Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, ministers from different churches, and also all those who are present here, and radio listeners.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and also upon me. And may Christ speak directly to our soul tonight, and allow us to understand this mystery that we will be seeing this evening: “THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB WITH THE SEVEN HORNS AND THE SEVEN EYES.”
For this reason, let’s read in Revelation chapter 5, verse 1 to 7, where the Book of Revelation tells us 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.
Our subject is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB WITH SEVEN HORNS AND SEVEN EYES.”
Here, in this passage that we have read, we find that there is One sitting on the Throne there in Heaven, which is God; and in His right hand, He has a little Book sealed with Seven Seals, a Book written within and on the backside, but sealed with Seven Seals. And that Book is so important that there was no human being in Heaven, nor on Earth, neither under the earth, who could take that Book and open those Seals.
That is the Title Deed of the Heavens and the Earth, It is the Book of Redemption; It is the most important Book, which is in the right hand of God.
When Adam lost the rights to Eternal Life, that Title Deed went to Its original Owner, which is God, and It has remained there.
And at the Last Day, in other words, in the seventh millennium, that Book must be taken out of the right hand of Him who sits on the Throne, because there is a time determined by God, according to how it is established here in chapter 5 of the Book of Revelation.
It was asked that someone worthy of taking that Book come forward; but no man in Heaven, neither under the earth, nor on Earth, was found worthy to take that Book and open the Seals, nor even to look at that Book.
And now, the question is: And where was Jesus Christ?
Notice, John wept much because unless someone worthy of taking that Book and opening those Seals appeared, everything would be lost; and the human race would have to disappear, and all of Creation would cease to exist. According to the Divine Laws, the claim was required; and if no one was able to make that claim, everything would be lost.
That is what happens when there is a property being disputed in court, and there are a number of people who are the heirs of that property; but since the property is being disputed, we find that the people who claim to be the heirs or the person who claims to be the heir of that property must appear in court; and he must appear in court because there is someone else who also says he is the owner of that property.
And now, if he doesn’t appear in court, he loses all the rights to that property, even if the person is the legitimate owner of the property.
And now, notice, there is a time for everything in life, and also in the courtrooms, and also in the Divine Program.
And now, here it is required in Heaven, in the Divine Court, it is required that the Owner of all Creation appear; the One who is worthy to take that Book and open those Seals and make the claim of all Creation must come forward.
John wept much because no one worthy was appearing; and if no one worthy appeared, then everything was lost, all of God’s inheritance given to His children was lost, all of Creation was lost, everything would go back to the way it was before Creation. And that is truly very sad for John, and for anyone who thinks of something like that, but that was the situation before the Judge of the Heavens and the Earth.
And where was Jesus Christ? Jesus Christ was making intercession in the Holy of Holies, upon the Mercy Seat, in the Temple of God in Heaven; because as the High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, He is the Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven; and He went into the Temple which is in Heaven with the Sacrifice and with the Blood of the Sacrifice that He carried out here on Earth as the Lamb of God. And He has been making intercession there throughout these hundreds of years that have passed.
When John the Baptist introduced Christ before the people, he said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” Saint John chapter 1, verse 29.
And on another occasion he also introduced Him, that is, the next day he also introduced Him, saying: “Behold the Lamb of God!” That is also there in that same 1st chapter of Saint John, in chapter 1, verse 36. That was the occasion in which, when John and Andrew heard John the Baptist saying these things, they followed Jesus; although they were believers in the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ (John the Baptist), they followed the One forerun, which was Jesus.
And perhaps some people thought: “Now Jesus is going to take John’s disciples.” But, was it right for the disciples of John the Baptist to follow Jesus? Of course it was, because John the Baptist was announcing that after him would come One whose shoe’s latchet he was not worthy to unloose.
And when he saw Him, he introduced Him as the One he had said so many times would come after him; and he said of Him… he said: “I baptize you with water, but the One who comes after me, He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire.”1
Now, who were the ones that would receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire? Whose followers? The followers of the forerunner or the One forerun? Well, the followers of the One forerun: of Jesus of Nazareth.
If we can look at what happened on the day of Pentecost… which Christ had spoken to His disciples about, telling them to tarry in Jerusalem until they were filled with the power from on high,2 with the Holy Spirit. Just as He had taught them in Saint John chapter 14, verse 26, and Saint John chapter 15, verse 26, and Saint John chapter 16, verses 12 to 15, speaking to them about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And He told them the following… Let’s see read here: Saint John chapter 14, verse 26, says:
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
He is speaking to them about the Coming of the Holy Spirit, which was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost.
Notice, also in Saint John chapter 15, verse 26, again Jesus says:
“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.”
And in Saint John chapter 16, verses 12 to 15, He says:
“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.”
Now, notice how Christ spoke of the Coming of the Holy Spirit for whom? For those who would believe in Him.
Those who believed in John the Baptist, notice what happened to them: although they believed in the prophet-messenger forerunning the First Coming of Christ, that was not enough; because God’s purpose in sending a forerunner is to prepare the way of the One who will come after him, and for people to believe in the One who will come after the forerunner. That is why the forerunner always speaks of the One who will come after him, and he teaches the people to follow Him when He appears.
And now, the great blessings are for those who receive the One forerun. Here the great blessings were for the followers of Jesus. Although following John the Baptist was good, it was not enough; because they were only to follow the forerunner until the One forerun appeared. And when the One forerun appeared, all those who were with the forerunner had to go with the One forerun.
But notice, that did not happen; not all those who followed John the Baptist, not all of them followed Jesus. And therefore, we find that on the day of Pentecost, not all the disciples of John the Baptist were there (on the day of Pentecost), in the upper room, but only some of the disciples of John the Baptist who had followed Jesus of Nazareth; but the rest of the disciples of John the Baptist remained without being filled with the Holy Spirit, without being baptized with the baptism of Fire, with the Holy Spirit and Fire, as John had said: “He who comes after me is mightier than I; He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire.”
But in order to receive that baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire brought by the One forerun, they had to follow the One forerun, they had to recognize Him. John introduced them to the One forerun, and we find that only two of his disciples went with Jesus; when all of them should have gone with Jesus.
On one occasion, they tell John the Baptist: “Look, the One to whom you bore witness, now more people follow Him than you.”3
Now, the people who followed Jesus, some of them had been disciples of John the Baptist, but not all of them, part of them; another part had come in directly with Jesus, upon seeing Jesus in His ministry, and now, they (some people) had come to Jesus without going through John the Baptist; others had followed the Message of John first and then the Message of Jesus.
And the great blessing for those who follow the Message of the forerunner is to then follow the Messenger and the Message of the One forerun. To then follow the Message of the One forerun is the great blessing that those who received the forerunner are granted; and the One forerun must come according to how he said He would come… according to how the forerunner said that the One he said was coming after him would come.
But notice, the Book of Acts, chapter 19, verse 1 and on, says:
“And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.”
Notice, these people were disciples of John the Baptist, and they didn’t even know there was a Holy Spirit; they didn’t even know the Holy Spirit had already come down on the day of Pentecost, and all the believers in Jesus Christ who washed away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb, in the Blood of Jesus Christ, God was filling them with the Holy Spirit. And what happened? It says:
“And he (Paul) said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.”
See? They were disciples of John the Baptist, of the forerunner.
“Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”
The teaching of a forerunner is to believe in the One who will come after him, because all of God’s blessings for the people who are living at that time come there.
Now, at the end time, we also have the promise of the Coming of Christ. And for the Coming of Christ, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ appears first; and he teaches people to believe in the One who will come after him, and he shows how the One forerun will come, who will bring God’s blessings, so that the dead in Christ may rise in incorruptible bodies, and we who are alive may be changed, and have the eternal body too; because we will all have an eternal body, and we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And Saint Paul told us this will be at the end time. Jesus Himself also said that this will be for which day? The Last Day. Let’s see what Jesus said in Saint John chapter 6, verse 40, He tells us the following:
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
When does Christ say that the resurrection of His believers who have died will take place? At the Last Day. And which is the Last Day? Second Peter chapter 3, verse 8, and Psalm 90, verse 4, tells us that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day; in other words, one day before God is a thousand years to human beings.
That is why when Saint Paul spoke about the First Coming of Christ and how God spoke through Christ, in his Letter to the Hebrews, he said in chapter 1, verse 1 to 2:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…”
Now, notice, Saint Paul says that God spoke through the prophets in the Old Testament, and then He spoke through His Son, through Jesus Christ. And he says that was (when?) “In these last days.” In other words, Saint Paul is showing that in the days when Christ was on Earth and was there preaching among the Hebrew people, they were already living in the Last Days; and approximately two thousand years have already passed.
Now, soon, in a few minutes, we will understand this, and we will see that they were truly living in the Last Days when Jesus Christ was here on Earth.
Here, also Saint Peter, in the Book of Acts chapter 2, verse 14 and on, on the day of Pentecost, when they were filled with the Spirit of God, it says:
“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day,” (meaning, it was 8:00 to 9:00 in the morning).
“But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.”
When did God say through the Prophet Joel that God would pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh? In the Last Days; and on the day of Pentecost, in the time of the apostles of Jesus Christ, God was already pouring out of His Spirit upon all flesh; He poured out of His Spirit upon one hundred and twenty people who were gathered there. And from that point on, He has been pouring out of His Spirit upon all flesh, upon every person who has believed in Christ as his Savior and has washed away his sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ; then he has received the Spirit of Christ, and thus, the new birth has been carried out in the person.
Because the new birth is carried out in the person when the person believes in Christ as his Savior, washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ, and receives the Spirit of Christ; that is why it is so important that the Spirit of Christ comes into our souls in the time in which we are given to live, just as it was important for those who lived in past ages and dispensations.
And now, notice, the Coming of the Spirit of Christ to His believers is a promise that has existed since the Old Testament, meaning, we find that promise since the Old Testament. In other words, it isn’t something that appeared without God promising it to be manifested among the Hebrew people.
God had also said… Notice, in Proverbs chapter 1, verse 23, it says:
“Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.”
Notice, back in Proverbs we find that it also speaks to us about the Coming of the Holy Spirit. And if you read throughout the Old Testament, you will find the promise of the Coming of the Spirit of God, of the Holy Spirit.
Now, what happens when the person receives the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God? Well, what he receives is the new birth; which Christ spoke to Nicodemus about in Saint John chapter 3, when He told him: “Verily, verily, I say to you, you must be born again…” Let’s see, Saint John chapter 3, verse 3 and on, says:
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
In other words, he cannot understand It, he cannot comprehend It; and what he thinks is that believing in Christ and receiving His Spirit is just another religion, a religious path or a religious sect; he cannot comprehend, he cannot understand, the Kingdom of God.
“Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
He cannot enter into the mystical Body of Christ, into the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, because the only way to enter is through the new birth: by believing in Christ, washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit; that is when the person obtains his theophanic body, his theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension.
And if the person dies (in terms of his physical body), that person goes to Paradise to live in that theophanic body, which is a body similar to our earthly body but from another dimension; he is taken there by God’s angels.
And now, the believers in Christ of past ages are there, who received the new birth and died in terms of their physical body. They will come back in eternal bodies at the Last Day, they will rise in an eternal body, and they will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and we who are alive, believers in Christ, washed in the Blood of Christ, having received the Spirit of Christ, and thus having obtained the new birth: we will be changed.
Now, notice that what Christ has been making is what? A new race; because the old race, which began with Adam, fell from Eternal Life, and now Jesus Christ is the beginning of that new Creation.
Revelation chapter 3, verse 14, tells us that Christ is the beginning of the Creation of God, of this new Creation which He has begun with Jesus; and the continuation of that Creation are those who have believed in Christ as our Savior, washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and received His Holy Spirit. That is how it has been from age to age, where Christ has been calling and gathering together His children, and He has been building, creating, this new race.
He compares or represents this new race with sheep too. In Saint John chapter 10, He tells us the following (verses 14 to 16):
“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold,” (meaning that they are not Hebrews), “them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
Notice how God would have sheep from among the Gentiles, whom He would call and who would hear His Voice, because He said: “My sheep hear My Voice, and they follow Me,”4 and “he that is of God hears God’s Voice.”5
Now, how would He be calling and gathering His sheep? We find that among the Hebrew people, He called and gathered the sheep He had there; and we find that from age to age, from among the Gentiles, He has been calling and gathering His sheep, and He has been putting them in His Fold, which is His Church, His mystical Body of believers.
In this diagram that Rev. William Marrion Branham used in the message “The Stature Of A Perfect Man,”6 and in The Seven Stages or Ages of the Gentile Church [An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages], we have the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ represented in this diagram in the shape of a mountain or a pyramid.
And here we find the time of the apostles of Jesus Christ; and then we find the first stage or age of the Gentile Church, where Saint Paul was its angel-messenger. That first stage was fulfilled in Asia Minor. Saint Paul wanted to go to Bithynia, but Christ forbade him from going,7 and sent him to Macedonia, showing him a man of Macedonia who told him: “Come over into Macedonia, and help us.”8
Then we find that during these seven stages among the Gentiles, Christ has been calling and gathering His sheep through the messengers He has sent.
Because, since Christ died, rose, and ascended to Heaven: He has been in the Intercessory Place in Heaven, interceding for all His sheep, interceding for every person whose name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, who must come to this Earth manifested in a body of flesh and with a spirit of the world which he receives when he is born of his father and mother.
And then that person, since his soul belongs to God, he is a seed, a seed of God, a soul of God: that person needs to be born again. That person comes in contact with the Divine Program of salvation and Eternal Life, he comes in contact with Christ, receives Christ as his Savior, washes away his sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ (because the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin),9 and receives the Spirit of Christ; and that is how that person’s new birth is carried out. And that person obtains a spirit of Heaven or a spirit of the sixth dimension, which takes care of him, keeps him, protects him; it is also called the Angel of the Lord, which encamps around them that fear Him, and delivers them.10
And now, Christ has been carrying out that Work and calling His sheep, and He has been putting them in His mystical Body of believers, which is His Church.
Now, a person doesn’t say: “I want to be a child of God,” no; that person is already a son or daughter of God. What that person needs to do is be born again: by believing in Christ as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit. And that is what Christ has been doing from age to age: interceding in Heaven and manifesting Himself in Holy Spirit through His messengers; and through them, calling and gathering His sheep from age to age.
The first age was fulfilled in Asia Minor, the second was fulfilled in France, the third was fulfilled in Ireland and in France, the fourth was fulfilled in Ireland and Scotland; the fifth was fulfilled in Germany, in the time of Luther, because Luther was its messenger; and the sixth was fulfilled in England, and its messenger was Wesley; and the seventh was fulfilled in North America, and its messenger was Rev. William Branham.
And then what? We find that the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church are fulfilled or completed, those ages pertaining to the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ; because what Christ is building is a new Temple, a new Temple for God, for God to dwell in all His fullness.
Saint Paul also says that, in his Letter to the Ephesians, chapter 2. And let’s read that passage, which is very important, so that we know what Christ has been carrying out since He ascended to Heaven. Chapter 2, verse 19, and on, says:
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God…”
Which household do we belong to when we believe in Christ, wash away our sins in the Blood of the Lamb, and receive His Holy Spirit? We belong to the Household of Heaven, the Household of God. That is the Program that He is carrying out: He is creating a new race, a Family with Eternal Life. It says:
“And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
In whom all the building fitly framed together,” (see? He is making a building), “groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord,” that building is a Holy Temple in the Lord; what for?
“In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
It is a spiritual Temple, a Temple made of human beings, where God will dwell in all His fullness. While He builds that Temple, He is manifested in the firstfruits of the Spirit, bringing forth the new birth in the people who become part of this spiritual Temple, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Paul also tells us in Hebrews chapter 3, verse 5 to 6; he says:
“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we…”
Which is the House of God that Christ is put over? It’s us, meaning, it’s the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“…Are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
See? He is building a House, a Family, a new race, with Eternal Life. And to obtain Eternal Life, notice, one obtains the new birth, receives the Spirit of Christ, and thus, receives a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension; and then, at the Last Day, as Christ said: “And I will raise him up at the Last Day.”11 The resurrection will come at the Last Day for the dead in Christ, and for us who are alive comes the transformation of our bodies.
And now, which is the Last Day? We have seen that the Last Days had begun in the days of Jesus and of the Apostles; because one day before the Lord is like a thousand years to us;12 and when it says the Last Days, it is referring to the last millenniums, which are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium, and seventh millennium.
When Jesus was four to seven years old, the fifth millennium began, therefore, the Last Days began in the days of Jesus Christ, and that is why God was speaking through Jesus Christ in the Last Days.
Now, we can see which are the Last Days, and we can see that what Saint Peter said and what Saint Paul said about the Last Days, that they had begun in the time of Jesus—they were right about what they said; for the Last Days before God are the fifth, sixth, and seventh millenniums.
And of the Last Days before God, which is the Last Day? The Last Day is the seventh millennium to human beings; that is the Last Day, of which Christ said: “And I will raise him up at the Last Day.”
And now, the calendar is behind, and if we add to the calendar the years it is behind, we are already at the Last Day.
Now, in which year of the Last Day will the resurrection of the dead in Christ take place? We don’t know, but when it happens, look at the calendar and then you will say: “It was for this year, this is the year when Christ would raise the dead in Christ.”
And after the dead in Christ are raised, we who are alive will be changed; that is God’s promise for the believers in Christ, who have washed away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb and received His Holy Spirit.
Saint Paul, speaking to us about this great event of the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive, tells us in chapter 15, verses 49 to 55, of First Corinthians; he says:
“And as we have borne the image of the earthy,” (meaning, of Adam), “we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”
In other words, the image of Christ; “the heavenly one” is Christ. And that is how we will be: we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. When? At the Last Day.
“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”
In other words, while we are living in these bodies of flesh and blood, we cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, we cannot receive our inheritance. And “neither does corruption inherit incorruption,” in other words, this mortal and corruptible body cannot live for all eternity, it has to be a new body. It says:
“Behold, I shew you a mystery,” (it is a mystery that Saint Paul is going to speak about; he says), “We shall not all sleep,” (meaning, we will not all die), “but we shall all be changed…”
In other words, we will all have a new body, we will be changed and we will obtain a new body. That body’s appearance will be eighteen to twenty-one years old, an immortal body; and we will be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.
Now, it goes on to say… Let’s see when this will take place, it says:
“…In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound…”
It is very important to pay attention to this detail: that it will be at the Last Trump. Whenever it speaks of a trumpet in the Bible, that is referring to a Message, to the Voice of God giving the people a Message; in other words, it will be at the Voice of the Last Message.
“…At the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”
That is when death is over for the children of God; because God’s sons and daughters will no longer die, because they will be living in the eternal body, in the new body that Christ will give us (when?) at the Last Day, at the Last Trump; in other words, the Last Trumpet, which is the Voice of Christ, must be heard on Earth first.
Christ said in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verse 30 to 31:
“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect…”
Notice, that is the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom sounding and calling God’s elect at the Last Day.
In Revelation chapter 1, verses 10 to 11, it says the following (John the Apostle says):
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day,” (meaning, he was transported to the seventh millennium in the Spirit), “and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,” (he heard a voice of someone, as of a trumpet),
“Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.”
So, whose voice is this? Who is the Alpha and who is the Omega? And who is the first and who is the last? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior. It is the Voice of Jesus Christ at the Last Day speaking to His Church through His instrument that He has at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium.
And now, let’s see in Revelation chapter 4, verse 1, where the Voice of Christ appears again as a voice of a trumpet; it says:
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
Where will we go up to be able to hear those things which must shortly be done? If we were living in the first age, we would have to go up to the first age; if we were living in the time of the second age, we would have to go up to this second age; if we were living in the time of the third age, we would have to go up to the third age; if we were living in the time of the fourth age, we would have to go up to the fourth age; if we were living in the time of the fifth age, we would have to go up to the fifth age; if we were living in the time of the sixth age, we would have to go up to the sixth age.
And if we were living in the time of the sixth age, through whom would we hear the Voice of Christ? Through Wesley; because Christ was speaking through Wesley in the sixth age of His Gentile Church.
Remember that it’s always through a man that the Voice of God has spoken to the people and revealed to them the things that the people need to know.
And if we were living at the time when Rev. William Marrion Branham was alive, and we were in the time of the seventh stage or age of the Gentile Church, through whom would we hear the Voice of Christ? Through whom would we hear that Voice as if it were a trumpet? Through Rev. William Branham.
But through all these messengers, the Voice of Christ as a trumpet was heard in each age, speaking what God’s sons and daughters had to know, to hear, in each of these ages; and they received the Word and they were put in the mystical Body of Christ.
But now we are living in the most important time of all times. Where does He tell us to come up? Up here, to the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of Love Divine, the Perfect Age. “Come up hither, and I will show you things which must be hereafter.”13 There, to that age, is where He calls us and where He would be speaking at the Last Day all these things which must shortly be done.
And through whom would He be speaking all these things which must shortly be done? Let’s see through whom these things are made known; and that is the Man, that is the Messenger, that is the Prophet through whom Christ would be speaking at this Last Day to all the children of God among His Church.
Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, tells us:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
Through whom are the things which must shortly be done spoken to God’s sons and daughters? Through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is a dispensational prophet, he is the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, who comes with the prophetic Message for the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and for the seventh millennium, and for the Age of the Cornerstone.
Notice, he comes making known the things which must shortly be done, that is what a prophet does: he comes prophesying and showing the children of God the things which must shortly be done, and showing them the things that are already fulfilled.
In Revelation chapter 22, verse 16, Christ also speaks to us about His Angel again, and He tells us:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Whom does He say He has sent to testify these things in the churches? His Angel-Messenger. No one will be able to understand all these Divine Mysteries pertaining to the Last Day and to the Age of the Cornerstone and to the Dispensation of the Kingdom, except those who hear the Voice of Christ through His Angel-Messenger in the Age of the Cornerstone, in this place where Christ speaks through His Angel-Messenger.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said that Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is a Prophet, who revealed all this apocalyptic revelation to John. And now, this is on page 346 and page 374 of the Book The Revelation of the Seven Seals, of the message preached by Rev. William Branham; and also in the Book An Exposition Of The Seven (Gentile) Church Ages.
And now, seeing as this is the instrument of Christ for the Last Day, and he is a dispensational prophet… and it is the only time that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, from Her birth on the day of Pentecost to this end time, it is the first time She receives a dispensational prophet. And there is no other dispensational prophet for the Last Day but the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; through whom Christ will be speaking all these things which must shortly be done, and will be giving us the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, 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 Claiming Work.
Now, notice how through His Angel-Messenger He will make known to us all these mysteries of the Kingdom of God pertaining to this Last Day, and He will make known to us the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work.
Here in the passage we read at the beginning, the elder said to John: “Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed to take the Book, and open Its Seals.” And when John looked, he saw a Lamb. It is a mystery that the elder said it was a Lion, and when John looked it was a Lamb. Well, do you know something? It was neither a lion nor a lamb; it was our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah and who is the Lamb of God which died on Calvary’s Cross.
When John the Baptist introduced Jesus, saying that He was the One that he said would come after him, and said: “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world,” when people looked, what did they see? Did they see an animal, a literal lamb? No; it was not a lamb. It was a Man; it was a Man, who was represented in the Passover lamb that the Hebrew people offered to God on the first month of each year.
It was the Passover lamb that the Hebrew people also sacrificed when they were going to come out of Egypt, and applied its blood on the lintel of their doors and on their doorposts; and roasted the lamb with fire, and each ate it in the house where they were.14
In other words, many lambs died on that occasion, because each family had to have its lamb, and its blood applied on the lintel of the door and the doorposts; so that when the angel of death came at midnight, he would not enter those houses that had the token of the blood on their doors, and thus, so that the firstborn that was inside that house would not die; because each family has their firstborn son, and they don’t want him to die.
But notice, that night death would come passing through, and go into the houses that did not have the blood applied on the lintel; that was the token for the angel of death, the destroyer, not to go in; God forbade him from going into that house; and the firstborn that was there would be saved.
But in the houses where the blood was not applied, there would be death, they would receive death. And we find that there was a great cry, a great mourning among the Egyptian people that night, because in all the Egyptian houses there was a dead person: the firstborn.
They didn’t understand this about the sacrifice of a lamb in order to apply its blood on the lintel of the doors and eat that lamb inside, because they did not understand that this lamb represented the Coming of the Messiah to die on Calvary’s Cross for each of us, so that His Blood could be applied on the lintel of our soul, of our heart, and on the doorposts of our heart, so that we don’t die; so that we live eternally; because whoever doesn’t have the Blood of Christ applied in his heart, in his soul, is sentenced to death.
Now, notice the type and figure back then. That is why the Blood of Christ must be applied in our hearts, and we must have the Spirit of Christ, which is the Life of the Lamb of God; and thus we are safe from the second death, and we are destined to live eternally with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
See how it’s not a matter of one getting into a religion? It’s a matter of life or death, it’s a matter of Eternal Life or death forever; it’s a matter of the person who doesn’t have the Blood applied in his soul, who hasn’t believed in Christ as his Savior, and hasn’t washed away his sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and hasn’t received His Holy Spirit: being sentenced to death; he is sentenced to die in physical body, in spirit, and in soul too, he is sentenced to be cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death.
Now, notice how important it is to believe in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, wash away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit; it’s not a matter of religious sectarianism, or fanaticism, rather, it is a matter of life or death for each of us.
Christ is creating a new race with Eternal Life; and those who receive Christ as our Savior and receive His Holy Spirit: they receive Eternal Life, they are born again, they are born in the Kingdom of God, they are born in the mystical Body of Christ and have Eternal Life. Those are the ones who, if they die, will be raised in eternal bodies, and if they are alive at this Last Day and the resurrection (the resurrection of the dead in Christ) takes place, well, they will be changed; that is Christ’s promise to His believers.
See how it’s not a matter of religious sectarianism? Rather, it’s a matter of life or death for every human being who lives on this Earth. The future of the human being, of each person, depends on that. And we must take this seriously, because our future depends on this: Either we live eternally with Christ, or we are cast into the lake of fire to disappear, to be burned and cease to exist. But no one wants to cease to exist.
One starts to think: “It’s a miracle that I am living here on Earth.” And one wonders: “Where did I come from?” Well, look, you have come sent by God to live on this Earth, you have come from another dimension; that is why we cannot be afraid of aliens, because we ourselves are aliens: we have come from another world, from another dimension.
And Christ Himself said: “No man has ascended up to the Father…” or: “No man has ascended up to Heaven, but the Son of man which is in Heaven,”15 and He was here on Earth. And He also said: “I go up to God and to your God, I go up to the Father. I came from God and I go back to God,”16 and that is what He did when He died, rose, and ascended to Heaven: “I came forth from the Father, and go back to the Father.”
Now, notice that the mystery of what and who the human being is: it is a mystery which Christ Himself opened; and He told us to seek first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all other things will be added unto us;17 because the most important thing to every human being is Eternal Life, nothing is more important than Eternal Life.
Christ said: “For what is a man profited, if he gains the whole world,” (in other words, if he works, struggles, becomes a multimillionaire here on Earth), “and loses his own soul?” What good is it, if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Well, living on this Earth has been of no use to him.18
The most important thing for the human being is the Kingdom of God, to seek and find the Kingdom of God; and to do that, we must believe in Christ as our Savior, wash away our sins in the Blood of the Lamb and receive His Holy Spirit; and that is how we enter into the Kingdom of God, into the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now we see how simple everything is, we see that everything is simple; but although it seems simple to us, that is what takes us to Eternal Life. “He that hears My Word, and believes in Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto Life.” (Saint John chapter 5, verse 24.)
Now, notice that the Program of Christ for the human being is a Program of Eternal Life; and every person who will hear the Voice of Christ has his name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. He said: “My sheep hear My Voice, and they follow Me,”19 and, “He that is of God hears God’s Voice.”20
Now, we have seen that He has been carrying out a Program, which consists of calling and gathering His elect into His mystical Body of believers from age to age.
And now, where do we stand in the Divine Program? The seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church that are in this diagram have already passed; and all that’s left is the Age of the Cornerstone.
And just as there was a messenger and a territory and a people where each Gentile Church age was fulfilled, and there was a Message for those people; there is also a Message for the Age of the Cornerstone: the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, preaching, proclaiming: proclaiming the Word of God, and revealing the mystery of the Seventh Seal, revealing the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ; because Christ comes to His Church, to His people, here in the Age of the Cornerstone; that is where the Second Coming of Christ is promised to be fulfilled.
And now, where, which is the territory where the Age of the Cornerstone must be fulfilled at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium? Just as there was a territory for each Gentile Church age, and the last age of the seven Gentile Church ages was the age that was fulfilled in North America, and its messenger was Rev. William Branham, now Christ in Holy Spirit has gone to Latin America and the Caribbean, that is the territory of blessing! That is the territory for the manifestation of Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom at the Last Day, to manifest Himself through His Angel-Messenger, and make known to us all these things which must shortly be done.
How many of you knew that the Last Days were the fifth, sixth, and seventh millenniums? You didn’t know before, but now you know; because these things are being made known at this Last Day, all these things which must shortly be done.
How many of you knew that the Last Day was the seventh millennium? You didn’t know before, but now you do know: it has been opened to the Latin American and the Caribbean people at this Last Day.
How many of you knew that the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet was the Voice of Christ speaking to us through His Angel-Messenger with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and revealing to us the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, the mystery of the Seventh Seal? We didn’t know before, but now we do know. Why? Because Christ is making known to us all these things which must shortly be done, through His Angel-Messenger, where? In Latin America and the Caribbean.
Now, we have reached the most glorious time of all times; we have reached the time where Christ is among Latin America and the Caribbean, pouring out His blessings; and that makes Latin America and the Caribbean the continent of the future, because it has the blessing of Christ at this Last Day. And this Latin American and Caribbean continent will enter into the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ will be filled with Latin American and Caribbean people; and that truly is a great blessing for the Latin American and Caribbean people.
And now, Christ in Latin America and the Caribbean, just as He was in each territory through each angel-messenger of each age: now in Latin America and the Caribbean, through His Angel-Messenger, He makes known to us all these things which must shortly be done; and thus, He reveals the mystery of the Seventh Seal to us, and thus, Christ speaks to us with that Voice of the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10 (and with that Last Trumpet, and with that Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom), and He reveals to us all these mysteries, all these things which must shortly be done.
Notice, what did the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ say that the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19 would be? Because that is the Seventh Seal: the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19. Let’s read here on page 318 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, where Rev. William Branham says while he is praying, 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.”
Who is the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19? The Holy Spirit, it is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit.
And now, on page 295 of the same Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, it says (in paragraph 196 of this page, it says):
“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.”
That is what he was forerunning as the Second Coming of Christ, as the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19. That is the mystery of the Seventh Seal: the Coming of the Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh at the Last Day: in His Angel Messenger; that is the mystery they didn’t know in Heaven or on Earth, but it would be revealed at the Last Day.
That is the mystery that, when the Seventh Seal was opened in chapter 8 of Revelation, verse 1, caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour. That is the greatest mystery of the Heavens and the Earth. That is the mystery that, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, would be revealed through the Voice of Christ through His Angel-Messenger, that Voice of the Seven Thunders, which is the Voice of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
Because in Revelation chapter 10, we find the Coming of Christ, we find the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Mighty Angel. Notice, and notice what it says, Revelation chapter 10, verse 1 and on, says:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth,” (how did He cry? As when a lion roars, because He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as the elder said), “and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”
Here it shows that the Voice of the Mighty Angel, the Voice of Christ crying as when a lion roars, is His Message to His Church at the Last Day.
And the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said, on page 148 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, that the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10 will give the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ the rapturing faith. It is the faith to be changed and raptured, it is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work.
And the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, the Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Seven Thunders, 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 Claiming Work.
Just as the Message of the Gospel of Grace, which is the Message for the Dispensation of Grace, revolves around the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.
And now, notice how for the Dispensation of the Kingdom, the Gospel of the Kingdom 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 Claiming Work.
In Habakkuk chapter 2, verse 14, and also in Isaiah chapter 11, verse 9, it tells us that “The Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea;” in other words, the Earth, the human race, will be filled with the knowledge of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
It is the knowledge of the Coming of Christ to His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age that pertains to the holy of holies of the temple Moses built and the temple Solomon built.
The holy of holies was in the West, in other words, on the west side. And in the construction of the spiritual Temple of Christ, we find that He has come from the East, through the Outer Court; then He went to the Holy Place, through the different Gentile Church ages, through the seven ages, which pertain to the Holy Place; and then He goes to Latin America and the Caribbean for the construction of the most important part of His Temple, in other words, the Holy Of Holies of His spiritual Temple.
And this spiritual Temple which Christ has been building, He has been building It out of living stones,21 out of human beings, people who have believed in Christ as their Savior, and have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and have received His Holy Spirit.
And at the Last Day, for the construction of the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple, He goes on to Latin America and the Caribbean, where He calls and gathers His elect with the Great Voice of Trumpet, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and where does He put them? In the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Age of the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ; and He gives us of the hidden Manna, He gives us the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, He gives us the revelation of the Seventh Seal; and thus, He prepares us to be changed and raptured at this Last Day.
And now, notice that Christ in His First Coming is the Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world; and Christ in His Second Coming is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the One who makes His claim over everything He redeemed with His precious Blood, which is written in the Book of the Seven Seals; the names of God’s elect are written there, of all those who have been washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ, they have been written there before the foundation of the world.
In other words, it is not a matter of the person’s name being written in the Book of Life when he receives Christ, no; he has already had it written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
And the person is manifested here on Earth at the time in which he is given to live, because God sends him to live in that time, to then hear the Word of God and receive Christ as his Savior, receive His Holy Spirit; and thus, come into the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, thus enter into the Kingdom of God, and belong to that new race, to that heavenly Household which Christ is creating; who, at this Last Day, calls and gathers His last elect, with whom He forms the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple; and where does He do this? In Latin America and the Caribbean.
In Latin America and the Caribbean is where God’s blessing is at this Last Day for all of God’s sons and daughters; where Christ reveals His Program pertaining to this Last Day, where Christ reveals the mystery of the Seventh Seal; so that everyone at this end time may receive the dead in Christ raised in eternal bodies, and we who are alive may be changed.
The dead in Christ have not risen yet and we have not been changed yet, but at some point in the Last Day, in other words, in the seventh millennium (which already began, if we add to the calendar the days it is behind), in some year of the Last Day, of the seventh millennium, the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive will take place.
That is why at this end time, through the Voice of Christ, which is the Voice of the Seven Thunders, and which is also the Voice of the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, He reveals to us all these things which must shortly come to pass at this end time, to thus prepare each one of God’s elect: to call them and gather them, put them in the mystical Body of Christ, and prepare us to be changed and raptured at this Last Day, and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Now, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who took the Book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the Throne, whom the elder said was the Lion, we find that He was neither a lamb nor a lion, He was our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Lion of the tribe of Judah and who is the Lamb of God.
And now, we find Him with seven horns and seven eyes: the seven horns are the seven Gentile Church ages (these seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church). And the seven eyes are the seven messengers that God sent in each of those ages.
That is why it says that these seven eyes, notice, it says those are the seven eyes, it says, which had…:
“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,” (well, that is Jesus Christ, the One who was slain on Calvary’s Cross), “having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”
In chapter 1… I read in chapter 5, verse 6 of Revelation. In chapter 1, verse 4, of Revelation, it tells us:
“John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne…”
Notice, these are the seven spirits that run to and fro through the whole Earth, the seven spirits of God. And now, notice, it says:
“…From the seven Spirits which are before his throne.”
And in Revelation chapter 4, verse 5, it says:
“And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.”
Now notice:
- In Revelation chapter 1, it says that the seven spirits of God are before the Throne;
- and Revelation chapter 4 says that these seven spirits are—or that these seven lamps are the seven spirits of God;
- and in Revelation chapter 5, verse 6, it tells us that the seven horns and the seven eyes are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the Earth
We find that these are the seven Gentile Church ages and Her seven angel-messengers.
The seven angel-messengers are the seven eyes that run to and fro through the whole Earth; because a prophet is represented in an eye; because a seer is one who sees things that will happen, that is why he is called a seer, and he is represented in an eye. And that is why the seven messengers of the seven ages are the seven eyes, the seven seers, which God had in the seven stages or ages of His Gentile Church.
And now, notice that Christ is the One who has those seven horns with the seven eyes. And in Revelation chapter 1, verse (let’s see here), verses 16 to 20, it says:
“And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.”
Now, notice how in these symbols God shows the seven churches or seven ages, which were also represented in the seven churches of Asia Minor that God chose to represent His Church going through these seven stages, during the stage of the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.
And notice, the seven Gentile Church ages are represented in the seven candlesticks with the seven stars, which are the seven angel-messengers with the seven Gentile Church ages.
We have seen what the Lamb with the seven horns are, as well as the seven eyes on the seven horns: it is Jesus Christ. It’s not an animal, but Christ our Savior. And the seven horns are the seven stages of the Gentile Church. And the seven eyes are the seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages.
And now, once Christ finishes His construction work of His mystical Body of believers here in the Age of the Cornerstone, and once He has called and gathered the very last of His elect: He will finish the Work of Intercession in Heaven, in the Holy of Holies, in the Temple which is in Heaven; and Christ will become the Lion of the tribe of Judah, King of kings and Lord of lords; and He will take the Title Deed, and open the Book in Heaven, and claim everything He redeemed with His precious Blood; because that belongs to Him, everything He redeemed with His precious Blood: all of Creation and all of God’s sons and daughters.
And since we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, we will inherit with Christ everything He is heir to; and we will be restored to Eternal Life with an eternal body, because Christ claims His Church (which is represented in this diagram). The Church of Jesus Christ is also completed here: by Latin American and Caribbean people being called and gathered; and then the dead in Christ will rise, we who are alive will be changed, and God will dwell in each one of you and also in me, in all His fullness.
That is why it is so important for the mystery of the Seventh Seal to be revealed and known to God’s elect: so that they can have the faith to be changed and raptured at this Last Day. And thus, to be in the mystical Body of Christ, in the age pertaining to that Last Day: the Age of the Cornerstone, because the other ages already ended, they passed. The seventh Gentile Church age already ended, and God called His seventh messenger of the seventh Gentile Church age, and he is in Paradise with the saints who received the Word of God during the time of his ministry.
But just like in the time of John the Baptist many went over to the ministry of Jesus, that is also how it will be at the Last Day: they will go from the seventh age of the Gentile Church to the Age of the Cornerstone; and from the ministry of the seventh angel-messenger of the seventh Gentile Church age to the ministry of Christ through His Angel-Messenger in the Age of the Cornerstone; to thus receive the faith to be changed and raptured, to receive the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
And this is none other than the manifestation of Christ at the Last Day in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, among the Latin American and Caribbean people, Christ coming manifested in His Angel-Messenger, making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass.
On February 28, 1963, this sign appeared in heaven, a mysterious cloud;22 which didn’t have a clear scientific explanation, because it appeared twenty-six miles high,23 and its size was thirty miles across by fifty miles long,24 (it was a giant cloud), at a height where planes cannot fly and where there is no moisture to form clouds.
The mystery of this cloud was made known by Rev. William Branham. On that occasion, seven angels appeared to him, and he was taken to where these angels were, he was taken by them, and put here in this cloud.
In this cloud, notice, in the form of a pyramid, in a pyramid form, we find that the seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages are there, and there is an Angel-Messenger who is different from the rest.
If we turn the picture to the right, we will find that the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages form the Lord’s beard; because this cloud—or, in the form of a cloud, the Lord’s face is formed here; and the beard of the Lord is formed by the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages.
In other words, the type and figure of the beard of Jesus Christ was fulfilled through the seven angel-messengers in their ministries in the seven Gentile Church ages.
But the One who forms the Lord’s white hair is the Angel who was very different from the rest; and that is the Angel with the Seventh Seal, that is what the messenger of the seventh Gentile Church age says, Rev. William Branham, in the message The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, page 546, when he 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. You remember that? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, ‘He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward’ (you remember) ‘like that.’ I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up.’ You remember that? [‘Amen.’]
276 Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I’ve wondered all my life. Amen! Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don’t know what This has meant.”
Now, which of these angels who were here in this cloud was the One with the Seventh Seal? The One who is up here, the One who forms the Lord’s white hair; that is the One with the Seventh Seal. And the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
And just as Christ manifested Himself in Holy Spirit in each age through each of these messengers, who appeared here in this cloud, at the Last Day, manifested here, in the Age of the Cornerstone, through His Angel-Messenger, is the Angel who was very different from the rest, just as the seven angel-messengers came in human flesh, He comes at the Last Day, manifested in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger, and thus, He fulfills the Coming of the Angel who was very different from the rest, the Angel with the Seventh Seal.
That is the mystery of the Seventh Seal: the Coming of the Angel who was very different from the rest, manifested in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And this is the mystery that would be revealed to God’s elect at the Last Day. And with the revelation of this mystery, God’s elect would be called and gathered at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, to fulfill the number of God’s elect, to complete the number of the members of the mystical Body of Jesus Christ, because all the elect would be called and gathered with a Great Voice of Trumpet.
Christ said the following in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 30 to 31; and I want to read that passage, which is very important for us.
Is there a Scripture that talks about a cloud that will appear, about a sign in heaven? Of course there is. Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 30 to 31, says:
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven,” (here we have the sign of the Son of man in heaven), “and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
There you have the Angel who was very different from the rest, the Son of man coming in the clouds.
“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
That is the part that pertains to this Last Day: the gathering of all the elect, with what? With the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, revealing the mystery of the Coming of the Mighty Angel, the Coming of the Angel who was very different from the rest, the Coming of the Son of man with His Angels at the Last Day.
And with the gathering of the elect, at this Last Day, the number of the mystical Body of Christ will be completed, the number of the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are living in the greatest and most glorious time of all times, where the prophecies of the Last Day are being fulfilled, and they are being made known to God’s elect in the Age of the Cornerstone, in Latin America and the Caribbean, through the Holy Spirit through the Angel-Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We have seen: “THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB WITH THE SEVEN HORNS AND THE SEVEN EYES.”
And we have seen where we stand in the Divine Program: we are at the greatest and most glorious time of all times, being called and gathered, and put in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the mystical Body of Christ, and being prepared to be changed and gathered. And He gives us the revelation of the Seventh Seal for that, the revelation of the mystery of His Coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
It has been a great privilege to be with you tonight, testifying to you about: “THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB WITH THE SEVEN HORNS AND THE SEVEN EYES.” That is the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who is also the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and also upon me. And may He keep our understanding opened so that we can understand all these mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, pertaining to this Last Day; and thus, so that we can receive the blessings of Christ, and we can be changed and raptured at this Last Day, where He would be making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass.
And where are the ones who would be obtaining that knowledge of these things which must shortly be done? Here we are, in Latin America and the Caribbean. There is a group here in Nicaragua, and in every Latin American country there is a group of God’s elect hearing these things which must shortly come to pass, and thus obtaining the knowledge of this whole Divine Program pertaining to this Last Day; and being prepared to be changed and raptured at this end time.
May God bless you and keep you. And soon, may we all be changed and raptured, and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in the House of our Heavenly Father. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
May God continue to bless you all. And have a good evening, everyone: kind friends and brethren present, and radio listeners.
I will leave Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with us right away, to give you the addresses and telephone numbers you can contact to obtain more conferences related to these mysteries of the Last Day, and thus, to obtain more knowledge about the whole Divine Program pertaining to this end time.
These conferences are also printed in booklets and they are completely free for you. So, call or write to the addresses that Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín will be giving you, and also for those who want to attend services where conferences like these will be watched, where you will be able to hear about these things: they will also give you the addresses you can visit, and the days they will be watching these conferences on video.
May God bless you and keep you all. And I leave with you now, friends listening on the radio and those who are present, Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín, to give you the addresses.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB WITH THE SEVEN HORNS AND THE SEVEN EYES.”
1 Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:7-8; Luke 3:16; John 1:26-27
2 Luke 24:49
3 John 3:26
4 John 10:27
5 John 8:47
6 The pyramid diagram can be downloaded at the following link: https://imprenta.carpa.com/es/materiales/la-nube-y-la-piramide-diptico/
7 Acts 16:7
8 Acts 16:9
9 1 John 1:7
10 Psalm 34:7
11 John 6:39, 6:40, 6:44, 6:54
12 2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:4
13 Revelation 4:1
14 Exodus 12:1-28
15 John 3:13
16 John 16:28
17 Matthew 6:33
18 Matthew 16:26; Mark 8:36; Luke 9:25
19 John 10:27
20 John 8:47
21 1 Peter 2:5
22 When this cloud appeared, it was photographed and published in two magazines:
• Science magazine: published 19 April 1963, Vol 140, Issue 3564. Author: James E. McDonald
https://www.science.org/toc/science/140/3564
• Life magazine: published 17 May 1963. Article title: “…And a High Cloud – Ring of Mystery” https://bit.ly/3ureXyD
23 26 mi = 41.8 km
24 30 x 50 mi = 48.3 km (wide) x 80.46 km (long)