The Third Seal
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5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Introduction
Introduction
Two services Sunday, and Bro. Alan’s finances class.
Services in Galena starting Friday night the 22nd.
Bro. Josh Martin September 24th two services.
Paragraph 250-339.
All these seals are relevant today, each one of these powers ride out into eternity.
(Lamb opens the seal, third beast says come and see)
Now the Lamb opens another Seal. Another one of the living Creatures, like a man, said, “Come, see.” Now he walks up, see what this is. And when he does, there comes a rider on a black horse.
This rider, let’s discuss him. If you’ll notice the first rider, who he was. And we found out, last night, Scripturally, that the second rider was exactly the same man, only he was on another horse.
What happened? He changed his ministry. We found out he was an antichrist, and he had changed his position.
(Around the time of the third church age. This is when he begins to ride)
(Three stages before satan becomes incarnate)
(antichrist, false prophet, beast, justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost)
This rider is the same one, but another stage of his ministry. The first stage, a white horse, see, he was just a teacher, just an antichrist teacher. He was against the Word of God.
(Bro. Branham defines Antichrist)
And now how can you be an antichrist? Anybody that denies that every Word of this isn’t true, and to be taught just the same, is an antichrist, ’cause they deny the Word. And He is the Word.
Now, first stage, white horse, he was just a teacher, but an antichrist spirit in its doctrine and its quality. It was innocent. It couldn’t hurt nothing, seemed like; just go on. That’s the way Satan comes in.
(Eve and the serpent)
Watch this antichrist spirit rise up amongst the early church, a doctrine of Nicolaitane. Nikao, “conquer” the laity, make a holy man.
(This spirit produced denominational lodges)
There is only one Church, and that’s the mystical Body of Jesus Christ. And you’re born into That, that’s right, by predestination.
39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
Same rider, now. This first stage, he was innocent. And second, now, if you went a little bit higher, a little more than that; the second stage, the Bible said he’d be “given a crown.” And they crowned a man, a superman.
And, then, the Bible didn’t call him a pope. The Bible called him a “false prophet.” Why? Of course, he must be a false prophet, by his antichrist spirit, that taught antichrist against the original Word.
Now, now, when he did that, then what did he do then? He, Satan, took his political power, which he was already over, and took the religious power, which he had already been crowned, and put them together.
(Nicene Council, finally resulting in purgatory)
Now his great power comes. He was made vicar of Heaven, and worshipped as God. Ruler of the earth, by uniting the church and state together, made him ruler on earth; give him a crown over that.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Now I have to say this just the way it come to me. And then and if it come to me and didn’t compare with the rest of the Scriptures, then God never give it.
Scripture has to agree with Scripture. And anything is contrary to the Scripture…If that Angel of the Lord told me anything that wasn’t Scriptural, I wouldn’t believe Him.
(Chicago ministerial association. “We’ll believe it if the angel said it”.)
Now, now here is the mystery of this. And now, It, when It revealed to me early this morning, ’fore daylight. Then I went quickly to the Scripture and begin to look, search it up.
Now here is the mystery of the black horse, according to what it was revealed to me.
He has started riding him in the time of the dark ages. That’s what the dark horse represented, the dark ages, for it was a time of midnight to the true believers that was left.
(A little strength)
Practically all hope had been taken from the true Church, for this fellow controlled both church and state. What they going to do?
See, Catholicism had taken over, both church and state. And all, didn’t agree with Catholicism, was killed. That’s the reason he was on a dark horse.
Now watch. All hope was gone. That’s his black horse.
Now, here he is on his black horse now, coming forth. Dark age, that was that time. Just about the time after the church got set up, and got in power, they smothered out everything else.
(Dark ages)
There is your dark horse, representing that dark age. Now, all hopes gone; no hope at all. Everything looked dark, for the little believers.
“His balances, or his scales, in his hand,” you see. Calling out, “Measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny.” See, actually, that is, wheat and barley is natural staff of life. That’s what bread and stuff is made from.
But, you see, he was charging for this. What it means, that, he was charging his subjects for the kind of the hope of life that he was sending out to them, by making…He started in that very time, of making them pay for prayers, charging for prayer. They still do it; novenas.
Cause, what was he doing? Capturing the wealth of the world. The scale, weighing out, “Measure of wheat for a penny; three measures of barley for a penny.” The rider on a black horse, see, he was stripping his subjects of their money.
You see where that old money-taking, in church, comes from? Get away from that stuff; to build an organization, a big something, million-dollar here. And you see what the mother of it is?
He was charging for that kind of a life that he was giving to his subjects. Charging for prayer by the priests, to pray people out of purgatory. Charging!
(Explain Novenas)
Somebody have to charge for that. Bringing the wealth of the world to him, into hisself, into the church itself. And he is still riding. Oh, sure he is. Yes, sir. Still riding!
A voice speaks out into that dark age.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Now, oil symbolizes the Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
(Zechariah’s vision)
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, Saith the Lord of hosts.
(Foolish and wise virgins)
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Now, oil typifies Spirit. And wine symbolizes stimulation of revelation.
Oil and wine, in the Bible, is associated together, always.
23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: For he hath given you the former rain moderately, And he will cause to come down for you the rain, The former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, And the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
When the Truth of a promised Word of God has been truly revealed to His saints that’s filled with Oil, they all get stimulated. Wine is a stimulation. Glory! I feel It right now.
Stimulated with joy, shouts! See? And, when It does, It has the same effect upon them that wine does upon a natural man.
Because, when the revelation has been given, of a Truth of God, and the true believer filled with Oil, and the revelation is revealed, the stimulation becomes so great that He makes him behave hisself un-normally.
Right. Glory! See, that’s what’s the matter with them now. That’s right, makes them behave theirself unseemingly.
(Dramatize Upper Room)
He said, ‘You stay there until! You stay there until Joel’s prophecy comes to pass, until Isaiah’s prophecy is a vindicated.’”
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue Will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; And this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
What is wine, in the Bible? Refreshments. “This is the refreshments that comes from the Presence of the Lord.”
So, you see, wine represents stimulation of revelation. And when the Holy Ghost fell, and they seen the Fire of God fall upon them, my, that begin to stimulate them.
And the first thing you know, they got so stimulated till the people actually thought they were drunk, but they were stimulated by the revelation.
By God’s…Here it is! God’s vindicated revelation, made plain to them, they was happy about It.
God promised it. Here it was revealed to them, and vindicated to them. Amen! Here was a man standing there, saying, “This is That! This is It!” And there It was, being a vindicated by the same sign that we have today.
(Gave Peter boldness)
Oh, how wonderful! Revealed! Revealed! They become so stimulated when they seen it vindicated. That just always does that. It always does.
When I see that God promised to do a certain thing in this day, when He promised to break off these Seals in this last day! And you don’t know the joy, the glory, when I seen Him reveal this, stand there and watch it happen!
And know that I’ll take any person, to charge: He never did say one thing to us but what happened that way. And then to see the joy that’s in my heart, when I see His promise for this last days, as He promised to do it.
And here I see it vindicated and made perfectly right. You hear me say, “I feel religious.” That’s what’s the matter. The stimulation is so bad, I just about ready to go to cutting up, you know. Stimulation, from revelation!
They become so stimulated, over the revelation, that they vindicated, all right, the promise.
Now, oh, my! There broke out the joy of stimulation, till the people said, “They’re drunk on new wine,” when God revealed His promise to them. And not only did He reveal it, but He proved it.
(Woman at the well)
Then the stimulation started. And away she went, shouting, and down through the city. She left her old waterpot, and went down there, and said to the men, “Come, see!”
Now, if you only knowed the Eastern traditions, that’s wrong for her to do that. Yes, sir. A woman of that type, nobody would listen to her.
No, sir. See, she had a mark, and If she would go down the street like that, and act like that, the men of the street pay no attention of her.
But, brother, she had a Word of Life there! She was stimulated. It was like trying to put a house out, on fire, on a windy day. Oh, there’s something fanning it! She was ready.
They couldn’t put That out. That was God’s Fire burning. Yes, sir. She said, “If you don’t believe it’s so, you just come over here where the meeting is going on. I’ll show it to you.”
And so the men went out there. And He didn’t do it one more time. But they knowed something had happened to that woman. She was changed, so they believed Him. Yes, sir. They believed on Him.
(She was so changed by the revealing of the Son of Man, the Word, she was so stimulated by the Message, they believed it.)
Cause, “Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the promise of God, the Word of God, and watch It being made real.” Cause, It’s a seed. And when It’s sowed, It’ll take Life. It’ll produce just what It’s talking about.
Then what does It say to this rider in black? “Don’t you hurt My wine and My Oil! Don’t you touch It, My wine and Oil! I’ve got just a little bit of It down there, but there’s still a little bit there.
Now you can go on through and measure out all that kind of life that you’re putting out; that’s up to you. You’re going to pay for it down there. But when you come across that wine and Oil, you leave It alone!”
In other words, like this, “If you catch some of My little Flock, that’s filled with My Oil and wine, see, wine and Oil of the pure Word, see, and you are going to kill them.
Cause, you, you’re doing it. That’s what you’re doing. Don’t you force them to say any ‘Hail Mary,’ or do anything like that, or some of your creeds.
You keep your hands off of them. They know where they’re going, for they are anointed with My Oil. And by being anointed with My Oil, they have the wine of joy, ’cause they know My Word of promise, ‘I’m going to raise them up again.’
Now we find out, he measured it out and charged for it, exactly: wheat, natural, natural life. It’s what they was living on.
But, symbolizing; Spirit, Oil; and joy of the wine. “That spiritual Life, don’t hurt That. Leave It alone!” Otherwise, “Rome, don’t you touch It! It’s Mine! That belongs to Me!”
Notice, it was not one of the four Beasts that said, “Don’t touch the Oil and the wine.” Did you notice that?
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
What was It? The Lamb! Amen! It wasn’t the four Beasts. The Lamb said it. Why? He is going to take His Own. That belongs to Him. He has redeemed it.
“Don’t you touch that Oil!” No, sir. Not the four Beasts, but the Lamb was the One that said it.
(Voice of the beasts, voice of the rider, voice of the lamb)
Well, to the best of my understanding, and the best that I know of, and with all that I believe in my heart, that’s the true meaning of those three Seals.
I want to thank God for it. And I’ll say this, that, it’s the revelation that He give me. He gave that to me, the revelation of It. And I do believe that we’re living in the last days. 63-0320 - "The Third Seal"
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bro. Branham didn’t know what the seals were until the day he preached them.
This Message is not a man’s idea, the Message came from the throne. When we realize that, and realize who we are, that revelation will stimulate us to worship the Lamb.
I Love Him
