The Mystery of the Transformation and the Catching Away

Good evening, beloved friends and brethren, here in Santo Anastácio, São Paulo, Brazil. It is a great blessing to be with you, to share some moments of fellowship around the Divine Program and to get to know the mystery of the transformation and the catching away of the children of God.

For this reason, I want to read in Philippians chapter 3, verse 20 to 21, where it says:

“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”

Our subject for this occasion is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE TRANSFORMATION AND THE CATCHING AWAY.” 

Is the transformation, this promise of the transformation, in the Scripture? Yes, it is. We have read in Philippians chapter 3, verse 20 to 21, where it says that Jesus Christ will change our body.

Who will bring that transformation? It will be our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

When will the transformation take place? At the Last Day, at the Last Trumpet.

Who are the ones that will be caught up by the Lord? That is the other question, and the answer is: all the sons and daughters of God, every person who has believed in Jesus Christ as our Savior and washed away his sins in the Blood of Christ and received the Spirit of Christ, and therefore, has been born again, has been born into the Kingdom of God, has been born into the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He or she is part of the Church of Jesus Christ; and it’s the Church of Jesus Christ and every person born into Her, upon believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit, who has become a member of that Church. And all the members of the Church of Jesus Christ, of past ages and of our time, are the ones who will be caught up with Christ to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Now, let’s examine these questions we have read in greater detail, and let’s see the answer to all these questions in greater detail.

The promise of the transformation: in the reading we had at the beginning, we saw that this promise of the transformation is in the Scripture, and Jesus Christ is the One who will change our mortal bodies, because the body we have obtained here on Earth is mortal, it is corruptible, and it is temporary, because we have obtained a body among a fallen race; and that is why our earthly body has come through the union of a man and a woman, and that body has come sentenced to death. That is why it is born, it grows, and then it dies; it is a mortal body, it is corruptible and it is temporary.

But God gives us the privilege to come in this mortal body to come in contact with Eternal Life, and thus, have the promise to be changed and have a new body at the Last Day.

Who are the ones that will have a new body? All those who have come in contact with Jesus Christ by believing in Jesus Christ as their Savior and washing away their sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ. There is no other way for a person to be able to obtain the transformation of his body.

Jesus Christ said on one occasion: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life: and no man comes unto the Father, but by Me.”¹ There is no other Way, and there is no other Eternal Life, and there is no other way to go back to our Heavenly Father’s House with Eternal Life, but by Jesus Christ.

Now we can see that the First Coming of Christ and His death on Calvary’s Cross had a purpose in the Divine Program: and it was to take our sins, become mortal, and die there on Calvary’s Cross, bearing our sins, so that we can have Eternal Life.

And we—upon believing in Christ as our Savior and washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit—obtain the new birth of which Christ spoke to Nicodemus, telling him: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

Nicodemus was interested in the Kingdom of God, and he asks Him: “How can these things be? Can a man enter into his mother’s womb and be born when he is old?” And if Nicodemus was already old, how old would his mother be? (If she was alive, because he doesn’t even say whether she was alive or not.) But Nicodemus thought the new birth was difficult, because he didn’t understand that the new birth is through Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ told 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. Marvel not that I said unto thee: Ye must be born again.”²

One must be born again to have Eternal Life, through Jesus Christ: receiving His Holy Spirit, and thus receiving a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension with Eternal Life; and then, at the Last Day, well, we will receive the physical, eternal, and glorified body, and we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. But first we must be born again, first we must receive the theophanic body of the sixth dimension.

Who are the ones that will be changed? Those who have first believed in Christ, washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and received His Holy Spirit; thus, they have received a theophanic spirit, a theophanic body of the sixth dimension; and thus, they have Eternal Life. For Christ said:

“…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.” (Saint John chapter 5, verse 24.)

Now, notice how to pass from death to Eternal Life: it’s through Christ; there is no other way. That is why Jesus Christ came to Earth two thousand years ago and died on Calvary’s Cross.

Some people didn’t understand why Christ allowed Himself to be killed; but it was necessary, the death of Christ was necessary to take away our sins and be able to bless us and give us the new birth, give us His Holy Spirit; and at the Last Day, give us an eternal body that He has promised for each of His believers who have been born again, who have been born into the Kingdom of God through the Spirit of Christ.

Jesus Christ spoke to us about this mystery of the new birth. In the Gospel according to Saint John, He tells us… chapter 1, verse 9, and on:

“That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

Now, notice how to obtain the new birth that Christ spoke of here. It’s not by being born through our father and mother, but by being born of the Spirit of God, and this is by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ also spoke to us about this mystery in Saint John chapter 7, and He told us the following… Let’s read it. Chapter 7, verse 37 and on (of Saint John):

“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”

Jesus Christ spoke of the new birth throughout His earthly ministry; but during that time, the disciples of Jesus Christ had not received the Holy Spirit, they had not been born again yet; but Jesus Christ taught them that they must be born again.

And then we find, in the Book of Acts, in chapter 2, that on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came upon one hundred and twenty people; and one hundred and twenty believers in Jesus Christ were filled with the Holy Spirit; and there, one hundred and twenty people were born again in the Kingdom of God. And from that point on, millions of human beings have obtained the new birth by believing in Christ as their Savior, washing away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving the Spirit of Christ. That is how one is born again.

Jesus Christ promised that He would send His Spirit. In Saint John chapter 14, verse 26, it says:

“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.”

He is speaking to them about the Coming of the Holy Spirit, which was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, and from that point on the Holy Spirit has been coming upon all the believers in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and bringing forth the new birth in every person who has received Him as his Savior and has washed away his sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ.

Also in Chapter 15, verse 26, Jesus Christ says (this is in the Gospel according to Saint John):

“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.”

Here we can see again the promise of the Coming of the Holy Spirit to the believers in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

And in Saint John chapter 16, verses 12 to 15, Jesus 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, notice how Jesus Christ spoke of the Coming of the Holy Spirit to His believers; those are the people who receive the Spirit of Christ, and obtain the new birth and obtain their theophanic body of the sixth dimension, which is a body similar to our body but of another dimension.

If those people die (in terms of their physical body), they go on to live in Paradise in that theophanic body, where they don’t have to work, or sleep, they don’t get tired either, nor do they sleep, or eat; because it is in another dimension, where there are trees, where there is vegetation, where there are birds, where there are animals, but everything is from another dimension; and there are people there, but from another dimension.

And at the Last Day, let’s see what Christ promises for His believers. Chapter 6, verse 39 and on, of Saint John, 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 Jesus Christ say that the Father wants Him to raise up all those whom the Father has given Him (meaning, the ones the Father has given Him, who have also already departed during the ages of the Church of the Lord)? He says that the resurrection will be at the Last Day.

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

When is the resurrection of the dead in Christ (who are in Paradise)? It’s at the Last Day.

And what is the Last Day? One day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, says Second Peter chapter 3, verse 8, and Psalm 90, verse 4. One day before the Lord is a thousand years to human beings; a thousand years of our [time] here on Earth is only one day before God.

And now, when it speaks to us about the Last Day, it is referring to the last millennium; and when the Scripture speaks to us about the Last Days, it is referring to the last millenniums.

Notice Saint Paul the Apostle speaking to us about the Last Days, telling us that the Last Days had begun in the time of Jesus, telling us that Jesus, being an instrument of God, God spoke through Jesus, through His Son Jesus Christ, at the Last Days; and two thousand years have already passed, and we are still in the Last Days. Hebrews chapter 1, verse 1 to 2, Saint Paul says the following:

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets…”

How did God speak to the Hebrew people in the Old Testament? Through the prophets. “Surely the Lord God will do nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants, the prophets.” (Amos chapter 3, verse 7.)

“…Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.”

Saint Paul is saying that God spoke through His Son, through Jesus Christ, in the Last Days, and two thousand years have already passed. It’s because the Last Days before God are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium, and seventh millennium, to human beings; and that is why Saint Paul says that God was speaking through Jesus Christ in the Last Days, in the time of the First Coming of Christ. When Jesus was four to seven years old, the fifth millennium began, and therefore, the Last Days began.

Now, we have seen what the Last Days are: they are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium, and seventh millennium.

And now, which is the Last Day? The seventh millennium. That is the Last Day which Jesus Christ speaks of and says: “And I will raise him up at the Last Day.” Whom? His believers who have washed away their sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ and have received His Holy Spirit, and then whose physical bodies have died. Christ says: “I am going to raise him up, I will raise him up at the Last Day.”

At the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, the Voice of Christ as a Great Voice of Trumpet is heard by God’s elect, calling and gathering all of God’s elect.

In Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11, Saint John the Apostle tells us about his experience and says:

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day…”

In other words, not in his physical body, but in Spirit: in his theophanic body, he was transported in that Apocalyptic vision to the Last Day, meaning to the seventh millennium, which is the Lord’s Day.

“…And heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet…”

On what Day did John the Apostle hear the Great Voice of Trumpet? At the Last Day, meaning, the Lord’s Day.

“Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.”

Who is the Alpha and Omega? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. The Voice of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, speaking to us with that Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and calling and gathering all of God’s elect; gathering them where? In His mystical Body of believers, in His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone.

Because by the Last Day, the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church have already passed, and all that’s left is the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age where Jesus Christ speaks with that Great Voice of Trumpet, meaning, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and calls and gathers all His elect in the Age of the Cornerstone.

Just as He spoke through each angel-messenger of each age in the seven ages of the Gentile Church, because they were the mouth of Jesus Christ in each age; and through them, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit was speaking, and He was calling and gathering His elect of each age, in the territory relevant to the fulfillment of each age.

The first age in Asia Minor; the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth ages in different parts of Europe; and the seventh age of the Gentile Church in North America.

And now, for the Age of the Cornerstone, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit has gone to Latin America and the Caribbean for the call of the Great Voice of Trumpet, for the Last Day, for the end time.

If we add to the calendar the years it is behind, we are already in the seventh millennium, we are already at the Last Day that Jesus Christ spoke of, in which He will raise all the saints who have departed, who are in Paradise; and He will change all His elect, whom He is calling at this time, and gathering into His mystical Body of believers, in the Age of the Cornerstone and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom. What for? To prepare us to be changed and raptured, caught up, taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, at this last Day.

Now we have seen the mystery of the transformation. Whom is the transformation for? For those who have departed and for us who are alive.

Let’s see what Saint Paul tells in his Letter to the Corinthians; First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 49 to 54, where he says:

“…And as we have borne the image of the earthy,” (meaning, of Adam), “we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”

In other words, the image of Jesus Christ; because we will all be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

Just as the Corn of Wheat, which is Christ, was sown into the ground and has to reproduce Itself in many corns of wheat, in many people in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.

Because when you sow a wheat grain into the ground, and it sprouts, the plant grows, and when it brings forth fruit, what will you see? Will you see corn? If you see corn, then you didn’t sow wheat. When you see the fruit, you will see wheat grains just like the one you sowed.

And that is the Divine Program. God’s Program is to have sons and daughters just like the Lord Jesus Christ, with Eternal Life and with both consciouses together; and thus, when all of God’s sons and daughters are changed and have the new body, we will all be just like our Lord Jesus Christ: with both consciouses together. In other words, we will all be prophets; because having both consciouses together, the person is a prophet.

Didn’t Moses say on one occasion, and also Samuel: “God willing, may all the people be prophets”?³ Well, notice, the good desire that these prophets had is the same desire of God. God was reflecting His desire; and His desire is that millions of human beings, who are the members of the mystical Body of Christ, be just like the Lord Jesus Christ: men and women with an eternal and glorified physical body, and also with an eternal theophanic spirit, and with both consciouses together, and thus, we will all be prophets, and thus, we will all see in other dimensions. And we will reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity.

Because Jesus Christ has redeemed us, He has washed us from all our sins with His precious Blood, and He has made us unto our God kings and priests. And if He has made us kings, then we will reign; because a king has to reign. And we are priests because He has also made us priests.

Therefore, we are going to minister during the Millennial Kingdom and for all eternity; and we will reign with Him a thousand years, and then what? For all eternity. That is the Divine Program for each one of you and also for me.

And now, let’s continue reading:

[1 Corinthians 15:50] “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”

A person, even if he is an elect of God, cannot be in the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, inheriting the Kingdom of God, and reigning with Christ, while he is in a mortal, temporary, and corruptible body; he must have a new garment: he must be dressed as a king and priest; he must be clothed with the garment of immortality, with the new body; and that is what Christ has for each one of you and also for me, and for all the saints who have departed in past ages.

No one can continue to live here on Earth in this physical body that we currently have, in order to continue living, this temporary body must be changed. The mortal body cannot inherit incorruption, it must die.

But Christ has promised a new body for us. The dead in Christ, He will give them a new body in the resurrection, they will rise in a new body; and we who are alive will be changed, and we will be changed in our atoms, and thus, we will obtain the new body.

Saint Paul goes on to say:

“Behold, I shew you a mystery,” (because it is a mystery of the Kingdom of God), “we shall not all sleep.”

In other words, we won’t all die. Why? Because there will be a group of children of God here on Earth, in an eternal Age, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, who will be called and gathered by Jesus Christ with the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and who will be put in the Eternal Age of the Cornerstone; and there, those people will be able to obtain the new body.

Now, if one of our own goes, if his physical body dies, there is no problem, because he will rise at this Last Day, meaning, in the seventh millennium; and he will rise in a new body, and be a witness of the resurrection, he will be a witness for us of the resurrection.

But there will be thousands of people who will be alive at this Last Day and will receive the transformation of their bodies: and those are God’s elect, God’s Firstborn, written in Heaven, before the foundation of the world, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; who, at this Last Day, will be called and gathered in the Age of the Cornerstone and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, in the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, it goes on to say:

“…But we shall all be changed…”

In other words, we will all have a new body, a changed body. First a mortal body, and then an immortal body. First the mortal, corruptible, and temporary body, which is the one we currently have, and the one God’s elect of past ages had; and at this Last Day, He has promised to give us the new body.

We don’t have it yet, but it is a Divine Promise, which He will fulfill at the Last Day; for the dead in Christ will rise first, in eternal bodies, and we who are alive will be changed. That is why we are in the mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone, receiving His Word and being prepared to be changed at this Last Day.

“…But we shall all be changed, 

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound…”

Here we have the Trumpet again: it is the Last Trumpet. When reference is made to the Last Trumpet, that is referring to the Last Message of Jesus Christ.

The Great Voice of Trumpet that John heard on the Lord’s Day is the Voice of Jesus Christ giving us His Last Message, His Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, with which He calls and gatherers all of His elect into His mystical Body of believers at this Last Day, in the stage or Age of the Cornerstone, the Eternal Age of the Church of Jesus Christ, which will obtain the transformation of all the members of the mystical Body of Christ of this end time and of those who lived in past ages.

It goes on to say:

“…And the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”

Notice how important it is to hear the Last Trumpet, that is, the Last Message of Christ speaking to His people, to His Church, and calling and gathering all His elect of the Last Day.

That is why He said in Saint Matthew 24, verse 31:

“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect.”

With the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, all of God’s elect are called and gathered together.

That is the Voice of Christ at the Last Day, speaking to us through His Angel-Messenger and making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass. Revelation chapter 4, verse 1, says: “Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.”

That Voice of Trumpet is the Voice of Christ calling His elect at the Last Day to go up to the Age of the Cornerstone, just like in each age He called His elect to go up to the age relevant to the time in which they lived.

And now, we are living at the time of the Age of the Cornerstone, where Jesus Christ would be speaking to His people with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and He would be making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass.

Just as He had seven messengers in the seven Gentile Church ages, He would have a Messenger in the Age of the Cornerstone.

Now, the Voice of Christ says: “Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.”

And in Revelation 22, verse 6, we find through whom the Voice of Christ will be making known to us all these things which must shortly be done. Revelation 22, verse 6, says the following:

“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel,” (whom has He sent? His Angel-Messenger. What for?), “to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”

To show what? The things which must shortly be done.

It’s through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ that at the Last Day God’s elect would be hearing the Voice of Jesus Christ, that Great Voice of Trumpet that John heard on the Lord’s Day, at the Last Day, meaning, in the seventh millennium.

And now, we who are living at the Last Day are privileged; and we have the opportunity to hear the Great Voice of Trumpet, the Voice of Jesus Christ giving us His Last Message, and revealing to us all these things which must shortly be done.

And through His Angel, we hear His Voice. Just like in past times, God’s Voice was heard through God’s prophets in the Old Testament, then through Jesus Christ, and then through the apostles, and then through the seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages; and at the Last Day, through His Angel-Messenger.

Through His Angel-Messenger, God’s elect would be hearing the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom making known to us all these things which must shortly be done, and thus, they would be called, gathered, and put in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the mystical Body of Christ, in order to be prepared to be changed at this Last Day.

Jesus Christ, in Revelation 22, verse 16, again confirms that He has sent His Angel-Messenger. And He says:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”

Whom does He say He has sent? His Angel-Messenger. It’s through the Angel of Jesus Christ that all these things which must shortly be done at this end time, at this Last Day, are made known. It is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, veiled and revealed, manifested through His Angel-Messenger, making known to us all these things which must shortly be done.

John wanted to worship the Angel of Jesus Christ, but the Angel said to him: “See that you do it not. I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren; worship God.”⁴

The Angel of Jesus Christ is not the Lord Jesus Christ. He is only the prophet-messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and of the Age of the Cornerstone, who is sent by Christ with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass at this Last Day.

How many of you knew what the Last Days were? You didn’t know before, but now we do know. Why? Because Jesus Christ has revealed to us what the Last Days are.

How many of you knew which was the Last Day? You didn’t know, but now we do know. We know that it’s the seventh millennium. That is the Lord’s Day, that is the Last Day.

And at the Last Day is when Jesus Christ would be speaking to us with the Great Voice of Trumpet through His Angel-Messenger, and He would be calling and gathering all His elect at this Last Day. What for? To then bring the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of all of us who are alive.

It goes on to say:

[1 Corinthians 15:53] “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”

From that point on, we will no longer be mortal; we will be immortal in the body that we will have, which is the new and immortal body that Jesus Christ has promised for each one of you and also for me. He has promised that body for all those who have believed in Him and have washed away their sins in His Blood and have received His Holy Spirit, both in past ages and at this end time.

Now we have seen these questions we had indicated here:

Is the promise of the transformation of the body in the Scripture? Yes it is, we have seen it in different Scriptures.

Who is the One that will bring that transformation? We have seen that it is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; He is the One who will bring the transformation of our bodies; He is the One who will bring the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive. He has promised it, and He will fulfill it.

And soon the dead in Christ will rise in eternal bodies, and we who are alive will be changed, and we will have the new and eternal body that He has promised; and then we will all be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ, and then we will receive our inheritance, God’s inheritance; and we will be heirs of God and joint-heirs with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. And we will reign with Christ in that glorious Millennial Kingdom and for all eternity.

When will the transformation take place? At the Last Day, after the dead in Christ rise in eternal bodies. “Then we who are alive shall be changed,” Saint Paul the Apostle says; and this is at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium.

And if we add to the calendar the years it is behind, then we are already in the seventh millennium, the Lord’s Day, the Last Day, when Jesus Christ, in one of the years of the Last Day, will raise the saints who departed in past ages, and will change us who are alive.

It is a promise of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is a Biblical promise to be fulfilled at this Last Day.

The dead in Christ have not risen yet, and we who are alive have not been changed either; but it will happen in a moment at this end time: when the last elect has come, has reached the mystical Body of Christ.

That is why the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, is calling and gathering all His elect in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the territory of Latin America and the Caribbean; because that is the territory for the call of Jesus Christ, of the Great Voice of Trumpet, calling and gathering all His elect, who have had their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world. And they are called and put in the Age of the Cornerstone of the mystical Body of Christ, so that soon they may be changed according to the promise of Christ.

When will the transformation take place? At the Last Day, in the seventh millennium. But in which year? Wait for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and our transformation to take place, and then we will know in which year our transformation and the resurrection of the dead in Christ would be. But we have seen that it’s at the Last Day, in the last millennium, in the seventh millennium, which is the Lord’s Day or Last Day.

We have seen that Jesus Christ rose on the morning of Easter or Resurrection Sunday, in the fourth watch, for He rose in the morning.

A watch consists of one hundred and twenty-five years, because one day before the Lord is as a thousand years. And three hours… (because a watch consists of three hours) and one hour before the Lord is forty-one years and eight months to human beings; and three hours are one hundred and twenty-five years. And a watch has three hours; and a prophetic watch before God has one hundred and twenty-five years.

Jesus Christ asked, regarding the Coming of the Son of man, if It would be in the first watch, second watch, or third watch; if it would be in the evening, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning.⁵ And if It didn’t happen in those previous watches, then It’s for the fourth watch.

The first watch is from 9:00 to 12:00 at night; the second watch is from 12:00 to 3:00 in the morning; the third watch is from 3:00 to 6:00 in the morning; and the fourth is from 6:00 to 9:00 in the morning.

In the fourth watch, Jesus Christ rose; in the fourth watch, the Holy Spirit came upon one hundred and twenty people.

In the fourth watch, Jesus Christ also walked on the sea and appeared to His disciples, who were being tossed by a great storm or tempest in the middle of the Sea of Galilee, and they were on that ship, about to perish; and in the fourth watch, Jesus appeared to them.⁶

Now, notice the great events that have taken place in the fourth watch.

In the fourth, watch God delivered the Hebrew people from Pharaoh’s army, which went through the Red Sea following the Hebrew people, and God destroyed them there.⁷

All these great events happened in the fourth watch.

And it was also in the fourth watch that the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, blessed Jacob and changed Jacob’s name to Israel.

Jacob had wrestled with that Angel all night, but it was when the day was breaking that the Angel said to him:

—“Let me go, I have to leave, the day is breaking already.”

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

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

—Jacob told Him: “Jacob.”

—The Angel said to him: “Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel.”

And that is how the Angel of the Lord blessed him. And Jacob left limping, because the Angel had wounded his side, that is, the hollow of his thigh, there; and from that point on, Jacob limped, but he had God’s blessing.⁸

And better is a limping man with God’s blessing than a man whose legs are healthy but who doesn’t have God’s blessing. Jacob left limping, but he left very happy, with God’s blessing.

On one occasion, Jesus Christ said: “It is better to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye less, or with one arm less, than to have both eyes or both arms and be cast into hell.”⁹

The most important thing for the human being is God’s blessing. Jesus Christ said: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; all other things will be added,”¹⁰ they are the additions of life.

But the most important thing for the human being is the Kingdom of God, is to believe in Christ as our Savior, wash away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit, and thus, to be born into the Kingdom of God; so that at the Last Day, we may obtain the eternal body that Christ has promised for each of those born again, [each] of the believers in Christ.

Now, we can see the importance of believing in Christ, by washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit, and thus, being put in the Body of Jesus Christ, the mystical Body of Christ, being born into that mystical Body of Christ; so that at the Last Day we may obtain the eternal body He has promised for each of you and also for me.

Who are the ones that will be caught up by the Lord? Those who are born again in the Kingdom of God, who have believed in Christ and washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ and received His Holy Spirit; both those who have departed in past ages and we who are alive; and at the Last Day, we will all receive the eternal body, the new body. And after being here on Earth for thirty to forty days in the new body, then we will leave this place and go to Heaven, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Christ said: “In my Father’s House are many mansions.” He also said: “If it were not so, I would have told you before; but I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”¹¹

Why does He say: “and receive you unto Myself”? Because we are the mystical Body of Christ; and He comes to get His mystical Body of believers to take them to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. They are the ones who will be caught up, and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

We have seen: “THE MYSTERY OF THE TRANSFORMATION AND THE CATCHING AWAY OF GOD’S ELECT.”

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and also upon me; and soon may we all be changed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

And who are the ones that will be changed at this Last Day? Where are they? Here we are, at this Last Day, waiting for our transformation. And as we wait for our transformation, we remain hearing the Voice of Christ as a Great Voice of Trumpet, making known to us all these things which must shortly be done.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ be upon each one of you, and soon we all be changed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren present; and have a good evening, everyone.

I will leave Rev. Gian del Corto with you to conclude our participation, and then you will conclude as you have planned, with the songs you have planned; and then, thanking Christ, we will leave joyful, with all that Word He has given us.

And all the days of our lives, we will continue waiting for our transformation, because we already know the mystery of the transformation and the catching away of God’s elect.

May God bless you, and good evening.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE TRANSFORMATION AND THE CATCHING AWAY OF GOD’S ELECT.”