Daniel's Seventy Weeks
9/13/2014

•	1960 Church Ages
•	1961 Revelations Chapter Five
•	1961 Daniels Seventy Weeks
•	1962 Stature of a Perfect Man (A Living Tabernacle for A Living God)
•	1963 Seals

61-0730M  GABRIEL'S.INSTRUCTIONS.TO.DANIEL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  DA 1-44  SUNDAY_
«  68       †        Now, there is our lesson for the next three, four, or five meetings, whatever the Lord will reveal: Seventy of weeks.
Now, I'll ask Doc, if he will tonight, to put up my board there, so that I'll be able to mark it out. I don't want you to miss it now. You've got to study with me, and study deep, or you'll miss it. And I want to draw it out here on the blackboard, and then you bring your pencils and paper and write down these dates, these times, and all about it.
Now, the seventy of weeks begins (Now, get this.) after the Church is taken out. Now, everybody understands that say, "Amen."

61-0730M  GABRIEL'S.INSTRUCTIONS.TO.DANIEL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  DA 1-44  SUNDAY_
«  1       †        Lord bless you...?... Good morning, friends. It's very hot to be in the Tabernacle this morning, but very glorious to be here. So glad that we could--could get in today for this service. And I've--I've given out that I'd have a study now on this Seventy Weeks of Daniel. That ties in the rest of the Message before I can go with the--the Seven Seals, which there's Seven Seals, Seven Plagues, Seven Trumpets, Three Woes, the woman in the sun, casting out of the red devil, the 144,000 sealed away--all happens between this time. And I thought I'd have to get this in first.

61-0730M  GABRIEL'S.INSTRUCTIONS.TO.DANIEL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  DA 1-44  SUNDAY_
«  71       †        Revelations 6:1 to Revelations 19:21 is connected with the seventy of weeks; therefore we must stop and explain before we go further. We must stop and explain why these seventy of weeks, 'cause if you don't you'll miss those Seals, you'll miss those Trumpets, you'll miss those vials, those Plagues, those three unclean spirits like frogs, those three Woes, the casting out of the red dragon, the woman in the sun. You'll miss it all if you don't, 'cause it takes place right here in this seventieth week. That's where it takes place.

JEREMIAH 25:8  8     ¶  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts(shows he is a prophet); Because ye have not heard my words, (Day of Penecost they received the word)

JEREMIAH 25:9  9    Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north(Russia), saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

JEREMIAH 25:10  10    Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth(elvis and rock and roll), and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle(take out candlestick).

JEREMIAH 25:11  11    And this whole land shall be a desolation(seen america in craters), [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years(till that sinning generation died out - 3 score and 10).

Pg 20, DSW
 I prophesy that this whole nation shall become desolate. God shall punish this nation for her sins. If God would not let Israel, His elected, Abraham's seed, who He made the covenant and promise with, if He would not let them get by with wrong doing, though they were religious to the core, had the great churches, the priests, and the rabbis, but because of the immorals and things among them, and God made them reap what they sowed, so shall we get it.

Vision in 1933
322-3 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE  -  CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America.

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DANIEL 9:1»     1     †      ¶  In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

DANIEL 9:2»     2     †     In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

DANIEL 9:3»     3     †     And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

DANIEL 9:4»     4     †      ¶  And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

DANIEL 9:5»     5     †     We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

DANIEL 9:6»     6     †     Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

DANIEL 9:7»     7     †     O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

DANIEL 9:8»     8     †     O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

DANIEL 9:9»     9     †     To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

DANIEL 9:10»     10     †     Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

DANIEL 9:11»     11     †     Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

DANIEL 9:12»     12     †     And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

DANIEL 9:13»     13     †     As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

DANIEL 9:14»     14     †     Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

DANIEL 9:15»     15     †     And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

DANIEL 9:16»     16     †     O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

DANIEL 9:17»     17     †     Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

DANIEL 9:18»     18     †     O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

DANIEL 9:19»     19     †     O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

DANIEL 9:20»     20     †      ¶  And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;

DANIEL 9:21»     21     †     Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

DANIEL 9:22»     22     †     And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

DANIEL 9:23»     23     †     At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

------------Text Scriptures for Daniels Seventy Weeks-------------

DANIEL 9:24»     24     †     Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

DANIEL 9:25»     25     †     Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

DANIEL 9:26»     26     †     And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

DANIEL 9:27»     27     †     And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Oblation - Thing presented  or offered to God.

Desolation - A state of complete emptiness or destruction.

-----------Importance of the Chart---------

SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_  JEFF.IN  DA 89-141  SUNDAY_  61-0806
  29    Open up our ears of understanding today. And as I endeavor to bring forth this great question and clear it in the people's mind... And I have it written out here, Lord, upon paper and also drawn upon this blackboard, this chart, but totally insufficient to explain it. Now, we call on You, the great Master Who wrote the Word, Who inspired It, Who gave It to the prophet Daniel; and we pray that You'll send the inspiration this morning (in these last days as He said the book would be closed until this time) that You will open our understandings; and may there be a soft bedded faith in our heart that'll let the Word take hold, and light, and bring forth the trees of righteousness in our lives that It's intended to do. Our faith in God, may it secure that for us this morning. For we humbly wait now, and dedicating ourselves to Thee, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

DANIEL 12:4  4    But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_  JEFF.IN  DA 89-141  SUNDAY_  61-0806
  41    Oh, what a lesson. I said to my wife the other day, "I wonder if the people are really getting it." Now, I want you to get it. Don't... If you--we have to stay here all day long, just stay. Now, we'll--we--we want to get it. See? We--we want to know that it's Truth, and you... If you can just only see it. And I asked maybe...
Then afterwards I'm going to leave the chart hang here, and you--you can draw it out afterwards, come in here this afternoon, whenever you want to, and draw out the charts and so forth. It'll help you to understand. That's the reason I put it there, so that you would understand it.

-------------Daniel's Seventy Weeks Timeline--------------

Here are all the different dates that Brother Branhan mentioned in Daniel's Seventy Weeks series. I have added other scriptural dates that will help explain the timeline better. Dates are listed from B.C. to A.D.

•	606 B.C. Jeremiah's Vision of the seventy years of Israels bondage in Babylon(King of the North), and the beginning of captivity of Israel in Babylon.

61-0730M  GABRIEL'S.INSTRUCTIONS.TO.DANIEL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  DA 1-44  SUNDAY_
«  74       †        Now, Daniel (Oh, my.), he had begin to see that the time was getting close, just as we are today. Daniel begin to understand, he said, by the reading of books. And in the first year of the reign of Daniel--in the reign...
I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that should be accomplished seventy years in... desolation of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah in B.C. 606, prophesied because of their sins and ungodliness that they would be seventy years.

61-0730M  GABRIEL'S.INSTRUCTIONS.TO.DANIEL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  DA 1-44  SUNDAY_
«  72       †        Now, the prophet Daniel had been in Babylon for sixty-eight years (You who wants to run references back and save yourself some of the time that I've had to--to looking it up)--sixty-eight years. He went into captivity in B.C. 606. And when the vision came to him was--was B.C. 538; 538 from 606 leaves 68. Sixty-eight years he had been in Babylon amongst heathens and still had the victory. Amen. We can't stay a hour.

•	538 B.C. 68th year of Israels captivity in Babylon, and the visitation of Gabriel to Daniel.

61-0730M  GABRIEL'S.INSTRUCTIONS.TO.DANIEL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  DA 1-44  SUNDAY_
«  72       †        And when the vision came to him was--was B.C. 538; 538 from 606 leaves 68. Sixty-eight years he had been in Babylon amongst heathens and still had the victory. Amen. We can't stay a hour.

DANIEL 9:21»     21     †     Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

-----Using  the 4 Edicts to understand where to start 70 weeks------

•	The Four Edicts

Initiator and Date for each Edict			
Cyrus	Ezra 1:1-4	536 B.C.	
Darius	Ezra 6:8-12	519 B.C.	
7th Year of Artaxerxes	Ezra 7:11-26	457 B.C.	
20th Year of Artaxerxes	Nehemiah 2:1-9	445 B.C.	

•	Edict #1 by Cyrus, in the 536 B.C .
536 B.C. - First group left Babylon - If the vision was given in the 68th year of captivity in 538 B.C. then the seventieth year would be 536 B.C. The first colony was allowed to leave (see Ezra 1:1-8). A decree from Cyrus allowed the Jews to build the temple, but not the city and the walls.

536 BC: Cyrus gives the decree that the temple in Jerusalem was to be rebuilt. Ezra 1:1-4.
536 BC: The first colony of Jews return to Jerusalem under the leadership of Zerubbabel. Ezra 1-6.
536 BC: The foundation of the temple is laid. Ezra 3:8-13.
535 BC: The building is hindered. Ezra 4:3-24.
**THE EDICT OF 536 B.C. HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REBUILDING JERUSALEM OR ITS WALLS. IT ONLY APPLIES TO THE TEMPLE. THUS DANIEL 9:25 IS NOT FULFILLED.
•	Edict #2 by Darius, in the 519 B.C.
519 BC: Darius re-commissions the rebuilding of the temple. Ezra 6.
516 BC: Temple completed. Ezra 6:15.
**THE EDICT OF 519 B.C. HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REBUILDING JERUSALEM OR ITS WALLS. IT ONLY APPLIES TO THE TEMPLE. THUS DANIEL 9:25 IS NOT FULFILLED.
•	Edict # 3 by Artaxerxes I, in the year 457 B.C.
457 B.C. - Ezra had a revival and the second colony of Jews return to Jerusalem under the authorization of Artaxerxes I. Ezra 7. - Artaxerxes gave a decree to rebuild temple, city, and walls. A letter was written to Artaxerxes that the Jews were a rebellious people and that the building of the city and walls should stop. Artaxerxes wrote a letter for the building of the city and walls to stop. Brother Branham never mentions this date. Some people try to start Daniel's 70 weeks timeline at this date. In doing so the dates will not come out correctly.

•	The King finances the Temple worship Ezra 7:13,15,20 
•	King commissions the purchase of animals for sacrifice Ezra 7:17 
•	Vessels and other things needful for Temple worship are restored Ezra 7:19,20 
•	King commissions all the help neccessary to restore Temple worship. Ezra 7:23 
•	King restricts taxation on those involved in Temple worship Ezra 7:24 
•	Jerusalem is given permission by the King to excersize the law of Moses and to teach it. Ezra 7:25,26
457 B.C.: The list of Ezra’s company of returning exiles and their arrival at Jerusalem. Ezra 8.
457 B.C.: The correction of social evils by Ezra. Ezra 9-10.
**THE EDICT OF 457 B.C. DID ALLOW FOR THE TEMPLE, CITY, AND WALLS TO BE REBUILT. HOWEVER, THE ORIGINAL DECREE WAS OVERTURNED BY ARTAXERXES AND THEREFORE THE EDICT WAS REWRITTEN TO ONLY ALLOW THE TEMPLE TO BE REBUILT AND NOT THE CITY AND WALLS. THUS DANIEL 9:25 IS NOT FULFILLED.
•	Edict # 4 by Artaxerxes I, in the year 445 BC
445 BC: Edict to rebuild Jerusalem, its palaces, and its walls is given by Artaxerex I. Nehemiah 2:1-9.
**THE EDICT OF 445 B.C. DID ALLOW FOR THE TEMPLE, CITY, AND WALLS TO BE REBUILT. THIS DECREE WAS DECREED BY ARTAXERXES AND DID ALLOW FOR THE TEMPLE, CITY, AND WALLS TO BE REBUILT. THUS DANIEL 9:25 IS FULFILLED.

---------How Brother Branham got to 30 AD------------

  445        445 B.C. 14th day of March -- the issue went forth to rebuild the temple and the city.
  - 49 	    1st period of 7 weeks(49 yrs) (It took 49 yrs to complete (46 yrs temple and 3 yrs city)
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 396 	    Temple rebuilt
- 434 	    2nd period of 62 weeks
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 38 		
- 8 	    Difference of eight years.
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30 A.D.	   April 2nd, Palm Sunday. Thus the fulfillment of the 483 years, or 69 weeks, or 2 periods.
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SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_  JEFF.IN  DA 89-141  SUNDAY_  61-0806
  80    Now, now, Jesus, Messiah, rode into the city of Jerusalem, triumph, on the back of a white mule on Palm Sunday, April the 2nd, A.D. 30. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, A.D. 30. And now, now, from B.C. 445 to A.D. 30 is exactly 475 years.
But as we have already seen that the sixty-nine weeks makes 483 years... Now, there's where the trouble comes, right there. See? We've got only with the marking of the Bible here, time, only 475 years, and actually it's 483 years, a difference of eight years.
Now, God can't make it miss. If He said it would be so many days, it's so many days. If He says it's so much, it's so much. So what are we going to do? Now, the B.C. 475 to A.D. 30 are Julian or astronomy years, which are 365 1/4 day in--in each. But when we reduce them days to our prophetic calendar...

-------------3 Periods of Daniels Seventy Weeks-----------------

SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_  JEFF.IN  DA 89-141  SUNDAY_  61-0806
  61    Now, now, let's outline Daniel's seventy of weeks. Now, I might repeat here again: Ministers of the Gospel, if you disagree with this, all right. They are divided in three periods, as we find out in Daniel 9--three periods: First, a seven week period; then a threescore and two, which is sixty-two; and then a one week period. They're divided in three different periods.
Now, I've got it divided here on the board. The first period, second period, and to my understanding by the Gospel, by the Holy Spirit, that the end time God returns again to the Jew.
Now, we know by all the Gospels that Paul taught and the others, that God will return again to the Jews, Well, then if He's going to return again to the Jew, how can we apply it back in Daniel's time? We've got to apply it in this last age, and it's after the Gentile church has been gone, 'cause He deals with Israel as a nation, we as an individual.

-----------Seventieth Week(3rd period)-------------------------------------------------

GABRIEL'S.INSTRUCT.TO.DANIEL_  JEFF.IN  DA 1-44  SUNDAY_  61-0730M
  160    A man come to me not long ago, said, "Oh, Sister McPherson taught that the church would go through the tribulation, 'cause we'll be shining lights in that time." It's Israel then, not the Gentiles. The Gentiles has done gone, the Church. They have to go through no tribulation. The dragon spurted water from his mouth (the 17th chapter) and made war with the remnant, the sleeping virgins, not the... The real Church has gone on. She's done at the wedding supper for these--the space of time where the wedding supper will be going on the last week. And that's when the tribulation sets in, when the locusts and the persecutions rise upon the churches of things like that. Then at the end, in the 19th chapter here She comes with Her Bridegroom (Hallelujah.), King of king and Lord of lord, vesture dipped in blood, and the heavenly host riding on white horses coming with Him. There she comes to take her place for the Millennium. Amen. Oh.

**Wedding Supper is never mentioned in the scripture. It is assumed there is 3 1/2 years. I believe in a Wedding Supper.

SIXFOLD.PURPOSE.GABRIEL.VISIT.DAN_  JEFF.IN  DA 45-88  SUNDAY_  61-0730E
  139    There'll be two prophets (the 11th chapter, we'll pick that up)--two anointed prophets like Elijah and Moses, who I think it is. And they'll bring great curses, after they have seen that they have consolidated, and Rome has broke its covenant (that prince) in the middle of this seventieth week, it'll break its covenant with Rome, or Rome will break it with Israel, and that'll cause the abomination to begin to scatter. And there will be the great flood, when the Gentile remnant, the sleeping virgins... The dragon (Rome) spurted water out of his mouth to make war with the remnant of the woman's seed that keep the commandments of God. Rome will do that.

SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_  JEFF.IN  DA 89-141  SUNDAY_  61-0806
  94    Now, my Pentecostal brethren, now my Jehovah Witness brethren, do you realize... Do you know where the 144,000 appeared? Do you know where all the great miracles of Revelation appeared? Over in the Jewish age, not in ours. There's nothing recorded in it, just the church getting ready and going out. Sure, with the power of God we can do--work miracles and exploits; we know that. But the real thing was over here to the Jews; I mean, the real working power, miracle working.
The 144,000 don't appear there. They're over... They appear, not in the 3rd chapter; they're on over in the Scriptures farther. And now, we see that all this stuff was to take place was over in this time of the seventieth week, the last week. Now, if they've already had sixty-nine weeks and lived it exactly the way God said they did, and it happened exactly the way God said it would do, then there's one more week promised to the Jews. Now, brethren, just get ready. See, see? Listen how close we are. Last week seven--the seventh years...

SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_  JEFF.IN  DA 89-141  SUNDAY_  61-0806
  105    Now, we find out, that down through these ages, we had the Holy Spirit come in, and then God, back in the beginning, begin to tell then at the rejection of Christ... God showed John exactly what would take place during the Gentile reign. Now, you haven't got any limited time like the Jews, but we got a sign. We got a--we got a sign post. Well, God did with the Jews just exactly what He said He would do in them sixty-nine years--or 483 years, but sixty-nine weeks. And one week left, one week's yet determined.

SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_  JEFF.IN  DA 89-141  SUNDAY_  61-0806
  118    Now, Pentecostal brethren, how can you apply it all over here in the Laodicean church age? They're--they're sleeping through every one of these ages, waiting. "And we which are alive (the little remaining bunch over here), remain alive until the coming of the Lord will not hinder those which are asleep; for the trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; and we shall be caught up together with them (Amen.)--with them (here we are, meeting right here) to go to meet the Lord in the air. Amen, and there you are. Where we at? Right here. Where did the Messiah get cut off? Exactly where the Word said. Where will that seventieth week begin? Exactly after this church is cut off. Then God returns to the Jews.
Don't you remember that as soon as the church goes--the church goes, then the Jews take hold, come in. But first, the next thing in order is not a mighty nation on a national revival amongst the Gentiles. The next thing in order is the coming of the Kingdom of God, the coming of Christ.

SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_  JEFF.IN  DA 89-141  SUNDAY_  61-0806
  189    The moment He starts that seventieth week or seven years, the church is gone. Can you see it, friends? Raise up your hand if you can see it.
See, now let's not be children. Let's not be playful anymore. We're at the end time. Something's fixing to happen. We're at the end. Here we are.

------------What was being preached in The 7 Seals?----------------------

62-1014M  THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  V-2 N-18  SUNDAY_
«  59       †          Now, these people are--are... Peter is saying, here, how that we must be partakers of His Divine nature. Now, each one of us are trying to grow into the stature of God.
60    Now, after we get through with the Seven Seals, then, at that time of the sounding of the Seventh Seal, or the loosening... Course, we know what a seal is, is to loose the ministry, to loose Seven Seals. And we'll see that right on the chart. Is loosing a Message, something that's sealed up.

62-1014M  THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  V-2 N-18  SUNDAY_
«  367       †          You get it? These people who died, in here, are depending and waiting on us. So, this Church has got to come to perfection, in order to bring the resurrection. And they're under, souls under the altar, waiting for this Church to come to Its perfection, that when Christ does come.
368    And this Church, you see, is coming smaller, in the minority. [Brother Branham refers to his chalkboard drawing--Ed.] It's a whole lot sharper than that, but just like to write that cross there, see. It's come up to a needlepoint. Until, the Church, in the minority, has got to get into a place until it's the same kind of a ministry that this left, because, when this Headstone comes back.
369    It's got a little pocket-like here, where it's going to sit right in there, on the regular pyramid. It just isn't a cap that sits across the top. It's a little flange, and it's got to sit on there, 'cause it sheds the water.
And when it comes, this Church has got to be honed.
370    All these, rest the stones in the pyramid, are laying so perfect till you can't run a razor blade between them, weighing tons, laying in there. How they got them up, they don't know. But they were built.
371    And up here, when the pyramid Cap does come, the pyramid Itself, the Body of Christ will have to be honed. Not only just some creed or doctrine, or something other we come through. It'll have to be so perfectly like Christ, till, when He comes, He and that ministry will fit right smack together. See? Then will come the Rapture, the going Home.

QA.HEBREWS.PART.2_  JEFF.IN  COD  WEDNESDAY_  57-1002
  291-516    Now, I believe that the Gentile church will soon... The completing of the body of the Gentile church... The doors between... Jesus said in Matthew 24 (I'll take that one Scripture for a minute.); He said, "They will trod down the walls of Jerusalem until the Gentile dispensation be finished."
Now, watch. It was given by our Lord Jesus in Matthew 24, that the Jews would be taken out of the picture. Daniel said, back over in the old prophets; he said that there would be seventy of weeks yet 'lotted to the Jews. And the Messiah would come (the Prince) and would prophesy in the midst of the seventieth weeks, which was the seven years, He'd be cut off in the midst. Look how perfect it was. Jesus was exactly preached three and one-half years and was crucified. But there is three... That come right in on this other question here. There's three and a half years yet allotted to them, to the Jew. It's got to be.

FIRST.SEAL.THE_  JEFF.IN  MONDAY_  63-0318
  150-2  {225}    Now, just seventy weeks was determined, perfectly, as Daniel said that Messiah would come and would be cut off in the midst of the week. And Jesus prophesied three and a half years. Now, in the middle of this three and a half years of Daniel, in the middle of it He was cut off. And now the last part is the tribulation period where the Gentile church is... Oh, this is great. Now, don't...?... The Bride goes in with the Groom, then after the millennium, walks out upon the ashes of the wicked.

63-0318  THE.FIRST.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  MONDAY_
«  214       †        Now, look, Malachi 4. He's a prophet and restores the original faith of the fathers. At the end time, when the tribulation period comes... Now, here's a little thing; we're going to reverse back a minute, where the three and a half years or Daniel's seventy weeks (the last half of Daniel's seventy weeks which is three and one-half years.)... Now, we... How many remembers that from the church ages? Sure, you see? There's seventy weeks determined: look how perfect it was; said, "Messiah will come, and He'll be cut off for a Sacrifice in the midst of the week, and the obligation will cease."

63-0318  THE.FIRST.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  MONDAY_
«  216       †        Then there is still three and a half years waited for the Messiahic doctrine to the Jew, and God does not deal with the Jew and the Gentile at the same time. 

63-0318  THE.FIRST.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  MONDAY_
«  225       †        Now, just seventy weeks was determined, perfectly, as Daniel said that Messiah would come and would be cut off in the midst of the week. And Jesus prophesied three and a half years. Now, in the middle of this three and a half years of Daniel, in the middle of it He was cut off. And now the last part is the tribulation period where the Gentile church is... Oh, this is great. Now, don't...?... The Bride goes in with the Groom, then after the Millennium, walks out upon the ashes of the wicked.

63-0318  THE.FIRST.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  MONDAY_
«  334       †        Now, look, let's take--go back to Daniel again just a minute. I want to read something 'fore... Whether if you don't go back, it's all right. I want to read Daniel 9--Daniel 9, and I want to read the 26th and 27th verse of Daniel 9. And watch, if he isn't the one to destroy Daniel's people--what he's going to do.
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off... (See, that's the threescore and two weeks, He'd be cut off out of the seventy weeks.)... not for himself: but for the people and the prince... (That's the hierarchy here.)... that shall come--that shall come shall destroy the city and... sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with great flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

63-0318  THE.FIRST.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  MONDAY_
«  341       †        Now, watch. In the end time, not in the early days when Christ was preaching, but in the end time, the last part of the week, where we just took the seventy weeks of Daniel; and Christ has prophesied for the three and a half years, and three and a half years are yet determined. Is that right? And this prince in that time is to make a covenant with Daniel's people, which is the Jews. That's when the Bride's taken out now. She won't see it.

63-0318  THE.FIRST.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  MONDAY_
«  359       †        Now, when he gets the money all under control, then he will break this covenant with the Jews, as Daniel here said he would do it, in the midst of the last half of the seventy weeks of Daniel. And then, brother, what will he do? He will have all of the world trade and the commerce, a pact with the world, 'cause he will hold the wealth of the world completely.

63-0322  THE.FIFTH.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  FRIDAY_
«  280       †        Now, you remember, they was to prophesy. You've read that. How many's read that? Sure, we all acquainted reading the Scripture. And they prophesy, these two witnesses prophesy in the time of Daniel's second half of the seventy week. That is the last three and a half years.
You remember how we took the Daniel's seventy week? I said we would need it when we got in here. I didn't know why, but I--something told me we'd need it, and here we are. See, see?
Notice, in the time of Daniel... Now, remember, Daniel was told that the Messiah would come (the prince, the Messiah, rather) and He would prophesy. Israel still had seventy weeks left, and in the midst of the seventy week the Messiah would be cut off, and the daily sacrifice taken away (Is that right?), but there was still three and a half weeks determined. In this block He takes the Gentile Bride. Now, she goes up, and when she goes up, two prophets arrive to Israel. See?

FIFTH.SEAL.THE_  JEFF.IN  FRIDAY_  63-0322
  370-3  {297}    Now, notice. These Jews... I have to do this in order to--to let you see the revelation of this Seal, see what it is, these souls under the altar and who they are.
Now, notice. In the time of Daniel, now, the second half of the seventieth week... Now, remember, Messiah was to be cut off in the midst. That's the middle. Well, what's half of seven? Three and a half. How long did Christ preach? [Congregation answers: "Three and a half."--Ed.] That's right. Now. But there's determined yet to the people what? Another three and a half year.

63-0323  THE.SIXTH.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  SATURDAY_
«  116       †        Remember, He deals with Israel as a nation always. It's the nation of Israel. The Gentiles as individuals--people taken from the Gentile. And it had to... The Gentile had to be made up of all the people of the world, so now and then there's a Jew comes into that. See? Just like--like Arabian and Irish and Indian and whatmore. It's all the people of the world make up this bouquet Bride. See?
But now, when it comes to dealing then with Israel, in this last part of the seventy weeks, He deals with them as a nation. The Gentiles are finished. The hour's soon arriving (and maybe yet this--this very night) that God will completely turn from the Gentiles altogether. Exactly. He said so. "They shall tread down the walls of Jerusalem until the Gentile dispensation be finished." The times are over. Yes, sir. And then, "Let him that's filthy, stay filthy. Let him that's righteous be righteous." See?

63-0323  THE.SIXTH.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  SATURDAY_
«  196       †        Oh, my. Do you see that? In there--Not the Bride, isn't going to be out here laboring in the vineyards. No, sir. She's the Bride. She's the Queen to the King. It's the others that labor out there, the nation, not the Bride. Amen.
All right, notice these messengers now... These messengers of the Revelations 12, these two prophets, they're going to preach, "The Kingdom is at hand." See? The Kingdom of heaven's to be set up. The time, last three and one-half years of Daniel's seventieth week promised to the Jews, His people...
Remember now, that to prove that, that this is Daniel's last part of the seventieth week... I got a question on that for tomorrow. See? Now, seventy weeks was promised, which was seven years. And in the midst of the seven weeks, the Messiah was to be cut off to be made a Sacrifice. He would prophesy three and one-half years, and then He'd be cut off for a sacrifice for the people, and there is still a determination, that three and one-half years is still determined for Israel.

63-0323  THE.SIXTH.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  SATURDAY_
«  210       †        Notice now, we find out that the time lasts, I said three and one-half years of Daniel's seventy weeks. Let me explain that a little closer now, 'cause I see somebody here that's always watched that now; I want to try to make myself clear: a teacher. Notice, when the seventy weeks come in... When Daniel seen the vision of the time coming and the ending up of the Jews... But he said there was determined seventy weeks (That's seven years), in the midst of it, why the Messiah would be here--or--and would be cut off for a sacrifice.

63-0324M  QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.THE.SEALS_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  SUNDAY_
«  338       †        36. Brother Branham, I noticed you--your referring to Daniel's seventy weeks on the First Seal message. I understand on Daniel--on the tape of Daniel when the Gospel returns to the Jews, the seventy weeks will begin. Is there a one seventy--one week, seven years, left for the Jews, or yet is there only one-half week, one three and one-half years left for them?
Only one-half week: Jesus prophesied the first half week, as was predicted, only one-half week left for them.

63-0324E  THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  SUNDAY_
«  107       †        Notice, but these prophets will come. Not only that... The--the prophets now is Revelations 11. We've read some of it, and I want you to read it as you study on the tapes and so forth. They are absolutely a-vindicated prophets by the sign of prophets; then Israel is going to hear that.
Now, to you my Jehovah Witness friends, understand now, that these hundred and forty-four thousand has nothing to do with the Bride. There's not one bit of Scripture to support that. No, sir, they are not. They are Jews, the elect that's called out during the time of the last three and a half years of Daniel's seventy weeks. Now, that's... I--I keep--keep quoting this over, not so much to you all here, but (See?), people... These tapes go everywhere. You see? You understand that. You hear me quoting back; it's for that purpose.

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63-1229M  THERE.IS.A.MAN.HERE.THAT.CAN.TURN.ON.THE.LIGHT_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  V-6 N-1  SUNDAY_«  146       †          Creeds and traditions, in their blinded condition, had turned them from the true Light of the promised Word. The Word that God had vindicated, by Jesus, the Light of the world, came and made that Word live right exactly through His time, exactly to the days. "He'll be cut off in the midst of the seventy weeks, that's right, which is the three and a half years of His prophecy. The Messiah would come, the Prince, and would prophesy, and three and a half days of this, then He would be cut off from the living, and make atonement." And that's exactly. He preached three and a half years. And their...
64-0823E  QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.2_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  COD  SUNDAY_«  222       †        322. Brother Branham, I would like to know about the Millennium. Is it after the marriage supper, or--or is it on earth, all about it. I do--don't understand about it. Well, brother or sister, it's hard for me to understand it, myself. But only thing I can say is this: that the marriage supper comes before the Millennium. Now, see, somebody, I know somewhere in here has got a question on that, that said, "Brother Branham, you're--you're wrong on the seventy weeks of Daniel. There will still be seventy weeks." No, the Messiah was to come and prophesy, and in the midst of the seventy weeks, seventy of weeks, which is seven years, He was to--He was to be cut off from among the living and made a sacrifice. How many remembers that? All right. How many years then did Jesus preach, the Messiah? Three and a half. Then there's still 3 1/2 determined. And in Revelations the 11th chapter, these two prophets, they prophesy one thousand two hundred and three score days. Three and one half years still promised to Israel when the Gentile Bride is gone. How many understands that now? See? All right, all right.
64-0830E  QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.4_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  COD  SUNDAY_«  75       †        392. Ah... The church age ending and has blacked out, the Bride is called, we have already entered into the tribulation period? No, no, no, you're... I wished that I could just have more time on that. See, see? The Bride, when she's taken from the church, then the church age will cease. Laodicea goes into chaos; the Bride goes to glory; and the tribulation period sets in upon the sleeping virgin for three and a half years while Israel is getting its prophecy; then tribulation sets in upon Israel; and then comes the battle of Armageddon which destroys all things. And then, the Bride returns back with the Groom for a thousand years, the Millennium reign; after that comes the white throne judgment; after that comes the new heavens and new earth and the new city coming down from God out of heaven. Eternity and time blends together.
64-0830M  QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  COD  SUNDAY_«  297       †        370. Brother Branham, when you gave the message on the seventy church weeks--seventy weeks (Pardon me.) of Daniel, I believe that you mentioned that the full--the full last week or last seven years will begin when the Bride was taken in the rapture. No, no, no, no, no, nah, nah, nah. You got that wrong (See?), not the full seven weeks. The--the week started when Jesus came on earth. He said, "The Messiah, Prince, shall come and prophesy, and in the midst of the seven weeks, He'll be cut off." And Jesus preached exactly three and one half years, which is half of the seventy weeks, the seven days, week--weekdays. See? And there's three and one half years left. Now, when Moses and Elijah comes on earth, which is Revelations and Zechariah... (Brother Coomer your--your and Sister Coomer's question there was--was in the same.) Now, when they... When Zechariah 4 and Revelations 11, them two olive trees and so forth--which is Moses and Elijah--when they come on earth they prophesy 1,264 days. What is it? Exactly three and one half years. There's exactly the same thing. Not... See? Ever who this dear person is. Very, very, beautiful, wrote--wrote on paper with religious head write--lines here and things, and it's very fine. And it's a very nice question, but (See?) you didn't get it, just what I said. Never did I believe that the whole seventy weeks would be over here. Messiah's cut off. How many remembers that in preaching up here? Certainly. See? Seven weeks.
64-0830M  QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_  JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  COD  SUNDAY_«  299       †        371. Since then, it seems like the first three and one half years was fulfilled during the ministry (Well, here you've got it right here.) of--of Jesus, but the expression, "midst of the weeks" seems to be applied only to the antichrist breaking his covenant with the... (No, that antichrist breaks his covenant at the end of the last three and one half years. See?) As I understood Daniel tape, the first sixty-nine weeks ended when Jesus rode into Jerusalem A. D. 30, so that three and one half years of His ministry would be included in the sixty-nine week's; and the full last weeks--and the full last week or seven years would still be fulfilled and would begin at the rapture. Please clarify this for me. You know, brother, sister, ever who it is that's asked this question. Very fine (See?), but I believe you got a little mixed up on what I said. See? Now, the--when Jesus came into Jerusalem (That is exactly right.), that was the end of... See? He went right straight in from there and was crucified. See? And He--He did prophesy half of the seventy weeks which is three and one half. Now, He was cut off, and His soul was made a sacrifice. And now, there would come then... In this last days, there's three and one half years still promised to the--the Jews. And the--in--during this time was a gathering up of the saints for the rapture, the church. Now, I ain't going to get all these through, brother--brother, sister.