Jesus Preaching in the Fifth Dimension

Good morning, or good afternoon for those in places where it’s after noon, to all the ministers and congregations gathered on this occasion to study about the subject: “JESUS PREACHING IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION.”

The fifth dimension is hell, where sinners go, those who did not accept the plan of redemption and Eternal Life from God through Christ our Savior.

On one occasion Christ said: “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.”¹ Because Life is in Christ. He said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”²

So, for a few moments we will study what happened the day after the crucifixion of Christ our Savior.

In First Peter chapter 3, verse 18 and on, it says:

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.”

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

The Apostle Peter shows us in this passage that Christ, having died for our sins on Calvary’s Cross on the day of the crucifixion, then in Spirit, in other words, in a heavenly body, descended into hell, descended to that place where the imprisoned spirits of people and also of angels who rebelled against God are found.

In that place, in different parts, are the souls of people or the spirits of people along with their soul; the angels that rebelled against God are also in another section; and so on, that is how that place, the fifth dimension or hell, is divided, where the sinners who didn’t receive Christ as their only Savior go.

Christ already carried out the Plan of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross; and He left the easiest part to the human beings, which is to receive Him by accepting Him as their only and sufficient Savior. We are saved through faith,³ through faith in Christ Jesus.

Now, yesterday we talked about the crucifixion of Christ, today we are talking about Christ going to the place where the souls in prison were, the spirits in prison, and He preached to them there. This shows us that Jesus continued preaching.

Because when a person dies, the person keeps his identity; and we find that he goes to the place where the rest of the people who have received Christ as their Savior are found; each person in the group of the messenger of each stage of the Church.

That’s why when Rev. William Branham went to Paradise, he didn’t meet the believers of the time of Luther or Wesley, rather, he met the believers who had received the Word of the Lord and who, therefore, were related to the ministry of Rev. William Branham.⁴

Each messenger has the group that God gave him on Earth, he also has them and will have them in Heaven, in Paradise; and when they return to Earth in the resurrection, the group will be with their messenger; and in the Millennial Kingdom as well.

And we find that when Christ died, He went on… after going and preaching to the spirits in prison in that region of the fifth dimension, He then went to Paradise, to the Bosom of Abraham, to bring the resurrection of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the Old Testament saints who were waiting there for the Messiah, the Lord, to come.

The same thing happens with those who are currently in Paradise, who are waiting for the Coming of the Lord there, so that He brings them to Earth, resurrects them in eternal and glorified bodies, and then they go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Now, we can see the similarity there is between the time of Jesus, His crucifixion – His ministry, His crucifixion, the resurrection and His ascension to Heaven, and everything He has been doing from the moment He is sitting on the Throne of the Father until the present moment.

Now, no one would like to go where Christ went. Well, don’t worry, we don’t have to be there because He took our sins away, and that place is for those who had sin; and the Bosom of Abraham no longer exists either; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all those Old Testament saints, went up with Christ in the rapture, who is the first One with Eternal Life, because they died and resurrected to never die again; that is why it is called the first resurrection, because it is unto Eternal Life.

Now, there we have the teaching of what happened when Christ died and went there to hell, which is the fifth dimension, where the spirits… He went and preached to the spirits in prison, who are waiting there until Judgment Day; in other words, they still have to be waiting there.

Now, what does that show us for our time? That we have the history there, something that already happened and that is verified in the sacred Scriptures by the words of the Holy Spirit through the different prophets, including the Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles. Therefore, it has already been verified that it happened that way. There is no doubt about it.

If someone wants to debate that and say it is not the case, he is two thousand years behind. God has already testified that it was so, the apostles too, the prophets announced that it would be that way. Therefore, it will remain like that forever: that historical truth of the life of Jesus, His ministry while He was on Earth, and His ministry of a few hours there in Paradise, where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were; and a few hours over there where the souls with their spiritual bodies in prison were waiting for the hour, the time of Judgment Day.

Everything that happened in the Old Testament is then verified, it is the historical truth; and then it is taught, so that it becomes like a commemoration of the historical, and so that it becomes a teaching for all of us, so that we don’t fall into the same mistakes and problems that the ancestors fell into, but instead do well: as the believers of each time did and received God’s blessing.

Now, in our time, all of that, that historical truth, is also the type and figure, the shadow of what would be happening, both in the Dispensation of Grace and especially at the end of the Dispensation of Grace, where the death of Christ, Christ going down to hell to preach to the spirits in prison in that region which is where they wait until they are called for Judgment Day… where the general resurrection will be, and where it is the time when they will rise, and where they will also form a revolution. According to chapter 20 of Revelation, there will be an attack against the Messiah the Prince and His Kingdom, at the end of the Millennium.

We are skipping a thousand years ahead, by speaking of something that will happen in about a thousand years, around a thousand years; but it is important to know it, that this will take place in the second resurrection.

Only the redeemed are part of the first resurrection; whether it’s those of the Old Testament who covered their sins with those animal sacrifices, as well as those who, with the antitype… because that was the type, the shadow. And for our time it is the reality since Christ, the reality of what was represented, typified, back then in the Old Testament.

That is why just as there is a people of God: the Hebrew people as a nation; there is a spiritual people of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, who are children of Abraham by faith in Christ, and therefore, they are sons and daughters of God.

Israel is the people of the servants of God, like Abraham. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ with Christ is the Church under the New Covenant, with Christ the Son of God, and the children of God who, through Christ, received salvation and Eternal Life, were born again, were born into the Kingdom of God as sons and daughters of God.

That is the people of the New Covenant saints, the Church of the New Covenant, which will reign with Christ in the Millennium and for all eternity. That is why there are so many beautiful promises for the believers in Christ.

Now, under the Old Covenant there was a paschal lamb; under the New Covenant there is the Paschal Lamb, the Lamb of God, of which John said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”⁵ In other words, that lamb which was sacrificed by every family to preserve the life of the firstborn who were in the house,⁶ is a type and figure of Christ and His death on Calvary’s Cross. We no longer need to carry out animal sacrifices; animals are only killed, not as a sacrifice, but as food.

Then we find that on Saturday or the Sabbath, He was manifested there; the day that Christ was in hell preaching to the souls or spirits in prison.

Under the New Covenant, our Sabbath is Christ; because the Sabbath is the day of rest, of resting, just as God rested from all His Work.⁷ And so on, the things that were in the Old Testament are the same ones that later appear in the New Testament, but they are seen from the spiritual realm of God’s Kingdom.

Back then they were literal animals, now it is Christ the Lamb of God; and back then it was the blood of an animal, which covered the sins but could not take them away from the person, now it is the Blood of Christ that has cleansed us from all sin and keeps us clean from all sin.

And likewise, we can see the parallel there is between the Old Testament and the New Testament, the New Covenant, given by God through Christ to the believer in Christ.

We will find, for example, the seven Hebrew feasts, which in the New Covenant, in the New Testament, in the Church, are the seven stages of the Church, which take place in that spiritual realm of the Gospel of Christ, which is taken through all cities, through all countries, and the mystical Body of Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is formed or created.

All the things that are under the Old Covenant are fulfilled in the New Covenant with the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

What came first: the type (the shadow) or the antitype (the reality)? The reality came first; because your shadow exists because you existed before the shadow.

And now, seeing yesterday that Christ was crucified, we find that this is a type and figure of a spiritual crucifixion carried out by those who (either from the pulpits or from different places) speak against Christ, against what God has for the end time.

In other ages it was also a crucifixion, but partial; one part in each age, that is, a smaller crucifixion; and then, at this end time, a crucifixion crucifying the Word, which is Christ, the Word, at the end time, in the manifestation pertaining to our time. Just as it also was in the manifestation pertaining to the seventh Church age, whose messenger was Rev. William Branham, in whom Christ was; and what was done against, counts… done against him, counts as if it were done against Christ, who was in him; and therefore, it is a crucifixion; because it kills the influence that the Holy Spirit has through the messenger at that time.

And then Christ’s visit to the regions of shadow of death, to that region where the spirits in prison were waiting for the resurrection for the Judgment, the second resurrection, is a type and figure of what will be happening at this end time, where hell will be opened. And then what Christ did, by going there and preaching to the spirits in prison, who no longer had an opportunity for salvation, is mankind, which will be without Christ, and therefore, will hear the preaching of the Gospel, but there will no longer be an opportunity for salvation: Christ will have already finished His Work of Intercession in Heaven, He will have taken the Title Deed, the Lamb’s Book of Life sealed with seven Seals, He will have opened It, and He will come to claim His inheritance, to claim everything He has redeemed with His Blood, which are the believers in Christ who already died and those who remain alive; they will be claimed to live eternally in glorified physical bodies.

That is why at this end time Saint Paul tells us in Romans chapter 8 that Christ will adopt us; that is the adoption of the body, Saint Paul says in Romans chapter 8, verses 14 to 39; the adoption of the body, which is the glorification of the body, so that we all have eternal bodies, glorified bodies, just like the glorified body of Jesus Christ.

Now, since we are talking about the day, about the time when Christ was preaching to the spirits in prison, that is a type and figure of the manifestation of Christ for the Last Day giving us His Last Message. And those who no longer have an opportunity will also hear why they will go through the Great Tribulation, why this whole Divine judgment will take place on the Earth during the time period of three and a half years, which pertains to the time of the Great Tribulation or the time of the half – of the second part of the seventieth week, which consists of seven years.

Seven were already fulfilled*. In the ministry of Christ three and a half years were fulfilled (correction)*; and three and a half years are left to complete the seventieth week. Three and a half years are left.

And in that period of time God will also be dealing with the Jews, under the ministry of the Two Olive Trees, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah being repeated at the Last Day.

Now, Christ is going to change from Lamb to Lion, from High Priest to Judge. When He leaves the Throne of Intercession, where He stands as High Priest, He will be the Judge of all the Earth. While He is in the place of Intersection, He is the Lamb of God, Christ, the High Priest of the heavenly Temple; when He finishes His Work of Intercession and leaves that place, that will be Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

That is why in chapter 5 of Revelation, the elder tells John: “John, weep not. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who has prevailed to take the Book and open the Seals thereof.” When John looks, he doesn’t see a lion; it is a man. And when John looks, he says that he saw a lamb.

The elder was seeing Jesus as a Lion and as a King, and when John looks at Him, he sees Him as a Lamb, as High Priest. And it seems like a contradiction there, one sees Him one way and the other another way, but they are seeing the same person, who has changed from Lamb to Lion, from High Priest to Judge and to King.

That is why it is important to see everything correctly, because many times some people have one perspective or vision of something, others have it another way; and two truths don’t contradict each other, there is only one truth. One… one should have it all, and the other that appears may have part of it; but if it’s the same truth, then it’s the same truth; there are no contradictions then.

Now, in God’s Program everything is already prepared for that visit of Christ in Holy Spirit visiting the world, the kosmos, where everyone will hear the Word of Christ as King, as Judge.

That is why under the ministries of Moses and Elijah, we find that the Divine judgments that will fall upon the Earth are announced. And that will be under what Rev. William Branham calls the Third Pull.

He says that the Third Pull – when the Third Pull begins for the world, there will be no more time for redemption, for salvation; but they will hear the things that will fall upon the Earth; just like from God, through Moses, Egypt heard the judgements that would come upon Egypt; and in hell, where Christ went down, they then heard why they were there.

And now, as we approach the time of the Third Pull… which will be the stage of the spoken Word, we will also be under the fulfillment of a Great Tent Cathedral, under the fulfillment of the Third Pull; where the Word will come to speak not only to the believers, but also to the foolish virgins or the sleeping virgins, which are part of Christianity but who did not have oil in their lamps; and also to speak to the Hebrew people; and to speak to all of mankind under the Message pertaining to the Last Day, with which He will close the Dispensation of Grace, and the seventh dispensation will open; and all the plans of the seventh dispensation will be carried out.

When a king is elected as king, that does not mean he is already a king; he is a prince. When he is endued with the investiture of a king, from that point on he starts reigning.

In that Third Pull, Christ will be seen sitting on the Throne (seen, in other words, understood). He is sitting on the heavenly Throne of God as High Priest; but He is the heir of the Heavens and the Earth, because the heir is the one who inherits the throne; and the believers in Christ are joint-heirs with Him.

So, under the Third Pull (which will be for the Bride-Church of Christ, for the sleeping or foolish virgins, and for the world, and where we will also see the Jews) it won’t be for salvation, but to make known, to announce, what will come, and why all those things will come upon the human family during the Great Tribulation, where the plagues will fall upon the Earth as they fell upon Egypt.

We are at the right time. The most difficult time, but the best time.

Perhaps you may think: “The most difficult time was when they were fed to the lions or burned.” No, because they were killed that way because they were believers; they became martyrs; but they only did that to a person once. Why only once? Because they couldn’t kill him twice. And the fight now at this time is spiritual, mental; and that is why we have to be steadfast in Christ, holding on tight to the Angel of the Covenant, who is Christ, knowing that we wrestle against spiritual hosts of wickedness,⁸ who don’t want us to live eternally.

That whole scene that Christ saw in hell, where there were the spirits of those in prison, who were disobedient in the time of Noah and in other times as well, will be repeated at this end time in the religious sphere, in the spiritual sphere, and it will cover the political sphere too.

Therefore, in the Divine Program, there are many things for our time that we are going to see with our own eyes, because one doesn’t have to go to hell anymore to preach to them over there, rather, the people of this end time are the ones to whom the Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached, making known to them that they lost the opportunity—under the Gospel of Grace—to receive salvation and Eternal Life by washing away their sins.

It is important to be on the lookout, because in the midst of Christianity, in and with the Church of Jesus Christ of the New Covenant, in which Christ has been in Holy Spirit, there will be a great manifestation of blessing to the believers in Christ, to receive the faith to be changed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

This time will be the time when hell will open upon mankind, and evil spirits from there will take over people, and so forth; and there will no longer be Blood to cleanse people’s sins, because Christ will have finished His Work of Intercession in Heaven. Therefore, the foolish virgins will know that they will go through the Great Tribulation, through those judgments, for their purification. Hell will be open on the Earth.

Now let’s see what Rev. William Branham said to us on page 113 and 114 of the book of Quotations. This version says in paragraph 998 [63-1110M “Souls That Are In Prison Now,” p. 24]:

998 – “[154] Their names was in that Book, to be revealed, and the Lamb had revealed it.

155 The Lamb had redeemed it,” (He had It in His hand), “but He could not come forth until every name was revealed, and that was taking place under the Sixth Seal, before the Seventh (Seal) broke. Then the spotless…Then the Lamb came for what He had redeemed.”

“Notice…” Page 114, paragraph 1002, says [63-1110M – “Souls That Are In Prison Now,” p. 30]:

1002 – “[205] ‘The woman that lives in this worldly condition is dead while she is living.’ And if she rejects mercy, she can cross the separating line where there is no place for her no more. And then where is she at, with her painted eyes, her cut hair? And she’s across the line, with no way to come back, and there’s got to be a ministry preached to her. But remember, at that time, it’s all over. It’s done. It’s just a haunting.

206 There will be a ministry that will show great wonders…”

And where did Rev. William Branham say that those great signs will be manifested? In the Third Pull, in the fulfillment of a vision of a Great Tent Cathedral.

1002 – “[206] It’s all over. The Lamb has done took His Book, and His redeemed is over. As Jesus first preached and was rejected, and then went and haunted those that were in there, preached to them that were in prison, could not repent, no time for salvation, that same ministry will have to repeat again. What if that could be the Third Pull? to the Eternal lost.”

There we have the prophecy of what will be happening at this end time. And as for the Tent Vision, he says that is where the faith for the rapture will come, because the faith for the rapture will come in the Third Pull; every blessing that God has for the believers in Christ will come in that Third Pull.

That is where the Thunders… in the Third Pull is where the Thunders will be opened, will be made known, and where we will receive the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Likewise, notice, when Christ finished his visit to the spirits in prison, then He passed through Paradise and brought those who were in Paradise, the believers, He brought them in the resurrection. When Christ resurrected, the Bible says that many of the saints who slept also resurrected and appeared to many in the city of Jerusalem. That is in Saint Matthew chapter 27, verse 51 and on.

When the dead in Christ of the spiritual Israel under the New Covenant, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, when they resurrect, they will appear to all the believers of this time; and when we see them in those young bodies that are 18 to 21 years old, we will be changed.

This is relevant to tomorrow’s subject already, but we are seeing that a difficult stage is coming, just like for Christ back then, He had to go to hell itself, in spirit, in His spiritual body, to take the keys of hell and death away from the devil; and from that point on it has been shown that Christ is the Boss.

And now, there are still some keys pending. “I will give him the key of David.”⁹ So, we are going to leave that pending. If God allows us to speak about that tomorrow, we will see it.

“CHRIST PREACHING IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION: HELL (the dimension of the lost).”

All of that will be materialized at this end time with human beings; who, although they are alive, will be spiritually dead, and without any hope for salvation and Eternal Life; and the Message will also reach the foolish virgins; and the Message will also reach the Jews. They are going to see that manifestation and say: “This was whom and this is what we were waiting for.”

And the Bride, the Bride-Church of Christ: will be receiving the faith, the revelation to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. The chariots of fire are prepared; what’s left is for us to be ready with our transformation, and for the dead in Christ to resurrect in glorified bodies.

Tomorrow we will see something else about the resurrection and about Christ going to Paradise, visiting Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who were waiting for Him there.

And now, under the New Covenant, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the New Covenant, has millions waiting in Paradise who have departed during the different stages of the Church. And we who are here alive: are waiting for the resurrection of Christ at this end time; that spiritual resurrection is typified in the physical resurrection that He had; and that change of Christ from Lamb to Lion, from Lamb to King, from Lamb and High Priest to Judge of all the Earth.

“JESUS PREACHING IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION,” the regions of the lost.

May God bless you and keep you, and I leave missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you to continue.

God bless you and keep you all. And pray for me a lot, so that I can be in better physical condition tomorrow than I am today, because my throat is a bit sore; but the important thing is that you can hear and understand what is being spoken.

May God bless you and keep you, and with us missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín.

I know that Miguel isn’t coming because (as always, he has a sweet tooth) he always waits for dessert, and spiritually he’s the same way: he expects like a summary of what was spoken; and the summary is that soon Christ will change from Lamb to Lion, from High Priest to Judge and King of all the Earth; and that is very close.

And… at this end time Christ will have the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, which is good news to all of us who are waiting for that manifestation. And we will receive the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, the transformation that I need so much, that new glorified and young body for all eternity. And who else? Each one of you is also waiting for and desires that new body which He has promised.

There we have the summary, Miguel, the dessert.

May God bless you, and enjoy your spiritual meal.

May God Bless you and keep you all.

“JESUS PREACHING IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION.”