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Thank you Father for your goodness and for your grace, for your mercy towards us, for coming in your presence amongst us; a lowly and humble people. The great supreme God who can humble himself so much, that you can come and dwell with the lowly in heart. Thank you for the meetings that went by. Thank you for the meeting today. Thank you for the people who are assembled today; the visitors within our gates, for the many days. We return this morning with thanks, honour, the glory for your blessings, your strength, your revelation, all that you had been to us all the days of our lives, and what you will continue to be. Thank you very much for one another. Thank you for your spirit, above all things. We commit our lives into your hands with the message this morning. Lord give us light and understanding that we never had before. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, with thanksgiving, and the congregation say Amen. [Congregation says, "Amen!"]. The right attitude determines a man's eternal destination. Yes, and I don't think it is too much to always make this reference that there was a woman who came to the Lord with a sick daughter who was demon possessed. She was a Gentile, and the grace of God was not yet to the Gentiles. And she came to the Lord and said, "Lord, heal my daughter, for she is grievously vexed with a devil." And the Lord said, ", It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs." He was talking about the Gentiles, and that woman was never annoyed with that rebuke. Yes, and she turned around and said, "Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." What an attitude! What would people do today if a preacher would dismiss them and say, "You are not fit for baptism; go away. Make your life right and come back." I guess they would huff and they will puff. But that woman said, "The little puppies eat from the crumbs that fall from the master's table," and it attracted almighty God, veiled in human flesh, and He said, "For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter," and the young woman was delivered, immediately. Isn't that wonderful? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] The Lord expects that attitude from every one of us. We should not criticize what we do not understand. It is better that we walk away from it instead of passing judgment. You might be passing judgment upon the very thing that can give you life. So your attitude determines your eternal destination. By your words shall thou be justified and by your words shall thou be condemned. Remember that; your attitude. And there is a great ministry that is promised to come upon the face of the earth and it has to do with the attitude of man, as it was displayed in the ministry of God's servant, to a little woman called Sister Hattie Wright: "Because of this saying, ask what you will and it shall be granted unto thee. The salvation of my two boys. Be it done unto thee." This ministry has to do with your attitude. The right attitude could bring a blessing upon you and the wrong attitude could bring a curse upon you. The prophet of God, coming into that ministry; he looked out there and seen a man irreverently raised his head while he was praying; maybe he was against Brother Branham and his ministry; and the Holy Spirit spoke out of Brother Branham and said, "Cursed be the person that raises their eyes while I'm praying for this blind woman." (What is a vision 56-0408A). The man was cursed. And another time he was praying and a man had such a right attitude that the Holy spirit spoke out of the prophet and he told a man that was laden with sins, "Thy sins are forgiven thee, son. Go in the Name of Jesus Christ and be made well." (Jesus Christ The same 56-0225). And he came back the next day and said, "I understand that the Lord forgave you of your sins last night, Brother." Not realizing what he said, the Holy Spirit spoke right out of the mouth of the prophet. We must sit down at all times with the right attitude. If there is something in you that resents that man of God, regardless of who he is, but he preaches the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ, get that out of your heart. It is going to bring a cursing to you. I am telling you the truth. The day is going to come when that thing, if you don't purge it out, will bring you a cursing. And if you find a love in your heart towards that man and the words that he is preaching, you are a blessed person. Yes, and that is Scriptures. Jesus said, "And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." (Matthew 11:6). "He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me: and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me." (Luke 10:16). And it doesn't take very much to despise a servant of God. You may not like his personality; you may not like the way that he speaks, but he did not make himself. The Lord made him up that way. A man's wife, in the Bible, looked through the window and she seen her husband dancing. The great King David, and she despised him in her heart and the Lord cursed her. He shut up her womb from that time on and she died childless. Maybe David was shaking in a certain way other than what she expected. She thought that he would give a social and sanctimonious dance, and she came out there and said, "How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!" In other words, your dancing was like sexual motions; vile and lewd. And all that David said, "It was before the LORD." In other words, no matter what I done, and what it resembles, it was in the Spirit. If that woman was in the Spirit she would not see that, and if you are in the Spirit, you would not see certain things. "Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh." So we are thankful to the Lord and the Lord expects us to return the thanks, the honour and the glory. Let us maintain the right attitude at all times, and if there is any little thing in your heart against that word, against that ministry, and against that man of God, regardless of who he is, get that out of your heart. It will bring you a cursing. But, like I said, if you are not offended in the man of God, you are a blessed person, and you will receive a blessing. This congregation has shown that in many years; an open heart towards that word of God, and an open heart towards this ministry. And I could find such love flowing out towards me as his little servant, and I know that you are a blessed people. I appreciate all your support in every way. Time will fail to speak of the lovely spirits that are manifested from the different ones here. Men like little children, sisters like little children, teenagers like babies towards the word of God and towards his servants. Husky big men, brothers and sisters, like little children, and that gives me confidence that we will enter the kingdom of God. "Except a man humble himself and become as a little child, he shall in no wise enter the kingdom of God." "For he that exalteth himself shall be abased, but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." I rather have a congregation loving one another, and full of humility, than a congregation working all the signs and wonders in the world, because the qualification to enter into this outpouring of the Holy Ghost and live in the new world is humility. Don't let knowledge puff you up. May the grace of God be upon you, and may He bless you for your attitude. So I could say the same of the people in Grenada. I could say the same of the people in St. Vincent; ministers, deacons and congregation. I could say the same of the people in Guyana; I could say the same of the people from the United States. Brothers and sisters, they are children in their spirits, and may the Lord bless and keep the church, and keep His people; both ministers and congregation. They are willing in every respect to subject themselves to the Word of God and Holy Ghost leadership. We have got to be the people of God. This world is so full of pride, and 'know it all' spirits, that when you meet people that are humble in heart, you know that you have come to the House of God. So may the Lord bless each and every one of you abundantly and may He cause His face to shine upon you. May He heal your sick bodies, solve all your problems, supply all your needs, and above all, that you may enter that kingdom of God at all cost. So I want you to lift your hands this morning, let us stand and give the Lord a praise offering for all that He has done. [Congregation worships in the Spirit.] Thank you for such a people, thank you for such ministers, thank you for such brethren, thank you Father for such fathers, for such mothers, for such teenagers, such wives, such husbands, and such a people, of all races, of all colours, all societies. Only your word could do that Lord. Only your Spirit could perform such a miracle. Thank you for the visitors within our gates, thank you Father for those that are to be baptized in Christian baptism, and thank you for those that will take up fellowship here because of hearing your word. We pray that you will bless them abundantly. Lord, even now, bless your word and help your servant to say something that will crown off these meetings with such a blessings and understanding that we never had before. We commit our lives into your hands. Bless your word and bless your people, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, we pray, and the congregation say, Amen! [Congregation says, "Amen!"].
We have come to the last seal, and it's the seventh seal that's found in the eighth chapter of the Book of Revelation, and all that is said about this seal is that there was silence in heaven for the space of about half an hour, and, of course, this is the most mysterious seal. This book was promised to be revealed in the end time. In Revelation 5, you will notice that the book was closed. In Daniel 12: 4, 8-10 it was closed. And then you will notice in Revelation 10:1-7, it was opened. And an angel stood upon land and sea with the book open, and it is stated in 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." We also understand that only the Lord Jesus Christ was able to take this book and to reveal the secrets thereof. In Scriptures he was called the Lamb because John the Baptist called him the Lamb who taketh away the sin of the world. He alone was able to take the book and open it. The fifth chapter was a scene in heaven, around the throne of God. Isaiah cried out, "Woe, woe, woe unto me, for I have seen the Lord of hosts, and I am a man of unclean lips, and I live amongst unclean people." And in the fifth chapter, this is a scene like unto that when he looked straight into the seventh heaven and seen the Lord sitting upon his throne. One God, and there was a book in the hand of almighty God, and then the Lamb, Jesus Christ, came and took the book and loosed the seals thereof. But then we noticed in the tenth chapter of Revelation that there was a mighty angel standing upon earth, who held that book in his hand. Now that is quite a mystery. The scene changed from the heavens right down to the earth. Changed from the Lamb holding the book to an angel. Now that proves that the book had to do with us. He set one foot upon the land, and one upon the sea. It shows that the book had to do with mankind. That book is none other than the Bible. It represents the Bible. And this Bible that was shut up by parables, dark sentences, and by the way it was written. The truth was scattered throughout the Bible. The understanding of man was veiled to the full understanding of the bible. They understood what they were supposed to understand for their age. Men were saved throughout the ages, but at the end of the ages, God was about to destroy the earth. Then He opened up the Scriptures. There had to be a prophet upon the face of the earth, who was prophesied to come, in Malachi 4: 5&6, and Amos 3:7, anointed by the spirit of Elijah, before the judgments fall. That's the mercy of God. He always sends a warning before judgment. He sent a Noah, one time, before he drowned the world. He had an Abraham on the hill, and the angels of God came down, and God came down before the world was burnt. Before Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70, the Lord sent John the Baptist, and He himself came, the Lord Jesus Christ. He always sends a prophet before judgment. We believe that Malachi 4:5-6 was fulfilled in a man called William Branham, whom the religious world hates and despises. But we honour that man as God's servant. An audible voice spoke from heaven in 1933 and said, "As John the Baptist foreran my first coming, so shall my prophet William Branham forerun my second coming." That event started a ministry that went until 1946, when an angel came down from heaven again and sent William Branham. The angel appeared to William Branham and spoke to him and sent him with a ministry, worldwide, seven times around the world and produced all the known evangelists in that time: Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, T.L. Osborne and others. Brother Branham was a popular man in so-called Pentecost, and they sponsored his meetings for many years, and then the time came when he started to correct the church about the wrong things that they were doing. The main things were the moneymaking rackets and immodest dressing. He corrected the preachers about adultery, fornication, their Bible schools, which is not scriptural, and the preacher's license, which is also not scriptural. Then they turned against him, and after they turned against the prophet of God, they stopped sponsoring his meetings. They sent human dung in an envelope, telling him, "This is what we think of you." And all kinds of suffering the prophet of God went through. Then they spread a rumour that William Branham backslid and God had to take him away in an accident. That's the biggest lie that you could ever hear as a Christian. That is commonly reported amongst all full gospel people, but the great evangelists who love money invented that lie, and they became millionaires and billionaires, but William Branham died an ordinary man, refusing to take millions of dollars from people who offered him money. He stayed true to the word of God. But in 1963, after Brother Branham was rejected, the Lord called him apart into the wilderness in a desert place in Arizona, USA. There he had a special blessing. He was to be that prophet upon the face of the earth at the time that the Lamb was opening the seals, because he was foreordained to come. The Lamb revealed the seals in 1963, and He handed down the secrets to William Branham. It happened in the month of March, and that is the reason for our commemoration. It is not a formal gathering, but it is to remind ourselves about what great things God did in 1963. We preached throughout the week, seals one to six. The sixth seal holds the judgments of God that were announced at the opening of the seals. So we are up to the seventh seal, and it's a different seal all entirely from the rest that you have heard. It's a different seal, and the most mysterious. Now what makes this most mysterious is that it said, "When he had opened up the seventh seal there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." That's all. Now, what can you get out of silence? Nobody said anything. Everybody was tight-lipped. Nobody moved. It's silence. Now that makes it a different seal, all entirely, from the other seals that were opened. Entirely different. Not only that, but it makes it more mysterious than any other seal, because there is no symbol. There is no announcement. No one said anything. Nothing moved. And the reason for this is that, the secret was so great that the Lord did not want the Devil to even suspect what is the revelation.
We read of the cherubims in the heavens in the sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah, which cries, "Holy, holy, holy", night and day, and the post of the temple moved by their praises. We could speak of the great millions of angels around the throne worshipping almighty God. These elders around the throne in the fourth chapter of Revelation, every one of them had to be silent. The Lamb had to be silent. Those cherubims had to stop praising God, under this seal. Maybe it was the first time since their creation that they ever kept silent, because the seal was so important. It was so mysterious. It was so great. The Devil is a great psychologist. Now if you move in a certain way he could tell what you are thinking. The Angels stopped moving, they stopped singing, and the elders became quiet, because the seal was so very important. Now we want to find out a little more about this seventh seal, because God sent a prophet, and when this man of God came to the opening of this seventh seal the Lord only gave him so much understanding on the seventh seal, and told him, "I am not going to reveal the rest to you because the time is not yet ripe."
Quote: 575-6 {392} "There'll be seven voices of these thunders that will reveal the great revelation at that time. So I believe, to us... If we don't know it, and 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…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. Now, there was some reason that God let this seven voices be thundered, because it must come (See?)... We find that Christ, the Lamb took 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 seen it unfold to this seven thunders. Now, that's as far as we can go right there." (The seventh seal 63-0324E). After many represented, came out to hear him reveal the seal, of which he prophesied, He was so humble to say, "Brothers and sisters, the seventh seal is not revealed to me." Now it takes great humility. If he was a theologian, he would make up something. If it was the Devil, he would try to show how much he knows. But that was a display of great humility, and we respect that. However, the prophet of God said, "I am going to tell you what I know about it, and he let out certain things concerning the opening of the seventh seal. I call them 'Facts of the Seventh Seal'. Now since 1963 to 2001, that's about thirty-eight years ago; that's a long time. And it was told the prophet that God has a program for the revelation of that seal. He said that it would be revealed right about the time of the rapture and the coming of the Lord. Now God don't do anything any old way. He has a programme. The opening of the seven seals is a major event that set in order the fulfilment of many Scriptures, revelations and prophecies. The opening of the seals was not just the preaching of seven messages, but it was a great event that took place upon the face of the earth. Now the event that took place upon the face of the earth opened up the way for the fulfilment of many Scriptures and many messages to be preached. We could study the seven messages, as we studied them for the past eight days, and go from the beginning to the end, and know all about what was said in 1963, and miss the event. Now that is my emphasis on the opening of the seals. Not until the event is made known to you, and is actually revealed to you, do you know anything about the seals. The people sat in the tabernacle and heard for about nine or ten days just like we heard, and at the end of it, the prophet of God came to the pulpit that day, and said, "I know you don't see it, see. I'm just positive you don't see it…" "Let me say this, that you don't get it, see, and you're not supposed to get it…"" It's something that's tremendous, and it's gone right now and there's not a way in the world for you to see it…" " If God wants you to know anything, He'll send it to you…" (Seals Book, page 458-461). Now I want you to understand, that you could have heard all the seals for all ten days, in the same way that people sat in the tabernacle and heard it, and missed the event. People heard it before us, and they heard seven messages, but they missed the event. Now the prophet of God said, "You missed it." They did not understand what he was talking about when he said that they missed it, because they never knew about the event. They reasoned: "How can you tell us we missed it. We sat and heard seals one, two, three, four, five six, and now you tell us that we missed it. How come?" Now, what is it that they missed? They missed the event, not the preaching of the six seals. They could memorise it, but they missed the event. The event that they missed went under the seventh seal. You say what is the event of the opening of the seven seals preacher? The event of the opening of the seven seals book is the coming of the Lord, and the event itself was hid under the seventh seal. That's the reason the people don't know about the event, but only about the seals. What I am trying to do is to help you to understand that we must know the event to go in the rapture. The event itself was hidden under the seventh seal. Now I am about to prove that to you. The opening of the seals officially announced the coming of Christ as supreme judge, but where was Christ? Then a declaration of judgment was made by a cloud hanging over Arizona, twenty-six miles high, and thirty miles across the sky, which the prophet and the Scripture bear out in Revelation 1:14, that it was a declaration of judgment. The announcement of the second coming of the Lord took place at the opening of the seals, and that was the supreme judge coming back to the earth, not in peace, but in judgment, and it was declared by angels. When His first coming took place upon the face of the earth, it was a declaration of peace. It was announced by angels (Luke 2:10). But although that was declared by angels, it was a mystery where to find it. Other than the shepherds that were granted grace to know where to find Him, it was not to the world, and it was not to the church. It was to the shepherds. They went and found the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, even as the angel said, but it was not a public ministry. Now I also want to mention here that His coming remained a secret for better than thirty years, and few people had known it on the earth: Mary, Joseph, Simeon, Anna and the shepherds. But it was declared by angels. It was announced, but few people had known it because it never went to the public. And even such announcement, that was made by the angels, was forgotten in a matter of days, in a matter of weeks, in a matter of months, or in a matter of a couple of years. Nobody paid attention to that any longer although it was a declaration of peace and the promised of Messiah. And the shepherds went and actually found the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, which was a sign to them, but the great announcement was forgotten. They did not have a revelation of it. But one day it came again, and it was declared at the banks of Jordan. Also it was declared in power, on the day of Pentecost by Peter. He said, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." Was there a declaration later on? A declaration in power? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] The coming of Christ was announced. A white wig appeared in the heavens that declared judgment upon this generation. If only this generation know where they are living. Children, the great judgment day that men heard about since Genesis, has arrived, and the opening of the seals was one of the last warning to man, and God always warns men by signs in the heaven. Notice, His first coming had a sign in the heaven. What was it? A star that spoke peace. Was there a sign in the heavens? Were there angels announcing it? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] But then, after angels announced it, it went into secrecy. Nobody knew about it. Many years passed since the opening of the seals, and those who are supposed to know better have forgotten the opening of the seals. None of them commemorate it, because they know little or nothing about it, and because they do not know about the great event. They do not appreciate it. They consider it as seven messages. It is more than that. It is a most wonderful event. The greatest event in human history took place at the opening of the seals. It was announced and symbolized. It is the coming of the Lord. The White Wigged Cloud symbolized it. It was not a wonderful symbol. It was not a nice symbol. It was a symbol of judgment. It was the coming of the Lord declared in the heavens as a judge. The long awaited judgment day that men heard about, they mocked and scoffed about, and it became a mockery about a judgment day and about the coming of the Lord. Scoffers say, "We heard that Jesus is coming so long, but where is he? Where is the promise of His coming?" In 1963 it was announced. Angels were announcing it, not of peace, but of judgment. Now even though angels announced that something happened, the religious world was in confusion. When the three wise men came to Jerusalem, there was still a question in their minds of where to find Him. "Where is He that is born King of the Jews?" Christ's coming remains a mystery since 1963. The announcement was made and wise men are still asking, "Where is He, the judge of all the earth?" The wise virgins will find Him, as the wise men found Him. The event of the seals is the coming of the Lord. Don't get your lines tangled up. I am not talking about Jesus coming down to the earth. The coming of the Lord sets in order the coming of Jesus for the rapture. If you miss what happened at the seals, you cannot meet Him in the air, because the opening of the seals sets in order the rapture. It sets in order the coming of Jesus that you and others looked for, for so many thousands of years. It was a fantastic experience. William Branham was caught up in that cloud, twenty-six miles high, by seven angels, and if you would understand bride language, there was a certain one amongst the seven angels who was very notable. The notable angel is not a man. It meant a lot to the prophet of God. He said that he is the one with the seventh seal. And if there is a notable angel with the seventh seal, we must find him. He holds it. You cannot get any seventh seal revelation until you know about that angel who held the seventh seal. And the man of God said, "He flew eastward." That is where Jesus Christ comes from. "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." (Matthew 24:27).
They were seven angels who took him up twenty-six miles high. The scientific camera took it. It appeared in Life Magazine. We have the magazine, [See clipping Ed.] and science declared it is a "mysterious cloud," just the same as the star was seen, and they called it a mysterious star. Whatever God is to do upon earth, He declares it in the heavens first, and the star declared the coming of the Lord, but it went into secrecy. It went into hiding. Only a few people had known that on earth. The opening of the seven seals is a major event that set in order the fulfilment of many Scriptures, revelations and prophecies. It was announced and it was symbolized. It was the fulfilment of Matthew 25:6: "Behold the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him." And if you would understand deeper things; that was the real ministry of Malachi 4:5-6. He came stomping out of the desert with the word of God. "And the word of the Lord came unto John the Baptist in the wilderness." That was the real prophetic ministry. Elijah's ministry is when the word came to Brother Branham, and it declared the coming of Christ, because that was his commission in 1933, to forerun the coming of the Lord. Before 1963, Brother Branham was just being used as an evangelist. He was born a prophet all along, but the real prophetic ministry came in 1963 when the word of God came to him in the wilderness.
His real ministry was the seals. It was the highest annunciation. I quote him from, 'Spoken word is the original seed, page 20.' "My mission, I believe, to the earth is what? - is to forerun the coming Word, which is Christ." If Brother Branham had not come to that place of the opening of the seals, he would be found a false prophet, because he would not introduce that Messiah, then it would not parallel with John the Baptist. But he introduced the Messiah, and he was found to be Elijah of the twentieth century, announcing the second coming of Jesus Christ. He was found a true prophet, he said, if he did come at the seals. It was the revealing of the son of man, not the coming of Jesus.
The opening of the seals set in order the fulfilment of many Scriptures; and I pointed out to you on seals one to four, that it sets in order the fulfilment of 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12; and all that I preached on the first four seals was 2 Thessalonians 2:1:12. And what did that deal with? Man of sin, son of perdition, antichrist, the mark of the beast, and showing the different stages of the antichrist riding through two thousand years. He was thoroughly made plain. The opening of the seals was supposed to reveal two great revelations. Man of sin and son of man. The first four seals revealed the man of sin and the fifth seal revealed the salvation of the Jews. The sixth seal revealed judgment. There isn't anyone could tear up what I am saying here. There isn't a preacher in the message, worldwide, who could tear up what I am saying, but this revelation would tear them up in the days to come. The fourth seal is prophecy. Do you know that the fifth and the sixth seal is also prophecy? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] And I want to prove to you that the seventh seal is also prophecy. The Lord revealed that one little something, that it is not seven messages; it is an event. You see, that forms the basis of all the seals. The fourth seal is prophecy concerning the man of sin, and how he will form a one-world government and a one-world church. We have come out of organizations to flee the mark of the beast. The mark of the beast is coming from the pope, through the world council of churches. All churches are headed back to Rome. Now, that has not taken place yet, but it is in fulfilment right now. The opening of the seals set in order the fulfilment of Scriptures. These Scriptures were opened up: 2 Thessalonians 2: 1-12, Revelation 17, Revelation 13; a one-world government and a one-world church. When you understand what the seals revealed, you could preach from many places in the Bible. Everything that speaks of the antichrist from Genesis to Revelation, we could now preach, because the first four Seals are opened up. Now do you see how it opened the Scripture? Do you see how it fulfilled the Scripture? Do you now see why Brother Branham said, "From Genesis to Revelation is revealed?" I could preach the Devil from heaven, right down to the lake of fire. And any little brother who is hearing the Word could do that, because I am not anyone special. Anyone of these preachers could do that, because the Seals are opened. The fifth Seal is the salvation of the Jews. You say, "How does that connect with the opening of the seals?" The event of the opening of the seals is the coming of the Lord. "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." (Romans 11:26). When he finishes with the Bride, this deliverer from the opening of the Seals, goes to Israel to save the Jews. Now do you see how the event made a way for the fulfilment of Scriptures and revelation? The opening of the seals brings to light Romans 11: The salvation of the Jews, their blindness and their eyes being opened by the Messiah. It brings to light Revelation 7: The sealing of the Jews. Before the sixth seal is opened the Jews must be sealed. Who is that angel that flew from the east? There is only one angel that is responsible for sealing. He flew from the east. He was the sealing angel. At the opening of the seals, the sealing angel came. When he finishes with the Gentiles, he goes to the Jews. The seventh seal is not yet fulfilled. Is it prophecy? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] The sixth seal holds the judgment that was declared in the heavens from the white wig judge. Judgment had not come in 1963; it was declared, because the judge is here. That's the same judge who is going to belch out wrath by the manifestation of the sixth seal. I am saying that the fourth seal was prophecy, the fifth seal was prophecy, the sixth seal was prophecy, and the seventh seal is also prophecy, and it was not fulfilled in the days of William Branham, but it was prophesied to be fulfilled before the coming of the Lord for the rapture. It was not revealed to Brother Branham. It is evident from the words of Malachi 4 that the seventh seal was not revealed. I quote Brother Branham from page 564 of the Seven seals book: "When it starts it will be absolutely a total secret." On page 575 - 577, he said, "The Seventh Seal was left out:" I am saying that the event that took place at the opening of the seals proper, in 1963, was in secret, and it was held under the seventh seal. I am asking, "Where is the seven thunders; under which seal?" The man of sin took up four seals. The Jews took up one and the tribulation took up the next one. Where is He that is born King of the Jews? Jesus said, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life." When the wise men were searching for this great one, and told Herod that, Herod was smarter than all the followers of Malachi 4. He immediately called all who were concerned with the Bible and said, "Tell me where the certain location is?" If he is born, he cannot be born in the whole world. There is a certain location. It was in the Scripture. It was in the Word. And one fellow said, "Out of Bethlehem of Judea." I will have you to know children, that Judea was the very same place where John the Baptist's ministry was; and in that same location is where the Messiah arose. Our John the Baptist was in the United States, and the seals were opened right in the United States; declaring the coming of the Lord. America is the most filthy and wicked nation upon the earth, which has exported their filth of Hollywood throughout the world and has corrupted the whole world, therefore, He came to America as a judge; not in peace. To whom much is given, much is required. We are not talking about the people in America who love God, and the precious brethren who will come out. America was the one that heard the revealing of the mystery, and because they were the ones to have heard the revealing of the mysteries, judgment was declared in the heavens, and the pronouncement of judgment came to them by the Prophet Brother Branham. The Lord kept the coming of the Lord in secret and revealed to Joseph, to take the child and hide him away in Egypt; an unlikely place to hide the word. Who could ever think that you are going to hide the word in a place called Egypt? "Hide him in Egypt, and remain there until you get word from me, and then I will bring you back to Jerusalem". He is the very opening of those seals.
If He is the opening of the seals, then where is He that is born King of the Jews? It is the mystery under the seventh seal. That is the thing that was in "an unknown language". That is the thing that was not interpreted. It was in an unknown language. It flew across there, "the man said", and he could not make it out
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The thing is where to find him. The mystery is where to find him. When you find him the mystery of the seventh seal, it is broken to you. As certain as the opening of the seals set in order the opening of the fourth, fifth and sixth seal, it also set in order the Scriptures to open the seventh seal. The prophet of God said, "Moses and Elijah opened that Sixth Seal," but it was revealed in 1963; the revelation of it; but the actuality of the sixth seal is different. Moses and Elias open the sixth seal in actuality, because it is judgment and they will have power to bring judgment upon the earth, and when they speak God's judgments, the sixth seal will be opened
The fifth seal is opened when the deliverer goes over to Israel and "turn ungodliness away from Jacob," but it was revealed at the opening of the seals, but the actuality takes place when the Jews receive the gospel. The fourth seal was revealed in 1963, but when the man of sin comes and he is the world ruler over a one world government and a one-world church, the fourth seal is revealed and is actually manifested, but the revelation of it took place in 1963. In actuality, it has not yet taken place, likewise the seventh seal. When the book was opened in 1963, it set in order the opening of the seventh seal for the Bride of Christ. Do you understand the order that is set forth in Scripture for the opening of that seal? I am not talking about the revelation now; I am talking about the order. There is a certain order of the fifth seal and the sixth seal; and the Bible also opened up Scriptures for the order and the revelation of the seventh seal, because it was not revealed to Brother Branham. Do you know that order? Have you found it in the message? The order of the opening of the seventh seal was fully declared by Brother Branham; but not the revelation of the seventh seal. The revelation of it is for a specific time, and for a specific people. The revelation of it comes to the people who maintain a specific attitude. It is a specific condition of the heart, and the condition of the heart is humility. When he came to the seventh seal the prophet of God said, "How did I know the other day when I preached God in Simplicity and I said, be humble, be humble, be humble." I am not talking about the revelation of the seventh seal; I am taking about the order of Scriptures. You say, "Brother Bruce, Revelation 8 said, "Silence in heaven"; what Scripture can you connect?" I can't connect anything, but God, in His wisdom, connected it for the prophet. Brother Branham received two folds of it. Those two folds of it were additional Scriptural connections that God gave to William Branham, because this was so vague that he could not connect it anywhere. God in His wisdom came down and showed Brother Branham two Scriptures that pertain to the seventh seal. If that did not happen, I would not know the Scriptural connection, but it is in the message. Just as the opening of the seal sets in order those other seals, it also set in order the opening of the seventh seal. Anybody who does not follow the order of the Scripture, will be deceived, and make themselves impersonators. The impersonators who went out with the false revelation of thunders have even missed the order of the Scriptures and the opening of the seals. There is an order. You say, "Brother Bruce you are claiming to bring out the seventh seal revelation". You are misunderstanding me. All that I am claiming is that when the seals were opened, it set in order the opening of the seventh seal also. God revealed the order to Brother Branham. If you don't follow that order, you will miss the opening of that seal. There is an order. There is an order of the sun, an order of the moon, an order of the birds, the beast and the flowers. God has an order in doing everything. When the seals were opened it set in order Scriptures and revelations for the breaking of the seventh seal. In other words, the opening of the seals set in order the coming of the Lord; the scriptural order. Now some ignore this fact that the seventh seal will be opened one day. They ignore the order and the revelation to come later, but it is promised to us, and it has its correct order of fulfilment by revelation. God has a program, but false prophets and false teachers made isms. They tried to interpret the seventh seal, contrary to the warning of the prophet, and wound themselves off the beaten track. They missed the order of the Scripture, and they are trying to give the "seven thunders", outside of God's order that was revealed to Malachi 4. He said, "Two folds were revealed to me. One fold I will tell the church." The next fold, he did not tell it. They were not ready for this second fold. Now you should understand that Brother Branham gave the scriptural connection when he said, "I will give you the first fold." Do you know what was the first fold he got? Everybody should know that. [Congregation says, "Amen!"] He said, "I declare that when the seventh seal was opened and there was silence in heaven, it matched with the Scripture when Jesus said, "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." (Matthew 24:36).
Jesus never told them when it is going to take place. In other words, Jesus was silent, and God himself was silent, for Jesus himself never knew it until after his resurrection. That Second fold is so sacred that they never put it into the seal book when they printed it, but they released it after and put a footnote there, saying that this was a portion of the message that was cut out from the tape. Footnote: ["Brother Branham did not want this original recording released. The next day, Monday, March 25th, 1963, Brother Branham went to the motel room of Brother Fred Sothmann and Brother James McGuire who were at that time in charge of making the tapes. Brother Branham told these brothers, "I don't want this message sent out the way it is." After listening to the tape himself, he instructed the brothers to stop the tape at a certain point, and at that point--(beginning of paragraph number 261)--recorded a new portion of approximately twenty minutes in length--(paragraph 377-414). This new portion was then used in place of the original ending--(paragraph 261-373). This recording was the only released version of the "Seventh Seal" until 1966. After Brother Branham left the scene, the board of the William Branham Evangelistic Association unanimously agreed to release the tape originally recorded at the Tabernacle." Ed.] (The seventh seal - page 574). "How can you connect any Scripture to Revelation 8:1 when the seventh seal was silent in heaven?" Brother Branham said that, "The seventh seal was the coming of the Lord, and Jesus was silent about it." He said, "The seven thunders that John heard and was forbidden to write, the Bible was also silent about that." He said, "So that silence of the seventh seal (Revelation 8:1), the silence of Jesus' coming (Matthew 24), and the silence of the thunders (Revelation 10:4), are one and the same. The order of the Scriptures. Now, if you want to find out more about the seventh seal, don't we have to turn to the Scriptures that the God of heaven, the Lamb, referred Brother Branham to. Now, before God spoke to him we never had Scriptures. He had no Scriptures, and he never knew where to apply it, but the opening of the seals set in order the fulfilment of these Scriptures. The seventh seal is connected to the son of man, Luke 17:30. The son of man will be revealed in the last days. So it is a chain of Scriptures. Now he could chain the other Scriptures. I am only talking about the order of the opening of the seal, not the revelation. Revelation 10 was the major Scripture. When the seven sealed book was opened, it brought in a new covenant. All these things are chained, one after the next. It's a big clear picture. All these things are chained up: son of man, cloud, covenant and the eating of the book. We can't separate them. What is the order of the Scripture? The message holds the facts. Now this is not my interpretation. I am not telling you about the revelation of the seventh seal. It was not revealed to Brother Branham. I am talking about the order. Just the same as the opening of the seals set in order all other Scriptures, it also set in order the opening of the seventh seal. Now if you see the order, no man can fool you, because you will be looking through a certain channel to see what the prophet said, of how it is coming, and how it will be fulfilled. God has a program. I quote page 458-461
I am saying that the opening of the seals set in order Revelation 10:1-7, because the seven thunders is in that chapter, and that's the Scripture that the Lord referred Brother Branham to, which connects Revelation 8:1 and Matthew 24. Let us see if we can find the order for the opening of the seal. Revelation 10:1: "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven (another one) clothed with a cloud..." (Let us stop for a minute) A "mighty angel came down from heaven" and he was "clothed with a cloud"; and the opening of the seals brought a cloud into existence, but Revelation 10:1 is telling us who was inside that cloud. He was clothed with a cloud, from head to foot, so when you looked at the cloud, all that you knew that it was a cloud, but the judge was inside. He was clothed with a cloud. "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven clothed with a cloud…", and if this one came "down from heaven", it showed that he was up there at the opening of the seals. When he came, he was still in "a cloud". "…And a rainbow was upon his head…" This is your covenant angel. The only angel that was supposed to come after John the Baptist was the covenant angel, and the covenant angel was the Lord.
The only angel after William Branham is the covenant angel. Can somebody disagree with that? If that is not true, the Scripture is broken. John the Baptist made a way for the covenant angel. That is why all these eighth messengers who arosed around the world are false. They were found to be false prophets. If Brother Branham was referred to the eighth chapter and the tenth chapter of Revelation, and to the twenty fourth chapter of Matthew, let us see where the seventh seal revelation is coming from. Let us see the Scriptural order. The Bible has to speak. It is connected to the cloud that appeared in 1963, and the only one that is connected to this cloud is the mighty angel who came "down from heaven". And you could be seeing a cloud, because this angel was clothed with a cloud, but a rainbow is upon his head identifying who he is. The only one who is identified with a rainbow is the angel of the covenant. He is the captain of the host to lead Israel into the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. He is the sealing angel. "…A rainbow was upon his head and his face was as it were the sun, his feet as pillars of fire…" The sun and pillars of fire signify judgment. He came as a judge, not as the friendly and lowly Galilean. This is Christ who is coming as a judge. Jesus is in heaven. Let us see if this is Christ."… And he had in his hand a little book open…" (and it was opened this time) "…and he set his right foot upon the sea and his left foot upon the earth…" Don't look for any gigantic thing my friend. When the word spoke of John coming before Jesus, it said, "Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain." (Isaiah 40:4). When he came down there, He cut down the Pharisees and preached repentance to sinners. This verse speaks of the geographical location where the second coming of the Lord takes place; just as certain as He was born in Bethlehem of Judea. The opening of the seals set in order Scriptures that pertain to the opening of the seventh seal. If you don't know the Scriptures that pertain to the opening of that seal, you will miss the revelation when it comes, and you will be following some kind of false anointed one around the world.
The Lion of the tribe of Juda had prevailed to open the book, and here He is roaring like a lion. Notice, "He cried with a loud voice". One singular voice. And when He cried out with that one singular voice, seven thunders came forth. That is why the seven thunders were not revealed to Brother Branham. It was not his ministry. It was the ministry of the mighty angel that came down from heaven. There is a certain location for that angel; a certain ministry. It is the ministry of Christ. He alone holds the revelation of the seven thunders. That is scriptural order. The opening of the seals set the scriptural order for the opening of the seventh seal and the revelation to the Bride. This is the course you have to follow. These Scriptures came in the first fold to guide you and I, and to show us where it was coming from. People wonder why Brother Branham never got the revelation of the thunders, because the Bible said, "All mysteries are supposed to be revealed by the seventh angel." You are not reading your Bible properly. "All the mysteries that were written in the book as he had declared to his servants the prophets." The parables and the dark sentences, which he had already declared to the prophets and they never understood, were supposed to be revealed. Not what was written outside of the book. The seven thunders was outside of the book and the Lion held it; Christ held it.
This is outside of the Bible. This is outside of the regular mysteries that were declared to the prophets, but must dove-tail with all the Word. Immediately, the angel swore away time, showing you that the opening of the seals divided time. It swore away the seven church ages, and a new day came into existence; a new era, a new time, and that is the bride age. The seven-thunders age, the age of the coming of the Lord, the day of the Lord was broken.
This is the order of the Scripture. If you follow that order you will find it, and whenever you find that you will find the son of man revealing Himself. You will find him trying to get into the bride of Christ.
If only people knew what took place at the opening of the seals. Let me tell you friends, when that book was opened, it brought millions of angels to the face of the earth in order to equip the bride to stand up against the man of sin and his host of Demons that came from hell. "And his name was called Death and hell followed with him". As certainly as hell was opened to release these demons in the end time, to come against the bride of Christ, Christ was revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, and the ministry of the "third pull" is a ministry of angels. Brother Branham said that angels would be more common than television pictures in the days to come.
Any man who follows the order of the seventh seal, has an angel around him. You have heard from your Theophany. That charge that you receive is a charge from that angel. Wherever that is going on in secret, there will the Presence of God be. They will have a power there that does not move in other assemblies "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:" (1Thessalonians 4:16). The archangel is Michael. He is Christ. Whenever He moves, He moves with His angels. "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and with…" what? [Congregation says, "Voice!"] "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, stand upon land, and upon sea and he cried with" what? [Congregation says, "Voice!"] A big revelation friend; a powerful revelation, straight on the Word of God. And out of that voice that he descended with came forth the seven thunders. Anybody who is preaching those seven thunders, would preach the covenant, and they will know something about the covenant, because the thunders are wrapped up in the covenant. You cannot have the thunders outside of the covenant. You have got to be a covenant people. You got to be a covenant preacher. You got to follow the covenant angel in order to come to the thunders. Don't you see the deception of this whole thing friend; from New York to Arizona, to India, to China, to Africa? They cannot divide the covenants and claim to be preaching the thunders.
This is a ministry of angels. There are thousands of angels here right now, who protect us from demon power. There is deliverance, there is healing, if you could believe. It quickens and charges your body when you come in tired, weak and sick. They charge you; they comfort you in your distresses. A mighty angel, and he is revealed in flaming fire doing what? Taking vengeance. The judgment of God. The first revelation is in the heavens, but later on; this ministry of the seven thunders is a ministry of judgment, and Judgment begins at the House of God.
"…In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God." (2 Thessalonians 1:8). They don't have a revelation of the son of man. That is the only way to know God. You've got to have a revelation of the son of man. "…Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction," (destruction) from the presence of the Lord." (2 Thessalonians 1:9). Wherever you find the revealing of the son of man, and wherever you find those angels, you'll find the presence of God. "…and from the glory of his power." What is He coming amongst you for? Why is His presence here? Why is His word here? Why did He come at the opening of the seals? Some thing must be done before he appears in the heaven. "…When he shall come to be glorified in his saints." (2 Thessalonians 1:10). Christ in you is the hope of glory. Why were the seals opened? That Christ might come into the bride, that He might be glorified in the saints. "Wherefore also we pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling" (2 Thessalonians 1:11). Is it a great calling that Christ has come by the opening of the seals to be glorified in you? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] Count yourself a privileged person today, if your eyes could be opened up to this. "…Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling:" What calling? When Christ comes the second time, to be glorified in His saints. It is a great calling, children. "…and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power." Another outpouring of the Holy Ghost. "…that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and ye in him according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Thessalonians 1:12). Is that Scriptural order children? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] All that I have preached to you is the Scriptural order. If you follow that Scriptural order, you cannot help but identify that ministry and that revelation of the seventh seal when it is broken to the public just before the rapture. All that I have preached is the order of the Scripture that was revealed to Malachi 4, of how the seventh seal is coming. How the seven thunders are coming. How the revelation is coming. That is all. If you follow that order, you will know when it takes place. You will know what it is. Your eyes will see the glory of the second coming of the Lord. Give us the song there brother. Mine eyes have seen the glory ….
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