Good morning beloved friends and brethren present, and all those who are in different countries. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Let’s read in the Scripture, in Ephesians chapter 1, verse 3 and on, words of Saint Paul where he says:
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
“THE SEVENTH DISPENSATION: THE DISPENSATION OF THE KINGDOM.”
The Divine Program that God has been carrying out on this planet Earth has different stages; and each stage pertains to the dispensation it belongs to. For example, in the time of Adam, they were living in the first dispensation. There are seven dispensations in which God deals with the human being; and the human being must adjust to the dispensation in which he is given to live at the time in which he appears on this Earth. I told you that there are seven dispensations of God dealing with the human being.
• The first dispensation is the Dispensation of Innocence in the time of Adam. Adam was the messenger of that dispensation.
• After the fall of the human being in the garden of Eden, then came the second dispensation: the Dispensation of Conscience, where its messenger was Seth.
• Then the third dispensation came later on, where we find Noah. The third dispensation is the Dispensation of Human Government.
• Then later on comes the fourth dispensation: the Dispensation of the Promise, and its dispensational messenger was the Father of Faith: Abraham.
• Then later on comes the fifth dispensation: the Dispensation of Law, and its dispensational messenger was the Prophet Moses.
Every dispensational messenger is the father of that dispensation, he is the guardian of that dispensation, through whom the Spirit of God is veiled in him, and is revealed through him. And He reveals to him the Divine Program for that dispensation; and he speaks it, and the people relevant to that time enter into that dispensation. And the people must adjust to the Divine Word, to the Divine Laws pertaining to that dispensation.
• After the Dispensation of Law through Moses, came the Dispensation of Grace.
The Dispensation of Law reflected everything that was going to happen in the Dispensation of Grace. For example, in the Dispensation of Law, they had animal sacrifices for Passover, the sacrifice of the paschal lamb, which began in Egypt, to preserve the life of God’s firstborn of the Hebrew people, so that they wouldn’t die; that paschal lamb of the Dispensation of Law typifies the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who would die to preserve the life of God’s elect, God’s sons and daughters.
That is why when John the Baptist saw Jesus, who went to the service John had near the Jordan, where he baptized; when he sees Him, he says:
[John 1:29] “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
To preserve the Eternal Life of the children of God, something more than an animal was required: the Son of God as the Lamb of God that would take away the sin of the world; but He was reflected, typified, in the paschal lamb that the Hebrew people sacrificed back then in Egypt.
And now, the Old Testament, the Law, has the type and figure, the shadow of what would come in the sixth dispensation, which is the Dispensation of Grace, where its messenger is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant. And the Angel of the Covenant is Christ in His heavenly body, who was made flesh and dwelt among the Hebrew people.
That is why Jesus Christ said in Saint John chapter 8, verses 56 to 58: “Your father Abraham desired to see My day; he saw it, and was glad.” The Jews tell him: “You aren’t yet fifty years old, and You say that You have seen Abraham?” Jesus tells them: “Before Abraham was, I am.”
Now, someone may say: “We know He was born in Bethlehem of Judea. How can He say that He was before Abraham?” In His physical body, He was born in Bethlehem of Judea (His physical body was born there), but His Spirit, His heavenly body—which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord—is before Abraham, before Adam as well, and before all things.
In Saint John chapter 1, verse 1 and on, it says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
In other words, before all things, Jesus Christ was in His heavenly body; and God created all things through Jesus Christ in His heavenly body.
Chapter 1 of Saint John as well, verse 14, says:
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…”
The Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the heavenly body of God, was made flesh and dwelt among the human race; and was known by the Name of Jesus. That is our Savior, before all of Creation. And all things were made by Him.
Science is searching for the origin of the Creation; and notice, the origin of the Creation is Christ: “All things were made in Him, and all things were created through Him.” That is what Saint Paul the Apostle teaches us in Colossians chapter 1, and he speaks to us about Him… Chapter 1, verse 12 and on, of Colossians, says:
“…Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,” (the saints in light are the children of God, they have an inheritance, they are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ);
“who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son…”
In other words, just as He delivered the Hebrew people from bondage in Egypt, He has delivered all of God’s sons and daughters; He has taken them out of the kingdom of darkness and placed them in the Kingdom of God, which is the mystical Body of Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“…in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.”
Redemption is through the Blood of Christ, and the forgiveness of sins is through Christ, who cleanses us from all sin with His Blood. All of this pertains to the sixth dispensation: the Dispensation of Grace, the dispensation where Christ as Son of God is manifested in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church.
Remember that He said: “For where two or three are gathered together in my Name, I will be there.” Saint John chapter 18… Saint Matthew chapter 18, verse 20. And Saint Matthew chapter 28, verse 20, says: “I am with you always, even to the end of the world.” How? In Holy Spirit. He would be in the midst of His Church all the time, that is, in His heavenly body.
Remember that a spirit is a body from another dimension, similar to our physical body, but from another dimension. The theophanic or heavenly body of Christ is a body from the dimension of the angels; that is why He is called the Angel of the Covenant.
It goes on to say:
“Who is the image of the invisible God…”
Who is the image of the invisible God? Jesus Christ in His heavenly body. Remember that God created the human being in His image and in His likeness; in other words, He created him a spiritual body first, and then He gave him the physical body of the dust of the ground. That is why the image of God is Christ in His heavenly body, and the likeness of God is the physical body of Jesus Christ.
“… (He is) the firstborn of every creature.”
“The firstborn of every creature.” In other words, nothing was created before Christ.
“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.”
In other words, Christ is the owner of everything. “All things were created through Him and for Him.” And where did they come from? “All things were in Him. All things were created in Him.” And how can we understand this?
If a mango tree, an avocado tree, or an orange tree, or any kind of tree appears, where did it come from? That tree and all the fruit it would bear is created in the seed, but you don’t see it; it has to go through a process of sowing, growing, and it has to produce the fruit, so you can see that a tree with all the fruits and all the leaves it would have was created in that little seed. As simple as that.
Christ is the Seed, the Seed of God, in whom all the things that God would create—they were in Him, in Christ. That is why all things, all of Creation, came forth from Him. That is why it says:
“…by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.”
And where were we? In Him. We were in Him and that is why we hear the Gospel of Christ, the faith of Christ is born in our soul, we believe, we receive Him as our Savior, we obtain the forgiveness and cleansing of our sins, and we are baptized in water in His Name; and He baptizes us with His Spirit, and brings forth the new birth in us; we are born just as a plant is born, we are born of Christ in the Kingdom of God.
Because the birth we have had here on Earth has been in the kingdom of this world, and that is why we are required to be born again, as Christ said to Nicodemus: “Verily, verily, I say unto you: Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” Nicodemus thought He was talking to him about being born physically; and Christ tells him: “Except a man be born of Water,” (meaning, of the Gospel), “and of the Spirit,” (of the Holy Spirit), “he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”1
In other words, in order to enter into the Kingdom of God, the requirements in the sixth dispensation, the Dispensation of Grace, is to be born again, to be able to enter into the Kingdom of God and become part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the mystical Body of Christ.
Just as Adam had his partner Eve, his help meet: the second Adam, who is Christ, has the second Eve, which is His Church, to reproduce Himself in many sons and daughters of God through the new birth that He brings forth in people. And remember that the Kingdom of God is in the spiritual realm, and It is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We enter through the Door into the Kingdom of God, and the Door is Christ, who said: “I am the Door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in, and find pasture.” Saint John chapter 10, verse 9.
In the sixth dispensation—which we are still living in and we are already at the end of the sixth dispensation—the rules are established to enter into the Kingdom of God and confirm our place in the Eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom.
The sixth dispensation is the dispensation where God’s mercy is extended to the human beings; that is where there is an amnesty, in which the sins of a person who receives Christ as Savior are not taken into account; because Christ bore our sins, and we are identified with Christ when we receive Him as our Savior. Therefore, we are cleansed from all sin and placed in the Kingdom of God.
When the Dispensation of Grace ends, there will be no more opportunity for human beings, to receive Christ as Savior and obtain the forgiveness and cleansing of their sins, because Christ will have already finished His Intercessor Work in Heaven, where He is High Priest according to the Order of Melchizedek, interceding for all those who receive Him as their Savior.
Once He finishes His Intercessor Work, He will leave, in Revelation chapter 5, verse 1 and on, He will leave the Father’s Throne, where He is sitting at the right hand of God as Intercessor, interceding with His Blood for the sinner. When He finishes His Intercessor Work, He will leave; and He will no longer be Lamb nor Priest, but Lion, King, to bring the world to judgment; and to place everyone who didn’t receive Him as their Savior in the Great Tribulation; in other words, they will go through the Great Tribulation. Those who have served God will be taken with Christ in the catching away of the Church, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, in glorified, eternal, and young bodies for all eternity.
Those who died in Christ, believers in Christ, will be raised in eternal bodies, glorified and young bodies for all eternity; and thus, they will all be taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to the House of our heavenly Father in Heaven.
And those who are left on Earth will go through a very difficult stage, which the planet Earth will be going through for a time period of three and a half years, called Jacob’s trouble [Jacob’s squeeze] or the Great Tribulation, which pertains to the second part of the seventieth week of the prophecy of Daniel chapter 9. In other words, for each dispensation, there are things that must happen.
Now, since today our subject is: “THE SEVENTH DISPENSATION: THE DISPENSATION OF THE KINGDOM,” that Dispensation of the Kingdom is the one in which the Lord will establish or restore the Kingdom of David.
Remember that in the days of Jesus, He was asked, there in the Book of Acts, chapter 1, verses… Chapter 1, verse 4 and on, of the Book of Acts, says:
“And, being assembled together with them, (Jesus) commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?”
They wanted to know if in those days, Christ, as the King of the Jews, would restore the Kingdom to Israel, with Christ already risen and having all the power to do so; but He tells them:
“It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.”
In other words, it wasn’t for them at that time to know that. It’s because different stages of Christianity, of the Church, would come along, where the Gospel would be preached, where millions of human beings would receive Christ as Savior, and obtain salvation and Eternal Life.
That was the Program for the sixth dispensation, where God’s mercy was extended to the human race so that everyone—using their free moral agency—would receive Christ or reject Him. Because the human being has free moral agency, and God has not taken it away, nor will He take it away; because just as God has free moral agency and He created the human being in His image and likeness, He also gave them free moral agency. Therefore, the person has that responsibility.
That is why in Saint Mark chapter 16, verses 15 to 16, it says: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” As simple as that.
It is a matter of believing or doubting: believing for Eternal Life, or doubting for damnation. In other words, it is a matter of believing in Christ or not believing in Christ.
He said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” (Saint John, chapter 14, verse 6); “and no man comes to the Father but by Me.” In other words, there is no other way to reach God, only through Jesus Christ our Savior; because there is only one Savior, and His Name is: Lord Jesus Christ.
In the days of the ministry of Jesus, many people expected the Kingdom of God to be established in Israel those days. But they didn’t understand that in the Dispensation of Grace, the sixth dispensation, the entire Program of that dispensation had to be carried out, where millions of people, throughout centuries, would be receiving salvation and Eternal Life; and when they would depart from this Earth they would go to Paradise, the dimension of the angels, to wait until the resurrection.
Over there, they are in their heavenly bodies, young bodies; they don’t have to eat, they don’t have to sleep, nor do they have to work, because they are resting from their work; because over there, they don’t have the problems we have here on Earth. There is no night there either, nor do they get tired of being there; but they are waiting to return to Earth, because when Jesus Christ finishes His Work of Intercession in Heaven, He will pass through Paradise; He will go from the seventh dimension, the dimension of the Father, He will go from the place where the Father’s Throne is, and He will go to the sixth dimension, where we have the saints who have slept, who have died physically; and He will be there with them, and from there He will bring them to Earth again, and He will give them eternal bodies, He will raise them in eternal bodies, and they will appear to us who are alive, just as it happened in the resurrection of Christ; and then we will also be changed. As simple as that.
That is what is promised, and it is promised that this will be for the Last Trumpet, in other words, for God’s Last Message to human beings.
Now, in the days of Jesus, some thought the Kingdom of God was going to be restored. And remember that the Kingdom of God on Earth is the Kingdom of David; and the Throne of God on Earth is the Throne of David.
In order to understand these promises, let’s see what it tells us in First Chronicles chapter 28, verse 5; King David says, while presenting his son Solomon to sit on his throne as king, he says:
“And of all my sons, (for the Lord hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.”
The Throne of the Kingdom of God over Israel is the Throne of David.
And then we also find, in this same Book, that it tells us in chapter 29 of First Chronicles, verse 22 and on:
“And did eat and drink before the Lord on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the Lord to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.
Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father…”
On which throne does it say that he sat? On the Throne of the Lord, on the Throne of God; because the Throne of God on Earth is the Throne of David, and the Kingdom of God on Earth is the Kingdom of David; and one day It will be restored, because the heir to that Kingdom and that Throne, the Archangel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary, will be the child she will have. In Saint Luke chapter 1, verse 28 and on, it says:
“And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
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.”
There we have the promise of the Throne of David and Kingdom of David, which will be given to Jesus Christ, descendant of King David. As simple as that.
And at this end time, in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, the seventh dispensation, is when the Messiah the Prince will sit upon the Throne of David and rule over the entire world, and He will bring peace; because He is Prince of Peace; and peace will spread to all nations.
That is the permanent peace that mankind desires, and the only One who can bring it is Jesus Christ, the Messiah the Prince, in the seventh dispensation.
We can see how important the seventh dispensation of the Kingdom is, which has great blessings for mankind: blessings of peace, blessings of love, of justice, of happiness.
It tells us that military weapons will be turned into plowshares, into work tools;2 therefore, people won’t learn war anymore, rather, they will learn for work, for peace, for the happiness of the human being. And we will see Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One, sitting on the Throne of David, reigning in the restoration of the Kingdom of David.
The Kingdom of David is the Kingdom of God on Earth, and the Throne of David is the Throne of God on Earth. Therefore, there are great blessings for the human family in the seventh dispensation of the Kingdom; where I will be. And who else? Each one of you too. Those are the great blessings there are for the human race in the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
But while we are in the Dispensation of Grace, we have an Intercessor, a High Priest in Heaven, after the Order of Melchizedek, who is Christ interceding for us before the Father; so that every person who hears the Gospel of Christ, and the faith of Christ is born in his soul, and he receives Him as his Savior, can approach Christ and obtain salvation and Eternal Life.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you. May He take care of you, protect you, and accompany you all the days of your lives. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
With you now, Rev. José Benjamín Pérez.
“THE SEVENTH DISPENSATION: THE DISPENSATION OF THE KINGDOM.”
1 John 3:3-5
2 Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3