Good evening, beloved friends and brethren here in Santiago de Chile, in the dedication of this place for our God, for service to God, to listen to His Word, His Voice, and to serve Him with all our hearts.
It is a great blessing and privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, to testify to you of the true and eternal God; the only God, to whom we are all called to worship; because “ONLY GOD IS WORTHY OF WORSHIP AND SERVICE.”
We read in Deuteronomy, chapter 10, verses… verse 19 to 22 of Deuteronomy, chapter 10, it says:
“Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.”
And in chapter 12 of Deuteronomy, verse 5, it says:
“But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our topic is: “ONLY GOD IS WORTHY OF WORSHIP AND SERVICE.”
Throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, we find the history of the human being; and we find that that inclination to serve God, to worship God is in the soul of the human being; and also, through the Scripture we can see in the history of the human being that many men have sought God to worship Him, but due to not having the correct knowledge of the true God they have been worshiping wrongly, and instead of worshiping God they have worshiped the enemy of God; for not knowing, understanding, the correct way to worship the God creator of the Heavens and the Earth.
Even the Lord Jesus Christ Himself was tempted to worship wrongly when He was fasting for forty days and was tempted; and the devil offered Him the kingdoms of the world: he told Him that if He would worship him, he would give Him all the kingdoms of the world.1
Now notice how not only God is worshiped, but also the devil seeks to be worshiped; and people who don’t know how to worship God correctly, lose the blessing of worshiping God and find themselves worshiping the enemy of God without realizing it.
Now notice how the devil even disrespected Christ Himself, demanding worship of Jesus Christ and promising to give Him the kingdoms of the world.
Now, do you know what that meant? That if Jesus accepted the devil’s proposal, Jesus would become the king of all the kingdoms of the world; in other words, He would become the king of the Roman empire, which was the one that was in the stage of the legs of iron and clay in those times. And the worship of the king of that kingdom (position offered to Christ by the devil), as the king of that kingdom would worship the devil; and therefore the worship of that kingdom would be worship of the devil.
Now notice all that the devil’s offer to Jesus entailed. But Jesus didn’t accept the offer and told him to depart from Him: “Depart from me, Satan. The Lord your God you shall serve, and Him only you shall worship.”
Now, notice, the one who was to worship was demanding worship; for every person, and the angels and the archangels, all, have been created by God to serve God, to worship God, to do the will of God.
Now, aware that the Scripture tells us that there are people who unknowingly worship the enemy of God, then we need to know the right way to worship the God Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Since Genesis we find people offering worship to God. We find, for example, Cain and Abel. Cain brought of the fruits of the field to God and brought an offering to God, but God didn’t look at Cain’s offering with respect; Abel brought an offering to God from the animals, from the sheep, and offered that offering, that sacrifice to God, and it pleased God.
And why does God accept the offering (sacrifice) of one and not the other? Because one brought the wrong offering and sacrifice, and the other brought the right offering, the right sacrifice. So it is not as some people think, that one serves God as he wants and that God will accept it: it has to be as He has established in His Word.
Now, why did He not accept Cain’s worship and offering, but He did accept Abel’s? Because Abel’s offering, being a little animal, a lamb, represented Jesus Christ: The Lamb of God who would come to this world and would be sacrificed for the human being, and with His Blood would cleanse us from all sin.
And now, notice, it is reflected there, the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross is being reflected in that sacrifice that Abel offered to God. And Abel was covered with the blood of the sacrifice that he offered to God, his sins were covered (not erased but covered); because with the type and figure, the shadow, the sins were not removed, but covered; because the blood of the little animals can’t remove sin, it only covered them, until the perfect Sacrifice came and His Blood was shed on Calvary’s Cross, to remove the sin of the human being.
Now, Abel, notice, believed in Jesus Christ and His First Coming, back in the Old Testament, in the shadow, that is, in the type and figure. And the Spirit of Christ, which was in Abel, brought that divine revelation to Abel, and Abel worshiped God correctly.
Now, notice, God says to Cain, who had become angry, and religious envy came… And religious envy, throughout the history of the human race has caused many deaths in the religious field; and it began there in Genesis, notice, by Cain killing Abel. In other words, the one who worshipped incorrectly, and his worship and his sacrifice was not accepted by God, persecuting and killing the one who had worshipped God correctly and had offered the right sacrifice to God.
And so, throughout the human race, we find that situation of religious envy.
Look, the prophets were also persecuted, and many prophets of God were killed. And Jesus Himself was also persecuted. And the religious leaders themselves, including the high priest, notice, we find them with religious envy persecuting Jesus and agreeing to kill – to kill Jesus; in other words, religious envy causing in the lives of those people an evil condition, and placing them as murderers, and therefore, carrying out the death of Christ by the hand of the Roman empire.
But he who kills is just as guilty as he who commands to kill; therefore, the Hebrew people have been found guilty of the death of Christ. Notice, Saint Peter and the apostles preaching, point out that the Hebrew people, through the Sanhedrin Council and the high priest, put Jesus Christ to death, thus using the Roman empire.
Now, we can see that it is necessary to know the divine order to worship God, because otherwise the person will be worshiping and thinking that he is worshiping God, without worshiping God.
It is necessary to know also, that there are ages and dispensations in the Divine Program; and when there is a change of dispensation, then there is an advancement in the Program of service to God, that is, a step of advancement in the service to God; and therefore, there comes a wider revelation from God to the people, through the messenger for that new dispensation.
When Moses appeared on the scene, we find that he was told by the Angel of the Lord —which is the Lord Himself in His theophanic body— that He had descended because He had heard the cry of His people Israel, and He had descended to deliver them; and therefore He was sending Moses, to use Moses for that purpose.
And Moses says to Him: “If they ask me by Your Name, what shall I say to them?” And the Angel of the Lord says to him… or Moses says to him: “If they ask me for Your Name, what shall I tell them?” And then the Angel of the Lord says to him: “I am that I am. And thou shalt say: I Am has sent me unto you.” Chapter 3, verse 13 to 15, of Exodus.
And these words: “I Am,” when we go to the original, they are four consonants called the tetragrammaton, and they are the four consonants Y-H-W-H.
Moses heard the pronunciation of that Name, but only those four consonants were written; but when those four consonants are pronounced as a name, well, they have other letters that are placed.
Now, God tells Moses later, in chapter 6 of Exodus (let’s see), about His Name, which He is revealing to Moses; He tells him in chapter 6 of Exodus, verse 1 and on:
“Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them.”
And now, since a new dispensation is intertwining with the Dispensation of the Promise (in other words, the fifth dispensation is intertwining with the fourth dispensation), now the revelation of the God Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, which Abraham, Isaac and Jacob worshiped under the Dispensation of the Promise; now God says that to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob He didn’t make Himself known with the name Jehovah</em>; and now He is making Himself known with the name Jehovah to Moses.
In other words, since a new dispensation is beginning there, it is intertwining, now God comes revealing Himself to Moses with greater extent, and He is making His Name known to Moses. Moses desired to know His Name, and God spoke to him.
Now, why to Moses? Because Moses is the prophet for that new dispensation, and “the Lord God will do nothing, except He reveals His secrets to His servants His prophets.”2
It is to the prophet of a dispensation —which always comes at the beginning of the dispensation to start, to open that dispensation— to whom comes all the divine revelation for that new dispensation; and comes all the Program of God, and everything that has to do with the Name of God and the worship of God.
And now notice why all that revelation comes to Moses.
And now, the Angel of the Lord has the Name, the one which was revealed to Moses.
Later, Moses, when he delivered the Hebrew people (in other words, God through Moses), he took the Hebrew people to Mount Sinai, where God had told him to take them to and would serve God at that mountain; and that would be a sign that God had sent him.3
And now, God gave the commandments to the Hebrew people there; God manifested Himself, revealed Himself, before the Hebrew people there.
Now, when later —later on, thousands of years later— Jesus came to Earth, we find that another new dispensation is intertwining: the sixth dispensation, which is the Dispensation of Grace. And Jesus came in the name of His Father, and Jesus came testifying of a Program that was being carried out; and God is working through Jesus, fulfilling His promises for that time.
And when the Samaritan woman speaks to Jesus and tells Him that the Jews worship in Jerusalem because they say that Jerusalem is the place to worship, but they (the Samaritans) worship in that mountain where Jacob had worshipped; Jesus, notice, when He saw the religious situation there was…; well the Samaritan woman said and believed (she, alongside the Samaritans) that it was at that mountain, and the Jews said that it was at the mountain in Jerusalem because that is where the temple was at. Jesus said: “You worship what you don’t know; we worship what we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.”4
Now: “The hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor on that mountain (that is, neither on this mountain nor on the mountain of Jerusalem) will you worship the Father, God (why?); for the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.” And therein lies the secret that our beloved Lord Jesus Christ is making known.
And now, God had also established a tabernacle for the Hebrew people, which Moses built according to the model that God showed him on Mount Sinai; and in that temple, which had an outer court, a holy place and a most holy place, the sacrifices appointed by God to approach God and to cover their sins were carried out; and the blood of the atonement of the goat was brought into the most holy place, sprinkled on the mercy seat, for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God, which had to be done every year because it lasted only one year. Why? Because it was not a perfect sacrifice, therefore that was something temporary; but it was the type and figure, the shadow, of a perfect Sacrifice that was to come: The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Savior. Therefore, when that Sacrifice came, there would be no more sacrifice for sin, because with only one, perfection would be reached.
And now, the Blood of Jesus Christ is the one that cleanses us of all sin5</sup>; therefore, it is not required that Christ do the Sacrifice for sin every year: He did it only once, and He has cleansed us of all sin forever with only one Sacrifice. And we are under the Blood of the New Covenant, the Blood of Jesus Christ our Savior, with the Life of the Blood, the Holy Spirit, placed upon us; and therefore, born again.
And now, we no longer have the house that Moses built, the temple or tabernacle that Moses built, nor do we have the temple that King Solomon built. For those times, in those places was that the people had to make the sacrifice for sin, that is, the high priest; but now we have neither the tabernacle built by Moses nor the temple built by King Solomon; but we have the Sacrifice for sin, which is the Sacrifice of our beloved Savior Jesus Christ.
And Jesus Christ, as High Priest, also performed the Sacrifice for sin with His own body; and He didn’t take the Blood of that Sacrifice to the most holy place of the temple which was in Jerusalem… And furthermore: that temple that was in Jerusalem was made by King Herod, and didn’t have the ark of the covenant; nor did it have the Pillar of Fire, the Shekinah, there; but Christ took His Blood to the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Temple of God, because the heavenly Temple of God was typified, reflected, in those earthly temples; and He entered into the Most Holy Place, and took His Blood there to make intercession with It for all of us, until the last of God’s elect has entered, and Christ has made intercession for the last of God’s elect, who are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, since before the foundation of the world.
And now notice how in Heaven Christ has been as High Priest, performing what the High Priest on Earth every year, on the 10th day of the seventh month, had to perform.
Now, there was a change of temple: the temple built by Moses was no longer required, nor the one built by Solomon; now the same heavenly Temple of God was in function with the High Priest Melchizedek working in it, in the Work of Intercession. And that is what Christ has been doing in Heaven: He sat at the right hand of God, on the Throne of God, and that is the Seat of Intercession in Heaven.
And now, Christ has been building with human beings a new race of human beings: with eternal life. And the person, when he has received Christ as his Savior, has washed his sins in the Blood of Christ and has received His Holy Spirit: he has been born again; that new birth of which Christ spoke to Nicodemus in chapter 3, verse 1 to 6; because without that new birth, the person can’t enter the Kingdom of God.
Now, when the person has been born again: he has received the Holy Spirit and has received a theophanic body, a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, a body similar to our body but of the sixth dimension. Therefore, the person now has eternal life, and the person can worship God in spirit and in truth.
And now, the person becomes part of a New Temple that Christ is building; a New Temple that Christ is building, which represents the heavenly Temple of God.
Just as Moses built a temple, a tabernacle, representing the heavenly Temple of God; and Solomon built a temple representing the heavenly Temple of God; now Jesus Christ is building a Temple representing the heavenly Temple of God.
And now, that Temple is being built by Christ with human beings, with living stones, which are human beings called and gathered from age to age. That is the Temple that the Prince, Jesus Christ, is building. And Christ was typified as Prince in Zerubbabel, the prince in the midst of the Hebrew people descended from the tribe of Judah (And now…); and he was the prince who together with the high priest Joshua built the temple in Jerusalem, in other words, carried out the restoration of the temple.
And now, notice how Saint Peter speaks to us; in First Peter, chapter 2, verse 4 and on, it says:
“To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”
And now notice how we have attained mercy through Jesus Christ our Savior and now we are House of God, people of God; we are the New Temple of God here on Earth, which represents the heavenly Temple of God, and we are the Royal Priesthood.
And just as there were priests among the Hebrew people for the tabernacle built by Moses and the temple built by King Solomon, now we are priests of God of the heavenly Temple; and Jesus Christ is the High Priest of the heavenly Temple.
That is why through Jesus Christ we offer to God sacrifices and praises to our Savior; through Jesus Christ, to God we offer all those spiritual praises and sacrifices. And everything, where? In the House of God. In the spiritual Temple of God, which is His Church, the Church of Jesus Christ, from there it goes to the heavenly Temple of God in Heaven.
And now, while we are in the House of God, which is the Church of Jesus Christ, Christ in His Church is transferring the things of the heavenly Temple.
Now notice, in the time of Moses and the time of Solomon they were transferred in the things that were in that temple, which reflected or represented those that were in Heaven; in other words, they were transferred in types and figures. But now, notice how Christ transfers them into His Church, His spiritual Temple: He transfers them into human beings.
For example, the Candelabrum or Candlestick that is in Heaven, and the seven lamps burning in Heaven, which are the seven spirits of God that travel throughout the Earth6</sup>; when they have been manifested on Earth in the spiritual Temple of Christ, notice, they are the seven manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of His Church.
The candlestick that was in the holy place in the tabernacle built by Moses and the temple built by Solomon, well, it is the Church of Jesus Christ passing through its seven stages or seven ages with its seven burning wicks, which are the seven angel messengers lit with the Fire of the Holy Spirit.
Now notice that everything that was in the tabernacle that Moses built, then when we see the heavenly Temple in the book of Revelation, chapter 4 and on, we find there the reality of what was in type and figure in the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built.
And since Christ is building a New Temple for God, which is built according to the one that is in Heaven; in the spiritual Temple of Christ, all the things that were in the one built by Moses and the one built by King Solomon, which were type and figure of those that are in Heaven, will now be in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That is why the apostle Paul tells us in Hebrews, chapter 9, verse 11 and on, he says:
“But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”
To the most holy place of what temple did he enter? Into the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Temple, to obtain (and He obtained) eternal redemption.
“For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these (that is, the figures of heavenly things were there in the temple, and the temple itself is a figure of the heavenly Temple; and they had to be purified with blood)<em>; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”
And what is the best sacrifice? The Sacrifice of Christ. With the Blood of Christ’s Sacrifice, the heavenly things themselves are sprinkled. And who are those people, those heavenly things? The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are sprinkled with Blood better than that of goats: we are sprinkled with the Blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ our Savior.
“For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us…”
Now we can see why we have been sprinkled with the Blood of Christ: we have come from the seventh dimension, from Heaven, as Christ also told us that He descended from Heaven.7
Now, from where He came, we have also come. And now: “Such is the earthly, so are the earthly; but such is the heavenly, so are the heavenly.”8
Now we can see why Christ came to Earth and died. For whom did He come and die? For each one of you and for me too; because “unless a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone.”9 He would be living here on Earth, but alone.
Think: if everyone living on Earth dies and only you are left, what would you do here? The first day would pass, you would look around, you wouldn’t find anyone; the first month would pass, you wouldn’t be able to talk to anyone; the first year would pass, you wouldn’t find anyone to talk to or where to go to buy anything.
What would your life be like? A solitary life, with no one else on Earth; but Christ didn’t want that kind of life for Him; but He said that He could have that kind of life: “If the corn of wheat doesn’t fall to the ground, it remains alone; but if it falls to the ground and dies, it bears much fruit.”
The fruit of a corn of wheat is obtained where? In the wheat plant, which is the same corn of wheat in the form of a wheat plant; and in the wheat plant is that then comes all the fruit, many corns of wheat equal to the corn of wheat that was sown in the ground. And many sons and daughters of God equal to Jesus Christ are those that Christ will have in the Wheat Plant: The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ our Savior.
Therefore, when we have the new body, we will all be equal to Jesus Christ: with an eternal theophanic body of the sixth dimension, and with an eternal, immortal and glorified physical body, equal to the body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and thus we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And thus the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completed, the New Temple, and the New Temple will be glorified; the New Temple will be glorified when we are transformed and then we will have our glorified body.
And this promise of Isaiah, chapter 60, will be in full fulfillment. Chapter 60, verse 7, says:
“…and I will glorify the house of my glory.”
The House of His glory here on Earth is His Church, as the Mystical Body of believers.
And now, we have the promise of a transformation for us who are alive, and a resurrection in eternal bodies for those who have departed; to be in glorified bodies, which is the most important kind of body there is; and that is the kind of body that our beloved Savior Jesus Christ has.
There are three kinds of bodies: physical, mortal and corruptible body, which is the one we have (and it doesn’t last long). There is the theophanic body, which is the body of another dimension: for those who are born again, this is the theophanic body of the sixth dimension: a body similar to our body but of another dimension. For those who have not received Christ as their Savior: for that is their spiritual body, their spirit, which belongs to the fifth dimension. That is a kind of body, that is, the spirit of the person is a body of another dimension.
And the third body, which is the most important, is the glorified body, because that body is interdimensional; it is the kind of body that Jesus Christ has. And notice, it neither gets old nor has the problems that our earthly body has. That is the kind of body that we will have; in other words, we will have the third body, which is the glorified body.
We have had the physical body, but that is temporary. And now, soon we will receive the immortal, incorruptible body, the glorified body.
And all that is for the members of the Mystical Body of Christ, which make up the House of God, the New Temple, which is the spiritual Temple of our beloved Savior; which, when it is finished, it will be dedicated to God, and God will dwell in that Temple in all His fullness. And that is the Temple that during the Millennial Kingdom will be functioning; and from that Temple is that He will work to transfer, from the heavenly Temple to the human beings, the things through that Temple. So notice how God will work in that Temple.
Now, our time is up, to continue speaking of how it will be when we are in the Millennial Kingdom; but there are already very important messages regarding how God will be working with that New Temple, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And if during these two thousand years, approximately, God has worked greatly with that spiritual Temple in the construction, how will it be when it is built, when it is finished? And Christ is the one who is building it, a Temple for our God. And everything will be updated there: everything that is in Heaven will be updated there; the representation of the things that are in Heaven will be there.
And now, we can’t go on talking anymore, because if we start we will have nowhere to stop. We would be seeing the things that are in the place of the Outer Court, the things that are in the Holy Place; and if we go to the Most Holy Place we would be seeing everything that is in Heaven in the Most Holy Place, and how it materializes in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ. And the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ is the Age of the Cornerstone; and everything that is there, in the Throne of God in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place…, there is the Throne of God. So look what will be in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ.
So let’s leave all that there, because if we start we would have to see countless things.
But notice, Christ was here on Earth, and was the human Temple of God and human Throne of God; and from that human Throne God spoke in the midst of the Hebrew people, and then that human Throne of God ascended to Heaven and sat on the Throne of God.
Now, on the Throne of Jesus Christ… Remember that Christ has a Throne here on Earth, and He will sit on the Throne of David. But then He also says: “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.”10 Therefore, the Overcomer who will sit with Christ on His Throne, well, he will be the human Throne that He will have. And there we leave it.
“ONLY GOD IS WORTHY OF WORSHIP AND SERVICE.”
John the apostle, when he saw that manifestation of Christ in His Angel, wanted to worship the Angel; and the Angel said to him: “No. Worship God.” Why? Because ONLY GOD IS WORTHY OF WORSHIP AND SERVICE.
But look, John is an apostle, knowledgeable of the Word of God; and he wanted to worship the Angel in Revelation, chapter 19, and the Angel said no; and then, in chapter 22, he tried again, and the Angel said no. But what was John seeing in the Angel of Jesus Christ that he wanted to worship him? Well, he was seeing nothing less than Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, manifested through His Angel Messenger.
The revelation of Jesus Christ was in His Angel:11
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…”
And now, the revelation of Jesus Christ is through His Angel. And now, for the Last Day, the revelation of Jesus Christ in and to His Church is through His Angel. That is why Jesus says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.” (Revelation 22, verse 16).
And Revelation 22, verse 6, says:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to (manifest) unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
Those are the things that Christ in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, said that He would make known to us, when He said with that Voice of Trumpet:
“Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
And now, in Revelation 22 it is through His Angel that He makes them known; because His Angel becomes the instrument of Christ, as the seven angel messengers were the instruments of Christ in every age, where Christ was veiled and revealed in His Church and to His Church; and for the Last Day, in the Most Holy Place of His Temple, Christ will be veiled and revealed in His Angel Messenger, making known to us all these things that must happen soon.
And there we will have the update and Christ transferring the things that are in Heaven, transferring them to Earth in and to His Church; and the things that are in Heaven will be represented in His Church; and the things that are in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Temple will be reflected in His Church (where?) in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ. So even the Throne will be represented there.
Well, we have seen there something very important.
And just as God speaks from His Throne in Heaven, and then He spoke from His human Throne when He was here on Earth: Jesus, His human Throne and His human Temple; Christ, notice, has been speaking through every angel messenger in every age, and for the Last Day He will speak through His Angel Messenger all these things that must happen soon; because that will be the instrument of Christ for the Last Day, that will be the one that will obtain the blessing to sit with Christ on His Throne, the Throne of David.
Now, Christ will speak through His Angel Messenger all these things that must happen soon, in this end time; because that will be the instrument He has promised to send to testify of all these things in the churches. The same one that He sent to John in spirit, in theophanic body, He will send to His Church in human flesh in the Last Day. And through that messenger, Christ will be veiled and revealed speaking to His Church in this end time.
And now, remember that all the things that are in the temple that Moses built and the one built by Solomon are type and figure of the things that are in Heaven, they are the representation. And so also in the Church of Jesus Christ will be the representation of the things that are in Heaven; they will be in the Church of Jesus Christ in persons, in human beings.
So when we pass through the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, and we see how the things that are in Heaven have materialized in the spiritual Temple of Christ…: as they had materialized —but in type and figure— in the things that were in the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built; but now everything is materialized in human beings in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That is why the Church of Jesus Christ is heavenly, although she is on Earth; but she is not of the world, just as Christ is not of the world.
And the Church of Jesus Christ is the one that has the correct worship to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and that is where He manifests Himself and where they worship Jesus Christ, because that is where Christ is and where He manifests Himself from stage to stage.
And it is there, in His Church, where the sons and daughters of God are born, where they are born again, through the Holy Spirit, who is in the Church, in the spiritual Temple of Christ.
And it is there that the worship of the true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, takes place from age to age; always in the present tense, always in the present age.
And God is worshipped, because ONLY GOD IS WORTHY OF WORSHIP AND SERVICE.
That is the House of God; that is why it has the Blood of the Lamb; and that is why the children of God, in the House of God, the Church, are protected with and by the Blood of Christ.
That is where the firstborn of God are safe; as the firstborn were in the midst of the Hebrew people in Egypt when death passed at midnight: in their homes was the blood of the Passover lamb applied on the lintel and doorposts, and the lamb was inside, and they were eating it roasted.
And now we are eating of Christ, the Word, and His Blood is applied in the House of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, and in our souls. That is why we are safe in the House of God, being fed with the Word of God; and worshipping the true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; for ONLY GOD IS WORTHY OF WORSHIP AND SERVICE.
May the blessings of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, be upon you all and upon me also; and may the number of God’s elect soon be completed, and may all the dead in Christ soon be resurrected in eternal bodies and may we who are alive be changed. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren present, and may you all have a good evening.
“ONLY GOD IS WORTHY OF WORSHIP AND SERVICE.”
1 Matthew 4:8-11, Luke 4:5-8
2 Amos 3:7
3 Exodus 3:12
4 John 4:1-24
5 First John 1:7
6 Zechariah 4:2; Revelation 4:5, 5:6
7 John 6:38
8 First Corinthians 15:48
9 John 12:24
10 Revelation 3:21
11 Revelation 1:1