Back to the Beginning

Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present, and all those who are in different nations on this first Saturday of the month of October of this year 2014, in this Telebendición [Telethon-blessing], where great blessings of God are poured from God upon all the believers in Christ of this end time.

It is a great privilege to work in the Work of God at the time in which a person is given to live, as it was in the time of Noah, when those who worked on the greatest project that was carried out at that time, which was the construction of the ark… in which, how many people were saved? Eight people.

The number eight is very important, because the number eight represents eternity; and also, when we count the days of the week, the number eight is Sunday, the day in which Christ resurrected; and when we count the different stages of the Hebrew Church and of the Christian Church as well, the number eight speaks to us of eternity, it speaks to us of the Eternal Age, which is the Age of the Cornerstone and which is also the Fiftieth Year of Jubilee; it speak to us of jubilee; that is why the Sunday of Christ’s resurrection was a Sunday, a day of jubilee, of resurrection.

It is truly the most glorious time for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, because it is the time of and for the restoration of all the things of the Divine Program for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It will be for the restoration of the children of God to physical Eternal Life, which will be the redemption of the body; in other words, where the believers in Christ will receive the new, eternal, immortal, incorruptible, and glorified body, just like the glorified body of Jesus Christ our Savior. That is for that stage, which will be going back to the beginning, going back to eternity.

For this reason, we are in a very glorious time for the restoration of all things, of which Christ said in Saint Matthew chapter 17, verses 10 to 13… This was when they came down Mount Transfiguration, where Moses and Elijah appeared to them, one on each side of Jesus, and Jesus was glorified there, and the cloud of glory was overshadowing Jesus there; and the Voice from Heaven said: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.”¹ That is how it will be for the adoption of God’s sons and daughters.

Whom does God say that human beings should hear at the Last Day? God’s beloved children who will be adopted in the Kingdom of God, as it happened on Mount Transfiguration; because in them Christ will be manifested in all His fullness at the Last Day, in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision that was shown to Rev. William Branham, where he saw the Pillar of Fire moving towards a little room; and the Angel who accompanied Rev. William Branham also went down with him (with Rev. William Branham) to that place; and he was told: “That will be the Third Pull.”²

And the Third Pull is also the Thunders; and the Thunders are the Ones that will give the faith to the believers in Christ, the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And all of that will be fulfilled in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.

That is why that Vision is so important; just as the construction of the tabernacle that Moses built was important, because it was for God to dwell in the Pillar of Fire, in the most holy place of that tabernacle; and that is also how it was in the temple that King Solomon built. Just like the Pillar of Fire, that Bright Cloud, the Presence of God, came to the tabernacle that Moses built, and the priests couldn’t even minister because of the Presence of God’s glory there;³ that is what happened when Solomon dedicated the temple to God.⁴

Just like Noah’s ark was the most important construction of that time; the construction of the tabernacle was the most important construction of the time of Moses; and in the time of King Solomon, the most important construction in this world was the temple that he built for God.

And in terms of physical constructions, at the Last Day the most important construction will be the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, because there we have the promise that the Third Pull will be manifested in the full manifestation of God through His Spirit. And that will give the believers in Christ the faith to be changed and raptured; and the mystery of the Seventh Seal will be revealed to them, which is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ; and thus, it will give the believers faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Now, notice which things the faith to be changed and taken with Christ revolves around, to obtain the total restoration, to go back to eternity with Eternal Life in eternal, immortal, and glorified bodies.

Saint Matthew chapter 17, verse 10 and on, says… 9 and on; when they came down Mount Transfiguration, notice what happened:

“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?

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.

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.”

“BACK TO THE BEGINNING.”

In the passage that we have read, Christ says that Elijah will come for the restoration of all the things. And later, He seemingly contradicts that he will come, saying that He came already.

It’s because the ministry of Elijah has different repetitions in different men; through whom the Holy Spirit—which is the One who has ministries, who operates ministries—will operate the ministry of Elijah. He operated it in Elijah the Tishbite for the first time; and then He operated it for the second* time in John the Baptist, who was the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, in the Spirit and power of Elijah, the Holy Spirit operating the ministry of Elijah again. He operated it for the third* time (correction).

He had operated it for the second time in Elisha, who asked Elijah for a double portion of the Spirit that was in Elijah to come upon him; because when God wanted to take up, to rapture Elijah the Tishbite, in a chariot of fire, he said to Elisha: “Tarry here, I am going there.” And Elisha told him: “I will not leave you. Wherever you go, I will go there with you.”⁵ Because whoever is seeking God’s blessing must always keep holding on to Christ, following Christ through the instrument that He has on Earth at that time.

If it were in the time of Noah: staying hand in hand with Noah, working on God’s project for that time. If it were with Elijah the Tishbite: beside Elijah the Tishbite, working with him and watching for the rapture in which he would be caught away in a chariot of fire. And why was it so important? Because God had told Elijah to anoint Elisha to be prophet in his place.⁶

Elisha’s forerunner was Elijah; he prepared the way for him. The ministry of Elijah would go on to another person, which was Elisha. In Elijah’s place, Elisha would be the prophet in Elijah’s place, he would continue that prophetic line of Elijah.

And when it comes to things or blessings from God, well, one asks for the greatest thing. That is the case of James and John, to whom, in the previous chapter, chapter 19 of Saint Matthew, Christ says [verse 28]: “You which have followed Me…” See? “You which have followed Me, shall sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel.”

But John the apostle and his brother James wanted a double portion; and they told their mother, and they come to Jesus with their mother to help them; and Jesus asks the mother, their mother: “What do you want?” very courteously.

And she says to Him: “Grant that in Your Kingdom,” (she believed that Christ would have a Kingdom), “that in Your Kingdom my two sons may sit, the one on Your right hand, and the other on the left.”

Christ tells them: “You know not what you are asking for. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of?” And they said: “We are able.”

Because he who is seeking blessings from God can’t look at the problems; he must look at what is promised. And that is the goal he must be looking at: “Yes, we are able!

—“And are you able to do this and that?”

—“Yes, we are able!”

—“You shall indeed drink of the cup that I will drink; but there is a little problem in terms of your request: you don’t know what you are asking for; because it is not Mine to give,” (it must be given)… “but it is not Mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is ordained for that.”⁷

Remember that they were always seeking the ministry of Elijah.

Remember when they went to a city…? Because Jesus sent His disciples to go to a city in Samaria so that they would receive them, spend a day there, a night or a day, to be there and continue on their way to Jerusalem; but they didn’t want to receive Him. And the disciples told Him: “Do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven upon that city, upon that village, as Elijah did?”⁸

Notice, they wanted to be like Elijah, they wanted to do what Elijah did; they were seeking the ministry of Elijah, which Elisha had… – Elijah the Tishbite, then Elisha for the second time, then John the Baptist; and they wanted to have it because they saw Moses and Elijah on Mount Transfiguration; and that is the vision of the order of the Second Coming of Christ.

In plain words, they wanted to have what Christ said later on in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 30 to 31: that the Son of Man would send His Angels; those are the ministries of Moses and Elijah. And they wanted Jesus to send them to burn down that city or village of Samaria: “Do You want us to go? Do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven?” Because those ministries of Moses and Elijah will have control over nature.

Rev. William Branham, speaking about those ministries, says that whatever they say, it will happen;⁹ and Revelation chapter 11 also says so. Those are the ministries of the Two Olive Trees that they saw there on Mount Transfiguration, which were Moses and Elijah. So, one of them wanted to be Elijah and the other wanted to be Moses.

It is because when the ministry of a prophet like Elijah or like Moses is repeated, it isn’t the same person but it is the same ministry, but in another veil of flesh.

“Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things.” The ministry of Elijah comes restoring. In Elijah the Tishbite, it restored the northern tribes who had turned away from God and gone into idolatry, and were worshiping other gods; and Elijah was sent by God for the restoration of those ten tribes of Israel.

That is why in the showdown that he had there: He placed the twelve stones for the altar that was broken down, and each stone represented a tribe; so that upon placing the sacrifice there, of the bullock that he was to sacrifice to God, and laying it in pieces to offer it to God, and so that the fire of God would come down and consume the sacrifice as a sign that the god who answered by fire was the true God. And one was also given to the priests of Baal and of the groves as well, so that they could offer the sacrifice, and for their god to answer by fire; and that would be the God of all Israel, if an answer was given by fire. But fire didn’t come down from heaven.

And they spent the entire morning shouting for their god to answer by fire; and not even a spark of fire was seen. And do you know what Elijah did? He mocked them.

And then when the time came for the sacrifice, Elijah called the people: “Come near.” He placed everything, he commanded them to pour water a few times in the trench that he made around it; and then he cried out to God.

God had already shown Elijah everything he had to do; that is why he said: “Let all Israel know that I am doing these things by Your command.” And when he offered the sacrifice to God: fire came down from heaven.¹⁰

See, Elijah has to do with fire, he has that connection with God and the manifestation of Divine Fire.

Also when he was sent to be imprisoned by a captain with a group of soldiers, he didn’t like that, and he said that: “If I am a servant of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume them;” and it happened.

They sent the second one with a group of soldiers as well, and he did the same thing; and when they sent the third, who feared God, he said: “Don’t do the same thing. I believe in our God, I have also protected the prophets of God, have mercy,” (he was asking Elijah for mercy). “Don’t do as you did with the others who were sent before me.” And God told him: “Go with him,” and he came down the mountain with him to present himself before the king.¹¹

Moses also had to do with fire; because in the plagues, the ten plagues, there was also fire coming down.¹² And Moses is greater than Elijah. Elijah is actually a prophet of Moses, because he proclaimed the Law that God gave Moses.

Moses is a dispensational prophet; Elijah, a prophet of an age, but who transcends to other ages as well, like the age or stage of Elisha, like the stage of John the Baptist for the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under the Law, like for the stage of Rev. William Branham for the seventh stage, to forerun the Second Coming of Christ.

And we can’t explain too much here, because the Seventh Seal can’t be opened yet. It will be opened in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision. But remember that Elijah, the ministry of Elijah in John the Baptist foreran the First Coming of Christ; Elijah in Rev. William Branham foreran the Second Coming of Christ.

That is why in the messages of Rev. William Branham, you will find him speaking about the Son of Man, speaking about the Second Coming of Christ, speaking about the Tent Vision, speaking about him laying a platform for someone else to come and step on that platform;¹³ in other words, One who will come after him. And he also speaks a lot about Moses and Elijah; because the Son of Man comes with His Angels, which are Moses and Elijah.

And what the Seventh Seal is to the Church: the Second Coming of Christ; what the Seventh Seal is to the Church, is the Sixth Seal to the Hebrew people and is the Seventh Trumpet to the Hebrew people.

In other words, all of that contains a Divine revelation of the Second Coming of Christ with His Angels, which is encoded in names of prophets; it is also typified in birds, such as the eagle, and the lion: “Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who has overcome, has prevailed to take the Book, and open the Seals thereof.”¹⁴

But when John looks: he sees a Lamb.¹⁵ What did he see: a lamb or a lion? No. He saw a man: Jesus, who is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And John the Baptist had said that He was the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world.¹⁶

Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who came and took away the sin of the world in His First Coming; but in His Second Coming He comes as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, and Judge of all the Earth.

See? It is encoded in those symbols of birds, animals, and also ministries that already existed on other occasions. But after the fourth manifestation of the ministry of Elijah forerunning the Second Coming of Christ…; which is why he was speaking a lot about Christ, the Second Coming of Christ; he was speaking a lot about the Coming of the Son of Man, he was speaking a lot about the coming of Moses and the coming of Elijah.

Do you think Israel is waiting for the literal Elijah? No, a man in the Spirit and power of Elijah.

Do you think Israel is waiting for Moses literally? No, a man like Moses, a dispensational prophet.

But that is what Rev. William Branham was speaking about and forerunning all which is to come in an eternal age; this is why he says: “Look up, at the age coming.”¹⁷

After the seventh age, the age that is coming is the Age of the Cornerstone; that is where all these promises will be fulfilled to be restored to physical Eternal Life and be able to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

That is why, in that stage where Rev. William Branham says: “What you have seen in part,” (in other words, what was manifested through him, that power of the Holy Spirit manifested through Elijah in his fourth manifestation), “you will see it manifested in all its fullness when the squeeze comes down.”¹⁸ So, don’t be troubled by knowing that a squeeze is coming against the believers in Christ who will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; because that will be the time when the Third Pull will be manifested in all its fullness, in the fullness of its power. And all of that is connected to the Tent Vision.

Therefore, in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which will be living, not in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh age, but in the Age of the Cornerstone, the Tent Vision will be fulfilled; because for each age, the Holy Spirit works through the believers of that time, with the messenger of that time.

If it had been in the time of Saint Paul: Saint Paul, who built tents,¹⁹ would have made that Tent; and God would have used Saint Paul and his group in that work.

If it had been for the second one: it would have been up to the second messenger with his group to work on that physical project. If it had been for the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, each of them would have worked on it if it had been for each of their times.

And if it had been for Rev. William Branham’s time… he tried, but he wasn’t able to make that Vision a physical, literal reality; even though he had loved to carry out that Vision.

Reading Rev. William Branham’s messages, we realize that he yearned for the fulfillment of that Vision; and he said that it would be fulfilled, and there he said it would be the Third Pull.

That is where the Thunders will utter their Voices revealing the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which will give us the faith to be changed and raptured with Christ, taken – to be taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb and to escape the Divine judgments that will come during the Great Tribulation; because Christ has cleansed us with His Blood, therefore, there is no sin in the believers in Christ; for that reason, they don’t have to be here to be purified by the judgments of the Great Tribulation; because Christ already purified us with His Blood.

Therefore, the Great Tribulation isn’t for the believers in Christ who make up the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, but rather for the foolish or sleeping virgins, who didn’t have Oil in their lamps; for the 144,000 Hebrews and other Hebrews; and for the entire world. But for the believers in Christ, who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, what is promised is the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. But we have to go through that stage of the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.

Therefore, we work on the spiritual project of Christ for His Church for this end time, and on the physical project of Christ for His Church for this end time.

It is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone, who will have the job of the construction of that Great Tent Cathedral for our Lord Jesus Christ. Such a great privilege that any messenger from any past age would have wanted for him and his age; and the seventh messenger desired it, he desired that blessing for him and his group, but it was not granted to him. Nor was his wish granted to go to Israel to turn them to God, as the Prophet Elijah did: turn them to God, to the God of Israel.

He was even going to carry out activities in Israel, and the Lord let him get all the way to Egypt, to Cairo, and there He told him: “Don’t go, it’s not the time.” And it must be according to the Scripture, according to Revelation 11, the Two Olive Trees.²⁰

See? Because he saw the things that God will do at this end time, and he wanted to be the instrument; but it was not for God to use him; he is the forerunner, who comes speaking about what God will do later on.

And we have been given to live in the time when God will be doing all those things, not in the Pentecostal Age, nor in the Lutheran Age, nor in the Wesleyan Age, but in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Golden Age, because it is the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ; and the spiritual Temple of Christ is His Church.

Those who lived in the seven Church ages: lived in the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ; and those who live at this time and have gone up to the Golden Age, have gone higher up: they live in the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ.

And the most holy place of the temple that Solomon made and the temple that Moses made, was covered with gold, wood overlaid with gold on the inside and out; such is our age. Gold represents Divinity.

It is God’s dwelling Place, the Place of Divinity, the Place of the Coming of the Lord as He came in the time of Moses to the temple, as He came in the time of Solomon to the temple that Solomon built; and likewise, He will come to the spiritual Temple of Christ, to His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone; that is why it is the Golden Age, the Age of the Most Holy Place of the Church of the Lord; that is the age in which and for which the Second Coming of Christ will be fulfilled; and that is where those who will be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will be.

It is the age also represented in the year of jubilee; that age is parallel to the Age of the First Coming of Christ. The Age of the Cornerstone back then, is parallel to the Age of the Cornerstone now. Back then it was the Age of Jubilee and now it is the Age of Jubilee again.

Notice, Abraham, the second year of jubilee… because the year of jubilee is the fiftieth year; he didn’t have the son when he was fifty years old, he didn’t have a son, Isaac was not born; but when it was the second jubilee year of his life, which was the hundredth year, he received the promised son: Isaac.

And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the second Year of Jubilee, in the Jubilee Year of the Age of the Cornerstone, will receive the Second Coming of Christ, to be changed and raptured, and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

That is why we are waiting for His Coming and our transformation, because He is coming for us. He is coming for us to change us, if we remain alive until that moment; but if anyone dies physically, don’t worry: he will go to Paradise and there he will wait until Christ goes to Paradise, judges each messenger with his group, and then brings them to Earth and gives them new bodies. That will be the resurrection of the dead in Christ in glorified and eternal bodies; and when we see them, we will be changed. And then, the entire Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will stand, which will be millions of transformed people, with glorified, young and eternal bodies.

And that will be the Golden Age, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Year of Jubilee, where everything goes back to its origin, to the beginning; we will return to physical eternity with eternal bodies.

We already have Eternal Life in our soul, but we still need Eternal Life in our physical body; because otherwise, we cannot continue living on Earth indefinitely.

This physical body has a certain amount of time to live on Earth, because it was the body that Adam and Eve left us; it was the most that Adam and Eve could leave us; because they lost physical Eternal Life there in the Garden of Eden, by sinning.

That is what God told them: not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, because the day they ate of it, that day they would die.²¹ He told Adam, and Adam told Eve. And they died to physical Eternal Life; and then, by becoming mortal they died physically: Adam died at [930] years old.

But the second Adam, who is Christ, is the One who restores us to spiritual Eternal Life and to physical Eternal Life. When He gives us the physical eternal body, we will then be restored to physical Eternal Life, and we will be physically restored to eternity, to not—ever again—get old and much less die.

Therefore, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Her trajectory has been returning to eternity; first spiritually: by our soul being restored to eternity; and then at the Last Day, we will also be physically restored to Eternal Life, with eternal and glorified bodies.

Therefore, onward serving Christ, working in His Work in the spiritual realm and in the physical realm too. And when we see the greatest sign, or two great signs: the squeeze and the Tent Vision fulfilled; remember, that will be the sign to receive the faith to be changed and raptured, and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

That is when the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will go into the greatest revival, the greatest spiritual awakening in Her history; to the extent that She will be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

We are on our way BACK TO THE BEGINNING, to eternity.

It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about all these things that are promised in the Scripture, both the Coming of Christ to His Church, as well as the coming of Moses for the second time; but if we count Jesus as a prophet like Moses, then it is the second time in Jesus, a prophet like Moses; and for the third time, another man, a prophet like Moses, who will be the Moses that Israel is waiting for, shown there on Mount Transfiguration; and a prophet like Elijah in his fifth manifestation: a fifth Elijah, which (Rev. William Branham says) will be a man of the end time and a prophet like Moses. That is what Israel is waiting for. And the Church? The Second Coming of Christ.

And we will not explain too much about that, but in the Tent Vision being fulfilled we will hear everything related to the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels. We already know that He comes with the Two Olive Trees; and then, after the Millennium… He will come with His entire Church in glorified bodies to establish the Millennial Kingdom.

Although in His Coming to His Church at the Last Day, before the Great Tribulation, He also comes with the saints who are in Paradise, to raise them up in eternal bodies; in other words, that is His heavenly Army, to which those who are alive and are changed will be added, to be taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

So, we won’t have time to be here on Earth, because they are waiting for us in Heaven. “Blessed are those who are bidden to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.” Revelation chapter 19, verses 9 to 10.

We will be back to the House of our heavenly Father, where they will receive us with a great feast: the feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, of the union between Christ and His Church.

I will leave missionary Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you, to continue; and thus continue the Telebendición [Telethon-blessing], in which you who are present here and in other nations have wholeheartedly been supporting the project of the Great Tent Cathedral.

May God bless you and prosper you greatly, spiritually and materially; and may He use you greatly in His Kingdom in the spiritual realm and the physical realm too. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

I will now leave missionary Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you. And tomorrow, God willing, we will see each other, where? Cayetano Cañizares Coliseum.

“BACK TO THE BEGINNING.”