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Seventh seal- Seven Thunders /
Two Schools of
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
It was Brother Branham’s desire to go through the teachings
of the seals again. “ Just got through with those seven seals, just
recently. I’d like to go through them again.” (World. Again. Falling. Apart.
63-1127). We embraced that opportunity which time did not afford our
beloved Prophet. A rehearsal of the seven seals messages used to take place in
the early years after Brother Branham’s departure at the Branham tabernacle, in
the form of tape messages. But only a few churches do so today.
The
occasion was not the opening of the seals, but a memorial and thanksgiving for
the opening of the seals, a rehearsal of the great truths, which were
proclaimed in 1963, to remind message believers, inform ‘believing’ children,
and also to make known to Hindus, Muslims, Catholics and other organizational
members, of the great event. In attendance were message believers from North
and
Sunday morning
He returned on
Another message
was preached on Wednesday,
Book
number five entitled “Exposition Of
Damnable Heresies Seventh Seal/Seven Thunders” (two schools of thoughts), is a
documentation of the subjects of The facts of the seventh seal, The seventh
seal / seven thunders misinterpreted, and Seventh seal / seven thunders
perversions. Included are letters revealing conflicts of doctrines between both
schools of thoughts. We write with the hope, that these subjects put together
will help our readers to understand for themselves, which school of thought is
ordained of God and which Brother Branham established in 1963, and supported
until the time of his departure. We also hope that this work will afford
message believers to examine the school that they are identified with, and
quickly change their position if they are in the wrong school.
This
booklet is free of all charges [Freewill contributions are accepted to cover
printing and postage cost] and may be reproduced by believers of the message of
Malachi 4:5-6, but strictly without alterations in any form.
We would like to
give an authorization for translation of these books into different languages,
however, we would like to be informed of such and would like copies of the same
for approval. We also apologize for any typographical errors in this booklet.
Preached and written by
DREAM OF THE
HOUSE OF HELL
24
“ I had a dream, the other morning. I don't dream very often; I'm not a
dreamer. But I dreamed that I seen a man, a young fellow in shackles, he was
trying to get out, and--and I said... Somebody told me, said, "Those are
horrible people; don't have nothing to do with them." And I seen this
young fellow getting out of his shackles, so I just let him alone. I thought,
"I'll just see what he does." So he got out, and he was a nice
fellow. I seen others trying to get out.
Now, this is only a dream. And I walked
over this a-way and I seen a Brother Roy Borders, a very good friend of
mine, lives in
And someone pulled me away, and I looked, and
it was a lady standing over here. When I was a little boy, I used to haul
groceries from the grocery store to the people. And her name was Mrs. Fenton;
she lives in
I
looked around, and I said, "I wished I could." And go on, looking
around…My little, bitty body and them great, big iron bars, and those poor
people in there, and you couldn't get to them, them iron bars was setting
close together. And I looked, and they were beating their head like they were
out of their mind.
And I seen some lights flickering
around in there. And I looked up, and there stood the Lord Jesus with the
lights of rainbow around Him. He was looking right straight to me, said,
"Deliver those people." And He went away. And I thought,
"Well, how could I deliver them? I haven't got strength enough in my arms
to break those bars.” So I said, "House of hell, give away to the Name
of Jesus Christ.” And all the creaking and popping, and the rocks a-rolling,
and bars a-falling; and people running, screaming, "Delivered!" and
screaming at the top of their voice, and was all delivered. And I was
screaming then, "Brother Roy Borders, where are you? Where are you? God
is delivering His people. Where are you, Brother Borders?" I've
wondered about that.” (Works is Faith Expressed
FACTS OF THE SEVENTH SEAL
ORIGINAL AND MOTEL ROOM MESSAGE
MARCH 24TH P.M. / & 25TH , 1963
˙ Thank you Saviour. Blessed be your Name
O Lord. Thank you for your Spirit this morning. Thank you for our gathering
from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Thank you
for the gathering of both the saved and the unsaved, visiting brethren from
different churches. We give you special thanks for the gathering of message
believers today. Bless, O Lord, those that have come from near and far. Bless
Brother Waldron and his group today, and bless our brethren from around the
country, in this last day of our meetings. We pray that you would look down
upon those that have come from
˙Now Lord we pray that you will bless and undertake this morning;
and we humbly thank you for your Spirit that is already attendant in the
meeting and amongst a happy bunch of people this morning. We are certainly a
happy people because of
˙Trying to save some time this morning. And the scripture says over
here in Revelation 8:1; (somebody may never know the scripture that exist in
the Bible, came from some organization, never heard it.) Always remember,
somebody never heard. And we read this one verse concerning the seventh seal:
8:1.
“And when he had opened the
seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”
(Revelation 8:1)
˙That is all that this seal said - there was silence in heaven for
the space of half an hour. Not a trumpet sound, not an organ play, not a piano
play; so they don’t suppose to play this morning in reading this scripture. But
they could play for the next one. So in Revelation 10 it is recorded:
“And I saw another mighty angel
come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head,
and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
And he had in his hand a little book open: and
he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And cried with a loud voice, as
when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven
thunders uttered their voices.
And when the seven thunders had
uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and
write them not.
And the angel which I saw stand
upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
And sware
by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created
heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that
therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should
be time no longer:
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he
shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath
declared to his servants the prophets.”(Revelation 10:1-7).
˙Lift
your hands to Him. Give him a praise offering. Thank you Saviour. Blessed be
the Name of the Lord. We give you the glory, the thanks and the honour that is due
unto your Name today Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ we pray with
thanksgiving. Amen! You may be seated.
˙And
it’s a grand privilege to be back in the House of the Lord. Yes. And we have a
smiling congregation this morning. Everybody dressed up and happy, and I’m
happy to look upon your faces today in the preaching of this message this
morning. I tell you, if there is anybody that is supposed to be happy, we are
supposed to be happy that believe this message and contend for this message. We
are a blessed people. Yes my friend.
˙Certainly
am grateful to the Lord to have had each one of you brothers and sister from
abroad in the meetings; from the United States and different places, and you
people that attended from the churches: Pentecostals, Baptists, wherever you
came from; people that don’t even know the Lord Jesus Christ; may the Lord
bless you and grant you the desires of your heart. May he cause His face to
shine upon you even this morning, and grant you life. May the Lord bless our
brethren that came, support this message, and believe this message for many
years; and we are grateful for your support in whatever way, for how many days
that you came; we are grateful to the Lord.
˙And a
special thanks to Brother Waldron who preached for us, and who had his
congregation come from night to night, in part, and I believe all are here this
morning, and we are grateful. So we want to thank you Brother Waldron for
coming and supporting these meetings.
˙And
it has fallen my lot this morning to speak on the subject of the Seventh Seal.
And I will approach this subject in a manner, very simple, very understanding.
We are gathered here this morning in peace, and this morning is not going to be
a war zone. We maintain peace, we maintain unity, we maintain love. We invite
all our brethren to come here to worship the Lord, and help to win somebody to
the message, and to fellowship; and we would keep that atmosphere.
˙So
this here is a very controversial subject, and the Lord has given me the
understanding how to handle it this morning in a mixed audience. And I think
that I will want to use this same method, if He will be willing, if I will
speak to one million followers of the message, I will want to approach it the
way that I approach it this morning.
˙So our
subject is on the Seventh Seal this morning, and for somebody who may not have
been here, I’ll spend two minutes with them. So if you don’t want to hear that
you could block off your ears. No problem. But my beloved that came for the
first or the second time; Christians looked for the second coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ for almost two thousand years, and it was promised in the
scriptures that He would send a prophet called Elijah the prophet-that is found
in Malachi 4. And then, just before the second coming of Jesus Christ, like He
sent John the Baptist the first time, He would send a second prophet, anointed
by the Spirit of Elijah. That same prophet fulfilled the scriptures of
Revelation 10:7: “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when
he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath
declared to his servants the prophets.” That angel was not a flying
angel, but that angel was a messenger, which is a man. And he came, and the
promise in the scripture is that he was going to reveal all that was written in
the Book, which were already declared in dark sentences and parables, and great
mysteries in the scriptures, that were recorded in the Book. The Scripture said
that he was going to reveal all the mysteries as it was declared unto us by the
prophets.
˙So
the revelation came to the prophets, and some they never understood, and they
wrote their revelations in mysteries and parables. Like Moses wrote about a
woman eating the fruit in the garden, and Daniel saw some mysteries, and he
said, “I saw but I understood not,” but they wrote them down. And then John saw
many mysteries; he was a prophet indeed and an apostle, and he did not
understand all of it, but it was declared by the prophets. So Revelation 10:7
was to come in the end-time and reveal the mysteries that were declared by the
prophets, and the mysteries that were declared by the prophets were in the
book, written. Therefore brothers and sisters, this prophet was to arrive here
before the second coming of Jesus Christ; and don’t matter what kind of a
Christian you are, you must heed the voice of this prophet bringing the
revelation of these mysteries, and catch a revelation of Christ in the end-time
before you go in the rapture.
˙So we
are saying that in the Book of Revelation, chapter five, the mysteries that
lock the whole book together were under seven seals, and that is what these
meetings are about, and we preached for the past seven days, and this here is a
rehearsal, not the opening of the seals, but the rehearsal. But in 1963 the
Lamb of God, your Jesus, my Jesus that we worship, He opened the seven-sealed
book according to Revelation 5 and 6, and chapter 10. So He opened that book
and revealed the seals thereof, and handed it down to His humble prophet called
William Branham. That happened in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in the month of
March 1963, and he broadcasted those seals, and we have those seals, that were
revealed, in a book, and we heard that revelation through tapes and through
books, and we continue to declare that revelation that came from the seals,
along with eleven hundred and some tapes, yes, all the messages of God, sent to
us today.
˙So we
are those people that are identified with the Lamb, and are identified with the
open Book. That is why we have an open Book memorial and thanksgiving. So we
are not ashamed of that; we are identified with the prophet that God sent,
called William Branham; and we don’t worship this man, he is not our Saviour
and Lord, but he is the prophet of the Lord; he is Jesus’ prophet that Jesus
sent to us, and we believe his message. So we are not ashamed; we believe
Brother Branham to be the last and seventh church age messenger to the world.
We believe his message from cover to cover.
˙And
we are at our last seal today, because we preached six of them throughout the
week, and we are at our last seal today, Sunday morning. So it has fallen my
lot to speak on this seventh seal this morning, and we have a little problem
here, and that is, “all message believers agree that six seals are revealed
by the Lamb, Christ, since 1963. There is no discrepancy and there is no
problem with the first six seals. Everybody is in unity that six seals are
completely broken. What I am saying is there are no divisions on that,
except one or two fanatics around the world, who said that that was not the
ministry of Brother Branham, and therefore he was not Revelation 10:7, he was
not Malachi 4, but that they are that one. But generally, far as six seals
goes, everybody believes that six seals were completed, but concerning the
seventh seal, amongst the followers of the message of the hour, Brother
Branham, there are two schools of thoughts; and the two schools of thoughts
concerning the seventh seal, and the opening of the seventh seal, is that one
school of thought said that it was revealed by Brother Branham in 1963, and
they preach a certain revelation that they think was revealed from the seventh
seal. The first school of thought says that it is not opened. So here we have
discrepancy, here we have division on this seventh seal.
˙One
school of thought believes that the seventh seal was not opened in 1963. The
second school of thought believes it was revealed in 1963 by the Lamb, and by
Brother Branham. Now you could see and understand that we have two schools of
thoughts, mainly two schools of thoughts, and one says it is open, and another
says it is not opened.
˙Now
this first school of thought that said it is not opened, and it was not opened
in 1963 by Brother Branham, that school was inaugurated in 1963. That school
opened up in 1963. The second school of thought that says it is open was
inaugurated ten years later in 1973, which proclaimed that it is revealed; and
although that second school of thought was opened up in 1973, some enrolled in
that school later than 1973, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1990, and the school
is still open for enrolment. So now I will say that both schools are open for
enrolment.
˙Now
present amongst us are witnesses of this fact that I just proclaimed concerning
both schools. Amongst us are ministers and believers old enough to know what I
am saying, and had long standing in the message to understand that there was
one time, around the world, and around this country, everybody belonged to the
first school. Now I am subject to correction, and I pick up this as a challenge
to my testimony and my confession, upon the basis of the witness of ministers
and believers present here today, that there was one time in the world that all
message believers believed that the seventh seal was not opened by Brother
Branham in 1963. There were no divisions concerning that. There was no fussing
concerning that. There was no ministers’ meeting called where ministers fussed
about whether it was opened or whether it was closed. There were no debates.
˙I am
the one that started the ministers meetings in this country, and it started on
account of a doctrine called the latter rain, where people could not decide
whether the Latter Rain fell or not. We played half of a tape, and an argument
started, and up to now they did not come to a conclusion. And ministers
meetings continued right along, and the more that ministers gathered together
is the more divided they became; and in all those meetings nobody ever brought
up the question or disagreement that the seventh seal was opened or not opened.
None!
˙We
have ministers here as witnesses. We have the oldest man here in the message,
the first one that ever accepted Brother Branham’s message, called Daniel Seebrat, who came to this message in 1964. I cite him as a
witness. Brother Jackson has long standing in this message. Do you know that to
be true Brother Jackson? I don’t know if Brother Waldron remembers? Right. We
once all believed that the seventh seal was not opened by Brother Branham. We
had peace right along, and it never did come up as a question.
˙The
next school of thought that opened up, opened up in 1973 to 1974 all the way. I
bear witness of this truth, and humbly challenge the world upon the testimony
that I give here, that the first school of thought that said that the seventh
seal is not opened, existed from 1963, and it continued until 1973 around the
world. All the preachers that ever came to this country from the
˙We as
ministers in this country, we mused in our hearts and wondered that when that
seal comes open, what is it going to be. And when we start figuring out a few
little things, we used to become very scared, and say that we are afraid that
we go into a delusion, and some kind of a spirit get upon us. And my companions
that I used to muse with; some of them I lead to the Lord; and there were many
other ministers around the country that I used to associate with; preached on
their pulpits and established their work, and set them up in their
congregations; and we never had a dispute on seventh seal nor seven thunders.
We respected that; we revered that. We had one vision, and the vision was
that it will be revealed one of these days; up to 1973 and 1974. That is ten
years of silence concerning the seventh seal and the seven thunders.
˙I
must mention here that there was one man that arose in about 1966, right down
to 1968-1969, and he came a little close to the revealing of the
thunders. His name was Lawrie; a man from India, who
had a great healing campaign, and he had books that were sent out that I used
to receive, and on his books he had a photograph of Brother Branham hugging
him, and he hugging Brother Branham, and he put over the heading there, “When
the east and west met together.” Now that man claimed to have been the coming
of the Lord, but yet did not specify seventh seal nor seven thunders, that I
could remember. He just claimed to be the Lord Jesus Christ incarnated in human
flesh, which is antichrist.
˙He set
a date for the rapture in 1972, in January. He took a bunch of people to
India…oh it would take too long brothers and sisters…but clouds of smoke
appeared over the houses of people that accepted his revelation, and thousands
of people left America and went down to India; and there was a halo around the
man’s person, right through, and he had a photograph, and a pillar of light was
accompanying him, not like the one Brother Branham had; just a halo over his
body. And I used to receive his books in that time. And that man, although so
great, he never claimed to have the seventh seal. I’m trying to show you ten
years of silence.
˙That
man, he came to this country in the mid sixties, preached and testified; I’m
talking about Lawrie. He later claimed that there
were three hundred people in a tent, and then he said that he had the third
pull. By the click of his fingers, three hundred people got up and they were
healed, including a crippled cat; and then he came against Brother Branham’s
ministry. He said Brother Branham’s ministry was a baby ministry because
Brother Branham had to see things before he do it, but he don’t have to see
anything. Brothers and sisters, when I got his book and I opened it up with all
those pictures, and I see him come against Brother Branham, I said, “This man
is a false prophet, have nothing to do with him.” Any man that will come up
against the message of the hour is a false anointed one! And any man that will
belittle Brother Branham, he is Antichrist! He never impressed me a moment.
˙And
in January 1972, there was another man that passed by; his name was Robert
Lambert. He preached to us in Diego Martin, and I saw him come up to the
pulpit; he said, “Thus saith the Lord, Lawrie is a false prophet. There would be no rapture take
place in January twenty sixth, only I worry how those people are going to go
home when his prophecy fails.” Reports are that Lawrie
went mad and he was committed to an insane asylum, and the people scattered.
Any movement that is not of God, brothers and sisters, will come to naught.
This is the glorification of our Lord Jesus Christ, not the glorification of a
man.
˙I
want you to fully understand, regardless of all the rumours that you heard of
the man called Robert Lambert, I fully declare that he was my pastor, and I
know what I know, and I believe him to be a true servant of Jesus Christ. That
might be a little contrary to the rumours that were spread, but that is what
this church stands for. We stand for him as a servant of God, and I believe he
died as a martyr in defence of this message. I am not here to preach Lambert
today; I am on a greater cause.
˙So I
am just here to tell you of the schools of thought, and I used those things to
show you that everybody once believed that the seventh seal was not revealed,
and the seven thunders was not revealed; and may I mention here that where
we got our facts for ten years, to support that belief and doctrine, was right
in brother Branham’s message. Can I repeat that? There were ten years of
silence where nobody, no minister, no believer internationally, nobody claimed
that it was revealed; and where we got our facts from; we got our facts to
support that understanding and doctrine right in the pages of Brother Branham’s
message, and more so the seventh seal.
˙In
1973, it is left to be understood, and I have asked men around the world, “What
broke the silence? After ten years, what broke the silence? Who broke the
silence? And by what authority they broke the silence?” I am still waiting for
the answers. We are not on a warpath this morning-I am presenting facts. I
am, brothers and sisters, going to present these facts to you, and you would
draw the water out of it, and every man is going to eat according to his
eating; he is going to gather according to his eating.
˙Now
both schools of thought, and when I say schools of thought, I believe it’s very
simple; one says it is not revealed and the other say it is revealed. For ten
years every body in the message said that it is not revealed. I am waiting for
the answer, “who broke the silence, and by what authority was the silence
broken?”
˙This
day, my brothers and sisters I am to speak to a people that belong to both
schools. In our midst today there are people that belong to both schools. I
appreciate each one of you. I am to speak to people who belong to both schools
of thought. I must maintain the atmosphere of peace, and atmosphere of love and
unity which prevailed for the past seven days, and at the end of this, we must
have a feast and we must eat in peace. So now this is
not a war-like message; there are places for that and there is a time for that.
˙Now
this same subject, I have preached it before, on the warpath, and later on I
may preach this same subject on the warpath, but that is not the kind of
meeting this morning. We are not approaching the subject this morning in that
way. I would not use one of my styles of an argumentative approach. Now, I
would approach this morning in a way of examining these two schools of
thoughts, and let every person draw from the fountain. So I feel led of the
Lord this morning to examine both schools of thoughts.
˙Now
the only way that we could examine both schools of thoughts is not by me, nor
if I bring Brother Waldron here, or if I take up some smart
fellow from the congregation. My brothers and sisters, although we belong to
two schools of thoughts here this morning, we recognise one authority on the
scripture: first of all the Lamb, and second the man who was used by the
Lamb, called Brother Branham. So Brother Branham was used by the Lamb,
and we recognise that authority. It does not matter what a man preaches in this
message, he looks to William Branham as the authority. And if we have five of
us fighting here on something, all five of us will quote that authority; we
will quote that authority. Now you have three children fighting in the house,
and they cannot agree on a particular principle; every one of them is going to
say, “I am going to tell Daddy.” Now they recognise an authority in the house;
the day will come when daddy’s word is going to settle the dispute. Now when
daddy’s word settles the dispute, then everybody must be contented and quiet.
˙So we
recognize William Branham, God’s servant and prophet, fulfilling the scriptures
of Malachi 4, and mightily used in receiving the opening of the seals from the
Lamb, as the recognized, God sent authority; therefore, my brothers and
sisters, we are going to go straight to the authority of God, ordained of God,
and I challenge you to believe him. If one school is right, stay in it, and
if the next school is right according to the words of William Branham, then
belong to it. Can we have peace? Can we have love under those conditions?
Can we have unity under those conditions? Can we eat our food in peace? Can we
still be one after the meeting? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Amen. Only, my
brothers and sisters, that we must approach this subject in prayerfulness.
We must approach it in sincerity. We must approach it in honesty, humility, and
through adherence to the words of Elijah the prophet. This is absolutely
necessary. Therefore I would not inject my thoughts and my ideas into the
seventh seal this morning, I am going to project the thoughts of William
Branham whom we all recognise.
˙While
I do so, there is no need to say, “Amen,” if you disagree with the things that
I will quote, and it does not fit your school. I am not an “Amen”
preacher. I learned through many years to preach without an “Amen,” amongst
many Baptist people, in the square. I am like the Baptist man; and the Baptist
man stands up there and preach for three hours and nobody listens. He is not
built up on an “Amen.” That’s a bad training for me; and I train my ministers,
“do not depend upon “Amens”, and don’t beg the
congregation for “Amen,” because you’re going to end up somewhere where you get
no “Amen.” I preached in certain hard situations, and I say, “None of you here
are saying ‘Amen,’ you Baptists, Pentecostals and Methodists, but I hear the
angels of God say, ‘Amen’.” The lord came and subdued and I baptised a good
bunch of them. Oh yes!
˙So we
approach. There is no need to say, “Amen,” if you disagree. I would not be
rebuking. I would not make you uncomfortable this morning. No. It’s not a war
zone this morning. Now the same preacher you see dealing in peace this morning,
there are other grounds, and when I have to be militant, and come against a
heresy or false doctrine, then I have not shunned to declare the Gospel of
Christ, and the whole council of God.
˙So my
approach this morning, to maintain the peace and stability in the congregation,
understanding, love, and to have a nice supper, is that I have grouped
together, with the help of a wonderful brother of mine, who is more to me
than a secretary, all the facts that pertain to the seventh seal, which
you as the congregation probably never heard in a nutshell.
˙I
have grouped all facts together from the message of Malachi 4,
basically from 1962 to 1965, when the subject of the seventh seal was
first mentioned by William Branham, and I am going to start from scratch. I
will expect you that belong to both schools, to draw from it, because it will
be the inspired words of the prophet. Probably you never looked into it.
Probably you just took it for granted. So I will be doing a lot of reading. I
asked you to bring out your books this morning, and we have a little problem,
and that is, this is an old seal book that I got in the mid-sixties (I still
have it). Since that time they printed another book which reduced the pages by
almost about fifty three (53). I will quote, however, from my book, and if you
have a new version, I will also quote the page on your new version. Would that
be all right? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] So you could follow.
˙Now
in this speaking here, I will be quoting Brother Branham, and the pages which
do not pertain to the seals, I will abbreviate, just to be honest with you, and
let you know that page so and so, and page so and so, only spoke of two
visions. But then I will be quoting right down the line to prove my points.
˙Now
when we hit the seventh seal from the seven seals book, I numbered it for
convenience. The title of my message is “Facts of the seventh seal,” and I am
going to draw from the seventh seal, only the seventh seal I numbered, and the
messages that followed; and I numbered facts number one, two, three, and
onwards, of the things that Brother Branham was saying; and if you think, as
the congregation, that I misused a fact that Brother Branham brought or
established, or I misread it, if you want to speak to me, all that you will
have to say is, “Brother Bruce, fact number ten, I think that you are off on
that, and you did not quote it right,” and then we could have a friendly
discussion. I do not argue. And if you think that you disagree with the way
that I emphasize it or preach it or establish it, and you think that that is
not what Brother Branham is saying on fact number 10, fact number 15, fact
number 25, then I would want you to jot that down, and say, “Okay, Brother
Bruce went off on Fact number 10.”
˙So,
we have some university graduates here, and I do not understand English like
them, neither can I read English like them; and I am going to ask them to watch
me carefully (Brother Koo; and we have a lawyer in
here; Brother Mitchell), and with your understanding from the university, if I
misread English, then you could correct me on English, that I did not
understand English properly. So I give you that duty this morning.
˙So
the quotes that I grouped together is taken from “Sirs is this the time?” (when
this was first spoken of seventh seal to be opened), “Seals Book – Questions
and Answers,” and “The seventh seal” where Brother Branham dealt with this as a
subject. Also I pulled out there, various quotations from 1963 to 1965,
pertaining to the seals. (I have only numbered the seventh seal facts 1 to 40).
˙Okay! So here I am. It will take a long time, sometimes,
for you to find your page when I get to the seals in a minute, but I will start
from the beginning. It’s a picture that I want to paint. Bear in mind that
nobody preached seventh seal, nobody preached seven thunders, and there was ten
silent years up to 1973. The silence broke, and I am trying to find out who
broke the silence, and what broke the silence, and I cannot find the answer.
Maybe I might find that answer this morning as we study the inspired words of
William Branham.
˙In 1962 prior to the opening of the seals, on the message
“Sirs is this the time”, Brother Branham having a vision of a great
blast of thunder, being uncertain of its interpretation and fulfillment,
preached that message under questionable circumstances as borne out in the
title, because he was not certain about what was going to take place. However
on the following quotations he emphasized that the mysteries that were to be
revealed by the seventh angel were contained in the seals. He laid much
emphasis that the seventh angel would reveal all the mysteries that were
written in the Bible, after which there would be only one thing left that
was not revealed, which would be the seven unwritten seals or seven thunders.
He called it “the seven unwritten seals,” which term he never used at the
preaching of seals, nor after that, until his departure in 1965.
SIRS IS THIS THE
TIME? 30/12/62
Brother William Branham
WHEN WRITTEN
MYSTERY REVEALED, THE UNWRITTEN
LEFT TO BE
REVEALED
Page 37-3 102
Notice, Revelations 5:1. Listen at this now. And I saw in the right hand
of him that set upon the throne a book written within... (The writing was inside.)...
and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. Now, there's writing on the
inside of the Book, but the backside had seven seals on the back of it
that wasn't written in the Book. Now, this is the revelator talking: John. Now,
remember, it wasn't written in the Book. "And in the days of the voice of
the seventh angel all this mystery that's written within should be
finished." It should be taken care of in that day. Now, do you see
what I mean? Are you following me? Then is the time for the seven voices of
Revelations 10 to be revealed. When the Book is finished, there's only one
thing left, and that is the seven mysterious voices of thunder that was wrote
on the backside of the Book that John was forbidden to write... Seal up
those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. It's on
the backside. When a book is complete... Now, He didn't say on the front side;
He said on the backside. After it's all done completed, then these seven
thunder voices is the only thing that is stuck to the Book, that's not
revealed. It's not even written in the Book.
MYSTERY FINISHED, COMPLETED, THEN
SEVEN VOICES
REVELATION 10 REVEALED
Page39-3 106 Now,
when he begins to sound, the mystery will be finished. Now, note. Then it's
time for the seven sealed voices of Revelations 10 to be revealed. Do you
understand? When all the mysteries of the Book is completed, and the Bible
said here that he would finish the mysteries....
BOOK IS COMPLETED, THEN TIME FOR
SEVEN VOICES, REVELATION 10
Page 43-2 115 Now,
look, when it is time for the seven voices, then it's time for the seven Voices
when the Book is completed of Revelations 10 to be revealed.
REVELATION 10:1
HEVEANLY ANGEL, COVENANT,
NEXT ANNOUNCEMENT
Page45-7 123
Now, listen. This Angel come down from heaven. See, the other seven
angels of the seven churches was earthly messengers, but this Angel... All
the message is finished. The seventh angel winds up the whole thing. And this
Angel comes, not to the earth; He isn't a man from the earth as the messengers
to the church ages; that's finished. But this Angel brings the next
announcement. And a angel means a messenger. And He comes down from heaven
clothed in that Pillar of Light, cloud, with a rainbow over His head. And a
rainbow is a covenant. It was Christ, with one foot on land and one on the sea,
and swore that time will be no more.
˙Brother Branham went to the
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ON
THE SEVEN SEALS
Brother William Branham
SEVENTH SEAL NOT IN SCRIPTURES, COMES
DIRECTLY FROM HEAVEN
457 (4) …And we're now coming up to the last Seal
tonight, the Lord willing. And it's a very mysterious Seal, because it's not
even mentioned in the Scriptures nowhere, no symbols, anything to hold on to.
It's got to come right direct from heaven. See? (New Ed. Page 409 (4))
HOLY SPIRIT BREAKS SEAL
458 (3) Now,
their hearts are all set. What is these Seals? Their
attention. What is it? Night by night
when I come in here there's such a tension,
till I have to talk about something else
to kinda get it quietened
(You see?), and then the Holy Spirit breaks forth the Seal…( New Ed. Page
410 (8)).
CONGREGATION
DON’T GET IT, NOT SUPPOSED TO GET IT, DON’T TRY TO INTERPRET, YOU GET FURTHER
AWAY
458 (4) And
then also knowing that right among you, things are happening (See?) I know that you don't see it. See? I'm just
positive that you don't see it. See? And you say, "Brother Branham, that's
a hard thing for you to say that." I know it is. But look; let me just say
this now. I suppose this is just tapes for ourselves and so forth. But let me
say this (See?), that you don't get it (See?), and you're not supposed to get
it. So don't try to interpret anything. See? Don't try to put
your interpretation to it. You only get further away.
458 (5) Just
take my advice, if you believe me now. If God has give me favor in your sight
and you know that them revelations and things... I've been here with you a long
time, and it's always been right. And now, to double prove it right, it hooks
right in with the Word. See? So you know it's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's
exactly. See? It's proved to you.(New Ed. Page 410(10-11 )).
DON’T INTERPRET,
WIND YOURSELF FROM REAL THING:
I KNOW MYSTERIOUS
HAPPENING
458 (6) Now,
take my advice as your brother: Don't put your own interpretation to anything.
You just go on and live a good Christian life, 'cause you'll only wind yourself
away from the real thing when you do it. See? You'll only wind your way again
away from the thing. And all of you are conscious and know that there's
something mysterious happening, and it is happening, and I know what it is now.
(/New Ed. Page 410 (12-13)).
TREMENDOUS,
MYSTERIOUS HAPPENING GONE,
NOT A WAY FOR YOU
TO SEE IT
459 (1) I'm not saying
that. It's the grace of God that lets me know what it is. It's something
that's tremendous, and it's gone right now, and there's not a way in the world
for you to see it, But so help me, with this Bible in my hand, I know what
it is.
459 (2) It's been
told to you before, so just don't try to put any interpretation but just
believe me as your brother (See?); we're living in a great hour. (New Ed.
Page 410 (13)).
MESS THE REAL PROGRAM OF
GOD UP
459 (3)…you just be real humble,
be a Christian, and try to live for God, and live honest with your fellowman,
and love those who don't love you. Don't try to make any ... You see, you do, you
only make it a mysterious something and mess the real program of God up.
See? (New Ed. Page 411 (14)).
TWO THINGS;
SOMETHING HAPPENED – NEVER LEAVE WITH YOU
459 (4)
Yesterday afternoon something happened in my room that I'll never be able to
leave it. You see? And about two weeks ago something happened that'll never be
able to, as long as I live on this earth, I'll never be able to get away from
it. See? …( New Ed. Page 411 (15)).
CHURCH DON’T
SUPPOSE TO KNOW IT, DON’T INTERPRET,
OR OFF THE BEATEN
TRACK
459 (5) And
so, but if the church here not supposed to know these things … so don't put no
interpretation to anything. See? You just go ahead and just remember what
you're told; live a Christian life. Go to your church, be a real light wherever
you are, and just burn for Christ, and tell the people that how you love Him.
And just let your testimony be with love all the time with the people (See?), 'cause
if you don't you twist yourself out into something there, and then you're off
the beaten track. (New Ed. Page 411 (16)).
DON’T TRY TO
INTERPRET SEVENTH SEAL,
GO ON WITH SAME
PLAIN MESSAGE
459 (6) See,
every-time you try to do it, you've done that. See? So just don't try to
make no interpretation. And especially tonight, when that Seal becomes up in
front of you. See? Just don't try to interpret it. You just go ahead and just
be humble and go right on with the same plain message. Now you say,
"Brother Branham, …we, being the Church of the Living God, shouldn't
we...?" (New Ed. Page 411 (16-18)).
WHAT IS THE PLAIN
MESSAGE?
˙In
relation to the opening of the seventh seal and seven thunders, the plain
message is to preach the message of Malachi 4:5-6, less the seventh seal and
seven thunders.
˙All of the message world faithfully followed the
instructions of the prophet and proclaimed a thunderless
message for about ten years. I am asking, since 1973, who broke those ten years
of silence? By what authority who broke it? And what is the half hour silence?
˙Message believers lived more holiness, preachers preached and
established more holiness and plain message doctrines in the ten years of
silence on the seventh seal than they did after that time. Plain message
doctrines are: baptism according to Acts 2:38, one God, no woman preachers, no
television, no sports, no organizations, the Catholic church and her daughters
are identified in Revelation Chapter 17, serpent seed, predestination, Malachi
4: 5-6, seven church ages, and six seals were revealed.
˙Plain message standards are: no worldly styles of clothing,
hair, shoes, etc. Women without tight clothes, sacks, pants, mermaid dresses,
transparent, under clothes visible or imprinted, high heel shoes, fine material
hugging their bodies, no jewels, except wedding rings, or chains as a gift.
Preachers, deacons and any tender in the House of God are disqualified if they
cannot rule their homes, and their wives and children are not in the faith.
˙All such doctrines and standards, message believers
practiced with a thunderless gospel message. After
1973 the holiness message was destroyed, and the standards lowered, when they
should have even higher moral standards than in previous years.
LISTEN TO WHAT I TELL
YOU
459
(7)…"Why can't I? I ought to have..."
460 (1) No. You remember, I'm saying this for
your good. See, I'm saying it so that you'll understand. If you believe me now,
listen to what I tell you. See? (New Ed. Pages 411 (18-19))
“LORD SAY”, BE
CAREFUL
460 (4) Now,
just remember, just stay the way you are. And you say,
"Well,
the Lord..." No, now just be careful. (New Ed. Page 411 (21)
to 412 (22)).
DON’T INTERPRET NOTHING,
HE WILL SEND IT TO YOU
460 (5) Now,
look here. Let me show you something. See? Did you know there's ten thousands
of voices in this room right now, literally voices of people that's coming
through the electronic waves of radio? Why don't you hear them? They're voices.
Is that right? They're waving right through here now. There's people, forms,
and bodies moving right through this room now. Is that right? Well, why don't
you see them? They're here, actual voices, like my voice. Well, why don't you
hear it?
460 (6) See,
it's got to strike something first to reveal it. See? Now, do you understand?
So just don't interpret nothing. If God wants you to know anything, He will
send it to you (See?); so just be real, real solid now. Hold still. Something
has happened. And now just be real... You understand what I mean,
don't you? (New Ed. Page 412 (23-24))).
DON’T MAKE YOURSELF ODD,
THIS IS THAT THIRD PULL
460 (7) Don't
try to make yourself odd to be a Christian, because (You see?), you take
yourself away from God. If you can understand it, this is that third pull.
You should've caught that the other day. See. So then just…(New Ed.
Page 412 (24-25) ).
THERE WILL BE NO
IMPERSONATION OF THIRD PULL.
THIS IS FAR AS
YOU SHOULD KNOW
460 (8)
Remember, there'll be no impersonation like there was of the other two. See? So
that's as far as you should know. Now just remember that you see now
there's something taking place in this room, and there's something here...
There's actual in this room, Angels, voice of God (See?), but ... If you can't
hear the natural voice without something to send it out, how are you going to
hear the spiritual voice? (New Ed. Page 412 (25-26)).
MAKE BELIEVE SONG
SINGING,
TRUE INTERPRETATION AND VINDICATION
461 (1) Now you might
make believe that somebody is singing this certain song that might not even be
there. See? But when it actually strikes the crystal that it's supposed to
strike, then it gives a true interpretation and vindicates it by showing the
picture. See what I mean? (New Ed. Page 412 (27)).
THE SEVENTH SEAL IS NOT KNOWN –
LIKE COMING OF CHRIST
465 (2)…And we took what Jesus
said here. They asked three questions (See?): "When will these things be?
What'll be the sign of Your coming? And what's the end of the world?" And
He come right down, and we pulled them, everyone, under that but one. What
was that? The Seventh Seal. Why? See, it's not known. (New Ed. Page 416
(56)).
SEVENTH SEAL DOESN’T REVEAL ANY
THING, WHAT HAPPENS TO IT.
CHURCH AGES – PROPHETIC GIFT
REVEALS THAT
466 (6) Now, we find
out the corruption that hits in the seventh church age... But
the Seventh Seal doesn't reveal anything, what's going to happen to it (See?), because at the end of that church age is to come a
prophetic gift to reveal
these things. See? Are you following it? All right. (New
Ed. Page 417 (67)).
˙Brother
Branham is establishing that the congregation cannot get the revelation of the
seventh seal by themselves. It has a program. You ask, “If Brother Branham did
not reveal the seventh seal, who will? What is that program? Where do we stand
if you say he did not get it?” That is not what I am here for, to put my
interpretations! I am only saying what he said. If it belongs to your school,
take it. You may be right.
˙I am about to read to you the seventh seal, just the way
that the prophet spoke it. Where he stopped on certain pages and do not
directly speak on the subject, I will paraphrase each item to make any
connection to the seal. I will also itemize by numbering each fact. Thus these
two university graduates who mastered the English language, and were asked
earlier to observe if I am misunderstanding the words of the prophet, can bring
the same to my attention, and also to the congregation. The same holds well for
my critics, or misinterpreters of the seventh seal,
that makes it say different to what the prophet stated by revelation.
˙I hereby request that you quote me the fact number, and
prove that I have misquoted the major prophet, or misrepresented his words to
make it say what he is not saying.
˙I have not engaged these two university graduates to
confirm if Brother Branham’s revelation of the seventh seal is right, but
simply to verify if I am staying in line with the English language as spoken by
the prophet, and inspired ministers and one thousand (1000) message believers,
members of both schools of thoughts present, and those who will hear this by
audio and video tape, that they may discern the truth that Brother Branham
spoke about the seventh seal: was it opened from 1963 to 1965, or not opened?
˙On the evening of
THE ORIGINAL SEVENTH SEAL
Brother William
Branham
JESUS OMITTED
SEVENTH SEAL ON THE MOUNT
532
(5) Now, we find out that…The Lord let us take the Scripture, the Holy
Scripture, what Jesus said would take place…(His sermon there) answering
that, brings out exactly to the point, six of the Seals, but He omitted
the Seventh. See? (New Ed. Page 479 (51-52)).
OMITTED REVEALING EVEN
ANY SYMBOL
532 (6) Then when the
Seals were open, God, He omitted revealing even any symbol of the Seventh one.
See? It's a perfect secret with God… (New Ed. Page
479 (53)).
SEVENTH SEAL SPOKE OF IN GENESIS
536 (4)…And if I
only had time (I'll try a few places) to show you all the way back from
Genesis…this Seventh Seal is spoke of. From the very beginning in Genesis, this
seventh…these Seals moved right up. (New Ed. Page 483 (77-79).
FACT NO.1
SEALED UP OF THE
PLAN OF REDEMPTION
555 (7) Now,
we'll turn now to the…1st verse…of the 8th chapter- Revelations 8:1…We must
remember that this Seventh Seal is the end of time of all things. That's
right. The things written in the Seven Seal Book (sealed up of the plan of
redemption from before the foundation of the world), it every bit ends. It
is the end; it is the end of the struggling world. It's the end of struggling
nature. It's the end of everything. In there is the end of the trumpets. It's
the end of the vials. It's the end of the earth. It's the...It's even the end
of time. Time runs out; the Bible said so. (New Ed. Page 501 (229-232)).
SEVENTH SEAL – END OF
ALL THINGS
556
(1)…Revelation the 10th chapter and the 1 to the 7th verse. Time runs out. The
angel said, "Time will be no more," when that--in the days of this
great thing to happen. Everything runs out in this time, at the end of this
Seventh Seal.
556 (2) Notice,
it's the end of the church age. It's the end of the Seven Seals. It's the end
of the trumpets. It's the end of the vials, and even ends the ushering in of
the millennium; that's on the Seventh Seal.
556 (3) It's just
like firing a rocket into the air, and that rocket explodes here, and it goes
up, then it explodes again. It puts out five stars. One of those stars explodes
and blows out five stars from it; and then one of them stars explodes, blows
out five stars from it (See?); it fades on out. That's what the Seventh Seal;
it just ends the time for the world. It ends the time for this. It means the
time for that. It ends the time for this. It ends the time... Everything
just ended up on that Seventh Seal.
556 (4) Now,
how is He going to do it? That's what we don't know, isn't it? We don't
know. It's even the time for all these things, and the ushering in of the
millennium. Notice, the breaking of this Seal was so great that heaven was
hushed by it in silence for the space of a half hour. Now, is it great? What is
it? It was hushed: heaven. There wasn't a thing moved for a half hour. (New
Ed. Pages 501 (232) to 502 (238)).
JESUS NEVER MENTIONED
IT-HIS COMING
556 (5) Now, a
half hour might not be long if you're having a good time, but in the suspense
of between death and life, it seemed like a millennium. It was so great,
Jesus never mentioned it: none of the rest of them. John couldn't even write of
it. No, he was forbidden to write here. See,…He didn't write, but just silence.
(New Ed. Page 502 (239-240)).
FACT NO.2
SEVENTH SEAL,
NONE OF US KNOWS, TELL YOU MY REVELATION
557 (2)…Why?
What is it?
557 (3) Now, none
of us know; but I'm going to tell you my revelation of it. And now, I am
not prone to be a fanatic. If I am, I'm ignorant of it. See? I'm not given away
to such as "leerious" or carry-ons and imaginary things. I've said some things might have
been kind of strange to some people, but when God comes around behind it and
vindicates it and says it's the Truth, then that's God's Word. It may seem
strange that way. (New Ed. Page 502
(245) to 503 (247)).
FACT
NO.3
I HAD
THE REVELATION THAT REVEALED—
IT’S
IN A THREEFOLD MANNER
MYSTERY
LAYING BEHIND SEVEN THUNDERS
557 (4) And now,
as certain as I stand in the platform tonight, I had the revelation that
revealed—it's in a threefold manner. That, I will speak to you by God's help of
a fold of it. And then you... Let's go over there first. Here's the
revelation to begin what... I want to tell you what it is. What happens
is that those seven thunders that he heard thunder and was forbidden to write,
that's what the mystery is laying behind those seven consecutive thunders
rolling out. (New Ed. Page 503 (248)).
˙He never
said, “I had the revelation that revealed it,” but “it’s in a
threefold manner.” It was revealed to him that the seventh seal is in a
threefold manner. People misinterpret that statement.
557 (5) Now,
why? Let us prove it. Why? It is the secret that no one knows about. John was
forbidding to write about it, even write a symbol about it. Why? This is why
there was no activity in heaven; it might give away the secret. Do you see it
now? If it's so great it must be included, because it's got to happen, but when
the seven thunders…(New Ed. Page 503 (249-250)).
FACT
NO.5
JESUS
NEVER SPOKE OF IT, JOHN COULDN’T WRITE IT,
ANGELS KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT IT, TOTAL SECRET
558 (1)…but here
is seven straight thunders right in a row: one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, that perfect number. Seven thunders in a row, uttered not, making just
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, straight. Then heavens couldn't write
that. Heavens can't know about it, nothing else, because there's nothing to go
on. It's a relaxing time. It was so great till it's kept secret from the
Angels. Now, why? If Satan should get a hold of it, he might do great damage.
There's one thing he don't know. Now, he can interpret anything he wants to,
and impersonate any kind of a gift (I hope you're learning.), but he can't know
this. It's not even written in the Word. It's a total secret. The Angels,
everything shut up. If they made one move it might give something away, so they
just shut up, quit harping; everything stopped.
558 (2)
Seven--God's perfect number, Seven [Brother Branham knocks seven times on
pulpit--Ed.] just right down the row. Seven thunders uttered straight together
like they're spelling out something. Notice, at that time, John started to
write, and He said, "Don't write it." Jesus never spoke of it.
John couldn't write it. Angels know nothing about it. (New Ed. Page 503
(252) to 504 (256)).
WHAT
IS IT? HE DID NOT KNOW IT HIMSELF
558 (3) What is
it? It's the thing that Jesus said even the Angels of heaven didn't know
nothing about it. See, see? He didn't know it Himself, said only God would know
it, but He told us when we begin to see these signs coming up... (Now,
you getting somewhere? All right.) Notice, we begin to see these signs
coming up. See?… (New Ed. Page 504 (256-257)).
˙(From Revelation 8:1 silence, God revealed two more silence
in scriptures to the prophet: the unwritten seven thunders, and Christ second
coming. Thus the seventh seal holds the coming of the Lord. The first fold told
to the church.)
FACT NO.6
SATAN CAN’T
IMPERSONATE IT, HE DON’T KNOW IT,
IT’S THE THIRD
PULL
558 (6)
Remember, Satan will try to impersonate. He will try to impersonate everything
that the Church will do. He's tried to do it. We've noticed it through the
antichrist; but this is one thing he cannot impersonate. There'll be no
mimics to this (See?), 'cause he don't know it. There's no way for him to know
it. It's the third pull. He just knows nothing about it. See? He doesn't
understand it…(New Ed. Page 504 (259-260)).
FACT
NO. 7
SECRET
LAYS BENEATH THAT, I CAN NEVER THINK THE SAME
559 (1)…but
there's a secret lays beneath that. Glory to God in the highest. I can
never think the same the rest of my life, when I seen... (New Ed. Page 504
(261)).
I
DON’T KNOW HOW TO INTERPRET,
STOP! GO NO FURTHER THAN THIS
559 (3) Now, I don't
know what... I know the next step there, but I don't know how to interpret
that. It won't be long. I've got it wrote down here when it happened, if you
can see here, "STOP! Go no further than this right here."
559 (4) I'm not
prone to be a fanatic--just telling the truth…(New Ed. Page 504 (261)).
˙(Brother
Branham stopped explaining what revelation he had on the seventh seal, then
related two visions: the third pull vision of the baby shoes, and the
constellation of angels, and stated that something mysterious was going on, and
it has been a mysterious week. He gave the interpretation of a vision, and
placed Brother Sothmann and
FACT NO.8
SEVENTH ANGEL
FLYING EASTWARD
560 (4) And did you notice
that one Angel, I said in there, was a strange Angel? He looked more to me than
any of the rest of them. You remember that? They were in a constellation--three
on a side and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from
the left to the right, would've been the seventh Angel. He was brighter,
meant more to me than the rest of them. You remember, I said he had his
chest out like that, and was flying eastward. You remember like that?
And I said, "It picked me up, lifted me up." Do you remember that? (New
Ed. Page 506 (275)).
SEVENTH ANGEL
WITH SEVENTH SEAL,
THING I WONDERED
ALL MY LIFE
561 (1) Here
it is. The one with the Seventh Seal-the thing that I've wondered all my life.
Amen! Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don't know
what this has meant! For one time in life…I’d prayed, I’d cried out to God…
(New Ed. Page 506 (276-277)).
˙(From pages
561-563(New Ed. Pages 506-508) Brother Branham spoke of his experience of a
sword dropping into his hands and a voice spoke and said, “It’s the King’s
sword.” Something inside of him said, “don’t fear, this is that Third Pull,”
and he related the Third Pull vision, and said, the light went over the tent
and said: “I’ll meet you there. This will be the Third Pull, and you won’t tell
it to nobody!”)
FACT NO.9
THIRD PULL, TWO
GREAT THINGS UNFOLDED,
ONE THING IN
UNKNOWN LANGUAGE, I CANNOT INTERPRET
564 (2) And in
CHECKED
TO STOP, REASON SEVENTH SEAL NOT REVEALED
564 (3) Now, I'd
better stop right here. See? I just feel checked not to say no more about it.
See? So just remember, the Seventh Seal, the reason it was not opened (See?),
the reason He did not reveal it, no one should know about it. (New Ed.
Page 509 (301-302)).
˙(Brother Branham then stated that the Third Pull vision
came many years ago, and “it fits exactly in the promises of God from the end
of the Message.”)
FACT NO.10
HE REVEALED ALL
SIX SEALS, SAY NOTHING ABOUT SEVENTH SEAL.
FACT NO.11
IT STARTS IN
SECRET
564 (4)…Notice now, for the
end of time message (this Seal), after all He's revealed all the six Seals,
but it don't say nothing about the Seventh. And the end time Seal, when it
starts, will be absolutely a total secret according to the Bible. Before
knowing that... And remember, Revelations 10:1, 7 (1-7, chapter 10:1-7) at the
end of the seventh angel's message, all the mysteries of God would be known.
We're at the end-time--the opening of the Seventh Seal. (New Ed. Page 510
(304)).
˙(Brother Branham
continued to speak of the Third Pull vision and how he entered the
constellation of seven angels, and the seventh one meant more to him than the
others. He also related the dream of
FACT NO. 12
WHAT THIS GREAT
SECRET IS, I DO NOT KNOW
FACT NO.13
I KNOW IT’S THEM
SEVEN THUNDERS
567 (1) Now,
notice. So help me, by God I tell the truth, that these are spiritually
discerned to me (See?), discerned by the Holy Spirit. And by every one of them,
has identified his place in the Bible. Now, what this great secret is that
lays beneath this Seal, I do not know. I don't know it. I couldn't make it out.
I couldn't tell it, just what it said. But I know that it was them seven
thunders uttering themselves right close together, just banging seven different
times, and it unfolded into something else that I seen. (New Ed. Page
512 (322-323)).
I
LOOKED FOR INTERPRETATION, I COULDN’T MAKE IT OUT,
HOUR
ISN’T QUITE YET FOR IT
567 (2) Then
when I seen that, I looked for the interpretation that flew across there, and I
couldn't make it out. That's exactly right, friend. See? The hour isn't
quite yet for it, but it's moving into that cycle. See? It's coming up close.
So the thing for you to do is to remember that I speak to you in the Name of
the Lord: Be prepared, for you don't know what time something can happen. (New
Ed. Page 510 (323-324)).
FACT NO.14
I TOLD YOU
WHATEVER WAS TOLD ME, DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO
567 (3) Now,
when that gets on tape, which it is, that'll probably send ten thousand of my friends
away from me, 'cause they're going to say that Brother Branham's trying to put
himself and make himself a servant, or a prophet, or something before God. Let
me tell you, my brethren, that is an error. I'm only telling you what I seen
and what has been told to me, and now, you do whatever you want to. I don't
know who's going to—what is going to take place. I do not know. I just know
that those seven thunders holds that mystery, that heavens was quieted.
(Everybody understand?)
567 (4) It
may be time. It may be the hour now, that this great person that we're
expecting to rise on the scene may rise on the scene. Maybe this ministry that
I have tried to take people back to the Word has laid a foundation; and if it
has, I'll be leaving you for good. There won't be two of us here at the same
time. See? If it is, he will increase, I'll decrease. I don't know. But I
have been privileged by God to look and see what it was--unfold to that much. Now,
that is the truth. (New Ed. Page 512 (325) to 513 (328)).
˙You say, “Who is this great person that must increase and
the prophet decrease?” “I believe it is Joseph.” “It’s me.” I am not here for
that! I promise not to interpret nothing, but just give you the bear facts.
Behave yourself! Don’t make confusion and put words in my mouth! You ask, “What
does he mean that he bore the message as far as it’s ordained for him to bear
it, and will hand the sword over to somebody else?” “Do what you want to.” That
is what Brother Branham told the people when he preached this to them, and I am
right in place to say the same thing, now that I am quoting exactly what he
revealed. I am not that one. I make myself absolutely clear. He said, “Don’t
interpret it.”
FACT NO.15
ONE MYSTERY OF
SEAL NOT REVEALED, REASON IS, IT’S THE SEVEN THUNDERS, I DO NOT KNOW
WHEN IT WILL BE
568 (2) "When will it be,
Brother Branham?" I cannot tell you. I do not know. But one of these
days, if we never meet again on this earth, we're going to meet yonder at the
judgment seat of Christ. And you'll find out that in that room, the revelation
coming from God (just like all the rest of them has), that them... One of
the mysteries of that Seal, the reason it wasn't revealed, it was seven
thunders that uttered their voices, and there it is perfectly, because nothing
knows anything about it; it wasn't even written. So we're at the end-time--
we’re here. (New Ed. Page 513 (335-336)).
˙(Pages 569-573 (New
Ed. Pages 514-518), Brother Branham explained the manner in which he
received the revelation of the six seals, thanked the people for
gathering, and warned the people by saying:)
FACT NO.16
DON’T TRY TO
INTERPRET IT - EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT NOW?
571 (3) “…Don’t
try to interpret the things. Don’t try to do anything more than just live a
close life, giving praise and honour to Jesus Christ.
Every body understands that now? Love him with all your heart. Do you do it?” And
he prayed: 572(4) “…our heavenly Father, may the people, Lord, understand,
which I am sure that there’s some that doesn’t…”(New Ed. Pages 516(358) &
517(364)).
FACT NO.17
AS FAR AS IT’S ORDAINED FOR
ME TO BEAR
573 (2) “Then, Lord, I pray that
You'll help me. I'm beginning to fade away, Lord. I know my days can't be too
many more, and I pray that You'll help me. Let me be true, Lord, and honest and
sincere that I might be able to bear the message as far as it's ordained for me
to bear. And when it comes to the time that I must lay down, when I get down to
the river, and the waves begin to come in, O God, may
I be able to hand this old Sword over to somebody else that'll be honest with
It, Lord, and will pack the truth. Grant it, Lord…” (New Ed. 518(373)).
FACT NO.18
NEW PORTION OF
MESSAGE, USED
(MOTEL ROOM
RECORDING) TAKEN UNABRIDGED FROM TAPE
NO. 63-0324E
JEFF. INDIANA U.S.A. MONDAY MARCH 25, 1963
PAGES 574-579 --------
NEW. ED. PAGES 519-523
[You have
just finished hearing the original "Seventh Seal" as it was preached
in its entirety on Sunday evening,
˙(The
above precautions of Brother Branham, indicates that he was trying to avoid
carnal interpretations of the seventh seal, by the facts he disclosed about the
unopened seal.)
FACT
NO.19
HID TO
THE WORLD, GOD WILL REVEAL IT
574 (1)…It’ll be
a good thing that he doesn't know anything about it, because if he did, then he
would impersonate that. That's his tricks in doing things. So therefore, God
has made it so hid to the whole world, even to heaven, that there is no way of
understanding it, only as God will reveal it Himself. (New Ed. Page 519
(377-378)).
FACT
NO.20
THREEFOLD
PURPOSE OF SIXTH SEAL AND HORSERIDERS
574 (2) Now, I
want you to notice tonight that in the Sixth Seal there
was a threefold
purpose of the Sixth Seal. There was a threefold purpose of the horse riders.
There's been a threefold purpose in all these things. That brings us back to a
three and a seven again (See?), seven Seals, seven vials, and so forth. (New
Ed. Page 519 (379-380)).
˙(Brother Branham then spoke of God’s mathematics of
revealing His Word, the four horse riders and the four beasts, and stated, 574
(7) “Now we are into the Eagle age”. (New Ed. Page 519 (386).
THREEFOLD PURPOSE – PURGING OF ALL
FILTH
575 (1) Now, we
find out also in this that the Sixth Seal now being opened, it was for a
threefold purpose. Now, here was the purposes: The first thing was
that….(the sleeping virgins had to go through the tribulation period for
purification…
575 (3)…the
second fold. God purges
575 (4)…Notice, there
is a whole earth…to be purged. There will be such a thing that the moon, stars,
and all nature will be purged.)…everything that's got any filth in it is to be
purged during the Sixth Seal. (New Ed. Page 520(387-390)).
FACT NO.21
SEVENTH SEAL
THREEFOLD PURPOSE, ONE FOLD SPOKEN, SEVEN THUNDERS WILL UNFOLD MYSTERY AT
CHRIST’S COMING
575 (5) Now, do
you notice on the opening of this Seventh Seal, it's
also in a threefold mystery. This
one I have…will speak and have spoke, that it is the mystery of the seven
thunders. The seven thunders in heaven will unfold this mystery. It'll be right
at the coming of Christ, because Christ said no one knew when He would
return. (New Ed. Page 520(391).
FACT NO.22
SEVEN THUNDERS
WILL REVEAL CHRIST’S COMING AT THAT TIME
575 (6) Did you
notice when the Jews asked Him that? You know when we compared the Scripture
here with Matthew 24 with the six Seals, the Seventh Seal was left out; because
(You see?), Christ said only God Himself knowed, not
even the Angels. No wonder, it wasn't even written. You see, they hushed;
nothing take place then. Angels don't know it; nobody knows when He's
coming. But there'll be…seven voices of these thunders that will reveal the
great revelation at that time. (New Ed. Page 520(392-393).
WE DON’T KNOW IT,
BUT IT WILL BE REVEALED
IN THAT TIME,
HOUR, DAY
576 (1) So I believe... If we don't know
it, and it won't be known ‘til that time, but it will be revealed in that day,
in the hour that it's supposed to be revealed in. So the thing for us to do
is to be reverent before God and serve Him, and do all that we know how to do,
and live good Christian lives. (New Ed. Page 520(393).
FACT NO.24
SIXTH SEAL
OPENED, SEVENTH SEAL CANNOT BE BROKE TO
THE PUBLIC UNTIL
THAT HOUR ARRIVES
576 (2) Here
now, we find that the Sixth Seal has been opened to us; we see it, and we
know that this Seventh Seal cannot be broke to the public until that hour
arrives. (New Ed. Page 521 (393).
FACT NO.25
NO ONE WOULD KNOW
HIS COMING,
NO ONE KNOWS SEVEN THUNDERS
576 (3) Now, there
was some reason that God let this seven voices be thundered, because it must
come (See?)…we find that Christ, the Lamb took the Book in His hand, and He
opened that Seventh Seal. But you see, it's a hidden mystery. No one knows it.
But it’s right along with what He said: no one would know His coming; they
also would not know about this seven thunder mystery. So you see, it's
connected together. (New Ed. Page 521 (394)).
FACT NO.26
THE REST OF IT IS
NOT UNFOLDED, THAT’S AS FAR AS WE CAN GO
576 (4) That
much we have an understanding of it today, because the rest of it is all
unfolded, but this is not unfolded. But sitting in my room, and I heard
this…not heard it, rather, but seen it unfold to this seven thunders. Now,
that's as far as we can go right there. And now I trust that each and every
one of you will serve God, and do that which is right, and love Him all your
life and serve Him, and God will take care of the rest. (New Ed. Page 521
(395-396)).
FACT NO.27
IN COMPLETION SIX
SEALS, WE UNDERSTAND
SEVENTH SEAL NOT
TO THE PUBLIC
576 (5) Now,
we have in the completion here now, by the grace of God, all the mysteries of
the six Seals that's been sealed up, and we understand and know here that the
Seventh Seal is not to be known to the public. (New Ed. Page 521 (397)).
˙(Brother Branham continued to speak of Matthew 24, the
signs of the coming of the Lord and the parable of the fig tree, and said:)
FACT NO.28
HOUR IS NOT YET
FOR THIS MYSTERY TO BE KNOWN,
THE REST KNOWN
AROUND TIME JESUS APPEARS
576 (7) You see
Israel's gathering in its own homeland. But you notice, He omitted the
revelation of this Seventh Seal. And here when the Seventh Seal, when He opened
it, He also omitted it again. See? So we see that it is a complete mystery,
therefore, the hour is not yet for this mystery to be known, therefore,
we're this far and the rest of it will be known right around about the time
that Jesus appears on earth again for His Bride, or whatever takes place at
that time.
577 (1) Now, until
that time, let's just all pray and live good straight Christian lives, looking
forward for His coming. (New Ed. Page 521 (398-399)).
FACT NO.29
MAKE NO ISM – TO
THIS TIME IT ISN’T OPENED,
PROMISED IT WOULD BE OPENED
577 (2) And
now, if this tape would happen to fall into the hands of some persons
somewhere, don't try to make any kind of an "ism" out of it. The
only thing you do, you just continue serving God, because this great secret is
so great that God wouldn't even let John write it. It thundered out, but He...
knowing that... promising us that it would be opened, but to this time, it isn't
opened. (New Ed. Pages 521 (400)).
˙(Brother Branham then spoke of the vision of seven angels,
and of something mysterious going on.)
FACT NO.30
MYSTERIOUS WHITE
ROCK PYRAMID (JACKSON’S DREAM),
MESSENGERS INTERPRET
THAT PYRAMID
578 (2)
Another thing, I want you to notice what taken place. And if you're listening
to the tape of "What Time Is It, Sir?" you will notice that one Angel was very notable to me. The
rest of them just seemed ordinarily; but this Angel was a noted Angel. He was
to my left in the constellation in a form of a pyramid. And you remember, it was in the pyramid where the mysterious white rock was
not written on. And the Angels took me into that pyramid of themselves, the
mysteries of God known only to them. And now, they
were the messengers that come to interpret that pyramid or that message of the
secret of these Seven Seals which lays with inside the pyramid.
(New Ed. Pages 522 (405-406))
FACT NO.31
WE DON’T KNOW
WHAT IT IS AS YET, BECAUSE
IT’S NOT
PERMITTED TO BE BROKEN – NOTABLE ANGEL
578 (3) Now, the
Angel was to my left, would really be the last, or seventh Angel, if we would
count them from left to right, because he was on my left, me looking to him
towards the west, him coming towards the east would be on the left side, so that
would be the last angel's message: very notable.
You remember how I said he had his head back, and his great sharp wings, and
how he flew right to me. Now, that is this Seventh Seal. It
still is a notable thing. And we…don't know what it is as yet, because it's not
permitted to be broken. (New Ed. Pages 523 (407)).
FACT NO.32
THE INTERPRETATION IS THUS
SAITH THE LORD
579 (3) Now, the
vision, plus the Word, plus the history, plus the church ages; and all blend
together. So I could truly say that to the best of my understanding and
according to the Word of God and the vision and the revelation, the
interpretation thereof is THUS SAITH THE LORD.
579 (4) Now, may
the Lord bless you all, each one, real richly as we stand now and sing this
good old song of the church. God bless you each one. Amen. [This marks the end
of Monday's portion of this sermon--Ed.]
˙My brothers and sisters, that marks the end of the Monday
exhortation
in the motel room that Brother Branham gave.
And I quote as fact No.32, that Brother Branham said that the six seals plus
the revelation that he was given about the seventh seal, is “THUS SAITH THE
LORD.” I believe it. Therefore the seventh seal revelation; the
main revelation of the seventh seal was the coming of
the Lord that was hiding under the thunders. So the thunders
holds the coming of the Lord, and Brother Branham could not interpret it! And
later on he came back to the pulpit, and he now confirms that. He said what was hiding under that seventh seal was the
coming of the Lord, and I could not make it out. No one knows how He will come
and when He will come. Hear his own Words. This is “Christ is the mystery of
God revealed:”
FACT NO.33
SILENCE HALF
HOUR, SEVEN THUNDERS, HOW HE IS COMING
HE HASN’T REVEALED YET
17-3 057
Jesus, when He was on earth, they wanted to know when He would come. He
said, " Even the Son Himself don't know when it's going to happen."
See, God has this all to Himself. It's a secret. And that's the reason there
was silence in heaven for a space of a half hour. And Seven Thunders
uttered their voices, and John was even forbidden to write it (See?)--the
coming of the Lord. That's one thing He hasn't revealed yet, of how He will
come, and when He will come. It's a good thing that He doesn't. No. He has
showed or revealed it in every type that's in the Bible. (Christ is the mystery
28/7/63).
˙ The prophet of God speaking of the last seal again, he
said, “that was the coming of the Lord, and under the last seal held, when the Lord will come, how He is coming,
and when He is coming.” If a man knows the seventh seal, he will know how
the Lord is coming, because that is the major revelation under that seal.
And notice that all that preach seven thunders, they cannot tell you that
secret, that the angels never knew, yes, that Jesus never knew, that nobody
knew, that Brother Branham said was in an unknown language; they cannot tell
you “how Jesus comes, and when He comes,” because the seven thunders holds the
coming of the Lord. There is a specific time for the revelation, and a specific
hour. If the food gets cold, it just has to get cold.
˙I am going to step away from 1963 now. Brother Branham
belonged to a certain school of thought. I am saying that the school that
Brother Branham belonged to was that the seventh seal was not revealed! Because
it held the coming of the Lord, and the seven thunders was holding the mystery
of the coming of the Lord. Let me see if the coming of the Lord was the event
from the opening of the seals.
˙Now if that’s the school Brother Branham belonged to, he
must have continued in that same school.
˙Brother Branham
maintained the same facts of the Seventh seal, which he established on the
seven seals book, specifically on the Seventh Seal pages 557-579, where he
concluded that six seals were revealed, and the seventh seal was not revealed
by him in 1963, but is yet to be revealed, and it holds the second coming of
Jesus Christ, which nobody knows as yet. All
right, I read from “Souls in prison.”
FACT NO.34
HE HID SEVENTH
SEAL FROM US – NO ONE KNEW –COMING OF THE LORD - SEVENTH SEAL–HE WOULDN’T
PERMIT US TO KNOW
33-3
The Lamb took His Book when the Seventh Seal, just ready for it to be
opened--the Sixth Seal. Remember, He hid the Seventh Seal from us. He
wouldn't do it. When the Angel stood day by day telling it, but then He
wouldn't do it on that one. Said, "There's silence in heaven." No
one knew. It was the coming of the Lord. (Souls in prison now 11/11/63).
˙ That is 1963, the eleventh month. He is still holding that
vision, saying that
the seventh seal was not opened, because
it was the coming of the Lord.
23-4 076
Now we see these things. Remember the Seven Seals is finished. And when
those seven revealed truths... One of them He wouldn't permit us to know.
How many was here at the Seven Seals? Just about all of you, I guess. See? The
Seventh Seal, He wouldn't permit it. (Souls in prison now
11/11/63).
˙Unquote. That is English. Many times Brother Branham said,
“When the seven seals was opened,” you know people hold that, but he is
correcting himself here. He started to say “seven seals”, and then he checked
back, and he said, “One of them He wouldn’t permit.” He said, “How many was
here? You Know He didn’t permit it.” That is, “Souls in prison.”
FACT NO.35
WAITING FOR
SEVENTH SEAL TO BE IDENTIFIED
WITH COMING OF CHRIST
This Book's
already opened (That's right) just waiting for the Seventh Seal to be identified
with the coming of Christ. (What shall I do with Jesus 24/11/63).
˙
Anybody that preaches the seventh seal, they will be preaching the coming of
Christ, because the coming of Christ identifies the seventh seal. I’ll read it
back; let the university graduates hear me.
This Book's
already opened (That's right) just waiting for the Seventh Seal to be identified
with the coming of Christ. (What shall I do with Jesus 24/11/63).
˙The seventh seal goes along with the coming of Christ. If
you’re preaching the seventh seal, you have to know the ins and outs about the
coming of Christ, because the coming of Christ identifies the seventh seal.
˙“Feast of the Trumpets, 1964” (Prophet of God heading to
the grave boy).
FACT NO.36
SEVENTH SEAL
HASN’T OPENED YET – THAT’S HIS COMING
That Seventh
Seal hasn't opened yet, you know; that's His coming. (Feast of
the Trumpets 19/7/64).
FACT NO.37
HE OPENED THE SIX
SEALS
You think that
little noise out here in Tucson was something, when He
opened the six seals, that shook the
country around about and caused the talk, wait till this earth receives her
baptism! (Future Home 2/8/64).
FACT NO.38
SEVENTH ANGEL WAS
TO OPEN SIX-SEAL MYSTERY
“The seventh
angel was to open the six-seal mystery…”
˙ “Are you sure you quoted that correct there Brother Bruce?”
Yes!
“The seventh
angel was to open the six-seal mystery. It's all to be gathered up in the Son
of man, His fullness of time has come to the Fullness of His Word to manifest
the fullness of His Body.” (Proving His Word 16/8/64).
“The seventh
angel was to open the six-seal mystery…”
˙Do what you want with it!
FACT NO.39
TEACHING LAST
SEVEN THUNDERS – COULDN’T GET ROOM TO DO IT
Now, in doing
this, I have come here for the purpose of teaching the last vials, last seven
vials, and the last seven trumpets, and the last seven thunders of the Book
of Revelations, tying them together in this hour that we're now living to
follow the opening of the Seven Seals, the Seven Church Ages. So we couldn't
get room to do it. (God of this evil age 1/8/65).
˙The prophet of God in 1965, now come down to search for a
place to see if he could preach the seven thunders. It shows that he did not
reveal it in 1963.
FACT NO.40
WAIT TILL WE GET
IN TO OPEN THEM SEVEN THUNDERS
Just wait till
we get in to open those plagues and seals and them seven thunders. Watch
what takes place. Oh, brother, you better get to Goshen while there's time to
get to Goshen. Don't pay any attention to this outside. (Knoweth
it not 15/8/65).
˙Yes my brothers and sisters, up to 1965, Brother Branham
kept one straight course. One straight course! Closing remarks, come
musicians. Do you know what caused all the ministers and all the believers
to be silent for ten years, belonging to the first school, and having one
revelation that the seventh seal was not revealed? Do you know what caused
that? Because of what I just read to you. All of us believed that, and we
based our thoughts and our ideas and every single thing, upon what I just read
to you.
˙I want to announce to you that Brother Branham belonged
to the first school (school number one). Brother Branham belonged to that
first school. And the first school, my brother, that, “It was not revealed.”
But Brother Branham hoped, he prayed, he trusted God, to have received that
revelation. That was Brother Branham’s hope. And he was looking in the
scripture in Revelation 10:7, and hoping that, that mystery was going to be
revealed to him.
˙Why wasn’t that mystery revealed to Brother Branham, being
Revelation 10:7, and all the mysteries supposed to be revealed to Brother
Branham, which is the seventh angel? Why wasn’t it revealed? Because the
seventh angel was to reveal the mysteries written inside of the Book; and the
seven thunders was not written in the Book. So the scripture is not broken.
˙“So like
you’re waiting for an eighth messenger preacher?” Don’t be fast! Listen to what
the prophet is saying. He himself did not know. He said, “About the time of the
coming of the Lord; this seventh seal cannot be broken to the public.” Now
there’s a specific time, there’s a specific way; there’s a specific program.
That’s what it is.
˙Let me tell you something friend, “Brother Branham going
into heaven did not tie God’s hand.” Don’t you know brothers and sisters, after
Brother Branham left the scene, there is a five-fold ministry of apostle,
prophet, teacher, evangelist and pastor? Why God can’t use, a prophet from the
five-fold to break the ministry to the public and to bring the revelation of
the seven thunders? Tell me why?
˙You say; “I don’t believe no prophet after Brother
Branham.” Who is Joseph Branham? Who is Joseph Branham? Is that an eighth
messenger? [Congregation says, “No.”] Is that an eighth prophet? [Congregation says, “No”.] No. He has a
place, my brother, where God places him. Is that right? Where God place him,
he’ll be placed. So if a prophet arises, that doesn’t make him an eighth
messenger. It makes him a prophet in the five-fold ministry; and when God gets
ready to do His business, He will use even a donkey, to prophecy to Balaam.
˙ It would be unfair if I don’t put in the other quotes,
which the people that belong to the second school, lay their foundation, to
believe that it was opened up, and never spoke of it until 1973 – ten silent
years. I am still asking the question, “Why ten silent years? Who broke the
silence?” and I am still asking, “If they got the revelation of the seventh
seal, tell me about the coming of the Lord?” The major revelation under
the seventh seal is the coming of the Lord. It must say how and when.
˙There are only three or four major quotations that these
lovely brothers used as the foundation of the second school, and that is, in
page 327 of the church ages that was written in 1960 before the seals were
opened, and Questions and Answers 1964, it states:
327-1 “Now
this messenger of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7 is going to do two things. One:
According to Malachi 4 he will turn the hearts of the children to the fathers.
Two: He will reveal the mysteries of the seven thunders in Revelation 10
which are the revelations contained in the seven seals. It will be these
Divinely revealed 'mystery-truths' that literally turn the hearts of the
children to the Pentecostal fathers. Exactly so.” (Laodicean Church
Age page 327);
1161-Q-395 “Have the seven thunders which equals seven
mysteries already been revealed? Were they revealed in the seven Seals, but
are yet not known to us as the thunders yet? No, they were revealed in
the seven Seals; that's what the thunders was about. The seven thunders that
had uttered their voices and no one could make out what it was... John knew
what it was, but he was forbidden to write it. He said, "But the seventh
angel, in the days of his sounding, the seven mysteries of the seven thunders
would be revealed." (COD Questions & Answers 30/08/64).
˙All right. How could you leave all of this that I just
read, to hang of on the answer of a busy question and answer? And I am not
going to dodge this issue on the church ages, page 327. The first thing that I
want to call to your attention is, that statement is nowhere on the tapes of
Brother Branham. I am going to look that quotation right in the face; I am not
afraid of it at all. Hear me. “The ministry of Malachi 4 is to do two things,
and one of it is to reveal the seven thunders.” That’s how it goes. All right.
“It is the divinely revealed truths as contained in the seven seals.” In other
words, they are saying that the seven thunders that Brother Branham revealed is
hiding in the seven seals book. All right. I will look that quotation right in
the face.
˙“The seven
thunders that Brother Branham revealed, is contained in the seven seals.” I
want to find the thunders. Is the thunders the white horse? Come on answer
me. Is the thunders the red horse? Is the thunders the black horse? Is the
thunders the pale horse? Is the thunders the Jews? Is the seven thunders the
tribulation? And you know what we just read in the seventh seal; it is
clear that he said that the coming of the Lord is under the seventh seal.
Therefore it is not contained in the seven seals messages. It is the coming of
the Lord. The revelation of the seven seals of 1963 and the thunders are two
different things. Let us hear his words on it. The church ages says, my
brothers and sisters, it is the same thing. Brother Branham said, it is
not.
75 (3-4) “The Book is absolutely a sealed Book until the Seven Seals
are broken. It is sealed up with Seven Seals. Now, that's different from the
Seven Thunders.” (The Breach 17/3/63). (New Ed. Page 66(49).
˙The contents of the seven seals book is different from the
seven thunders, because the seven thunders was not revealed by Brother Branham.
It was not revealed by Brother Branham. Oh glory to God. Don’t get
fed-up with me. All right.
˙The second school of thought, this school was opened up in
1973 to 1974 in New York, U.S.A., ten years later, ten silent years. The basic and popular thoughts are that, “the
seventh seal was preached by Brother Branham mysteriously, and is hidden in the
message. The elect ministers and believers must be caught up into that
mysterious dimension by inspiration, and catch the revelation.” My beloved, I
did not read that in all the quotations that we just read here, that covered the
seventh seal in its entirety.
˙I challenge any man, around the whole world, to come and
show me one quotation where Brother Branham said the seventh seal or the seven
thunders was revealed mysteriously, and we have to be caught up in the
dimension to get it. It is not true.
˙This school started in 1973 to 1974, and, my brother, it
gained international recognition, and that went through the whole world, but
God proved that was wrong, and everybody that preach thunders and seventh seal
are based upon that revelation from New York, directly or indirectly. You say,
preacher, I want to ask you one bold question, “Which school do you belong
to?” I belong to Brother Branham’s school. I say I belong to Brother Branham’s
school. The seventh seal was not revealed in 1963 by Brother Branham. There is
a specific program, there is a specific time, there is a specific plan, and he
did not reveal it. I speak that on the basis of God’s Word and the message
of the hour. I belong to that school, and I never changed school after the ten
silent years.
˙Anybody that wants to support the second school, you are
still going to have to answer me one question, “Who broke the silence, and
what is his office?” “Who is he?” And when you point out the man,
you will have to tell me about the coming of the Lord, because that is the
Major revelation. The major revelation of the opening of the seals was the
coming of the Lord that was hidden under the seven thunders.
˙So we’re going to eat our food in a little while. But we
are going to marry two people just now, and I’m trying to get you real hungry,
so you will enjoy the meal. So by the time that they’re hotting
the food and so on, brother we’re going to perform a wedding here. Everybody’s
with me?
˙So we’re going to have a little baptism of these brethren;
some little brethren. Yes. Big souls, small souls, it doesn’t matter with God.
So we have some small people to baptise, and one or two others; and we’re going
to have this baptism right away.
˙Brothers and sisters, I have delivered the whole council of
God, everything that Brother Branham said on the seventh seal and seven
thunders. I believe just as
Brother Branham said concerning the seven thunders, “It will translate the
Bride, and it will break a revival amongst the Bride”, yes, “and it is going to
come.” I believe it. Yes sir. It is one and the selfsame as the seventh seal.
˙All who claim thunders around the world, God proved them wrong.
It went internationally, and they claimed that it was a Bride’s revival, and
all turned out into confusion, and they destroyed the holiness message of
Brother Branham. That is what the thunders done: destroyed the holiness message
of Brother Branham. I belong to the school of Brother Branham. I believe the
revelation that Brother Branham gave concerning the opening of the seventh
seal: “One fold was revealed; he carried one fold to the grave, and another
fold is under the seven thunders, yet to be revealed, and it must be revealed
before the rapture takes place.”
NOTICE OF
AMENDMENT - APOLOGY (BOOK 4 PAGE 70 –
1-4)
In book four “Exposition Of
Damnable Heresies five major doctrinal divisions message-believers”(pg 70 Para.
1-4). An article was documented of a Port of Spain Trinidad assembly identified
with the second school of thought. Former affiliates, ministers and believers
gave eyewitness accounts of some fanatical manifestations, which they practiced
together with the assembly. It is my pleasure with great thankfulness to God to
report to our readers that the pastor of the assembly contacted us after
reading the article and humbly informed us that such practices no longer
exists. We have found a very humble attitude in the pastor though the article
disturbed him. Stating his convictions, he said that such practices were in the
baby stage of the assembly and the screams of women he did not find disturbing
and also no ropes were used but acknowledged an eyewitness account of a belt
used by a deacon. We hereby humbly apologize for that misrepresentation to all
that were affected, especially to the pastor, also if we documented that
article after such practices were discontinued.
Nevertheless
discerning the integrity of this pastor by his humble approach to us, we have
fully accepted his testimony. May the Lord bless him and our brothers and
sisters, we believe that they are all good people which we did not
intentionally attack as individuals, but trust that they will understand even
from book 5 “seventh seal/seven thunders two schools of thoughts” that it is an
international system which we contend with, because according to our
convictions it is wrong.
THE SEVENTH SEAL MISINTERPRETED-
TWO SCHOOLS OF
THOUGHTS
˙This evening we
have chosen to speak a little bit again on the seventh seal, and if you want to
turn in your Bibles we’re going to read Revelation 8:1, and I will also read a
very important scripture over in 2 Peter 3:16. So I read here in the first
verse:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven
about the space of half an hour.” (Revelation 8:1).
˙That
is all that is said about the seventh seal. And over in 2Peter 3; we’ll take a
little higher up to catch the picture. Thirteenth verse:
“Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a
new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness...”
˙Isn’t
that comforting? “Nevertheless…” God will destroy the earth, the
Bible said in the third chapter, and the elements shall burn with fervent heat.
Yes. But “…Nevertheless we, according
to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness…”
That is the hope of the Christian.
“…Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent
that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as
our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath
written unto you;
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which
are some things hard to be understood…”
Pay attention to these words. Certain things in the
writings and the message of Brother Paul, they are hard to be understood,
because of the wisdom in which he spoke them.
“…which they that are unlearned
and unstable wrest…”
That is
to forcibly twist. Wrest means, “to forcibly twist” (out of context.)
“…which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest…, as they do also
the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”
When you twist the Word of God, you do it unto your
own destruction.
“…Ye therefore, beloved,
seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with
the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
But grow in grace, and in
the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now
and for ever. Amen.” (2Peter 3:13-18).
I believe that these men were a whole lot like us;
before I could read “Amen,” the congregation said, “Amen.” I believe we are
getting there. They were a whole lot like us. Brother Paul was a man like us.
The saints were like us, they just lived in a different age, and we had perverters, just like we have today, wresting the
Scriptures that are hard to be understood. Yes. So may the Lord add a blessing
to the reading of His Holy Words. You may be seated.
GREATEST WARNINGS OF W.M.B.
So I want to speak a little bit; and the title of
this little message is, “The seventh seal misinterpreted-two schools of
thoughts.” Now right there you must understand that the greatest warning of the
prophet, Brother Branham, was, “do not go and interpret the
seals, especially the seventh seal when it comes up
tonight.” And he warned them over and over, throughout the preaching of the
seventh seal, “Do not interpret the seal.” In his closing remarks, he said,
“And if this tape will fall into the hands of somebody, do not go and make any
ism from these things, for the seal is not opened.” In another place, he said,
“If you try to interpret these things, you will wind yourself off the beaten
track, and you will mess the program of God up.” All these are things that you
ought to say “Amen” to, because I went over these things with you, one by one.
So this evening, the seventh seal is under
discussion again – two schools of thoughts. So we started a little message on
last Sunday, speaking on the seventh seal, and we said that all that follow the
message, they are in agreement that six seals were revealed. But there is a
controversy between the people. One school is saying, “It is revealed,” and another
school is saying, “It is not revealed.”
Now to settle our disputes, last Sunday, when we had
a great, mixed audience; (today, the majority that are assembled belong to one
school;) so I had to speak in that way, to not cause offences, and let
everybody take, you know, and do what they want with it, like the prophet of
God said. Today, I could speak a little more clearly on this second school of
thought. So now, how we did that the last time, if you missed me, is that we
took all that Brother Branham said on the seventh seal, starting from 1962,
from ‘Sirs is this the time,” right on to 1965, and what I did, is that I took
the seventh seal, and I went through reading to you the seventh seal, only
stopping and paraphrasing certain experiences that he related, which I thought
would take too long, and which the congregation is very familiar with. That is
in order for us not to lose track of the subject of the seventh seal. But
generally, the experience that you went through last Sunday, was a matter of
reading the seventh seal just the way that the prophet of God related it in
1963, without any of my interpretation whatsoever. Towards the end, I was
getting a little kind of war-like, but then I restrained myself, knowing
that we had to maintain peace and stability in the
congregation.
So we took all that was said from 1962 to 1965, and
then we entitled that, “Facts of the seventh seal,” but generally, brothers and
sisters, we read the complete book of the seventh seal, starting from the very
beginning, to give you an idea of exactly how Brother Branham presented it, what
he said and what he did not say; except for the longer visions and everything
that he related.
So, I was trying to number the facts, not just
numbering where he said it was not opened, but numbering all the facts; and I
started of with the seventh seal, trying to number the facts, and in the haste,
you would notice that I stopped about “Fact No.16,” because I was so hurry. So
I had the numbers in any case, and the facts that are numbered from the
beginning of the seventh seal, unto 1965 when Brother Branham departed this
life, ends up to be forty facts and over. So when I say facts, I mean those are
the truths that Brother Branham established concerning the seventh seal. And I
left those facts for those that were in attendance, to pick out what they want,
and understand it how they want, but then I could not help it, but say which
school Brother Branham belonged to, and I firmly believe, even tonight, that Brother Branham
belonged to the first school that stated that the seventh seal was not broken,
therefore, I identified myself, last Sunday, in the same school, saying that I
belong to Brother Branham’s school.
So, we could number more facts, if I would take the
introduction of questions and answers on the seals, and if I would number those
“facts that were stated concerning the seventh seal, and not to interpret it,”
it might make another ten, twelve or fifteen. But I leave this as is here, and
I am dealing with these forty facts concerning the things Brother Branham said
about the seventh seal, and this, more or less, picks up everything that is
major, that Brother Branham stated about the seventh seal.
So we went along with that, and if you missed me
last Sunday, I want to give you in a nutshell, right here this evening,
basically, the revelation that Brother Branham explained concerning the seventh seal,
in a nutshell, and that is to this congregation, and all
believers that believe the prophet of God. Some child might have missed it.
Somebody might have gotten tired in the two and three-quarter hours of message.
So I’ll give you it in a nutshell of what Brother Branham said. Now, but I
challenge any man, here or overseas, or any part of the world, to challenge
this summary that I am going to give here, of what Brother Branham projected on
the seventh seal, and its got to correspond.
W.M.B.’s REVELATION OF THE SEVENTH SEAL IN A NUTSHELL
Basically, brothers and sisters, Brother Branham
established that six seals were revealed. Now if you remember the quotes, I want
you to verify that. There might be people around the world listening to your
voices. Brother Branham verified that six seals were revealed. The seventh seal
was not revealed. [Congregation says, “Amen”].
That also, God gave him a revelation about the seventh seal.
[Congregation says, “Amen”]. That revelation that God gave to Brother Branham
about the seventh seal: God told him that the seventh seal was in a threefold
manner, and all the other seals were in a threefold manner, therefore the
seventh seal was also in a three-fold manner. [Congregation says, “Amen”]. He
further told Brother Branham that, “the seventh seal is really the seven
thunders.” That makes the seventh seal and the seven thunders, one and the
selfsame revelation. [Congregation says, “Amen”]. He also told Brother Branham
that it is the third pull. That pertains to a vision that Brother Branham had
seen many years ago. So the seventh seal is the seven thunders, and the seven
thunders is the third pull. And the greatest revelation that Brother Branham
received from the Lord about the seventh seal, is that the seven thunders held
the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. [Congregation says, “Amen”]. He further
told him, that since nobody knows about the coming of the Lord, of how He comes
and when He comes, therefore they also would not know about the seven thunders,
because it is one and the selfsame revelation.
THREE SILENCES
Brother Branham did not know
where to go when he read Revelation 8:1, because all that the Bible said in the
breaking of the seventh seal, “ there was silence in heaven.” God in His mercy
told the prophet about the seal, and the first thing that He revealed to
Brother Branham, He said, “now I refer you to Revelation the tenth chapter:
there is something there that was not written, which is the seven thunders, and
since that is not written in the Book, it becomes a silence. So, I am
connecting this silence of Revelation 8:1, with the silence of Revelation
10.” And, God is speaking to His
prophet, He said, “I will refer you to another scripture in the Bible that has
another silence, and that is, when they asked Jesus on the mountain, of three
questions, one was concerning His coming…” That is Matthew 24. He said, “…and
Jesus was silent on when He will come, and how He will come.” And when they
asked Him that, He said, “Not even the angels know that, and I don’t know that,
and nobody knows that. Only God knows that.”
So now, Brother Branham identified three silences in
the Bible. Before that, he never knew that, and no man knew that the seventh
seal silence was connected with Revelation 10, nor Matthew 24. Now, that was a
big revelation to Brother Branham. Now, Brother Branham called that, “the first
fold of the three-fold mystery of the seventh seal.” God told him that the
seventh seal is a three-fold mystery. So Brother Branham called the first fold
of that mystery, “The revelation that God told him about the other silences:
that the seventh seal is hiding under the seven thunders, and it is the coming
of the Lord.” Brother Branham called that, “the first fold.” He said, “This
fold, I am going to give you that.” How many bear witness that I read the
quotes? [Congregation says, “Amen”]. He said, “I am going to give you one fold
of it.” The one fold that Brother Branham gave is that Brother Branham told the
church of the connecting scriptures that concerns the seventh seal.
SEVENTH SEAL – THREE-FOLD MYSTERY
Later on as he went along, Brother Branham said, “I
had something unfolded to me yesterday, and something unfolded today, and
another thing was in an unknown language that I could not interpret.” That
gives us the understanding, that although Brother Branham gave one fold of the
seventh seal, there was another fold that God gave him that he took to the
grave and he kept it in his heart. Then, when Brother Branham looked for the
third fold of it, it unfolded to an unknown language, that had to do with the
seven thunders. He emphatically stated that, “I did not get the interpretation,
I could not make it out, it was in an unknown language, and I could not read
it.” Therefore the seven thunders was not revealed to Brother Branham, because
it was in an unknown language.
Any body that preaches the thunders must be able to
read the unknown language. They must be able to show where God revealed the
unknown language to Brother Branham, on what tape, what date, what time; and if
they cannot tell you that God came back from 1963, and told Brother Branham
what the unknown language is, they are preaching false thunders, because the
thunders was held in an unknown language. The only way that you could get the
revelation of the thunders, you got to find somebody to read the unknown
language, and Brother Branham said, that he could not read it. But the only
thing he knew about the third pull and the seven thunders, he said, “The coming
of the Lord is held under the seven thunders.” He said I am positive about
that, the coming of the Lord is held under the seven thunders. Any body that is
preaching the seven thunders must be able to tell you about the coming of the
Lord. Brothers and sisters, people think they know about the coming of the
Lord, but they don’t know, because it was hiding under the seventh seal, under
the seven thunders, and Jesus never spake of it.
Therefore the seven thunders holds the coming of the Lord, and He comes as the
Son of Man. Do you hear me? And if they know about the coming of the Lord, they
will know about the Son of Man. That is why when you speak “Son of Man,” my
brother, they cannot understand “Son Of Man.”
So let me go over that
three-fold with you again. Brothers and sisters, I know what I am talking
about. This isn’t any mental something. I’m positive that I understood right.
I’m positive of what I am saying. I am positive that if a man is sincere and
honest, and go back and read the seven seals book, he’s got to find what I am
saying here. He’s got to find it, and if he doesn’t find it, my brother,
something is wrong with him. This is the truth of it.
Let me go over the
three-fold again for you. The seventh seal was in a three-fold manner. Two
folds were given to Brother Branham. One fold, he disclosed to the church. That
is what you have in the seven seals book. The next fold, Brother Branham kept
for himself, and the third fold, God kept for himself.
SEVENTH SEAL NOT OPENED – FLYING ANGEL HOLDS IT
The seventh seal is in a three-fold manner, God
revealed two to Brother Branham, one he gave the church, the second one he kept
for himself, and the third one, God kept for Himself, promising to reveal that
just before the rapture. We are nearing something. On that basis Brother
Branham fully declared that he don’t know that seventh seal revelation, and
warned the people not to interpret it, and make any ism of the unopened seal,
“it’s not to the public yet. It will be revealed about the time of the
coming of Christ. It’s held by an Angel called the seventh Angel.” The
seventh Angel is a flying Angel, and it picked up the earthly angel from the
earth. Therefore they were not the same angel. One was a flying Angel and one
was a walking angel. The flying Angel took up the walking angel, and took him
up in a cloud twenty-six miles high and thirty miles across the sky, and the
flying Angel flew eastwards with the seventh seal revelation. The earthly angel
went away in 1965 unto glory, but the seventh Angel that flew away with the
seventh seal, is still on earth. My God! I believe it. Brothers and sisters,
that’s the complete and the full understanding of the seventh seal in a
nutshell, what I disclosed.
And breaking it down for the
little children, a little smaller, Brother Branham was Malachi 4 that was sent
into the world. There was a seven seals
Book, and those seals locked up the whole Bible. Brother Branham was used of
God to open six seals, and the last seal was not opened. The last seal must be opened before the
Rapture takes place; otherwise nobody could go in the Rapture. That’s the
complete understanding. My brothers and sisters we understood this, not
probably in the depth that we now understand that, but we understood this as
early as the late sixties, knowing that the seventh seal was not opened. Just like I told you here, and this isn’t any
strange thing to me, that’s the truth. I’m tempted to say something, but that
flying Angel holds the seventh seal.
All kinds of questions could
revolve in the minds of people that first hear that, because they are so
centralized on the message of Malachi 4, Revelation 10:7. “What about
this? What about that? What about the next? What about the next? What about the next?”
Brothers and sisters, I am dealing strictly with the message, this is the
message. You place that where you want, the prophet of God said, “Do what you
want to. I have just spoken what was revealed to me”. I believe his revelation.
Based upon the understanding of the seventh seal/seven thunders, third pull,
coming of the Lord, that’s the highest revelation that anybody could get into.
Under the seventh seal, seven thunders, third pull holds the highest revelation
that anybody could climb up into. Brother Branham said all of that was wrapped
up in the Son of Man, and the revealing of the Son of man.
W.M.B. HOPED TO RECEIVE AND PREACH
SEVENTH
SEAL/SEVEN THUNDERS
Now, our brethren overseas
and many people around the world do not understand that there was one time,
since the opening of the Seals, that nobody preached “seventh seal”, and nobody
preached “seven thunders”, and nobody preached third pull. Nobody! They don’t understand that. That is
why I have to go back a little into this to let you understand brethren, that
after Brother Branham preached what he preached as the facts of the seventh
seal, Brother Branham left it like that and he never took that as a subject
again until he died. Although Brother
Branham hoped greatly, anxiously, desperately, that one day it could be
revealed to him, as late as 1965, Brother Branham came back to Jeffersonville,
and he said, “I am here for the purpose of preaching the seven thunders, but I
could not find the room”. Now, some
smart Alec might want to say, “Well if Brother Branham came to preach the
thunders, therefore it was revealed to him”.
How much sense does that make?
Think of that. Brother Branham
left Arizona in March 1963, to go to the Tabernacle for the preaching of the
Seals, and God never gave him until the day he had to preach it. So Brother
Branham was moving by faith in 1965. Hoping that the seventh Angel that is
holding the last seal will again give him in the same room. So that is no
evidence that he had the revelation, no, otherwise he will say it somewhere,
that “Brethren, the Lord interpreted to me the unknown Language and I could not
find room to preach it. He’d say, and I am here to preach it.” Brother Branham
was a man of faith. Don’t you know that Brother Branham, in order to operate
the third pull, which was Speak the Word Ministry, he went into a room several
times and tried it out? And it did not work, because the time was not yet. How
many believers of the message who read the message know that to be the truth?
One time Brother Branham took his wife in there and he came back out, he said
it didn’t work. He was trying to move by
faith, and it was by faith that Brother Branham came in 1965 to open up the
thunders. How many knows that Brother Branham had announced to preach the seven
trumpets? And when he got ready to
preach it, the Lord told him this is not the time; that is for the Jews. Brother Branham was a man of faith. He used to come in there and see if God would
want to do this at this time. He came
back and announced and said, “I went into the room and everything, but the Lord
told me this is not the time for it, it belongs to the Jews”.
Anybody that claims to be
preaching seven trumpets, is falsely led, is anointed of the devil, and they
are trying to run ahead of the Ministry of Malachi 4. They are trying to run
ahead of Moses and Elias. The seven trumpets, it was not revealed, but it was
revealed mysteriously under the sixth seal.
You say, but since it was revealed mysteriously, we have a right to
preach it. Why is it that, Brother
Branham, after he said that, now came to preach the seven trumpets? If the people could have gotten it why did he
now come to preach the seven trumpets and said, “I couldn’t get it”? It goes to show that even though something is
revealed mysteriously and hiding in something, it still takes a prophet to get
it.
TEN
YEARS OF SILENCE ON SEVENTH SEAL/SEVEN THUNDERS –
ONE SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
Based upon these facts and
the warnings that Brother Branham gave, not to interpret the seventh seal, also
in “question and answers”, after 1963, all preachers, my African brothers, down
in the Philippines down in India, United States, South America, wherever you
are, I am a witness, and we have many witnesses alive here this evening; that
after reading the seventh Seal, based upon those facts, all preachers were
silent on saying anything concerning the seventh seal, seven thunders and third
pull for ten long years, and that was 1963 to 1973; ten years of silence. The
reason we never spoke of the seventh seal, seven thunders and third
pull, we all realized that they are related together. The reason we never preached seven thunders,
seventh seal, is because of what we read in the seals book, because of the warning
of the prophet, Brother Branham. We
followed in line with Brother Branham.
We, at that time, for ten years, on the basis of the facts of the
seventh seal that I preached to you last Sunday, all believed and all preached
it just like Brother Branham, “It was not revealed. Do not interpret it. Do not interfere with
it.” We all, preachers and lay members, throughout the world belonged to the
first school of thought, because Brother Branham belonged to that first school
of thought. What is first school of
thought, Brother Bruce? First school of thought means, “seventh seal is not
opened”, seven thunders not revealed, third pull is not revealed, wait till God
reveal it. The flying Angel holds it.”
Now I will tell you, back there, we did not understand that the seventh
Angel held it. That’s the honest part of
it, but we knew it was not revealed, and we should not interfere with it. I am talking about every preacher in this
country, every preacher in the Caribbean, every preacher in North America, and
there was not one preacher that crossed this land that even opened his mouth
about seven thunders nor seventh seal opened, until 1974. That’s the true
testimony, and that is the picture. We
had men, wonderful men like Dan Daisley, Henry
Greene, Pearry Greene, the Martin Brothers, Aaron
Honeycutt, and many more that I could call their names here, we were all
associated together. Not one!
In 1969 to 1970, one fanatic
arose and it was the Bishop of this country in the Message, and I heard him
schooling some young fellows outside of a service day and he said, “The Thunders are revealed you know”. I
walked up to him in the midst of everybody there; I said, “Why don’t you read
the Book”? You like to speak about things that you don’t know what you are
talking about; the seventh seal is not revealed. Prove it to me?” He was quiet as a lamb. I said,
“Show me it?” The only excuse that he had, was to say, “ You have the
seven seals book? Could you bring it
down for me in the morning?”…pretending that he doesn’t have the book. Brothers and sisters I took the book for him
and he never even looked at it. I
brought it back home. After a couple
months, you know what that man told me.
“Aha, I was reading the seven seals and I found one thunder, and I was
looking for the rest of them”. He died
and never found them because the thunders is not in the seven seals book. It was in an unknown language and the prophet
could not interpret it. Are you getting
the true picture of what went on?
Brother Branham presented that seventh seal to us? He belonged to the
first school, which says that the seven thunders was not revealed. We belonged to it, we were obedient to the
prophet and we never did interpret the seventh seal based upon the forty (40)
facts, and more, that I presented to you last Sunday.
WE BELIEVE IN THE SEVENTH SEAL/SEVEN THUNDERS
We preachers and believers
throughout the world respected the seventh seal and seven thunders. And never put an interpretation for ten
years. So, preacher what you all used to
do in that time concerning the seventh seal / seven thunders?” We looked forward for the opening of the
seventh seal; we looked forward for the opening of the seven thunders. We looked forward for the third pull Ministry
that would do great things for the Bride.
We looked for it to be revealed because we were all conscious (as this
church is conscious and I am conscious and all preachers that preached, that it
was not opened in 1963), that we need the revealing of the seven thunders for
the translation of the Bride. So when we
say that we don’t believe in the opening of the seventh seal in 1963, we are
not saying that there is no thunders. We
are not saying that the thunders don’t have to come to the Bride; we are not saying
that the seven thunders will not translate the Bride. Everything that the
prophet said pertaining to the seven thunders for the Bride, to do whatever he
said concerning the seven thunders and the Bride; we believe that just like it
was said. So when we preach like that,
they go out, brother, and spread a rumor, that “they don’t believe in Thunders,
you know? The prophet said all those
things about the Thunders and they don’t believe in Thunders you know.” We don’t
believe your dogma, and your heresy, and your false interpretations of what
you’re calling “The thunders”! We want
something genuine, and it is promised to us, and we are going to have it. He said there is a specific time, there is a
specific hour, and a specific day for the seventh seal to be broken to the
public, and we are looking for it. I
further state that he said that when it does start it will start in secret
somewhere. All those things are what
Brother Branham said. When it starts, it will start in secret somewhere. The
Prophet said, “It’s not quite the time for it, but we are moving up into that
cycle”. Brothers and sisters, those are
many years friends, those are many years ago, we are moving up into that cycle,
Oh my!
NOBODY PUT ANY INTERPRETATION TO THE SEVENTH SEAL
We all expected the
revealing of the thunders and the seventh seal to take place, Brothers and
sisters back in those ten years we had unity, we had love, we had peace,
everybody agreed on the seven thunders and seventh seal unopened, we preached
the holiness message, we preached Serpent Seed, we preached no three Gods, we
preached Malachi 4; everything. We gathered under one tent, we had one
Communion Service. I am telling you about this country. When one preacher came down, the whole
country gathered together. There were no divisions on seven thunders and
seventh seal. We all wondered about the revelation, and we reverently put no
interpretations to It, since we all understood for ten years, to try to interpret
the seventh seal, seven thunders, third pull, is death. We realized it was
death to interfere with so great a revelation, and we took into consideration,
that if the mighty prophet called Elijah the prophet, was so reverent, so
respectful that he said that “… I must stop here, I feel checked to stop right
here, and say no more on it”. Do you remember those things? And we felt like if
he was so reverent and respectful and he would not disclose even some things he
knew, then we ought to be respectful and we took his warning very seriously,
because he said we will wind our selves off the beaten track and none of us
wanted to go off the beaten track, so we respected the thing. So now everybody,
or at least ninety-nine percent belonged to Brother Branham’s school that
declared that the seventh seal was not revealed. God revealed some things to him about the
seventh seal and he said, “I will give you my revelation”, that is how he
termed it; “I will give you my revelation”.
SECOND
SCHOOL OPENED IN 1973 –
MANY
DEFECTED FROM
Brothers and sisters in 1973
going to 1974 another school was opened up. This is the second school of
thought concerning the seventh seal / seven thunders; I say seventh seal /seven
thunders, because it is the self same revelation. Another school was opened in
1973 to 1974. Those who came to the Message just prior to that, brothers and
sisters could bear me witness that we never had any division on Thunders. Brother Quacoo you
were before that? Lots of people were here before that. It came in 1973;
another school was opened. The second
school of thought came into existence in 1973 and people today around the world
who are students of this school don’t even know the Principal. They are going around with a syllabus from
the school, and they don’t know, my brothers and sisters, who opened the
school; they don’t know the name of the school; they don’t know the Principal,
but a lot of them have become teachers in that school, and preachers in that
school, and I would say better than seventy percent of the people in the
message are now directly or indirectly belonging to that second school of
thought, and are preaching from that syllabus that was drawn up in 1973. My
brother, saying seventy percent is only a guess because I want to be sure, but
I doubt whether there be thirty percent in the world that believe exactly the
way Brother Branham taught it and yet belong to his school.
THE SECOND SCHOOL OF THOUGHT-JOSEPH COLEMAN
Those that once believed the
first school of thought that it was not opened, both old and new preachers and
students automatically defected from the first school; so they became defectors
from the first school, and went over to the second school. Here we have a “ Thunders fever” throughout
the world and here we have students of that school, preachers of that school,
teachers of that school, superintendents of that school, and supervisors of
that school, and some of them don’t even know how that school started. I am sending out this message to you to help
you to understand from faithful witnesses here, where this cult of the second
school of thought started from. I make
no apology, this is my congregation, and I am at liberty to expose the devil
and speak the truth. And I will boldly
state, my brothers and sisters, as a personal witness, how that school started
and who started it. I had this for last, but I will give you first. The man called Joseph Coleman in New York was
the first man that came with the idea that the seventh seal was revealed and
the seven thunders was revealed, and people that follow this “thunder doctrine”
throughout the world my brother, although they don’t recognize Coleman and
recognize his church, and although they might be against him, their Thunders
trace right back to New York in United States.
The second school of thought is built upon a heresy and it is a
cult. Preachers that respected that
thing, brothers and sisters, joined that school and fell for it overnight, like
dogs to their vomit, upheld for ten years, and went out following that. Excuse me my brethren, you know that I am not
a racist; but there was an element of race that was involved in this second
school, and the doctrine that went out is that God was trying to elevate the
Blackman, because he was put down by the white man, therefore God, revealed the
Thunders to a Blackman. It’s a lie of
the devil.
So then the first thing that
went out my brothers and sisters is that God is trying to elevate the Blackman,
and the black people catered to that doctrine openly; because they were fooled
by that lie. It went into Africa, and
they gladly embraced it. It’s a lie of the Devil! God is not a racist. All right Brothers and
Sisters that was the first man, his name is going to go right into this
book. Any man that will try to break
“the silence” for ten years, respect for the Seals, for ten years, is the
biggest impersonator that the message world have ever seen, and the biggest
impersonator, that the world has ever seen in this Message world. It has
corrupted, my brothers and sisters, the whole message world. I make no apology
for what I am saying, and who are vex please themselves; in America there,
Africa, India, China wherever this will go, “who are vex please
themselves”. This is the Word of the
Lord.
ALL FALSE THUNDERS TRACED
BACK TO NEW YORK
Anytime you see they attack
you with thunders, let me tell you, there is a great weapon: Ask them- where
you got your thunders from? And when they say-Tom; you say- Where Tom got it
from? They say- Harry; Ask Harry- Where
he got it from? You’re going to find
out, my brother, that Dick gave him it, yes.
Ask Dick-where he got it? And
it’s going to trace right back to New York.
Now, but some only reach far as Tom, but they could never understand it
came from New York.
Misinterpretation on the
seventh seal in disobedience to what the prophet of God told them not to do.
Didn’t he say if you misinterpret it you will wind yourself off the beaten
track? Well, they are off the beaten
track. If you disobey the prophet, you
are going to get into trouble. All right brethren, don’t get tired with me.
[Congregation says “No!”].
The things that I am telling
you here my friends, you aren’t going to hear it nowhere - people are too
dishonest. Everybody wants to run with
the Thunders Fever and the so-called Thunders Revival to make them feel that
they are in something, and they are spiritual.
I never ran with it – That is why they hate my guts, and they will
continue to hate my guts because I am going to speak the truth as long as the
Lord give me breath. Now let this go
down under your fifth rib – deep down into your soul.
THE DEATH SEED – THUNDERS REVEALED MYSTERIOUSLY
The Death Seed; the Seed of
Heresy; the Spirit of Error, that worketh in the
children of disobedience. That man in
New York, my brother and sisters, he forcibly twist the message just like
Brother Peter writing, an apostle with the keys to the kingdom. He said, some
things that Brother Paul wrote are hard to be understood, and they that are
unlearned and unstable, they forcibly twist it out of context. Anytime you
twist the Word out of context, you do it to your own destruction. And Pastor
Coleman twist the Word; and twist the Opening of the Seals; and twist the seven
thunders, forcibly out of context. I speak the truth in Christ and lie not- the Lord
bearing me witness.
And this is the Death seed
friends that Pastor Coleman put into the Message- and that is, he said that the
seventh seal and seven thunders was mysteriously revealed to Brother Branham;
and Brother Branham preached it mysteriously in the message- That’s the Death
Seed. I repeat that- He said Brother
Branham mysteriously preached the seventh seal/ seven thunders, and it is
hidden in the Message of Brother Branham.
He said, every ‘Thus saith the Lord’ is a
thunder. Therefore from Genesis to Revelation is only thunders, thunders,
thunders, thunders.
I listen to his tapes to be sure of what I am
saying- I listen to Vin’s tapes to be sure of what I
am saying. And I listen to these tapes of the heretics to know what I am
talking about. So it is not a fool standing before you - I check out these
things.
“The seventh seal/ seven
thunders was mysteriously preached by Brother Branham and it is hiding in the
Message; and every ‘Thus Saith the Lord’ is a
THUNDER” – that is how he pronounced it.
“Every ‘Thus Saith the Lord’ is a thunder” –
that is how he pronounced it. “Every
‘Thus Saith the Lord’ is a THUNDER… a thunder”.
MANY BEGAN TO MISINTERPRET SEVEN THUNDERS - 1973
Brothers and sisters, when that Seed was
sown, automatically it opened up a door for every ambitious preacher to
think that he is finding the Revelation of the Thunders, all by himself in the
Message of Brother Branham. My brother, people climbed up their ladder of
ambition; their ladders of self; their ladders of pride, Oh Yes! And that is all that they are filled with,
(all of them that preach the so – called thunders) pride, self, ambition,
boastful mouths and immorality.
SEVEN THUNDERS IS IN THE PYRAMID – WHICH PYRAMID?
That’s the man that forcibly
twisted the truth. When he did that, it
opened up a door brothers and sisters, he took something out of context that I
have here numbered as fact number twenty four, on the seventh seal - where
Brother Branham said that the mystery is held in the pyramid. You remember me reading that? Save me some time. He said the mystery of the seventh seal/
seven thunders is held in the pyramid.
Pastor Coleman took that from the seven seals and he said, “You see! -
He said the seven thunders is in the Pyramid.”
He did not even have the understanding to know which Pyramid Brother
Branham was speaking about.
578-1
{405} “And you remember, it was in the pyramid where the mysterious
white rock was not written on. And the Angels took me into that pyramid of
themselves, the mysteries of God known only to them. And now, they were the
messengers that come to interpret that pyramid or that message of the secret of
these Seven Seals which lays with inside the pyramid.” (Seventh Seal 24/3/63).
There are three pyramids that Brother Branham
preached about. One pyramid is in Junior Jackson’s dream. That’s the one that the seven thunders are
connected with- because it was the unwritten language in the Capstone that
nobody could read. I challenge the world
concerning that. There is another pyramid, and that’s the pyramid of the
angels. Each Angel had a seal; therefore
the Revelation of the Seals were in the pyramid of the angels. But the seventh one was the Capstone of the
pyramid. He held the seventh seal that was
not given to Brother Branham. The seventh Angel was the Capstone. Do you realize that Brother Branham said on
‘Sirs Is This the Time” that the seven thunders is in the capstone? Now you
figure that out how you want. I’ll
teach you it one of these days. I will take up that as a message. The seven
thunders is in the Capstone. You remember when he took a lever out of nowhere
and opened up Junior Jackson’s Pyramid, and he pulled the cap off, and nobody
could read it? That had to do with the seven thunders.
14-15
Brother Jackson." …He said, "I dreamed that there was a great
big hill, like out in a field where bluegrass..." And said, "Up on
top of this hill, where the water had washed away the soil, there was a top
rock up on top of the hill; like the top of the mountain. It was rock, no
grass. And where the water had washed down, it had cut some kind of readings on
these stones, and you were standing there interpreting this reading on these
stones."…"Then you picked up something, like from the air, something
like a wrecking bar, or a crowbar,”real sharp”…And
said, "You struck the top of that mountain, ripped it around, and lifted
the cap of it off. It was in the shape of a pyramid. And you ripped the
top of it off." Now, that was months and months and months before the
pyramid message was preached. And said, "Beneath that was white stone,
granite, and you said, 'The light, has never shined on this before. Look in on
this. Watch this." (Sirs is this the time? 30/12/63).
47-4 “Junie, I want to
take your dream…You notice, the writing that was on the rocks; I was
interpreting it for them. They were elated. That's the mystery of God that's
been not understood for years. Could that be that? And then notice. In some
mysterious way, we picked up out of the air a sharp tool that opened up the
top, and in there was white granite, but it wasn't interpreted. There
was no letters. I didn't interpret that, Junior. I just looked at it, and
said to the brethren, "Look on this," and that's fulfilled tonight.
While they were studying that, I slipped towards the west. What for? Maybe to
understand the interpretation of what's written in the top of this. Could it
be? (Sirs is this the time? 30/12/63).
SEVEN THUNDERS IS NOT THE SEVEN VIRTUES
The third pyramid that
Brother Branham spoke about is this – the Stature of a Perfect Man. Pastor Coleman, if the seven virtues are the
seven thunders, then Brother Branham preached them in 1962 when he preached the
pyramid Message. And if that is so, he
could not say in 1963 that it was NOT revealed to him. You have told the world a lie; and you
need to hold on to the cross and beg for mercy; and repent for your dogma and
your creed.
SEVEN THUNDERS MYSTERIOUSLY REVEALED BY W.M.B., IS A LIE!
That is the man that opened
up the second school of thought. And the Death Seed is when that man said that
the seven thunders were revealed, preached mysteriously by Brother Branham, and
it is in the message.
Beloved, we went through all the major quotes
from 1962 to 1965. Did you hear anything like that? Let me hear your voices. [Congregation says
“No!”]. You heard where Brother Branham
ever indicated that, “the seven thunders are revealed, the seventh seal is
revealed, but it is mysteriously”? [Congregation says “No!”]. All right my
brothers, but concerning the seven trumpets, Brother Branham said it was
preached mysteriously under the sixth seal.
That is where Pastor Coleman is typing from. He is typing out the seven trumpets, how
Brother Branham preached it mysteriously under the sixth seal. He got an idea
in his head that the seven thunders was preached mysteriously also. You lie!
If that had happened, Brother Branham would say that- but he never said
that.
OTHER MISINTERPRETATIONS THAT WENT WITH FALSE THUNDERS
When that Death Seed came
out, there was another thing that went with it. I don’t have time for it. Now if a man claims that the seven thunders are
revealed, everything that pertains to the seven thunders in the message, he has
to find an interpretation for it. Understand what I’m saying?
There are many things
concerning the seven thunders. If a man
claims that the seven thunders are revealed, he has to find an interpretation
for the New Name; He has to find an interpretation, my brother, for the Outpouring;
He has to find an interpretation for all those things that the prophet said. He
said that it is going to break a Bride’s Revival. He said, “the Bride has never had a revival
yet, it will take the seven unknown thunders to wake her up.” Therefore at that time Coleman broadcasted
that the Bride’s Revival had started; and the Latter Rain had
fallen. Yes Sir. When a man claims that
the seven thunders are revealed, he has to justify all the promises that
pertain to the seven thunders. So at that time, they made the new Name- the
Word of God. Another version came out
where the New Name is Jesus. Now they
have around, where the new Name is- Branham. Oh Yes! And there are many new names that came
up. Word of God- is one of the
versions. So when you are going to raise
the dead, you have to go over the dead and say, “In the Name of the Word of
God, be healed.” You’re a fanatic! You
are just flat out a fanatic!
When you claim that the
seven thunders were revealed, you have to connect a lot of things that goes
with that seven thunders. So now, the first thing that came out of that is that
they said that the seven thunders are revealed, but it is hiding in the
message, and they proclaimed that the Bride’s Revival had broken. That went out
around the world and everybody was in a Bride’s Revival; and then after that
they said a Sealing Revival broke in 1984.
And the majority were sealed by the Devil because they went out and
lived in adultery and fornication, lie, steal and curse.
WHY MANY DEFECTED TO SECOND
SCHOOL
People that never preached
the thunders jumped on the bandwagon. I
had good preacher friends that just jumped on the bandwagon to save their
churches, because when that started to move through the country, if you weren’t
saying, “thunders, thunders, thunders”, you were considered unspiritual. And these sharks were coming to eat up the
fish. So in order for these men to save
their churches, they started saying, “Yes, we see the thunders!” and
they had their own version of it. So
friends of mine, who never preached those “thunders”, jumped on the bandwagon
and started preaching “thunders” in order to save their churches. But we had
something keeping us here. And I invited them right behind this pulpit, I said
come and preach your thunders, come preach your thunders because it might have
elect, and that elect is ordained to see your thunders, and if anybody believe,
take them and go. They never got one sheep, because it was not the thunders.
I defy the thunders being
the seven virtues. It’s of the devil! The seven thunders is not the seven
virtues, it’s the coming of the Lord! It’s the event of the opening of the
seals. Christ is now standing on earth, believe it or not! And Jesus is yet in
heaven, Jesus is still on the altar of sacrifice, but Christ is now on
earth. I am not He, and I don’t know anybody that is present that is He, but He
is on earth.
That’s the man right up in New York. Now you see how
long this message could get brothers. When you claim that the seventh seal is
opened and the seven thunders is revealed, you have to go right through the
message and justify everything that is spoken concerning seven thunders: That
it is in the capstone etc. Since the seven thunders is in the capstone and it
is revealed, they went out with a doctrine that the capstone already came. You
see how it is related? The capstone is yet to come, it is the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit, Brother Branham said. Now I could go on and relate all these
things. I studied this thing from 1973, up to this point, and I studied the ins
and the out of it, not that I was looking for truth (the message is truth), but
I was looking to fight this devilish doctrine, and I have their number. It’s a
seed of discrepancy! It’s a lie of the devil; and the foundation of the second
school of thought is built on misinterpretations of the seven thunders. That is
the story of the thunders. That is where it started. That is why you hear all
kinds of things about new Name, latter rain fell, and seven thunders seven
virtues.
OTHER INTERPRETATIONS ON THE THUNDERS
Other interpreters climbed a little higher, and now
they say that Pastor Coleman was wrong, it was not seven virtues, it was at the
opening of the seals the full Word of God came, and Christ is the thunders, and
in Him has everything. In this Christ has the latter rain, He has the
translation, He has the rapture, He has the capstone, He has the third pull, He
has everything in Him, and as long as you accept the message you have
everything in you for the rapture; it can take place any day. That is the
height that went up to.
So now they have the full Word of God, at the seals
now, as the Joshua commission. Everything is in there. The white horse is in
there; the white eagle is inside of there. They condensed all the promises of
God, that Brother Branham was expected to fulfill in his life time and ministry,
and he did not; they condensed it in that one term, “the Word is Christ, it is
the opening of the seals.” “There is no more outpouring, no more revival to
come, everything is in the Word.” “As long as you believe the Word you are
ready for the rapture.” But look on the other hand, and see that they destroyed
the holiness message. It (the thunders) should take them on a higher plain, but
they destroyed the holiness message. I hope I’m not confusing you.
Now you see how many related subjects by that one
door of heresy being opened, they have to misinterpret. So now many other
doctrines arose concerning seventh seal/seven thunders which will take us
another week or two, if I will just bring out a little bit on each doctrine.
Out of that doctrine came several Parousia doctrines.
Yes. That’s a big thing. Out of that doctrine came eighth messengers. They
climbed a little higher and say, it’s not the Word, it is not the thunders,
it’s an eighth messenger, and he has the thunders. So we have one raise up in
the Philippines and hundreds raise up in United States, and some raise up in
South America. We have others raise up in Africa and South Africa, and the
whole world is filled with eighth messengers and all preaching seventh
seal/seven thunders. Can we finish in a couple weeks? [Congregation says,
“No!”].
So now this heresy that started in New York has
different variations, different schools open up, different branches open up, so
now the second school of thought have tens of thousands of different syllabus,
different teachers and different preachers. We don’t belong to it; it’s of the
devil! Jump high or jump low it’s of the devil, and I know what I’m
talking about, don’t you ever get frightened for me at all. When I preach this
message, I’ll go inside and lie down and sleep for five hours and get up again
comfortable as ever. I am no nervous wreck friend. I speak the truth in Christ
and lie not. I know what I am talking about. You hang your soul on what I am
saying.
TWO FOLDS OF SEVENTH SEAL
REVEALED – THIRD FOLD
NOT REVEALED TO W.M.B.
We believe the facts of the seventh seal. Brother
Branham said about the time close to the rapture, as we move closer to that,
the seventh seal will be broken to the public, but it will be going on in
secret somewhere, before that time. That heresy spread right through the world,
and the whole picture is that if you are not preaching the thunders
(so-called), you are unspiritual. That is how it is. “You mean at Bethel down
there they don’t preach the thunders?” “Boy, we feel sorry for those people.
They need deliverance. I think we need to go and tell them about the thunders.”
“So I will get on the pulpit and I would say that God revealed it to me. I will
quote Brother Branham, ‘God revealed it to me in a three fold manner’.” You
lie! You lie! You are taking it out of context. “God revealed to me-it’s in a
three fold manner. He revealed two folds to me and the third fold was in an
unknown language. One fold I will give you, one fold I will keep and the next
fold God will keep.” That’s what it said. That’s what he said. There is a
specific time for it to be broken to the public.
Oh my! You visitors, I hope I’m not boring you. This
may be very foreign to you, I don’t like to bore people but this is so
important for us that I got to go on. So you visitors, if you are bored with my
message and you want to go out to the facilities, go get some water, the Lord
bless you, this is not the regular trend, come back again.
Oh beloved, don’t you see it children? So now that
spread right through the world, right through the world. All right, now the
very quotations that we use to see in the books and hear on the tapes now, and
never thought that it was opened, now with that death seed, everybody start
seeing quotation here, quotation there and it built up into a sore ball of
pride. So you have a version in the Exodus. Oh yes! “Thunders” in the Exodus,
white eagle flying, seven trumpets blowing, a ball of pride. My beloved I think
that we are just one church here, together with just a handful, that don’t
preach the dogma on the thunders. Right in this country some are sitting and
waiting for the resurrection of Brother Branham to come back with the thunders.
FALSE THUNDERS DIVIDED
BROTHERHOOD
You see the conglomeration children? Am I coming over right Brother Chandler? Now can you imagine the thunders
confusion? Now if that was the thunders,
it never would have gotten into such confusion, because the thunders is
to unite the Bride. But what
has the so-called thunders done? We had unity before 1973. We had oneness before 1973, and if anything
came after 1973 that divides brotherhood in the message, it is of the devil. I
make no apology, for false thunders from New York divides brotherhood. They are pulling swords against one another
throughout the world.
Eighth
messengers arose, and needless to say, brothers and sisters, the seven thunders
revival that they claimed ended up in confusion. People hate the interpreter, yes, separated
from him, those that claimed to had gotten sealed and ready for the rapture
fell in adultery and some of them died from AIDS. Is that the thunders? Is that what the thunders suppose to
produce? You say, “You can’t put everybody
in a certain category. There are one or two groups among them that are
faithful, preaching the true thunders.” Where did, he get it? Who interpreted it? Who gave him it? Was he able to read the unknown language that
Brother Branham could not read?
The seven thunders was only hiding in one place, and
that is under the unknown language. Who
is there to read it? There is only one
that holds it and that is the seventh Angel and He is a flying Angel who picked
up the earthly angel. Before the people
go in the rapture, who follow this message, they will have to humble their
hearts. The worst mental delusion that
ever crossed this message is when they said that the thunders was mysteriously
revealed.
DEFENDERS OF FALSE THUNDERS
So now that our Exposition books have gone out,
tracts and some tapes, they are arising from every secret chamber, arising from
every secret closet, and some are coming out of their dens. Those books, my brothers and sisters, exposed
their false thunders and told them that they are a cult; so different ones are
arising who followed this thing from 1973 up to date.
Twenty-nine years the false anointed ones had to sow
their seeds and over night Exposition books went out and are causing some
trouble. The last one, the response that we got from it, is that they said, it
is the greatest book ever written and it’s a masterpiece- Five Doctrinal
Divisions Message Believers- showing that all the people that follow the
message in the world fit into one of these five categories and only one
category is right.
The demands for that book are great. They want them
by the stacks and it is causing a stir, but it is causing “thunders” men, “thunders”
heroes, “thunders” teachers, “thunders” preachers to come out of their holes
like zandolees [Lizards. Ed.] to attack the
Word of God. They want to know who is this little fellow, who are these people?
I am inside there fighting the battle.
It’s letters after letters, fax after fax. I’m fighting the strong bulls of Bashan, and the oaks of Lebanon are falling. I am not
saying this boastfully my brothers and sisters, not one of them is able to
withstand the Word of God.
I will read some letters of opposition one of these
days and I will read some letters that I wrote to counteract them. In every angle they came they were
whipped. Everyone that claimed the
thunders, there is only one question that I’m asking them: “Who interpreted the
unknown language? Who interpreted the unknown language to you to get the seven
thunders?” They jump like a rabbit here
and there. I said, “Come back to the
question.” Two letters…three letters. I
said, “Come back right here. Who
interpreted the unknown language to you to get the seven thunders? What is the coming of the Lord? It is hiding
under the seven thunders. How He came?
Where He came? You got to tell me
that.” Oh it’s too much!
So one fellow got some of our books. He wrote me a
letter and he sent me two books here- “Seven Seals are Opened”; “Seven Thunders
are Revealed”. He put no name on his
bullets. He put no address where I could
reach him. He told me the next book I
write, write a book of corrections. I am
doing that right now sir, but to you. And if these two books are heretical and
you have no name on it and no address, I will have to put a name and an
address. The author is a heretic and the
address is hell (The regions of the lost). That shows that you are a
coward! I put my name and my ministers
put their names on our books and gave you our addresses. If you could defend
your perversion of Brother Branham’s message and there is no name and no
address on your books, you are a coward.
I don’t know if you are a man or a woman. It more looks to me like a
woman, and if you are a man you have on a dress.
So, I will read Mr. Heretic’s letter addressed from
hell (The regions of the lost). Quote:
“AN ANSWER TO EXPOSITION OF DAMNABLE HERESIES
It is a sad day when the Truth
of the Message is called a damnable Heresy.
You need to check all of the Quotes on a subject before
Printing man’s interpretation of certain subjects.
On Page 55 Heretical article
11, “ the thunders were revealed by
Bro.Branham.” They were!
Where have you been for the past 35
Years? The quotes by the prophet says they were. Can’t you
Accept his words?
On Page 30, the statement was
made: “the 7’th Seal was not
Opened by Bro. Branham.” Such a false statement, when all the
7 Seals were opened. They are
mysteries, and every mystery was
revealed by the 7’th angel of Rev.10:7.”
Read These quotes I send, and then print another book of
Correction. The Word always
corrects the error!”
This is subtle isn’t it? Let me answer you here sir because, you said
to answer you in another book.
“…It is a sad day when the truth of the message is
called a damnable heresy.”
We are not calling the message a damnable
heresy. We are calling the cult of the
thunders that started in New York with a death seed (you have your navel string
buried down there), we call that a heresy.
“You need to check all of the quotes on a subject
before printing man’s interpretation of certain things.”
You are guilty of that. You gave me quotations and you jump like a
rabbit from beginning to end. I have
fulfilled your request on Sunday. I have checked all the quotations from 1962
to 1965 and you will get this book also.
“On page 55 Heretical article 11, “the thunders were
revealed by Brother Branham.” They were! Where have you been for the past 35
Years. The Quotes by the prophet says
they were. Can’t you Accept his words?”
Yes, I could accept his words but I refuse to accept
your dogma. Where have I been for the
thirty five years? In school number
one. I have been going to school in
school number one (Brother Branham’s school), and I am asking you since when
you joined school number two.
“…the 7 Seals were opened. They are mysteries, and
every mystery was revealed by the 7’th angel of Rev.10:7.”
One was not revealed, sir! According to the facts of the seventh seal, he
said one was not revealed to him, and that one which was not revealed was
outside of the book. You are mixing up
two different things. The mystery inside
of the book was revealed by Revelation 10:7, and all were revealed; but there
is a mystery outside of the book and there is a flying Angel holding that
one-mystery. You are mixing up the flying angel with the walking angel.
“Read These quotes I send, and then print another
book of Correction.”
We are doing that now sir and I hope you could read
it.
“The Word always corrects the error!”
Amen! And this is what the Word is going to do right
now. I am on the subject of seventh seal
Misinterpretation, therefore I bring your subject under consideration before
many hundreds of people, and you are stating here, on a twenty-four-page book,
that the seventh seal was revealed, and you have a five-page book that the
seven thunders was revealed. The very
reason you have a five-page book on the thunders revealed, you are force
fitting your doctrine into the message.
I am preaching that the seventh seal is not revealed and I can’t finish
up until now. Sunday was two and
three-quarter hours and tonight might be three hours and we aren’t finished
yet. Oh yes, I will pick you up on the
subtitle that you have here, Mr. whosoever you are, man or woman, and you quote
a scripture here to prove that the seventh seal was opened. The scripture you are quoting here-
Revelation 8:1: “And when he had opened the seventh seal there was silence in
heaven about the space of half an hour.”
Brothers and sisters these intellectual giants from
the first world put us third world people to shame. They cannot read their own Bibles. They
cannot understand English. Don’t make a
third world country man teach you how to read your Bible, sir. Anybody could
have read that in the days of Martin Luther in Revelation 8:1 when he
translated the Bible- “And when he had opened the seventh seal” and claim the
same thing that the seventh seal was opened in the days of Luther. So your scripture has no foundation. Brother Branham read this same scripture in
Rev. 8:1 and concluded that it was not revealed so your scripture cannot stand
up. You are misplacing the Word of
God. Now hear this. We quoted him, Mr.
Interpreter, just like he said it. He is
giving me a quotation from the seventh seal to prove that the seal was opened
and that
is what they do. They take out
quotations here and there from the seventh seal and picking like white fowls,
but they would not eat much of it, and when they write their books and come to
the pulpit they say, “here you see, he said it is open. Here he said it is open.” But they pull it
and twist it subtily and wrest the scripture and take
it out of its scriptural context to make it say what it did not say.
The way I will counteract this misquotation is by
the quotation of Brother Branham and reading it in its own context. This man stated here-Quote:
557-2 “No angels singing, no praises,
no--no altar service, no nothing. There was silence, hush, deadly silence in
heaven for a half hour. All the host of heaven was silent for this half hour,
when this Seventh Seal mystery in the Book of Redemption was broke open. Think
of it; but it's broke. The Lamb breaks it. (Seventh Seal 24/3/63).”
This man is
using page 557 to show where Brother Branham said the seventh seal was broken.
You know what he done, he took out just a little part from the context of it and
even stopped abruptly in the paragraph to just make Brother Branham say what he
did not want to say. I will prove you a
liar right now. That is exactly what the
serpent done in the Garden of Eden. Oh
yes. He said, “Ye shall not surely
die”. I am going to read it to this
congregation and we are all familiar with it and I am going to show you that
you are a liar and you are misinterpreting the Word of God. I am going to read your quotation first.
Right there, he stopped short. All right, he continues here:
557 (2) “ All the host of heaven was silent for this
half hour, when this Seventh Seal mystery in the Book of Redemption was broke
open. Think of it; but it's broke. The Lamb breaks it. You know what? They were
awed by it, I believe. They didn't know. There it was; they just stopped. Why?
What is it?”
I will continue to read now:
557-3 “Now, none of us know;
but I'm--I'm going to tell you my revelation of it. And now, I am not prone to
be a fanatic. If I am, I'm ignorant of it. See? I am--I'm not given away to
such as "leerious" or carry-ons and imaginary things. I've said some things might been
kind of strange to some people, but when God comes around behind it and
vindicates it and says it's the Truth, then that's God's Word. It may seem strange
that way. See?
557(4) And now, as certain
as I stand in the platform tonight, I had the revelation that revealed... It's
in a threefold manner. That, I will speak to you by God's help of a fold of it.
And then you... Let's go over there first. Here's the revelation to begin
what... I want to tell you what it is. What happens is that those seven
thunders that he heard thunder and was forbidden to write, that's what the
mystery is laying behind those seven consecutive thunders rolling out.
557-5 Now, why? Let us prove it. Why? It is
the secret that no one knows about.”
My brothers and sisters, this man is failing to
quote all the words of the prophet, and Brother Branham, in what this man is
quoting here just now, Brother Branham is speaking of what was going on in
heaven, about that time when the Bible said, “And He took the Book and opened
the seals…and there was a hush in heaven.” So he is painting that picture back
there of what John had seen, when it read there that when he had taken the book
and opened the first Seal unto to the seventh Seal, when he came to the seventh
Seal everything hushed. But then Brother Branham continued to speak now, and he
said, “We don’t know that revelation”.
All right, this man, he tried to find quotations…and
I don’t have time with his nonsense! You will get the facts of the Seventh
Seal, and you’d better check over your heresy and dogma with Brother Branham’s
words and quotations. All right. This man run straight out of quotations until
he had to quote directly from the seventh seal and contradict his own self. Now
the name of this book is “Seven Seals
Revealed” – the subtitle is “seven seals opened”, and hear what this man put in
his book:
“One of the mystery of that Seal, the
reason it wasn't revealed, it was seven thunders that uttered their voices, and
there it is perfectly, because nothing knows anything about it; wasn't even
written. So we're at the end time; we are here.” 568-2{335}SEVENTH.SEAL.THE
JEFF. IN SUNDAY 63-0324E”
That is my quotation. That is Brother Branham’s quotation. God made you contradict your own self. This is page 17, I am quoting from sir, if
you forgot your book, and then on the same page I am quoting:
“… Now, what this great
secret is that lays beneath this Seal, I do not know. I don't know it. I
couldn't make it out. I couldn't tell it, just what it and just what it said.
But I know that it was them seven thunders uttering themselves right close
together, just banging seven different times, and it unfolded into something
else that I seen. 567-1 {322}
SEVENTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_
63-0324E”. Page 17.
This is my quotation. This is what I am resting on. You are confused. The name of your book is “Seven Seals
Revealed” and you put quotations to prove that one was not revealed.
Your subtitle says, “Seven seals opened” and you put quotations in
here to prove it was not revealed and Brother Branham did not know anything
about it. Next quotation (three in a
row).
“That much we have a understanding
of it today, because the rest of it is all unfolded, but this is not unfolded.
But setting in my room, and I heard this--or not heard it, rather, but seen it
unfold to this seven thunders. Now, that's as far as we can go right there. 576-3 {394} SEVENTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN
MONDAY_ 63-0324E” Page 17.
I use these quotations to prove
my subject; you put it here, so this is very helpful to me. Oh yes. I am going
to read again:
“...We find that Christ, the
Lamb took the--the Book in His hand, and He opened that Seventh Seal. But you
see, it's a hidden mystery. No one knows it. But it--it's right along with what
He said: no one would know His coming; they also would not know about this
seven thunder mystery. So you see, it's connected together. 576-3 {394} SEVENTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN
MONDAY_ 63-0324E” Page 14.
“Now, we have in the
completion here now, by the grace of God, all the mysteries of the six Seals
that's been sealed up, and we understand and know here that the Seventh Seal is
not to be known to the public. 576-5 {397}
SEVENTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_
63-0324E” Page 14.
“No wonder, it wasn't even
written. You see, they hushed; nothing take place then. Angels don't know it;
nobody knows when He's coming. But there'll be a... There'll be seven voices
of these thunders that will reveal the great revelation at that time. So I
believe, to us who... If we don't know it, and we--we--it won't be knowed till that time, but it will be revealed in that day,
in the hour that it's supposed to be revealed in. 575-6 {392} SEVENTH.SEAL.THE
JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0324E”
Page 16.
“Remember the
Seven Seals is finished. And when those seven revealed truths... One of them He
wouldn't permit us to know. We... How many was here at the Seven Seals? Just
about all of you, I guess. See? The--the Seventh Seal, He wouldn't permit
it. 23-4
SOULS.IN.PRISON.NOW_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-22
SUNDAY_ 63-1110M” Page 22.
“That Seventh Seal hasn't opened yet, you
know; that's His coming. 26-4
FEAST.OF.THE.TRUMPETS -
JEFF.IN V-3 N-16 SUNDAY_
64-0719M” Page 22.
This man is very supportive to “Exposition of
Damnable Heresies.” So I have to say
with all respect, sir, you are talking nonsense, and you have shamed the third
world country people. It looks like you
are from the first world, filled with all that American pride and pomp, that
caused you all to interpret the words of the prophet and try to damn the rest
of the world. Oh yes!
Now on page 11 you are making sir, this Angel that
held the Seventh Seal, you are making Him Revelation 10:7, and it’s a lie of
the devil. The one that held the 7th
Seal is a flying Angel, and He flew away with it, and He was the one with the
rest of the angels who picked up the earthly angel, so you are definitely
confused and you have taken these things out of context. I am going to read
this here; this is your book page 10:
“And the end
time Seal, when it starts, will be absolutely a total secret according to the
Bible. Before knowing that... And remember, Revelations 10:1, 7 (1-7, chapter
10:1-7) at the end of the seventh angel's message, all the mysteries of God
would be known. We're at the end time, the opening of the Seventh Seal. 564-2 {301}
SEVENTH.SEAL.THE_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY
63-0324E
You misconstrued the quotation, and that is fact
number 10 and 11 you’re trying to misinterpret. When I send out this book and I
have these facts lined out like that, I want you African Ministers to study
this book. Brother Mawino…if
I am pronouncing your names right…Kachanje, Sagay and Brother Matimbe, and
our precious Brother Gaitan; whenever they turn up
the quotations, I want you to take that book and refer to it and say, “You are
not speaking according to fact number ten, fact number eleven, fact number
thirty, you’re perverted.
It is fact numbers ten and eleven that this man is
perverting here. He is trying to show
that all the revelation was supposed to have been revealed to Revelation 10:7,
therefore he opened the Seventh Seal. I
am going to give you it in its right context. The Seventh Seal, page 564 (4).
564 (4)“…Notice now, for the
end of time message this Seal, after all... He--He's revealed all the six
Seals, but it don't say nothing about the Seventh…”
Unquote sir, you
left that part out and you are forcefully twisting the Word of God, and you are
wresting the scriptures to your own destruction.
“…but it don't say
nothing about the Seventh. And the end time Seal, when it starts, will be
absolutely a total secret according to the Bible. Before knowing
that... And remember, Revelations 10:1, 7 (1-7, chapter 10:1-7) at the end of
the seventh angel's message, all the mysteries of God would be known. We're at
the end time, the opening of the Seventh Seal.”
We believe all
of that. Brother Branham, I believe, looked forward for the opening of the
seventh seal, right through his life, but then he understood differently, but
he emphasized that six seals were revealed. Yes.
He also
twisted another quotation, right here on page 564 paragraph two, in the very
same manner. I don’t have time with you. You are trying to prove that seven
seals were opened. Now this is the proof, that was used in this book, and that
is basically what they use around the world.
“SEVEN
SEALS REVEALED” TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT
Now everywhere
that Brother Branham say, “The seven seals were revealed the other day,” “You
remember when He opened the seven seals?”, “You remember when I preached the
seven seals?” I will give you a few of their quotations. Some of it, my
brother, is taken from “The rising of the sun,” “Standing in the gap,” “Souls
in prison, invisible union,” “Marriage and divorce,” “What is the attraction on
the mountain,” “Seed not heir with the shuck,” and a few others here showing
you that the Book is opened. So now these intellectual giants, they went on,
and when the prophet of God is speaking and say, “You remember when the seven
seals were opened the other day”; they went through all his tapes and picked
out all of that and said, “You see where the prophet said that the seven seals
(not six), seven seals were opened. Don’t you believe the prophet?” Forcibly twisting the Word of God out of context.
All
right, Brother Bruce how do you account for that? Brother Bruce, in defending
“Exposition of Damnable Heresies,” how do we
stand against these Goliaths of America and these giants of America, against
all these heresies that they try to push down our throats? Let them know from
the seven seals that Brother Branham said that six seals were revealed and one
was not revealed, and when Brother Branham said on his tapes and books, “The
other day when the seven seals were opened,” he
is not referring to seven individual seals, but he is referring to the event of
1963, and he is referring to the seven-sealed Book. He is referring to the seven- sealed Book – the Book that was sealed
with seven seals.
I
have the proof right here for you brethren, and I
am going to quote it. Now don’t get tired (you’re going to get five or six days
off; go and enjoy it, have a good time, come back here to fast and pray over
the weekend; fast out the Kentucky, all the McDonald, let us empty our souls).
33-3
“The Lamb took His Book when the Seventh Seal, just ready for it to be
opened--the Sixth Seal. Remember, He hid the Seventh Seal from us. He wouldn't
do it. When the Angel stood day by day telling it, but then He wouldn't
do it on that one. Said, "There's silence in heaven." No
one knew. It was the coming of the Lord.” (Souls in prison now 11/11/63).
Brother
Branham started to say seven seals, but when he caught himself, he thinks that
somebody is understanding that all seven are opened, and then he said, “I mean
the six seals,” and he explained now, he said, “Remember one of them He would
not reveal.” That is 1963 the eleventh month. I will read another one:
23-4 076
“Now we see these things. Remember the Seven Seals is finished. And when
those seven revealed truths... One of them He wouldn't permit us to know.
How many was here at the Seven Seals? Just about all of you, I guess. See? The
Seventh Seal, He wouldn't permit it.” (Souls in prison now 11/11/63).
I am proving to you that that’s a terminology that
Brother Branham used, a “phraseology” that Brother Branham used about 1963,
when the seven seals were opened, and it was not seven identical seals he
was talking about, he was talking about the event of 1963, not the
“mysterious event”, but the preaching of the seals. And then, when he caught
himself saying, “seven seals were opened”, he would stop and explain; he said,
“one of them remember he wouldn’t permit it.” So it was a terminology and a
phraseology that the Prophet used by saying “Seven Seals were revealed.” Doubt
it anybody! You can’t! I challenge the world.
“This Book's already opened (