Revelation 06 Part1 The church ends in a mess

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A single Thunder is needed to open the First Seal

No Bible prophecy about the end-time church says anything good about the end-time church.

No Bible parable about the end-time church says anything good about the end-time church.

We need to check carefully what we believe as the churches have obviously been seriously fooled.

When four disciples asked Jesus about the end-time events, He replied:

MATTHEW 24:4    And Jesus answered and said unto them,

Take heed that no man deceive you.

We hate to admit it but humans are easily fooled.

Opening the Seals is badly misunderstood.

A single Thunder is needed which has not happened yet.

In the last month of his life brother Branham was still waiting for that single thunder to utter in the future.

1965-1127  I HAVE HEARD BUT NOW I SEE
"Dear God, in this solemn moment, it's going to be a time like this when there really will be a clap of thunder someday, and the Son of God shall descend from the heavens with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and the trump of God, the dead in Christ shall rise."

William Branham from America revealed Six of the Seals to us. The Seventh Seal was revealed as a total mystery as it refers to the Coming of the Lord.

Message people put the focus on William Branham by pretending that he is the Voice of God, or Jesus manifest in the flesh. Thus, they make a mess of this age instead of using his message to explain Scripture. Brother Branham came to restore the teachings of the apostles, not to invent new doctrines.

There is much confusion over the revealing and the opening of the Seven Seals in Revelation Chapters 6 and 8:1.

Seven angels came to brother Branham in March 1963 to reveal Six of the Seven Seals.

Sometime in the future, Jesus will open the Seven Seals in Heaven.

Brother Branham often says that the Seals have opened.

But they opened to him in the form of visions that the seven angels showed him over a time span of seven days between 17 March and 24 March 1963.

Describing these visions of the past history of the church and of the future is a Revelation.

The actual opening of the Seven Seals happens after the Rapture when the Bride is in Heaven around the throne.

Six Seals can be seen as a pyramid in Chapter 6, waiting for the Capstone that appears in Chapter 8. Chapter 7 deals with two groups from great Tribulation. The 144000 Jews that receive Jesus and the saved foolish virgins who are purged from their denominational and church beliefs by the horror of great Tribulation.

Six important points must be considered when we deal with the Seven Seals.

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

1.   The Seals have to be revealed before they can be opened.

If William Branham opened the Seven Seals then there was nobody before him that was able to reveal them.

It took seven angels to reveal the Seven Seals to brother Branham. But Jesus alone opens the Seven Seals.

2.   The First Seal cannot open until a mysterious Thunder has uttered

3.   The Seven Seals actually only open after Jesus has caught up His Bride to Heaven.

4.   The Seventh Seal never opened.

5.   The Fourth Seal is the Seal foretold.

6.   The Sixth Seal is opened by two Jewish prophets during great Tribulation. Moses and Elijah.

The Fourth Seal deals with the future great Tribulation time of 3.5 years when Death rides in on a pale horse to kill 2 billion people.

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 Sixth Seal is great Tribulation time when the two Jewish prophets, Moses and Elijah, have great supernatural control over the forces of Nature.

63-0323  THE SIXTH SEAL

And have power over the waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with plagues as oft as they will.

What is it? What can bring these things but the Word? They can do nature any way they want to. Here it is. They're the one who brings on this Sixth Seal. They uncover and open it up. It's the power of God to interrupt nature.

See, the Sixth Seal, is completely an interruption of nature.

Do you get it now? There's your Seal. Who does it?

It's the prophets the other side of the rapture.

With the power of God, the Word of God, they just condemn nature. They can send earthquakes, turn the moon into blood, the sun can go down or anything at their command. Amen.

There you are. There you are. See? See how the Seals opened down there in the church age, how it showed the martyrs? And now here's these two prophets standing here with the Word of God to do anything to nature they want to, and they shake the earth. And it shows exactly who does it. It's Moses and Elijah, 'cause there's their ministry re-impersonated again: both men. Oh, my. Do you see it now? See what the Sixth Seal is? It's those prophets.

Now, notice. Don't let it choke you, but watch what opened that Seal: prophets.

See? Amen. There you are. Oh, we're living in the eagle day, brother, head up among the clouds.

They opened that Sixth Seal. They have power to do it. Amen.

There's your Sixth Seal coming open.

64-0719  THE FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS

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

The Coming of the Lord is a total mystery. The Seventh Seal represents the Coming of the Lord. That is why it is a total mystery.

There has to be a single Thunder when the First Seal opens.

REVELATION 6:1   And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder.

The First Seal cannot open until a mysterious Thunder is heard.

This Thunder has never happened.

61-0611  REVELATION  CHAPTER  FIVE.1

Now, in the 4th chapter, we find out that John was caught up into Heaven after he seen the church ages.

60-1231  REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR.1

Now, immediately after He showed the end of the age of His work here, He went on up into Heaven, He said,

"I'll show you what's going to be after this, after the church ages."

He said, "John, I can't talk to you down there no more, 'cause I've left down here, I've come up higher. Come up here with Me!" Amen! "And I'll show you what's going to take place hereafter." Oh, my! Hmm! Oh! Caught up in the vision, caught up into Glory.

… Oh, and notice,

John, being taken up immediately after the church age, was a type of the raptured Church.

Immediately after the church age is over, this Laodicean Church Age, then comes the Rapture. The Church goes up like John did, into the Presence of God. Oh, my! Whew! That just winds my soul around. Caught up, at the Rapture of the Church!

Chapters 4, 5, and 6 happen after the church ages are over.

In Chapter 4 John, as an individual, is caught up to Heaven representing the Bride being caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES   CHAPTER 1
And it was not until Revelation 5:6-8 (which follows Revelation 4:2-3 in sequence of time) that we see the "Lamb" taking the book from "HIM" That sat on the throne, as indicated in Revelation 4:2-3 and 9-10.

Revelation Chapter 5 happens in Heaven after Chapter 4. This is where the Lamb takes the Book while His Bride is standing around His throne.

63-0324   QUESTIONS  AND  ANSWERS  ON  THE  SEALS

In Revelation 5 verse 9, who are these found singing when the Lamb takes the Book …

Are these the raptured saints? ...

... "And they sang a new song," and I stopped. See? But look here, "the song they sang, saying, You have redeemed us out of every kindred, tongue, and nation."

Sure, that's them.

Only then, in Chapter 6 does the Lord begin to actually open the Seals.

REVELATION 6:1   And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder

When does this single Thunder utter?

This single Thunder never uttered when brother Branham was on earth.

There has to be a single Thunder before the First Seal opens. After revealing the First Seal, brother Branham was still waiting for that mystery Thunder.

Thus, the single Thunder had not uttered before he revealed the First Seal.

Consequently, the First Seal was revealed but it was not actually opened.

After revealing the First Seal, brother Branham was still waiting for the single Thunder to utter when he was revealing the Second Seal.

63-0319  THE  SECOND  SEAL

God, help our unbelief. Take it away from us, Lord. We want to receive rapturing grace.

We want to be able when that mysterious thunder thunders out yonder,

and the Church is taken up, we want to be ready to receive it, Lord. Grant it. Try us, Lord, by Thy Word. Let us look into It, and if we see that we have failed...

I THESSALONIANS 4:16   For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

In the last month of his life he was still waiting for that single Thunder. Still waiting for the “shout”.

Still waiting for the resurrection.

1965-1127   I  HAVE  HEARD  BUT  NOW  I  SEE

Dear God, in this solemn moment, it's going to be a time like this when

there really will be a clap of thunder someday,

and the Son of God shall descend from the heavens with a shout,

with the voice of the Archangel, and the trump of God,

the dead in Christ shall rise.

The "shout" of the Bride who have become Scriptural at the time of the resurrection.

Thunder comes from lightning.

LUKE 10:18   And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

It will be a drastic moment when Satan is cast out of Heaven.

REVELATION 12:7   And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

Michael is Christ when He appears as the Archangel.

REVELATION 12:8   And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

He is allowed into Heaven as the public prosecutor.

REVELATION 12:9   And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Sometime in the future, when the seven Thunders have shown the Bride how to get their bodies changed, the Bride will be sinless and Satan can never accuse them again. Then Satan is thrown out of Heaven.

Satan falls like lightning.

When Satan is cast out of Heaven then it is time for the Bride to be caught up to Heaven.

REVELATION 12:10   And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

The Bride are in eternal bodies. That will be real strength as they are sinless. Changing the bodies of the living Bride will be a time of great power.

63-0321  THE  FOURTH  SEAL

Now, we find out here that

this Satan, after being kicked out of heaven, incarnates himself in the beast,

and now he is a beast. Antichrist, false prophet, and now beast and given the name of death, and hell follows him: fully Satan on his throne... Oh, my. On the earth--he's Satan representative on the earth; that he now is head of the kingdoms of the world, the very same kingdoms that he offered to the Lord Jesus in Matthew 4, 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. You know how we been through... All right.

Notice now, he will be given a heart of a beast at that time, and Satan will incarnate himself,

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

Now, as long... Look, as long as the Intercessor is still on the throne, Satan can stand there and accuse, because he is the attorney of the other side. He's the opponent of Christ. And Christ is... He's standing there... The opponent is standing there saying, "But wait, Adam fell. Adam done this. I conquered him. I got his wife to believe a lie, and You said she'd be damned by it. I got it."

But here's the Mediator standing there (Amen.), the Kinsman Redeemer (Amen.) standing there with the Blood that can take the vilest sinner's heart and change it. A Mediator is on the throne. Yes, sir.

Satan said, "But they are guilty."

Jesus said, "They're not."

That Clorox was invented or manufactured to take stain, take the coloring out of ink or any other stain--they got it. It'll break it up till you never will find it again. It goes back to gases and all the way back to cosmic light and it'll past molecules and everything else till it turns back to the original where it come from. It's a creation, a creation had to come from a Creator. But all the chemicals that was manufactured and put together, they're broke up and that's just all there is to it, there's no more of it. Even the very water substance it is, blends with the Clorox which is ashes. Amen. Glory to God, it's all clean.

That's what the Blood of Jesus Christ does to the true child of God. When he confesses that sin and stands there justified in His... Mercy, goodness... Even it's so great till God said, "I can't even remember it any more, and he's absolutely My son."

Once the living Bride are in their immortal bodies they are sinless. The resurrected saints from the New Testament are also sinless in their immortal bodies. When they are caught up to heaven they will be like a pure sea of blood-washed saints who are now perfect and will no longer need a Saviour.

No man can be the head of a church

REVELATION 4:6   And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne,

were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

Revelation Chapter 6 is based on the four beasts in Revelation Chapter 4 that surround the Throne of God in Heaven.

These protect and guide the church during the seven church ages.

Eyes speak of intelligence.

We must have enough intelligence to see whether an idea is written in Scripture or not. If the idea is unscriptural then it is an impurity and causes us to see through a glass darkly.

“Full of eyes” means full of intelligence. They know exactly what is going on.

“Before” means that they know the future. Thus, they know what to prepare for. They tell us to do unexpected things, like leaving our favourite church, because we are actually in an exodus.

REVELATION 4:7   And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

The four beasts are a summary of the seven church ages.

The Lion-beast represents the apostolic doctrines that established the early church. Each local church was ruled by a group of local elders.

The Ox-beast represented the truth getting lost in the Dark Ages under elevated human leadership as each church wanted one man as its head.

The Calf-beast represented the truth getting lost in the many centuries of the Dark Ages under elevated human leadership as each church wanted one man as its head. There was plenty of time for the calf to grow into a strong Ox, the beast of slaughter, as tens of millions of Christians were killed by the Roman Catholic church.

EZEKIEL 1:10   “As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.”

EPHESIANS 5:23   For the husband is the head of the wife,

even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Each church replaced Christ with a one-man head as their leader. Human opinions replaced the Scriptures.

The Man-beast represented inspired human scholarship that started around the time of the Reformation. The restoration of salvation by grace through faith that was started by Martin Luther. Then came the  translation of the Holy King James Bible. The next stage was the restoration of holiness and the great missionary age.

The Eagle-beast represented the Pentecostal restoration of the gifts of the Spirit. Then in the ministry of William Branham we were given an insight (represented by the eagle’s piercing eyesight) into the restoration of the Bible truths of the early church.

The two Eagle wings also represent the two prophets, Moses and Elijah, who pull out the 144000 Jews during great Tribulation.

A sea speaks of people from many nations and languages. Glass as clear as crystal speaks of blood-washed saints who have been totally cleansed of sin and have been changed into glorified, eternal bodies who can no longer sin. Clear glass is transparent. These saints that have been caught up to Heaven have no hidden agendas. They were only interested in being Scriptural. They have a clear insight into the mysteries of Scripture that were revealed by the seventh angel or messenger, William Branham from America.

As the Moon reflects the sunlight to the Earth that is in darkness, so the true Bride reflect the thoughts of God by quoting from the Holy King James Bible which is the Voice of God. God’s Will is expressed very clearly in His revealed written Word.

Brother Branham is the “voice of the seventh angel”, not the voice of God.

The King James Bible is the Voice of God.

63-0630   THE  THIRD  EXODUS

for they can hear plainly the God's Voice, calling, through His Word

...  Listen to the Bible, the Voice of God calling to you in this day.

Sitting complacently in a church does not prepare us for the midnight cry of Matthew Chapter 25 that will wake up all the churches.

That cry will tell us to get out of our churches. The Bride individuals will have to leave the churches.

MATTHEW 25:5   While the bridegroom tarried,

they all slumbered and slept.

:6     And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh;

go ye out to meet him.

“Behind” means that they know the past. They understand the events that have led up to the present circumstances. They know the past errors of elevated human leadership and man-made ideas that established modern-day denominational church structures.

Our future success depends on our ability to return to the past beliefs of the apostolic church.

The apostles of the first church age wanted to see a local church led by a group of local elders who are ruled by the written Bible.

ACTS 20:17    And from Miletus he [Paul] sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

ACTS 20:28    Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

:29   For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

:30  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

The second church age saw the leadership structure change as the local elders of a local church were replaced by a one-man leader, called a priest in the Roman Catholic church. This was the first step towards moving away from the doctrine of the apostles. Then a Bishop was appointed to be the head of s number of priests. A hierarchy was developing. By AD 400 a single man was elected as supreme head of all the churches. He was given the unscriptural title of Pope.

Making a man the head of a church was the main reason that the early churches were doomed to fail.

REVELATION 4:7   And the first beast was like a lion

The lion-spirit of the apostles dominated the first two church ages. But in the second church age, elevated human leaders attracted attention to themselves and drew the people away from Scripture. The Light of Truth began to dim.

The Lion of the tribe of Judah is Jesus, Who is the Word of God. The apostles established the first church age on the New Testament being the fulfillment of the Old Testament that was like a shadow of the New Testament.

REVELATION 6:1   And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

A most important point is needed to be understood in this verse.

The actual opening of the Seals is triggered by a mysterious unknown Thunder. This Thunder is a future event as it has not yet happened.

That means that the Seals have not yet actually opened.

1965-1127   I  HAVE  HEARD  BUT  NOW  I  SEE

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

This statement was made one month before brother Branham died. He was still waiting for the single Thunder to utter in the future. He was also still waiting for the mighty Angel to come down.

This single Thunder and the resurrection of the New Testament saints are future events.

Please notice that he was also still waiting for the “shout”.

The “shout” was not William Branham proving his message from the Bible. The “shout” is when the Bride individuals can prove his message from the Bible.

60-0804  AS  THE  EAGLE  STIRRETH  UP  HER  NEST

We know the Bible is right; that's not my voice; that's God's voice, speaking.

63-1110  HE  THAT  IS  IN  YOU

Believe all the Message. Believe That. If it isn't,

if it isn't written in the Bible, then don't you believe it.

51-0413  THE  WORKS  THAT  I  DO  BEAR  WITNESS  OF  ME

We believe it because the Bible says so.

65-0429  THE  CHOOSING  OF  A  BRIDE

But the Word of God attracts the Bride of Christ.

...  While, the true Bride attracts the attention of God, by keeping His Word.

So, please do not let anyone fool you into believing that the single Thunder has uttered or that the Archangel has come down.

The Archangel comes down to perform the resurrection of the New Testament saints.

62-1111  WHY  I’M  AGAINST  ORGANIZED  RELIGION
Notice, the 19th chapter is the next, "After these things." Did you notice here in the 19th chapter, "After these things"? Watch what? After what? After the Message of "Come out of her!"
"After these things," watch, "is the shout of the Bride saints, with the Bridegroom,
going to the Marriage of the Lamb."

The “shout” is when the Bride individuals can prove the truth for themselves just from the Holy King James Bible.

When the single Thunder uttered, the voice that was heard was the Lion.

The “shout” must agree with the voice of the Lion-beast, the Bible, at the end time in the mouths of the Bride.

The eagle-like end-time prophet must restore us back to the lion-like beliefs of the apostles of the first church age.

Mysteries of God are not the mystery of God

There is a vast difference between the “Mysteries” of God (plural) and the “Mystery” of God (singular) in Revelation 10:7.

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.

I CORINTHIANS 4:1   Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

The apostles had to explain the mysteries like serpent seed, the Godhead, the water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, the church ages still to come, the falling away of the church, that spirit of antichrist, the beast, the man of sin, God cutting off the Jews and then turning back to the Jews in the end, the Coming of the Lord,  the name of God, (the Trinity God has no name as you cannot find one name for three Persons), etc.

These are some of the mysteries of God that the first church once knew. These mysteries of God would be lost in the Dark Ages but would be restored to the end-time church by the end-time prophet.

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

63-0318  THE  FIRST  SEAL

Takes the Book Seals and breaks them and shows the seventh angel,

for this alone, the “mysteries of God”, is the ministry of the seventh angel.

Please note that the 18 years of recorded sermons that brother Branham preached enabled him to understand the “mysteries of God” (plural).

By learning from him, we are also enabled to understand the mysteries of God that are hidden from the churches.

But the “mysteries of God” (plural) that we learn from his teachings is not “the mystery of God” (singular).

63-0318  THE  FIRST  SEAL

Now, we just come through the church ages with even history and prove that. See? It is the angel's message of the seventh church.

All right, reveals all the mysteries that's been in the past, all the things in the past.

Revelations 10:1-7. That's to be.

This is a very revealing quote.

Most important: Brother Branham places Revelation 10:1 – 7 into the future!

Of these seven verses, only Revelation 10:7 refers to brother Branham’s ministry.

Here, in the above quote, he says that his ministry lies in the future.

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.

“Should” be finished? But he did reveal the truth. So what can go wrong?

Brother Branham's message-followers will corrupt his teachings so that the message-churches do not get restored back to the original teachings of the apostles.

Only when the Bride individuals are restored back to the beliefs of the apostolic fathers will brother Branham’s ministry be considered successful.

Understanding these mysteries (plural) would enable individuals at the end to be restored back to the beliefs of the first church age apostles.

This restoration back to the first church beliefs is the great mystery (singular) of God.

Look at the time specified.

Not "in the days of the seventh angel". That was 1933 to 1965. About 32 years.

“In the days of the voice of the seventh angel”.

Not the angel himself as a man, but his recorded voice that revealed the Bible mysteries to the Bride.

His recorded voice has taught us from 1966 to 2023 (so far, which is almost 60 years).

It is not the seventh angel as a man. It is the message that the seventh angel preached which enables us to understand the Holy King James Bible and thus we can be restored to the early church beliefs.

The Eagle-beast or Eagle-spirit enables us to understand the preaching of the Lion-beast that Saint Paul and the apostles established.

While the living Bride unites the seventh church age with the first church age of Saint Paul,

the antichrist spirit is uniting religious deception, political power, and Big Business demonology. These are represented by the white horse, the red horse, and the black horse. Today they are merging to form the pale corpse-coloured horse of death that is dominating our church systems.

The churches have accepted abortions (killing of children like in the days of Moses and Jesus), gay rights, same-sex marriages, and gender changes. Completely unscriptural apostasy.

Leave the unwritten 7 Thunders alone

Today’s churches have missed the point that we are only to believe what was written for the first church age.

The early church never attempted to understand the mysteries that were not written in the Bible, like the 7 Thunders, the 7^th Seal, and the new name of Jesus. We must also leave those unwritten mysteries alone.

62-1230  IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR

Notice his type of Message, "Finishing all the mysteries of God, that are written in the Book." The seventh angel is winding up all the mysteries that's laying loose-ended, all out through these organizations and denominations. The seventh angel gathers them up, and finishes the entire mystery. That's what the Bible said,

"Finishes the mystery of the written Book."

… The Word comes. "The Book that is written within," is then completed …

… These Seals are on the backside of the Book. "And at the time that the seventh angel is sounding, all the mysteries that are written in the Book is completed."

… It's on the backside, when a Book is completed.

Not did he say, "On the front side."

He said, "On the backside," after It's all done, completed.

The seven unwritten Thunders only utter when all the written mysteries in the Bible have been revealed.

REVELATION 5:1   And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne

a book written within and on the backside,

sealed with seven seals.

Two sets of Seals. Seven Seals written within the Book and seven Seals that are hidden in the Book (represented as the backside of the Book) and referred to as the seven Thunders.

These seven hidden Thunders mysteries will only be revealed when all the

written mysteries are completely finished and understood.

64-1221  WHY IT HAD TO BE SHEPHERDS

When those seven mysteries... Back through those Seven Church Ages, there were seven hidden mysteries. …

He said, "It'll be something that's not even written in the Word."

I said, "No! No! You forget, 'Whosoever shall add one word, or take one Word away.'" See, It's already in there, but the reformers has failed to see It, they didn't live long enough to see It.

62-1230   IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR

And Seven Thunders, right in the revelation here of Jesus Christ,

It's some mystery. Does not the Bible say that This is "The revelation of Jesus Christ"? Why, there is some hidden mystery, then, of It. Hum! What is It? The Seven Thunders have It. For, John was just about to write, and a Voice came down from Heaven, said, "Don't write It. But, seal It. Seal It up. Put It on the backside of the Book." It's got to be revealed. It's the mysteries.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ is the last Book of the Bible. In that Book, in Chapter 10 we read of the seven Thunders.

Brother Branham speaks of when seven angels met him at Sunset Peak on 8 March, 1963.

65-0718  SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON

Then back out there at the beginning of the Seven Seals, when those seven Angels come down in that pyramid form, stood there and told me to return back here and speak on those Seven Seals, and He'd be with me, He'd show me what they were, the lost things.

I always thought it was sealed on the back of the Book and it'd be something wasn't wrote in the Book, but it turned out that it was made known that He cannot do that. It isn't something that's written in the Book... It's something that's been hid in the Book.

Do the seven Thunders utter from Heaven or from earth?

We cannot be sure.

63 03 24   THE SEVENTH SEAL

Now, now, do you notice on the opening of this Seventh Seal, it's also in a threefold mystery. This one I have... will speak, and have spoke, that it is the mystery of the seven thunders.

The seven thunders in heaven

will unfold this mystery. It'll be right at the coming of Christ, because Christ said no one knew when He would return.

62-1230  IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR

Look where the voices was, the Thunders. Not in Heaven; on earth!

The Thunders never uttered from the heavens. They uttered from the earth.

Do the seven Thunders utter from Heaven or from earth?

We cannot tell from the quotes that say two different things.

62-1230  IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR

... and I was about to write: when I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal (capital S-e-a-l), Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

Then, these Seven Thunders' voices is the only thing, that's stuck to the Book, that's not revealed. It's not even written in the Book.

The backside of the Book means they are not written in the Book. Somehow, they are hidden in the Book without being written.

The Seventh Seal was not revealed.

No person or angel knows anything about the seven Thunders.

63 0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

One of the mystery of that Seal, the reason it wasn't revealed,

it was seven thunders that uttered their voices, and there it is perfectly, because nothing knows anything about it;

wasn't even written.

The Seven Seals revealed that we know nothing about what the Seven Thunders utter.

We can know their purpose, but not their content nor what they are.

64-0830  QUESTIONS  AND  ANSWERS.4

Have the seven thunders which equals seven mysteries already been revealed? Were they revealed in the seven Seals, but are yet not known to us as the thunders yet?

No, they were revealed in the seven Seals; that's what the thunders was about.

They was to reveal... The seven thunders that had uttered their voices and no one could make out what it was... John knew what it was, but he was forbidden to write it. He said, "But the seventh angel, in the days of his sounding, the seven mysteries of the seven thunders would be revealed."

The recorded “voice” of the seventh angel continues until the end.

The Seals revealed what the Thunders was about. What they will do. What their function is. What their purpose is.

They give the Bride rapturing faith by showing us how to change our bodies into eternal bodies. We cannot be raptured in these bodies. They also give supernatural power over nature to the two Jewish prophets.

Speaking of the mighty Angel of Revelation Chapter 10:

62-1230   IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR

But, this One didn't come from the earth. He come down from Heaven,

because the mystery is all finished.

And when the mystery is finished, the Angel said, "Time shall be no more," and Seven Thunders throwed their voices out.

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

Is it? Will we run, leap over walls? And is there something fixing to happen, and these old, marred, vile bodies are going to be changed?

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

The Pentecostals wants more Pentecostals; that's what they're going to get. Right. But the Word is going to produce sons and daughters of God. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Right. That's coming, too. Watch.

Look at that great latter rain supposed to be done, how they would run over the wall, leap over,

and how they'd be an army coming. Just wait a minute. Uh-huh. The kind of crop you'll get, is the kind of seed you put in your field. All right.

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

Oh, not many in number, but what a powerful group that's got Eternal Life! Said, "They shall run through a troop and leap over a wall."

Yes, the "troop" of death will have no holders to it, She'll run right through it.

Leap over the "wall" between natural and Supernatural,

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

The seven Thunders will give supernatural power over nature to the two Jewish prophets.

63-0321  THE FOURTH SEAL

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

Wait till them seven thunders utter their voices to that group who really can take the Word of God

and hand it there. It'll slice and cut.

And they can close the heavens;

they can shut this or do that, whatever they want to. Glory.

The seven Thunders will literally turn the children to the fathers.

AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES   CHAPTER NINE

Now this messenger of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7 is going to do two things. One: According to Malachi 4 he will turn the hearts of the children to the fathers. Two: He will reveal the mysteries of the seven thunders in Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the seven seals. It will be these Divinely revealed 'mystery-truths' that literally turn the hearts of the children to the Pentecostal fathers. Exactly so.

We have to be restored to the beliefs of the apostolic fathers. That way we will be able to understand these fathers when they are resurrected and walk amongst us. This will be when the former (teaching) rain and the latter (harvest) unite. They will know the truth and it is essential that we must know the same truth that they believe.

The apostolic fathers will be resurrected in immortal bodies. The seven Thunders will show us how to get new bodies. When we are changed, we will be literally turned to the fathers.

The Seven Seals never revealed what the Thunders said. We know nothing of their content.

The Seven Seals never revealed what the Thunders are. They are mystery events that will stagger us when they happen.

63-0318  THE  FIRST  SEAL

Now, He's come to claim His Own. So, He takes the Book, stands out there before John, and He pulls it back, and breaks the Seal, pulls the Seal down; and when He pulls the Seal down, a thunder clapped through the place.

…   But think, now he wrote this, but when he started to write those other seven thunders, he said, "Don't write it." He'd been commissioned to write everything he seen. But when these seven thunders over in Revelations 10 uttered, he said, "Don't write them at all." They're mysteries.

… Don't write it at all, John, 'cause they'll stagger over it. Just let it go. (See?) But I'll reveal it in that day when it has need to done."

62-1230   IS  THIS  THE  SIGN  OF  THE  END  SIR

Notice Revelations 5:1. Listen at this now.

And I saw in the right hand of him that sat upon the throne a book written within (the writing was withinside) and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

Now, there is writing on the inside of the Book. But, the backside had Seven Seals, on the back of It, that wasn't written in the Book. Now, this is the revelator talking, John. Now, remember, It wasn't written in the Book.

"And in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, all this mystery that's written within should be finished."

It should be taken care of, in that day. Now do you see what I mean? Are you following me? Then is the time for the seven voices of Revelations 10 to be revealed.

When the Book is finished, there is only one thing left, and that's the seven mysterious voices of thunder that was wrote on the backside of the Book, that John was forbidden to write.

Only after the written mysteries have been revealed to the Bride, then the seven Thunders can utter.

The Seven Seals were revealed by seven angels

The best we can do is to get a vision of a future event, so that we know what to expect when the event actually does happen.

This vision of the future event is a revelation.

The Lamb is one Person, Jesus Christ. He opens the Seals in all their details by Himself.

Jesus alone opens the Seven Seals in Heaven.

But on earth, the revelation of the Seven Seals was done by seven angels

who visited brother Branham between 17 March and 24 March 1963 in Jeffersonville.

The angels revealed six of the Seals. The Seventh Seal was revealed to be a total mystery.

They gave brother Branham visions of the future event that will happen in Heaven when Jesus actually opens the Seven Seals in all their details.

Angels had formed a supernaturally high cloud on 28 February just north of the city of Flagstaff in Arizona, that was 26 miles high. This was the sign of the Son of man in the heaven.

MATTHEW 24:30   And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:

But there was also a smaller smoke cloud from a high altitude exploded rocket.

Saint Peter had predicted this.

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 a rain cloud, so smoke vapour will make a smoke cloud.

The supernatural cloud at 26 miles height is in front. The smaller smoke cloud at the same height is about 20 miles behind.

The supernatural cloud made from angels’ wings and the natural smoke cloud were a sign that the third exodus was starting. This important sign in the heaven was to reveal that an important commission was going to be given to the prophet William Branham.

He was going to be commissioned to reveal the Seven Seals with the help of the seven angels.

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

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

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

65-1127   TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE WITHOUT IT BEING GOD'S WILL
I throwed this little bull-header down, forgetting about That. And started across the hill real easy and looked back, they didn't see me, and run down and hit this deer trail. I had a great big black hat on. I started running up through this canyon real fast, and it happened.
The whole earth shook, everywhere. Rocks that size rolled down, dust flying like that. And I looked,

and standing before me stood seven Angels; just exactly the way it was.

I felt like I was standing way up off the ground. First, I thought somebody had shot me, you know, with that black hat on; looked like a javelina hog, anyhow, you know they're dark. I thought somebody had shot me, such a... right close. And I seen then what it was. Well, as soon as...

I got my commission, and the Scripture, "The Seven Seals which is the seven mysteries."

These vital revelations of the King James Bible would enable the Bride to perform an exodus, the third exodus, out of the churches.

The first exodus started when Moses saw a sign of a natural bush burning with a supernatural fire that never consumed it. He led the Jews out of Egypt.

The second Exodus saw Jesus lead the church out of the Jews. His supernatural virgin birth in a naturally smelly stable was the sign.

We do not see Jesus as a Man in our day, we see Jesus as the revealed Word of God, the King James Bible that we can now understand.

The high-altitude supernatural cloud and the natural smoke cloud formed the sign of the third exodus where the Bride comes out of the church.

Eight days after angels formed the supernatural cloud-sign in the heaven, just north of Flagstaff, seven angels appeared secretly to brother Branham at Sunset Peak to give him his commission to reveal the Seals of Revelation Chapter 6.

Then he returned to Jeffersonville where he revealed six of the seven Seals between 17th and 24th March, 1963.

Each day, one of the angels came to him with the revelation of one of the Seals.

The Seventh Seal is top secret. Nobody knows it. It is the Coming of the Lord. The biggest mystery in the universe.

There is a big difference between revealing an event and actually performing the event.

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

The Book’s title is the Revelation of the Seven Seals. Not the Opening of the Seven Seals.

The small print on the front cover is Revelation 10:7.

“In the days of the voice of the seventh angel …”

In those days the Deity doctrine of elevating brother Branham to the Godhead as the Son of man had not yet developed.

So, he was not called the “Voice of God” as that is not promised in the New Testament.

64-0830   QUESTIONS  AND  ANSWERS.3

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

The single Thunder as the First Seal opened is linked to a voice, the voice of the Lion-beast. Not the voice of the Eagle-beast.

REVELATION 6:1   And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

Thus, the Eagle-beast has to restore us back to the beliefs of the Lion-beast which represents the true Word of God. Jesus Christ is the Word of God and He is the Lion of Judah.

63-0630   THE  THIRD  EXODUS

For they can hear plainly the God's Voice, calling, through His Word

...  Listen to the Bible, the Voice of God calling to you in this day.

The Bible is the Voice of God. William Branham is not the Voice of God.

Elias is the Greek word for Elijah.

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

“Restore” means to make it the way that it used to be. Nothing new added.

William Branham was not sent to bring us new, speculative ideas. He came to restore us back to what the first church age believed.

At the beginning, God made the church the way He wanted it.

At the end, God wants the church the way that He made it. He does not want new, clever ideas.

This single Thunder will only utter when the end-time Bride individuals are capable of proving the revealed Bible mysteries for themselves, just from the King James Bible. The King James Bible is the Voice of God. Your voice declares your thoughts. The King James Bible is the Voice that declares the thoughts of God that are written in Its pages. This creates a deeper resonance with the believers.

Thanks to the apostles, God was able to launch the New Testament church.

But when God moves, Satan moves.

Satan opposed the early church with the political power of the pagan Roman Emperors.

Emperor Nero began killing Christians in AD 64.

By AD 312 when Emperor Constantine stopped the killing of Christians, the pagan Roman Empire had killed about 3 million Christians. But far from eliminating Christianity, this persecution had only succeeded in scattering the believers and spreading the Word of God.

Satan realized that he would have to change his tactics. Persecuting the church from outside had not worked. It had strengthened the faith of the believers.

The most subtle tactic of the Devil was to infiltrate the church and take over the leadership.

This is what the first Four Seals deals with.