Revelation 08:2 – 13 The first four Trumpets

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All the mysteries are revealed then the 7 Thunders

REVELATION 8:1   “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”

The Seventh Seal is very mysterious. It ends the 7 church ages for the Bride by catching them up to Heaven. It also ends the calling out of the 144000 Jews from great Tribulation. It ends the purging of our world system at Armageddon and ushers in the Millennium after the judgements have fallen in the 3.5 years of great Tribulation.

60-1231  REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR.1

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. So He keeps His Word, doesn't He?

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

“I just know that those seven thunders holds that mystery, that heavens was quieted.”

The seven mysterious Thunders will eventually reveal the mystery of the Seventh Seal which is the Coming of the Lord.

64-0119  SHALOM

“And when the great Director comes down and bears that stick down, then, ‘time shall be no more.’ 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 will rise up from among the dead. While the rest of them lay there, you will go in.”

The seven Thunders utter when the mighty Angel comes down to raise the dead. The Bride will step into their immortal bodies, and thus, they will step outside of time.

REVELATION 10:2   “And he [mighty Angel] had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,”

All the dead saints from the last 2000 years are buried either at sea or on the earth.

REVELATION 10:3   “And

cried with a loud voice,

as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”

A lion roars. The Lion of the tribe of Judah raises the dead saints in triumph.

JOHN 11:43   “And when he thus had spoken, he

cried with a loud voice,

Lazarus, come forth.”

Jesus “cried with a loud voice” at the resurrection of Lazarus.

Thus, “cried with a loud voice” indicates a resurrection.

The seven Thunders thus utter after the resurrection of the New Testament saints.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

“Revelations the 10th chapter and the 7th verse. 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.”

“In the days of this great thing to happen”.

The coming down of the Angel and the uttering of the 7 Thunders is a future event.

When all the written mysteries have been revealed, only then can the unwritten 7 Thunders utter their voices.

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

“Now is It plain? When the First Seal was opened, the Seals that was inside the Book, these mysteries that was sounded forth: justification, sanctification, Roman Catholic church, Protestants! And when all their little battles and things left these loose ends in the Word of God, the seventh angel comes on and gathers them all up and explains them. See? And then, he finishes, Seven Thunders utter out.”

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.”

Brother Branham will reveal all the mysteries before these seven Thunders utter.

7^th Seal and 7 Thunders for both Bride and 144000 Jews

The Seventh Seal is for Jews and Gentiles. The seven Thunders are for Jews and Gentiles.

63-0318  THE FIRST SEAL

“And then there's coming forth seven mysterious thunders that's not even written at all. That's right. And I believe that through those seven thunders will be revealed in the last days in order to get the Bride together for rapturing faith; because what we got right now, we wouldn't be able to do it. There's something we've got to step farther; we can't have enough faith for Divine healing hardly. We've got to have enough faith to be changed in a moment and be swept up out of this earth,”

The seven Thunders have to show the Bride how to change our bodies into immortal bodies as we cannot be raptured in these sinful bodies.

That will take great supernatural power.

Then the seven Thunders utter to give the two Jewish prophets incredible supernatural power over Nature. That will protect Israel during the 3.5 years of great Tribulation.

63-0321  THE FOURTH SEAL

“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.”

Moses and Elijah are the two prophets to the Jews during geat Tribulation time. They will have amazing supernatural power over nature.

Elias is the Greek name of Elijah. He caused a 3.5-year drought.
JAMES 5:17   Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

Moses called for a grievous plague of flies in Egypt.
EXODUS 8:24   And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

EXODUS 8:25   And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

One side of the next pyramid shows the lion, ox, man, and eagle representing four heavenly beasts around the throne to protect the church during the 7 church ages. Then, the church is caught up to Heaven during the Fourth Seal just before great Tribulation (shown in yellow) starts. Meanwhile, on the other side, we have the Fifth Seal for those Jews who were killed for being Jews during the seven church ages. Their Temple and Jerusalem were destroyed in AD 70 by the pagan Roman general Titus who slew 1.1 million Jews. That unleashed a demonic spirit of hatred against the Jews.

This hatred of the Jews ran through church history and produced the Holocaust of Hitler when 6 million Jews were killed during World War 2. The 2023 Hamas-Israeli war again unleashes a hatred of the Jews amongst the nations.

Anti-Jewish hatred and violence will encourage or force some Jews to move back to Israel. God’s next Plan is to force all the Jews back to Israel.

The Sixth Seal reveals the 3.5 years of great Tribulation. Two-thirds of the Jews will be killed before the 144000 Jews are brought to Christ by the two Jewish prophets, Moses and Elijah

ZECHARIAH 13:8   And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

Then Armageddon takes place before the Millennium or thousand years of Peace is ushered in once the judgements of great Tribulation (the trumpets and vials) are finished.

The 7 Trumpets are disasters that force the Jews back to Israel. The 7 Vials are judgements that strike the world because they rejected brother Branham's revelation of the Bible's mysteries. Thus, they never returned to the beliefs of the apostles in the first church age.

The Seventh Seal is mysterious as it involves Christ Coming first to His church and then to the Jews. The mystery of the Seventh Seal is wrapped up in the mystery of the unwritten seven Thunders.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

“One of the mystery of that [Seventh] 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.”

Please remember, we can know absolutely nothing about the silent Seventh Seal.

We also know absolutely nothing about the unwritten seven Thunders, except for their future function to give the Bride her revival and empower the two Jewish prophets.

The Bride has gone and God summons the Jews to Israel

REVELATION 8:2   “And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.”

The Seventh Seal in Revelation 8:1 saw the Gentile church mysteriously raptured when the seven Thunders got them ready for the Coming of Christ.

The scene switches to Israel as Moses and Elijah have to gather the Jews back in Israel in order for the 144000 to get ready to meet Christ.

Trumpets. What do these trumpets symbolize?

NUMBERS 10:1   And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

:2     Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them:

that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly,

and for the journeying of the camps.

:3   And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

The Israelites had to assemble at the door. But, Jesus is the Door. He will only meet the Jews of today in Palestine.

Two Trumpets (symbolizing Moses and Elijah as the end-time prophets to Israel) called the Jews to an assembly to prepare them for a journey. The journey today is for the Jews to return back to Israel from the various parts of the world where they now are.

Today there are about 9 million Jews in Israel and about 9 million Jews scattered throughout the rest of the world.

Thus, God will use seven Trumpets (which will be supernatural events) to summon or force the Jews back to Israel from all the parts of the world where they have been scattered.

REVELATION 8:3   “And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.”

“Much incense”. Incense represents prayer. Much prayer is needed for humans to get into the will of God, to find out what God wants from us today in our present circumstances.

REVELATION 8:4   “And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.”

This indicates that we humans need angelic help. Unseen angels help us to understand the revealed Scriptures. Then we know what to pray for in terms of God's Kingdom.

REVELATION 8:5   “And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.”

The rapture has happened and now it is a time of Judgement. Fire, thunder, lightning, earthquake. Symbols of judgement. A harsh time indeed.

Angels helped us to serve God and find His Will while Jesus was on the Mercy Seat. Judgement happens when mercy is over. Then angels will be involved in sounding out the judgements that make people suffer.

REVELATION 8:6   “And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.”

Seven Trumpets represent seven judgements that will strike the earth in order to force the Jews back to Israel.

The judgement-trumpets will not affect the Bride who will be in Heaven by that time.

Thus, we do not really understand what these trumpets mean.

But there is a bit of a similar pattern between the first four of the seven trumpets and the first four of the seven church ages.

The first four church ages are mentioned in Revelation Chapter 2.

By the fourth church age of Thyatira, the Bible’s truth was lost in the awful Dark Ages when tens of millions of Christians were slaughtered by the Roman Catholic church.

In a similar fashion, Revelation Chapter 8 mentions only the first four Trumpets.

The Trumpets sound during the 3½ years of great Tribulation. That is when the final Pope will rule the world as the man of sin. Bible truth will be wiped out from the Gentiles as the foolish virgins are slaughtered. They were saved before great Tribulation started but were fooled into thinking that they did not have to master the revelation of the Bible mysteries. Thus, they were unable to return to the beliefs of the first church age where each local church was ruled by a group of local elders, not by a pastor.

Jews are one third of humanity

God only chose one nation, the Jews. God thus sees three groups of humanity consisting of Jews and Gentiles, and their mixture is called Samaritans, who are partly Jew and partly Gentile.

The first four Trumpets have an emphasis on one-third. What does that mean?

“Third” is mentioned 11 times in Chapter 8. Actually 12 times if we include the “third angel”.

12 speaks of the 12 tribes of Israel.

We speak of one-third as a number. God speaks of one-third as a kind of person as God divides humanity into three groups: Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans.

Thus, a “third” is somehow referring to how these first four Trumpets affect the Jews. God uses the Trumpets to drive the Jews back to Palestine.

REVELATION 8:7   “The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.”

REVELATION 8:8   “And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;”

REVELATION 8:9   “And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.”

REVELATION 8:10   “And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;”

REVELATION 8:11   “And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”

REVELATION 8:12   “And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.”

The only Trumpet that we may be able to understand to some extent is the first Trumpet. Hail and fire. That happened when Moses was preparing for the Exodus of the Jews out of Egypt.

EXODUS 9:24   “So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.”

When Jews see hail burning with fire, they will remember the first Exodus, and some will realize that God is planning another Exodus of the Jews back to the Promised Land. The hail and fire will be mingled with blood which sounds ominous. It will be a rough time indeed.

Stars can symbolize the seed of Abraham, the true Jewish believers.

GENESIS 15:5    And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Stars can also symbolize the wise virgins of Matthew Chapter 25, the Christian saints who are able to understand the mysteries of God for their church age.

DANIEL 12:3   And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

:10   … but the wise shall understand.

Matthew Chapter 25 speaks of the wise virgins, the Bride. They are the saved Christians who can understand the mysteries of the revealed Scriptures.

The dragon represents the spirit of Satan

REVELATION 12:3   And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

The dragon is Satan’s power on earth. When Jesus was born it was the pagan Roman Empire whose centre of power was on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. This was one of the seven hills that the original city of Rome was built upon.

To become a city they had to build a wall around the seven hills.

REVELATION 17:9   And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

This pagan Roman Empire would later be destroyed by barbarian invaders. The only Roman institution to survive the barbarian migrations and invasions was the Roman Catholic Church. Their headquarters was the Lateran Palace on the Caelian Hill. The pagan Roman Emperor lost his power which was picked up later by the Pope. To assume power over the pagan barbarians, the Roman Catholic Church modified Christian doctrines to fit in with Greek philosophy, such as Trinity, One-God-in-three-Persons, Eternal-Sonship, Father-and-Son-are-coequal, etc., which are all unscriptural statements. In addition, they introduced Pagan festivals like the unscriptural Christmas, 25 December, Christmas tree, Good Friday, Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, Lent, holy water, sign of the cross, etc.

The Bible never asked us to celebrate or remember the birth of the Lord.

REVELATION 12:4   And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

God does not look at the number of people. He looks at the type of person.

The only nation that He chose was the Jews. So, the Jews are the first group of people. The second group was the Gentiles who were the vast majority. Then, a third group was the Samaritans, who were a mixture of Jews and Gentiles.

“One-third” represents the Jews.

The “tail” of the dragon represents his “tale” or story.

Satan fooled the Jews into adopting unscriptural religious leadership structures. Pharisees and Sadducees are never mentioned in the Old Testament but the Pharisees became the head of the synagogues. The Sadducees rose up in the Temple.

Revelation 12:4 does NOT refer to the angels who rebelled with Lucifer at the beginning.

Lucifer was not stronger than God. If Lucifer was only able to convince one-third of the angels to follow him, then that third would have no chance against the two-thirds of the angels who remained loyal to God. Lucifer would not have been so stupid as to begin a revolt with a minority of angels when he knew that he was weaker than God.

Being captive in Babylon made the Jews unscriptural

The Jews were taken into Babylonian captivity around 600 BC.

When they returned from exile, they accepted that Pharisees and Sadducees were now their religious leaders. These words represent a Babylonian corruption of the Old Testament.

(Today we have a pastor as the head of a church. That is also a corruption of the New Testament as the early churches were ruled by a group of elders, never by one man. No New Testament church had a pastor in charge. That is a corruption that came from pagan beliefs who always had a priest in charge of each temple as it was an efficient business model. Today, we see a Pastor and Son in charge of a church. Keeps the money in the family. Jesus was killed after he chased the money-makers out of the Temple on Palm Sunday and then again on the following Monday. Threatening a religious leader’s money twice was crossing a red line of danger. They killed Him on the Thursday. He had to be three nights in the tomb, like Jonah. Thursday night. Friday night. Saturday night. Then he rose up on Sunday. The church changed that to a Friday death and called it the unscriptural Good Friday, followed by the meaningless and unscriptural Easter Monday, three days later. Nothing happened on that Monday. Friday is named after Freya, the fish goddess. For hundreds of years Catholics ate fish on a Friday in memory of her, as part of their woman worship that also involved praying to Mary.)

The Jews then worshipped in “synagogue”, a word that is only mentioned once in the Old Testament.

(Baptism in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is only mentioned once in the New Testament. The Roman Catholic Church then introduced baptism in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost because they accepted the unscriptural pagan idea of “Trinity”.

Trinity consists of three Persons. They cannot find one name for three Persons, and thus they have no clue what the name of Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is.

The big secret that the churches hide behind those three titles is that the Trinity God has no name. They cannot explain why nobody in the Book of Acts was ever baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

And, the church at the end of the seventh and last church age is meant to go back to the beliefs of the first church age.

They baptized in the name of Jesus. Many men would have the name of Jesus. So, to specify which Jesus, they had to add in at least one title. Lord Jesus or Jesus Christ. (Christ means Anointed One). Or we can use both titles, Lord Jesus Christ. But the human name of God is Jesus.

As the Father, God was above the Jews. As the Son, God was with the Jews. Emmanuel means God with us. As the Holy Ghost, God was in the church. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost means God above, with, and in us.

REVELATION 12:4   And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

The dragon is Satan’s power on earth. Around 100 BC pagan Rome was rising to be the new world Empire.

The “tail” or “tale” that Satan fooled the Jews with was that their unscriptural spiritual leaders, the Pharisees or Sadducees, were to be obeyed and the Temple was to be used as a centre for money-making. Thus, the Jews fell away from the Old Testament as they followed the beliefs and traditions of their leaders. (Today the pastor claims to be the head of the church and that the tithes belong to him. Both claims are unscriptural).

In 63 BC the Roman general Pompey captured Jerusalem. The Jews were cruelly ruled by Rome and developed a fanatical hatred of the Roman people. Satan convinced them that what they really wanted was a Messiah to throw off the Roman yoke. (Churches today have also developed an intense involvement in politics that makes them hate political opponents. This is the corruption of the red horse of political power in the Second Seal of Revelation Chapter 6. Politics can wield the sword of death, either killing the person or by character assassination).

Politics makes us focus on what we can gain in this life. Political sentiment today is making people oppose the Jews and favour the Palestinians. Thus, politics makes people oppose the Plan of God, Who wants to restore the Jews to their Promised Land.)

When Jesus was born, it was the pagan Roman Empire whose centre of power was on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, which was run by the dragon spirit of Rome. This spirit hated the Jews and slew 1.1 million Jews in AD 70 under the Roman General Titus. This is when the Jews were really dragged down and crushed by Rome physically.

Satan got the Jewish religious leaders to demand the crucifixion of Christ. Their leaders led the Jews to destruction as they had lost their desire to be Scriptural.

Those Jews were then blotted out of the Book of Life. They were dragged down out of their heavenly place as God’s chosen nation. The only nation that God ever chose.

REVELATION 8:13   And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

Four supernatural trumpets had sounded. Four disasters had struck the Jews during great tribulation which had forced many of them to return to Israel. But many stubborn Jews were still refusing to return. They were making too much money amongst the Gentile people. They were too well established amongst the Gentiles. Only severe circumstances would force them out. The last three Trumpets would achieve this.