Constellation of Angels.

William Branham.

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Revelation 10:7,
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 has declared to his servants the prophets.

Now, all along down through the journey, there's been things that's happened that I couldn't understand. And one of the things that I could not understand was when I was a little boy and them visions would come upon me. And I'd see them and tell my parents the things that was going to happen. They thought I was just nervous. But the strange thing, it happened just the way it said so. You say, “Was that before your conversion?” Yes. “Gifts and callings are without repentance,” the Bible said. You are born in this world for some purpose, and you don't.... Your repentance don't bring gifts. They are predestinated to you. Now, along the road.... And when I was a little boy, my longing was.... I was dissatisfied in the country I lived in. I longed, somehow, to go west.

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Must have been ten o’clock in the day when my wife was trying to get into the room, and it happened. I went into a vision that morning, and I somehow.... Now remember it was not a dream! There’s a difference between dreams and visions. Dreams is when you go to sleep; visions, when you don’t go to sleep. We’re born that way. The ordinary human being, when he dreams, it’s in his subconscious. And his subconscious is way away from him. His senses is active, as long as he’s in his first conscious. In this conscious, you’re normal. You see, taste, feel, smell, hear. But when you’re in your subconscious, asleep, you don’t neither see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. But there’s something when you dream, that.... You return back to this conscious. There’s a memory, that you remember something that you dreamed about years ago. The ordinary human being is that way. But when God predestinates something, this subconscious is not way away from here to the seer, but both consciouses is right together. And the seer in a vision doesn’t go to sleep- he’s still in his senses, and sees it.

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Now, in this vision, or as I was speaking, I looked, and I saw a strange thing. Now, it seemed like that my little son, Joseph, was by my side. I was talking to him. Now, if you'll watch the vision real close, you will see why Joseph was standing there. And I looked, and there was a big bush. And on this bush in a constellation of birds— little bitty birds, about half inch long and a half inch high.... They were little veterans. Their little feathers was beat down. And there was about two or three on the top limb, six or eight on the next limb, and fifteen or twenty on the next limb, coming down in the shape of a pyramid. Those little fellows... little messengers, and they were pretty well worn out. They were watching eastward. And I was at Tucson, Arizona, in the vision. For it... made it so purposed that He didn't want me to fail to see where it was at. I was picking a sand burr off of me from the desert. I said, “Now I know this is a vision, and I know that I'm at Tucson. And I know that them little birds there represent something.” And they were watching eastward. And all of a sudden they taken a notion to fly, and away they went eastward.

And as soon as they left, a constellation of larger birds came. They looked like doves— sharp pointed wings, kind of a gray color, a little lighter color than what these first little messengers was. And they were coming eastward swiftly. No sooner than they got out of my sight, I turned again to look westward, and there it happened. There was a blast that actually shook the whole earth! Now don't miss this! And you on tape, be sure you get this right! First, a blast! And I thought it sounded like a sound barrier, or ever what you call it when planes cross the sound, and the sound comes back to the earth. It just shook like... roared, everything. Then it could have been a great clap of thunder and lightning like. I didn't see the lightning. I just heard that great blast that went forth that sounded like it was south from me, towards Mexico.

But it shook the earth. And when it did, I was still looking westward, and way off into eternity I saw a constellation of something coming. It looked like that it might have been little dots. There could have been no less than five, and not more than seven. But they were in the shape of a pyramid, like these messengers coming. And when it did, the power of Almighty God lifted me up to meet them. And I can see.... It's never left me. Eight days has gone, and I can't forget it yet. I never had anything to bother me like that has. My family will tell you.

I could see those angels, those shaped-back wings, traveling faster than sound could travel. They come from eternity in a split like the twinkling of an eye. Not enough to bat your eye, just a twinkle, they were there. I didn't have time to count. I didn't have time, no more than just look. Mighty ones, great powerful angels, snow white! Wings set in heads and they were “Whew-wheeew,” and when it did, I was caught up into this pyramid, of constellation. I thought, “Now, this is it.” I was numbed all over, and I said, “Oh, my! This means that there will be a blast that will kill me. I'm at the end of my road now. I mustn't tell my people when this vision leaves. I don't want them to know about it. But the heavenly Father has let me know now that my time is finished. I won't tell my family so they'll worry about me, 'because he's fixing to go.' And these angels have come for me, and I'll be killed pretty soon now in some kind of an explosion.” Then it came to me, while I was in this constellation, “No, that isn't it. If it would've killed you it would've killed Joseph,” and I could hear Joseph calling me. Well, then, I turned again and I thought, “Lord God, what does this vision mean?” And I wondered, and then it come to me. Not a voice, just come to me. “Oh! That is the angels of the Lord coming to give me my new commission!” And when I thought that, I raised up my hands, and I said, “Oh, Lord Jesus, what will You have me do?” And the vision left me. For almost an hour, I couldn't feel.

Now, you people know what the blessings of the Lord is. But the power of the Lord is altogether different, the power of the Lord in them kind of places. I've felt it many, many times before in vision, but never like that. It feels like a reverent fear. I was so scared till I was paralyzed in the presence of these beings. I tell the truth. As Paul said, “I lie not.” You never caught me saying anything wrong about something like that. Something is fixing to happen! Then after awhile I said, “Lord Jesus, if I'm going to be killed, let me know so I won't tell my people about this. But if it's something else, let me know.” Nothing answered. After the Spirit left me for about a half hour, I guess, or more, I said, “Lord, if it is, then, that I am going to be killed, and You're finished with me on earth, and I'm going to be taken home now ... which if that's it, that's fine. That's all right.” So, I said, “If it is, let me know. Send your power back on me again. Then, I'll know not to tell my people, or anybody, about it, because You're fixing to come catch me away.” And nothing happened. I waited awhile. Then I said, “Lord Jesus, if it did not mean that, and it means that You've got something for me to do, and it'll be revealed to me later, then send your power.” And it almost took me from the room!

I found myself somewhere over in a corner. I could hear my wife somewhere trying to shake a door. The door in the bedroom was locked. And I had a Bible open, and I was reading ... I don't know, but it was in, I believe, Romans, the 9th chapter, the last verse: “Behold I lay in Zion, a cornerstone, a stumblingstone, a precious cornerstone, and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” I thought, “It's strange I'd be reading that,” Spirit still packing me in the room. I closed up the Bible and stood there. I went over to the windows, about ten o'clock in the day, or better, and I raised up my hands, and I said, “Lord God, I don't understand. This is a strange day to me. And I'm beside myself, almost.” I said, “Lord, what does that mean? Let me read it again, if it be You.” (Now this sounds juvenile.) And I took up the Bible, opened it up. There it was again at the same place— Paul, telling the Jews that they tried to ... tell the Romans that the Jews tried to accept it by works, but it's by faith that we believe it.

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I believe that the seventh angel of Revelation 10 is the seventh church age messenger of Revelation 3:14. Remember.... Now, let me read, look, where I can read. Now, this was the seventh angel. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel [7th verse], when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets. Now, you notice, this was a angel; and it's the angel of the seventh church age, because it says here it is the seventh angel of the seventh church age. Found that? If you want to see who ... or where the angel is—Revelation 3:14. It's the angel to the Laodicean church.

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Notice, the seventh angel was to blast the Laodicean rich church. “I am rich, increased in goods, and have need of nothing.” He said, “You are miserable, wretched, poor, blind, and naked, and don't know it.” That was his message. O God, send us a fearless prophet with “Thus saith the Lord” that the vindicated Word of God will move through it, and prove that he's sent from God. And when he comes, he'll blast them ages. Sure will. He'll set that Laodicean church against him. Certainly he will. They did in every other age. It won't change in this age. It's got to be the same.

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And then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Matthew 24:30