Good evening ministers and co-workers present and also those in other countries. Warm greetings to Miguel Bermudez Marin, missionary of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and also to Reverend Patricio Lara there in Chile, Santiago de Chile, where they are gathered with ministers and co-workers there in Santiago de Chile. May God bless you, Miguel, Patricio, and all the ministers and co-workers in Santiago of Chile. And to all the ministers gathered in different countries at this time in the minister’s meeting that is being held.
May God always use you greatly in His Program in this end time, and may we soon all be ready for our transformation. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
On this occasion, we read in Joshua chapter 1, verse 1 and on, and it says the following:
“Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,
Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It, and may He open the Scriptures to us and our understanding in order to comprehend. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
“BE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.”
Just as God was with Moses, then He was with Joshua, to place the people in the promised Land. And just as He was with Joshua, as He had been with Moses, later we find that He was with Jesus Christ. And then, just as He was with Jesus Christ, He was with the apostles. And just as He was with Jesus Christ and the apostles, He has been with every angel-messenger in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ from age to age under the New Covenant.
That is why the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is represented in the Virgin Mary, as well as in other women of the Bible, women of faith.
Now let’s see, page 171 of the Book “An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages,” says… Let’s read on page 171, it says:
“The first son (Adam) was the spoken seed-Word of God. He was given a bride to reproduce himself. That is why the bride was given to him, to reproduce himself; to produce another son of God. But she fell. She fell by hybridization. She caused him to die.
The second Son (Jesus), also a spoken Seed-Word of God was given a bride like as was Adam. But before He could marry her, she also had fallen. She, like Adam’s wife, was put to the test whether she would believe the Word of God and live, or doubt the Word and die. She doubted. She left the Word. She died.
From a little group of the true seed of the Word, God will present Christ with a beloved bride. She is a virgin of His Word. She is a virgin because she knows no man-made creeds or dogmas. By and through the members of the bride will be fulfilled all that was promised of God to be made manifest in the virgin.”
It is important to know that everything God has promised, to be manifested in the Virgin-Church, will be fulfilled by Him through the members of His Bride-Church. That is one of the mysteries of God’s Plan that is carried out in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“The word of promise came to the virgin Mary. But that Word of promise was He, Himself, to be made manifest. God was made manifest. He, Himself, acted at that time and fulfilled His own Word of promise in the virgin. It was an angel that had brought her the message. But the angel’s message was the Word of God. Isaiah 9:6. He fulfilled at that time all that was written of Him because she accepted His Word to her.
The members of the virgin bride will love Him, and they will have His potentials, for He is their head, and all power belongs to Him. They are subject to Him as the members of our bodies are subject to our heads.
Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son. Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father. John 5:19. This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His bride. He shows her His Word of life. She receives it. She never doubts it. Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary). The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word. She performs the command of the Word in His name for she has “thus saith the Lord.” Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass. Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving its purpose.
Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have ‘thus saith the Lord’ or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride.”
How does He work? In and through the Bride. Such is the Work of Jesus Christ is on Earth: God working through Christ in and through His Bride-Church, which was born on the day of Pentecost.
“She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time.”
There is a Work that He left to be carried out in this end time, which He did not do in past ages, and it must be done by Christ in this end time. Therefore, Christ in Holy Spirit in His Church and through His Church will do the Work of the Last Day. Christ will do what is promised to be carried out in and through His Bride-Church. It is as simple as that.
He said: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” [Matthew 28:20.] How? In Holy Spirit, working and fulfilling that which pertains to God to carry out in the midst of His Church and through His Church.
Therefore, we must have our eyes set on the promises made for the Last Day, the things God will do, and we must know He will perform them by His Spirit through His Church.
That is how He has worked from age to age: always fulfilling what has been promised for His Church in each age. And for this, He raises a messenger, to whom He has revealed Himself, and through whom He speaks to the people, to His Church, fulfilling what He has promised, and then, from the Church and the messenger, the Message comes forth for all nations.
It is always God working through the Holy Spirit in His spiritual Temple, which is His Church, which is under the New Covenant in the Dispensation of Grace. And the Work of the Dispensation of Grace will be completed at this end time in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, the age that will crown the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is because the Age of the Cornerstone is the Chamber of the King, it is the Messianic Stage or Age for the Coming of the Headstone or Cornerstone, which is the Second Coming of Christ, just as He came two thousand years ago to the people that was under the Covenant relevant to that time, in the Dispensation of the Law.
The Capstone came at that time, and therefore the age or stage was the Age of the Cornerstone, with which and in which He fulfilled His First Coming and the works that He would carry out in His First Coming, in which He came as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world. That is why when John the Baptist presented Him, he said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” [John 1:29.]
That is why John spoke a lot about the Coming of the Messiah and the symbol of the Lamb of God, because He had to carry out the Work of Redemption as the Lamb of God. This is how it happened in Egypt, when He delivered Israel from bondage in Egypt, and when He delivered the firstborns from death on the night when death was passing through all the homes in Egypt, and if anyone did not have the token of the blood of the paschal lamb on their door, on the lintel and the doorposts of the door to their home, every firstborn in that house would die.
It is because that Passover lamb represented Christ, the Messiah, in His First Coming, who would come to deliver from death all those written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, which are the firstborn written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, from which no name can be blotted out.
There is another section in the Book of Life from which names can be blotted out, but no name can be blotted out from the section called the Lamb’s Book of Life. Those are the names of the people who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they cannot be blotted out.
That is why Christ had to come to carry out the redemption of all these people who have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life. They can go through many problems here on Earth, many difficult situations, but their names cannot be blotted out of the section of the Lamb’s Book of Life.
And the more careful we are, the better it is for us, the less problems we will have before God and before men.
Therefore, aware that our names are written in Heaven, in the section called the Lamb’s Book of Life… It is a single book, the Book of Life, but it has two sections: one from which names can be blotted out and another from which names cannot be blotted out, because those are the names that would make up the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the time of the Dispensation of Grace.
To know this Biblical truth is a great blessing for us. To know that our names were written in the section of the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world is a great blessing for us. Therefore, don’t be afraid, because the Lord is with you, and with me as well.
“BE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.”
Just as He was with the true believers of past times, He is also with us. He has placed us in the most important stage of all the stages of His Church: at the top of that mystical Body of believers, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone.
The stage of the Cornerstone Age is the stage for the Coming of the Headstone, the Coming of the Lord in this end time. That is the greatest mystery of the entire Bible: the Second Coming of Christ; and that mystery is going to be opened in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision. That is where that mystery is going to be opened, and it is going to give the faith to be changed and raptured to all the believers that will go in the rapture to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
They will receive rapturing faith. Just as people obtain faith for Divine Healing, they will obtain the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Therefore: “Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed,” because the Lord is with us. He is with us as He was with Moses, with Joshua, with the judges, with the prophets, with Jesus, with the apostles, with the angel-messengers of each age. Likewise, He is also with us in this end time in Holy Spirit, carrying out the Divine Program pertaining to this end time as He did in past times, ages, and dispensations. And this is to carry out the Work of God relevant to this end time.
God is with us in Spirit to help us in everything we need, and to use us in everything He wishes to use us for in this end time.
Therefore: “Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, be strong and of good courage.” He will help us, as He has always helped us; He will also help us in what is left to be done. Therefore, we will reach the goal of the transformation, and if someone leaves ahead of time, he will come back in the resurrection of the believers in Christ who have died, to be resurrected in a new, eternal, immortal, incorruptible, and glorified body like the glorified Body of Christ our Savior. However, if the person remains alive… when we see them resurrected, we will be changed.
“BE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.”
Just as He was with Moses, with Joshua, and with all these men of God, and the people of God, and past ages of God, past dispensations: He is with us. He is with us confirming the New Covenant to us, confirming all the promises to us, and gradually fulfilling each Divine Promise relevant to this end time to His Bride-Church in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Just as He was going up from one age to another, He has ascended to the peak of the Mountain of God, of the spiritual Mount Zion, which is His Church. He has ascended to the stage of the Cornerstone Age and He has brought us up with Him, too, through the call: “Come up hither.” [Revelation 4:1] Come up, to where? To the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age for the promises of the Last Day to be fulfilled and to give us the blessings promised for all of us.
Therefore, onward: not being afraid, without fear, because the Lord is with us.
“BE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.”
May God bless everyone here, and those in other nations. And God willing, we will see each other tomorrow, in the morning, for our service tomorrow (Sunday), our Bible school early tomorrow morning so that it coincides with the time in Puerto Rico, because there is about a two-hour time difference, so we must be ready at a good time here to connect with Puerto Rico [through the broadcast], and also for those in different countries to be connected to tomorrow’s Sunday Service.
May God bless you and keep you, and continue having a happy evening filled with all the blessings of Christ our Savior.
I leave with you Reverend Andres Cruz Gallegos to continue, and in each country I leave each minister to continue.
“BE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.”