The Fifth Seal
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9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Introduction.
Introduction.
Communion Sunday evening.
This is just an overview of the Seals, refreshing our memory, so we can deal with the 7th Seal in greater detail.
1. There is no mention of a Beast, Living Creature, Horse, or Rider in the Fifth, Sixth or Seventh Seal.
1. There is no mention of a Beast, Living Creature, Horse, or Rider in the Fifth, Sixth or Seventh Seal.
84 Why isn’t there one here on the Fifth Seal, to announce It? Here it is, according to the revelation that the Lord Jesus gave me today, see, or this morning, early. That is, that, the mystery of the church ages are already finished, at this time.
The mystery of the antichrist is revealed, at this time. The antichrist took his last ride, and we found him on this pale horse, mixed with his many colors, and rides all the way into perdition.
Remember he was given a name, he was exposed as “Death”.
Four Beasts were to combat Four Horses:
White Horse- False teaching; opposed by the Lion- Pure Word manifested by the Holy Ghost
(They thought they were doing God a service by pulling off into their own clique)
108 Well, you know, like little cliques will rise up in the church. You, you know it, you pastors. They, like they say, “Birds of a feather.” But if we’re born again, brethren, that’s not the attitude to take, see.
109 If we see something wrong in our brethren, let us just pray and keep it before God, and love that man till we bring him right into the Presence of God. See? That’s the way, really the way to do it.
110 You know, Jesus said. “There will be weeds in there,” because Jesus said there would be, “but don’t pull them up; you’ll take the wheat with it.” See, “Just let them alone.” He’ll do…Let Him do the segregating when the time comes. See? Let it all grow together.
Red Horse- Physical Persecution; opposed by the Ox- Sacrificial Labor
(Polycarp)
140 Don’t forget this, church. And you brethren, on tape, I want you to examine this. How could men do anything else besides the power of God that had been released to them?
Black Horse- Spiritual control of purgatory, etc. opposed by the Man- Godly Wisdom
(Luther, Wesley, etc.)
Pale Horse- Spiritual Death; opposed by the Eagle- Prophetic Revelation
(No certain mystery)
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
2. These souls are not the Bride
2. These souls are not the Bride
Most teachers saw these as Christian martyrs.
220 Now, these cannot be them souls. Because, the souls of the righteous, martyred, and the righteous people, the Church, the Bride, has done been took up, so they wouldn’t be under the altar.
Who are they, then, if they’re not the early Church? This is Israel that’s to be saved as a nation, all them that are predestinated.
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
226 Now, they are Israel, that’s under this altar. Watch. Israel was blinded for the very purpose of us being saved. You believe that? Now, who blinded them? God. God blinded His Own children.
227 No wonder, Jesus, standing there at the cross, and them Jews howling for His Blood! That was His Own kids. And He was the Scripture. He was, Hisself, the Word.
And here, He knowing that those people would have gladly received Him! And that’s the reason He blinded them, so they wouldn’t recognize Him. He come in such a humble way, and blinded them to it, that they wouldn’t receive it.
The Scripture said they would do it. And He blinded. Was blinded! Jesus pitied them, even so much, as He said, “Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they’re doing.” See? They were blind. Paul said they were blinded for a cause, for us.
Example: Joseph
1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
229 They, see, they had not a chance, because they were blinded by God, their own Father; so that the grace of God could be fulfilled, so the Bride could be took from the Gentiles.
God crossed Jacob’s hands, and the Gentiles were brought in. A people that were not a people.
13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
He blinded His own children, for me, but He has not forgotten them.
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That I will make a new covenant With the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt; Which my covenant they brake, Although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, And write it in their hearts; And will be their God, And they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For they shall all know me, From the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: For I will forgive their iniquity, And I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, And the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, Which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, Then the seed of Israel also shall cease From being a nation before me for ever.
37 Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, saith the Lord.
251 He had to blind His Own child. Now, think of that. Blind His Own child, to give us a chance, and we turn It down. Now, don’t that make you feel about so little that you could crawl under a concrete block with a ten-gallon hat on, and never touch it? That’s pretty small, you know.
He cannot cast off His elect.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, That I will seek to destroy all the nations That come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, The spirit of grace and of supplications: And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, And they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, And shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
They’ll finally see it, when the Gentile age is over.
6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
257 He’ll say, “Oh, I got them in the house of My friends.” See? Oh, then they’ll realize that they have killed the Messiah. But what will He say? The same as Joseph did it. “You did it to serve life.
Don’t be angry with yourself.” Because, that, the Gentiles would not have been brought in if the Jews hadn’t have done that blindfolded trick. So, He saved the life of the Church, by the things that they done. So there you are. That’s the reason, today, they can’t understand This; it isn’t the hour.
Why are these not the Bride?
a. They were killed for the “testimony they held” not the testimony of Christ.
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
286 And those souls that’s been martyred, now, down through here, real, true Jews down through there; that had their name on the Book, that lived the right life and done the right thing, lived Judaism to the dot.
b. They asked for revenge.
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
They were martyred by Eichmann and many others. Honest people, millions of them down there! And them Germans shot them to death, and murdered them, and killed them, and hung them on fences, and burnt them up, and cremated them, and everything else.
They were hated without a cause, and they wanted revenge.
271 Now, if that had been the Bride, it’d been like Stephen: “Father, forgive them,” you know.
And notice how these are crying out for vengeance. They cannot be bride material. The bride turns the cheek and cries, “Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do.” An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages (7 - The Sardisean Church Age)
c. They were given white robes
Revelation 6:11 (KJV 1900)
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them;
228 Notice. Now I want you to watch this real close. “They were given robes.” They didn’t have them. They were given robes, white robes, each one of them. Now, the saints now have, already have one; they get it here. But, there, “They were given robes.” And the saints already had theirs, and gone on.
3. They are waiting on their brethren to be killed like they were
Revelation 6:11 (KJV 1900)
...and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Fellowservants = Two prophets
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
This is Moses and Elijah
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
(Pentecostals always looking for great signs)
Brethren = 144,000
277 Now notice. Now notice, “Thy brethren.” “Thy brethren had to yet be killed,” which means the hundred and forty-four thousand yet to be called in the Tribulation.
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
279 Also, now watch, they have to be martyred by the antichrist. We just come through; and notice, in his last ride, where he breaks that covenant with them Jews down there.
4. The Bride is already waiting with white robes.
4. The Bride is already waiting with white robes.
(Beyond the curtain of time)
394 And then that Voice said, “You’ve been gathered to your people, like Jacob was gathered to his people.” I said, “All these, my people? Are all these Branhams?” He said, “No. They’re your converts to Christ.”
(He preached what Paul preached)
If John looked over There, and them was of his brethren, see, his brethren that had to suffer a little; then, see, the Lord God permitted me to see my brethren and the saints that were waiting for the Coming of the Lord.
Notice, they were not under the altar of sacrifice; mine wasn’t. But, these was, they were martyrs. See? Mine wasn’t under the martyrs’ altar.
434 Look. They, they were not my…the ones that the Lord showed me, the Bride, She was not under the martyrs’ block, no, the sacrifice altar of the martyrs; but had received white robes, by accepting the pardoning grace of the living Word. Christ had give them a white robe.
(No soul sleeping)
I think This disproves that. They’re not sleeping. They are alive. Their bodies, asleeping. But, the soul, not in the grave, they’re in the Presence of God, see, under the altar.
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
451 And I am so grateful to God that I can say, as your pastor and brother, I’ve seen those people, so help me, in that body, and handled them with my hands.
458 And I truly believe, with all my heart, that the true revelations of the revealings of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Seal, is now open to us. 63-0322 - "The Fifth Seal"
Conclusion
Conclusion
If there is in this building, tonight, that person, young or old, that has to this time spurned that opportunity that cost God such a price, and you would like to accept that offer to God, tonight;
that you don’t have to, as far as we ever know, to be a martyr, though you may be. But a white robe has been provided for you. And if God knocks at your heart now, why not accept it!