THE SEVENTH SEAL: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. Monday, February 16, 1998 (Second activity) Guayaquil, Ecuador

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1 THE SEVENTH SEAL: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST Monday, February 16, 1998 (Second activity) Guayaquil, Ecuador

2 Notes NOTE TO READER It is our intention to do an exact and faithful transcription of this Message, just as it was preached; therefore, any error in this writing is strictly an error of hearing, transcription or printing, and should not be interpreted as an error of the Message. The text contained in this booklet can be verified with the audio or video recording. This booklet should be used for personal study purposes only, until it is formally published.

3 42 continue having a wonderful evening, filled with the blessings of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. Good evening. Reverend Carlos Oliva will be with us now to continue. Reverend Oliva will be giving you the addresses and phone numbers to which each of you can call or write, kind radio listeners and also those who are present. There is also literature in the outer area for all those who are present. I leave Reverend Carlos Oliva with you to continue. May God bless you and keep you all. THE SEVENTH SEAL: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. THE SEVENTH SEAL: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST Monday, February 16, 1998 (Second activity) Guayaquil, Ecuador Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, radio listeners here in Guayaquil, Ecuador; it is a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion to share with you some moments of fellowship around the prophetic Word, and see this mystery, the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which is the Second Coming of Christ. For which I want to read in Matthew, chapter 24, verses 36 to 40; and also in chapter 8, verse 1 of Revelation; and the Scripture says the following in Matthew 24:36 and on: But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all

4 4 away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. And now Revelation, chapter 8 and verse 1, says the following: And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. THE SEVENTH SEAL: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. The Second Coming of Christ is the greatest mystery of the entire Bible. This mystery has been in God s mind for all eternity. And that mystery would be revealed to the believers in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in the Last Day, to give them the faith to be changed and raptured in the end time. Christ asked on one occasion, Luke, chapter 18, verse 8, says: I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? For the Coming of the Son of Man for the end time, which is the Last Day or Day of the Lord, will He find faith on Earth? Or will it be like in the First Coming of Christ, like the First Coming of the Son of Man two thousand years ago?, which He came in the fulfillment of the divine promises of the Coming of the Messiah in the midst of the Hebrew people, and the Hebrew religion with its great religious leaders could not believe in Jesus as the promised Messiah for the Hebrew people, as the King of Israel. Will the same thing happen again in the Second Coming of Christ? The Hebrew people, notice, for two thousand years they were receiving the prophecies of the Coming of the Messiah through the prophets that God sent; for example, we have prophet Zechariah, who speaks to us about how The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 41 Therefore, we want everyone to receive the blessings of God and obtain the knowledge of all these things that are promised to happen at this end time, and thus, be prepared to be changed and obtain the immortality promised for this end time; and the dead in Christ will obtain immortality as well by resurrecting in an eternal body, and we will be changed; and then we will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. Christ said 11 : I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. That is the reason for His Coming at this end time, that is why the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels is promised: He comes to seek His elect, to take them to the House of our heavenly Father to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And that is why Jesus Christ sends His Angel Messenger to testify unto us all these things which must come to pass at this end time. I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16. It has been a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about the Seventh Seal, in other words, about the Second Coming of Christ, of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels. May God help you and may He fully open your understanding so that you may comprehend all these things, and thus receive the blessings Jesus Christ has for each one of you and for me as well. Thank you very much for your kind attention and 11 John 14:2-3

5 40 reject His Message. We have seen the blessing there is for those who receive the Word of God: He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. But, what does it say about those who will not hear? Whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him, in other words, it is not a matter of a person saying: I do not want to hear and I will not suffer any consequence. It is better to be humble and say: Lord, speak to me today. I want to comprehend all these things which must come to pass at this end time. I love You and I know that You love me; therefore, speak directly to my heart the way You have promised to speak to Your people at this time and reveal to them all these things which must soon happen through Your Angel Messenger. Through Your Angel Messenger, speak to me all these things which must come to pass. And open my understanding and my heart so that I may understand and believe everything You are speaking through your Angel Messenger. And thus, God will help you, He will open your understanding, and you will comprehend all these things, and be the person to receive God s blessing; and those who rejected it can deal with the Lord when God requires it of them. In Revelation, chapter 22 and verse 12, Jesus Christ says: And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. See that Jesus Christ will reward everyone according to his works? The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 5 God spoke to the Hebrew people; because God has only one way of speaking to His people, and let us what it is the way. Zechariah, chapter 7, verse 11 and on, says: But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. Now, how did God through His Spirit spoke to the Hebrew people? It says: through the former prophets. That is the way that God has spoken to the human beings all the time. Notice what the apostle Paul also tells us in his epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 1 and verses 1 to 2, says: God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets Notice, He spoke through the prophets unto the fathers on many occasions and in many ways. Now it says: Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. He says that God has spoken through the prophets on many occasions and in many forms, and then says: Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, and two thousand years have already passed since God spoke through Jesus to the Hebrew people. And why does Paul say that it was in the last days the time when Jesus Christ was on Earth and God was speaking through Him? Because the last days before God, for the human beings they are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium. Because one day is

6 6 with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8, tells us; and it says that it is something we cannot ignore; because if we ignore this mystery we will not be able to comprehend what the last days are, and we are going to think that Peter and Paul were wrong when they spoke of the last days as the days when Jesus Christ was on His ministry here on Earth. But Peter says in Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8: But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. There you have why Peter and Paul could say that God was speaking through Jesus Christ in the last days; and two thousand years have passed and we can still say that those were the last days, and these we are living in are also the last days; because the last days before God are that fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium. And when Jesus Christ was 4 to 7 years old, the fifth millennium began, and therefore the last days began. When Peter also preaches the Day of Pentecost to the Hebrew people there in Jerusalem, he speaks to them about the Spirit of God which they had received that morning of Pentecost (Pentecost is fifty), and they had received the Spirit of God on the fiftieth day. And in the book of Acts, chapter 2, verse 14 to 20, says: But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 39 must soon take place; and Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested and revealed in him, manifesting Himself in the midst of His people and speaking to us through that prophet. For surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. Now, we have seen the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ with His Angels; a mystery that is promised to be revealed to His Church through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Message of the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will obtain the knowledge of the Seventh Seal opened; in other words, of the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, wherein God will be manifested on this Earth, revealing to us all these mysteries through His Angel Messenger. The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken. This was partially fulfilled in the prophets of the Old Testament, then in Jesus Christ in all its fullness, then partially in the apostles and in the seven angel messengers; and for this end time, it will be fulfilled again in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, so we may obtain this blessing promised at this end time, in which God will be placing His Word in the mouth of that prophet called His Angel Messenger; and he will be speaking to us all these things which must soon happen, he will be speaking to us all these things that God gives him to speak to His people at this end time. And since every person has free moral agent, it is up to the person to receive His Message or to

7 38 chapter 4, to preach to the Hebrew people, will be a man of this time anointed with the same spirit that was in prophet Elijah, he will be a man anointed with the Spirit of God, operating the ministry of prophet Elijah, operating it for a fifth time. That is one of the Two Olive Trees. The other one of the Two Olive Trees is prophet Moses. And the same spirit that was in prophet Moses will be in a man of this time, the Spirit of God operating the same ministry of prophet Moses; and the ministry of prophet Moses was a dispensational ministry, which brought the Message of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, which was the Message of the Gospel of the Law, in other words, the Message of the Law. And the Hebrew people will be taken from the Dispensation of the Law to the Dispensation of the Kingdom, therefore, the ministry of prophet Moses must come again; and it will come in another man, and that will be the second time that the ministry of Moses will be manifested on planet Earth. Now we can see this mystery of the prophets who God has promised to send at the Last Day. It will be the Spirit of God in another man operating those ministries that He operated in Elijah and Moses. We also have the promise of the manifestation of the Son of Man, of Jesus Christ, which will be the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in a man of the present time, in whom He will be manifested and through whom He will be revealing to us all these things which must soon take place. And that prophet is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, he is a prophet sent from Heaven, from Paradise, from the sixth dimension, to be in the midst of the people of God in human flesh, revealing to us all these things which The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 7 but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. For when does Peter say that God promised to pour out His Holy Spirit upon all flesh? For the last days. And that is why two thousand years ago, the Day of Pentecost, after Christ ascended to Heaven, ten days after that the Holy Spirit came upon one hundred and twenty people who were there waiting for the coming of the Holy Spirit. And that happened, when? In the Last Days. And two thousand years have already passed; because the last days, as we have seen, are the fifth, sixth and seventh millennium. Prophet Moses in Psalm 90 and verse 4 also testifies of the same thing. Now, notice how through the prophets, God speaks to His people and reveals to them these mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Who could have imagined that the last days before God were three millenniums: fifth, sixth and seventh millennium? Nobody, but there the Bible testifies of this; and now we can comprehend why the apostles could speak saying that they were living in the last days and two thousand years have passed; and anybody who does not comprehend this, says: It seems they were mistaken, they thought they were living in the last days and look, two thousand years have already passed.

8 8 But when one comprehends that the last days before God, for the human beings they are the last millenniums, which are the fifth, sixth and seventh millennium, then we can see that there is no contradiction. Now, God says that He has spoken through the prophets, and He spoke through the Jesus Christ; it is this way because God has always used a human being (always called in the Bible: a prophet), to whom He has revealed His Word so that he reveals it, makes it known to all the sons and daughters of God. Amos, chapter 3, verse 7, says: Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets. And in Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verses 15 to 19, prophet Moses says in the following manner: The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken To whom does prophet Moses say the Hebrew people are called to hear? The prophet God raises in the midst of the people; because it is the prophet to whom the revealed Word comes, so that then he reveals it to the people of God. It says: According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. That was when they were on Mount Sinai, where the mountain shook and the Hebrew people was also shaking, and they were seeing Mount Sinai on fire, because the presence of God was there manifested in fire, speaking to prophet Moses and speaking; and the Hebrew people were The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 37 What things? All these things which must soon come to pass at this end time, which revolve around the Second Coming of Christ at the Last Day. These things can only be known through the revelation that Jesus Christ will be giving us in Holy Spirit at this end time through that prophet messenger, that Angel Messenger, which Jesus Christ says He will send to testify all these things. And that is how the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man, will be revealed, will be opened for every one of us at this end time. And we will be able to see the coming of Elijah for the fifth time, as one of the Two Olive Trees. And by seeing the coming of Elijah for the fifth time, we will not literally be seeking prophet Elijah, who left in a chariot of fire. The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said in the book of The Seals, page 471, when they asked him the following question about Elijah, the Elijah who will preach to the Hebrew people they asked Him: Is the Elijah, who comes to preach to the Jews (oh, yes), the real man who lived on earth, or will he be spirit of Elijah in some other man? (In part of the answer that he gave there, he says) I m inclined to believe that it will be anointed men, of their spirit. Because, see, he says, Does not on Elisha? Does not the spirit of Elijah rest on Elisha? (in other words, once Elijah had left in a flying saucer or chariot of fire, after Elijah had already been caught up) See, the spirit of Elijah. And he done just like Elijah did. Now, notice how the prophet that comes as one of the Two Olive Trees of Revelation, chapter 11 and Zechariah,

9 36 of the Second Coming of Christ. There was silence in Heaven for almost half an hour, everyone in Heaven knew the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, but everyone kept silent; silence in Heaven for almost half an hour of Heaven, which for human beings means a few years, 20 something years; because one day is as a thousand years, one hour is 41 years and about 10 months, and half an hour is about 20 years and 8 months; so we can see that it caused silence in Heaven for approximately half an hour, the opening of that mystery, the opening of the Seventh Seal, the opening of the Second Coming of Christ. But for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ here on Earth, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ will be revealed by Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger, who comes at the Last Day with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work. Jesus Christ comes manifested in that Angel Messenger at the Last Day, revealing to us all these things which must shortly come to pass. And the only way that human beings will be able to know the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, is by receiving the one sent by Jesus Christ. On one occasion, they said to Jesus Christ: What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? and He said: believe on him whom he hath sent. 10 And now Jesus Christ says: I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. 10 John 6:28-29 The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 9 hearing the Voice of God, and the Hebrew people were shaking and prophet Moses as well. But the Hebrew people asked Moses for God to no longer speak to the people but rather Moses speak with God and then Moses speak to the people the things God would be speaking to the people. And Moses says what God answered: And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth Where does God place His words, the divine words, the Word of God for each time, for each age and for each dispensation? In the mouth of the prophet He sends to the people; that is where the Word of God comes for the people. That prophet receives it from behalf of God and then he speaks it to the people; and the people, then, is hearing the Voice of God through a man, through a prophet, which is a man who has both consciousness together (conscious and subscious together), and therefore he can see and hear in other dimensions. He obtains the revelation of God in the dimension of God, and then he gives it to the people of God. It says: and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. What does the prophet that God sends for each time speak? The Word of God, everything God commands him; which God places in his heart and in his mouth, so this way the Divine Word is spoken and thus the people of God hears the Voice of God. Notice how simple it is to hear the Voice of God?

10 10 Finding the prophet messenger of God relevant to the time in which one lives. Because when God has something to speak to His people, He sends a prophet. If He has nothing to say to the people, then He does not send a prophet. Now it says:...and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. Now, there are people who say, when a prophet appears with the Word of God, they say: I am not interested in hearing a prophet, others say: This is what I was waiting for! A man who would come revealing the divine truth, and thus I would be able to comprehend these mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Because, how can we comprehend the mysteries of God if there is no one to explain them? And it must be a prophet sent by God, who comes with that revelation to explain to us the mysteries of God, because we will not be able to comprehend them no other way. Did you comprehend what the last days are and what the Last Day is? No, but notice, it is already revealed, it is open for all the sons and daughters of God; and we can see that there is no contradiction in the Bible when the apostles says that they were living in the last days. And we say: Truly, the last days had begun two thousand years ago, before God, which for us here on Earth were the three last millenniums. And now, what will be of those people who say: I am not interested in hearing a prophet neither am I interesting in hearing the Voice of God? They may speak that way because every person has a free moral agent; but God will require of every human being, and God will reward each person according to their works. The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 35 which are asleep. Them precious ones that sealed their blood sealed their testimony with their blood, (this was during those persecutions in which Christians were killed; it says). Not prevent or hinder those that are asleep, for the trumpet will sound. Something will take place, the Gospel something will sound, the announcing of His coming. Now notice what is that Final Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet: it is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom revealing the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ. That mystery is the greatest mystery in Heaven and of Earth. It says on page 130 of this book of Quotations they are quotes of messages preached by the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, Reverend William Branham. It says one page 130, paragraph : Remember, that, They which are alive and remain shall not hinder those which are sleeping, for the Trump of God, that last Trumpet The sixth one has just sounded. And that last Trumpet, like the last Seal, will be the Coming of the Lord. It shall sound (sound), and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Now we can see that the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour when it was opened, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ. Christ said that no one knew that mystery, not even the angels in Heaven; and when this mystery of the Seventh Seal is opened, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ is opened in Heaven, but there was silence so the devil would not know the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ and would not be able to interrupt the fulfillment 9 Broken Cisterns July 26, 1964 E

11 34 manifestation, forerunning the Second Coming of Christ. He is Reverend William Marrion Branham of North America. And then, for this end time, Jesus Christ says: I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. His Angel Messenger is the last prophet messenger that Jesus Christ would send to this planet Earth; that is the prophet messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, revealing the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, revealing the mysteries of these things which must soon take place at the end time, in the time referred to as the Last Day or the Day of the Lord, for the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ. It is at this time that the Trumpet of God or Great Voice of Trumpet is promised to sound; and when a trumpet sounds, it has a message. If you hear a person playing a trumpet and it does not give a message, then he is not a good musician, he does not know anything about music. Now, do you believe that Christ knows about heavenly music? He knows what must sound, what He must reveal at this end time. And what that Final Trumpet is revealing to us is the greatest mystery of the Heavens and of Earth as well: the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ. The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says in the book Quotations in Spanish, page 47, speaks about that Trumpet and of the resurrection 8 : For we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, down here, shall not prevent or hinder those 8 The Ten Virgins December 11, 1960 M The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 11 And what will be of the people who speak that way? It says, it continues: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. So they can deal with God later, because God is the one who will require them for not having heard the Voice of God through the prophet He sent for his time. In the book of Acts, chapter 3, verse 22 to 23, the apostle Peter tells us in his sermon, quoting this passage: That every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. In other words, he loses the right to eternal life. Because every person who does not hear the Voice of God has no right to live eternally. Jesus Christ said: My words are Spirit and are Life, and He also said: He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life. In John, chapter 5, Jesus Christ Himself tells us the following, verse 24: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Notice the way of passing from death to life; because when we are born on this planet Earth we have been born with the death sentence, because we have come through a fallen race. And the fallen race, which fell back then in Adam, there in the Garden of Eden, we find that what he obtained with his fall was death. For this reason, is that the human being is born, grows up and then dies; and apparently, the life of the human being has no meaning. And it has no meaning unless they

12 12 find the meaning God gives the life of the human being. And if he cannot understand the meaning that God gives the life of the human being, life for the person has no meaning. But for the one who finds he meaning of the divine purpose, then he can comprehend that he is here on Earth for a divine purpose: to make contact with eternal life, which is Jesus Christ, to hear the preaching of the Gospel and believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior, and cleanse our sins in the Blood of Christ and receive His Holy Spirit, and thus be born again; for Christ told Nicodemus: Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. John, chapter 3, verse 3 and on: Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. And what do we obtain with the new birth? The disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, although they had been with Jesus Christ for three and a half years while Jesus Christ preached the Gospel, we find that none of them had been born again; and Christ had established that no man could enter into the Kingdom of the Heavens without having been born again. But on the Day of Pentecost 120 people were born The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 33 operating the ministry of prophet Elijah for a third time. And for the Last Day, notice how we obtain this knowledge, this understanding, that when God promises the coming of a prophet who has already come in the past, it is the Spirit of God in another man operating that ministry He had operated in that past prophet. Now, John the Baptist, being the Elijah of that time, came preparing the way of the Lord, preparing the way of the Messiah in His First Coming. And that is why the disciples asked: Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?, and then Jesus spoke about John the Baptist. Because the Messiah was there and the scribes said: Jesus cannot be the Messiah, because Elijah has to come first ; but Elijah was also there, who was John the Baptist. And for this end time, we have the promise of the Second Coming of Christ, we have the promise of the opening of the Seventh Seal. And just as God sent a forerunner for the First Coming of Christ, to prepare the way of the Lord, for this end time, God has sent a forerunner: the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, the Elijah who would be preparing the way of the Lord at this end time. And if you want to receive him, Reverend William Marrion Branham is that Elijah who would come forerunning the Second Coming of Christ. And he already left! He came, he was in North America, he brought the Message that prepares the people, which reveals to the people how the Messiah would come, how the Second Coming of Christ would be fulfilled; because when God promises to send a prophet, notice, what He sends is the Spirit of God manifested in a man, operating that ministry He had operated in that past prophet. And now, we have seen Elijah in his fourth

13 32 people. He will open their eyes and they will weep, and they will regret overlooking the First Coming of Christ. They will see the Second Coming of Christ and then they will understand what the First Coming of Christ was. Now, after being changed and raptured, we will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Just as prophet Elijah was raptured or taken in a chariot of fire or flying saucer, we will be raptured and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; that is why you can see that many flying saucers are appearing in Latin America and the Caribbean; those flying saucers are relevant to the elect of God who will be translated to the House of our heavenly Father in Heaven, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Prophet Elijah went in one of those, as well as prophet Enoch. 7 Now, notice, on Mount Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah were alive, they were in their theophanic bodies. Now, when God promises the coming of Elijah, notice, after Elijah the Tishbite there was Elisha, he was the second Elijah, it was the Spirit of God in prophet Elisha operating the ministry of Elijah. The third time Elijah came, what was the veil of flesh called? John the Baptist; the Spirit of God was in him, operating the ministry of Elijah for the third time. And let us see what Jesus Christ says about John the Baptist, it continues saying: And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. And what was his name? John. Did you see the mystery of John the Baptist as Elijah? It is because the Spirit of God was in him, which is the One that has, gives, and operates ministries; and He was in John the Baptist, 7 Second Kings 2:11 and Genesis 5:24 The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 13 again, among which were the apostles of Jesus Christ. The new birth could not be carried out in the person while Jesus was on Earth. That is why He said: It is expedient for you that I go away, so that the Holy Spirit, the Comforter can come 1, and thus produce what? the new birth in the people. And what is the new birth? For which we have been born through father and mother, we have obtained a spirit of the world, which inclines us to do wrong, and we have obtained a body in the permissive will of God, mortal, corruptible and temporary. This is because of the fall. But with the new birth, the person obtains a spirit from Heaven, a spirit from the sixth dimension, which is the dimension of Paradise, the dimension of the theophany; to then, in the Last Day, receive the physical, eternal and glorified body to live for all eternity as young people, and reign with Christ for one thousand years and then for all eternity. And for when is the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive? For when is that the human being believer in Jesus Christ, who has cleansed his sins in the Blood of Christ and has received His Holy Spirit, and therefore has been born again, when will he obtain his eternal body, his physical eternal body? Because with the new birth he has already obtained his eternal theophanic spirit, of the sixth dimension; and if he dies while living here on Earth, then he goes in that theophanic body to live in Paradise, which is the sixth dimension. A theophanic body of the sixth dimension is a body similar to our physical body but from another dimension. 1 John 16:7

14 14 And if the person dies, but believes in Jesus Christ as his Savior and has cleansed his sins in the Blood of Christ and has received His Holy Spirit, he has no problem: he goes to paradise, to the sixth dimension; and Jesus Christ has promised that He will resurrect him for the Last Day, and transform those of us who are alive. In John, chapter 6, verse 39 to 40, Jesus Christ speaking of the resurrection, says: And this is the Father s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. For when is Jesus Christ commissioned to resurrect those who the Father gave Him? It says: but should raise it up again at the last day. He continues saying: And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. For when is the resurrection of the dead in Christ through Jesus Christ Himself established? For the Last Day. And which is the Last Day? Well you already know, because we have spoken to you of which are the last days. The last days are the fifth, sixth and seventh millennium, and the Last Day is the seventh millennium. And the first of the last days is the fifth millennium, where Jesus Christ was preaching at the beginning of the fifth millennium. In other words, we have been living in the last days from Jesus Christ until now. And being that the seventh millennium is the Last Day and it is also called the Day of the Lord, then we need to comprehend that the resurrection of the dead in Christ promised for the Last day will become a reality in some year of the Last Day, that is, in some year of the seventh The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 31 Christ would be sending His prophets as well; because the prophets of God are the instruments of God to whom the Word of God comes. The apostle Saint Paul says that Jesus Christ is the One who ascended and who gave gifts unto men; and He placed in His body, in other words, in His Church, He has placed apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. That is in Ephesians, chapter 4. And why did God do it this way (chapter 4, verse 11 and on)? For the perfection of the saints, to bring His Mystical Body of believers, in other words, His Church, to perfection; which was born on the Day of Pentecost, and has been growing as God s elect have been called and gathered together from stage to stage, from age to age; until reaching at this Last Day, at this end time, the most glorious stage of the Church of Jesus Christ, which is the golden age or stage, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, in which Jesus Christ says in Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31: And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect. His elect from among the gentiles are the ones who have their names written in the Lamb s Book of Life; who from stage to stage have been called and gathered in the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ. And for this end time, we have the promise that the last elect of God will be called and gathered together in the Mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone. And when that number of God s elect of the Last Day is completed, and they are placed in the Mystical Body of Christ, the fullness of the gentiles will have entered; then, the dead in Christ will resurrect first and we who are alive will be changed; and then God will deal with the Hebrew

15 30 who are the servants of God; and the least of the Kingdom of the Heavens belongs to the sons and daughters of God. And what is greater: a servant or a child, a servant of God or a child of God)? What is greater? A child of God is greater than a servant; and the Hebrew people as a people are the servants of God, but the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the people of the sons and daughters of God. The Hebrew people is the earthly Israel and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the heavenly Israel. Now we can see why the least is greater than John the Baptist. The believer in Jesus Christ, who upon believing in Jesus Christ washes his sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ and receives His Holy Spirit: has been born into the Kingdom of God, he has obtained the new birth. And that person who just obtained the new birth is greater than John the Baptist. Why? Because he is a son or daughter of God. It continues saying: And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And nevertheless, a greater prophet came after John the Baptist, who was Jesus; and after Jesus, came the apostles, who were apostles and prophets as well, like Saint Peter, Saint Paul, we have their prophecies, too. Jesus Christ said that He would also send prophets, He would also send different messengers. So then why does it say that the prophets prophesied until John? The prophets of the Old Testament ended with John. John was the last prophet of the Old Testament under the Dispensation of the Law; but now, for the Dispensation of the Grace, Jesus The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 15 millennium. If we add to the calendar the years of delay it has, we are already in the seventh millennium. If we do not add to the calendar the years of delay it has, well look, there are only two or three years left for the sixth millennium to end, which ends with the 20th century, and for the seventh millennium to begin, which begins with the 21st century. Now, we can see that it is for the seventh millennium that Christ has promised the resurrection of the dead in Christ, because when the resurrection of the dead in Christ takes place, the number of the firstborn of God would have been completed, the elect of God, which are the people who have their names written in the Lamb s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world, which, from stage to stage, from age to age, from Jesus Christ until now, they had to appear on this Earth in mortal bodies to hear the preaching of the Gospel and receive Christ as their Savior, believe in Him and cleanse their sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit; and thus, therefore, receive the new birth, thus receive the theophanic body of the sixth dimension; to, in the Last Day, that is, the seventh millennium, in some year of the seventh millennium, wherein the number of the elect of God is completed, wherein the number of the Mystical Body of Christ is completed, in other words, where the number of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is completed, then the dead in Christ resurrect. Paul speaking of this mystery tells us in chapter 11 of his epistle to the Romans, where he also explains to us the mystery of the Hebrew people, who rejected Jesus Christ, their Messiah, and he explains to us why this happened. It says, chapter 11, verse 25 and on, of his epistle to the

16 16 Romans: For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. Until when is the blindness of the heart of the Hebrew people will be in that condition? Until the fullness of the gentiles has entered, in other words, until the very last elect of God has entered into the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ; until the last of the elect of God has believed in Christ as their Savior, cleansed their sins in the Blood of Christ and has received the Holy Spirit of Christ; and thus has been born in the Kingdom of God, in the Mystical Body of Christ, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when that happens, until the fullness of the gentiles has entered, until the last elect of God has entered into the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, it says: 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: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. Now we can see that God will deal with the Hebrew people. They are back in their land and they are waiting for the Coming of the Messiah; for they did not comprehend that that young carpenter of Nazareth was the Messiah promised to appear in that time, at the beginning of the last days, at the beginning of the last millenniums; and they rejected Him. For when God promises something, when He fulfills it, it is simple; and the First Coming of Christ came in The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 29 shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. The Elijah that had to come at that time, notice, he was John the Baptist. And why is he mentioned as Elijah? He is mentioned as Elijah because the Holy Spirit, which had been in prophet Elijah, was now in John the Baptist operating the same ministry of prophet Elijah, thus forerunning the First Coming of the Lord. John the Baptist is a very great prophet in the Program of God. Jesus Christ also says in Matthew, chapter 11, verses 9 to 14, speaking about John the Baptist: But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. Why would he come? To prepare the way of the Lord. Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And how could it be that a prophet as great as John the Baptist, whom Jesus Christ testifies of, now the least in the Kingdom of the Heavens is greater than such a great prophet? It is because John the Baptist belongs to the servants of God, in other words, he belongs to the Hebrew people,

17 28 Zechariah the priest was ministering in the temple, it says: And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother s womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias (How would John the Baptist come? With the spirit and virtue of Elijah), to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. To make ready a people prepared for the Lord, in other words to forerun the First Coming of Christ. Then, when Jesus Christ spoke about John the Baptist, they asked Him on one occasion, in Matthew, chapter 17, verses 10 and on, 10 to 13, after coming down Mount Transfiguration. It says: And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? See how they were waiting for prophet Elijah as the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ? Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 17 such simplicity, the Coming of the Messiah, that he was a young carpenter of Nazareth, but notice, that was the King of Israel, that was the Messiah promised for the Hebrew people, wherein the glory of the Lord was being manifested through that simple veil of flesh. The people always, when they stumble with God and His Program, they stumble with the veil of flesh God sends in the midst of His people with the Message of God for that time. Because some people desire for God to speak to them the way they want; but it is not how one wants, but rather how God has determined it, has predestined it since before the foundation of the world; and through whom God has determined since before the foundation of the world. God does not send His messengers, His prophets, because they people tells God to send a prophet. God does not send a prophet when the people wants it, but rather when God wants it according to His Program. And since the foundation of the world, God has already predestined how many prophets He would send to Earth. A prophet is a man sent by God with both consciousness together, it is a man who comes with a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, of Heaven, and he appears on Earth manifested in human flesh, to bring the Word of God from Heaven to all the sons and daughters of God. Now, we can see why God has sent prophet on different occasions: because they are God s instruments, which are sent with both consciousness together, and they can hear and receive and see from the dimension of God the Word of God to give it to the people. That is also why, throughout the Bible, we can see the marvelous things that have been done by God s prophets.

18 18 How is it possible for a man to say: Let lice come, and millions of lice appear? Or say: Let flies come, and millions of flies appear? But we see in the biblical history that Moses said: let lice come, lice came upon Egypt; he said: let flies come and flies came upon Egypt; and so forth, we can see how Moses spoke and things were created; because God was in the prophet Moses and he was a man with both consciousness together. We can also see Joshua, who was Moses servant and then came to be the successor of prophet Moses, who took the people to the promised land. On one occasion they were in a battle and the sun was about to set, let us say it was around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, and the sun was setting and it would get dark in a couple of hours, and the enemies were going to hide, and they would be more organized the next day, and the battle was going to be difficult. And Joshua told the sun: Sun, stand still!, and he also told the moon: You, stay there! ; and they stood still 2. And the scripture says that God heard the voice of a man; because that man was a prophet of God. No man can tell the sun to stand still; no even with the scientific instruments they have, no man can tell the sun to stand still; but nevertheless, a man by only speaking stopped the sun and also stopped the moon. And it says that that day was the longest day humanity has had. Science has discovered that the calendar is missing one day, and there they have part of that day that is missing from the calendar; they have discovered it. And then, the rest that is missing from the calendar, of that day, they found it in the time of prophet Isaiah when he said that the 2 Joshua 10:12-14 The Seventh Seal: The Second Coming of Christ 27 prophet Elijah will be manifested on Earth for the fifth time. Because when God promises the coming of a prophet who already came in the past it is the Spirit of God manifested in another man operating the ministry that He operated in that past prophet. That is why when God sent prophet Elijah the Tishbite, He anointed him with the Holy Spirit and operated that powerful ministry; and afterwards, the same spirit that was in prophet Elijah came in prophet Elisha; because prophet Elisha told prophet Elijah: I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. That is why when the sons of the prophets saw that Elisha parted Jordan with the mantle of Elijah just as prophet Elijah had done, they said: The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. What was the spirit of Elijah that rested on Elisha? The Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit was now in prophet Elisha, working just as it had operated in prophet Elijah. Then, later on, the Hebrew people were awaiting the Coming of the Messiah, but the Hebrew people also had the promise that Elijah would first come preparing the way for the Lord. And when this prophecy was fulfilled, Elijah was on Earth, and the Hebrew people did not even notice that Elijah, the ministry of Elijah was on Earth again. Because when God promises the coming of a prophet like Elijah to be in the midst of humanity again, it is the Holy Spirit operating the ministry of prophet Elijah in another man. Let us see When Archangel Gabriel spoke to Zechariah the priest about the birth of the son of Zechariah and his wife Elisabeth, in chapter 1 of Luke, it says the following, let us see. Chapter 1, verse 11 and on says, this was when