BIBLE STUDY #237 – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
TITLE: THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Saturday, September 20, 1997
(Second activity)
Chinandega, Nicaragua
Scripture: Revelation 8:1-5
THE TEN VIRGINS AND THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Reverend William Branham says that the gentiles will take the Gospel to the Jews as the Jews brought it to the gentiles. And what does that indicate? If it is Moses and Elijah who will go with the Word to the Jews, and the gentiles will take it to the Jews, then these ministries will appear first in the midst of Christianity, even if we don’t identify them…; but the wise virgins, remember, will identify those ministries.
Even though the foolish virgins will not identify it… Although there will be a blessing for the foolish virgins with the opening of the Seventh Seal in the manifestation of the Third Pull, of which Reverend William Branham spoke about.
Now, the ministry of Elijah and Moses are those who are going to take the Gospel to the Jews. How is the Gospel of the Kingdom going to be for the Jews? That is something that is being left alone for the time being, so that people don’t visit them and divert them from the Divine Program.
The Jews will recognize Moses and Elijah, they will recognize the Two Olive Trees, they will recognize these ministries. They will know that it will not literally be Moses but a prophet like Moses, a dispensational prophet, a greater prophet. And the ministry of Elijah will be – and Elijah coming for the fifth time will be a prophet like Elijah, where God through His Holy Spirit will operate the ministry of Elijah in the Last Day.
And the Seventh Seal will be in the same way. Just as the Sixth Seal is Moses and Elijah, the Two Olive Trees, the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord to His Church. And we are not going to explain that until the Third Pull, until the Third Pull comes in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision. That is where the whole mystery will be completely opened, and Christ will work through His Spirit in the midst of His Church all that has been promised.
But just to give you a clear picture… I know that some, when that time comes, will say: “But that is what I believed, I knew that!” The words to that person will be the same words that Christ said to Peter, “Flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father who is in heaven.”
It was said… Reverend William Branham also said, “I am building a platform for someone else, let him come and stand on it.” He also said, “I am building a platform for my Lord.”
If he is the forerunner, the one forerun will stand on the platform that he prepared for him, the biblical platform. Everything he said about the Coming of the Lord preparing the way, it will be based on what the forerunner said there; and all the Scriptures of the Bible will be there, based on everything that the Bible says that is what the Holy Spirit said through the Reverend William Branham, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, and of which the Holy Spirit gave us more light of those promises of the Second Coming of Christ.
(…) The Seventh Trumpet is the one sounded by God through these ministries. Page 128, paragraph 1143, says [Quotations]:1
1143 – “[155] Under the Seventh Trumpet, is to Israel (remember, the Seventh Trumpet for Israel)… is to Israel the same as the Seventh Seal was to the Church.”
In plain words, since the Son of Man, Christ, comes with His Angels… and His Angels are the Two Olive Trees. And those Two Olive Trees are the ministries of Moses and Elijah repeating themselves on the Last Day.
What will be for the Church-Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the wise virgins, what will be the Seventh Seal, the Coming of the Lord; will be for the Jews the Seventh Trumpet: Moses and Elijah.
When the Church knows the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Coming of the Lord, she will be able to say: “I also know the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet, the mystery of the Two Olive Trees.”
As it was on Mount Transfiguration, where Christ was showing the order of His Second Coming. They appear there: Christ glorified, and Moses on one side and Elijah on the other side; that is the order of the Second Coming of Christ. He comes with His Angels, which are Moses and Elijah, the ministries of Moses and Elijah repeating themselves.
We will speak more clearly about this subject on another occasion, since Reverend William Branham said that it wasn’t convenient to speak… He was told not to speak about certain things of the Third Pull and what he saw in the little room. And this is because the enemy tries to copy everything that the Church-Bride carries out. That is why sometimes you will find people coming out trying to imitate what God has promised that He is going to do. And the enemy does all that to deceive the people, so that when the real thing is done, the people say, “That is the same.”
But Reverend William Branham said: “Of this there will be no copy, of this there will be no imitation.” There can only be an imitation when people already know about what is promised and they start trying to imitate what is to come. But this mystery of the Seventh Seal the enemy doesn’t know.
The wise virgins will know it fully at the corresponding time: in the fulfillment of the Vision of the Great Tent Cathedral that Reverend William Branham saw, where the Holy Spirit will be working, the Pillar of Fire will be there, the Angel that accompanied Reverend William Branham will also be there; and not only Reverend William Branham, surely the messengers of the different ages will also come; but above all, Reverend William Branham will be there.
It’s because for the full fulfillment of the Third Pull, the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of the living will have to occur, will occur.
How long will The Great Tent Cathedral that was seen by Reverend William Branham be in operation until the resurrection of the dead and the transformation of the living occurs? We don’t know. But whatever time it is, compared to eternity it will be very short, and compared to Christ’s time until now it will also be very short. But what has been promised by the Lord will happen.
It is up to us to be ready, and to prepare for the Lord the things He said to have ready for His Coming: the people, and what He needs to have physically for His manifestation.
Look, the Scripture said that the Messiah would come on a donkey, on a colt the foal of a donkey. The one who raised that colt, who had a donkey and that colt was born, that donkey…, perhaps all those who had donkeys also wanted to have donkeys, mules and donkeys, thinking: “When the Messiah comes, I want to have a colt, a donkey, that no one has ever sat on it.” Just as all the Jewish mothers desired to be instrument in bringing forth the Messiah. And you see, God provided Himself with that donkey using a man who had that little animal, and the mother of that little animal; the Lord needed it and there it was available for Him.
For the Last Day, according to what the Reverend William Branham saw… Remember, everyone desires and believes (and it is normal) that Christ in Holy Spirit is in their church, in their congregation; and that is correct. And for the Last Day there will be a Great Tent Cathedral, in which Christ will be manifested and will give us the faith to be transformed and raptured.
And it doesn’t matter which country people are in: they will see it through satellites, through the Internet, through television; and they will receive, wherever they are, the faith to be transformed and raptured. They will not have to go to the place where the Great Tent Cathedral is that Reverend William Branham saw. There will be those who are from that place and some who will be visiting on some occasions, and those whom God continues calling to give them salvation and eternal life.
But those who are in other countries will be able to stay in the country where they live; and from there perhaps they will see everything that is happening in that place so clearly, through the television screen.
Therefore, there is no need to worry. If people live in another nation, don’t be thinking: “I’m going to the place where the Third Pull is being fulfilled, in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.”
It is important to understand these things in order not to lose the thread of divine revelation. Because the person who loses the thread of the divine revelation enters into fanaticism; and instead of helping, what he does is harm; and no one is interested in having a person or persons who are interrupting the Divine Program, who are causing problems. Therefore, it is important to understand these things and to know that each person remains in his place, and there he will see all that God is doing at that time.
Each minister is responsible to have the best possible equipment for them to see everything that will be happening. So every pastor, every minister, is called to have the best for his congregation.
We are in a time of great expectation of what God has promised and in what God has promised.
We know that the great tribulation is near, which will be the time span of three and a half years, which corresponds to the second part of the seventieth week of the prophecy of Daniel, chapter 9, verses 21 to 27; but we don’t have to be afraid of the great tribulation.
When the great tribulation is taking place, the believers in Christ, the wise virgins, will be at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb with Christ, in the dimension of God, the heavenly Father’s House, the seventh dimension. So there is no need to be afraid of the great tribulation.
THE ANGELIC VISITATION TO THE HUMAN FAMILY
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Cayey, Puerto Rico
We also have the promise, that there will be a full manifestation of God in the midst of His Church, just as there were temporal manifestations in His Church, from stage to stage, from age to age, where the Holy Spirit manifested Himself through a messenger and made a reality what was promised for each age.
For our time there will also be an angelic visitation, and there will be a full manifestation of Christ in His Church, to crown the Divine Program, and thus crown the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And thus complete His work with a Golden Seal in a Golden Age, which corresponds to our time.
It will be the greatest angelic visitation that God has ever carried out in the midst of the human family; because with that visitation He will give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. With that visitation He will reveal to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, which is the greatest mystery of the Bible. To such a degree that Jesus said that no one, not even in Heaven, knew when the day and hour would be. The day and hour of what? Of the Second Coming of Christ.
(…) Therefore, the full Coming or manifestation of the Son of Man, for the Last Day, His final manifestation, will be in the West. That will be what the Jews will see and say, “This is the one we are waiting for!” And that is where we are going to leave it.
And I don’t know if we will have to wait until the time comes of the opening of the Seventh Seal, which the Seven Thunders, the Voice of Christ, will open to His Church in this end time, in the Third Pull, to give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
THE WORKS OF JESUS UPON ENTERING JERUSALEM
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Every year, and many times during the year, we remember the entrance of Christ to Jerusalem; and thus we don’t forget that important event, which should be a teaching so that we don’t make the same mistake that was made during the First Coming of Christ when He was rejected. And Christianity must have knowledge of this historical part so that it doesn’t make the same mistake that Israel made two thousand years ago.
Reverend William Branham said that the Coming of the Lord will be simple; therefore, we expect something simple to human sight, but great in the sight of God. And it will be God fulfilling what He promised to carry out in this end time.
This is how we will recognize Him: by Him fulfilling every one of the promises He made for this end time for His Church, and then for the Hebrew people. No one else will be able to fulfill those promises, of the things that have been said that Christ at His Second Coming is going to carry out.
That is why Christ said: “Watch.” Watch for what? For the Coming of the Lord for the corresponding time.
All the time God’s people have to be watching for the Coming of the Lord: that it doesn’t pass over them as it happened two thousand years ago to the people of that time. Because whoever overlooks it: loses the blessing of Christ that He has for His people for this end time.
In the works that Christ was doing when He entered Jerusalem, He showed by the works who He was. He said: “If you don’t believe in me, believe the works; for they bear witness of me.”
What were the works He was doing? To fulfill. Fulfilling what God had promised that the Messiah would do at His First Coming. Those works were the ones that bore witness to who He was.
That is why He said: “Search the Scriptures, for they bear witness of me.” They are… [John 5:39]:
“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”
Therefore, the Scriptures being fulfilled under the ministry of Jesus bore witness that Jesus was the Messiah; for no one else could fulfill those Scriptures. It was God in and through Jesus fulfilling His promised Word, His promises for that time; so it will be for this end time.
Therefore: “Watch and pray that you may be accounted worthy to avoid all these things (divine judgments that are going to fall upon the Earth, in the great tribulation), and to stand before the Son of Man (to stand before the Lord at His Coming for the end time).” [Luke 21:36].
Everything is going to be simple. We will see Him fulfilling what He promised to carry out in this end time; we will see Him sounding, playing, the Last Trumpet; we will see Him opening the mystery of the Seventh Seal; we will see Him fulfilling every promise He has made for this end time; and then we will see Him transforming all of us in this end time: that will be the greatest sign.
But before that, we have to believe all the promises that have been made for God to fulfill in this time, and see them as they are being fulfilled.
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1 64-0719M – “The Feast of the Trumpets,” p. , para. 115