Revelation 08:1 The Seventh Seal Part 1

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God says less as the mystery gets deeper

REVELATION 08:1   And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

When the Bible says little then we know the mystery is profound.

When the mystery is most profound, God says nothing. He is silent.

When God is silent, then we must not speak.

The letters of “silent” can be rearranged to form the word “listen”.

So, when God mentions being silent, He wants us to listen and not talk. The Seventh Seal will be a mysterious event that changes us and catches us up to Heaven. It will not be a clever speech that someone gives. No talking allowed. But the Seventh Seal will be Scriptural. However, we need to understand the Bible first in order to recognize the hidden final clues as they happen.

God has given us two ears and one mouth so we should be far more ready to hear than to speak. Especially at the end-time when it is time for the 7^th Seal.

Silence is the only way that God can ensure that nobody can betray Him because nobody can know anything about what is not said or not written.

Silence can also hide intense pain. The destruction of the world at the end will cause intense pain.

God cannot trust us with His deepest secrets. Message-preachers desire to be regarded as being clever, so they will rush around with a self-promoting idea in order to gain self-importance. That just indicates that God cannot trust them with His deepest secrets.

The Old Testament involves a more physical form of worship with an obvious Temple and Aaronic Priesthood of men from the tribe of Levi.

The New Testament is more spiritual with Jesus being the Temple and all the born-again Christians forming a spiritual priesthood.

JOHN 2:19   Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

:20   Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

:21   But he spake of the temple of his body.

I PETER 2:9   But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,

No priest was above any other priest. Only the High Priest (Jesus) is above a priest.

I CORINTHIANS 3:16   Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

COLOSSIANS 1:18   And he is the head of the body, the church:

Only Christ is the Head of the church. No man is the head of a church.

A deeper look sees the church as the Body of Christ built up over 2000 years and thus the church individuals make up the temple of God as if each person is a living stone.

I PETER 2:5   Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

The New Testament takes a deeper look at God’s mysteries and yet the New Testament is much shorter than the Old Testament.

Preachers teach on what they do not understand

LUKE 17:10   So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

An unprofitable servant makes mistakes. We are all subject to that problem. Only Jesus is perfect.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

And now, all four of them Seals, I had it in about twenty-minute sermon. The four horse riders of Revelations, I throwed them all together, and said, "One horse went in white"; I said, "Perhaps that's the early age. And next horse went in famine," and then on like that.

But my, when the Word really was opened up, it was a hundred miles away from it. So, it behooves us to watch and wait. Then maybe it had to be this time to do it.

Even brother Branham was tempted to speak on subjects that he totally misunderstood. All preachers make this mistake.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

And the brother who put the acoustic, I mean the public addressing outfit and everything in the church... They said, "Everything just worked right."

The public address system is a loudspeaker which allows all the people in the church to hear. So, the public is the congregation. Whoever happens to be listening. Many of those people who are the listening public will be Bride members.

Message preachers made a mistake when they said that the public was not the Bride. The public includes the Bride. The public are all the people who can hear a public address system.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

And now, when you hear me sometimes under the time of anointing kinda rake down the curtain on organization, I don't mean that against your pastor or against any brother, sister in church, because after all, God has people in every organization there is; but He don't accept the organization. He accepts the individual in the organization. And it doesn't take an organization; therefore,

when people get so bound around organization, then they can't see nothing else but just what that church says. You see?

And that makes disfellowshipping with others, and it's a system that God is not pleased with,

and it's a worldly affair never ordained of God.

…  Remember, let me exhort you again. Don't say, "Thank you," to anybody at all. Don't say... Thinking some minister or something, some mortal man, there's anything good about him, 'cause there's not; I don't care who he is. There's nothing good to any man…. all men are the same; all Christians are the same.

There's no great man among us. We're not great men, not great women--we're all brothers and sisters, all the same in the same bracket. We're no great. One don't make one greater than the other one--not a thing at all to do. No, sir. But we're just all human beings.

Don't try to interpret the things.

Don't try to do anything more than just live a close life, giving praise and honor to Jesus Christ. Everybody understand that now? Amen. Love Him with all your heart. Do you do it?

Do not consider some preacher to be great and elevate him.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

I called seven thousand, seven hundred, this morning; was trying... And it was picked up by the people (See?), and that showed that you was watching.

Brother Branham was impressed that some people had spotted his mistake. That means they were checking what he said with the Scripture. When he disagreed with the Scripture then they knew he was wrong.

63-0324  QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE SEALS

QUESTION 23     In Revelations verse 5 to 9, who are these found singing when the Lamb takes the Book. Are these the raptured saints?

No, Revelations 6... 5 and 9, rather, no. If you notice, these are not the saints. He has never claimed His property yet. See? This is not the saints. If you notice, they're the elders and the beast, and they sing.

…  There's something wrong. There's something wrong.

A man says he must read Revelation 5:9 again.

Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seal thereof: for thou wast slain,... (And here it is. Here it is. I was wrong on that. See?)... thou has redeemed us to God by the blood of every kindred,...

[Notice how quickly brother Branham admits his mistake when he says something different to Scripture]

That's right. Now, what do you think about that? Oh, if the Presence of the Holy Ghost isn't here, what is? He wouldn't let... See, I only read the first part of that verse.

…  Sure, that's them.

So, the Bride has to be in Heaven around the throne before Jesus takes the Book to open it. We only have a revelation of this future event as it has not happened yet.

We have to check what brother Branham says to make sure that it is Scriptural.

63-0324  QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE SEALS

QUESTION 20   Brother Branham, did you mean to say seven thousand who had not bowed their knee to Baalim, or seven hundred?

Seven thousand, I meant to say. Forgive me for that.

Brother Branham never claimed to be infallible and happily accepted correction if he said something different to Scripture.

The 7^th Seal is a total mystery

The Seventh Seal deals with the Coming of the Lord which is the biggest mystery of all. We know nothing about when he will come or how He will come.

63-1110   SOULS THAT ARE IN PRISON NOW

Remember, the Seven Seals was finished, and when those seven revealed Truths...

One of them, He wouldn't permit us to know.

We... How many was here at the Seven Seals, and heard? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All of you, I guess. See, the Seventh Seal, He wouldn't permit it.---

He wouldn’t permit “us” to know. The Bride. Thus the Bride does not know the Seventh Seal.

Thus the Bride is part of the Public that does not know the Seventh Seal, because nobody knows the Seventh Seal.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

And now, if this tape would happen to fall into the hands of some persons somewhere, don't try to make any kind of an "ism" out of it. The only thing you do, you just continue serving God, because this great secret is so great that God wouldn't even let John write it. It thundered out, but He... knowing that... promising us that it would be opened,

but to this time, it isn't opened.

… Now, that is this Seventh Seal. It's still is a notable thing. And we are...

We don't know what it is as yet, because it's not permitted to be broken.

Notice he says “we” don’t know the 7^th Seal. So the Bride is included in the “public” that does not know the Seventh Seal.

63-0728  CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY OF GOD REVEALED

God's great mystery of how, it's a secret. He kept it a secret. Nobody knowed nothing about it. Even the Angels didn't understand it. See, He didn't reveal it. That's the reason, under our seventh mystery, when the seventh seal was opened, there was silence. Jesus, when He was on earth, they wanted to know when He would come. He said, "It's not... Even the Son Himself don't know when it's going to happen." See, God has this all to Himself. It's a secret. And that's the reason there was silence in Heaven for a space of a half hour, and seven thunders utter their voices, and John was even forbidden to write it, see, the Coming of the Lord.

That's one thing He hasn't revealed yet, of how He will come, and when He will come. It's a good thing that He doesn't. No.

1964-0719   THE FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS

The Seventh Seal hasn't opened yet, you know. That's His Coming.

You cannot say that the Seven Seals have been opened because the Seventh Seal never opened.

You can say the Seven Seals have been revealed because he revealed the Seventh Seal as a total mystery.

So, we know what category to put the 7^th Seal in. It is a mystery that we cannot know until it happens, and it never happened in brother Branham’s day.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

We can see the elements ready to bring it back. We can see the elements ready to bring the Church into the Presence of Christ. We can see the Bride taking on the form, putting the wedding garment on, making ready.

Our wedding garment is the revealed Word which is the faith that we cover ourselves with.

62-0908  PRESENT  STAGE  OF  MY  MINISTRY

… hope He will crown my ministry of this,

of letting me take the clothes of the Word, and dress His Bride in the clothes of the Word,

64-0823  QUESTIONS  AND  ANSWERS.1

But those who can accept the Word in Its fullness,

not me preaching It, because It's the Bible says so.

Those who accept that is free, because they--the Word's already been judged.

Brother Branham’s quotes must bring us back to Scripture.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

Now, the 8th chapter only reveals the scene of the Seventh Seal where nothing else is revealed.

Now, nothing is not revealed in the Seventh Seal. Now, has nothing to do with the 7th chapter of Revelation. It's the revealing of the Seventh Seal is perfectly mute.

… Jesus Christ, is speaking Himself, told of the end time and when He told all six Seals; when He got to Seventh, He stopped.

… Then when the Seals were open, God (notice here), He omitted revealing even any symbol of the Seventh one. See? It's a perfect secret with God.

… He mentioned the six Seals as we have seen, but not the Seventh Seal. He's never said nothing in here about the Seventh Seal nowhere.

… "When will it be, Brother Branham?" I cannot tell you. I do not know.

… One of the mystery of that Seal, the reason it wasn't revealed, it was seven thunders that uttered their voices, and there it is perfectly, because nothing knows anything about it; wasn't even written.

The Thunders hold the mystery of the 7^th Seal. Thus, if the 7^th Seal is a total mystery then the Thunders that hold the total mystery must also be a total mystery.

We can know the purpose of the Thunders but not what they utter.

The purpose of the Thunders is to give rapturing faith to the Bride and to give supernatural power to the two Jewish prophets.

62-1230   IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR

He come down from Heaven, because the mystery is all finished. And when the mystery is finished, the Angel said, "Time shall be no more," and Seven Thunders throwed their voices out.

[The Thunders only utter when the mystery is finished and time is over. You can only step out of time when you are in your new body.]

What if it is something to let us know how to enter into the Rapturing Faith? Is it?

Will we run, leap over walls?

And is there something fixing to happen, and these old, marred, vile bodies are going to be changed?

62-0318  THE SPOKEN WORD IS THE ORIGINAL SEED.1

Look at that great latter rain supposed to be done, how they would run over the wall, leap over, and how they'd be an army coming. Just wait a minute. Uh-huh. The kind of crop you'll get, is the kind of seed you put in your field. All right.

63-0724  GOD DOESN'T CALL MAN TO JUDGMENT WITHOUT FIRST WARNING HIM

Oh, not many in number, but what a powerful group that's got Eternal Life! Said, "They shall run through a troop and leap over a wall." Yes, the "troop" of death will have no holders to it, She'll run right through it.

Leap over the "wall" between natural and Supernatural,

and go into the arms of God, into that great Eternity. Lord God, we thank You for this. We know the time is approaching at hand.

The seven Thunders produce rapturing faith which is the Latter Rain as the Bride have their bodies changed so that they can leap over the wall from the natural to the supernatural.

After the Rapture, the power of God crosses over to the two Jewish prophets. Elijah called for a 3½ -year drought. Moses called for flies.

63-0321  THE FOURTH SEAL

Now, we had him coming last night with his great sword to kill. We find out that he gets killed with the Sword too, the sword of the Word. God's Word, sharp, two-edged sword slays him, puts him right down.

Wait till them seven thunders utter their voices to that group who really can take the Word of God and hand it there. It'll slice and cut. And they can close the heavens; they can shut this or do that, whatever they want to. Glory.

He will be slayed by the Word that proceeds from His mouth; it's sharper than a two-edged sword. They could call for a hundred billion tons of flies if they wanted to. Amen. Whatever they say's going to happen, because it's the Word of God coming from the mouth of God. Amen.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

You know when we compared the Scripture here with Matthew 24 with the six Seals, the Seventh Seal was left out; because (You see?), Christ said only God Himself knowed, not even the Angels. No wonder, it wasn't even written. You see, they hushed; nothing take place then. Angels don't know it;

nobody knows when He's coming. But there'll be seven voices of these thunders that will reveal the great revelation at that time.

[Angels do not know the Seventh Seal. Brother Branham is the seventh angel. So, he also does not know the Seventh seal.]

So, I believe, to us who... If we don't know it, and we--we--it won't be knowed till that time, but it will be revealed in that day, in the hour that it's supposed to be revealed in. So, the thing for us to do is to be reverent before God and serve Him, and do all that we know how to do, and live good Christian lives.

Here now, we find that the Sixth Seal has been opened to us; we see it, and we know that this Seventh Seal cannot be broke to the public until that hour arrives.

“Us”, “we”, “the public”. So we are part of the public that do not know.

His next statement says, “No one knows it”.

Thus the Bride is very much lumped together with the public.

Message preachers like to claim that they are the Bride who can understand the Seventh Seal and the Public are the foolish virgins who cannot understand. When brother Branham says the Public cannot know, they claim that means the foolish virgins cannot know but the Bride can know. That is a wrong claim.

If the revelation cannot be broke to the public, those who can hear brother Branham speaking, then nobody can get the revelation.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

We find that Christ, the Lamb took the Book in His hand, and He opened that Seventh Seal. But you see, it's a hidden mystery. No one knows it. But it's right along with what He said: no one would know His coming; they also would not know about this seven thunder mystery. So you see, it's connected together.

That much we have a understanding of it today, because the rest of it is all unfolded, but this is not unfolded. But setting in my room, and I heard this--or not heard it, rather, but seen it unfold to this seven thunders. Now, that's as far as we can go right there. And now I trust that each and every one of you will serve God, and do that which is right, and love Him all your life and serve Him, and God will take care of the rest.

[The 7 Thunders is as far as we can go because the 7 Thunders are a great mystery that we will not understand until they utter in the future, after the resurrection.]

Now, we have in the completion here now, by the grace of God, all the mysteries of the six Seals that's been sealed up, and we understand and know here that the Seventh Seal is not to be known to the public.

… You know, he said there, "What will be the sign of the coming of the end of the world?" In Matthew 24, there where they asked Him that question, He went down to that. He told about Israel being gathered as a nation in the 31st verse of Matthew 24:31. But then He started off on parables. See? Then, you see there, "Learn a parable of the fig tree. When you see it putting forth its buds, why, you know spring's nigh." And then, "When you see this coming to pass, then know the time is nigh."

[Jesus referred to the first six Seals in Matthew Chapter 24. But He never referred to the Seventh Seal. The Bible never refers to the Seventh Seal, except in Revelation 8:1, as it is a total mystery that happens right at the end of the 7^th church age.]

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

See Israel's gathering in its own homeland. But you notice, He omitted the revelation of this Seventh Seal. 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 these 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.

Now, until that time, let's just all pray and live good straight Christian lives, looking forward for His coming.

… . 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 these 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 1962 brother Branham stressed a difference between the Coming of the Lord and the Appearing of the Lord. But in every other year he seemed to treat the Appearing and the Coming as the same event, as is evident in these last three quotes.

The Seventh Seal will only happen when Jesus comes or appears for His Bride. We do not know when that will be.

The Thunders mysteries are fatal if we get them wrong

Message preachers who try to explain the seven Thunders are just like amateurs fooling around with an unexploded bomb. They can only do harm as they deceive the people. The consequences of misunderstanding the 7 Thunders are deadly, as you will be sent to great Tribulation to be purged of your mistakes. There you will be killed in an awful way.

Message groups have used different quotes to develop more than 20 different variations of the Thunders. So, a lot of message-believers have been fooled into the wrong paths.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

I had the revelation that revealed... It's in a threefold manner.

That, I will speak to you by God's help of a fold of it. And then you... Let's go over there first. Here's the revelation to begin what... I want to tell you what it is. What happens is that those seven thunders that he heard thunder and was forbidden to write, that's what the mystery is laying behind those seven consecutive thunders rolling out.

Now, why? Let us prove it. Why? It is the secret that no one knows about. John was forbidding to write about it, even, even write a symbol about it. Why?

This is why there was no activity in heaven; it might give away the secret.

Do you see it now? If it's so great it must be included, because it's got to happen, but when the seven thunders...

… here is seven straight thunders right in a row: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, that perfect number. Seven thunders in a row, uttered not... making just one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, straight. Then heavens couldn't write that. Heavens can't know about it, nothing else, because there's nothing to go on. It's a relaxing time. It was so great till it's kept secret from the Angels. Now, why?

If Satan should get a hold of it, he might do great damage. There's one thing he don't know.

Now, he can interpret anything he wants to, and impersonate any kind of a gift (I hope you're learning.), but he can't know this. It's not even written in the Word. It's a total secret. The Angels, everything shut up. If they made one move it might give something away, so they just shut up, quit harping; everything stopped.

[If Satan gained any clue about the 7 Thunders then he would pervert that revelation and cause much damage. So, the 7 Thunders have to remain top secret which is why nothing was written about them. Thus, we all know nothing about them. They contain very dangerous knowledge that we must not guess about. If we gave Satan a clue he could do much damage. The seven Thunders is a very dangerous topic that must be left alone until after the resurrection].

… Seven thunders uttered straight together like they're spelling out something. Notice, at that time, John started to write, and He said, "Don't write it." Jesus never spoke of it. John couldn't write it. Angels know nothing about it.

What is it? It's the thing that Jesus said even the Angels of heaven didn't know nothing about it. See, see? He didn't know it Himself, said only God would know it, but He told us when we begin to see these signs coming up... (Now, you getting somewhere? All right.) Notice, we can see these signs coming up. See? If Satan could get a hold of it.

If you think you know something about those 7 Thunders then please keep quiet. Satan must not be given the faintest clue and he can hear you when you talk to someone.

It is treason to give information to the enemy.

Satan can imitate and corrupt any Message doctrine

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

If I'm planning on doing something, I know better than to tell anybody about it. Not that that person will tell it, but Satan will hear it. See? He can't get it in my heart there, as long as God's got it closed up with the Holy Spirit, so it's between me and God. See? He don't know nothing about it until you speak it, then he hears it.

And I've tried... I tell people I'll do a certain-certain thing, and watch the devil cut off every wheel he can to get there (See?), to beat me to it. But if I can get the revelation from God and just don't say nothing about it, then it's different.

Remember, Satan will try to impersonate. He will try to impersonate everything that the Church will do. He's tried to do it. We've noticed it through the antichrist; but this is one thing he cannot impersonate. There'll be no mimics to this (See?), 'cause he don't know it. There's no way for him to know it. It's the third pull. He just knows nothing about it. See? He doesn't understand it.

… But you remember when He took me up there and said, "This is that third pull, and no one will know it."

Satan wants to get the Bride into a morass of wrong doctrines so that we will not be ready for the third Pull and the seven Thunders, when they happen.

We will consider 18 of the many clever errors that have been introduced into the Message:

1. The revelation of the 7 Seals is now called the opening of the Seals.

The opening of the Seals must be revealed before they can actually be opened in Heaven.

Before anything happens, it must first be revealed.

AMOS 3:7  Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

2. The voice of the seventh angel is now called the Voice of God.

Unscriptural. There is no “Voice of God” in the New Testament.

64-0823  QUESTIONS  AND  ANSWERS.1

But those who can accept the Word in Its fullness,

not me preaching It, because It's the Bible says so.

61-0108  REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR.3

And the Voice of God is His Word.

3. The Angel of Revelation 10 must have come down while brother Branham was on earth.

63 0320   THE THIRD SEAL

-the seventh angel, when he sounds, all the mysteries of God should be finished up by his sounding. Then after it's revealed, the Angel come down from heaven, which was Christ

Only after all the mysteries have been revealed can the Angel come down for the resurrection.

63 0320   THE THIRD SEAL

And then goes on and said, in the day just before these seven thunders, all the mysteries here are revealed.

The Thunders only utter after the Angel comes down. All the mysteries must be revealed before the Angel comes down.

63 0320   THE FOURTH SEAL

And then after these Seven Seals are completed, we find in Revelations 10 there was seven mysterious thunders that John was commissioned to write but then forbidden to write those. And at the time of those thunders, we find Christ, or the Angel come down with a rainbow, and put His feet on the land and sea and swore that time had run out at that time.

Only after the Seven Seals are completed can the Angel come down.

63 0320   THE FOURTH SEAL

But we find out then that in the Book of the Revelation at the seventh angel's message, the mysteries, all the mysteries of it, should already be revealed by that time (Now that's Revelations 10:1-7.), that it should be revealed according to that time--at that time when He did.

Then the seven thunders utter their strange voices, and John was going to write... It was... John knew what it was, but he didn't write it, 'cause he was forbidden to write it. That's absolutely and altogether a mystery. It's not even in symbol or nothing. We just know it thundered; that's all.

All the mysteries must be revealed first, then only can the seven Thunders utter.

62-1230  IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR

Seal (capital S-e-a-l), Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
It's on the backside, when a Book is completed.

Not did he say, "On the front side." He said, "On the backside," after It's all done, completed. Then, these Seven Thunders' voices is the only thing, that's stuck to the Book, that's not revealed. It's not even written in the Book.

... These Seals are on the backside of the Book. "And at the time that the seventh angel is sounding,

all the mysteries that are written in the Book is completed." 

4. The seven Thunders have uttered.

(Brother Branham never made such a quote. There are also too many different versions or guesses of the 7 Thunders.)

63-0317  THE BREACH BETWEEN THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES AND THE SEVEN SEALS

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. (Now, that's what we don't know. That's yet to be revealed; it's not in Holy Script, what them thunders say.)

[Notice. It is not written in the Bible what the Thunders say. So do not point to the 8 virtues that are written in the Bible].

63-0324  THE SEVENTH SEAL

What happens is that those seven thunders that he heard thunder and was forbidden to write, that's what the mystery is laying behind those seven consecutive thunders rolling out.

Now, why? Let us prove it. Why?

It is the secret that no one knows about.

…  One of the mystery of that Seal, the reason it wasn't revealed, it was seven thunders that uttered their voices, and there it is perfectly,

because nothing knows anything about it;

wasn't even written.

5. We know the new name of Jesus.

(There are many different versions or guesses of this new name.)

1965   PHILADELPHIAN CHURCH AGE  -  CHURCH AGE BOOK  CPT.8

My New Name. When ALL becomes new, then He will take upon Him a new Name and that Name will be the Name of the bride also.

What that Name is, none dare conjecture.

It would have to be a revelation of the Spirit given so conclusively that none would dare deny it. But no doubt He will leave that revelation to the day when He desires to give that Name forth.

Suffice it to know that it will be more wonderful than we could ever imagine.

In the last year of his life, he had no idea what the new name of Jesus is.

63-0318  THE FIRST SEAL

And Jesus, His Name on earth was Redeemer, Jesus. When He was on earth, He was the Redeemer; that's true. But when He conquered death and hell, and overcome them, and ascended on high, He received a new Name. That's the reason they holler the way they do and don't get nothing;

it will be revealed in the thunders.

Jesus in His human body that could die for us was called Jesus. In our sinful bodies, we need Jesus as our Saviour to cleanse us from sin. We need a Saviour up until the moment that our bodies change, in an instant, into our new immortal bodies. Then we cannot sin anymore and we do not need the name of Jesus to cleanse us from sin.

Only then will the new name of Jesus become known to us. That will totally separate the Bride from the foolish virgins.

When Jesus was resurrected in His immortal body that cannot die, He received a new name that will be unknown to everybody who is in a sinful body.

REVELATION 19:12   … and He had a name written that no man knew, but He Himself.

So, we cannot know this new name at the moment in our sinful bodies because we need the cleansing blood of Jesus to forgive us of our sins.

Remember, when a Bride takes on her new name of her husband then she never uses the old name of her father again.

When the Bride, in her immortal bodies, takes on the new name of Jesus then she will never refer back to the old name of Jesus again.

You cannot claim to know the new name of Jesus and also repent in the old name of Jesus.

6. The Angel of Revelation 10 has come down.

64-0119  SHALOM

When that Angel, of Revelation the 10th chapter, puts one foot on land and one on the sea, and a rainbow over His head, He swore, "time shall be no more." When that time comes, you'll rise up from among the dead. While the rest of them lay there, you'll go in.

The Angel of Revelation 10 comes down to perform the resurrection.

63-1110   SOULS THAT ARE IN PRISON NOW

But under the Sixth Seal, where these Trumpets opened. Remember, under there, we find out that the Lamb came forth, appeared on the scene. He had left the Mercy Seat. His work of redemption was finished. And He came forth and took the Book out of the right hand of Him that sat upon the Throne, and "time was no more." And immediately an angel appeared in the 10th chapter and the 7th verse, saying...

This Angel come down and swore, that, "time was no longer."

Time ends when the Angel comes down.

You are still in time when your body gets older as the years go by and your children and grandchildren grow up.

Only when your body changes into an immortal body will you step out of time.

63-0321  THE FOURTH SEAL

And now, these Seven Seals that this Book is sealed with, and those Seven Seals... Now... And then after these Seven Seals are completed, we find in Revelations 10 there was seven mysterious thunders that John was commissioned to write but then forbidden to write those. And at the time of those thunders, we find Christ, or the Angel come down with a rainbow, and put His feet on the land and sea and swore that time had run out at that time.

64-0719 THE FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS

Seventh Seal hasn’t opened yet, that’s His Coming

The Thunders and the Angel can only happen when the Seven Seals are completed. But the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord and that only happens right at the end. The Angel comes down for the resurrection and then only can the seven Thunders utter.

7. The supernatural cloud of 1963 was the Angel of Revelation 10

No. The supernatural cloud of 1963 was the sign in the heaven of the Son of man.

65-0718  TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE WITHOUT BEING THE WILL OF GOD

And then in that great observatory, so that the world will be without, they're still wondering what happened. In Tucson, them big observatories took the picture of it up there; still wondering what happened. What is it? They still put in the paper, "Does anybody know anything about what, how it could have happen?" There is no fog up there, there's no air, there's no moisture; thirty miles high in the air. Oh, my!

"There shall be signs in the heaven above. And when these things take place, earthquakes in divers places, then shall appear the sign in the heaven, of the Son of man."

62-0318  THE  SPOKEN  WORD  IS  THE  ORIGINAL  SEED  1

My mission, I believe, that God has called me for. I have to say some personal things today, because that's what I told you I'd do, see, and tell the world. My mission, I believe, to the earth, is (what?) is to forerun the coming Word, see, the coming Word which is Christ.---

The big mistake that Message-believers have made is to think that brother Branham was the forerunner of Jesus as a Man, just like John the Baptist was. No. Brother Branham was the forerunner of Jesus as the revealed Word of God that will take the Bride back to the beliefs of the first church age.

The supernatural cloud formed by angels above Flagstaff in Arizona was a sign of the start of the Third Exodus. Something big was going to happen. Eight days later on 8 March 1963, 7 angels came to brother Branham at Sunset Peak, near Tucson, to give him the Commission to reveal the Seven Seals which he did between 17 March and 24 March 1963. The revealed Seals opened up the revelation of all the Bible mysteries (plural) to show us all the errors that are in the churches.

All the churches of the Laodiceans are condemned in Revelation Chapter 3. So, the deep mystery of God (singular) is for each Bride individual to get back to the beliefs of the New Testament church of the apostles.

Brother Branham preached his Message from Scripture. But now we have to be able to preach his Message from Scripture as well. We must not replace Scripture with his quotes. We must use his quotes to understand the Bible.

8. The single Thunder has uttered as the First Seal opens

In the last month of his life brother Branham was still waiting for that single Thunder, the shout of the Message which is made by the Bride when they have mastered the mysteries and the Voice of the mighty Angel or Archangel coming down to raise the dead.

1965-1127   I HAVE HEARD BUT NOW I SEE

Dear God, in this solemn moment, it's going to be a time like this when there really will be a clap of thunder someday, and the Son of God shall descend from the heavens with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and the trump of God, the dead in Christ shall rise.

63-03 18    THE SECOND SEAL
God, help our unbelief. Take it away from us, Lord.

We want to receive rapturing grace. We want to be able when that mysterious thunder thunders out yonder, and the Church is taken up,

we want to be ready to receive it, Lord

9. The “shout” was brother Branham preaching.

He was still waiting for the “shout” in the last month of his life. So, the “shout” was not him preaching the truth from Scripture.

1965-1127   I HAVE HEARD BUT NOW I SEE

Dear God, in this solemn moment, it's going to be a time like this when there really will be a clap of thunder someday, and the Son of God shall descend from the heavens with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and the trump of God, the dead in Christ shall rise.

The “shout” is not brother Branham revealing the truth of the Bible mysteries from Scripture.

The “shout” is the Bride speaking brother Branham’s message from Scripture.

62-1111   WHY I'M AGAINST ORGANIZED RELIGION

Notice, the 19th chapter is the next, "After these things." Did you notice here in the 19th chapter, "After these things"? Watch what? After what? After the Message of "Come out of her!"

"After these things," watch, "is the shout of the Bride saints,

with the Bridegroom, going to the Marriage of the Lamb."

10. Jesus has come.

1963-0728  CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY OF GOD REVEALED

Now, the Coming of the Lord is in mystery. We don't know when He's coming, how He's coming, but we know He is coming. See?

And so was all the mysteries of God waiting for this last day. After He's already been completed, then He reveals and shows what He's done. Oh, my!

Never gave His mystery in full.

This statement was made months after the 1963 supernatural cloud and the Seven Seals was preached.

1965-0725   WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION ON THE MOUNTAIN

We send greetings up in the mountains, Prescott, Arizona, to Brother Leo Mercier and his group that's up there

waiting for the Coming of the Lord.

We send greetings to those in Tucson, that's gathered tonight,

waiting for the Coming of the Lord.

Down into Houston, Texas, to those who are

waiting for the Coming of the Lord.

Up in Chicago, to those who are

waiting for the Coming of the Lord.

Up on the East Coast, New York and Connecticut, and the great groups up there,

that's waiting for the Coming of the Lord.

1965 was the last year of his life.

62-0712  WE  WOULD  SEE  JESUS

I believe in His literal coming, corporal body, descending from the heavens with a shout, 

with the voice of the Archangel, the trump of God. The dead in Christ shall rise. But His Spirit is here with us.

Jesus in a physical body has never come down.

11. Jesus has appeared.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

So, we see that it is a complete mystery, therefore, the hour is not yet for these 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.

The appearing of Jesus is still in the future.

12. Mercy is over.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

I thank God for His Word; I thank Him for Jesus Christ. For without sending Him for the propitiation of our sins, we'd all be in a big muck of sin with no hope. But by His grace, His--His Blood cleanses all sin. Just like the drop of ink in a bucket of Clorox, you'd never find the ink again. When our sins are confessed, it's put in the Blood of Jesus Christ; they'll never be known again. God forgets them; they never was even done. And as long as that Sacrifice is laying there in an atonement for us, then that's all... That's it. See? We're not sinners no more; we're Christians by the grace of God.

is this true? (I'm glad I got this one.)

We watch and pray--we watch the prayer lines, and it seems some are still finding mercy.

Now, that's the first question, you got two.

64-0830   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.3

"Is mercy over?" Don't never think that.

See? Just keep right on doing everything you can until you're taken away. See?

"We notice in the prayer line some's finds mercy." Sure. Mercy's--the doors are open… In the prayer line you find mercy, certainly.

If I knowed Jesus was coming this afternoon, I'd be doing just the thing I'm doing right now (See?), just continuing right on. Mercy is always open. See?

63-0324  QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE SEALS

42. Brother Branham, will the dispensation of grace be over after you open the Seven Seals?

I hope not. No, no, friends, don't get that in your mind now.

63-0324   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE SEALS

2. Should evangelists continue on the field?

In this hour, of course, what they mean. Certainly, by all means; don't change a thing. If Jesus is coming in the morning, preach today like it was going to be ten years from today, but live like it's going to be at this hour.

13. Time has ended.

Why do you look at a clock or your watch every day? When time ends, you will not need a clock or a watch or a calendar. You will never start a new year. Your birthday will never come around, nor will any other anniversary.

63 0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

We must remember that this Seventh Seal is the end of time of all things.

64-0719 THE FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS

Seventh Seal hasn’t opened yet, that’s His Coming

Time can only end for you at thr Seventh Seal. But the Seventh Seal has not yet opened. So time cannot have ended yet.

14. We are living in the Millennium.

But in the Millennium the Bride will have glorified bodies and the foolish virgins will all be dead.

64-0830   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.4

QUESTION   The church age ending and has blacked out, the Bride is called, we have already entered into the tribulation period?

ANSWER   No, no, no, you're... I wished that I could just have more time on that. See, see? The Bride, when she's taken from the church, then the church age will cease. Laodicea goes into chaos; the Bride goes to glory; and the tribulation period sets in upon the sleeping virgin for three and a half years while Israel is getting its prophecy; then tribulation sets in upon Israel;

and then comes the battle of Armageddon which destroys all things.

And then, the Bride returns back with the Groom for a thousand years, the Millennium reign;

1965   PERGAMEAN CHURCH AGE  -  CHURCH AGE BOOK   CPT.5

This is man's day. It is man's doing, man's work, man's church, man's idea of worship, man's everything, for it is man's world (kosmos). BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD IS COMING. Yes, it is. It is just that at this time of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, John was taken up by the Spirit and transported by the Spirit to that Great Day that is coming. The Lord's Day is when the days of man are over. The kingdoms of this world will then become the kingdoms of our God.

The day of the Lord is when the judgments fall, and after that comes the millennium.

Right now the world does what it wants to do with the Christian. They call him all manner of evil names, making fun of him. But there is coming that great and notable day when they will wail and howl, for the Lamb is coming in wrath to judge the world. That is when the righteous will have their day with the Lord, for the wicked shall burn and the righteous will walk over their ashes into the millennium.

MALACHI 4:3   And ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

65-1127  TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE WITHOUT IT BEING GOD'S WILL

The Throne of God, of Christ, is erected into your heart; and He's setting on God's Throne, but in the Millennium He sets on His Own Throne; which, He swore that He'd raise up this Man, His Son, David's Son, to set on His Throne.

In the Millennium, Jesus will have His throne in Jerusalem.

1965-1125  THE INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

The world's history will soon be over, then we're going to step into a new day, to the great Millennium. That, as one believer, I believe in the... in a Millennium, a Millennium reign with Christ, a thousand years upon the earth; the physical return of the Lord Jesus, to take a physical people, glorified, by His cleansing Blood.

The Bride will have glorified bodies. They will not travel by cars, they will travel like a thought.

65-0221   MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

For He was called "Son of man" when He come first, now He is called "Son of God," in the Millennium He'll be "Son of David." He come Son of man, a Prophet, as was spoke of Him; now He is Son of God, in supernatural;

in the great Millennium that is to come, He'll be Son of David, setting on the throne of David.

As all Bible readers know that that's a Divine promise with God, to David, He would raise up His Son to set on his throne.

David’s throne was in Jerusalem.

64-1227  WHO DO YOU SAY THIS IS

And the whole world's controlled by the Devil. That's exactly what Jesus said. And it'll never be right until the Millennium, when Jesus comes and takes over. But now we're having these troubles.

There will be no sin in the Millennium as the heathens who never heard the Gospel and who survived Armageddon will be ruled with a rod of iron.

64-0830   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.4

Where are the foolish virgins during the Millennium?

In the Millennium they're in the grave. "The rest of the dead lived not for a thousand years."

15. William Branham is God.

63-0707   THE  INDICTMENT

Where is He crucified at? From the pastors. You hypocrites.

64-0830   QUESTIONS  AND  ANSWERS.3

To make me the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, would be an antichrist

(A prophet is a son of man. Only Jesus is the Son of man. John the Baptist said he must decrease as Jesus, the Word, ncreased)

16. What brother Branham says on the tapes is infallible.

62-1007  THE KEY TO THE DOOR

… that I am perfectly infallible. That there's nothing... And, oh, some of the awfullest things you ever heard.

  17. The quotes of brother Branham are superior to the written Scriptures.

(Brother Branham never claimed that).

60-0804  AS  THE  EAGLE  STIRRETH  UP  HER  NEST

We know the Bible is right;

that's not my voice; that's God's voice, speaking

65-0801   THE  GOD  OF  THIS  EVIL  AGE

… so that the peoples that has believed the Message that the Lord Jesus has given me for this hour,

might know what's taking place,

and placing it in the Scripture.

[You can only believe what he says if you find it in Scripture.]

63-1201M AN ABSOLUTE
God's Word is that absolute.

63-1226 CHURCH ORDER
... and my absolute is the Word, the Bible.

  18. Seven Thunders are the seven virtues.

62-1230  IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR?

"Time shall be no more." He announces that time is over. What happens? What happens? Could that be so now, brethren? Seriously think. If it is,

then the pyramid is capped by the Seven Thunders.

[Seven Thunders form the Cap of the Pyramid. Thus, they do not refer to all the church ages that form the Pyramid. They could not have uttered during the past church ages.]

You remember the pyramid Message?

It's the Capstone. What did It do? The Holy Spirit capped off the individual and seal it, when we ADDED to our faith;

righteousness, and godliness, and faith, and so forth,

and kept adding to it till we got seven things. And the seventh one was love, which is God.

That's how He makes the individual, and caps him and seals him with the Holy Spirit.

II PETER 1:5  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

:6   And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

:7   And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

65-1128  GOD'S ONLY PROVIDED PLACE OF WORSHIP

But that's the stone that caps the whole thing, that makes it the pyramid through the complete seven church ages. Add grace, add this, add this, there's seven adds, the last one is Christ. Add this to your charity, add grace to your grace, add something else, and something else, till it gets up to Christ is the Headstone, "And I am the Door."

There are not seven layers that are added to each other with the Capstone Love not being added as that is Christ.

There is a foundation of Faith with seven things being added. The seventh add is Love.

But that is your personal capstone as Christ fills you with His Holy Spirit. That capstone has come when you are Spirit-filled.

There is a second Capstone to the entire church and the church’s Capstone is the Second Coming of Christ. That Capstone, the 7^th Seal, has not come yet.

1965-1128  GOD'S ONLY PROVIDED PLACE OF WORSHIP

Sometime the Capstone will return, the head of all of it, and receive the Bride unto Himself;

Please remember that the big events are still in the future, not the past.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

The day I laid that cornerstone yonder, and I put that in there; I wrote on there what He showed me that morning in a vision: "Be instant in season, out of season, rebuke with all long-suffering and doctrine, for the time will come when they'll not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lust shall heap for themselves together teachers having itching ears and be turned away from the truth into fables."

[Satan has been on overtime, imitating and changing the truth into something unscriptural that sounds clever. Satan uses man’s head to produce clever ideas. God uses man’s heart to believe what is written in Scripture.]

… Will be a good thing that he doesn't know anything about it, because if he did, then he would impersonate that. That's his tricks in doing things. So therefore, God has made it so hid to the whole world, even to heaven, that there is no way of understanding it, only as God will reveal it Himself.