The Fourth Seal
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7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Introduction
Introduction
We have come through a brief overview of the first three seals, and now we come to the last of the four horses, the pale horse.
The Living Creature that showed John this seal was the Eagle.
This is where we are, looking at the end of all things.
(Traveling out west)
Now we can see the end of all things that happen on the earth.
And he said, “Come and see the fourth mystery of the Book of Redemption, that’s been hidden in this Book. Come, see.” And John went to see, and he saw a pale horse. And, again, the same rider upon this pale horse.
Now he has a name called Death. Now notice. None of the other rider, or none of the other horses, or no time that this rider ever rode, they didn’t have; that man had no name. But now he is called Death.
(Not revealed under the Lion, Ox or Man)
But in the eagle age, the last age, the prophetic age, where there is to rise prophetic utterance, see, to whom the secrets always comes!
(Bro. Branham lingers for some time on the Elijah ministry)
We don’t need another Elijah, Elijah has come, the Word has been introduced and has taken the preeminence among us.
God always likens His prophets to eagles. He calls Himself an eagle. The eagle goes so high, there ain’t nothing else can touch him. Not only is he up there, but he’s built for that position. When he gets up there, he can see where he’s at.
Natural and spiritual death. 68 million natural deaths, billions of spiritual deaths.
And in this fourth horse, if you’ll notice, all…The first one was white; and then the next one was red; and the next one was black; and the fourth one, all of these other three was represented in it; because, pale is red and white, and so, mixed together.
(Antichrist in four stages)
First, antichrist, white; second, false prophet, red; third, vicar of heavens and earth and purgatory, black; fourth, the beast, pale horse, Satan being kicked out of Heaven.
You want to read that? Revelation 12:13, Satan being kicked out of Heaven. Then in Revelation 13:1, 8, he is incarnate in the person of the beast.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Now we find out here, that this Satan, after being kicked out of Heaven, incarnates himself in the beast. And now he is a beast; antichrist, false prophet, and now beast.
And given the name of Death! And Hell follows him! Fully Satan, on his throne!
Now, this happens later on. He is false prophet now. He will become beast, after a while, when he breaks his covenant there with the Jews.
Here he is, sitting here, with this beastly heart in him. Now, here is the person, the beast, the incarnate devil.
Watch, rides a pale horse as he appears on his ride, this last ride. He’s on his last now. Now, that is not in our day. That will be on down. It’s the Seal, foretold. Cause, see, the Church has done gone up when this happens.
(Eagle showed us what is coming)
This fellow appears, and becomes completely, completely the devil; from antichrist, all the way down, through false prophet, then into the beast, the devil himself.
And he is riding on a pale horse, colored all up, and mixed with all kind of colors, to make him pale and deathly.
But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.
A horse is a beast that represents a power. His power is all mixed up. Why? It’s politics, it’s national powers, it’s a religious powers, it’s demon powers. It’s all kinds of powers mixed together, a mixed, pale horse was. He’s got all kinds of powers.
But when Jesus comes, it’s on a one solid-color horse, the Word. Amen!
Three powers united together, see, all mixed up in a color, pale. Death spoke in the whole thing; political, and religious, and demon powers, mixed together.
Politics, he is the king of politics, Satan is. Smart! Whew! Sure. Don’t try to outwit him. Just trust the Lord. That’s all.
The fourth stage of this rider is called Death. Death means “Eternal separation from God.” That’s what death means, to be Eternal separated from God.
(Saints sleep, they don’t die)
Now, remember, this antichrist, himself, being the man; his bride, which is his church, “was given a space to repent, and she did not do it,” in that church age, Thyatira.
20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
“I will kill them with death.” And if they’re killed, they’re Eternal separated. All right. Remember, He gave her a space to repent.
Thyatira Age was the dark age. The dark-horse rider rode in that time, when all the masses and everything had to be paid for, and the prayers, and the novenas, and so forth.
Now see his black horse, then, after he refused to repent in Thyatira, (what?) changes his riding from a black horse to a pale one, death, for his last ministry.
(Individual rejector)
See the loving, longsuffering of God! Before He passed judgment upon her, He gave her a place to repent. And it’s in the Name of the Lord I say this: He has give the Protestant church the same thing, and she won’t do it.
The Message has shook everywhere, and she won’t do it. She is going to have her own dogmas and creeds, I don’t care how much you explain It.
(Last plague in Egypt)
That’s the last plague that’s hit the Pentecostal church, is spiritual death. She is dead. That’s in the Name of the Lord. She is spiritually dead. He gave her a place to repent, and she rejected It. Now she is dead. She’ll never rise again.
(Sleeping virgin will not get oil)
Her rejection makes the perfect way for Satan to come into her and be incarnate.
And that’s exactly the same thing that the Protestant church becomes, a harlot, is because she rejects the vindicated Truth of the Word of God, and that gives the devil a place to come right in and incarnate himself.
And he’ll make an image unto the beast when they consolidate them together, right yonder now, and going just exactly what He said.
See how longsuffering? What a wonderful love! There’s no love like that! Look at those, even that spit in His face and things, He forgave them. That’s God, see.
Look, she was asked to repent, go back to where she fell from. Now, where did she fall from? From the original Word of the apostolic apostles and prophets. That’s where she fell from. That’s where the Protestant fell from.
Repent! Go back! Turn back before it’s too late. It ain’t already too late. One of these days that Lamb will leave His place, and then it’s all over. So is her daughters been asked now, before being judged with her, to “return back.”
Then what do they do? They finally form up in the image unto the beast, another power; notice, and act, to the Lamb’s Bride, like she did in Revelation 13:14.
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Hell followed this rider.
Revelation 6:8a (KJV 1900)
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him...
Now, hell always follows death, in the natural. When the natural man dies, hell follows him; that’s the grave, hades, see, that in the natural. But in the spiritual, it’s the Lake of Fire, see, all right, into Eternal separation, where they’re burnt up.
Look what this is all coming to. What is it? It’s going right back the way it did, and started in Heaven. It’s coming to the end-time battle.
Now, the battle started in Heaven. It’ll be finished on earth, in the form of Armageddon.
The antichrist refuses the true Bride Doctrine, and therefore he takes his own bride now and builds her up, under a creed of his own. Takes his own bride and makes her a denomination!
She gives birth to other denominations, as quoted in this Holy Scriptures; gives birth to daughters. And she becomes just like her mother, natural, worldly, denominational; opposing the spiritual Bride, the Word.
Example: Esau and Jacob
He is gathering them together, on his mixed-colored horse, ’cause he’s got political power.
They are gathered by false doctrine to armageddon. We are gathered by the true Word to Christ.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Now watch where he gathers them, “From the four corners of the earth.” They are gathering now for the showdown. The showdown will be at “Armageddon,” according to the Word.
Now here they are, joining themselves together, coming to that showdown, to Armageddon, and riding on a mixed-colored horse; with one horse of white, one horse of red, one horse of black.
The three, different: political power, spiritual power, controlled by demon power, which is the antichrist. Mixing that all together, and you got a pale, sickly-looking thing he is riding on.
Look what he is riding on, this pale-looking, grizzled-colored horse, mixed with black, red, and white; coming to the battle, gathering his subjects from every nation under Heaven!
Did not Daniel interpret the dream, and seen that streak of iron run into every kingdom, of Rome? Here they come, gathering.
They are gathering in now to do it, bringing his subjects from the four corner of the earth; riding a pale, sickly, three-colored, mixed horse. Same man!
Now, in Revelation 19, not only is he getting ready, but Christ is getting ready to meet him. The battle is going to be hot and heavy.
Christ is gathered His, not from the four corners of the earth, because there’s going to be a little bitty remnant. What’s He doing? He is gathering them from the four corners of Heaven.
He also has a Name, not death, but, “The Word of God,” Life. Amen. Got wrote right on His thigh here, “The Word of God.” That’s the only Life, because God is the only source of Eternal Life there is. Zoe!
And He has got wrote, “Life,” riding on a white horse; and here is a man with three different powers mixed up, called “Death.” Gathering his earthbound delegates; and Christ is gathering His Heaven-born subjects, saints.
Those with Him are on white horses, also, and they are called, “The chosen before the foundation of the world.” Amen! And they are faithful to the Word.
“Called, chosen, before the foundation of the world.” And then, faithful to the Word, by their choosing, all stimulated with new wine and Oil, just riding right along, coming down to meet him.
Here we see Life and death coming to the final struggle. The white horse, of true Life; the pale-horse, of mixed creed.
(Original color)
And, when, if He is the white horse, and He is the Word; then, to mix anything with That, any kind of a creed, add one word to It, take one Word away from It, is to pervert the whole thing.
Truth and error cannot mix. It cannot mix. It’s either the THUS SAITH THE LORD or it’s wrong. No matter what holy father said it, Saint Bonifer, or the archbishop of Canterbury; I don’t know who said it. If it’s contrary to the Word, it’s perversion.
It won’t mix. Say, “Why, this fellow done…” I don’t care what he done, how much holy he is, or anything like that. This is the only direct Truth that we have. No church, no creed, has no Truth, if it’s outside of This.
Now how is the battle going to go?
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Here comes Satan, with all four corners of the earth, with his Protestants and with his Catholics, and all together, marching right up to the Battle of Armageddon.
And here comes Jesus, coming down from Heaven, with resurrected saints, vindicated Word.
Notice, now, He’s come with resurrected saints, vindicating that His Word is true.
So Satan knows, then, the bottomless pits is ready for him.
Now, you notice what happened, see. After death, their dead bodies are destroyed by wild beasts.
(Jezebel)
Revelation 6:8b (KJV 1900)
..And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Jezebel, in the Old Testament, is a type of the church today, according to the Word of God, of Revelation 2:18, 20.
36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
The same thing happens to the Jezebel church and her daughters:
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
The Jezebel church, her (actually) body, is to be eaten by fowls and beasts of the earth. Just exactly like Ahab and Jezebel was, in the natural, so are they to be, in the spiritual form, a church.
Oh! Elijah was the prophet in the days of Ahab and Jezebel, natural. And he is promised to do the same thing, according to THUS SAITH THE LORD, in the Word, to the Jezebel, spiritual; his Spirit-form of ministry.
Elijah, though, in his day, properly and profoundly vindicated, could not turn them back to the Word.
(Elijah and the 7000)
Look, Elijah never knew even one of them was that way. He thought he was the only one saved, until God opened one of the Seals and showed him the mystery in the Book, that He had seven hundred that never bowed down to them creeds that they had.
That’s the reason I think John was doing a lot of shouting the other night. He must have seen his name on There, you see.
Here is the Fourth Seal, opened. And the riders of the four horses is revealed, to the best of my knowledge. Now, this is all that took place on earth.
Next Seal, we see, is in Heaven, where souls are under the altar. 63-0321 - "The Fourth Seal"
Conclusion
Conclusion
What power are you following? What will Elijah’s Message do for you?