WHAT’S THE TIME
ON GOD’S CLOCK
Rev. William Soto Santiago, Ph.D.
Sunday, July 1st, 2012
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present and those in other nations; may the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and upon me too. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
For this occasion we read in Matthew, chapter 24, verses 29 onwards, where Christ tells us:
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our theme is: “WHAT’S THE TIME ON GOD’S CLOCK”
Just as on Earth we have a clock and a calendar to know the year, month and day in which we live, we have a watch to see the day time, and it is important to be aware of the year, month, day and the hours of the day on which we live, and act according to the time in which we live in, in other words, to live in the present; how much more in the spiritual realm. It is important to know the time in God’s realm in which we live because there is time for everything, and in the Divine Program there is time for everything He has promised.
That is why God speaks of times, generations, and also speaks of years; for example we have in the book of Daniel, God spoke to Daniel the prophet of seventy weeks of years determined for the Hebrew people, which are four hundred and ninety years, and the Messiah would appear in His ministry in the seventieth week after sixty-nine weeks of years are past, which are four hundred eighty-three years; thereafter the Messiah would appear in His Messianic ministry, and in the midst of that seventieth week, the life of the Messiah would be cut off as it happened two thousand years ago with the death of Jesus on the Cross of Calvary.
We also find that for the liberation of the Jewish people there in Egypt, God spoke to Abraham, God spoke to Abraham in Genesis chapter 15, verses 12 and onwards, it says:
“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.”
Here God is also speaking of time, of years, determined for the descendants of Abraham to live in a strange land, the strange land came to be Egypt, for which certain things had to happen to Abraham’s descendants to go and live in the land of Egypt, and Abraham still had not had the promised son through his wife Sarah, and God is already speaking to him about what the future of Abraham’s seed will be. It continues:
“And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.”
And now He even tells him of the generation in which his descendants would return to the land where Abraham was living, which is the land of Canaan, where Abraham lived. Here we see how God has already determined, even before things happen, God has already determined the program that He will carry out.
And now, if God has done this in the past, He also has for the present time a program already determined to be carried out in our time, which is why from Genesis to Revelation we are told of the different times, and we are therefore told, of our time, we hear of the final time for which there are great promises from God for all believers in Christ, which have entered the New Covenant that God said He would make with His people.
And therefore the Blessing of the Birthright which the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would have, the believers in Christ under the New Covenant, would give great blessings for all believers in Christ, because it is a blessing that covers not only the Earth and earthly things but also the Heavenly things.
There is a time assigned in the Divine Program for the fulfillment of the promises of the end time, of the Last Day. The same Scripture that says: “The last day,” it is already speaking of a time, of the final time, of the Last Day, that when seeing the Scripture in Psalm 90, verse 4, and Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8, we find that it says: “For one day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.”
So, one day before the Lord, for the human beings, are a thousand years. And when it speaks of the last days, it is speaking about three millennia: the fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium, which is why we find Peter and Paul speaking about the last days and let’s see what Paul and Peter say about the last days. Paul in Hebrews chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, says:
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God, who at sundry times and in divers 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, by whom also he made the worlds.”
Here it says that God having many times spoken by the prophets, it says: “In these last days He has spoken unto us by his Son,” that is, through Jesus Christ. The last days began in the time of Christ.
Now, let’s also see what Peter says in the book of Acts, and Joel also Peter 2, verse 28, says … and it is a promise would be fulfilled, and consequently at some point of time in history would become a reality. But let’s see that prophecy, then we’ll see how that prophecy is fulfilled. Joel, chapter 2, verses 28 onwards says:
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.”
Here we have the promise from God that the Holy Spirit will be poured out upon the people, and its fulfillment began on the Day of Pentecost according to the words of the Holy Spirit through the Apostle Peter, when in Chapter 2 the book of Acts says, verse 14 and onwards:
“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day (in other words, 9:00 am).
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God,
I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh:
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
And I will shew wonders in heaven above,
and signs in the earth beneath;
blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood,
before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the Lord, where the great tribulation will start, before the coming of the great tribulation, whosoever shall call upon the Name of God by receiving Christ as his Savior will be saved, and this corresponds to the last days that began in the time of Christ.
Christ was born about three to seven years before starting the fifth millennium and therefore before the last days, which before God are the fifth, sixth and seventh millennia to the human beings. “Because one day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.”
Now, see how easy it is to understand when it is spoken that we are living in the last days from the time of Christ and the apostles. God promised to speak through the Messiah in the latter days, and there two thousand years ago He was speaking through Jesus Christ the Messiah, because the latter days had already started, and He poured out His Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, because the latter days had already begun for which the promise of the coming of the Holy Spirit was appointed.
And He has continued pouring out His Spirit upon all those who receive Christ as Savior after hearing the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, why? Because we are still living in the last days, and the first of the last days, fifth millennium is over, the second of the last days, which is the sixth millennium is over, but we are in the seventh millennium from Adam until now, which also becomes the third millennium from Christ to our time, and therefore He still continues pouring out His Spirit upon all those who receive Christ as only and sufficient Savior.
We are already on the Last Day according to the Gregorian calendar. And according to the Jewish calendar, if we add the years of delay it may have, some two hundred years, about two hundred years; and according to that calendar we would already be in the latter days also, if you add all the years of delay the Jewish calendar may have, but if not, then the Jewish calendar has not reached the Last Day yet, it would then be in the penultimate of the latter days, it would still be in the fifth millennium or at the end of the sixth millennium, to enter then in the seventh millennium.
That matter pertains to those who are working with the Jewish calendar, it is up to them to seek the years of delay and add them in order to fix the calendar, and the Gentiles should fix the calendar too, if they want to know the time we are living.
And now, what is the time, what time is it in God’s clock? If we see the vigils through the parables of Jesus, these vigils correspond to different stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which would be living on this Earth, in which mankind has been living on Earth in darkness, and therefore the parable of the ten virgins, which corresponds to the time of the night, then at midnight a cry was heard: “Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him.”
That is the midnight cry, which is the message from God through the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, for the people to awake to the reality of the time in which we live, and the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ was the Reverend William Branham with the spirit and power of Elijah.
In other words, the Holy Spirit operating in him the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time. It will be operated also for the fifth time for the Jews, for Christ to speak to the Jewish people, for the Holy Spirit to speak to the Jewish people. And just as God had in the time of Elijah the Tishbite seven thousand who had not bowed their knee to Baal, that is, to pagan religion, to idolatry, for the Last Day God will have one hundred forty-four thousand, twelve thousand from each tribe, of the Jewish people, who will have not bowed the knee to Baal, to paganism, idolatry, who will be faithful to God.
Therefore, for the Last Day, the seven thousand of the time of Elijah the Tishbite is a type and figure of the one hundred forty and four thousand that God will have under the ministry of Elijah operated by the Holy Spirit through a man of the Last Day who will be the messenger to Israel and will come proclaiming everlasting peace for the Jewish people.
Before the Hebrew people seeing and receiving the Messiah, they have to see and hear and receive Elijah: “Behold I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD, lest I come and smite the Earth with destruction, with a curse.” Malachi, chapter 4 tells us so. All that Chapter 4 of Malachi speaks of the Last Day:
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”(Malachi, chapter 4, verse 1).
That’s the great tribulation, where the temperature will rise to such a degree that will burn many parts of the planet Earth, environmental problems, global warming, earthquakes, volcanoes, and an atomic third world war is mentioned in Zechariah, chapter 14, and all these things will cause serious problems in the midst of the human family.
But on the other hand it will cause the Earth to straighten up by the degrees of inclination it has, and thus it will be ready for the Messianic Kingdom, the Kingdom of Messiah, a thousand-year Kingdom where the Messiah the Prince shall sit on the Throne of David and reign over the Hebrew people and all nations; and thus peace will come back to the Hebrew people and all nations.
And the kingdom of the Gentiles will be over, because the last stage of the kingdom of the Gentiles is the stage of the feet of iron and clay, which will collapse in the end time, in the Last Day. The Coming of the Lord will impact on the planet Earth, will impact the Church that will be transformed and taken by Christ, It will impact the foolish virgins, and the whole world, and the kingdom of the Gentiles in the feet of iron and clay will collapse; and we look today we see that the kingdom of the Gentiles has a lot of problems, the Gentiles are facing serious economic problems at present, serious environmental problems, serious problems in all aspects of life of the Gentiles.
In other words, we hve arrived at a very important time in the Divine Program in which all the prophecies for the Last Day, for the end time, will be progressively fulfilled. Christ Himself spoke of the Last Day in John, chapter 6, verses 39 onwards, and saying to all believers in Him, Chapter 6, verse 39 onwards, John, says:
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
These are the sheep that the Father gave to Him to seek and give them eternal Life, which will not be lost, so they will not perish …
“… I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.”
These are the people who hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ and the faith of Christ is born in their soul and receive Him as only and sufficient Savior and are baptized in water in His Name and Christ baptizes them with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produces the new birth in these people, they are already sealed with the Seal of the Holy Spirit unto the Day of Redemption, the redemption of the body, which is the resurrection of the dead in Christ in glorified bodies, in eternal bodies, immortal bodies, and the transformation of believers in Christ who are alive at that time, and everyone will have glorified bodies like the glorified body of Jesus Christ our Savior, we will all have immortal bodies, glorified bodies as the one of Jesus Christ our Savior, and that’s a promise given by Christ for the Last Day. And verse 40 continues saying:
“And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son and believeth in him, may have everlasting life …”
Who does Christ say that will have eternal life? He who sees the Son, sees Christ, and believes in Him, sees Him as his only and sufficient Savior at the preaching of the Gospel of Christ and receives Him as Savior and Christ gives him eternal Life. God has given us eternal Life, and this Life is in His Son Jesus Christ, who has life, “he who hath Christ (His Son) has life, he that hath not the Son of God, Jesus Christ, does not have life” (First John, chapter 5, verses 10 to 13) and the good news is that God has given us eternal Life, and this Life is in His Son, Jesus Christ. First John, chapter 5, verse 13. Now, it continues:
“That every one which seeth the Son and believeth in him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Who are those who have the promise, and consequently the faith and hope of a resurrection if they die? The believers in Christ, and who are those who have faith and hope for a transformation? Those who are alive at the Last Day, when the resurrection of the dead takes place, the believers in Christ who are alive are the ones with the promise of a transformation for all to become immortal, which is the redemption of the body by which we cry out to God every day.
And that pertains to the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium from Adam until now, and therefore that is the time, the divine hour, also for the catching away of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, it was not at the time of the apostles, it was not at the time of when the Gospel through Paul began with the Gentiles in Minor Asia, it was not at the time of the different messengers God has sent, the resurrection of the dead and the transformation of the living was not at the time of the Reverend William Branham, because they were not living in the Last Day yet.
It is for the Last Day, that is the day for the resurrection of the dead and the transformation of the living, and the Last Day is the seventh millennium from Adam to the present or third millennium from Christ toward us; as Saturday is the last day of the week, the seventh day, the Last Day or last millennium is the seventh millennium from Adam to the present.
And the three last days before God are the fifth, sixth and seventh millennium since Christ until now. Here we have already identified the Last Day where the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of the living will take place; but we do not know in what year of the Last Day, neither do we know what year of the last millennium, and we do not know which month, and nor do we know certain things that have yet to be revealed.
But one thing I know: that if my physical body dies, I will be raised up with others who will be resurrected. And if I remain alive, I will be transformed, and who else thinks so? Who else believes it? Each of you also, because it is a promise from God not only for me but for all believers in Christ, and it will be at the last trumpet, that is, the final message of God for the Church of Jesus Christ and for the human race, under the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom, of which Christ said in Matthew, chapter 24, verse 14:
“And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.”
We are seeing all this related to the time in God’s clock, God’s clock is Israel, the Hebrew people, for Christ says in Mark and Matthew … in Mark, chapter 13 says [verse 28]:
“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.”
In those days Jesus did not know when would be the day nor the hour; but after He was resurrected then He knew when it would the day and the hour, because in the glorified body one knows all things. Now see, also in Luke it speaks to us of this important event that will happen, it says [Luke 21:27 – 28]:
“And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
Our redemption, for us who are alive, it will be our transformation, the redemption of the body. And for those who have physically died, it will be the resurrection in glorified bodies, which is the adoption, the redemption of the body:
“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh
And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
(The fig tree is Israel, and all trees, other trees: other nations).
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand
(And it is in summer time where harvesting takes place, thus it is with the wheat harvest, thus it is with the harvest of the sons and daughters of God, where the gathering of the elect of God takes place).
So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.”
Notice, summer is near, it speaks to us of the harvest and that the Kingdom of God is near, as Christ said: “When you pray, pray in this manner: Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, thy kingdom come, Thy will be done as it is in heaven also on earth (or here on earth),” Matthew, chapter 6, verses 9 and onwards).
The coming of the Kingdom of God will be the restoration of the Kingdom of David and the Throne of David, where the Messiah the Prince shall sit upon the Throne of David, because He is the heir to the Throne and Kingdom of David, for the Kingdom of God on Earth is the Kingdom of David, and the Throne of God on Earth is the Throne of David; and in Heaven, well the Throne which is in Heaven, where God sits, and when Christ rose and ascended into Heaven, sat at the right hand of God on the Throne of God.
But Christ’s Throne, the Throne to which He is heir, is the Throne of David. He sits on the Throne of the Father according to His words of Revelation, chapter 3, verses 20 to 21, and says:
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
See? Jesus was victorious against the devil, against hell, where He went to, and there He preached to the souls or spirits in prison who were disobedient in Noah’s time, and then taking the keys of hell and death, taking them away from the devil, He came out of hell, went through Paradise where was Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the saints of the Old Testament, and rose with them, so when Christ was resurrected many saints who had risen appeared to many of their relatives in the city of Jerusalem (Matthew, chapter 27, verses 51 and on).
And then when Christ ascended to Heaven after spending forty days with His disciples, speaking of the Kingdom of God, ascended into Heaven and sat down at God’s right hand, sat on the Throne of the Father, where He has been for these two thousand years since Christ’s death, resurrection and ascension to Heaven until our time, and the Throne of God became a Throne of Mercy, a Throne of Intercession, where He is as High Priest making intercession with His own Blood for all those who receive Him as only and sufficient Savior.
But when the full number of His Church is completed, when the full number of those written in the Lamb’s Book of Life is completed, He will have finished His Work of Intercession and then He will rise from the Throne of the Father, the Throne of Intercession, and will claim back the Book of Redemption, the Book sealed with Seven Seals, the Book of Life, and He will claim back everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood, which belongs to Him, He will claim back all the people He has cleansed with His Blood from all sin, and He will rise them up, if they died, will rise them up in eternal bodies, and those who are alive He will transform, and then we will all be equal to Jesus Christ with glorified bodies, eternal bodies, immortal bodies, to live as young people throughout eternity, representing 18 to 21 years of age.
As simple as that is all the Divine Program for the Last Day. He will claim back everything belonging to Him, He will claim back the Kingdom and Throne of David, after claiming back all believers in Him and will transform them, and will take them to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb before the great tribulation begins, and while mankind goes through the time of divine judgment that will fall upon the human race, the believers in Christ who form the Bride Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be with Christ in the heavenly Father’s House in the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, wherein there will be a great blessing for all believers in Christ.
It is important to be aware of these things in order to know what we are waiting for, according to the divine promises, and this corresponds to the Last Day, for He said: “I will raise him up on the last day.” When Christ came to raise Lazarus, who was four days dead, comes to Bethany, and Martha says as follows, and we’re going to read it so that we have a clear picture: chapter 11, verses 17 and onwards, of John, says:
“Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off: And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house (remember: someone has to remain in the house, looking after the house).
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
Christ had already taught that He will resurrect all believers in Him at the Last Day, and Martha had that teaching clear, which must be also clear to every believer in Christ; the resurrection for believers in Christ who have died in our time and in past ages is for the Last Day, so one has to know what is the Last Day; and we already know that it is the last millennium of the three last days from Christ to the present: fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium. Those are the three last days before God, which for the human beings are three millennia.
The resurrection of Christ was also on the third day; the resurrection of the dead in Christ will be on the third day before God. For that reason we find that the Rev. William Branham, speaking of the parable of the various vigils, he points these vigils out as stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then he says that the resurrection, the rapture, the rapture will be in the morning: on the morning of the territory which will be the center wherein the resurrection is to take place, will begin, as Jerusalem was the center where the resurrection took place.
Now, in type and figure the morning of the Last Day is or are the early years of the seventh millennium and therefore we do not know at what moment it will occur, of those … let’s say, in the first five hundred years of the Last Day, of the seventh millennium from Adam until now, or third millennium since Christ toward us; and we will not work try to figure it out now, not speculating, but notice, the resurrection of Christ was in the morning.
And there is a resurrection for Israel also, a spiritual resurrection, and then a resurrection in terms of the entrance into the Kingdom of the Messiah, all of that as a nation as well. Hosea, chapter 6, verses 1 to 6, tells us … also verse 15 of Chapter 5, says:
“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.”
In other words, it will be a time of trouble for Israel, where they will seek the Lord, God, at the Coming of the Messiah in the Last Day, and chapter 6, verse 1 onwards says:
“Come, let us return unto the LORD …”
If I was reading from a Hebrew Bible, it would read: “And let us return to the Lord” or “let us return to Elohim,” or “return to the Eternal,” and so on:
“Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up
(see? A resurrection of Israel as a nation), and we shall live in his sight.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning
(as day break, that is already in the morning); and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.”
In other words, the Former Rain and Latter Rain will be there, the Gospel of Grace and the Gospel of the Kingdom, the rain of teaching to know God, to know His plan, and to obtain that spiritual resurrection and that resurrection as a nation in the Kingdom of the Messiah. And in Malachi, chapter 4, verse 2 says:
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings.”
In the morning is that the sun rises, therefore, everything points out that it is for… let’s say, the first five hundred years of the last millennium, and it could be the first four hundred years, or the first three hundred years, the first two hundred years, or the first hundred years, or the first fifty years, in other words, when the resurrection takes place, then there we can point out the year and day properly. But we already know that it is for the Last Day, because Christ Himself said it, and thus Martha believed it too and all believers in Christ in Jesus’ time and the time of the apostles also, that is, that this is already in the Scripture.
Now, the hour of His Coming, because one day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day, when applied to the time before God is no longer a hour of sixty minutes, and that too we will leave it alone so not to not explain much about that hour.
Just as when launching or sending a rocket with a crew to the moon or somewhere in space, and they place them on that spaceship in a certain place, in what place? in the front, then when everything is set … those which were trained to make that trip, all this is a type and figure of Christ and His Church which has been trained for that trip called the rapture or catching away of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
When it’s time for that spaceship to be sent, that manned rocket or with a crew to go to another place in space, they start counting, the countdown: ten, nine … it does not mean that each countdown number lasts the same time span between one number to the other, whether seconds or minutes, the countdown can be stopped due to a problem and then continue running, or if they want to start again to count, that’s determined by them there at the launching place.
Then we find that they keep on counting down: eight, seven, six, five, four, three … and people’s hearts, and especially those who are on the space ship, begins to beat faster, work faster, why? Because they are on a trip in which no one knows if it will return, and their relatives are also very nervous because the time of departure is approaching. How much more in the spiritual realm.
Three, two, one, and there apparently everything stops, but not, and still the ship does not leave when they say one, but when they say: cero, the rocket takes off with the crew heading to the place which that trip was determined for.
Elijah left the planet in a chariot of fire, that is, that the space trips… that’s in the Bible, Enoch was translated not to see death, Moses died but then appears with Jesus on Mount of Transfiguration and Elijah on the other side.
In other words, space traveling is not new, it is in the Bible, and well refined, angels of God with chariots of fire appear on the entire Bible protecting the Hebrew people, protecting the offspring of Abraham, protecting the seed of Abraham, protecting the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ too.
So from time to time in some countries those chariots of fire called flying saucers or UFOs are seen, which are also angels investigators of judgment, as the angels Gabriel and Michael and Elohim were when they visited Abraham and then went to Sodom, where Lot was.
Chariots of Fire, flying saucers, that is nothing new, they have been appearing from Genesis; it is the book that contains many chariots of fire, many flying saucers, who come for the blessing of believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and delivers them. “The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him and delivers them,” the Angel with His heavenly hosts.
If any people on Earth believe and must believe in miracles, it is Israel, because Israel is a miracle, and Israel in their land is a divine miracle, a miracle that was promised that God would accomplish. There are hosts of Heaven protecting Israel; and as commander of these armies of Heaven the Archangel Michael is, the Archangel of Israel, the guardian Angel of the Jewish people.
Any nation would like to have a guardian Angel as the Archangel Michael, with the powerful army He has, which is why the victories Israel has had. The best thing is to make good friendship with Israel, God says to Abraham, and that applies to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the Hebrew people: “He who blesses you is blessed, and whoever curses you is cursed.”
Therefore, by blessing Israel the promise by God is that the person will be blessed, or a nation that blesses Israel and helps Israel will be blessed; and a person or nation that curses Israel, doing things against Israel is cursed, a person, ruler or nation that curses Israel and does things against Israel, has the judgment of a curse from God. As simple as that, that’s in the Word of God.
Therefore, it is important to know which are the divine promises, and to be aware and holding tight to Christ our Savior, and believing those promises for them to become a reality in our lives, and may become a reality in the Church of the Lord, so they become a reality in favor of the Church and of the Hebrew people, and may become a reality in the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Christ, so that those promises may become a reality on Earth for the blessing of Israel and of all nations, because that’s the only thing that will bring permanent peace to Israel and all nations, no other thing.
They could say: “But there are good peace treaties,” but the Bible also says: “When they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction will come, and will not escape, as labor pains upon a woman with child, and will not escape,” destruction will come suddenly as labor pains on a woman with child, and will not escape. (First Thessalonians, chapter 5, verses 1 to 11).
So it’s important to know God’s promises, it’s important to know the Word of God, to know the time we are living in God’s clock, what is the time in God’s clock, we are in the hour, in the time when all the promises for the Last Day will be fulfilled. We are in the Last Day according to the Gregorian calendar, which states that we are already in the seventh millennium from Adam to here or third millennium from Christ until now.
We are in a time when the last trumpet will be heard by all believers in Christ, and then Israel will also hear, God will call Israel with great Voice of Trumpet. There is great promise for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and for the Hebrew people and all nations, for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ there are great promises from behalf of God.
The Rev. William Branham was translated in a vision or dream, and saw things that will be happening in the Last Day in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, he also saw a Great Tent-Cathedral, and the things that were happening there, great blessings coming from Christ, from God to all believers in Christ, he saw this prophecy taking place in the midst of Christianity, all this has already been seen and it has to be materialized in the midst of Christianity for a blessing to Christianity.
It is there where Israel is also going to see the Messiah; that will be fulfilled at some point in the trajectory of Christianity; that vision will be fulfilled somewhere, and there we shall understand the fulfillment of that vision, we have not understood many things yet, and it will raise the faith of Christians, of believers in Christ to a level that will prepare them for all the blessings God has for the Last Day to all believers in Christ.
We are waiting for those blessings. Of course the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be working on anything having to do with the Divine Program for the Last Day.
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When that sign appears, it will be a great sign for Christianity, for all the believers in Christ the fulfillment of that vision will be for great blessings from God for all believers in Christ, also for Israel and for everyone and all nations.
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It’s later than humanity can imagine. We are in the most glorious time of all times, although we see many problems in the midst of the human race. Amid the human race, in the midst of the kingdom of the Gentiles, in the midst of the stage of the feet of iron and clay, there are many problems, but in the Divine Program there are great blessings for all believers in Christ.
It is the most glorious time of all times for the believers in Christ, for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, this is the time that we can point out as the Age or golden stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in the progressive count of the Divine Program, one counts: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and then: zero, and in that counting, it has been counted up to seven and we are at zero, which is also number eight, the Golden Age, the golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, awaiting the Coming of the Lord with the dead being raised and the living being changed for the take off from this Earth to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb with Christ to the House and in the House of our heavenly Father.
Therefore, we are at the stage where the Church is waiting for the Lord’s Coming, the resurrection of the dead believers in Christ and the transformation of the living to go with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. These are promises that all Christians know, because they are in the Bible, and therefore, we, all believers in Christ, believe them with all our soul, for that purpose is the Second Coming of Christ: for Him to come for the believers in Him, transform them and take them to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Paul says in Philippians, chapter 3, verses 20 to 21:
“For our conversation is in heaven…”
Why? Because the new birth is not an earthly one, but from Heaven, and he that is born from Heaven his citizenship is from Heaven, just as when you were born on Earth, you obtained an earthly citizenship of the country in which you were born; but when one is born again, your citizenship is from the heavenly Jerusalem, the New Jerusalem, the Jerusalem of God, where our Savior and High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek is interceding in the heavenly Temple:
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body,
(Why are we waiting for Him? For our transformation) … Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body (in other words, so that the body that He will give us may be a glorified body, an immortal, incorruptible, young, glorified body, as the glorified body He has, so will be the glorified body that He will give all believers in Him), according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”
He has the power, and will use it to resurrect the dead believers in Him in glorified bodies, and to transform the bodies of believers who are alive at the time when the resurrection takes place, which is why the believers in Christ in this Last Day, in this end time, are waiting for the Coming of the Lord, and the resurrection of the dead believers in Christ and the transformation of their bodies to go with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, and this is for the Last Day, third millennium from Christ toward us or seventh millennium from Adam until today. And that is the end time or in the final time, the Last Day, for which Christ promised the resurrection of all believers in Him if they died, and if they are alive, to be transformed.
Which hour are we living in? What time is it in God’s clock? We see Israel, which is God’s clock, it is in its place, pointing out that this is the time, the Last Day, the last millennium or seventh millennium, where the prophecies promised for the Last Day are to be fulfilled, where there are great blessings for Christianity, for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the Hebrew people and for the entire Middle East and for all nations.
It is blessing time in the Divine Program for all believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We are in the most glorious time of all times. What time is it in God’s clock? God’s clock, the fig tree, Israel, is signaling out that it is time for the Coming of the Kingdom of God, this is summer time, this is the time to harvest the wheat and the tares, this is harvest time, the gathering of all the elect of God, the most glorious time of all time.
It is important that in this time we are all ready, prepared to meet our God, to meet with Jesus Christ in His Second Coming with the saints being resurrected in eternal bodies to meet the believers in Him which are alive and change them, and to spend thirty to forty days here on Earth already with the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of the living, then we go with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, just as Christ spent forty days appearing to His disciples before going to Heaven to sit on the Throne, sit on the Throne of the Father to make intercession for all believers in Him
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The hour, the time, for everyone be awake waiting for the Coming of the Lord, and the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of those who are alive and the rapture or catching away of all believers in Christ of our time and of past ages that will rise in eternal bodies.
If there is someone who has not yet received Christ and therefore is not ready, you can receive Him right now and we will be praying for you for Christ to receive you in His Kingdom, to which you may come forward and we will pray for you.
Children ten years and older can also come to the Feet of Christ and also those in other nations, no matter how old you are, and children ten years old and older can also come to the Feet of Christ for Christ to receive you in His Kingdom, because we must be ready to receive Christ at His Second Coming at the Last Day in this end time.
In the parable of the ten virgins, the ones which had oil in their lamps, that is, those who had received the new birth because they had received the Holy Spirit, they had entered with Him to the wedding and the door was shut. Before the door is shut, it is important that those who are missing may enter, which have their names written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Faith comes by hearing the Word of God, the Gospel of Christ, and with the heart one believes unto righteousness, but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Therefore Christ’s words in Matthew, chapter 10, verses 32 to 33, which says: “Whoever confesses me before men, I will confess him before my Father and before His angels; I will confess him before my Father in Heaven. But whoever denies me before men, him will I deny before my Father and before His angels,” says Christ in the Gospel.
So, it’s a matter of eternal Life to receive Christ and confess Him as our only and sufficient Savior. It is a matter of death and damnation not to confess Him, to reject Him, not receiving Him as Savior; denying Him before men is a matter of death, the person loses the opportunity to live forever, “there is no other name under Heaven by which we must be saved, there is only one, and that Name is Lord Jesus Christ. “
Let’s stand to pray for people who have come to the Feet of Christ our Savior. With our hands raised up to Christ, to Heaven, our eyes closed:
Eternal God, heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come to You with all these people who are receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. I pray You receive them in Your Kingdom. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray.
And now repeat after me this prayer those who are coming to the Feet of Christ at the moment:
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 heart, I believe in Your first Coming, and I believe in Your Name as the only Name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart. I believe in Your death on the Cross of Calvary as the atoning Sacrifice for our sins. I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I need a Savior. I give public testimony of my faith in You and receive You as my only and sufficient Savior.
I beg You to forgive my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood from all sin and baptize me with the Holy Ghost and Fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name and may the new birth be produced in me.
I want to be born in Your Kingdom; I want to live forever with You in Your Kingdom. Lord, You purchased my salvation on the Cross of Calvary, make it a reality in my life. Save me, I pray in Your eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
And with our hands raised to Heaven, we all say: The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! Amen.
Christ has received you into His Kingdom, has forgiven your sins, and with His Blood has cleansed you from all sin, because you heard the Gospel of Christ, the faith of Christ was born in your soul, you believed, and have received Him as your only and sufficient Savior. You will say to me … for Christ said:
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
You will say to me: “I believed, I want to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord. When can I be baptized?” Inasmuch as you have believed in Christ with all your heart, you may well be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, and we will continue to see each for all eternity in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
In water baptism or baptism in water does not remove sin, because water has no power to remove sins, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin, but water baptism is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ; even Christ Himself was baptized by John the Baptist and then the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus.
Which is why, as a commandment of God, even when John found that Jesus came to him to be baptized in the Jordan by John, John says: “I have need to be baptized by you, do you come to me for me to baptize you?” Christ says: “It is becoming us to fulfill all righteousness,” and then he baptized Him, and when He rose from the waters of baptism the Holy Spirit came like a dove upon Jesus and said: “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”
Water baptism is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ for all believers in Him, in which we identify with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
When a person receives Christ as Savior, he dies to the world. When the minister immerses him in the baptismal waters, typologically he is being buried. And when he rises him from the waters of baptism, he is being resurrected to a new life: unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. As simple as that is water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, where we identify with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
Understanding the symbolism of water baptism, then you may well be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, and we will continue to see each other throughout eternity in the glorious Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
I leave the Rev. Jose Benjamin Perez to let you know how to do to be baptized in water on this occasion, and in each country to the minister concerned to do in the same way and may God bless you and keep you, and until Sunday God willing.
Continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
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