Categories of Eternal Life
REVELATION 6:9-11
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: (When the fifth seal was opened in March 1963, we found out that these people under the altar were the Jews of the Holocaust that were murdered by Hitler and Eichmann – their earthly life had ended, and yet they were alive and gathered together in another place beyond this life)
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 are wanting revenge against their murderers – that is not a Christian trait. This Jewish group under the altar here is also a representation of many other Jewish groups of people that have been persecuted and killed since the death of Christ. God had blinded the Jews from recognizing their messiah (Christ) in order for the gentile bride to be called during seven church ages, just like Joseph’s brothers were blinded to him in order for Joseph to receive a gentile bride)
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them (A white robe is symbolic for an immortal body. When your spirit came to earth, you received a mortal robe of flesh that was subject to sin and sickness and old age and death, but this white robe is a perfect body that can never die); 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.
The fellowservants and brethren here is referring to the 144,000 elected Jews who will be sealed by the revelation that their two prophets (Moses and Elijah) will preach to them, and then they will be killed as their predecessors were in the Holocaust.
We also know that the gentile foolish virgins will be killed around this same time for their stand for the word of God of what they will hold to.
So both of these end time age groups will be given white robes and receive eternal life, so by this we know that there are different categories of groups that will receive eternal life. The opening of the 5th seal is showing us these things.
Categories of Eternal Life
The opening of the 5th seal begins by showing us a specifically selected group of Jews that had been murdered during the time of the Holocaust from around 1940 to 1945 during the second world war - these were the true Jews that had held onto the testimony of the word of God of what they knew.
**But the real mystery of this 5th seal is that it is also showing us that there are certain other categories of groups of people who will receive eternal life that have already gathered into their respective categories on the other side, and that there are different categories of eternal life.
*In other words, people will receive eternal life based on different qualifications - like the group in Mathew 25 who receive eternal life based on them showing kindness to the bride of Christ – this applies to every church age since Christ. Just one simple act of kindness was the key that unlocked their entrance into the eternal kingdom of heaven – and it was so unconsciously done. And so whatever that event of kindness was in their lives, God knew about that before the foundation of the world.
*So there are all these different categories of eternal life groups of people.
The thief of the cross is another category of people who will receive eternal life – the death bed repentance category group. God is the judge of all these things, and so we want to look into this in a bit more depth.
**There is another truth that this 5th seal is revealing in that it is showing us how that there are the foolish virgin groups that have also died during seven church ages that held onto the word of God of what they knew.
*For seven church ages, the gentile bride groups were all being sealed by the revelation of the word that they received by their messengers of their age, and have then been gathered with their messengers under the altar of incense. And also for seven church ages, the foolish virgins and the Jewish groups who have held true to the word of God of what they knew were being gathered under the altar of sacrifice – two different altars of dimensions.
The opening of the seven seals reveals all these groups of categories of people that will receive eternal life.
**So all the gentile bride of Christ groups over the last 2000 years of church history are all waiting with their messengers until the last age of when God would send a gentile prophet to the last group of bride members, and we also notice that this is the same pattern as with all the elected Jews since the time of Christ who are waiting under their alter for their two Jewish prophets that will come at the end time and seal the 144,000 Jews in their foreheads with the revelation of the Messiah.
**So both the elected Jews of the last 2000 years are waiting for the end time 144,000 Jewish brethren to received their two prophets, and the elected Gentile groups of seven church ages are also waiting under their alter (beyond the curtain of time) for their last gentile prophet to come and seal the last of the gentile bride with the revelation of the fullness of the mysteries of the word – it is the same pattern in parallel.
And then after the bride is raptured, then the last gentile foolish virgin group is then martyred – and so this is the key to understanding the 5th seal, because it’s the same similar pattern for these groups of these different categories of eternal life.
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555-2 {225} …Now, what happened? They were purged during the time of the awful tribulation period. Now, if God's going to purge that's--that virgin that was a good woman, but she just failed to get oil in her lamp (If you have oil in your lamp, you will see the word for your day and hold to it), and He's going to purge her through persecution in there, He puts them tribes right in there for the same thing, and purges them during the time of the tribulation period, because it is a purging; it's judgment. But, you see, they, after...
555-4 {227} And look here. Here comes up the hundred and forty-four thousand after the purging of Israel, and here comes up also... The sleeping virgin comes up purged and has white robes on. See? How perfect, how beautiful that is.
**He is showing us that after the rapture, both the 144,000 elected Jews and the gentile foolish virgins will be martyred and will both receive white robes of immortal bodies - both of these groups will receive eternal life at the great white throne judgement. Remember that the 6th seal purges the 144,000 Jews, the Foolish virgins and the Earth – 3 fold.
**So when this 5th seal was opened in March 1963, it was the key that unlocked this mystery of the different categories of eternal life.
And this is why Revelation Chapter 7 is so important to help us in our understanding of the 7th seal, and this is why when Brother Branham preached the seventh seal, he refers back to Revelation chapter 7, because what the seventh trumpet is to the end time elected Jews, the seventh seal is to the end time elected gentile bride.
*We know for sure that the seventh trumpet is when Christ reveals Himself to the Jews by the revelation of what their two prophets preach to them, because these 144,000 elected Jews are identified by them receiving the revelation of what these two prophets preach – they recognize Christ, the mighty God becomes unveiled to them.
All the Ruth and Boaz parts that have been revealed to us by the 7th angel’s message – for the 144,000, it will be revealed to them by their two prophets of how that they have lived out the Naomi parts of the prophecy.
*And so this is in parallel with the end time elected Gentile bride group, in that the seventh seal is the revealing of Christ to His end time bride by what the seventh angel prophet preaches.
REVELATION 7:4-14
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.
5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand. (All these are end time elected Jews that will respond to the message of these two prophets that God will send them – it will be those who accept these prophets that will be sealed in their foreheads by the revelation that these prophets teach them, and it is that that will identify them as the people of this prophecy)
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues (Gentiles), stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; (when Brother Branham saw his group under the altar of incense, he said that there were millions of them there – in fact the Lord told him that all that he ever loved on earth, and all that ever love him on earth, God had given him there with real bodies that were immortal, even his horse and his pet dog were there in immortal animal bodies. When Hope Branham saw pretty birds flying from tree to tree, they were birds that had immortal bodies also, because there can be no death in that place. When Sharron Rose Branham died as a little baby on earth, she stepped straight into an immortal adult body)
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13 ¶ And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation (this is the reference that brother Branham refers to in the seventh seal as the foolish virgins of the church group), and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb (this is the bride of Christ – so this is a compound scripture referring to both groups, because the bride does not go through the tribulation period – the bible condenses truth).
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…Jesus has come. He has sealed the 144,000. He took 12,000 out of each tribe. But there is another group that doesn't belong in this 144,000 who are seen in verses 9-18. Who are they? These are in the bride taken from amongst the Gentiles. (So he is paralleling what will happen to these 144,000 Jews to what has taken place to an end time gentile people under a gentile prophet. These 144,000 Jews are taken out from among the Jewish nation just as the end time bride is taken out of the denominations. And so they are being identified by being able to receive the message of their two Jewish prophets, because the majority of the Jewish nation will reject them, and so this is the same pattern of a gentile people called the bride of Christ that will be taken out from amongst the gentile denominations by a gentile prophet’s teaching - they will identify themselves by receiving the message of their gentile prophet) They are before His throne day and night. They serve Him in the temple. They are the special care of the Lord. They are His bride.
The bride goes wherever the Bridegroom is. She will never be left by Him. She will never leave His side. She will share the throne with Him. She will be crowned with His glory and honor.
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536-6 {81} Now, now, we're going to speak here now on this 7th chapter just a minute to--to kinda bridge it in between Sixth and Seventh Seal, because that's the only material that we have to go on right now, is the Sixth--between the Sixth and Seventh Seal, is the calling out of Israel.
To be continued - the Lord willing...