Good afternoon, fellow ministers in the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ who are present here; and also to you, missionary and friend Miguel Bermúdez Marín, and all the ministers who are gathered with him there in Acapulco, where Minister Eloy Liberato is; may God bless you, and I send you my heartfelt greetings.
And I also ask all the ministers here: How many of you send your greetings to Miguel and to all the ministers there? Miguel, and all the ministers gathered there, that was a greeting in the form of applause, an expression of the greeting that all the ministers here are sending to you all, and to you, Miguel.
For this occasion, let’s search in the book of Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on; it says:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven (He lifted up His hand to Heaven),
And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
For this occasion, our subject will be: “THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY OF THE LAST DAY AND ITS STAGES.”
May God bless us with His Word and allow us to understand It.
We are going to learn more about this Angel, who cries as when a lion roars and seven thunders utter their voices. This Angel is none other than Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel who delivered the Hebrew people out of bondage in Egypt. This Angel is mentioned by Reverend William Branham in the book of The Seals, page 57 in Spanish, of whom he says [“The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals,” pp. 5-6]:
“[29] …I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven…”
He says that this is at the end, at the end of time.
“[29] …I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow…upon his head,…
30 If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished.”
In other words, He will have a Message for the Jews. Let’s see here:
“[30] See? All right.
…and his face…as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
31 You remember that Angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel. See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church.”
And now, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Messenger to Israel, who comes for… directly to the Jews; since the Church is about to be raptured, He comes for His Church. In other words, before Israel has the Angel of the Covenant giving them His Message, He will be coming to His Church, to His Bride-Church, because His Church has reached the time when She has to be raptured, caught away with Christ to Heaven; for which She needs to be transformed, those who are alive, and the dead in Christ need to resurrect in eternal bodies.
And for that they need to receive the faith for transformation and rapture; the revelation, the faith, the revelation brought by the Seventh Thunders of Revelation 10, which is the Voice of Christ, the Mighty Angel, the Messenger to Israel, and who comes directly to Israel, but He comes to His Church (first to His Church and then to Israel).
He comes speaking, He comes with a Message; and those are the Seven Thunders: the Voice of Christ speaking consecutively to His Church and revealing to Her the mystery contained in the Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of the Lord.
To be king in the Millennial Kingdom, one must belong to the dynasty of David through Jesus Christ, the Son of David; and one can only achieve that through the new birth.
And now, this Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven is Christ. Let’s see here: on page 59 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, he says [“The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals,” p. 7]:
“41 And when the Seals are broke, and the mystery is revealed, down comes the Angel, the Messenger, Christ, setting His foot upon the land and upon the sea, with a rainbow over His head. Now, remember, this seventh angel is on earth at the time of this Coming.
42 Just as John was giving his message, the same time that the Messiah come in the days. John knew he would see Him, because he was going to introduce Him.”
Further down, he says [“The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals,” p. 8]:
“47 And here He returns back, in the 10th chapter, after the coming time that all the mysteries is to be finished and the Seals are to be broke, and proclaiming that it’s, ‘Time is no more.’”
And now, let’s turn to page 120 and 121 of the book of The Seals, he says [“The First Seal,” p. 26]:
“197 Now, we’ve saw the same thing (he is quoting Revelation 10), which was Christ. And we know Christ is always the Messenger to the Church.”
And now, the Messenger to Israel, which is the Angel of the Covenant, which is Christ, who delivered the Hebrew people out of bondage in Egypt, is also the Messenger to the Church; that is Christ in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church, the same One who was in the midst of the Hebrew people in Holy Spirit.
In other words, the same One who was in His heavenly body in the midst of the Hebrew people, has been in His Church. He said: “I will be with you always, even unto the end of the world.”[1] That is the Angel of the Covenant.
“[197] He is called the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the covenant, and so forth.”
On page 121, he says, of this same book of The Seals [“The First Seal,” p. 27]:
“[200] This Angel come down from Heaven. It wasn’t Him; He come from Heaven (meaning, this isn’t the seventh angel of the seventh age). But He is speaking here of the voice of the seventh angel, which is a…Angel means a ‘messenger,’ anybody knows that, and the messenger (of) to the church age.”
And now, this Angel comes with the little Book open in His hand, and that is the Angel who fulfills the promise of Revelation 10. It is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Bright and Morning Star; He is the Angel who fulfills the Coming of the Lord, His First Coming, by becoming incarnate in the veil of flesh named Jesus.
The promise of Malachi, chapter 3, says: “Behold, I will send My messenger before Me, he shall prepare the way…” Let’s read it. Malachi, chapter 3:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me…”
The One who sends the messenger is God through His Angel, the Angel of the Covenant; in other words, through Christ, who is in His heavenly body [that He has],[2] to prepare the way for Him.
“… and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple (in other words, the God of Israel, the Lord of Israel, the King of Israel shall come to His Temple), even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in.”
In plain words: God (who is the eternal Soul) comes, He comes in His Angel, He comes in His heavenly body (which is Christ in His heavenly body); and He comes to the Hebrew people, to whom John the Baptist, who is the messenger He sent to prepare the way for Him, comes announcing that after him comes One greater than him, who is before him.
And now when he sees Him, he says: “Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. This is the One of whom I said that after me would come One greater than me. This is Him,” and he was pointing to Jesus.[3]
And now, in Jesus Christ, in the midst of the Hebrew people, two thousand years ago, we have the Lord God Almighty with His Angel (that is, with His heavenly body) inside a veil of flesh called Jesus. There we have the Divine trinity, there we have God manifested in all His fullness; that is the full manifestation of God: the manifestation of the Divinity in human flesh.
There we have God the Father as the eternal living Soul; and there we have the Holy Spirit, which is the Angel of the Covenant, who is Christ in His heavenly body. He is the Son of God: He came forth from God. He is the Word that was with God and was God; it was God inside that heavenly body.
That is why when He appeared in the Old Testament, those who saw Him said: “I have seen God face to face.”
And then… God had also said to Moses, when he wanted to see the glory of God, God said to him: “There shall no man see Me, and live.” And then He said to him: “I will place you upon the rock, I will put My hand over you and pass before you; and when I have passed, you shall see My back parts”;[4] in other words, He would see the back of God in His heavenly body; when God had passed in front of him, then he would see Him.
God was on Mount Sinai in His heavenly body; that is why the Angel of the Covenant, which is Christ, was also called “God” by those who saw Him; and they said: “I have seen God face to face;” as Jacob said, in [Genesis] chapter 32, when he held on to the Angel and didn’t let Him go until he received the Angel’s blessing.
God through His Angel is the One who blesses His people and individuals.
And the Angel of the Covenant is Christ in His heavenly body, and He is the image of the living God. The heavenly body is the image of God. And the physical likeness of God is the physical body of Jesus Christ, which is already glorified and is in Heaven, sitting at the right hand of God.
And now, just as all power was given to Christ in His heavenly body, later it was given to Christ in His physical glorified body; and that is why He said, after resurrecting and being glorified: “All power is given unto Me in Heaven and on Earth.”[5]
And what about God? Did He lose His power? No, because God was, is, and will be eternally in Christ; and it’s through Christ that He worked, is working, and will work eternally.
Now we can see who Jesus Christ our Savior is: the veil of flesh is God’s physical body; the heavenly body is God’s theophanic body, or God’s heavenly body, called the Angel of the Covenant.
That is why God is Soul, Spirit, and body; but the greatest is God the Father, of whom Christ said: “The Father is greater than I.”[6]
Just like in you, the greatest part is your soul; that is what you are. And therefore, you can say: “My soul and I are one,” because the physical body is the earthly house where you, as a living soul, are dwelling, just as God was dwelling in that body of flesh called Jesus.
In Jesus Christ was the fullness of the Godhead, the fullness of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; just like the human trinity is in you and me, which is: Father (soul), son, and spirit; physical body, spiritual or heavenly body, and soul (which is what we are).
And now, we can see why we are in the image and likeness of God: because God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
As Father: eternal living Soul. As Son and as Holy Spirit: heavenly body and physical body, which is already glorified.
There we have the image and likeness. Heavenly body: the image; physical body: the physical likeness. That is how it is with the human being as well.
And now, let’s take another glance to look at this Angel. He is here in these words that Reverend William Branham spoke in the message: “Beginning And Ending Of The Gentile Dispensation,” he says on page 14, paragraph 62 and 63[7]:
“[140] But thou,…Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: for many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.
Then I Daniel beheld and looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and one on the other…side of the bank of the river.
And the one said to the man clothed in linen (Holy Spirit), which was upon the waters…”
In other words, that Man who was upon the waters was the Holy Spirit: Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, in His heavenly body.
“[140] And the one said to the man clothed in linen (Holy Spirit), which was upon the waters (peoples and multitudes)…”
Those waters represent, typify, peoples, multitudes.
“141 Holy Ghost upon the people!”
Remember that ‘waters’ represent peoples, nations, and tongues.
And now, we can see this Character of Revelation, chapter 10, a bit more clearly. Referring to Revelation, chapter 10, he quotes what the Angel Gabriel said to Daniel, and he says [The Seventy Weeks Of Daniel][8]:
“63 Like, each Seal broken in the Word of God, reveals to the man of the age, what age we’re living in, the spirit of the age, the church of the age. Revelations 10, at the end, we find when the last Seal was broke, we find the Angel standing with one foot on the land, and one on the sea, with His hands up to Heaven, and a rainbow over His head, swearing by Him that lives forever and ever, that time has run out, when the last Seal. (…)
‘Time has run out,’ redemption is over, He is now the Lion and the Judge. He is your Saviour this morning, but one day He will be your Judge.”
And now, that is the Character of Revelation, chapter 10, which in the fulfillment of that passage will be as Judge and as King, King of kings and Lord of lords.
And now, that Angel is the One who takes, in [Revelation] chapter 5, the little Book sealed with seven Seals, because It belongs to Him (He is the Angel of the Covenant, Christ), and He opens It in Heaven when He finishes His Work of Intercession; and then He brings It to Earth and gives It to a man for him to eat It, and then He tells him what will happen: “It will be sweet in your mouth, but It will be bitter in your belly.” That Book is the Word.
And now, all the elect are written there in the Word, the Book of Life; just as the wheat grains of a wheat plant are recorded in the corn of wheat that will be sown as a seed.
Therefore, in Christ, the Word, are all the sons and daughters of God. And He is the Word; He is the Bright and Morning Star, He says so Himself in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16.
And in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 28, He says, speaking of the Overcomer, to whom He will give power over the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, starting from verse 26 to 28, He says: “Even as I overcame and have receiv-… Even as I received of My Father.”
In other words, the same authority that He received of the Father to sit on the Throne of God and reign over all Creation, and say: “All power is given unto Me on Earth… in Heaven and on Earth,” now He says to the Overcomer: “I will give him power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, even as I received of My Father.” Just as He received of the Father, likewise He will grant it to the Overcomer.
“And I will give him the Morning Star”: “I will give him the Holy Spirit,” the Seal of the living God; as Revelation, chapter 7, verse 2, says, speaking of the Angel who comes… who ascends from the East and comes with the Seal of the living God: He comes with the Holy Spirit, He comes with the Angel of the Covenant manifested in Him.
And since Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, is the Firstborn and also the only Begotten, He is the heir to all Creation. And since the Birthright Blessing has a double inheritance, He has an inheritance, or the inheritance of the Heavens and of the Earth: of the spiritual or invisible world, and the Kingdom of that invisible world, and Throne of that invisible world, which is the Throne of God, and also the Kingdom and Throne of the visible world.
And now, He has promised to manifest Himself at the end time. He says: “I will give him the Morning Star.” In other words, the Overcomer will receive the Morning Star, which is Christ, the Holy Spirit, coming and manifesting Himself at the Last Day; and therefore, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, in that manifestation, will be the Messenger to Israel and the Messenger to the Church.
And since the Birthright Blessing contains a double blessing, He will therefore manifest a double ministry: the ministry of Elijah and the ministry of Moses; Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, will come with that manifestation at the Last Day.
In the messenger of the seventh age He came with the manifestation of the ministry of Elijah; but then Reverend William Branham said: “And now when I see Elijah coming again, for the fifth time, he comes with Moses.”[9]
And now, notice what he says about the ministry and spirit of Elijah. Page 449 of the book of The Seals in Spanish [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 12]:
“89 Now, there is only one person could fulfill that, only one Spirit that’s ever been on the earth, that I know of. Would either be…It would have to be Elijah, in his time. And it was predicted that it would be, which is nothing but the Spirit of Christ.”
And now, here, the spirit of Elijah is the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit. “Like He was in his time, and was predicted.”
“90 When Christ come, He was the fulness. He was the Prophet. He was the—the God of the prophets.”
And now, we are already learning something: the spirit of Elijah operating in Reverend William Branham for the fourth time —as He operated in Elijah the Tishbite, and operated in Elisha, and operated in John the Baptist— it was the Holy Spirit operating that ministry that we saw in different prophets.
We saw it in Reverend William Branham; and that was the Holy Spirit, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant in His heavenly body, manifesting Himself in Reverend William Branham with the ministry of Elijah.
Ministries belong to the Holy Spirit, they belong to the Mighty Angel, they belong to Christ. Christ gives them because it is God in Christ, God in the Mighty Angel manifesting Himself in different messengers, using those veils of flesh to speak to the people and to fulfill what He has promised for each age in the midst of His people: in the Old Testament in the midst of Israel, and in the New Testament in the midst of the heavenly Israel, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Old Testament Church is Israel. The New Testament Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, those born of Heaven; delivered from the kingdom of darkness, just as God delivered Israel from the kingdom of Egypt.
And now, we have the promise in the Old Testament, that the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, would come in the midst of His people Israel; and when He came, He came in human flesh in the veil of flesh called Jesus.
At the end time we have the promise that He will come again as Lion, as King and as Judge. It will be the Angel of the Covenant, the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven with the little Book open in His hand, and He gives It to a man to eat It and prophesy before many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.
And therefore, through that man, God through Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, will have the prophetic ministry of the Last Day, the prophetic ministry of the seventh millennium, and therefore, the ministry for a new dispensation: the Dispensation of the Kingdom, where there are different stages.
That is why the Seventh Seal has different stages. Under the Seventh Seal, the Third Pull will be manifested in the midst of His Church: It will be for His Bride-Church, It will be for the foolish virgins (that is, the rest of Christianity), It will also be for the world (that is, It will impact all the earthly systems: the political, academic, religious, social, cultural systems; all systems and their people will be impacted);[10] and It will also impact the Hebrew people, from which He will call and gather 144,000 Jews, 12,000 of each tribe – in other words, He will call and gather 144,000 Hebrews, 12,000 of each tribe.
And now, let’s see what Reverend William Branham says on page 128 of the book of Quotations, paragraph 1143[11]:
1143 – “[155] Under the Seventh Trumpet, is to Israel the same as the Seventh Seal was to the Church.”
What is for Israel is the same as it was for the Church. Why? Because the Messenger to Israel comes to the Church as well. And now, let’s see a little more:
1143 – “[155] We find, under the Seventh Seal, that when these souls that was under the altar there, that received robes…They were given robes, not that they earned them, because they were in the dispensation when God was still dealing with grace (mercy) with the Gentiles (that is, with grace with the Gentiles), not Jews (not with Jews; with Jews He was not dealing with grace, with mercy; they were under judgment). (…)
[158] How perfect then the Seventh Trumpet and the Seventh Seal…”
And now, let’s turn to page 129, paragraph 1150[12]:
1150 – “[270] Now, as soon as this Church… (…) and that mystery of the Seventh Seal, or the Seventh Seal, the mystery of going (that is, the mystery of the Seventh Seal will be revealed to the Church, and She will know it). And the Jews is called by the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet, which is two prophets (Moses and Elijah, or rather), Elijah and Moses…”
The mystery of the Seventh Trumpet are Elijah and Moses, because they are the Angels who, with a Great Sound of a Trumpet, call and gather the elect,[13] the Hebrew elect of the twelve tribes of Israel, and they are 12,000 of each tribe, which (in total) are 144,000.
That is why they have tried to turn the Hebrew people to Christ as a nation, and they have not been able to. Only the ministry of the Holy Spirit operating the ministry of Elijah and Moses, will be received by the Hebrews to obtain the restoration of the Kingdom.
And that will be the Mighty Angel that comes down from Heaven, the Angel of the Covenant, Christ, manifesting Himself and operating the ministries of Moses and Elijah. He comes with His Angels, as He was seen on Mount Transfiguration: He comes with Moses and Elijah.[14]
The mystery of the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Mighty Angel, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant; and the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet is the ministry of Moses and Elijah operated by the Holy Spirit.
Wherever the Holy Spirit is at the Last Day, He will be operating the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time and the ministry of Moses for the second time; because the spirit of Elijah is none other than the Holy Spirit, Christ.
And now let’s turn to page 130, paragraph 1164, of the book of Quotations; it says[15]:
1164 – “[158] Remember, that, ‘They which are alive and remain shall not hinder those which are sleeping, for the Trump of God, that last Trumpet…’ The sixth one has just sounded. And that last Trumpet, like the last Seal, will be the Coming of the Lord. ‘It shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.’”
And now, the Seventh Trumpet, like the Seventh Seal, is the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Mighty Angel, the Coming of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant; and He comes operating the ministries of Elijah and Moses. And He sends His Angels with a Great Voice of Trumpet to call and gather all the elect of Israel (of the Hebrew people), but He comes for His Church. Therefore, He will be associated with Christianity and also associated with the Hebrew people.
We will see Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Word, moving in the midst of Christianity, moving in the midst of mankind, and moving in the midst of the Jews (or the Hebrews). It will be Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, at the Last Day, carrying out that work, which is the Divine Program relevant to the end time.
Many people will be seeing him, will not understand, and will say: “How is it possible that he is succeeding in the midst of Christianity, the human systems, the political world, the academic world, the religious world, among the Gentiles and also among the Jews or Hebrews?”
It’s because it is the Angel of the Covenant, Christ, the Holy Spirit, operating the ministries of Moses and Elijah. That is the only Spirit that operates ministries: the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, Christ, the Word, the Bright and Morning Star.
And the seventh millennium: in its first years (let’s say, in the first century), a new millennial day will be dawning; and therefore, the Morning Star will be seen: the Holy Spirit will be seeing moving and rising on a new millennial day and in a new age, an eternal age, which is the Age of the Cornerstone; Christ will be there in Holy Spirit as the Angel of the Covenant, carrying out His Work relevant to the Last Day. And therefore, that is the prophetic ministry of the Last Day; and it has its different stages.
He will give the Title Deed to a man to eat, and through that man He will manifest Himself, He will speak; that is why it is said to that man (represented in John the apostle; who represents the messenger of the Last Day and also represents the Church, in which that messenger will be), he is told: “Eat the Book; It shall be sweet in your mouth, but bitter in your belly.” In other words, that speaks of the pleasantness of the Word he is going to receive, but it also tells him about the difficult situations that will come upon him because of that Word.
And he is told: “You must…” He must. Why must he? Because the things that will come to pass must be spoken: “You must prophesy (in other words, ‘say’) what will come to pass.”
Everything God will do, He will make it known through that man who will eat the Book; and that will be the prophetic ministry of the Last Day; just as Moses had the prophetic ministry for the deliverance of the Hebrew people out of bondage in Egypt.
For the deliverance of the Jews (or the Hebrews) at the Last Day, that ministry will be repeated; and for the deliverance of the elect of the Church of Jesus Christ, that ministry of Christ, of the Mighty Angel, of the Holy Spirit, will also be operating in the midst of the Church, to give them the faith, the revelation, to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Reverend William Branham says that the Seventh Seal has different stages; he says that It is like a rocket that explodes, it goes up and explodes; and then it goes up higher and explodes again (there we have two stages); and after that second explosion, five stars blow out from it; and from those five stars, one of them explodes and it blows out five more stars.
In other words, here we have three groups of five stars: when the first five stars blow out, one of them explodes and five more stars blow out from there; and then, from those five stars that came forth, five more stars blow out; and then everything disappears, gradually. “That’s what the Seventh Seal is like,” Reverend William Branham says.[16]
[Three] groups of five stars, but the rocket exploded twice: first it was lower and then higher up; and of the five stars it brought forth in its second explosion, one of them exploded and brought forth five more stars; and one of those five stars that appeared explodes, and five more stars emerge; fifteen stars in total.
“That’s what the Seventh Seal is like.” In other words, there we have the stages: the Seventh Seal going up like a rocket, making two explosions, and then three groups of five stars. All of that speaks to us of different stages that Christ, the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, will be fulfilling.
He is the Seventh Seal: Christ, the Mighty Angel. And the promise of the Coming of Christ, the Mighty Angel, at the Last Day, to manifest Himself and fulfill all those stages of His Program, is a great mystery.
And now, when seven angels appeared to Reverend William Branham… (Seven angels, plus Reverend William Branham: that makes eight). And now, he saw that one of those angels was very different from the rest; he says: “The other angels were alike”; those are the seven angels of the seven ages, the seven messengers of the seven ages of the Church. But there is another messenger… (Counting Reverend William Branham as one of the seven angels of the seven ages). But one of those who had come with the group was different. Counting Reverend William Branham, there were eight.
And now, the Angel who was different from the rest is the most mysterious one. Why? He says: “The other angels were alike, but one of them was the most notable.” He was different from the other angels, He was different from the six that accompanied Him when those seven angels came; and therefore, He was also different from the seventh angel of the seventh age of the Church, who was taken to have that meeting above, in space.
He says on page 469 [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 33]:
“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?
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, for one time in life!”
And now, that Angel has the mystery of the Seventh Seal, He is the Angel who has the Seventh Seal, and therefore He is the Angel who can reveal the Seventh Seal.
He says that the Seventh Seal will be revealed at a certain time, he says that the Seventh Seal will be revealed in the Coming of the Lord (that is on page 481 to 484). And he says: “That’s the mystery of the Seventh Seal.”
(Here, the – I don’t have those pages here at the moment, but if anyone has the book of The Seals…), 482 and 483 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, he says… when he speaks of the parable of the fig tree, he says [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 48]:
“[398] See, Israel gathering in its own homeland. But, you notice, He omitted the revelation of this Seventh Seal.
399 And here, when the Seventh Seal, when He opened It, He also omitted It again, see. So we see that It is a complete mystery, therefore the hour is not yet for the mystery to be known. Therefore, we’re this far, and the rest of It will be known right around about the time that Jesus appears on earth again, for His Bride, or whatever takes place at that time.”
In other words, the rest of the mystery of the Seventh Seal that Reverend William Branham could not make known, will be given by that Angel who has the Seventh Seal when He is manifested on Earth in the midst of His Church. He will make known that mystery in the Coming of that Mighty Angel, in the Coming of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant manifesting Himself at the Last Day in the midst of His Church, and then in the midst of the Hebrew people.
Remember, that Angel flies from West to East; because the Gospel will return to the Jews. That is the Messenger to Israel, that is the Angel who was different from the rest.
The rest of the angels were messengers to the Church, but the Mighty Angel is a Messenger to the Church and He is a Messenger to Israel. He tells us that this is the mystery of that Angel. Everything was shown, and must be fulfilled that way.
On page 484, it says [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 49]:
“[407] … would be on the left side. So, that would be the last angel’s Message, very notable. Remember how I said He had His, got His head back; and His great, sharp wings; and how He flew right to me. Now, that is this Seventh Seal.”
That is that Seventh Seal! That Angel. He is the One who has the Seventh Seal, He is the One who has the Angel of the Covenant; He is the One who comes to Israel from the West to the East, from among the Gentiles to the Jews. And I think that’s as far as we can go at the moment.
We will be seeing the stages in the midst of the Church, of Christianity, and the stages in the midst of the Jews or Hebrews.
Every time a stage opens, something will be happening; and because the Seventh Seal rises, well, the Work will increase every day, it will be progressive. There will be no explanation, except one: it’s the Angel of the Covenant, Christ in Holy Spirit working at the Last Day.
Just as He worked in every age in the midst of Christianity through every angel-messenger, likewise He will also work through the one who eats the little Book, the Title Deed.
We will see Him —Christ, the Angel of the Covenant— speaking through the one who eats the little Book and prophesying the things which must shortly come to pass; and we will be seeing the stages that He will be going through. And that will be THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY OF THE LAST DAY AND ITS STAGES.
There will be different explosions of stars, and therefore, there will be different stages. For each work there will be a stage, there will be an explosion. And then we will be able to say: “Such and such a thing that is beginning: explodes, and it becomes something big.” That’s what the Seventh Seal is like. And that will be THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY OF THE LAST DAY AND ITS STAGES.
And it will be a secret when It starts; Reverend William Branham says that… He was forerunning all these things, and therefore, we make known, we quote, what he said. Page 472 says [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 36]:
“304 That shows It’s from God, for, see, It fits exactly in the promises of God, from the end of the—the Message. You notice. Notice now, for the end-of-time Message, this Seal.”
In other words, the end-of-time Message is the Seventh Seal, the Message will revolve around the Seventh Seal; and the Seventh Seal will bring the Message.
“[304] Notice now, for the end-of-time Message, this Seal. After all, He—He has revealed all the six Seals, but He don’t say nothing about the Seventh. And the end-time Seal, when It starts, will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible.”
In other words, Its beginning will be secret, just as the Coming of Christ, the Mighty Angel, in human flesh, two thousand years ago, was secret; It was a secret until He was 29 and a half years old, when His ministry began.
But the virgin Mary knew that secret, Joseph (Mary’s husband) knew it, Simeon and Anna knew it,[17] Zacharias (the priest) and his wife Elisabeth also knew it;[18] the shepherds who were there: who went for the birth of Jesus;[19] and also the wise men who then went to the house there in Bethlehem where He lived, and He was already about two years old.[20] See? There were few people who saw, who knew, the beginning of the Coming of the Mighty Angel, of the Holy Spirit, of the Angel of the Covenant in a veil of flesh.
And it wasn’t said that It would be a mystery, it wasn’t said that It would be a secret, instead, details were given: a virgin would conceive and give birth, He would be born in Bethlehem of Judea, He would be of the… a Hebrew of the tribe of Judah, and so forth.[21] There was a lot of information for the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant two thousand years ago; and even when He was already manifested it was a secret, a mystery, which was known when God revealed Himself to people.
Peter said, when Jesus asked: “Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” Peter said something different from the rest. The others said: “Some say that You are Elijah, or Jeremiah, or one of the prophets; others say that You are John the Baptist, who has resurrected.” That was their answer when Christ asked: “Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
But when He asks: “And whom do you say the Son of Man is?” Peter said: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” In other words: “You are the Angel of the Covenant, the Christ, the Angel of the Covenant;” that Angel anointed with the presence of God in the heavenly body, and then the physical body anointed with the presence of God and with the heavenly body of God.
And now, Christ says to him: “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but My Father which is in Heaven.” It was a Divine revelation. (That is in chapter 16 of Saint Matthew.) “And I also say to you that you are Peter; and upon this rock, upon this stone, I will build My Church,” in other words, the revelation of Christ, which comes from Heaven. And he is told: “And I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.”[22]
He was also told before: “And the gates of hell shall not prevail against It”: they won’t prevail against the Church, and won’t prevail against the revelation of Christ.
And now, He says to Peter: “And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.”
[Matthew 16:19] “… and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.”
Jesus the Christ, Jesus the One anointed with the Holy Spirit, with the Angel of the Covenant, with the heavenly body of God. It was a revelation for Peter and the disciples of Jesus Christ; it was the revelation of the First Coming of Christ, of the Angel of the Covenant in human flesh.
The revelation of the Seventh Seal will be for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which will be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; that is how She will receive the rapturing and transforming faith; which will be the faith, the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Holy Spirit, in the one who will be eating the Book; and that will be the Holy Spirit walking in the midst of His people in human flesh.
That is here, it is said by Reverend William Branham. And if he is the forerunner, then he has to say all these things, and it has to be fulfilled as it was said by him. Page 134 of the book of The Seals [“The First Seal,” p. 40]:
“302 Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, we’ll crown Him King of kings [and Lord of lords].”
And here, on page 146, it tells us that He comes with a Sword that goes out of His mouth, that is, the Word that goes out of His mouth; because the Word is like a two-edged sword.[23] And it says [“The First Seal,” p. 53]:
“402 And at the same time that this devil falls out of Heaven and becomes incarnate in a man (meaning, he will become incarnate in the antichrist, in the man of sin)…”
It says that at that same time…:
“402 And at the same time that this devil falls out of Heaven and becomes incarnate in a man, the Holy Spirit goes up and comes down in carnate men.”
And then we will have the same thing there was two thousand years ago: the spirit of Judas incarnate in the antichrist and the Spirit of Christ incarnate in a man. Page 352 says [“The Sixth Seal,” p. 25]:
“[202] And just about the time the antichrist moves hisself fully on the—on the scene, God moves Hisself fully on to redeem it all.”
In other words, to carry out the redemption of the body, which will be our transformation, giving us the faith, the revelation of His Coming; and thus receiving all the blessings that He will be bringing us in that manifestation.
We will be believing in that manifestation in His Coming, in the Coming of the Holy Spirit, who will become incarnate at the Last Day; and that will be God in His fullness coming to redeem us, for the redemption of the body.
When you see these things happening with – when you begin to see these things happening; in other words, when you see the beginning of the signs He gave, according to Saint Luke, chapter 21: “Lift up your heads to Heaven. Look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near”[24]: your transformation and rapture is near.
We have already been seeing the signs in heaven and on Earth, and we have been seeing the signs in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have seen the sign of the fig tree as well: Israel being established as a free and sovereign nation; that is the sign of the fig tree, which has budded.[25]
And now we are in the most glorious time of all times.
Let’s see here on page 256; in the middle of the page, it says [“The Fourth Seal,” p. 25]:
“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 foreran. Therefore, the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, must appear manifested in a man, to prophesy before many peoples, nations, and tongues; and thus to have in the Church the ministry of the Last Day, the prophetic ministry of the Last Day in Her midst, and the different stages of that ministry, until that manifestation reaches the Hebrew people.
But He comes for His Church: to give them the rapturing and transforming faith, to give them the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of His Coming.
And He will say to them: “Don’t tell this to others.”
That was what Christ said to His disciples: “Tell no one that I am Jesus the Christ,”[26] Christ said. It was a revelation for believers in Him. If they told the priests of that time, they would persecute Him more.
That is why when they were judging Him, the high priest said to Him: “I adjure You by the living God, that You tell us whether You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus Christ said: “I have already said it before, and you believed not; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of God.”[27]
And the high priest rent his clothes (which he wasn’t supposed to do, because that was forbidden),[28] and he said, “What further need have we of witnesses? You have heard, what do you say?” And the high priest said: “He has spoken blasphemy! What do you say?” The Sanhedrin Council said: “He is guilty of death!”
But thank God that Christ died on Calvary’s Cross to redeem us with His precious Blood. It was all in the Divine Program.
But remember that anyone who stands against God’s Program and the One sent by God (although they will be fulfilling what was said, that they would rise up against the One sent by God), those people will face the consequences: they will keep Judas Iscariot company, they will not be able to enter into the Kingdom of Christ; therefore, they will enter into the kingdom of darkness, which they also belong to.
Remember that it is a battle between two kingdoms, between the Kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of darkness.
When the Spirit of Christ came on the Day of Pentecost, then came the spirit of Judas. And at the Last Day, throughout history we can see that those two spirits have been in the midst of Christianity and have been in the midst of the human race, manifesting themselves in different people, different messengers, of different spirits.
And at the Last Day those two spirits: the one of Judas (which is the spirit of the wicked one) and the One of Christ (the Holy Spirit), will become incarnate. We must have our eyes open to recognize those two spirits in their manifestations and in the veils of flesh where they will be, in order to position ourselves on the side of Christ in Holy Spirit manifested through human flesh.
This revelation from Heaven is for the elect, it is spiritual Food for the Bride-Church of Jesus Christ; it isn’t for the world, nor is it for the foolish virgins; because the Bridegroom, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, upon His arrival: the wise virgins, which were ready, went in with Him to the Marriage and the Door was shut; they went in with Him to that union of Christ with His Church, and the Door was shut.[29]
The foolish virgins, who didn’t have the Oil of the Holy Spirit, didn’t know that mystery. And when they arrived: the wise virgins were already inside and the Door was shut; the Door of the Dispensation of Grace was already shut.
The Master of the House rose up and shut the Door; and those who were inside were enjoying the blessings of God; and those who were outside, those who remained outside received the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, that is, the Plagues, the Vials, the Divine judgments that will come in the great tribulation.
When you begin to see these things happening (the signs in the sky, in the sun, in the moon and in the stars; and on the Earth distress due to the earthquakes, tidal waves, tsunamis, and distress of the people, and wars, and all these things), remember: our redemption is near, the redemption of the body, our transformation, and the resurrection of the dead in Christ.
Therefore, lift up your heads to Heaven: “Look up and be lifted up”; that is, with our eyes fixed on the things of Heaven, which are eternal; not on the things of the Earth, which perish.
Let’s have our eyes fixed on God and His Program through Jesus Christ, serving Him all the days of our lives with joy and gratitude and love; willingly serving God; not as if we are forced or someone is forcing us, but willingly; and together with our congregations, working in God’s Program pertaining to this end time; for our redemption is near; and then all problems will be over.
“THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY OF THE LAST DAY AND ITS STAGES.” I believe it is clear to us which is the ministry of the Last Day as well as its stages.
We will be hand in hand with the prophetic ministry of the Last Day in its different stages. We are not going to say: “I will stay with the stage I was in, which was very good, and that other stage does not interest me”; we are not going to say that because we are not going to stay behind. We are going to continue alongside the Seventh Seal and Its stages.
Its stages are for the Bride-Church, they are for the foolish virgins (all of Christianity), it is also for the world, and also for the Jews or the Hebrews. We want to have a part in all those stages of the Seventh Seal.
We are not going to feel like we are being forced, instead we are going to see what opportunity we can get to work in those stages, in each moment in which a stage opens. It will be a privilege for us to participate in each one of those stages, as each one of them opens.
It will all come to the peak of God’s manifestation, to the full manifestation of God in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.
Therefore, we will be working to reach the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, because that will be the climax of the Seventh Seal. And let’s leave it there, I think I have spoken quite clearly.
But remember, this is for the Bride-Church of Jesus Christ, for your congregations. It is not for the world; but the world will see those manifestations, although they will not understand them; but they will see and they will know that God will be on the scene. But the whole mystery is to be known by the Bride-Church of Jesus Christ.
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you of “THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY OF THE LAST DAY AND ITS STAGES.”
May God bless all of you greatly, and allow you to work hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, with the prophetic ministry of the Last Day in its different stages. It is a great privilege for me; and I hope it is for you as well, upon understanding what the prophetic ministry of the Last Day is and its different stages.
We can’t explain much, so that it isn’t interrupted. I think I have explained to you more than I should; but be reserved, and don’t ever go into fanaticism, because fanaticism hinders God’s Program. Everything should be carried out according to God’s Program, without fanaticism.
May God continue to bless all of you who are present; and you, Miguel, and all the ministers who are gathered there in Acapulco; and all the ministers in all the countries who will listen, or are listening on this occasion, to this conference under the subject: “THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY OF THE LAST DAY AND ITS STAGES.”
And may God use you greatly in His Work of the Last Day, along with the prophetic ministry of the Last Day.
And may we not miss any of those stages. In all those stages, may we be able to say: “I am hand in hand with the ministry of the Last Day in this stage that is being carried out.”
May God continue to bless you all.
Remain closely united with Missionary, Apostle, Miguel Bermúdez Marín, who has kept the ministers in all of Latin America, North America, and in other countries, united. We have been working hand in hand with the ministers and with the congregations, and we want to continue to be very united, working in the Work of the Lord in our age, the Age of the Cornerstone, in this dispensational overlap in which we have been given to live.
May God continue to bless you all. And you, Miguel, may God use you in His Work more and more every day.
Tomorrow we will see each other again. Pray a lot for tomorrow’s activity, so that God gives us of His Word and works in favor of the people tomorrow.
May God continue to bless you, and have a good afternoon, everyone.
“THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY OF THE LAST DAY AND ITS STAGES.”
[1] Matthew 28:20
[2] This portion of the audio is not completely clear –Ed.
[3] John 1:29-30
[4] Exodus 33:20-23
[5] Matthew 28:18
[6] John 14:28
[7] 55-0109E – “Beginning And Ending Of The Gentile Dispensation,” p. 16, paras. 140-141
[8] The Seventy Weeks Of Daniel, 61-0730M – “Gabriel’s Instructions To Daniel,” pp. 12-13, para. 63
[9] The Seals, “The Fifth Seal,” p. 37, paras. 323-326
[10] Quotations, p. 119, para. 1057: 63-1229E – “Look Away To Jesus,” p. 7, para. 49
[11] Quote 1143: 64-0719M – “The Feast Of The Trumpets,” pp. 20-21, paras. 155, 158
[12] Quote 1150: 64-0719M – “The Feast Of The Trumpets,” p. 35, para. 270
[13] Matthew 24:31
[14] Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 9:2-8, Luke 9:28-36
[15] Quote 1164: 64-0726E – “Broken Cisterns,” p. 30, para. 158
[16] The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 29, paras. 234-237
[17] Luke 2:25-38
[18] Luke 1:39-56
[19] Luke 2:8-20
[20] Matthew 2:9-11
[21] Isaiah 7:14; Micah 5:2
[22] Matthew 16:13-19
[23] Hebrews 4:12
[24] Luke 21:28
[25] Matthew 24:32-33, Mark 13:28-29, Luke 21:29-31
[26] Matthew 16:20, Mark 8:27-30, Luke 9:18-21
[27] Matthew 26:63-66
[28] Leviticus 10:6, 21:10
[29] Matthew 25:1-13