Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present and everyone in different nations gathered on this occasion: ministers and their congregations. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me as well. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And may He open our understanding, and the Scriptures in order to comprehend the Word of God. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
To Reverend Carlos Villegas and his children: I express my condolences, and the condolences of this congregation, for the passing of your wife, Leida Savedra Montoya de Villegas from Buenaventura, Colombia. May God comfort your hearts through His Spirit and bring to your thoughts God’s promises that when Christians die, they pass on to Paradise and continue living there in heavenly bodies until the coming of the Lord to Paradise to bring them with Him in His coming, and to resurrect them in glorified, physical bodies, like the glorified Body that Christ has. And those of us who are alive, He will change us according to His promise, to go with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb thereafter. May these words be of comfort to you, and Word of God to your hearts, Reverend Carlos Villegas, his children and other relatives.
On this occasion, the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace is carrying out the International Judicial Forums “New Proposals for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” as part of the Justice for Peace project. The first forum was held in Colombia during the month of September in 2014, the second during the month of November in 2014 in Argentina, and on February 20, 2015 it will be held at Instituto de la Judicatura Federal in Mexico, God willing. To all the coordinators and activists of different places who wish to participate, we request that they contact Gabriela Lara, Director of the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace, since there is limited space and we need to know as soon as possible in order to submit the official list of people who will attend the events.
I also want to remind all those who are present that tomorrow at 10 a.m. we will have a special event in commemoration of the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust at the State Capitol in Texas (in Austin, Texas). It is important to be punctual and meet all the recommendations given by the organizing committee.
I would like to share a video with you that summarizes the International Judicial Forums, and also a summary of the development of the Traces to Remember project. Therefore, let us continue with the videos.
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We were able to see the projects that the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace is carrying out, which are always a success, and all of you who support these works have a small part in the victory being obtained. Follow the instructions given for tomorrow’s activities that will be carried out, and everything will go well.
On this occasion, we read in Saint Matthew chapter 16, verses 13 to 20:
“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
These days, we have been in the Bible study of the four titles of “Son” of Jesus. Jesus’ four titles of “Son”: Son of Man, Son of Abraham, Son of David, and Son of God.
Today, we will study the title “Son of God.”
“SON OF GOD.”
That title makes Christ the Heir of the Heavens and Earth. Just as the title “Son of Abraham” makes Messiah the Prince the Heir to the land that was promised to Abraham (in other words, all of Canaan). And the title “Son of David” makes Messiah the Prince, Christ, the Messiah, the anointed One, the Heir to the Throne and Kingdom of David over Israel. And the title “Son of God” makes Christ the Heir of the Heavens and Earth, of the entire creation.
As the Son of God, Christ is the Heir to all of Creation; and therefore, He is the One who has the right to take the Title Deed that Adam had and lost. The Title Deed to Eternal Life, the Title Deed to all of God’s inheritance that Adam had in his hands, but when he sinned, that Title Deed returned to God’s right Hand. God took it back and Adam was no longer able to live eternally physically, that is why he died at the age of 930. Now, we find that when he sinned, he died to eternal physical life.
Although anyone would like to live for 930 years, and that would be like a millennium, a bit less, but the important thing is not to live many years in this physical, mortal, temporary body, but to secure our eternal future in the Kingdom of Christ. There is no other way to secure our soul for all of eternity. The soul is what the person truly is: a living soul.
The human being is soul, spirit, and body. The spirit is a heavenly body, a body from another dimension, from the world of the spirits. And the physical body is the earthly house where the human being lives on this Earth and works on this Earth for some time. And people don’t know when their earthly life, the life of their physical body, will end. That is why it is important to secure our eternal future with Christ in His eternal Kingdom, because He is the only One who can restore the human being unto eternal Life.
Eternal Life is the most important thing for every human being. It is of no good for a person to live on this Earth and say: “I’m enjoying my life on this Earth,” and then have no hope to live eternally. He was content with a small grain of life, as if it were a small grain of sand, when there are millions upon millions upon millions of endless years to live in the Kingdom of God with Christ our Savior.
We are on this Earth going through a time of trial, just as Israel went from Egypt towards the Promised Land and was in the wilderness for forty years, going through that time of trial, and very few went on to the Promised Land. The same thing will happen to all the human beings who have come to live on this planet Earth: very few will go on to live eternally in the Kingdom of God. But the important thing is for you be one of the ones who will go on to live eternally in the Kingdom of God.
It is important to know why we are living on this Earth. If you analyze yourself, you will say: “How can it be possible that I am on this Earth?” And science says: “Through the union of mom and dad; through an egg of my mother and a spermatozoid of my father, that is how I came to be.”
You were in the loins of your father, but before that: eternally. Every person who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was eternally in God, and now you can’t remember, you can’t understand it, but you were in God as a Divine thought. In other words, we were in God’s mind. That is why we are eternal, because God and His thoughts are eternal; therefore, we have come from eternity.
That is why the believers in Christ can be redeemed, to therefore be restored unto eternity. Those are the sheep of the Father, whom Christ says were given to Him to seek them and give them eternal Life.
“My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me and I know them: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.” (Saint John chapter 10, verses 27 to 30.)
And chapter 8, verses 47 to 48 tells us: “He that is of God, hears God’s word.” [John 8: 47.]
He that is of God. He also said: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.” [John 6:44.] And He also said that those people whom He typifies as sheep are the sheep of the Father that were given to Christ to seek and give them eternal Life.
Those are the people who had to come to Earth in the days of Adam with eternal Life, as descendants of Adam, who had to wait until a certain time for the Tree of Life, which is Christ, to become flesh; and there, through Christ, the Tree of Life, sons and daughters of God would come. In other words, we would be about 6,000 years old if that problem had not happened in the Garden of Eden. Although the children would not come all at once in one year, but from stage to stage; but that was a problem that happened back then, but God sorted it out with Adam.
What matters is that we are here with and for a Divine purpose. Whoever comes to this Earth and dies without knowing the Divine purpose, has passed through the Earth, where he had the opportunity to drink of the Water of Life, of the Fountain of Life which is Christ and did not do so; he lost the most important opportunity of his life, which transcends unto eternal Life.
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Christ asks in Saint Matthew chapter 16, verse 26. It is of no good for the human being to live on this Earth if he doesn’t receive eternal Life. His life would become like the life of any other thing on Earth. But human life is important, and each person has the right to have the opportunity to hear the Gospel and receive Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. That is why Christ came to the Earth, to die and give us the opportunity of eternal Life.
I have taken advantage of that opportunity, and who else? Each one of you as well. And the greatest part about taking advantage of that opportunity is what we will understand when we are living eternally with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. The joy and happiness we will have when we see that taking place will be so great, that we will thank Christ for Him calling us to His Kingdom. In chapter 16 (as I said to you), verse 24 and on of Saint Matthew:
“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
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.”
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? It was of no good. He was satisfied with a life of, let’s say, 50, 75 or 100 years old, but what is that compared to the Millennium? We can say it’s almost a tenth of that life, and if you compare it to eternity, it is billions upon billions of times shorter. It doesn’t even have a number to indicate how small it is.
Eternal Life is the most important thing, and that is what Christ came for: to give us Eternal Life. He is the only One who could do it, because He has the exclusivity of eternal Life, no other person can give eternal Life to the human being, only Jesus Christ, whom said:
“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (Saint John chapter 14, verse 6.)
There is no other way to God. Although some people say that all paths lead to God, and that is what some think, but Christ says that He is the way. Therefore, there are people who have provided themselves other ways, but those ways don’t lead to God. There are paths that seem right to man, but none except Christ leads the human being to God.
Christ is the narrow way of Saint Matthew chapter 7, verses 13 and on, and the way to eternal Life of Saint John chapter 14, verse 6. And if the human being wants to live eternally, there is a path to take and live eternally, it is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Before He was in human flesh on Earth, Jesus Christ was the One who would appear to Adam every day and speak to Adam; He was the most important visitor Adam would receive. He was the same One who appeared to Abel and gave him the revelation that blood was required for a person to receive forgiveness and cover their sins; that is why he offered God a lamb, and it pleased God, and Abel’s offering was accepted. Cain offered God from the fruit of the ground, and God did not accept it because sin could not be covered with fruit of the ground, only with blood. And without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins, Saint Paul says in Hebrews chapter 8 and chapter 10, chapters 8, 9 and 10; that is what Saint Paul speaks to us about.
And that is why in Saint Matthew chapter 26, verse 26 to 29, at the Last Supper with His Disciples, giving thanks to the Father for the bread, and breaking it and giving to His disciples, Christ says: “Take, eat; this is my body which is broken for many. This is my body…” Representing His Body in the bread, because He had said: “I am the Bread of Life; whoever eats of this Bread will live eternally.” [John 6: 48-58.]
And to eat of the Bread, which is Christ, is to believe; therefore, faith is used to believe in Christ as the Bread of eternal Life. It isn’t literally bread, but He represented His Body in the Bread He broke and gave to His disciples.
And He took the cup of wine, and gave thanks to God, and gave it to His disciples, telling them: “Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
He represented His Blood in the wine, and He showed that the remission of the human being would be carried out with Blood. He would remit sins just as bleach makes ink disappear: you put bleach on a stain of ink and it disappears, it remits it to what it was before, what it originally was. And when the Blood of Christ is applied on sin, it remits it, it brings it back to its originator, to the devil, the originator of sin. It is simple as that, and God no longer sees the sins of the person.
Before, with the sacrifices of animals sins were only covered, because animals are not perfect, for they have no soul, they only have spirit and body, but that was type and figure of Christ and His Sacrifice, and of His Blood that would cleanse us from all sin.
Remember everything in the Old Covenant, in the Old Testament, is type and figure of the New Covenant. Everything that is in the Old Covenant, we find it in the New Covenant, correspondingly. The shadow is not reality, it is type and figure; it represents something that is real. And now, the Sacrifice of Christ is what is real, and it was represented in the sacrifices of animals. That is why when John the Baptist saw Jesus, he said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” (Saint John chapter 1, verses 27 to 36.)
It is important to understand who Jesus Christ the Son of God is, because the Son of God came to seek and save the human being, the sheep that the Father gave Him to seek and give them eternal Life.
The Son of God, Christ in His heavenly Body, is the Angel of the Covenant that appeared to Moses in that Pillar of Fire. And on another occasion, He appeared to him in the form of a man but from another dimension, and He appeared to different men of God, prophets. He also appeared to Manoah: in the form of a man, an angel. It was an Angel, the Angel of the Lord, which is Christ, the Son of God, in His heavenly Body.
The same One who appeared to Joshua in chapter 5 of Joshua, verses 13 and on, with a sword in His hand. Joshua asked Him: “Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?” And He said, “Nay; but as captain of the host of the Lord.” And then he worshipped Him. The Angel allowed him to worship Him, why? Because that Angel is Christ in His Heavenly Body, He is the Angel of the Covenant. That is why at the Last Supper, He said that His Blood is the Blood of the New Covenant, because He is the Angel of the Covenant who gave Moses the law on Mount Sinai, and then He came in human flesh to establish the New Covenant He Had promised in Jeremiah chapter 31, verses 31 to 36.
Jesus Christ is the most important person in Heaven. Jesus Christ in His heavenly Body is the image of the living God, the heavenly Body of God. Everyone who said that they saw God, they were seeing God in His heavenly body, who on some occasions would appear in a form of a Pillar of Fire, and on other occasions He appeared like a man from another dimension, a theophanic body, a theophany.
We also find Manoah in chapter 13 of the Book of Judges… the Angel appeared to him and his wife (the Angel of God), and said that Manoah and his wife would have a baby, who was Samson, the strongest man when the Spirit of God worked through Him. It was God’s power in him. Just as David confronted lions and any other animal that took a sheep from him, but it was when the Power of God, the Spirit of God was manifested in him to work in that way, that is why he was also able to defeat Goliath the giant. It was God, spiritually manifested in David, a young man.
God’s power through the Spirit of God was manifested to God’s various prophets. The prophets that we find in the Scripture, who did great things, when we analyze well, they only did one thing: surrender to the will of God. But what about the miracles they did? God did those miracles through His Spirit and told them what they had to speak, and God was the one performing the miracle. That is why Christ Himself says: “I do nothing of myself, the Father that dwelleth in me, He does the works.” See? It was God who was doing the miracles through His Spirit.
Therefore, God through His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, is the One who created the Heavens and the Earth, and that is why the Scripture says: “God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things.” [Hebrews 1: 1-2.]
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the Heir of everything as the Son of God. He is the Heir to the Heavens and the Earth, and it says that God was the One who spoke through Jesus Christ. That is why Jesus Christ would say that He did nothing of Himself, but what He saw the Father do. He spoke the Word of God, which is what the prophets did too, they would speak the Word and the miracles would take place, because it was the creative Word of God, God speaking it through His Spirit, through the prophets; and when they spoke that was: THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Now, the Angel of the Covenant is the Holy Spirit, a spirit is a body of another dimension and Christ in His heavenly Body is called the Son of God, and when He ascended to Heaven, He was seated at the right Hand of God, in God’s heavenly Throne, that is the Throne of God which is heavenly, the Throne of the Holy Spirit, and by ascending there in His glorified body, He sat there at the right Hand of God, as He said it would happen in Saint Matthew chapter 26, verse 64.
We find that in chapter 7, when Stephen was going to be stoned and they started to throw stones at him, he said that he saw the Heavens open and Jesus Christ seated at the right Hand of God. In other words; that is a confirmation that what Christ said is what happened in Heaven.
The Throne of God in Heaven is the Throne where Christ said He would sit; and therefore, He also said: “I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you.” And He also said… that is chapter 16, verse 1 and on of Saint John. And He also said in chapter 28, verse 20 of Saint Matthew, He said: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” And Matthew 18, verse 20, He also said: “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” How would He be there? In Holy Spirit.
The Angel of the Covenant who guided the Hebrew People, who was with Moses and was in the temple that Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built, now He would be found in the spiritual Temple of God, of Christ, which is His Church.
He has been in and with His Church in Holy Spirit since the day of Pentecost, and that is the dispensation of grace; and consequently, it is the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, the dispensation of the Son of God, the dispensation where Jesus Christ is known as the Son of God.
That is why when He appears to Saul of Tarsus in chapter 9 of the Book of Acts, and then he narrates it in chapters 22 and chapter 26 of the Book of Acts, he says that a Light stronger than the sun appeared to him as he was riding his horse to Damascus, to search for believers in Christ and take them prisoners to Jerusalem. When He encountered that Light and Saul of Tarsus fell from his horse (a light that left him blind), Saul asked that Voice that spoke to him from the Light, a Voice that said to Him: “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.”
And Saul knew that It was the same Voice, and the same Pillar of Fire and the same Light that had appeared to Moses in the burning bush that was not consumed there on Mount Sinai, Mount Horeb. And Saul said: “Lord,” he acknowledges Him as the Lord. “Lord, who are You?” And from the Light, the Voice said: “I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.” It is because Jesus is in Holy Spirit in the midst of His people as the Son of God.
In the dispensation of the Son of God, the dispensation of grace, and through His different instruments, He has been speaking (just as He spoke in the Old Testament through the prophets) He has been speaking through His apostles like Saint Peter and other apostles, except Judas Iscariot, whom we already know left to the place where he came from, and through the different messengers that God sent among the Gentiles, Saint Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Luther, Wesley, and Reverend William Branham; through them Jesus Christ, the Son of God in Holy Spirit, has been speaking from stage to stage, calling His sheep to the fold.
And for the Last Day, we find that as the Seventh Church Age was coming to an end… in the Seventh Church Age, Christ, the Son of God, had a manifestation in Holy Spirit in Reverend William Branham; and that was a manifestation in a prophet, a great prophet, whom the Lord appeared to in the Pillar of Fire.
Since that manifestation was in and through a prophet, it is called a manifestation of the Son of Man, a subject which we will speak about next Sunday, and therefore we will not speak a lot about that manifestation because we will leave that for next Sunday, in next Bible study we will have. Today we are speaking about the Son of God: Jesus Christ.
Remember that it is always Jesus Christ; there are four titles of Son, of Jesus Christ, through which He manifests Himself as the Son of God, Heir to the Heavens and Earth; the Son of Abraham Heir to the Land of Canaan; the Son of David, Heir to the Throne and Kingdom of David; the Son of Man, Heir to the planet Earth.
Every time we find “Son of Man” in the Bible, it is speaking to us about a prophet. For the manifestation of the Son of Man, Christ must have a veil of flesh, a prophet through which to manifest Himself, to manifest that title of Son of Man.
That is why when He was here on Earth as the prophet whom Moses spoke about, who would be the anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ, He would always say: “Son of Man” referring to Himself because He was a prophet, the biggest prophet to ever set foot on this planet Earth. That was the Son of God in human form as a prophet.
That is why when Jesus went to a city in Israel and enters… He is entering into the city, and He sees a funeral and a widow at the funeral, the mother of the young man who had died, and he was the only son she had, the only support she had for the household, in addition to what she could work. Christ placed His Hand on the coffin and they stopped (those who were carrying the coffin stopped), and Christ had compassion on the mother of the child, who was a widow, and He said to the young man: “Arise.”
Notice, when someone says to a dead man: “Arise,” and he in fact rises… everyone was left trembling, He gave the young man to his mother, and everyone was saying: “God has visited His people.” He was visiting them in a human body, in human flesh. It was the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, the Son of God dressed in a body of flesh, visiting His people of Israel.
That is how God visits His people: the Angel of the Covenant, the Pillar of Fire in and with a prophet speaking, guiding the people, teaching the people, and through that prophet, speaking the things that must come to pass, calling a child to resurrection, speaking the multiplication of the fishes, the bread and the fish, speaking the storm to calm, and so forth; it was God in that manifestation through the Holy Spirit, through the Angel of the Covenant, the Son of God in the Son of Man.
That is why He would say: “The Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” [Mathew 8: 20.] But He also says: “For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son,” Since He is the Son of Man. That is why every human being will be judged through Christ on Judgment Day, but the elect will already be in glorified bodies, they will not go through that. We were already judged when Christ was judged, and with His Blood He cleansed us from all sin, and therefore, there is no reason to be judged.
Judgment always comes because of sin. Whoever commits a crime against the law of a country is judged in court; whoever violates the law of a country, the laws established in different ways and for different cases.
Christ has been in the midst of His Church since the day of Pentecost as the Son of God. It is important that we understand this because Christ, as the Son of God, being the Heir to the Heavens and Earth, will share with His Church, the believers in Christ who make up His Church… He will share His heavenly Kingdom with them as well. Because everything that Christ is heir to, all the believers in Christ are joint-heirs to it with Him.
That is what Saint Paul speaks to us about in Romans chapter 8, verse 14 and on, where it tells us that we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ our Lord.
Notice, in Saint John chapter 7, verses 37 to 39, it tells us:
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said…”
There are many people who say, “I believe in Christ in my own way,” but Christ teaches us that we must believe in Him according to what the Scripture says:
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
And what are those rivers of living water? The Holy Spirit, which produces the new birth: the person is born into the Kingdom of God with eternal life.
“(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”
Since everything that Christ is heir to, the believers in Christ are also heirs to, He was glorified and the believers in Christ will also be glorified. He is the Heir to the Heaven and Earth, and His believers are joint-heirs to the Heavens and Earth with Him. He is the Heir to the Throne and Kingdom of David; the believers in Christ are joint-heirs with Christ to the Throne and Kingdom of David. Everything that Christ is Heir to, His believers in Christ are also joint-heirs to. That is why we need to be conscious of the inheritance we have as sons and daughters of God.
It is important to know all these things in order to know where we stand in the Divine Program.
For instance, Christ says: “I came from God and I return to God; I came from the Father and I return to the Father.” [John 16: 28.] And Christ’s believers, where did they come from? From God, and they will return to God. It is as simple as that.
Christ tells us, praying, He says: “Father, Glorify thy Son,” and from Heaven a Voice said: “I have both glorified it and I will glorify it again.” [John 12: 28.]
And in Saint John chapter 7, we read that in those days Christ said that whoever thirsted should come to Him and drink of the Water of Life, speaking of the Spirit they would receive. But He had not been glorified yet.
He was glorified, that is why when He resurrected, His own disciples did not recognize Him. And remember that the resurrection of the believers in Christ of different stages—including ours as well—will be in glorified bodies.
If a person was elderly, you cannot expect an elderly person to come and say: “I have resurrected,” or an elderly man to say: “I am your grandfather or your grandmother.” We are expecting them to return, and we are expecting a young person to say: “I am your grandfather. I was your grandfather when I was in the physical body.” When we see them, then we will all be changed and we will all be young, resembling 18 to 21 years of age.
Everything that Christ is heir to, we are also joint-heirs to, with Him. For instance, Christ said: “I am the Light of the world; He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of life.” [John 8:12.] Then, He says about His believers: “Ye are the light of the world.” See? Everything that Christ is, His believers are too.
The promise to Abraham is that His seed will be like the stars of Heaven, and Christ is the main, Bright and Morning Star; star-men. It may seem odd for people to say star-men or star-women, but notice, in sports they say “This person is the star of the team.” And in Hollywood they say: “So and so is a star,” but in God’s Heaven, in the Heaven of Christ, the stars are His believers and He is the Bright and Morning Star.
And the messengers of the Lord, of the different ages, are stars as well. That is why the Scripture says that He has seven stars in His Right Hand, “He that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand,” those are the seven angel messengers of the Seven Church Ages.
And the sign of the coming of the Messiah is the alignment of those stars. Saint Paul was aligned first, the second was aligned, the third, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh were all aligned. Then the Bright and Morning Star comes, the Day Star.
In the believers in Christ, the promise to Abraham is fulfilled: that his seed would be like the stars from Heaven. That is spiritual astronomy.
And Christ is also the Sun of Righteousness. “Those that fear my Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings.” (Malachi chapter 4, verse 2.) And the Church is the moon.
Therefore, notice how physical things typify spiritual things. It is important to know the symbols, and above all what those symbols are representing.
It is important to be aware of the time in which we were granted to live in the Divine Program. We were not granted to live in the days of Noah; in those days the Program was to build the ark, by being believers who offered sin offerings as it was established to Adam. But our time is a time that is parallel to the time of Noah. Christ said that the coming of the Son of Man would be like the days of Noah, and the coming or manifestation of the Son of Man would also be like the days of Lot. (Saint Luke chapter 17 and Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 34 to 39) And it says: “And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away.”
That is what will happen to mankind, to the world who will not know until the great tribulation comes and takes them all, because the judgment of the flood represents the judgments that will come in the great tribulation.
It is important to be up to date with the Divine program for the time in which one lives, because that is where the spiritual food for the person is, the Word of God for the present time. There, we find the revelation of who the Son of God is, who Jesus Christ is.
Remember that Peter did not obtain this revelation (this knowledge) through flesh or blood; in other words, he did not receive it from a teacher, a professor, or a rabbi. It came from Heaven, and therefore it came from God through the Holy Spirit, because the Spirit is the One that searches all things, even the hidden things of God that have not been revealed, the Spirit searches that and reveals it to the people.
Christ in the midst of His Church in Holy Spirit is the Son of God manifested in His Church.
That is why in Revelation chapter 2, verse 18, it says:
“And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass</em>;”
Now notice, the Son of God speaking in that fourth stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to have a clearer picture… verse 29 of that same chapter, Revelation chapter 2, says:
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”
The Holy Spirit speaking to the churches is the Son of God speaking to the Churches. It is the title of the Son of God manifested; that is why His message comes from the Throne of God where Christ is seated at the right Hand of God.
Throughout Revelation, we find the Voice of Christ as the Son of God speaking to His Church through the different messengers, which are the seven spirits of God which run to and fro through the whole Earth, and they are also the seven stars in the right Hand of the Lord. All of that: Christ the Son of God in Holy Spirit in the dispensation of the Son of God.
As the Son of God, He has been in His Church from the day of Pentecost to the present, speaking to His Church. He said: “I will be with you always until the end of the World.” And He also said: “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” (John chapter 10, verse 14 and on.) The sheep are the believers in Christ, His Voice is the Gospel, and the Fold is His Church, and the Good Shepherd is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Savior.
As the Son of God, He is in the midst of His Church in Holy Spirit; that is the title that pertains to Christ in the midst of His Church in Holy Spirit: Son of God.
When He is in the Millennial Kingdom, the title of Son is “Son of David.” And we will stop there, we still need the title “Son of Man,” which will contain all the titles within that manifestation of the title “Son of Man.”
As the Son of God, He is the Heir to the Heavens and Earth, and the Bridegroom or Husband of His Church, calling and gathering the elect, everyone written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life, which are those who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That Book exists since before the foundation of the world. Those names are the ones which have been in God’s mind eternally, to be manifested on Earth as sons and daughters of God, and that is the Kingdom that was passed on to another people, and therefore, that is the blessing that was passed on to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which would have the sons and daughters of God that are written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Therefore, by having this knowledge that we were eternally in God and that we would be redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and called and placed in His mystical Body of believers (which is His Church, which is His spiritual Kingdom), it gives us peace and tranquility to know that we are secure with Christ and for Christ in His Kingdom.
There is no doubt as to our future after this earthly life. We know where we have come from, why we are here, and where we are going when our earthly life ends. When our life in this physical body ends, we will go to Paradise, to the sixth dimension, if this physical body dies, and if not, we will be changed when Christ comes with His believers who have died, already resurrected; and when we see them we will be changed. It is as simple as that. The Divine Program is simple.
That is why 90 percent of the believers in Christ throughout time, throughout all the ages and through the Dispensation of grace, have been simple people. Christ Himself was a young carpenter of Nazareth; He was so simple, that He once said: “Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart.” [Matthew 11:29.] It is because God works in simplicity. If He did not work in simplicity, no one would understand anything. That is why simple people understand it, they receive Him, and they receive the blessing of the salvation of their souls.
Remember that the soul is what obtains salvation, the physical body still has problems. It has health problems in the majority of human beings, it has the problems in that it ages, it has problems in that it can’t live long. These are problems inherited from Adam and Eve. But from the second Adam we have the promise that we are joint-heirs with Him, and therefore, we are heirs and joint-heirs of and to eternal Life.
There is an order: first, we receive the birth in the spiritual realm, in the dimension of the spirit, because the new birth is heavenly, in God’s Kingdom. Then, we will receive the transformation, wherein we will obtain the body that Christ thought and designed for me, and for whom else? For each one of you as well.
Some people ask themselves: “What will the body we will have be like?” And they look in the mirror and say: “How will my new body be?” Don’t worry, the body you will receive will be perfect and glorified like the glorified Body of Jesus Christ our Savior, who is as young as when He ascended into Heaven. It resembles 18 to 21 years of age.
Therefore, a great inheritance awaits us, because we are joint-heirs with Christ our Savior, we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, because He is our elder Brother. That is why Hebrews chapter 2 [verse 12] says… chapter 1 and 2 says: “I will declare thy name unto my brethren,” (the Name of God). He calls us “brethren” and He also calls us “friends.” He is our elder brother that is why He is the Firstborn from among many brethren. He is the second Adam, and we are descendants of the second Adam through the new birth; and therefore, we are joint-heirs with Him to everything that He is heir to.
“THE SON OF GOD.” The Heir of Heavens and Earth; He is the heir, but we are joint-heirs with Him.
He is the Angel of the Covenant. That is why Christ said on one occasion: “For in Heaven, in the resurrection, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels.”
When we already have the new body, all our problems will end, and that is very near.
All the time-indicating signs have been appearing, and we must not ignore them, but instead acknowledge them and prepare ourselves for our transformation.
There will be something that will give us the faith to be changed, and Reverend William Branham said that it was the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, which we will talk about perhaps in the next Bible study, which will be titled: “The Son of Man,” and His inheritance is the planet Earth with everything it has and everything it will contain in the future.
If someone has not yet received Christ as their Savior, you may do so at this time and we will be praying for you so that Christ receives you in His Kingdom while He is still in the manifestation of the title “Son of God” in the midst of His Church. Let us give the opportunity to those who have not received Christ to come to the front so that we can pray for you, and in every country you can also come to the front.
Children who are ten years of age and older can also come to the front. Both those who are here present and those who are in other nations. At some point, the number of the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completed and then there will be a change, there will be a change in the Divine Program. When I say there will be a change, I mean a change of Christ—who is as the High Priest—into a Lion, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
Let us stand up to pray for the people who have come to the Feet of Christ on this occasion so that Christ may receive you in His Kingdom, forgive you and cleanse you from all sin and you may be baptized in water in His Name and may Christ baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire and produce in you the new birth.
With our hands raised to Christ, to Heaven, and our eyes closed:
Heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come to You with all these people who are coming to receive You as their only and sufficient Savior. Heavenly Father, I place them in Your Hands, receive them in Your Kingdom and give them eternal Life through Christ our Savior. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray.
Now repeat after me this prayer we will be making:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart. I believe in You with all my soul. I believe You are the Son of God. Lord, I believe in You with all my soul. I believe in Your first coming in human flesh. I believe in Your Name as the only Name under Heaven given unto men whereby we must be saved. I believe in Your death on Calvary’s cross as the atoning Sacrifice for our sins. I acknowledge that I am a sinner and that I need a Savior, a Redeemer. I give public testimony of my faith in You, and of Your faith in me, and I receive You as my only and sufficient Savior.
I pray that You forgive my sins, and with Your Blood may You cleanse me of all sin and baptize me with the Holy Spirit and fire and produce in me the new birth. I want to be born in Your Kingdom. I want to live eternally with You in Your Kingdom, make a reality in my life the salvation You purchased for me on Calvary’s cross. I pray in Your glorious and eternal Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
You may tell me: “I want to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord as soon as possible, because He said: ‘He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.’ When can you baptize me?” That is your question. Since you have believed in Christ with all your heart, you may indeed be baptized and may Christ baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire, and produce in you the new birth and we will see each other eternally in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
Water baptism is typological. Water does not take away sins, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin, but water baptism is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, who said “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Jesus Christ Himself, when John was preaching and baptizing in Jordan, in the territory of Judea, Jesus Christ went from Nazareth to the place where John was preaching and baptizing in order to be baptized by John the Baptist. And when… According to the flesh, notice, Mary and Elizabeth (the wife of Priest Zechariah), were relatives; therefore, Jesus and John were from the same family, but John had been saying: “There is One among you whom I do not know, and you do not know. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire.” And when he saw Him and He entered into the baptismal waters, John says “I have need to be baptized by You, and You come to me that I may baptize You?” Jesus tells Him: “For thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.” And John didn’t argue any further, he baptized Him. And when he baptized Him, as He was rising from the baptismal waters, he saw the Holy Spirit descend upon Jesus like a dove.
Notice what John was hindering. He was hindering the coming of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus if he had not baptized Him, but if he baptized Him, the Holy Spirit would come upon Jesus. And It came upon Jesus and John said: “He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, upon whom thou shalt see the Holy Spirit descending, and remaining on him, that is Him.” (In other words, He is the One you are preparing the way for; He is the Messiah.)
And now, if they knew each other since they were children, notice their part in the Divine Program as young adults.
The Archangel Gabriel intervened on both occasions, delivering the message to Priest Zechariah that Zechariah and His wife Elizabeth would have a child and they would name him John, and he would come before the Lord and he would be preparing the way. And he would come with the spirit and power of Elijah; that was the third Elijah, another man with the ministry of Elijah. He would be the one who would introduce and forerun the Messiah in His coming, and he baptized Him and saw the Holy Spirit descending upon Jesus, and rejoiced.
Christ Himself was baptized by John, imagine how much greater our need is to be baptized in the Name of the Lord. It is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ wherein we identify ourselves with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. That is the symbolism of water baptism in the Name of the Lord
Therefore, you may be baptized and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire and produce the new birth in you.
And we will continue seeing each other for all of eternity in the glorious Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. I leave Reverend Juan Ramos with you, who will let you know what you must do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in every country and every church, I leave each minister to let you know what you must do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Continue having a happy evening filled with the blessings of Christ, our Savior, the Son of God, the Heir to the Heavens and Earth, which we are joint-heirs to. May God bless you, and keep you and continue having a happy evening. With us now, Reverend Juan Ramos; and in every country, as I said, I leave the minister with you.
“SON OF GOD.”