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| The Coming of the Lord in glory |
as explained in the Seals Book
1. In 1933, while Bro. Branham baptised people in the Ohio river at Jeffersonville, the An gel of the Lord descended from the sky and He said: " As John the Baptist forerun the first coming of Christ, YOUR MESSAGE will FORERUN the second coming of Christ. We understand to FORERUN means to explain and to teach it BEFORE it actually happens.
2. Bro. Branham said that the Second Coming of the Lord is the greatest event that ever happens in all human history, or ever will. In the Breach he said this is the most sub lime thing in the Scripture... There are descriptions of this event all over the message, but the clearest and best is in the opening of the 7 written Seals in March 1963. It started in December 1962 when Bro. Branham had a vision at his house, he saw little birds sitting in a bush, and then they flew away. Then bigger birds came to sit there, and then they also flew away. He said those birds represent the first and the second pull in his ministry.
3. Then there was a terrific blast, and 7 Angels appeared. He said mighty Angels dressed in white, and an anointing came on him that he could hardly move, and for a whole week he was in a daze because of that anointing. He did not know what this visitation meant, he thought it might be his end. Then the Lord told him to move from Jeffersonville to Tucson, which he did, but he was still worried about the meaning of that blast. Then he went high up into a mountain to pray, and as he had his hands up and asking the Lord what that great blast meant, a sword came into his hand. He said it was razor sharp at the front and at the back. He explained that means that in one way it cuts the unbelievers off, and the other side of the sword is to circumcise our hearts and understanding, and cut off worldly desires. Then a voice said, this is not your end, it is a furtherance of your ministry. He was very happy and he went home, and he told his wife that something great will be revealed.
4 Shortly after that, while he and 2 brothers hunted wild pigs on Sunset mountain, an other huge blast happened, and the 7 Angels appeared to him again. This time they took him into their midst and told him to go back to Jeffersonville for the opening of the 7 Seals. Then those Angels ascended high up into the sky, as he was watching it, and they formed that cloud of which we have the picture, showing that the Lord will come as a Judge.
5 21 ONE.IN.A.MILLION 65-0424 Seven Angels, just as clear as you're standing here, came sweeping down from Heaven. The rocks in the mountains rolled out and down the hills, and--and people standing there were screaming and going on, you know, and the dust flying everywhere. And when it was, He said, "Return to your home. Now will be, each Angel will be one of the Seals of the Seven Seals."
6 At the end of chapter 21 in the Gospel of John, the Lord told Peter 3 times to feed His sheep. Then in verse 21 Peter asked Jesus what John will do? Jesus answered and said: "If he tarry till I come, what is that to you?" John truly did not die till he had seen the coming of the Lord. He had to tarry 62 years, from AD 33 to AD 95 till the time when he was banished to the island of Patmos, and from there he was translated into the Lord's day (Rev.1:10) which is the day of the Lord's Coming, which is still future. There he saw and experienced the second coming of the Lord in detail, and he wrote it down in Revela tion chapters 4 and 5, that we can also see it in the FORERUNNING Message BEFORE it will happen. Now we know that the explanation of the Lord's coming in Rev. 5 is absolutely the truth, because 2000 years ago it was endorsed by the Lord Jesus Himself.
7. In the Seals book, paragraph 141 in the BREACH gives us a very important explanation of what the opening of these 7 written Seals is all about, and what the real purpose is. Bro. Branham says that ALL what Christ WILL DO at the END will be revealed to us THIS WEEK... as the Seals BREAK and are released to us, THEN we can see what this GREAT PLAN of Redemption is, and WHEN and HOW it's GOING to be DONE. This opening of the 7 written Seals is exactly fulfilling what the Angel of the Lord told Bro. Branham in 1933 at the Ohio river, this is that previously sealed forerunning mystery which will now be revealed in detail before it will actually take place in real life. There are at least 70 quotes preached in that week which clearly explain that AFTER the last one has come into the fold. Then the church ages will be finished, and the Lord will gather ALL the saints of all ages in Heaven, the living and the dead before the Throne. Here is one of the great mysteries in the message, which is the translation of the living saints.
8 Bro. Branham does not say much about this translation of the living endtime saints. In 247 IS THIS THE SIGN...62-1230E he says that this translation of the living saints at the end of this age is one of the great mysteries, and in par. 293 he warns us that only a few will understand it, and be saved and translated at that time. In 226 ABSOLUTE 62-1230M, he says that to be ready for the final climax yonder, we must have this rapturing faith, and it is laying in the message. For this final climax, the Lord will send His Angels to gather together His elect Bride (Mark 13:27), the LIVING saints from the uttermost parts of the earth, from every nation, kindred and tongue, and the DEAD in Christ from the uttermost parts of Heaven. All the elect will be waiting for that midnight cry to gather us together, as also told in Matt. 25:6, Matt. 24:31, Eph.1:10, and Psalm 50:4-6 witness of this gathering together of the living and the dead, to be judged and fully redeemed, as Isaiah 1:27 says.
9. Mt. Transfiguration is another perfect example of the presence of the living saints and the dead saints at the coming of the Lord. In 388 UNCERTAIN SOUND 60-1218, Bro. Branham said that Moses represented the ones that had died, and was sleeping in the grave, and Elijah represented the translated ones, who didn't have to die. 315 IT IS THE... 65-0418M now look at transfiguration. We was, every one, represented there. There was the living saints that had raptured, there was Elijah standing there; and there stood Moses, the dead saints repre-... Also, both of them had quickening Power. Whether one died, and the other didn't die, they're all there. In 227 EASTER SEAL 65-0410 Bro. Branham said that it was quickening power that took him behind the curtain of time, and “It's quickening pow er that'll catch US away,” and quickening power come in these last days. Let's be ready!
10. Then the Lord Jesus will leave the Mercy Seat, the blood on the Altar will be removed, and all intercessions and Grace and Mercy will end at that time. Then the Lord, the Lamb will appear in His nail-scarred body "as It had been slain," as Rev.5:6 tells us, and then He will come and take the Book out of the right hand of Him that sat upon the Throne. In those 70 quotes in the Seals book, which explain the second coming of the Lord time and again and over and over, 25 of them mention that the Lord will "take the Book" at that time and place, and that timing is the great stumbling block which causes the greater majority of the worldwide message following to ignore that most important part, which is that greatest event in all human history, or ever will be, and they disregard it as if it does not exist.
11. In Rev. 5:1, John saw in the hand of God a Book written within, AND on the backside, sealed with 7 Seals. There are 2 entities, one written within, and the other on the back side. Bro. Branham tells us that "on the backside" means when the first "written within" section is completed, then AFTER that, then the event on the backside will take place. He said that the "written within" section is his ministry, as Rev.10:7 tells us, that is the written word in the Bible, and Bro. Branham's ministry cannot add anything which is not written in the Bible, as Rev. 22:18 says. This "written within" ministry did not end in 1965, this mes sage has to go into every nation, kindred and tongue, and AFTER the last sheep has come into the fold, then on the back of that, then the second event will literally take place, as the FORERUNNER has explained it from the LITTLE BOOK, which is the Bible. Our Prophet explains the Little Book in the first Seal par.197 and 198, he says we are breaking them Seals NOW. He also refers to the 7 written Seals as the “Seals of the Bible.”
12. There are 2 options to the interpretation of Rev. 5:1, even so it only mentions 7 Seals. The first option is that those 7 Seals includes both sections, to apply them both at "written within," and on the "backside." The second option is that there are 7 Seals to reveal the mystery of the section "written within" in the Little Book, the Bible, to the endtime Bride only, and 7 other Seals to reveal the mysteries on the "backside" which are sealed in the GREAT BOOK, which is the Lamb's Book of Life, which will be loosed to ALL the saints of All ages, from Adam to the last one. Both options are equally valued, so which one is the right one? If the first option would be the right one, as just about everybody believes it is, when all 7 Seals were opened in March 1963, then there are no more Seals left to be opened at the manifestation of the second section at the backside of the Book. Yes, there are 2 times 7 Seals opened at different times, there are hundreds of million fellow Bride members who have died over the past 6000 years, waiting all over the uttermost parts of Heaven for that greatest day to be gathered together (Mark 13:27 etc.) with the rest of all the Bride of all ages before the Throne, the LIVING and the DEAD, and witnessing, seeing with our own eyes our Kinsman Redeemer to take that GREAT BOOK out of the right hand of God on the Throne, and fully redeem each and every one individually and person ally as overcomer of sin and unbelief according to our righteous works which are recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life, foreseen by God since before the foundation of the world.
13. As Bro. Branham said in many places, the Breach is placed BETWEEN the seven church ages and the 7 Seals. We are still in the church ages, the Breach is still a future event, it will start AFTER the church ages have ended. Rev. 4:1 is the start of the Breach, it says AFTER these things... Can the 5 fold ministry not see that there are still 7 Seals to be opened? Those 7 LAST (193 61-0806), or 7 OTHER (239 62-1230E) or 7 DIFFERENT (145 63-0317E) Seals? This is confirmed in the Bible, and in the message, this makes Re velation chapter 5 the greatest chapter in the Bible, and in verses 6 and 7 John describes and records the very minutes of the actual personal second coming of the Lord in Glory.
14. We are still in the church ages, but very near the end of it. But as we are told, we are studying the great PLAN of Redemption which was unsealed in March 1963 to correctly understand what Christ will do at the END, and WHEN and HOW it's going to be done, as we are told in par.141 in the Breach. In Rev. chapter 5 we get the Scriptural report of it, and in the Breach from par. 115 to 160 Bro. Branham gives us his version, which he has most likely seen in a vision. On the tape 173 60-1231 he says that John represented the entire church; that every man or woman, boy or girl that ever believed in Christ... he'll be summoned someday to "Come up hither," and be caught up before the tribulation.
15. In par. 155 in the Breach, Bro. Branham confirmed this translation of John once again. For that event we must have that great translation faith, and not pull back, or we will be left behind, as Matth. 24:40 tells us. Then John did, or rather we will see God on His Throne with this Book in His hand, which is the Lamb's Book of Life which also includes the TITLE DEED of Redemption, and it is sealed with 7 Seals. Let us not forget, this will take place AFTER the church ages have ceased, these facts are forerunning explanations.
16. In par. 157, the Prophet mentions a strong Angel to proclaim with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to take, and open this Book, who was able to do it?" Then Bro. Branham gets very excited, and he says, "Here is the Book of Redemption, here is the Plan of Redemption, here is the ONLY WAY you'll EVER be REDEEMED..." Can we really fully comprehend what that means? The ONLY WAY means the only time, the only place, the only possibility, the only chance! There is no question that ALL those who will be standing there in their Theophany bodies at that time, who got that far, they have already made it, and none of them can fail. But looking at the Internet and other informations about what is preached all over in the worldwide message, then the picture looks very scary. In most parts these vital facts of the message and the Bible are completely disregarded. Some "spiritualise" it, they use a quote which says that "We are the Book," and then they are saying when you are in the message, then you are in the Book, and you are already included in Rev. chapter 5.
17. In par. 158, Bro. Branham explains that John said that no man IN HEAVEN, and no man ON EARTH found worthy, no man beneath the earth, that ever lived and died was found worthy. In the Bible we see these verses in Rev. 5:3 and 13, but how can we all be gathered in Heaven, and all of us be at the same time on the earth, and under the earth, and in the sea? Bro. Branham never explained those Scriptures, but we have a perfect example which shows us what it means. In 1960, Bro. Branham was taken out of his body, and he was translated to the first Heaven to meet his converts who had died. From there, looking back he saw his corporal body ON the earth, next to his sleeping wife, while he up there represented the translated LIVING saints. As he turned, he saw thousands of Brothers and Sisters coming, and running towards him, and they are still the DEAD in Christ.
18. They hugged him and were very happy to see him, and he could feel them. All of them were in their Theophany bodies, while their corporal bodies were, and still are UNDER the earth, in the grave, or IN the sea where some perished. They told him that they are wait ing there for the coming of the Lord, and then they will be judged and accepted and fully redeemed, and then together we will all come back to the earth to receive our glorified bodies, as they told Bro. Branham when he visited them behind the curtain of time. That is when "death is swallowed up in victory," as Paul said in 1 Cor. 15:54. At Genesis chapter 3:19, God sentenced Adam to death in the flesh for his sin, to go back to the dust UNDER the earth, and later others died also IN the sea. Rom. 5:12 tells us that by one man's sin death entered into the world, and passed upon all men. But on that day of our redemption, the same Judge will tell ALL of us "Well done my good and faithful servant, enter into..."
19. Only a Kinsman can take that Book out of the right hand of Almighty God, now Angel or anything else can do it. As John 1:14 tells us, God made eventually His own Word flesh, to be the only begotten of the Father, and then qualify to be that perfect Kinsman Redeemer. Then in Par. 160 in the Breach, Bro. Branham must have seen this huge gathering before the Throne, he tells us that it came from Adam all the way down through all the Apostles, and prophets and everything else. Referring to the Apostles, that reminds me of Acts 1:9 11 when the Lord Jesus had summoned the Apostles for the last time, and after He had spoken to them, He was taken up till the clouds covered him. Then 2 Angels appeared to them and informed them that just as they saw Him going up to Heaven, in like manner will they see Him coming. That promise will also be fulfilled at this greatest event in history, on the day of our full Redemption. Continuing in par. 160, Bro. Branham also mentions Eli jah and Moses, and all those who had died, all the holy men, and Job and the Sages.
20. We read that Job saw the flowers die down, and then they sprout again. But when a man dies, and buried in the grave, then he is gone and never seen again. Elihu told Job that the flower did not sin, that is why it is sprouting again, but man has sinned, and there fore he can not rise again. Then Elihu told Job that one day the Holy One will come, and He will step in the Breach and reach out to the holy God, and to sinful man, and recon cile them together again, and only then shall men rise again. This will happen when the Kinsman Redeemer will come forth and reach out to the Holy God and take the Book out of His right hand, and show our Holy Spirit directed righteous works on the canvas of the sky. They are recorded in that Book, which is the Lamb's Book of Life, and the nailscar red body of our Redeemer is the reminder that we are forgiven of all our confessed sins.
21. There is another connection with Job and the day of Redemption. In 1936 at a Jesus only convention, Bro. Branham admired an old man preach from Job chapter 38, speak ing about God asking Job: “Where were you when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Then Bro. Branham said that “he brought Him down the horizontal rainbow in the second coming.” All the sons of God shouting for joy can only happen at the second coming of the Lord, because that will be AFTER the very last one has come in, when the “purchased possession” is complete, as Eph.1:14 tells us. Then it will happen, then the Morning stars will sing together, and ALL the sons of God shout for joy, at the Lord's coming, when we will be fully redeemed by our Kinsman Redeemer.
22. REVELATION 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
23. From Adam to the very last one, each and every one will be personally and individually confirmed (1 Cor.1:8) to be blameless and faultless on that glorious day, with exceeding joy, as Jude 24 says. How sure can we be that all this is true? At Questions and Answers on the Seals par. 266, a brother asks: In Rev. verse 5:9, who are these found singing when the Lamb takes the Book... are these the raptured saints? At that time it was late already, and Bro. Branham had promised to still pray for the sick, and under that pressure he did not answer correctly, he said no, these are NOT the saints, that's the heavenly group...
24. Trying to answer the next question, he realised that there was something wrong. Then when he was asked to read that first question again, he saw his mistake, and he corrected it, and he apologised profusely for this error. For him this slip was embarrassing, but for us to see the Lord stopping His Prophet, and to make him to correct this error, that is a sure sign that Rev. 5:9 is one of the correct descriptions of the second coming of the Lord, and it is confirmed by the Lord Himself, just like we have seen already in John 21:22. The Lord told Job about 3500 years ago about ALL the sons of God shouting for joy, and he is wait ing in the Heavens together with hundreds of millions saints for that day to arrive.
25. Let us come back to the last 2 lines at par.160 in the Breach, it says EVERYONE was standing there, and nobody was worthy to look at the Book, let alone take It and break the Seals. Everyone will include me, and this promise is confirmed in par.137. There Bro. Branham explains that God took on the form of a man, so He could die, to redeem man. Then he says: “Wait till WE SEE HIM, when there's nobody worthy.” Isn't this wonder ful? I can hardly wait any longer, Oh what a day that will be, when my Jesus I will see, and I look upon His face, the One Who saved me by His Grace...I wonder what my new name will be? And what the Lord's new name will be? At Q.+A. on the Seals par. 98, somebody asked what the new name will be on the people of Rev. 3:12? He gave them the only ob vious answer: “I don't know what that is, It will be made known when we get there.” Let us make sure that we know how to GET there, and be ready and able to meet our Lord.
26. At 359 IS THIS THE SIGN..62-1230E, Bro. Branham says that there is a scriptural continuation from the opening of the 7 Seals in 1963 to the opening of the 7 last Seals. We know that the 4 horse riders are satanic powers that try to deceive the Bride, as the serpent did to Eve. In the first 3 ages, a lion like Holy Spirit baptism was given to the church to stand up to the evil white horse rider, and in the 4th age an ox like Holy Spirit baptism was given to the church to rather accept death by the red horse rider, than compromise on the word of God. The black horse rider tried to pervert the word of God in the next 3 ages, and the church was given a man like Holy Spirit baptism to know which is right and which is wrong. Then the pale horse rider will take over the whole world, and the saints with the supernat ural flying eagle baptism, and the help of the 3rd pull will withstand him for a few months, till the Rapture will take us out of here. These 7 Seals do not have much information, most of them are only 2 verses which can be explained in a few minutes. But there is more to it.
27. Next in this continuation is Rev. chapters 2 and 3, which gives us a short description of all 7 church ages. The Lord Jesus tells John to address each age to the angel messenger, and end each age with a personal promise, saying: “To him that overcometh.” We know that every message produces true believers, but also make-believers and unbelievers. The true believers are those who are justified, and sanctified and baptised with the Holy Spirit, and they are anointed to OVERCOME the opposing of the satanic horse riders. In the first 3 ages, with that lion like Holy Spirit anointing of strength and fearlessness, they knew and resisted and overcame the white horse riders deceiving. As history tells us, in the 4th age millions overcame that horrible red horse rider with their ox like Holy Spirit leading to rather accept death than to compromise God's Word. The same principle applies to the saints of all the other ages, all those heroic deeds are recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life. At the end of every age, Jesus says that to “him or he that overcometh, I will give...” He prom ised that HE personally and individually will give every overcomer a reward. That ought to be a huge incentive for each individual saint to give our all, to not miss that meeting.
28. From there, the Scriptural continuation leads us to Ephesians 1:13+14. To be sealed with the Holy Spirit is essential, because that is the earnest of our inheritance. What is our inheritance? In Genesis 1:28, after God had created man, He said to them, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over everything. That was what we call the Title Deed of the whole earth, given to Adam. Then after the fall, God took it back again from Adam. When Jesus rose from the dead, and Mary wanted to touch Him, He said touch me not, I must first go to my and your Father. The Spirit had left Him in Gethsemane that He could die as a man, and on that Easter Sunday morning, He was rap tured up to Heaven, and judged and accepted as overcomer of death, hell and the grave. He had also redeemed the Title Deed back again to Himself, there and then He could have taken it out of the right hand of God, but as Bro. Branham says, He wants to share it with His Bride. Then the Spirit that had left Him came back on Him again, and He came back to earth to His disciples, and He said: “All power is given unto Me in Heaven and in earth...”
29. In that Title Deed is our inheritance registered, but up to now we have only the earnest of that, as Eph.1:14 says, and we have to wait till the day of the purchased possession is complete, which means till the last saint is brought into the Bride. Then the earnest will be changed to reality, on that glorious day of our full Redemption. As Joshua divided the inheritance to Israel, so will the Lord on that day divide the whole earth to His Bride, accor ding to the predestinated portions recorded in the Title Deed. In Eph. 4:30, the Bible says And grieve not the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of Redemption. No not the resurrection, Bro Branham says most times unto YOUR Redemption, and also unto the day when Jesus comes for YOU. Now the Scriptural continuation brings us to that day, as explained in Rev. 22. Verse 10 says, “Seal not the sayings...” Daniel wanted to know when the end will be, and in 12:13 he was told, thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. In Rev.10:4 John was not allowed to write what he heard, he was told to seal it. In Rev. 22:10 the same John was told, Seal not..., the opening of the 7 last Seals arrives.
30. Verse 11 mentions the unjust, the filthy, the righteous and the holy ones. Bro. Branham speaks of this verse mostly when he describes what the situation will be when Christ has left the Mercy seat. Then the unjust and the filthy cannot change any more to become holy or righteous, without the blood and grace and mercy, changes are not possible any more. Then in verse 12 we see the actual coming of the Lord, the day of our full Redemption, the manifestation of the 7th Seal, the Adoption, the Judgment of the righteous saints, as also revealed behind the curtain of time, same event as Rev. 5:6+7, the opening of the 7 LAST Seals, and the only way, time, place, and possibility to ever be redeemed. This is also the greatest event in all human history, that ever will be, and the most sublime in the Bible.
31. Isaiah 53:10 says that it pleased the LORD to bruise Him, and to make His soul an of fering for sin, but on that day He shall see His seed, for each and every one of us, He did bear our iniquities. In Rev.22:12 He tells us that He will come quickly, and His reward with Him, as He has promised us in Rev. chapters 2 and 3, for every OVERCOMER to give us personally and individually our rewards. It says that those rewards are according as our works shall be. All over the message, Bro. Branham explains that our actions are recorded in Heaven, our thoughts, our words we speak, and our deeds. He says that will be shown like a film on the canvas of the sky, on that day. There we will see how the saints suffered during the dark ages, every individual will have his own story, we will see Luther saying at the council that he will not recant his revelation, and all those millions of testimonies will be shown of those brave brothers and sisters through all the ages, from Adam to the last one.
32. On that glorious day we will receive our new name, and that name will have a meaning which will reveal our individual characteristics. There is an interesting quote in the sermon 79 THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 58-0928M, it says: When the body has been formed, and that last name that's on the Book will be recognised here on earth, the Books are closed, for it is completed, the STORY of redemption has been READ completely. Then we go to SEE Him and to meet Him in the resurrection. Bro. Branham taught us that the true believers will know that we become an attribute of God. He tells us that we become God's thought expressed into word, and we become what we are. That's the reason our new names were put into the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. All the new names which the hundreds of million saints receive is the complete attributes of God expressed already by the Bride of all ages. All our new names together, all the hun dreds of millions in the right order will spell out the full redemption story, at that time.
33. That is the reason that there cannot be one more, or one less on that glorious day of our full redemption, because that would throw out the exact order of the redemption story. That shows us again how important it is to be baptised with the Holy Spirit, because only they can receive the orders from God to be led to fulfil one of His attributes. I hope that this explanations of the second coming of our Lord will help many to be ready for that day.
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