BIBLE STUDY #233 – SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2022
TITLE: THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB WITH THE SEVEN HORNS AND THE SEVEN EYES
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Tuesday, September 16, 1997
Esteli, Nicaragua
Scripture: Revelation 5:1-7
THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN HIS PEOPLE, THE GREATEST BLESSING
(Ministers Meeting)
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Therefore, evangelization has to continue until the last one of God’s chosen enters; pages 102 and 103 [page 123 in Eng.] of the book of The Seals, and also 115 and 116 [page 143 in Eng.], all those pages talk about that.
10571 – “[40] Therefore, you’ve had the Word, and you know what to look for, how to stand.”
And where will the chosen ones look? To where the Word is.
Where will the elect look? To where the presence of God is.
And when that stage is reached, then those who didn’t believe will say: “Truly… truly there is the presence of God, there is the presence of Christ manifested in all His power, in His absolute power, fulfilling His Third Pull.”
(…) The Jews will see this great manifestation. They will say: “But this is what we are waiting for!”; for they are waiting for the Messiah and they are waiting for Elijah. Let’s leave that alone there, since it is for them…
But you will see: As we are in an intertwining of the Dispensation of the Kingdom with the Dispensation of Grace, and the Dispensation of the Kingdom has to do with them, therefore, there will be a gap there between the Sixth and Seventh Seals for their calling.
Therefore, there is going to be an approach of the ministry of the Last Day, which will do these things. And that ministry will be the one that will do these great wonders and signs, where the absolute power of God will be manifested; there will be no limitations.
By the creative Word all that is necessary will come into existence. Reverend William Branham says that even members of the body of the people, members of the body that are missing, will be created; therefore, that is going to happen.
And now, the Third Pull will be for the world, for the lost, for those who didn’t receive Christ; and by that time there will be no more opportunity, says brother Branham, the Church will have already been completed.
And it will also be for Christianity in general: the foolish virgins (who had no oil in their lamps) and for the Church-Bride (that is, for the wise virgins, who will still be here on Earth when this is happening).
Now look, the other paragraph follows, 1058, where it says, on the same page 119:2
1058 – “[50] I may be building a platform for somebody else to step on.”
“For someone else to step on.” John prepared the platform for Jesus, Moses prepared it for Joshua; and so on and so forth we can see how one is the one who prepares the platform and another is the one who goes up on it.
(…) And now, there will be a ministry that will do great wonders, he said; and that will be in and the Third Pull. And he saw the Third Pull being manifested, where?
When he went in, he was taken and he went in, and he was in the air, he wasn’t stepping on the ground; in other words, he wasn’t physically on the ground in the vision; in other words, he wasn’t physically on the ground of that place where he went; he was in spirit. But he saw preaching, he saw calling and he saw a line of prayer for the sick.
And he says that the Angel told him:3 “That will be the Third Pull, and you will not tell anyone (don’t tell anyone).” Why? Because they will imitate it. But if nobody knows, nobody is going to take the risk or know what to do or how to do, they won’t know the mechanism.
Now, let’s see what all this that was said is linked to. There will be a ministry that will do great wonders, and he saw it (that, that ministry manifested) in the Tent Vision. Therefore, somewhere that place will arise; and each person desires it to be in his country.
(…) And now, is it not already said that there will be a building, an auditorium, a tent, a cathedral?, which will look like a tent or a cathedral. He couldn’t define it only as a tent but as a great tent, a building, a cathedral, an auditorium; in other words, its characteristics were different from the tents of those times (or he wanted to hide all the mystery of it, that vision).
The thing is that he saw the ministry that was being operated there: he saw the souls coming to the Feet of Christ (he says), therefore, it is linked to Christianity; he saw miracles: it is linked to Moses and Elijah; he saw that he was in the air: therefore, it wasn’t him, nor was it his, the tent or cathedral; and he says it was something gigantic.
That is why he wanted (what?) to have a giant tent; because he saw all that, and he wanted it to materialize under his days, under his ministry; he struggled, but that Third Pull wasn’t with him in all its fullness.
He saw the Pillar of Fire, he also saw the Angel that always accompanied him, He was with him there, talking to him. And he asked, when he saw a small room (and he saw that people entered that small room, and it was made of wood, and sick people came in, some with crutches or on stretchers, and they came out healthy), and he asked: “Why there?”
The Angel says to him:4 “Didn’t the Lord say, ‘When you pray, go into your room, into your chamber, and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father who sees you and hears you, who sees you and hears you (or listens to you), and He will reward you in public’5?” Look at how those words, how they will be fulfilled there.
No one heard prayer, no one heard anything; no one knew how miracles were performed, that miracles happened; all that so that no one would imitate. And then the people who went out gave public testimony.
And now, the Angel tells him… He saw the Pillar of Fire that came out and went over… and went to rest where the little room was. In other words, all this speaks to us of a very important place that will be in the fulfillment of that Tent Vision, where the presence of God will be in the Pillar of Fire, as it was on the ark of the covenant, on the mercy seat, in the midst of the two golden cherubim.
And the Angel tells him… Then brother Branham in his angelic body went with the Angel, the Angel took him, the Angel went too; therefore, the Angel will also be there, the same Angel. But watch, he is already seeing (even before the Angel was there), he is seeing the miracles, he is seeing all those things. And the Angel says to him, “That is the Third Pull, and you will not tell anyone.”
(…) And now, he places that he comes like John the Baptist: that is, he comes like Elijah, he came like Elijah forerunning the Coming of the Lord, he comes with the spirit and power of Elijah; and he comes like the birth of Jesus in a stable there in Bethlehem of Judea.
Well, how will he be born then? In the Kingdom of God one is born of the Water and the Spirit; and we are not going to talk much there so as not to open much that mystery of the Seventh Seal.
But notice, after being born in Bethlehem of Judea He was persecuted even as a child. And then he was taken to Egypt. And from Egypt He was called when the Angel told Him to go to the land of Israel, because those who sought His death had already died.
And then he grew up as a construction worker, a carpenter; they also say that He had (He or Joseph; and therefore, the family) a good blacksmith business as well, in addition to the woodwork or carpentry. A woodworker in those times was a fine carpenter (and a common carpenter: the one who made houses and things like that).
And now, God hides all that secret and appears (as far as his secular life is concerned) as a construction worker, a carpenter; and for many years He was there working in the workshop, but He also had His religious labors.
You see, He went, when He was 12 years old… They always went every year; but when He was 12 years old He was teaching the teachers there in Israel when they found Him; for He was lost, and they found Him in the temple.
Christ comes for His Church, and where are they going to find Him? In His Church; because in His Father’s business it is convenient for Him to be. Business is God’s Program, which He has to carry out; that is to work in the Work of the Lord, in the Lord’s business.
And now, when the time comes for Him to have a three and a half year ministry, that is when He is baptized and anointed with the Holy Spirit for the three and a half year ministry.
And there is a very great promise for the Church and for the Hebrew people. There are even books of the Jews that say that the Messiah will not be the Messiah until He is anointed as the Messiah; and that he will be a common man; and that he will not even know that he is the Messiah until he is anointed as the Messiah; and that he will be proclaiming the everlasting peace.
And we are not going to do a lot of explaining, because they also point out that Elijah will come and he will be preaching, proclaiming, the everlasting peace. So something great is coming for the Jews and for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; because both are waiting for the same person. And before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes, before the great tribulation comes, before those three and a half years come, the promise is [Malachi 4:5-6]:
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
Before the judgment of the great tribulation, Elijah will be on Earth in his fifth ministry. He will be first among the Church, among Christianity, but only the elect will be able to identify him; and then he will also be among the Jews, and they will identify him when the precise time comes.
When the time comes for the full manifestation of the Tent Vision, of all that will be happening in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, there he will already be anointed for that ministry; and the Spirit of God will fully operate that ministry of Elijah; the ministry will be producing those great signs and wonders.
And what the Sixth Seal and the Sixth Trumpet is for the Jews: is the Seventh Seal for the Church; says Reverend William Branham in the message: The Feast of the Trumpets, and in the book of Quotations, pages 128, 129, 130 and 149, and 136 (which I read to you), and 138, and 141 and 146 also.
So all of that will be linked, joined, in the fulfillment of the Third Pull, which will be in all its fullness in a giant Tent or Cathedral; but which will operate that ministry in a small room.
But that —since we have equipment— what will be happening (maybe not in the small room, but outside) can be seen by television, by satellite, by all the churches, all the believing groups of the age relevant to our time, and also the groups of all the churches, and also the political world, and also all the people of all the nations.
That is why he says that the great portion —which will be: the miracles on a worldwide or international level— will be under Elijah and Moses. And that is in accordance with Revelation 11; because they will already have the Title Deed there; they will be operating, or the Holy Spirit will be operating those ministries, already with the Title Deed open, and not in their hands.
Christ receives it in His hands, opens it, brings it in His hand; but He gives it to a man, who takes it in his hand, but eats it: He will already have the Title Deed, the Word (Christ) within him in all His fullness. And therefore, it will be Christ speaking through him.
And therefore, it will be the ministry of Christ being operated by the Holy Spirit in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision; and it will be the manifestation of the power of God without limitation.
We all want to see that Tent appear somewhere. And as each person desires the best for his people and his country, I also agree with you who are present here.
Where do you want that giant Cathedral, Tent, to appear? Everyone wants it to be here in Puerto Rico. I also agree with you and I am arm in arm with you.
And may God have the person, the instrument He is going to use, for that. He will have it. He has to have him; and he has to have him already grown up; he has to be old enough for that ministry; and he has to know enough about all those things.
But surely he will not tell the people and the ministers everything he knows about that mystery, so that there will not arise among his own people, people who will make imitations; because he will love them all and will wish the best for all. And the best for all is —that Third Pull— to be fulfilled in that giant Tent that was seen.
Printed in Puerto Rico
1 63-1229E – Look Away to Jesus
2 63-1229E – Look Away to Jesus
3 The Seals, page 561, para. 299
4 Voice Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 2, March 1956 / Compendium of excerpts “The Introduction of the Second Coming…” page 308
5 Matthew 6:6, Isaiah 26:20