Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present here in San Lucas, Guatemala. It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share a few moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
For which I would like to read in the book of Exodus, chapter 33, beginning on verse 7 and on, where it says:
“And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
And he said (God), I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our topic for this occasion is: “MY PRESENCE SHALL GO WITH THEE.”
The Hebrew people, according to the flesh, are the descendants of Abraham; and the Hebrew people represent – are type and figure of the Temple that is in Heaven, they are also type and figure of humanity as a whole and they are type and figure of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they are type and figure of every human being as an individual.
In the Hebrew people God has reflected, notice, the Temple that is in Heaven, He has reflected the entire humanity, and has reflected the Church of Jesus Christ, and has reflected each person as an individual.
Everything that we can see that has happened to the Hebrew people throughout their history, we also find that it was reflected in Jacob. Everything that the Hebrew people would go through was reflected in Jacob; it also had been reflected in Abraham.
Now, see how… Let’s see in Genesis how God accompanied Abraham, and how He accompanied Isaac, and how He also accompanied Jacob. We find in Genesis something very important in relation to the Hebrew people. See, Genesis 48, verse 15, when Jacob is blessing his grandchildren, Joseph’s sons, it says… Beginning on verse 13 onwards, it says, of Genesis, chapter 48:
“And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, (to the left of Jacob, that is, of Israel) and Manasseh in his left hand (that is, to Joseph’s left) toward Israel’s right hand…”
Because Joseph stood before his father Jacob, and he had his two sons: Joseph had his youngest son, Ephraim, he had him at his right hand, and he had Manasseh at his left hand, so that when he stood before his father, and placed them before his father…; for Joseph stood before Jacob (that is, Israel); and Manasseh, who was at Joseph’s left hand, stood then before Jacob’s right hand; and Ephraim, who was at Joseph’s right hand, stood at Jacob’s left hand; that is, because Jacob and Joseph were facing each other, face to face.
“And Israel (that is, Jacob) stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, (in other words, placed his hands like this</em>; he crossed them and placed it upon Ephraim)…”
And now you see how Ephraim was on Joseph’s right hand; and now he is on Jacob’s right hand, when Jacob stretches out his right hand over Ephraim; from Joseph’s right hand to Jacob’s right hand. And the great blessing was spoken over Ephraim.
“And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
And he blessed Joseph…”
See, he lays his hands upon Joseph’s sons to bless Joseph.
“And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day…”
Now see:
“God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk…”
They walked in the presence of God, the presence of God was with them always, accompanying them; and now the presence of God was also accompanying Jacob; and therefore, what would happen with the Hebrew people was already reflected in Abraham, in Isaac and in Jacob. God’s presence was with them, therefore, it would be with the Hebrew people.
And now, see how in Abraham was the Hebrew people, the earthly Israel, and also the heavenly Israel. And if the presence of God was accompanying Abraham (the father of faith) and Isaac and Jacob, it would also accompany the earthly Israel, the descendants of the earthly Abraham, and it would also accompany the heavenly descendants of Abraham, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, the blessing that Jacob casted upon his grandchildren, and blessing his grandchildren, is blessing Joseph. And he says:
“The Angel which redeemed me…”
See, it says:
“…the God which fed me all my life long unto this day…”
For He provided for him, cared for him and accompanied him all the days of his life, because the presence of God was with Jacob.
“The Angel which redeemed me from all evil (see, He delivered him from all evil that could come against Jacob), bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand (in other words, he grabbed it), to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.
And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great (a people, would become what? A people of Manasseh): but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.”
And when he speaks “multitude of nations,” that shows us that from Ephraim would come, not only descendants for the Hebrew people, but for multitude of nations.
In other words, from among all the sons of Jacob: from among all the sons of Jacob, the blessing that God had spoken to Abraham in Genesis…, chapter 12, verse 1 and on, it says:
“Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
And now we turn to another Scripture: in Genesis, chapter 13, verse 14 and on, it says:
“And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.”
Then we turn to chapter 15, verse 1 and on. It says:
“After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.”
And God continues showing him all that God would give him, and that day, God made a Covenant with Abraham, that He would give him that land.
And now, He also told him that his descendants would be slaves in a foreign land (that is, in Egypt, but He didn’t tell him it was Egypt). Isaac had not been born yet, not even Ishmael had been born, let alone Isaac, and God was already speaking to him about his descendants and the stages through which his descendants would go through; but then God would free them from that bondage, and would take them to that promised land, and would give them there a very great blessing.
But now, let’s see, Abraham, already in chapter 17 of Genesis, when he was already… He was already how old? He was 99 years old, and the son was not yet born. Chapter 17 of Genesis says:
“And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee.”
There we have the promise that God will make nations of Abraham.
But you see, anyone could say: “Abraham has to come back and start having many children and many nations.” But look, what Abraham needed to have was a son, the promised son, through whom the fulfillment of that promise would come; although Abraham would also have other sons, through whom nations would also come.
Now it says:
“And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
And now, see how we have the promise that Abraham would be father of a multitude of people, of many nations, He would make nations from him, from Abraham.
And now let’s see where He speaks to us here… In chapter 17 also, verse 15 and on, it says:
“And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations…”
In other words, through that son that would be born is how Abraham would become father of nations and Sarah, mother of nations.
“…kings of people shall be of her.
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.”
Now God is already telling him that the son would be on the Earth by the next year.
That is why, you see, Abraham was already, before God said this to him here… It says: “Abraham was ninety-nine years old,” and now says: “A man of one hundred years old…?” He says, let’s see:
“Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old?”
See? Because he was 99 years old, and he is already seeing that at the age of 100 he was going to receive a son through Sarah his wife:
“Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old?”
And at 100 years of age the promised son came, and Sarah with 90 years of age.
Now, how many women would like to be 90 years old, but still be able to have children? Well, Sarah was 90 years old, but she was already rejuvenated.
And now, you see, after that, Sarah lasted a number of years more, and then she had to leave; and Abraham lasted 175 years, in other words, he lasted 75 years in addition to the 100 years he already had. Look, Sarah lasted 127 years: chapter 23 of Genesis says:
“And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.”
Every woman would like to live 127 years at least, but in the health that Sarah was in.
And now, Sarah, when she was 100 years old, her son was how old? 10 years old. A 10-year-old son had a 100-year-old mother; but she was rejuvenated, therefore, it didn’t make much difference that she was a little old lady with a 10-year-old son.
And now, Abraham, you see, Abraham lived… After Sarah died, well, he had another companion, another wife, and had six more children, but at 175 he departed. Genesis, chapter 25, verse 7, says:
“And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people (he went to Paradise).”
Now, you see, God accompanied Abraham all the days of his life. And under the Covenant that God established with Abraham, God accompanied Abraham always; and God told him: “Whoever blesses you, will be blessed; whoever curses you, will be cursed.” And that blessing was also passed on to Isaac, and then to Jacob.
That is why that blessing then passed onto the Hebrew people, the earthly Israel; and then that blessing has passed for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the heavenly Israel. Therefore, the Hebrew people and the Church of Jesus Christ have that blessing from God: whoever blesses them will be blessed, and whoever curses them will be cursed.
In Matthew 25, we find there that this is a reality; and that is why in this same chapter 25, verse 31 onwards, it says:
“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
You see, these people who have helped the members of the Church of Jesus Christ have their reward; for “whosoever shall give a cup of cold water to these, to one of these little ones…,”1 that is, to one of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ, to one of the brethren of Jesus Christ; because He is our elder brother: “And I will declare Thy Name unto my brethren,” it says in Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 12, and also in the Psalms.2 So these younger brethren of Jesus Christ are the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Then the people who have done favors to the Church of Jesus Christ, to the members of the Church of Jesus Christ, will marvel, because they don’t know that there is a blessing from God since that blessing was spoken to Abraham. Although that blessing has also been before then, with the prophets before Abraham, but now that blessing in Abraham stands out more. He says: “He that blesseth thee, shall be blessed.”
And now, a person who helps or does some favor to God’s elect, is bringing a blessing to an elect. That is why when an elect has needed something and has cried out to God, and God has sent some person, has touched some person, and the person comes and helps that elect of God, and what he needed is provided, the elect says: “God sent me this blessing through so-and-so.”
And now, since that person has brought a blessing for an elect or for the Mystical Body of Christ as a group: he is blessing an elect, or he is blessing the Church of Jesus Christ as a group; therefore, that person will also receive his blessing. And also when they speak well of the elect: they are blessing God’s elect; and when they ask God to bless them: they are asking for a blessing for the elect; therefore, they will also receive a blessing.
But anyone who rises up against God’s elect, against the Church of Jesus Christ as a group, or against an elect as an individual, and begins to speak badly or to attack him in certain ways, or physically too: that person is asking for trouble before God, because God is with His Church and with each son and daughter of God as an individual; therefore, that person is rising up against God Himself.
That is why the children of God must always be careful, because with an action against a child of God, the person who does it is affected; and an action in favor of the children of God or a child of God, the person or persons benefit. And that is why God’s elect have to walk correctly and not seek or make trouble, but rather be a blessing wherever they go, so that other people may receive blessings as well.
We want everyone to be blessed by God. And with the presence of the members of the Mystical Body of Christ on this planet Earth, there is the blessing of God; because the presence of God is in His Church, the heavenly Israel, just as it was with the Hebrew people through the wilderness when Moses led them to the promised land; and then, when they entered the promised land with Joshua, the presence of God was also in the midst of the Hebrew people.
And now, we find that throughout time the Hebrew people have had problems, but God has been watching over the Hebrew people, because God loves the Hebrew people, and the Hebrew people are the earthly descendants of Abraham according to the flesh.
Now, the presence of God was in the days of Moses: God spoke with Moses face to face; and Moses, when he entered the temple, see what was happening there in the temple, for God told the prophet Moses in chapter 25, verse… Let’s read from 21 and on, for (you can read the rest later)… 21 to 22, of chapter 25 of Exodus, says:
“And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.”
Now you see, in the temple, God was present there, in the most holy place, on the mercy seat; and Moses entered the temple, entered the most holy place, and from there God spoke to Moses all the things that Moses had to speak to the people.
Now look, how was the presence of God in the midst of the Hebrew people, and where was it? In the temple, in the most holy place of the temple that Moses had built.
And now, the ark of the covenant went in the midst of the Hebrew people and there the presence of God went, in the midst of the Hebrew people; and the presence of God covered all the Hebrew people, and the blessing of God covered the Hebrew people. And see how the Jordan was opened in the presence of God.3
And so on, you can see that the presence of God was in the midst of the Hebrew people, and we can see that it was in the most holy place of the temple that Moses built or the tabernacle that Moses built. Then, when they entered the promised land, the presence of God was there, and He was upon the mercy seat; but He covered all of the territory of Israel from there.
And then, when Solomon built the temple, we find that he dedicated it to God4</sup>; and the presence of God entered the temple, was manifested in the temple and was there in the temple, in the most holy place, over the ark of the covenant, upon the mercy seat; the ark of the covenant was placed inside the most holy place, and the presence of God was there.5
Now, notice how the Hebrew people have had such a great blessing from God. Everything that would happen with the Hebrew people was already reflected in Abraham, in Isaac and in Jacob.
And now we can see why Jacob’s life was difficult: All that, you see, was reflecting the life of the Hebrew people, the descendants of Jacob, which are the same descendants of Isaac and the same descendants of Abraham. It was along that line that the descendants of Abraham came.
Now, I told you that Israel represents the Temple that is in Heaven, it also represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and also represents the temple or tabernacle, because in that temple or tabernacle that Moses built and the one that Solomon built, the Hebrew people are represented.
Now, Israel also represents all of humanity; for in the temple that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built, all of humanity is represented, including the Hebrew people.
And now, let’s see how —humanity represented in the Hebrew people— we have the Outer Court, which covers all the gentiles; we have the Holy Place, which pertains to the territory of Israel; and we have the Most Holy Place, which is Jerusalem. Do you see how the Hebrew people represent all of humanity?
And now, let’s see… Let’s say it again (there is something here…), since… Something needs to be corrected here, let’s see…
The Hebrew people as a nation, represents all of humanity. The Outer Court… The territory of Israel represents humanity, which is in three parts: The gentiles, and that is Israel, that… the Outer Court, in other words, the territory of Israel; then Jerusalem, the Holy Place; and then the temple, the Most Holy Place. And there we have, in the Divine Program, the three parts of the temple: Most Holy Place in the territory of Israel, that is the temple; Holy Place, that is Jerusalem; and the Outer Court, that is the territory of Israel, that is, all the other places besides the temple and Jerusalem.
And now, let us look at humanity as a Temple: we have, from Adam to Jesus, the Outer Court; we have, from Jesus to the Angel of Jesus, the Holy Place; and we have, from the Angel of Jesus onward, the Most Holy Place.
And in the Church of Jesus Christ, you see, which is the spiritual Temple of Christ: The Outer Court is from Adam to Jesus, and the Holy Place is from Jesus to the Angel of Jesus, and from the Angel of Jesus onwards the Most Holy Place.
And now, everyone who doesn’t belong to the Most Holy Place, is then in the Holy Place; and everyone who doesn’t belong to the Holy Place, is then in the Outer Court, where many people in the end time will have a place. If they have no place in the Holy Place, as part of the gentile Church ages and the time of the apostles back then, which pertains to the Dispensation of Grace, then they will have a place in the Outer Court; because look what it says here. In the book of Revelation, chapter 7, verse 9 and on, it says:
“After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them (He will extend His Tabernacle upon them).
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
These people are the ones who are pointed out as the foolish or fatuous virgins, who didn’t take oil in their lamps, and therefore couldn’t be transformed; and, consequently, couldn’t go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
See, the foolish virgins, when the announcement of the coming of the Bridegroom came: “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!,”6 they all awoke, but some had oil and others didn’t have oil. And those who had oil were the ones who had the Holy Spirit: They had believed in Christ as their Savior, they had washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and they had received the Spirit of Christ, which is the oil that the wise virgins had in their lamps, that is, in themselves, in their bodies, within their being.
And now, the time of the coming of the Son of Man is at hand; and the foolish went to buy oil, to seek the Holy Spirit; but the wise had It. And the Bridegroom came; and who entered in with Him? Matthew 25, verse 10 to 13, says:
“And while they (the foolish) went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”
The Son of Man coming with His Angels, you see, is the Bridegroom; “and they that were ready went in with Him to the Marriage; and the Door was shut.”
With the Coming of the Son of Man, and the virgins who had oil in their lamps (the wise virgins) entering with Him to the Marriage, the Door is closed; and the Dispensation of Grace is closed at a certain moment; to such a degree that when the other virgins return, the Door is already closed; that is why they will have to go through the great tribulation. That is why it says:
“But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.”
We can see there that those foolish virgins are placed in the great tribulation, because they can’t be transformed; and they can’t go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, because they didn’t enter the Marriage of the Lamb.
It is those who are in the Marriage who then go on to the Supper, which is the reception, the Marriage feast (that is, the reception feast); and that feast will be in Heaven, in the House of our heavenly Father, where we will be clothed with the new body, the transformed, glorified and eternal body that He will give us.
In Revelation, chapter 15, verses 1 and on, it says:
“And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.”
They recognize Him as King of the saints, although when they come to enter the Marriage, it is too late; but see, they are placed in this place. It says:
“And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.”
In the temple that Solomon built and the temple that Moses built, where was the bronze sea? It was in the outer court. And the foolish virgins are placed there: they are placed in the Outer Court; in other words, they find a place in the House of God, but not in the Holy Place or in the Most Holy Place, but in the Outer Court of the House of God; where God extends His Tabernacle and gives place to that group that will go through the great tribulation, but that will give their lives for Christ.
Although they were not able to be transformed and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, they will remain here on Earth passing through the great tribulation, they will be persecuted. The beast, the antichrist, the man of sin, with those nations and kings that will give him their power and authority, and the armies of those nations, will persecute the foolish virgins and will also persecute the Hebrew people. And they will be martyrs during the great tribulation, both the foolish virgins and the 144,000 Hebrews. But the 144,000 Hebrews, at the end of the great tribulation will be resurrected to live in the Millennial Kingdom, and serve Christ and His Church during that time; they are the eunuchs of the Temple: They will serve the King and Queen during the Millennial Kingdom.
Those are the ones that are called and gathered in this end time by the Angel that comes with the Seal of the living God, in other words, that comes with the Holy Spirit in the Last Day, because the Seal of the living God is the Holy Spirit. It is through that manifestation of the Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger that the presence of God will return to the Hebrew people.
That is why in Ezekiel, chapter 37, the Hebrew people —represented in that field full of dry bones— will be restored, because those dry bones are resurrected and that army, that nation is formed again; and then the last thing missing is to have spirit, because “the body without the spirit is dead”7</sup>; and God tells the prophet Ezekiel to call the Spirit of God. And now see how he has to call It; God said [verse 14]:
“And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live (that is, the body, if it doesn’t have spirit it is dead; life is given by the spirit), and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.”
And now, see how the prophet had to prophesy. In chapter 37, verse 3 and on, when he is shown this field of bones, then God says to him:
“And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.”
Now, for the end time, what the Hebrew people will be missing will be the Spirit of God returning to the Hebrew people; because the Spirit of God, since the time when the Gospel passed to the gentiles, the Spirit of God has been in the gentiles, the presence of God has been among the gentiles with the heavenly Israel, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the presence of God has been in and with the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ from age to age; and has been guiding His Church from stage to stage, leading her to the promised land of the new body and to the promised land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom, where we will be with Christ reigning as kings and priests.
And now, we have seen that as the presence of God was with the Hebrew people in that trajectory from Egypt to the promised land; now the presence of God, of the Angel of the Lord, of the Angel of the Covenant, which is Jesus Christ, has been in the heavenly Israel, in His Church, from stage to stage, leading His Church to the promised land of the new body (that is, the glorified and eternal body) and towards the promised land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
This is what He has been carrying out from age to age, manifesting His presence from age to age. The Angel of the Covenant, which is the Angel of the Lord, has been manifested from age to age in the messenger of each age, in the midst of His Church; the presence of God has been there, the presence of the Lord: in the midst of the heavenly Israel.
And in this end time we enter the Age of the Cornerstone with the presence of God, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of His Church in Holy Spirit in the Age of the Cornerstone; because the Angel of the Lord is the same Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit.
And now see where is the presence of the Angel of the Lord, of Jesus Christ, in the Last Day: in His Church; to be face to face there, before the Angel of the Lord, receiving His Voice, His Word, and thus receiving all the knowledge of all these things that must come to pass in this end time. And during the Millennial Kingdom we will be with Him here on Earth, all with eternal bodies, reigning with Christ and seeing Him face to face also.
Now, in chapter 13 of First Corinthians, verse 12, it says:
“For now we see through a glass, darkly (in darkness)<em>; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
That is for the Age of the Cornerstone, where the Angel of the Covenant, which we have seen throughout the history of the Church of Jesus Christ manifested in His angel messengers, now we will see Him in the Age of the Cornerstone manifested in His Angel Messenger, speaking to us these things that must shortly come to pass, in this end time. We will be seeing Him face to face in His manifestation in human flesh, because no one has ever seen God.8
But the people who have given testimony in the Bible that they have seen God face to face, have seen Him manifested in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension. And then, when the Word became flesh and dwelt among human beings,9 4 in that veil of flesh called Jesus, those who lived in those days saw God face to face in His manifestation in human flesh.
And for the Last Day, all the elect who will be living in the end time and will receive the Voice of Christ, the Message of Jesus Christ, the Word of Christ for this end time through the manifestation of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger: they will be seeing Jesus Christ face to face manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
In other words, what they will be seeing will be the veil of flesh where Christ will be manifested; but that veil of flesh, the Angel of Jesus Christ, is not the Lord Jesus Christ. He is only the instrument of Christ for that manifestation of Jesus Christ of the Last Day, where we will be seeing the manifestation of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, face to face in this end time; in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, which is fulfilled in the midst of His Church in Latin America and the Caribbean.
And that manifestation of Christ in the midst of His Church in the Last Day, through His Angel Messenger, is the manifestation of the Son of Man with His Angels, manifesting the ministries of Moses for the second time, of Elijah for the fifth time and of Jesus for the second time. Just as in the most holy place, upon the mercy seat, were the two golden cherubim, which represent the ministries of Moses and Elijah in the Church of Jesus Christ, and in the Temple which is in Heaven they represent the ministries of Gabriel and Michael, the Archangels who are in Heaven, in the Temple of God.
And now, in the Church of Jesus Christ God’s elect would be seeing the manifestation of God in the Last Day face to face: through the Angel of Jesus Christ sent to testify of all these things that must happen soon, in this end time. And that is where we will be seeing the presence of the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church, because the presence of Christ has been in the midst of His Church from age to age.
He has never left His Church, but has remained in the midst of His Church; and when one age has ended, He has opened a new age by sending a new messenger.
And by Him leading His Church to the promised land of the new body and the promised land of the Millennial Kingdom, He will take us to the promised land of the new body; just as He has placed us in the promised land of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is the promised land of the second exodus; as the promised land of the first exodus was the land of Israel. And the promised land of the third exodus is the new body that He will give us, and the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
The promised land as a body is (as a land, as a body) is the new body that He will give us, a glorified body; and the new land and new kingdom is the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
Now, we have seen how God’s presence is required in the midst of His people to reach the promised land. Moses said: “If You go not with me, don’t take us out of this place.”
And now see how the Hebrew people traveled from place to place. And now see how the heavenly Israel has been traveling from age to age, and the Church of Jesus Christ has been traveling from place to place.
The first age was fulfilled in Asia Minor, there we have a place; and then, in the trajectory of the Church of Jesus Christ, we pass to the second age, and it was fulfilled in France. Just as the Hebrew people were led from place to place, from territory to territory, and the presence of God was with and in the midst of Israel and with prophet Moses.
And now we have seen how God has been moving His Church from stage to stage, and from age to age, and from territory to territory; and how He has been manifesting Himself through His messengers, accompanying His Church from age to age, and guiding His Church from age to age through the different territories where each stage of the Church of Jesus Christ would be fulfilled.
And now, notice, He accompanied His Church in the age that was fulfilled in Asia Minor, He accompanied Her in the age that was fulfilled in France, He accompanied Her in the age that was fulfilled in Hungary, He accompanied Her in the age that was fulfilled in Scotland and Ireland, He accompanied Her in the age that was fulfilled in Germany, He accompanied Her in the age that was fulfilled in England, He accompanied Her in the age that was fulfilled in North America; and now He is accompanying His Church in the age that is being fulfilled in Latin America and the Caribbean: the Age of the Cornerstone, the most important age of the spiritual Temple of Christ, because it is the age that pertains to the Most Holy Place.
And now, all that was represented in Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, see how it was fulfilled in the Hebrew people and how it is also being fulfilled in the heavenly Israel, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We have reached the most glorious time, wherein we see the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, in the midst of His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Latin American and Caribbean territory; and we can see face to face, His presence manifested in the midst of His Church through His Angel Messenger, sent to testify of all these things in the churches.
Now, His Angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only the prophet messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; that is why he comes with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom testifying of all these things that must happen in this end time.
The presence of God, of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, is in His Church and with His Church in this Last Day, and with His Angel Messenger of the Last Day; and He will take us to the promised land of the eternal body and to the promised land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom. We will be transformed when the dead in Christ are resurrected, and then together we will all go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, in the House of our heavenly Father; to enjoy those three and a half years of heavenly feast, where He will distribute the rewards to each of His children of the heavenly Israel; and He will give us the position that we will occupy later in His Kingdom there.
Do you remember graduations? Some graduate… In a university that is celebrating a graduation, some graduate as lawyers, others graduate as doctors, others graduate from this or that, but everyone graduates from a university.
And those graduations…, the graduations of the doctors are held, I don’t know if they are held on the same day or on another day. There are colleges that may do the graduation of all at the same time, or they may separate the graduation of the doctors on one day, the graduation of the lawyers on another day, the graduation of the engineers on another day; but, remember, it is graduation time during a certain time. And that is where they obtain their degree, because they have passed all the studies that were required to obtain their position which they would hold as professionals on Earth.
And now, in the position of kings, we have a graduation, which will be at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. We will have that great graduation there, wherein God will be rewarding each one according to his work, according to how he has worked in the Kingdom of God; both spiritually and physically, as he has worked spiritually and physically in the Kingdom of God.
Now, we have seen how Christ has been guiding His people, His Church, from age to age; and we have seen the presence of God in the midst of heavenly Israel.
And now, when Israel entered the promised land, you see, they entered because God entered, and God brought them into the promised land.
We have seen, in the temple of Moses and the temple built by Solomon, that the most holy place is the most important part of that temple. And today, the Church of Jesus Christ is in the Most Holy Place, because the Church is the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.
And now, the high priest entered the most holy place of the temple once a year, which represented the entrance of Christ into the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Temple, in which He has been since He ascended Heaven: He has been making intercession there with His precious Blood, He has been there as High Priest making intercession. But in Holy Spirit He has been in His Church from age to age manifested; and He is the High Priest, therefore, we have had…
Just as the high priest ministered in the outer court and ministered in the holy place and then ministered in the most holy place as well; Christ, the High Priest Melchizedek of the Temple which is in Heaven, has ministered in the Outer Court, in the Holy Place and in the Most Holy Place, from Genesis until He entered Heaven.
And now, in His Church, which is also a Temple, Jesus Christ has been ministering as High Priest: He has ministered in the Outer Court, from Adam to Jesus; He has ministered in the Holy Place, from the Day of Pentecost until this end time; and He would minister in the Most Holy Place, which is the most important part, where He ministers in the midst of His Church, and that is for this Last Day in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And the Work that He does here, in the Age of the Cornerstone, is the one that will take us to the transformation of our bodies and the resurrection of the dead in Christ. And while Christ is still High Priest in Heaven, here He reflects, in the Age of the Cornerstone, all that He is doing in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God.
And the high priest on his garments had…, one of the things he had on his garments was a mitre or golden plate on his forehead, placed on the turban or that cap or… (What do they call it? Is it “mitre,” Miguel?) The mitre is the turban; and the headband is the gold plate, which is placed there on the forehead, tied with some special threads. And he would enter the temple, and you know what it said there? “Holiness to the Lord.” The Name of God written there: YHW.
Now look how the Eternal Name of God was written upon the forehead of the high priest, who entered into the most holy place; who ministered in the place of the outer court, holy place and most holy place as well. See how God wrote on a man His Name, in that simple way; because Christ, you see, for the Last Day would write His Name upon the Overcomer.
And now, when we hear about the Name being written, we turn to Revelation, chapter 22, verse 4, and it says:
“And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.”
Do you see where the Name is written? On the forehead.
Also in Revelation, chapter 14, verse 1, it says:
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.”
And now, although the Name of God has been all this time in His Church, because there has been the Angel of the Covenant, which is the one that has the Eternal Name of God, the Angel of the Lord; now, it is in the Age of the Head, which is the Age of the Mind, on the Forehead is that the Eternal Name of God is placed, is written, which is the New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Angel of the Covenant being in the most holy place, well, He had the Name there. Where the Angel of the Covenant is, the Name is there.
But now, being written on a golden plate and placed on the forehead of Aaron, the high priest, and then on Aaron’s successors; now it shows us that Christ in the Last Day will come to His Church and will be in His Church; which has been from age to age —the High Priest— ministering in its different stages, and now He appears in the Most Holy Place; and there the High Priest Jesus Christ will be with that Eternal Name, the Eternal Name of God and New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ; and in His manifestation that name will be written: the New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Eternal Name of God. And that is for the stage of the Most Holy Place, where the Eternal Name of God and New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be revealed and will be seen by those who will be there.
We have seen that it was on the high priest, on the forehead of the high priest, and we also find that it was in the most holy place, upon the mercy seat, because the Angel of the Covenant was there.
Now we can see the invisible part: The Angel of the Covenant who was there; and we can see the visible part: the high priest with the Name written on his forehead.
And now, Christ says in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 12: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and will write upon him the Name of my God, and the Name of the City of my God, which is the New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of Heaven from my God, and my New Name.” There we can see that promise to be fulfilled in the Last Day, in the Work of Christ ministering as High Priest in the Most Holy Place.
We have seen the presence of God in the midst of Israel, accompanying the prophet sent by God, Moses; type and figure of the manifestation of the presence of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, in the heavenly Israel, accompanying the messenger that He would have in each age and manifesting Himself through the messenger of each age.
And then, in the Last Day, the presence of Christ in Holy Spirit, the presence of the Holy Spirit, the presence of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, in the Age of the Cornerstone: accompanying the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect of the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Latin American and Caribbean territory.
And if anyone has departed to another nation, the blessing of the presence of God pertaining to this end time will reach them there. And we will all reach the promised land of the new body and also the promised land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
We will continue tomorrow under the subject: “THE VEIL CHRIST HAS REMOVED FROM US.” We will see all that part of the descendants of Ephraim there, which is the one that has the promise of the blessing of forming a multitude of nations; a promise that is fulfilled through Christ in the Work that He has been doing and continues to do in this end time, with and in the midst of gentile nations.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, who is in our midst in this end time, be upon all of you and upon me also; and may we all soon be transformed and taken to the House of our heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
I leave here again the Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin to continue and finish our part tonight, thus giving thanks to our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Let’s see if Miguel gets here… (What time do we have, Miguel, around here? Only 8:00?) All that we have heard, and it is still not even 10:00 at night! 8:00 at night, we have finished early. This is the time to start in some places in Mexico, right? And in Chile sometimes we start at 8:00 or 8:30, more or less; and we are finishing very early here.
That is our desire in our trajectory, in which we are passing through this Earth; but we are on our way to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, to the House of our heavenly Father; and to get there, we need to be like Christ our Savior: we need to have the eternal and glorified body, the same as the body of Jesus Christ.
That is why our desire is to be like Christ, to reach the heavenly City, the New Jerusalem; to reach Heaven, the heavenly Jerusalem, and thus enjoy that great feast.
“I follow Jesus Christ,” and we will go with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. “I follow Jesus Christ,” because His presence is with us in this end time in the midst of His people.
Let us speak of Christ to all people, and let us make known what He has promised to us, and that He is already preparing to take us to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Always speaking, in our trajectory through this Earth, always speaking of Christ and His presence in the midst of His Church in this end time, as it has been in past times; and making known the great blessing that He is giving us in this end time to soon go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
May God continue to bless you all, may God keep you; and I leave with us Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin again, to continue and finish our part on this occasion.
Tomorrow we will be with the subject: “THE VEIL CHRIST HAS REMOVED FROM US.” Pray much, so that tomorrow God will give us all that He desires us to hear, and thus open our understanding, and see face to face.
Remember that it is behind the veil that one sees face to face; therefore, one must pass to the other side of the veil, the veil must be removed in order to see face to face.
Well, we are going to leave Miguel, otherwise we would have tomorrow’s subject, and it would be better to leave it be for tomorrow.
May God bless you, and may you all continue to have an evening filled with the blessings of Jesus Christ our Savior. God bless you.
“MY PRESENCE SHALL GO WITH THEE.”
1 Matthew 10:42; Mark 9:41
2 Psalm 22:22
3 Joshua 3:14-17
4 First Kings 8:12-66, Second Chronicles 6:1-42
5 First Kings 8:1-11, Second Chronicles 5:2-14
6 Matthew 25:6
7 James 2:26
8 John 1:18; First John 4:12
9 John 1:1