Revelation 06 Part 3 The Fourth Seal


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We live in the shadows of a world church that will kill all dissenters. We need a voice to explain the King James Bible

First published on the 7th of July 2023 — Last updated on the 27th of October 2023

Fourth Seal is a Voice to explain the King James Bible

A voice to help us understand the Bible mysteries. Then death to all those who get it wrong.

REVELATION 6:7     And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

Verse 7 tells us that it is the seventh church age, the last church age. Seven means completion.

REVELATION 6:8   And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Eight is a new system. The fearful great tribulation bursts unexpectedly on our modern church system that is complacently asleep.

MATTHEW 25:1    Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

:2   And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Virgins are clean women that represent saved Christians in the churches.

MATTHEW 25:5   While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

All the saved Christians in the church systems are fast asleep today.

The Fourth Seal starts in the days just before the 3½ years of great tribulation. That is when the errors of the churches become manifest in their inability to understand the mysteries of Scripture. The Message churches are also unable to understand much of the Bible because they were fooled into interpreting brother Branham’s quotes rather than using his quotes to reveal what the Scriptures mean.

There will be much persecution and rejection at the end for anyone who wants to believe the King James Bible.

DANIEL 12:10   Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand;

but the wise shall understand.

Only the wise virgins will understand the mysteries of Scripture.

For example:

Why did God say that “the evening and the morning were the first day”?

Why were the night and afternoon left out?

Why did God say nothing “good” about the second day?

How was there light on the first day if God only made the Sun on the fourth day?

In Genesis 1, God said “multiply”.  In Genesis 3, God said to Eve, “I will greatly multiply thy conception”.

GENESIS 1:27   So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

:28     And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,

GENESIS 3:16   Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;

Why did “multiply” change to “greatly multiply”?

If we cannot explain these, and many other Bible statements, then we cannot call ourselves the wise virgins who go the Wedding Supper.

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 Message-believers who follow William Branham made a big mistake by thinking brother Branham would forerun the Second Coming of the Man, Jesus Christ.

When Jesus never appeared in the flesh, they were fooled into thinking that William Branham was Jesus in the flesh.

But brother Branham came to forerun the opening up of the Word of God that could be understood by us.

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.

You cannot say that a quote is the truth. The quote is only true if it is reflected in the Scripture. Only the Scripture is the truth. You must use the quotes to explain the Scripture. That is the age that we are now living in.

The purpose of William Branham’s ministry was to reveal the mysteries of Scripture so that Christ could be seen walking through the pages of the King James Bible that we can now understand. Not revealing Jesus as a Man in the flesh. Revealing Jesus as the Word of God that we can understand.

Today, individuals must prove what they believe from Scripture after they have been taught by brother Branham how to understand the patterns and symbols of Scripture.

The last church age “of the Laodiceans” (the people, where they make up their own church beliefs).

REVELATION 3:14   And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;

Please note. The Bible does not say “the church of Laodicea” (the city). The church is no longer Scriptural as it has been taken over by the people.

Remember, the wise virgins are all complacently asleep in their churches.

MATTHEW 25:5   While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

That is what God thinks of the saved Christians of today. Fast asleep.

Remember in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic closed down all the churches during lockdown. That is what God thinks of our churches. Just something to be closed down.

Not one single parable concerning the end-time church says anything good about the church.

No prophecy that relates to the end-time church says anything good about the church.

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,

Scripture is our only righteousness

JOB 29:14   I put on righteousness, and it clothed me:

ROMANS 4:5   But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,

his faith is counted for righteousness.

ROMANS 10:17   So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Our spiritual clothes are righteousness. But our righteousness is faith which we get by hearing the Word of God.

Only the wise virgins can understand the mysteries of Scripture because they have the Oil of the Holy Spirit..

GALATIANS 3:2   This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Faith enables us to receive the Holy Ghost baptism which then guides us to enable us to understand the truth of Scripture.

Then we only speak from what we hear from the King James Bible.

But we must not make up our own ideas or follow other people’s ideas.

JOHN 16:13   Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself;

but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:

and he will shew you things to come.

William Branham had an amazing ministry with supernatural power. From 1947 to 1965 his recorded sermons gave us an incredible insight into the symbols, patterns, and mysteries of Scripture. His aim was always to make people Scriptural. This automatically aroused the opposition of the churches with their unscriptural traditions. They consequently rejected his ministry and his understanding of Scripture.

A vision of future events is a revelation

61-0611  REVELATION  CHAPTER  FIVE.1

Now, we find out that he [the apostle John] was lifted up into the heavens and saw from then until the coming of the Lord, as though he had been there and seen it all happen.

63-0321  THE  FOURTH  SEAL

Watch... Rides a pale horse as he appears on his ride, this last ride. He's on his last now.

Now, that is not in our day. That will be on down. It's the Seal foretold.

'Cause, see, the Church has done gone up when this happens.

The second verse of the Fourth Seal describes the future 3.5 years of great Tribulation after the Bride has been caught up to Heaven.

The first verse of the Fourth Seal describes the only way to gain the wisdom that will enable us to understand the King James Bible.

Not by emphasizing the man William Branham but by listening to his voice. Using his quotes to teach us what Scripture means so that we can be restored back to the beliefs of the first church age.

MATTHEW 17:11   And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.

JUDE 1:3   … it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Our responsibility is to get back to what the early church believed. Not to make up new doctrines to try to show how clever we are.

“Ye should earnestly contend for the faith”. It is going to take a lot of effort. Almost everyone will oppose you. Few will be on your side. Rejection and unpopularity will cross your path.

Studying the Scriptures is hard work. But God expects us to do that.

II TIMOTHY 2:15   Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

William Branham left the scene almost 60 years ago. So, the emphasis is not on him as a man. The emphasis is on the revelation that we are able to receive as we prove his quotes from the Scripture.

Brother Branham never claimed to be infallible. Many of his followers falsely claimed that he could not be corrected as he was 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.

You must also be able to recognize when he makes a mistake and correct it with Scripture or historical facts.

58-0928  THE SERPENT'S  SEED

After the death of the apostles, there what come the Nicene fathers, and they went on for several years (three hundred and twenty-five years) finally came to Nicaea, France, where they had the great Nicene Council.

[No. Nicaea is in Asia Minor, modern day Turkey. Not in France.]

And in there they formed these dogmas that the Catholic church has now, and also that's handed down to the Protestants.

And as I said it in the teaching this morning, each one of those church ages on up to that Thessalonica church age,

[No. There was no Thessalonica church age.  It was the Thyatira church age from AD 606 to AD 1520].

the fifteen hundred years of dark ages,

[No. The spiritual dark ages where they added Trinity, Christmas, Good Friday, God the Son, Archbishop, Cardinal, Pope, and banned the Bible, etc, were the third and fourth church ages from AD 312 to AD 1520 which is 1200 years. The dark ages ended in 1520 with Martin Luther’s Reformation. If the dark ages were 1500 years long, then Jesus was also in the dark ages. Impossible, as he is the Light of the world].

there was not one time but what He said, "You still have My name." And on this other side, they wasn't in Christ any more that come out in a denominational name: Catholic, Luther, Wesley, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, on down. But just before the closing of the age He said, "I've set before you an open door." See?

And that's the age that we believe we are in right now, the open door age,

between the last going out of the Laodicean church.

And it's exactly three hundred and twenty-five years to the Laodicean Council.

[No. The Council of Nicaea was AD 325 where the unscriptural word “Trinity” was added to the church beliefs. The Council of Laodicea or Laodicean Council was from AD 363 to 364 where the Roman Catholic Bishops removed the Book of Revelation from the Bible].

“And that's the age that we believe we are in right now, the open door age”.

REVELATION 3:7   And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write;

:8     I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door,

The open door age is the sixth church age of Philadelphia which was the missionary age.

Philadelphia is also part of the Third Seal, the black horse rider of Big Business demonology.

REVELATION 6:5   And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

Weighing out the Word of God. Selling the Scriptures.

So, that is where we are now.

Thanks to brother Branham’s revelations we have an open door to understand the mysteries of Scripture while the churches march on in their energetic pursuit of more money.

We live in the conditions of the sixth church age that have overflowed into the seventh church age which have made the church of the Laodiceans rich, lukewarm, and blind.

REVELATION 6:7   And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

The recorded voice of the end-time prophet calls us to see or understand the Scripture.

REVELATION 6:8   And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death,

And when the Bride can see the Scripture, then an awful scene occurs. Great Tribulation bursts on the scene. That spirit of antichrist is revealed as Death as he rides on the pale, sickly, corpse-coloured horse. When Death enters then Life has left. The Rapture or catching up of the church has happened.

Nothing good is said about the end-time church which has become a grievous disappointment to God.

We must check to see that what we think to be the truth was actually also believed by the early church.

Do not elevate the man William Branham

Message churches made a big mistake by elevating brother Branham to be the Son of man. A prophet can only be a son of man.

63-0324  THE SEVENTH SEAL
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...

God shows visions to a man but that does not mean that the man has to be elevated.

64-0830   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.3

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

for that Person of the Lord Jesus is setting at the right hand of the Majesty on high, and will come again in great power and glory. But for His Life that was in Him being upon me, and upon you who have Him, it's exactly the truth; and you become Christ.

Saying that brother Branham is Jesus Christ in the flesh, is totally wrong.

The apostle John was so impressed by what he was shown in visions about the Bride that was called to the marriage supper that he fell down to worship the man who showed him these things. He was sharply rebuked.

REVELATION 19:9   And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

:10   And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Brother Branham’s teachings of Scripture were recorded so that we could hear and understand the King James Bible. His recorded voice would prepare the modern Bride to understand the Bible and thus to be ready for the Coming of the Lord.

The biggest mistake that brother Branham’s followers can make is to promote him as infallible into the Godhead as the Voice of God, which is never promised in the New Testament.

Then, incredibly, in the last Chapter of the Bible, we find John repeating this mistake of worshipping the angel or messenger who described the events that would prepare people for the Coming of the Lord.

REVELATION 22:8   And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.

This is an emphasized warning to the message-followers not to replace Scripture with quotes. We must not elevate William Branham to the Godhead.

Brother Branham’s quotes came to explain Scripture, not to replace Scripture.

REVELATION 22:9   Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

It is essential that we stay with the written Scriptures of the King James Bible.

REVELATION 22:7   Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

“I come quickly”.

A similar scenario will occur at the end of the seventh church age just before the Coming of the Lord. The Nicolaitan pressure of many message-groups at the time of the Coming of the Lord will cause dedicated Christians to elevate and even worship the prophet, the seventh angel, who revealed these end-time mysteries to us.

Worshiping the angel promotes the angel to the Godhead.

The followers of William Branham made the fatal mistake of elevating the “voice of the seventh angel” to become the “Voice of God”.

The quotes of William Branham were recorded in order to help us understand the mysteries of Scripture.

His followers, mistakenly, began to replace Scripture with his quotes.

“I have a quote” is regarded as a more convincing argument than “It is written …”

They have also promoted him to the Godhead by declaring, wrongly, that brother Branham is infallible.

They reject anyone who claims that brother Branham can make a mistake. This gives ammunition to his critics who then point out where he did make mistakes.

HOSEA 4:6   My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:

because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,

The churches reject brother Branham because he disagrees with them.

All too many of his followers then corrupt his message by misinterpreting his quotes.

The big mistake that churches make is that they reject anyone who disagrees with them. Thus, they never hear a different opinion and cannot be corrected.

The Chinese government in 2023 began to silence any dissenting voices on social media platforms. Church pastors follow the same routine and stop their churches from communicating with those who disagree with the pastor.

Each church responds by saying that they have the full truth and have no need for any correction. When they stifle dissent, they ensure that their church cannot be corrected.

REVELATION 3:17   Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods,

and have need of nothing; and knowest not …

“Have need of nothing”.  They think that they need no correction.

Modern Christians are smugly content with what they know.

“And knowest not”. They do not know how ignorant they are of Bible mysteries.

They do not know how many unscriptural ideas they have because they reject those who disagree with them.

Politicians pay an opposition to sit in parliament and disagree with them.

Churches do not have the courage to do that. They avoid anyone who asks them Bible questions that they cannot answer.

Bible teachers who are strictly Scriptural have no place in the modern church.

The final result is that there is no end-time prophecy and no end-time parable that says anything good about the end-time church.

The Fourth Seal is difficult to understand

The Fourth Seal is very tricky because it refers to the present and the future.

It is actually the Tribulation Seal that refers to the foolish virgins. Virgins are clean women. They represent saved Christians who have been fooled by clever church preachers into believing something that is unscriptural. That is a bad mistake but what makes it far worse is that they then oppose the truth. Once you condemn truth in order to support church error, then you are in serious trouble with God.

Consequently, the foolish virgins have to be straightened out in the horror of great Tribulation where they are savagely and cruelly killed by the antichrist spirit that rides the pale horse and is called Death. Death kills one-quarter of the human race. That will be 2 billion people because there are 8 billion people on earth today. Nothing like that has happened yet. Thus, we cannot be in the second verse of the Fourth Seal yet. But we are drawing closer to that time.

Death only enters a corpse when Life has left.

So, the Fourth Seal deals with the events that happen after Life leaves the earth when the great Holy Spirit catches the Scriptural Bride up to Heaven. The foolish virgins were saved but fooled by wrong teachings. They miss the Coming of the Lord and stay behind as great Tribulation fodder.

Being saved from hell does not save you from great Tribulation.

Today, people who are already saved still have to work out how to be in the Rapture in order to be saved from the oncoming horrors of great Tribulation. No church can save us.

PHILIPPIANS 2:12  … work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Fear and trembling means that the churches are very opposed to anyone who wants to know the truth.

If you want to know the revealed mysteries of Scripture, the churches are not going to be of any help to you. They are going to totally oppose you.

There is a great multitude of saved people but they do not know the truth about the revealed mysteries of Scripture.

REVELATION 7:9   After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

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

:14   And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me,

These are they which came out of great tribulation,

and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

The blood of the Lamb is available before great Tribulation, not during that 3.5 years of total horror when there is no Light of the Gospel amongst the Gentiles.

JOHN 9:4   I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Jesus gets off the Mercy Seat to fetch His Bride. Then there is no more mercy and no more salvation for the Gentiles during great Tribulation. Those who die and go to Heaven during that 3.5 years had to be saved before Jesus got off the Mercy Seat.

Each Seal is introduced by a beast. The power of God and the wisdom of God that was in a man at that time who had to bring people back to the truth as best he could.

But the Fourth Seal contains the VOICE of the Fourth Beast. Not the eagle-beast but his recorded voice. Only the fourth beast could record his voice because commercial tape recorders only came out after World War 2 ended in 1945. Brother Branham was able to record his sermons for eighteen years from 1947 to 1965, when he died.

His sermons can also be called the voice of the seventh angel.

Thus, the Fourth Seal starts around 1966 when only his recorded voice was available to help us uncover the truths of the Bible mysteries.

Brother Branham left the scene in 1965.

From 1966 until today (almost 60 years after his death) means that the emphasis has not been on him as a man but rather on what he said, his voice.

But he is not the Voice of God. The King James Bible is the Voice of God.

Church pastors are still making a lot of money out of preaching which means that we are still in the Third Seal to some extent. The black horse of money-making demonology is still riding in the churches.

Churches are still heavily involved in politics which means that the Second Seal is still continuing with the red horse that demands power over the people.

There are 45000 different kinds of churches and denominations today, all different. This means that antichrist spirit of religious deception is still riding the white horse and conquering the church systems. In the New Testament, there never was a pastor in charge of a church. Modern day church structures are no longer Scriptural as they have one man in charge because that is an effective business model. Religion has become Big Business.

The first three Seals are still present with us.

That spirit of antichrist is the only rider.

But it is difficult for one rider to ride on three horses.

The final development, which is happening today, is to merge the white, red, and black horses into a pale corpse-coloured horse.

This will enable that spirit of antichrist to use the church systems to rule the world in great tribulation.

The fourth horse is simply the merger of the first three horses. There is only one rider, that spirit of antichrist.

All that the Devil needs to complete his ability to rule the world through the church systems will be military power that he will obtain from ten dictators.

REVELATION 17:12   And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

:13     These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

:14     These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

They receive power as kings. They are not crowned kings but they have a king’s power. They are dictators.

“Their power and strength” refers to their military power and strength that enables the final Pope to conquer his enemies.

“The beast” will be the final Pope as he is the last of the succession of Popes. The Popes have formed the longest line of rulers in the western world.

DANIEL 8:24   And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:

The final Pope will get mighty military power from the ten dictators.

But the "voice of the fourth beast" is revealing the mysteries of God (plural) so that we can be restored back to the beliefs of the apostles, which is the mystery of God (singular).

The Coming of the Lord and great Tribulation

Part of the mystery of the Coming of the Lord is that He comes at the end of the seventh church age for His Bride, just as great Tribulation is about to start. Then He comes towards the end of great Tribulation to fill the 144000 Jews with the Holy Ghost and to defeat the beast and his armies at Armageddon so that he can usher in the Millennium.

LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE  -  CHURCH AGE BOOK  CPT.9

… terminate the world systems and usher in the millennium.

63-0324  THE 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.

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.

That is part of the mystery of the Seventh Seal. Jesus comes on two different occasions. Both described by the same Seventh Seal.

How can that be possible?

Time stands still for the Bride for 3.5 years until the 144000 Jews join them.

The seven Thunders gives the Bride great supernatural power to change their bodies into immortal bodies. At that moment they step out of time. There is no more time for them. They are part of Eternity.

On earth, the 3.5 years of great Tribulation carries on in time for the 144000 Jews. That is the Sixth Seal, the time of great Tribulation when the seven supernatural vials punish the people on earth for rejecting the revelation of the Bible mysteries. Together with the Vials are the seven Trumpets which are supernatural disturbances of Nature controlled by Moses and Elijah to force the Jews back to the Promised Land. The seventh Trumpet utters at the time of the Lord’s return to Israel to accept the 144000 Jews. They are filled with the Holy Ghost and then killed. They are then resurrected up in immortal bodies to protect the Bride when Jesus and His Bride ride down at the third Coming to defeat Satan at Armageddon.

REVELATION 6:9    And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

Jews hold their own testimony. Christians have the testimony of Jesus.

There is no beast that speaks. The four beasts that surround the throne have all gone up to Heaven with the Bride at the end of the church ages. Great tribulation deals with the 12 tribes of Israel.

REVELATION 6:11   And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

As great tribulation starts, the Jewish martyrs from the church ages are told to wait until the 144000 have been killed during the 3.5 years of great tribulation.

In order to get into Heaven, the Jews must be killed. That is their portion of the Fifth Seal.

Then the 144000 are resurrected up as the firstfruits.

Firstfruits can speak of a resurrection. The two Jewish prophets and the 144000 Jews are the first resurrection after the New Testament saints were resurrected up to meet the Lord at His Coming.

I CORINTHIANS 15:22   For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

:23     But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;

afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

REVELATION 14:1   And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

:4   … These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

Then the Bride and the 144000 Jews are all out of the dimension of time, which completes the mystery of the Coming of the Lord.

New Jerusalem is a mighty pyramid-city with Jesus as the Capstone and the Bride living in the Pyramid-city. There is a protective wall around the pyramid city.

REVELATION 21:17    And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

The height of the protective wall is 144 cubits which symbolizes the 144000 Jews who protect the Bride of Christ.

We will only understand that Seventh Seal properly when we are in immortal bodies and outside of time.

The Bride or wise virgins are caught up to Heaven by Jesus as great Tribulation starts in the Fourth Seal and the foolish virgins are killed.

The Day of the Lord is Darkness

Great Tribulation also involves the Sixth Seal where two thirds of the Jews are killed but the 144000 Jews receive the Holy Ghost baptism and are reconciled to Jesus.

Great Tribulation is also known as the Day of the Lord.

It is a time of spiritual darkness because the Holy Ghost has left the earth to take the Bride up to Heaven.

No Gentiles can get saved anymore as there will be no Holy Ghost to convict them of sin.

AMOS 5:20   Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

JOHN 9:4   I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:

the night cometh, when no man can work.

The start of the Fourth Seal must be the time when the truth of Scripture is distorted and rejected by the church preachers. Once they have distorted the Truth, then the spiritual Light is switched off and spiritual Darkness overtakes this earth.

EPHESIAN CHURCH AGE  -  CHURCH.AGE BOOK  CPT.3

Now out of this first key that we have received of the Lord, there comes another and slightly less wonderful truth. I said that the True Church would always try to be like it was in the Book of Acts. That is exactly right. But we have discovered

that the Word also teaches an invasion of error until there is a complete blackout of truth in the last day when the Lord is about to appear.

We know that the churches have rejected the message that revealed the Bible mysteries.

This statement thus also tells us that the message churches will misinterpret and thereby corrupt the quotes and make up their own unscriptural ideas.

There is no Scripture that speaks of “Seven Virtues”.

There is therefore no Scripture that says that the “Seven Virtues are the seven Thunders”. Nor does brother Branham make that statement.

There are actually eight things of the divine Nature of the Spirit and the second one of them is “Virtue”. So, the other seven cannot also be virtues. Message-people are easily fooled by a charismatic preacher who has a wrong revelation.

LUKE 11:35   Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

You must be able to prove what you believe from the written King James Bible.

The message churches over the years have pulled away from both the Scriptures and the quotes of brother Branham. They thus end up in darkness, pretending that they can make their own light.

I THESSALONIANS 1:10   And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus,

which delivered us from the wrath to come.

We are at that difficult stage where we have to search the quotes of William Branham in order to explain and understand the written Scriptures.

ISAIAH 57:1   ... none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

The true Bride thus waits patiently at the start of the Fourth Seal for the Coming of the Lord which is the only way that we can be saved from the oncoming great Tribulation.

Enoch was caught up before the tribulation of the Flood destroyed life on earth.

None of his family or friends went with him. It was an individual affair between him and God.

At the end, God is calling out individuals.

The voice of the fourth beast, the eagle-beast, is our only source of truth that can direct our paths back to the beliefs of the first church of the apostles.

When it was time for the First Seal to open, then John as an individual heard the lion-beast speak. The lion-beast represents the Word of God as written in the New Testament by the apostles.

That formed the foundation for all the church ages.

The only useful voice at the end time is the voice of the fourth beast that takes us back to the beginning of the church ages.

This signifies the saints in the last church age who at the end are able to hear and understand the written Bible.

Comments made during the sermon on the Fourth Seal

REVELATION 6:7   And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

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But you let a crow try to fly with an eagle, or a hawk, either one; he'd disintegrate. He's got to be pressurized for where he goes.

That's the trouble today; some of us don't get pressurized.

We explode too quick (You see?), when we're jumping; but we got to be pressurized.

[Jumping up and coming down while preaching “The seven Thunders are the seven Virtues” is the wrong reaction caused by exploding emotions and a desire to put up an impressive show that lacks Scriptural substance].

When you get up there, and have the keen sight of the eagle to see what's coming and know what to do. Now, the eagle age revealed it.

REVELATION 6:8   And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Death only enters when Life has left. Only in the last church age is the antichrist spirit, that has taken over the church, revealed.

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The first one was white, and then the next one was red, and the next one was black, and the fourth one... All of these other three was represented in it, because pale is red and white and so mixed together. See? It's all mixed in this one horse. See? And there he become four, or actually the three in one, and it was all mixed up in that one thing.

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Now, this here [Fourth Seal] is the last of the riders to reveal the working of the antichrist.

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The next night, [The Seventh Seal] the going away of the end of the age—

end of time of all things (See?),

when she's taken up.

[Time only ends for people as they step into new bodies and then, for them it is as if time stands still].

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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

[The seven Thunders only utter after the Seven Seals are completed.]

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.

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

[Do not let anyone fool you that the Seventh Seal has been opened]

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And then we find out that in the revealing of the Seals that the Lamb had left His mediatorial work as an Intercessor and had come forth now to claim His rights, all that He had redeemed by His death

[The Lamb gets off the throne of mercy when He comes down to claim His Bride. Immediately the world goes into great Tribulation and mercy is over.

Mercy is over for all Gentiles when the Lamb leaves His throne. Then He comes down to rescue His Bride and take them to Heaven. After that, the Gospel returns to the Jews.]

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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. 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.

[The seven Thunders will only utter after the Bride has been able to understand all the revealed Bible mysteries]

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Then I just tie it right in. I know that's God as long as it's comparing Scripture with Scripture. That's the way it has to do. Just like putting a building together, the stones have to fit stone by stone.

JOHN 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profit nothing:

the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

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The Word Itself is Spirit; it's Spirit in Word form.

And then, you see, when It is quickened or brought to Life, the Spirit of the Word goes to work and acts. See? Now, look here: A thought has to be a thought before it can be a word. And then when a thought is presented, it is a word.

Now, this is God's thought that He has placed in the Word, and then when we receive it from Him, it becomes a Word.

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Now, I know there's a lot of fanaticism and people carrying on. I know sometimes they do it when the music's jumping up and down and everything. And I know that goes, and I believe that too. I've seen people in the day when as long as the music's playing, everybody was jumping and screaming, but when the music stopped, they stop.

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Now, you think that's not right, but Jesus said, "No man can come except My Father draws him, and all the Father has given Me will come."

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And the antichrist in the last days is going to be able... That antichrist spirit that we're studying in denominationalism, and proven that denominationalism is antichrist...

Now, be honest. Any man could walk away from here like that. There's something wrong if he still believes that the denominational system isn't antichrist. Why, it's absolutely proved from history, from everything there is, plumb through God's Bible and everything else, it's antichrist, and Rome is the head of it. And the daughter churches follow right along, and both of them are cast into hell. That is right.

… Satan now becomes a full king.

Now, this happens later on. He's false prophet now. He will become beast after while

when he breaks his covenant there with the Jews.

[The present Pope is the false prophet, the prophet of a false religion. But he lacks the military power that he needs to conquer the earth. The final Pope will  be the beast who gains the military power of ten powerful military dictators that enables him to rule  and finally destroy the earth.]

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Now, remember the Bible says that in the last day that this antichrist would deceive the whole world. There'd only be a small number whose names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world.

The mighty Angel of Revelation 10 comes down with a little Book that has been opened. That means only a few people will believe the real truth of brother Branham’s message which enables them to understand the written Scriptures.

REVELATION 10:2   And he had in his hand a little book open:

DANIEL 12:10   … and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Only the wise virgins will be able to understand the mysteries of the King James Bible.

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When the Church goes up, Satan's cast out. See? It's done then. All of his accusing is done.

We will only be free from the Devil at the end when the Bride is caught up to Heaven.

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And remember, Judas took the place as treasurer and fell by money. So does the church of this day. The Catholic church (as we noticed last night) charging for novenas, charging them for prayers, and charging them for everything. It's almost same--fell the same thing to the daughters of the Catholic church, which the Protestants...

The whole thing's wrapped up in money. There's where Judas fell, and here's where he fell, and there's where the Protestants fall.

Watch... Rides a pale horse as he appears on his ride, this last ride. He's on his last now.

Now, that is not in our day. That will be on down. It's the Seal foretold. 'Cause, see, the Church has done gone up when this happens.

When Christ appears here on earth, as this fellow appears and becomes completely, completely the devil.

From antichrist all the way down to false prophet, then into the beast, the devil himself,

and he's riding on a pale horse, colored all up and mixed with all kinds of colors to make him pale and deathly.

But when our Lord appears here on earth, He will be riding on a snow white horse, and He will be completely, fully, the

Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a man.

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So there he was--triple crown. Vicar of heaven, purgatory, and earth. Three powers united together, see, all mixed up in a color, pale. Death spoke in a whole thing. Political, and religious, and demon powers mixed together. Politics, he is the king of politics; Satan is. Smart? Whew. Sure, don't try to outwit him; just trust the Lord.

… Oh, this here is water, blood, and spirit which is of God. And that's politics, religion, and demon power mixed together makes him the devil.

… . And now, he's called by the eagle, death. That's what He calls him.

And He said, "You're naked, miserable, blind, poor, wretched, and don't even know it."

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Now, if a man was naked out there on the street and knowed it, why, he'd try to help himself; but when he don't know it, and you can't tell him no different, then he's in a bad shape. God have mercy upon him.

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I will cast her into a bed... (That's hell.)... and them that commit adultery with her, unto great tribulation... (That's going into great tribulation, not the Church now) except they repent of their deeds. (Now, watch out here.)

I will kill her children (her harlots) with death; (Spiritual death. You believe it? That's the Word. "I will kill them with death." And if they're killed, they're eternal separated.)

All right, remember, He gave her a space to repent. Thyatira Age was the Dark Age. The dark horse rider rode in that time, when all the masses and everything had to be paid for and the prayers and the novenas and so forth.

Now. See his black horse then? After he refused to repent in Thyatira (Watch.) changes his riding from a black horse to a pale one, death, for his last ministry.

[The succession of Popes ruled Europe in the Dark Ages. The Roman Catholic church killed tens of millions of people and took over most of the wealth of Europe. They lived in luxury while the people were impoverished. But they were unable to rule the world at that time.

So, now at the end time, thanks to modern travel, communications, and industrial skills, the churches are learning to unite Big Business, politics, and religious deception into one system. All they need now is the military power of those ten dictators. Then the world is doomed.]

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Now, I might just give the individual a little shake here.

To refuse God, to refuse God's call, you'll do it the last time sometime. And just like that church did, it's over. God's patience will not always strive with man. See? And when she refused it, and refused to accept it, then she changed, and went; now she's got a name called death, separation.

God said, "I'll even take her children, the Protestants, and every one of them I'll kill with eternal separation."

There you are, Thyatira Age, the dark age. His black horse now turns to death for his last ministry. See how the church ages blend in with the Seals just perfect, then we know it's right. The Holy Spirit makes no mistake. He gave us a great a-vindication the last time when we got the church ages done back there, you know.

See the loving, long-suffering of God. Before He passed judgment upon her, He gave her a place to repent. And it's in the Name of the Lord I say this: He's give the Protestant church the same thing, and she won't do it. These messages shook everywhere, and she won't do it. She's going to have her own dogmas and creeds; I don't care how much you explain it.

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Like He give Egypt, He give Egypt place to repent. What was that last plague? Was death. That's the last plague that's hit the Pentecostal church. It's spiritual death; she's dead. That's in the Name of the Lord. She's spiritually dead. He gave her place to repent, and she rejected it; now she's dead. She'll never rise again.

… You want to stay in Babylon and still enjoy the blessings of heaven.

… As long as something thinks they're something, then they can do nothing with it. He's always did that.

You have to become nothing to become somebody with God.

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The Protestant church becomes a harlot is because she rejects the vindicated Truth of the Word of God, and that gives the devil a place to come right in and incarnate himself, and he will make an image unto the beast when they can consolidate together, right yonder now, and go on and do just exactly what he said.

… Where did the denomination fall from? [Congregation answers, "The Word."-- Ed.]

… and they get into a system that runs them back away from the Word, runs them from the Word instead of to the Word.

[Separation from the King James Bible means that the people cannot see or believe in the Scripture].

Instead of the Holy Ghost she wanted a holy man: … that's what she wanted, somebody to do her praying, somebody she could just pay her money out, and that's all she had to do. See? Now, it's the same thing today. As long as they got a pew to set in, pay heavy on the collection plate, that's good enough. They're a member of that church. Don't tell them nothing else about it. They don't want to know. That's her daughters.

One of these days that Lamb will leave His place,

and then it's all over. So is her daughters been asked now, before being judged with her, to return back.

[The Lamb was still on the Throne while brother Branham was alive. Thus mercy was not over.]

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Then what do they do? They finally form up in the image unto the beast, another power, notice, and act to the Lamb's Bride like she did in Revelation 13:14.

That's what they do, just persecute, just the same thing.

The churches makes just as fun of the true Bride of Christ as Rome ever did (Just exactly. Yes, sir.), acts to the real Lamb's Bride just exactly like she did in Revelations 13:14.

REVELATION 13:14   And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

“He” is the American beast. The Protestant American churches produced many miracles. The beast was the pagan Roman Empire that was killed by the sword of the barbarian tribes but then it resurrected back to life as the denominationally organized Roman Catholic church, on the ruins of the pagan Roman Empire. The Roman Catholic church is the only Roman institution that survived the fall of the pagan Roman Empire.

The American non-Catholic churches are the biggest group of denominational non-Catholic churches in the world. The Roman Catholic church is the biggest, richest, and most politically involved world-wide church, and is represented by the beast. The non-Catholic or Protestant American churches are keen to co-operate in order to form a bigger, wealthier, and politically connected confederation of organized churches that can imitate the Roman Catholic beast.

The American churches unite to form the wealthy Protestant image of the beast.

REVELATION 13:15   And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

The lifeblood of organizations is money. The American churches have much wealth and are gaining much political power. That will soon enable them to speak with politically-backed authority and punish dissenters who do not join in with them. Eventually, in the 3½ years of great Tribulation they will have the power to kill any dissenters. That is the next step which could happen soon.

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Now, notice, we see by God's Word of promise, He will kill her children, the denominations, her daughters, with spiritual death. (Now, that's Revelations 2:23. Don't forget it.) To kill is to put to death, and death is eternal separation from the Presence of God. Think of that, friends. Think of that. Don't you trust in any man-made creed. Anything that's contrary to the Word, you keep away from it.

REVELATION 2:23   And I will kill her children with death;

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Now, remember, before there was a grain of seed on the earth, before there was a sun that ever struck the earth, your body was laying on the earth, 'cause you are the dust of the earth. See? You are. God's the Contractor.

Now, the way He was going to do it was reach down and get like He did Adam, a little bunch of calcium, potash and cosmic light, and, "whew." [Brother Branham makes blowing sound--Ed.] Say, "There's My other son." See? Then He'd bring up some more and, "whew" [blowing sound--Ed.], "There's another one."

But what did Eve do? She corrupted that way, and she brought it through a sexual act; then death struck it.

[God wanted Jesus to be born of the virgin, Eve. He would grow up, have no sins to die for, and then He would speak His people up from the dust of the earth.

But Eve decided to bring forth life by means of the sex act.]

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Now, being baptized into Jesus' Name or in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, rather, that's all right, but that's not all of it yet. No, sir. You could be baptized fifty times like that, and don't do a bit of good until the heart's changed by the Holy Spirit. It all has to go together.

The antichrist refuses the true Bride doctrine, and therefore he takes his own bride now and builds her up under a creed of his own, takes his own bride and makes her a denomination. She gives birth to other denominations, as quoted in this holy Scripture: gives birth to daughters. And she becomes just like her mother: natural, worldly, denominational,

opposing the spiritual Bride, the Word.

… but you're only one Church; and that's the mystical body of Christ. And you don't join that; you're born in it.

… "I belong to this church." "I belong to that." That don't have one thing to do with it, not a thing.

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And now, she's [America is] right in the hands of woman to rule the nation, Jezebel (See?), but remember, in the days of Jezebel someone really told them their colors.

[Elijah had to be in the days of the first Catholic president John Kennedy elected in 1960, as the Roman Catholic church is called Jezebel.]

[Sixty years later we have had a second Catholic President, Joe Biden, elected in 2020.]

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Now, here they are joining themselves together, coming to that showdown to Armageddon and riding on a mixed colored horse, with one horse of white, one horse of red, one horse of black, the three different … a political power, spiritual power controlled by demon power which is the antichrist, mixing that all together, you got a pale, sickly looking thing he's riding on. That's right. Now, notice. Look what he's riding on. This pale looking, grisled colored horse, mixed with black, red, and white, coming into the battle, gathering his subjects from every nation under heaven.

Did not Daniel interpret the dream and seen that streak of iron running to every kingdom, of Rome? Here they come, gathering. Now, set still for the close just a minute and listen close.

They're gathering in now to do it, bringing his subjects from the four corners of the earth, riding a pale, sickly, three colored mixed horse: same man.

Now, in Revelations 19, not only is he getting ready, but Christ is getting ready to meet him. The battle's going to be hot and heavy. Christ, in Revelations 19.

Christ is gathering His, not from the four corners of the earth, because there's going to be a little bitty remnant. What's He doing? He's gathering them from the four corners of heaven.

We'll get them souls under the altar tomorrow night, and you'll see whether it's right or not.

[They are the Jewish martyrs].

Four corners of heaven on a snow white horse. He also has a name, not death, but the Word of God, Life. Amen. Got it wrote right on His thigh here: The Word of God. That's the only Life because God is the only source of Eternal Life there is: Zoe. Is that right?

And He's got wrote, "Life," riding on a white horse, and here's a man with three different powers mixed up, called death, gathering his earthbound delegates, and Christ is gathering His heaven-born subjects, saints.

He's got death wrote on him; Christ's got Life wrote on Him. Those with Him are on white horses also, and they are called "the chosen before the foundation of the world," (Amen.) and they are faithful to the Word. Amen. Whew. I like that one. Called, chosen before the foundation of the world, and then faithful to the Word by their choosing, all stimulated with new wine and oil just riding right along, coming down to meet Him.

They know the thunders will issue the thing 'course pretty soon. See?

[The seven Thunders are still a future event].

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It is like Christ said about the mustard seed. Yet it's the smallest of all seeds, but it won't mix with nothing. Mustard won't mix. He's genuine mustard; so if you just got that much of faith, just hold to it.

[If mustard grows wild, it turns from a small herb into a large tree where birds can roost on it].

… Watch his four point scheme.

Antichrist, white horse, kills by spirit, being antichrist, spiritual kill.

Number two: Red horse: kills by sword, political power when church and state united.

Black horse: souls when he give out his doctrine, and she did there with her fornications, and he weighed out the food by... Sold their... What they'd give for food for balance and the pennies and so forth.

Fourth, a pale horse: eternal separation from God (again four... See?).

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That the last age is a prophetic message to the church, calling them back to the original Word.

… The first Elijah was a rejected man by the churches. And Jezebel and Ahab was the head of them churches: church and state, it's all together. And Elijah revealed Ahab's sins to him and commanded the whole church to turn back to the true Word.

If that isn't exactly what the second Elijah is supposed to do when he comes to this church in this day: restore back the original faith. I don't see how you're going to squeeze away from it. That's right. Turn back to the true Word. That's right.

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Look, Elijah never knew even one of them was that way.

He thought he was the only one saved until God opened one of the Seals and showed him the mystery of the Book,

that He had seven hundred that never bowed down to them creeds that they had. When God opened His Book to Elijah, He said, "Now, wait a minute, son; I got seven hundred that's tucked around out there: got their names on the Book since the foundation of the world. They're Mine." Whew.

[God opened one of the Seals to Elijah in a revelation. That was about 2900 years ago]

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If a man heard the jubilee call, and he refused to go free, he was taken to the post and an awl marked his ear. Ear is where you hear; and faith cometh by hearing. Then if he hears it and refused to accept his freedom, then he has to serve his denominational master the rest of his life.

He may leave the seat any time of His intercession;

then you could cry with all your heart, you could stomp, you could speak in tongues, you could run up and down the floor, you could do anything you wanted to and join every church in the world; there's nothing, no more Bleach for your sins. Then what do you--where are you then?

[God has not left the mercy seat yet.]

ROMANS 10:17   So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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While I believe, with all my heart, the seat's still open. I believe He's still on the throne of God, but soon He's going to rise now and come forth to claim what He has redeemed.

He's doing the work of Kinsman Redeemer while Ruth is waiting. But soon, you know, after Boaz done the kinsman work, then he come and claimed his possessions, and that's exactly what the Bible said He done. He come forth and took the Book; then intercession is over. He's off the throne. There's no more Blood on the mercy seat, and then what is it? Judgment seat.

Don't let it be said some of these days. "I thought the rapture was supposed to come," and hear the Voice say back, "It's in the past." God help you.

Christ is still on the mercy seat. Do not be fooled by those who say that mercy is over.

The biggest trap in the churches is their wealth

The Roman Catholic church is the biggest landowner in the world. The Vatican is the world’s wealthiest organization. They have been accumulating wealth for most of the last 2000 years. Such is the power of organized religion. They control a sizeable portion of the wealth of Europe and America.

The Catholic Church is really a network of many organizations, including, at least:

The Protestants in America got rich quickly. They took about 250 years to gain about one-third of the wealth of North America. Americans are energetic and hard-working. They have the deepest possible concern for material riches. They also have the most idealistic generosity which makes them the most generous benefactors of their church. Americans identify themselves with their church with ruthless enthusiasm. This is their overall weakness. They cannot believe that their specific church can be wrong.

The industrial revolution in the West led to the accumulation of much capital.

Consequently, churches in the West began to grow rich.

Unfortunately, the Americans belong to their church, not to the Word of God which is Jesus.

In 1929 Mussolini recognized Vatican City as an independent country. The Vatican no longer had to pay taxes to Italy and could earn its money tax-free in the world of Big Business. Mussolini gave the Pope 100 million dollars. The Vatican Financial Empire was born as they learned to invest in the industrial manufacture of weapons of war to make quick profits. The Vatican took over and established several banks. They had many Catholics placed in key positions in the financial world of stocks and shares. Highly confidential information was passed on to the Vatican. Her cardinals became stockbrokers by investing in land, real estate, stocks, and shares of big business corporations. By the 1970s they owned about 20% of the Italian Stock Exchange.

Pagans always had a priest in charge of a temple. Pagan religion gave this man power over the people. The Catholic priests copied this example to gain religious power over the people by having a priest as the head of a church. The love of power grows and soon the church leaders united with the politicians to gain political power as well. The power to take people’s money grew in the churches.

The church’s motto became, “Pray, pay, and obey”.

In America, the Roman Catholic church is the wealthiest church as they have turned their Cardinals into stockbrokers. They now compete with Big Business in terms of income and investments and their relentless pursuit of wealth, prestige, and political power. But their commercial operations are so vast and so well concealed from the public that we only see the tip of the iceberg.

Unfortunately, operating across international boundaries and creating “shell” companies that conceal their true owner enables the Vatican Bank to indulge in illegal financial activities. An Italian financier, Sindona, earned a huge amount of money for the Vatican Bank but ended up being jailed. He died in jail after drinking poisoned coffee. His successor Robert Calvi also earned much money for the Vatican Bank before he was found hanging under a bridge in London in 1982. His faithful Swiss secretary had “fallen” to her death out of a fourth-story window. $1.4 billion dollars had gone missing.

The Pope from Poland, John Paul II was sending many millions of dollars illegally to the political party Solidarity in Poland to achieve a narrow nationalistic undermining of the Communist government there. This mistake was caused by the Roman Catholic church having an obsession with political involvement. The antichrist rider on the red horse of political power. To make up these losses Pope John Paul II dared to declare 1983 to be a fictitious and unscriptural Holy Year to extract money from believers to save certain Vatican lackeys from jail or disgrace. A Holy Year is a colossal moneymaker wrapped in the mantle of religion. But we cannot serve God and Mammon. We cannot stand with one foot on Earth and the other foot in Heaven.

Big money and political activity will corrupt church beliefs as they combine to produce serious financial fraud. Christians mistakenly believe that money can help run the church more practically than the Holy Spirit. Thus, churches are trapped in a feverish cycle of accumulating ever more wealth. Mercenary objectives in a church easily become an abuse of holiness. Churches easily develop an insatiable appetite for money.

The Protestant churches are eagerly following the example of the mother Catholic church. They elevated a pastor to be the head of a church. Ambitious men wanted the position of pastor as that secured their ownership of the money in the church. Remember, Judas was a church leader who fell because of money. Organized Christianity has turned into an immense accumulator and user of financial, commercial, and industrial wealth, the like of which has never been equaled in past ages. Catholic and Protestant churches have a say, directly or indirectly, in at least one-third of all the sources of wealth of the western world. Now that the internet cuts across national boundaries there is a fearsome increase in the acceleration of making money.

That spirit of antichrist who is the rider of the black horse, keeps weighing out the money as he profits by selling the Word of God.

When individuals die, their wealth gets redistributed. But churches do not die because the dead church leader simply gets replaced by the next leader. The church as an entity keeps it wealth which continues to grow under the new leadership. The total possessions of the churches keep growing. One day they will own enough to rule the world. The Roman Catholic church is the beast. The combined non-Catholic churches form the image of the beast. All the churches together remain feverishly engaged upon the accumulation of yet more wealth.

Now that people can use artificial intelligence, computer technology has become a giant without a soul that increasingly inspires the materialistic churches.

That spirit of antichrist rides the black horse of demonology into the dark and devious world of Big Business that is taking over the churches.

We need to understand the King James Bible by learning from the voice of the fourth beast around the throne, the flying eagle.

Soon the Lord will come and take His resurrected saints home to Heaven as well as those Christians of today who have returned to the beliefs of the apostles who wrote the New Testament.

Then Death will ride in on a pale horse as the final Pope takes over the world.

 

 

 

 

“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.” — 1 Corinthians 16:23