The Mystery of the Rapturing Faith Contained in the Thunders

Warm greetings to Miguel Bermudez Marin, missionary of the Lord; Rev. Epifanio López, minister here in this church; and all the ministers in different countries, and the brothers and sisters present and also in other countries, there in Puerto Rico and other countries.

May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you, ministers present and also in other countries, and brothers and sisters in different countries; may the Lord open the Scripture to us on this occasion, and may He open our understanding so that we may understand. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program pertaining to this end time; because it is important to know Biblical history and, above all, to recognize the time in which we have been given to live in the Divine Program, as it happened in past times, where there was a group that recognized the time in which they were given to live.

Like in the time of Noah, he recognized the time in which he was given to live and he was aware of God’s Program, which he—led by God—carried out; and in the time of Abraham and Lot as well. Those two time periods are a type and figure of the end time, which pertains to the time of the Coming of the Son of man.

Therefore, we have to be alert in our time; because our time is represented in the time of Noah, which was the end of the antediluvian world; and it is represented in the time of Lot, which was the end of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire out of heaven, which is a type and figure of the atomic power that will put an end to the Gentile kingdom in a Third World War.

Therefore, we have to be prepared, so that we also avoid the things that will come and stand before the Son of man.

Let’s read in Revelation chapter 10, verses 1 and on, where the Word of the Lord tells us:

“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”

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

Our subject for the Bible study for today, Sunday Bible school day, is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE RAPTURING FAITH CONTAINED IN THE THUNDERS.”

The most important thing for mankind is the Second Coming of Christ, after the First Coming of Christ; because the Coming of the Lord has two parts. The First was already fulfilled in the first half of the seventieth week of the prophecy of Daniel’s seventy weeks, of chapter 9 of the Book of the Prophet Daniel; and there are three and a half years left of that seventieth week, which will be for God’s dealing with the Hebrew people, because the seventy weeks pertain to the Hebrew people and their dealing with God.

When Christ began His ministry (at about thirty years old),¹ the seventieth week began; and when He died on Calvary’s Cross—after His three and a half years of ministry—the seventieth week stopped in the middle there, and a gap was opened there for God to call out a people for His Name, which would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came,² and this is Christ in Holy Spirit, who said: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Saint Matthew chapter 28, verses 16 to 20).

And in Saint Matthew chapter 18, verse 20, Christ says: “Where two or three are gathered together in My Name, I will be there.” How would He be there? In Holy Spirit.

Therefore, since the Day of Pentecost, Christ has been dealing with His Church. God’s dealing with Israel as a people stopped, because God deals with Israel as a people; but He deals with His Church as an individual: He calls individuals out from among the nations to put them in His mystical Body of believers, which is His Church, redeemed by the Blood of Christ our Savior; and thus, we have the people of the New Covenant, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let’s remember that in the last supper of the Lord Jesus Christ, He took bread, gave thanks to God, and broke the bread and gave it to His disciples, saying: “Eat, this is My body;” in other words, typifying, representing His body in the bread. And then He took the cup of wine, and giving thanks to the Father, He then gave to His disciples and said: “Drink ye all of it; for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (Saint Matthew chapter 26, verses 26 to 29).

And now, the wine represents the Blood of Christ shed on Calvary’s Cross. And in remembrance of the Sacrifice of Christ, of His body and of His Blood, the Holy Supper [communion] is taken as a memorial, knowing that the bread represents the body of Christ and the wine represents the Blood of Christ. It’s not that it is literally the Blood of Christ, but it represents, it is a memorial.

And that is how the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been, just like the Hebrew people under the Old Covenant were sacrificing a paschal lamb, representing the paschal lamb that had been sacrificed back in Egypt for the protection, the preservation of the life of the firstborn.³

And to preserve the life of the firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, our Paschal Lamb was sacrificed, of which Saint Paul says in chapter 5, verse 7 of First Corinthians: “For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.”

And now, just like Israel represented that paschal lamb that was originally sacrificed in Egypt, observing Passover annually, keeping it (that memorial), likewise, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been observing that memorial: every time they gather they take the Holy Supper [communion], remembering that Christ died for us on Calvary’s Cross; and thus, He has carried out the preservation of life for all those who are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, which are God’s firstborn; they are the ones regarded as the members of the mystical Body of Christ our Savior.

In chapter 12 of Hebrews, verse 20… chapter 12, verse 18 and on, so that we have a clear picture of these words of Saint Paul in the Book of Hebrews:

“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven…”

“The General Assembly and Church of the firstborn,” are the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, they are God’s firstborn written in Heaven, who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

“… and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”

This is what we have come to in the New Covenant; not to Mount Sinai anymore, not to keep the Law anymore, but to be under the Dispensation of Grace, under the Blood, not of an animal, but the Blood of Christ, covered with that Blood that cleanses us from all sin, keeps us clean from all sin and preserves the life of the firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

To preserve Life, Eternal Life, the Lamb of God came, of whom John the Baptist said when he saw Him: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”⁴

Therefore, Christ is the Lamb of God that was represented in the paschal lamb back in Egypt. Therefore, the Law under the Old Covenant: the Old Testament and Israel, are the type and figure of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. As simple as that.

Christ is our Sabbath; when we are in Christ it is always Sabbath for us, we are always at rest. “Come unto Me, all you that labor and are tired, and I will give you rest.”⁵ If we are in Christ, we are living in an eternal Sabbath, an eternal rest, in the arms of our Savior.

This is the mystery involved in the First Coming of Christ.

Many thought: “If He is the Messiah, how can He say that He will die, that they will kill Him?” Those who didn’t know God’s Program may have thought that way, but Jesus Christ knew, He was aware of what the Divine Program for His First Coming was. And since He knew God’s Program that had to be fulfilled in Him and through Him, He tells us in Saint John chapter 10… Saint John chapter 10, verse 14 and on:

“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep,” (He says that He lays down His life for the sheep).

“And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold,” (meaning, they are Gentiles), “them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”

They will hear the Voice of Christ, the Gospel of Christ being preached throughout the Dispensation of Grace, calling and gathering the sheep that the Father gave Him to seek them and give them Eternal Life.

“And there shall be one fold.” That Fold is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where He is present as the Good Shepherd, and He places His sheep in that Fold. And the Shepherd is Christ through the Holy Spirit, who would lead His Church and would reveal all things to Her.

“Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.”

He would lay down His life as a sacrifice for those sheep, and then He would resurrect: He would take it again; and He resurrected glorified, and His Sacrifice was accepted by God in Heaven.

Therefore, the sheep will return to God; God’s sons and daughters will be restored to God and to that relationship, to that reconciliation between the human being and God.

“Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”

In other words, He already came with a Divine commandment, a Divine commission: to die and then resurrect; to die for those sheep that the Father gave Him to seek them and give them Eternal Life.

And in chapter 10, verse 22 and on, it says:

“And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.

And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.”

There are many people and there were many people who wanted to know if He, Jesus, was the Messiah, was the Christ, the Anointed One; but not to believe in Him, but to see what they could do to kill Him; because even when the unbeliever sees the truth he can’t believe it. Why? Because he is an unbeliever.

Therefore, the truth isn’t for unbelievers; it is for believers.

“Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.”

The works that Christ was doing in the Name of the Father were the testimony that Jesus was the Christ, because the works He was doing were the prophecies that spoke about the things that the Messiah would carry out, would do, in His Coming. That was the testimony of the Father, bearing witness of the works that the Messiah would do, and they were being done by God through Jesus.

“But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.”

In other words, not just anyone is a sheep of the Lord to form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s the people who are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, the sheep of the Father who are given to Christ for Him to seek them and give them Eternal Life. “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”⁶

They are sent from eternity to live on this Earth to come in contact with Eternal Life, which is Christ, who grants Eternal Life to all those people who are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and who are God’s firstborn.

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

I and my Father are one.”

Now notice, these are the Father’s sheep, which are given to Christ for Him to seek them and give them Eternal Life. Those are the people who hear the Gospel of Christ, the faith of Christ is born in their soul (because faith comes by hearing the Word of God,⁷ the Gospel of Christ), and they believe, and make a public testimony of their faith in Christ, receiving Him as their only and sufficient Savior. In other words, a Divine miracle is what takes place in the people who receive Christ as their only and sufficient Savior.

In the Book of Acts, when Saint Peter preached, about three thousand people believed;⁸ and in Saint Peter’s second preaching, about four thousand people;⁹ and the Scripture says that God added to His Church such as should be saved.¹⁰

The ones that would be saved are those who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, who have been written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s book of Life, before the foundation of the world. We were already known by God, He has had us written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.

That is why Christ died for the firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, to preserve the Eternal Life of those people who were put in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

God isn’t currently writing names in the Lamb’s Book of Life. They have been written before the foundation of the world. That is what the Scripture testifies to us in the Book of Revelation and also in chapter 12 of Hebrews.

For example, in chapter 13 of Revelation, it says… regarding those who worshiped the beast and its image, it says [verse 8]:

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”

And in Revelation there is also another passage that speaks to us about that Book: in chapter 17, verse 8, and it says:

“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”

In other words, those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life were written before Creation. Because our names are written there, we answer the call of Christ by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel of Christ.

Christ said: “My sheep hear My Voice, and they follow Me, and I know them, and I give them Eternal Life; and no one will pluck them out of My hand.” [John 10:27] In other words, we are safe in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ for Eternal Life. He is the only One who guarantees Eternal Life because He has the exclusivity of Eternal Life.

He was right in Saint John chapter 14, verse 6, when He said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; and no man comes to the Father, but by Me.”

There is no other way to reach God, there is no other way for prayers to reach God, except in the Name of the Lord, through Christ; there is no other way in which the human being can obtain Eternal Life, except through Christ; there is no other way that the human being can be reconciled by God, except through Jesus Christ.

Therefore, there is no other person who can take us to Heaven, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, in the rapture or catching away of the Church (a subject that is very well known by all those who have read the Bible; believers or non-believers, who have read the Bible.

After the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, it is followed in utmost importance by: the Second Coming of Christ, after the different stages that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been going through, that is under the New Covenant, covered with the Blood of the New Covenant, which is the Blood of Jesus Christ our Savior.

And now, the only hope there is for the human being is the Second Coming of Christ, because He comes to His Church to seek Her and take Her to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; for which one must have the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Just like we have received and we have had faith for a spiritual transformation and a spiritual rapture, being taken out of the world in that spiritual rapture and placed in the Kingdom of Christ, in the Kingdom of God; we must all have that faith in order to be placed in the mystical Body of Christ.

Saint Paul, speaking about that subject, in Colossians, tells us that we have been translated from darkness to the Kingdom of God. And likewise, later we will be physically translated from this earthly kingdom to Heaven, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; to the Marriage of the Lamb, which I have been invited to. And who else? Each one of you as well.

Revelation chapter 19 says, verse 9 to 10, that blessed are those who are bidden to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Notice, in chapter 1 of Colossians, verse 13 to 14, it says… 12 to 14, it says:

“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.”

We can see that Christ has set us free, He has delivered us from the power of darkness, from the kingdom of darkness, from the kingdom of the wicked one, and has translated us into the Kingdom of God, which is the Kingdom of the Son of God, of Jesus Christ.

That is why when a Christian dies he goes to Paradise, to the world of the spirits of God, which form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that is a spiritual body: the person’s spirit, similar to the physical body, but young; he continues to live in a spiritual body similar to the physical body, to the human body, but from another dimension: from the sixth dimension, and young.

They wait there in Paradise until Christ leaves the Father’s Throne, takes the Title Deed, the Book of the Seven Seals, and opens It in Heaven; and passes through Paradise and brings them to Earth, and resurrects them in eternal, immortal, glorified bodies, just like the glorified body of Christ, and young; and us who are alive, He will change us.

That is what it refers to in First Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 11 and on, to *18; and also in First Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 1 to 11. Because God has not appointed us to wrath, but to salvation on Earth; therefore, we don’t have to go through the Great Tribulation, which will happen in those three and a half years left for the Hebrew people.

And now, Saint Paul also testifies in First Corinthians chapter 15, verses 49 to 58, where he tells us that the transformation will be at the Last Trumpet: “For the Trumpet shall sound,” (the Trumpet of God); and the Trumpet is the Voice of God speaking to His Church at the Last Day.

Just like on Sinai the Trumpet would sound when God was speaking to Moses. The Trumpet always has a Message from God. It is God speaking to His people. As it tells us in Revelation chapter 1, verse 10 to 11:

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet…”

A Voice as of a trumpet. It’s not that it is a trumpet, but rather the Voice is like a trumpet, with a Message. Just like when a trumpet sounds in the army or the government or for war, it has a message. Musical instruments have a message, and whoever knows about music can tell what that music is saying.

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

And who is the Alpha and Omega? Who is the First and the Last? Well, Jesus Christ our Savior. It is Jesus Christ speaking at the Last Day, just like He has been speaking through His Spirit in His Church since the Day of Pentecost until now.

Remember that He said He would send the Holy Spirit, and in other passages He also says that the Father will send the Holy Spirit; therefore, Christ in Holy Spirit is the One who has been leading His Church from stage to stage.

Let’s see, chapter 14 of Saint John, verse 16, says:

“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”

And in chapter 15, verse 26 to 27 of Saint John, it says:

“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.”

And the Holy Spirit has been testifying of Christ through the preaching of the Gospel, using different people who have preached Christ our Savior. And all of this has been taking place in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ also tells us in chapter 16 of Saint John, verse 12 and on:

“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, here Christ establishes that the Holy Spirit is the One who will guide His Church into all righteousness, into all truth, and will reveal to Her the things that are to come; which is why through the apostles (Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and other apostles), the Holy Spirit was speaking and revealing things that would come.

We have the revelation of the Book of Revelation, which testifies of the things that are to come; and the letters of Saint Peter and of Saint Paul, which testify of the things that are to come.

Therefore, Christ has been fulfilling what He said: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come” (meaning, the Holy Spirit), “He will show you things to come.” And who will He testify of? Of Christ.

Therefore, the Work in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the Work of the Lord Jesus Christ through His Spirit using different instruments, different members of His Church; because His Church is the second Eve, and Jesus Christ is the second Adam.

Therefore, the helpmate of Christ is His Church; and through His Church—where He has placed different ministries—the Holy Spirit, Christ in Holy Spirit, has been manifesting Himself and speaking to His Church, and calling and gathering the elect of each stage of His Church.

His Church is also represented in the tabernacle that Moses built and also in the temple that King Solomon built. Saint Paul says that His Church is a spiritual Temple, formed by the believers in Christ;¹¹ and therefore, that Temple is the House of God as a spiritual Temple; just like every believer in Christ is also a spiritual temple for God to dwell in Holy Spirit, just as the physical body of Jesus was and continues to be a temple of God.

That reminds us of the moment when Jesus said in chapter 2 of Saint John, while He was there in the temple of Jerusalem, He said: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” But He was not talking about the physical temple (because the physical temple is only a type and figure of Christ and also of His Church). Chapter 2, verse *18 and on, says:

“Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

But he spake of the temple of his body.

When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.”

In other words, the human temple of God was Jesus Christ, that physical body; and just like the temple of Solomon and the tabernacle Moses built had an outer court, a holy place, and a most holy place; every human being has an outer court, a holy place, and a most holy place.

The outer court is the physical body, the holy place is the spirit of the person, and the most holy place is the soul of the person, or what is synonymous with the soul: the heart.

That is why people are offered the opportunity to give their heart to Christ for salvation and Eternal Life; because in the heart is where God dwells, because that is the most holy place of the human being as a human temple, for God to dwell in him.

“Don’t you know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” the Scripture says.¹² Now… that is what Saint Paul says.

And now, we find that the Church is also a spiritual Temple for God to dwell in Holy Spirit.

Hebrews chapter 3, verses 5 to 6, says:

“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”

And now, each person as an individual is the house of God, a spiritual temple for God; and as mystical Body of believers, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a spiritual Temple.

The different stages of the Church among the Gentiles pertain to the Holy Place; and then this time in which we are living pertains to the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple.

To dwell in the most holy place, God came down in that Cloud of glory in the days of Moses, and dwelled in the most holy place upon the ark of the covenant, upon the mercy seat, between the two cherubims of gold;¹³ and no one could enter into that place except the high priest with the atoning blood on the Day of Atonement.

And therefore, those who came in at the wrong time, in chapter 10 of Leviticus (the two sons of Aaron) offering strange fire, fire which God had not commanded, died burned there. And in chapter 16, God establishes to Moses that the high priest is the only one who can come in once a year with blood, the blood of the sacrifice of atonement, and the high priest would not die.¹⁴

In Heaven, Christ entered as High Priest into the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple, and He has remained there making intercession for all those written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; and He cannot leave that place until He has interceded for the very last one who will form part of His Church. Just as Aaron made intercession in the most holy place with the blood of the atonement.

When Solomon dedicated the temple to God, God also came in that pillar of cloud and entered into the temple,¹⁵ and dwelt upon the mercy seat, which is the gold cover with the two cherubims of gold (one on each side), and which is the cover of the ark of the covenant; and in the ark of the covenant are the tables of the Law and Aaron’s rod that budded, and a pot with manna.¹⁶

Therefore, all of that is also a type and figure of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that the Second Coming of Christ is for the time of the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple, which is His Church, which is the Golden Age, the Age of the Cornerstone; that is the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple.

Remember that the most holy place was covered with gold inside and out,¹⁷ and the ark of the covenant was also covered with gold, and the mercy seat was made of pure gold, and so were the two cherubims.¹⁸

And in the temple that King Solomon built, in addition, he put two cherubims of olive wood overlaid with gold, which covered the ark of the covenant with their wings;¹⁹ because they represent the Two Anointed Ones that stand before the Presence of God, the Two Olive Trees. Those two giant cherubims of olive wood overlaid with gold there represent the Two Olive Trees with the Presence of God. God is represented in the gold, and the Two Olive Trees are represented in the olive branches; of Zechariah chapter 4, verses 11 to 14; and Revelation chapter 11, verses 1 to 14.

The ministries of the Two Olive Trees are the ministries that have to do with the Hebrew people at the Last Day; that is why they receive all power from God, and God’s power in all His fullness will be manifested through those ministries.

Revelation 11 says that they even have power to shut heaven, so that it doesn’t rain in the days of their prophecy, meaning, for three and a half years; and they have power for what they say, what they ask for.²⁰

In other words, those ministries are the result of the little open Book that at the Last Day is given to the human race, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the midst of the Church is where that little Book will be open, which contains all the Divine revelation that the Church needs to have.

And with the Thunders, which is the Voice of Christ in the midst of His Church, which will be revealing the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, we will receive the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; because the Coming of Christ to His Church at the Last Day as a thief in the night will be to give us the faith, the revelation, to be changed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

In other words, the rapturing faith, the translating faith, is given by the Seven Voices of Revelation chapter 10, which is the Voice of Christ crying out as a lion and Seven Thunders uttering their Voices; in other words, revealing the mystery of His Coming to His Church for a physical transformation, just like the revelation of the First Coming of Christ gives us the faith for a spiritual transformation—as simple as that—and to be taken out of the kingdom of darkness and placed in the Kingdom of Light, the Kingdom of Christ.

Likewise, the revelation of Christ’s Coming to His Church will give us the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Therefore, we will be hearing the Voice of Christ as a Lion, crying out, speaking to us as a Lion; and that Voice speaking consecutively, the thundering Voice, is the Voice of the Seven Thunders, the Voice of Christ, revealing to us the mystery of His Coming at the Last Day to His Church; just as He did back then among His disciples, revealing to them His First Coming to give them the faith for salvation and Eternal Life.

That is the revelation for salvation and Eternal Life, to take us out of the world and take us to the Kingdom of Christ when we hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ. And then, to be changed, He will give us the faith, the revelation of His Second Coming, of His Coming to His Church. It says He will come as a thief, as a thief in the night.²¹

Therefore, His Church are the ones who will be changed, the ones who will see Him, receive Him and hear Him, and they will see Him fulfilling the promises that have been made for His Church, for His Coming to His Church at the Last Day, to give us the faith to be changed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and that will be, well, the Coming of the Son of man as the lightning that comes out of the East and shines in the West.²²

The East is the Middle East over there, where His First Coming took place, where the Son of man was manifested in human flesh.

When the Son of man is mentioned… Remember that there are some titles of “Son” that pertain to the Lord. Son of Abraham, heir of everything God promised Abraham, the whole land of Israel. Son of David, heir of the Throne of David and Kingdom of David. Son of God, heir of the Heavens and the Earth, of all Creation. Son of man, heir of the planet Earth and everything it contains.

And as Son of man, He was a prophet in His First Coming. A prophet like Moses is the promise of the Coming of the Lord, of the Coming of the Son of man.

That was promised in Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 15 to 19: that God would raise up a prophet like Moses and that He would put His Word in His mouth, and he would speak to them everything that the Lord will command him; and whoever doesn’t hear the Word he will speak in His Name, God will require it of him.

There were prophets after Moses and also before Moses, who were called seers; but Moses was a dispensational prophet, the prophet and messenger of the Dispensation of the Law, of the fifth dispensation; and then came Jesus, a prophet like Moses, a prophet-messenger of the sixth dispensation, the Dispensation of Grace; and His Second Coming, for the Dispensation of the Kingdom, will fulfill that prophecy again.

That is why the Jews are waiting for the Coming of the Messiah. And when they speak of the Coming of the Messiah, what are they waiting for? A man. And when they are waiting for the Coming of the Messiah: they know that Elijah will come first, and that He will come preaching, proclaiming everlasting peace.

In other words, they will be waiting for a man, because they know that Elijah must come to restore all things; he will restore Israel, he will restore them to God; as he did back in the days of prophet Elijah by restoring the ten tribes of Israel which had turned away to idolatry.

Then came Elisha, who was a man, a prophet with the double portion, who asked for a double portion of the spirit that was in Elijah to come, which came upon Elisha.²³ Therefore, he was the second Elijah, the ministering spirit of Elijah operating in another man: Elisha.

Then came the Spirit of God operating the ministry of Elijah in John the Baptist; and then came the Spirit of God operating the ministry of Elijah in Rev. William Branham, for the Pentecostal Age; and the ministry of Elijah will come for the fifth time, being operated by the Holy Spirit, to deal with Israel.

And that ministry or spirit of Elijah being in its fourth manifestation in the midst of Christianity, in the seventh stage of the Gentile Church, will continue and will operate for the fifth time, to take the Word of God to Israel and restore Israel, restore them to God and to His Word.

And the ministry of Moses will also be repeated; because Moses and Elijah are the Two Olive Trees of Zechariah chapter 4; and Revelation chapter 11.

Those ministries will be repeated at the Last Day; that is why the Jews are waiting, not for the prophet Elijah literally, but for a man like the prophet Elijah; and they are waiting for a man like Moses, a prophet like Moses. In other words, they are waiting for a forerunner and they are waiting for One forerun. They are waiting for the One who will prepare the way for them, who will speak to them about everlasting peace, which is in the Prince Messiah of Isaiah chapter 9.

The Prince of Peace is the only one who can bring peace to Israel and to the whole world, and establish His Kingdom, put an end to the Gentile empire, which is at the feet of iron and clay; and that Stone, which is the Coming of Christ, will grow and form a Kingdom that will cover the whole world.²⁴ That is the Kingdom of the Messiah promised to the Jews and to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The capital will be Jerusalem, because the Throne of David, the City of David, the City of God, the place chosen by God for His Throne, is there; and Jerusalem will be the central place of the world, the capital of the world. Notice what a blessing the Jews have! And the whole territory of Israel, which it has and which will be bigger in the Millennial Kingdom, will be the Federal District. And peace will go forth from there to all the nations, because they will be under the reign of the Messiah, the Son of David.

Remember that the Angel Gabriel said to the virgin Mary that God will give Him the Throne of David and He will reign over Israel forever.²⁵

Therefore, we have to be prepared. Israel is already in its land as a free and sovereign nation, waiting for Elijah: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord. Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Malachi chapter 4, verses 1 to 6).

Therefore, Israel has its eyes wide open; but first Christ has a commitment with His Bride-Church, which is the second Eve, where He has been manifesting Himself in Holy Spirit, from stage to stage, from age to age, and calling and gathering His elect into His Church. Once He has completed His Church, then He will turn to Israel.

Therefore, they are waiting for His Church to be completed, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then God will open their spiritual eyes so that they see the Divine Program.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE RAPTURING FAITH CONTAINED IN THE THUNDERS OF REVELATION, CHAPTER 10.”

Therefore, the promise is that Christ will be speaking at this end time with the Voice of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as a Lion; and that what He will be speaking to us consecutively with a thundering Voice will give us the faith to be changed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

What will He be speaking to us about? His Coming; His Coming as Lion, His Coming to His Church to give us the faith, the revelation, of His Coming; and thus give us the faith for our transformation; because we will be hearing and receiving the revelation of His Coming to His Church at the Last Day, to the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, which is the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; where the Two Olive Trees will also be present, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah; and where Christ will be manifesting Himself at the Last Day in all His fullness, to bless His Church, and raise the faith to the level for the transformation and rapture of His Church.

It’s been a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about this subject: “THE MYSTERY OF THE RAPTURING FAITH CONTAINED IN THE THUNDERS,” in the Thunders of Revelation, chapter 10.

May God bless you and keep you; and continue having a joyful afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.

May God bless you and keep you all.

We will continue seeing each other eternally in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE RAPTURING FAITH CONTAINED IN THE THUNDERS.”