Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing to be with you on this occasion, to have fellowship with you around the Word of God, and thus, to receive God’s blessings for this Last Day.
I want to read in Hebrews chapter 9, verses 11 to 15, the Scripture here of the Apostle Saint Paul to the Hebrews. It says:
“But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.”
Our subject for this occasion is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.”
It is truly a mystery; but in the Old Testament, God established the types and figures so that when the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross was made and His Blood was shed, people could understand the Program that would be carried out there on Calvary’s Cross.
That is why God, of the seed of Abraham, we find that through the line of Isaac, and of Isaac through the line of Jacob, He brought forth a people. That seed multiplied and a multitude of people were formed there in Egypt, who were in bondage; but with that seed of Abraham through Isaac, and Isaac through Jacob, and then Jacob through the sons of Jacob, notice, God would form a nation.
Now, while the Hebrew people were in bondage in the land of Egypt, they were the people who had the promise of being turned into a mighty nation, into a firstborn nation of God, meaning, the first nation God would form here on Earth. And for that reason, God had established the sacrifices of animals, which were offered by all these men of God, from Adam and on.
And now, among the Hebrew people, we find that for the Hebrew people’s exodus from Egypt, He establishes the sacrifice of the Passover lamb, which would be sacrificed in the evening; and then, on Passover night… it would be sacrificed on the eve of Passover, and on Passover night, they would eat that lamb roasted; and its blood would be applied on the lintel of the door and the doorposts of each of the houses where the Hebrews were gathered. They were eating the lamb there; and the blood was applied on the lintel of the doors.1
That night, notice, God would smite all the houses of the Egyptians, and every house in Egypt would be smitten, for every firstborn would be killed that night.2 At midnight, God would pass through, and the destroyer would go into the houses and destroy, kill the firstborn in each house; but wherever the blood of the Passover lamb was applied on the lintel and posts of the door, God would not let the destroyer go into that house; therefore, the firstborn would be saved there.
We find that all of this was under God’s leadership through Moses. And this seemed like something simple, but this had very great significance before God, because this was the type and figure of Christ as the Lamb of God, as the Passover Lamb, for the salvation of God’s firstborn; otherwise, every firstborn would die.
Without the blood of the Passover lamb applied on the lintel and posts of the door, every firstborn who was in that house had to die; but with the blood applied on the lintel and posts of the door of that house, the firstborn was saved.
Now, notice how in the Old Testament God establishes the types and figures of Christ and His death on Calvary’s Cross, and His Blood shed for us, for the salvation of God’s firstborn; because without the Blood of Christ, every firstborn of God had to die.
But notice, through the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, every firstborn who is inside, with the Blood of Christ applied on the lintel and doorposts of the heart, is saved; he does not die, rather, he lives eternally.
Because here death is not physical death, although in the end it also entails physical death; but here the death is the second death, which is the lake of fire. And whoever doesn’t have the Blood of Christ applied in his soul, in his heart, is sentenced to death.
And now, notice why the firstborn must have the Blood of Christ applied in their soul, in their heart: so that they don’t die eternally, but instead, live eternally.
In the Blood of Christ, notice, we are justified, by the Blood of Christ.3 And what does it mean to be justified? As if we had never sinned before. Because with His Blood, Christ takes sin, blots out our sins, cleanses us from all sin, and disintegrates sin, such that it goes back to what it was before it was sin in each of the children of God; in other words, it returns, it goes back to the devil.
And now, notice how Christ performs that miracle: “The Blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin,” the Scripture says. “The Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin,” Saint John says in his first Letter, chapter 1, verse 7.
And now, notice, it’s through the Blood of Christ that we are reconciled to God and that peace is made between God and the human being.
Just like in the Old Testament: on the seventh month and tenth day every seventh month of each year, the atoning sacrifice of the goat was offered; and the high priest would go in with blood of that sacrifice, he would go into the holy of holies, and apply that blood on the mercy seat, the blood of the sin offering, for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people to God. A type and figure of the Blood of Jesus Christ being taken by the High Priest Jesus Christ to Heaven, to the Holy of Holies, and applying It on the Mercy Seat, and making intercession there for each of the members of the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, making intercession there for the heavenly Israel; just as intercession was made for the earthly Israel in the temple that Solomon built and in the tabernacle that the Hebrew people had, which was built by the Prophet Moses.
Now we have the heavenly Israel, and we have a heavenly High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, and we have a heavenly Temple, which is in Heaven. And Christ as High Priest went in there with His own Blood, and presented It there on the Mercy Seat of the Temple which is in Heaven, on the Mercy Seat that is above the Ark of the Covenant, which is in the Holy of Holies of the Temple that is in Heaven.
And that is why since Christ ascended to Heaven with His own Blood, coming into the Temple which is in Heaven, into the Holy of Holies… as Saint Paul tells us here in Hebrews chapter 9, verse 11 and on, he says:
“But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”
And now, notice, Christ has been in the Holy of Holies of the Temple which is in Heaven, making intercession there as High Priest, for He is the Melchizedek who appeared to Abraham.
And now, notice all the hundreds of years He has been there in the Holy of Holies of the Temple which is in Heaven.
The Spirit of Christ has been manifested on Earth, from age to age, making known to the people what Christ is doing in Heaven, and how every person, upon hearing the preaching of the Gospel, has the opportunity to wash away his sins in the Blood of the Lamb, in the Blood of Jesus Christ.
And by Christ making intercession there in Heaven, notice, He makes effective for each person what He carried out on Calvary’s Cross: when the person receives Christ as his Savior, washes away his sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ, in the Blood of the Lamb, and then receives the Spirit of Jesus Christ, by doing so, he receives the theophanic body, called the Angel of the Lord that encamps around them that fear Him;4 and thus the person has obtained the new birth, and thus the person has obtained redemption.
Notice, he has obtained spiritual redemption, the redemption of the spirit; his soul (notice) has been redeemed; he has obtained a theophanic body for his body of another dimension. And then, at the Last Day, he will receive the eternal body, on the Day of Redemption, meaning, at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, when the physical body will be redeemed, will be changed; and thus, we will have the new body, because we will have the redemption of the body carried out in each one of us this way.
Because that is how we will be able to live eternally in a visible body, in a physical but glorified body, in a heavenly body; but it will be in different dimensions when necessary: we can be here or we can go to other places or other dimensions. We will have a body just like the body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, for we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, notice, from age to age, the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross and the opportunity that every person has to wash away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb has been announced.
From age to age, Christ has sent messengers—seven angel-messengers for the seven ages, and one for the Age of the Cornerstone—to announce to the people the opportunity they have to wash away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb and be at peace with God, and thus, to be reconciled to God.
And now, notice how the different stages or ages of the Gentile Church have been passing, and seven stages or seven ages have already passed in which God has sent seven angel-messengers; and now we are in the Age of the Cornerstone, the age that pertains to this end time, where Christ would have His Angel-Messenger on Earth, making known to us the things pertaining to the Last Day, and making known to us that we (human beings) still have the opportunity to wash away our sins in the Blood of the Lamb, in the Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And that is why at the Last Day the last firstborn of God are called and gathered together, the last elect of God, who will be living on this Earth, who wash away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb and come into that new age where they receive the blessings of Christ, where they live in the Divine Program there, and have their theophanic body there, their theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, and await the new body there, the transformation of their bodies.
Now, notice how the Blood of Christ was represented in the blood of those sacrifices that the Hebrew people carried out in the Old Testament: It was represented in the blood of the lamb of the feast of Passover and the Blood of Christ was also represented in the blood of the goat, the goat of the sin offering of the tenth day of the seventh month of each year; and the Blood of Christ was represented in all the other sacrifices that the Hebrew people carried out, where blood was used as an offering before God.
Now, notice how the Hebrew people had to eat the body of the Passover lamb before sunrise, and they had to burn the rest. And now, in the New Testament, Christ says: “He who does not eat My flesh, and drink My Blood, has no Life abiding in him.”5
He, as the Lamb of God… notice, they had to eat the lamb of the Old Testament, the Passover lamb; and that is why He makes reference to this Passover lamb of the Old Testament that the Hebrew people had to eat; and that is why He says that he who does not eat His flesh and drink His Blood has no Life abiding in him.
And now, from age to age, we have been eating the Lamb of God, we have been eating the Message of God, the Word of God, for each stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have been receiving the Gospel, the Word of God, the Message of the First Coming of Christ, we have been eating that Word, we have been eating Christ, we have been believing in Jesus Christ and His First Coming as the Lamb of God; and that is what it means to eat Christ.
And we have also been drinking His Blood: we have been taking the Blood of Christ and applying it in our soul, and washing away our sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ; and thus, we have been justified, meaning that we then stand as if we had never sinned; because by the Blood of Christ taking away our sins, we are then justified, we then stand as if we had never sinned before; because the Blood of Christ disintegrates sin.
And if It breaks it up and sends it to the devil, who was the originator, where can you find your sins? You cannot find them, you cannot find them inside you; you then stand as if you had never sinned.
That is why every person who is a believer in Christ, it doesn’t matter how many times he fails, makes mistakes, or sins: he has the Blood of Jesus Christ to wash away his sins and have those sins taken away from him, and to stand as if he had never sinned.
That is why when every Christian makes a mistake or sins before God, he confesses his sins to Jesus Christ on the basis of the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross; and he puts his sins in Christ and His Blood, he casts his sins in the Blood of Christ, and is cleansed from all sin; because sins that are confessed and cast upon the Blood of Christ, in the Blood of Christ, are forgiven, and taken from the person, and he then stands before God as if he had never sinned.
Notice “THE MYSTERY OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.”
In the end—as an example, in the end it’s like when you take a handkerchief or a shirt that is stained with ink, and you put it in bleach; then, when you take it out, the ink isn’t there; if you look for the ink in the bleach, it’s not there either. Where is it? What is the mystery? The bleach turned that ink back into its original molecules or elements, into what it was before it was ink.
And that is what the Blood of Jesus Christ does with sin that is confessed and cast into the Blood of Christ: It breaks it up and brings it back to the devil; and now, they remain in the devil until he is judged and condemned and cast into the lake of fire.
Now notice the miracle of the Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
That is why, when the person sins, and he is a believer in Christ: he confesses his sin to Jesus Christ, washes away his sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and they disappear. That is the miracle that the Blood of Jesus Christ does in each one of the believers in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, why would a person have an ink-stained shirt, when there is bleach? He would be a careless person. He should not have his shirt stained with ink when there is bleach that removes that ink.
If the person had his shirt stained with ink, and another person sees him, and tells him: “Look, your shirt is stained with ink.”—“Yes, it got stained, and that doesn’t come out.” That is because that person doesn’t know there is bleach that removes ink, and his shirt remains stained.
That happens to a lot of human beings: they have not understood that there is a Bleach that takes away sin, that disintegrates it, and that is why they have not washed their garments in the precious Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, to cleanse their sins and to be left clean, as if they had never sinned.
Now, notice that one cannot go to a great feast, to the great Feast of the King, wearing clothes that are all stained with ink; and one cannot go to the Supper of the Lamb with dirty, stained garments.
But notice, Revelation chapter 22, verse 14, tells us:
“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city,” (meaning, the new Jerusalem).
And in Revelation chapter 1, verses 5 and 6, it says:
“And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
And in chapter 5 it also tells us about the miracle of the Blood of Christ; chapter 5 of Revelation, verses 8 and on, 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.”
Now, notice here, those redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ have the right to reign with Christ on Earth for a thousand years, and then for all eternity.
No one who hasn’t been redeemed by the Blood of Christ has the right to reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity, he doesn’t even have the right to have a theophanic body; because first he must wash away his sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ, in order to have the new body, the theophanic body of the sixth dimension, and at the Last Day: to receive the physical and eternal and glorified body that Christ has promised for each of His believers, who have washed away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb and received His Holy Spirit.
And now, notice the importance of the Blood of the Lamb of God, the Blood of Jesus Christ for each one of us. Without the Blood of Jesus Christ, there is no cleansing of our sins. But thanks be to Jesus Christ, who took our sins, became mortal, and died on Calvary’s Cross.
At Gethsemane, if He had not said: “Thy will be done,” and given Himself to God’s Program to die on Calvary’s Cross, we would not be here today.
Remember that Christ said: “If this cup may pass from Me…”6 But that cup could not pass from Christ, He had to die. It was a bitter cup; but if He had not drunk of the cup of death, by taking our sins and dying on Calvary’s Cross… He said on another occasion: “Unless the Corn of Wheat falls into the ground and dies, It abides alone.”7 Christ had said: “No man takes life from Me, I lay it down of Myself to take it again.”8
So, unless the Corn of Wheat fell into the ground and died, He would abide alone; but if He fell into the ground and died, He would bring forth much fruit, many sons and daughters of God in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, washed in the Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Notice that without the death of Christ there wasn’t a sacrifice that could take away the sin of the human being. The sacrifices of the Old Testament, the blood of those sacrifices, only covered sin, but it could not cleanse the sin of the human being. That is why, when people would die, they had to go to Abraham’s bosom if they were people who offered the sacrifices established by God in the Old Testament; and if not, well, the person would go to hell in spirit, meaning, in that body which is called a spirit.
But when Christ died on Calvary’s Cross, we find that after being in hell… For the Scripture tells us that He went to hell and preached to the souls in prison that were disobedient in the time of Noah.9 He didn’t preach salvation to them, rather, He preached to them there making known to them that they were there because they were unbelievers of Noah’s Message.
But then, notice, He took the keys of hell and of death,10 He took them away from the devil there in hell, and then He went to Paradise, to Abraham’s bosom.
He was there with Abraham, Isaac, and all those who were there; John the Baptist was there too, who had seen Christ on Earth and had prepared the way for Him, and had introduced Him before the Hebrew people as the Lamb of God.
Therefore, they were waiting for the Messiah there in Paradise, they were waiting for Christ, that is why John said that the Messiah was already on Earth; therefore, John was also preparing His arrival there in Paradise.
And when He arrived in Paradise, John the Baptist and all the Old Testament saints were there welcoming Jesus. And then, from Paradise, on Easter Sunday they came out, they rose with Christ and appeared to many in the city of Jerusalem;11 and Christ appeared to His disciples.12
And all those things that happened there will be repeated here. There will be a resurrection, and the saints who are in Paradise, in the sixth dimension, will rise in eternal bodies and appear to their relatives, mainly to their spiritual relatives, who are the members of the mystical Body of Christ; and they will also appear to their relatives who are alive here on Earth.
In other words, the saints of this end time who have relatives that are still alive, and those people (the saints) have departed, when they appear, surely they will visit their relatives and tell them to stay faithful to Christ and give their lives for Christ during the Great Tribulation, if those people are not part of God’s elect.
But if they are part of God’s elect, well, there is no problem, they will tell us: “We have been waiting for this moment, and we have come back and we are in our eternal body.”
In those moments, our physical bodies will be changed, they will be transformed, and then we will also have an eternal and glorified body, like the body that the saints who are going to rise will have; and we will all be here on Earth with that eternal body.
Now, will there be space for so many people? God doesn’t miss a thing. And notice, since it is an eternal body and it is a glorified body, it doesn’t have limitations.
Notice that when Jesus Christ rose, He could appear and disappear; so notice the type of body we will have. With that glorified body, Jesus Christ could be in this dimension and suddenly go to another dimension. And even when the disciples were behind closed doors (for fear of the Jews), and Jesus didn’t even knock on the door; He went into the place where they were gathered behind closed doors.
How could He do that? Well, He came walking in another dimension, and when He entered where the disciples were, He made Himself visible to this earthly dimension; because the body that we will receive will be a body like the one of our Lord Jesus Christ: a glorified body; we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, therefore, we can be visible or invisible.
So notice that once we have the new body, the squeeze that will come won’t have any effect on God’s elect. They will have an eternal body, it can’t be mortal, it will be an interdimensional body.
So, just like Jesus Christ would disappear while He was there with them and they were looking at Him, He would disappear, because He would go into another dimension; the body we will have when the dead in Christ rise and we are changed will be like that; and thus, every elect of God of our time and of past ages will have the new body; it will be that kind of body.
And now, notice the great blessing that we will receive soon, while we are still alive. But if one of us leaves, don’t worry, he can greet our brethren who are there in the sixth dimension and tell them that we are waiting for them here, and that everything here is going well, the way God has promised in His Program, and he can tell them that their resurrection will take place soon; because their resurrection depends on the Program that God is carrying out here on Earth at this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
Now, in order to understand the mystery of the Blood of Christ taking away our sins, blotting out the sins of God’s elect, without leaving a trace of sin in God’s elect, we must understand these types and figures of the Old Testament, which we have been speaking about on this occasion.
And now, for how long will the Blood of Christ be in Heaven, and will Christ be making intercession in Heaven, in the Holy of Holies? Notice, in order to understand this, we have to understand what the First Coming of Christ was.
In the First Coming of Christ, we find that with the First Coming of Christ: the sacrifices that the Hebrew people offered with those animals would be taken away; because the Lamb of God, the Messiah, Jesus Christ, would take away our sins; and if He takes away our sins, then the sin offering of an animal is not needed. Those sacrifices are then in vain from the moment there is another Sacrifice that completely takes away sin.
Why cover sin when it can be taken away completely by the Blood of Christ? Therefore, we don’t need the sacrifices of animals and their blood to cover our sins when we can take away our sins with the Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Why put something that covers a person’s stain on his shirt, his ink stain, when it can be removed with bleach? That is how it is for each human being: why cover sin with something that doesn’t take it away when we have the Blood of Jesus Christ, which takes away sin?
Now, notice that in the First Coming of Christ, sin would no longer be covered, but taken away.
But notice, Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea and sin offerings were still carried out according to the Law; and even when Christ was presented on the eighth day, they offered some young pigeons for Christ, two young pigeons; because poor people offered two pigeons, and people who had more money had the means to offer more.13
But notice how, even when the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, there were still sacrifices; and even when Christ was still a young child who could already walk, there were still sacrifices, those sacrifices were still needed; and even when Christ was ten years old, twelve years old, fifteen years old, twenty years old, twenty-five years old, those sacrifices were still needed; and even when Christ was twenty-nine years old, those sacrifices were still needed; and even when Christ was thirty years old and starting His ministry, those sacrifices were still needed; and the Lamb of God was there, the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world. But notice, even when the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled there, the sacrifices were still used.
But at the end of the First Coming of Christ, at the end… And when was the end? When He was thirty-three years old, that was the last part. When Christ died on Calvary’s Cross and shed His Blood, from that point on, animal sin offerings were no longer needed, because the Lamb of God had already died, bearing our sins, and had shed His Blood.
From that point on, sacrifices for sin were no longer needed; because a perfect Sacrifice had been made on Calvary’s Cross, and that is the One that was presented in Heaven.
The temple that was on Earth didn’t have to carry out sacrifices for sin anymore, the veil of the temple was rent or torn in two,14 and the body of Christ was killed there on Calvary’s Cross. And then, when Christ rose and ascended to Heaven, He went into the Holy of Holies: the Veil of the Temple which is in Heaven was opened, and Christ entered.
Notice, Christ was torn on Calvary’s Cross, which is Christ: the Veil of the Temple which is in Heaven; He was opened. And now Christ entered into Heaven, into the Holy of Holies, as High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek. In other words, high priests were no longer needed here on Earth because now the Temple that would be operating wouldn’t be the temple that was in Jerusalem; that is why Christ had said that temple would be destroyed.15
Look, when a new order begins to operate completely, fully, if the people are left with the old order, the people stay with the old order.
And the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus in the year 70, and notice, they haven’t had a temple to take the atoning blood, to apply it on the holy of holies, on—to apply it there in the holy of holies, on the ark of the covenant, so that the Hebrew people’s reconciliation to God may be carried out. Therefore, the Hebrew people have been without reconciliation to God, and therefore, they have been receiving the Divine Judgments all these centuries, and Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and other dictators, nearly exterminated the Hebrew people.
And despite Christ dying on Calvary’s Cross and shedding His Blood, despite there being a Sacrifice for sin, the Hebrew people have been suffering though this situation? Of course, because the Hebrew people have not believed, they have not received the Sacrifice of Christ, the Sacrifice of Atonement that God has established in the new dispensation; and that is why the Hebrew people have been suffering though this whole situation.
But God has been dealing with the Gentiles from age to age, and He has been calling out a people for His Name from age to age,16 He has been here on Earth calling and gathering His elect, His sheep, the heavenly Israel; and when the call to the last elect ends, the Blood of Christ will be removed from the Mercy Seat there in Heaven; and that is at the end of the Seventh Seal. Because at the end of the Seventh Seal it is the end of the world, it is the end of all things, because at the end of the Seventh Seal is when the Blood of Christ leaves the Mercy Seat, and Christ leaves the Mercy Seat as Judge of all the Earth.
From that point on, he who is filthy has nowhere to wash away his sins; and he who is clean, well, he is cleansed, by the Blood of Christ, because he redeemed the time while the Blood of Christ was on the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies.
Now, notice that the First coming of Christ was fulfilled from the time that Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea, but the blood of the animals of the Old Testament was still effective to cover sin; but once Christ died on Calvary’s Cross, any sacrifice that was carried out in the temple that was in Jerusalem was no longer valid; because only the Sacrifice of Christ was valid, and a new Temple was operating, in other words, the eternal Temple was operating, God’s Temple in Heaven, with Christ as High Priest in Heaven. And that Temple has been operating and is still operating.
And Christ is building a new Temple here on Earth, which He will have here on Earth; a new Temple of and with human beings, which at the Last Day will be anointed with the Spirit of God in all His fullness.
They are… This Temple is made up of people cleansed in the Blood of Jesus Christ, for whom Christ has been making intercession there in Heaven from age to age.
And when this Temple is completed with the arrival of the last elect, and when they are all complete (God’s elect, in the mystical Body of Christ), Christ then leaves the Intercessory Place; and the manifestation He has in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, at the Last Day, in the veil of flesh in whom He is manifested at the Last Day, and calls and gathers His elect to complete the number of His elect, then, in that same veil of flesh, Jesus Christ manifests Himself in all His fullness as Judge of all the Earth, and that is where the change of ministry takes place, from Lamb to Lion, and from High Priest to Judge of all the Earth.
But notice, that is at the end of the Seventh Seal, meaning, at the end of the Second Coming of Christ, at the end of the Coming of Christ; because the Coming of Christ, the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, will be manifested here on Earth, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, just as the First Coming of Christ was manifested among the Hebrew people since Jesus was born.
The veil of flesh was there, in whom God, the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, would enter in all Its fullness; and It entered when John baptized Him.17 Notice, but the veil of flesh was here on Earth for twenty-nine and a half years; the mystery of the First Coming of Christ was there, it was manifested there.
Many knew that mystery, Mary knew it for many years before it was manifested in the fullness of God; when John baptized Him and since John baptized Him, before that, Mary already knew who the Christ was, who the Messiah was, Mary already knew, she was aware of the First Coming of Christ; and she knew that in a certain stage of the life of Jesus, God’s fullness would come upon Him, the Angel of the Covenant would come in that veil of flesh in all His fullness, and would completely fulfill the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God, and take away the sin of the world. But notice, He would also need to have a three-and-a-half-year ministry.
So notice, Mary could see the whole journey from the time that the Archangel Gabriel spoke those words to the virgin Mary; she could see that the child, the Person who would sit on the Throne of David, would come through her.18 But notice, all these things have different stages, until the time comes for each of those promises to be fulfilled.
Notice, while she was alive, Mary couldn’t see the fulfillment of Christ sitting on the Throne of David; but she had the promise that He would sit on the Throne of David. She will see that promise fulfilled in the glorious Millennial Kingdom. She has had to wait, she has been waiting for two thousand years to see Jesus sitting on the Throne of David; but she will see Him, she will see Him sitting on the Throne of David in the seventh millennium.
Now, notice that each thing promised by God has—each promise has a time to be fulfilled.
Now, at the Last Day, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will have Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel-Messenger, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; and there, She will be seeing the veil of flesh in whom Jesus Christ will manifest Himself in all His fullness as Judge of all the Earth, and as King of kings and Lord of lords.
But notice, before Jesus Christ manifested Himself among the Hebrew people as the Lamb of God, Mary already knew that He was the Lamb of God.
Just like in a family among the Hebrew people, in the Old Testament, they knew which would be the Passover lamb that would be sacrificed on the eve of Passover. Why? Because they would have it; and it would grow and grow until it turned a year old for the sacrifice on Passover; in other words, they knew which was the Passover lamb of that family. And likewise, Mary knew who was the Paschal Lamb for God’s Family, for both Hebrews and Gentiles, for both the earthly Israel and the heavenly Israel.
And now, notice, the elect of the Last Day will know (before they are changed and raptured) who will be that veil of flesh in whom Jesus Christ will manifest Himself in all His fullness at the Last Day; because first He will be manifesting Himself in the firstfruits, first He will be manifesting Himself as He manifested Himself in the seven angel-messengers, and then He will go on to a new stage in which Christ will change from Lamb to Lion; and He will not have another instrument to manifest Himself as Judge of all the Earth; and that will be at the end of the Seventh Seal.
Now, notice something very important. Let’s see it here, in the message The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, preached by Rev. William Branham, William Marrion Branham. Let’s see what he tells us in these messages, speaking to us… There is a lot here. Let’s see where we are going to read around here… page… let’s see the page we will use here. Maybe we will read from two places, although there are more passages.
Remember that Rev. William Marrion Branham is the one whom God showed everything that had been carried out in the Divine Program in the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church, which had been hidden from the wise and prudent in religious matters, and which had also been hidden from the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ during these seven stages of the Gentile Church.
And it was to Rev. William Marrion Branham that God revealed everything that God had carried out during these seven stages of the Gentile Church, and who the seven angel-messengers of those seven stages of the Gentile Church were, and the territories where those seven stages were fulfilled.
And now, notice, this is why he was preaching about the Seven-Sealed Book and he was preaching each of those Seals; and when he reached the Seventh Seal, he said: “This One has not been opened yet; this One will be opened later on, in the Coming of Jesus;” because the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, verse 1 to 11, are what contains the revelation of the Seventh Seal. And the Seven Thunders are the Voice of Christ in His Second Coming.
And now, the mystery of this Seventh Seal, he says: “They hold…” that is: “The Seven Thunders hold the mystery of the Seventh Seal.” Without the Voice of Christ in His Coming, the mystery of the Seventh Seal cannot be known.
And now, let’s see some places in this mystery of the Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of the Lord. Let’s see where he tells us about this mystery… It says on page 552… And there is another very important page that I want to read to you, page 549, it says… and 546. We are going to read these pages.
Page 546 says:
“275 And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’ He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them.”
These angels are here, in this cloud that was photographed on February 28, 1963. There are seven angels here, which are the seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages; and there is also an Angel who was very different from the rest, which is this One, whom he refers to here. He says:
“275 And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel,’” (he is referring to this One), “He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them. You remember that? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, ‘He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward’ (you remember) ‘like that.’ I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up.’”
Who was the One that picked up, lifted up, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ and put him here, in this cloud? That Angel who was very different from the rest.
“276 Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal…”
Which of these Angels is the One with the Seventh Seal? This Angel who was very different from the rest.
If we turn the picture to the right, we will find that this is the Angel, with His wings spread out, who forms the white wig of the Lord. Because this picture, formed by this cloud that is formed by angels, they form the Lord’s face. And now, the beard is formed by the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages, and the Lord’s white hair is formed by the Angel who is very different from the rest; and now, that is the Angel with the Seventh Seal.
Each angel-messenger who is here, of the seven ages, none of them had the Seventh Seal. Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit was partially manifested in them; and when He finished His manifestation in each of them, He went from one to the other, from one to the other, until the Last Day.
Now, in order for these angels to have their ministries, they had to come to Earth in human flesh and have their ministries there. And once they finished their ministry, they went to Paradise, their physical bodies died and they went to Paradise.
And now in order for this Angel who is here (who is different from the rest), to have His ministry, He must also come in human flesh; and that is the Coming of the Seventh Seal, that is the Coming of the Lord.
Now, He must have a veil of flesh in which to manifest Himself at the Last Day; and He no longer has any of the seven angel-messengers to manifest Himself at the Last Day, because they already left; therefore, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, He must have a messenger; and that is a dispensational prophet: the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
And Christ, the Mighty Angel, manifests Himself in that Messenger, this Angel who was different from the rest manifests Himself, to be manifested there and carry out the Work pertaining to the Age of the Cornerstone, and to call and gather His elect of the Last Day in the territory pertaining to the Age of the Cornerstone.
Just as there was a territory in each stage, in each age, and there was a messenger in each age… For example, for the first age, the first stage, there was a messenger named Saint Paul, and the territory where that first age was fulfilled was Asia Minor. Then, for the second age, there was a territory there in Europe, and that nation was France, and there was a messenger there: Irenaeus; notice, and God called and gathered His elect of that age. It was Christ in Holy Spirit in that second angel-messenger.
And now, we can see that from age to age we have been seeing Christ manifested in each age, in the angel-messenger of each age, in the portion pertaining to each age. He didn’t manifest Himself in all His fullness in any of them, only partially, and in the portion pertaining to each age.
But for the Age of the Cornerstone, He will have His Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone, who is a dispensational prophet, and He will manifest Himself in him partially, and at the end He will manifest Himself in all His fullness.
And that is why it must come—at the end time, at the end of the Seventh Seal, what must come? The resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive, with the fullness of God manifested, where the Work of the Seventh Seal is completed, and where the Claiming Work of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ is fully carried out.
I had never explained this so clearly before; but the time has been coming to explain it and to see where we stand and the reason for these stages in the Divine Program in our age and our dispensation.
Now, notice that the Coming of the Lord has different stages to be fulfilled. And notice what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ tells us here.
Remember that this Angel who was different from the rest must come to Earth and manifest Himself in human flesh and through human flesh, and carry out the Work pertaining to the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And now, on page 549 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, he says…
We already finished page 546, right? Let’s finish here:
“276 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,” (last Seal), “has meant.”
And the last Seal, this Seventh Seal, is what? That Angel. That Angel is the One with the Seventh Seal. With the manifestation of that Angel on Earth, in human flesh, the Seventh Seal will be manifested here on Earth, carrying out the Work pertaining to the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
But notice what it says here on page 549. We were reading 546; now 549 says:
“[304] Notice now, for the end-of-time Message...”
Which is the end-of-time Message? The Seventh Seal. And what is the Seventh Seal? The Angel who was very different from the rest, who, in His Coming to Earth in human flesh, notice, will be the fulfillment of the Coming of the Lord.
And now… And which is the end-of-time Message or the Message of the Last Day? Well, the Message of the Coming of the Angel who was very different from the rest; because the Gospel of the Kingdom revolves around the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of this Angel who was very different from the rest. He says:
“[304] Notice now, for the end-of-time Message, this Seal. After all, He—He has revealed all the six Seals, but he don’t say nothing about the Seventh. And the end-time Seal,” (which is the end-time Seal? The Seventh Seal), he says, “when It starts,” (pay close attention: ‘when It starts,’ meaning, when It begins), “will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible.”
When It what? When It starts. Just as It was… notice, back then It wasn’t such a secret, but It was secret enough. When the First Coming of Christ began, It was a secret: a virgin woman being pregnant (being nine months pregnant) and living in Nazareth, then going to Bethlehem of Judea because of the census or tax that took place at that time, and giving birth to that young child in Bethlehem of Judea, there in a stable. All of that was a mystery, and few people knew what was happening.
For example, the Archangel Gabriel revealed that mystery to the wise men: that the Savior, Christ Jesus, was being born in Bethlehem of Judea. And well, Mary knew what was happening, and Joseph too, because the Archangel Gabriel had revealed that mystery to them.
But notice, the wise men knew because they saw the sign in heaven, the sign of the Coming of the Messiah, the sign of the Coming of the King of Israel.19
But all of that was in its beginning stages, and its beginning was a secret, so that the devil could not kill the veil of flesh in whom the First Coming of the Messiah, as the Lamb of God, would be fulfilled. If he killed Jesus, what would we wash away our sins with, which blood? They would have to continue with those sacrifices of the goats; and at the time that Jesus died, what would happen? Every human being would have to die.
So notice the situation that the human race was in.
But God hid the mystery of the First Coming of Christ from the high priest, He hid it from the priests of that time, He hid it from the Sanhedrin Council, made up of seventy scholars of the Hebrew religion (they were the ones who led the Hebrew religion, headed by the high priest); He also hid that mystery from King Herod and from the politicians of that time.
And notice, the wise men who were so far away discovered that mystery; and when they arrived in Jerusalem looking for the Messiah, the King of Israel, no one in Jerusalem knew anything about the Coming of the Messiah; but the Coming of the Messiah was already fulfilled there, because the veil of flesh was already there, where God would dwell in all His fullness, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world; but God had to protect that veil of flesh.
Also remember, in the time of Moses, the Deliverer, which would be Moses, through whom God would deliver the Hebrew people, God had to protect that veil of flesh so that the devil could not kill that veil of flesh.
And notice, He hid him in the palace of the one who was looking for him. He hid him in Pharaoh’s palace;20 and Pharaoh was the one who was looking for all the children who were two years old and under, and who ordered all the boys to be killed! And all the children that were born, the males, had to be killed according to the order of Pharaoh.
It’s because, through the scholars that Pharaoh had, who studied the sky, they saw the sign of the coming of the Deliverer of the Hebrew people. Just as the wise men saw the sign of the Coming of the Messiah in heaven, those magicians who were in Egypt, those scholars of Pharaoh’s empire, also saw that sign in the sky.
And when they told the news to Pharaoh, well, Pharaoh didn’t want the Hebrew people to go free; therefore, he ordered the killing of all the boys that were being born, they were already sentenced to die; because when the midwives were assisting in a birth, they had orders that when they saw—if they saw that it was a baby boy, that baby boy should not live; in other words, it had to appear as though that baby was born dead, as “a consolation” to the mothers.
But the midwives, two important midwives among the Hebrew people, feared God; and when the children were being born and they saw that it was a boy, they did not kill them; and male children continued to be born, even against Pharaoh’s order. And when the midwives were asked why male children were appearing among the Hebrew people… perhaps many mothers, to protect their sons, dressed them as girls too, in case one of Pharaoh’s warriors appeared there and was going to kill him.
Now, when the midwives were called to judgment, they tell them: “Why haven’t you killed the male children when you saw that they were male children?” Then the midwives said: “It’s because Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; Egyptian women are weak, and when they are going to give birth, it takes time for them to give birth, and the midwife has to come, and be there working with her for many hours; but Hebrew women are not like that, since Hebrew women are hardworking, they have been working making bricks and doing this and that, they are strong people; and when they are in labor and call the midwife, by the time the midwife comes they have already given birth.”21
God gave those women, those midwives, those two midwives, the words so that they would not be killed. They feared God, and God blessed them, and we are going to see them; we are going to see them in the Millennial Kingdom, we are going to speak to them, and they are going to be very happy that they did what they did. God blessed them, because they feared God and preserved the lives of the male children; otherwise, Moses wouldn’t have been born.
So, notice why God hides a mystery like that. The mystery of the Deliverer, of the One who is sent, of a dispensational prophet: that mystery has always been hidden from the eyes of the wise and prudent.
Notice, Noah, the Prophet of the Dispensation of Human Government. Who knew he was a dispensational prophet? Perhaps his family, perhaps Enoch too, and these men of God; but the people in general didn’t know that they had a dispensational prophet among them.
Well, now we can see why God hides the mystery of the coming of a dispensational prophet: it is because the devil always seeks to destroy that dispensational prophet; and if he can destroy him from birth, he does it; because the devil has no mercy, nor love, nor compassion for anyone; and he uses his instruments.
He was using Pharaoh back then, when he sought Moses to kill him; but God put him there in the throne, in the palace; and although the devil hated Moses, and he didn’t even know that he was the Deliverer of the Hebrew people, he didn’t even know that he was a Hebrew… in other words, he didn’t know a number of things.
Humanly speaking, Pharaoh loved Moses; but if he found out that he was the Deliverer of the Hebrew people, all the love that he had for him would turn into hatred, because the devil would put hatred in Pharaoh’s heart; the same hatred through which he ordered the death of all the males that were born.
Now, notice how King Herod also did the same thing that the Pharaoh of Egypt did.
And now, notice why our Brother Branham said: “If one can receive the revelation and stay quiet, the devil couldn’t do any harm.”22 See?
Now, we can see why it is said that when the Seventh Seal starts, It will be (what?) absolutely a total secret. It says… let’s see:
“[304] And the end-time Seal, when It starts, will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible,” (absolutely, when It starts).
Notice, when the First Coming of Christ started, It was absolutely a total secret to the world, to the Hebrew religion, to the governments, to everyone; even when Herod found out that He was already on Earth and wanted to kill Him, because the wise men came saying that He was already on Earth, we find that he wasn’t able to find Him, because God told Joseph to go to Egypt with the child and with Mary.23
And then, when Herod ordered the killing of the boys who were two years old and under… because he knew that He had to be about two years old; but so that… “Just in case, let’s finish off the boys who are two years old and under.” He killed all the boys who were two and under. There was great sorrow in Bethlehem of Judea; but we will see those children again, and those mothers too.
Now, Christ had escaped. See how the devil looks for the instrument of God in which God will fulfill what He has promised? And now, in Jesus, God would fulfill the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross; that is the climax of the First Coming of Christ.
But notice how the mystery of the First Coming of Christ was hidden until His manifestation, when John baptized Him and identified Him as the Lamb of God who would take away the sin of the world.24
And notice how from the moment that He was identified by John as the Lamb of God who would take away the sin of the world, and then when Jesus began His ministry after fasting for forty days in the wilderness,25 what happened? They sought Him to kill Him.26
If they had known that this child named Jesus, who had been born in Bethlehem but was being raised in Nazareth, if they had known that He was the Messiah, they would have killed Him, they would have sought Him to kill Him from the time He was a boy; because since His birth, Herod was looking for Him, but He escaped from him.
And now, He grows up as an ordinary boy from Nazareth, he learns the carpentry trade and becomes a construction worker. And who would have imagined that the Messiah would be a construction worker? No one would have imagined it. In this way, in simplicity, God was hiding the mystery of the First Coming of Christ, until God would manifest Himself in Jesus in all His fullness, and have the stage which would culminate in His death on Calvary’s Cross.
And now, notice how even the mystery of the First Coming of Christ, even when His ministry began, that mystery was hidden from the wise and prudent; and it was revealed to the apostles, it was revealed to those fishermen and farmers, It was revealed to simple people; but that mystery was not revealed to the doctors of theology, the doctors of divinity among the Hebrew people, who were the religious leaders of the Hebrew religion; that mystery was not even opened, revealed, to the high priest.
God hid the greatness of the First Coming of Christ in the simplicity [of It]. And notice how thirty-three years passed until Christ carried out the Work He came to do: the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.
And now, notice how also for the Last Day, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ manifested in human flesh, he says that mystery of the Seventh Seal would be…:
“[304] …When It starts, will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible.”
When It starts; but the promise is that It will be revealed. Notice how. He goes on to say:
“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.
305 Now, how did I know? The other day, last Sunday, a week ago today, when I was preaching on ‘Be humble! Be humble! Remember, God deals in little things.’ I didn’t realize what it really was talking about. And now I see it. It is in such a humble way! You would think that something like that would be revealed to the Vatican or…But It comes just like John the Baptist. It comes like the birth of our Lord, in a stable. Glory to God! So help me, the hour is at hand! Amen! We’re here. Oh, my!”
See? It all comes like the coming of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ happened, and like the birth of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ happened.
“306 Now do you see it, the Truth of God’s vision, the seven Angels bringing me from the west? They were coming from the west, coming back east, bringing here for this Message.”
“Bringing me from the West to the East for this Message.”
Further down, he says:
“307 Now, the Voice of that great thunder, and the mission that was brought here, has been revealed, that It…and proven that It was of God. Just think now. I knew not these Seals, and they been revealed this week. Did anybody think of that, of those seven Angels being This, being the Message that was coming forth, them Angels bringing me back here for That? See?
308 Remember, the seventh Messenger was…The seven Messengers was…The noted One to me, the seventh Angel, It seemed more to me than any. Now, see, they were standing like this. Now, we just want you to notice. And I was standing here…”
Now, here we can see everything that happened. He goes on to say:
“309 See, one, first bunch, of little birds, feathers all beat down. You remember them? And they all flew eastward. And the second bunch, were brighter, bigger birds, looked like doves, pointed wings. They flew eastward. First Pull, Second Pull, then the next was Angels. And as…
310 I was standing right there, and this explosion left. And I was looking this way, towards the west, and They come and just picked me up, in There. I went plumb out of my knowing,” (he was out of his body, that is, because he was in his theophanic body, he was caught up in the Spirit). “And the one of Them, coming, was the One that looked so strange to me, was the One on my…Be to the left, where I entered the constellation at. But counting from the left to the right, it would have been the seventh Angel, see, coming across. Now, remember, the seven Messengers.”
And now on page (let’s see which page we will read from here)… on page 552, it says, starting from paragraph 322 of that page:
“322 Now notice. So help me, by God, I tell the Truth, that These are spiritually discerned to me, discerned by the Holy Spirit. And, by every one of Them, has identified Its place in the Bible.
323 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—just what It said, but I know that It was them Seven Thunders uttering themselves right close together, just banging seven different times.” (The Seventh Seal was what? Those Seven Thunders uttering themselves right close together.) “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.”
Now, notice, here… further down, it says:
“[326] I don’t know who is going to…what’s going to take place. I do not know. I just know that those Seven Thunders holds that mystery. The Heavens was quiet. Everybody understand? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] 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,” (meaning that they are expecting a great person).
“327 Maybe this ministry, that I have tried to take people back to the Word, has laid a foundation; and if it has, I’ll be leaving you, for good. There won’t be two of us here the same time. See?” (In other words, the forerunner and the One forerun won’t be here at the same time.) “If it is, he’ll increase; I’ll decrease.”
When he says, “If it is,” that’s as it was in the time of John the Baptist and Jesus, where both were there: the forerunner, John the Baptist; and the One forerun, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And when John heard some people coming and telling him, “Look, the One to whom you bore witness, now more people follow Him than you, and He baptizes more people than you.” John says, “He must increase, and I must decrease.”27 And this is the same thing that the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ is saying; because he was the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, he was the forerunner of the Seventh Seal. He says:
“[327] If it is, he’ll increase,” (who? The One forerun), “I’ll decrease,” (who will decrease? The forerunner, our Brother Branham).
Why? Because, since the forerunner is the evening Light: the evening light decreases; and since the One forerun is the morning Light: you can see that the morning light starts to illuminate, and it gets brighter and brighter, and that light shines more and more until the perfect day. The morning Light, the morning Light must what? Increase.
“[327] I don’t know.
328 But I have been privileged, by God, to look and see what It was, see, see unfold to that much.”
Now, notice how this mystery of the Seventh Seal, which is the mystery of the Coming of Jesus Christ at the Last Day, when It started, would be absolutely a total secret.
On page 318 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, he refers to chapter 19 of Revelation, which is the Second Coming of Christ. And now, notice, he says while he is praying, as part of the prayer, he says:
“[391] …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 Coming, notice, of the white-horse Rider of Revelation, is the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit. And now, how will He come? In the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, page 295, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ tells us:
“196 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.”
What will the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19 be? What will the Coming of the Holy Spirit at the Last Day be? It will be the Word, the Word incarnate where? In a Man; because the Word always becomes flesh in a man.
And now, notice which is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ: it is the mystery of the Word coming in human flesh, it is the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in His Angel-Messenger.
And when the Seventh Seal starts, when the Coming of the Lord starts, It will be absolutely a total secret, from the time that the Seventh Seal starts to open in terms of Its fulfillment, but the understanding of human beings would not be opened to understand that mystery.
And at the Last Day, the understanding of God’s elect, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, would be opened, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, to understand this mystery as it goes from stage to stage; and it will reach the peak, which will be the manifestation of the Spirit of Jesus Christ in all His fullness, where He will fulfill the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive.
And when that is carried out, the Claiming Work will be fulfilled, the Claim of Christ, claiming His Church, His children, His elect whom He redeemed with His precious Blood.
Now, we are already very close to that part of the Seventh Seal. At the end… let’s see what he says here. This part is very important, let’s see where it is… on pages 540 and 541, (in the last paragraph, it says):
“231 We must remember that this Seventh Seal is the end of time, of all things. That’s right. The things written in the Seven-Seal Book, sealed up, of the plan of redemption from before the foundation of the world, it every bit ends. It is the end; it is the end of the struggling world. It’s the end of struggling nature. It’s the end of everything. In there, it’s the end of the Trumpets. It’s the end of the Vials. It’s the end of the earth. It’s the…It’s even the end of time.
232 Time runs out. 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.
233 Everything runs out, in this time, the end of the—of the…at the end of this Seventh Seal. Notice. It’s the end of the church age. It’s the—the end of the Seventh Seal. It’s the end of the Trumpets. It’s the end of the Vials, and even end the ushering in of the Millennium. That’s on the Seventh Seal.”
Now notice all the things that are contained in the Seventh Seal. And it says:
“234 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 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.
235 That’s, what, the Seventh Seal.”
In other words, It has many things to fulfill, to carry out. In other words, there are many Divine Promises pertaining to the Last Day that must be carried out. It fulfills some first, then somewhere else It fulfills others, then in another stage It fulfills others; and from stage to stage It fulfills those promises, from explosion to explosion, It fulfills those promises.
“235 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.
236 Now, how is He going to do it? That’s what we don’t know. Isn’t it? We don’t know.
237 It’s even the time for all these things, and the ushering in of the Millennium.”
Now, notice that at the end of the Seventh Seal, at the end of the Second Coming of Christ, that is when it’s the end of all these things. But before that, God will be calling and gathering His elect, and completing the number of His elect.
And when He finishes His work and the number of His elect is fulfilled, and He has fulfilled the prophecies pertaining to those previous stages, then Christ in all His fullness comes manifested in His veil of flesh that He has been using at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that is when Christ leaves the Throne of Intercession, and from that point on Christ will stand as Judge of all the Earth.
Now, notice this mystery. Let’s see here: on page 534 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, it says… also page 533, paragraph 173 says:
“173 This time was between the Sixth and Seventh Seal, that He calls these people, spoken of by Jesus in Matthew the 24th chapter and the 31st verse, that we’ve just read, see. Trumpets here, the two witnesses of the…When the trumpet sounds, is the trumpet of the two witnesses of the age of grace for the Jews. One trumpet sound, you notice, one trumpet sound. He said He’d sound the trumpet. Now notice over here, 31st.
And he shall send forth his angels (not one, see; there’s two of them) with a great sound of a trumpet,…
174 What is it? When God gets ready to speak, there’s a sound of a trumpet. That’s always His Voice. It’s calling to battle, see. God speaks. These angels will come forth with the sounding of the trumpet.
175 And did you notice, at the last angel’s Message, the trumpet sounds. The first angel’s message, a trumpet sound; second angel’s, a trumpet sounded, when He sent it out.”
In other words, every time that God sent a messenger, a trumpet sounded. Christ in Holy Spirit through the messenger speaking to His people, and calling them and gathering them.
The Trumpet is the Voice of Christ through each angel-messenger. But at the Last Day, we have a Great Voice of Trumpet, in other words, a dispensational Message, through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, let’s continue reading. It says:
“[175] Notice, but when the Seals were announced, they were all in one great, Divine thing, to call out a group of people; there was one trumpet sound, and Seven Seals were broke.
176 Notice, ‘Gather His elected Jews from the four parts of the heavens.’
177 He mentioned the six Seals, as we have seen, but not the Seventh Seal. He has never said nothing in here about the Seventh Seal, nowhere.
178 See, right away, the 32nd verse, turns to parables, of the time of the calling of the elected Jews.”
And we shouldn’t speak too much about this part because it’s something that is still for the future, and we don’t want that Program to be interrupted. That part there is very important.
Now, let’s look on page… in the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, pages… let’s see which pages they are, pages… I just want to give you the right pages, so that you have a clear picture of what God has in His Program. Let’s read here, on pages 104 to 105 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, it says:
“278 Notice, here He come. Leaves the Throne, as an Intercessor, as a slain Lamb; to become a Lion, King, to bring the whole world into Judgment, that’s rejected. Our Kinsman Redeemer then is King over all. Why? He’s got the title deed of redemption. It all lays within His hand. I’m glad I know Him. See?
279 Then claims His inheritance; that’s the Church, the Bride. He claims It.
280 What does He do then? He disposes of His contestant, Satan. He throws him into a Lake of Fire, with all those who was inspired by Satan, to reject His Word of redemption.
281 He (Christ) is King now. Mercy is still on the Throne. Don’t you reject His offer. See?”
Notice, even when our Brother Branham was preaching about the Seals, and speaking about the Coming of the Lord with the little Book open in His hand, he tells us: “Don’t you reject His offer, mercy is still on the Throne.” If there is mercy, that is because it’s on the Throne of Intercession. He says:
“[281] The riders knows just who you are…”
The riders are the angel-messengers of each Gentile Church age, they know who the elect of their age are. So, someone has to know who are the elect of the Last Day, of the Age of the Cornerstone.
“[281] Mercy is still on the Throne. Don’t you reject His offer. See? The riders knows just who you are.
282 And, now, His contestant, who has give Him,” (God), “trouble for two thousand years, claiming, ‘I can do with them what I want to. I still have them. They’re mine. I…They forfeit the title back there.’” (that was in the time of Adam and Eve).
“283 But He’s,” (Christ is), “the Kinsman Redeemer. He said He is back here making intercessions now. But someday…” (someday what? He will leave that place), “He say, ‘I’ll put them in the grave.’
284 But He told the Church, ‘I’ll bring you out.’ See?” (in other words, I will raise you up at the Last Day), “‘But, first, I’ve got to be an Intercessor.’
285 Now He comes forth, steps out from Eternity back yonder, off of the Throne of the Father, where He sat as an Intercessor. Now He comes to be King, oh, to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Judgment is set. Oh, brother, our Kinsman Redeemer holds it all. That’s right. Yes, sir.
286 What does He do? He calls that contestant’s hand, Satan. ‘They’re mine now. I’ve raised them up from the grave.’” (When the resurrection takes place, that is when the great showdown happens). “And He takes all the liars, and the perverters of the Word, and all like that, with Satan, and destroys them in the Lake of Fire. She is all over, now. Throws them in a Lake of Fire. Oh, my!”
And now, let’s see here on page 106, it says:
“[289] And he came (the Lamb) and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne—sat upon the throne.
290 Now watch. And when He done that, watch what taken place. You talk about a jubilee! Now this is exactly the breaking of them Seals, take place. We’ll get in ‘the half hour of silence,’ just after this. Watch this, and we’ll start in. We’ll finish this up, next Sunday night, right here. And listen close now. Are you ready? Say, ‘Amen.’ [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.]” (I’m reading everything our Brother Branham says). “Listen close, what took place when He had did this.
291 When all creation was groaning; no one knowed what to do, and John was weeping. ‘Here come the Lamb, walked over!’ And this Book was in the hands of—of the original Owner, because man had fell and lost It. And no man was able to take It, anymore, to redeem the earth; no priest, pope, nothing, as I said. ‘But the Lamb come up!’ No Mary, no saint this, or saint that. ‘The Lamb come up, bloody, slain, and took the Book out of the right hand of Him that sat upon the Throne.’ And when they seen there was a Redeemer; and all the—the souls under the altar, when the Angels, when the elders, when the everything seen it, when this is done. It, yet, lays in the future. Tonight He’s a Mediator, but He is coming to this.”
Here, notice, at this Last Day, He must do the Work that pertains to the Seventh Seal, and call and gather His elect; and then Christ leaves the Throne of Intercession and manifests Himself through His veil of flesh, which He will be using in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom. And there will be a full manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit there through His Angel-Messenger, in the fulfillment of the things that have been promised for that manifestation, where we who are alive will have the new body, and the dead in Christ will have the new body that Christ has promised for them.
Now, take advantage of the Blood of Jesus Christ, which cleanses us from all sin, to have your garment clean all the days of your life. If you sin all seven days of the week, then all seven days a week wash your garment in the Blood of Jesus Christ. It’s better not to sin any day of the week; but if any man sins, we have an Advocate,28 he has an Advocate: Jesus Christ. And we have the Blood of Jesus Christ to wash away our sins.
If a person doesn’t worry about and work to keep his garment clean, when the time of the transformation comes, he cannot be changed; and when the time comes to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, no one goes there with a dirty garment; it will be the redeemed in the Blood of Jesus Christ, who have washed away their sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ.
So, always confess your sins before God and wash away your sins in the Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. It’s something between you and God; because you are the one who will receive, either the benefits—or you are the one who will lose all those benefits.
The Blood of Jesus Christ is still on the Throne, and thank God for that! I am very happy for that, because It is still there. But at the end of the Seventh Seal, the Blood will leave the Holy of Holies, the Throne of Intercession, and It will turn into a Throne of Judgment; and by that time, well, the mystical Body of Christ, the Church, the spiritual Temple of Christ, will be complete and will be perfect. And Christ will come and dwell in His spiritual Temple in all His fullness, and He brings the Title Deed, the Book of Redemption, to His Temple.
Now, notice that the content of that Title Deed is being fulfilled from age to age.
And now, notice, the pages of the Title Deed are also being fulfilled in our time, the ones that pertain to the Seventh Seal; and the ones that pertain to the Sixth Seal will also be fulfilled on this Earth; and things that pertain to the Fourth Seal will also be fulfilled at this time.
So notice how at this time in which we are living, the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. And where is the Blood of Christ? It is on the Throne of Intercession, on the Mercy Seat, in the Temple which is in Heaven.
And now, Christ is fulfilling the things that are in the Seventh Seal, until It reaches the end. And when It reaches the end, the end of the Seventh Seal: He leaves the Throne of Intercession; and from that point on, he who is filthy, let him be filthy still, in other words, he will continue getting filthy; and he who is clean, will remain clean for all eternity.29
Now, we have seen where we are and we have seen where the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ is. It isn’t in the temple that was in Jerusalem, rather, it is in Heaven, on the Throne of God, on the Mercy Seat; and Christ is making intercession there.
But notice how this change starts to overlap, how this change from Lamb to Lion starts to overlap. And He must have on Earth the veil of flesh through whom He will manifest Himself at this Last Day in all His fullness; and He must have His Church, His spiritual Temple, where He will manifest Himself in all His fullness, and where the glory of Jesus Christ, the glory of God, will be seen manifested in His Temple, just as it was seen when it was manifested in the temple that Solomon built and dedicated to God, and in the tabernacle that Moses built and dedicated to God.
And at this Last Day, when this Spiritual Temple is finished, It will be dedicated to God for God to dwell there in all His fullness; and there will be a great manifestation there, in all His fullness, worldwide. And the Hebrew people will see that manifestation, and say: “This is the One we are waiting for!”
They will see Him manifested among the Gentiles, in the manifestation of God in all His fullness at the Last Day, through human flesh, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, that great and powerful manifestation that is promised to be fulfilled through human flesh in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will be the veil of flesh that Jesus Christ will be using at the Last Day.
But before he reaches that phase, that stage, he will go through many trials, many difficulties, that will come or that people will bring upon him. But he will make it, and we will all make it, to that phase of the Divine Program, and we will receive our transformation.
So, we can see that we are walking in the Way of Christ, the Way of God, in the Age of the Cornerstone, to be changed and raptured at this Last Day.
Now, notice how our Brother Branham had to say things back then as if they were being fulfilled. And when everyone got scared: “So, there is no more Blood on the Mercy Seat!?” (and they were still in the seventh age, and the Age of the Cornerstone had not come yet, the Latin American and the Caribbean people had not come in yet), he said: “This lies in the future.” Meaning, it is a prediction or prophecy; he is prophesying the things that will come later on.
But notice that those Seals are being fulfilled throughout the different ages. And the things that were not fulfilled in the seven Gentile Church ages, well, they are to be fulfilled where? In the Age of the Cornerstone.
The Fourth Seal wasn’t fulfilled in the seventh age? Well, It will be fulfilled up here. Up here, in the time of the Age of the Cornerstone, is when the enemy will persecute the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and bring a squeeze, where the antichrist will rise and take full control of worldwide rule.
But the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be up here, in this stage. And at the time of this stage is when the enemy will come in like a flood; but God will lift up a standard against him30: the fullness of God will come manifested in His Church through the Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone; and that is what will counter the antichrist, the man of sin, the beast, at the Last Day.
And that is when the Hebrew people are called: in that stage of that manifestation of God in all His fullness at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, where we are now, going from stage to stage, just as God’s elect during the seven Gentile Church ages went from stage to stage.
So we can see where we are standing. And it is good news to everyone that there is Blood on the Mercy Seat in Heaven; therefore, there is mercy for each one of you and also for me. And if someone doesn’t need that Blood, I do need It!
So, take advantage of the Blood of Christ on the Mercy Seat, and wash away your sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ any time that you make a mistake or commit a sin.
Where is the Blood of Jesus Christ now? It is in Heaven, on the Mercy Seat; and it is applied here, in the heart of every elect of God.
And He says: “When I see the Blood, I will pass over you.” In other words, the Divine Judgment comes to those who don’t have the Blood applied on the lintel of their heart and on the doorposts of their heart, of their soul; and that is why the Blood of Christ is so important to each one of us at this Last Day.
Notice how from age to age, the Blood of Christ was manifested in each age, applied in the heart of God’s elect, in the territory where the elect were.
And now, where is the Blood of Christ applied? In the hearts, in the souls of God’s elect of the Last Day, in Latin America and the Caribbean. Notice where God looks and sees the Blood of the Lamb applied.
Now, generally speaking, the Divine Judgment has not fallen upon the Earth in all its fullness yet. Why? Because when God looks at the Earth, He still looks through the Blood of Jesus Christ.
But when It is removed from the Throne of Intercession: God will not look through the Blood of Christ anymore, and He will see the sin in human beings; and the wages of sin is death,31 and the Great Tribulation will come. But by that time, we will be changed, with a new body, and we won’t have any problems by that time. That is why the Great Tribulation does not scare us.
We worry about having a stain of sin; but we have the good news that the Blood of Christ is still on the Mercy Seat, and Christ is making intercession in that place until the very last of God’s elect of the Last Day and of the Age of the Cornerstone comes in, and thus, the mystical Body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ is completed, so that the mystical Body of Jesus Christ may be dedicated to God.
Where is the Blood of God, the Blood of Jesus Christ?
There was a question, and it asked: Was the Blood of Christ Hebrew blood or Gentile blood? It was the Blood of God; and It was neither Hebrew blood nor Gentile blood, but the Blood of God; because God was the One who created that blood cell in Mary’s womb, which multiplied cell after cell and formed the body of Jesus, and that Divine Blood flowed through those veins.
Human blood could not carry out the human being’s redemption, human blood would not be accepted by God, but rather, the Divine Blood in a body created by God; and He was our Kinsman Redeemer, and He could shed His Blood and cleanse us from all sin.
That is the Blood which is on the Throne of God, making intercession for all the elect of the Last Day, just as It made intercession for the elect of each age. Where is It? On the Mercy Seat, in the Temple which is in Heaven, there, in the Holy of Holies.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.” That has been our subject for this occasion: “THE MYSTERY OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.”
See how It was a mystery? But did you see that this mystery would be opened, revealed, to God’s elect? And from age to age, the elect have been seeing that mystery opened, and have been taking advantage of the Blood of Christ to wash away their sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.
We have seen that our Brother Branham spoke in The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, and also in other messages, as if everything had already been fulfilled; but later on he tells us that this is in the future; but he had to say it as if it was already being fulfilled, because he is seeing it in and according to God’s Mind, as it must be fulfilled.
And in our time, we have also been seeing things that seem to be completely fulfilled, but are actually in the process of being fulfilled.
Now, we have seen that a change is overlapping in our age, and also in the people, and in the messenger, and in the territory. A change of age, a change of dispensation, a change of Message, a change of people, and a change of the ministry of Jesus Christ: from Lamb to Lion, from Priest to Judge of all the Earth. And that is the change we will be seeing.
And when the last elect comes in, Christ will leave the Intercessory Place, and that Throne—which has been of mercy throughout these hundreds of years—will turn into a Throne of Judgment; and It will bring, and the judgment of the Great Tribulation will be spoken from the Throne of God, and it will be conveyed to the human race through the spiritual Temple of Christ, through the ministry that will be in that Temple, which will go from the Gentiles, from the Gentile Church, to the Hebrew people. Let’s leave it at that.
We have seen (what?): “THE MYSTERY OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.”
It has been a great privilege to be with you this morning, testifying to you about the Blood of Christ, about this mystery of the Blood of Christ.
We will have to revisit this subject; because we saw the Blood of Christ from age to age, we saw It in the Holy Place, but now we are seeing It in the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple; and we have to speak more about that later on.
It has been a great privilege to be with you, testifying to you about the Blood… about: “THE MYSTERY OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.”
And under that subject or under that other part (which we will talk about at some point in one of our conferences in some nation, in some country), we will be seeing: “THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES OF THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE OF JESUS CHRIST.”
Miguel, write it down somewhere, write down that subject (or we can modify it later on), to see in more detail what this represents at this Last Day.
Well, may the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, our beloved Savior and Redeemer (who redeemed us with His Blood and washed away all our sins, and has made us kings and priests unto our God), may all His blessings be upon us, may they materialize in each one of us, and soon may we all be changed. And may we spend that period of thirty to forty days here, and then may we go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In the Eternal Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
May God continue to bless you all, and with us again, Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.”
1 Exodus 12:1-28
2 Exodus 12:29-30
3 Romans 3:24-25
4 Psalm 34:7
5 John 6:53
6 Matthew 26:38-42; Mark 14:35-36; Luke 22:40-42
7 John 12:24
8 John 10:17-18
9 1 Peter 3:18-20
10 Revelation 1:18
11 Matthew 27:53
12 Acts 1:1-3
13 Luke 2:21-24
14 Matthew 27:51
15 Matthew 24:1-2; Mark 13:1-2; Luke 21:5-6
16 Acts 15:14
17 Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22
18 Luke 1:26-35
19 Matthew 2:1-6
20 Exodus 2:1-10
21 Exodus 1:15-22
22 The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” pages 543-544, paragraphs 257-258
23 Matthew 2:13-20
24 John 1:29, 1:36
25 Matthew 4:1-10; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13
26 Luke 4:28-30
27 John 3:26-30
28 1 John 2:1
29 Revelation 22:11
30 Isaiah 59:19
31 Romans 6:23