Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, and those in Puerto Rico, Reverend Jose Benjamin Perez and all the congregation over there and every minister and their congregation in different countries.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant be upon all of you and upon myself, as well, and may He bless us all greatly, and may He use us greatly in His Work in this end time. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
For the services we are using the melody of the still small voice; you may use it in Puerto Rico, too, when Reverend Jose Benjamin Perez is making the introduction for me to come out, and for Missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin in his presentation before I begin to speak.
I have been told that many have heard the still small voice without playing it on a recorder; it has happened to me too. It is like if the still small voice is accompanying us, the Word of the Lord, which is the Still Small Voice, the Message, the Word of God for the Age of the Cornerstone.
The Voice of God, Elijah the prophet heard It on Mount Horeb or Mount Sinai when he went up there, after going through other stages when he heard as a strong wind, he saw a fire too, an earthquake and all of that, but the fourth thing he heard was a still small voice, softly; and It asked Elijah: “What are you doing here?” (Elijah on Mount Sinai.)
Elijah at the Last Day will be on Mount Zion, on the Mountain of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His fourth manifestation and His fifth manifestation, too. And back then God sent him to anoint three men: Elisha, Hazael, and Jehu. We will explain that on another occasion.
And where will we find Elijah in the end time? In the Mount of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, listening to the Still Small Voice, the Voice of God, to communicate it to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, the Church will also be hearing the Still Small Voice, the Voice of God through the Spirit of God manifested in Elijah, the Elijah of the end time.
Let us read in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verse 27 and verse 30 onward. Chapter 24, verse 27 says:
“For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
And verse 30 says the following…Let’s read it all. We continue on verse 28:
“For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
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.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
And then what shall appear? THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN. Then shall 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.”
“THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN.” That is our subject for next Sunday’s Bible study, on February 28. And it was on February 28, 1963, when a large sign appeared in the sky: a cloud that was formed by seven angels of God.
“THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN.”
When it is spoken of the Son of Man it refers to one of the titles of the Messiah as Son. The Messiah has titles of Son such as: Son of Abraham, who is heir to all the Promised Land; Son of David: heir to David’s Kingdom; Son of God: heir to the Heavens and the Earth, of all Creation; Son of Man: heir to the Planet Earth with everything it contains and will have. That is why the Kingdom of the Messiah will be global.
For the Millennial Kingdom all the nations will be under the ruling of the Messiah, seated upon the Throne of David there in Jerusalem. That is what Virgin Mary was told by the Angel Gabriel in Saint Luke chapter 1, verse 30 to 36.
“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
The heir to the Kingdom of David and Throne of David is the Messiah the Prince who was born of the Virgin Mary. He is the Son of David, heir to the Kingdom and Throne of David. And He too, is the Son of Man – title that belongs to the Messiah as a prophet.
As Son of Man, He is heir to all the Planet Earth with all the nations and its living beings, humans and animals, all the ecosystems of the planet, everything belongs to the Son of Man as heir of the planet Earth. And the title of Son of Man is the title of a prophet. Therefore, as a prophet He is the heir of the planet Earth, He is the second Adam.
The first Adam lost his inheritance and fell into hands of the power of darkness, to the power of God’s enemy, to the power and ruling of the devil; and has been in the hands of God’s enemy since Adam and Eve fell, since they sinned in the Garden of Eden; which has brought grave consequences to the human being. But that will be completely resolved in the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels. His Angels are the Two Olive Trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah to call and gather the elect of God from the Hebrew people, which are twelve thousand from each tribe (and since they are twelve thousand from each tribe, they are a total of one hundred and forty-four thousand).
The calling for that Hebrew group of elect of God shall be made by the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah. They are the Angels that come with the Great Voice of Trumpet to call and gather one hundred and forty-four thousand Hebrews, to call and gather the elect of God from the Hebrew people.
Christ gathers the elect of God of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ with the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet or Last Message. The Last Message of God will call and gather the wheat of the parable of the wheat and tares of Saint Matthew chapter 13, verses 30 and on. It is the Son of Man who will send His Angels to gather the wheat in His Storehouse.
It is like a net cast into the sea, and gathered every kind of fish and then gathers the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the Son of Man will send His Angels. The Angels are the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, of Moses and Elijah, that will appear in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone, the Golden Age of the Church.
And since the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a spiritual Temple that started being built since the time of the apostles there, we find that the seven stages of the Church correspond to the Holy Place, and the stage of the Cornerstone corresponds to the Most Holy Place.
Where in the temple were the two golden cherubims of olive wood? They were in the Most Holy Place, with their wings extended covering the Mercy Seat. It is there, in the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, which is His Church, where the Two Olive Trees will appear, where the Son of Man with His Angels will appear for the calling of the Hebrew people, one hundred and forty-four thousand; but the elect of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ who form the Age of the Cornerstone are called first.
They ascend as they have been doing: from stage to stage, from age to age, ascending from an age to another with its messenger, and then later on another messenger comes with the Voice of God in him manifested through the Holy Spirit, speaking through that messenger and calling the children of God, the chosen of God who will form the part of the Mystical Body of Christ to come up higher at that time.
And that is how they ascend, like the dream that Jacob had in Genesis chapter 28, where he saw a ladder that leaned on earth and the highest part reached the sky; and he saw angels of God ascending and descending down the ladder. And God was at the top of the ladder and told Jacob: “I am the Lord.” And He identified Himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and told him that He would be with him at all times. He protected him and returned him to the Promised Land, to the land of which he had come from, the land of Israel. And he (Jacob) returned with gains: with children, a wife, servants, livestock… he returned rich and very happy, because he returned and could see his family, his father and the rest of his family.
That ladder that Jacob saw in Bethel… later on in chapter 35 said to him: “I am the God of Bethel.” Bethel: House of God. That is why in chapter 22 of Genesis, Jacob said: “The Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.”
Then we move to Saint John chapter 1, verse 51, where Christ says: “Hereafter you shall see angels of God that ascend…” Let’s read it. Saint John chapter 1 [verse 47]:
“Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.
And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”
It is the same revelation with more details. Christ is the ladder, and Christ and His Church are one same flesh. Therefore, what Jacob said: “This is the house of God, and I knew it not.”
And now, Israel doesn’t know that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the House of God of the New Covenant, but one day they will know when they see and hear God speaking from the top of that ladder. From the Age of the Cornerstone, the message for Israel will come forth/emerge, because from there and it is there where the Son of Man will fulfill His Coming and from there He will send His Angels, the Two Olive Trees, to call and gather the one hundred forty-four thousand Hebrews.
We have seen the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven in 1963, in the month of February, on the 28th day, when seven angels appeared to Reverend William Branham in Tucson, Arizona; and he was caught up to be with them. They took him up, they appeared to him and they took him, they took him up to that cloud, to that summit, where there were seven angels with him; counting him there were eight angel messengers.
He said that one of them was very different from the rest, and he said that the one who meant more to him than the rest of them, it was the one with the Seventh Seal. (Page 558 of the book “The Revelation of the Seven Seals”.)
In other words, the Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of the Lord, lays in the hands of the Angel who meant more to him than the rest. And the sign of the Son of Man has been shown in the clouds of the sky. A photograph of that cloud formed by angels was taken by the LIFE and SCIENCE magazines, and published in North America. Many believers and other people who wanted to know the meaning of that high cloud of 30 miles high, and 27 miles… or 26 to 27 miles wide have that photo.
Meaning that it was a very great sign, Where the Angel who has the Seventh Seal and the other seven angels were. Together with the Angels was Reverend William Branham (of course in a spiritual body, a theophanic body, same body in which the Angels of God appeared.)
They [the Angels] were coming from the west towards the east; and Reverend William Branham looking east to west saw them in front of him; it’s because the message for the Jews is represented there, too. That is why Reverend William Branham (who was in the West) was ordered to go back East, to Jeffersonville, Indiana, to the Branham Tabernacle for the preaching of “The Seals,” on the book sealed with seven seals.
Meaning that a type and figure was set there, Israel was being represented right there, where Reverend William Branham was going to preach about the Seven Seals. Therefore, when Christ completes His Church, He will resurrect us, He will resurrect those who have departed; He will resurrect them in glorified bodies; and those who are living and alive at that time and we see those who have resurrected: we will be transformed.
That’s what there is for the believers in Christ who form the spiritual Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That is why the Tent Vision will be fulfilled in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where Reverend William Branham, and that angel that appeared to him, will be present as well as a Name he was looking for will be there; a very important Name to him. And for it to be upon the Most Holy Place, in other words, being in the time of the Golden Age of the Church, the Age of the Most Holy Place, is no other name but that of the Name of the Lord; because it was in the Most Holy Place where the Name of the Lord was, and where the high priest with the name written in a golden plate he had on his forehead, entered. In other words, we have the best part of the Divine Program.
Now, everything that was type and figure in the past and which corresponds to the Age of the Cornerstone will be materializing; and we will have, we have, the privilege to be instruments of Christ in the development of the Divine Program relevant to this end time, in the Mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
We are the most privileged people from Christianity, from the entire history of Christianity. It is a privilege to live in this time and be part of the Mystical Body of Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone, a greater privilege that cannot be bought with money, it cannot be compared with anything, it has been due to Divine Grace, we were elected to live in this time and be part of the mystical body of Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone, the Golden Age of the Church.
That is why in the Message Adoption #4, page 138 [paragraph 36] Reverend William Branham said: “Now, look at the age coming now right up to the Headstone.”
Now we don’t say: “The age coming now.” but: “The age we are in.” In the stage where all the promises that have not been fulfilled, will be fulfilled. It is the stage where the Tent Vision will be fulfilled, and wherein Christ the Pillar of Fire will enter into that small room which the Great Tent-Cathedral will have and from there He will manifest Himself.
Therefore we hope to soon see the Tent Vision made a reality. For which we say that we not only support the project of the Great Tent-Cathedral that was shown in a vision or dream to Reverend William Branham, but we work in favor of that Divine Project; just as those from the time of Moses worked in the Divine project of the construction of a tabernacle for God’s dwelling inside the Most Holy Place which was made of gold.
That Most Holy Place covered in gold inside and out represents the Golden Age of the Church, the Age of the Cornerstone.
And in the time of King Solomon many people worked in that Divine Project. David and Solomon would say: “We give You that which comes from your own hand.” In other words, everything we have is because God has given it to us, and from that, we give offerings, tithes and support the Divine Projects for our time, we support the project of the construction of the Great Tent-Cathedral. We know it is a Divine Project.
And just as the construction project of Noah’s Ark: it did not rain in those days, and he was building an ark because God had revealed to him that a flood was coming and commanded him the construction of an ark, and gave him the pattern, therefore, it was a divine design, it was a Work of God being carried out through Noah and his family. Therefore, that construction could not fail when the flood would come.
Now we are currently in a time parallel to Noah’s time and parallel to Lot’s time in Sodom. Sodom represents the world, the Gentile Kingdom that will burned in the end time by atomic power, and by volcanoes, seaquakes, earthquakes, all those divine judgements that will fall, as they fell upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and in the time of Noah; but this time it will not be by waters of a flood, but by fire.
But before the fire fell, Lot and his family were taken out, and before the fire descended Abraham was safe where he lived; and from there, from a distance he saw Sodom and the condition that was there where his nephew was at; from there he saw the smoke of the fire of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone.
For that time he was given the promise that the following year, Isaac, the promised son, would come. When Abraham turned 100 he would have the promised son. It is because at the age of 100 is when an individual celebrates his second jubilee. The first one was at age 50, and the second at 100 years. Remember that 50 is the year of jubilee.
Now, parallel times… the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels is promised at a time parallel to the time of Noah and to the time of Lot.
Therefore, let’s be prepared because something major is fixing to happen on behalf of God; and the believers in Christ of the Last Day are working in a project that will culminate with the presence of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant manifesting Himself in all His fullness. Just as it happened in the old days, it will be repeated in this time.
We are in a time parallel to that of John the Baptist and Jesus. And the John the Baptist of our time was the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ: Reverend William Branham, and he said that somebody will rise after him. [Message: “Spirit of Truth,” page 6, verse 43]
And who else can come, but the Son of Man with His angels? Because he is the forerunner of the Coming of the Son of Man with His angels. That is why he would always speak about the Son of Man and of the Angels of the Son of Man; he always spoke of the Son of Man and the Two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah; because he is forerunning the Second Coming of Christ with His Angels.
If he says he comes alone, he is not the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, because the promise is that the Son of Man will come with His Angels. Saint Matthew chapter 16, verse 26 and on says:
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”
Coming where? In His Kingdom.
The Scripture says that we have… Colossians chapter 1, verse 12 and on says:
“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son”
The believers in Christ have been translated from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of Christ and, and that is why Philippians chapter 3, verses 20 to 21, says:
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” He has the power to do what He has to do.
Therefore, we are heavenly citizens through the new birth. Our citizenship is in Heaven, a citizenship as believers in Christ who have been born in the Kingdom of Christ and we are seated in heavenly places with Jesus Christ our Lord.
In other words, just as we are earthly citizens because we have been born through the union of our father and mother, and since Adam lost physical eternal life, but his descendants are given a temporary life; by being born through the union of our father and mother we have been born into this world which is ruled by the prince of darkness, but by being born again, we have been born in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior. And we are in that spiritual stage, which will result in the resurrection of the dead in glorified bodies, and a change of those living; and then we will physically enter into God’s Kingdom with eternal Life.
We are lacking the second part, the part of our transformation, where we will obtain the body that God has designed for me from before the foundation of the world. And who else did He design a body for? For you as well.
Therefore, just as mom and dad gave us this mortal body… they couldn’t have done more than they already have, they have done a lot for us. But Christ with the Second Eve, with His Church, see, just as He brought forth the new birth in us, He will produce a new body that will be eternal, immortal, incorruptible and young for all eternity.
Therefore, do not worry if you are older than 50 years; do not worry, because the new body we will have will resemble from 18 to 21 years of age.
The sign of the Son of Man was shown in the sky for that purpose, showing us that in God’s Program, soon Christ will fulfill all of His Program for His Second Coming, In Revelation 10 He will bring the Title Deed, the Book sealed with Seven Seals, the Title Deed of the Heavens and Earth, Title Deed to eternal Life, the Title Deed that contains the names of the elect of God that would form His Church. That section of the Book of Life sealed with Seven Seals, is the section of the Book of the Life of the Lamb, for all those who have been redeemed with the Blood of Christ our Savior.
Therefore, there is a great hope for the believers in Christ: a hope of redemption, of the redemption of our physical body, that will be for this end time, to go with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
So therefore, let us be prepared for that glorious moment that will happen, our transformation. Prepared
with Christ, with our faults, mistakes and sins, confessed to Christ, so that He cleanses us from all sin with His Blood before He leaves the place of Intercession as High Priest, because He will then be the Judge. As Judge, He will be as a Judge over all the Earth, He will be as Lion of the Tribe of Judah, and King of kings and Lord of Lords.
In this introduction of Sunday’s Bible School, we have seen that there is something mighty from God for me, and for whom else? For each one of you who are present, and those in other nations, too.
“THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN.” That been the subject and the introduction of our Bible study for next Sunday.
May God bless you and keep you and until tomorrow, God willing, in the two meetings of tomorrow, God willing, which were announced by missionary, Dr. Miguel Bermudez Marin.
I leave with you missionary, Dr. Miguel Bermudez Marin to continue.
May God bless all of you in Puerto Rico, and all those who are in other countries, and you as well. Continue having a happy evening filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
“THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN.”