Greeting: The mystery of adoption

Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present here in Lago Agrio, Republic of Ecuador. It is a great blessing for me to be with you again… How long ago were we here? We had been with you about two years ago. And it is a privilege for me to be with you again, to ask Christ for His blessings upon each of you:

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you, and may He bless you spiritually and materially, prosper you spiritually and materially, and use you spiritually and materially as well in His Work; and may the number of God’s elect be completed here in this area soon, and may the entire Mystical Body of Christ also be completed soon, and may we be transformed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

Saint Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans… It is a little greeting, but let us read it here, something here, to always read something of the Word. He says [Romans 8:14]:

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

By these words that the apostle Saint Paul speaks here, we can see that God has to carry out an adoption in His Program: the adoption of the sons and daughters of God.

And this adoption is the redemption of the body, in other words, the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive, to have a body like the body of Jesus Christ: eternal and glorified; and thus to be restored to everything that Adam and Eve lost in the fall: to be restored to eternal life, from which Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden; and therefore they lost the right to be kings on this planet Earth, they lost the right to live forever on this planet Earth.

And Adam would be, then, the king of the planet Earth all the time, because he would not die; but Adam had to have a season working in the Program of God, working on the things that God gave him to carry out; and after that stage of work was finished, which covered the material and also the spiritual, then he would have the time in which he would be adopted; and then, from there onwards, there would be no more room to sin and to die, because from there onwards he would be fully adopted.

But he didn’t wait, and Eve didn’t wait either. They had to wait for the Tree of Life, which is Christ, the Word that was with God and was God, to become flesh, so that they could eat from the Tree of Life.

That is why you find that when Christ was here on Earth in human flesh, He was nothing less than the Word that was with God and was God, and that created all things, who became flesh and dwelt among the human beings in the land of Israel.

And now, notice how He tells us¹: “I am the Bread of Life”; and He also tells us²: “Whoever eats of this Bread will live forever”; and He also tells us³: “Whoever does not eat my flesh and drink my Blood has no life abiding in him.” In other words, He speaks to us about eating of Him; that is eating of the Tree of Life.

The Tree of Life of the Garden of Eden, which is Christ, which was in His theophanic body there in the Garden of Eden, and which appeared to Adam every day, at a certain time of day, but had not yet become flesh, had to be made flesh.

But the devil was also there, which is the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which was made flesh in the serpent; and being in the serpent, the devil anointed the serpent, and through the serpent…, which was the missing link that science is looking for, it was the animal most like the human being, man: he spoke, he reasoned and had knowledge of how to reproduce himself (both animals and the human being) in an earthly form, in a human or animal form.

And Eve ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and then she made Adam eat as well, and they both died; but we saw that they continued to live; but spiritually, they died, and all the seed of Adam and Eve fell into death, because the wages of sin is death⁴; and they lost the rights that they had from God.</sup>

They lost the right to eternal life, and that is why Eve lived a number of years and then died, and Adam also lived about 930 years and then died too; because God had already established that the day Adam ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that day he would die.

Now, see how all this was fulfilled: Adam became mortal; before he was not as a mortal, in other words, before he was in a trial stage; and whether he would die or live forever in the body he had and in the one Eve had depended on eating or not eating.

But notice, no: Eve didn’t stand firm in the Word; and therefore then Adam, knowing the consequences, he also became responsible for Eve and with Eve, and he also lost God’s blessing; and he could only last 930 years, according to Genesis, chapter 5 and verse 5.

And from there on, all the children, all the human beings that would come to this world, would come through the union of a man and a woman; and therefore, they would come in a stage or phase of death: they would be born, they would live for a while and then they would die. And science has not yet been able to overcome this situation of the human being.

Now look, Adam lived 930 years; and Enoch lived… not Enoch who was transported, but another Enoch, he lived how long?…

Jared lived 962 years. And Enoch, who was taken up into Heaven, lived 365 years and then was caught up to Heaven⁵. He is type and figure of those who, while alive, will be transformed and taken to Heaven, to the House of our heavenly Father.

Since the year has, the year used among the gentiles, has 365 days and a quarter, look: Always, when one speaks of a day, a day has 24 hours; but when one speaks of a day before God, it has how many?, how many years? One day before God is a thousand years, says Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8, and also the prophet Moses in Psalm 90 and verse 4.

And now, also a week of days can represent a week of years, which would be seven years, as in the seventy weeks of the prophecy of the prophet Daniel; and as we also find in the feast of the year of jubilee, where there are 7 weeks of years, which added together are 49 years, and then comes the year 50, which is the year of jubilee.

Those 7 weeks of years, which are 49 years, represent the seven stages or ages through which the Church of Jesus Christ has passed and every so often God has sent a messenger. Every 7 years, the seventh year was a year of repose for the earth, in other words, of rest; it was a sabbatical year.

Now, we find that after those 49 years, where there are 7 sabbatical years…, because the seventh year of each week of years was a rest year, of repose, for the earth. After those 7 sabbatical years that are contained in those 7 weeks of years, which are 49 years…; in other words, in 49 years there were 7 sabbatical years: every 7 years the seventh year came, which was the sabbatical year. And after the 49 years came the 50th year, which was the year of jubilee.

And the year of jubilee…, just as each of those weeks and the sabbatical year of each week represent each age of the Church of Jesus Christ among the gentiles, now the 50th year represents the Year of Jubilee, that is, the Year of Jubilee is the Age of the Cornerstone.

Fifty speaks of Pentecost, and it is the divine cycle where God imparts to the human being His nature. That is why also on the Day of Pentecost, which was the 50th day, God imparted of His Spirit to 120 people who were gathered there.

And He has been doing that throughout all these years that have passed, from the Day of Pentecost until now, with all those who have believed in Christ as their Savior and have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Holy Spirit; and therefore they have received a theophanic body, a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, and thus they have received the spirit of adoption.

But they are missing, the believers of past ages as well as us, we are missing the body of adoption, because we have already received the spirit of adoption, which are the first fruits of the Spirit.

And now, on the Day of Pentecost is that the Holy Spirit was received. Therefore, from Christ until now we have also been living —in the spiritual field— in the Day of Pentecost; and about two thousand years have already passed from Christ until now, about two thousand years have passed from the Day of Pentecost until now.

Every person who is going to be adopted, to be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ, first has to go through the stage of receiving Christ as his Savior, washing his sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit, in order to have the earnest of our salvation, the earnest of adoption; as Saint Paul says in his letter to the Ephesians, in chapter 1 and verses… verses 13 to 14, he says:

“In whom ye also (in Christ) trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”

And now, in chapter 4, verse 30, Saint Paul tells us:

“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”

And just as in the laws and ordinances and divine statutes given by God through the prophet Moses to the Hebrew people, there was the year of redemption, the year of jubilee: in the Program of God for the redemption of our bodies (in other words, the transformation of our bodies to be in the image and likeness of Christ, and for the dead in Christ to resurrect in an eternal and glorified body like that of Jesus Christ), in the Program of God the updated year of jubilee will be fulfilled. In other words, that divine cycle will be fulfilled in Heaven, and that divine cycle will be fulfilled in the Church of Jesus Christ as Mystical Body of believers, which is the divine cycle relevant to the Age of the Cornerstone.

That is the divine cycle of the updated Year of Jubilee in the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Last Day, for the redemption of the body, in other words, the transformation of our bodies and resurrection of the dead in Christ into eternal bodies, to be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ, and thus be restored and have the image and likeness of God.

Well look, the image of God is Christ in His theophanic body, in other words, the theophanic spirit, the theophanic body of the sixth dimension, called the Angel of the Covenant or Angel of the Lord, which is a man of the sixth dimension who created the Heavens and the Earth, for in that body is that God has dwelt and from which He created the Heavens and the Earth. That is the visible form, in the form of a man, of God, of the sixth dimension.

That is why He appeared in that form to many prophets of the Old Testament. He appeared to Abraham as Melchizedek⁶ and also appeared to him as Elohim⁷.

And then, Jacob wrestled with a man, with an Angel, until the dawn was breaking; and the Angel said to him: “Let me go, for dawn breaking.”

And Jacob said to Him: “I will not let You go, until You bless me.”

And the Angel asked him: “What is your name?”

And Jacob said: “Jacob.”

And the Angel said to him: “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have wrestled (in other words, you have fought) with God and with men, and have prevailed.⁸”

And there is always a blessing from God for the overcomer, and there is a new name for the overcomer.

And now, Jacob then called the place where he was: “Peniel,” because he said: “I saw God face to face.”

And the Scripture says that no one has ever seen God⁹; and Jacob says that yes, he saw God; and Abraham also saw God; and Samson’s parents also say that they saw God10</sup>; and other people say that they saw God.</sup>

But God said to the prophet Moses, when Moses wanted to see God, he said¹¹: “Man shall not see me, and he shall live. I will lay my hand upon you, I will cover your face; I will lay you – in the cleft of the rock, and I will pass by and glorify the Name of the Lord. And then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back.”

Now, notice, God in His theophanic body has been seen in the Old Testament, and that is why Jesus could say: “Abraham wanted to see my day; he saw it and was glad.” They tell Him: “You are not fifty years old, and you say you have seen Abraham?” Jesus says: “Before Abraham was – before Abraham was, I am.¹²” And they almost killed Him, almost stoned Him, because He said that before Abraham was He was.

Jesus was before Abraham in His theophanic body, and then He became flesh and dwelt among the Hebrew people; but before having the body of flesh He had His theophanic body of the sixth dimension, which is a body similar to our body but of another dimension, of another world; and it is a heavenly body, a body like that of the angels.

That is why whenever God appeared in a visible form to the prophets or in the Pillar of Fire, they called Him the Angel of the Lord.

The Angel of the Lord was the one who delivered the Hebrew people. The Angel of the Lord was the one who led the Hebrew people through the wilderness. The Angel of the Lord was the one who placed the Hebrew people in the promised land. The Angel of the Lord was the one who spoke through the prophet Moses and carried out that Work of the exodus.

The Angel of the Lord was the one who worked through the prophet Joshua. The Angel of the Lord was the one who worked through the prophet Samuel, and through all the other prophets, like the prophet Elijah.

And it was the Angel of the Lord that spoke through all the prophets; and then He became flesh and dwelt among the human beings, and the veil of flesh had the name of Jesus, to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross; and through that veil of flesh, Jesus, God spoke, the Angel of the Covenant, to the Hebrew people.

Now see how Saint Paul speaks to us in his letter to the Hebrews, in chapter 1 and verse 1 to 3; it says:

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets (How does he say he has spoken? Through 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…”

And in the last days He has spoken through whom? Through His Son, through Jesus Christ. But two thousand years have already passed from Jesus Christ until now, and Saint Paul is saying that those were the last days, in which God was speaking through Jesus Christ.

And why were those last days? Because “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” And the last days before the Lord are the last millenniums for the human beings; and the last millenniums for the human beings began when Jesus was 4 to 7 years old; and therefore God was in Jesus Christ speaking to the Hebrew people in the last days, and was then dying on Calvary’s Cross in the last days.

Now, see how Saint Peter also says, about the death of Jesus Christ on Calvary’s Cross, he says, speaking to us of the way in which we have been called and we have been redeemed: First Peter, chapter 1, verse 19 and on, he says:

“But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you…”

Notice, it was predestined, destined since before the foundation of the world; it was destined since before the creation of the universe. All of that was already destined in God’s mind, in the Program of God, but manifested in the last days; because in the last days was that Jesus appeared in His ministry and died on Calvary’s Cross, in the first of the last days, in the first of the last three millenniums. In other words, He appeared in the fifth millennium, and in the first third of the fifth millennium He had His ministry and carried out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.

Now, we have seen what the last days are.

And for the Last Day, Christ has said about the believers in Him who have departed, He says: “…and I will raise him up at the last day.”

The resurrection of the dead in Christ will be for the Last Day, according to how Christ has said in John, chapter 6, verses 39 to 40; and let’s see here how He said it. Chapter 6, verse 39 to 40, of John, it 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.

And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Twice here we have heard the words of Jesus: “…and I will raise him up at the last day”</em>; and the Last Day is the last millennium, the seventh millennium, from the seven millenniums from Adam until now. And from Christ until now, two thousand years have passed, which are two millenniums, if we add to the calendar the years it is behind; if not (and if we leave the calendar as it is), then there is only 1 year and 10 months, and some 15 to 17 days, to reach the third millennium.

Humanity, peoples, governments, nations, are preparing for the third millennium, they have proclaimed. And the third millennium is the third of the last days, and therefore it is the last of the last days; it is the Last Day before God, which is the last millennium for human beings.

For that last millennium is that Christ has promised to carry out the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive; and that is the adoption of the sons and daughters of God.

We have come to this planet Earth to go through the trial stage, for, at the end, at the end of the century (in other words, at the end of time, at the end of the last days, at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium), the last elect of God to be called and to be prepared to be changed and be taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

And to be transformed, that is the adoption of the sons and daughters of God; and we will be like Jesus Christ: with an eternal and glorified physical body, and with an eternal spirit of the sixth dimension; and thus we will be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ, and thus we will be restored as sons and daughters of God in the image and likeness of God.

Now see that it is a simple Program, but it is a Program which is being carried out by Christ from stage to stage, until reaching this end time, where the elect of the Last Day are called and gathered together.

And just as there was a call in each territory to fulfill each age and to gather the elect of each age, for this end time the call of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom has appeared, where? Well, in Latin America and the Caribbean.

And that is why we are gathered here on this occasion: hearing the Voice of Christ for this end time, for the Last Day; hearing the Message of Jesus Christ for the Last Day, for the seventh dispensation and seventh millennium, with which the Earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea, as the prophet Habakkuk, chapter 2, verse 14, and Isaiah, chapter 11, verse 9 says.

Now, we have been given —in this end time— to be the most privileged people living on this planet Earth, to hear the Voice of Christ, that Great Voice of Trumpet, the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ, in order to be called, gathered and prepared to be transformed in this end time.

Now, we don’t know what year of the Last Day, we don’t know what year of the seventh millennium the dead in Christ will be resurrected and we who are alive will be transformed, we don’t know what year; but the important thing is to have been called, gathered, and to be listening to the Voice of Christ, and to be serving Christ with divine love, and to be living according to the will of God: with fear and trembling, and to be working in the Work of Christ of this Last Day; and to be able to say as Jesus Christ said in Luke: “It is good for me to be in my Father’s business.”

And it is good for us to be in the business of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. In the business of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ it is convenient for us to be, as it was convenient for Jesus to be in the business of His heavenly Father. Luke, chapter 2, verse 49.

And now we are in the businesses of Jesus Christ our Savior, relevant to this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone; because the businesses of Christ of past ages were already carried out by Christ through the messengers and the group of elect of past ages; and now it is our turn in Latin America and the Caribbean, to —after our work is finished— be adopted in this end time.

After our work is finished and the last of the elect has been called, and has been gathered together in the Mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone, then the Mystical Body of Christ will be complete; and Christ will have made intercession for the very last of His elect, and then He will come out from the Throne of Intercession; and then it is that the dead in Christ will resurrect in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be transformed.

And that resurrection of the dead in Christ in eternal bodies, and that transformation of us who are alive to have an eternal, glorified and immortal body, is the adoption of the sons and daughters of God. And that is why we are living in this end time, in Latin America and the Caribbean; although some have also gone to live to other continents or other nations, seeking better working and study conditions and a better economic life, but even they get the Message, if their names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Now, we have seen this MYSTERY OF ADOPTION and we have seen why the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, of the Great Voice of Trumpet, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work, has emerged where? Well, in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is because God will adopt His children in this end time, in the Last Day, in the seventh millennium.

It has been a great privilege to be with you giving you this greeting.

So I’m going to leave you so that you can get ready for tonight’s activity, to have lunch, and thus be ready for tonight’s activity. I will also be getting ready for tonight’s activity, so that I can be with you speaking under the subject “DOING THE WILL OF THE FATHER.”

In order to be adopted, one must be doing the Father’s will. Adam didn’t do the Father’s will and was not adopted. Jesus did the Father’s will and was adopted. And so we are doing the will of our heavenly Father to be adopted at this Last Day, that is, in the seventh millennium.

Well, that is the subject for tonight; I gave you that appetizer, but we will leave it all for tonight.

May God bless you, may God keep you, and until tonight; in other words, you will already begin the devotional at 6:30, and then at 7:00 you will have the radio and television broadcast.

May God bless you, keep you and use you greatly in His Work, and may you also be prepared, and be ready to be adopted in this Last Day.

“God, great is Your love.” Great is His love for us.

Notice how God has us in His mind; He had us in His mind. And although perhaps some people thought that all the blessings had been given in other nations, God had the greatest blessing to give to the Latin American and Caribbean people; and that is what is happening in this Last Day.

“Great is Your love, oh God.” And that is eternal (what?) love, and with eternal love is that He loves us. Eternal love, that is the divine love, that is the agapao love, the love of God, eternal love.

And now, knowing that His love is so great for us, now we say: “And now I follow Christ, and I follow Him with love from the depths of my heart.” That is how we follow Christ: with that divine and eternal love manifested in our souls, in our hearts.

And now, how do we follow Christ? With divine love in our souls, and with and through and with faith. “With faith in Christ,” knowing that what He has promised He is fulfilling in our lives, and will continue to fulfill it, and will transform us in this end time, in the Last Day, in other words, in the seventh millennium.

In what year? Let’s wait for the resurrection to take place and we are transformed, and then let’s look at the calendar, and we will say to each other: “Look at the year in which He would transform us.” And how can we show ourselves the year? Because we will say: “Look at the year here, and look at the body already transformed.”

“GREETING: THE MYSTERY OF ADOPTION.”