The Mystery of Divine Simplicity

Good evening, beloved brethren and friends present here in Olavarría, Argentina. It is a great blessing to be with you, to share some moments of fellowship around the Divine Program pertaining to this Last Day, and thus, to see our subject pertaining to this occasion: “THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE SIMPLICITY.” 

Under this subject: “THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE SIMPLICITY,” tonight we will be seeing God’s Program pertaining to this end time.

For this reason, I want to read two Scriptures, the first in Saint Matthew chapter 16, verse 13 and on, where it says… verses 13 to 20, says:

“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying,

Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.”

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

“THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE SIMPLICITY.”

Notice how in Divine simplicity, the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, the First Coming of the Messiah, that is, the First Coming of God’s Anointed One in all His fullness.

We find that the Hebrew people were waiting for the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah, for all the prophets had spoken of the Coming of the Messiah; and among the Hebrew people, everyone expected the Coming of the Messiah to be only one.

And the Coming of the Messiah has two very important parts: the first part is the Coming of the Messiah as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, and the second part of the Coming of the Messiah is the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work.

Now, the first part, which was the First Coming of Christ, the First Coming of the Messiah, we find that it was expected by the Hebrew people in a great way, and yet, it came fulfilled in a simple way: it was God’s simplicity manifested.

Always, the veil of flesh that God has used has always been a simple individual. We find that through the prophets of the Old Testament, God was manifested in simple people; and then, when the First Coming of the Messiah was fulfilled, it was in a simple Person called: Jesus of Nazareth.

Now, how many people had thought that the Coming of the Messiah among the Hebrew people would be fulfilled in a young carpenter from Nazareth? That was inconceivable in the mind of the theologians of that time, it was inconceivable in the mind of the priests of that time, it was inconceivable in the mind of the doctors of Law, it was inconceivable in the mind of the members of the Sanhedrin, meaning, the members of the Council of the Hebrew religion (a Council that was made up of seventy scholars among the Hebrew people, scholars in religious matters, in other words, doctors of theology or divinity); and the head of the Sanhedrin was the high priest, another scholar among the Hebrew people.

And none of them had even thought that the Coming of the Messiah would be fulfilled in a simple way, in simplicity, through a simple man from among the Hebrew people. And since the Scripture said that He would be from the seed of David,¹ well, they thought that man had to be a very important man, a man with great doctorates, and with great titles; and when He came, the title he had was ‘carpenter.’

Now, how many people among the Hebrew people were waiting for the Coming of the Messiah? Well, everyone. And the Hebrew religion was announcing the Coming of the Messiah to them; the ministers, the priests of the Hebrew religion, were announcing to the people that the Messiah would come, and that before the Messiah came, the Prophet Elijah would appear.

But notice, also when the coming of the Prophet Elijah was fulfilled, the coming of Elijah, it was in a simple way too.

Now, the priests of that time, including the high priest and the members of the Council of the Hebrew religion, surely interpreted the coming of the Prophet Elijah for that time as the return of the Prophet Elijah, Elijah the Tishbite, who left in a chariot of fire,² that is, in a flying saucer, and therefore, he had to return in a flying saucer.

But when the coming of the Elijah who had to come at that time was fulfilled, notice in whom it was fulfilled, and notice how that Divine Promise was fulfilled; because it is promised that Elijah would come.

And now, when Jesus Christ was on Mount Transfiguration and He was transfigured before His disciples, and then came down the mountain with His disciples, Peter, James, and John, we find that the disciples of the Lord ask Him a question.

It appears in chapter 17, verse… let’s see, verse 9 and on. Here Jesus speaks to them about the vision they saw there on Mount Transfiguration, and He tells them not to tell anyone what they saw there. It says, [Matthew] chapter 17, verse 9 and on, says:

“And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?”

For the Scripture promised that Elijah would come: in chapter 4 of Malachi, and also in chapter 3.

And now, the Hebrew people are waiting for the coming of the Prophet Elijah.

And now, we find that the disciples already have the Messiah among them… Notice, in the previous chapter, Peter tells Jesus:

“Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God,” (in other words, “You are the Messiah.”)

Because Christ, Messiah, and Anointed One, mean the same thing, they are the same thing. The Christ or the Messiah is God’s Anointed with the Spirit of God in all fullness.

That is why when Jesus took the Scripture there in the synagogue of Nazareth, and read the passage of Isaiah chapter 61… There in Saint Luke, chapter 4, notice how Jesus reads that passage and what He says after reading that passage. Notice, He says… chapter 4, verse 17 and on, of Saint Luke, says:

“And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,” (see? See why He was the Anointed One, the Christ, the Messiah? Because the Spirit of God was upon Him, It was upon Him in all fullness), “because he hath anointed me,” (here it says that He has anointed Him, He was God’s Anointed One), “to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”

Now, notice how Jesus Christ takes the Scriptures, the prophecy that speaks of the Coming of the Anointed One, the Coming of the Messiah; and after He reads that Scripture, He tells them: “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears,” testifying to them that this Messianic promise, this promise of the Coming of the Messiah, the Coming of the Anointed One of God, was fulfilled in Him.

And now, notice, they had the Anointed One, the Messiah, among them. The disciples were with the Messiah, and the Messiah was with His disciples.

And now, they ask Jesus:

“Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things,” (He is referring to the Elijah who will come to restore).

“But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.”

And why is John the Baptist, Elijah? Let’s see. In the Book of Saint Matthew, chapter 11, Jesus, speaking of John the Baptist… let’s read from verse 9 and on, it says:

“But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.

For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.”

The Prophet Malachi, in chapter 3, had spoken of the messenger that God would send before Him; and the Prophet Isaiah, in chapter 40, also spoke of that messenger. It goes on to say:

“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”

And why is the least in the Kingdom of Heaven greater than John the Baptist, being that John the Baptist is such a great prophet, of whom Christ says: “Among them that are born of women, there has not risen a greater than John”? Because John the Baptist belongs to the Hebrew people, which are God’s servant people, and the least in the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the heavenly Israel.

The heavenly Israel is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ are God’s sons and daughters.

And now, what is greater: a son or a servant? In the Household of God, a son is greater than a servant.

And for this reason, notice, Moses and all the prophets, like Elijah and John the Baptist, they are all part of the servants, they are all part of the Hebrew people; therefore, those who belong to the mystical Body of Christ, to the Church of Jesus Christ, are greater: the least is greater than the greatest of the servants.

In other words, the least is, well… (let’s say) when one is born into a family, the children are born [successively], and the least is the youngest, the Benjamin of the family; that is in order of birth.

And now, notice, in order of birth in the Kingdom of Heaven, we have, for example, the order of birth of all the children of God: the last one born in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than John the Baptist, and Moses, and any prophet of the Old Testament.

And in the order in terms of the position that each son and daughter of God occupies in the Church of Jesus Christ: the one who is least important in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is greater than John the Baptist and any of the prophets of the Old Testament.

And of the messengers of the Lord Jesus Christ, the least… And now, when we refer to the least, the meaning is twofold: the least in terms of his position (which would be one of the messengers of Jesus Christ, one of the eight messengers of Jesus Christ), and the least in terms of him being the last one to appear.

In terms of the least important of the eight messengers of Jesus Christ, the least of them is greater than John the Baptist; and the least of them has to be someone who was not a prophet: any of the messengers who have instead been reformers.

But the least in terms of order of birth in the Kingdom of God, would be the last messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ: who would be the Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone; he would be the least in terms of birth order. But the Scripture says that the last are first.³

And didn’t Christ say, when everyone was trying to be the greatest in the Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Heaven…? They were all striving because they wanted the highest position. And notice, in Saint Matthew chapter 20…

Remember that everyone has wanted the highest position in the Kingdom of God; and that is good. Because one shouldn’t be negligent in the things of God; one should seek the maximum in the Divine Program, in order to achieve the maximum that person can achieve in the position in which God has put him; otherwise, he would be negligent.

It would be like a tree that can produce (let’s say) a hundredfold, only producing thirtyfold: it is withholding a little more than two-thirds of what it can produce; in other words, that would be a stingy and negligent tree, a tree that doesn’t love the Lord very much. Because one should produce the maximum for the Lord.

And do you know what the Lord says to those who produce the maximum and to those who have many talents? When the talent was taken away from the person who had one and didn’t use it, the Lord said⁴:

—“Now, take that talent and give that talent to him that has more, who has ten talents.”

And they said to Him:

—“But Lord, he is the one who has the most, he has ten talents, and he multiplied them, and now he has twenty!”

—“Well, give that additional talent to him that has more. For unto everyone that has, more shall be given; but from him that has not, shall be taken away even that which he has.”

See? He who didn’t do anything with what God gave him, and didn’t tend to the things of God, what happened to him? Everything God had given him was taken away; which was not the person’s, but God’s; and God put it in that person’s hands to produce, but he didn’t produce: it was taken away from him, and the person lost the talent; and not only did he lose the talent, but he also lost all of God’s blessings, because the Lord said: “And now, bind him hand and foot, cast that servant out,” (to where?) “to where the weeping and gnashing of teeth will be,” (in other words, the furnace of fire).

And now, notice what will happen to the negligent who have not tended to the things of God, and producing for God.

And now, let’s see how it is always important to try to produce the maximum for our Lord, out of Love Divine; not out of competition, but because we love the Lord and we want to do the maximum for the Lord.

In Saint Matthew chapter 20, verses 20 and on, it says:

“Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him,” (these sons of Zebedees are John the Apostle and James),

“And he said unto her,” (the mother of these young men), “What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.”

And do you know that this is a good attitude for a mother: to seek the greatest blessings for her children? Every mother should seek God’s blessing for her children, and try to achieve the maximum for her children; in other words, she should fight in favor of her children.

The example was set by Jacob’s mother, who found out about the blessing that would be spoken by Isaac; and she told Jacob⁵:

—“Look, your father has told your brother Esau to go hunting and get an animal, prepare it in a stew, and take it to him, so that your father may eat and then bless him.”

And it was the Birthright Blessing that would be spoken upon Esau. And Esau and Jacob’s mother said to Jacob:

—”Now, let’s prepare a goat.”

Jacob’s mother knew what Jacob’s father liked, because she was his wife.

“Let’s prepare a goat, and you will take it to your father so that he blesses you,” (in other words, “so you receive the Birthright Blessing.”)

Because God’s blessing is spoken through a man.

And notice, Jacob said:

—“But if I go to my father, he will know that I am Jacob and not Esau. And instead of blessing me, he will curse me.”

His mother told him:

—“Don’t worry, we will put the goat skins on your hands and on the areas where you should have hair, and then, when he touches you, well, he will feel that you have hair and then he will think that you are Esau, and he will bless you.”

—“But mother, and what if he realizes it, and instead of blessing me he curses me?”

“Then I will take responsibility. May the curse meant to fall upon you, be upon me.”

Notice, a mother seeking the blessing for her children fights in favor of her children and doesn’t see impossibilities, what she sees are possibilities. Because what good is it for a person to live without God’s blessing?

Now, by fighting for God’s blessing, by this mother fighting for God’s blessing for her son Jacob, notice, they obtained God’s blessing, the Birthright Blessing.

They prepared the goat, Jacob took it to his father; his father heard Jacob’s voice and said: “It is the voice of my son Jacob;” but when he touched his arms, he said: “But those are the arms of my son.”

In other words, touch, by touch he said those were the arms of his son; by hearing, he said it was Jacob’s voice; but by touch he said those were the arms of his son Esau. Then, by the scent of his clothing, he said it was his son Esau, his firstborn. And which other sense did he use? He couldn’t use his sight because he was already blind; so that was in Jacob’s favor too.

And his mother, well, she was in favor of Jacob. Because every mother desires God’s blessing for her beloved children, and she should fight for God’s blessing to come upon her children.

A mother who doesn’t fight for God’s blessing for her children is a mother who hasn’t taken her position as a mother responsibly; because it’s not just about having children and keeping them here, and having them be born, and giving them food, but rather, seeking God’s blessing for them too, so that they can live eternally; just as they have brought them to temporary life, they should find the way for them to live eternally. And every mother who loves her children and knows the Word of God will seek God’s blessing for her children too.

Now, this mother tells… Notice, I already told you that Jacob got the Birthright Blessing.

And now, let’s see here. The mother of James and John wanted the greatest blessing for her sons: the blessing of one on each side being put in the glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

That mother of theirs wasn’t a foolish mother, she was a very knowledgeable, very wise, and very loving mother who loved her sons very much, and who loved the Lord Jesus Christ very much as well; and she was seeking the best for her sons. And if there was a high position in the Kingdom of God, she wanted it for her sons; and she wasn’t going to stand idly by without fighting for that position for her sons if it was possible to obtain that blessing.

“But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.”

A person who is seeking God’s blessing can’t look at negative circumstances as an obstacle to obtain God’s blessing. He must always think that yes, he can do it; that is what it means to have positive faith: “Yes, we are able.”

“And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.”

In other words, “It is not Mine to give this to you, but to give it” (to whom?) “to them for whom it is prepared.”

And in Revelation chapter 3, verse 21, Jesus Christ says:

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”

That was the position, the blessing that the mother of Jacob and John was seeking for her sons; and they were seeking it too. And now, Christ promises this blessing for the Overcomer.

And now, notice how this very important position would be available for the Overcomer to obtain at the Last Day.

And now, this is the position the Faithful and Wise Servant will occupy, whom his Lord has made ruler over His Household (His Household is His Church) to give them Food in due season, in other words, their spiritual portion of the Word of God, the Message pertaining to that time.

From age to age, God has put faithful and wise servants, who have given the spiritual Food to His Church, to His children, in due season.

But at the Last Day is when the Faithful and Wise Servant will be giving the Food in due season, who will be present in the Coming of the Son of man; because the great blessing is for the one who, at the end time, will be giving that spiritual Food to God’s sons and daughters.

Although the angel-messengers of the seven ages have a great blessing and a great position in the Kingdom of God, we would say that they are the Council of the Kingdom of Christ, or the Cabinet and Council of Christ; in other words, the ones who will be representing the different ages and groups of the different ages.

And now, notice, it says:

[Matthew 24:46] “Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.”

In other words, the great blessing is for the Servant who is present when our Lord comes. That is the Faithful and Wise Servant of the Last Day, who will be in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, giving the spiritual Food of the Gospel of the Kingdom to all of God’s sons and daughters.

And he will be the one that will receive the blessing sought by John and James, and their mother; but they were told it was not of Christ, not His to give, but it would be given to them for whom it is prepared; in other words, that position and that blessing was not prepared for them.

And now, notice how all the disciples of Jesus Christ strove to be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, or Kingdom of God. And Christ, taking a child, said that the greatest would be the one who would serve the rest; He also said that the greatest would come to be last.⁶

Now, notice how this is fulfilling Scriptures of past times; because the first will be last, but the last will be first.

And also when this applies to a messenger or to messengers: well, the first messengers are the last, and the last messenger is the first; and the greatest is the least.

And since the greatest is the least, this has to do with [his] birth; because the least in the household, the Benjamin of the household is the last one who was born in the household. And the last one who is born in the Household of God as a messenger is the last messenger of Jesus Christ, the Messenger for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

Now, notice how when we apply all these things to the least of the Kingdom of Heaven being greater than John the Baptist, we find that the least as part of the mystical Body of Christ—even if he is not a minister—is greater than John the Baptist; and as messengers, the least of the messengers is greater than John the Baptist, and the last of the messengers is also greater than John the Baptist.

And notice, and the last of the messengers will be greater than all the previous messengers, except Jesus Christ.

Now, that would put him in the position that James and John sought with the help of their mother; but that position was ordained before the foundation of the world for that Faithful and Wise Servant, who at the Last Day will be manifested here on Earth with the ministry of Moses and the ministry of Elijah.

Now, let’s continue seeing what Jesus tells us about John the Baptist. We paused there, and we had a gap to look for a few things that go along with this, with the least of the Kingdom of Heaven being greater than John the Baptist. And now, He goes on to say:

“And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”

Other versions may say: “The Kingdom of Heaven is achieved by force, and the mighty seize it,” either of the two is fine. It goes on to say:

“For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.”

Anyone who does not understand what this means may think that no more prophets would come after John the Baptist.

But isn’t Jesus of Nazareth a prophet too, and a prophet greater than John? And aren’t the apostles of the Lord prophets too? Aren’t Saint Peter and Saint Paul prophets too? They are apostles and prophets. We have their prophecies, which speak of the Last Days and of the things God will do at this end time in which we are living.

Now, the prophets prophesied until John. Which prophets? The prophets of the Dispensation of Law prophesied until John.

But the prophets of the Dispensation of Grace began with the greatest Prophet: the Lord Jesus Christ, a dispensational prophet; and they continued with Peter and other apostles; and with Saint Paul, and with the other messengers of the Gentile Church ages (those who were prophets); up to Rev. William Marrion Branham, who, of the seven angel-messengers, was the greatest messenger, the greatest prophet. And the prophets of the Dispensation of Grace prophesied until William Marrion Branham.

But, won’t another prophet come after him? Yes, but for another dispensation: for the Dispensation of the Kingdom; and for another age: the Age of the Cornerstone; and that is a dispensational prophet.

That is the Prophet who comes with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and he is the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, to open the Dispensation of the Kingdom with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom.

And the coming of that Prophet fulfills the manifestation of the Faithful and Wise Servant who would be present at the Last Day giving the spiritual Food in due season to all of God’s sons and daughters. That is the Prophet-Messenger represented in the Faithful and Wise Servant, who at the Last Day will be feeding God’s sons and daughters (where?) in the Household of God.

And which is the Household of God? It is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And that is the Faithful and Wise Servant who will sit with Christ on His Throne. And which is the Throne that Christ speaks about here?

When Christ ascended to Heaven victorious, He sat on the Father’s Throne, and He received a new Name there; and He has been making intercession there for every person whose name has been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.

Christ has been making intercession there as High Priest with His own Blood shed on Calvary’s Cross as the Lamb of God.

And now, we find that Christ has been sitting there on the Father’s Throne, making intercession. But Christ also speaks to us about His Throne. And which is the Throne of Jesus Christ? The Throne of Jesus Christ is the Throne of David.

That is why the Archangel Gabriel tells us, speaking to us about that Throne, He tells us in Saint Luke chapter 1, verse 30 and on, when He appeared to the virgin Mary, He tells her:

“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.

He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”

That is the Throne where Jesus Christ sits to reign over the Hebrew people for a thousand years and then for all eternity; and from that Throne, Christ will reign over all the nations. And that is the Throne which Christ refers to when He says:

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”

Christ overcame and sat with the Father on His Throne there in Heaven; and now Christ promises the Overcomer that he will sit with Him on His Throne here on Earth, on that Throne of David.

And now, notice how this promise and this blessing in this promise was being sought by two of the apostles of the Lord; in other words, they realized that there was a great blessing and that Christ would sit on the Throne of David.

And just like in Heaven God has His Archangels Gabriel and Michael, one on the right and the other on the left, (in other words, these Archangels are at His right and His left, there in Heaven), well, right away they thought: “Well, here on Earth, on His Throne, Christ must also have one on each side.” So they wanted to occupy the position that Michael and Gabriel occupy there in Heaven.

But that position was reserved to be granted to the Faithful and Wise Servant who will be among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Day, and who will receive that blessing.

Christ said, referring to that Faithful and Wise Servant whom his Lord when He comes shall find so doing, He says:

“Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”

And what does it mean to make him ruler over all His goods? If He makes him ruler over all His goods, He makes him the administrator, and, being made the administrator, he will be with Christ in the Millennial Kingdom; and he will be the instrument that Christ will have in the administration of that Kingdom, he will be the one who will sit with Christ on His Throne.

Now, this is typified in different passages in the Bible.

Just as Christ sat on the Throne of the Father in Heaven… and notice all the things Jesus Christ has been doing from the Father’s Throne.

And let’s leave this there, because it’s… we don’t have enough time to fully go into everything that sitting with Christ on His Throne entails.

But notice, the One who sat with the Father on His Throne, Jesus, the carpenter from Nazareth—in whom the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, the First Coming of the Messiah as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption—we find that He was a simple Man, a carpenter there in Nazareth, who had been born in Bethlehem of Judea, there in a manger; and who had been born through a simple woman, a simple young woman, although she was a descendant of King David. She was a descendant of King David, just as Joseph was a descendant of King David.⁷

And now, notice how in order for the Scripture to be fulfilled (that He had to come through the tribe of Judah and through the family of David, through the family of Jesse and through that line of David): He came through a virgin who was a descendant of King David.⁸ She was a princess, even though she was a simple and poor woman.

But poverty and simplicity do not take away the greatness God has given a person; and the greatness does not take away a person’s simplicity and humility.

Those who believe they are great and important, notice, they are nothing, they are nothing before God. Why? Because they think that since they have many millions of dollars and many things or great titles on Earth, they are great people, but they are not great before God.

God’s sons and daughters are the great ones, and they have been coming on this Earth in a simple way. God has put those souls of His, He has put them in simple veils of flesh. Because the greatness, the great part, is not the veil of flesh, it’s what is inside that veil of flesh: those people’s souls are what is great, but the veil of flesh is a simple veil of flesh.

God has put His sons and daughters even among the Natives and among the Indigenous, and among such simple people, that no one would have imagined that God would have firstborn children among them, but He does; and also among all social spheres of the human race.

And thus, God has chosen the veils of flesh where He would put those souls of God, those sons and daughters of God, that seed of God. Because the seed of God is the soul; that is the most important part of the human being. And those souls, notice, have been put in different veils of flesh.

That is why there are sons and daughters of God who are living in the middle class, others are living in a poor class, others are living among the Natives (their veils of flesh are among the Natives), others are living among another kind of people (their veil of flesh came through other people) and so on; there are very few who are higher up. But we find that they are all from up above, from Heaven.

And when the dead in Christ are raised in incorruptible bodies, and we who are alive are changed, we will all be at the top.

Notice, do you know what will be the high class in the Millennial Kingdom? God’s sons and daughters, the members of the mystical Body of Christ; that is the royalty, and the Head of that royalty is God. And through Jesus Christ, those princes and princesses have come in simple veils of flesh, in simplicity. That is Divine simplicity.

Just like when God came veiled in human flesh in the Person of Jesus, notice, what was great was the One who was inside that veil of flesh, but the veil of flesh was simple: a young carpenter of Nazareth.

What greatness is there in a young carpenter, humanly speaking? There is no greatness there, there is no beauty in Him to be desired, He doesn’t have a great title or riches either; but the One who was inside that veil of flesh called Jesus was the great One.

And God works this way so that no one takes the glory, so that the glory isn’t earthly but heavenly; and the heavenly glory is manifested in that humility, in simplicity: in simple veils of flesh. That is how God was manifested in human flesh, and that is how He has manifested His attributes: He has been manifesting His sons and daughters in simple veils of flesh.

The First Coming of Christ, which was the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord—who is the Lord Himself, the same God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—notice, He came manifested in human flesh in humility, in simplicity, in a simple veil of flesh. And Christ said: “Blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me;”⁹ because no one expected the Coming of the Messiah to be in such a simple way.

And they were stumbling over what? Over the humility, over the simplicity of God. The simplicity is always the veil of flesh, that is where the simplicity is; in something humble, in something simple, that is where God puts His greatness.

The First Coming of Christ was in simplicity.

And now, at the Last Day, notice, we can see the simplicity of the manifestation of God’s sons and daughters from age to age: they have been coming in simple veils of flesh. And at the Last Day, the Second Coming of Christ is also promised to be fulfilled in simplicity.

Let’s see what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says about simplicity. On page 19 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, when he is preaching the subject“God Hiding Himself In Simplicity, Then Revealing Himself In The Same,” he says… speaking about the Second Coming of Christ, and also showing us how It has been from age to age, and how the First Coming of Christ was, he says:

“[113] Many miss Him by the way He reveals Himself,” (why? Because He always reveals Himself in a simple veil of flesh).

“114 Now, men has their own ideas of what God ought to be and what God is going to do,” (in other words, how God is going to do things; men make up their own). “And as I have made the old statement many times, that, man still remains man. Man is always giving God praise for what He did do, and always looking forward to what He will do, and ignoring what He is doing.”

And that is what we have to catch: what God is doing at the time in which we are living. What God did in the past is already history; and what God will do in the future is yet to come; but what God is doing in the present, that brings God’s blessing to the person when he catches it, when he understands it, and receives it.

“[114] That’s the way they miss it. They look back and see what a great thing He done, but they fail to see what a simple thing He used, to do it with. See?” (They fail to see what a simple veil of flesh God used to do the great thing that God did.) “And then they look forward and see a great thing coming, that’s going to happen, and, nine times out of ten, it’s already happening right around them. And it’s so simple that they don’t know it. See?”

That they don’t realize that God is already fulfilling all those things that He promised. Out of ten things He has promised, He is fulfilling nine, and they don’t even notice those nine that are being fulfilled.

It goes on to say on page 20, paragraph 120, it says:

“120 Not the great glamorous things that we think about, but it’s the simple things that God is so real in, the simplicity. So, it pleases God to reveal Himself, and then hide Himself; then hide Himself, and reveal Himself, in simple, little things. It’s—it’s put over the top of the head of man.

Because, if you’d say, ‘Why would a just God do that?’

121 Is because that man was made up, in the beginning, not to try to shift for himself. A man was made to rely completely upon God. That’s the reason we’re likened unto lambs, or sheep. A sheep cannot lead himself; he has to have a leader. And the Holy Spirit is supposed to lead us. So, man is made that way.

122 And God made all of His works so simple, that the simple could understand it. And God makes Himself simple, with the simple, in order to be understood by the simple. In otherwise, He said, in Isaiah 35, I believe. He said, ‘Though a fool, should not error therein.’ It’s so simple!

123 And we know that God is so great, till we expect it to be some great something, and we miss the simple thing. We stumble over simplicity. That’s how we miss God, is by stumbling over simplicity.”

And now we go to page 549, let’s go to page 549. He is talking about the Seventh Seal, which is the Second Coming of Christ. He says the following:

“[304] Notice now, for the end-of-time Message, this Seal.” (In other words, the Seventh Seal.)

The end-of-time Message is what? The Seventh Seal, in other words, the Second Coming of Christ.

“[304] After all, He—He has revealed all the six Seals, but He don’t say nothing about the Seventh. And the end-time Seal, when It starts, will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible.”

When what starts? The Seventh Seal, in other words, when the Second Coming of Christ starts being fulfilled. When the Second Coming is opened in terms of Its fulfillment, It will be (what?) absolutely a total (what?) secret.

So you have a clear picture of this, let’s see: The Hebrew people were waiting for the Coming of the Messiah; and when the Coming of the Messiah started, what was happening? Well, the virgin Mary was receiving the visit of the Archangel Gabriel, and he was giving her the good tidings, the good news that she would conceive and bring forth a son, and He would be the Son of the Highest, and God would give Him the Throne of David: in other words, He would be the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah. And then, nine months later, she was giving birth there in Bethlehem of Judea.

And notice, she lived in Nazareth and so did Joseph, but the Messiah had to be born in Bethlehem of Judea; and because of a decree that King Herod made, they had to go there.¹⁰ Each person had to go to the city that they belonged to or that they came from, to be registered in that city in the census that was being done; and they could not say: “Well, I can’t go because I have a headache,” or “because I have the flu,” or “we can’t go because my wife is pregnant.” No. They had to go; and there Joseph and Mary went.

Although Mary was already at the month to give birth (the ninth month), they went over there to register in the census; and while they were there, she experienced birth pains, it was time for her to give birth, and she gave birth in Bethlehem of Judea, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: that He had to be born, He had to come from Bethlehem of Judea;¹¹ and He had to come (from where?) from the seed of King David; and He had to come, notice, from the root of Jesse. That seed had to come through King David, and that is how Jesus came. Notice all the Scriptures that were fulfilled in Jesus.

And now, what was happening when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary and then when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea? The Coming of the Messiah was starting; the Seal of the Coming of the Messiah was being opened, that Seal was being opened there, it was at the start.

And now here, the Second Coming of Christ, which is the Seventh Seal, the forerunner tells us that when this end-time Seal starts, when It begins, It will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible. When the Seventh Seal starts, that is when the Coming of the Lord begins.

Now, notice, the First Coming of the Lord was there, It had started with the birth of Jesus there in Bethlehem of Judea; and then for a time period of twenty-nine and half years He was among the Hebrew people; where He grew up, became a young man, and reached adulthood: twenty-nine and a half years old. And everything was there: The Seal of the First Coming of Christ was open there, It had started; but His ministry had not started.

His ministry as the Lamb of God to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross had not started, but the veil of flesh that would die on Calvary’s Cross as the Lamb of God and take away our sins was there.

Now notice how the Coming of the Lord was there for twenty-nine and a half years; and then His three-and-a-half-year ministry begins, He is among the Hebrew people in His ministry, and they still don’t know Him. Although they knew Him as Jesus of Nazareth, as the carpenter from Nazareth, they didn’t know Him or recognize Him as the Messiah, the Christ, the One anointed with the Spirit of God in all His fullness; nor did they recognize His forerunner: John the Baptist, who came in the Spirit and power of Elijah.¹²

When Jesus speaks about John the Baptist, notice, he tells us that the prophets prophesied until John. But He goes on to say:

“And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.” [Matthew] chapter 11, verse 14.

And yet his name was John. And when they ask John the Baptist on one occasion if he was Elijah, he says no;¹³ because John the Baptist was not literally the Prophet Elijah, he was not Elijah the Tishbite, rather, he was another man, another prophet, in whom God was operating the ministry of Elijah, which He had operated in Elijah the Tishbite, and which He had also operated in Elisha. So, He was operating that ministry of Elijah for the third time in another man: in John the Baptist.

When God promises that He will send a prophet whom He had already sent in the past and who is already gone, when He promises to send that prophet (He promises to send that prophet, mentioning the name of that prophet of the past), when He fulfills that promise: it is the ministry of that prophet in another prophet, in another man.

And that is why Jesus says: “John is the Elijah which was to come. If you will receive him, this is Elias, which was to come.” It is another prophet with the ministry that was in the Prophet Elijah. This is always how it is when God has promised the coming of a prophet who already came in the past, had his ministry, and left.

We also find that there are other promises for the coming (for example) of Moses, and for the Coming of Jesus; those promises will be fulfilled the same way: it will be their ministries coming back to Earth in another veil of flesh.

The ministries of Moses, Jesus, and Elijah are promised to return to Earth in another veil of flesh; that veil of flesh will be the Faithful and Wise Servant, it will be the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom the Holy Spirit will be manifested operating those ministries.

And now, notice how the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ came, and then Jesus came; and John the Baptist introduced Him as the Messiah, as the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world;¹⁴ and He was among the Hebrew people and they didn’t recognize Him, they didn’t recognize Him as the Messiah: they rejected Him.

And now, for the Coming of the Son of man with His Angels, we have the same promises: we have the promise that God will send Elijah again to prepare the way for the Second Coming of Christ.

And if you will receive him, Rev. William Branham is the Elijah which was to come at this Last Day, at this end time, preparing the way of the Second Coming of Christ; and he is already gone, Elijah in his fourth manifestation has already left. It was the ministry of Elijah in another man.

Now we have the promise of the coming of Elijah for the fifth time, which will be the ministry of Elijah operated by the Holy Spirit at the last Day in another man; and he will be one of the Two Olive Trees.

Because the Two Olive Trees of Revelation chapter 11, and of Zechariah chapter 4, are the ministries of Moses and Elijah; the ministries that are represented in the two cherubims of gold and in the two cherubims of olive wood covered with gold that are in the holy of holies of the temple King Solomon built.

Those two ministries of Moses and Elijah are represented in Heaven in Gabriel and Michael, these two Archangels that God has there in His Temple in Heaven, in the Holy of Holies; they are the Angels that stand before the Presence of God. And that is why when it tells us about the Two Olive Trees in Zechariah, it tells us that they are the Two Anointed Ones that stand before the Presence of God; and in Heaven, the Ones who stand before the Presence of God are Gabriel and Michael.

And in the temple Solomon built, and the one Moses built, the ones who stand before the Presence of God are the two cherubims of gold; and in Solomon’s temple: the two cherubims of gold and the two cherubims of olive wood covered with gold.

And in the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ, in the Holy of Holies, well, it’s the two ministries: the ministry of Moses for the second time and the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested in that same Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Day. In other words, the ministries of Moses, Elijah, and Jesus will be manifested in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And such a great promise, the coming of these three great ministries to Earth at the Last Day, will be fulfilled in a simple way, in a simple veil of flesh called the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord will be there, which is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ manifested in Holy Spirit, with the ministries of Moses and Elijah being manifested through that veil of flesh; and the ministry of Jesus will also be manifested there, in that same veil of flesh.

The promise of the Coming of the Son of man is with His Angels; and the Son of man coming with His Angels will be manifested in His veil of flesh pertaining to the Last Day, which is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Wherever the Son of man is manifested, wherever Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit is manifested: the ministry of Moses, the ministry of Elijah, and the ministry of Jesus will also be there; and that is the opening of the Seventh Seal at the Last Day.

Now, when the Seventh Seal starts, when it starts to be manifested, It will be absolutely a total secret. In other words, when the beginning of the veil of flesh takes place, and when he is born in the Kingdom of God, in the spiritual Temple of Christ, in the Church of Jesus Christ (by believing in Christ as his Savior, and washing away his sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving the Spirit of Christ), all of that will be a mystery; because that is the start, that is the start of the Seventh Seal.

But at the end or near the end of the Seventh Seal, all these things will be understood by God’s elect, by the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And as we move forward in the Divine Program, the ministry of the Seventh Seal, the ministry of Jesus Christ with His Angels through His Angel-Messenger, will move progressively until the adoption is reached, the adoption of that Faithful and Wise Servant.

Because at the Last Day there will be a ministry in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ that will be adopted together with the veil of flesh where that ministry will be; which was typified on Mount Transfiguration, where Jesus was adopted. And that speaks of this Last Day, for the adoption of all the sons and daughters of God, when the ministry pertaining to the Last Day will be adopted and so will the instrument where that ministry will be.

Now we can see where we are in the Divine Program.

Now, everything must move progressively.

For God’s elect to be adopted, they will be seeing the Coming of the Son of man with His Angels, Jesus Christ veiled in Holy Spirit in human flesh in a simple veil of flesh, in His Angel-Messenger; in the Faithful and Wise Servant who will be in the House of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, at the Last Day, feeding God’s sons and daughters the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom.

And despite that whole great manifestation of the Son of man, of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit with the ministries of Moses, Jesus, and Elijah, despite all of that, the veil of flesh, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Faithful and Wise Servant, is neither Moses, nor Elijah, nor Jesus; he is only the instrument where Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifesting these ministries promised for the Last Day, where the Seventh Seal would be veiled and revealed. The Seventh Seal would be opened, because It would be manifested at this Last Day according to the Divine Promise.

That is the mystery of the Angel with the Seventh Seal who appeared in the cloud on February 28, 1963,¹⁵ when seven angel-messengers of Jesus Christ appeared to Rev. William Branham.

There, in that cloud, are the angel-messengers of the seven ages or stages of the Gentile Church, of the Church among the Gentiles; and there is also another Angel who was very different from the rest. There are eight angel-messengers there in total, including the seventh angel-messenger: Rev. William Branham.

The seven angel-messengers of the seven ages are there, and there is another Angel who was very different from the rest, of whom Rev. William Branham says on page 546 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, he says:

“275 And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’ He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them. You remember that? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, ‘He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward’ (you remember) ‘like that.’ I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up.’”

Which was the Angel that picked up Rev. William Branham, the One that took him to that constellation? It was that Angel who was very different from the rest.

“276 Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I’ve wondered all my life. Amen! Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don’t know what This,” (Seventh Seal), “has meant.”

Now, notice, which of the angels has the Seventh Seal? The Angel who was very different from the rest.

And just as each angel-messenger of each age was manifested in human flesh in order to have his ministry, the Angel who was very different from the rest—which is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant—must be manifested in human flesh at the Last Day in His Angel-Messenger, in order to have the ministry of the Last Day and thus fulfill the opening of the Seventh Seal, thus fulfill the mystery of the Seventh Seal; and carry out His Work as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.

Now notice all the things that are contained under this Seventh Seal or in this Seventh Seal; that is why it is very important to know the mystery of the Seventh Seal.

The mystery of the Seventh Seal is in the Angel who was very different from the rest; that is where the mystery is.

And the manifestation of that Angel who was very different from the rest in human flesh at the Last Day is the opening of the Seventh Seal; where that Angel who was very different from the rest will be manifesting the ministries of Moses for the second time, Elijah for the fifth time, and Jesus for the second time. It is the manifestation of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, at the Last Day, in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger.

But the Angel-Messenger of Jesus Christ is neither Jesus Christ, nor Moses, nor Elijah; but the ministries of Moses for the second time, Elijah for the fifth time, and Jesus for the second time, will be manifested in him.

Who will be manifesting them? Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel-Messenger will be operating, manifesting, those ministries; and that will be THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE SIMPLICITY at the Last Day among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And blessed is he who is not offended in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the veil of flesh where Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested, operating those ministries, and thus fulfilling the opening of the Seventh Seal!

“THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE SIMPLICITY.”

God has always worked in simplicity so that no one gives the glory to the veil of flesh but to God. God is a very jealous God, and He says that He will not give His glory to anyone;¹⁶ therefore, the glory belongs to our God.

To Him be the glory and honor forever and ever. Amen.

See how the simplicity in which God manifests Himself prevents God’s glory from being stolen away? Instead, all a person can say is: “Those things that are happening, that are being done, are not done by a man, because no man can do these things that are being done,” (that is what Nicodemus said to Jesus),¹⁷ “unless God is with him.”

It was God in Jesus, it was God in each messenger, and it will be God at this Last Day, manifested in simplicity.

We find, for example, in the case of Moses: God had a prophet already prepared for the deliverance of the Hebrew people; but all of that would be in simplicity, and even the Message that he would preach would come in simplicity; and that is why we find that Moses had speech problems: all of that helped make the simplicity greater.

When Moses rejected giving the Message and asked for a helper to speak for him, he took away a little bit of God’s simplicity;¹⁸ because such a great Message coming through a person who couldn’t speak properly made the simplicity bigger, in other words, it made the simplicity greater (greater simplicity, and that makes way for more glory for God), and so a greater manifestation of God would be needed.

And now, notice, Saint Paul, for example, an apostle as great as him had problems with his vision, and there came a time where, when he would write, he would say: “See how large a letter I have written unto you.”¹⁹

Remember that most people who have problems with their sight, who have poor vision, unless they use glasses, when they write, they will write very large. Why? To be able to see what they are writing; since they can’t see what they are writing, they think they are writing too small and no one can read it; but the one who can’t read it is him; but a person with good vision can read it; but he writes big letters so that he can write properly and he can understand what he wrote.

And Paul, in the end, had to write very big, and he also had someone to write some of his letters for him too. And notice, he had problems with his vision.

He says that he had prayed to God three times for God to deliver him, to take out that thorn he had, that buffeted his face. It was his vision problem. And God told him: “My grace is sufficient for you; for My strength is made perfect in your weakness.”²⁰ See? There, human weakness, human infirmity, made God’s power manifested, perfected.

Saint Paul had problems with his vision, and he prayed for the sick; anyone might say, “I’m not going to Paul to ask him to pray for me because he has problems, and he hasn’t been able to solve his own health problems. How is he going to pray for someone else?” But notice, even the handkerchiefs and things Saint Paul used were taken to people who were sick, and even people with evil spirits, and they were delivered.²¹

God’s power perfected in a weak and simple man. That is how it has always been.

If we study God’s messengers, we will find that humanly they have been weak, they have had health problems. For example, notice the man of God, Isaac, wasn’t he blind when he went to bless his sons? He was blind.²²

Some people think a man of God can’t have a health problem; well, notice, then we wouldn’t believe in Isaac, who was a prophet of God, because he was blind.

And then Jacob, in his last years, also had the same problem. When he went to bless, notice, when he went to bless Joseph (and he blessed Joseph by blessing his sons, Ephraim and Manasseh), perhaps Joseph thought that because Jacob was already blind, he laid his hand upon the youngest when he was supposed to lay his hand upon the oldest, and he wanted to switch his hands. And Jacob said, “No, God crossed my hands,” and he blessed the youngest with the Birthright Blessing;²³ just as Isaac blessed the youngest, Jacob, with the Birthright Blessing. Notice, the same thing was fulfilled later on.

And now, on this occasion, Jacob was aware of what he was doing; Isaac didn’t know what he was doing, but notice, aware or unaware, God’s Word of blessing was spoken in both cases.

And in our time, well, we are all aware, hearing the Birthright Blessing being spoken over us.

Blessed is he who is not offended in Isaac because he was blind and yet he was a prophet, nor in Jacob because he went blind later on and he was a prophet. Even when he received the blessing of the name change, notice, he left limping,²⁴ and we don’t know for how many years he continued to limp; we don’t know if it was for the whole rest of his life. But better is a limping man with God’s blessing than a healthy person without God’s blessing.

Didn’t Christ say that it’s better to enter into the Kingdom of God, into Heaven, without one eye or without one arm, than to have both arms or to have both eyes and go to hell? Well, of course it’s better to lose a body part, to have one less body part, but enter into Heaven, rather than having a physical body that is complete but going to hell.²⁵ Because the most important thing is the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, all other things are additions in life.²⁶

And notice, even the body that we have, we will completely leave it behind. If it dies, well, they will put it in the cemetery.

And if, when the dead in Christ rise, we are all still in this visible body, then we will be changed. And if a person is missing an arm, well, in the new body he won’t be missing an arm: he will have a complete body; in other words, in the new body we will be complete and we will be in a perfect body.

Now, God has been manifesting His Spirit in these mortal, corruptible, and temporary bodies, manifesting His glory in simplicity; but someday we will have the eternal body, and then everything will be great, everything we will have will be in greatness: an eternal glorified body, in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. Everything will be in glory later on.

But now, in the meantime, everything is in simplicity. And we can’t lose sight of the Divine simplicity in each one of you as well as in each messenger that God has sent.

Notice that the majority of God’s sons and daughters have been simple, poor people; but Christ said: “And the poor have the Gospel preached to them.”²⁷ In other words, among the poor, among the race… among the middle class and the poor class, God has put the most sons and daughters of God on this Earth in veils of flesh of those two classes; the majority of God’s sons and daughters are of those two classes.

Among the high class, or the upper class, there are much less, in other words, a smaller amount, so that we are not preoccupied with the things of this world and say, “But I don’t have time for anything;” because that is what the high class almost always says. They are very busy with the cares of this life and the riches of this life, and sometimes they don’t even have time to eat.

So, thank God that among the middle class and the poor class, He has the majority of His children, who always say: “I may not have time for some things, but all my time is available for God! And if I have to take some vacation time to attend special services, I will call my job and request some vacation time to be involved in the things of God;” that is the best vacation a person can take.

Yet, among the high class, they take vacation to go to the beach, to go on a tour, and they don’t take advantage of it to go on a tour with God, to go to God’s services, to seek God and God’s blessings. See?

So, notice how God’s simplicity, Divine simplicity, is manifested in everything related to His people.

And now, at the Last Day, we are in the Latin American and Caribbean territory in the Divine Program, a simple territory: it is God’s simplicity. The place where God will carry out the great things is the simple territory of Latin America and the Caribbean.

And notice how the mystery of Divine simplicity is so that no one steals God’s glory, and so that no one can understand God’s Program, God’s Work, unless it is by revelation from Heaven. Christ said to Peter: “Flesh and blood have not revealed it to you, but My Father which is in Heaven.”

And on another occasion, previously, while praying or thanking God for what God was doing, Jesus said in [Matthew] chapter 11, verse 25 and on, He said:

“At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent,” (meaning, from the theologians of that time and the doctors of divinity, and the priests and high priest of the Hebrew religion), “and hast revealed them unto babes.

Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”

Now notice how something so great was revealed those days to the least, to children (in terms that we can understand); babes or children in terms of their knowledge at that time. They were people who didn’t have much knowledge, they weren’t people who had graduated from university, and surely most of them had not finished school; many of them were fishermen, others were farmers, and so on; but they were people who had received the revelation from the Heavenly Father, because their names had been written (where?) in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.

Notice how God has always worked in simplicity; and by working in simplicity, humble people, simple people, catch that manifestation of God.

God works in simplicity and the simple, the humble, simple people receive that Divine Revelation; they catch God manifested in simplicity, and say: “This was what I was waiting for!” He is manifested in that simple way of simple people.

The First Coming of Christ, notice, was manifested in a simple way: a young carpenter, eating with the people of that time; He would grab a piece of fish, break it off, eat from it, and so on.

Notice, He wasn’t one of these men in high society, who had to be brought special cutlery to eat a piece of fish, sit at a beautiful table, and have a person come, a person to serve them, in order to eat a piece of fish. But notice, the Messiah came eating among the fishermen, speaking with them, and speaking in their terms: He came in simplicity; He came as one of them, Someone from among the people.

That is how God has always worked.

That is Divine simplicity, and that is THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE SIMPLICITY. And when God promises something great, He fulfills it in simplicity; and if He promises something greater, He fulfills it in more simplicity.

That is how it is for our time in which we are living. The whole Divine Program is fulfilled in simplicity.

When we read about the elect who would be called and gathered at the Last Day with a Great Voice of Trumpet, perhaps some thought: “Those must be very important people on this Earth.” But notice, where are those people, those elect who would be called and gathered?! Notice, here we are; simple people hearing the Voice of Christ, that Great Voice of Trumpet calling us and gathering us, and revealing to us all these things which must shortly come to pass at this Last Day.

And here we are in Latin America and the Caribbean, the territory chosen by God for that call to the elect of the Last Day; and this is all being fulfilled in simplicity.

We have seen: “THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE SIMPLICITY.”

And all we can say is: “And I didn’t know I was a child of God;” and through the Voice of Christ, now we do know that we are sons and daughters of God, the firstborn of God, the elect of God, who would be hearing the Voice of Christ manifested in simplicity.

May God bless you, may God keep you. Thank you very much for your kind attention, and continue having an evening filled with the blessings of Jesus Christ.

I will leave the minister here with us, let’s leave the minister here or the person in charge of worship, to continue, so you can go back [home] early.

We have gone beyond half an hour, right Julio? We have reached, we reached an hour… an hour and 49. So, I owe you 11 minutes for next time.

May God bless you and keep you; and I will leave Pastor Zurita here to continue and conclude as you have planned.

May God bless you, God bless you Brother Zurita, and may God bless each one of you too.

Thank you very much.

“THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE SIMPLICITY.”