the Grace is shut; and then, that is when that marriage, that union takes place, in which the dead in Christ will resurrect in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be changed, and then we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And then, we will be able to say what Adam said about Eve, Christ will be able to say that about us and we can say about Him. Adam said (referring to Eve) when God presented Eve to him, he said12: “This is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bones.” And now, when we are changed, Christ also in His glorified body, will be able to say about us, He can touch us and say: “This is flesh of my flesh, touch this; it is the same type of flesh. And touch… See? This is bone of my bones.” Because we will be like Christ, we will have a body just like the one our beloved Lord Jesus Christ has; when we are changed, that is when we will see Him in His glorified body.
Now we can see the reason why Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, comes in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel Messenger at the Last Day: it is to call and gather together all His elect, to call and gather together all His Church, the wise virgins. Where? In the House of God, in the Age of the Cornerstone, before the door is shut, so that they go in with Christ to the Marriage; and once they have gone in, the door will be shut and no one else will be able to enter.
And when we are all changed, then there will be a powerful manifestation of God, and worldwide, humanity will see things that they never imagined that it would be possible for people to do; but we will already be in the glorified and eternal body, and nothing will be impossible for us.
The word “impossible” will not be in our dictionary, and the words “we can’t” will not be there either; because all things are possible to him that believes, and for God, all things are possible.
Now we can see this great culmination of the Seventh Seal. Let us see here, page 472 says [The Seals]:
“Notice now, for the end-of-time Message, this Seal (in other words, the Seventh Seal)… After all, 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.”
When the First Coming of Christ started to be fulfilled on Earth, it was a secret to humanity: a little boy being born there in Bethlehem of Judea, and then, that little boy growing, then the wise men arriving at the house where He was (because He was no longer in the manger, He was already about two years old), and then, being sent to Egypt; the Angel Gabriel said to Joseph13: “Take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, for king Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”
He went to Egypt with the boy Jesus, he was there for a period of time (the Bible does not specify how long), and then, when king Herod died, the Angel Gabriel said to Joseph14: “Now those who sought the young child’s life are dead, and now, go into the land again, go to Israel, to the land of Israel.” And he did not go to Bethlehem of Judea, he went to Nazareth. Remember that before, Joseph used to live in Nazareth and the virgin Mary as well, and now they go back to Nazareth through another route, the Bethlehem route – Egypt and Nazareth.
And He was raised in Nazareth; and not even king Herod (who had died) nor the sons of king Herod were going to find the Messiah in Bethlehem of Judea, because God had already sent Him to Nazareth, and He was raised as a Nazarene. And who would have imagined that this young man named Jesus of Nazareth was actually Jesus from Bethlehem of Judea? But notice, God hid the Coming of the Messiah from both the wise and the prudent of that time and from the devil.
And then, when He begins His ministry, the devil tells him15: “If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread.” The devil was trying to find out there if Jesus was truly the Son of God; but Jesus did not please the devil, He told him: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
If Jesus had turned those stones into bread and eaten bread, what would have happened? His physical body would have had to die, because when someone has been fasting for forty days, if he eats a piece of bread, what happens to him? Since his stomach, his digestive system, was not working for forty days, it cannot digest that bread; and then, he would have congestion (is that what it’s called?) or indigestion (as some people call it sometimes), and one can die from that.
There are countries where people have been fasting and they have seen them very weak like that, and their family members have said: “If this one keeps fasting like that, he will die,” and they make him pigeon soup, and they have given it to him and that has killed him.
Let us see here where Miguel is, let us see if Bermudez is around here and he can confirm if that… Let us see, Miguel, if that has happened before in a certain country.
[Brother Miguel – Thank you very much, William. Yes, that happened there in Venezuela, it is a city called Barquisimeto. There were two brothers from church, who said they had received revelation, and one of them said he was Elijah and the other said he was Elisha; so they began a series of fasts and they had been fasting for some days already. And so their minds were already becoming delirious and they had problems, so they sent for the pastor of the church I belonged to. And he (a very wise man) told them… because they were already at the point that they could not move properly, they could not… He told them: “Look, I recommend that you look for a doctor and that you can start giving to them according to what the doctor tells you; don’t give them food just like that, because that is problematic, it is dangerous.”
Then, the family members said that that was not… some family members said: “No, what they need is food, they are all weak; what we have to do is feed them for this many days.” They did not want to call the doctor, like the pastor recommended.
So, they prepared them a pigeon soup and gave it to them; they drank that soup, that food and both of them died that same day. And then the doctor could not do anything, when…]
That was what kind of church…?
[It was a Pentecostal church]
They were not even from the Message of brother Branham or anything.
[No, that was the Pentecostal stage, that was in the Pentecostal Age; that was not in the Message of brother Branham, rather, it was still in the Pentecostal group; and they, well, in the Pentecostal church, many things were seen, those were revelations that people received. So these two brothers, well, they said they had received that revelation and that they had to pray and fast, because they both had the ministry of Moses and Elijah; and then, they started walking around one in front and the other behind, in the back of the house, and then, they began that fasting process and they reached this state in which they could not walk, and that was when they called the pastor.
The pastor gave them a good recommendation. He told them: “Do not give them anything,” but they did not listen to him; and after taking that food, when… they died that same day; and the doctor, they could not do anything. Thank you very much].
Thank you very much, Miguel. You can see that it has happened; and Miguel, since he knew about this case…, and it had not been someone from a group of ours, but from an age, the seventh age.
Now, we can see that, notice, they tried to imitate what God would be doing at the Last Day through His manifestation in His Angel Messenger, they tried to imitate those ministries. Our brother Branham says that to impersonate Moses, to imitate Moses, to impersonate Moses, was death.
And now, notice the problem people bring upon themselves by trying to impersonate the ministry that Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, has for the end time, or the ministries He has for the end time, to manifest through His Angel Messenger.
Whoever tries to impersonate will not even understand that mystery contained in the Seventh Seal, in the Angel who was different from the rest, to be manifested through human flesh in His Angel Messenger. Only the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ and the ones to whom He reveals it through His Message in the Age of the Cornerstone; no one else will be able to understand that mystery. And whoever wants to understand it must hear the Voice of Christ through His Angel, saying: “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
Now, let us continue here. It goes on to say:
“And the end-time Seal, when It starts, will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible.”
And now notice, the First Coming of Christ had not been announced as absolutely a total secret, because through the prophet Isaiah, it was announced that it would be through a virgin, it was announced that it would be a child who would be born and would be Emmanuel (which translated is: God with us), it was announced by Malachi that it would be the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, in other words, the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and of all the Hebrew people; it was also announced that He would be born in Bethlehem of Judea: Micah, chapter 5, verse 2; and Matthew, chapter 2, that is where the testimony is.
And when the wise men arrived in Jerusalem, they were looking for the Messiah, there was a testimony of them, there in chapter 2, verse 1 (to 12, we may say); and notice, it was announced that the Messiah was already on Earth, but the people could not understand because God blinded the eyes of the wise and prudent, He blinded the eyes of the theologians of the Hebrew religion.
If the spiritual eyes of the Hebrew religion had not been blinded, those theologians would have understood that that was the time, they would have gone to Bethlehem of Judea, they would have seen the Messiah and they would have proclaimed Him at that time, and they would have proclaimed the Coming of the Messiah; and also when He began His ministry, they would have proclaimed that He was the Messiah.
But notice, the mystery of the First Coming of Christ was hidden for twenty-nine and a half years, until His ministry began; and then, during those three and a half years, when He was testifying with the Word of God, showing through the Word of God that the Scripture was fulfilled in Him, the Coming of the Messiah was fulfilled in Him, they could not believe that it was true, the Hebrew religion could not believe; only a few people among the Hebrew people were the ones who believed.
The mystery of the First Coming of Christ, which had been announced to be fulfilled among the Hebrew people, and His birth in Bethlehem of Judea, notice, could not be seen.
And now, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is the same one that came two thousand years in human flesh in that veil of flesh called Jesus of Nazareth, that young construction worker, now for the Last Day, the Angel of the Covenant will come again, the Angel of the Lord veiled in human flesh in His Angel Messenger; and that is the Seventh Seal.
And when the Seventh Seal begins “it will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible.” Notice, when the veil of flesh is born, all of that will be a secret; when that Angel Messenger receives Christ as his Savior and washes his sins in the Blood of Christ and receives His Holy Spirit, that is still a mystery. No one will know that he is the Angel Messenger of Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, of whom Jesus Christ says: “I Jesus have sent my Angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Then, His ministry will begin and that is when the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, will begin to carry out the Work pertaining to the Seventh Seal, but it will begin progressively. Then, He will reach the stage in which, publicly (but with His Church, with His elect in the Age of the Cornerstone) He will be showing them the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of His Coming, the mystery of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant veiled in human flesh in His Angel Messenger; He will be showing them the mystery, the Coming of the Word, of the Word incarnate in a man, the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19.
And the elect will see the manifestation of the Angel who was different from the rest through His Angel Messenger, they will be seeing the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, they will be seeing the Coming of the Word incarnate in a man.
“But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate,” in what? “In a Man.”
This is what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says on page 256 of the book The Seals.
And now, let’s continue reading here on page 472. He says:
“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.
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!”
How does it come? It comes just like John the Baptist and it comes like the birth of Jesus, there in a stable.
Why does it come like John the Baptist? Because John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah; and the Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven, manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, comes operating the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time; therefore, in the Coming and opening of the Seventh Seal, the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, Elijah will be there in his fifth manifestation and Moses will also be there in his second manifestation and Jesus will also be there in His second manifestation, in other words, the ministries of Jesus for the second time, Elijah for the fifth time and Moses for the second time.
And who will be manifesting those ministries in the Angel of Jesus Christ? This Angel who was different from the rest will be manifesting them, which is the Angel of the Lord, who is the only one who has ministries and is the only one who has operated those ministries in the past: in Moses, in Elijah the Tishbite, in Elisha, in John the Baptist, in Reverend William Branham; and at the Last Day, in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and there, He will operate the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time, of Moses for the second time and of Jesus for the second time.
The same one who operated the ministry of Jesus two thousand years ago among the Hebrew people is the one who will operate the ministry of Jesus again through the Angel of Jesus Christ.
And who is the one who will operate it? The Angel who was different from the rest, which is the Angel of the Covenant, who appeared on February 28 with the seven angel messengers of the seven gentile Church ages.
That is the mystery of this Angel. This is the Angel who has the Seventh Seal, and the mystery He has is the mystery of His Coming in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, manifesting the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus at the Last Day; and thus, fulfilling the Seventh Seal, thus, fulfilling His Coming, and calling and gathering together His elect with the Great Voice of Trumpet and preparing us to be changed and raptured at the Last Day, so that the dead in Christ may also be resurrected in eternal bodies.
No one who is alive can be changed without first seeing the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, of the Angel of the Covenant veiled and revealed in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, speaking with that Great Voice of Trumpet and revealing to us all these mysteries of the Last Day; because His Voice is the Great Voice of Trumpet, the Last Trumpet, which Saint Paul spoke about and said it will sound and the dead in Christ will resurrect first and then, we who are alive will be changed.
And what is it that the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet reveals? What it reveals is the Second Coming of Christ, it is the Coming of the Seventh Seal, the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, coming in human flesh at the Last Day in His Angel Messenger and operating these three great ministries that He has promised to manifest at the Last Day.
See how simple the mystery of the Seventh Seal is? See how everything is in simplicity? Anyone may start to look for the Coming of the Seventh Seal, the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal in a tremendous way, and what happens? He cannot understand it; if he starts to look for the Coming of the Angel who descends from Heaven in a grand way: he will never see the Coming of that Angel in human flesh at the Last Day.
The forerunner said it will be in a simple way. His Coming will be so simple that even the things we saw in these prophets of the past are also a reflection of what will happen at the Last Day.
For example, at any time, we could look at the speech problems Moses had; for which he told God that he had trouble speaking, that he was slow to speak, and that he could not go and speak the Message because of that, and he asked to be given an assistant; perhaps he stuttered and it took a lot of effort for him to speak. But that is not a problem for God, the important thing is that he has the Word of God, even if speaking ten words takes the time it would usually take to speak twenty-five words, but the important thing is that it is the Word of God.
And now, countless things can be seen in that veil of flesh, which will identify him as truly human and they will identify him as the Angel of Jesus Christ; and everyone will be able to understand that he is not Jesus Christ and that he is not Elijah and that he is not Moses, but rather, he is the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ, in whom Jesus Christ will be manifesting those three great ministries.
Now, we have seen the mystery of “THE CULMINATION OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
At the end of the Seventh Seal, which is at the end of the ministry of the Angel who was different from the rest, manifested in human flesh, at the end is when the dead in Christ will resurrect, we who are alive will be changed. But remember: to reach the end, there must be a beginning, a start.
And to see the Seventh Seal from the beginning, the Angel who was different from the rest, manifested in the Angel of Jesus Christ, is a very great blessing; and to follow this Angel in His manifestation at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone every day of our lives, is a very great blessing; because this way, we are listening to the Voice of Christ day after day, as we are given the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and we are taught by the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who taught the Hebrew people. And now, notice, He taught the Hebrew people through whom? Through Moses.
And now, through His Angel Messenger, He will be teaching His Church and then the Hebrew people, He will be teaching her all these things that must come to pass at this end time; He will be teaching her the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom and all the mysteries that revolve around the Second Coming of Christ; because for this end time, all things revolve around the Second Coming of Christ, even the end of the world, even the end of the gentile kingdom, even the end of the feet of iron and clay revolves around the Seventh Seal, around the Second Coming of Christ.
Because His Coming, the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, is what marks the end of the gentile kingdom, the end of the feet of iron and clay, it marks the end of the world; because for the end of the world is when the Son of Man sends His Angels to carry out the great harvest, in which God’s elect are called and gathered together.
Christ said that at the end of the world, He would send His Angels: In His Coming, He sends the ministries of Moses and Elijah manifested in His Angel Messenger, calling and gathering together His elect of the Last Day. Where? In the territory that pertains to the Age of the Cornerstone, which is Latin America and the Caribbean. That is why the call of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom is calling and gathering together the elect, where? In Latin America and the Caribbean.
We have been given the greatest blessing of the Divine Program, the blessing where we will be hearing the Voice of the Angel who was different from the rest through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and we will be called and gathered together, and we will be obtaining the knowledge of all these things which must shortly come to pass, and we would be prepared to be changed and raptured at this end time.
Notice all the blessings that revolve around the Seventh Seal; and in the culmination of the Seventh Seal is that the Work of the Seventh Seal ends. The Work of the Seventh Seal in favor of God’s elect, notice, reaches its culmination when the dead in Christ resurrect in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be changed; and I will also be changed, do not think it’s all is for you.
The same Angel who was different from the rest has spoken many blessings for all of you, and He is the one who has said that you are going to be changed. But do you know something? That same Angel has said that I will be changed, too! He has spoken about you and He has spoken about me as well. And He has spoken great blessings for you and great blessings for me. And I believe them with all my soul, with all my heart! And what about you? Well, it is up to you to believe the blessings He has spoken for all of you, and it is up to me to believe the blessings He has spoken for me and I also believe the ones He has spoken for all of you.
Therefore, we will be changed, and I am including myself there, according to the Word of the Angel who was different from the rest, of the Angel of the Lord, of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant. Amen and amen.
“THE CULMINATION OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
We will be changed in the culmination of the Seventh Seal and the dead in Christ will resurrect! That is the adoption of the sons and daughters of God. And who else will be adopted there? The Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It has been a great privilege to be with you, testifying to you about: “THE CULMINATION OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
Do you know something? In the new body, we will be seeing each other more often, we will probably be seeing each other every day.
Well, may the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel who was different from the rest, be upon all of you and upon myself as well. And soon, may we all be changed and have the new body, and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
With us again, Miguel Bermudez Marin. May you all have a wonderful evening.
“THE CULMINATION OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
1 Numbers 14:26-35
2 Galatians 2:20
3 The Fourth Seal – March 21, 1963
4 The Breach between the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals – March 17, 1963
5 John 8-56-58
6 John 1:29-34
7 John 1:1-14
8 The First Seal – March 18, 1963
9 The Seventh Seal – March 24, 1963
10 The Seventh Seal – March 24, 1963
11 John 3:26-30
12 Genesis 2:23
13 Matthew 2:13
14 Matthew 2:19-20
15 Matthew 4:1-4