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[Jewish Anthem Music at reading of Scriptures. Ed.] Thank you Saviour, blessed is the name of the Lord. Thank you Lord. Bless your word tonight; oh Lord, let it accomplish the things that you would send it out to accomplish. Save sinners, reconcile backsliders; bring light and understanding unto your people from all religions, organizations and all walks of life. May the blessing of the Holy Spirit rest and abide upon each one of us, with those that are visiting. Grant them the desires of their heart, heal their bodies, bring deliverance to their souls and prosper them both naturally and spiritually we pray thee. Bless our brethren around the world who are commemorating the opening of the seals, bless them all, oh Father, in Connecticut, Guyana, St. Vincent, Lord at this moment bless and undertake for each one we pray in the name of Jesus Christ, we pray with thanksgiving, and the congregation say, "Amen!" [Congregation says, 'Amen!"] Amen means so let it be. It means I agree with what I have seen, what I have heard and what ever is going on; it means so let it be. So we are grateful to the Lord tonight to be back in his house. After hearing these mighty men of God it gets you a little concerned to come up after them, but we enjoyed every one of them and especially our Brother Seebrat last night, that was a masterpiece, yes, it revived the meeting and created interest and I believe it was understandable to the visitors within our gates. I have received wonderful reports about our visitors that are attending from night to night, and I want to give you a hearty welcome tonight, it does not matter what religion you belong to. We have a gathering of Hindus, Muslims, Catholics, Pentecostals, different organizations and we have people that don't belong to any religion and you are also welcome. So we are a happy people and we are gathered for a very great purpose and that is to commemorate the opening of the seals. I really want to compliment the visitors who kept up with the meeting even from Sunday and their behaviour is so wonderful. You go to a church that is new to you, you will hear a preacher preach things that are new to you, you will hear things that probably you don't agree with, but then a real decent person will sit still and listen and disagree in a friendly manner, not hostile. And as Christians we ought to have the grace of God in our lives to hear out a man and then make our comments. We have come to what we call the fifth seal. Six seals are held in the sixth chapter and the seventh seal goes over to the eight chapter of the Book of Revelation. If you are here for the first time, I guess you are at a loss right now. "What is this seal that this man is talking about tonight?" And we always have to start a little bit from the beginning. So, I will go back a little from the beginning for a few minutes. At the first coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, angels came down from heaven and these angels had a leader, and they cannot do what they want, but they must always obey the command of their leader. Heaven has order, its only Earth that is out of order. Man went out of order in Genesis and they were promised a Messiah to come and set them in order to bring life and salvation. We were all sinners, we were born sinners, and when you come in as a visitor here, don't you ever think you have come unto a bunch of righteous people or angels that fell from heaven. We are sinners, but we are saved by grace. Liars, thieves, whoremongers, marijuana smokers, coke addicts, scamps and we were involved in all the sins of the world, but something happened in our lives and that is a great miracle took place, it took away the desire for sin. Now that is true Christianity. True Christianity takes away the desire for the sins. If it takes away the desire for sin then you don't commit the sin. Religion covers up the desire and put on robes and cloaks and recites certain prayers and other formalities, but the desires are still there. That is why you find people who profess religion but then, they are a bunch of hypocrites, because the desires were not taken away. So what they have is a cloak of religion and they are trying to keep a certain law. Now that went on in the Old Testament time, when man sinned he brought a lamb, the lamb was slain, the Lord took the life of the innocent lamb and spared the man from going to hell. That was God's provision. So they were promised a Messiah, a Deliverer, and a Saviour. And in the course of time, after four thousand years from Genesis there came down a bunch of angels and they made a certain announcement. That announcement that was made was an announcement of peace and goodwill to all men from all religion, from all walks of life, Jews, Gentiles and Samaritans. That's the God that we serve. And they said, "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord… And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men." (Luke 2:10-14). A few people heard that, who were shepherds at night. The light shone and then peace and goodwill was announced back in that time of the first coming of the Lord. We have a banner in front, which says, "Memorial of the Opening of the Seven Seals in 1963." So we are gathered for the purpose of declaring to you that a similar announcement was made in 1963. A bunch of angels did come down from heaven like in the first coming of the Lord. And this time, instead of declaring peace and goodwill to all men, they declared judgment. They declared that the time of judgment, the long awaited judgment that the world heard about since Genesis, and preached by preachers for 2000 years, this great judgment was about to take place. This great announcement took place in a place called Arizona, in the United States. What happened there was a bunch of angels came down and formed something that looks like a cloud. The cloud was twenty-six miles high and thirty miles across the skies and it was photographed by science. It appeared in a Magazine called 'Life Magazine' which we have somewhere around here; and under the balcony we would notice two pictures there. That was a symbol of judgment that the Lord sent to warn all mankind that He was about ready to burn the earth with fire. Not only that, but bring plagues upon the face of the earth. There will be great disasters. So the Angel of the Lord announced judgment. Now that cloud which was photographed, Revelation 1:14 describes that cloud and that is the attire of the Lord in Judgment. So about that same time, the second coming of the Lord Jesus was announced. It was in direct comparison with the first coming, suffice it to be said that way. When that announcement of peace was made there was a baby born which was Christ the Lord. This announcement was made that judgment was about to take place. What followed that announcement of judgment was a great earthquake in America, in the place called Alaska. Alaska almost sunk from the judgment of God. That earthquake sent forth tremors throughout the whole world; the entire globe shook to some degree. Now that was a second warning to mankind telling them that judgment is imminent. The judgment of God is pending for six billion people upon the face of the earth. Now the Lord in His goodness and His grace always sends a warning before He brings judgment. So the Lord's desire is not to destroy you as a rum drinker or a marijuana smoker, or an adulterer, or a fornicator, no, His desire is to warn you, that you may turn from your ways and be saved from that destruction. In the days of Noah, He sent a prophet before he drowned the world with water, and He promised that He will do the same thing again today before he burns the earth. He sent that warning and He made that announcement. Now, about that time that He made that announcement something great took place upon the earth. He had a prophet whose name was William Branham, and he was promised to come.
Now this cloud of judgment in the heavens coincides with the fulfilment of the Scripture in Malachi 4. About the time that the Lord sent the symbol of judgment in the heavens, that's the time He had a prophet standing upon the earth, also with a message of warning, because the cloud could not have reached everybody. The cloud was not in all parts of the world. Besides that, no one understood what the cloud meant; therefore this man had to be upon earth like Daniel. When the writing came over Belshazzar's Kingdom and no one could have read it; the obeah men, the priests and all the religionists could not read it. But there was a man called Daniel in that Kingdom, and he came by and said, "Yes, the Lord gave me the understanding to read this; and what that means is judgment. God is getting ready to judge this whole nation", and judgment fell after that. Now the Lord had a Daniel today, He had a man today standing on the earth to channel down the warning. We cannot understand when the cloud speak, we cannot understand even when the angels speak, but then the Lord had a man upon the earth, that man was a prophet, mighty in signs and wonders. He raised the dead, healed the sick, cast out devils and it will take too long to tell you about this man's ministry. Something most wonderful took place about the time of that announcement. In your Bible, in the Book of Revelation, chapter five, there was a book closed, nobody could open that book and the Lamb came and took the book. Now that Lamb is Jesus Christ. They called him a lamb because he went to Calvary and he was slain for the sins of the world. He came and took the book. In Revelation 10, you will see where the book was opened, and in the hand of an angel. The opening of the seals has to do with angels. There was a mighty angel, a captain of all these angels that stood upon the earth with the book in his hand. Of course that angel represents Christ. Bible Schools never taught that. All the seminaries and all your reading cannot bring that out. Even because that book was sealed, there was no one to open that book and to reveal the mysteries but Christ Jesus. So now what we are doing here is that we are bringing into memory what the Lord Jesus has done in 1963. This is not the worship of a man; this is bringing into remembrance what Jesus done in 1963 to warn the world. Now, the reason for this book being opened in the end time was for the purpose of preparing a people to go away in a translation. If you belong to a religion or whoever you are: Catholic, Hindu or Muslim; you may not understand that, but let me tell you; in the Scripture we are promised a translation, a catching away from the world; a disappearance by the power of God that is about to fall upon the church. As Christians, we believe that, and organizations do believe that, and are looking for this rapture also. But they don't realize that before the rapture takes place, the book must be opened and reveal a certain secret in order to go in the rapture. So now this book was opened here in the end time. It was sealed with seven seals. It is the unveiling of the Bible. It was called a redemption book. Now there is only one redemption book and that is the Bible.
Redemption means to go back to the beginning, to be restored back unto your original condition, God made the first man Adam, never to die, and gave him a body that had no sickness, pain and death. Therefore this plan of God to save mankind is wrapped up in the Bible. This book here, the Bible tells us how to go back to the beginning and never die. Now the book could not be opened before now, because the rapture was not ready to take place. Therefore the book must become open in the end time and let out certain secrets that only Jesus holds. Jesus holds the secret of how to die and live again; every other religionist died and is in their tombs today. Jesus had a certain secret. That certain secret was in his bosom and when he came to the earth he challenged the Pharisees. He said, "I have power to lay down my life and power to take it up again." So the only man that broke the chasm between life and death was our Lord Jesus Christ. He broke the chasm of death. They crucified him on the cross and put Him inside a sepulchre, and before seventy-two hours He rose again from the dead. He walked forty days and forty nights upon the earth and He is alive and alive forever more. Now that is the difference with the founder of Christianity, in comparison with the founder of any other religion. Jesus holds some secrets that He never gave to the church in two thousand years. He and he alone holds them. That is why this book came into question. He was the only one to come forward and take the book and loose the seals; the redemption secrets. Redemption secret is how to go away in the rapture; redemption secret is how to change this body into incorruption. So he loosed the seals.
These things happened in 1963 and all these secrets were handed down to a man called William Branham. What was preached before, plus the opening up of the seals, make up a great mountain of truth. This great truth that was revealed today is found in the Scriptures. It is undeniable. This great truth out here is what we call, "The message of the hour." So when you hear us say that we are following a certain message, we are talking about a certain understanding that was revealed today to William Branham. It was the Lord Jesus who gave him that. So now people think that we worship William Branham. That's not true. It is a lie. Now religious people lie in order that you don't come to the Truth. They lie to you so that you don't go in the rapture. They lie to you so that you don't find the Truth. That's the Devil who is trying to keep you away from what Jesus done in 1963. Now if you don't find that truth you cannot go in the rapture, so it's a redemption plan. Now Scriptures for that is Revelation 10:7, Malachi 4:5-6, Revelation 3:14 shows you that there was a ministry and a man to receive that revelation. So the cloud alone was not the warning. No, it was the man, the prophet who was sent upon earth with a message. So what I am preaching right now is the message of warning. That is why we are gathered here, that is why we invited you, in order to hear what happened in 1963 and to give you the warning also. It is either you take the warning or don't take it. Noah gave the world a warning for a hundred and twenty years. Eight people took it and the rest of them drowned in the floods. When God was going to burn Sodom and Gomorrah there were only four people who took the warning, and only two or three went out of Sodom. God always sends a warning before judgment. It is either you take that warning or don't take it. That is God's duty, to give you a warning. Daniel 12: 4, 8-10 tells you how the Bible was sealed.
You say, "I could read my Bible and find out about Jesus, about baptism, about not committing adultery and living in fornication." So be it. That's the truth. But can you read your Bible and find out about what it takes to go in the rapture? Can you read and find out about the second coming of Jesus Christ; the secret that Jesus has in his bosom? He did not reveal it in the Scriptures out here. No; he held that for the end time. So now we are sensible people and we have to understand sensible things. You just can't have an arrogant attitude as a Christian and say, "I don't want to hear anything about Branham, or these 'Branhamites'." You will lose out in the end. You have to behave yourself in an orderly fashion as a Christian. When a strange message came to the people in olden days, they searched the Scripture to see whether those things were so. And when Jesus came, He sounded strange to the people, and He said, "Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, and they are they, which testify of me." So now everything that God sends on the earth and it is new, surprises the people, they are not acquainted with it and some people just reject it. Then our duty is to search the Scriptures because they are going to tell us what is right and what is wrong. There is a rapturing grace to be revealed before the rapture takes place.
So over here on our board (Diagram) you will notice that we have four horses and we have an Angel standing here, a Lamb there, and we have a little book out here. So what did this book reveal? This book had seven seals. Each seal held a revelation of Truth. When the first seal was revealed, it came forth in symbol form and it only said, "White horse", but no one knew what white horse was. Read your Bible and you are only going to see, "White horse." Now God told William Branham what was white horse; same thing about red horse, black horse and pale horse. The Lord told William Branham what were all these horses. Now since He told him that, he told us and we are telling you what these horses are about. We noticed that when the seals came open, we started seeing that the Bible was speaking of the Devil, the antichrist, the man of sin. And for a better understanding to the visitor here, when the first seal was opened, it showed the antichrist. Maybe you have heard of the antichrist and the first organization he formed in 325AD. Then the second seal showed us that the religion which the antichrist formed killed sixty eight million martyrs during one period alone. Then the third horse and the rider are also an organization and a church. That shows that it took away the light from the Bible. Taking away the light from the Bible, it put the whole world into darkness, and that period was known as the Dark Ages, and a law was passed to be a Catholic or die. Millions perished. Then, out here is the fourth horse and its rider, it is speaking of a one-world government and a one-world church, and this has to do with your day and your age. In this fourth horse rider is wrapped up the mark of the beast, a one-world government and a one-world church, and anybody who comes under the dominion of this great power, this great system, this great world council of churches, and this great one world government, is automatically going to take the mark of the beast and end up in hell. Now isn't it strange that it was said that this was a redemption book, but when the first seal came open, all that we could see and hear is about the antichrist; and when the second seal came open, it was the antichrist, the third seal came open and it was the antichrist, and the fourth seal was opened, and all that we heard and seen were about antichrist. Isn't that strange? Now you think God was wasting time? He had a purpose, and that is, that deception is so great upon the face of the earth, that the first four seals were dedicated to the exposition of damnable heresies. Damnable heresies in religions, damnable heresies in organizations and damnable heresies that will infiltrate the message of the hour. Therefore the Lord was revealing the four seals upon the earth because of deception. The deception is so great because of Matthew 24:24, which said, "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." Let me tell you the gospel truth, when the seals were opened, people were already in bondage of deception, through organization, religions, sin and through their own conceptions. Now God could not take the redemption secret and hand it down to the people in that condition. They would not understand. Beloved look; a sinner comes here, he is smoking marijuana, drinking rum, he now committed adultery with a woman outside there, the man cursing the preacher and everything, can I take that man and put him down and tell him about redemption secrets? No, I have to preach repentance to the man. I have to show him that he is a deceived man. I have to show him that sin deceived him. I have to preach to him and get the Spirit of God upon him. When I get the spirit of God upon him and get his mind into the right place, then I could tell him redemption secrets. The redemption secret is by the opening of the seals, but the Lord could not give it to the people, because they were not prepared for it. So he had to do first things first, and that was to take them out of the bondage of deceptions, out of the dungeons. He had to get them out by opening up the first four seals and showing them that they are deceived. Yes, come out of your organizations. What was the deception? You say, "Am I deceived in my Pentecostal church, Baptist church and Methodist church?" My friend, listen to me, the Bible is opened. Now, if you believe in three gods, you are deceived. The Bible said that there is One God. "God is a Spirit," (John 4:24), not three of them. If you are baptized in Father, son and Holy Ghost titles, that baptism came from the Catholic Church and it is not a Jesus baptism. Acts 2:38 is Jesus' baptism. "Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ." We were deceived one time, we were all in organization, we were all in religion, and we were sinners and everything else. Yes. If you as a Christian woman who wears pants, you are deceived of the Devil. If you wear shorts, and if you do all these immoral things, you are not yet saved. The Bible condemns those things. "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array." (1Timothy 2:9). At one time, Pentecostal people never wore pants, they never wore jewels, they never wore short dresses, they could not come in there with pants, they could not come in there with short hair, they could not come into the church with high heel shoes, something changed. The Devil went into the church and deceived the preacher, the Bishop and his daughters are dressing that way, and his wife is dressing that way, so he deceived them. The seals were opened and the message came in order to show you that you are in the wrong place. It says in Revelation 18:4: "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." 1Timothy 2:12 says, "I suffer not a woman to teach." Now if you are a woman preacher you are deceived. If you sit under a woman preacher you are deceived. If you are in a church that believes that a woman should preach then you are deceived. The seals were opened in order to pull you out of such deceptions and cause you to be baptised in Jesus Christ's name. That could take place on Sunday morning. You want to get baptized and go back to your organization, no problem with that, go back, but I am telling you to come and be baptized in Jesus Christ's name. People will curse you in the name of Jesus, they will bless you in the name of Jesus, and they will greet you in the name of Jesus but when you tell them to baptize in Jesus Christ name they get angry with you. Something is wrong. No baptism that ever took place in the Bible took place in the titles of father, son and Holy Ghost, so you are in the wrong church. If you belong to an organization, that is going into the world council of churches; the pope is going to become the head of it. The mark of the beast is upon the pope's crown, in Latin words, 'vicarius filii dei', which is 666. And all these organizations are forming a world council of churches, and the pope is going to become the head of it. The Catholic church is recorded in Revelation 17. She is called the great whore. I am not getting critical my friends, I am just telling you what the Bible says. I am telling you what the seals revealed. I did not reveal it, I did not make up those things, I am only the postman. If somebody writes you a bad letter, don't blame the postman. The thing is sealed. He came and he delivered the letter to you and then you open the seal. (Understand what the seal revealed). Quarrel with that person; don't quarrel with the postman. So I am only the postman here, delivering the letter to you. You say I don't believe, that is okay. You say, "I belong to my church, I was born there and I will die there." Yes, you will die there. The only way to have life and be prepared to go in the rapture is to accept this message that was sent to us by the Lord Jesus Christ. You may not like the man named William Branham because you heard a lot of lies about him but take the message. Forget the man and take the message, because the message came from Jesus. And all that Jesus is saying is don't cut your hair, don't wear shorts, don't lie, don't curse, and don't live in adultery. All that Jesus is saying is that you must be born again. What Jesus is saying is you must receive a revelation of the son of man, you must have translation power and that is what we are trying to bring to you. Forget the man. They buried him already. He is in heaven rocking in his rocking chair. Take the message. Let us follow the message, and let us adjust to the Bible. If you want to get baptized in Christian baptism and go back to your organization, go ahead. When they kick you out, you will come back here. We have a place for you. Make a stand for the Word of God and you will find out what there is in an organization. Go back and tell your pastor that a woman should not preach and you will find out what kind of a spirit he has in him. Go back and tell him that a woman should not wear pants and you will find out the demon that is inside of him. Go back and tell your pastor that he must not stand behind the pulpit and beg for money to buy a new motorcar and a new pants for his wife, and to make world tours, and you will have to run away at one hundred miles an hour. Then you will know the church and the people you are associated with. Quote the Word of God and tell them you got baptized in Jesus Christ's name, and worst again just say, 'Branham'. You are going to find out. Now if you don't believe me, I challenge you to go do that. Go meet the Catholic priest and just tell him that the pope is the man of sin. Point him to Revelation 17 and tell him that it's the Catholic Church, and you will find out. If you are a woman preacher, you could repent tonight. In 1969, I was preaching and I started to bring out the Scriptures, and an old Baptist woman got up in the congregation and said, "I want to give a testimony. My brother condemned me this morning. I had been a woman preacher for all my life and I want to repent this morning." She said, "I really read in the Scriptures where Paul said that a woman should not preach; and I would not preach again." Now that's a heart that is going in the rapture. Yes! That is a soul that could be redeemed. I don't care; you could be cutting your hair all the days of your life, I don't condemn you for that. But when you know the truth, stop cutting it. You could be wearing high heeled shoes and shaking up, but when you know the truth, put away the shoes. You could belong to an organization all your life and you never knew that it was wrong, but when you hear the Word of the Lord, come out of the thing. You've got to be ready for the rapture, otherwise you will go through the tribulation. Please understand this children, the first four seals were dedicated to the exposition of damnable heresies. Errors must be exposed, impersonators, liars and heretics. Brother Branham was the first one to start exposing heresies ,and the seals was opened to expose damnable heresies. Do you know what people are doing instead of exposing damnable heresies? They jump on the pulpit and start to preach "thunders". Do you know what they call the thunders? They say that the thunders is the opening of the seals. Isn't that dumb? So you are telling me that the thunders is the white horse? Are you telling me that the white horse is the first thunder, the second thunder is the red horse, the third thunder is the black horse and the fourth thunder is the pale horse? You are a dumb preacher. The seven seals are not the seven thunders. People take it for granted today that the seven thunders is the opening of the seven seals. That is dumb.
The first four seals said nothing about seven thunders. When one seal was opened, a thunder sounded, not seven of them. He was commissioned to write what the thunders on the first four seals said, but was forbidden to write what the seven thunders uttered. That was in a different category all entirely.
Quote: 141-5 {165} "When He pulls the Seal down, a thunder clapped… and one of the four beasts said, "… John, write what you see."…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." (The First Seal 63-0318). We heard four seals throughout this week; did you see any thunder in there? Come on; let me hear your voices. [Congregation shouts, "No!"] No! I challenge any preacher around the world who says that the seven thunders is the opening of the seals, to prove it, and you cannot prove that. The first four seals are exposition of damnable heresy. What the preacher should be doing today is exposing heresies. These heresies come right up in the message and the true five-fold ministry today will be exposing these heresies. The greatest heresies are hinged around the seven thunders. So the first four seals were dedicated to the exposition of damnable heresies. Damnable heresies in religions, damnable heresies in organizations, damnable heresies in message assemblies, damnable heresies in homes, and damnable heresies in your life. Yes. So now, these heresies and these heretics were exposed today in order to give us an understanding of the devices of Satan. Now, people in the early church had knowledge of the devices of Satan, but that was lost throughout the ages. So the Lord revealed the first four seals to give us a revelation of the devices of Satan, the tactics of Satan; how he deceives. Now, if you can see how Satan deceives, then, my brother, when he comes to deceive you, as an individual, you will triumph over him. But if the blind pastor says, "I want to have nothing to do with damnable heresies", then it is better that he throws away the seals book. This book was dedicated to the exposition of damnable heresies also. So our books are based upon the seals and based upon the church ages. And let me tell you something, the only people who escapes the deceptions of the hour, are those who catches a revelation of the first four seals. You've got to catch another revelation together with that to go in the rapture, and that's the revelation of the son of man. The gates of hell cannot prevail over that. So they work together. The seals were opened to bring forth two great revelations. Firstly Man of sin, first four seals, then secondly 'son of man'. If you don't catch that something is wrong. Anybody that is puffed up and blown up like a toad when you talk about the heresies that are going on around the message and amongst message people, they are blind, deaf and dumb to the opening of the seals. You missed the first four horse riders. If you have a revelation of the first four seals, you will understand the Devil when he comes around the message. And any Devil that says that there cannot be another outpouring of the Holy Spirit is a heretic. Yes. Any Devil that says that Bob Lambert is a false prophet is a heretic. Oh yes, that's the truth too! Any Devil that says that there is no more revival is a heretic. Anybody who says that the new Name is the Word of God, is a heretic. Anybody who says that the new Name is Jesus, is a heretic. Anybody who says that you don't have to dress modestly, is a heretic. What a preacher allows his wife to do, that's the pattern that the church will follow. And that is what went on around the world. They brought the fashions of the world into the church and the pastor's wife and the children, they are in these sacks, these sacks, which are tight around their bodies, when they walk you could see their shape. Don't talk about bending down at all. It's a disgrace. And when these ministers around the world adopted the styles of sacks and tight clothes and brought it into the message from so-called Pentecost, or the world from where they came, and the pastor's wife put on those kinds of clothes, she is a poor example to the brethren. Then you cannot get the deacon's wife to do differently. You cannot get the sisters to do differently. Because, "If the priest could play 'mas', who is me?" Some may not understand that very well. What happened is that we have a carnival bacchanal in this country when people take off their clothes, right down to their underclothes and parade on the streets and live in fornication and adultery. And then what happened is that an Anglican priest jumped out one day and started playing 'mas', and the whole nation said, "If the priest could play 'mas', who is me?" So now, that's the doctrine right around the world. If the minister's wife is wearing tight clothes, wearing her jingle bells and her high heel shoes, who is me? Pastors who tolerate that in their churches are yet under the bondage of Satan. The pastor's wife is called to set an example. The man of God is called to set an example and the deacons are called to set an example. I am telling you, we have some Hindus in this country who dress better than organizational Christians. That is why I feel blessed with the Muslim people that came in here from Iran. I walked out there and they have their customs. They try to live something and I see that lady dressed and she had on a hijab (head-dress). I walked straight over and said, "I have no problem with your attire. I honour that." My heart's prayer is that they will see the love of Jesus Christ. And when a heart is sincere God is going to lead that person to eternal life. People in religions put some Christians to shame. There are certain nominal Christians that put message believers to shame; they have gone the way of the world. It's a total disgrace. Let me drift with the Spirit tonight. Any preacher who claims to be preaching this message and has his wife on high heeled shoes and the people on the sports field, and he's playing bat and ball and playing football, and he's in front of a television, he is possessed of a Devil. You tell them a little fellow in Freeport say that they are demon-possessed. Oh yes. The seals were opened to show you those Devils, coming through the television, coming in your home. And all these compromises with television in the house, and tight clothes in the house, and with sports. Do you know why these preachers are doing that? That is in order to keep their congregations, because they have lost the Spirit. That's the same trend that so-called Pentecost took. When so-called Pentecost lost the Spirit, they brought sports in there; they brought worldly music, in to hold the people. That is what they done. And that is the same thing that has crept into this message of the hour. When the sisters dress like they are supposed to dress, and the men live like they are supposed to live, they are criticized. There are people in this message who are critical about your dress, and about your hair, even because they are demon-possessed, and the preachers are demon possessed. I don't believe in any sports. Brother Branham condemned it, and it's of the Devil. These people missed the opening of the seals. They missed the revelation of the four horse riders. Let us talk about the four horse riders before we talk about thunders. Before Brother Branham spoke of the thunders on the last Sunday, he spoke about exposition of damnable heresies. People cannot even get their congregations to dress right and the men to live right, and they cannot get the women to stop chopping their hair, and yet they want to talk about thunders. They have no thunders. All their thunders are of the Devil, because they say that the thunders are the seals. I am proving to you that the thunders are not the seals. The first seal dealt with the antichrist. Do you want to tell me that this is a thunder riding the white horse. Are you dumb or what? Do you want to tell me that this is a thunder on the red horse, and this is a thunder on the black horse? Is this a thunder here on the pale horse? No, it is the Devil and that is what they are preaching as the thunders. The thunders are somewhere else. Relax! Don't think I am over excited; God has given me the calm. As fast as I preach, I mind my business. God has given me that ability for which I thank Him. He has given me the ability that I could minister to you, minister to the Hindu man, minister to the Muslim man, minister to the Catholic, minister to the backslider, and minister to the believers at the same time. And I could minister, at the same time, to a next church through the electronic waves. I thank God for this grace. Don't you see that thing my beloved? Why would the Lord reveal four seals first? It is to expose the Devil. I will make this statement and just go. And that is, that if you could catch a revelation of the antichrist from the first four seals it makes it impossible for you to be deceived. Before you get a revelation of the first four seals it is possible that you are deceived. And you were deceived; don't tell me that you were not deceived. If you were not deceived, then what were you doing in the Baptists, what were you doing in organizations, and what were you doing in the cults? People talk about "The Bride cannot be deceived", and they don't know what they are talking about. When Brother Paul himself said, "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." (Titus 3:3). These bunch of clowns. When you talk about the Word of God and about heresies and exposure, they will come up and say, "The bride cannot be deceived." You are already deceived. As long as you were in sin and in organization and religion, you were deceived. Paul was in an organization and he was deceived, that is why he was persecuting the church. Doubt that somebody! You can't doubt that, I challenge the world, upon my teaching and upon my doctrine. And if it is impossible for the bride to be deceived, something had to be revealed from the opening of the seals, and once she receives that, it is impossible to deceive her from that time on. That is why the seals were opened, to make it impossible for you to be deceived. Now don't be fooled friend; it's not only the revelation of the four seals here that makes it impossible for you to be deceived. You have to add son of man to that. "Why put in that there Brother Bruce?" "He asked his disciples, saying, whom do men say that I the Son of man am?... And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him…upon this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Matthew 16:13-18). Yes sir. You say, "I don't want to hear nothing about son of man"; then you are already deceived. You are missing the rock upon which the church is built, and which the gates of hell cannot prevail. You say, "What are the gates of hell?" It's heresies, false teachings, errors and lies. Those are the gates of hell. Yes! A false baptism is a gateway of hell. A woman behind the pulpit is a gateway to hell. Following a pope is a gateway to hell. Belonging to an organization is a gateway to hell. And when you get a revelation of that, the gates of hell cannot prevail over you. Watching television is a gateway to hell. Wearing immodest clothes is a gateway to hell. Playing sports is a gateway to hell, and it proves that you don't have a revelation of the son of man. Yes. That is why you hate Bob Lambert, because you don't have a revelation of the son of man. That man preached a revelation of the son of man. That is why you say that "The Devil is moving in the people down at Bethel." That's blasphemy of the Holy Ghost friend. To call the anointing and the spirit moving amongst these people here, "the Devil", is blasphemy. This is the Holy Spirit; this is the presence of Michael the Archangel. And to come against that and to call the Holy Ghost an unclean thing, is blasphemy. The same thing goes for Connecticut. In all of America, there is only one place that I know where the Holy Spirit is moving in the greatest measure, and where Michael the Archangel is standing, and that is at Grace Covenant Church. They have the same principles, and they have the Devil's number. And they have a revelation of the son of Man. That's the truth. And the reason that the other churches cannot cooperate with them is because they have another ghost that allow the people to wear high heel shoes and watch television and get on the sports field. That is why they cannot cooperate. That is why they hate the people of Connecticut. That is why they killed Bob Lambert. Because he had the Devil's number. The Devil hates a man that has a revelation of him. And he will always try to kill that man. But there are some who are predestined to live until the rapture. We will chase the Devil from here to India, to Africa, to the Philippines, down in Europe and we are chasing him straight to China. The seals are opened and we have the Devil's number. The Devil chased the Bride through seven church ages but this time the bride is going to chase him. So take heart there Brother Ronald Watson in India, take heart all who are associated with this ministry, in Africa, and in the Philippines. There is coming a power to the church and then shall you be witnesses unto the utmost parts of the earth. The utmost part of the earth has not yet been reached, and it is going to go to the utmost part of the earth, to bring forth the twenty first century harvest of souls. They are waiting and are becoming awakened by exposition of damnable heresies. Yes, somebody condemn me for preaching exposition of damnable heresies, condemn me for exposing these preacher friends of mine, condemn me, show me where I am wrong. Any man that is not militant and valiant on the Scripture and showing the antichrist in the message of the hour is deceiving the people, and is a sissified preacher, and nobody should follow him. You are to stand for the word. You ought to broadcast an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. You ought to broadcast a revival. You ought to pull the people away from television, from those tight dresses, and you ought to pull the people away from fornication and adultery. Then you will prove yourself a preacher of righteousness, before that you are a preacher of unrighteousness. If you believe that, stand for it. That is why when people get ahold of these tapes they play them in their churches in India, they want the videos. They play them in Africa. They beg for the tapes. They say, "Please send these seals messages? Brother, when we listened to the principles of the Christian home, we trembled. We followed the message for ten years, fifteen years; what wonderful messages. Even the songs, and even the music is so wonderful." God bless those sincere hearts. New letters come in every day. That's the kind of effect we are having by the word. America is a cursed nation. They are too proud. They think that they know something. God cursed America for rejecting William Branham in 1957. That is why the gospel has free course in other lands. God is going to burn America with the atomic bomb. They are trying to take advantage upon the nations of the world. And it is no coincidence that war began right around the seals time; war is declared on Iraq. And if you have never heard the dragon speak, listen to Bush and you will hear the dragon speaking. And the Bible said that America will speak like a dragon, and she is already speaking like a dragon. She bypassed the United Nations and spoke like a dragon, but God is going to speak to her, in solemn judgment. Yes. She might have her way in Iraq in order to gain world influence, and cause the other nations to be afraid of her; and eventually she will tell them, "Let us worship the pope." Yes.It is heading that way. I am just staying quiet and watching what this war brings forth. I hope they blow up the Mosque of Omar. When America starts bombing Iraq, Iraq starts bombing Israel. I hope he could send a missile and by mistake hit the mosque of Omar. Those Muslims will come on him like flies and like a swarm of bees, but it will be a job well done. Let us be still, let us be quiet. Let us just watch what is going on. I don't know what will happen. That's the dragon in action. If you don't understand the Scripture, that beast that came out of the earth, spake like a dragon afterward. And that is what is happening. America is prophesied to be burnt by the Russians and they are going to be burnt by them. That is what our prophet said. An earthquake is coming in California that will sink it. Half of that country will be affected and its going to throw tidal waves into the Caribbean here and Trinidad is in the line up for a massive earthquake any day now. The judgments of God are going to belch forth. Now on this fifth seal. It is a different kind of seal from the first four seals. And I am going to give you in a nutshell everything. Now, notice that there was no beast announcement. It is different. No beast said, "Come and see." Now the reason for that is that the rapture already took place. The rapture is gone, and then what took place, the Lord starts dealing with the Jewish nation. He is finished with the Gentiles that is why there is no announcement of beast, that is why there is no beast saying come and see. He is now turning his attention to the Jews. If you could understand spiritual things the seventieth week of Daniel starts. You say, "When does that start?" Immediately when the Jews receive the gospel. When the Jews receive the gospel the seventieth week starts. No more Gentiles will be saved after the Jews receive the gospel. What is this fifth seal? Now out of all the seals that were opened, one, two, three and four, in the fifth seal He now starts saying something about redemption. Not a word about redemption in the first, second, third or fourth. It's a book of redemption. Redemption is hiding somewhere because it is a redemption book. The sixth seal is the judgment of God, no redemption in that. The secret of redemption is hiding somewhere. So the fifth seal has to do with the salvation of the Jews. What is the revelation that this fifth seal is bringing out to the Gentiles? This fifth seal is bringing out a certain secret to the Gentiles that concerns redemption. What it is bringing out is the state of the dead and life after death, which is what happens to a man after death. It is brightening up our understanding, it is settling out all doubts about heaven and hell and what happens after death.
Now this seal brings into plain view for all Hindus, all Muslims, all organizations and every other human being upon earth who will hear it; what happens to a man after death. Some believe that they come back here as dogs, cats and worms. This seal shows that a man is still living somewhere after death, and he could cry loudly too, and he can talk, and he has his memories. He could remember the wickedness that anybody done to him, and he could also call for a reward. He is somewhere in a certain place. This seal is showing us and showing all Hindus that they do not come back here as any other animal or as worms. When this body falls down and die you have what is called a 'soul'. That soul comes out of your body and your body goes to the ground. That soul has to go somewhere. Now the Hindu people believe that we come back here through reincarnation and the last thing that they are born as is a cow. And that is why they don't eat the cow because that could be their grandfather coming back in the last reincarnation. Now I tell you a lot of people believe that. Now the seal that is opened up shows you that is wrong. Ok, the Muslim people believe in purgatory just like the pope. They think that if you die as a sinner you go down to a place of punishment and you will be punished there for a certain amount of time, after which you will come back and be given eternal life. No, not according to this. Then the Catholics teach a purgatory, and you have to pay money to get out your relatives out from there. The Adventist people think that when you die you are soul-sleeping because, they believe that "the body is the soul." 'Jehovah Witnesses' don't even believe in a hell. Everything is right here. So some believe in reincarnation, others believe in purgatory, and others believe that when you are dead you are done. But according to this seal, when you are dead you are not done. That is what the seal is revealing. This seal is revealing, and it brings into plain view what happens to a man after death, if he is a righteous soul. Because the people that were under the altar are righteous souls. So it reveals certain things about the celestial body, the theophanies and angelic bodies. That is why the prophet of God said, "Thank God for the opening of the seals", when he preached, 'Who Is This Melchisdec'
Now this is where he got the revelation from. A certain light and understanding came to him when the fifth seal was opened to understand celestial and theophanies. Not at the first horse, second horse, third horse or fourth horse. It is the fifth seal that opened up that to the prophet.
Not only that, it gave the prophet an understanding of King Theophany, and God veiled in human flesh, throughout the Scripture from the Old Testament to the New Testament. It also gave the prophet an understanding of the word made flesh. Now beloved, this seal here is what brings all these things to light and understanding. It brings to light and understanding angelic body, theophany body, celestial body, and it brings to light and understanding the state of the dead under the altar. Hear this friend, now these people under the altar, the seal reveals that they are not Christians now, they are Jews. I will not go into all the details to prove that. Now these people are Jews because they called for revenge. Christian souls will say, "Forgive them father, for they know not what they do." After you are dead, death don't change you. If you die as a rum-drinker you will still have your desire to drink rum, but you can't get it over there. You will have a desire to smoke and you can't smoke over there. There isn't any cigarette shops. If you die with a marijuana appetite, you will go into a certain place and you will still have that desire; but these souls were righteous souls. They are the Jews. Now let me explain to you as visitors why we serve Jesus Christ. Why we are gathered here friends, why we are gathered to try to serve God and live righteous, because, besides this place that you see these souls, there is another place that if you do not live right you are going there. Now no matter how hard you try to live right you can't live right with out help from God. You must accept Jesus Christ, ask him to forgive you for all your past sins and ask him to change your nature. A religion is not it; your nature must be changed, and it must be changed right here on earth. And if it is changed here, when you go there you will still have it changed. Let me tell you a short story. Our Lord went to both heaven and hell. He went to both places; I am talking about the Lord Jesus. He gave a little story. He said that there was a beggar begging at a rich man's gate, and he died, and the soul of the beggar went in with the Lord, and the rich man also died one day. Rich as you are, you will die one day too. And beloved, that rich man opened up his eyes in hell, and he was in torment. And when he looked over he saw Lazarus over there enjoying things, "And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence." (Luke 16:24-26). There is a place for the wicked. Now when I say wicked that don't mean to say that all rum drinkers going down to hell, no friends, what I am saying is that after you 'cuss', after you smoke, after you live in adultery, after you become a wicked nasty man, Jesus Christ is offering you forgiveness and pardon if you decide to change your life. He wants to come and reason with you. He wants to tell you to forget all what you did before, "I am going to forgive you for all of those things, if you are willing to start living a better life." If you really mean to live better, repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. When that happens to you, you are not a perfect man, you have to come to church and you have to pray and ask the Lord, "Lord, take away the rum habit, please Lord? Lord I am with eyes full of adultery; take away the adultery from me?" As you keep on coming to church, you won't know where those desires went. You say, "Lord I really love this mini dress; I do feel ashamed in the long dress." The Lord will take away that too. That's pride in your heart. You were naked for so long in the world that it is a disgrace for you to wear proper clothes. The Lord will take away that. You say, "Lord, I am a jealous, nasty man. If I see somebody has something, I get jealous, and I am a Christian for five years." He could take away that too. You say, "Lord, I am a preacher and I know what the Word says about sports; about women's dressing and about all those things, and Lord I am still allowing that in my church." He could take away that hypocrisy too. That's the truth. Now, that is Christianity. Not joining a church, friend. You could join a church and be a hypocrite the same way. But there must come a change over you. Now when the Lord takes away the desire, you could see the cigarette burning there and you have no desire for it. You could see a man drinking whiskey, and you'll have no taste for it. You could hear Rock 'n' Roll music, you'll have no taste for it. That is salvation. That is when you are saved. So here the fifth seal brings into plain view that there is a heaven and there is a hell, and if you don't get born again, and don't have a revelation, you are going down to that place. Souls in prison. Jesus went down to hell and preached to the souls that were in prison who refused to listen to Noah's message. "By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison:" (1Peter 3:19). So you aren't coming back here as a worm, and you are not going to a place of punishment and then be forgiven. My beloved, any change has got to take place here, and when the change comes over you, you will lead a different life. Everybody is going to know that something has happened to you. That is the evidence of Christianity. I am the evidence of Christianity. You are the evidence of Christianity. You are living epistles known and read of all men. There is going to be a great Judgment. The Bible said, "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the look of life was cast into the lake of fire." (Revelation 20:12-15).- What is this fifth seal? This fifth seal has to do with the Jews, but it was opened to us, the Gentiles, in order to give us an insight into redemption of life after death. Let me say this here, whether you could understand it or not: When the sealed book was opened in 1963, it set in order the fulfilment of certain Scriptures, prophesies and visions. In 1963 when the book was opened it set in order and it brought to light and understanding the fourth horse rider, but that did not happen yet. That is future. When the fifth seal was opened it set in order, and it gives us light and understanding on the Jews, but the things to happen to the Jew is not yet fulfilled. When the sixth seal was opened in 1963 it gave us understanding on the judgment, but the judgment didn't happen yet. I am coming with something now. How many could read between the lines. [Congregation says, "Amen!"] When the seals were opened in 1963 it set in order the opening of the seventh seal, and the second coming of the Lord Jesus, but the seventh seal was not opened. So the fourth seal was not manifested, the fifth seal was not manifested, the sixth seal was not manifested and the seventh seal is not manifested yet. It is yet to come to the public. Now do you see how clear it is, that the opening of the seals is to set in order the fulfilment of the fourth seal, the fifth seal, the fulfilment of the sixth seal, and the fulfilment of the seventh seal, but they were not manifested. You say, "What about the other three?" They were setting the bride in order, to be not deceived, by revealing the antichrist. They were setting the bride in order by giving her a revelation of the antichrist; taking it from history to put it in her heart, that she won't be deceived. That is what I held back just now but the Holy Spirit said, "Give it to them." When the fifth seal is manifested the rapture is gone, not one more Gentile will be saved. You could cry for mercy how much you want, you are going to face the judgments of God after that. The only people who will have mercy are the Jews. It is set in order. We could have never known what will happen after we leave earth, were not that the seals were opened. Now I could tell you, by the grace of God, what is going to happen from now until the new world sets up. And any little brother that reads the Word of God could tell you that, because the seals are opened. Immediately at the time of the rapture, two prophets will appear. They are going to be in Israel. They are Moses and Elias. They aren't going to be any Gentile dogs, I tell you that. They are not going to be one man. No sir; Moses and Elias. "So how do you know that there won't be one man? I will quote from the Scripture for you."
When they kill these two prophets in Jerusalem, the Bible said, 'Their bodies shalllie on the street." If it was in one man, Elijah, Moses and Christ, it would have to say, "His body." Yes. Mr. Santiago claims to be that man, with Elijah, Moses and Christ's ministry. He is an impostor. He is a liar. (Take that weapon and slice those impersonators to pieces.) Moses and Elias are upon earth when the gospel is turned to the Jews. Cry how much you want then, there won't be one more Gentile saved. Not one more Gentile. The rapture is going to take place soon after that.
This is in order. The rapture is going to take place just about that time, and about that time, this man comes into power, you will have a pope, and he is going to have a one-world religion and a one-world church. And friends, everyone who does not go in the rapture, who call themselves Christians, he is going to slaughter. If he doesn't slaughter you, you will have to take the mark of the beast. From the time that the gospel turns to the Jews, the seventieth week starts. Understand that everybody? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] Moses and Elias appears and at the same time they get this message the man of sin appears as a one world ruler. Now the pope will persecute the foolish virgins at that time. You are talking about bloodshed. You are talking about people who don't care anynothing about sitting and hearing the Word of God. About that same time, one hundred and forty four thousand Jews will be saved. A nation shall be born in one day.
Revelation 7 and Revelation 14, speaks of the fifth seal, and this is about rapture time. Now you will be here on earth to hear some of these things. You might see the beast coming right up and taking world power. About that time, on the brink of the rapture, Moses and Elias receive the gospel, one hundred and forty four thousand are saved, then you know the rapture is about to take place. They were given white robes and told to be quiet until their blood is avenged. "And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." (Revelation 6: 11). Now, when would their blood be avenged? Their blood would be avenged in the Armageddon battle. The Armageddon battle takes place at the end of the seventieth week of Daniel. And their blood is avenged about that time. So the foolish virgins would be persecuted and according to this seal, the hundred and forty four thousand will be martyred because these people under the altar were told to rest a little while until their fellow servants are killed like them. So the hundred and forty four thousand will be martyred; they are Jews. So now the fifth seal have to do with the Jews. About that time that the Jews are martyred the two prophets, Moses and Elias will also be slain, and it seems as if they will be slain last, and something is going to happen about that time. Coming back to the fourth seal you say, "Brother Bruce, I thought you were finished with the fourth seal?" Something is going and happen. After they kill these two prophets, and dominate the whole world, at the end of Daniel's seventieth week something is going to happen. This man is in full power on earth, and then the skies are going to roll back; the skies are going to depart as a scroll! Because this great pope with his armies, with his people, with his nations, with his religions, now come to crush the Jews. You see how all of those nations got together and went into Afghanistan, you see how they are all getting together to go and lick-up Saddam? Well, let me tell you something; they will get everybody together to go and wipe out the Jews, once and for all.
The whole world will be coming against the Jews and as they come against the Jews, Michael the archangel will stand up for his people, because he is on earth at that time. "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of they people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time they people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book." (Daniel 12:1). Isn't' it sweet? So now all through this tribulation and all through this ministry this man of sin is down there. This fourth horse rider, he rides from the brink of the rapture to the end of Daniel's seventy weeks. He finally conquers the two prophets, and conquers the whole world. And beloved, about that time when Israel has no more hope, Michael, the great warrior that stood for the people in the Old Testament, Daniel 12:1, shall stand up for his people Israel, and there shall be a time of trouble as never was since the earth was. The skies are going to roll back, and from that great hole in the sky, a white horse will ride out! And many other white horses will follow him! You will be riding on the white horses. Brother Branham is coming back,! Luther is coming back! Wesley is coming back! Paul is coming back! Peter is coming back! And there is going to be a big army coming, and the trumpet will sound, and there will be a great battle set in array. Everybody on earth will look up, and they will be so afraid. They will want to know what is happening. Talking about a trumpet sound. You talk about battle set in array. And they will be coming closer and closer to the earth, and the lightnings are flashing, the thunders rolling, and the brimstones will be falling. That is going to happen on this earth. And the Bible said:
And you and I riding on white horse, will be in that army. That is called the Armageddon battle. You and I will be in the Armageddon battle. We will be on Jesus' side, and the entire world will be on the pope's side, and we are coming to intercept the beast. Yes sir. The children are waiting on something that they love to see And now that these horses are exposed we are going to whip these horses, we are going to give them another one and another one, antichrist! [Brother Bruce whips the horses on the diagram/board Ed.] Top |