We will all be tested – Conferences

Good evening, beloved brethren and friends present here in Antofagasta, Republic of Chile. It is for me a great privilege to be with you on this occasion to share with you some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.

For tonight we have the subject “WE WILL ALL BE TESTED.”

“WE WILL ALL BE TESTED.”

For which we read in Deuteronomy, chapter 8, and we also read in Hebrews, chapter 11, verse 17 and on. Let’s see what it says in Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verse 1 and on:

“All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.”

And in Hebrews, chapter 11, verse 17 and on, it says (17 to 18)… Chapter 11, verse 17 to 19, it says, of Hebrews:

“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.”

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

Our subject is: “WE WILL ALL BE TESTED.”

Throughout the biblical history we can see that also, when God placed the first couple here on Earth, Adam and Eve, they too were tested. Every person who comes to this planet Earth comes to be tested.

Now, notice, Adam and Eve had been placed on this planet Earth, and they had to go through a certain stage where they would be tested.

Adam and Eve, while on Earth, they, though they had God’s blessing, they had not yet been adopted. Therefore it is before being adopted —the individual— that the test comes to him. And they were tested in the Garden of Eden and fell, therefore, they lost the right to continue living for all eternity.

Adam was only able to live about 900 and some years because, in the trial he went through, Adam and Eve fell. So they could not continue to live; and Adam could only live… let’s see how many years Adam was able to live. In Genesis we find the time that Adam was able to live. (Let’s see in which chapter we find it… in 5). Adam was able to live 930 years. That is quite a few years.

Any person from our time would like to live at least 500 years.

But notice, Adam lived 930 years, but he had to die; he could not reach 1000 years, and neither could he exceed 1000 years. The one who managed to live the most after the fall was Methuselah, and he lived 969 years; but they could not reach 1000 years, because a day before the Lord is as a thousand years for the human being.

Therefore, in that cycle of 1000 years for a person, in that cycle of life of the human being he cannot reach 1000 years.

Now, notice how the human being, when tested in the Garden of Eden, fell and did not reach the adoption. If he had passed the test and stood firm in the Word of God, he would be adopted, he would eat from the Tree of Life and live eternally; and it would not say here: “And Adam lived…”, let’s see…: “And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died”, but rather, it would say: “And Adam’s been here for such years and he’s still alive.” Instead of saying “and he died,” it would say “and he is still alive, and he will continue to live.”

Now, we can see that of the second Adam it says in Scripture that He took our sins and became mortal, He died for our sins, but He came back to life1</a>; and He still lives. You see? From the second Adam, who stood firm in the Word of God and passed the test, we can see that the Scripture says that He still lives; and He will continue to live. And so it will be for all the sons and daughters of God who as individuals stand firm in the Word of God in the age and dispensation they were given to live.

And although his physical body dies, the person continues to live in his theophanic body, and then at the Last Day, he will resurrect in an eternal body and continue to live.

Now, notice how all these men of God went through the trial stage, they were tested, because we have come to this planet Earth to be tested.

And now, God has placed life and death before the human being, blessing and curse. God speaks of this in the book of Deuteronomy, which is a very important book for the Hebrew people and for every human being; in chapter 30, verse 19 to 20, it says:

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live (look, God is so good that He also advises us to choose life):

That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

Now we can see how God advises us to choose life in order to live.

God has placed before the human being, in the Garden of Eden, life and death, when He placed there the Tree of Life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Both trees are type and figure of people: we all know that the Tree of Life is Christ, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil is the devil.

And, in order for the human being to eat from either tree, they had to become flesh, the Tree of Life or the tree of knowledge of good and evil, in other words, Jesus Christ or the devil had to become flesh.

And the devil became flesh in the serpent, that animal that was the most cunning of all animals, which was like man, taller than man; and had, not only the body, but also had spirit (that is why he reasoned, that is why he spoke, that is why he had that intelligence that he had); and he was the most cunning of all animals; and it also had a place for the soul but it had no soul.

In the place for the soul was where the devil got in, and was manifested from that animal; it was the first manifestation in flesh, of the devil here on planet Earth; and through the serpent, which was the animal closest to the human being (the missing link that science seeks), he deceived Eve. The Scripture says2: “Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one”</em>; and the Bible also teaches us that the serpent deceived, seduced Eve.

Now we can see what all that means and we can see why the sons of the wicked one appeared here on Earth.

In the parable of the wheat and the tares Christ teaches that the wheat are the children of the Kingdom, in other words, the children of God; and He teaches that he who sowed the wheat is the Son of Man; and He teaches that the tares are the children of the wicked one, in other words, human beings; and He teaches that he who sowed the tares is the devil3.

Now notice how in Genesis the wheat was sown and the tares was also sown on Earth. The devil sowed the tares, and that is why the Scripture says: “Not as Cain, who was of (of whom?) that wicked one.”

And who is the wicked one? Adam is not the wicked one, but the wicked one was the serpent, who, anointed by the spirit of the devil, deceived Eve.

Now, we can see that the sin in the Garden of Eden was serious; it was not to eat a literal fruit.

Now, we can see that the human race fell from eternal life, and that is why since the fall of the Garden of Eden and on the human being comes to Earth as a mortal; but God did not place the human being here on the mortal Earth, but He placed him with eternal life; but He said that, if he ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he would die. It was a trial stage through which the human being, the human race represented in Adam and Eve, was going through.

Now, we can see that they had to wait for the Tree of Life, which is Christ, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, to become flesh; and then that was where the human race could eat from the Tree of Life and could bring, by divine creation, children on this planet Earth.

But Eve got ahead; and by getting ahead and eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which had become flesh in the serpent, what happened? She brought Cain. And the order by which the offspring of Adam and Eve would come was then established: by the union of a man and a woman. Through intimate relations of a man and a woman, you see, the Earth has been populated, the human race has been multiplying.

But God knew that all of that was going to happen. And God being an Almighty God, who knows all things and can do all things, notice, Him having attributes in Him, which He wanted to manifest: the attribute of Savior (in other words, Redeemer) and Healer…; well, in order for Him to manifest His attribute of Savior, someone has to be lost.

And the human being fell in the Garden of Eden, he was lost; and God descended in the Garden of Eden, as He always did, and called Adam, who was not in the place that he always was before; and now he had hidden himself, which is the same as people here on Earth do when they make a mistake: they hide.

And now, Adam and Eve hid themselves when they heard the Voice of God, and they made aprons from fig leaves. And when God calls them, He says to them: “Adam, where are you?” Adam answers Him and tells Him where he was, and says: “I heard Your voice and I was afraid and I hid myself, because I was (what?) naked.”

Now notice that sin had to do with nudity as well.

And now, we can see that God says to him: “You have eaten of the tree…, of the fruit of the tree that I told you not to eat.” And then the excuses began, as the human being always does, trying to justify his error, his sin; but the excuses only satisfy the one who gives them.

So God knew that they had disobeyed and gone ahead and had eaten of the tree that would bring them death.

See, life and death was there: the Tree of Life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which was the tree of death.

And now, the human being is in serious trouble: he has lost God’s blessings, he has fallen from eternal life; therefore, the divine sentence that was already written: “The day that you eat of it, that day you shall die,4” had to be fulfilled.

But notice, the literal day when Adam ate and God required it from him, physically Adam did not die; spiritually they did fall into death, but physically, notice, Adam lasted 930 years; but he did not reach 1000 years, because one day before the Lord is as a thousand years for the human being.

So you see, during that time, that time span of 1000 years of Adam’s life, he had to die, which is one day before God.

Now, God, there in the Garden of Eden, placed in Adam and Eve the type and figure of Christ in His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross when He gave them skins to cover their nakedness.

In order for you to obtain the skins of a little animal, of a little lamb, well, the little lamb has to be sacrificed; because you are not going to take the skins from a little animal, from a little lamb, and leave it without skins; it would die anyway; but first the little animal is sacrificed and then the skins are removed from it. That is what God did for Adam and Eve.

Therefore, what God did there represents Christ dying on Calvary’s Cross. There we have the first type and figure of Christ’s death on Calvary’s Cross.

And we also have the prophecy of the Coming of the Messiah, right there in Genesis, chapter 3, verse 15, when God says that the seed of the woman will bruise the head of the wicked one. It says, let’s see, chapter 3, verse 14 to 15:

“And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.”

Before, the snake walked erect, because it was the animal closest to man, the missing link, but after the curse it was turned into a reptile, and it stopped talking. Now parakeets and parrots speak more than snakes; snakes even… don’t even speak.

Now it goes on to say:

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed…”

Now notice, enmity between the woman and the serpent, and between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman.

“…it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

The seed of the woman here is Christ; and on Calvary’s Cross, the seed of the woman, Christ, was bruised on the heel, that is, on the heels, by the seed of the serpent; and Christ, the seed of the woman, bruised the devil on the head there.

It was not the devil who obtained the victory with Christ’s crucifixion: it was Christ who obtained the victory there, because He became mortal by taking our sins to make us immortal; because the wages of sin is death5, but by taking away our sins He took the death away from us. He took it, died and then resurrected; because He came to do that work in the Divine Program.

He said: “No one takes my life; I lay it down for myself in order to take it again6.” He said He received that commandment from whom? From the Father. “I lay down my life for the sheep7.” And now, He said: “I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”

“If the corn of wheat does not fall to the ground and die, it only remains.8” In other words, if Jesus Christ did not die there on Calvary’s Cross in His First Coming, He would still be living here on Earth in that body that He had here on Earth. But He would be living how? Alone here on Earth. Only one man would be living on Earth for all eternity, and the rest: completely dead; because the wages of sin is death.

And at that time God was bringing the world to judgment and would destroy the human race; but since Christ took all our sins (all were found in Christ), He became sin for us and the entire divine judgment fell upon our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. And now, He did all of that to give life to us.

It’s like a person who has a very big debt and a rich brother of his comes and pays off that debt. How much is left to be owed by the person who had the debt? Absolutely nothing. Therefore, the person can live in peace, because he or she no longer owes anything, and nothing will be repossessed, nothing will be taken away nor will he or she be imprisoned for the debt he or she had, because it has already been paid.

And our older brother, our beloved Jesus Christ, came to Earth and paid the debt we had. And now we have no debt. Therefore He has given us eternal life. That is why Jesus Christ says:

“He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”

He has passed from death to life, the person who hears the Word of Christ and receives Him as our Savior – as his Savior, and washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ and receives His Holy Spirit: he has passed from death to life; and therefore, the person will not come to condemnation. See, chapter 5, verse 24, of John, it says:

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”

He has passed from death, because with the fall of the human being, “for all have sinned, all have fallen short of the glory of God9” and have fallen from eternal life; but now we are restored to eternal life through Christ.

Just as the human race passed from eternal life to death, with the fall, now through the second Adam we pass from death to Life, in other words, we are restored to eternal life: We receive a theophanic body of the sixth dimension with eternal life when we have believed in Christ as our Savior and have washed our sins in the Blood of Christ.

And for the Last Day, He will give us an eternal and glorified physical body to live for all eternity; and thus physically we will also be restored to eternal life.

John, chapter 6, verse 39 to 40, it says:

“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”

When does He say that He will carry out the resurrection of those who the Father has given Him? For the Last Day.

The Last Day is the seventh millennium, since one day before the Lord is like a thousand years for human beings.

“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”

For the Last Day Christ again says that He will carry out the resurrection of those who have believed in Him and have departed.

And for those of us who remain alive and the resurrection of the dead in Christ occurs, for those of us who remain alive having believed in our Lord Jesus Christ and having washed away our sins in the Blood of Christ and received His Holy Spirit, He has promised a transformation of our bodies. We will be transformed, and then we will have the eternal and glorified body, and we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, notice, Christ is our Redeemer. To redeem is or means to ‘return to the place of origin’; and He is the One who returns us to eternal life, from where man fell in the Garden of Eden.

Now, we have seen that the human being, since he was placed on Earth, has been tested. In other words, Adam and Eve were tested; and we also find Abraham, who was tested and stood firm in the Word of God.

We also find Jacob, who was tested as an individual; and he received his adoption there, when he encountered the Angel of the Lord; and he wrestled with Him and overcame. In other words, you have to fight and overcome. And now Jacob got the victory and his name was changed from Jacob to Israel.

We find that Moses was also tested; but Moses, because he was filled with wrath, struck the rock on the second occasion10, and the second rock (which also represented Christ), for which and to which God told him to speak to it, not to strike it, as God had told him to do with the first one11.

For the first one, God told him to strike the rock with the rod, but for the second rock, in another place, in the desert, He said to him: “Speak to the rock”; but Moses, full of wrath, struck the rock with the rod.

And since the rock represents Christ, the first rock to which God said: “Smite the rock with the rod and give water to the people,” it represents the First Coming of Christ, who would be bruised on Calvary’s Cross; and that is why he had to strike the rock: because God was placing there the type and figure, the symbolism, of the First Coming of Christ and His death on Calvary’s Cross.

But, when the time came for the second rock, also in the desert, which represents the Second Coming of Christ, God said: “Speak to the rock,” because the Second Coming of Christ is not to die on Calvary’s Cross and shed His Blood to cleanse us from all sin, because that is what He did in His First Coming.

His Second Coming is to seek His Church, and for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and transformation of us who are alive; it is for the adoption of all the sons and daughters of God, it is to carry out the Reclaiming Work of all that He redeemed with His precious Blood.

Moses, striking the rock on that second occasion and second rock, broke the type and figure of the Second Coming of Christ and what was to happen at the Second Coming of Christ.

And since Moses was there as prophet of God placing the symbolism of the Second Coming of Christ and the things that would happen in the Second Coming of Christ to the Rock, to Christ, when He struck the rock, He established there a crucifixion for the Rock, who is Christ. And since a literal, physical crucifixion cannot be carried out to remove sin, because He already did that in His First Coming, a spiritual crucifixion will be taking place.

And a spiritual crucifixion for the Last Day, where they will speak against the Second Coming of Christ and Its fulfillment…; and all who do it will be held as people who have crucified Christ a second time.

In other words, the same thing that those who crucified Him did two thousand years ago, as well as those who will rise against the Second Coming of Christ, and will speak against the Second Coming of Christ in the Last Day, they will be found guilty in the same way.

Now we can see why God became angry with Moses: because he altered the type and figure that he had to establish there.

And such a simple little thing, apparently, to human sight, that instead of speaking to the rock, he struck the rock with the rod, as he had done with the first rock, any person could say: “That is not such a big mistake”; but to God that was such a big mistake by Moses. And it is that when people are filled with wrath, they make serious mistakes in their lives.

And now, notice, the prophet Moses committed a serious error before the presence of God, which cost him to not enter the promised land in the physical body.

Now, Moses entered in his theophanic body, but in the physical body he could not pass to the other side of the Jordan. Joshua crossed the people over to the other side of the Jordan.

Now, Moses recognized that he had sinned before God. He said: “Let me see the promised land.” God said to him: “Go up to the mountain and see the land that I have promised to the people, look at it with your own eyes; for you will not go over there, because you struck the rock”; He told him why.

Moses saw the promised land and prayed to God: “Lord, let me enter the promised land”; he even asked forgiveness for what he had done, but God did not allow it. God Himself says: “Don’t talk to me about this matter any more,” in other words, He said: “You will not enter and that is it. Don’t talk to me about that matter anymore.12”

Now, see how strict God is even with His prophets.

Now, God showed Moses that it would be Joshua who would enter, take the people across the Jordan to the promised land.

Joshua means ‘Savior’ or ‘Redeemer.’ The name Joshua in Greek is Jesus</em>; in other words, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, His name in Greek is Jesus</em>; but notice, in Hebrew it is Joshua or Yoshua, the same name of the Joshua who entered the Hebrew people into the promised land.

Now we can see that our Joshua is our Lord Jesus Christ, the one who will lead us to the promised land. In His Second Coming He will take us to the promised land of the new body and He will take us to the promised land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom.

And now, we have seen that we all have to be tested.

The Hebrew people, as a people, were also tested. And notice, in those 40 years, the Hebrew people was being tested and also the prophet Moses; the people and their messenger as well.

And now God says in Deuteronomy, chapter 8, that God took the people through the wilderness, for what? To test them and to know if they were to serve God or not. Chapter 8 of Deuteronomy, which we read at the beginning, says:

“All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee (see? to afflict them and to test them), to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

The Hebrew people during these forty years rebelled against God countless times, and on ten occasions the Scripture says that they wanted to stone the prophet Moses13</a>; and therefore that was a direct rebellion against God, since God was in His prophet Moses leading the people. God’s guidance was through the prophet Moses, in the midst of the Hebrew people.

Now, while God tested the people, He also tested the messenger, the prophet Moses.

And the prophet Moses could not even enter the promised land, on the other side of the Jordan; neither could those who had come out of Egypt, from 20 years old and up, enter the promised land, except Joshua and Caleb, who were more than 20 years old when they left Egypt; and since they stood firm in the Word of God, they entered the promised land. In other words, they received the adoption, they passed the test.

Now those who entered the promised land were 20 years old or younger (of those who left Egypt) and those who were born in the desert; in other words, it was a young people who entered the promised land. And this stage of 40 years in the wilderness was a test.

Now we can see that Jesus Christ our Savior, as all prophets were tested, Jesus Christ was also tested; and He was tempted in the wilderness when He fasted for forty days, and the devil came to Him with many temptations, with some temptations14</a>; but Jesus Christ overcame.

Jesus Christ had His ministry of three and a half years; and in a certain part of His ministry He went up to Mount Transfiguration to be adopted, because He stood firm in the Word of God; He always said: “For it is written.”

Every person who wants to obtain the victory has to remain in the Word of God solidly; because who is the one who is going to adopt him? God.

Now, we can see that Moses and Elijah were there, on Mount Transfiguration, because for the adoption… notice, according to the custom in the midst of the Hebrew people, the one who was going to be adopted had to go through the time of trial first and prove that he loved his father and that he was interested in his father’s business, and that he learned his father’s business and worked in his father’s business.

And that is why Jesus, when He was 12 years old, on one occasion while being in Jerusalem, when He remained in Jerusalem, there in the temple15</a>; and Joseph and Mary were returning, and they did not find the child while they were on the way back to Nazareth. They returned to Jerusalem looking for the child, and found Him sitting in the temple and talking with the doctors of the Law, the priests there, and asking them and them asking Him, and Him also answering the questions of those wise men, who marveled at the answers of Jesus.

And when Joseph and Mary came and saw Him, they said to Him: “Son, what have you done to us? Your father and I have been looking for you.” Jesus immediately corrected Mary and said to her: “Do you not know that it is good for me to be in my Father’s business?” It wasn’t the carpentry business or the woodworking workshop, but the heavenly Father’s business.

And it is in the business of our heavenly Father that it is good for us to be, and to always be busy working in them, to be adopted as sons and daughters of God, obtaining the new body that He has promised for all of us.

Now, remember that the trial stage is while we’re in this mortal body. When we are in the new body, which is eternal and glorified, and immortal, and incorruptible, that is no longer a time to be tested; there we will already be totally restored to eternal life, with eternal life, and we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, with a body like the glorified body of Jesus Christ; and we will already be in the full position of kings and priests, to reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity as kings and priests. But we have to go through the time of trial, because WE WILL ALL BE TESTED.

And now the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as Mystical Body also had to be tested; and from age to age, the Church of Jesus Christ, each age has been tested and each messenger has also been tested.

For this end time, the Church of Jesus Christ will go through the trial that pertains to this end time and will obtain the great victory in the divine love; and will receive the adoption. And each member of the Church of Jesus Christ will obtain the victory in the final test of the Church of Jesus Christ and the members of the Church of Jesus Christ, we will obtain the victory in the divine love and we will be adopted, we will be transformed; and from then on there will be no more trials.

Now, it will also be like this for the messenger of the Church of Jesus Christ in and of the Age of the Cornerstone.

And we are all going to pass the test: we are going to stand firm in the Word of Life, the Word of Christ; and we are going to obtain the victory in the divine love; and we are going to be adopted, we are going to be transformed, and we will have the eternal body. We will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

We are living in the age that will be adopted, the age where the sons and daughters of God will be adopted; that is the Age of the Cornerstone, in which all the elect of God are being called and gathered through the Voice of Christ, the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet through His Angel Messenger in this Last Day, in the Latin American and Caribbean territory.

Now we can see where we are in the Divine Program: we are in the Age of the Cornerstone, the age where the sons and daughters of God will pass the test: they will stand firm in the Word of God, they will obtain the victory in divine love and obtain the transformation of their bodies, and we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

We have not yet been transformed, but we will be transformed, in this Age of the Cornerstone, the Golden Age of the Church of Jesus Christ. And by faith, we already take that positive Word and make it ours.

There is no other age after the Age of the Cornerstone; and the past ages, none had the adoption, because the adoption is for the Age of the Cornerstone, where the Church of Jesus Christ is adopted.

And that is why just as Moses and Elijah appeared on Mount Transfiguration for the adoption of Jesus Christ, the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, of Moses and Elijah, appear in the Age of the Cornerstone, for the adoption of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now we can see that this is why just as Jesus Christ, on the occasion of His adoption on Mount Transfiguration, was under the ministry of Moses and Elijah… The Scripture says that Moses and Elijah appeared talking with Jesus about the departure of Jesus to Jerusalem16, for the work that He was going to carry out there in Jerusalem, the Work of Redemption.

And now notice how for the Last Day, under the ministries of Moses and Elijah, God will be speaking to us about all the Divine Program that will be carried out in this end time, and how the Church of Jesus Christ will go to Jerusalem, to live in Jerusalem and reign with Christ for one thousand years and then for all eternity. We will go in the eternal body that we are to receive, and we will reign with Christ for one thousand years and then for all eternity.

Now, notice that under the ministries of Moses and Elijah is that all this revelation of all these things is made known to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The face of the Lord was also seen there shining as the sun.

The sun represents Christ. Christ said17: “I am the Light of the world.” The sun is the star king and our Lord Jesus Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords.

And now, the Second Coming of Christ is like the Sun of Righteousness shining, says the prophet Malachi in chapter 4, verse 2, where it says:

“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings…”

The literal sun has no wings, but Christ —who is the Sun of Righteousness— said that the Son of Man will come with His Angels. His Angels, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, which are the Two Olive Trees, are the wings of the Sun of Righteousness, the wings of the Son of Man.

Now, notice, the two olive branches in the prophecy of Zechariah, chapter 4, those two branches, one was on the right and the other on the left, like two mighty eagle wings.

Now, we can see all these prophetic mysteries relevant to this end time to be fulfilled in the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone, and we can see how they have begun to be fulfilled in this end time.

Why? Because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has come to the end of Her earthly journey, and has to be transformed and taken to the House of our heavenly Father for the Great Marriage Supper of the Lamb; where Christ will distribute His rewards to all the sons and daughters of God, to all the members of His Mystical Body of believers, who have worked in His Work in the time they have had to live.

Saint Paul says18: “For your work in the Lord is not in vain.” In other words, he will receive the fair reward from Jesus Christ.

He also says, compares this to the farmer who sows; he says19: “For he that sows sparingly, shall reap sparingly.”

The one who sows 3 grains of wheat, well, he will have 3 little wheat plants; and if each wheat plant produces (in each little wheat plant) 100 grains of wheat, then he has 300 grains of wheat.

But the one who sowed 1000 grains of wheat, and if each grain of wheat produces one little wheat plant (which would be normal), and each little wheat plant produces 100 little wheat plants, how many grains of wheat will the one who sowed 1000 grains of wheat harvest? Well, he’s going to harvest (how much?), he’s going to harvest… (Who can multiply it around here?). It will be 100.000 or 100 million, or 10.000, around there; or 10.000 or 100.000, or 1 million or 10 million around there; in other words, he will harvest a lot.

But if another sowed 100.000 grains of wheat, he’s going to harvest more.

Now, we all want to harvest a lot, but not work hard. That is the lazy man’s policy. And a lazy man of whom Christ spoke in the Bible, when the time of reward came, he received no reward, but that which had been given to him was taken from him and given to the one who had more.

That is the parable of the talents20. He who had a talent buried it, he produced nothing with it; he who had 3 multiplied them, he who had 5 multiplied them. And when God came to require it of him, the Lord came to require it of them, he who had 5 multiplied it and then he had 10, he who had 3 multiplied them and then he had 6; and he who had 1 did nothing, and said…

Then came the excuses; because, as I told you, when a person fails, he always tries to justify his failure, instead of saying: “I have sinned, I have failed. Have mercy on me, Lord.”

But he who had one and did nothing with it, and buried it, came to give account when his lord asked him to give account, and said: “Behold, a talent you gave me, behold, I give you back your talent; for I knew that you were a hard man, who reaps (that is, who harvests) where you did not sow, and I was afraid.”

There, Christ also shows us that the fearful, the cowardly, are negligent.

If God gives us the talents it is to work, and He will help us in all the work we do. God’s blessing will be upon the work we do to multiply it.

But the one who had one talent always looked for some excuse to justify his negligence. And his lord said to him: “You knew that I was like this. Therefore, it was better for you to have given my talent to the exchangers, that I might come and receive what was mine with usury.”

In other words, God wants to receive what He has given us with profit, that is, in a multiplied form.

“Now, you knew I was like that. It was good for you then to have given my talent to the exchangers, so that I could receive it with profits, with the interests.”

In other words, the one who has little talent then joins the one who has more: he works with that one, places his talent in the work that is being done by another person or persons who have more talents (that is uniting talents), and then he will produce much fruit; and the Lord, when He comes, will find that the talent produced much fruit.

Now, what did Christ do with that one who did nothing with the talent? He said to him: “Wicked and slothful servant.”

A person who doesn’t work in the Work of Christ our Savior, who came to Earth and died for us, and the person remains without doing anything for Christ, when He did so much for us, He did everything, Christ says to him: “Wicked and slothful servant.” Wicked and slothful: he did not love the Lord, and did not want to work for the Lord.

He says to him (the Lord says): “Take away the talent from him, and give it to him who has 10 talents.” They say: “But he already has 10 talents.” Christ says: “For unto every one that hath shall be given.” Why? The one who has and worked and multiplied it is a good administrator.

If you are going to put your money into a business with someone else, and there are two people: one whose every business has failed, and one whose every business he has done has been a success and has gained and multiplied what he has invested, with whom do you put your money? Well, with the one who’s been successful. You’re not going to put it with the one that has not been successful because you are going to lose it as well.

And now: “Give it to the one who has more talents.”

And, notice, Christ wants us to use what He has given us in such a way that it may multiply, that it may be of great blessing.

And you know what? The one who will benefit is the same person; because “he that sows sparingly, shall reap sparingly; but he that sows abundantly, shall reap abundantly.” And your work in the Lord is not in vain. In other words, we will obtain the rewards as God has promised them.

Look, God doesn’t want lazy people in His Work, He doesn’t want wicked and slothful servants in His Work.

Now, the hardworking servants will have a great reward. It is not that the person says: “I’m going to work for rewards,” but Christ has said that He will give the reward; because He, notice, in Matthew, chapter 16, verse 27, says:

“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.”

So it’s not a matter of the person saying: “I want Him to reward me.” He has already said it. And every person who works in the Work of Christ with divine love will receive his reward.

In Revelation, chapter 22, verse 12, it also says: “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” In other words, Christ will reward each person as an individual, according to his work.

That is, people in the Mystical Body of Christ have to be working in one way or another. They cannot be lazy, because the lazy are counted as slothful and wicked servants by the Lord Jesus Christ; that is how they are counted; and they have no part nor lot in the rewards that Christ will give at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Many people say: “I let everyone work; and when Christ distributes the rewards, He will distribute them equally to all.” He says:

“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”

He who did nothing in the Work of the Lord, what will his reward be? Well, nothing. He who worked will then receive the reward as he has worked in the Work of Christ and if he has done it with divine love; not out of vainglory, nor out of strife, nor because he seeks rewards, but because he loves our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and is so grateful to Christ that he wants to work because of Him and for Him, with divine love.

And even in the work we do we are tested. There can be no selfishness, but divine love, in our soul for our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

After salvation, the greatest privilege we have in the Mystical Body of Christ is to work in His Work. That is a privilege that each of you has and so do I.

Let each one take care both of his salvation and of his work in the Lord; because we are all tested.

WE WILL ALL BE TESTED, says our subject of this occasion.

And in the trajectory in our earthly life, remember, we are being (what?) tested.

Don’t lose sight of the fact that we are all being tested as individuals in the course of our earthly life in the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every human being is being tested.

And now, we thank Christ for knowing that we are being tested, which helps us to be diligent and to express our love to Christ, even while working in His Work, which is one of the ways in which and through which – of which we express our love to Him.

It’s not just saying: “I love Christ.” If we love Him, then let us work for Him in His Work.

The Scripture says21: “God so loved the world…” But it doesn’t stop there, it says: “…that He has given His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Now, we also love our Lord Jesus Christ with all our soul, that we have given our soul, our heart to Him; and we also give Him our labor, our work in His Work, we work in His Work with divine love, we are giving to Him.

He says22: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength.” That expresses for the person to give Him with all our soul, our strength, our heart, our whole being; that is, soul, spirit and body; as He has also given us of Himself, and has given us salvation freely.

“WE WILL ALL BE TESTED.” We can say “WE ARE ALL TESTED.”

And now, we have seen how those of the antediluvian time were tested; we have seen how those of the time after the flood have been tested; and now we are seeing how we are being tested in this end time; because WE WILL ALL BE TESTED, and we are all being tested.

It has been a great privilege for me to be with you tonight testifying to you that WE ARE ALL TESTED.

And we will pass the test, we will be adopted as sons and daughters of God manifested in eternal bodies, because we will be transformed, and we will be like Jesus Christ: in the image and likeness of our beloved Savior.

Now, where are the ones that are being tested at this time? Well, here we are. A part here in the Republic of Chile, and also in all of the Latin American and Caribbean countries. We are being tested by God at this end time; and we will obtain the victory, and we will be adopted, we will be transformed, because He has promised so.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and me too, and may He help us and strengthen us in this stage of our life, where we are being tested.

Lord Jesus Christ, help us, strengthen us and also use us in Your Work; and soon complete the number of the elect, that in this work of taking the Message everywhere reaches the last of the elect and Your Mystical Body, Your Church, is completed; and all the dead in Christ are resurrected in eternal bodies and we who are alive be transformed. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen.

Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved brethren and friends present here in Antofagasta, Chile; and may our Lord Jesus Christ continue to bless you for all eternity.

May you all have a wonderful evening.

“WE WILL ALL BE TESTED.”

1 Romans 6:10, 14:9

2 First John 3:12

3 Matthew 13:24-30

4 Genesis 2:17

5 Romans 6:23

6 John 10:17-18

7 John 10:15

8 John 12:24

9 Romans 3:23

10 Numbers 20:1-13

11 Exodus 17:1-7

12 Deuteronomy 3:23-27

13 Numbers 14:22

14 Matthew 4:1-11, Mark 1:12-13, Luke 4:1-13

15 Luke 2:41-51

16 Luke 9:28-31

17 John 8:12

18 First Corinthians 15:58

19 Second Corinthians 9:6

20 Matthew 25:14-30

21 John 3:16

22 Deuteronomy 6:5