1.  And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

2.  And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

3.  And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

4.  And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

5.  And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

6.  And swore by him that liveth forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

7.  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

In 2002, you know how the Lord spoke, and He said, "I want you to go to Israel."  And I knew that I was to go.  I knew for some time that I was to go.  I knew because of a dream He had given me that I would go, but I didn't know when.  And God put it in my heart and said that I would go.

And I asked the Lord one thing, "Just give me some little reason.  Help me to understand why now would be the time."

And I didn't understand it then, and I don't understand it now completely, but He spoke to me by the Holy Ghost, that same Voice that I have come to recognize, and He said, "I'll only tell you this - it has something to do with the seven unknown thunders."

I've searched my heart to try to make sure that that is what He said - "unknown thunders."  And even this week, several times if I'm reading the Bible, it will quickly just cross my mind, but I wasn't meditating on it.  Oftentimes, it just kind of crosses my mind.

When I was in Israel in 2002 with the brothers, I even took a day alone in the apartment where we were staying, prayed all day, waited on the Lord and believed that the Lord would speak something to me.  And He never really gave me anything that was so spectacular.  And so, I just hold that in my heart, and I know that it's pivotal.  And I know that it was enough, because I was fearful for my wife, my children, my family.  They were talking about war coming on, and it would not have been a pleasant time to choose to go, but yet that is how it happened.  And that was enough.

Well, I'm just going to share this with you, not easy to do it.  But I was standing here on the platform this morning, sometime during the praise and worship, and I had a little vision, an experience with the Lord.  It was only a few seconds, but it really left me jittery all day long - just kind of nervous.

I cannot tell you what I saw because I don't know exactly what I saw.  I know for sure it was a vision.  I don't know how to describe it - it was more abstract.  It kind of reminds me of Jewish art. You have to figure out what it was.  It wasn't something so clear and so plain that I could tell you that there was a ladder here and a door opened and the wind blew in and the grass bent over - I didn't see it like that.

But very, very quickly I just saw clouds moving . . . it looked like clouds, moving very fast.  And they were not moving as though all were going in the same direction or blowing this way or blowing that way or up or down.  There just seemed to be a wind in these clouds.  And they were just spinning.  And the thing that I noticed the most was this low, roaring thunder sound that lasted the entire few frames or seconds of the vision.  And it sounded like it was a long way away, getting just slightly louder, not extremely louder, just slightly louder, but it never ceased or stopped until the picture was gone.  It sounded like it was coming from far away, just roaring almost like a train, but I felt like it was thunder because it had almost syllables in it, fluctuations of influx in the sound.  It got a little bit louder, not extremely loud, but a little bit louder, and it continued throughout.

And then in the midst of all those clouds that were moving around, I saw flashes of colored lights - not just one light or just clear light or white light, but flashes of lights like the colors of a rainbow, flashing all around in flashes, like a flash on a camera.  And in the distance, behind the clouds that were moving and those colored flashing lights, I saw the entire picture flash like heat lightning - not streaked lightning, but heat lightning that just lights up the sky and it's gone, lights up the sky and it's gone.  That was going on in the background, the clouds were moving in the front and those colored flashes of lights were going on with that loud roar thunder.  And then it was gone.

Now that is strange.  And I wouldn't even share it because what good does it do if you don't know what it was?  But I know it wasn't my imagination.  I've had enough visions to know when a vision's breaking.

But all of a sudden I had a knowing.  It was not a voice that I heard, it was a knowing - I just knew it.  It was like I had had a revelation or an inspiration or I had known something all along and now it just came out.  It was very clear to me.  I just knew it in the Spirit, without yet knowing what this picture meant.  I just all of a sudden knew where we were standing.  I just all of a sudden knew that we were now standing in that place between the Seals and the Trumpets.

Now that sounds strange to some people.  Those Seven Trumpets were to whom?  To the Jews.  The Seals were to the Bride - to help the Bride know where she was going to stand in the End-time.

I never realized it before exactly, but where is Revelation 10?  It's in the middle.  It's between the Seals and the Trumpets [between the seventh seal and the seventh trumpet].  And I just knew in the Spirit that we were standing in the place of the Seven Thunders.  I knew that's where we were standing.  And in my spirit, I sensed that they were like a bridge connecting the Seals and the Trumpets.  I believe that we are standing in the hour where God is about to make clear to us what John could not tell.

I do believe that a foundation is being laid for a quick, short message that will go forth.  I believe that it's a quick thing that God is about to do.

And it causes me to approach Him very reverently.  Because if there is any truth to it at all - what I see and what I have known by the Spirit - this is a very exciting season to be walking in!

Here's another one I hold onto to let me know that it hasn't happened yet.  Now that was '63.  He just only preached the Third Seal.  There was plenty more revelation to flow, wasn't there?  In '65, Bro. Branham was still saying it hadn't come.

1965, November the 25th, Shreveport, Louisiana.  This is just about as close to the end as you can get of his life.  And he said, "...watch, when the spiritual Bride, when She begins to have a revival, when She begins to come back and line Herself up with the Word of God, watch then again how that the Scriptures . . . at that time there'll be a message sweep out to catch that Bride, catch that woman, elect."

Then he goes on to talk about Luther and Wesley a little bit and Pentecost, and then he says, "But then the time that the people are ready to line up, there is a message that comes forth then, and they line up with it."

I believe that it is in the "Message" that God has sent us.  We are not looking for a new message or a new messenger or anything of the sort.  We're looking for God to come and take that word and make it real to us and reveal it to us.

John knew what it was, but God told him, "Seal it up. It is not time."  I don't hear anybody else after that saying they know what it is, but God does.  The One who revealed it the first time to John is with us, and He's able to speak it again.  It's going to be supernatural.

How many of you have read this week concerning this archaeologist who's very famous and very well known, Vendyl Jones?  Anybody read about Vendyl Jones this week?  He is the archaeologist that they based the film "Indiana Jones" on.  He was a Baptist preacher who sort of converted to Judaism many years ago and started following the Noahich Laws that he might have inheritance with the promises of the Jews.

He has found some very interesting things over the years.  I don't have any idea if what he says is true.  I couldn't tell you, but he believes that he knows, just like several others believe they know . . . he believes he knows where the Ark of the Covenant is.

And he has a daughter who converted to Judaism who lives in Israel who is also a Kabbalist.  She is involved in Kabbalah which is a mystical form of Judaism.  And he kept asking his daughter to ask this mystery Kabbalist, this rabbi (who is unknown) in Israel, "When would it be time to bring out the Ark of the Covenant?"

And he kept saying to her to give this message to her father, "Not now, not now."  And the last time they had communication, I think, was the Fall of last year.  He asked, and the message came back from this spiritual rabbi - spiritualist, maybe, rabbi - "It is not time."

Last week he sent a message to Vendyl Jones' daughter.  This is being told everywhere.  If you haven't heard it, I'm surprised.  It's on Messianic sites, it's on Jewish websites, it's been carried by the AP, Associated Press.  This Kabbalist rabbi sent a message to Vendyl Jones' daughter and said to, "Tell your father, 'Now is the time'" - that is, if he really knows where it is.

And he has announced that he's going to get it and bring it out in August of this year.  He set the date.  And it's a very serious thing because the last time they even tried to make a tunnel down in that area, people died in the streets.  The Arab people don't want the Ark of the Covenant to come out because they know if it comes out, it'll give the Jews strength to take the Temple Mount.

It's kind of a prophetic thing going on there.  And he says he's going to bring it out, and he's going to bring it out just in time to stop the disengagement [Jews leaving Gaza and a small part of the West Bank].  And again I want to tell you, I have no idea whether he knows where it is or not.  I do know he's a smart fellow.

I'll tell you this - if he does know where it is and he brings it out in August, there will be no disengagement.  He's right about that.  There will be a massive unification in Israel like never before.  The secular and the religious will be one.

And it really gives us something to ponder and think about.  I can't imagine it!  So I'm a doubting Thomas.  I can't imagine that he really knows where it is.  And I can't imagine that he's going to bring it out in August.  But if he does, there will be some very unusual and significant events that take place in the Land of Israel because I know there are people who will rebuild the Temple.  They'll do it!

And why is that important?  Because . . . well, it's kind of important because it helps us again to know where we are.  We're right between the fulfillment of anything that is left over in the Seals and right between the fulfillment of anything that's left over in the Trumpets.  Some of those Trumpets have already come to pass historically.  But there are some things, little missing pieces, here and there . . .

Wouldn't it be wonderful if by this time next year, we had gotten in our hearts all that God wants to make real to us and we were right in the middle of that wonderful quick, glorious revival that's going to rally the Bride around the world, bring her into her place and where she'll be speaking the Word and manifesting the attributes of God and ready to move out?

And I said out loud in this vision, "Oh, that's the year that Bro. Branham died, because he had a great ministry as a prophet, but in 1965 he died.  He was gone.  His body was buried, and so it was finished.  So, when I saw that date . . . of course, I wasn't alive in '65 so I wouldn't have thought of anything else.  So my first thought was, "Oh, the year Bro. Branham died - December 1965."

The Angel of the Lord spoke to me in this vision and said, "No, that's not what it represents. It represents the end of a one-man ministry.  That was the year that the first phase of the Seventh Angel's ministry was completed."  That one-man phase was finished and now God was starting the second phase.  It would not be on one man any longer, but it would be the Seventh Angel, the spirit of Elijah, with a many-membered Bride, the Body of Christ, being used - no longer to focus on one man or one ministry, whoever your man is, whoever your ministry is that you have felt connected to or whatever.

Please understand that even in his time there were other men ministering powerfully under the anointing of God.  But there was a great focus on his ministry because he seemed to have a calling that the others didn't have.  He seemed to be fulfilling something that others were not fulfilling.  He was bringing some things that others were not bringing way ahead of time, way ahead of schedule, it appeared to be.  But God said, "It's not going to be that way anymore, everyone focusing on one man, looking to one man for the answer.  It's going to be a many-membered Body.  This was a little bit hard for me to understand at the time, but it happened.

This is very, very powerful.  And I'm sorry to say that it had slipped my mind over these years.  I've been with some of these people now nearly 15 years, and I've preached to them thousands of times, and I've seen hundreds of visions, and I can't possibly remember them all when I want to. And I was so stirred!  I jumped up!  I felt like I'd been plugged in!  I just was movin' around the room!  I thought, "Wow!  How could I forget something like that?  How could I forget something like that?  I can't believe I . . .  But it was just fresh!

Then He flashed another date before me.  It was April 1968.  I didn't have to think one second to know what that year was.  It was the year I was born, the month and the year I was born, three years after Brother Branham died, 1968, April.

Then I saw another date.  This was just God dealing with me as an individual.  It wasn't for you or some kind of icon for you to follow or anything like that, it was just perhaps something for me.  He gave me another year - September 1975.  I paused for a moment.  I thought, "What in the world is September of '75?"  And I asked the Lord, and He spoke to my spirit, "That was the month that you were filled with the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and began your ministry."

Then He showed me another year and another month - December of 1995.  Now this vision was in '95, but it was not yet December '95.  So I was seeing now something in the future.  And I said, "Lord, I know what that means.  I'm going to Africa, and my mother, God willing, is going with me. (I wasn't married at the time.)  And I'm going to take some other friends with me, so I know that must be what you're showing me."  I was invited to preach a convention in Ghana - dedicate a church.  "No," the Spirit said.  "This is the 30th anniversary of the harvest cycle."  I'd been preaching on harvest cycles.  And December of '95 was 30 years since Bro. Branham had died. Since the ministry had shifted from a one-man to a many-membered Body, it had been 30 years.  The emphasis has changed.  And that was what the answer was.

And then all of a sudden, and I totally forgot this, I saw December 2005.  And I realized, as the Lord was speaking to me, that it was 40 years.  A 40-year cycle.  And we go all the way through the Bible, and we see those 30-year cycles in the life of John the Baptist and the life of Joseph and so many.  And then we see 40-year cycles which is the cycle of a generation.  And God let me look ahead and see that.  And He let me know, He said this to me in this vision, "Great change is coming, December 2005, great change . . ."

Now you don't know my excitement because if there's one thing I have confidence in, it's when God speaks to me.  Now I know that sounds braggadocious or prideful, but I don't mean that.  But I have confidence when God speaks to me!  When He speaks to me, I know it's right because I've proven Him and tested Him and tried Him.  And that is the witness of the Spirit. But this had slipped my mind!  It was 10 years ago.  It's caught up with me!  Here I am 6 months from December of 2005, and my memory is shaken, and I realize that in less than 6 months from now the Lord has made a promise that a great change was going to take place in His Body.  And I believe it!  I believe it!  I believe it!  I really, really believe!  I just know it's done!  I don't even know what it is, but it's done for me.  I can't hardly wait!  I don't know what it is, but it's the end of that 40-year cycle again, reminding us.

And this brother in our church was presenting this.  He said that Bro. Branham's fatal accident was on the first night of Hanukkah.  It was represented by one little light on the Hanukkiah, but the ministry changed to a many-membered Body.  It's for the whole Body of Christ.  This spirit of Elijah is not just on one man like it was in the time of John the Baptist.  It's on the Body.  It's an anointing, that God has promised, for the Bride to overcome in the End-time.  So please understand.  I only mention these things about Bro. Branham to tell you where we've come to, not to put emphasis on one man, but to show you what God desires to do in this hour.  It's not looking back to anybody's ministry.  It's looking ahead to see what the Lord is going to do in His Body.  The light increases every night that the Hanukkiah is lit.  The light gets brighter and brighter.  And at the end, it's a multitude of lights.

And that's exactly what God was showing me ten years ago when He said that in December of '65, the ministry changed.  It was not one man anymore, but it was a many-membered Body.  God was getting ready to do something in the Bride of Christ, and many lights were about to get lit. And that's what God did on Shavuot.  He lit a whole lot of lights.  He lit a whole lot of flames over people's heads by the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.  We have everything we need to make the rapture.  We have everything we need to meet God.  It's in us.  It's been sown into us by the Word.  We only need for His Spirit to come and brood over us and draw those things into manifestation.  I'm telling you, I believe that what we need is in us.  We just need God to come down and make it real - quicken it, make it alive.  And one of the ways we practice this is by giving God the glory.  Giving God the praise.  It is well!  It is well!  It is well!  All is well!  God is doing great things!

1967 was the birth of the Charismatic revival, and it happened almost simultaneously with the Six Day War, the beginning of the unification of the City of Jerusalem.  Everybody knows, whether they want to admit it or not, that Israel is God's timepiece.  It's the clock on God's wall. Nothing happens in Israel in vain.  Even tragedy, even bloodshed, even death happens for a purpose.  It's another minute on God's clock - His time table to reveal something to us.

Now, 1967 to 2007 is a 40-year generational cycle!  Could it possibly be saying to us that another great move of God, another great revival, will soon be ushered in somewhere between the year of 2005 and 2007?  I believe that's what it's saying!  I really believe that's what it's saying!

And here was the kicker for me.  God spoke to me many years ago.  I was probably no more than 27, 28 at the time - maybe 26.  And He said, "You'll experience the prime of your ministry between 30 and 32."  Well, I am now 37, and when I was 30, I was going through the darkest trials of my life.  No prime!  No peak!  It felt like the end.

We did a 40-year cycle just a moment ago, and it ended up in 2007 - between the years of 2005 and 2007.  If perhaps the Lord is giving us the right understanding of this Word He gave me years ago, perhaps it would be that the prime of my ministry would be between my 30th and 32nd anniversary of preaching, not my 30th and 32nd year on the earth.  If that be the case, it certainly correlates with this 40-year harvest cycle.

If you were telling me I'd have to check it out and try it by the Spirit, I'd be nervous about it.  But since I know what He said . . .  And I know that He's never lied to me!  Hallelujah!  He's proven Himself!  So faithful all of these years!  It fills my heart with great anticipation!