Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present; it is a great privilege for me to be with you tonight to share with you some moments of fellowship around the subject: “THE MYSTERIES CONTAINED IN THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
In order to comprehend these mysteries we must know what the Seventh Seal is, and for that, we need to know about the Book sealed with seven seals that appears in Revelation, chapter 5, verse 1 to 7, where it says the following:
“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 Judah, 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.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
“THE MYSTERIES CONTAINED IN THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
This Book sealed with seven seals contains the divine mysteries of the things that would be manifested during the time of the Church of Jesus Christ; since the day of the birth of the Church and on, it would be contained in this Book of the Seven Seals.
And now we find that this Book of the Seven Seals is linked to what the history of the Church of Jesus Christ will be; this revelation of this Book was given to John the apostle by this Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Revelation, chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, says:
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.”
This Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is a prophet to whom Jesus Christ reveals His Word, and this Angel Messenger is the one who gives John the apostle this apocalyptic revelation; and notice, John was transported to the Day of the Lord, in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11, where it says:
“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.”
It is the Voice of Jesus Christ speaking at the Last Day, that is, in the seventh millennium, and John the apostle was in the Day of the Lord, in other words, in the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium. John lived in the first century of the Christian era, but being an apostle and prophet he had great visions from God and prophesied of the things that were going to happen, which were shown to him by the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and John was transported in this apocalyptic vision to the Day of the Lord, that is, the Last Day, and there he heard the Voice of Christ as a Great Voice of Trumpet speaking all these things.
And now, this Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, who has the revelation of Jesus Christ to make it known to all the sons and daughters of God who will be living in this Last Day.
We have everything that is going to happen in the book of Revelation in symbols, and in the Seals, there we have the symbols of the things that would be happening during the different ages; and for the end time, the meaning contained in each one of those seals would be known.
Now, the Seventh Seal is the most outstanding of all, because the Seventh Seal, Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1, says that when it was opened in Heaven there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour. Let us read it: chapter 8, verse 1, of Revelation, says:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”
Then in Revelation, chapter 10, when the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven cries out as when a lion roars and seven thunders utter their voices, John was going to write and he was forbidden to write what the Thunders spoke; what the Thunders spoke about is the revelation of the Seventh Seal, it is the revelation of the Coming of the Lord. The Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord.
And now, under the Seventh Seal, in other words, under the Coming of the Lord, there are many things that would be happening here on Earth and there are many things that would be happening in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and Jesus Christ would be calling and gathering together all of His elect in the Last Day, that is, in the seventh millennium.
Revelation speaks to us about the Coming of the Lord in chapter 10, verse 1, and also in chapter 19, verse 11 to 21.
In chapter 10 of Revelation, we see Him descending from Heaven dressed in a cloud with His face like the sun, with His eyes as flames of fire, a rainbow around His head, we see Him dressed in a cloud descending from Heaven, this Mighty Angel, which is our Lord Jesus Christ in His Coming; then in Revelation, chapter 19, we see Him coming upon a white horse. It is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself in His Coming, shown with different symbols.
Now, let us see what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says regarding the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, and also of the Coming of the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven. Of the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, William Branham, says on page 57 [The Seals]1:
“‘…I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow… upon his head,…’
If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished. See? All right.
‘…and his face… as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.’
You remember that Angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel. See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church.”
Now, notice, the Coming of the Lord, for what? To call and gather together His elect, and prepare them to be changed and raptured at this end time; but He comes as the Messenger to Israel, He comes manifested to reveal Himself to the Hebrew people, but since the Church of Jesus Christ is still on Earth, He must come to His Church, reveal Himself in the midst of His Church and make known to the sons and daughters of God all these things that must happen, to give His Church the faith, the revelation to be changed and raptured at this end time.
He comes sounding that Final Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet and He comes with His Angels, according to the prophecy of Jesus Christ that says, Matthew, chapter 16, verse 27 and on: “Because the Son of Man will come in the glory with His Father with His Angels…” Let us read it directly from Matthew 16, verse 27:
“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.”
There we have the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, prophesied by Jesus Christ to be fulfilled in the Last Day, that is, in the seventh millennium, that is the Coming of the Lord.
On Mount Transfiguration, Christ showed the Coming of the Son of Man in the Kingdom of His Father with His Angels, and that is why Moses and Elijah appeared there, because those are the Angels of the Son of Man in His Coming, who come with the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom calling and gathering together all of the elect of God.
Now, these ministries of Moses and Elijah will be manifested here on Earth at the Last Day, in the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels; and these ministries of Moses and Elijah will be carrying out the work relevant to the Angels of the Son of Man.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ was asked in the book of The Seals in Spanish, page 399, question number 11; they asked him about Moses and Elijah, mainly Elijah; and they asked him who that prophet would be: if he would literally be Elijah, who lived thousands of years ago, or if it would be a man of this time in whom that ministry would be. Let us see the question and answer2:
“Is the Elijah, who comes to preach to the Jews (oh, yes), the real man who lived on earth, or will he be spirit of Elijah in some other man?
(The answer was):
I’m inclined to believe that it will be anointed men, of their spirit. Because, see, he says, ‘Does not… on Elisha? Does not the spirit of Elijah rest on Elisha?’ See, ‘the spirit of Elijah.’ And he done just like Elijah did, see.”
For this end time we will have the ministries of Elijah and Moses manifested on Earth in a man of this time. That man of this time will be the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who gave John the apostle the revelation of the book of Revelation.
Therefore, with this manifestation of these ministries in the Angel of Jesus Christ, all the things that are promised for the Angels of the Son of Man to carry out will be fulfilled. That will be the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in a man of this time, operating the ministries of Moses and Elijah, and fulfilling every promise made for this end time with the ministries and for the ministries of Moses and Elijah, which are the Angels who come with the Son of Man in His Coming and are sent with the Great Voice of Trumpet to gather together the elect of God.
Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31, says:
“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect…”
That will be fulfilled at the Last Day or seventh millennium with the manifestation of the Spirit of Christ in His Angel Messenger operating the ministries of Moses and Elijah and the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom sounding, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work.
Now, we have already seen who are the Angels of the Son of Man. They are the ministries of Moses and Elijah manifested in a man of this end time. And now let us see the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, which is the Coming of Christ.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, on page 277 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, says3:
“…may the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider, while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”
The white horse Rider of Revelation 19 is the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit. And now, how will He come manifested in the Last Day to call and gather together His elect? It says on page 256 of the book of The Seals in Spanish:
“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.”
The Holy Spirit comes at the Last Day manifested in a man, the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, just like the ministry of Moses and Elijah come incarnated in a man. The Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, the Word of God, the Word incarnated in a man at the Last Day, will be fulfilling the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, and that man will be the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That is why in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10, we find the Great Voice of Trumpet in the Day of the Lord, which is the Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Alpha and Omega; and then in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, that Voice of Trumpet tells us: “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter,” that is, after the ones that have already happened in the seven stages of the gentile Church.
Then in Revelation 22, verses 6 to 9, we find God sending His Angel to make known all these things that must happen soon, because Jesus Christ will be manifested in that Angel in Holy Spirit, speaking to His Church and speaking to the entire world, and He will be making known all these things that must soon take place through His Angel Messenger. It says:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel (Who did He send? His Angel, for what?) to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
Through the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger is that the Church of Jesus Christ obtains the revelation of all these things that must happen. And in Revelation 22, verse 16, it says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Now we can see that Jesus Christ sends His Angel Messenger to all the churches to make known all these things that must soon take place. That Angel Messenger is the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom. It is the first occasion in which Jesus Christ sends a dispensational prophet to His Church, the first occasion; that is why he appears testifying, revealing all these things that must happen soon, because he is a prophet and prophets are the ones who make known the things that are going to happen, they are the ones who anointed by the Spirit of God prophesy the things that will happen.
Now we can see that through that manifestation of Jesus Christ in His Angel Messenger the entire revelation of God comes, of all these things that must happen at this end time. And all of this, for this end time, will be under the mystery of the Seventh Seal.
The mysteries contained in the Seventh Seal are all the mysteries that are linked to the Second Coming of Christ; everything related to the Second Coming of Christ is under the mysteries contained in the Seventh Seal: The Coming of the Lord with His Angels, the Great Voice of Trumpet calling all the elect, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom being proclaimed under the ministries of Moses and Elijah, and all the elect of God being called with that Message at the Last Day.
Notice all the mysteries there are under the Seventh Seal; the entire Work of God relevant to the Last Day is under the mysteries of the Seventh Seal.
Now we can see that the content under the Seventh Seal is very great, because the mysteries relevant to this end time are contained under the Seventh Seal; that is why the Voice in Revelation says: “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
It is the Voice of Christ in His Angel Messenger, who is anointed with the ministry of Moses, Elijah and Jesus, for Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit to be manifested through that prophet and fulfill all the promises relevant to the Last Day; and open all these Scriptures to all the children of God and thus make known to us all these mysteries contained under the Seventh Seal; and thus obtain the calling and gathering, the elect of God, at the Last Day, and be placed in the stage relevant to this end time for all the sons and daughters of God; and thus be prepared to be changed and raptured in this Last Day.
We are in the time in which the mysteries contained in the Seventh Seal are being opened, are being fulfilled and are being made known to all the sons and daughters of God; and the ministries of the Son of Man with His Angels contained in the biblical prophecies to be manifested in the Last Day in human flesh, in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, these mysteries, notice, in their fulfillment it will be the simplest thing that a man can imagine, everything will be in simplicity.
On a night like tonight, 35 years ago, Reverend William Branham was preaching the message “God in simplicity.” It was the first message he preached in the series he would preach that week for the opening of the Seven Seals of Revelation, chapter 5, verse 1 and on, and the other chapters that contain these Seals.
Now, we find that when he preached on that occasion, his topic was “God in simplicity.” One of the things he said regarding the Second Coming of Christ was that everything would be simple in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels; and he showed the cause for which they overlooked the First Coming of Christ. He says on page 17 of this message, in the book of The Seals4:
“Many miss Him by the way He reveals Himself. Now, men has their own ideas of what God ought to be and what God is going to do. And as I have made the old statement many times, that, man still remains man. Man is always giving God praise for what He did do, and always looking forward to what He will do, and ignoring what He is doing. See? See? That’s the way they miss it. They look back and see what a great thing He done, but they fail to see what a simple thing He used, to do it with. See? And then they look forward and see a great thing coming, that’s going to happen, and, nine times out of ten, it’s already happening right around them. And it’s so simple that they don’t know it. See?”
In other words, they cannot understand it, they cannot see the fulfillment of the greatest thing God has promised. Why? Because the great things God has promised are manifested in simplicity.
Further down, on this same page, he says:
“Not the great glamorous things that we think about, but it’s the simple things that God is so real in, the simplicity. So, it pleases God to reveal Himself, and then hide Himself; then hide Himself, and reveal Himself, in simple, little things. It’s put over the top of the head of man.”
Why? Because of the simple way in which God fulfills these things. On page 472 he says5:
“Notice now, for the end-of-time Message, this 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, 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.”
He is speaking to us that in that time they were already living in the end time, the opening of the Seventh Seal, but he says: “when It starts, will be absolutely a total secret,” the beginning will be a secret. And now let us see how he shows all of this; he says:
“The other day, last Sunday (this was when he preached ‘God in simplicity’), 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!
Now do you see it…?”
Now, speaking to us about the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, he shows us that it will be completely a secret in its beginning; he tells us that it will be like the birth of Jesus there in a stable and also as John the Baptist came. Everything that happened there was a secret: a child being born in the family of Zechariah and Elisabeth; and only Zechariah and Elisabeth and Mary knew that that boy would be a prophet of God and would be the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, he would be the prophet who would come with the spirit and virtue of Elijah; but the Angel told him to name him John, but the ministry of Elijah would be manifested in him; because the one who manifests ministries is the Holy Spirit, and John would be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb, and the Holy Spirit would be manifesting the ministry of prophet Elijah for a third occasion.
Now, we can see that the coming of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ was a mystery, the coming of Elijah to prepare the people was a mystery. The entire Hebrew people was waiting for prophet Elijah (and they are still waiting for prophet Elijah), but they did not comprehend that when God promises the coming of a prophet who already came in the past, when that ministry returns, it returns in another man, in a prophet of the time in which that prophecy is fulfilled.
And the Coming of the Messiah in the midst of the Hebrew people, notice, was being fulfilled since Mary gave birth to baby Jesus; it was already fulfilled but it was a secret for the Hebrew nation, it was a secret for the Hebrew religion; but that secret was revealed to the virgin Mary, Joseph and also Elisabeth and priest Zechariah who were related to Mary, they knew about that child who was born of the virgin Mary.
And now we can see that very few people knew about the Coming of the Messiah two thousand year ago; few people knew that that child who was born of the virgin Marty was the Messiah promised to appear in that time.
The signs appeared in heaven; the sign called the Star of Bethlehem, which was the sign of the Coming of the Son of Man, was appearing in the midst of the Hebrew people; it appeared for two years, it was appearing in heaven for no less than two years; and wise men saw it, who lived in Ur of the Chaldees, over there in Babylon, and they came to the land of Israel looking for the Messiah; they were believers of the biblical prophecies and they believed in the prophecies of the Coming of the Messiah.
The prophecies said that a star would emerge from Israel6, and they saw that sign in heaven and they looked for the Messiah in the land of Israel. When they arrived in the land of Israel asking where the Messiah was, the Hebrew religion did not know anything of the Coming of the Messiah, the great religious leaders of that time, such as the High Priest and the members of the Council of the Sanhedrin, who were the members of the Council of the Hebrew religion, did not know anything about the Coming of the Messiah, it was a mystery.
The beginning of the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah in the midst of the Hebrew people was a secret; only a small group of people knew that secret, knew that mystery. The wise men looked for the fulfillment of that prophecy and they found the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah in Bethlehem of Judea, they found the fulfillment of the sign that was seen in heaven.
We also have the prophecy of a sign in heaven for the Second Coming of Christ: the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, “then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven.”
Now, for the First Coming of Christ, they did not recognize that sign in heaven as the sign of the First Coming of Christ; the Hebrew religion did not recognize that sign as the sign of the First Coming of Christ; and therefore, that sign being in heaven, the Messiah already had to be on Earth. Those who looked for Him, found Him; those who were not interested, never found Him.
Now, for the Second Coming of Christ, Jesus Himself said that the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven. On February 28, 1963, a sign appeared in heaven: a mysterious cloud at 26 miles high. The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said that the cloud was formed by Angels of God: they were the seven angel messengers of the seven ages in their theophanic bodies, and an Angel who was different from the rest, the ones who formed that cloud; and it was captured in pictures; it was the angels who formed that cloud, while being in their theophanic bodies.
And now, that is the sign that would be seen as the sign for the Coming of the Messiah, for the Coming of Christ for the end time; but our brother Branham says: “when the Seventh Seal starts It will be absolutely a total secret,” in other words, Its beginning will be a secret, just as the First Coming of Christ was a secret when He was born in Bethlehem of Judea, then He grew up, and He was manifested, He revealed Himself to the Hebrew people as the Messiah promised for the Hebrew people at almost at 30 years old; but He was already big: twenty-nine years and a half of the secret of the Coming of the Messiah already fulfilled on Earth.
And now, for the Last Day, for the end time, we have seen that the sign of the Son of Man has been shown in heaven. From then on, the promises of the Coming of the Lord with His Angels must be manifested somewhere; and that is he mystery that is under the Seventh Seal.
With the manifestation of the Son of Man with His Angels the things promised for the Last Day, which will be done by the Son of Man and by the Angels of the Son of Man, must be fulfilled.
From 1963 and on, many divine promises have been fulfilled, because we are in the time in which the sign of the Son of Man has been shown in heaven; but everything on Earth, when it is fulfilled, it is in simplicity.
And now, for this end time, the sons and daughters of God would be seeing the fulfillment of those promises; and everything would be seen, manifested, fulfilled simplicity. And the works of that manifestation in simplicity will be the works promised to be fulfilled by Christ in His Coming with His Angels, to call and gather together His elect, and prepare them to be changed and raptured at this end time.
All of those mysteries are contained where? In the Seventh Seal.
The first ones who will be aware about the fulfillment of these mysteries will be the elect of God, as Christ reveals to His Church all these things that must happen soon.
And how will He reveal them? Through His Angel Messenger; we will receive the revelation of Jesus Christ of all these things that must happen soon through His Angel Messenger, at this end time.
Since the sign appeared in heaven, from then on the divine promises relevant to the Last Day have to be fulfilled.
And now, since all of that is locked up in the prophecies and all of that is locked up in the mysteries of the Seventh Seal, we can only comprehend these mysteries that are being fulfilled through the revelation of the Seventh Seal, as the time comes for those mysteries to be fulfilled. In other words, some are fulfilled first and others are fulfilled later. God has an order, and according to that order all the prophecies of the things that will be happening at this end time are fulfilled.
The elect of God will be receiving the revelation of all these things that must happen soon, because they will be hearing the Great Voice of Trumpet of Christ, the Son of Man through His Angel Messenger, making known to us all these things that must soon take place; and thus we will be hearing the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Notice how simple everything that is promised to be manifested under the Seventh Seal is. All of those mysteries contained in the Seventh Seal are revealed to the elect of God; and as they are being fulfilled, we will be seeing the simple way in which they are fulfilled; and as they are being fulfilled, we will also obtain the history of those events that were promised for this end time; that is, as they are being fulfilled, the history of the mysteries contained in the Seventh Seal are written. And we will not leave that history to be written by others, but rather we will write it ourselves; it is written, it is printed in the booklets that contain the revelation of God for this Last Day.
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you tonight testifying to you of THE MYSTERIES CONTAINED IN THE SEVENTH SEAL.
And where are the people who would be seeing these mysteries hidden in the Seventh Seal being fulfilled? Here we are: in Latin America and the Caribbean, seeing these mysteries contained in the Seventh Seal being fulfilled.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and upon me as well, and may the number of the elect of God be soon completed, and may we soon be changed and raptured and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
“THE MYSTERIES CONTAINED IN THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
1 The Breach between the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals – March 17, 1963E – www.branham.org
2 Questions and Answers on the Seals – March 24, 1963M – www.branham.org
3 The Fourth Seal – March 21, 1963 – www.branham.org
4 God hiding Himself in simplicity… – March 17, 1963M – www.branham.org
5 The Seventh Seal – March 24, 1963E – www.branham.org
6 Numbers 24:17