Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present here in Santa Martha, Federal District (that is, Mexico City, Federal District). It is a great privilege for me to be with you here in the Mexican Republic, to share with you a few moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time; and also to be with you, friends and brethren, through the internet and different ways in which you may be listening on this occasion.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me also; and may He open the Scriptures to us, and teach us His Word, and bless us with His Word on this occasion; and may He also fully open our soul, our heart, to receive and understand His Word. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
We read in Zechariah, chapter 4, verse 1 to 14. We will have to read this entire passage, because it is a very important passage, which shows the Church of Jesus Christ and the Work of Christ forming, in other words, building His Church during its different stages. It says, chapter 4, verse 1 and on, of Zechariah:
“And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts (Who said? Said the Lord of hosts).
Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.
For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our topic for this occasion is: “THE OIL FOR THE LAMPS.”
In this passage that we have read, we find the candlestick with seven lamps and with a bowl on top of it, and with two olives, that is, two olive trees; two olive trees, which are one on the right and the other on the left of the candlestick or candelabrum.
In the temple that Solomon built and also in the temple that Moses had built, the candlestick or candelabrum with seven lamps was also placed in the holy place.
Just as in this vision that Zechariah had, he saw the candlestick with seven lamps; and there we find the Church of Jesus Christ represented in that candlestick. That is why it says that it shall be without might: “it shall be without power and without might, but by the Spirit of the Lord,” “but with my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.”
The creation or building of the Church of Jesus Christ is not with human strength or with a human army, but with the Spirit of God; and since the Day of Pentecost until now we find the Church of Jesus Christ receiving the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, and the Church of Jesus Christ being born there, and thus beginning that New Creation of a new race, of which Jesus Christ is the beginning, the head.1
In Revelation, chapter 3, verse 14, it tells us that He is the beginning of the Creation of God, of that New Creation, of that new race that He is creating through His Program of Redemption; where the person hears the preaching of the Gospel, and hears that Christ came in the midst of the Hebrew people as the Lamb of God, and died on Calvary’s Cross bearing our sins; because in order to die, He had to take our sins.2
And there in Gethsemane, when He sweated drops of blood,3 He took our sins; He had taken our sins and had become mortal because of sin, because the wages of sin is death.4 And so it was with Adam: when he took the sin, he became mortal; before that, his earthly life had no limitation.
But now, Christ said that He was going to lay down His life for Himself, to take it up again.5 He didn’t commit sin, but He took our sins and became sin for us, and therefore became mortal; and He died for all of us, so that we may have eternal life.
Now, in the mortal and corruptible body that we have received, we find that death dwells, for our body lives a while here on earth and then grows old and dies. This is because it came, not in the perfect will of God, but in the permissive will of God, this body that we have; and it was given to us in the permissive will of God in the midst of a fallen race, and therefore a race with a death sentence, which has been fulfilled throughout the entire existence of the human race.
The human being is physically born here on Earth and also receives, in addition to the mortal and corruptible physical body, a spirit of the world: not of the sixth dimension, not of the dimension of Paradise, but of the fifth dimension; a spirit of the world, which inclines him to evil. And that is why it is required that the person be born again.
Christ, speaking to Nicodemus,6 told him: “It is necessary to be born again. Except a man be born again cannot see the Kingdom of God (that is, cannot understand it).”
And Nicodemus thought it was to be born through a woman again, and he thought it was to be born through his mother, and he asks, “How can this be done, can a man, being old, enter into his mother’s womb and be born again?”
So what if Nicodemus’ mother had died? Then it was already impossible to enter the Kingdom of God, because it was impossible for Nicodemus to be born again. And being old, you see, through whom was he going to be born again?
He thought in human terms, because the only thing he knew as birth was to be born through a woman; for the human being, that was what he knew as birth; but he didn’t understand that there was a new birth, which was through the Spirit of God.
That is why Christ said to him: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God (he can’t enter into the Kingdom of the Heavens).”
And this is also what He spoke of to His disciples, when He told them that He would send the Holy Spirit, who would come to them and guide them into all righteousness and all truth. It says in John, chapter 14, verse 26:
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
And in chapter 15 of John, verse 26, it also says:
“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.”
And in chapter 16 of John, verse 12 to 15 (Jesus speaking) says:
“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.”
Now, see how the Holy Spirit is promised to come: To be poured out upon all flesh that will believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior; he will receive Him in his heart, in his soul, as his Savior; he will confess his sins to Christ and wash away his sins in the Blood of Christ; and he will receive the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit. And by receiving the Holy Spirit, the person has received the sign that the Blood of Christ has been applied in his soul and he has been cleansed from all sin.
Now, the Holy Spirit was represented there, in that book of the prophet Zechariah, in chapter 4: He was represented in the oil there in the candlestick, which ran through those golden pipes and fed the bowl, and therefore fed the lamps of the candlestick. And that oil came from the two olive trees; and through those two olive branches came that oil for the candlestick.
And now, those seven lamps (He tells us) and that candlestick, God tells us through the prophet Zechariah…; let’s see, He tells us that those seven lamps…, let’s see what they are. Those seven lamps that are there, and those two olive trees that place that oil on that bowl, let’s see what it tells us here: In Zechariah, chapter 4, verse 10, speaking to us of these seven lamps, says:
“…they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.”
(And in chapter 3… I read chapter 4, verse 10). But now in chapter 3, verse 9, it says:
“For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.”
And now, we have the Holy Spirit in the candlestick and in its seven lamps; and this shows us the Holy Spirit in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ during all its seven stages or seven ages, which pertain to the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why Moses placed the candlestick or candelabrum in the holy place of the temple he built, and so did King Solomon; and there are the seven eyes of God, which travel throughout the Earth. It says: “…they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.”
And now we go to the book of Revelation, where it tells us about these seven eyes; in chapter 5, verse 5 to 6, it says:
“And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”
Now see how these seven eyes that appear in Zechariah are the seven spirits of God that travel throughout the whole Earth. And Zechariah had said that these seven eyes of the Lord, that: “…they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.” And now, it says (here in Revelation): “…which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”
Those seven eyes that are in those seven horns of the Lamb: the seven horns with the seven eyes are the seven ages of the gentile Church with her seven angel messengers.
That is why when it says here that they are the seven…: “These seven eyes are the seven spirits of God that travel throughout the whole Earth”; in Revelation, chapter 4, see how it shows it here: Revelation, chapter 4 says, verse 4 to 5, says:
“And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.”
And now see how here it shows us that those seven lamps are the seven spirits of God.
God teaches us in His Word that those seven eyes are the seven spirits, and that those seven spirits are the seven lamps.
And now we will continue to see in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 4, where it says:
“John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne.”
The seven spirits that are before the Throne are the seven lamps, which are the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now let’s see in Proverbs, chapter 20, verse 27, what God tells us here:
“The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.”
“The candle of the Lord is (what?) the spirit of man.” And these seven spirits of God that travel throughout the Earth are these seven angel messengers with these seven theophanic spirits, one in each of them; because the spirit of man, Proverbs says that it is what? The spirit of man is the candle: “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.”
And these seven spirits that travel throughout the Earth, these seven ministerial spirits sent to Earth from age to age, are these seven spirits, which are these theophanic spirits of the angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church.
In Hebrews, chapter 1, it also tells us: Chapter 1, verse 7 and on:
“And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.”
There we have those lamps burning in the Holy Spirit; those angel messengers, that are messenger theophanic spirits, ministering to the heirs of health.
It continues saying here, in the same chapter 1, verse 14, it says:
“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?”
These ministering spirits, sent for service on behalf of those who will be heirs of salvation, are these seven spirits of God, the seven angel messengers sent to the seven ages of the gentile Church.
They are materialized, that is, these seven ministering theophanic spirits are materialized in human flesh from age to age, and become the seven angel messengers.
They are the people who, during the seven stages of the gentile Church had in them a manifestation of a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, ministering the Word of God for the age in which God sent them; because they are ministering angels to the heirs of salvation, that is, to those written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, since before the foundation of the world.
And now, the God of the spirits of the prophets is the one who has sent these seven ministering spirits, these seven spirits of the seven angel messengers, who have been manifested in human flesh during the age in which God sent them.
In other words, in Saint Paul there was a ministering spirit, a theophanic body of the sixth dimension manifested in him, sent by God; and is a ministering spirit, to minister the Word of God in that first age. And so it was with each one of those angel messengers.
And then, on February 28, 1963, the seven angel messengers appeared in their theophanic bodies in the sky, in this constellation of the angel messengers of the Church of Jesus Christ, and formed in and with their theophanic bodies this cloud.
There are the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church in their theophanic bodies, in other words, those seven ministering spirits are there in their theophanic bodies; and there is also another Angel who was different from the rest, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, in other words, Jesus Christ in His theophanic body.
There are eight angels manifested there: The seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church and the Angel of the Covenant, which sent those seven angels to the seven ages of the gentile Church, and who, you see, in Revelation appears with the seven stars in His hand and the seven spirits. Chapter 3, verse 1 of Revelation, says:
“And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars…”
And in Revelation, chapter 1 verse 17 and on, it says:
“And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death (in other words, ‘and of hades’).
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.”
There we have the seven candlesticks and the seven stars, the seven lights in those seven candlesticks. And now, the seven stars are the messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church, and the seven candlesticks are the seven ages of the gentile Church, the seven churches.
And now, you see how from age to age this has been materializing in human flesh in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: as the Church of Jesus Christ has been being created from age to age.
And during these seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, including also the time of the apostles, since the birth of the Church on the Day of Pentecost, we find that the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, that is, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been being built; because that is the Temple of God here on Earth, which is being built, in which God will dwell in all His fullness.
And all that was in the temple that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built, is what is contained in the Temple of God in Heaven; and therefore, if a temple is made here on Earth, it must be made according to the contents of the heavenly Temple.
And Christ is making a Temple, He is creating a Temple for God, no longer of wood or stones and metal and skins, as Moses and Solomon did, but with living stones, which are human beings; of which the apostle Peter spoke of in First Peter, chapter 2, verse 4 and on, where he says:
“To whom coming (that is, to Christ), as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
Ye also, as lively stones…”
Just as Christ is the living Stone, the Cornerstone that the builders (that is, the ministers, the members of the Council of the Hebrew religion, the Sanhedrin
Council, and the high priest) rejected. See:
“…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.”
As individuals we are being built as a house for God; and as part of the Mystical Body of Christ we are living stones, with which Christ is building, creating His spiritual Temple, His Church, for God to dwell in His Church in all of His fullness.
God has been dwelling in His Church in the first fruits of the Spirit, but He will dwell in all of His fullness. That is why Saint Paul speaks to us about the first fruits of the Spirit in his letter to the Ephesians, in chapter 1… verse 13 to 14, he says:
“In whom ye also 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.”
That is, until the redemption of the body; in other words, that is the resurrection of the dead in Christ in eternal bodies and the transformation of us who are alive; the transformation of our body, in order to receive an eternal and glorious, glorified body, equal to the glorified body of Jesus Christ.
Also, in Ephesians, 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.”
In other words, for the day when Christ will give us a new body; where He will resurrect the dead in Christ in eternal bodies and transform those of us who are alive, thus giving us an eternal body, equal to His own body.
Saint Paul also tells us in Romans, chapter 8, verse 14 and on:
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
These are the people who have believed in Christ as their Savior, have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Holy Spirit, which guides them into all righteousness and all truth, and teaches them all things; for through the Spirit of Christ in each person, the entire Divine Program is opened to the person. If he doesn’t have that Spirit of God in him, he can’t understand the things that are 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 (in other words, Abba means ‘Father’).”
And now, that is the spirit of adoption. In other words, to receive the Holy Spirit, and therefore be born again and have a theophanic spirit, a theophanic body of the sixth dimension: which is to have the spirit of adoption.
First we receive the theophanic body, which is a body similar to our body but of another dimension, of the sixth dimension, a body equal to the body of Jesus Christ of the sixth dimension. And now, for the Last Day we will receive the physical and eternal and glorified body, like the body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, like His glorified body.
Saint Paul goes on to say:
“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…”
You see, he says:
“…that we may be (what?) also glorified together (because we will be glorified and we will have a glorious body also, like Jesus Christ).
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.”
Even if a person suffers as Job suffered, it is not comparable to the coming glories that will be manifested when we have the new body. In that body there will be no more afflictions, no more sickness, no more old age, no more death; all will be joy and happiness for the sons and daughters of God.
“For the earnest expectation of the creature…”
You see, he says: “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.”
Because with the manifestation of the children of God in eternal bodies, the Divine Program begins for the materialization of the redemption of all of Creation; the physical part for God’s elect first, and then it will continue with the rest of Creation.
“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.”
Just as we will be delivered by being transformed (those of us who are alive), and the dead in Christ will be resurrected: we will be delivered from death, we will be delivered from earthly things, we will be delivered from anything earthly, because we will then be like our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
“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…”
The first fruits of the Spirit, that is, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, where we have obtained the new birth and we have obtained a theophanic body of the sixth dimension. Now, it says:
“…even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
The redemption of the body, which is the transformation of our body, for us who are alive, and the resurrection of the dead in Christ, where we will be placed in eternal bodies; and thus the children of God will again be in an eternal body with physical eternal life as well; and thus we will all be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
This is a promise for all these living stones that are being called and gathered from stage to stage, from age to age, and being placed in the spiritual Temple of Christ; which He is building with those living stones, which are the people whose names are written (where?) in the Lamb’s Book of Life (since when?) since before the foundation of the world. That is why it says [First Peter 2:5]:
“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.”
Here we can see what a great blessing it has been for us, to have our names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, since before the foundation of the world.
See how Saint Paul also in Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 19 to 22, shows us the construction of His Church, the Church of Christ. He says:
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
As individuals we are being built for God to dwell in us in all His fullness, by giving us the new body where God will dwell in all His fullness within us; and in the Church of Jesus Christ as the Mystical Body of believers: when His Church as the Mystical Body of believers obtains the transformation of its members, of the people that compose His Church, that compose that Church of Jesus Christ.
And there Jesus Christ will then manifest Himself in all His fullness, and all His power and all His glory. And there the glory of God will be seen, the glory of God manifested in His House, of which we are the House. It says that it is, that House (this building, this dwelling), for God, it is a dwelling place for God.
In Hebrews, chapter 3, also speaks to us of this House; Saint Paul, in chapter 3, verse 5 to 6, says:
“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we…”
What is the House of God, which is the House of Christ? His Church, which is us; His Church, composed of those redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ.
“But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
And Saint Paul also tells us in First Corinthians… Let’s see this passage of First Corinthians, chapter 3, verse 9 and on, something very important there that we should not overlook. Chapter 3, verse 5 and on, it says:
“Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.”
Remember, these messengers will receive their reward each one in his time, that is, each one according to the work he did in his time, and the ministry that God placed in him.
“For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.”
And now, from stage to stage, from age to age, see how it has been building from age to age; because every time a messenger has come, he has to carry out the building in the House of God, of the part of the House of God pertaining to that time.
And that building that he (that messenger) does, he can’t place it down here and say: “No, I didn’t like how that first angel messenger built. So I’m going to do my own building, and I’m going to do it separate (my building) from the one he did.” He can’t do it.
And that is what many people have done: they have been building outside the place; because the building of the Church of Jesus Christ is age upon age; but many have built outside where they had to build, therefore their work doesn’t belong, it is not part of that House of God. They didn’t like how one of the messengers built, and then they wanted to do their own building apart: they invented something, which was not the Program of God in the construction of the spiritual Temple of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
That is why in each age the preachers of each age had to be well united to the messenger of each age, to work in the building of the House of God in the part pertaining to that age.
And see, the House of God is being built from age to age with living stones, with human beings that are called and gathered through the Voice of Christ in the manifestation of each one of those ministering spirits, of those seven eyes of God that travel throughout the whole Earth, of those seven lamps that are before the presence of God and are manifested here on Earth, in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ, for the building or construction of the House of God: of the Church of Jesus Christ.
And now see how the first eye of the seven eyes of God, here was the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in Saint Paul.
Eyes represent seers or prophets. And that is why the Lamb has seven horns; and in the seven horns, in each horn has an eye; seven eyes in seven horns. Each eye of those was the seer, the messenger sent for each of those ages.
Remember that eyes represent seers. And those are the seven spirits of God that travel throughout the Earth; those are the seven lamps of God, which are before the presence of God, which are the seven spirits of God that travel throughout the Earth; which were seen by the prophet Zechariah in that vision, in that symbolic vision that was given to the prophet Zechariah.
And now, in Revelation, which is a symbolic book, the seven eyes appear again, which are the seven spirits of God and are the seven lamps that are before the presence of God.
And that is why Moses placed those seven lamps on the candlestick or candelabrum in the holy place of the tabernacle or temple that he built, and also in the temple that was built by Solomon; because those are the seven lamps that are in the Candlestick there in Heaven, which are the seven spirits of God, and that corresponds to the Holy Place, and therefore those seven spirits of God sent throughout the Earth, which is the manifestation of the Holy Spirit sending those seven theophanic spirits to His Church, from age to age, manifested in human flesh in the messenger of each age.
And now notice how the seven spirits of God have been traveling throughout the whole Earth through these ages of the gentile Church: from the time of the apostles, through Asia Minor, through France, and also through Hungary, and through Ireland and Scotland, and Germany and England, and also through North America; the seven spirits of God have thus been traveling throughout the Earth.
It is the Holy Spirit sending those messengers, those seven theophanic spirits manifested here, in the Church of Jesus Christ, during these seven ages of the gentile Church, in the different territories where those seven stages or ages of the gentile Church were fulfilled.
Now notice this mystery of these seven spirits of God sent throughout the Earth, the seven eyes of God that travel throughout the Earth, those seven lamps being manifested; because the spirit of man is the lamp of God.
And now, see how when we reach the end time, where the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church have already passed, we have seen the Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church; and that is the Oil. Because the oil that the prophet Zechariah saw, which was flowing from the two olive trees through those two olive branches, and they were feeding the bowl, and from there it fed the seven lamps, notice, it is the Holy Spirit, which has been manifested in His Church from age to age.
And now, for the Last Day the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church have already ended. And now what remains for us to see the Holy Spirit manifested at the Last Day? In Revelation, chapter 11, we have the answer there. Chapter 11, verse 3 and on, it says:
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.”
The two olive trees that prophet Zechariah saw, one on each side of the candlestick or candelabrum, there we have them; and the prophet Zechariah tells us that God told him what those two olive trees were. See, Zechariah, chapter 4, verse 11, says:
“Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
And here in Revelation it says: “These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
They are the Two Candlesticks and the Two Olive Trees that stand before the God of the Earth.
And now, these Two Olive Trees are the ones that for the Last Day, after the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church have ended, will be manifested in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, as the Angels of the Son of Man with the Great Voice of Trumpet calling and gathering together God’s elect in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
These are the ministries of Moses and Elijah for the Last Day. These are the ministries that are before the presence of God in Heaven, and are manifested on Earth at the Last Day.
These Two Olive Trees, which are one on the right and the other on the left, and by two olive branches, by means of the two olive branches the oil for the bowl and the lamps are provided…
Now, for the Last Day, where will we find the Oil? Well, in the Two Olive Trees, because where does the Oil come from? Well, from the Two Olive Trees. And through the Two Olive Trees and those Two Olive Branches, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah in the Last Day, of the Two Anointed Ones in the Last Day… Anointed with what? Anointed with the Holy Spirit. They are the Two Anointed Ones with the Oil, with the Holy Spirit on the Last Day.
That is why in Revelation, chapter 7 and verse 2 and on, it says:
“And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God…”
What is the Seal of the living God? The Holy Spirit. This Angel has the Seal of the living God. He has what? The anointing Oil, he has the Holy Spirit.
“Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed…”7 And this Angel comes with the Seal of God, with the Holy Spirit; this Angel comes with the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord manifested in him, which is the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant.
Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel Messenger at the Last Day: is the Oil. Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, is the Oil manifested in His Angel Messenger at the Last Day. And that Angel Messenger is the Anointed One with the Oil, with the Holy Spirit, in the Last Day; with the anointing of the Angel of the Covenant, the anointing of the Holy Spirit in the Last Day, so that through him Christ carries out His Work relevant to the Last Day in the midst of His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
Now we can see that the prophet Zechariah was told that those two olive trees and those two olive branches are the Two Anointed Ones who stand before the God of the whole Earth:
“These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
And in Revelation it tells us:
“These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.”
It is the same thing; and they are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, of the Two Olive Trees.
And these are the ministries that come with the Son of Man at His Coming; and these are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, which Christ will be manifesting at His Coming as King of kings and Lord of lords.
And through the manifestation of these ministries, Christ on Earth will be manifesting Himself, and the ministries of the Order of Melchizedek will be manifested in His final manifestation.
And of the Order of Melchizedek we have that Jesus is King of Salem (that is, of Jerusalem), both of the spiritual Jerusalem and of the earthly Jerusalem; and He is also the Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven.8
Therefore, through the manifestation of these ministries, Christ will be manifested as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work; and in that manifestation He will be able to operate the ministry of Priest, if He needs to operate it in the midst of His Church, and He will be operating it in the midst of His Church.
You see, the priests in the time of Moses and King Solomon, that is, in the Old Testament, worked in the outer court and in the holy place; but in the most holy place could minister only (who?) the high priest.
The high priest could minister in the outer court, in the holy place and in the most holy place. And Jesus Christ our Savior, in the Temple of God, ministers in the Outer Court…
See, in His First Coming He ministered in the Outer Court: carrying out the Sacrifice for sin, as the high priest did on the 10th day of the seventh month of each year; when He sacrificed the goat of atonement, it was the high priest who had to do that work.
And now it has come to the High Priest Jesus Christ, the High Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven, to carry out the Sacrifice of the Atonement; and He carried out that Sacrifice with His own body. Where? In the place of the Outer Court of the Temple of God.
And just as the temple built by Moses and the temple built by Solomon have an outer court, holy place and most holy place; and just as each individual has an outer court, holy place and most holy place (the outer court of each individual is the physical body, the holy place is the spirit and the most holy place is the soul of the person); and thus also, you see, the temple built by Moses had an outer court, holy place and most holy place.
And well, the Temple of God also has an Outer Court, Holy Place and Most Holy Place; because the model that God gave Moses to build the temple was a model according to the Temple of God in Heaven.
And now, what is the Outer Court of the Temple of God? This earthly dimension. That is why Christ had to come to this earthly dimension in human flesh: to offer the Sacrifice for sin, to offer the Atonement there as the Lamb of God.
He is our Passover, the Passover Lamb, and He is also the Goat of Atonement. All those animal sacrifices that the Hebrew people offered are fulfilled in Christ, they were all fulfilled in Christ; and therefore, from the Sacrifice of Christ onwards, no one needs to make a sacrifice of any animal. The High Priest of the Temple of God in Heaven already offered that Sacrifice in the Outer Court of the House of God.
Remember: of the House of God, that is, of the heavenly Temple. And the Outer Court of the House of God, of the heavenly Temple, is this earthly dimension.
That is why the human race has been coming to the Outer Court through those sacrifices; and when the Sacrifice of Christ was made on Calvary’s Cross, the perfect Sacrifice for sin was made there.
Notice, just as the Hebrew people during the year offered different sacrifices of animals; but it reached the culmination, the offering of animal sacrifices reached its peak, with the sacrifice of the goat of atonement. That was the limit, the maximum that the Hebrew people could offer to God; and there all the other sacrifices were condensed.
With that sacrifice, and its blood being taken to the most holy place by the high priest, what was happening? The reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God, and of God with the Hebrew people was taking place; and that had to be done every year. Why every year? Because since those sacrifices were not perfect, then those sacrifices had to be made every year.
And now, look, who was the one who offered that sacrifice, the one who made that sacrifice? The high priest; that was for the high priest himself. It was the most difficult day of the high priest; of all days, the most difficult; because all day long he was very busy, and when he finished his work he was very tired.
See, he even had to change clothing a few times: When he was going to offer the sacrifice, he had to be dressed in a certain way, and then, when he entered with the blood of the sacrifice to the most holy place, he had to be dressed in linen and with certain other things placed on him. And when he went out of the most holy place, he had to bathe himself and put on the other relevant clothes; and then he did the other things in those clothes. And then, when he was going to enter the most holy place again, he had to take off those clothes: bathe and put on the clothes, the other clothes, the only ones with which he could enter the most holy place. In other words, some people had to be helping him, but the actual work was done by the high priest. And then he would enter again into the most holy place.9
It was once a year, that is, one day a year, although he went in a few times. First he entered with the blood of the bullock (or calf) of atonement for the high priest and the priests; and then he would go out and change his clothes (he bathed and changed his clothes) and went, and took the goat on which the Lord’s lot had fallen and sacrificed it. And then he took the blood of that goat, and entered with it into the most holy place, and sprinkled it upon the mercy seat (which is the seat of mercy, for it is the throne of God, where God was in the temple).
And after finishing his work there… And when he had… he would also take… he would enter and come out a few times. And then, for the end, he entered with the censer; and he poured into the censer, which was lit with the fire of the altar, he poured there what he had to place there so that when it burned it would form that smoke; and thus a cloud was formed when he entered there into the most holy place.
And remember that is very important because see what happens here: Revelation… chapter 5, verse 8 and on, says:
“And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints…”
You see, the odors are the prayers of the saints.
That is why the high priest took incense in his fists, in his hands, and went with the censer; and when he entered there into the most holy place, he placed there the censer casting smoke, because he placed inside the censer the incense that he carried in his hand (he threw it inside), and the incense was lit with fire, and formed the smoke that formed the cloud; and it covered all the mercy seat. And there, you see, God manifested Himself.
The prayers of the Hebrew people acknowledging their sins, confessing their sins and asking God for mercy: their prayer and repentance was accepted. And there the high priest, by presenting through that act the prayers of the people confessing their sins and asking God for mercy, was accepted by God. And so, you see, the Hebrew people were reconciled with God.
The Hebrew people had to do that every year, the high priest had to do that every year. See, it says in Leviticus, chapter 16, verse 1 and on:
“And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died.”
They approached with strange fire. The fire they had to carry in the censer was according to the divine ordinance, and the incense they had to pour was according to the divine ordinance; but they approached in the wrong way; and that is why every person has to approach God in the right way; otherwise, there is no blessing for the person. They died because of that.
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not (Why? Because if Aaron entered in another time, he would die. Even though he was the high priest, that sentence would be fulfilled in him): for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.”
Now see how God tells Moses to tell Aaron that only on the 10th day of the seventh month he could enter that place; outside that time, he couldn’t enter. He couldn’t minister there at any other time.
Now, look at what was done at that time. In Leviticus we find, in Leviticus 23, we find the day of atonement: chapter 23, verse 26 to 32, it says:
“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.”
Now see how it says that any person…
“For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.”
And now, that day of atonement that the Hebrew people had, represents the Atonement of Christ, where Christ offered His own body in atonement, there on Calvary’s Cross, in the Outer Court of the House of God (which is this planet Earth and this visible dimension), and then He entered the Most Holy Place with His own Blood; as the high priest did every year, on the day of atonement. And it is for the reconciliation of all the sons and daughters of God with God, it is for the reconciliation of the heavenly Israel.
And Christ has entered the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God in Heaven: He sat down at the right hand of God, and has been making intercession in Heaven; as the high priest did in the temple, in the most holy place.
And now, we are at approximately two thousand years, from the Day of Atonement of Christ on Calvary’s Cross to this end time.
And when He has finished His labors in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place, making intercession there for all those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world, then He will finish His work and leave there, and change His clothes. Just as the high priest did, who, when he came out of the most holy place, changed his garments and put on the golden garments, by which the high priest was known as “the bridegroom.” When he put on the golden garments, he was known as “the bridegroom.”
And do you know something? That there is a bridegroom and there is a bride: The Bride is the Church of Jesus Christ and the Bridegroom is our Lord Jesus Christ!
And for this end time He will come forth from His Throne of Intercession in Heaven, from the Throne of God, from the Mercy Seat, where God is; as He was in the most holy place upon the mercy seat, where the high priest had to enter.
And now, Christ has been making intercession for all His children during these seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, and He is still making intercession for those who remain on Earth: whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world.
It is for the sons and daughters of God of the Age of the Cornerstone that He makes intercession in this end time; and He finishes His work with them when every last one of God’s elect enters.
And then He will come forth from the Throne of Intercession, and reclaim all that He has redeemed with His precious Blood, and resurrect the dead in Christ and transform us who are alive.
Now see all that Divine Program that was reflected there in the temple and in the ministry of the high priest entering the most holy place.
When Christ ascended to Heaven, Saint Paul says that He entered Heaven itself, that is, the Most Holy Place, the Throne of God in Heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God to make intercession for us.10
Now look how what was reflected in the temple of Moses and the temple of Solomon, and ministry of the high priest, is what Christ would be doing in the Temple of God; no longer in the earthly temple. That is why there is no need for earthly temples where those works are carried out with animals, animal sacrifices and animal blood, because the Lamb of God and the Goat that has been sacrificed on Calvary’s Cross, Jesus Christ, has already carried out His Sacrifice and took His Blood to Heaven.
And now, see, all that work that the high priest did in one day, on the 10th day of the seventh month (but they began all their work from the afternoon of the 9th day and ended in the afternoon of the 10th day), notice how that represents all the time that Christ would take as High Priest, in His Work as High Priest and Lamb of God there in Heaven, but counting since He came to Earth and also died on Calvary’s Cross. All that counts as that Day of Atonement.
And when He comes out of the Throne of Intercession in Heaven…, just as when the high priest came out: the reconciliation of all the children of the Hebrew people with God was made. And when Christ leaves the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, the reconciliation of all the sons and daughters of God with God will be made.
That is why Saint Paul says:11 “Be reconciled to God today.” It is through the Goat’s Atonement, which is Jesus Christ our Savior, the Atonement that He made and His Blood that has taken Him to Heaven, to the very Throne of God.
And as long as there is Blood on the Throne, the Blood of Jesus Christ on the Throne of God in Heaven, divine judgment can’t be manifested on Earth. Destruction can’t come upon the human race while there is Blood on the Throne of God in Heaven.
Now, why in the time of Noah, and in the time of Abraham and Lot, and other times, did destruction come upon the Earth? Because there was no Blood in the Throne of God.
The blood was only the blood of the animals that were sacrificed, which was offered to God, but it only covered sin, but the sin was there. And those who didn’t have the blood of those animals because they didn’t offer to God those sacrifices, their sins were seen by God; and the divine judgment had to come from time to time upon the human race.
But because the Blood of Christ has been in Heaven, in the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, when God looks towards planet Earth, the human race, He sees the human race through the Blood of Christ; and since He sees the human race through the Blood of Christ, in the manifestation pertaining to each stage or each age, where the Blood of Christ is applied in the Church of Jesus Christ, then the divine judgment can’t come from the Throne of God, because there is Blood there: the Blood of the Lamb of God and Goat (which the Hebrew people sacrificed) updated in Jesus Christ our Savior.
But when the Blood leaves the Throne which is in Heaven, which will be when Christ leaves from making Intercession there, then the divine judgment will come from the Throne of God, because God will no longer see the human race through the Blood of Christ, because the Blood of Christ will no longer be placed there; and therefore the divine judgment must come upon the human race.
Now, see, all these things are those that were reflected in the tabernacle built by Moses and the temple built by Solomon, which Christ would materialize in the Temple of God.
See how they were first reflected, because first comes the type and figure; then comes the shadow, type and figure, because first everything has to be symbolized and then materialized, according to the Program of God. In other words, everything has a symbolism, to then that symbolism be fulfilled in what is the reality of what was symbolized; in other words, the symbolism only speaks of a reality that exists, but the symbolism itself is not the reality.
Like when you place your hand in front of a light that is shining on a wall: you look at the wall and you see a hand there; but you see a hand, which a person says: “I am seeing a hand there.” You go to touch it and you can’t touch it; even if you touch it, you can’t make contact. Touch doesn’t exist there, because it is not a reality; it is only a shadow, which represents a hand that exists, to which the light is being cast on.
And when the Divine Light has given about the Divine Program that He would be carrying out: it has reflected the shadow of the type and figure in the Old Testament.
And the Hebrew people have had the type and figure in the Old Testament, “the shadow of good things to come,” says the apostle Saint Paul12</sup>; and in the New Testament we are confronted with the reality.
That is why the Hebrew people had the shadow of the atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, represented in all those animal sacrifices, including the Passover lamb and also the goat. But now all those sacrifices are fulfilled in one person; with one person all those sacrifices are covered. For peace: Christ is our peace.13 For the remission of our sins and our reconciliation with God: Christ is that Lamb, that Goat.
And so on you will find that Christ fulfills all those types and figures, all those symbolisms of the Old Testament. And now Christ is actually doing, in the Temple of God, what was typified in the shadow, in the types and figures, that is, in the symbolisms placed there in the Old Testament.
And a very important thing is that Christ is building a Temple here on Earth; and what was placed there in the temple of Solomon and in the temple of Moses, which represents the Temple of God and the things that are in the Temple of God in Heaven, now Christ is materializing them with human beings in His spiritual Temple, in His Church, from age to age.
And now, Christ has been manifested in His Church, from age to age, through the messenger of each age, in the manifestation of those seven spirits sent from God, seven spirits of messengers sent from God, ministering the Word of God to the heirs of salvation in each age, ministering the Message relevant to each age.
Christ has been in the Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, but now the time pertains to the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple. And into the most holy place of the temple which Moses built and of the temple which Solomon built (and of the Temple which is in Heaven) no one could enter except the high priest.
For this afternoon, for this very afternoon here, the topic will be: “THE GARMENTS OF THE HIGH PRIEST,” where we are going to see many things; but, as an introduction, see:
The temple that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built, and every temple that was built among the Hebrew people (which were restorations of the temple that had been destroyed), no one could enter into the most holy place, except the high priest. And into the Temple which is in Heaven no one could enter into the Most Holy Place, except our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the High Priest Melchizedek; who is the Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven, the High Priest, who ministers in the Outer Court, in the Holy Place and in the Most Holy Place of the Temple of Heaven.
That is why those in Paradise said to our brother Branham, when he was visiting there… Our brother Branham said: “I want to see Jesus.” They said: “You can’t now. He is up higher.”
They were all there in Paradise, in the sixth dimension, and now they tell him: “He is up higher.” Where? In the seventh dimension. Where? Making Intercession in Heaven, on the Throne of God, in the Seat of Mercy, which is the Mercy Seat of the Throne of God in Heaven, which was represented in the mercy seat that was on the ark of the covenant in Moses’ tabernacle and in Solomon’s temple.
But it was said to our brother Branham: “But He will come to you and then He will judge you (and then he got scared). And if you come in, we will come in with you and we will then be your (your what, he says?)… We will be your subjects (or for you). And then we will return to Earth and take up bodies.”14
In other words, they depend on Christ ministering there, in the Holy Place, when He finishes ministering in the Most Holy Place.
But also, notice, Christ has been working in the Holy Place by producing the new birth of the sons and daughters of God; and thus being born in the Most Holy Place.
See, for the high priest, on the day of atonement, he would pass from the outer court into the holy place, and from the holy place into the most holy place; and then he went out of the most holy place and passed through the holy place again; and so on, he had at that time, on that day, a very big work in the most holy place, also in the holy place, and also in the place of the outer court, where the sacrifice was made.
That is why, you see, when Christ comes forth from the Most Holy Place, you see, He has the Holy Place and the place of the Outer Court; and we are physically here in the Outer Court, where He will carry out the resurrection of the dead in Christ: He will bring them from the sixth dimension, that is, from the Holy Place of the Temple of God, and He will bring them to the Outer Court (here, to this planet Earth, to this earthly dimension) in eternal bodies; and we who are alive will be transformed.
Now, in the earthly dimension, the sixth dimension and the seventh dimension will be manifesting also. Well, we will talk about that another time with a little more detail and showing all the Scriptures that have to be fulfilled.
Now, see how the high priest is the only one who can enter the most holy place, and he has to enter with the blood of atonement, the goat’s blood that was sacrificed.
And now, in the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ, which is being built from age to age, it is Christ who has been building each of its stages; and in this end time He builds the last stage, the Age of the Cornerstone.
And it is Christ, the High Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven, in His manifestation in His Church in the Last Day, the only one who can minister in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ.
The Work that is carried out in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ is the Work that will be reflecting what was done in the most holy place on the day of atonement and what Christ has been doing in the Most Holy Place in Heaven.
That is why the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says that just as when Moses dedicated the temple to God and when Solomon dedicated the temple to God, and God entered the temple… And how far did God go? Well, He entered through the outer court, passed into the holy place and passed into the most holy place, and stood upon the ark of the covenant. And it says that the priests couldn’t minister in the house of God because of the glory of God manifested there, because of the glory of God and the cloud, the Pillar of Fire manifested there; for God, the presence of God, the Pillar of Fire filled the whole house.15
And now, you see, no one else there could do anything. God was in His holy temple; and all those who were ministering there had to stop ministering, because by the glory of God they could no longer minister.
And for the ministry of God, of Jesus Christ in Heaven, you see, no one else can minister in the House of God in Heaven, but our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Place.
And for the end time, Jesus Christ, after building the Most Holy Place of His House with living stones, with sons and daughters of God… And that stage, just as each stage was fulfilled in a certain territory, the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone is being fulfilled where? In Latin America and the Caribbean. And with Latin American and Caribbean people (living stones!), who are called and gathered and placed in the Age of the Cornerstone, the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ is being built, where Christ places and materializes everything that was in the most holy place of the temple of Moses and the temple of Solomon. And everything that is in the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God in Heaven, is materialized in the Most Holy Place of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, that is why the Two Anointed Ones who are before the presence of God in Heaven are manifested on Earth, in the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God, of the Temple of Jesus Christ, which is the earthly Temple or Temple of God here on Earth, which represents the Temple of God in Heaven.
And now, the Two Olive Trees or Two Anointed Ones or… The Two Anointed Ones that are before the presence of God in Heaven are Gabriel and Michael. And that has to materialize, in other words, be fulfilled, in the Church of Jesus Christ: the representation of Gabriel and Michael, who are in Heaven; they have to be represented on Earth, in the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Place, under the ministry of the Two Olive Trees, the Two Anointed Ones, Moses and Elijah, the Two Anointed Ones who stand before the presence of God.
And therefore, all that God will be working in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ is that which belongs to the Most Holy Place of the Temple which is in Heaven. And that is why for the end time Michael, the Great Archangel of God,16 who is one of those who stands before the presence of God, will arise.
Is it possible that those are the Angels, the Archangels, who stand before the presence of God? Let’s see here a Scripture. We didn’t have it written down, but God already wrote it down here in the Bible; so there is no problem. In Luke, chapter 1, verse 8 and on, it says:
“And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,
According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.”
The altar of incense is in the holy place, in front of the entrance, at the door of the most holy place (that is, in that area there). It is not inside the most holy place, but on the outside; but it is in front of the most holy place, in front of the entrance of the most holy place. And that is where the Archangel Gabriel appeared to him:
“And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him (anyone would get scared).
But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.
And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.”
And the way he asked was full of doubt. It was not a way as others asked, like Abraham, who spoke with God and laughed, but it was a laughter of joy, of happiness, of joy; not like Sarah’s, which was of unbelief. And here the question that Zechariah asks is a question full of unbelief; in other words: “I am already old, my wife is also old,” and he thought that that couldn’t be possible.
“And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God (And the other one who stands before God, is who? The Archangel Michael)<em>; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.”
And when God gives glad tidings, we can’t be in unbelief, but glorifying God and believing with all our heart, even if the circumstances surrounding what is being promised are contrary.
But that is no problem. Even if the circumstances are contrary: as God has said, so will He do. Or is there anything impossible for God? There isn’t.
God told Abraham that he would have a son through Sarah; and Sarah thought she was already old.17 But see, God spoke the truth; and then he made them younger, and the promised son came.
And now here, Zechariah and his wife are already advanced in age, but God said that they were going to have a son and that he was going to be a forerunner prophet: the forerunner prophet of the First Coming of Christ. With such a great blessing, and such a great promise, and still doubting (!).
And us, with a promise as great as the one we have: that because we are living in the Last Day (seventh millennium, if we add to the calendar the years it is behind) we will see the dead in Christ who will be resurrected and we will be transformed. And with such a great promise as the one we have, what are we doing? Well, believing!
We are not going to do as Zechariah did, nor are we going to do as Sarah did, but rather: we have already seen that although things may seem contrary, circumstances may be contrary, God is able to fulfill what He promised; and we are going to be transformed!
And even if some of our people go before, that is no problem: they will be resurrected in an eternal body. But most of us will be transformed; those of us who remain alive until the dead in Christ are resurrected, and then we will be transformed.
Well, we have seen who is the Angel that stands before the presence of God. And then, in the same chapter 1, it says verse 26 and on:
“And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth.”
Here, you see, the Angel was sent by God, for he is the Angel who stands before the presence of God.
And for the Last Day, looking in the Old Testament at the temple that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built: The priests who ministered in the outer court and in the holy place, where were they? They were in a very special place; but God was (where?) in the most holy place. And it was only the high priest that stood before God; and Moses when he was in his ministry: only Moses and the high priest.
And in each of the seven ages of the gentile Church, the seven angel messengers ministered in the age in which they lived; but none ministered in the Most Holy Place, to stand before the presence of God ministering.’
But for the Last Day there will be a ministry: the ministry of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of God, of the Lord, which is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel Messenger, ministering in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, in other words, ministering in the Age of the Cornerstone; and that is the Angel Messenger that will be ministering before the presence of God.
Therefore, the ministries that are before the presence of God, the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, well, they have to be manifested under that ministry that will be ministering before the presence of God; because they are the ministries that are before the presence of God, and therefore they have to be in the messenger that will be ministering before the presence of God, before the presence of Christ, in the Most Holy Place.
Well, that is for the afternoon message; but God is preparing us to be able to understand the great blessing that we have been given, to have in this end time.
When the high priest went into the most holy place, there he carried all the children of Israel; he carried them, for when he carried the sacrifice, it was made on behalf of the Hebrew people. And when the censer was carried into the most holy place, and the smoke came out of the censer and covered the mercy seat: there were the prayers of all the Hebrew people; and they were there represented, with their prayers: in the smoke of the incense that came out, that arose, from the censer.
Now, see how this mystery of the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God in Heaven, which was represented in the temple of Solomon and Moses, now in the Church of Jesus Christ is materialized with human beings. And now, the territory where this blessing materializes is Latin America and the Caribbean.
If the citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean all knew what a great blessing they have been given in the Divine Program: they would receive more blessings. But you see, Latin America and the Caribbean, for the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ has great blessings to receive, to materialize in Latin America and the Caribbean.
That is why we pray for Latin America and the Caribbean and its citizens: for God’s blessing to reach them, and God to speak from His Throne in Heaven, and to transmit through His Throne in His Church, blessings for Latin America and the Caribbean; where the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger will be ministering.
May God speak great blessings for Latin America and the Caribbean. That is my wish for all Latin American and Caribbean people.
And it is from the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ that both the divine judgments being spoken and the blessings being spoken will go forth; for they will be transmitted —those blessings and also the divine judgments— from the Throne of God through the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ.
And from the Throne of Christ in the Most Holy Place those judgments will be heard and also those blessings for the people will be heard. For some, divine judgment that will come upon the human race will be made known, and for others, great divine blessings that will come upon human beings, and upon nations, will be made known.
And we want for Latin America and the Caribbean the greatest blessings from the Throne of God in Heaven, through the Throne of Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Place of His Temple, of His Church.
We have reached the most glorious time of all times, where the Oil… “THE MYSTERY OF THE OIL FOR THE LAMPS,” which is the Holy Spirit, which was in the lamps of the seven ages of the gentile Church, and was manifested in those wicks that were shining, which were the messengers of each age, in which that lighted Oil was shining in each age; for this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Most Holy Place, will be the manifestation of Christ pertaining to the Last Day; therefore, there will be Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Oil (which is the Holy Spirit), and He will be anointing His Angel Messenger in the Last Day. That is why He comes with the Seal of the living God, that is, with the Holy Spirit, in this end time.
And under the manifestation of the Holy Spirit through the two ministries of Moses and Elijah, the two ministries of the Two Olive Trees, the Oil of the Holy Spirit will be manifested in His Church on the Last Day.
That is also why, you see, the high priest was also anointed with oil.18 And now, the high priest was anointed: the oil was poured upon the head of the high priest, which ran upon the beard also. That is why it says that it ran over Aaron’s beard.19
And now, for the Last Day, the ministry of Christ, which from stage to stage was in the seven ages of the gentile Church in every messenger… They were anointed with the Holy Spirit (they are the ones who form the beard of Christ in the cloud, here).
And now, for the Last Day, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, which is the anointing of Christ to be able to minister in the Most Holy Place the Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone, you see, it is the anointing upon the Head to minister in the Most Holy Place. And that is the Anointing Oil for the ministry pertaining in this end time to the Age of the Cornerstone; as the Oil was also in the seven ages of the gentile Church anointing each angel messenger and anointing each age of the gentile Church.
With the coming of the Holy Spirit in each angel messenger, the Church was anointed with the Holy Spirit in the first fruits; and with the coming of the Holy Spirit to each person as an individual (by believing in Christ as their Savior), each person was anointed with the Holy Spirit, and obtained the new birth.
And for the Last Day, with the Coming of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, in His Angel Messenger, the anointing of the Oil of the Holy Spirit will be upon His Angel Messenger to minister in the Most Holy Place, as it was in the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church.
And see why Solomon built in the temple, in the most holy place, two cherubim of olive (what?) wood. And where is the olive oil from? That olive oil, the one that the prophet Zechariah saw in chapter 4: being placed from the two olive trees to the golden candlestick, which has a vessel to collect oil and then pass it to the seven lamps that are in that candlestick.
And now, in this end time we are living in the time where the seven stages of the gentile Church are finished, and we are in the Age of the Cornerstone; but that is where Christ would have the Two Olive Trees and the Two Golden Candlesticks, which are before the presence of God.
We saw that Moses placed two angels or cherubim over the mercy seat, of gold, made of one piece (that is, a monolithic work) with the mercy seat; and then Solomon placed, in addition, two cherubim of olive wood, and covered them with gold. That speaks of the ministries of the Two Olive Trees in the Most Holy Place before the presence of God, in other words, before the presence of God, before the presence of Christ in His Second Coming; because those are the ministries with which He comes for His Church, for the Most Holy Place, for those ministries to be operated by the Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger in the Last Day.
Those are the Two Anointed Ones who stand before the presence of God in Heaven, and before the presence of Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, in His Church, anointed with the Oil of the Holy Spirit.
Now, look how Christ spoke to us about the ten virgins,20 five of whom had oil in their lamps and five had no oil in their lamps, which is a type of the Holy Spirit; because people, as individuals, who don’t receive the Holy Spirit: they are not born again, and therefore don’t obtain the theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
And those who receive the Holy Spirit, the Oil of the Holy Spirit: are those who obtain the new birth and have a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, and are those who enter with Christ to the Marriage in His Coming, and are those who will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven with Christ. Therefore, blessed are those who are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, says Revelation, chapter 19, verses 6 to 10.
And now, the wise virgins and the foolish virgins in the end time awoke, they arose; some had oil and some had no oil.
Those who had oil were well; those who had no oil were bad, and they wanted the wise ones to give them oil; but the wise ones said” “Go and get yourselves; go to those who sell, buy oil for yourselves; lest we lack oil and you also.” And while they went to buy oil, the Bridegroom came (that is the Second Coming of Christ); and they that were ready went in with Him to the Marriage.
And the sad thing, not for the wise but for the foolish, is what follows: “…and the Door was closed.” And when the Door closes, not one more enters.
And then came the fatuous, the foolish ones, knocking at the Door (for it was already shut), saying: “Lord, Lord, open!” (it doesn’t say that they brought oil or anything, but they came knocking at the Door). And the Lord says to them: “Truly I tell you, I do not know where you are from; I do not know you, I do not know where you are from.”
They were not of the first, second, third, fourth, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh ages, nor of the Age of the Cornerstone. They could say they were believers in one of the messengers of the seven ages, but those seven ages have passed, and they had to be in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And now, notice how sad it was for the foolish; but for the wise it was the greatest blessing they received: they received the Bridegroom, Christ in His Coming revealed in the Last Day; and they entered with Him to the Marriage, and the Door was closed. And then, well, we will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
Now, what is marriage? A marriage is the union of two beings who love each other: the union of a young man and a young woman (or whether they are a little older) who love each other, and have been having an engagement; and then comes the time of the marriage, and they have to get married, because the time for the marriage has already come.
And now, Christ and His Church are presented by Saint Paul, notice, in one of his letters, as…, the Church as a pure virgin (and if she is a virgin, she is not married), a pure virgin for Christ.
This pure Virgin for Christ, which Saint Paul presents in his letter, is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ passing through her different stages, until she reaches this final time where the union of Christ and His Church is promised to be carried out.
This is the time when the union of Christ with His Church must become a reality for all sons and daughters of God.
There is a place… (Let’s see if we can find it. If not, Miguel will find us that place… I will look around here) about what Saint Paul teaches, about the Church of Jesus Christ being a pure virgin for Christ, because he has presented her to Christ as a pure virgin…
(Let’s see if Miguel is here; if not, well, then we will see if I can get it here in the notes we have here…). [Brother Miguel: It may be First Corinthians 10]. What number? [Brother Miguel: First Corinthians 10, maybe]. First Corinthians 10… What text, Miguel? [Brother Miguel: Where is it?] Where it says: “I have presented you as a pure virgin for Christ,” something like that… Second? Second Corinthians 11:12, let;s see over here, 11:2… It says… (Not here… 11 what? Let’s see…). Yes. Second Corinthians 11:2:
“Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”
And now… (Ephesians 5:26 we are going to write it down too, Ephesians 5:26. And John, chapter 2, verse twenty-something, around there… I have got that somewhere around here, but…). John, chapter 2, is where John… or chapter 1, verse 29, must be around there… (John, chapter 1… No, John, chapter 3…). John, chapter 3 is… verses 26 and on, or 25 onward, it says:
“Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
He must increase, but I must decrease.”
There we have Christ as the Bridegroom, and He came two thousand years ago in the midst of the Hebrew people; and the Hebrew people, the Hebrew Church under the Law, notice, there as the bride; and the believers in Jesus Christ there as a virgin being betrothed to Christ; and John the Baptist being the friend of the Bridegroom.
Let’s see, who does he say is the friend?:
“He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.”
Who is the friend of the Bridegroom? Who is the friend of Christ in His First Coming? And who is the friend of the Bridegroom, of Christ in His Second Coming? The forerunner. That is why in some dreams or visions of some people, or of himself, he says: “My friend,” speaking of another person; he does the work of forerunning the coming of his friend.
Doesn’t the Scripture also say that Abraham is God’s friend?21
And now, notice, who was Abraham’s friend? God, Elohim, Melchizedek. Who was the friend of John the Baptist? Although John the Baptist had many friends, yet who was the friend of John the Baptist, of whom he speaks? Jesus Christ, the one to whom he was preparing the way for.
And although the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ may have had many friends, his friend is the one to whom he is preparing the way for.
And now, let’s read Ephesians 5:26, so that we have a clear picture [verse 23]:
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”
And now, notice how Saint Paul tells us in Second Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 2:
“For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”
And now, when it is said “I have espoused you,” look how…, regarding the Marriage of Christ with His Church (this is for this end time): “….and they that were ready went in (with who?) with him (with Christ) to the marriage…,” showing that the Marriage is for this end time.
And now, how does Paul say that he has espoused the Church to Christ? Let’s see. Chapter 1, verse 26 and on, of Luke, says:
“And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.”
A virgin betrothed for those times was a young woman who was engaged to her fiancée, a young woman who had her engagement of marriage already, but was not yet married to him; that was to be betrothed in those times; and that is why that term “a virgin betrothed to Christ” is used.
If she is a virgin betrothed to Christ, then the Marriage has not yet taken place; she is a virgin. And that is why for the Last Day Christ marries His Church, with a Virgin with whom He marries in the Last Day; and that is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Marriage of the Bridegroom (Christ) with His Bride (His Church).
That is also why in Revelation, chapter 19, it says [verse 7]:
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, (if they have come, it is because they have not been held yet) and his wife hath made herself ready.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
Now we can see that the Marriage of the Lamb, of Christ with His Church, is for this end time; as well as the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, which will be in Heaven; but the Marriage is here on Earth.
Now we can see that the union of Christ and His Church is the Marriage. And when at the Last Day the dead in Christ resurrect in eternal bodies and we who are alive are changed, we will already be made one flesh: equal to our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, one flesh with Christ, one eternal and glorified flesh.
And it is at the time of the marriage that, by means of the spoken word of the minister, uniting the bride and groom in marriage, the marriage is performed, the marriage is thus performed. And it is through the creative Word of God —relevant to this end time— that the Marriage Word is spoken for the Church of Christ and Christ; and it is there that all that the Church hears and accepts from Christ is spoken.
And just as the bride when she is marrying the groom, and the minister is marrying them; when they ask her such and such a thing, the bride says: “Yes, sir”; and they ask her something else: “Yes, sir.” And they ask the Church of Jesus Christ such and such a thing, and Christ says by His Word such and such a thing, and the Church of Jesus Christ says: “Yes, Lord! Amen, Lord!”
But look, while that word of marriage is being spoken by the minister, they are not yet married, until the minister says: “I pronounce you husband and wife”: there they are married, and become one flesh; and there the two become one. And that is where a new name is given to the girl, because from then on she can use her husband’s name; from then on she is adopted as a wife.
And from then on the elect of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, when all the Ceremony is finished, and the dead in Christ (which…) are resurrected in eternal bodies and we which live are transformed: we will already be married to Christ completely, and we will already be adopted; therefore, we will be —in all things— equal with Christ, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ; therefore, the Spirit of God in all His fullness will be manifested in His Church and in each one of us as individuals.
In His Church manifested in all His fullness is the ministry of Christ through His Angel Messenger, operating in all His fullness in the Last Day in that glorious manifestation of the children of God, where there will be such great things happening that no one has been able to imagine before; but that will already be at the stage of adoption; at the stage where even the Hebrew people will see that manifestation of God, of the Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church, in the Most Holy Place, through His Angel Messenger, who will say: “This is what we have been waiting for!” and they will receive it too.
So we can see the importance of the Oil of the lamps and for the lamps during the seven ages of the gentile Church; and now, notice, the oil also, of the anointing of the high priest, which is the one that passes into the most holy place, type of the Holy Spirit. The oil is a type of the Holy Spirit, both for you as an individual and for the Church of Jesus Christ as the Mystical Body of believers.
And now we have come to the end time, where the Oil, the Holy Spirit, would be manifested (where?) in His Church, in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, under the ministry of the Last Day. And that is the only ministry that could enter the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ. And that is a dispensational ministry in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ.
It is the first occasion in which Christ sends to His Church a dispensational ministry, a dispensational prophet with a dispensational Message. And no one else could be sent. None of the seven messengers could be sent to the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, none of them had that anointing to enter the Most Holy Place; they had the anointing of the Holy Spirit for their age in which they lived, but not to enter the Most Holy Place and minister in the Most Holy Place.
That is why they ministered in the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, but they couldn’t minister in the Most Holy Place; they could only speak that in the Most Holy Place there are certain things, but they couldn’t minister there.
Therefore, none of them could call and gather the elect of the Last Day, for the Age of the Cornerstone, and place them in the Age of the Cornerstone, in a new age and in a new dispensation; because none of them had the Message of the Dispensation of the Kingdom either, and none of them had the dispensational ministry relevant to the Last Day.
Now, we can see where in the Last Day, as a messenger, the Oil of the Holy Spirit would be manifested; and in which age of the Church the Oil of the Holy Spirit would be manifested; and in whom would the Oil of the Holy Spirit would be manifested: no longer in those of the first age, because they are gone (they had it, but they are gone), and so on, from age to age.
Now, the Oil of the baptism of the Holy Spirit would be (where?) in the elect of God of the Last Day, of the Age of the Cornerstone. Therefore, they are called and gathered (where?) in the Age of the Cornerstone to hear all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
We have reached the most glorious time of all times, where the Oil of the Holy Spirit would be manifested under the ministry of the Two Olive Trees and Two Olive Branches, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, of the Two Anointed Ones who are before the presence of God.
And everything that is in the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven is materializing in the Church of Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone, with Latin American and Caribbean people.
Now notice how Jesus Christ has been building His Temple, and the Oil of the Holy Spirit has been in His Church from stage to stage; because it was said that it would not be, that construction of the Church, it would not be with might and neither would it be with an army, “but with my Spirit, saith the Lord,” in other words, with the Oil of the Holy Spirit manifested in His Church going through its different stages.
We could continue talking about “THE OIL OF THE LAMPS”… And now, notice… But we are already concluding, because in the afternoon we will already have the continuation with the topic: “THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS GARMENTS.”
And God will help us to see the mystery of “THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS GARMENTS.” He has already given us a little bit. Also in one of the activities we had some days ago, He also gave us a little bit; and He continues to give us.
Look here, speaking of the Two Olive Trees, it says:
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.”
And if it is Two Candlesticks, then they will give light; and if there are Two Olive Trees, then they will have Oil; because it is the Olive Oil that was in the ages in the lamps, and it is the Olive Oil that will be in the Most Holy Place; because there, notice, Solomon built two cherubim of olive tree, therefore there we have the two olive trees with oil.
And now, they are also the Two Candlesticks, “the Two Candlesticks that stand before the God of the Earth.” And in the most holy place one looks and finds no candlestick there, because the candlestick with its seven lamps was in the holy place.
And now, where do we find a candlestick? It is there in the form of the two golden cherubim, upon which the brightness of the glory of God shines there, upon the two golden cherubim; and there the Light of God is seen, manifested upon the golden cherubim. There we have those two candlesticks and there we have the two olive trees as well.
Now notice how there is the oil and the anointing of the High Priest coming in there; there we have the Oil of the Holy Spirit, upon the head of the High Priest.
And since as all this, notice, has to do with the anointing, we find that when Jesus was baptized, the Oil of the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus in the form of a dove and rested upon Him.22
We see also that upon the high priest, when he was anointed as high priest, they put the oil, they poured it upon the head. When Samuel also anointed Saul, he poured the oil on his head and anointed him as king23</sup>; and when Samuel anointed a young man after God’s own heart, David, he poured his oil on David’s head24</sup>; because the anointing is always placed on the head of the person.
And now, the anointing of the Spirit of God for the Church of Jesus Christ comes upon its head: The Age of the Cornerstone.
Notice, it is in the Age of the Golden Head of the Kingdom of God: the Age of the Cornerstone, that the anointing of the Holy Spirit comes for the Church of Christ to reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity; she is anointed with the Oil of the Holy Spirit as Queen, to reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity.
And so also upon the messenger of the Last Day and upon all the sons and daughters of God, for we will be anointed with the fullness of the Holy Spirit; and then we will already be anointed as kings and priests, to reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity.
By being transformed, when that happens, we will already be anointed with the fullness of the Holy Spirit, with the anointing that we need to rule with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity.
And the Church as Mystical Body of believers, with the Coming of Christ, the Holy Spirit, in His Angel Messenger in the Last Day; when Christ is manifested in all His fullness in His Angel Messenger and transforms His Angel Messenger, the Church will be anointed with the Holy Spirit in all His fullness, to reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity.
That is the way the Holy Spirit comes to the Church as the Mystical Body of believers: in the manifestation of Christ in Holy Spirit through the angel messenger of each age.
Now, we have seen “THE MYSTERY OF OIL FOR THE LAMPS.”
There is still more, but you search in your concordances and in your Bibles; and already with what we have spoken, the understanding about these things has already been opened, those Scriptures have been opened; and you will already read and you will find: “Look, it also says it here. Look, over her too. Look how clear it is here, now I can understand it.”
You also have to do something, and that is to study, to search in the Bible, so that you realize that God has opened your understanding. And now by searching in the Scripture, you can see that there are more places in the Bible that talk about all these things, of the Oil for the lamps.
Now see, the lamps must have oil; those are the lamps of those times. And since the Bible was written in times when the lamps that were used were like that, well, we must understand according to the time in which all this prophetic book of the Bible was given.
And now, the lamp of the body is what? What did Christ say? Is the eye.25
And now, the lamp of each age of the gentile Church, the eye of each age of the gentile Church, notice, is each age with its angel messenger. Each eye in each age is the messenger of each age, who, like a lighted lamp, was shining in each age. Notice how the entire Program of God is typified, even in these simple things.
There are many, many more places; that is why I said there are many, many more. Look for lamps, look for eyes, look for spirit in the concordance, and there you go through the entirety of the Scripture, and you will find that there are many places in the entire Bible.
For example, in Revelation, chapter 6, verse 6, it says: “But do not harm the oil and the wine.” The oil is the children of God filled with the Holy Spirit; and the wine is the stimulus of the revealed Word that they have and that which is in the sons and daughters of God in this end time, as it was in past ages.
Now, let’s see, let’s see… In Proverbs 27:16, let’s see what it says… (We will have a break soon, Miguel is going to give us a break…). Let’s see, Miguel, if you come over here to see what time we have…
[Brother Miguel: It is already 1:55, it is about 2:00].
We are going to have a break soon, but we are going to read here… Now, this here is talking about the quarrelsome woman, which is…:
“Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.”
Now, look how he also talks about oil and holding the oil in the right hand. Well, we have a number of other places…
On one occasion brother Branham was told a dream about a man, an old man that was on a mountain or on a hill. From there, on that hill or in that place, from there came out a spring, that is, a little stream, and it turned into a few arms, a few little streams; and that meant (what?) the Water of Life, the Holy Spirit, descending.26
Now look at how the Holy Spirit is represented in the water and is also represented in the oil.
It was represented in the water by Christ when He said: “If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. And he that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water,” implying the Spirit that those who would believe in Him would receive.27
Now, the oil, representing the Holy Spirit here, notice all that He does, all that the Holy Spirit represented in the oil does, all that He does, all the Work that He does from age to age.
He was the one who created the Heavens and the Earth, He was the one who moved upon the face of the waters. He it was who created the entire universe; and He was the one who became flesh and dwelt among human beings.
And now, He is the one who from age to age has been in the midst of His Church, and has been flowing in the midst of His Church (that is the Holy Spirit flowing in the midst of His Church).
And for this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone, is the Oil of the Holy Spirit manifested, according to His promise; and it flows in His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone, in His Church as an age, as the Mystical Body of believers and in the members of His Church, who are the sons and daughters of God.
We have seen: “THE MYSTERY OF THE OIL FOR THE LAMPS,” which we also saw in the anointing of kings and prophets as well, and in the anointing of different persons, as priests, the high priests, and so on.
And now, we have seen the Oil in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and we have seen how in this end time the Church of Jesus Christ comes to where the Oil of the Holy Spirit that was manifested in the seven ages of the gentile Church originates and emanates from.
We have seen: “THE MYSTERY OF THE OIL FOR THE LAMPS.”
And that oil and that composition of that oil couldn’t be imitated; anyone who imitated that composition was sentenced to death. It was a composition for the temple.28
And now, every person who has tried to imitate what is the reality of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, well, he is dead; he doesn’t have eternal life, because without the Holy Spirit there is no eternal life. Imitations don’t work; one has to have what is real: The Oil of the Holy Spirit.
And now, where are the people who for the Last Day would have the Oil of the Holy Spirit manifested in their age and in their lives? Here we are in this Last Day. And the evidence that a person has received the Holy Spirit is that he receives the Word for his age and dispensation, that is the evidence.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, be upon you all and upon me as well; and may we all soon be transformed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
Well, let’s leave Miguel Bermudez Marin again with us, to continue. Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin will continue and then he will tell us how much time of break he will give us; and then we will return to listen to the subject: “THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS GARMENTS.” And everything that God gives us there, well, we are going to listen to it; and we are going to see certain things that we had not seen before, there.
I was talking to Miguel and I told him: “Don’t say anything about this.” Don’t go ahead of me, because it is not going to be a blessing for him, but rather he is going to get in trouble; because he is not going to be speaking at the moment he should be speaking, but rather he would be taking a position that doesn’t belong to him. [Brother Miguel: That is correct.] Well, but he knows that and he knows what the consequences are. [Brother Miguel: Yes, sir].
So, let’s leave Miguel here. He is not going to tell you anything about what we talked about; because there is a secret there, in the high priest, who is the only one who may enter the temple.
Before, another person could enter the Most Holy Place: that was Moses; but, notice, Moses and the high priest were the only ones who could enter the temple; and then Jesus Christ into the Most Holy Place of the Temple. And for this end time, it is the entrance into the Most Holy Place and there must be a ministry; and that is a ministry of the highest ministerial level. It is a ministry…
Well, the subject is “THE HIGH PONTIFF AND HIS GARMENTS”; therefore, that is a ministry of that type, which entered into the most holy place of the temple of Moses and the temple of Solomon.
We leave it there. And we are going to leave our beloved friend and brother, Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin, to continue and finish our part on this occasion; and then we will come back to see “THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS GARMENTS,” to see what is there, because all that has a meaning.
Well, let’s leave it there, because otherwise, the break would be in one or two hours and we would be saying goodbye; but I am going to tell you (until how many minutes?, one hour or two hours, Miguel?) Until one hour and a half. Then we will already be talking about “THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS GARMENTS.”
Pray for me, ask God to give me all that you should know and all that I should speak for this occasion.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE OIL FOR THE LAMPS.”
1 Colossians 1:18
2 Isaiah 53:5, First Corinthians 15:3, Galatians 1:4; Hebrews 1:3, First Peter 2:24; First John 2:2, 4:10; Revelation 1:5
3 Luke 22:44
4 Romans 6:23
5 John 10:17-18
6 John 3:1-7
7 Ephesians 4:30
8 Genesis 14:18; Hebrews 7:1-2
9 Leviticus 16:1-34
10 Hebrews 9:24
11 Second Corinthians 5:20
12 Hebrews 10:1
13 Ephesians 2:14
14 The Seals, pages 377-379, paragraphs 389-409; The Seven Church Ages, pages 209-210
15 First Kings 8:10-11, Second Chronicles 5:11-14, Exodus 40:34-35
16 Daniel 12:1
17 Genesis 18:9-14
18 Exodus 29:7, Leviticus 8:10-12
19 Psalm 133:2
20 Matthew 25:1-13
21 Second Corinthians 20:7; Isaiah 41:8, James 2:23
22 Matthew 3:16, Mark 1:10, Luke 3:22, John 1:32
23 First Samuel 10:1
24 First Samuel 16:13
25 Matthew 6:22, Luke 11:34
26 62-1230E “Is This the Sign of the End, Sir?” pages 21-22 / 17-18
27 John 7:37-39
28 Exodus 30:31-22; 34-38