The mystery of the multitude that John did not know

Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great privilege for me to be with you in this place again, to share with you some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.

The subject for this occasion is a subject that is very important, very significant; and I was looking for everything I could about this subject there, while you were waiting here, but I was not ready. And perhaps I am not yet ready to speak all that is there; because there are prophetic things there that cannot be spoken, and there are others that can be spoken. Therefore, we will see what things God can make known to us on this subject.

The subject is “THE MYSTERY OF THE MULTITUDE THAT JOHN DID NOT KNOW.”

We read in Revelation, chapter 7, verses 9 and on (9 to 17), where it says:

“After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,

Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?

And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

The apostle Saint John saw this multitude that he did not know. The mystery of the multitude that John saw and did not know is that John, being a Hebrew, he knew the Hebrews, but now he sees this multitude of all people…; he says that it is a multitude that no one could count, of all nations “and kindreds, and people, and tongues.” In other words, it is a great multitude, of different gentile peoples, of different nations and also of tribes as well; in other words, he sees all kinds of people from all different nations; therefore, he will be seeing people dressed in one way and another way in that multitude, even dressed in garments of different tribes of the Earth.

Now, that multitude will go through the great tribulation; and it is a multitude that no one will be able to count, it is a great multitude.

That multitude is not the Church-Bride of Jesus Christ that will go with Christ in the rapture; that multitude is not the Mystical Body of Christ that will be changed and raptured; because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which are God’s elect that will be changed and raptured, will leave before the great tribulation begins, they will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to a great feast that God has prepared for all of us.

Now, being that Christ compared the Kingdom of the Heavens to ten virgins (and He also made other comparisons), in the parable of the ten virgins Christ shows us here something very important, which clarifies more broadly what it is and who it is – and who are the ones belonging to this multitude that no one can count. In Matthew, chapter 25, verse 1 to 13, it says:

“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.”

These are all those who go out to receive Christ as their Savior; and among all those who go out to receive Christ as their Savior, who receive Him as their Savior, a part of those people are wise and another part is foolish. And now, it says:

“They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them…”

The oil represents the Holy Spirit. And the foolish ones were only professing believers in Christ, who attended their various churches which they attended, but did not obtain the baptism of the Holy Spirit and, therefore, did not obtain the new birth. The foolish ones did not take oil —a very big mistake.

“But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.”

They received Christ, washed their sins in the Blood of Christ and received the Holy Spirit, and obtained the new birth; those are the wise virgins. Therefore, they obtained a theophanic body of the sixth dimension; and therefore, if they die, they will be resurrected in eternal bodies; and if they remain alive until the Last Day and see the Second Coming of Christ and see the dead in Christ resurrected, they will be changed.

Those are the ones who will be transformed: the believers, the Christians who have been born again, who have received the Holy Spirit. The rest of Christianity will not be transformed even though it is alive in this end time; only those who have the Holy Spirit, those who have obtained the new birth, and therefore have a theophanic body, of the sixth dimension.

“While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.”

Throughout the different stages or ages, notice, wise virgins and foolish virgins have physically died, because their time of life in the earthly body has been fulfilled; but remember that there are wise virgins and foolish virgins in all stages.

“And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.”

That is the Message that calls the people, Christianity, and announces to them about the Coming of the Lord for the end time; and it says: “Behold the Bridegroom; go out to meet Him!” It is a Message that prepares the people to receive the Coming of the Lord.

The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ was announcing to the people that after him would come the Messiah, the one to whom he was preparing the way would come.

Just as John the Baptist did, who came preaching to the people and calling the people to repentance, and preparing the people to receive Christ in His First Coming. And when He appeared in the midst of the believers of John, John said¹***: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize said to me: Upon whom you shall see the Holy Spirit descending like a dove, that is He.”

And now, for this end time, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ in his prophetic messages has said, has prophesied, what will be the Coming of the One that will come after him, which will be the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation, chapter 19, and the Coming of the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven in Revelation, chapter 10.

The Coming of the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven is the Coming of the Messenger to Israel, but He first comes for His Church²***. And the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 is the Coming of the Holy Spirit manifested in a man of this end time; it will be the Coming of the Holy Spirit, the Word, manifested in human flesh, in a man of this end time³***.

So shall the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, come in the end time, in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, to call and gather together all the elect of God, and prepare us to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

We continue to read here, it says:

“Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.”

And that is what has been happening in this end time: that there is a restlessness, there is a spiritual awakening in the midst of the entire Christianity, because we are living in the end of the century. And if we look for the calendar we are also living in the end of the sixth millennium from Adam until now, and in the end of the second millennium from Christ until now.

Being that from Christ until now two thousand years have already passed, at the end of this century everyone knows that then, when we enter the next millennium we will be living in the Last Day before God; because the Last Day before God is the last millennium, which is the third millennium of the last three millenniums from Christ until now.

For the Earth has been living in the last days from Christ until now; because the last days began when Jesus was 4 to 7 years old, where the fifth millennium began, which is the first of the last three millenniums. And the second of the last three millenniums is the sixth millennium. And the last of the last three millenniums is the seventh millennium from Adam until now and third millennium from Christ until now.

And since Christ promised the resurrection of the dead believers in Him, He promised that resurrection for when? For the Last Day, which is the third millennium from Christ until now and seventh millennium from Adam until now.

Now, in what year of the Last Day, the seventh millennium from Adam until now or third millennium from Christ until now? We do not know what year; but we already know that it is for the Last Day, which is the third millennium of the last three millenniums or seventh millennium from Adam until now.

And the entire Christianity is awaiting, it knows that something has to happen. And part of Christianity does not know that the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ came and left. And for those who want to receive him, he was the Reverend William Branham, who came with the spirit and power of Elijah in his fourth manifestation; and his Message was recorded on tape, and it has also been placed in booklets, it has been printed; so that it may come to the entire Christianity, and you may see what he said the Second Coming of Christ would be, and thus those who love the Second Coming of Christ, and want to see and receive Christ in His Second Coming, may be prepared.

“Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”

Here we have a clear picture of the whole Christianity, composed of people who have received Christ as their Savior, have accepted the Blood of Christ to cleanse their sins, but have not received the Holy Spirit and therefore have not been born again.

And we also have here, represented in the wise virgins, those who have received Christ as their Savior, have washed their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Holy Spirit.

Now, remember that both groups are virgins. That speaks of people who have taken salvation seriously, people who have taken receiving Christ as their Savior seriously; they are people who love God, love Christ.

And now, we have in the midst of Christianity two groups: wise virgins and foolish virgins.

The wise virgins are also typified in other places with the wheat and the wheat plant… You see, the wheat is the children of God, the wheat plant is the entire Christianity.

Now, when you go to harvest, what you harvest is what? The wheat; not the chaff, not the plant, not the stem with the chaff, but the wheat.

The straw, in past times or centuries, was then placed in the field in piles and burned. Nowadays, because there are many advances, in some places perhaps they can take it to some machine where they grind it up and put other things in it, and turn it into animal food or fertilizer; but it does not go into the barn: only the wheat goes into the barn.

And now, see how John the Baptist himself, forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, spoke of these things too. See, his Message covered many aspects of the First Coming of Christ and the Second Coming of Christ as well. Chapter 3 of Matthew, verse 10 to 12, it says:

“And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire (and for the end time, they will be cast into the fire of the great tribulation).

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

See, the wheat straw, since it was part of all that Divine Program, that represents the whole Christianity; but the grain of wheat represents the elect of God. Remember that many are called, but few are chosen⁴***.

And now, in the midst of Christianity we find wise virgins and foolish virgins; we find that in the midst of the whole Christianity, in the midst of people who have received Christ as their Savior and have washed their sins in the Blood of Christ, we find a group of people marked in the Bible as the elect of God, the firstborn of God, written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Now, the fatuous or foolish virgins, which pertain to the plant (not to the grain of wheat but to the plant: to the stem and to the leaves), have their names written in the Book of Life, in the section from which they can be blotted out if they stand against God’s elect, God’s firstborn; but most of them will remain written there.

Now, we have had firstborn in past ages and we have also had of the rest of the believers; in other words, we have had foolish virgins and wise virgins throughout all the centuries that have passed since the Day of Pentecost until now; and each age has had its wise virgins and foolish virgins.

It will be for the Last Day that, in the Second Coming of Christ, where the wise virgins will enter with Christ to the Marriage.

Now notice, John the Baptist says that the one who will come after him, who will baptize with Holy Spirit and Fire, he says:

“Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

In other words, the straw will be cast into the great tribulation, those who are alive in the end time, and there they will give their lives for Christ. The beast, the man of sin, in whom the devil will become incarnate, will persecute the foolish virgins and kill them; they will die during the great tribulation.

The Sixth Seal, you see, will be fulfilled. Under the Sixth Seal is that the divine judgments fall upon the Earth and all those situations arise on this planet Earth; and under the Sixth Seal the Earth will be purified. In other words, the Sixth Seal has a triple purpose, just as the Seventh Seal has a triple purpose.

Look, under the Sixth Seal, the triple purpose of the Sixth Seal is: The purification of the foolish virgins, who were not transformed (why?) because they did not have oil in their lamps, they did not have the Holy Spirit, although they thought they had the Holy Spirit; and they have to go through the great tribulation for their purification. And the Earth will be purified during the great tribulation, under the Sixth Seal. And also the 144,000 Hebrews will go through the great tribulation and be purified.

So we can see that even the 144,000 Hebrews are going to be purified during the great tribulation; the foolish virgins as well and the planet Earth as well. The purification of the foolish virgins, the purification of the Hebrew people and the purification of the planet Earth, under the Sixth Seal, in the great tribulation.

Now, the 144,000 come out under the Message of the Two Olive Trees, under the Message of the Mighty Angel, of this powerful Angel of Revelation, chapter 7, which comes with the Seal of the living God, in other words, He comes with the Holy Spirit.

And in that chapter 7 we find the 144,000 Hebrews that are going to be purified; and we also find the foolish virgins, the multitude of every people, nation and tongue that could not be counted: that multitude, which could not be counted, we find it under chapter 7 of Revelation.

And chapter 7 of Revelation is the ministry of the Angel that comes with the Seal of the living God, to call and gather and seal 144,000 Hebrews. In other words, chapter 7 pertains to the ministry of Moses and Elijah, of the Two Olive Trees.

And now look, let’s see what the Reverend William Branham said regarding the foolish virgins or fatuous virgins, so that we have a clear picture. And here we are going to speak as far as possible, because there will be things that we will not speak about; but let’s see, let’s see what the Reverend William Branham said: page 51 of the book of Quotations, verse 439, it says⁵***:

“Now, in Revelation 15…”

See, these foolish virgins are the ones that appear in chapter 15 of Revelation, and let’s see:

“…the remnant of the woman’s Seed, which was the Tribulation saints (in other words, the remnant of the woman, the remnant of the Church) that went through the Tribulation, was found (Look!) standing on this sea. And it was filled with fire, blood, red blazes licking forth, the fire of God. They had gotten the victory over the beast (Rome), over his number, over the letter of his name, and over his image (the Confederation of Churches), and had come out. And through the preaching of Moses and Elijah, those two prophets that will appear to Israel to pull out the…this group of people, those Tribulation Period saints, back in that time that’ll be brought in, was… See…”

Now, under whom?, under whose ministry do the foolish or fatuous virgins come out? Under the ministry of Moses and Elijah; for they are under chapter 7, which is the chapter under the ministry of the Angel that comes with the Seal of the living God.

Further down it says:

“Now, see, they had never entered in, but they had heard the Word. They had heard the Word. Now, listen, see what kind of Doctrine they heard, see if it compares with the Church now. ‘And they sang the song of Moses the servant of God, (That’s, after Moses had crossed over.) and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; (Who is that Lamb?) Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.’ See what they recognized Him to be? Not no third person in a trinity, but “the Lord God Almighty, the King of Saints!” Listen! Are you ready? 4th verse: ‘Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, (capital L-o-r-d, Elohim) and glorify… Who is it left that’ll not fear thee,… and glorify thy name?…’ They was washed by the same waters that you’re being washed by now, hearing the Word, and the faith and power of Jesus Christ being the Almighty. It’s the whole Revelation at the beginning. The whole thing’s wrapped up in the Revelation of Who Jesus Christ is, ‘God made flesh among us!’”

And that is the revelation they are going to receive, but it is going to be after we obtain the adoption. In other words, the adoption comes, and those who are prepared enter in: the wise virgins enter in with the Bridegroom to the Marriage, and then the Door will be closed; then there will be no more opportunity; but they will recognize it and will be aware that they will have to go through the great tribulation.

Now, let’s go to… We have already seen them come out under the ministry of Moses and Elijah. We are going to go a little bit more… It says, on page 136 of the book of Quotations, it says, verse 1208 (they ask the Reverend William Branham)⁶:***

“Will the Bride—will the Bride before Jesus comes, will She have all power of Holy Ghost to perform miracles, raise dead, and so on as in the latter rain—or is this the latter rain for the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews? Will all ministers have this, are we, or, are we just waiting for the coming? / Now, latter rain, a hundred and forty-four thousand Jews, no, that isn’t… that… they won’t… that’s—that’s when Elijah and Moses… There’s where the miracles take place.”

Where is it that the miracles that were seen by the Reverend William Branham under the Tent Vision, where will they take place? Under the ministries of Moses and Elijah.

“The things that the people’s been looking for, the Pentecostals, for miracles, that’s where that’ll take place in that, under them. See, that’s Elijah’s and Moses’. / We’re just to wait on the Coming of the Lord.”

The Coming of the Lord in the way that the Reverend William Branham said would be fulfilled, because he was the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ. In other words, the wise virgins will not have to see the miracles, but they will first receive the Coming of the Lord; and they will be called and gathered and prepared to be transformed in this end time.

But then, for the Hebrew people, great miracles and wonders will be happening. And how will this be?

“But when you stay in the Kingdom, stay in the Gospel, stay right, one of these days God will call you out and set you aside, adopt you as His son, before the people, and give you something that will shake the nations, with it.”

See, an adopted son, look at all he will do.

And now, just as God adopted Jesus, Jesus will adopt a man, a messenger, in this end time; and He will manifest all His power through that messenger.

And now let’s see what will be happening: on page 114 of the book of Quotations, verse… (The previous page I read was page number 9 of the book of Quotations, and it was verse 72⁷***, for those who have this book of Quotations of the Reverend William Branham). And now on page 114, verse 1002, speaking to us about this end time (we are only going to read part of it here), it says⁸***:

“‘The woman that lives in this worldly condition is dead while she is living.’ And if she rejects mercy, she can cross the separating line where there is no place for her no more. And then where is she at, with her painted eyes, her cut hair? And she’s across the line, with no way to come back, and there’s got to be a ministry preached to her. But remember, at that time, it’s all over. It’s done. It’s just a haunting. There will be a ministry that will show great wonders (And what is that ministry? The ministry of the Two Olive Trees, the ministry of Christ in a son that He will adopt), Joel said so, but there’ll be no time for redemption.”

Why? Because the Door will already be closed for that time; Christ will have already come out from the Throne of Intercession in Heaven and will make His claim, and He will adopt His messenger, and He will manifest Himself in all His fullness through His messenger, His Angel Messenger.

Now, Christ is still on the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, the Door is still open, but someday it will be closed. When? When the number of the elect of God in the Mystical Body of Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone is completed; when it is completed, then the Door will be closed, and there will be no more opportunity to enter in; in other words, the number of the wise virgins will be completed.

It continues:

“It’s all over. The Lamb has done took His Book, and His redeemed is over.”

In other words, the Work of Redemption that He does in Heaven, will already be finished; and all the elect of God will already have been washed with the Blood of Christ, and filled with the Spirit of Christ and placed in the Mystical Body of Christ. It says:

“As Jesus first preached and was rejected, and then went and haunted those that were in there, preached to them that were in prison, could not repent, no time for salvation…”

In other words, Christ went down to hell, when He died, and continued His ministry, preaching; but He was preaching there to the imprisoned souls, to those people who were disobedient in Noah’s time, as Saint Peter tells us in his first letter: First Peter, chapter 3, verse 18 and on, speaks of Christ going and preaching to the imprisoned souls, souls that were disobedient in Noah’s time. First Peter, chapter 3, verse 18 and on, it says:

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”

In other words, Christ went to hell, to the fifth dimension, He went there in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension, and descended to the fifth dimension in that body, and preached to them there; and there He also obtained the victory, and took away the keys of hell and death from the devil, and then He resurrected; He passed through Paradise, and then He resurrected with all the saints (the saints of the Old Testament).

Now, everything that happened in the First Coming of Christ is what will be happening here on Earth; but the fifth dimension (which is hell) will be opened, and the fifth dimension (hell) will be upon Earth. And souls that cannot be saved anymore, because they did not receive Christ as their Savior when they had to, then they will not have a chance anymore; therefore, they will be condemned.

But there will also be the people who received Christ as their Savior, although they did not receive the Spirit of Christ. Those people are the foolish virgins or fatuous virgins.

And now, let’s see. Those people are not lost, but they will have to go through the great tribulation and give their lives there; give their lives there, in that persecution that the antichrist, the man of sin, in whom the devil will be manifested in all his fullness, will persecute those foolish virgins and kill them. Revelation, chapter 12, speaks of this; and that is why in chapter 15 they are upon a sea of glass.

The sea of glass, in the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that king Solomon built, where was it? In the outer court. Therefore, the foolish virgins are placed in the Outer Court of the House of God. That is why God will extend His Temple, His Tabernacle, over them⁹***, and they will belong to the Outer Court of the House of God.

In other words, they will be earthly (they will not have a glorified body like the glorified body of Jesus Christ, which the elect of God will also have, the wise virgins), and they will not be kings and priests in the Millennial Kingdom: they will die during the great tribulation and will resurrect after the Millennial Kingdom to go to the Final Judgment, and be judged by Christ and His Church, be judged by Christ and the wise virgins, and then they will enter eternal life.

Those foolish virgins, who helped the wise virgins in the different ages or stages, you see, will enter eternal life. But any one of that group —in any of the ages— that rose against the elect of God, the wise virgins, their name would be removed.

And now, for our time, just as there were wise and foolish virgins, for our time there will also be wise and foolish virgins.

And now let’s see: in Revelation, chapter 12, verse 17, it says:

“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God (those are the Hebrews), and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (those are the gentiles, the Christians belonging to the foolish virgins, to that multitude that no one could count).”

And now see how the devil will make war against the 144,000 Hebrews (who keep God’s commandments) and against the foolish virgins (who have the testimony of Jesus Christ), who are believers in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

And now see how for this end time these things must be fulfilled.

Now let’s move on —a little more— to what he was saying here, in the reading of page 114 of the book of Quotations</em>; he goes on to say:

“…that same ministry will have to repeat again. What if that could be the Third Pull? to the Eternal lost.”

The Third Pull is the Seventh Seal being manifested.

Now, let’s see a little bit…

And during that Third Pull or manifestation of Christ, notice, it will be a manifestation of Christ in favor of the 144,000 Hebrews, also in favor of the foolish virgins, and also for the preaching of the world, of those who cannot be saved; because the time of redemption has ended, the time of salvation; because Christ will have already risen from the Throne of Intercession and then he who is unclean does not have Blood there on the Throne of God to be cleansed from his sins; Christ will have already finished making intercession in Heaven.

Now, on page 119 of the book of Quotations, it says¹⁰***:

“But when that time comes, when the squeeze comes down, then you’ll see, what you’ve seen temporarily (what we have seen temporarily manifested in the Reverend William Branham, that power of God doing wonders and miracles)… what you’ve seen (manifested) temporarily (how will you see it?), be manifested in the fullness of its power (that is, in all its fullness)… Now I must continue in evangelism (and one must continue evangelizing until that moment arrives).”

Now, let’s read a little further down here; it says:

“I don’t say the Lord tells me this (and now let’s see what he is going to say). This will be a thing that will start the Rapturing faith, for the going away. See? See? And it… I must lay quiet for just a little while. Now remember, and who is listening to this tape, you might see such a change in my ministry right away, dropping back, not going up; dropping back (The ministry of the fourth Elijah, would be how? Dropping back). We’re right at the age now, and it can’t be, can’t go any further.”

Like each day, when the sun reaches the West and begins to set, it comes to a point where the day ends.

For the Hebrews the day begins and ends in the evening. This is not so for the gentiles, because for the gentiles —according to the gentile calendar— the day ends at midnight and the next day begins right there, at midnight; the day ends at 12:00, one day, and at 12:00 (from then on) the next day begins. But for the Hebrews it is at sunset: one day ends at sunset and the next day begins; and it is still daylight, but that light you see already belongs to the next day.

Now, the sun goes down, let’s say, from 3:00 in the afternoon onwards, or 4:00 in the afternoon; in normal time (let’s say, spring or fall or winter), from 3:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon, the sun is already going down, goes down; until it reaches a point where it reached its correct fall, where the day ends.

For the Hebrews, notice, Friday afternoon, at sunset… In some countries and in some seasons it is even before 6:00 in the afternoon (depending on the season), other times it is at 6:00 in the afternoon, and if it is in summer it may be a little later. It is when it reaches a certain point, at certain degrees; when the sun goes down to certain degrees (certain degrees in terms of its descent that is giving), when it reaches a certain point and Friday ends and Saturday begins; but Saturday begins and there is still light.

It’s just that in the evening time, when a day ends, there is still light. At evening time there is light, but that light already belongs to a new day: it belongs to Saturday, the Sabbath has already begun for the Hebrews; and that means that they have to be doing according to the Sabbath day. Therefore, all the things they have to do, they do them before sunset; because when sunset takes place, the Sabbath begins; and they have to keep the Sabbath until the next day at sunset. That is from evening to evening.

Now, you see why he says:

“We’re right at the age now, and it can’t be, can’t go any further. We have to wait just a minute until this happens over here…”

See, you have to wait in one place until this happens in another place. See:

“We have to wait just a minute until this happens over here, to catch up, then the time comes. / It’s tightening. And then when that time comes, and the press comes to a place to where you’re pressed out, then watch what I’m fixing to tell you in a few minutes. Watch the Third Pull then, see, and it’ll be absolutely to the total lost, but it—it will be for the Bride and the Church (that is, the foolish virgins).”

When the Reverend William Branham speaks of the Church and the Bride, that means… When one speaks of the Church in general terms, there are the foolish virgins; and when he speaks of the Bride, he means the wise virgins.

When he speaks of the foolish virgins, he is speaking of Christianity, of the Christians who have received Christ as their Savior, but have not received the Spirit of Christ and therefore have not been born again. And when he speaks of the elect, the Bride, when he speaks of the Bride, he is speaking of the Christians who have received Christ as their Savior, have washed their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Holy Spirit, and thus they have been born again; so that you may have a clear picture of what the Reverend William Branham is talking about.

Now notice:

“…the Third Pull then, see, and it’ll be absolutely to the total lost, but it—it will be for the Bride (for the elect) and the Church (for all of Christianity).”

In other words, before we leave here from Earth we will see that full manifestation of the power of Jesus Christ, in this end time; because that Third Pull, which pertains to the Seventh Seal, the Coming of the Lord, will be a manifestation for the whole world; because the great miracles will be manifested in the Last Day through the ministries of the Two Olive Trees.

And the foolish virgins come out under whose ministry? From the Two Olive Trees, from Moses and Elijah; and they are confirmed there, and are well established in the Christian faith to give their lives for Christ during the great tribulation.

And the wise virgins, notice, who are the elect of God, for that time we will obtain the transformation of our bodies, to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.

It will be a short time… a short time; but by that time all of God’s elect will be gathered together. Because when the number of God’s elect is completed through the final call of Christ through His Angel Messenger, then Christ will finish His Work of Intercession in Heaven: He will come out from Heaven, from the Throne of God, from the Throne of the Father, and will take the Book, the Title Deed, the Book of the Seven Seals, which is at the right hand of God, He will open it in Heaven; and then He will come to Earth and will adopt His Angel Messenger, and will use him in all His fullness.

And that manifestation of Christ through His Angel Messenger in the Last Day will be the Third Pull. The Third Pull for the world, for the foolish virgins, for Christianity in general (including foolish virgins and including wise virgins), for all of Christianity; for the Bride of Jesus Christ (God’s elect) and for the rest of Christianity that will go through the great tribulation.

Now, we have seen how simple all this mystery is. That is why the Reverend William Branham, when he spoke of the Seventh Seal, said that everything would be so simple that if we do not watch, it will go over our heads and we will not even see it¹¹***.

Now, look at a little more (to finish already); on pages 361 and 363 of the book of The Seals, the Reverend William Branham says¹²***:

“²⁸⁷ Now, we know, the ‘fire.’ In the 19th chapter, of the Coming of Christ, ‘proceeded His sword from His mouth,’ which was the Word. Is that right? The Word! Oh, if you’ll get this material now, for that Seal tomorrow night! See, the Word is the thing that God slays His enemy by. See?

²⁸⁸ Now look here. When these prophets are prophesying there, they… If any man mistreats them, harms them: ‘fire proceeds from their mouth,’ Holy Ghost Fire, the Word. The Word is God. Word is Fire. Word is the Spirit. See? ‘Proceeds from their mouth.’

²⁸⁹ Look at Moses. / in Egypt…”

And he continues to talk about how God worked through Moses.

And now, let’s see here; on page 363, it says¹³***:

“³⁰⁴ Now notice over in Revelation 19, we see the same thing, ‘And a great sword proceed from His mouth,’ Word. See? Christ’s Coming. ‘And He slayed His enemies with It.’ Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Now He’s on His road. Watch Him now. All right.

(And how he is going to speak to us of the Two Olive Trees):

‘These have power to shut the heavens, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy:…’

³⁰⁵ Boy, that’s interrupting nature!”

Now look, what we see in Revelation 19, the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 with a sword coming out of His mouth, is the same as the Two Olive Trees with fire coming out of his mouth: it is the Word coming out of his mouth.

Now, this is a very great mystery of the Kingdom of God; and with the manifestation of that mystery is that Christ will work in this end time and will fulfill all that He has promised. Which is why we should not talk much, but let Christ fulfill what He has in His Program, so that His Program is not interrupted.

We know that Christ will be manifested in this end time in His Angel Messenger in Holy Spirit: “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”

Of which things? These things that must happen soon, in this end time in which we are living.

With what we have already heard, you have a clear picture of this mystery of the multitude that John saw and did not know.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE MULTITUDE THAT JOHN DID NOT KNOW.”

And that multitude that John did not know, in this end time will come out through the ministry of Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger.

That ministry is not only for the elect of God, but for all of Christianity and the whole world, because it is a dispensational ministry, for the whole dispensation, the seventh dispensation; and it covers all human beings who live at this time and all those who will live during the Millennial Kingdom.

That is why Christ in Holy Spirit will be working through His Angel Messenger in this end time; and He will be blessing His Church, His elect; and the Angel of Jesus Christ is sent by Christ Himself for all the churches:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”

In other words, all of Christianity, has a very great blessing for this end time, and it is that Jesus Christ sends His Angel Messenger to testify to them of all these things that must happen soon.

And that messenger, the Angel of Jesus Christ, is a dispensational prophet, the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom.

That Angel Messenger is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only the Sent One of Jesus Christ through whom Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested in this end time, and will bless us, and will make known to us all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.

Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, and Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6:

“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to (manifest) shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”

It is through that Angel that every Christian can obtain the knowledge of all things that must happen soon, in this end time, and can understand the things that have already happened, in this end time; because through the Message of the Angel of Jesus Christ all these mysteries will be opened, and all these prophecies relevant to this end time will be opened; and thus we will be blessed by Jesus Christ through His manifestation through His Angel Messenger.

This multitude that no one could count is going to come out, but first God’s elect are called and gathered. And now God’s elect are being called and gathered; then it will be the turn of the multitude that no one could count. And when the time comes for that multitude, the Angel of Jesus Christ will be adopted, the Angel of Jesus Christ will be transformed. And whom else? All of you too!

So notice the great blessing that Christ has for each of you and for me too, and also for that multitude that no one could count; and for the Hebrew people, who will be called at the Last Day 144,000 chosen from the Hebrew people, and the Message will reach the Hebrew people.

Now, we can see THE MYSTERY OF THE MULTITUDE THAT JOHN SAW AND DID NOT KNOW.

When we are transformed, we are going to see that multitude. When we are in that stage already adopted, when the Angel of Jesus Christ is adopted, we will see that multitude that nobody could count coming to Christ, receiving the Message.

And now, notice, it will be impacted: that multitude that nobody could count will be impacted by the ministry of Christ through His Angel Messenger in the adoption of the Angel of Jesus Christ.

And the whole world will be impacted, and the Hebrew people will say: “This is the one we are waiting for!” They will see Christ manifested in His Angel Messenger, and they will receive Christ as their Savior; which has not been achieved during the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me as well; and may we all soon be changed, according to Christ’s promise; may the number of God’s elect be soon completed, and may we all be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

Since this part of the multitude that no one could count —which John saw and did not know— will be for later on; the part that pertains to us is to receive the Word of God in this time to be transformed and to be like Christ; and we want to be like Christ.

We do not need miracles to believe. What we need is to hear the Voice of Christ, that Great Voice of Trumpet, speaking directly to our soul. And that is what Christ is doing in this end time: speaking His Word, His Final Message directly to our soul.

“To be like Christ.” That is what we desire, and we will get it by hearing His Voice.

That is Christ’s desire, and it is also the desire of whom else? All of us.

And when that happens, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ will have many brothers and sisters just like Him. Many corns of wheat equal to the Corn of Wheat that was sown in the earth: equal to Jesus Christ our Savior.

And we walk with Christ and follow Christ and speak of Christ with faith in Christ. With faith in Christ we will obtain the victory: We will be transformed, according to His promise!

With the faith placed in Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, holding on to Him, as Jacob held on, until he received the blessing and his name was changed.

And we will hold on tight, with faith in Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, until we receive our change too. We will receive the change of our body!: We will be changed and thus we will obtain the eternal body.

Do not let go of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, until you receive your change: the change of body, the transformation! And then we will all be equal to Jesus Christ our Savior.

May God continue to bless you all, may God keep you; and onward serving Christ, holding on to Christ, all the days of your life. And thus we will obtain our transformation, and be like Christ, which is the desire of our soul: to be like Christ.

May God keep you and bless you all.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE MULTITUDE THAT JOHN DID NOT KNOW.”