THE SEVENTH SEAL: A DOOR OPENED IN HEAVEN. Friday, February 20, 1998 Lima, Peru

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1 THE SEVENTH SEAL: A DOOR OPENED IN HEAVEN Friday, February 20, 1998 Lima, Peru

2 The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 35 continue having an evening filled with the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Door opened in Heaven and the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven. With us now, Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin to continue and conclude our participation this evening, so that we may return to our homes to rest, but continuing to meditate on this Door opened in Heaven and this Seventh Seal opened in Heaven, which is the Second Coming of Christ opened in Heaven and revealed on Earth to all of us who live at this end time. God bless you, God keep you and with us again, Miguel Bermudez Marin. Good evening. THE SEVENTH SEAL: A DOOR OPENED IN HEAVEN. 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 34 Solomon and in the temple of Moses, also has a throne, which is the Throne of David. And now, let us stop here, because if we begin to talk a little more about everything this contains, it will take us a long time and we would leave this place around 9 around 9 in the evening tomorrow. So, let us stop here and tomorrow we will continue with the ministers we will touch on a few things under the subject we will have tomorrow, and all these days that I will be with you in Republic of Peru, we will be delving deeper into these mysteries of the Seventh Seal so that we have a clearer picture of the entire Divine Program relevant to this end time. This is the most blessed time for the sons and daughters of God, for each one of you and for me too. It has been a great privilege to be with you, testifying to you about the Door opened in Heaven: the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven: the Second Coming of Christ opened in Heaven. May the blessings of the Door opened in Heaven, the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven, of the Second Coming of Christ opened in Heaven, be upon all of you and upon me as well; and soon, may the last elect be called and gathered in the Mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone, and soon may the dead in Christ resurrect in eternal bodies and may we who are alive be changed, and after the full manifestation of God in His Church, may we go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb as Christ promised for each one of His elect, for each one of you and also for mw. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. Thank you very much for your kind attention, and THE SEVENTH SEAL: A DOOR OPENED IN HEAVEN Friday, February 20, 1998 Lima, Peru Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present here in Lima, Peru. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and see this mystery of the Seventh Seal and the Door opened in Heaven. Thus says Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1; and Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1. Let us first read Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1: After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. Then, Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1, says: And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand it.

4 4 The gospel according to John, chapter 10, we will read what Jesus Christ said there in a moment. Now, our topic is: THE SEVENTH SEAL: A DOOR OPENED IN HEAVEN ; because the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ, and when that Seventh Seal was opened in Heaven, everyone in Heaven knew, they knew the mystery of that Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ. Now, remember that John the apostle was transported by God to the Last Day in chapter 1, verse 10 to 11, where John the apostle expressed his experience and says: He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. Who is the Alpha and Omega? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. And this Voice of Trumpet said: I am the alpha and omega. In other words, Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega, He is the one who has that Great Voice of Trumpet, that is, He speaks to His Church in the Day of the Lord, which is the seventh millennium or Last Day, He speaks to her with that Great Voice of Trumpet. And that Great Voice of Trumpet is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, it is the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom speaking to his Church, that Voice of Christ speaking to His Church and revealing to her all these things that must soon happen through his Angel Messenger, in the Last Day, in the end time. Remember that it was through the Angel of the Lord that John received the apocalyptic revelation, as it tells us in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, says: The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 33 Coming of the Messiah. And there have been times that they have displayed banners or posters saying: Welcome, Messiah, because they desire the Coming of the Messiah. And do you know what they are expecting when they proclaim that they are waiting for the Messiah? They are expecting a prophet, because the Coming of the Messiah for the Hebrew people will be a prophet; a prophet in whom God will be manifested in Holy Spirit, a man anointed with the Holy Spirit. That is the Angel of Revelation, chapter 7, who comes with the Seal of the living God; He comes with the Holy Spirit manifested in him. Now we can see the mystery of the Door opened in Heaven and the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven, which is the Second Coming of Christ. There is much that we can talk about regarding the things Christ will be doing, not from the Temple that is in Heaven anymore, but from His Temple, His Church, in this Last Day, once He finishes His work in the Temple that is in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven. He will then carry out a very great and important work from the Most Holy Place and from His Throne of His spiritual Temple, to then take the Throne or sit on the Throne of David; because just as the Hebrew people are represented in the temple or tabernacle that Moses built, because they are the earthly Israel, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, being the heavenly Israel, is also represented in the temple or tabernacle built by Moses and Solomon. Therefore, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the heavenly Israel, and is also the heavenly Temple or Temple of God or Spiritual Temple, has a Throne; just as the earthly Israel, which is represented in the temple of

5 32 It will be the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, it will be the Word incarnate in a man, it will be the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church in all His fullness, when He leaves the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven; by then, the Reclaiming Work will have reached its fullness and complete fulfillment; and we will all have the new body, and we will all be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ. And then He reclaims His literal Throne, which is no longer the Throne of the Father, but rather the Throne of David; to sit on the Throne of David and reign over the Hebrew people and over all the nations for one thousand years and then throughout eternity. But before sitting on the literal Throne of David, he must have His human Throne; and that human Throne will be the overcomer: the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, for whom the words of Christ, the promise of Christ: To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne will become a reality; because he will be with Christ on the Throne of David. I will grant him to sit with me in my throne, and Christ will be in him, Christ will be manifested in His human Throne; and Christ with His human Throne, will reclaim His literal Thorne, the Throne of David, and Christ will sit on Throne of David with His human Throne. That is the greatest mystery of all mysteries. The Hebrew people are in a very spiritual environment, because God said He would pour over the Hebrew people the spirit of prayer, and they would seek Him, seek God; He would pour over the house of Israel the spirit of prayer so that they may seek God; and they are looking for the The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 5 come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. Now notice how John the apostle received that revelation of Revelation; he received it through the Angel of Jesus Christ, who was sent by Jesus Christ to John to give him that revelation of Jesus Christ. That is why John the apostle, says in Revelation, chapter 19 and verse 9 to 10, who wanted to worship the Angel and the Angel told him not to. It says: And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. Now, when does he tell him this? If we read from verse 7 and on, of Revelation 19, it says: Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. The Wife is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is the time for the Marriage of the Lamb here in Revelation, chapter 19. Further on, from verse 11 and on, the Groom appears, Jesus Christ appears on a white horse, and His Name is the Word of God. It is the Coming of the Word, the Word, coming upon a white horse of the pure Word, upon the power of the pure Word of God. It is Christ in Holy Spirit coming in the end time. And the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said in the book of The Seals in Spanish, speaking of this

6 6 white horse Rider of Revelation 19, which is the place we are reading (we are reading chapter 19 of Revelation). Now let us see what he says of this white horse Rider of Revelation 19, page 277 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, he says while praying:...may the Holy Spirit come down now, the whitehorse Rider, while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own. Call them out, Lord. He comes to call His own, to call and gather together all the elect of God. And on page 256 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says, Reverend William Branham: But when our Lord appears here on earth, He ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man. This is how the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 is, this is how the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in the Last Day is, Jesus Christ coming in Holy Spirit, who is the Word, who became flesh two thousand years ago in that veil of flesh called Jesus, for the Word to come at the Last Day, the Word, incarnate in a man; in other words, in another man, in a man of this end time. And that is for the time of Revelation 19, where it says in chapter 19, verse 7 and on: Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. In other words, the wise virgins have been prepared, for what? For the Marriage of the Lamb. And let us review Matthew, chapter 25, and then we will continue with this chapter 19 of Revelation. Matthew, chapter 25, we read from verse 10 and on The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 31 His spiritual Temple. And in Heaven, when He finishes interceding for those who are yet to be placed in the Temple of Jesus Christ, when He finishes His Work there and leaves, His Blood will also leave and it will become a Throne of Judgment: God s wrath will then come out of the Throne of God that is in Heaven. And since Christ is the One who has been given as a Covenant for the nations, the human beings, we find that by Him Coming to His Church, and at the end of His intercession in Heaven He comes to His Church, to the same body of flesh in whom He would dwell during the Age of the Cornerstone before finishing His work of intercession in Heaven, and then He comes manifested in all His fullness; and no human being will find mercy in Heaven. All mercy a human being can obtain after Christ leaves the Throne in Heaven and the dead in Christ resurrect and we who are alive are changed, all mercy that can be granted will come from the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is where Jesus Christ will be because He will no longer be in the Throne of the Father in Heaven, but rather He will be in His Throne of the Most Holy Place, that is where He will be manifested; and from His Throne of His spiritual Temple, He will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people. That is where they will see Him in the human Throne He will have in His Church, that is where the Hebrew people will see the Second Coming of Christ. It will be the first one for the Hebrew people, because they did not see the first one, although He was manifested in their midst; but Christ will be there, manifested through human flesh.

7 30 be done, then he comes prophesying; and if he comes prophesying, then he is a prophet: he is the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; in which he brings all the revelation of all these things which must shortly be done. It is a prophetic Message with which he comes on behalf of Jesus Christ, and with which he opens the scriptures, the prophecies relevant to this end time, to reveal to us all these things that are prophesied to take place at this end time; he takes them, reveals them to us, and shows us which ones have already been fulfilled and which ones are in the process of being fulfilled. And thus, he shows us the mystery of the Door opened in Heaven and of the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven, which is the mystery of 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. Now, notice something very important that we cannot overlook: just as in each stage of the Church of Jesus Christ, Christ was interceding in the most holy place there, for the elect in every age, notice how the things Christ did from Heaven were then reflected in the midst of His Church, giving love and mercy to those whose names are written in the Lamb s Book of Life, which enter the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ from age to age. And for this end time, the Work Christ carries out in the end, in the Most Holy Place, goes directly to His Church, to the Age of the Cornerstone, where He calls and gathers His elect of the Age of the Cornerstone and completes the number of His elect. And then, for His Coming, which part of the Temple does He come to? He comes to the Most Holy Place of The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 7 (to not read too much), verse 10 to 13 of Matthew 25. This is the parable of the ten virgins, five were wise and five were foolish. The wise ones took oil with them. This is: they received Christ as their Savior, washed their sins in the Blood of Christ and received the Holy Spirit, and therefore they were born again in the Kingdom of God. The foolish ones believed in Christ as their Savior but did not receive the Holy Spirit, and therefore they did not receive the new birth; for which the group of the foolish or fatuous virgins that will be living in this end time will go through the great tribulation; because those who lived in past times, their physical bodies died but they did not have to go through the great tribulation that will soon come; but neither will they resurrect until after the Millennial Kingdom. And the foolish virgins who live in this end time, which will not have the Holy Spirit, they will not have oil in their lamps, in their lives, in their being, they will not have the Holy Spirit, they have not received the baptism of the Holy Spirit; therefore, they have not been born again and therefore they are not ready to receive the transformation, which is the adoption, wherein we will receive the new body. That new body is for the wise virgins, which will be adopted in the Kingdom of God receiving the transformation of their bodies, for the wise virgins who will be alive in this end time, and the resurrection of the dead in Christ for the wise virgins who lived in the past and their physical bodies died, which are the believers in Christ who washed their sins in the Blood of Christ and received the Holy Spirit, and therefore the new birth; and they are living in Paradise in their theophanic bodies,

8 8 because the time of the physical body was fulfilled and they had to leave their physical body, their physical body died and they continued living but in a theophanic body of the sixth dimension. They are in another dimension, in the sixth dimension, which is Paradise, where there are trees, there are rivers, there are little birds, there are animals, but where there are no problems like those in this earthly dimension; there are no wars nor economic problems, there is no need to get up early to go to work in the morning and deal with the difficult traffic there is in the morning and then during the afternoon as well; that is, the struggles in the earthly life has ended for those people. Our brother Branham visited them on one occasion before his death, or the death of his physical body, he visited them a couple of years before; and they were very happy there, and our brother Branham was also very happy, and he was surprised when he reached them. They would come to him, greet him, hug him and they told him they were very happy that he was there. And he spoke with them and they explained to our brother Branham that they did not work there nor get tired nor sleep nor eat, because everything there is perfection. In that theophanic body of the sixth dimension there are no necessities like the ones in this earthly body. In that theophanic body is the one in which Jesus Christ was before coming to Earth. It was in that theophanic body that He appeared to Abraham as Melchisedec, King of Salem and Priest of the living God; and He also appeared to Abraham on another occasion: the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, as Elohim. He is also the same God called the Angel of the Lord The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 29 mysteries in the Bible, it is the mystery that even the great scholars of the Bible have not been able to decipher, but that is the mystery that is promised to be fulfilled at this end time to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and then to the Hebrew people. That is the mystery promised to be revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at this end time; and this is the mystery that Christ Himself speaking to us with that Great Voice of Trumpet reveals to us at this end time through His Angel Messenger: I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. Revelation 22, verse 16. And Revelation 22, verse 6 says: And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Through whom are all these things that must shortly come to pass be revealed? The Scripture says that it is through the Angel of the Lord, through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is that all these things which must shortly come to pass are revealed. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done, the things that in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, Christ said with that Great Voice of Trumpet that He would reveal to us, when He said: Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And now, notice how through His Angel Messenger is that these things start to be revealed to the members of the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. If he comes revealing the things which must shortly

9 28 taken from the message Broken Cisterns, he says 6 : Remember, that, They which are alive and remain shall not hinder those which are sleeping, (in other words, those who died) for the Trump of God, that last Trumpet The sixth one has just sounded (or played). And that last Trumpet, like the last Seal, will be the Coming of the Lord. It shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. In other words, the Trumpet that will sound is the Seventh Seal, which is opened in Heaven, and that is the Second Coming of Christ; and the Second Coming of Christ will sound here on planet Earth, and all the elect of God will enter through that Door, which is Christ in His Second Coming, to receive the faith, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ to be changed and raptured at this end time. Remember that no one will be able to be changed and raptured without hearing that Final Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, which reveals the Second Coming of Christ, for the elect of God to receive Christ in His Second Coming. Without receiving Christ in His Second Coming, there will be no transformation nor rapture to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Now, we can see this mystery of the Door opened in Heaven and the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven. The Door opened in Heaven is Christ, the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven is also Christ. It is the Second Coming of Christ as the Second Coming of Christ being opened in Heaven to manifest the Second Coming of Christ here on Earth as He has promised. Now, we can see that this is the greatest mystery of all 6 Broken Cisterns July 26, 1964E The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 9 or Angel of the Covenant, who appeared to Jacob on different occasions; and on one occasion He appeared to him in a visible form, the form of a man but from another dimension, and Jacob grabbed on to Him, he took hold of Him and would not let go; and the Angel of the Lord told him: Let me go, for the sun is rising and I have to go. The dawn is breaking. Jacob said to Him: I will not let go until You bless me. The Angel wounded him in the thigh, in the socket of Jacob s thigh, and He dislocated his hip, but with all that Jacob would not let go 1. When we have received Christ as our Savior we must remain well grasped onto Him; and the problems we have in life do not matter, what happens to us here in our earthly life does not matter, whether it be accidents, problems, all those things are earthly and temporary. Even while Jacob was crippled, the Angel told him: Let me go, and Jacob told Him: I will not let go until You bless me. And do you know who the Angel is? The Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Lord Jesus Christ in His theophanic body called the Angel of the Lord or Angel of the Covenant, who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And then He became flesh and dwelt in the midst of the Hebrew people, and He was called Jesus. Prophet Isaiah said, prophetically speaking, that He would be called, His name would be Emmanuel, which translated is: God with us. Therefore, the name of Jesus, notice, is the name of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, of God with us to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary s Cross, and thus carry our sins, and take our sins, cleanse us with His Blood and give us His Holy Spirit, and thus bring forth the new birth, and 1 Genesis 32:22-32

10 10 thus produce the new creation in each person who receive Him as his Savior. Christ said: 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. Passed from death to life. John, chapter 5, verse 24. And now, notice who is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who was in His theophanic body before coming in the body of flesh called Jesus. And now, all the saints of who have departed during all these ages that have passed, they are in their theophanic body just as Jesus was in His theophanic body all those thousands of years before He came in the body of flesh. And now, we find that all the saints who are in their theophanic bodies are in the same stage in which Jesus Christ was before taking a body of flesh. And now when the saints resurrect they will take an eternal body, a glorified body, a physical body, but that will be able to travel throughout the different dimensions because it will be a perfect body and it will be like the one our Lord Jesus Christ has; and that is where we will be in the same stage in which Jesus was when he was born and lived in the midst of the human beings in a body created by God. Now, the Scripture in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 14, says that Jesus is the beginning of the Creation of God. And who are we? The continuation of the Creation of God, of that new creation that began with Jesus Christ, because the old creation that began with Adam fell; and now there is a new creation of which Jesus Christ is the head or the first. That is why the Bible says that Jesus is the second The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 27 For we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord (down here) shall not prevent or hinder those which are asleep. The precious ones, (brethren, of course) that sealed their testimony with their blood. 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. That gospel something, meaning, the Gospel of the Kingdom, the good tidings of the Kingdom, the good tidings of the Kingdom of God, will sound. And what will sound? The Second Coming of Christ will sound, the Coming of Christ will sound; meaning that it will reveal the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, the mystery of the Door opened in Heaven and the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven. The Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ, and the Door opened in Heaven is also the Second Coming of Christ. Christ is the Door opened in Heaven, and Christ is the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven. It is the Second Coming of Christ through which the sons and daughters of God, the members of the Mystical Body of Christ will enter at this end time, to receive the faith, the revelation to be changed and raptured, in other words, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ; and thus obtain the faith to be changed and raptured, the revelation to be changed and raptured at this end time; and for the dead in Christ be resurrected. The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says, referring to this same subject of the Final Trumpet or the Great Voice of Trumpet, in this book of Quotations, where we have excerpts of different messages preached by Reverend William Branham, he tells us in excerpt 1164,

11 26 as well; first, they will enter through the Door of the First Coming of Christ and then they enter through the Door of the Second Coming of Christ, to be changed and raptured at this end time. That is why the Coming of Christ is promised with Acclamation, with the Voice of the Archangel and the Trumpet of God. It says: And the dead in Christ shall rise first, (they will resurrect in incorruptible bodies), then we who are alive will be changed; and we will be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air: and so we will forever be with the Lord. Now we can see that the same Voice, which Saint John heard, Saint Paul also mentions it as the Final Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Voice of Christ. It is the Voice of Christ giving us His Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom at this end time. And since Christ, throughout the seven ages of the gentile Church spoke through human beings, through His messengers, and also spoke through His prophets in the Old Testament, for this end time, He will be speaking to us in human flesh, through the veil of flesh in which Jesus Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit. And through that messenger, which is the Angel of Jesus Christ, He will be speaking to us with that Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom and He will be revealing to us all of these things which must soon come to pass. The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says the following on page 47 of the book of Quotations in Spanish, the following, speaking to us of that Final Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, he says 5 : 5 The ten virgins, and the hundred forty-four thousand Jews December 11, 1960M The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 11 Adam. First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 42 to 55, speaks to us like this of Christ, and it speaks to us of the Divine Program God will carry out for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive. It speaks to us of a Final Trumpet, which is the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom sounding at this end time; in other words, the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom by the Holy Spirit through human flesh at this end time. And that is the Voice that John heard on the Day of the Lord, in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11. It is the Voice of Jesus Christ speaking to His Church through human flesh, through His Angel Messenger, all these things that must soon happen. That is why when John was transported to the Day of the Lord and heard that Voice, he then says that he also heard, he saw a door opened in Heaven, and he looked at that opened door, and the first voice he heard come from that place where that opened door was, was a Voice like a trumpet that said: Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. After which ones? After the ones that have already happened in the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church. Now I am going to show you these things that must happen after the ones that have already happened ; in other words, I am going to show you the things that must happen at the end time, in the Last Day, in the Day of the Lord ; that is, the things that must happen in the seventh millennium, the things that must happened in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone. Because Jesus Christ was in each age manifested in Holy Spirit anointing each one of His angel messengers and speaking through each one of His angel messengers.

12 12 Therefore, in each age they heard the Voice of Christ, that is, they heard a Trumpet speaking, which was the Voice of Christ through the messenger of each age. Saint Paul says in First Corinthians, chapter 14, verse 8: For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? There was a struggle in each time, a spiritual battle; and those who heard the Trumpet of God, the Trumpet of Jesus Christ, the Voice of Jesus Christ though the messenger of each age, they became aware for the spiritual battle that would take place at every age. In other words, the elect of each age heard that Trumpet sound, they became aware and entered into that spiritual battle, and obtained the victory, because they remained hearing the Trumpet, which was the Voice of Christ through the messenger of his age. Thus it was for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh age; and Christ spoke through each one of His messengers, and He is the one who has that Voice of Trumpet; but through human flesh is that one hears the Voice of Christ. It has always been this way because surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. Amos, chapter 3, verse 7. Now notice how Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit was manifested in each one of these messengers speaking to His people and calling His children in each age; He called them to go up to the corresponding age in which they lived. Christ said in John, chapter 10, verse 14 to 16, the following way, and I want to read what Christ said here. It says: I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 25 redemption, the Day of Redemption, in other words, the day in which our bodies will be redeemed, this means: our bodies will be changed, and we will have an eternal body. It is the redemption of the body, because the sons and daughters of God will have an eternal body again; and we will all be in the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ. After the fall, the human being has been obtaining a mortal, corruptible and temporary body, but the body that Adam received before the fall, was a body in which he could live eternally if he did not sin. But God said to him: For in the day that thou eatest thereof, of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that day: thou shalt surely die. But if he did not eat from that tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would not die, see? And now, the redemption of the body is: for the sons and daughters of God to have an eternal body again; that is why the resurrection of the dead in Christ will be in an eternal body, and our transformation will be in an eternal body which we will receive. We will be transformed in our atoms, changed in our atoms, and we will obtain a new body, with new atoms, and eternal atoms, with eternal cells, eternal flesh, eternal bones and eternal blood. We have the Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and we are flesh of His flesh and bones of His bones. Now we can see the seed of God, which are the sons and daughters of God, who are in the House of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, to which there is a Door, which is Christ in His First Coming; and Christ in His Second Coming is the Door opened in Heaven, which is the Seventh Seal that was opened in Heaven. And at the Last Day, the elect of God will enter through that Door

13 24 that people know what will fall upon the Earth, and then they will be seeing the fulfillment of what will be spoken regarding the divine judgments to fall upon the human race. Now we can see what is promised to take place in Heaven with the opening of the Seventh Seal. Now, the question is: Is the Seventh Seal open in Heaven? Has the Lamb taken the Book of the Seven Seals and opened it in Heaven? Throughout the seven stages of the gentile Church and throughout the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, up to the point where the Age of the Cornerstone has reached (and it still has more to go), up to the point where our age has come to, after the seven gentile Church ages, the Book is still at the right hand of the One sitting on the Throne. But during the seven ages of the gentile Church and during our time, Christ has been fulfilling what is written in that Book of the Seven Seals; because what is written there must be fulfilled first. And then, Christ takes that Book, opens It, because that is the Title Deed, and makes His Reclamation and obtains everything He redeemed with His precious Blood; and the divine inheritance must be given to the heirs of God, which is Christ and the believers in Christ, because we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, Saint Paul says in Romans, chapter 8 verse 10 to 35, let us say, or to 39. Chapter 8, verses 10 to 39, of Romans, speaks to us about the manifestation of the children of God; it says that we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, and that there will be a manifestation, the manifestation of the children of God, for which the entire Creation has been crying out for, praying and asking God for, that is the The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 13 known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. How have the sheep of Christ heard the Voice of Christ, which are the sons and daughters of God, the firstborn of God written in Heaven, in the Lamb s Book of Life? Through the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through each one of these angel messengers of Jesus Christ. The angel messenger of the first age was Paul, who said: Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. 2 And if Christ lived in Paul for He also spoke through Saint Paul; and he spoke with that Great Voice of Trumpet relevant to that first age; in other words, he spoke with the Message relevant to that first age. Then the second angel messenger was Irenaeus, the third was Martin, the fourth was Columba, the fifth was Luther, the sixth Wesley and the seventh was Reverend William Marrion Branham. Each one of these ages was fulfilled in a certain territory. And the first age was fulfilled in Asia Minor; the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth were fulfilled in Europe, in different European territories, among the people of that territory; and then the seventh age was fulfilled in North America, among the North Americans, and the messenger was also a North American, where God was manifested, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested speaking with that Trumpet relevant to that seventh age. 2 Galatians 2:20

14 14 The Voice of Christ, notice, is always the Trumpet that sounds in each age through the messenger of each age and he gives the Message of each age. And while one Trumpet is opened or sounding in each age, the part of the Seal relevant to that age is also opened; in other words, a seal can cover one or more ages, because things that would be fulfilled in an age or in two ages or in three ages can be in a seal. And now, after Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit has been speaking through His messengers in the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, in those territories, what do we have for the sons and daughters of God? Well we have the Age of the Cornerstone, wherein the Voice of Jesus Christ is as a Great Voice of Trumpet, in other words, it is with a dispensational Message, a greater Message, to reveal to us all these things that must soon happen, and thus reveal to us the mystery of the door opened in Heaven and the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven. Christ said in John, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, the following. It says: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 23 in other words, of the elect of God, the members of the Mystical Body Christ ; because the saints have prayed, those who have departed have prayed for their resurrection in eternal bodies; and in Paradise, they are asking God, praying to God for the return to Earth in eternal bodies. When brother Branham visited them, they told him: We don t eat here, nor do we drink nor sleep, we don t become tired or work; but we will return to Earth in bodies, and then we will eat. That is what they have been asking God: for their return to Earth in eternal bodies. And we who are alive have also been asking for the eternal body, we have been asking for our transformation; just as they asked for it when they were living here on Earth and after going to Paradise, they have been asking for the new body to resurrect in that new body, and us, well, we are asking for our transformation to have the new body. And this is when in Heaven, our prayers for our transformation, for the redemption of our bodies, for us who are alive and those who have departed, the prayers of all the elect are presented so that we obtain the redemption of the body, in other words, to obtain the new body; for the dead in Christ to be resurrected in eternal bodies, and for us who are alive to be changed. And now, after this takes place, notice, the Angel Himself says that He took the censer, filled it with fire of the altar and cast it upon Earth; and there were, it says: And there were (What was there upon the Earth?)... and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. This refers to the divine judgment coming out of the Throne of God for the human race, the divine judgments of the great tribulation, which are spoken so

15 22 blood there, upon the mercy seat; this reflects us or in our favor. And when he finished, we find that the high priest also used the censer, which he took with burning coals of fire from the altar that was this altar was in the outer part of the most holy place, in the holy place, but he would take the censer and place burning coals of fire in the censer In other words, he would take them from the brass altar, where the coals were burning, and he would take incense in his hands and go inside, and place but he had to bring blood, and he placed that incense in the censer with the burning coals of fire; and when it fell inside the censer, the incense would burn and smoke would start to cover the entire mercy seat and the entire most holy place; and the prayers of the people and for the people were there. 4 It is the same thing appears here in Revelation, chapter 8, verse 2 and on, it says: And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel s hand. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. In other words, after offering the prayers of the saints, 4 Leviticus 16:12-13 (censer); 16:1-34 (the entire day of atonement); Hebrews 9:1-28 The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 15 him: for they know not the voice of strangers. This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture (spiritual pastures of the pure Word of God, to feed the soul of those sheep of God, which are the sons and daughters of God). Now, notice that the door of the Sheepfold is Jesus Christ; and He calls and gathers His sheep from age to age, where? In His Sheepfold, in His place, where there is a door, which is Christ, the entry Door to the Sheepfold of the Lord. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the Sheepfold of the Lord, and it has a door, and that Door is Christ; and we enter into the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ through Christ, believing in Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit. And thus we are born again, we are born in the Sheepfold of the Lord, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is His house, that is the family of God gathered in the House of God, in the Church of Jesus Christ. Notice, Saint Paul speaking to us of the family of God or House of God, in his epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 3, verse 5 to 6 (to not lead a lot), it says: And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

16 16 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Now notice how we are this House of God, in other words, the House of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is where the entry door to the House of God is, which is Jesus Christ. He is the entry door; and that is why in order to enter into the House of God, to be part of that House, it is required that the person believes in Christ as his Savior and wash his sins in the Blood of Christ and receive the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and thus be born in that House. There is no other way to be part of that family. Verily, verily, I say unto thee (Christ said to Nicodemus), Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus asks: 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 tells him: Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, in other words, be born of the Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. 3 In other words, a person cannot enter into the Church of Jesus Christ without first being born again; and in order to be born again, he must believe in Christ as his Savior and wash his sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit; and thus he is born in the Kingdom of God, that is, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, notice how this door is placed in the House of God, which is the Church of Jesus Christ, for the entrance to the House of God, to the Church of Jesus Christ, of all those whose names are written in the Lamb s Book of 3 John 3:1-7 The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 21 and He was represented in the veil of flesh. That veil of flesh is the veil of the Temple that is in Heaven. And now, notice how Christ went to the Most Holy Place and positioned Himself as the High Priest with His own Sacrifice, His own Sacrifice carried out on Calvary s Cross; and He applied His own Blood in Heaven in the Most Holy Place. When Christ died and resurrected, the way to the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven was opened; and that is why Christ entered. It was the moment to enter the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven, just as on the tenth day of the seventh month of each year was the day for the high priest to enter the most holy place; he had to bring the blood of atonement within the veil. He would enter a few times that day, but always with blood. If he entered without blood, he would die there. First, he had to enter with the blood of the bullock, and offer it to make an atonement for himself and for the priests; and then, he entered with the blood of atonement of the goat, which was also mixed with the blood of atonement of the bullock, and he offered it there for the people, to reconcile the Hebrew people with God. That is the same thing that would happen in Heaven. And notice, just as the high priest remained in the most holy place for a certain period of time, spread the blood with his finger seven times, and then he applied blood upon the mercy seat, but first he spread blood with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; this reflects the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, upon which Christ has spread His Blood during the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church. Then, we also find that the high priest applied more

17 20 built, or vice versa: the most holy place of the tabernacle that Moses built and the one that Solomon built represent the Age of the Cornerstone in the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ, which is His Church. And since we find that there are no literal stones in that temple nor is there literal wood nor literal gold in that temple, but rather the stones that Christ uses in that construction are living stones, just as Christ is a living stone, the Headstone rejected or refused by the builders; now, the living stones Christ uses for the construction of His Temple are human beings who have their names written in Lamb s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world. And now, notice, in that temple, we find that all the things that are in the temple or tabernacle Moses built and Solomon built, are a type and figure of the people who will form that spiritual Temple. And now, we find that the veil, the entry door to the most holy place of the tabernacle Moses built and the temple Solomon built, the entry door to the most holy place had a veil; and behind that veil was the most holy place, where the ark of the covenant was, and the mercy seat or seat of mercy was upon the ark of the covenant; and on that mercy seat, which we can call the cover of the ark, there were two cherubim of gold, and the presence of God was between the two cherubim of gold in that Pillar of Fire, called the presence of God there in that Light: the Shekinah. And now, in the Temple that is in Heaven, we find that the veil of the temple Moses built and the one Solomon built, who do they represent in the Temple that is in Heaven? Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ in His First Coming, The Seventh Seal: A Door opened in Heaven 17 Life. And now, notice how Christ is the Door of that House. Christ in His First Coming said that He was the Door. And Christ in His Second Coming, will He be the Door or not? He continues to be the Door of His House. Therefore, in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, that Door opened in Heaven is Jesus Christ, it is Jesus Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work. And John entered through that door and saw the things he had to then write; he saw all the things that are relevant to the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven. And the Voice he heard, which is the Voice of Christ, told him: Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. Now notice how by John ascending, for the Church here on Earth, it represents that His Church, the Church of Jesus Christ, will go through a stage in which she will go up from the seventh age of the gentile Church to the Age of the Cornerstone. These seven Church stages that have passed belong to the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, in other words, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; because the Church of Jesus Christ has been built, created by God, just as Moses built the tabernacle and Solomon built the temple; because it was through the pattern or design of the Temple that is in Heaven, the Temple of God in Heaven, which has an Inner Court, Holy Place and Most Holy Place. Saint Paul says that the tabernacle that Moses built is type and figure, it is type and figure of what? Of the one that is in Heaven, the true Tabernacle, and it is also type and figure of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is