Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, and those who are in different nations; Miguel Bermúdez Marín, where he is, there in the meeting of ministers, fellow workers, and other people who work in the Kingdom of Christ; and also to all the ministers from other nations, their fellow workers, brothers and sisters who work hand in hand with the ministers in each congregation.
And also to the Lion cubs’ teachers, as well as the children who are gathered on this occasion, in this first meeting of ministers and fellow workers, this first Saturday; because according to the Hebrew calendar, days begin and end in the evening.
For Jews, today is already Saturday, starting from sundown and on; which is 5:30 to 6:30 or so, depending on the time of year, the season, in which we are living.
And I would also like to greet and congratulate all the ministers and congregations who are supporting the Great Tent Cathedral construction project, and also everyone from Puerto Rico who is supporting the Great Tent Cathedral project; as well as the construction workers, led by Rev. José Benjamín Pérez with his company American Construction, which is the one carrying out the Great Tent Cathedral construction project.
Congratulations to everyone, and this new year 2015, may God multiply His blessings and may the blessings of this year that is beginning be greater, may they be greater than last year’s; and may our work also be greater than last year’s.
And soon may the construction work be completed; and may it be dedicated to the Almighty God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and may He receive it and manifest Himself in that place as it is promised that He will manifest Himself at the end time, and give us the rapturing faith, the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, the moment He has assigned it in His Program. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And may everyone be greatly prospered, spiritually and materially, so that you also work greatly in the Divine Program. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we ask for all these blessings for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of this end time. And may the manifestation of Christ at this end time be in all its fullness, as it is promised in the Word. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
It is a great privilege for me to be with you a year closer to the transformation. I am not saying that we have a year left, but that we are a year closer. We don’t know how many years, months, years, we have left for the transformation, but we are a year closer.
Around the year that each of you were born, and now you count how old you are… those of you who are 15 years old are 15 years closer to the transformation; those who are 50 years old are 50 years closer to the transformation, closer than they were when they were born; and whoever is more than 70 years old, like me: I am 74 and a half years closer to my transformation.
And if there is anyone who wants it to be soon, it’s me (for myself and for all of you too); because the sooner we are changed, we will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, where there will be a feast there in Heaven, while the Earth will be going through those changes that will prepare it for the Kingdom of the Messiah. Earthquakes, tidal waves [tsunamis], volcanoes, storms, and all sorts of things will be taking place, preparing the Earth for the Kingdom of the Messiah.
That is how the Earth will be prepared: the Earth’s crust will be renovated by the volcanoes that will spew ashes, which will fall, and then the soils will become fertile like they should be, and we will live the way God desires for us to live in the Kingdom of the Messiah, the Millennial Kingdom.
Therefore, there are many prophecies that must be fulfilled at this time; therefore, we must be aware of those Divine Promises, because God will do nothing except what He has promised, what He has in His Program to carry out, and is spoken from Genesis to Revelation. As we go from the Old Testament to the things of the New Testament, there is more information, more light, regarding the different subjects that pertain to the Last Day.
One of the events or the greatest event promised for the Last Day is the Second Coming of Christ; and there is no other hope for the human being than the Second Coming of Christ to seek and take with Him the believers in Him, who will be waiting for Him at this end time, just like they were waiting for Him in different stages of the Church. But since it wasn’t for those times, then the rapturing faith, the transformation, and the rapture of the elect, was not fulfilled.
It is because, in His Program, God has a time assigned for each thing He is going to carry out.
Let’s read in Revelation chapter 10, verse 1 and on, 1 to 11, where it tells us:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”
“THE PROPHECY OF THE LAST DAY.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
This Angel who comes down from Heaven with the little Book open in His hand is Christ, who in Revelation chapter 5 comes forward and takes out of the right hand of God the little Book sealed with Seven Seals, and then He opens It in Heaven, and then He brings It to Earth to give It to His Church through the Messenger who will be present at that time in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Messenger of the Last Day.
We see here, in chapter 5 of Revelation, where it tells us:
“And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.”
This is what happened in Heaven when that Mighty Angel, which is Christ, takes the Book in—out of the right hand of the Father, who is seated, and opens It in Heaven, and then brings It to Earth in Revelation chapter 10 (which was the passage we read at the beginning); where it shows us that there is a prophecy for the Last Day, from God, ordained by Christ; therefore, it is important, for that reason, it is important to know about that subject, because it has to do with the people of God, Christianity, and it will be the prophecy that precedes the Millennial Kingdom.
Let’s see what Rev. William Branham said in the message The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, on pages 69 to 70. On that page, he says (so we don’t read chapter 5, because we already read it), he says:
“29 This Seven-Seal Book is revealed at the time of the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10, now, if you’re marking it down. Let’s turn to Revelation 10, just a moment, so you’ll get an understanding before we get into it. Now, this is at the end time. For, listen:
…I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow…upon his head,…
30 If you notice, that’s Christ, see,” (if you notice, that’s Christ). “Cause He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished. See? All right.
…and his face…as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire,” (remember that Christ is the Sun of Righteousness, He is the Light of the world, as it says in Saint John, chapter 8, verse 12):
“31 You remember that angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel.”
Notice, the Messenger to Israel, who is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, who is also the Messenger to His Church: the Angel of the Covenant, Christ, the Holy Spirit.
“[31] See? The church has been raptured, see, now or fixing to be raptured. He comes for his church. Now watch.
And he had in his hand a little book open:…
32 Now, here,” (that is, in chapter 5), “It was closed here and sealed; and here It’s open,” (here It’s open in Revelation chapter 10). “It’s been opened. Since that time of the sealing, we’re getting into tonight, now the Book is open.”
So that we can have a clear picture, we saw that He is called the Angel of the Covenant; we saw that He is Christ. And on page 140 it tells us, in the Book of The Seals… it is speaking about the Mighty Angel of Revelation 10. It says:
“197 Now, we’ve saw the same thing, which was Christ. And we know Christ is always the Messenger to the Church. All right. He is called the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant, and so forth.”
Now, we can see that this mystery of the Mighty Angel, who is Christ coming from Heaven, who is called Angel of the Covenant, Angel of the Lord, or also Holy Spirit or Sun of Righteousness… as the Angel of the Covenant, when He came in human flesh two thousand years ago, He came to establish a New Covenant; and that is why at the last supper with His disciples, taking the bread and giving thanks to the Father, He broke the bread and gave to His disciples, in chapter 26, verses 26 to 29, of Saint Matthew, “And He said: eat; this is My body, which is broken for you;” and then taking the cup and giving thanks to the Father, He says: “Drink ye all of it; for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many or for you.”
“Drink ye all of it;
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
There He is telling them that He will establish the New Covenant that Jeremiah mentions in chapter 31, verses 31 to 36, where it says He will make a New Covenant with Israel and with Judah, with the kingdom of Israel and with the kingdom of Judah; in other words, with the tribes led by Judah: the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin; that is the kingdom of Judah. And then the kingdom of Ephraim or kingdom of Israel is made up of the ten tribes that belong to the northern part of Israel.
In the New Covenant, the people, their hearts, are the ones that are tables, not of stone… although there are people who have their hearts like a stone and don’t let God write His Laws in their hearts as He has promised. And others are sensitive to the Word of God, to the Gospel of Christ, and they give their heart to Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, who wrote the Divine Commandments on the two tables of stone; now people give their hearts to Christ, which are the tables of flesh where Christ writes His commandments, He writes what pertains to the New Covenant that God makes with those who receive Christ as their Savior.
Chapter 10 of Revelation marks the end time, because it marks the Coming of Christ, the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, the Holy Spirit coming to His Church at the Last Day to bring the last prophecy, the prophecy of the Last Day, that is, of the seventh millennium since Adam until now as the Last Day. Just like the one who brought the prophecy, the prophetic Message for the seventh age of the Church, the seventh Day as a Church age, was Rev. William Branham; with which he foreran the Second Coming of Christ for His Church, for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the One that is waiting for Him; because She has an invitation to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and Christ, the Bridegroom comes to get the Bride to take Her with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
That is why He will give Her the physical garment, which will be the glorified body, without which She cannot go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, because there are no airplanes to go there.
Only Christ can takes us to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb when we have the new, glorified body; and those who departed also need to rise in glorified bodies in order to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, which is in God’s dimension, the seventh dimension; where Christ and His Bride will be endued as kings, to establish the Millennial Kingdom on Earth, after the three and a half years of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, and three and a half years of Great Tribulation on Earth, where, the Scripture says… Notice what will happen those days. Revelation 10, verse 8 and on, says:
“And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
And I went unto the angel…”
That already happens here on Earth, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; because John represents the Church and the instrument that God will have at the Last Day among His Church.
And since the Message to the Church always comes through the Holy Spirit given to the messenger; and the messenger and through the messenger the Holy Spirit then speaks It to His Church; and It becomes flesh in His Church just like It becomes flesh in the messenger too… That has always been the Divine Order, through messengers called angels, which means ‘messenger;’ and God doesn’t change the way He acts.
“And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.”
I already told you that this Angel is the Angel of the Covenant, He is the Holy Spirit, He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, because Christ says in Revelation chapter 22, verse 16: “I Jesus have sent My Angel to testify unto you these things…”
Let’s read it the way it says here. Chapter 22, verses 16 to 17, says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”
Christ always speaks to His Church through the angel-messenger He has for that stage, that age of the Church; and that is so that the people are not like sheep without a shepherd, so that they have the same revelation from God, and convey it to mankind. “The Spirit,” (see? the Holy Spirit), “and the bride,” (the Church-Bride), “say, Come.” Both say the same thing.
The Holy Spirit through the messenger God has for that time speaks what God has revealed to him, what Christ wants His Church to hear. That is why in the Book of Revelation chapter 2 and 3, at the end it always says: “He that has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.”
In each stage of the Church, He has an instrument; He reveals Himself to that instrument, that person, He gives him the Message for that stage of the Church; he conveys It to the people, to Christianity; and the believers in Christ hold on to that Message, and they proclaim It, they work centered around that Message pertaining to that time; and God fulfills His Program for that stage of the Church. As simple as that.
Does God have a Program for this time? Does God have a Message for this time? We already saw here that there is a prophetic Message, It will be the prophecy of the Last Day. Let’s continue reading. Verse 9:
“And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.”
This is the same thing that happened to Jeremiah and also to Ezekiel is happening. It happened to Ezekiel in chapter 1, verses 3 to 10… chapter 3, verses 1 to 14, where He tells him: “Eat that thou findest.”
And he found a book rolled up, written within and on the backside, and He tells him: “Eat it.” And then He tells him: “Now prophesy with those words, prophesy to the people with the words of that book.” It’s the same way here in Revelation too.
“And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter,” (it is sweet in the mouth to speak the Word, the Divine Revelation, but the situations he will go through are bitter).
“And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”
And then chapter 11 shows who is the One that later prophesies before peoples, nations, and tongues. Chapter 11 of Revelation, which is the next chapter, says: “And there…” Chapter 11, verse 3 and on:
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.”
These are the Two Olive Trees of Zechariah chapter 4; that is why it says they are the Two Olive Trees. Chapter 4, verse 10 and on, says:
“For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.”
In the New Testament, they are the seven messengers of the seven Church ages, which are also the seven stars in the right hand of the Lord.
“Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
These are the ministries of Moses and Elijah repeating at the Last Day to call and gather 144,000 Hebrews, 12,000 of each tribe. These are the Angels or Messengers of Saint Matthew chapter 13… Chapter 24 of Saint Matthew, verses 30 to 31, which says:
“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.”
Let’s see what Rev. William Branham tells us regarding these Angels with a Great Sound of a Trumpet. Pages 533 and 534 of the Book of The Seals, paragraphs 173 to 178, says:
“173 This time was between the Sixth and Seventh Seal, that He calls these people, spoken of by Jesus in Matthew the 24th chapter and the 31st verse, that we’ve just read, see. Trumpets here, the two witnesses of the…When the trumpet sounds, is the trumpet of the two witnesses of the age of grace for the Jews. One trumpet sound, you notice, one trumpet sound. He said He’d sound the trumpet. Now notice over here, 31st.
And he shall send forth his angels (not one, see; there’s two of them) with a great sound of a trumpet,…
174 What is it? When God gets ready to speak, there’s a sound of a trumpet. That’s always His Voice. It’s calling to battle, see. God speaks. These angels will come forth with the sounding of the trumpet.
175 And did you notice, at the last angel’s Message, the trumpet sounds. The first angel’s message,” (which was Saint Paul), “a trumpet sound; second angel’s, a trumpet sounded, when He sent it out. Notice, but when the Seals were announced, they were all in one great, Divine thing, to call out a group of people; there was one trumpet sound, and Seven Seals were broke.
176 Notice, ‘Gather His elected Jews from the four parts of the heavens.’
177 He mentioned the six Seals, as we have seen, but not the Seventh Seal. He has never said nothing in here about the Seventh Seal, nowhere.
178 See, right away, the 32nd verse, turns to parables, of the time of the calling of the elected Jews.”
There, in the time of the Coming of the Mighty Angel, of Christ, is when that overlap with the Jews takes place. That is why when Rev. William Branham wanted to go to Israel to preach to them, the Angel told him: “This is not your time, this is not the time yet.” And when he was already in Cairo, Egypt, to go to Israel, the Angel told him not to go to Israel, to go somewhere else. And He didn’t go to Israel even though they had everything prepared for a campaign over there.1
Because the Jews are not called in the seventh Church age. It is higher up, the Golden Age of the Church, that is where the call to the Jews must take place. And only the One sent for that Work will know what must be spoken to the Jews; and that will be the fifth Elijah.
Rev. William Branham was the fourth Elijah, John the Baptist was the third Elijah, Elisha was the second Elijah, and the first Elijah was Elijah the Tishbite. As simple as that.
It is the ministries of Moses and Elijah repeating at the Last Day, which we can’t explain much about so that no impersonations arise, because all of that is inside the Sixth Seal and Seventh Seal.
The Sixth Seal are the Two Olive Trees: Moses and Elijah; and the Seventh Seal is Christ: the Coming of Christ to His Church. And that cannot be explained much either, so that there is no impersonation of what God will do.
All of that will be clarified in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, where the Angel that appeared to Moses in that bush there on Mount Sinai, on Mount Horeb,2 who is the same Angel of the Covenant, Christ in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church… but made flesh in Jesus was the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, Emmanuel: God with us, as Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14, says; and Saint Matthew also speaks to us about the same thing when Jesus was born; or when… Even before Jesus was born, in chapter 1 of Saint Matthew, it says:
“Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”
He is quoting Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14; Saint Matthew is quoting that here.
Everything God is carrying out in His Program under the New Covenant, He is carrying it out among His Church. Just as God worked through Jesus Christ, Christ in Holy Spirit has been working in and through His Church; because His Church is His Helpmate which God has given Him, so that the seed of God, the seed of Christ, who are the members of His Church, may be born in the Kingdom of God, which is the new birth.
Just like we were born here on this Earth through our earthly parents, we are born again through Christ and His Church by receiving Him as our Savior and being born of the Water of the Gospel and of the Holy Spirit; and thus, we have been born into the Kingdom of God.
That is what must take place in a person so that he receives Eternal Life in his soul, and receives that first step, which is receiving the Spirit of God; which is what should have been done in the days of Adam and Eve, but Eve got ahead.
And now, the new birth is received through Christ by bringing forth the new birth, by bringing forth or giving the Spirit to all those who receive Him as their Savior and are baptized in water in His Name, and they are born into the Kingdom of God; and that is why Saint Paul in Philippians, chapter 3, verses 20 to 21, tells us: “Our conversation is in Heaven.” [The Bible in Spanish reads: “For our citizenship is in Heaven…”—Translator]
It is the citizenship of the person who has been born again, now he has been born of Heaven (because the new birth is heavenly), and therefore, he is a heavenly citizen, with the full rights of the heavenly citizenship.
That is why the Seven-Sealed Book, which is opened in Heaven in Revelation chapter 5 and brought to Earth in chapter 10, is brought to His Church; and among His Church, in and according to the order of Christ being among His Church, speaking to His Church, speaking first to the instrument He has in His Church; and then through him—that instrument, anointed, speaks to His Church what was conveyed or revealed to him.
And therefore, what they will be hearing is not a man, but Christ in Holy Spirit speaking the Message relevant to that time, through that man. And the elect of each time are called and gathered that way, as Christ in Holy Spirit carries this out.
Remember that many are called, but few are chosen.3 In other words, not all of Christianity is the Church-Bride of the Lord. The wise virgins are the elect, the chosen ones who had to appear on Earth to confirm their place in Eternal Life, and to receive Eternal Life; they are the Father’s sheep that God has given Christ to seek and give them Eternal Life. (Saint John chapter 10, verses 27 to 30.)
If Adam and Eve hadn’t sinned, would you have appeared, would you have been born here these days, in this century or in the last one? No, you would have then been born six thousand years ago, and a bit more than that. But through the Second Adam, who is Christ, and the Second Eve, we have been born in the Kingdom of Christ through the new birth, through the Holy Spirit; and Christ restores, redeems, everything that was lost.
And now, according to the flesh we are descendants to the first Adam and the first Eve, but according to the Spirit, the new birth, we are children of the Word, which is in the Church, from age to age, and of Christ the Bridegroom; in other words, we are descendants of the Second Eve (which is the Church) and of the Second Adam (who is Christ), we are the seed of Christ.
Remember that in Saint Matthew chapter 13, verse 1 to 23, it says that the One who sows the good seed… or Saint Matthew chapter 13, verses 30 to 43, says that the One who sows the good seed is the Son of man, Christ; and it says that the good seed are the children of the Kingdom, the children of God; and it says that the wheat are the children of the Kingdom, the children of God; that is the seed of Christ.
That is why everything Christ is: King, Priest, High Priest, and Judge, the believers in Christ are too, they belong to that Cabinet of the Kingdom, they are royalty; they also belong to the Judicial Cabinet, that is why they are also judges; and they belong to the Priestly Order of Melchizedek; that is why they are also priests, they belong to that Order, they belong to that Cabinet of Christ; and therefore, they are the heirs; and therefore, the Title Deed of all the inheritance comes for Christ to claim His inheritance, everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood, and to restore us to physical Eternal Life with Him in His Kingdom. As simple as that. It is a Divine Program.
You and I had to appear; and we have appeared to take our position in the Kingdom of Christ and be thankful to God that we were eternally in God as a Divine Thought. We are genes of Divine Thought. He thought of you and me, He thought of how many sons and daughters He would have.
It’s one thing to be servants, and another to be children. The believers in Christ are God’s sons and daughters. God called Abraham “servant.”4 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the patriarchs, and all the people of Israel, are mentioned as servants. Therefore, there is a big difference between servants and children.
The heavenly blessings belong to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; they have been born into the Kingdom of Christ because His Kingdom is a spiritual Kingdom. And when He has His physical Kingdom here in this dimension, we will also be with Him in glorified, visible and invisible bodies when you want them to be invisible; the same thing that happened with Jesus Christ already resurrected and glorified. It is the most important type of body that God has for the believers in Christ.
That is why the angels are servants, sent to minister to the heirs of salvation, of health. Hebrews chapter 1, verse 14, and Hebrews chapter 1, verses 5 to 7, tells us that God made His… Let’s read the whole thing here. Verse 6 and on, says:
“And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.”
And verse 14, of this same 1st chapter of Hebrews, says:
“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?”
In other words, they are sent to the believers in Christ to minister to all the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. “The Angel of the Lord encamps around them that fear him, and delivers them.”5
When Christ was here on Earth in flesh, and He was fasting for forty days, angels were with Him and took care of Him.6 When He prayed, angels were also with Him. When He died and was buried, angels of God, two angels, one was at His head and another at His feet, in the cave where He had been laid.7
And when He resurrected, the Scripture says that an angel removed, rolled back the stone from the sepulcher;8 and when Mary Magdalene and also other sisters, like Mary, and the other Marys, went to the tomb, they also saw angels of God, who told them: “Whom do you seek? He is not here; He has risen from the dead. Why do you seek the living among the dead?”9
And when Christ ascended to Heaven, two angels appear to His disciples and say to them: “Why do you gaze up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so return.” (The Book of Acts chapter 1, verse 1 to 12).
Angels appear to the heirs of salvation. The Angel Gabriel appeared to Zacharias the Priest to announce to him that he would have a son and that they should call him—they should name him John, and he would come before the Lord, preparing the people. [Luke 1:5-20] He was the third Elijah, that is, the ministry of Elijah manifested for the third time, in another man called John.
He doesn’t have to be named Elijah, because Elijah is the ministry of Elijah, that ministry recognized as the ministry of Elijah manifested in different messengers.
When Rev. William Branham came, the ministering spirit of Elijah was operating in Rev. William Branham for the fourth time, forerunning the Second Coming of Christ. Just as John with his Message identified the One he was preparing the way for: the Messiah, Jesus called the Christ, called the Messiah, he identified Him with his Message.
He said: “The One coming after me is greater than I. There stands One among you whom you do not know.” He told them: “He is the One who comes after me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.”10
And it says that: “He will gather the wheat into His garner, and the chaff will be gathered to burn it in the fire. His fan is in His hand,”11 which was used to blow away the chaff and throw it in the fire, and to set the corn of wheat free.
I don’t know if some of you remember that also sometimes in the kitchen, before, when women put uncooked rice in a bowl, they would do this, they would blow on it to get rid of the chaff (in rice or beans or anything); well, Christ has the fan, which blows away the chaff to separate it from the corn of wheat, from the elect.
“THE PROPHECY OF THE LAST DAY.”
Now, we have seen who and through whom Christ, the Holy Spirit, brings the prophecy of the Last Day: It’s through the Two Olive Trees, for the Jews; and first they will be among the Gentiles, to take from the Gentiles, from the Church, from Christianity, to the Jews, the Word of God pertaining to the Jews. And God will support that work.
There is a great blessing for the Jews, and they will receive it: 144,000 Jews will be sealed, 12,000 of each tribe; but before that, the elect of Christianity, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, will be sealed with the Holy Spirit, and those who are alive will be changed, and those who died will be raised in eternal bodies.
“THE PROPHECY OF THE LAST DAY.”
That is the prophecy contained in the Seven-Sealed Book, which the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven brings open. That Title Deed of Eternal Life comes here to Earth, to the second Eve; the second Adam, who is Christ, receives It first, He receives that Title Deed in Heaven, to bring It to His Church.
And the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which was not opened in Heaven—or whose content was not revealed when it was opened in Revelation 8, will be revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; the mystery is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ to His Church. Just as He came to His people Israel, to the people of the Old Covenant, He will come to the people of the New Covenant, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rev. William Branham says in the message “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed,” on page 29 [paragraph 205], he says: “How He’s coming, and when He’s coming, we don’t know.” And if he knew something, he had to stay quiet so that there wouldn’t be impersonations.
He knew plenty. He knew a whole lot about that mystery. But what the Thunders spoke, he said that was in a language unknown to him. Therefore… That is around page 464 and 465, and 474 and 475, and page 469, and 488, 489… 481, 482, 483, 484.12 In the last 4 or 5 pages of the Book of The Seals, there is a clear summary there of what the Coming of the Lord will be. The Angel who was different from the rest, Rev. William Branham says, was the One with the Seventh Seal.
Just like each messenger of each age was to give what he had to give from God regarding the Seals that were fulfilled in their time, then the Angel who has the Seventh Seal is to reveal…
Each angel revealed to the messenger of the seventh age what he had to reveal; but when the time came for the revelation of the Seventh Seal, there, although he knew a lot, he was not given permission to speak about what the Seventh Seal would leave open, because the Seventh Seal couldn’t be opened to the public yet.
But it will be opened in a Great Tent-Cathedral, under the Third Pull, which Rev. William Branham spoke about; and there, the Thunders will be uttering their voices: Christ as Lion will be speaking and revealing the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, which will give us faith to be changed and raptured and go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Remember that Christ says: “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” (Revelation 22, verse 12.)
The Message of the end time, of the Last Day, is the content of the Book sealed with Seven Seals, and above all the Seventh Seal at the end.
That is why it is so important to have the messages, the Books An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages and The Revelation Of The Seven Seals preached by Rev. William Branham, to be aware of what is spoken that will happen, so that we are watching, knowing that the Third Pull will speak for Itself.
In other words, everything that was spoken that God will do in the Third Pull, when we see those things happening: it is the Third Pull that is being fulfilled by God. What will identify the Third Pull will be the fulfillment of what is promised in the prophecy of the Last Day.
May God help us this new year. May we all do our part soon, according to what God has put in your heart, for all the works that are being carried out in favor of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and in favor of the human family.
And may God prosper us more abundantly this new year so that we work more in the Work of the Lord; and may we have the Great Tent Cathedral operating soon, for the benefit of Christianity and of the entire human family.
And I reiterate my appreciation and gratitude, and congratulations for the work you have done in every field, in favor of the human family, in favor of the construction project of the Great Tent Cathedral.
And one day the Third Pull will be manifested in all its fullness for the entire world, for the foolish virgins and for the wise virgins.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you who are present and those who are in other nations.
And Miguel Bermúdez Marín: May God bless you and keep you, and this year may He use you double or triple… five times as much as He used you in the year 2014, along with your family and all the ministers, congregations, and brethren of every country. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Continue having a joyful evening, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior, this first Saturday of the month in this meeting of ministers and fellow workers who stand ready to work more abundantly this year. We are in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ so that He uses us greatly in His Work at this end time.
Lord Jesus Christ, I dedicate to You all these people who are hearing me, those present here and in other countries, ministers, and fellow workers, and all those who have worked and work in all the projects that we carry out. I commit them into Your Hands, use them greatly, prosper them spiritually and materially, and use them greatly in Your Program pertaining to this end time. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I ask You, Heavenly Father. Amen and amen.
Well, it seems like today we had a Bible school. It’s because… we have to know the prophecies pertaining to the Last Day, because that is what brings the blessing to all of us. The prophecies of the time of Moses for the deliverance of the Hebrews were a benefit to them back then; and now all of that is a type and figure of what pertains to our time; in other words, we must concern ourselves with what pertains to us.
May God bless you and keep you, and continue having a joyful evening.
I will leave Rev. José Benjamín Pérez with you. And next Sunday I will be with you again to continue speaking to you about the things that pertain to our time, which are the things that bring us God’s blessings for the soul, the spirit, and the body, because they are the prophesied promises that are going to be materialized in our lives, in the Church, in our family, and so on.
Well, since we don’t have a vigil today, let’s leave Rev. José Benjamín Pérez here to continue.
And with more encouragement, and strength, energy, this year 2015, to work in the Work of the Lord; and with more enthusiasm, joy, and happiness because that is what makes us happy: working in the Work of the Lord.
I also reiterate my appreciation and gratitude to those who work in the printing press, those who work with the machines, cameras, camera equipment, to the teachers as well, and to the parents who bring their children to Bible school and also to other activities of the Church, and to all those who have done a little or a lot in the Work of the Lord.
I ask God to bless you greatly, so that whoever wasn’t able to do a lot, can do more this year.
And loving one another with all our soul, and praying for one another, praying for the Church of the Lord, praying for all the works that are being carried out.
May God bless you all.
“THE PROPHECY OF THE LAST DAY.”
1 64-0726M “Recognizing Your Day And Its Message,” pages 37-38, paragraphs 209-215; 64-0719M “The Feast Of The Trumpets,” pages 37-38, paragraphs 286-289; The Seventy Weeks Of Daniel, 61-0730M “Gabriel’s Instructions To Daniel,” pages 30-32, paragraphs 152-157
2 Exodus 3:1-6, 19:2-22
3 Matthew 22:14
4 Genesis 26:24
5 Psalm 34:7
6 Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-12
7 John 20:11-12
8 Matthew 28:1-3
9 Matthew 28:1-7; Mark 16:1-6; Luke 24:1-10
10 Mark 1:7; John 1:26-27, 1:29-30
11 Matthew 3:11-12; Luke 3:16-17
12 The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” pages 540-541, 552-553, 546, 560-564 in English