Good morning, kind friends and brethren present, and all those who are in other places, ministers and their congregations; and also warm greetings to Missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín.
Now let’s read in Romans, chapter 5, verse 6 and on, it says [verse 5]:
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It, may He open the Scriptures to us and our understanding so that we understand.
“THE SIXTH DISPENSATION: GRACE.” The sixth dispensation, Grace, is our subject for this occasion.
This sixth dispensation, Grace, is reflected in the fifth dispensation with all the types and figures there, which represent the First Coming of Christ, His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross and what He would also do after His resurrection: ascend to Heaven and sit at the right hand of God on God’s Throne.
In the Old Testament we have animal sacrifices, which represented the Sacrifice of Christ; that is why when John the Baptist saw Jesus walking where John was preaching and baptizing, he said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”[1] That was typified in the paschal lamb that the Hebrew people, the Jews or Hebrews, sacrificed back in Egypt;[2] and the Sacrifice of Christ is also represented in the sacrifice on the day of atonement, where two animals were sacrificed, two goats, one for the Lord and the other for the scapegoat[3] (let’s look it up here to be clear about the name).
Those sacrifices, both goats, represented Christ. The one that dies, represents Christ dying; and then the one that doesn’t die and is sent to the wilderness, also represents Christ, taking our sins far away from us.
The goat… we have seen that they are used as a sacrifice for the sin of the person who offers them (“for the wages of sin is death”[4]). And instead of the sinner dying, knowing the Divine Program of atonement for sin, he would bring his animal to die in his place; and for the entire people: the atoning sacrifice, recognizing Christ as the Sacrifice of Atonement for sin.
Now, God had promised through the prophet Jeremiah, chapter 31, verses 31 to 36, a New Covenant that He would make with His people. And that New Covenant was reflected in the Old Covenant of the Old Testament, but now God is going to make a New Covenant: animals will no longer be used, rather Jesus Christ Himself will be the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins.
There is no other way to deliver the human being from sin. The Sacrifice must be made by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself; that is why He came to Earth. He said that He would lay down His life in atonement for us.[5] Therefore, He was the One who would carry out the Sacrifice of Atonement to save us from our sins, and so that we could receive Eternal Life through the Lord Jesus Christ.
That is why the crucifixion appears in the Psalms, already prophesied beforehand. And we also find Christ reflected in Joseph, the son of Jacob; and being cast into a cistern that had no water[6] represents the death of Christ; and rising, coming out of there,[7] represents His resurrection; and then going to live in Egypt, and in time becoming the prince (the second-in-command in the kingdom, after Pharaoh), being put in charge of the administration of Egypt,[8] notice, that is Christ ascending to Heaven and sitting at the right hand of God, who granted Him and He was granted the administration of all Creation.
That is why He, as Son of God, is the heir of the Heavens and the Earth. Everything was created by Him and for Him. Therefore, He is in Heaven, on the Father’s Throne, administrating, and also interceding for every person who receives Him as His Savior. He intercedes for the person throughout his entire life when the person asks Him to intercede for us before the Father; and He, Christ, cleanses us from every sin we have confessed to Him.
The sixth dispensation is the dispensation of Love Divine expressed through Christ and His Work of Redemption: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”[9] In other words, the Coming and death of Christ here on Earth was the greatest manifestation of God’s Love towards Creation and towards the human being.
That is why the Scripture says in Philippians, chapter 3, verse 20 to 21, that “our conversation is in Heaven, from where we look for our Lord Jesus Christ; who will change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body.”
The new birth is heavenly, and he that is born of the Water and of the Spirit (of the Gospel of Christ and of the Holy Spirit): is born of Heaven, he has heavenly citizenship. All of this is in the spiritual realm, for his spirit which he has received is heavenly, theophanic, like the heavenly, theophanic body of Jesus Christ.
There, in that sixth dimension, the dimension of the angels, the dimension of the spirits, is where we would have been born if Adam and Eve hadn’t sinned; in other words, coming down the right line. But, notice, although it may seem like the Program fell behind, for God it has not fallen behind; nothing falls behind in eternity.
Christ is the Cornerstone, Christ is the Angel of the Covenant who had given the Law to the Hebrew people through the prophet Moses on Mount Sinai; that is why the Bible says in the book of Acts, and also in Hebrews, chapter 2, that the Law was given by the commission of Angels;[10] and that means that God in His heavenly body was present there, speaking to Moses.
Exodus, chapter 3, rightly states that the Angel appeared to him in a burning bush; and It was a Fire, a Pillar of Light. And Moses went to see. And when he comes near, He says to him: “Moses…” He says to him: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”[11] And it was the Angel of the Covenant, it was Christ the Angel of the Covenant, who is the Holy Spirit, the heavenly body of God, in which He appeared to many of the prophets on different occasions.
That is why Jesus could say in Saint John, chapter 8, verse 56 to 58: “Your Father Abraham desired to see My day; he saw it, and was glad.” They say to him: “You are not yet 50 years old, and You say that You have seen Abraham?” Jesus says to them: “Before Abraham was, I am.”
How could it be possible that Jesus was before Abraham? And He has a title that is: Son of Abraham. How can they call Him “Son of Abraham” if He is before Abraham? And how can they call Him “Son of David” if He is before David?
The titles that He has for the purpose of manifesting Himself… those are some of them; but as King, as heir, we have the title of Son of Man. That’s as a prophet, Christ in the body that they will call a prophet or Son of Man.
God was in Christ in all of His fullness. That is why He Himself identified Himself by the title Son of Man. As Son of Man He is heir to the planet Earth.
Then He has the title of Son of David. As Son of David He has —that title— the content of the King of Israel. As Son of David, Jesus Christ is the King of the Jews, the King of Israel, because He is the Son of David, a direct descendant of King David.
And the Angel Gabriel tells Mary in Saint Luke, chapter 1, verses 26 to 36, that she will have a child, a son, she will give birth to a child; and to name Him Jesus; and that God will give Him the Throne of His father David, and He will reign forever.
As Son of David: heir to the Throne and Kingdom of David. As Son of Man (like I said): heir to the entire planet Earth.
As Son of Man, to use that title He must appear as He has promised: that the Coming of the Son of Man will be as in the days of Noah and as in the days of Lot.[12] And the people, mankind, is already like in the days of Noah and like in the days of Lot; everything is ready for the Coming of the Son of Man.
And as Son of God (like I said to you), He is heir of the Heavens and the Earth.
And when the heavenly Throne of God and the Throne of David come together, that will be the beginning of the ushering into eternity there —literally speaking— after Judgment Day.
In the meantime, when He sits on the Throne of David, that is for Him to rule over Israel and over all mankind on the Throne of David and in the Kingdom of David; which is spoken of as the restoration of the Kingdom and Throne of David. And all of that is under a New Covenant.
That’s why the Coming of the Lord is so important, because He will restore us to physical Eternal Life and take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to that very important feast, where Christ and His Bride, His Church, will be endued with everything – with all authority as kings; the King and the Queen. And therefore, also with the Title Deed; the Title Deed of the Heavens and the Earth, which is the seven-sealed Book.
The One who has that Book, is the King. And Christ receives that Book in chapter 5 of Revelation; and He brings It to Earth to His Church in chapter 10 of Revelation; and He brings It open in order to carry out the physical redemption of our bodies: by transforming them, and for those who died: resurrecting them in eternal bodies.
That will close the sixth dispensation/That is how the sixth dispensation will close.
When Christ came, the Jews were living in the fifth dispensation, already in the last century of the fifth dispensation. He had a three-and-a-half-year ministry; He had come in the… at the end of the fourth [fifth] millennium, and He had His ministry in the fifth [sixth] millennium. From that point on about two thousand years have passed under a New Covenant, God with the human being and the human being with God.
This is under the sixth dispensation, the Dispensation of Grace, which is the dispensation of Love Divine expressed by Christ toward the human being; calling him like when He called Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: “Adam, where are you?”[13]
That is the same call that God has been making by His Holy Spirit through His different instruments that are on Earth, from age to age, so that they be reconciled to God; so that the garments… just as Adam and Eve were clothed with animal skins (therefore, those skins were bleeding), and they were covered before God.[14]
We can see that this is when animal sacrifices began, and animal sacrifices continued until the fifth dispensation; and Christ is the One who, with His Sacrifice, makes a reality what those animal sacrifices represented: they represented Christ, who would take our sins. It says: “God laid on Him the iniquity of us.”[15]
And therefore, if He bore our sins, by recognizing Christ as our Savior: He bore them, He laid the iniquity on Him, He died because of our sins, so that we can live eternally.
Those who are born of Heaven, are first born in the spiritual realm: receiving the birth in the heavenly or spiritual realm. First, they obtain the heavenly body, and then, in the Second Coming of Christ, they will receive the physical but glorified body, just like the glorified body of Jesus Christ our Savior.
The Dispensation of Grace will come to an end with all these things, in order for … the Dispensation of the Kingdom (which overlaps with the Dispensation of Grace) to fully overlap, and for everyone to enter the Millennial Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
That is God’s Program.
Before entering the Millennial Kingdom, we receive our enduement in Heaven, at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
There is always a feast when a king is crowned, or when the sash is placed on the one who becomes the president of a nation, and governors too. So, we are preparing because we have been invited to be at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
There, Christ will be as King, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords. That’s why when, in Revelation chapter 19, Christ appears on a white horse with an Army coming on white horses and wearing white robes, that is Christ coming with His Church for the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom; and there is a battle, because the antichrist will not want to let the power go.
So, these are all things that are prophesied, and therefore, they are going to happen. But don’t worry: we are going to have a glorified body to leave this Earth before the great tribulation begins.
To go to a feast, one always looks for the best clothes; and Christ has the best garment for us that is suitable for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Therefore, since we are in the Dispensation of Grace, the dispensation for salvation and Eternal Life for everyone who receives Christ as Savior, which He freely gives… He said: “My sheep hear My Voice, and they follow Me, and I know them, and I give them Eternal Life.[16]
The only One who can give the human being Eternal Life is Jesus Christ. He has the exclusiveness of Eternal Life, and also the exclusiveness of the ministry of High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek. And everything that Christ is heir to, so are we. Because if there is a High Priest, there are other priests too, and those other priests are: the ones washed in the Blood of Christ our Savior. And if there is a King, then there are princes and princesses in that Kingdom, which are: the believers in Christ, washed in the Blood of Christ our Savior.
We are reigning in the spiritual realm, we are also kings and priests in the spiritual realm, and judges as well. And then with the Supreme Judge, who is Christ; because God has granted Christ to be Judge of the living and dead, to judge the living and dead.[17] And His Supreme Court is made up of believers in Christ: you and I, and those of other ages who have already departed.
It is important to know and to be told without asking, without waiting for us to ask… Like Peter and the apostles: “We have sold everything, we have forsaken all, what do we have now?” Christ says to them: “One hundred fold – or one hundred times as much as you had before, and in the Kingdom: Eternal Life; and you will also sit on twelve thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.”[18] They were made judges there, because the Kingdom of the Messiah will also be a theocratic Kingdom, represented in the Old Testament in the stage of the judges; then came the stage of the kings.
And notice, the Kingdom of the Messiah will cover everything; it says that this stone will grow,[19] as it grows when more nations come together. Because growth is the multiplication of cells in a person; and the more cells you have in your arm, the bigger your arm is. And it’s the same spiritually.
It is important that we know how to increase our faith. The disciples asked Jesus: “Lord… Oh Lord, increase our faith!”[20] because they were not able to cast an evil spirit out of a child.[21]
And how does faith increase? By the Word.
Faith comes by hearing the Word of God;[22] and faith grows as we read and hear the Word of God for the time in which we live. And as a person grows, he will find that his faith, his belief, is stronger; and that as he hears different subjects, his faith concerning those subjects increases as well.
Whoever wants to overcome will do what Jacob did: he held on to the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, and didn’t let Him go until he received the Angel’s blessing. (That is somewhere around chapter 32 of Genesis, around there).
One has to be holding on tight to Christ, with our heads lifted up to Heaven; that is: with our mind thinking of the things of Heaven, the heavenly things.
That is why Jacob called the name of the place: Peniel; for he said: “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” (Chapter 32, verses 24 to 32, of Genesis.)
The Dispensation of the Law had the shadow, the types and figures, of what the Dispensation of Grace would be; that is why animal sacrifices are no longer offered, because a perfect Sacrifice has already been offered: the Sacrifice of Christ.
And so on, we find that the things that are a type and figure in the Old Testament, became a reality in the New Testament; and the day of Passover represents Christ dying on Calvary’s Cross for us.
Because when it comes to entering into the Kingdom of God, when it comes to having a part with Christ, nothing should be great enough to hinder the person from holding on tight to Christ and working for Christ in whatever Christ allows him to work on.
Christ is the one who allows us to labor in His Work; but He gives us the freedom: to choose whether we want to or not, by free moral agency.
But everyone is called to work, because everything Christ did, He would then continue to do through His Church. The Work of Jesus Christ continued in and through the members of His Church.
So we can see that we have a great blessing and also a great responsibility before Christ, not to bury the talent that Christ has given us so that we use it in favor of His Work.
Some have used their talents for the things of the world, and the world is the one that has benefited from that person’s talent; when God gives us talents so that we may serve Him.
Melchizedek is Jesus Christ in His heavenly body, and He is the High Priest of the heavenly Temple; that is why the judgments of Revelation (the Plagues, the Vials) are still being held before they fall. It will happen consecutively at the end time. And we are already living at the end time.
Therefore, let’s be prepared, because there are clear promises of a new divine manifestation, a new manifestation of Christ in the midst of His Church; and from there, that blessing and that manifestation will spread to other countries.
There will be a great blessing for the believers in Christ and there will be a Great Tent Cathedral, where the Third Pull (as it is called by Reverend William Branham) will be fulfilled to help mankind.
How will It begin? That is up to God. And what is up to us? To have the place for Him to fulfill what He has promised; and to work on that project wholeheartedly, with Love Divine; because it is a Divine promise that must be fulfilled in the midst of Christianity.
In that Third Pull is where the Jews will see the Messiah, they will see Christ manifested; and surely most people won’t want to leave, during that season of the Third Pull when It begins.
Now, when will It begin? What we know about that Third Pull is that It will be in a Great Tent Cathedral.
Will the Third Pull start at the beginning, in the middle, or when? God knows, and God will reveal it at the time He desires to reveal it.
But the important thing is to be prepared, to be watchful, turning away from all evil, and serving God with Love Divine and with enthusiasm, so that whatever we do for the Lord is accepted – acceptable.
We know that the great tribulation is coming; and I don’t want to stay here. If someone wants to stay, then don’t obey the Word. If someone wants to leave: you have the Word there, and keep holding on tight to Christ our Savior.
Remember that what God has promised through Christ, He will fulfill it in the midst of His Bride, His Church. The Third Pull will also be for the virgins… in addition to the wise virgins, It will also be for the foolish virgins, and It will also be for the world.
Meaning that mankind will see and will also benefit —surely— from healings, when Christ performs them; even though they won’t be able to be transformed, and therefore, they won’t be able to go in the rapture; because the ones who go in the rapture are the wise virgins, the ones who will be transformed. The foolish will go through the great tribulation to be purged. And the world will stay behind in the great tribulation.
The foolish virgins die in the great tribulation, because the antichrist persecutes them and kills them; and many Jews will also die, and we don’t know if the same or more… at least the 144,000 will also die as martyrs, but then they will resurrect to be in the Millennial Kingdom; as the eunuchs of a kingdom, who serve the queen.
So, God has everything well prepared, and He reflected it in the Old Testament.
We are at the time in which God is calling and gathering His elect, according to His promises, to prepare them for the transformation and the rapture; and if someone has to go beforehand, then he should be prepared to depart from this Earth to the dimension of the angels, the sixth dimension; the sixth dimension, where the dead believers in Christ are in heavenly bodies.
I said to you that the sixth dispensation is the dispensation of the Grace of God, through Christ, for the human being; that is why it is called the Dispensation of Grace.
It is the dispensation where God grants amnesty, where He doesn’t take your sins into account, but rather cleanses you with His Blood (from all sin), and you are free to serve God.
It is the dispensation of God’s mercy: it is the dispensation of the intercession of Christ for the human being, as High Priest of the Order of Melchizedek.
It is the dispensation of the Son of God in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church; that is why it is the dispensation of Love Divine, expressed through Christ our Savior.
It is the dispensation in which every person can receive the salvation of their soul: by believing in Jesus Christ as their only and sufficient Savior.
That sixth dispensation has not ended yet; therefore, there is still an opportunity to enter into the New Covenant that God has established with the human being.
Well, may God bless you and keep you. And continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
I leave Minister José Benjamín Pérez with you, and the relevant minister in each country, to continue.
“THE SIXTH DISPENSATION: GRACE.”
[1] John 1:29
[2] Exodus 12:1-28
[3] Leviticus 16:5-22
[4] Romans 6:23
[5] John 10:15
[6] Genesis 37:12-24
[7] Genesis 37:25-28
[8] Genesis 41:37-46
[9] John 3:16
[10] Acts 7:53
[11] Exodus 3:6
[12] Matthew 24:37-39, Luke 17:26-30
[13] Genesis 3:9
[14] Genesis 3:21
[15] Isaiah 53:6
[16] John 10:27-30
[17] Acts 10:42
[18] Matthew 19:27-29, Mark 10:28-30
[19] Daniel 2:31-45
[20] Luke 17:5
[21] Matthew 17:14-21, Mark 9:14-29, Luke 9:37-43
[22] Romans 10:17