Revelation 08:1 The Seventh Seal Part 2

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The Mystery of God is not the Mysteries of God

REVELATION 10:7   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.

The seventh angel (William Branham from America) had to reveal the Mysteries (plural) of God. But he only finished revealing the Mysteries (plural) of the Scriptures by the end of his ministry in 1965. When he began to sound and record his sermons in 1947 he still had many wrong church ideas as there was still much that God had to teach him.

The Bible Mysteries were certainly not finished in 1947.

It took him 18 years to reveal the Mysteries of God (plural) in the Scriptures, 1947 – 1965.

The mystery of God (singular) “should” be finished. That means something is going to go wrong.

Brother Branham, despite making some mistakes, did reveal all the Mysteries that the Bride needs to know in order to be ready for the Second Coming.

So, the Mysteries (plural) have been revealed.

But the Mysteries revealed that the apostles planted a seed of the Word in the first church age that died at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 when Trinity was added to the Bible and then Christmas and 25 December were added around AD 350 by Pope Julius 1. The seed of the Word of God was then buried in the dirt and violence of the Dark Ages. Luther in Germany saw the leaves of Reformation begin to germinate as he restored salvation by faith and not by works. John Wesley in England restored holiness and outreach. This led to the great missionary age where the pollen of Eternal Life blew across the fields.

Pentecost restored the gifts of the Holy Spirit that formed a husk around the seed Word that was ripening in the sunlight. Brother Branham restored the sunlight of the Word by revealing the Mysteries (plural) of the Word of God.

The final step is for the Bride to study the quotes of his Message until they can be restored back to the beliefs of the early New Testament church of the Apostles, which never had a Pastor in charge of a church. This last step is a hidden Mystery (singular) that has been missed by the Message churches who rushed in to organize their churches on the denominational pattern. That will get them nowhere in terms of Bible truth.

The Mystery of God (singular) is when individuals can link up and interact over the internet using programs like Zoom to form a local church that can be run by a group of local elders who prove their beliefs just from the Bible. Then the seed will be the same as the seed that was planted and that will produce the harvest of the Latter Rain. The harvest is when the seed is pulled off the dead plant. When the Bride is pulled off the earth to meet the Lord in the air.

This last step happens in the days of the VOICE of the seventh angel who is not the Voice of God. Since 1966 we have had to rely on his recorded voice that has been put into print on the internet as we strive to understand the Mysteries (plural) that guide us to fulfill the final Mystery of God. The united heart of us spiritual children who desire to be restored back to the Bible beliefs of our apostolic fathers.

MALACHI 4:5   Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

[The 3½ years of great tribulation].

MALACHI 4:6   And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, [John the Baptist]

and the heart of the children to their fathers, [the Message of William Branham that revealed the Mysteries of Scripture]

lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. [A curse lingers. The curse of fatal radiation that lingers after nuclear explosions during the time of great Tribulation].

There is something that cannot be understood

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

And notice the next thing now. I took some kind of a bar and cut it off, and on the inside was white rock that had nothing wrote on it. And at that time I started to the west. And I told them all; I said, "Don't go out west. Stay here and look on this till I return." Went west for the blast, returned back to the east with the Holy Spirit interpreting this unwritten Word.

What did brother Branham say about the unwritten Word in order to interpret the unwritten Word? There are three topics that are unwritten.

1. The Seventh Seal was not written in the Bible. It is just silence.
2. The new name of Jesus is not written in the Bible.
3. What the seven Thunders say and what they are is not written in the Bible. He only revealed that their future purpose is to give the Bride rapturing faith and to give supernatural power to the two Jewish prophets Moses and Elijah.

But brother Branham revealed the Seventh Seal to be the Second Coming of the Lord. But that is the greatest mystery in Scripture so we do not know when He comes nor how He comes.

He revealed that the new name of Jesus will only be known when our bodies have changed so that we are sinless and no longer need the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins. When you take on a new name, you no longer use the old name. But sin can only be forgiven in the name of Jesus.

In our sinless changed bodies we will also be able to be part of the Heavenly dimension. We will have minds that are far cleverer than our present minds. Our understanding will be at a far higher level than what we can now understand.

1965 CHURCH AGES BOOK

His name will be far more glorious than what we can understand.

JOHN 3:13   even the Son of man which is in Heaven.

Jesus was also in Heaven while He was on earth. He lived in the earthly dimensions and in the Heavenly dimensions simultaneously.

But those who think they know the new name can no longer use the old name of Jesus and thus their sins cannot be forgiven.

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

You cannot know the new name while you are in a sinful body.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

But there's a secret lays beneath that. Glory to God in the highest. I can never think the same the rest of my life, when I seen...

Now, I don't know what... I know the next step there, but I don't know what, how to interpret that. It won't be long. I've got wrote down here when it happened, if you can see here, "STOP! Go no further than this right here."

… And just then He picked me up. And He took me up and set me way up high to where a meeting was going on, looked like a tent or a cathedral of some sort. And I looked, and there was a little box-like, little place over in the side. And I seen that Light was talking to somebody above me, that Light that you see there on the picture. It whirled away from me, like that, and went over to that tent, and said, "I'll meet you there."

And said, "This will be the third pull, and you won't tell it to nobody."

And in Sabino Canyon, He said, "This is the third pull." And there's three great things that goes with it, and one unfolded today, or yesterday, the other one unfolded today,

and there's one thing that I cannot interpret, because it's in an unknown language.

[We cannot know an unknown language]

But I was standing right there and looked right straight at it, and this is the third pull coming up. And the Holy Spirit of God... Oh, my. That's the reason all heaven was silent.

Now, I'd better stop right here. I just feel checked not to say no more about it.

So just remember, the Seventh Seal, the reason it was not opened, the reason It did not reveal it, no one should know about it.

Those who say they know what the Seventh Seal is, are simply deceived.

… Now, what this great secret is that lays beneath this Seal, I do not know. I don't know it. I couldn't make it out. I couldn't tell it, just what it, and, just what it said. But I know that it was them seven thunders uttering themselves right close together, just banging seven different times, and it unfolded into something else that I seen.

Then when I seen that, I looked for the interpretation that flew across there, and I couldn't make it out.

[Because it was in an unknown language].

That's exactly right, friend. See? The hour isn't quite yet for it, but it's moving into that cycle. See? It's coming up close. So the thing for you to do is to remember that I speak to you in the Name of the Lord: Be prepared,

for you don't know what time something can happen.

[Nobody knows the time of these end-time events.]

… I don't know who's going to--what's going to take place. I do not know. I just know that those seven thunders holds that mystery, that heavens was quieted.

The seven Thunders are a total mystery because they hold the greatest of mysteries, the Coming of the Lord.

You cannot be raptured before your body is changed to an immortal body. So, the Thunders have to reveal how our bodies are changed before we can be prepared for that greatest of mysteries, the Coming of the Lord.

Jews restored between the Sixth and Seventh Seals

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

Now, this interval between the sixth--the Seals is a calling and sealing of the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews called in the tribulation period after the Church is gone. See? It has nothing to do with the church age at all. Oh, called in perfectly in harmony with the Scripture, Daniel's last three and one half weeks allotted to Daniel's people. See? Not the Gentiles, to Daniel's people, and Daniel was a Jew.

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Between the Sixth and Seventh Seal, is the calling out of Israel.

…  this Sixth Seal was let loose, and that's the tribulation period.

… Now, learn a parable of the fig tree; When its branches is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

So likewise ye, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the door.

That last--that question they asked Him: "And what will be the sign of the end of the world?" When you see these Jews... When you see these other things taking place, you know what takes place. Now, when you see these Jews... Talking to the Jews...

Now, watch. What company is He talking to? Gentiles? Jews, Jews. See? Now, He said, "You'd be hated of all nations for My Name," and so forth like... Now, when He said... You see these Jews begin to put forth their buds over yonder, when that Israel begins to turn back, getting into her country, when she gets there, the Church is ready to rapture, and there's only three and a half years left unto the end of the old world, and she goes out into chaos, and in comes the Millennium to the new earth. Said, "Even at the door."

Now, one thousand years on earth is only one day with God. And three and one half years, what would it go to? So many seconds in God's time.

[About 5 minutes and 4 seconds]

That's the reason He said, "It is at the door." "Verily I say unto you that this generation shall not be consumed (done away with, this people) until all these things are..." what? What won't be done away with? They've tried to kill the Jew off the earth all the time. They'll never be able to do it.

But notice, the very generation of Jews that seen the return back into Palestine, that generation would see these things happen.

…  Now, if God's going to purge that virgin that was a good woman, [the foolish virgin of Matthew 25] but she just failed to get oil in her lamp, and He's going to purge her through persecution in there [during great tribulation], He puts them tribes right in there for the same thing, and purges them during the time of the tribulation period, because it is a purging; it's judgment.

The 3.5 years of great tribulation is a judgement time on earth. Not the Day of Judgement as that comes after the Millennium of 1000 years.

The Mysteries help us understand the Mystery of God

Only the seventh angel can finish the many mysteries that the modern church cannot see.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

When the first went forth, it was a lion. That was prophet's Word. The next went forth was the work, sacrifice. The next come forth was the cunningness of man. But we are promised in the last day that to return to the church again for the benefit of straightening up all that has been misled--misundone--left undone,

for it's predicted here that the seventh angel's message would finish the mysteries of God.

… And could you imagine the churches, still under the tradition of the reformers, would ever receive a prophet from God who would be firmly against their teachings and organizations?

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

Now, the scales of blindness was on these people's eyes. They couldn't help it. It was there, and God put it there. And they are on there until the age that they are promised this coming prophets... You can send missionaries; you can do whatever you want to; Israel will never be converted until these prophets come on the scene, and that will be after the rapture of the Gentile Church. No more than the ox age could receive a lion's call--for God has said in His Word that an ox spirit went out; and in the reformer's age, a man went out. See? That's the only thing they could receive. And in there now, they are blinded. That's just all there is to it.

The denominational age of the Man that blessed human thinking and learning cannot receive the spiritual insight of the Eagle-age.

That is why modern churches cannot understand the mysteries of the written Word. They are stuck in yesterday mode when the human wisdom of the Reformers developed Trinity, Christmas, Good Friday, and the pastor is the head of the church.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

Same thing it is right here in the Gentile church now. It's an elected group. You can't pull them in that kind of stuff. They won't believe it. No, sir. The Light once struck them, that settles it right then. They see it happen, and then see it vindicated and proved, and like that,

and they look down here in the Bible and see that Word just going ---

That is the main mistake that many Message groups make. They do not take the quotes back to Scripture in order to understand the Scripture.

… That's the reason I believe, friends; I've always tried to stay with that Word no matter how strange it seems.

Always bring the quotes back to Scripture and prove brother Branham’s statements from Scripture.

… it said, "The Sword of the King," and there's only one "the King," and that's God. and He has one Sword; that's His Word, what I live by.

… Maybe this ministry that I have tried to take people back to the Word has laid a foundation; and if it has, I'll be leaving you for good.

Brother Branham tried in his ministry to take the people back to Scripture and build their faith on the Holy King James Bible.

If you reject the Holy King James Bible then you have to choose between over 100 different English versions of the Bible. Consequently, you have to believe that no Bible is perfect. But Jesus is the Word of God and Jesus is Perfect.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

The Kingdom of God is coming.

In 1963, the big events are still all in the future.

63-0127  AN ABSOLUTE

And the Word of God is His Absolute.

63-1216  WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR AND HAVE COME TO WORSHIP HIM

It means just what It says. The Bible said, "It's of no private interpretation." If It says, if It says, "black is black, and white is white," that's just what it is. It's the Ultimate. It's the Absolute.

63-1226  CHURCH ORDER

Because you get two man, you got two opinions. It's got to come to one final absolute, and my absolute is the Word, the Bible. And as a pastor here of the church, my absolute is the Word, and I want... I know you are brothers, you kind of look to me to be your absolute to what... as long as I follow God as Paul said in the Scripture, "You follow me, as I follow Christ."

Brother Branham is not the absolute. The Bible is the absolute. Thus, we only follow brother Branham as long as he is following the Bible and basing his beliefs on Scripture.

He said he was “a pastor”. Here was more than one pastor. That means the pastor is not the head of the church. No New Testament church ever had a pastor as its head.

62-1230  ABSOLUTE

And we know, Lord, that we are finite. No matter who we are, we're still mortal.

But, not the messenger, but the Message.

Grant it, Lord. That's where we point, to Jesus Christ the Son of God. Grant that He will be so real to every one here today, even to the little children, that He will become the absolute of the entire congregation.

The Message of brother Branham is important as it takes us back to Scripture. The messenger as a man is not important.

Time and everything end up on that Seventh Seal

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

We must remember that this Seventh Seal is the end of time of all things. That's right. The things written in the Seven Seal Book (sealed up of the plan of redemption from before the foundation of the world), it every bit ends. It is the end; it is the end of the struggling world. It's the end of struggling nature. It's the end of everything. In there is the end of the trumpets. It's the end of the vials. It's the end of the earth. It's even the end of time. Time runs out; the Bible said so.

Revelation 10:7. Time runs out. The angel said, "Time will be no more," in the days of this great thing to happen. Everything runs out in this time, at the end of this Seventh Seal.

Notice, it's the end of the church age. It's the end of the Seven Seals. It's the end of the trumpets. It's the end of the vials,

and even ends the ushering in of the Millennium; that's on the Seventh Seal.

It's just like firing a rocket into the air, and that rocket explodes here, and it goes up, then it explodes again. It puts out five stars. One of those stars explodes and blows out five stars from it; and then one of them stars explodes, blows out five stars from it (See?); it fades on out. That's what the Seventh Seal; it just ends the time for the world. It ends the time for this. It means the time for that. It ends the time for this. It ends the time... Everything just ended up on that Seventh Seal. Now, how is He going to do it? That's what we don't know, isn't it? We don't know.

It's even the time for all these things, and the ushering in of the Millennium.

Notice, the breaking of this Seal was so great that heaven was hushed by it in silence for the space of a half hour. Now, is it great? What is it? It was hushed: heaven. There wasn't a thing moved for a half hour.

60-1231  REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR.1

After the rest of them was dead and gone, John lived to see the coming of the Lord rehearsed in power,

the whole scene set from his time until the Judgments is over and the Millennium is issued in.

John saw every bit of it, and the Millennium over, and the Kingdom Age started.

The Millennium is only ushered in or issued in when the Judgements of the 3.5 years (or 1260 days) of great Tribulation are over.

This ushering in takes a time interval of 75 days before the 1335 days are over and people are blessed as the Millennium starts.

This ushering in will start the cleaning-up process after the battle of Armageddon.

REVELATION 11:3   And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

DANIEL 12:12   Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

1335 – 1260 = 75 days

63-0728  CHRIST S THE MYSTERY OF GOD REVEALED

Then, we can see that the Marriage Supper is at hand. Now, if I never see you again, remember, the Marriage Supper is at hand. And then the Kingdom according to the promise is ready to be issued in, the great Millennium, the taking up of the Church, and the destroying of the wicked.

And the world, under the Sixth Seal, to be purified by volcanic, to take all the corruption and sin of the world and to mold her out again, and bring forth a bright new Millennium

for the age that is to come.

The purpose of great Tribulation is to purge and cleanse the world of sin so that the new Kingdom of the Millennium can be set up.

56-0408  WHAT IS A VISION

All these kingdoms must fall that the Kingdom of God might be issued in, in its brightness, and the great Millennium come into place.

But that's an error. Because the Millennium can't come, can't be issued in, without the coming of Christ.

60-1211  THE TEN VIRGINS AND THE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR THOUSAND JEWS

Christ brings in the Millennium, He's the Son of prosperity; and when He comes,

then will be a thousand years. And when it is, there'll be the Rapture of the Church will go up, and then the return of Christ. And remember now, when... For what's the next thing we're looking for? The Rapture of the Church.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

No angels singing, no praises, no altar service, no nothing. There was silence, hush, deadly silence in heaven for a half hour. All the host of heaven was silent for this half hour, when this Seventh Seal mystery in the Book of Redemption was broke open. Think of it; but it's broke. The Lamb breaks it. You know what? They were awed by it, I believe. They didn't know. There it was; they just stopped. Why? What is it?

… We're at the end, friend. Soon it shall be time run out. Millions will lose their lives. Millions will be--that now believe that they are saved will be counted fodder for the atomic age.

We are living at the last hour. By the grace of Almighty God, by His help, to His people that they might look forward to the soon appearing of Christ... "How long, Brother Branham?" Maybe twenty years, maybe in fifty years, maybe in a hundred years; I don't know. And maybe in the morning, maybe yet tonight; I don't know. And anybody that says they do know, they're wrong. See? They won't know. God only knows.

The appearing of Christ is still in the unknown future as this sermon was preached 24 days after the supernatural cloud of 1963. So, obviously, the supernatural cloud had nothing to do with the future appearing of Christ. The 42-kilometer high cloud was simply the sign of the Son of man in the heaven as it was accompanied by an equally high smoke cloud from an exploding rocket.

The smaller cloud at the back is the smoke cloud as both clouds were briefly seen for about half an hour after sunset from Winslow over Flagstaff City in Arizona.

The smoke cloud had been prophesied by Peter .
ACTS 2:19   And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:

Water vapour makes rain clouds. So, smoke vapour makes a smoke cloud.

Brother Branham wanted Joseph to use his Bible

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

If it's my going home time, let me go up here where they'll never find me. I don't want nobody to be mourning around if I'm going. I--I want just the family to think that I just took a walk, and they won't find me. Hide me away somewhere. If I'm going to go away, why, just let me go.

Maybe Joseph will find my Bible laying here someday, and let him use It.

… And when it comes to the time that I must lay down, when I get down to the river, and the waves begin to come in, O God, may I be able to hand this old Sword over to somebody else that'll be honest with It, Lord, and will pack the truth. Grant it, Lord. Until then, help me to be strong and healthy and courageous.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

And then I thought, "Well, what is it, Lord?" And I walked up and down the floor awhile. I'd kneel down and pray, go back and pick up the Bible, set down, and read, walk back and forth. And then all of a sudden when I got quiet, here it just unfolded like that. Then I'd grab a pen right quick, and go to writing it down like that, whatever I was seeing and doing, watching it like that till I got it wrote down. Then I'd take the rest of the day and go down and chase this out and see if it tied all the way down through the Scriptures. Then it...

"Prove all things." See?

And I got this here, and I think, "Now, there's many people had visions. There's many been in revelations."

If it's contrary to the Word, leave it alone.

That's right; leave it alone.

59-0628  A DECEIVED CHURCH BY THE WORLD

"Samson, the Philistines is on thee." Branham Tabernacle, worldlyism is creeping in among you.

What about it? Have you exposed your secret? Have you exposed that secret that God give you when you were wallowing there in the sawdust a few years ago? Have you let it creep out by social, formal worship? What's happened to you? God can come down and perform a miracle, and go right down through the audience, and tell people the secrets of their hearts, and everything, and heal the sick and afflicted, and do signs and wonders, and preach His Word as hard as they can by the Holy Ghost, and people say, "Well, I guess that's all right. We enjoy listening to it once in a while, if we're not too tired."

That's Branham Tabernacle. The Philistines is on thee.

54-0512  THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES

Lukewarm, that's a horrible condition for the church to be in. You don't watch, the Branham Tabernacle's got in that same sway.

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May you always bear that in mind: to be a gem in the crown of Jesus Christ. Paul said to the church, "You are the jewels, gems of His crown." We want to be the gems of the crown of Jesus Christ. We don't want never put a man in it. You forget anything about me. I am your brother, a sinner saved by grace, not fit to live; that's exactly the truth; and I ain't saying that to be humble; that's facts. There's nothing in me, not one sound thing at all.

But the grace of God has let my poor dimming eyes look beyond the curtain of time and see those things yonder, and I come back...---

Brother Branham had visions of the future opening of the Seven Seals in Heaven.

Then he came back from that Heavenly realm to reveal an outline of what we will see when the Seven Seals actually open in the future in their full details.

The Seven Seals only open in Revelation Chapter 6 after the Bride is caught up to Heaven in Revelation Chapter 4.