The Sixth Seal
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12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Introduction
Introduction
My intention with these Six Seals is to get you interested, so we can lay a groundwork for the Seventh Seal. Listen to the Messages!
These things int he Sixth Seal happen after the Bride is gone. the Bride cannot go through the Tribulation.
68 Cause, see, She has not one sin, not a thing against Her. The grace of God has covered Her over. And the bleach has took every sin so far away, there is not even ever a remembrance of it;
...not a thing but purity, perfect, in the Presence of God. Oh, it ought to make the Bride get down on Her knees and cry out to God!
Bro. Branham tells a western love story.
(He told them to hold their bibles open to Matthew 24 and Revelation 6.)
This seal is the judgment seal, the tribulation period.
1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
(Tuesday afternoon, April 4th AD 30, then Tuesday evening)
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Three questions:
1. When shall these things be?
2. What shall be the sign of thy coming?
3. And of the end of the world?
Jesus is answering all three questions.
First Seal
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
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4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Second Seal
3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
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6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Third Seal:
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.
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Matthew 24:7a (KJV 1900)
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines,
Fourth Seal:
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.
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...and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Fifth Seal:
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.
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9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Sixth Seal:
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
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29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
He omits the Seventh Seal:
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
This is the nation of Israel.
Example: Jacob’s trouble.
(Jacob wrestling, Israel wrestling with God until they see something real)
There stands Moses, and there stands Elijah. Amen! They’ll wrestle with God until one hundred and forty-four thousand of the tribes of Israel are called out right there.
(Preaching repentance)
(Sun became black. This has happened before)
21 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Now, God was about to deliver Israel there, all right, bring them out of their enemy’s hand, which was Egypt, at that time.
274 Now, here, He is bringing them out of the Roman hand, where they had made their covenant. Same thing happens.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
279 The predestinated, you see, that’s written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, shall be delivered at that time.
283 Here, God is about to deliver His second son, Israel, after the Tribulation.
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.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
(Holy Ghost fire. God’s Word expressed through a prophets lips.)
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.
294 What is it? What can bring these things but the Word? They can do nature any way they want to. Here it is. They’re the one who brings on this Sixth Seal.
They uncover and open it up. It’s the Power of God, to interrupt nature. See, the Sixth Seal is completely an interruption of nature.
There is your Seal. Who does it? It’s the prophets, the other side of the Rapture.
296 And now here is these two prophets standing here with the Word of God, to do anything to nature they want to. And they shake the earth.
298 They opened that Sixth Seal. They have power to do it. Amen! There is your Sixth Seal coming open.
301 Here is the secret of it, the prophets, ’cause the Bible said so here. They can open it, any time they…They can do anything to nature they want to. And they do the same thing they did do, amen, ’cause they know how it’s done.
(This is very special to Bro. Branham)
309 Here, God is about to deliver His son, Israel, after the same manner of the tribulation that He did down there. He sent Moses down there and delivered Israel. Is that right? And he done these very same things.
He sent Elijah to Ahab, and seven thousand come out. Is that right? He sends them right back over here again, in the time of the Tribulation, and calls out the hundred and forty-four thousand.
(Only Begotten Son)
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
The same thing happens every time He delivers His Son.
6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, And every man’s heart shall melt:
(Men’s hearts will faint with fear)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; They shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: They shall be amazed one at another; Their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, Cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate: And he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: The sun shall be darkened in his going forth, And the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; And I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
332 See, there, just exactly, Isaiah saw the same thing that Jesus spoke of. That the Seventh Seal reveals. When He is cleansing the land with tribulation, that’s the Tribulation period, this Sixth Seal.
(American Indian)
(Earth is in Birth Pains)
We’re in travail, Christ, to bring forth the Bride. Everything is travailing and groaning. See, there is something fixing to happen.
Brother, the earthquake bursts open, and the stars shake, volcanics will come forth, and the earth will renew itself.
New lava will break forth from the center of the earth. And she’ll crumble, all around and around and around, when she spins out in yonder.
354 And I tell you, one morning when Jesus and His Bride comes back to the earth, there will be a paradise of God there. That, oh, my, them old warriors of the battle, walk down through there with their friends and loved ones.
The anthems will fill the air, of an Angelic host. “Oh, it was well done, My good and faithful servant. Enter into the joys of the Lord, that’s been prepared for you, like you should have had back there before Eve started the ball a rolling in sin.”
355 Sixth Seal is going to do something. Yes, sir. Truly the whole world is groaning and paining, for the Millennium age!
(World falling apart, materials pulled out.)
(Earthquakes, fracking)
358 Its politics are so polluted, there is hardly an honest among them, see, its system. Its morals is so low, it just don’t have any. That’s all. See? Sure. Its religion is cankered.
359 It’s time for the Sixth Seal, pretty soon, to be opening up. And when she does, oh, my, it ends!
(Bride has been married, Israel’s remnant is sealed, then nature lets go)
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Those who had laughed at the preaching of the Word, of the vindicated Word of the living God; when them prophets had stood there and performed miracles, closed the sun, and everything else, and all down through the age.
See, “They cried for the rocks and the mountains to hide them,” see, to hide them from the Word that they had laughed at, ’cause they seen Him come.
“Hide us from the wrath of the Lamb.” He is the Word. See? They had laughed at the Word. And here the Word was, incarnate. And they had made fun of It; laughed at them, made fun of them.
361 Why didn’t they repent? They couldn’t. It was too far, then. So, they knowed that, the punishment. They hear It. They had sat in meetings like this and knowed about It.
And they knowed that the things of those prophets, had predicted, was looking them right in the face, the thing that they had rejected. They had spurned mercy for the last time.
They tried to repent, but the Lamb had come to claim His Own, see. And they cried to the rocks and the mountain. Prayed, but the prayers were too late.
(Israel blinded 2000 years, to give us a space to repent)
So, if God did that for you, the least thing we could do would be accept what He’s done. That’s all He asked us to do. 63-0323 - "The Sixth Seal"
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
He has given us a space to repent.