The Bride cannot reveal what the Thunders say

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Revelation 10:7 is seriously misunderstood

Only one mystery is mentioned not many mysteries.

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.

“But” means something has changed in the time sequence of Revelation Chapter 10 which has the Archangel performing the Resurrection. The timing of the resurrection depends on the important contribution that was previously made by the seventh angel. William Branham first had to reveal the mysteries (plural) of Scripture thanks to the eagle insight that he had.  Only when the Bride also learns how to be Scriptural can they be restored from the apostate and blind seventh church age of human opinions back to the beliefs of the first church age of the lion-like Paul and the apostles.

Only the apostles were able to set up the true church the way God wanted the church. Our restoration back to Paul’s teachings is the great mystery (singular) of God that is yet to happen because God wants the church the way He first set it up.

MATTHEW 17:11   Elias truly shall first come and restore all things

Notice the big difference between the one mystery of restoration back to the apostolic age and the many mysteries of Scripture that first had to be revealed in order to produce the restoration of the modern Bride.

From 1947 to 1965 brother Branham recorded his sermons which explained the many deeper mysteries of Scripture. That took 18 years. He knew how to prove his beliefs just by using the King James Bible. But when he finally knew the truth, there was no rapture because many of the Bride were not even born yet. The problem is that we all have to learn the Scriptural truths that he taught so that we can prove our beliefs from Scripture only.

From 1966 up to the present has been almost 60 years which is the time that we have had to learn so that we can also prove what brother Branham taught, and thus be able to understand the King James Bible.

DANIEL 12:10 ... but the wise shall understand.

Those who understand the deeper mysteries of Scripture will then be restored to the beliefs of the first church age of the apostles. That restoration is the “mystery of God”. The final or last seed is only harvested when it has taken a long time to ripen in the sunlight of Scripture until it is the same as the original seed that was first planted. That is why Jesus is the First and the Last. Churches have missed this point. That is why they are not trying to become like the first church age of the New Testament that never put a pastor in charge of a church and knew that the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost was Jesus Christ.

The harvest is not the ripening of the seed which takes a long time in the presence of the Word of God.

The harvest reaps the seed, which is the quick process of pulling the ripe seed off the dead church plants at the end of the seventh church age.

The voice of the seventh angel is not the voice of God. The King James Bible is the voice of God.

65-1125  THE INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

I tell you, just as that eagle recognized that voice, so does a real, born-again Christian

recognize the Voice of God speaking through the Word,

65-0815  AND KNOWETH IT NOT

And This is the Voice of God in letter form, because This is the entire revelation of Jesus Christ, Old and New Testament put together.

My sheep, My doves, hear My Voice. A stranger they will not follow."

65-0429  THE SEED SHALL NOT BE HEIR WITH THE SHUCK

And what is the Voice of God? Is the Word of God.

What's any man's voice but his word? It's the Word of God; they'll hear the Word of God.

54-1203 THE LAW HAVING A SHADOW
Now, I think that the Bible is the Word of God. And I believe that all, everything must be based on the Bible,

65-0801 EVENTS MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY

We've tried to tell you that the Bible is the Word of God

We must be Scriptural.

The “voice of the seventh angel” is mentioned in the New Testament. “The voice of God” is not mentioned in the New Testament. If you claim that his sermons are the Voice of God then you are unscriptural. You have been fooled away from Scripture and become part of the foolish virgins who are saved but fooled.

The mystery of God “should” be finished means something has gone wrong.

The error is either with brother Branham, or with the Bride. But he did his job exceptionally well by explaining the mysteries (plural) of Scripture despite making a few mistakes. Even John the Baptist made a big mistake by thinking in the end that Jesus was not the Messiah.

A mistake by the teacher is an excellent method of testing the students. If they cannot identify a mistake that the teacher makes, then they are obviously rather clueless. If they can spot the mistake then their insight is a credit to the teaching skills of the teacher.

What is the mystery (singular) that “should” be finished, but is not yet finished? After all, brother Branham did reveal all the mysteries (plural) of Scripture.

Thus the problem is due to the fault of the Bride. They have exalted brother Branham to be an idol of worship. They claim that he is infallible. This is the spirit of the Roman Catholics who call the Pope infallible. Consequently, Message-believers interpret the Thunders into a haphazard non-Message that cannot be proven by just using the King James Bible.

They claim that listening to brother Branham preach is the seven Thunders. That is not true. The seven Thunders will only utter after he has finished revealing the mysteries of Scripture. And after the Bride has been restored back to the apostolic church beliefs.

63-0320  THE THIRD SEAL

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

Brother Branham never said that “the seven Thunders had uttered”. That statement is fake news.

Brother Branham does not preach what the seven Thunders utter because he reveals all the written mysteries before the unwritten seven Thunders utter.

63-0321   THE FOURTH SEAL

… 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,

The seven Thunders do not utter during the ministry of brother Branham. They utter after his ministry has been completed.

63-0321   THE FOURTH SEAL

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

The Thunders utter after the mysteries have been completed which enables us to open the Book and read the Bible with understanding.

Then Christ comes down with the open Book in Revelation Chapter 10 for the resurrection.

Only after the resurrection do the Thunders utter.

The Bride has wrongly claimed that the “voice of the seventh angel” has now been elevated to the Godhead as the “voice of God”.

The first Gentile kingdom of Babylon enforced the worship of an image of the prophet Daniel. Our last Gentile kingdom enforces believing the quotes of brother Branham as more important than reading and understanding the Scriptures.

The “days of the seventh angel”.   The “days of the voice of the seventh angel”. Is there a difference?

Yes. The days of the seventh angel were 18 years from 1947 to 1965 as he revealed the mysteries of Scripture.

The days of his recorded “voice” have been about sixty years, since 1966. Brother Branham left the scene in 1965 and now we have to learn from his quotes, his recorded voice, how to understand the King James Bible. The seed can only ripen slowly when it is exposed to the sunlight of the Word of God, the Bible.

But when the harvest is reaped, that is done quickly at the time of the seven Thunders.

Or, alternatively, we are fooled by Message-preachers that we must just focus on carefully selected quotes that ignore other quotes and we thereby become Bible-illiterate. Thus, bluffing ourselves with clever man-made ideas that cannot be proven from the King James Bible.

But we will answer to God one day for the 60 years of his recorded voice that we wasted as we tried to put clever twists and interpretations to his quotes, rather than trying to become like the New Testament church. Building doctrines on selected quotes that ignore other quotes is simply sleepwalking towards great Tribulation.

“When he shall begin to sound”.   Does this mean 1947?   When he began recording his teaching ministry.

Or 1963?   When he was given the revelation of the Seven Seals that opened up the deeper Bible mysteries.

BUT “when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished”.

Brother Branham never finished explaining the mysteries when he began to sound in 1947. At that time he did not know very much himself. It took years to clarify all the details and patterns. He only finished explaining the mysteries at the end of his ministry in 1965, not at the beginning.

His preaching did not finish the mystery of God (singular), even though he explained all the mysteries (plural) of God. The mystery of God is when the Bride returns to the beliefs of the first church age.

Brother Branham could tell us what to do but he could not make us do it.

We have to be willing and wanting to return to the first church-age beliefs of small local churches run by a group of local elders, rather than setting up pastor-dominated churches that copy the organizational pattern of the Roman Catholic church.

“When he shall begin to sound” means when the Bride at the end has finally understood the Scriptures that brother Branham was explaining. The success of brother Branham’s ministry will only be when Bride members begin to understand for themselves from Scripture what brother Branham was trying to explain to us from Scripture. When we speak Scripturally then his ministry has changed from being recorded sermons to becoming alive in living people who echo what the Bible teaches so that Saint Paul will be able to recognize us as his followers.

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:

The “shout” is the Message where brother Branham taught us to be Scriptural.  But the shout is not brother Branham preaching the Message. In the last month of his life he was still waiting for the single Thunder, the shout, and the voice of the Archangel for the resurrection.

65-1127  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.

It is the shout of the Bride who has learned to understand Scripture and has mastered the mysteries of the Bible.

62-1111  WHY I'M AGAINST ORGANIZED RELIGION

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."

In a classroom, the teacher is not successful when he understands the work. The teacher is only successful when the students are able to understand the work. It is the students that have to be tested in the examination, not the teacher. That is why brother Branham could leave the scene around 60 years ago. He could prove what he was saying from the Bible.

Can we prove what he was saying from the Bible?

Or have we replaced the Scriptures with our opinions of his quotes?

What the 7 Seals revealed about the 7 Thunders

“Reveal” does not mean “utter”.

He never said that the seven Thunders had uttered.

In the Seven Seals brother Branham only revealed what the 7 Thunders will do when they do utter.

Their content is not revealed in the 7 Seals: What do the seven Thunders say? He no idea.

What the seven Thunders are? He had no idea.

Time. When do the seven Thunders utter? Only after the resurrection of the New Testament saints.

He did reveal their purpose: What the seven Thunders do, what their function is.

They give the Bride a revival.

They give the Bride rapturing faith by changing their bodies.

They reveal the new name of Jesus.

Time ends for you when the Thunders utter because your immortal body steps out of time.

The Thunders are part of a three-fold mystery that holds the total secret of the Coming of the Lord.

Time-wise, the Thunders only utter after all the mysteries have been revealed.

What the 7 Thunders will utter remains a total mystery as nothing is written about what they utter.

The 7 Thunders also give supernatural power to the two Jewish prophets, Moses and Elijah.

What are some other problems that we still have with the 7 Thunders?

Why seven Thunders?

Obviously, seven means completion.

That is why there were also Seven Seals in order to be complete.

But each Seal had a specific meaning. We could tell the difference between the First Seal and the Fourth Seal. If you know what the seven Thunders are then you must have clear differences between all seven Thunders. What is the difference between the first Thunder and the Fourth Thunder? We do not know.

In addition, why is there one Thunder when the First Seal opens?

What is the single Thunder? Brother Branham did not know.

When is the single Thunder?

What does the single Thunder say? He did not know.

Brother Branham says that the seven Thunders were revealed in the Seven Seals.

But he only revealed what the seven Thunders will do. Their function.

He never revealed what the seven Thunders are and he never revealed what the seven Thunders utter or say.

He never revealed that the seven Thunders have uttered in the past.

He never claimed that the seven Thunders were being revealed while he preached.

He did say that the seven Thunders would only utter after all the written mysteries had been revealed.

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." And the seventh angel is a messenger of the seventh church age. See?

Where were the 7 Thunders revealed?

In the Seven Seals.   Any other quotes have to agree with what he said in the Seven Seals.

What was revealed about the 7 Thunders?

What the thunders was about. Their purpose or function. What the Thunders do.

In the Seven Seals, brother Branham never revealed what the 7 Thunders said.

In the Seven Seals, brother Branham spoke about the 7 Thunders in the future tense.

Brother Branham never said that the seven Thunders had uttered. So, they must utter some time in the future.

In the Seven Seals, brother Branham never revealed what the 7 Thunders are.

Look how the true facts are distorted in this so-called Message statement.

“The mystery of the seven thunders has been revealed. It is the Voice of God on the tapes and is now uniting the Bride together and giving us the rapturing faith we need… Press PLAY every day and receive even more rapturing faith”.

This statement is not true. Only the purpose of the 7 Thunders was revealed.

What the seven Thunders uttered or said was always a complete mystery to brother Branham.

Brother Branham is not the "Voice of God", which is never mentioned in the New Testament. Brother Branham is the voice of the seventh angel.

You cannot get rapturing faith while you are in this sinful body because this sinful body cannot be raptured. People have listened to the tapes for more than 60 years but it has not given them rapturing faith. Many who claimed that they had rapturing faith have died. You cannot die if you have rapturing faith.

Brother Branham’s ministry was to explain the mysteries of the written Scripture. After he finishes preaching the mysteries, then the seven unwritten Thunders will utter. They will show the Bride how to receive new immortal bodies. That is when the Bride will receive rapturing faith.

What the seven Thunders utter remains a complete mystery to everybody. We know nothing about what they say because nothing is written in the Bible about what they say.

According to Revelation Chapter 10, the 7 Thunders only utter after the resurrection of the dead.

The 7 unwritten Thunders are the 7 unwritten Seals on the “backside” of the Book, which means that they only happen when everything that is written in the Book has happened. Brother Branham came to reveal the mysteries that are written in the Book. He cannot reveal the contents of what is not written.

After he reveals the written mysteries, then only can the unwritten Thunders utter.

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.

The writing within the Book has Seven Seals that are written in Revelation Chapter 6.

The writing on the backside, which is not written in the Bible, also has 7 unwritten Seals which are the 7 Thunders.

What mysteries are not written in the Book?

The new name of Jesus.

The Second Coming of the Lord.

What the 7 Thunders utter or say.

62-1230   IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIRS

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

Oh, my! I wish I could get that, that the people could actually... Don't fail. Don't, don't fail. Please don't, this time. I'm fixing to leave you. Don't fail. You ever listened, listen!

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." And immediately the Book, that was open and written within, is closed, "The mysteries of God is finished."

Brother Branham came to reveal the mysteries that are written in the Book.

On the backside means after everything that is written in the Book has been completed.

He can only reveal the purpose of the unwritten 7 Seals which are the 7 Thunders. He cannot tell us what they utter.

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

Now notice. Now note.

The seven voices was thunders, blasts.

[From this quote, some claim that the Thunders were the seven messengers].

Now is It plain? When the First Seal was opened, the Seals that was inside the Book, these mysteries that was sounded forth: justification, sanctification, Roman Catholic church, Protestants! And when all their little battles and things left these loose ends in the Word of God,

the seventh angel comes on and gathers them all up and explains them. See?

And THEN, he finishes, Seven Thunders utter out.

But the seven Thunders only utter AFTER the seventh messenger has finished revealing the mysteries of Scripture.

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.

The Angel comes down because the written mysteries have been successfully understood by the Bride. That only happens when the seventh-age Bride has been restored back to the beliefs of the first church age. That is the great mystery of God.

7 Thunders deal with big events that have not happened

Let us look what brother Branham said about the purpose of the 7 Thunders.

1. The changing of the body.

63-0318  THE FIRST SEAL

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

We have to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air in our new bodies

That great event is not in the past nor in the present, so it can only happen in the future.

Effect of the 7 Thunders: It will sweep us off the earth (the harvest pulls the seed off the dead plant)

Problems:  we do not have enough faith at present. What faith was available, even to brother Branham, in 1963 was not able to do it.

Something very big must happen one day to make our bodies change.

The thunders will be revealed. That is still in the future. The thunders had not yet come forth. Sixty years later and the Bride is still struggling with divine healing.

The purpose of the Thunders: to give us the faith that can change our bodies in a moment. Once our bodies are changed, only then can we be raptured.

In other words, if your body has not changed then the seven Thunders have not yet uttered.

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

Is the mystery all finished? Has the sounding all over? Is that really

them Seven Thunders, fixing to utter out something, that the little group that is gathered together will receive a Rapturing Faith, to go in the Rapture when He comes?

"For we'll be changed," as quick as those Angels come, "in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye;

and shall be caught up together with those that had sleep, to meet the Lord in the air."

[The Thunders will produce rapturing faith at the time that your bodies instantly change into immortal bodies].

[That is when you step out of time and become part of Eternity].

… If it's coming time that the revelation of the Seven Thunders will be revealed to the Church, how to go, I don't know.

The Seven Thunders have to explain how we can get a new body so that we can be caught up into the air to meet the Lord. The seven Thunders will be a sudden dramatic series of events that will then cause our bodies to change instantly.

What the seven Thunders will utter is not hidden in the quotes because the Thunders only utter after brother Branham has finished revealing the mysteries.

He came to reveal the written mysteries, not the unwritten mysteries.

By claiming that the Thunders are hidden in the quotes, Message people have been fooled into concentrating on interpreting quotes instead of using the quotes to understand the Bible.

2. Time ends for you as you step into your new body.

63-0116  THE EVENING MESSENGER

And then we notice that He had a rainbow over His head and raised up His hand and swore by Him that lives for ever and ever,

that time should be no more when these seven voices uttered, seven thunders uttered their voices.

A complication of the seven thunders. Time ends and will be no more when the seven thunders utter.

Time ends for the Bride only when we are put into new, immortal bodies. Then we step out of time and into Eternity. This does not happen in stages. It happens in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

When do the seven Thunders utter? when time is no more. When time ends.

When does time end for you? When your body is changed into an immortal body so that you can be raptured.

The Thunders thus will show you how to change your body into an immortal body.

3. What the 7 Thunders say was never written

You cannot interpret silence. We cannot build our faith on guesses.

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

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

What do the Thunders say? Brother Branham did not have a revelation of what the thunders say.

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

It is sealed up with Seven Seals.

Now, that's a different from the Seven Thunders.

The Seven Seals revealed what the seven Thunders do. But the seven Thunders are different from the Seven Seals.

The seven Thunders are written in the Bible in such a way as to be hidden. So, brother Branham first had to reveal the written mysteries to us before we could begin to understand the hidden mysteries of the Thunders when they finally utter.

4. Daniel heard the 7 Thunders

See if you can find where Daniel heard the seven Thunders. Because the Angel told him not to write them, he never actually mentioned them as 7 Thunders.

56-0617  REVELATION BOOK OF SYMBOLS

But remember, Daniel was told by the Angel. Daniel heard seven thunders; they uttered their voices. Daniel grabbed his pen and started to write, and the Angel said, "Don't you write it." Amen.

5. A single Thunder and a group of seven Thunders

John wrote what he heard when the single Thunder uttered. But he never wrote what he heard when the other group of seven Thunders uttered. That remains a huge mystery that is not to be guessed at.

Message people have thought up over twenty different variations of what they think the seven Thunders are. All claiming that the seven Thunders have uttered. Yet brother Branham never said that the seven Thunders have uttered. Message people, sadly, are easily fooled.

6. We cannot know as the truth will stagger us

63-0318  THE FIRST SEAL

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. We don't know what they are yet;

but my opinion they'll be revealed right away.

And when it do, it will give faith for that rapturing grace for that Church to move out.

We just move through everything that we know of; through all the dispensations we've watched everything. We've seen the mysteries of God. We've seen the appearing of the great gathering together of the Bride in the last days,

but yet there's something in there that we just can't lighten ourself with.

There's something another. But I imagine when them mysteries begins to come forth... God said, "Hold it back now. Wait a minute. I will reveal it in that day.

Don't write it at all, John, 'cause they will stagger over it.

Just let it go. (See?)

“But I will reveal it in that day when it has need to done."

The 7 Thunders, when they utter, will totally stagger us. They will be completely different from what anybody thinks.

“I will reveal it” clearly indicates the revelation of the seven Thunders will happen in the future.

This quote makes it clear that the seven Thunders were not revealed by the First Seal.

The Thunders will (future tense not present tense) give faith for the rapture. The Thunders are not slowly building up our faith in the quotes.

Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.  We have to be Scriptural in what we believe.

The seven Thunders are a total mystery that will, sometime in the future, burst on the scene in the most unexpected way.

There is a mystery that we cannot cast light on. How to get an immortal body. We cannot solve this problem ourselves. God will do it sometime in the future and it will be of great supernatural power because it will totally stagger us. The seven Thunders, whatever they are, will be totally different from anything that we would expect.

Whatever anyone thinks the seven Thunders are, that person has it wrong. They will be totally different to what anyone thinks.

The seven Thunders are future tense. They had not happened by the time of the First Seal.

“Stagger” means that we are never going to guess them in advance.

The new name of Jesus has never been revealed

1965   PHILADELPHIAN CHURCH AGE  -  CHURCH AGE BOOK  CPT.8

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

What that Name is, none dare conjecture.

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

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

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

63-0318  THE FIRST SEAL

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

it will be revealed in the thunders.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

63-0318  THE FIRST SEAL

When that Lamb broke that First Seal, a thunder roared.

Now, that's got a significance; it's got a meaning. It's a meaning. Nothing happens without a meaning. All right, a thunder, a thunder roared.

Wonder what that thunder was?

Brother Branham revealed the First Seal but still did not know what the single Thunder is that opens the First Seal. We know it is the voice of God. But what does He say? When does He say it? We do not know.

65-1127E   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.

In the last month of his life, brother Branham was still waiting for the first Thunder to utter. He was also waiting for the shout. So, the shout was not brother Branham preaching the truth from Scripture.

63-0318  THE FIRST SEAL

It thundered when He spoke it out. And when He did, a white horse rider started out. And it still was a symbol.

… The voice is a thunder. The voice came from where? From the throne where the Lamb had just left as Intercessor. Now, He's standing here to take His position and His claims. But the thunder came from the inside of the throne, thundered out. And the Lamb was standing out here. The thunder, where the Lamb had left, left the Father's throne to go to take His own throne

Revelation Chapter 6. The scene in Heaven has the Lamb off the mercy seat when the single Thunder utters. At that time mercy will be over, as the Bride was caught up to Heaven in Revelation Chapter 4. John is one person representing all the individuals in the Bride.

The single Thunder that opens the Seals must be right at the end of the seventh church age.

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.

The single Thunder is mysterious. Brother Branham did not know what it was.  But he knew it was in the future tense.

7 Thunders give the Bride her revival

The mysteries are revealed before the Thunders utter. So, listening to the tapes that revealed the mysteries will not give the Bride a revival.

People have listened to the tapes for 60 years but there has been no revival. Just a splintering of the Message into more and more different groups.

63-0320  THE THIRD SEAL

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

This helps us pin down when the seven Thunders utter.  Brother Branham had to reveal all the Bible mysteries that the Bride needs to know in order to prepare her for the Coming of the Lord. Brother Branham finished preaching the Bible mysteries in December 1965 which was the month that he died.

All these Bible mysteries had to be revealed before the seven Thunders could utter.

So, the seven Thunders could only utter some time after 1965. Not before.

Those who claim that his preaching was the seven Thunders uttering are wrong.

The seven Thunders can only start uttering after he finished preaching all the Bible mysteries.

63-0320  THE THIRD SEAL

The Bride hasn't had a revival yet. See? There's been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We're looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. He will send it. He promised it. Now, now, watch. Now, she was dead.

Despite the powerful ministry of brother Branham, he regarded the Bride of his day as dead. The Bride needs a wakeup call.

That is in line with the wise virgins of Matthew Chapter 25 that condemns ALL churches as being fast asleep in their complacent huddles. That includes ALL the Message churches.

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.

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.

The cry at midnight that wakes up ALL the churches, wise and foolish and has the foolish virgins asking for help. That will be a staggering change as the foolish churches readily condemn anyone who is different from them.

This wake-up call which may well be a worldwide disaster like a massive earthquake in a strategic area will probably be at the same time as the seven Thunders. That is one of the reasons, that in the chaos, people will fail to see the significance of the seven Thunders despite their huge effect on the people. But the Bride will notice hidden patterns from the Scripture which will enable them to understand the seven mysterious Thunders.

The seven Thunders is not a gradual daily listening to tapes for many years as people have done.

Thinking that is how to build up rapturing faith is a delusion.

Listening to tapes for sixty years has not raptured anyone. That has just made Message people replace the Scriptures with the quotes. Message people have become increasingly Bible-illiterate.

The seven Thunders will be a suddenly unexpected shock that will jolt all the churchgoers out of their complacency and Bible ignorance.

In the meanwhile, brother Branham classifies the Message churches as dead. So, Message churches should not think too highly of themselves. Self-praise is not a virtue.

7 Thunders utter after the resurrection

63-0321  THE FOURTH SEAL

And then after these Seven Seals are completed, we find in Revelations 10 there was seven mysterious thunders that John was commissioned to write but then forbidden to write those.

And at the time of those thunders, we find Christ, or the Angel come down with a rainbow, and put His feet on the land and sea and swore that time had run out at that time.

This quote helps to place the time of the seven Thunders. They utter just after Christ comes down as the Archangel in Revelation Chapter 10 to perform the resurrection of the New Testament dead. The resurrection is the event that sparks off the final events.

From the resurrection to the rapture, there is a time period of about 40 days known as the harvest rain or latter rain.

The harvest is when the seed is quickly pulled off the dead plants. The dead are pulled out of their graves, the living Bride is changed, and then the whole Bride is pulled off the earth up to meet the Lord in the air. Thus, the one task that is left for the seven Thunders is the changing of the bodies of the Bride. That change will occur sometime during those last 40 days.

At the First Coming of Jesus, He resurrected from the dead in His immortal body and then ascended to Heaven 40 days later.

If these patterns repeat at the end-time then we can expect the following events to occur.

The harvest rain or latter rain will quickly happen in those last 40 days when the seven Thunders change the bodies of the Bride who are then pulled off the earth up to Heaven.

63-0321  THE FOURTH SEAL

And when anybody thinks that he has those seven thunders, if it don't compare with the rest of the Word, there's something wrong here. See? It's got to come THUS SAITH THE LORD, for this is the Book; this is the revelation of Jesus Christ in its entirety.

63-0321  THE FOURTH SEAL

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.

By the time the Fourth Seal was revealed, the seven Thunders were still a complete mystery.

7 Thunders utter to Moses and Elijah

Now we come to a very unusual fact that Message preachers tend to ignore.

The seven Thunders will utter to the two Jewish prophets Moses and Elijah.

That means that the Thunders utter at the crossing over time. The Thunders prepare the Bride for the Rapture and as the Bride goes up, so the Gospel crosses away from the foolish virgins and goes to the two Jewish prophets. They then pull out the 144000 Jews during great Tribulation while the saved but fooled foolish virgins are destroyed by the final Pope.

The seven Thunders had great supernatural power to change the bodies of the living Bride. Then the seven Thunders give Moses and Elijah great supernatural power over Nature to interfere with Nature as they wish.

63-0321  THE FOURTH SEAL

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

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

God always... It's His Word, but He always uses man to work it. God could call for them flies down in Egypt, but He said, "Moses, that's your job. I'll just tell you what to do, and you go do it." He fully done that. See? He could've chosen the sun to call them; He could have caused the moon to call it or the wind to call it, but He said, "Moses..." That... He chooses men. All right.

The seven Thunders enable the Bride to change their bodies. In those immortal bodies, they will come down with Jesus for the battle of Armageddon.

63-0321  THE FOURTH SEAL

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.

When? The seven Thunders are still in the future.

The 7 Thunders hold a total secret

63-0324  THE SEVENTH SEAL

There was silence, hush, deadly silence in heaven for a half hour. All the host of heaven was silent for this half hour, when this Seventh Seal mystery in the Book of Redemption was broke open. Think of it; but it's broke. The Lamb breaks it. You know what? They were awed by it, I believe. They didn't know. There it was; they just stopped. Why? What is it?

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

… When time shall be no more, the last trumpet... One thunder, but here is seven straight thunders right in a row: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, that perfect number. Seven thunders in a row, uttered not... making just one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, straight. Then heavens couldn't write that. Heavens can't know about it, nothing else, because there's nothing to go on. It's a relaxing time. It was so great till it's kept secret from the Angels. Now, why?

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

The seven Thunders hold the secret to the Seventh Seal which is a total secret.

We must leave this topic alone because if Satan got any clues he could cause great damage.

It must be kept secret even from the angels. Brother Branham was the seventh angel. Thus, the Seventh Seal must also be kept secret from him.

63-0324  THE SEVENTH SEAL

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

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

If Satan could get a hold of it.

If you want something to happen... Now, you'll have to take my word for this. If I'm planning on doing something, I know better than to tell anybody about it. Not that that person will tell it, but Satan will hear it. See? He can't get it in my heart there, as long as God's got it closed up with the Holy Spirit, so it's between me and God. See?

He don't know nothing about it until you speak it, then he hears it.

… There'll be no mimics to this (See?), 'cause he don't know it. There's no way for him to know it. It's the third pull. He just knows nothing about it. See? He doesn't understand it.

If anyone spoke about the Seventh Seal, then Satan would hear them speaking. So, God will never reveal this mystery to us until the last minute. In case we speak and give the secret away.

Those preachers who claim to know what the Seventh Seal is are simply proving that they are untrustworthy. They cannot keep a secret.

The Thunders hold the mystery of the Seventh Seal. They then unfold into something that had an interpretation in an unknown language.

63-0324  THE SEVENTH SEAL

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

Then when I seen that, I looked for the interpretation that flew across there, and I couldn't make it out. That's exactly right, friend. See? The hour isn't quite yet for it, but it's moving into that cycle. See? It's coming up close.

... And said, "This will be the third pull, and you won't tell it to nobody."
And in Sabino Canyon, He said, "This is the third pull." And there's three great things that goes with it, and one unfolded today, or yesterday, the other one unfolded today,

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

Brother Branham could not make out what the mystery of the Seventh Seal was.

But, the Seventh Seal was involved with the seven Thunders.

Then the vision unfolded into something else. But the interpretation was in an unknown tongue. Thus, impossible for him or any other person to understand.

63-0324  THE SEVENTH SEAL

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

The seven Thunders holds the mystery of the Seventh Seal. That is the greatest mystery in the Universe. When is the Lord Coming?

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.

So we're at the end time; we are here.

Nothing knows anything about the seven Thunders. Thus, the seven Thunders are completely unknown in terms of what they utter.

63-0324  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.

The opening of the Seventh Seal has three unknown mysteries. One of those unknown mysteries is the unknown seven Thunders.

The Bride is part of the Public

63-0324  THE SEVENTH SEAL

The Seventh Seal was left out; because (You see?), Christ said only God Himself knowed, not even the Angels. No wonder, it wasn't even written. You see, they hushed; nothing take place then. Angels don't know it; nobody knows when He's coming. But there'll be a... There will be seven voices of these thunders that will reveal the great revelation at that time.

[The seven Thunders will reveal the Coming of the Lord at the time of His Coming. Future tense].

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

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

We don’t know it. The public cannot know it. So, we are part of the public.

63-0324  THE SEVENTH SEAL

Now, there was some reason that God let this seven voices be thundered, because it must come (See?), for the... We find that Christ, the Lamb took the--the Book in His hand, and He opened that Seventh Seal. But you see, it's a hidden mystery. No one knows it. But it's right along with what He said: no one would know His coming; they also would not know about this seven thunder mystery. So you see, it's connected together.

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

Brother Branham saw a vision unfold to the seven Thunders but never heard the Thunders in his vision.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

You notice. Notice now, for the end-of-time message, this Seal. After all, He's revealed all the six Seals, but it don't say nothing about the Seventh. And the end-time Seal, when it starts, will be absolutely a total secret according to the Bible. Before knowing that... And remember, Revelations 10:1, 7 (1-7, chapter 10:1-7)

at the end of the seventh angel's message, all the mysteries of God would be known.

63-0324   THE SEVENTH SEAL

Time runs out. The angel said, "Time will be no more," when that--in the days of this great thing to happen. Everything runs out in this time, the end of this Seventh Seal.

The ending of time is in the future tense. Time will only end some time in the future.

The seven Thunders will utter when time ends.

The unwritten Thunders are hidden in the Word of God, not in the quotes of William Branham.

By focusing on the quotes, Message people are neatly distracted from learning the Scriptures. After the resurrection, the  Thunders will somehow suddenly be revealed as a pattern in the Bible.