Brother Branham told us many times that he wanted to preach the sermon titled, “The Seven Trumpets,” explaining the meaning of Revelation 8 and 9. Then, two days before, the Lord told him why he would not be preaching on the Seven Trumpets. Instead, he titled his sermon, “The Feast Of The Trumpets.”
There are the ABCs and there’s Algebra, and then there is Calculus. The Feast Of The Trumpets is beyond Calculus. Make sure you are ready with your Bible and your notes, because this sermon requires a lot of homework.
For a short review before starting the sermon, it might help to remember the following facts:
Now, the hidden mysteries of Christ was fully revealed in the Seven Seals.
Revelations 10, we find, at the end of the seventh angel's Message, that, these mysteries that had been hid would be revealed, Revelations 10:1 to 7. Notice, the reason is because there had been no prophets during this age. The Bible said, that, "God does nothing till He reveals it to His prophets, His servants, the prophets." And the Word of the Lord in all ages has always come to the prophets, never to a system, never to a group.
Now, I have been anticipating for some time to--to speak on the subject of the Seven Trumpets in the Book of Revelations. And now we are going to review this, just a moment, to bring out the real cause of me not speaking this time, because the Holy Spirit would not let me speak at this time on these things.
The first three chapters of the Book of Revelations reveals all the happenings unto the Church. Then, from the 3rd chapter unto the 19th chapter of Revelation, there is no more seen of the Church. The Church goes up at the 4th chapter of Revelations, and returns back at the 19th chapter of Revelations, the Bride and the Groom, together, coming to the earth. And then from the 19th chapter to the conclusive of the 22nd chapter, it's all on the Millennium and what will be in the years that is to follow it. During the 4th to the 19th, God is dealing with Israel.
When I went into the room, to try to understand, it was there that the Holy Spirit opened up this, to show me the reason it not profitable even for the Church at this time, 'cause it has nothing to do with the Church, at all.
There is no mistake about it at all. Those Seals and Ages are perfectly in line, perfectly, God giving witness by supernatural signs and wonders, with the Word and history, all placed together, in the age that we're now living in.
The Bible said, that, "God does nothing till He reveals it to His prophets, His servants, the prophets." And the Word of the Lord in all ages has always come to the prophets, never to a system, never to a group.
Now, it's prophesied that the churches would be in this condition, had to be restored back again. And He said, in Malachi 4, that He would "send Elijah the prophet, and would restore the--the people back again," with the... bring it. Notice. And just before... Or, right after his Message, there will be a time when the world will burn, and the righteous will walk out upon the ashes.
Notice Revelations 10:1 to 7, all the mysteries are to be revealed to the Bride, by the messenger of the Laodicea Church.
The--the gathering of Israel is the Trumpets. The Trumpets is to gather Israel.
Israel is saved as a nation. God deals with Israel as a nation. Gentiles is "a people for His Name,"…
Revelations 9:13, under the Sixth Trumpet, note, there was two hundred thousand horsemen that had been bound in the river of Euphrates, was turned loose under the Sixth Trumpet. Now there's not two hundred thousand horsemen in the world; but there was two hundred thousand horsemen. Notice it. I want you to jot it down, so you can read it.
They wasn't natural horses. They breathed fire, and they had breastplates of jasper, and--and they had tails. And the end of the tail looked like a serpent, a snake's head on the end of it, stinging. See? It was spiritual horses, spiritual devils, chargers, that had been bound in Euphrates all these years, supernatural devils. What was it? The old Roman Empire being revived; the persecution of the Jews. They had been bound for nearly two thousand years, at the river Euphrates, can't cross to the promise; a religious sect that was trying to get to the other side. Euphrates, you know, come through Eden. But they were bound there, two hundred thousand devils of persecution.
The Rapture will be the same way. In--in a hour... He promised to do that. He didn't promise to show Elias like that, but He promised to take the Bride like that. "In a hour that you think not," just a change, in a moment of a twinkling of an eye, be caught away.
Listen, folks, we ought to take inventory every hour. You don't know where we're standing. Real close!
And in the hour when I see all the churches, their great glamour, "and rich, and have need of nothing," they say; and see them, miserable, wretched, blind; then patting you on the shoulders, want you to compromise with them. I was born for a purpose, that's to condemn that thing and to call out. This I do.
And now, for the first time for thousands of years, twenty-five hundred years, that Israel is a nation with its own flag, own army, and all, and it considered in the--in the UN. First time it's been. The oldest flag that ever flew on earth, at this time, flies again, the five... six-point star of David. He said He'd lift that ensign in the last days, when she'd be coming back. We're at the end. There is just no doubt about it. We're here.
And the same Seal, rather, when It was opened, to show Jesus on the outside of the church, trying to get back in; at the same time, the Trumpet sound for the Jews, and the Jews recognize the Atonement.
Oh, don't you see where we're at? Don't you see why them Trumpets means nothing to us? They all sounded under our Sixth Seal. You see now why the Holy Spirit wouldn't let me speak it?
Grant, Lord, that they'll be Yours, from this hour on. If there is a wonder in their mind, take it away. If there's a sick person in our midst, let the great Holy Spirit, Lord,... Which, I know there is; and revealing the thoughts, standing here on the platform. They know all about it. I pray that You'll heal them, Lord. Settle all the questions.